berry, we thought that chai'acter, whatever it might mean, was some- 

 thing worth noticing in addition. 



It however turns out, from the observations of Mr. Don, that the 

 fruit of Sollya is succulent, and filled with a soft pleasant pulp, and 

 therefore he has proposed to reduce it to Billardiera {Brit. Fl. Gard. 

 2nd series, fol. 252 note.). But, in the first place, the character of 

 Sollya is, as we have just stated, independent of the structui-e of 

 the fruit ; so that if the latter were really like that of Billardiera, still 

 the genus Sollya would remain ; and secondly, a succulent fruit filled 

 with soft pulp is not what occurs in Billardiera, whose pericar- 

 piura indeed is of a soft spongy substance, but wholly destitute of 

 internal pulp, the seeds lying loose in the cells. Mr. Don adds that 

 the fruit of Sollya is four-celled. We have never seen the fruit more 

 than half ripe ; in that state it has two cells, each of which is occupied 

 by two rows of seeds, set fast in a firm somewhat fleshy substance, 

 which fills each cell, and which we presume to be what finally be- 

 comes the soft pulp that envelopes the seeds. A cross section of the 

 fruit made at that time looks as if there were four cells, which is not 

 the case. The genus Sollya, then, instead of being destroyed by the 

 discovery of the true character of its fruit, is established on still more 

 solid grounds than before. 



Although it turns out that Sollya has not the thin papery pericar- 

 pium that has been assigned to it, yet we have been favoured by Mr. 

 Cunningham, to whose numerous discoveries, and the disinterested libe- 

 rality with which they are communicated to others, we have so often 

 had occasion to bear witness, with a new genus allied to Sollya, in 

 which the pericarpium is dry and leathery. This plant is called Chei- 

 r anther a linearis by its discoverer, because its anthers bend away from 

 the ovary, forming themselves into a line slightly curved like the 

 fingers of an open hand, and resembling what occurs in the Pleuran- 

 dras of the same country. This remark of Mr. Cunningham is the 

 more important because it tends to approximate PittosporecB to Dillc- 

 niacea, and thus to confirm the propriety of placing those plants near 

 each other in 'a natural arrangement. (See JVixus pi. p. 10.) By 

 means of a drawing from the living plant, and fine dried specimens 

 with which Mr. Cunningham has supplied us, we are enabled to draw 

 up the following character of this most interesting genus. 



Cheiranthera. Cunn. Mss. Sepala 5, acuminata. Corolla crateriformis, petalis 5 ; iingui- 

 busdistantibus. Stamina 5 electa, pistillo breviora ; antheris libeiis, lineaiibus, secundis, p irisapicis 

 dehiscentibus. Ot'aj-juni declinatum, biloculaie, polyspermnm. Fericarpii.m siccum, indeliiseens, 



ventricosum. Semina plurima, pulpa nulla obducta. Frutex erecius (Australasicus), foliis 



Linear thus, integ)'is sidrfascicuialis, floribus ca?r!/ Zeis coriiinbosis erectis. 



1. C. linearis Cunningha.m. Found in dry barren tracts of coun- 

 try on the north of Bathurst, New South Wales, where it was observed 

 inflower and young fruit in November 1822. Subsequently, in the same 

 season (namely the summer of 1825), it was again detected most luxu- 

 riantly in flower in an arid scrubby region at the foot of Croker's 

 range of mountains, on the west of Wellington Valley, in the interior 

 of that col on V. 



This is one of the most beautiful plants in all the flora of New 

 Holland. 



