The present species was raised from Cape seeds last season, in the collection of G. Hibbert, esq. where our drawing was made in July. Mr. Ross, Nurseryman at Stoke Newington, has also raised it from Cape seeds, and flowered it in July; and he likewise very fortunately flowered at the same time several fine specimens of M. rostratum; the fructifications of which have not been produced before in Europe, that we know of, although the plant has been common in the English gardens ever since the year 1732, and is one of the very few which Dillenius thought proper to figure without flowers, in his celebrated Hortus Elthamensis. [C] 211 are described in my Miscellanea Naturalia, lately published. _H._ [Illustration] PLATE CCCLXXXIX. DOMBEYA ERYTHROXYLON. _Saint Helena Red-wood._ CLASS XVI. ORDER VII. _MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA._ Threads united. Twelve Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX duplex, exterior 3-phyllus deciduus. Corolla 5-petala. Stamina 10-20, quorum 5 sterilia. Stylus 5-fidus. Capsulæ 5, coalitæ uniloculares, 1. s. polyspermæ. EMPALEMENT double, outer 3-leaved deciduous. Corolla 5-petalled. Chives 10 to 20, of which 5 are sterile. Style 5-cleft. Capsules 5, conjoined one-celled, 1-or many-seeded. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C. DOMBEYA, foliis ovatis acuminatis cordatis, subtus tomentosis reticulatis, pedunculis subtrifloris, floribus pentandris. DOMBEYA, with ovate acuminated heart-shaped leaves, downy and reticulated beneath, peduncles about 3-flowered, and pentandrous flowers. DOMBEYA Erythroxylon. _Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. 725._ PENTAPETES Erythroxylon, foliis cordatis subcrenatis subtus tomentosis rugoso-reticulatis, floribus subumbellatis decandris. _Ait. Hort. Kew. 2. 438._ ALCÆA arborea, populi nigræ foliis, prona parte albicantibus, flore amplissimo rubicundo. _Pluk. Mant. 6. t. 333. f. 1._ DESCRIPTIO. Frutex dumosus; ramulis, petiolis teretibus, paginis inferioribus foliorum, pedunculis calycibusque tomentoso-canis, et ferrugineo dense punctulatis. _Folia_ alterna, petiolata, cordata, subintegra, supra perviridia, utraque venosa, subtus obsolete reticulata. _Flores_ malvacei, speciosi. _Calyx_ duplex, exterior minutus, 3-phyllus, foliolis subulatis, sesquilinearibus, superior 5-phyllus, foliolis lineari-lanceolatis, acuminatis. _Petala_ 5, alba, retuse cuneata, venosa, basi uno latere, gibbosa, imbricata. _Stamina_, filamenta 10, atra, patula, quorum 5 sterilia, cæteris duplo longiora. _Antheæ_ erectæ luteæ. _Stylus_ teres, albus, 5-fidus, antheras superans. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The empalement. 2. One of the petals. 3. The chives and pointal. 4. The chives spread open. 5. The pointal and seed-bud.