PRONAYA ELEGANS. 
(Elegant Pronaya.) 
Class. 
PEN T ANDRI A . 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
PITTOSPORaCE^E. 
Generic Character. — Calyx five-leaved ; leaflets 
subulate, equal. Corolla of five petals, hypogynous, 
alternating with the leaflets of the calyx, ovate or 
obovate, sub-sessile, or with a short claw, connivent 
below,subrotately spreading. Stamens five, hypogynous, 
alternating with the petals, erectly spreading. Fila- 
ments subulately thread-shaped. Anthers turned in- 
wards, two-celled, oblong ; apex revolute, dehiscing 
longitudinally. Ovary elliptically-cylindrical, two- 
celled. Ovules several in each cell, in two rows on 
each side of the dissepiments, anatropous. Style short, 
straight. Stigma obsoletely emarginate Berry coria- 
ceously fleshy, cylindrical, muticate, two-celled. Seeds 
numerous in each cell, imbedded in a resinous pulp, 
nearly globose, or angular. Embryo placed near the 
umbilicus, in a hardened albumen, orthotropous. 
Specific Character. — Plant a suffruticose ever- 
green. Branches slender, climbing, somewhat woody, 
smooth. Leaves nearly sessile, alternate, oblong-linear, 
entire, or with two or three deep indentures on each 
side, somewhat reticulately veined ; margins revolute, 
glabrous above, covered with very short and closely 
adpressed hairs on the under surface. Peduncles 
short, at the top of the shoots, solitary. Cymes di- 
trichotomous. Flowers numerous, blue. 
Synonvmes. — Spiranfhera Frdseri ; Campylanthera 
Frdseri ; Billardiera rosmarinifolia. 
This elegant little greenhouse plant bears some resemblance in its general 
aspect to the Marianthus cwruleo-punctatus, It is a smooth twining plant, but of 
a less tenuous and less rambling growth, producing its leaves at shorter intervals, 
and having the flowers more compactly aggregated. In healthy plants, the latter 
are plenteously developed, and have a peculiarly neat and attractive mien. From 
this dwarfness of habit, and the pleasing and long-lasting inflorescence, it makes 
one of the most desirable of plants for a small greenhouse. 
Speaking of it under the name of the Campylanthera Fraseri, Sir William J. 
Hooker, in his " Icones Plantarum," says, " This is noticed by Mr. Fraser as a 
beautiful creeper, as indeed it may well be with its copious corymbs of azure 
flowers. It will be at once seen that it bears a close affinity to Billardiera, 
Sollya, and Cheiranthera, among the Pittospora, differing from the first in its 
inflorescence, spreading petals, and spirally curved anthers ; from the second, in 
its last-mentioned character, and in having anthers not opening by pores ; and 
from the third in the different direction of the stamens, and fleshy or pulpy fruit.''' 
The name we have adopted is that bestowed by Hugel, and under which alone, 
we believe, it is known in the gardens of this country. It is a product of the 
western coast of New Holland, and was first discovered by Mr. Fraser, growing 
plentifully about the Swan River settlement, from whence it was originally 
