The accompanying figure was made in the garden of the 
Horticultural Society in June last, where it had been raised 
from seeds sent to Captain James Mangles, R.N. from Port 
Augusta, by Mrs. Molloy, a lady enthusiastically attached to 
the Botany of this remote region. 
It is a greenhouse perennial of the easiest culture, and 
goes on producing a succession of flowers throughout the 
summer and autumn months. There is no doubt that it 
would succeed very well and flower freely if planted against a 
south wall in summer; but the severity of the winter, parti- 
cularly about London, would prove fatal to it, and therefore 
if treated in this manner it must be taken up and protected. 
It grows well in any rich free soil, and strikes readily from 
cuttings, 
