The present graceful and beautiful plant is no doubt a 
native of the Cape of Good Hope, and has long been culti- 
vated in the greenhouse of the Botanic Garden of Glasgow, 
under the name of Diosma angustifolia, a name, however, 
only of the gardens and implying a character common to 
others of the Genus. Our plant unquestionably comes un- 
der the Genus Cotronema of Barti. et Wenpt. of which 
only three species are enumerated by Aprian DE JUussIEU : 
C. album (Diosma, Tx., probably the D. ericefolia, Anvr. 
Bot. Rep. t. 451. which it cannot be,) and Diosma aspala- 
thoides, Herb. Burm. and D. /filiformis, Herb. De Cann. 
—of the two latter we know nothing but the names. It 
flowers in April and May, and deserves a place in every 
collection from its graceful mode of growth and bright and 
conspicuous rose-coloured blossoms, which continue long 
in perfection. 
Descr. Our plant forms an upright shrub, four to six 
feet high, bearing numerous twiggy, slender, pendent 
branches, clothed with a yellow brown bark and glandular. 
Leaves an inch and a half long, slender, filiform, tapering 
to a sharp brown point, the upper side flat, the under semi- 
terete, glandular and marked with two pale lines, the mar- 
gin very minutely scabrous: towards the extremity of every 
branch, in the axil of each leaf, is a rather large bright 
rose-coloured flower, on a short peduncle which has several 
subulate imbricated bracteas, the whole much shorter than 
the leaf. Calyx five-partite with a short green tube, and a 
five-partite limb; segments subulato-lanceolate, erect, 
reddish. Petals five, ovate, clawed, inserted at the back of 
a five-lobed, glandular cup which is adnate with the tube of 
the calyx, and alternating with these five lobes. Stamens 
five, perfect, free, at the back of the lobes of the cup, as long 
as the claws of the petals: filaments subulate, white. 
Anthers orange, with a short point: pollen yellow. Five 
sterile filaments are adnate with the claws of the petals, 
white. Germen with five free, erect lobes. Style very 
short. Stigma capitate. 7 
_ Fig. 1. Flowers. 2. Portion of the Glandular Cu , with two perfect 
Stamens, a Corolla and the adnate sterile Stamen. 3. Pistil 4, Uso side 
ofa Leaf. 5, Underside of ditto :—magnified. 
