able for their capsular fruit and winged seeds, the latter a 

 circumstance not hitherto observed in other plants of the 

 order. 



The botanical peculiarity of the present genus consists in 

 its carpels joining together at the very base into a solid pistil, 

 although their upper halves, as well as the styles, are entirely 

 distinct. And so, in like manner, when the fruit is ripe, it 

 becomes a hard capsule, the thick bony lobes of which sepa- 

 rate freely at the upper half, but not at the lower, without 

 violence. Fig. 3. represents it when ripe ; 1. in the young 

 state, when some of the stigmata are entire, and others two- 

 lobed : 2. shews one of the thin-winofed seeds hanmnof to the 

 Side of one valve of the capsule. 



In our gardens the plant seems likely to prove about as 

 hardy as an Escallonia, but not more so. Its fine evergreen 

 foliage, and large sweet flowers render it very desirable that 

 it should be able to bear our climate^ 



The accompanying drawing was made in the garden of 

 the Horticultural Society in July 1843. It remains in flower 

 for a month or six weeks. 



JVote hy Mr. Hartweg. 



An evergreen slender-growing shrub, 12 to 15 feet high, 

 from the natural bridge called Puente de Dios, 45 miles N.E. 

 of Real. del Monte, growing at an elevation of 6,500 feet 

 above the sea. It also occurs sparingly near the Hacienda de 

 Santa Ana, in the State of Oaxaca, always preferring a dry 

 chalky soil. 



I never found it in flower. 



