was found by Mr. Drummond and others. It may be multi- 

 plied either by cuttings or from seeds. Cuttings root rather 

 slowly, and when seed can be procured it is much easier to 

 get a stock of plants from it. The species is of the easiest 

 culture, growing freely in a mixture of loam and peat. Pro- 

 perly speaking it is a greenhouse plant, and will form a hand- 

 some bush if planted out in a conservatory ; but like S. hete- 

 Tophylla it will live out of doors in mild winters, in the 

 warmer parts of the country. 



With regard to S. angustifolia, a third supposed species 

 of the genus, it is reported by Labillardiere, its sole dis- 

 coverer, who called it Billardiera fusiformis, to be a native of 

 Van Diemen's Island ; it has not however been met with, as 

 far as I know, by any botanist since his time ; no trace of it 

 occurs among Mr. Gunn's extensive collections. I have, 

 however, lately received from Mr. Webb an authentic speci- 

 men of the plant, out of Labillardiere's herbarium, and I find 

 it so very like S. heterophylla that there seems nothing to dis- 

 tinguish it from that plant, except the presence of a few long 

 hairs on the young twigs, and on the back of some of the 

 leaves, of which there is a trace on the younger leaves of >S^. he- 

 ierophylla itself. I therefore fear it is nothing more than a 

 slight variety of that species. 



