This species of Whortle-berry was introduced from Carolina, about the year 1794, by Mr. J. Fraser, nurseryman. It is another of those with ten chives, five cells in the berry, and five segments in the borders of the cup and blossom. It is an evergreen, and will live through a mild winter, on a warm border; but cannot resist the cold of a severe one, though a small degree of protection is sufficient for its preservation. As a greenhouse plant, it is very decorative, flowering about June; in which month this year our drawing was made, at the Hammersmith nursery, from a plant in that collection. The pabulum best calculated to preserve it in a flourishing state, is a mixture composed of sandy peat two parts, and light loam one part. To propagate it, the younger branches should be laid down about the end of May, and they will be rooted by the ensuing spring. [Illustration] PLATE CVI. HOUSTONIA COCCINEA. _Scarlet Houstonia._ CLASS IV. ORDER I. _TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Four Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium minimum, quadridentatum, erectum, persistens. COROLLA monopetala, infundibuliformis; tubus cylindraceus, longus; limbus quadripartitus, patens, laciniis subrotundis. STAMINA. Filamenta quatuor, in collo corollæ, minima. Antheræ simplices. PISTILLUM. Germen superum, subrotundum, compressum. Stylus simplex, staminibus brevior. Stigma bifidum, acutum. PERICARPIUM. Capsula subrotunda, didyma, supra transverse dehiscens, bilocularis, bivalvis; valvulis dissepimento oppositis. SEMINA pauca, parva, ovata, dissepimento adhærentia. EMPALEMENT. Cup very small, with four teeth, upright, and remaining. BLOSSOM one petal, funnel-shaped; tube cylindrical, long; border of four divisions, spreading, segments roundish. CHIVES. Four threads, fixed to the neck of the blossom, very small. Tips simple. POINTAL. Seed-bud above, roundish, and flattened. Shaft simple, shorter than the chives. Summit split in two and sharp. SEED-VESSEL. Capsule roundish, double, splitting transversely from the upper part, two cells, two valves; the valves opposite to the partition. SEEDS a few, small, oval, adhering to the partition. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Houstonia foliis ovatis, glabris, subternis; caulis debilis, suffruticosus; floribus terminalibus, coccineis. Houstonia with oval, smooth leaves, growing mostly by threes; stem weak, rather shrubby; flowers terminate the branches, and are scarlet. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement and Pointal, the Blossom taken off. 2. The Blossom cut open, to shew its interior structure. 3. The Seed-bud and Pointal, the leaflets of the cup being removed, magnified.