Fieldia
(named in honour of Baron Field, F. L. S., once Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales). ORD. Gesneraceae. An ornamental climbing, radicant, greenhouse evergreen shrub, thriving well in a compost of peat and loam, to which a little sand and small pieces of char-coal have been added. Increased by cuttings of firms side shoots, left intact, and planted in sandy soil, under a glass.
F. australis (Southern). fl. white, pendulous; corolla tubular, ventricose; peduncles axillary solitary, one-flowered. July. l. simple, opposite, remote, elliptic, coarsely serrated, acute at both ends. New South Wales, 1826. (B. M. 5089.)