the plant were well cultivated, would make it a welcome addition 

 to our greenhouses ; but if ill managed it is not worth the 

 growing. I am glad therefore to have the opportunity of pub- 

 lishing what I suppose to be a variety of it, with much larger 

 flowers than the original species, and a better habit ; for which 

 the public is indebted to His Grace the Duke of Northumber- 

 land. It was received at Sion in 1839 from Captain Herbert, 

 who obtained it on the Pampas of Buenos Ayres, and it 

 flowered in June last. 



For the present I am obliged to regard it as a mere variety 

 of the Heimia salicifolia, from want of sufficient materials for 

 comparison ; but it is by no means improbable that it may be 

 a distinct species. It is however certainly the plant distri- 

 buted under this name from the Berlin Herbarium out of the 

 collections made in Brazil by Sellow. 



The differences that appear to exist between it and the 

 above-mentioned plant consist not merely in the size of the 

 flowers, but in the branches of the species now figured having 

 a drooping habit, and being loaded with flowers almost up to 

 their summit ; while in the other they appeared principally 

 from the middle part of the erect branches. 



The specimen now represented has been treated as a 

 greenhouse plant. That however formerly introduced is a 

 half-hardy shrub, which will bear our ordinary winters with 

 the mere protection of a hand-glass. It flowers in such situ- 

 ations from June to September, and is easily increased by 

 cuttings of the half-ripe wood. In this, however, as in many 

 more instances, the cultivator should consider, not what a plant 

 will endure, but what it will flourish with ; and in that case 

 he will keep the Heimia in the society of Camellias, and 

 Chinese Azaleas, and the more hardy kinds of New Holland 

 plants. 



