It is rather a pretty Greenhouse shrub, but will scarcely 

 succeed out of" doors except in summer, or in very mild 

 winters. It may, we presume, be increased either by 

 layers or cuttings. 



Professor Link, and after him our learned friend De 

 Candolle, form of this plant a genus called Stauracanthus, 

 distinguished, as it would seem, by a bifid upper valve of the 

 calyx, and by a flatly-compressed exserted pod. The 

 first of these characters is wanting in the cultivated plant, 

 and also in wild specimens before us from Salzmann ; 

 hence we conclude, that it is either accidental or altogether 

 erroneous ; and the form of the pod taken alone would 

 hardly justify the separation from Ulex of a plant so 

 entirely accordant with it in its remarkable habit, and in 

 all other points. We therefore go back to the original 

 name of Brotero. 



According to the latter author, it is found in sandy pine- 

 woods in Portugal. Our wild specimens above alluded to 

 are from the hills about Tangiers. 



J. L. 



