CORIMEA BICOLOR. 
(Two-coloured flowered Correea. 
Class. 
OCTANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RUTACEiE. 
Generic Character.— Calyx cup-shaped, four-tooth- 
ed or entire, permanent. Petals four, somewhat conni- 
vent at the base, or joined into a long tube. Stamens 
eight, equal or longer than the petals ; the four opposite 
to them the shortest ; filaments smooth, awl- shaped, or 
dilated above the base. Ovary four-lobed, densely beset 
with stellate hairs, and as if it were furnished with a 
calyptra. Style four-furrowed, smooth, terminated by 
afour-lobed stigma. Fruit of four capsular carpels ; cells 
truncate, compressed. Seeds two or three in each cell, 
shining, fixed to the inside. — Don's'j&ard. and Botany. 
Specific Character Plant a hybrid, conspicuous 
solely for its flowers, which combine the white and 
crimson tints of C. pulchella and C alba. 
No fact has been more clearly developed within the last few years of gardening 
history, than that the intermixture of different species of plants, by hybridization, 
is quite endless, and that, after it has been performed, for several seasons, on 
particular objects, they become blended and confused to a degree that almost defies 
recognition. Even the florist is often unable to identify the same hybrid under altered 
circumstances, or when its treatment has been markedly dissimilar. And this 
makes us hesitate ere we sanction names (especially descriptive ones) applied to 
any seedling production, by publishing a drawing of that object, however beautiful 
it may be. 
Some of the indistinctiveness ^ which results in general cases, has, we fully 
believe, been experienced from the hybridization of Corrseas. There are many 
kinds even now in existence, which, if placed by the side of others, would appear 
very nearly identical. Others, however, are so decidedly novel or distinct, that no 
subsequent modification of their properties is likely to remove their peculiarities ; 
and among these C. bicolor is, perhaps, the most noticeable. It is so essentially 
different from all the rest, and so pleasingly beautiful, that we are gratified both in 
confirming the title it has received, and in admitting a representation of it to our 
pages. 
It was generated a few years back, among other popular hybrids, and is most 
probably the offspring of C. pulchella and C. alba, as it possesses the hue of the 
