berry, we thought that character, whatever it might mean, was some- 
thing worth noticing in addition. 
It however turns out, from the observations of Mr. Don, that the 
fruit of Sollya is succulent, and filled with a soft pleasant pulp, and 
therefore he has proposed to reduce it to Billardiera (Brit. Fl. Gard. 
2nd series, fol. 252 note.). But, in the first place, the character of 
Sollya is, as we have just stated, independent of the structure of 
the fruit; so that if the latter were really like that of Billardiera, still 
the genus Sollya would remain; and secondly, a succulent fruit filled 
with soft pulp is not what occurs in Billardiera, whose pericar- 
pium indeed is of a soft spongy substance, but wholly destitute of 
internal pulp, the seeds lying loose in the cells. Mr. Don adds that 
the fruit of Sollya is four-celled. We have never seen the fruit more 
than half ripe ; in that state it has two cells, each of which is occupied 
by two rows of seeds, set fast in a firm somewhat fleshy substance, 
which fills each cell, and which we presume to be what finally be- 
comes the soft pulp that envelopes the seeds. A cross section of the 
fruit made at that time looks as if there were four cells, which is not 
the case. The genus Sollya, then, instead of being destroyed by the 
discovery of the true character of its fruit, is established on still more 
solid grounds than before. 
Although it turns out that Sollya has not the thin papery pericar- 
pium that has been assigned to it, yet we have been favoured by Mr. 
Cunningham, to whose numerous discoveries, and the disinterested libe- 
rality with which they are communicated to others, we have so often 
had occasion to bear witness, with a new genus allied to Sollya, in 
which the pericarpium is dry and leathery. This plant is called Chei- 
ranthera linearis by its discoverer, because its anthers bend away from 
the ovary, forming themselves into a line slightly curved like the 
fingers of an open hand, and resembling what occurs in the Pleuran- 
dras of the same country. This remark of Mr. Cunningham is the 
more Important because it tends to approximate Pittosporee to Dille- 
niacee, and thus to confirm the propriety of placing those plants near 
each other in a natural arrangement. (See Nixus pl. p. 10.) By 
means of a drawing from the living plant, and fine dried specimens 
with which Mr. Cunningham has supplied us, we are enabled to draw 
up the following character of this most interesting genus. 
CHEIRANTHERA, Cunn. Mss. Sepala 5, acuminata. Corolla crateriformis, petalis 5 ; ungui- 
bus distantibus. Stamina 5 erecta, pistillo breviora ; antheris liberis, linearibus, secundis, p ris apicis 
dehiscentibus, Ovarium declinatum, biloculare, polyspermum. “Pericarpium siccum, iudehiscens, 
ventricosum. Semina plurima, pulpà nullà obducta. Frutex erecius ( Australasicus), foliis 
linearibus, integris subfasciculatis, floribus ceruleis corymbosis erectis. 
. 1. C. linearis Cunningham. Found in dry barren tracts of coun- 
try on the north of Bathurst, New South Wales, where it was observed 
in flower and young fruit in November 1822. Subse uently, in the same 
season (namely the summer of 1825), it was again detected most luxu- 
riantly in flower in an arid scrubby region at the foot of Croker's 
po of mountains, on the west of Wellington Valley, in the interior 
of that colony. À 
This is one.of the most beautiful plants in all the flora of New 
* Holland. 
