the extensive and well-kept nursery-grounds of Mr. Macxiz, 
Norwich: yet Mr. Curtis, who cultivates it with remark- 
able success at Glazenwood, where our drawing was made 
by Miss Apams, observes, that it cannot be considered 
a hardy plant, even when trained against a wall; that it is 
with difficulty kept in a brick pit ; and that its proper situa- 
tion, and where it comes to the highest perfection, is the 
back wall or the trellis-work of a conservatory. 
Some difference of opinion exists in regard to the con- 
tinuance of Sotnya as a Genus, Mr. Don remarking that 
the fruit is the same as that of Bitnarpiera, while Dr. 
Linney observes that the seeds are imbedded in a fleshy 
or pulpy substance, which circumstance, added to the inflo- 
rescence being opposite to the leaves, to the “ short, some- 
what campanulate corollas, short staments with the anthers 
adhering im a cone round the style, and opening by two 
pores at the points,’ would seem to constitute a distinct 
Genus. Mr. Attan Cunninenam has described another 
closely allied Genus, under the name of CuerranTHEra, (see 
Bot. Reg. sub fol. 1719,) having a dry and leathery pericarp 
and stamens, which bend to one side of the ovary, forming 
themselves into a slightly curved line, like the fingers of the 
hand. I possess another Australian plant, from the Swan 
River, with blue, corymbose flowers, similar to those of 
Sottya and Cuerrantuera ; but having the stamens distant, 
the anthers curiously contorted, and opening by longitudi- 
nal clefts *. 
Descr. A twining shrub, three to four feet high. Leaves 
oblong, glabrous, entire, or rarely sinuato-serrate, shortly 
petiolate. Corymbs terminal, or axillary and opposite the 
leaves, of several patent, nearly campanulate, bright blue 
Jlowers. Calyx small, of five ovate acute segments. Petals 
oval, obtuse. Stamens: Filaments five, short ; Anthers sub- 
sagittate, connivent, opening at the extremity, bent for 
some way down by a long pore or short fissure. Germen 
oblong, tapering upwards, very silky: Style linear : Stigma 
obscurely two-lobed. 
* Tt may be thus characterized :—SprrantHera. Sepala 5, acuminata. 
Petala 5, acuminatissima, patentia, vix unguiculata : Anthere libere, line- 
ares, spiraliter contorte. Ovarium oblongum villosum, biloculare, intus 
pulposum, Pericarpium 1—Frutices esi. ith ; folits oblongis. Flores 
terminales, corymbosi, cerulei, 
1. S. Fraseri, Hab. Swan River, N. Holl. Mr. Fraser. 
