Quivisia
(Bois de Quivi is the name given in the Isle of France). ORD. Meliaceae. A genus comprising five species of stove trees and shrubs, natives of the Mauritius and Madagascar. Flowers axillary, solitary or shortly cymose; calyx cupular, four or five-toothed, persistent; petals four or five, oblong or linear, valvate or imbricated. Leaves sub-opposite or alternate, simple, entire or pinnately lobed on the same branches, shining above, reticulately veined. Q. heterophylla--the only species introduced--requires a compost of sandy loam and fibry peat. It may be increased by cuttings of ripened shoots, inserted in sand, under a glass, in brisk bottom heat. Q. heterophylla (variable-leaved). fl. white; pedicels twin, axillary, one-flowered. l. alternate, oval or obovate, entire, sinuate-toothed or pinnatifid. h. 10ft. to 15ft. Mauritius, 1822. This is placed, by Baker, together with several other forms, which have been described as species, under Q. mauritiana.