Schaepfia
(named in honour of John Schaepf, a German botanist). SYNS. Codonium, Haenkea. ORD. Olacineae. A genus comprising about ten species of stove or greenhouse, glabrous shrubs or small trees, natives of tropical Asia and America. Flowers pale yellow or white, often comparatively large, disposed in short, sometimes very short, axillary, solitary or fasciculate racemes; calyx small, cyathiform; disk hypogynous, adnate with the ovary; petals four to six, coalescing in a tubular-campanulate corolla. Leaves entire, coriaceous. S. fragrans, the only species introduced, thrives in a compost of peat, loam, and sand. Rooted cuttings should be inserted in sand, under a hand glass, in heat.
S. fragrans (fragrant). fl. yellow, fragrant, 1/4in. in diameter; racemes half the length of the leaves; rachis slender; pedicels six to eight, 1/2in. to 1in. long. June. l. narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, scattered, 2in. to 3in. long, at both ends; petioles 1/4in. long, channelled above. Branches terete, smooth. h. 15ft. Nepaul, 1827.