during the long period it has been cultivated. Morren 
describes it as one of the most beautiful and most elegant 
species of this large genus, ‘‘ which may be cultivated in 
the open air.’ He probably meant during the warmer 
months, though he adds that it is an ornament in our 
gardens throughout the whole year. It certainly looks 
like a plant that would repay careful cultivation, Another 
species, which has proved an excellent roof-climber for 
the conservatory or greenhouse, is 8S. Wendlandi, Hook. f. 
(B. M. t. 6,914) and deserves mention here. 
The history of the plant figured is unknown, but 
the species has been in cultivation at Kew for many 
years, and it flowers and fruits annually in the Temperate 
House. 
Descr.—An erect, almost wholly glabrous shrub. Stems 
_ numerous, straight, usually almost unbranched, glaucous; 
fruiting branches tinged with red. Internodes many times 
shorter than the leaves. Leaves deciduous, petiolate, 
rather thick, glaucous, linear-lanceolate, usually four to 
eight inches long, tapering to both ends; venation im- 
mersed and inconspicuous. Flowers rose-purple, with 
orange-yellow anthers, about an inch in diameter, arranged 
in loose, lateral cymes, five to six inches across. Bracts 
very small, and early deciduous. Pedicels rather slender, 
curved. Calyz small; lobes rounded, apiculate, ciliolate. 
Corolla broadly campanulate; lobes ovate, apiculate, in- 
curved, very slightly hairy on the outside. Anthers 
pulverulent. Ovary glabrous; style not exceeding the 
stamens. Fruit oblong-ovoid, about three-quarters of an 
inch long, purple-violet. Seeds flattened, kidney-shaped, 
rhe Fe : quarter of an inch long, finely reticulated.— 
Fig. 1, calyx and gynaceum; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, ovary and disk; 
5, fruiting-branch; 6 and 7, seed :—all except 5 and 6 enlarged. : 
