than the slender bracteolated pedicels. Catyx 5-toothed, teeth acu- 
minate. STANDARD ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, reflexed, 2 inches 
long, externally of a nantmense oe = a i —— 
except when towards the base it is marked t 
or lines. Wu1vas of a blood-red colour, obtuse, about Linch in length. 
KEEL quite monopetalous, acuminate, nearly 3 inches long, of a red- 
ish orange colour, pale towards the base. Pop nearly 3 inches in 
length, dark-brown, veined. ee is kidney-shaped, brown, speckled 
with black spots. 
PopuLaR AND GEOGRAPHICAL Naver The enterprising natural- 
ists, Banks and Solander, who accompanied Captain Cook, in 1769, 
first discovered this plant in the northern interior, of New Zealand; 
it was again discovered by the missionaries in 1831. Its native name 
is KowarnquToKaka or Parrot’s-bill: but itis most justly entitled to 
the name, given by Solander, of Flower of Glory. A group of such 
shrabs would realize the description by the poet— 
Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam 
Cover a < mess miles, and seem 
set the hills on fire! 
ivioouenon) WHERE Grown; Curture. Mr. Richard Davis, 
Missionary Catechist at New Zealand sent the seed of Clianthus puni- 
ceus to the Rev. John Noble Colman, of Ryde, Isle of Wight, who 
sowed it as soon as it was received in the autumn of 1831. In the fol- 
lowing spring they produced several fine plants. The specimen from 
which our drawing was made flowered in May, 1836, in the rich col- 
lection of William Leaf, Esq. Parkhill, Streatham. Cuttings strike 
root most readily under a hand-glass, indeed where its branches touch 
the ground, they will take root like Verbena Melindris. Trained 
to a southern wall, it will grow luxuriently, but notwithstanding its ap- 
parent health, during winter, in such situation, when spring succeeds, 
it betrays its southern origin, and either dies, or recovers with diffi- 
culty. 
DERIVATION OF THE NAMEs. 
Cutantus, from «Xzc glory, and ay0oc a flower. Ponicevs, rier from 
Punicus, of or be elonging to Phoenicia, of which Tyre was famous fo ts dye of 
purple, said to be obtained from a species of shell-fish of the sea nat 
SynonyMeEs. 
CLIANTHUS PUNICEUS, Solander, Manuscript in British Museum. Allan Cun. 
am in Transactions of Horticultural Society, New Series, Vol, I, p. 521, 
t. 22. Hooker in Botanical Ma , folio 3584, “ 
Dont ae aan —— Don's Seneenl Dictionary of Gardening and Bota- 
ny, Vol. IL, p. i 
