By John Lindley, PL D. F. R. S., $c. 



521 



From the trials that have been madeof the propermode of managing 

 it, both by Mr. Gower and the Rev. John Coleman, by whom it was 

 given to the former gentleman, it would appear that it succeeds 

 best when treated as a hardy plant, and turned out into a peat 

 border ; for in such a situation it has now been two years in Mr. 

 Gower's garden, and the plants continue to look very healthy, with 

 a profusion of blossoms forming for next year. Kept in a green- 

 house it was sickly and did not flower in the hands of Mr. Gower's 

 gardener ; but Mr. Coleman succeeded in blossoming it in a large 

 pot in the green-house, and in inducing it to ripen its pods, one of 

 which is that here figured. 



Considering that the climate of New Zealand is in some 

 places so much like that of England, that some species, such as 

 Edwardsia microphylla, will bear the rigour of our winters, it is not 

 improbable that this may also prove a hardy plant. If so its ex- 

 traordinary beauty will render it one of the most valuable species 

 that has been introduced of late years ; and even if it should be no 

 hardier than Sutherlandiafrutescens, it will still form one of the 

 most important and welcome of all the modern additions to our 

 flower-gardens. 



I am happy to complete this communication by the addition of 

 some notes upon the other species of this remarkable genus, for 

 which I am indebted to Mr. Allan Cunningham, the distinguished 

 traveller in Australia. 



1. Clianthus puniceus. 



Clianthus puniceus. Solandr. Mss. in Mus. Banks. 



Donia punicea. Dons gen. syst, of gard. 2. p. 468. 

 This differs from the two Australian species next enumerated, in 

 being evidently a suffruticose plant of diffuse, but not procumbent , 

 habit, having alternate blunt oblong smooth leaflets; flowers in 



