Prockia
(probably commemorative, but derivation of name not given by nomenclator). SYNS. Kellettia, Tinea, Trilix. ORD. Tiliaceae. A genus comprising only two or three species (which are, perhaps, all varieties of the one described below) of stove shrubs, natives of tropical America. Sepals three or four, valvate, persistent; petals sepaloid and persistent, sometimes absent; pedicels fasciculate or shortly racemose, terminal. Leaves ovate, serrated, many-nerved at base. P. crucis thrives in a compost of sandy loam and leaf mould. Propagated by cuttings of half-ripened shoots, inserted in sand, under a glass.
P. crucis (Santa Cruz). fl. yellow, very fragrant; corymbs fewflowered, terminal. July. l. ovate or cordate, acuminated, serrated, with the point entire, membranous. h. 5ft. West Indies, &c., 1823. (B. R. 972; L. B. C. 1933.)