A native of the south -western coast of New Holland, 

 and likely to prove a very tine Greenhouse climber. 



Our drawing was taken by permission of Mr. Knight, 

 of the King's Road, from specimens that blossomed in his 

 Nursery in July last. Mr. Knight informs us, that it will 

 probably prove nearly hardy, as he has several plants on 

 an open wall, west aspect, which have grown most vigor- 

 ously ; and, notwithstanding the severity of our November 

 frosts, are as green and healthy as they were in August. 



This genus is near Billardiera, with which one species, 

 B. fusiformis ^Sol/t/a (Uigu.^ti/olia nob.) has actually been 

 united by Labillardiere. It is, however, essentially distin- 

 guished by its minute calyx ; by its campanulate or nearly 

 spreading petals, which do not form a tube ; by its linear 

 anthers cohering into a cone, connate at their apex, and 

 emitting their pollen by a sort of pores ; and finally, by 

 the fruit having a thin papery pericarpium, or being, as 

 M. Labillardiere ingeniously expresses it, a bacca sicca 

 chartiicai. 



The petals readily separate into two lamellae, as if they 

 were composed of two plates grown face to face. This 

 may serve to shew how unimportant is a similar circum- 

 stance in Daphne, where it has been thought to be a proof 

 of a calyx and corolla having in that genus grown together 

 into a single floral envelope. We allude to this circum- 

 stance now, because we lately saw the idea revived some- 

 where ; otherwise we should have supposed it to have been 

 long since consigned to the list of exploded errors. 



J. L. 



