the plant were well cultivated, would make it a welcome addition 
to our greenhouses ; but if ill managed it is not worth the 
growing. I am glad therefore to have the opportunity of pub- 
lishing what I suppose to be a variety of it, with much larger 
flowers than the original species, and a better habit ; for which 
the public is indebted to His Grace the Duke of Northumber- 
land. It was received at Sion in 1839 from Captain Herbert, 
who obtained it on the Pampas of Buenos Ayres, and it 
flowered in June last. 
For the present I am obliged to regard it as a mere variety 
of the Heimia salicifolia, from want of sufficient materials for 
comparison ; but it is by no means improbable that it may be 
a distinct species. It is however certainly the plant distri- 
buted under this name from the Berlin Herbarium out of the 
collections made in Brazil by Sellow. 
The differences that appear to exist between it and the 
above-mentioned plant consist not merely in the size of the 
flowers, but in the branches of the species now figured having 
a drooping habit, and being loaded with flowers almost up to 
their summit ; while in the other they appeared principally 
from the middle part of the erect branches. 
The specimen now represented has been treated as a 
greenhouse plant. That however formerly introduced is a 
half-hardy shrub, which will bear our ordinary winters with 
the mere protection of a hand-glass. It flowers in such situ- 
ations from June to September, and is easily increased by 
cuttings of the half-ripe wood. In this, however, as in many 
more instances, the cultivator should consider, not what a plant 
will endure, but what it will flourish with ; and in that case 
he will keep the Heimia in the society of Camellias, and 
Chinese Azaleas, and the more hardy kinds of New Holland 
plants. 
