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CLIANTHUS PUNICEUS. 
seated on a slender stipe, and convex on the upper instead of the lower edge ; so 
that unless attention is paid to their manner of growth, it would seem as if the 
seeds grew to the lower instead of the upper edge. They are covered all over inside 
with a delicate cottony down, in which lie the small kidney-shaped seeds, of a dull 
yellowish ochre colour, mottled with small dark brown blotches and speckles." 
The plant from which our drawing was taken is in the possession of Messrs. 
Young, of Epsom, who have a stock of young plants for sale, we believe at about 
three guineas each. We may add to the above description, that the stem of the 
plant grows as thick as a hen's egg, and the racemes of flowers are produced at 
almost every axil, making the plant a complete picture of flowers ; as many as fifty 
racemes being borne on one branch. The colour of the flowers on the plant from 
which our drawing was made was far more brilliant than the specimens represented 
either in the Horticultural Transactions or the Botanical Register ; indeed we 
understand the colour begins to change very soon after the flowers are separated 
from the plant. The season of flowering appears to be from the beginning of April 
until the middle of June. 
" From the trials that have been made of the proper mode 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, Titsey-place, near Godstone, and the plants continue to look 
very healthy, with a profusion of blossoms forming for next year. 
^' Kept in a greenhouse it was sickly, and did not flower in the hands of Mr. 
Gower's gardner ; but Mr. Coleman succeeded in blossoming it in a large pot in the 
greenhouse, and in inducing it to ripen its pods. 
" Considering that the climate of New Zealand is in some places like that of 
England, that some species, such as Edwardsia microphyllay will bear the rigour of 
our winters, it is not impossible that this may also prove a hardy plant. If so, its 
extraordinary beauty will render it one of the most valuable that has been intro- 
duced of late years ; and even if it should be no hardier than Sutherlandia frutes- 
cens, it will still form one of the most important and welcome of all the modern 
additions to our flower-gardens." 
The generic name is derived from the Greek words Jcleios glory, and anthos 
a flower, literally Glory-flower. And the specific name puniceus alludes to the 
colour of the flower. 
