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in the Revue Horticole for 1848, has been able to confirm the creation of the genus in question, and to include in it three 

 species. He thinks he can also settle two synonyms which arise from a second article on Gesneracece published by 

 M. Regel in the Flora, March 28, 1849, No. 12. First, the genus Cr/es/eria, Reg., established on the A chimenes picta of our 

 hothouses is nothing but the Tydcea, Dne, previously created ; second, in proposing the name Salicia for the genus Gloxinia 

 as founded by l'Heritier, M. Regel departs from the rule of nomenclature which invariably attaches a generic name to the 

 species which first served as a type ; to conform to this rule the name of Gloxinia should be reserved for Gloxinia 

 maculala, l'Herit. and to its true analogies, whilst Gloxinia speciosa, caulescens, and the species and vai-ieties analogous to 

 them should be designated by the name of Z?V/en«,Dne." — Flore cles Serves, t. 489. 



Metrosideeos btjxifolia. Allan Cunningham, {alias M. scait&ens, Forster.) An ever- 

 green greenhouse bnsli from New Zealand, with box-like leaves, and heads of pale yellowish-white 

 flowers. Belongs to Myrtlebloorns (Myrtacese) . Flowered at Kew. (Fig. 86.) 



Rather a pretty plant, said to be a climber, but not evincing any tendency that way, in cultivation. It would seem 

 that this and other plants in the damp woods of New Zealand produce, like ivy, roots from the branches, by which they 

 scramble up the trunks of forest trees. The native name is said to be AM — that of the English settlers lAgnibm vitce. 

 Young branches hoary. Leaves close set, spreading in four rows, -|-inch long, almost sessile, elliptical or ovato-rotundate, 

 very blunt, leathery, glossy, rolled back at the edge, dark green above, somewhat hoary with minute hairs beneath, where 

 they are also dotted. Principal veins about five, the lateral ones from near the base. Peduncles very short, 3-flowered 

 from the axils of the upper leaves, and thence forming a sort of capitate leafy corymb. Calyx turbinate, slightly hairy, 

 with five obtuse lobes. Petals elliptical, small, white. Filaments white, four times as long as the erect petals. Anthei 

 yellow. Botanical Magazine, t. 4515. 



