Tas. 4439 
ERIOSTEMON InTERMEDIUM. 
Intermediate Eriostemon. 
Nat. Ord. Rutacr®.—DrcanprRIA MonoGynta. 
Gen. Char. Cal. 5-partitus. Petala 5. Stamina 10; filamentis hispidis 
ciliatis aut nudis, antheris terminalibus. Stylus 1, brevissimus.  Carpella 5 
basi coalita. Semina in loculis 2 aut abortu solitaria. Hmbryo subcurvatus, 
radicula longa. — Frutices Arboresve nunc Diosmis, nunc Croweis, nunc Phe- 
baliis affinis, foliis alternis simplicibus, floribus azillaribus. De Cand. 
Ex1ostemon intermedium ; ramulis pubescentibus, foliis oblongo-obovatis glauces- 
centibus mucronatis subtus precipue glanduloso-punctatis, floribus pedun- 
culis axillaribus solitariis unifloris folio duplo brevioribus, calycibus petalis- 
que glabris, filamentis ciliatis. 
ERiostemon intermedium. Hortul. 
My first knowledge of this handsome plant was from Robert 
Barclay, Esq., of Knott’s Green, Leyton, who obligingly brought 
me specimens from the plant he had exhibited at, and for which 
a prize was awarded by, the Horticultural Society of London, in 
April, 1848; and from it our drawing was made. It bore 
the name of “Z. neriifolium:” but that is merely a name of 
Sieber’s specimens, which have compound flower-stalks, and are 
probably not different from /. myoporoides, DC. (Bot. Mag. 
t.3180). Since then, we find the plant is in cultivation under 
the garden-name of Z. intermedium, intending probably to imply 
that it holds a place between #. myoporoides and L. buxifolium, 
which is really the case ; or it may possibly be a hybrid of the 
two. Whichever is the case, it is eminently worthy of culti- 
vation in every greenhouse, loaded as the shrub is with its lively 
blossoms (white tinged with pink in bud) during the latter 
winter and early spring months, when such plants are peculiarly 
welcome. 
Descr. Our plant in the Kew Gardens is between two and 
three feet high, much branched. Leaves copious, scattered, 
spreading, three-quarters of an inch to an inch or an inch and 
a half long, oblong-obovate, entire, one-nerved, the margins a 
APRIL Ist, 1849. 
