Tan, 72er. 
CHEIRANTHERA parvirtora. 
Native of Western Australia. 
Nat. Ord. Pirrosporem, 
Genus Cuerrantuera, A. Cunn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p- 133.) 
CHEIRANTHERA parviflora; caule gracili volubili glabro v. puberulo, foliis 
subsessilibus linearibus v. oblongo-ovatis lanceolatisve acutis obtusisve 
marginibus recurvis, floribus solitariis terminalibus longe pedunculatis, 
sepalis minutis, petalis obovato-oblongis apiculatis, antheris filamentis 
zquilongis, ovario in stylum incurvum attenuato. 
C. parviflora, Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. i. p. 128. 
A very elegant twiner with interlaced branches, as 
shown in the figure here given of a plant grown at Kew, 
but according to the description in the Flora Australiensis, 
having sometimes a less twining habit with short leafy 
branches. The plant also varies extremely in foliage, with 
leaves from one half to one and a half inch long and from 
broadly oblong-lanceolate to linear. In habit it much 
resembles the well-known green-house favourite, Sollya 
heterophylla (Tab. 3523), from which the genus Cheir- 
anthera differs in the stamens not forming a cone round 
the pistil, but being bent to one side of the flower (as in the 
section Pleurandra of Hibbertia) facing the incurved aspect 
of the ovary. 
C. parviflora is a native of Western Australia, in the 
King George’s Sound district, where it was discovered 
half a century ago by Mr. James Drummond, the inde- 
fatigable explorer of the Botany of the Swan River Colony, 
and I have seen no other native specimens than those sent 
by him to Sir W. Hooker nearly half a century ago. The 
plant here figured was raised from seeds sent by G. W. 
Leake, Esq., Q.C., Member of the Legislative Council of 
OcroseERr Ist, 1892. 
