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 bt rder, 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 Nursery
of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham, where
um,the present drawing was made; it may be named C. leptostachy-
gidum and distinguished as below.* Besides the above, and C. ri-
of the Botanical Register, the following also be referred to the present Metrosideros species glauca
must
ligna Bonpl. (speciosa viridiflora Sims.) lanceolata genus. Sm. marginata Cav. sa
Sm. Sims, linearis Sm. pinifolia Wendl.
and many other nondescript species.
A native of New Holland, and first introduced to our gardens
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 Nurseries
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 cuttings,
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 KaXXtoroe, beautiful,
and ottjjuov, stamen, the beauty of the flowers consisting in their
long stamens, which in several species are scarlet or crimson :
the specific from \o<j>oc, a crest, and avOog, a flower.
tatis *u nCin. elerpvtioiss tapcehnynuimv,e nfoiilsii sa ldaunlcteiso lgaltaisb raicsu: tjius nmiourcibronnsa triasm bisaqsiu ea ttseenruicaetois- tmomuletniptousnics-, spicis longis gracilibus, calycibus pilosis, petalis pubescentibus ciliatis, ovariis glabri-
usculis, capsnlis congestis.
sprea1d. Copaelynx, ,d sivheoswteindg o ift sit sw oseogllmy etunbtse, bauntd shmoewminbgr atnhaec 5e opuest aslse ginmseenrttse.d i2n. Tthhee msoaumthe 3o.f Sthteam tuebnes ,i naste trhteed b ains et hies uthpep ewro poallryt Oofv tahreiu tmub, ete. rm4i. nCataepds ubley tchuet Sthtyroleu gahn,d tSot isghmowa. the three cells. 5. The same entire, enclosed in the persistent Calyx.