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seated on a short crown which terminates the Ovarium, deciduous,
and dropping off soon after the expansion of the flowers.
Corolla funnel-form, with a slender, angular, slightly furrowed,
smooth tube, about double the length of the limb, and twice the
length of the calyx, very little widening a t the throat, which is
naked or free from pubescence : limb spreading, deeply divided
into 5 lobes, which are imbricate at the base, the points rounded
and slightly crenulate. Stamens 5, inserted in the throat ; / / a -
ments very short and slender; anthers erect, in our specimens
reaching a little above the mouth of the tube, or half exserted :
pollen straw-coloured. Style smooth, red, rather more than half
the length of the tube. Stigmas 2, thick and fleshy, oblong or
spatulate, spreading at the points, not reaching the anthers.
Ovarium slightly top-shaped, fleshy, clothed with a villous down,
two celled. Ovula small, very numerous, densely imbricate.
Our drawing of this very grand and delightfully fragrant
flowering plant, was made from a fine specimen kindly sent to
ns by favour of the Countess of Bridgewater, from her Ladyship’s
collection at Ashridge, where it was flowering in the Conservatory;
and we are informed by her Ladyship’s Flower Gardener,
Mr. Poynter, that it has continued to bloom from October
to the end of J a n u a ry ; we never recollect having met with any
flower of a more agreeable perfume, which still remains in our
dried specimen ; there cau be no doubt but it will stand our
Winters very well, if planted by the side of a south wall, and
to be covered with mats in severe frost, where it will form one
of the greatest ornaments of our gardens. I t thrives well in a
mixture of turfy loam and peat, and cuttings taken off at a joint,
will, without doubt, root readily, if planted in pots of sand, and
placed under a hand-glass. Dr. Wallich mentions it as growing
on exposed hills in the valley of Nepaul, and Silhet, blossoming,
according to the situation in which it is found, all the year round.
I t certainly has nothing to do with Cinchona, in which genus it
has been placed by Dr. Wallich, but is nearly related to Mus-
SEenda, and might be placed in that genus, as it is at present
constructed, but it cannot remain there as a true congener;
it was raised from Nepaul seed at Ashridge, about the year
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1. T h e young villous fru it, te rm in a ted by th e 5 sepals. 2. Tu b e o f th e Corolla
spread open, to show th e insertion o f th e 5 Stamens. 3. Germen, showing
Its crown from which th e sepals a re d ro p t, te rm in a ted by th e Style and
2 fleshy Stigmas. 4. G ermen cu t across, showing th e partitions. 5. T h e same
spread open, to show th e 2 valves, one o f them opened to show th e small imb
ric a ted seeds.
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