From the appearance of the figure of Metrosideros saligna 
of the Botanical Magazine, we are inclined to refer it to the 
present species rather than to C. salignum; but if the flowers 
are really smooth as described there, it cannot be this species ; 
but we have never seen C. salignum with such small leaves as 
there represented, nor with such a long spike of flowers; but as 
that specimen was said to have been grown against a wall in 
the open border, that might partly account for the difference ; 
the state that we have generally seen it, is much the same as 
represented by Ventenat and Bonpland; another species, nearly 
related to the present, we saw in flower last Summer at the Nur- 
sery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham, where 
the present drawing was made; it may be named C. leptostachy- 
um, and distinguished as below.* Besides the above, and C. 7- 
idum of the Botanical Register, the following species must 
also be referred to the present genus. AZetrostderos glauca 
Bonpl. (speciosa Sims.) lanceolata Sm. marginata Cav. sa- 
ligna Sm. viridiflora Sims. linearis Sm. pinifolia Wendl, 
and many other nondescript species. 
A native of New Holland, and first introduced to our gar- 
dens from France, from whence plants of it were received, some 
years back, at Messrs. Whitleys, as well as at other Nurseries, 
under the name of Metrosideros lophantha; but in the Nur- 
series they have been generally sold for C. salignum, though 
that is a very different species; they are all very desirable 
plants for the Greenhouse or Conservatory, and will succeed 
well against a wall in a southern aspect, to be covered by a 
mat in severe frost; they are readily increased by ripened cut- 
tings, planted in pots of sand, and placed under a hand-glass ; 
or they may be raised from seeds; but those from cuttings will 
be best, as they flower more readily. 
The generic name is compounded of xaAXoroe, beautiful, 
and ornuov, stamen, the beauty of the flowers consisting in their 
long stamens, which in several species are scarlet or crimson : 
the specific from Aogoc, a crest, and avOog, a flower, 
* C. leptostachyum, foliis lanceolatis acutis mucronatis basi attenuatis multipunc- 
tatis uninerviis penniveniis adultis glabris: junioribus ramisque sericeo-tomentosis, 
spicis longis gracilibus, calycibus pilosis, petalis pubescentibus ciliatis, ovariis glabri- 
usculis, capsulis congestis. 
POLS EELS LITE TEES 
1. Calyx, showing its woolly tube and membranaceous segments. 2. The same 
spread open, divested of its segments, but showing the 5 petals inserted in the mouth 
of the tube, at the base is the woolly Ovarium, terminated by the Style and Stigma. 
3. Stamens inserted in the upper part of the tube, 4, Capsule cat through, to show 
the three cells. 5, The same entire, enclosed in the persistent Calyx, 
