NERTERA 



crises 6 species of similar lialjit found i 

 „t tlie soutliern lu-i.ii.si..Lfrc. Tlie Ih-, 

 pn.hably, is X. d.pr.ss,, . ^^hu■h rui.«.-s 

 Aliili-s, fr.MU thu tn.pi.'s to ('ap.- II. .ni. 

 Tristan a'Ai'milui. and tin- mountains 

 and Tasmania. Tlic B.-ad Plant is j.ro 

 vision. It needs a samlv soil, with s..m 

 prefers shade in summer. It may ne 

 some winter c.verimj in the North, 

 makes a good house plant and well-fruited 

 specimens are occasionally used abroad in 

 fancy bedding as a novelty. The fruit 

 may last from midsummer well into the 



Nerteras are slender creepers, with 

 small, opposite Ivs. which are stalked or 

 not, ovate or ovate-lanceolate; stipules 

 grown into a sheath with the petioles, 2- 

 dentate or entire : fls. axillary, incon- 

 spicuous, sessile; crolla 4-lobed; sta- 

 mens 4: ovary i; -celled; drupe 2-seeded. 



depr^ssa, Banks and Soland. Almost 

 glabrous: sti-nis (l-li) in. l.ini;. -l-cornered: 

 Ivs. 2-t lini-- I '!ij li :-lh "vate, acute 

 or obtuse, Um' ■ i lli-shy; peti- 



oles about a^ I : Hh-s; stipules 



very small: il- - Ihn .. L-.-nish. F.S. 

 21:2167 (charnnuy). L;..M. ..T'.I'J. -^y. M. 



NESa;A. See Decodon. 



NEW 



NEVltrSIA (after Rev. R 

 it.), nosdcew. This is a very rare 

 wild only on some shaded cliffs m-: 

 It is, however, quite hardy as far nm 

 Its long, slender, wand-like brain- 

 Kerria, but it has no petals, and its 

 Spira-a kind. The fls. are about an 



HAMPSHIRE 107& 



Nevius, who di-scovered 



