Plate 259. 
PULTENiEA ROSEA. 
This is a very pretty greenhouse plant of neat and fioriferous habit, and when better 
known will assuredly find a place in all collections of hard-wooded decorative plants. It is 
a native of Mount William, in the Grampians of Yictoria, where it is found at an altitude 
of 5000 feet. The bright rosy lilac pea-shaped flowers are borne in rounded clusters at 
the apices of the short heath-like branches. Mr. Bentham remarks “ that this species is 
chiefly distinguished from P. hibbertioides by the unusual colour of the flowers—the very 
feature which will give it especial interest for our plant growers and exhibitors of hard- 
wooded plants, since it will in some degree, though imperfectly, represent and replace the 
fine Burtonias which used to be so effectively exhibited some quarter of a century ago.” 
Nearly all the plants in this genus have yellow or orange coloured flowers, the present 
plant being, however, a pleasing exception to the rule. P. ericoides, a showy yellow-flowered 
species, with rosy petals, was introduced from the Swan River, and flowered in 1850, and 
the year following it was figured at p. 145 of Moore and Ayre’s ‘Magazine of Botany.’ 
Pultencea rosea , E. Muell., has recently been exhibited by Messrs. W. Rollisson and Sons, 
of Tooting, and it has received first-class certificates from the Royal Botanic and 
Horticultural Societies as a decorative plant of sterling merit. 
Plate 260. 
TROPiEOLITJM COOPERI, var. HITNTERI. 
This distinct and useful little decorative plant is a seedling variety of T. Cooperi , 
and has been raised by Mr. Andrew Hunter, gardener to Lord Shand, Hew Hailes House, 
near Edinburgh. Apart from its adaptability as a pot plant for market, or for the supply of 
cut flowers during the winter and spring months, this pretty little plant is said to be 
admirably suited for use in flower-garden arrangements during the summer months, 
excelling in this respect its parent T. Cooperi , in being of a dwarfer habit. It has been 
described by the Editors of the 1 Gardeners’ Chronicle ’ as follows :—“ It grows about 6 inches 
high, is very neat and compact in habit, and a most profuse bloomer, the flowers being of 
medium size, nice form, and of a bright scarlet colour.” The leaves are of a fresh green 
colour, inclining to glaucus, and these contrast well with the vivid brilliancy of the flowers. 
We are informed by Messrs. Downie and Laird, of Edinburgh (who hold the entire stock of 
this pleasing novelty), that the plant rarely produces perfect seeds; an advantage, since this 
conduces to its prolonged floral beauty, but that cuttings root freely, and we have seen 
specimens taken from the cutting pots, and scarcely three inches in height, bearing five 
or six fully expanded flowers besides buds. It certainly well merits culture as the most 
dainty little plant of its race with which we are acquainted. 
