was found by Mr. Drummond and others. It may be multi- 
plied either by cuttings or from seeds. Cuttings root rather 
slowly, and when seed can be procured it is much easier to 
get a stock of plants from it. The species is of the easiest 
culture, growing freely in a mixture of loam and peat. Pro- 
perly speaking it is a greenhouse plant, and will form a hand- 
some bush if planted out in a conservatory ; but like S. hete- 
rophylla it will live out of doors in mild winters, in the 
warmer parts of the country. | 
With regard to S. angustifolia, a third supposed species 
of the genus, it is reported by Labillardiére, its sole dis- 
coverer, who called it Billardiera fusiformis, to be a native of 
Van Diemen's Island ; it has not however been met with, as 
far as I know, by any botanist since his time; no trace of it 
occurs among Mr. Gunn’s extensive collections. I have, 
however, lately received from Mr. Webb an authentic speci- 
men of the plant, out of Labillardiére’s herbarium, and I find 
it so very like S, heterophylla that there seems nothing to dis- 
tinguish it from that plant, except the presence of a few long 
airs on the young twigs, and on the back of some of the 
leaves, of which there is a trace on the younger leaves of S. he- 
re fear it is nothing more than a 
