Seeds of this handsome species of Gorrea were collected by
Mr. William Baxter, the indefatigable Collector of E. Henchman,
Esq., at Kangaroo Island, on the south coast of New Holland;
from those were raised young plants in 1824, at the Nursery
of Mr. J.. Mackay, at Clapton, where they began flowering
for the first time in February last;' and plants of it are now for
sale at his establishment, where many other new or rare plants
from New Holland have flowered this season, and others are
continually coming into bloom.
The present species thrives well in an equal portion of light
turfy loam, peat, and sand, or if the loam and peat is very light
the less sand will be required, and where peat earth cannot be
readily procured, decayed leaves or very rotten dung may be
substituted. It is a very hardy Greenhouse plant, and we believe
would endure our Winters if planted by the side of a wall in a
south aspect, and to be covered with a thick mat in severe frosty
weather, but a slight frost would not injure it; it would certainly
succeed well in the southern counties if treated in that manner.
Cuttings of it will root readily if planted in pots of sand under
hand-glasses or bell-glasses, or it will succeed well grafted or inarched
on C. alba or C. virens, particularly the former, to which
it is nearest related. Our drawing was made from a plant at
Mr. Mackay’s Nursery, the latter end of February.
The genus was first named by Sir J. E. Smith, in compliment
to the late M. Correa de Serra, a celebrated Portuguese
Botanist.
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