Pronaya
(name in honour of Lad. Pronay, a Hungarian naturalist, who died in 1808). SYNS. Campylanthera, Spiranthrea (of Hooker). ORD. Pittosporeae. According to Bentham, in his "Flora Australiensis," this genus is monotypic. The species, P. elegans, is an elegant, greenhouse twiner, succeeding in sandy peat. Propagation is effected by cuttings, made of young shoots, and inserted in sand, under a glass.
P. elegans (elegant). fl. bluish or white, in a dense, terminal corymb, sessile amongst the last leaves. August. L., lower ones often coarsely toothed or lobed, the others sessile or nearly so, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 1in. to 1 1/2in. long, entire, rather firm; margins recurved. Australia, 1857. (P. M. B. xii. 99.) SYNS. Campylanthera Fraseri, Spiranthera Fraseri.