the /imb five-lobed ; lobes rounded, green. Petals orbicular, 
concave, red, deciduous, longer than the calycine lobes. Stamens 
numerous, at first involute, then spreading, four times as long as 
the petals ; filaments and anthers red. Style about as long as 
the filaments. Stigma a little dilated. W. J. H. 
Curr. This is a fine glossy-leaved evergreen shrub, forming 
under our cultivation a handsome bush, having much resemblance 
to the Myrtle. Although a native of New Zealand, the climate 
of which is said to be similar to that of Great Britain, yet we 
find it not sufficiently hardy to bear the open air in this country, 
during the low temperature of some of our winters, especially 
such as are sometimes experienced in the eastern and midland 
districts ; but we have every reason to believe that the climate 
of the coasts of Devon and Cornwall, and the south and west of 
Ireland, would be suitable for growing the plant in the open air, 
and that it would there flourish unprotected, and prove a highly 
ornamental shrub. Its habit shows it to love moisture, and 
although with us it grows freely, treated as a green-house plant 
in a pot or tub in loam, yet in its own country it assumes a very 
different habit, being epiphytal, climbing up and extending itself 
on trees to a great height, becoming fixed by its its aerial roots 
and branches, which interlace with the trees on which it grows, 
forming dense leafy masses similar to Ivy in this country, but of 
a much gayer appearance when in flower. We find it disposed 
to throw out roots on the main branches: it therefore readily 
increases by cuttings treated in the usual way. JS. 
Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified. 
