Metrodorea
(named after Metrodorus, a painter, who, according to Pliny, was the first to illustrate plants by figures). ORD. Rutaceae. A monotypic genus, the species being a stove shrub, thriving best in a compost of loam and peat. Propagated by cuttings, placed under a bell glass, in heat. M. atropurpurea (dark purple). fl. purplish, glandular, small, borne on panicles. l. opposite, entire, stalked, dotted. h. 5ft. Brazil, 1851. The proper name of this plant is, according to Bentham and Hooker's classification, Esenbeckia atropurpurea. (F. d. S. 337.)