ing, unequal in length: filaments yellow. Capsule
large, glossy, clothed with short hairs. Stigma large,
sessile, capitate, tuberculate.
This is probably the plant meant by M. Decandolle
as C. salmfolius J3 Jiumtfusus, as it is the most trailing
of any of the genus that we are acquainted with, by
which character, its slender shoots, and acute leaves, it
is readily distinguished from that species and all others,
approaching nearer to C. Cupanianus, but that is a
much stronger upright growing plant, with much
larger leaves, and of a brighter green ; we have therefore
no doubt but the present is as good a species as
any of the others. It is a free growing but dwarf plant,
quite hardy, and thrives well in a light sandy soil, continuing
to flower successively nearly all the Summer,
and ripens its seeds; young cuttings, planted under
hand-glasses in Autumn, strike root readily.
Our drawing was made from a plant, at the Nursery
of Mr. Colvill, King’s-road, Chelsea.
