Heinsia
(named after the celebrated philologist, Heinsius, who translated the writings of Theophrastus). ORD. Rubiaceae. A genus including three or four species of evergreen shrubs, natives of tropical Africa. Flowers white, largish, pedicellate, solitary, or disposed in three to six-flowered terminal cymes. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate. H. jasminiflora, the only species yet introduced, is a beautiful, much-branched, unarmed, glabrous, stove shrub. For culture, see Gardenia. H. jasminiflora (Jasmine-flowered).* fl. white, salver-shaped, numerous, three or four together at the tops of the branchlets, pedicellate, somewhat racemose. February. l. opposite, oval-oblong or ovate, acuminated, on short petioles. h. 5ft. to 8ft. Sierra Leone, 1824. (B. M. 4207.)