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GLEANINGS AND OKIGINAL MEMORANDA, 
in the Revue Hortkole for 1848, has been able to confirm the creation of the genus in question, and to include in it three 
speciea 
M. Reer 
Glesleria 
picta 
hothouses is nothing but the Tydasa Dne, previously created ; second, in proposing the name Salicia for the genus Gloxinia 
as founded by l'Heritier, M. Regel departs from the rule of nomenclature which invariably attaches a generic name to the 
species which first served as a type ; to conform to this rule the name of Gloxinia should be reserved for Gloxinia 
maculata 1'Herit. and to its true analogies, whilst Gloxinia speciosa, caulescens, and the species and varieties analogous to 
them should be designated by the name of Liyeria Dne." — Flore des Serves, t. 489. 
Metrosidekos buxifolia. Allan Cunningham, {alias M. scandens Forster.) 
An 
flowers. 
(Myrtaceae) 
with box-like leaves, and heads of pale yellowish 
August. (Fig. 89.) 
♦h»wl CT *F ^ P f Dt ' T d *° ^ a climber . but °ot evincing any tendency that way, in cultivation. It would seem 
crarnhll?^ >1 L* *?* 1*** *"* woods of New Zealand produce, like ivy, roots from the branches, by which they 
Your H? T T* T treeS - The Dative name is Mid t0 be 4K-that of the English settlers Lignum vita. 
verv WmT! I 9 , ' 8 d08e **• 8 PK*Hng in f our rows, *-inch long, almost sessile, elliptical or ovato-rotundate, 
thev T»J T»a S T?' baCk at the "^ dark P^ above > Bomewhat hoary with minute hairs beneath, where 
from tL i °VX PnnC,pal veins about fi ve > the l»*end ones from near the base. Peduncles very short, 3-flowered 
with fivT 2 \T UPP ^ ? aVe9 ' and theDCe formin e a ^rt of ca P itate leafy corymb. Calyx turbinate, slightly hairy- 
yeuow £ i v 9 - ^^ eWptiCa1 ' """^ White - Fi,amen * wb "e, four times as long as the erect petals. Anther 
