A native of the south-western coast of New Holland, 
and likely to prove a very fine Greenhouse climber. 
Our drawing was taken by permission of Mr. Knight, 
of the King's Road, from specimens that blossomed in his 
Nursery in July last. Mr. Knight informs us, that it will 
probably prove nearly hardy, as he has several plants on 
an open wall, west aspect, which have grown most vigor- 
ously; and, notwithstanding the severity of our November 
frosts, are as green and healthy as they were in August. 
This genus is near Billardiera, with which one species, 
B. fusiformis (Sollya angustifolia nob.) has actually been 
united by Labillardiére. It is, however, essentially distin- 
guished by its minute calyx; by its campanulate or nearly 
spreading petals, which do not form a tube; by its linear 
anthers cohering into a cone, connate at their apex, and 
emitting their pollen by a sort of pores; and finally, by 
the fruit having a thin papery pericarpium, or being, as 
M. Labillardiere ingeniously expresses it, a bacca sicca 
chartacea. : 
The petals readily separate into two lamelle, as if they 
were composed of two plates grown face to face. This 
may serve to shew how unimportant is a similar circum- 
stance in Daphne, where it has been thought to be a proof 
of a calyx and corolla having in that genus grown together 
into a single floral envelope. We allude to this circum- 
stance now, because we lately saw the idea revived some- 
where ; otherwise we should have supposed it to have been 
long since consigned to the list of exploded errors. 
J. L. 
