Candollea
(named after Augustus Pyramus De Candolle, formerly Professor of Botany, at Geneva, and author of numerous botanical works). ORD. Dilleniaceae. A genus of very ornamental greenhouse evergreen shrubs, natives of Australia. Flowers yellow, sub-solitary, at the tips of the branches; sepals five, oval, mucronate; petals obovate or obcordate. They thrive in a compost of equal parts loam and peat, with which sufficient sand may be mixed to render the whole porous. Cuttings will root, if placed in a similar compost, under a hand glass; seeds are also sometimes obtainable.
C. cuneiformis (wedge-shaped).* fl. yellow. July. l. smooth, obovately cuneated, blunt at the top, entire. Branches cinerous. h. 7ft. 1824. (B.M. 2711.) C. Huegelii (Huegel's). fl. at tops of the branches, among the leaves, on short pedicels; sepals acuminate, hoary outside, longer than the petals. May. l. linear, quite entire, villous when young. h. 6ft. 1837. C. tetrandra (four-stamened). fl. yellow, solitary; petals emarginate. June. l. oblong, cuneate, toothed. h. 7ft 1842. (B.R. 1843, 50.)