ing, unequal in length: filaments yellow. Capsule 

 large, glossy, clothed with short hairs. Stigma large, 

 sessile, capitate, tuberculate. 



This is probably the plant meant by M. Decandolle 

 as C. salmfolius ]3 humrfusus, as it is the most trailing 

 of any of the genus that we are acquainted with, by 

 which character, its slender shoots, and acute leaves, it 

 is readily distinguished from that species and all others, 

 approaching nearer to C. Cupanianus, but that is a 

 much stronger upright growing plant, with much 

 larger leaves, and of a brighter green ; we have there- 

 fore no doubt but the present is as good a species as 

 any of the others. It is a free growing but dwarf plant, 

 quite hardy, and thrives well in a light sandy soil, con- 

 tinuing to flower successively nearly all the Summer, 

 and ripens its seeds; young cuttings, planted under 

 hand-glasses in Autumn, strike root readily. 



Our drawing was made from a plant, at the Nursery 

 of Mr. Colvill, King's-road, Chelsea. 



