leaves green as shown in. our illustration. The information 
available suggests that both LZ. Chapmanii and L. Nichollii 
may be no more than seedling forms of L. scoparium, a some- 
what variable species widely distributed in Australia and 
New Zealand. In New Zealand botanical literature alone 
we find abundant testimony as to this variability; four 
distinguishabie forms are recognised in Mr, Cheeseman’s 
* Manual,” three of which were first described in Sir J. D. 
Hooker’s “ Handbook,” the fourth in Dr. Kirk’s “ Students’ 
Flora.” In this Magazine yet another variety, with pink 
flowers, has been described at t. 3419 as var. grandiflora; 
in the absence of more definite testimony it seems best 
for the moment to accord our plant similar treatment, as 
var. Nichollii, differing from the white-flowered type only 
in the brilliant carmine colour of the sepals, petals and 
filaments. Whatever its origin and status may be, L. 
scoparium, var. Nichollit, is a valuable addition to our 
gardens. It should command general favour since it is as 
hardy as L. scoparium itself, which is a common shrub in the 
open in the warmer parts of the United Kingdom and is 
hardy against a south wall at Kew. This variety is readily 
propagated from cuttings, and plants so raised flower when 
about a year old. The flowers open, in plants grown under 
glass, in April and last about six weeks. 
Description.—Shrub reaching 10-18 ft. in height, much 
branched ; branches divaricate, at first silky, soon almost 
glabrous. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, 4 lin. long, 1 lin. 
across, mucronate, short petioled, rigid, faintly 3-nerved, 
punctate, green or copper-coloured, sparingly pubescent 
when young. Flowers solitary at the tips of rather short 
lateral twigs, about 2 in. across, feceptacle campanulate, 
glabrous, finely punctate. Sepals 5, ovate, obtuse, glabrous, 
coloured. Petals 5, spreading, carmine, Stamens about 30, 
I-seriate; filaments i lin. long, subulate, carmine; anthers 
very short, versatile, opening longitudinally. Ovary in- 
ferior, convex above, 5-lobed and 5-celled; style 1 lin. 
long; stigma terminal capitate. Ovules many in each cell, 
linear, horizontal. 
Fig. 1, leaves; 2, bud; 
3, a flower, the petals removed; 4 and 5, stamens :— 
all enlarged, 
