able for their capsular fruit and winged seeds, the latter a 
circumstance not hitherto observed in other plants of the 
order. 
The botanical peculiarity of the present genus consists in 
its carpels joining together at the very base into a solid pistil, 
although their upper halves, as well as the styles, are entirely 
distinct. And so, in like manner, when the fruit is ripe, it 
becomes a hard capsule, the thick bony lobes of which sepa- 
rate freely at the upper half, but not at the lower, without 
violence. Fig. 3. represents it when ripe; 1. in the young 
state, when some of the stigmata are entire, and others two- 
lobed ; 2. shews one of the thin-winged seeds hanging to the 
side of one valve of the capsule. 
In our gardens the plant seems likely to prove about as 
hardy as an Escallonia, but not more so. Its fine evergreen 
foliage, and large sweet flowers render it very desirable that 
it should be able to bear our climate. 
The accompanying drawing was made in the garden of 
the Horticultural Society in July 1843. It remains in flower 
for a month or six weeks. 
Note by Mr. Hartweg. 
An evergreen slender-growing shrub, 12 to 15 feet high, 
from the natural bridge called Puente de Dios, 45 miles N.E. 
of Real del Monte, growing at an elevation of 6,500 feet 
above the sea. It also occurs sparingly near the Hacienda de 
Santa Ana, in the State of Oaxaca, always preferring a dry 
chalky soil. 
I never found it in flower. 
