BILL ARD I ERA

(in honour of Jacques Julien Labillardiere, a celebrated French botanist and traveller). Apple Berry. O RD. Pittosporaceæ. Very desirable greenhouse evergreen climbers. Peduncles solitary from the apex of the branches, one-flowered, pendulous; calyx of five subulate sepals; petals five, combined into a tube below, generally yellow; stamens five. Fruit edible. Leaves alternate. They thrive either in pots or planted out in a compost of fibrous loam, leaf soil, and peat, in equal proportions, with thorough drainage. Cuttings, dibbled in a pot of sandy soil, placed under a bell gla , in gentle heat, root readily. They may also be raised from seed, which several of the species produce in abundance.