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SOLLYA LINEARIS. 



Linear-leaved Sollya. 

 Linncan Class — Pentandri a. Order — Monooynia. Natural Order— Pittosporace.*:. 



In catering for our readers month by month, we have now visited every quarter of 

 the globe. From the North American contiuent we have culled the JIahrothamnus, 

 Calochortm, Fentstemon, Martynia, Ribes, and Garrya ; and the Southern portion of 

 the Western Hemisphere has furnished our pages with the handsome Tropasolum, 

 the Lardizalala, Mitraria, Escallonia, and Canlua. Africa has presented us with 

 the Oxalis, Grammanthes, and Tritonia ; Asia with the Torenia of matchless tint, 

 the Dielytra, Lilium, Salvia, Tlmnbergia, and Scutellaria ; whilst of European pro- 

 ductions, we have selected but the Geranium Unique, the brilliant Potentilla, and 

 the Alstrcemeria, which, as owing their existence to the hybridizer's art, may fairly 

 class with the flora of our own clime. There is, however, one important division 

 of the earth's surface which has been hitherto unrepresented in our casket of floral 

 gems ; we refer to Australia, for which noble colony so glorious a future appears in 

 store. This omission we will now proceed to supply ; and we do so the more 

 readily, that among the Australian plants are many eminently suited to window 

 culture. 



The Sollyas are by no means the most striking features in the vegetation of this 

 southern California ; but they are so neat in their habit, and of such easy manage- 

 ment, that we think we shall do our readers a service in recommending them to their 

 notice. The species we have chosen is not the most recently introduced member of 

 the genus ; but we think it is superior to all the others with which we have any 

 acquaintance, though the S. angustifolia is nearly as interesting. They are all of a 

 scandent habit, but do not generally exceed five or six feet, and may easily, if 

 thought desirable, be kept down to two or three feet by stopping. Their evergreen 

 character gives them an additional value, and their flowers are so freely produced, 

 from the end of May up to a late period, that we are surprised they are not more 

 generally seen by the side of the Fuschia and Geranium. The oldest and best 

 known species is the S. heteropliylla, with leaves considerably broader than those of 

 linearis, but with smaller and paler flowers. S. angustifolia has flowers resembling 

 those of hetero2)hylla ; but its foliage is narrower, though less so than that of limaris. 

 The only other species with which we are acquainted, in addition to the three first 



