sometimes in the form of a smaller sort of tree, with a pale 
cinereous bark. It is known to have been brought many 
years ago from China to the Coast of Coromandel, where it 
has continued to be universally cultivated in the gardens 
eyer since. It has likewise been found not unfrequently in 
the wild state among the mountains of the Northern Circars. 
Not long ago an unrecorded species was introduced into the 
Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it is now cultivated un- 
der the specific name of swmatrana, from its native Island 
Sumatra. Dr. Roxburgh describes this as differing from 
erotica in being much less bushy, with larger leaves, fewer 
and bigger flowers, and a very distinct habit. 
Exotica was introduced by Mr. B. Torin in 1771; and 
proves a most desirable evergreen for either the conservatory 
or the greenhouse. It is delightfully fragrant, and the 
opaque snow-white blossom forms a pleasing contrast with 
the bright deep green of the foliage. The species appears 
to bea great favourite with the Chinese; whence it is known 
among the French in the Isle of France by the name of 
Buis de Chine. The drawing was made from a sample 
that flowered in the fine collection of Comtesse de Vandes, 
at Bayswater. Paine 
The genus makes one of the same ordinal group as the 
Orange Tree. 
- The wild plant is described by Dr. Roxburgh as follows: 
« Leaves scattered pinnate with an odd one: leaflets gene- 
rally in 3 pairs, alternate, obovate-oblong, emarginate, 
smooth, of a deep shining green, 15-2 inches long, about 1 
broad, lowermost smallest: petioles glandular, round. Co- 
rymbs terminal, crowded, with pretty large beautifully and 
purely white exquisitely fragrant flowers. Calyx \-leaved, 
5-parted, glandular; segments erect pointed. Anthers ob- 
long. Germen glandular, 2-celled with 2 ovula in each cell 
vertically attached to the uppermost part of the partition. 
Berry superior, 2-celled: seeds solitary, 1-2, oblong, pointed 
above, flat on one side, woolly: embryo inverted, albumen- 
less.” The fruit is about the size of a largish Pea; has a 
leathery rind, beset with small miliary glands like that of an 
Orange. - 
