It is rather a pretty Greenhouse shrub, but will scarcely 
succeed out of doors except in summer, or in very mild 
winters. It may, we presume, be increased either by 
layers or cuttings. 
Professor Link, and after him our learned friend De 
Candolle, form of this plant a genus called Stauracanthus, 
distinguished, as it would seem, by a bifid upper valve of the 
calyx, and by a flatly-compressed exserted pod. The 
first of these characters is wanting in the cultivated plant, 
and also in wild specimens before us from Salzmann; 
hence we conclude, that it is either accidental or altogether 
erroneous ; and the form of the pod taken alone would 
hardly justify the separation from Ulex of a plant so 
entirely accordant with it in its remarkable habit, and in 
all other points. We therefore go back to the original 
name of Brotero. — ' 
According to the latter author, it is found in sandy pine- 
woods in Portugal. Our wild specimens above alluded to 
are from the hills about Tangiers. 
J. L. 
