FAGRAEA (naked after Jonas Theodore Fagraeus, 1729-1719, a physician and botanist). SYNS. Cyrtophyllum kentia (of Steudel), Kuhlia, Picrophlaeum, and Utania. ORD. Loganiaceae. A genus containing about thirty species of ornamental stove three or shrubs. Flowers showy; corolla funnel-shaped, with an imbricate, five (rarely six or seven) cleft limb. Leaves large, opposite, broad, coriaceous. The species thrive in a compost of loam, peat, and sand. Cuttings of young shoots, made about April, root readily in sand, under a bell glass, with bottom heat. The species described below are probably the only ones yet in cultivation. FAGRAEA auriculata (auricled).* fl. yellow, very large; peduncles terminal, usually by threes. L. coriaceous, broad, cuneate-oblong, acute, veiny; interpetiolar stipules two-lobed, recurved. Java. An epiphytal shrub. FAGRAEA obovata (obovate). fl. white, fragrant, coriaceous, smaller than those of F. zeylanica; peduncles terminal, three-flowered, sub-corymbose. l. 5in. to 6in. long, thick; petioles furnished with a few glandular ciliae, connected by interpetiolar stipules h. 12ft. Ceylon, 1816. tree. (B. M. 4205.) FAGRAEA zeylanica (Cingalese). fl. white, large, few, terminal, umbellate. l. crowded, obovate-oblong, obtuse; bracts ovate, obtuse. Stem sub-quadrangular, shrubby, erect. h. 12ft. Ceylon, 1816. (B. M. 6080.)