Myrodia
(from myron, myrrh, perfume, and odme, scent). SYN. Lexarsa. ORD. Sterculiaceae. A genus comprising about seven species of stove evergreen shrubs or trees, with an aromatic odour, confined to tropical America. Petals white, oblong; peduncles opposite the leaves, short, one-flowered. Leaves entire or obsoletely toothed, penninerved, or irregularly three to five-nerved at base. Only one species has yet been introduced; it thrives in a rich sandy-loam soil. Propagated by cuttings of half-ripened shoots, placed in sand, under a glass, in heat.
M. turbinata (turbinate). fl. white, very fragrant; peduncles nearly as long as the petioles. May. l. elliptical, quite entire. Branches few. h. 8ft. 1793. Shrub.