Excerpt from Edwards's Botanical Register, or Ornamental Flower-Garden and Shrubbery, 1831, Vol. 17: Consisting of Coloured Figures of Plants and Shrubs, Cultivated in British Garden Seeds of this were sent from Madagascar to the Horti cultural Society, by Mr. John Forbes, in 1823. It proves to be a tender stove plant, flowering in August and September, and'diflusing at that time a' most delicious fragrance, both at night, as authors state, and during the whole day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.