Sollya
(named after Richard Horsman Solly, 1778-1858, a vegetable physiologist and anatomist). ORD. Pittosporeae. A small genus (two species) of ornamental, greenhouse, evergreen twiners, confined to Australia. Flowers blue, nodding, on slender pedicels, in terminal, loose, few-flowered cymes, or rarely solitary; sepals small, distinct; petals spreading from the base, obovate; anthers connivent in a cone round the pistil. Leaves narrow. The species thrive in well-drained, peaty soil. Propagated by cuttings, inserted in sand, under a glass.
S. Drummondi (Drummond's). A synonym of S. parviflora. S. heterophylla (variable-leaved).* Australian Bluebell Creeper. fl., petals four to five lines long; cymes terminal or leaf-opposed, drooping, usually four to eight-flowered, but sometimes with twelve or more flowers. July. l. varying from ovate-lanceolate to ovate-oblong, and 1 1/2in. to 2in. or more long, to lanceolate or oblong-linear, and 1in. to 1 1/2in. long, obtuse or slightly acuminate, quite entire, usually narrowed into short petioles. h. 6ft. 1830. (B. M. 3523; B. R. 1466.) S. h. angustifolia (narrow-leaved). l. narrow-lanceolate. Branches less twining than in the type. (B. R. 1840, 3, under name of S. linearis.) S. linearis (linear). A synonym of S. heterophylla angustifolia. S. parviflora (small-flowered).* fl. blue, small, solitary or two or three in a cyme, on very fine, filiform pedicels; petals about 1/4in. long. July. fr. 1/2in. to 3/4in. long, tapering to both ends. l. lanceolate or oblong-linear, the larger ones often above 1in. long, but in some specimens all under 1/2in., very shortly petiolate, and thinner than in S. heterophylla. 1838. SYN. S. Drummondi (R. G. 261, f. 1).
S. salicifolia (Willow-leaved). Most probably a garden variety of S. heterophylla.