William Jackson Hooker,
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Volume LXXXVII…
“ Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, have succeeded in rearing and flowering this plant, in August, 1861, not, indeed, in the per- december 1st, 1861. -- 2 fection to which it attains in its native country; and we are in- debted to them for the specimen here figured. Descr. A twiggy shrub, very much branched, with opposite branches; three to four feet high, corymbose at the top, so thick as to form, in its native country, a spreading mass of golden- yellow flowers, some feet in diameter: these flowers retain their colour and brilliancy when dry. ”
