Royal Botanic Garden. These were weak specimens ; and 
neither from them, nor even from the Berlin figure quoted 
above, could I have had any idea of the beauty of the spe- 
cies. The specimen in Sir Witt1am Hooxer’s Herbarium, 
however, from which in part the accompanying figure is 
taken, shows how very ornamental the plant will be as soon 
as the best mode of cultivating it shall be ascertained. Both 
Mr. CunnineHam’s specimen, and those which we possess in 
the Botanic Garden, were obtained from Mr. Lowe of 
Clapton, who informs me that he raised it in 1839 “ from 
seed received from Mr. Witt1am Morison of the Swan 
River Settlement, and marked Sottya, or BiLLarpIERA sp., 
from the Darling range of Mountains.” The Clapton 
nursery is distinguished by many seedling novelties from 
the same settlement. 
Descr. Stem slender, woody, branched, twining, having adpressed 
pubescence. Leaves (two inches long, half an inch broad) nearly ses- 
sile, scattered, spreading, green, paler behind, covered on both sides with 
long, subappressed, somewhat deciduous hairs; the upper lanceolato- — 
elliptical, entire, the lower spathulate, inciso-serrated; midrib channelled 
in front, prominent behind, veins oblique, seen chiefly behind, slightly 
reticulated. Stipules none. Peduncles solitary, opposite to the upper 
leaf, elongated, erect, umbellato-cymose, many-flowered, slightly covered 
with adpressed pubescence ; pedicels rather shorter than the peduncle, 
several of them simple, others irregularly divided, erect, slender, swelling 
a little at the apex. Bracts placed at the origin of the pedicels, subu- 
late, hairy, reflexed, caducous. Flowers erect, irregular. Calyz five- 
sepalous, sepals resembling the bracts, imbricated, subequal, linear-sub- 
ulate, diverging at the apices, green, covered on the outside with long, 
spreading hairs, deciduous. Corolla irregular, lilac, paler on the out- 
side, pentapetalous, hypogynous, glabrous, alternating with the sepals, 
unequal, the lowest the longest, each striated with three nerves behind, 
imbricated ; claws converging into a tube, edges inflated; Jimb spreading, 
slightly reflexed, Jamine spathulato-lanceolate, apiculate, four of them 
ascending, the whole of the lower half of the two upper, and, generally, 
half the breadth of the lower half of the two next sprinkled on the 
inside with oblong, dark lilac spots. Stamens five, all fertile, alternate 
with the petals, and half as long as them, hypogynous; filaments 
nearly colourless, ascending, glabrous, swelling a little in their lower 
half; channelled on both sides, the lowest the longest; anthers dark 
lilac, bilocular, reflected at the apex, lobes diverging at the base, attach- 
ed in the sinus, bursting by two elongated slits, which finally extend 
along the front to the base of the lobes ; pollen-granules oblong, of dark 
lilac colour. Pistil shorter than the stamens, nearly straight; stigma 
minute, of two at length spreading teeth ; style subulate, scarcely as- 
cending ; germen green, oblong, glabrous, shorter than the calyx, slightly 
furrowed on two sides, bilocular, raised upon a short, tumid footstalk. 
Ovules numerous, ovato-kidney-shaped, attached in the sinus by a short 
cord to an inconspicuous, central placenta. Graham. 
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Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Flower with the Petals removed. 3. The same, with the Calyx 
removed. 4, Pistil. 5. Fruit. 6. Section of Fruit. 7. Seed :—magnifted. 
