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SOLLYA linearis. 



Narrow-leaved Sollya. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 

 Nat. Ord. PiTTOSPORACE/E. 



SOLLYA. Botanical Registei; vol. \7.fol. 14G6. 



S. linearis; foliis glaberrimis linearibus et lineari-lanceolatis obtusiusculis, 

 cymis multifloris nutantibus glabris, stigmate subsimplici, fructibus ob- 

 longis. Bot. Reg, 1839. miscell. no. 132. 



The beauty of the graceful Sollya heterophyllai now so 

 common, and so general a favourite, makes a new species of 

 the genus a most welcome addition to our gardens, and I had 

 therefore much gratification in announcing sometime since 

 that the plant now figured had been procured from Swan 

 River by Mr. Mangles. 



It resembles the other species in general appearance, and 

 altogether in the colour and size of its flowers, but it has ex- 

 ceedingly narrow leaves, which have no appearance of ever 

 being serrated, and it is altogether a more slender-looking 

 plant ; nevertheless, as was before stated, it appears to be a 

 more profuse flowerer, some of my wild specimens having 

 as many as eleven flowers in a cluster, and a single branch 

 five such clusters. In more minute circumstances other 

 dififerences are perceptible ; in S. linearis the stigma is less 

 distinctly two-lobed than in S. heterophylla ; and the fruit 

 of the former is oblong, as broad at one end as the other, 

 7J lines long, from the point of the stigma, and 2^ broad, 

 while in the latter it is much narrower and more attenuated 

 to each end, 8| lines long by IJ broad, so that the propor- 

 tional length of the two diameters are about as 9 to 3 in 

 S. linearis^ and 10 to 1| in S. heterophylla. 



The species inhabits the Swan River Colony, where it 



