CURTIS’S

Botanical Magazine :

FLOWER-GARDEN DISPLAYED:

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The most Ornamental Foreren Pants, cultivated in the Open

Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, -are accurately

represented in their natural Colours.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

Their Names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according

to the celebrated Linn aus; their Places of Growth,

and Times of Flowering ;

_ Together with the most approved Methods of Conrore.

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= ‘The FLowers, which grace their native beds,

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Shall blush with less inconstant hue,

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M DCCC XVI.

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--Crassuna nacrea. Waurre Crassuna.

Aah ieede keh eae ek

Class and Order. * fie

Penranpria Penracynia. |

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala b, ‘Squame 5, nectariferse ad basin

germinis. Caps. 5. Naor AS eee es

Speke Capel uae

Crassuta lactea; caule fruticoso, foliis ovatis basi atte-

nuatis connatis integerrimis intra marginem punctatis,

cymis paniculeformibus. Hort. Kew. ed. 1 1. p- 396.

ed. alt. 2. p.193. Smith Exot. Bot. 1. p. 63. t. 33.

Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 1554. Mart. Mill. Dict. n. 62.

Plant. Grass. 37. ,

Crassuta lactea ; foliis obovatis subciliatis albo-punctatis,

panicula trifida. Thunb. Prodr. 56.

A native of the Cape of Good-Hope, and directed to be

ept in the dry stove, as it requires to be protected from a

p atmosphere, as well as from frost. As with all other

succulent plants, great care should be taken to water it very

Sparingly during the winter. A light rich loam with old lime

rubbish is recommended as the best soil. ae ca

*ropagated by cuttings, which should be laid in a ry

Place for a fortnight belies they are planted, that part of their

Juice may be evaporated, then put into pots of light sand, and

Plunged ‘into a hot-bed, watering them very sparingly, other-

yise they will rot. When they have taken root, which will

hee about six weeks, they should be gradually inured to the

“pen alr, :

Introduced by Mr. Francts Masson, in 1774, from the

pe. Flowers in September and October. Communicated

: by Mr. Grorce Graves, of Walworth, who possesses a very

extensive collection of succulent plants. oes

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Ecuium rruticosum (@.) minor» Lesser.

SHRUBBY VipPerR’s-BUGLOSs. ,

Class‘and:Oriler

- Penranpria Monoeynis. _

Generic Character. —

Cor. irregularis fauce nuda. pkehork re Sas

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ecuium fruticosum; caule fruticoso, foliis lanceolatis basi

- attenuatis villoso-strigosis aveniis, foliolis calycmis lan-

ceolatis acutis. Hort. Kew. 1" 1. p. 186. ed. alt. 1. p.

298. Willd. Sp. Pl.1. p. 781. Mart. Mill. Dict.

Ecuium fruticosum ; caule fruticoso, foliis lanceolatis punc- ~

tis piliferis scabris, floribus corymbosis. Berg. Cap. 39.

Ecurum fruticosum ; caule foliisque oblongis obtusis seri-

ceis, spicis alternis pedunculatis. Thunb. Prodr. 33 ?

Ecurum africanum fruticans, foliis pilosis. Commel. Hort. 2.

p. 107. t. 54, .

(a.) major; foliis sursum latioribus, obtusiortbus omnibus

_ seaberrumis. — |

Ecuium fruticosum. Jacg. Hort. Schoenbr. 1. p. 15. t. 34.

(8.) minor ; foliis angustioribus acutis ; superiortbus molliter

Ecuium fruticosum. Bot. Regist. 39.

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There is a considerable difference between our plant and

that figured by Jacguin in his Hortus Schoenbrunnensis, the

leaves of which are broader, more spathular shaped, and

much harsher; the plant is altogether more robust, with

smaller flowers ; but we cannot find any characters by which —

we can determine them to be specifically distinct ; we have,

therefore considered them as varieties only. The young

= eaves

leaves in our plant were clothed with rather a soft pubescence,

but the older ones were very rough, being covered with elevated

points, each terminated with a stiff hair. The colour and

size of the flowers vary so much in different specimens that

no inference can be drawn from them. As there is nothing ~

like silkiness in the foliage, we must think the synonym

quoted from Tuunpere to be dubious; and P1iukenet’s

figure, usually quoted asa synonym, ought undoubtedly to be

excluded.

Our drawing was made from a plant communicated by

Messrs. Cotvinte and Son, in the King’s-Road ; together

with another variety with flowers of nearly a peach-blossom

colour, without any admixture of blue. ative of the Cape

of Good-Hope. Flowers in May and June. Propagated by

cuttings or seeds. Requires protection from frost. The soil

best suited to it appears to be a sandy loam with a slight ad-

mixture of peat. Cultivated by Pump Miner, in 1759, in

the Chelsea Garden, from whence there is a specimen pre-

served in the Banksian Herbarium, evidently the same variety

as the one here figured. )

, CHRYSUM. ~ he

(00177850)

ELICHRYSUM SPLENDENS. SHINING

Euicurysoum. |

JHE HSH HHHib

; Class and Order.

Synoenesia Potygamia SuPERFLUA.

Generic Character.

Recept. nudum, Pappus pilosus yel plumosus, Cal, im-

bricatus, radiatus: radio colorato. —

Specific Character and Synonym.

Exicurysum splendens ; caule fruticoso prolifero: ramulis

unifloris, foliis lanceolatis margine reyolutis, sqaamis

calycinis splendentibus. e aes

XERANTHEMUM herbaceum. Bot. Repos. 487 ?

wees a = - gre 5 m9 te

The annual Xeranruemums, natives of Europe and the

Levant, differing essentially from the Cape shrubby species,

in having a chaffy, not naked, receptacle, and a different

pappus, the latter have been separated by WititpENow, under

the name of Exicurysum, by which they had been known to

botanists, till superseded by th system of Linnazvs. This —

arrangement has been adopted in the Hortus Kewensis, and

consequently all that we have figured under the name of

XERANTHEMUM, are to be found there, under that of Ex1-

A specimen of the same species as our present plant is

preserved in the Banksian Herbarium, under the name which

we have adopted. Me oe :

From the figure and description of Xerantuemum her-

baceum in the Botanist’s Repository, we can‘ hardly think

that our plant can belong to the same, although the flowers

seem very similar; as the stem of Exicurysum splendens,

: though Slender, is shrubby, erect, and branched. The

flowers

flowers are very beautiful, the outside of the calyx having a

meiallic lustre, as if bronzed, and the internal rays being

straw-coloured,| shining like satin. If our plant should be

found to be the same as herbaceum of the Botanist’s Reposi-

tory, the latter name is inadmissible for a species that is truly

shrubby.

Native of the Cape of Good-Hope. Introduced by Grorce

Hisserr, Esq. about the year 1802, at whose collection at_

Clapham-Common, our drawing was taken several years ago.

Communicated also in August last, by Messrs. Loppicrs

and Sons ; and is still in flower at this time, the middle of

. October. Propagated by cuttings. Likes a light soil with

peat mould.

( 1774 )

SALVIA BICOLOR. Two-coLoureD Saez.

FHP Hib

Class Ba | Order.

DianpriaA Monoeynia.

Sis

Generic Character.

Cor. inzequalis. ‘Filamenta transverse pedicello affixa.

Specific Character and Synonyms. —

Sarvia bicolor ; foliis ovatis eroso-dentatis, floribus nu-

tantibus lacinia media labii inferioris corolla concava,

Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 136. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. 57.

Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. 1. p. 4. t. 7. f

Satvia bicolor ; foliis radicalibus cordatis subincisis, cau-

linis oblongis subsagittatis inequaliter dentatis, bracteis

reflexis calyce brevioribus, pilis calycis glanduliferis.

Willd. Hort. Berol. 1. p. 36. i

Satvia bicolor ; foliis cordato-oblongis ; ramis _virgatis ;

bracteis reflexis ; calycibus nutantibus ; coroll labio in-

: feriore intermedio saccato. Desfont. Atl. p. 22. t. 2.

Sarvia bicolor; foliis cordato-hastatis, inequaliter dentatis; |

spicis nudis prelongis; corollarum barba candida saccata, —

Lamarck Ill. n. 300. sie, ae

Sarvia bicolor ; foliorum laminis cordato-oblongis, repando-

dentatis, hirsutis, rugosis: spicis preelongis, verticillis

6-floris : calycis labio superiore 3-dentato: corolle

fauce striata, labii inferioris lobo medio saccato, emar-

ginato, oris mox emarcidis: filamentis brevissime stipitatis.

Salisbury Parad. Lond. Lig.es::* ct a

Saxvia bicolor is a native of Barbary, where it was first

discovered by Desronraines. It is a very handsome species,

and would be much more so, were it not for the speedy change

that takes place in the lower lip of the corolla, which at its

_ first expansion is snow-white, but almost immediately begins

_ tw fade to a rusty-brown. 3 Th

‘The structure of the stamens in Satvsa is very remarkable,

and makes the essential character of the genus. But thewant

of uniformity of language among botanists, in speaking of

these parts, is apt to render their meaning not always easily

intelligible to students. The filament consists of two parts,

connecied together by a joint: the lower portion is upright,

‘and generally very short; the upper portion is much longer,

and united to the lower, not at either extremity, but at some

determined point between the two, more or less distant from

the middle, in different species. This transverse portion is

generally curved, and the longer arm ascends and bears the

anther at the extremity, while the shorter arm descends and

‘is terminated by a gland. — ware) ..,

Some authors, when they speak of the filament, mean the

lower upright portion only, whilst. others consider the trans-

verse-portion as the filament, .and:call the upright a stipes or

pedicle. Eriineer, who wrote a monograph on Satvid, Gon- >

sidered the transverse .portion as:a part of the anther clon- -

gated, separating its two cells and bearing ‘one at each

extremity-;- that’ on. the longer ascending arm being always

fertile, whilst,that-on the descending arm is sterile: This

opinion is rendered the more probable from the circumstance, .

that the fertile anther consists of only one cell; and further,

that the sterile portion, though more usually only a callous

gland, yet, in other cases, shews its affinity to an anther, by

bearing a small quantity of pollen. —

The proportion in the length of the two arms of the trans-

verse portion of the filament, though constant in the same,

varies in different species, and would, in Many ¢ases, afford |

excellent distinguishing characters. In the present: species,

the upper arm is very long, extending nearly the whole length —

of the upper lip of the corolla: whilst the lower arm is very

shox oand attached nearly its whole length to the-tube of the

Gerolla ois ssc. | efor eres ots a

_ Ahardy biennial. Propagated by seeds. Introduced in.1793,

by the Right Hon. Sir Josep Banxs. Flowers in- May,-J une,

and July. Our drawing was made froma living specimen,

sent by Mr. Liam

BERT from his garden at Boyton. Communi-

ALKER from Arno’s-Grove, Southgate.

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resents WS,

already established, we are

ba 1IFSn. as

Chie stihl der. |

*Decanpara vc:

Generic Character.

Cal cylindricus, 1- -phyllas : basi squamis 4, _ Petala b,

unguiculata. Caps. yaa 1-locularis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Diantuvus atrorubens ; floribus ; gregatis capitatis, squamis

calycinis ovatis aristatis, ws Sagreg ovato aristato longi-

tudine capituli, foliis lineari-lanceolatis enerviis. Willd.

Sp. Pl. 2. p. 672. Hort. Kew. edit. alt. 3. p. 78.

Diantuus atrorubens ; floribus aggregatis, squamis calycinis

ovatis aristatis tubo brevioribus, foliis connatis striatis,

Allion. Ped. n. 1545. Jacq. Ic. Rar. 3. t. 467.

‘ARYOPHYLLUS sylvestris, flore rubro plurimo de summo eaule

prodeunte. Segu. Veron. 434. 1.8. f. 2.

Diantuus oi ack ad epitone ee 2 nee a Pursh

By at

The name of capitate

known in our gardens, is: pr

in nothing but a less. intens

atrorubens, as figured b.

fe enough ; but as it differs

‘colour from ALLioni’s

ACG nd this name being

are unde: the necessity of retaining it,

another example of the inconvenience

though less applicable : ur

es derived from colour or other qua-

arising from giving na

lities so inconstant. =

Several species of Du

them constantly, dicecious. So in our present plant the

slamens were pent to be defective the tyles. yerylong and

- spreading ; 52

wrnus are occasionally, some of

spreading; while, in the one figured by Jacqui, the anthers

appear at the mouth of the tube, but no style or stigma is

seen. His was a male, ours a female plant. ¥.

A hardy perennial, from two to three feet high. Native of

Italy and Tauria, growing in dry, open situations. Propa-

hag by parting the roots, or by seeds. Communicated by

r. Kenr, of Clapton, Introduced in 1802, by Mr. Joun

- Hunnemann. : |

( 1776 )

Viowa atratca, ‘Tartarian Heart’s-rasr,

Cias and Order, .

Penranpria Monocynta.

Syncenesia Monocamisa. Lin,

Generic Character.

€al.5-phyllus. Cor. 5-petala, irregularis, postice cornuta,

Anth. coherentes. Caps. swpera, 3-valvis, 1-locularis. Flos —

an Europeis semper inversus. .

Specific Character and Synonyms. —

Vioxa altaica ; caulescens, stipulis dentato-pimnatifidis sub-

lyratis, foliis ovalibus crenatis in petiolum decurrentibus,

pore 4 Sgt ea ise SE,

petalis undulatis. - ae ;

Viota altaica; caulescens glabra ; foliis crassiusculis, ovatis

ovalibusve crenatis ; floribus inversis undulatis: petalis

rotundatis, transverse latioribus, subreniformibus. Ker —

Vioxa altaica. Pallas Herb. apud Lam

sas es

Descr. Stems very short. Leaves

oval, crenate, on long channelled petioles.

deeply toothed on the sides, with a broad very obtu:

tion. Peduncle axillary, solitary, scape-like, square, much

longer than the stem, stout, upright, incurved at the ‘apex,

a little below which is a small pair of scale-like bractes eared

at the base. Segments of the calyx obtuse at both ends, ob-

soletely denticulate. Corolla large, pale yellow ; petals nearly

round, undulated, overlapping one another; the three su-

perior ones (lowermost in position by the inversion of the

flower) have a deeper yellow spot near. the base, from which

proceed several unequal blue rays: the two inferior petals

are without spot or ray. The spur or nectarium proces

irae om,

from the back part of the superior petal is a little curved and —

tinged with blue at the point. Anthers five, compressed,

cohering, ‘membranaceous at the apex. Style short. Stigma

green, globular, with an opening at the top, beaded at |

the lower part. ‘The whole plant is quite smooth. The

shortness of the stem and the strong peduncles, springing up:

so near to the root, upon a superficial view, give the ap-

pearance of its belonging to the first division, the acaules ;

but it really belongs to the third, or such as have pinnatifid

stipules and a hollow stigma.

There are several specimens of: this plant in Pattas’s ~

Herbarium, now in the possession of Mr. Lampsrrt, which

have the name of altaica attached to them in the Professor’s

own writing. .

It has usually been called uniflora, a species with which

it scarcely agrees in any one character; but the circumstance

of the flowers coming out so near the root, and more usually

only one at a time, has probably occasioned it to be so called

by persons, who, little conversant with botanical characters,

are satisfied with any name that seems at all applicable.

_ Native of Siberia, on the Altaic mountains. A hardy

perennial. Propagated by seeds, which it produces freely,

or by parting the roots. Communicated by Mr. Knienrt, of

the Exotic Nursery, King’s-Road,

17]

wih

eld.

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VERBASCUM BIPINNATIFIDUM. CuT-LEAvVED

MULLEIN.

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Class and Order.

Pentanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

_ Cor. rotata, subinequalis, Caps. 2-locularis, bivalvis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Verpascum bipinnatifidum ; foliis radicalibus interrupte bi-

pinnatifidis: caulinis serrato-dentatis, ramis divaricatis,

floribus axillaribus sessilibus subsolitariis. 4

Verzascum pinnatifidumn ; foliis oblongis: radicalibus bi-

pinnatifidis : caulinis pinnatifidis dentatis, caule ramosis--

simo virgato, floribus axillaribus sessilibus. Bieb. Fl.

Taurico-Cauc. 1. p. 162. =e |

Vergascum pinnatifidum. Vahl Symb. 2. p. 39? Willd. Sp.

Pl.1. p. 1006? Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1. p.386? vix eadem

species ac nostra videtur. —

ane : - Pee, eer / ai

. ey eee

Our plant, which is undoubtedly the same species as de-

scribed by Marscuat y. Birserstein, as growing in Tauria,

on the sandy shores of the Black-Sea, does not appear to us

to be the pinnatifidum of Vaux, taken up by WittpENow, a

native of the islands of the Grecian Archipelago ; and certainly

has nothing to do with TourNErort’s. Verbascum grecum,

Jruticosum, folio sinuato candidissimo, quoted as a dubious

synonym of that plant ; as we have ascertained by an imper-

fect specimen, gathered by Tournerort himself, preserved

in the Banksian Herbarium.

Yn our plant the radical leaves are finely divided, lie flat —

upon the ground, and perish as soon as the stem rises up to”

flower. Phe stem is very much branched; branches rigid, _

wee | / very

very divaricate ; cauliné leaves: sessile, half stem-clasping,

lower ones more, the upper less deeply toothed. Flowers

sessile and, for the most part, solitary.

Communicated by Messrs. Loppicrs and Sons, who raised

it from seeds received from Cancasus. It is a hardy biennial.

Propagated by parting its roots, or by seeds; but it seems

doubtful whether these will be perfected in this country.

Flowers in July and August.

Pub by learhe Walwarth Na 126

CoA TBx: Yes ..

NICOTIANA QUADRIVALVIS. Missourt

Tosacco. |

Sede desea ata aba

Class and Order.

PENnTANDRIA Monoeynta.

Generic Character.

Cor. infundibuliformis, limbo plicato. Stam. inclinata. Caps.

2—4-valvis, 2—4-locularis. :

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Nicoriana guadrivalvis ; pedunculis solitariis unifloris, cap-

sulis quadrilocularibus. es :

Nicotiana guadrivalvis ; foliis oblongo-ovatis _ petiolatis,

floribus in summitate ramulorum sparsis solitariis, corollis

infundibuliformibus, laciniis oblongis acutiusculis, cap-

sulis subglobosis 4-valvibus. Pursh Flor. Amer. Sept. 1.

p. 141. eo :

Descr. Root annual. The whole plant is clammy, being

covered with glandular hairs, except the upper surface of the

ecthes = is nearly free from: a Leaves Patilery

undulate. Flowers solita dunculated, sometim netimes axillary,

more frequently Sersee! 2 Calyx divided half-way.

Segments lanceolate, unequal, one being constantly longer

than the rest. Coroila funnel-shaped, undulated, white with

purplish veins. Capsule round-oval, with four deep grooves,

four-valved and four-celled. Seeds kidney-shaped, attached

to a central receptacle. a.

_ This plant is at once distinguished, by its four-celled fruit, —

from every other known species of Nicotiana. Mr. Pursn —

informs us, that it grows both spontaneously an i

on the borders of the Missouri, principally among the

ndan and Ricara nations, and that the tobacco pe

id cultivated

from it is excellant, espécially a very delicate kind, preaey

by the Indians from the dried flowers.

Communicatéd by our friend A. B. Lamserr, Esq. from

his collection at Boyton. Flowers in July and August, and

ripens its seeds very rapidly. Introduced by Mr Nu VITAL

(1779)

Psipium corpatum. Spice Guava.

Icosanpeia Monoeynia.

Generic ¢ haracter. —

Cal. 5- fidus, su superus. Petala 5. Bacca 1-multi-locularis,

polysperma. — =. S 3

Specific Character.

Psipium condita = follis sessilibet Bbndao- rotundatis utrin-~

que glabris, pedunculis subunifloris aggregatis.

Descr. A tree with straigit rigid branches covered with

reddish brown bark. Leaves opposite, sessile, heart-shaped,

approaching to round, some quite rounded at the point, others

shortly acuminate, smooth on both sides, flesh, , and rigid.

Peduncles axillary, imes bran ne base, more

generally single, one-flower d with a minute

tooth-like bracte at its junction with the germen. Calyx five-

leaved : leaflets sori : ‘bicula ve,. green, rigid,

— very it fi reg ula Iv in my

closel e re lini

and, y tid irregular Silk of t

so that | few of the flowers appear pe

even four of the petals enclosed within one le -caly:

A similar irregular bursting of the calyx ma be observ din

other species of this genus. Stamens many : filament: short,

attached to the persistent base of the calyx: anthers \

‘roundish. Germen inferior, fleshy, six-celled, many-st e

taste aromatic and acid: style longer than filaments : —_—"

simple. a

Communicated by A. B. Las (BERT, hog from his Collection

at Boyton, who — it rom seeds received from ye late.

— wes AMES

James Toxin, Esq. the produce of a tree, growing in the

{sland of St. Nevis, in the West-Indies. Mr. Toxin remarks,

that there was only one tree of the kind on the iéland, and

that it was known by the name of the Spice Guava; but is

totally different from Psip1um aromaticum.

Flowers in May, June, and July. Requires to be kept

in the stove. |

( 1780 )

PoLYGALA speciosa. Siwy MIitK-wort. |

t. Bea ce re

Class and Order.

Diapetpita OcranpRia. —

SS 2 : a P Y Se ;

Generic Character. —

Cal. 5-phyllus : foliolis 9 aleeformibus, coloratis. J

obcordatum, biloculare. oe

Specific Character.

Potyeata speciosa ; cristata fruticosa, appendice duplici,

-racemis ebracteatis subierminalibus muitifloris, foliis

alternis oblongo-cuneatis glabris. - _

Per eee

AI On,

Descr. Stem shrubby, upright, very little divided, green,

emarginate, the other dependant, green, glutinous on the

underside, where it is stained yellow by the adhering pollen.

Fine specimens of this plant from the Cape of Good-Hepe

are preserved in the Banksian Herbarium, under the name

which we have adopted. These have several terminal ra-

cemes ; but a specimen in Mr. Lamperr’s Herbarium,

brought from the Cape by Dr. Roxzuren, has only one.

The plant, from which our drawing was taken, was com-

municated by Messrs. Cuarxes and James Youne, Nursery-

men at Epsom, in July last, who raised it from seeds given

them by Sir Joun Jackson, M.P. Requires the protection

of the greenhouse. |

(:A78E. 3

Rivina wumuis. Downy Rivina. -

Feds idiaieie

Class and Order.

Tereaxpera Moxooysua,

Generic Character

Cor. 4-petala, persistens. Ca 0. Bacea 1- “sperma: semine

lentiformi. os

specie Chere a feulae ns.

Rivina humilis ; racemis ‘simplicibus, floribus. tetrandris

foliis pubescentibus.. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 694. Hort.

Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. 273. Mart. Mill. Dict. n. 1.

Rivina humilis racemdsa, baccis puniceis.. Plum. Gen. 48.

Rivinta. Hort. Cliff, 35: Jussieu Gen, 84,

Rivina humilis. Brown Jam. P. 148. Gertn. Pract. p. 375.

t. 77.7. 5.

Pizrcea Suede foliis cordats pubescentibus. Mill.

Dict. ed. 7.

Sotanum barbadense racemosum minus tinctorium. Pluk.

Alin. 353. t. 112. f. 2. Moris. Hist. 3. p. 522. n. 23.

SoLANoIpEs americana circee Ppliis canescentibus. Tournef.

Act: TORS :

Amarantuus baccifer cirewee fois. Commel. Hort. 1. p- 127.

t. 66.

Puyrouacca americana fructi minori. Boerh.

p. 70. kh eee

This plant was named Pa Pious. in honour of the

celebrated Leipsic Botanist, Ave. Quirinus Rivinus, who

flourished in the time of 'Tournerort and Ray. It is an

old inhabitant of our stoves, where, when kept free from

insects and in a high temperature, it makes a pretty appear-

ance; for although the flowers are not very conspicuous,

yet being of a good white, when first expanded, they

: contrast

contrast well with its scarlet fruit; and both are produced —

plentifully at the same time, almost throughout the year. —

It probably varies in the number of stamens from four to

eight, as Mitter, who surely describes our species, attri-

butes to it eight. It varies also greatly in the degree of

pubescence, being, as is remarked by Linnajus, when very —

_ vigorous, of a brightish green, and, when impoverished by —

cold, of a hoary appearance.

The berries stain paper or linen of a fine red, but fugitive,

colour. Muinier mentions a fact, which shews an extra-

ordinary penetrating quality in the juice of these berries, —

and as this might perhaps be turned to use, in inquiries

into the course of the fluids in some plants, we think it |

worth recording here, especially as the observation has been —

omitted by Professor Martyn, in his edition of Minzer’s —

Dictionary. His words are, “I have made many experi-—

ments with the juice of these berries to colour flowers, which —

have succeeded extremely well. These were made in the —

following manner: I pressed out the juice of the berries and —

mixed it with common water, putting it into a phial, and —

shaking well together, for some time, till the water was |

thoroughly tinged ; then I cut off the flowers, which were —

just fully blown, and placed their stalks into the phial, and,

in one night, the flowers have been finely variegated with

red. The flowers which J made the experiments on, were

-the Tuberose and double white Narcissus,” We remember —

too to have read in some periodical work, that if. the juice of ©

these berries be added to the water in which white Hyacinths —

are blowing, the colour. will rise into the flower in red

Native of the West-Indies. Commetin says, he received

ha seeds from which he raised his plants from the Hast-

ndies. S

Cultivated according to Morison, as quoted above from

the Hortus Kewensis, before 1699. Communicated by

Joun Watker, Esq. of Arno’s-Grove, | ae

win haln ce etsatasy

( 1782 )

CisTus L&vires. CLUSTER-LEAVED CistTUvs.

JHMM idee

Class and Order.

- PonyanpRIA Monoeynia.

Generic Character. fas

Cor. 5-petala. Cal. b-phyllus foliolis 9 ioinoribius: Capsula.

| | Specifs Character and Synonym.

Cistus levipes ; suffruticosus adscendens exstipulatus, foliis

alternis fasciculatis filiformibus glabris, ,pedunculis race-

mosis. Sp. Pl. 739. ed. Willd. 2. p. 1190. Hort. Kew.

ed. alt. 3. p.308. Jacg. Vindob. 2. p. 74. t. 158. Cavan.

Ie. 2. p. 56. t. ¥73.. Mart. Mill. Dict.n. 15.

Cistus suffruticosus, procumbens, foliis alternatim confertis

inzequalibus setaceis. Ger. Prov. 394. t. 14.

Cistus humilis massiliotica, camphorate tenuissimis foliis

glabris. Pluk. Alm. 107. t. 84. f. 6. —

Hewianraemum levipes. Lam. et Dec. Fl. Franc. 4. p. 816.

Cistus levipes, calycina, and Fumana, have a very near

affinity to each other: levipes is a low under-shrub, which

when cultivated in pots, as it usually is with us, always rises _

with straight stems, but so slender as to require support when

exposed to the weather. Native specimens have generally an

ascending stem. So L |

From its abundant, lively, yellow flowers, and uncommon

foliage, it makes an agreeable variety ; and it takes up very

little room. ye

Native of the South of France, and too tender to endure

our winters, without the protection of a greenhouse. Flowers

from June to August. Cultivated, according to Mr. Arron, —

in 1690, in the royal garden at Hampton-Court. Communi- ~~

cated by N. Hopson, Esq. of the War-Office.

ate

Rusts kos£roxrs (3.) coroNARris. Dousir

ROSE-LEAVED BB AMEE.

THR eit ae

Class and ite

Teosanpnra Poixersit,,

eres Chane ™

Cal. 5-fidus. Petite sides Baecn ‘Cot

spermis.

Specific Cheincter Grd ‘syn he

Rorvs rosefolius ; fratescens, foliis giimarospittatis terna-

ti a sane Mths it Tet 3 ad bea

p. om ig 4

(6.) torvtiat 3 Medi agi Side istibtes

ae ogg 4

UBUS sinensis. Hort

| Sih Stem. shanby,b bien ebed, abu. salle with the

petioles, covered with sharp, mosily straight, prickles. Leaves

pinnate, for the most part quinate, with the lower pajr more

distant ; the upperleaf next the flower always ternate: leaflets

ovate-acuminate , doubly serrate, and now and then irregu-

larly incised, rugose, green on both sides; when dry, their

rugosity nearly disap ppears, and they feel ‘soft from an in-

visible villosity ; when viewed through a lens, in this state,

they appear covered with minute, shining glands. ‘Stipules

subulate. Peduncle solitary, terminal, opposite a ternate

leaf. Calyx 5-cleft: segments ovate-acuminate with the

point lengthened out into a sort of awn. Petals many,

Youndish, emarginate. Stamens many : anthers oblong, lu-

nated. Recep tacle globular : styles many : stigmas simple.

aa Misrant Bramble, almost rivaling a Rose, was intro-—

duced, ‘some years nine, from the Pare of Wales’s-Isiand,

in the East-Indies, by the late Mr. Evans, of Stepney, who

devoted almost his whole income to the acquirement of new

and rare plants, which he generously distributed among other

collectors. ; :

Nurserymen usually call it Rusus sinensis, but from what

authority it is considered as coming from China we know not.

To us it appears to be clearly a variety of Rusus rose/olius,

described and figured by Sir James E. Smita ; from which

species, a native of the Isle of Mauritius, it appears to differ

in nothing but in the size of the flower and multiplicity of

its petals. Rusus pinnatus in its foliage very much resembles

our plant, except that it has prickles along the midrib of the

leaflet ; but its inflorescence is a terminal raceme.

Notwithstanding the corolla is so very double, the parts of

fructification seem to remain so perfect, that fruit may very well

be expected, though we do not find that any has as yet been

perfected. 3 3

Is best treated as a greenhouse plant, being impatient of

excessive cold or heat. ‘Thrives in any soil; and propagates

itself rapidly by suckers, which it puts forth abundantly.

- Our drawing was taken at Messrs. Wurriey, Brame,

and Miine’s Nursery, at Fulham, in April 1813; our de-

scription chiefly from a fine living specimen, communicated

by Mr. Wittiam Kenr, of Clapton, last October. So that its

season of flowering, under its present management, seems

very uncertain, or to have a very long range.

Cd MISA)

_PxontA OFFICINALIS. SINGLE-FLOWERED

Common Peony.

Class and Order.

Pouyanpnia, Dieta... “sh,

Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala b. Syli 0. Capsule Sohal = j

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Pxonta Sjiniagiias foliis decompositis nudis : foliolis lobatis :

Jobis lato-lanceolatis, capsulis rectiusculis tomentosis.

Retz. Obs. 3. p. 35. Willd. Sp. ‘Pl. 2. alae Hort.

Kew. ed. alt. 3p one.

Pzon1a foliolis pe Hort. Cliff. 212. Scop. Carn.

n. 630. Regnault Bot.

Pzonta radice glandulosa, foliis duplicato-pinnatis, pinnis

ellipticis et trilobis. Hall. Hist. n. 1187.

Ponta femina. Fuchs. Hist. 202. Lob. Ic. 682. 6. Bauh.

Pin. 323. Park. Parad. 341. Kniph. Cent. 6. n. 69.

a Del. 1. t. R. 3. Blackw. Herb. t. 65. Moris.

ast. 3.

Pane Hg “i nes — code Vern. Ord. 6.

Sf ult.

The Common Cua of ime rarder ens now rately ‘occurs

with single flowers, In Parxrnson’s time it must have been

much . are. paen as he observes, that the double sort

. ripe seeds; which, being sown, bring

forth some single and, some double flowers. The extremely

double varieties whic hy i in our days, have been almost ex-

clusively gallivated, rarely, if ever, produce any seed; and -

a d by the tuberous roots, that little or

‘id to procuring it, till quite of late, —

when |

when a sort of rage for Pednies has become prevalent, and

seminal varieties are sought after with great avidity.

The roots of this species of Pzony were formerly in con-

siderable repute, as a medicine, and were supposed to cure

epilepsy, convulsions of infants, and many other disorders ;

but are at present almost wholly out of use.

The Common Prony is very hardy, and will thrive in

almost any soil or situation, even under the shade of trees,

where few other plants will live.

Blossoms in May. and June. Was cultivated in our

gardens as long since as the year 1548, according to Mr.

Arron, upon the autliority of Turner’s Names of Herbs.

Communicated by Messrs. Cuanpier and BuckinGHam,

Nurserymen, at Vauxhall, who havé one of the most ex-

tensive collections of this genus. Pie

(e789) ”

Jasminum Sampac (y. TRIFOLIATUM).. ‘Tus

Tusean JAsMIne, or Kuppa-Motta.

FEHB |

| Class and Order.

-Drasomns Monoecysra.

; ah Genie Character.

- Corolla hrypocrateriformis, 5—8-fi. Bitcett ‘aievten

Shhitta solitaria, arillata. :

Specific Character and Siphony a

Jasminum Sambac ; foliis itis’ simpicibu ellipticis

ovatis subcordatisque me mem sranaceis’ opacis, ranvulis pe-

tiolisque pubescentibus, laciniis calycinis subulatis. Ffort.

Kew ed: i 0. Vp. 8—ed. alt. Vp. 1d Willd! Sp

Ph): pe 85 Mart. Mill: Dict. n. 1.

Nycranruns' Sambac. Linn. Sp. PU. 8:

Mocorwm Sambae. Lam. aye 4 ® 210. —~—HMbastr. 1. 93:

inane :

Hh. e iad 7 : i =

Asinum Sambac. Bot: Regist. ¥. iplipe

@ ): he 2 pee lacintis: Sing acutis ‘tio bre:

Diadieacte Sambie ; var. flore lend: Bot. Repos. AgT: ey

(y.) trifoliatum: ; “flovibus- plenis, laciniis subrotundis’ tubo

longioribus, Joliis plerumque ternatis.”

Jasminum Sambac. @: trifoliatum! Vall Enum. V. p. 26: —

Kuppa-Murra. Hort: Malab. 6. p. 89: t. 59.

_ Jasminum indicum mali aurantii bli, flore albo pleno. am=

plissimo.. hte ds og 87: 2.30.

YTANTHES grandifl our Pye Cock: Ep. 21.

Pipte

wars ger ———___—

We have not thought 3 it nec ary ; to ge a cients

now ofiee for more than the ] variety, which we

‘The

The Kuppa-Mvutia of the East-Indies differs from the

other varieties of the Arabian Jasmine in so many points,

that we might have hesitated whether we should regard it as

belonging to that species, unless it had been so decided by

those Botanists who have had the opportunity of seeing them

together in the East, where they are so universally cultivated.

The flowers are almost constantly solitary; the calyx is

divided into a greater number of segments ; and the leaves,

instead of being regularly opposite, almost constantly grow

three together at the extremities of the flowering branches,

and in other parts indifferently, singly, opposite, or ternate.

‘The flowers of all the varieties are much admired for their

exquisite scent, which, though powerful, is said to refresh

instead of oppressing the head, as most strong perfumes do.

The first account we have of the Kuppa Muxza, was from

Van Ruepe, inthe Hortus Malabaricus. It is said by Mitner ©

to have been in the royal garden at Hampton-Court at the.

end of the seventeenth century ; but it was little known in

Kurope till it was imported from the East-Indies to the garden

belonging to the academy at Pisa, about the year 1691;

being, with the common double variety, the only plant that

survived the voyage, out of sixteen chests sent from Goa.

These, as soon as they were sufficiently recruited, were

removed to the garden of the Grand-Duke, where our plant

_ was so highly prized, that, though it might have been easily

propagated by suckers which it: produced plentifully, these

were not permitted to be given to any one, nor were the

ordinary visitors of the garden. allowed even to see’ this

rarity. 'l'mu1, from whom we borrow this account, thought

himself highly honoured by permission to have a representation

taken of both plants thirty-four years after their importation. |

The above narrative accounts for the name of .'Tuscan

Jasmine generally applied to this variety.. Miter, in 1730,-

received a plant of it from the Malabar Coast ;. where ‘he

supposes it to grow spontaneously. It is, however, very

doubtful whether the Jasminum Sambac be a native of. any:

part of the East-Indies. It seems most probable that it came

orginaly from. Arabia. on Mock canola: weudeeek

_ Thrives best in the bark stove, but should be placed in a

situation where it may have both light and. air, as well as @

irellis to support it. Propagated by layers, or cuttings; but

the latier are said not to strike readily. Communicated by

Messrs. Loppicss and Sons, in July 1814.

( 1786 )

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CINERARIA AURITA. PURPLE-FLOWERED

CiNERARIA

HEE REE BE He HR He

Class and Order. —

.Syncenesia PotyGamiaA SUPERFLUA.

: et Generic Character.

Recept. nudum. Pappus simplex. Cal. simplex, polyphyllus

“equalis,

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Crxrraria aurita ; (suffruticosa) floribus corymbosis, foliis

cordatis subangulatis subtus tomentosis, petiolis basi bi-

auritis. L’ Herit. Sert. Angl. p. 26; icone nondum edita.

Fort. Kew. ed. 1"* 3. p. 220.—ed. alt. 5. p. 72. Willd.

Sp. Pl. 3. p. 2077. Martyn Mill. Dict. n. 33,

pein

jie

The Cryerarza aurita is a greenhouse under-shrub, with

_ & woolly stem, disposed to climb. The leaves are tomentose on

the under side. The flowers grow in large corymbs, and are of

brightish purple colour, but much paler than those of

_Crveraria cruenta, smaller, and less shewy : they have also

_ 4 very disgusting: smell. | .

___ It has a nearer affinity with populifolia than cruenta, from

___ the latter of which it is readily distinguished by the smaller

ee leaves, white underneath, with long petioles not winged at the

_ Sides, and having a single pair of roundish stipules at the base ;

= besides that, the stem of cruenta is herbaceous. From

3 populifolia it is distinguished by the want of several tooth-

- 3 like appendices on the footstalk.

__ _ Native of the Island of Madeira, where it was found by

t. Francis Masson, and was introduced into the Kew

Garden in 1790. Flowers in June and July, Communicated

by Joun Watker, Esq. of Arno’s-Grove, .

Pub. by. S. Curtic. Welwotth Jana. Weddtt$-

NS ge er Maren

Sympuytum TauricUmM. TacriaN Comrrey.

Jee edeesib ieee 7

Class and Order. ou.

Prnranpria Monocynia, _

Generic Character...

Corolle limbus tubulato-ventricosus : fauce ‘clausa_radiis

‘subulatis. ee Fee las nthe

Specific Character and Synonyms. —

Sympnytum tauricum ; foliis cordato-ovatis rugosis hirtis,

limbo corolla cyathiformi, caule ramoso hispido macu-

lato.

Sympuytum tauricum ; foliis cordato-ovatis hirtis petiolatis,

floralibus oppositis sessilibus, laciniis limbi corolle ob-

tusis, caule ramoso. Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 1.

p. 183. = 3

Sympnyrum foliis cordatis crenulatis basi ineequalibus petio-

. latis. Willd. in N. Act. Soc. Nat. Scrut. Berol. 3. p. 120.

ti 6. f. Z. a7, * : ; s :

Sympnytum orientale; caule foliisque cordato-ovatis petio-

latis hirsutis, summis oppositis sessilibus, corolle limbo

- . Gampanulato. M. V. Bieberst. Fl. Taurico-Caucas. 1,

Sympnyrum Constantinopolitanum, Borraginis folio et facie,

flore albo. Tournef: Corol. 7——Voyage du Levant,

v. 1. p. 524. cum tabula. —

Descr. Stem herbaceous, scarcely a foot high, hispid

and spotted with small reddish dots. Branches very divari-

cate. Leaves on very short winged footstalks, ovate, acute,

-with a broad base frequently cordate, rugose, margin finely.

undulated, so as to give the appearance of being crenulate,

villous and hairy along the veins: floral leaves sessile, oppo-

site, spreading. Racemes terminal, always two together,

_modding. Calyx five-cleft: segments subulate. Corolla

— funnel-shaped,

funnel-shaped, white : fwbe shorter than calyx: limb cup-

shaped: lacinie very obtuse. Nectaries five barren filaments,

lance-shaped between the stamens, and a little longer than

them. Style oblique, the length of the corolla.

This- species differs in many respects from Sympnyrum

orientale, in which the leaves are more approaching to lance-

shaped, not rugose, nor undulate at the margin ; limb of the

corolla spreading gradually from the tube to the mouth, not

suddenly in form of a cup; style considerably exserted, which

in this only equals the corolla.

A hardy perennial. Flowers in April and May. Native

of Southern Tauria. Commuynicated by Mr. Knicut, of the

Exotic Nursery, King’s-Road ; who raised it from seeds sent

from Russia, under the name of Sympnytum badlatum. It

appears to have been described by WittpENow, in his Enu-

meration of the Plants cultivated in the Berlin Garden, under

the appellation which we have adopted. —

N2788.

( 1788 )

STOBHA PINNATA. CARTHAMUS-LIKE STOBMA.

Class ani j rd “js

SyneenesiA Poryeamsa ALQuauis.

Generic Character.

Receptaculum hispidum, favosum. Pappus paleaceus. Cor.

flosculosa, Cal. imbricatus, squamis dentato-spinosis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Sropza pinnata ; foliis sessilibus subtus tomentosis pinnati-

fidis: pinnis lanceolatis dentatis sursum deorsumque

divaricatis spina terminatis.

Stozza pinnata ; foliis tomentosis pinnatifidis: pinnis linea-

ribus spina terminatis. Thwnb. Prod. 141. Willd. Sp.

Pl. 3. p. [email protected] > mt Foe

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This plant rises up with a straight woolly stem about a

foot high, dividing =A several alternate branches towards

the top, bearing each one flower at the extremity. In a

native specimen, we have observed that, after these flowers

decay, the stem has again shot out and born fresh flowers on

short branches, as at first, the prickly heads of the old flowers

remaining as a fence below.- Leaves oblong, tomentose on

the under side, deeply cut into lance-shaped segments, directed

alternately one up and another downwards, furnished with

small teeth at the sides and a strong spine at the extremity. |

Calycine leaflets imbricate squarrose, longer than the florets,

armed with a strong spine at the point and spinous teeth at

the base. Receptacle bristly. Head of. ‘flowers small discoid :

ie tubular with a five-cleft border. Stigmas exserted,

revolute, .

Srogaa is a genus of plants, natives of the Cape of Good-

Hope, established by Professor Tuunrerc, and named, we

Suppose, in honour of Dr. Kizian Sropaus, an eminent

? professor

= # tag

professor in the Swedish University of Lund, in the early

part of the last century.

_. The species here described, has been seyeral years in some

of the more curious collections about town, and was well

known to Mr. Brown, though by accident omitted in the

new edition of the Hortus Kewensis ; which is the more to be

regretted, as not one of the genus occurs there, or, as we

believe, in the catalogue of any other Kuropean garden.

From the short character given by Tuunserc in his Pro-

- dromus, we cannot.be certain that our plant isthe same with

his, though it accords with his definition, as far as it goes,

and cannot belong to any other of the species that he has

recorded. nae : a

_ Our drawing was. made in August 1813, at the very fine col-

lection belonging to,the Camtesse De Vannus, at Bayeswater.

But at that time we had no opportunity of seeing the plant:

our description .was.therefore takenfrom a plant communi-—

cated by Joun Watker, Esq. early in November of the

.» Mlowers from July to: November. Requires to be pro-

tected from frost.

16.

Pah by.2 Gartis Walworth. J2n2.

( 1789)

CERASTIUM AMPLEXICAULE. GtLavcous

CiticK WEED. a

or Be BS a ee

Ht Class and Order.

Decanpria Monoeynua. or 2 :

Generic Character. 2

Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala bifida. Caps. 1-locularis, apice

dehiscens.

Specific Character.

Crrastium amplexicaule ; glabrum, caule dichotomo, foliis

cordato-ovatis amplexicaulibus, petalis semibifidis, pedun-

- culis fructiferis — capsule ore decemdentato.

;

Deser. Stems diffuse,. dichotomous, rounded, striate,

smooth, brittle. Leaves cordate-ovate, acute, stem-embracing,

glaucous, smooth. Peduncles solitary from the divisions of

the stem, reflected after the flower falls. Calycine leaftets

erect, acute, white-margined. Petals semibifid, streaked,

white. Stamens always ten, shorter than petals: anthers

yellow. Germen oval. Styles five. Capsule oblong-oval,

one-celled, ten-valved ; valves reflected at the point. Seeds

kidney-shaped, tubercular, chesnut-coloured, attached to a

central receptacle. 37% PS eae

The Cerastium amplexicaule is very nearly related to

Crrastium aquaticum, from which however it differs in’

several material respects, more especially in being perfectly _

smooth, in having its petals divided only half-way, and the

mouth of the capsule splitting into ten teeth instead of five. _

It is moreover altogether of much larger growth. ALsinE _

Cerastium foliis connatis of Gmexin’s Flora Sibirica, vol. A.

tab. 62. f. 1. represents a plant with stem-embracing, co

not connate, leaves; and might have been taken for our |

species, had not the peduncle of the fruit been upright.

Our piant was raised at Boyton from seeds received by

Mr. Lampert from Dr. Fiscuer, who presides’ over the

garden at Gorenki, with so much credit to himself and ad-

vantage to the science of Botany. It is a hardy perennial,

and flowers most part of the summer.

( 1790 ) .

IpoMG:A INSIGNIS. MAGNIFICENT Tpomama.

JHE eek

Class and Order.

-Penranpria Monoeynta.

Generic Character. —

Cor. infundibuliformis. Stigma capitato-globosum. Caps.

3-locularis. Bes

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Iromaa insignis ; (volubilis, glabra) foliis cordatis lobatis

integrisque subtus coloratis, pedunculis axillaribus mul-

tifloris, corollis hypocrateriformibus : fauce cylindrica.

Iroma@a insignis ; (glabra, volubilis) foliis cordatis integris

vel lobatis, acuminatis ; cymis dichotomis ; calyce brevi, —

— convexo : corolla hypocraieriformi. Bot. Regist.

_ Troma insignis. Bot. Repos. 636. Hort. Kew. Epit. add.

The Irpomaa insignis is a very fine climber, and in a ~

spacious and lofty hot-house, where it can be allowed an

extensive trellis and plenty of room for its roots, makes a

very splendid appearance, producing abundance of shewy —

flowers. The purple colour of the under surface of the

he which is not however constant, has also a pleasing

effect. on SSE

This plant first came into flower at Mr. Benyon’s, of.

_ Englefield-House, Berkshire ; but no account could be obtained

from what country it was received. It is, however, most probably

a native of the East-Indies; and, if not a mere variety of

Convo.vutus paniculatus of Linnzus, the Pat-Mevecca of

the Hortus Malabaricus, certainly approaches very near to

ihat species. =

The stems die down every year and shoot up again in the

‘Spring. Flowers from July to October. Propagated by

cuttings. — : a

Our drawing was taken at Mr. Verr’s, of Kensington-—

Gore, in August 1812, 3 7

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tO. DY. 0. 14rd Walworth. Janiait.

(: Vr94-2) |

DELPHINIUM URCEOLATUM. HoOLLOW-LEAVED

Ber-Larkspur.

BEEK EERE EK EEE EK

Class and Order.

Potyanpria T'RiGynIA.

Generic Character.

Cal.0. Petala 5. Nectarium 2-fidum, postice cornutum.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

De.Puinium urceolatum ; (tricapsulare) calcare rugoso pe-

dicellum squante, labellis apice barbatis emarginatis,

foliis 3—5-fidis : lobis acutis tridentatis.

ELPHINIUM urceolatum ; nectariis diphyllis, labellis bifidis

apice barbatis, foliis palmatis urceolatis. Jacg. Collect. 1.

p. 153. Icon. Rar. 1. t. 101. ;

Detpuinium urceolatum ; nectariis diphyllis, labellis ob-

longis bifidis, laciniis lanceolatis equalibus, foliis peltato-

concavis tripartitis pubescentibus, laciniis trifidis, Wald,

Sp. Pl. 2. 1230, Hjusd. Enum. |. p. 574,

Descr. Stem upright, two or three feet high, striated,

smooth at the lower part and hairy upwards, a ‘little branched

at top. Leaves te be and 3-lobed, pale underneath, anda _

little hairy at the edges only: lobes acute, somewhat con-

nivent at the points, so as to give a hollowness to the leaf:

near the flower the leaves are generally simply trifid, with

here and there a little tooth, Flowers in a long raceme,

pale blue mixed with pink. Pedicels sigmoid, club-shaped,

§enerally with one long linear bracte at the base and two

near the flower, Petals in front nearly equal, ovate, acute,

with the points inflected : spur thick, rugose, incurved, as’

long as, or somewhat longer, than the pedicel. Nectary

(Petals of Jyssrev) two inverted canoe-shaped bodies, pr,

tende

tended into the spur of the upper petal, bifid at the point:

labella two small, oval, emarginate petals, bearded at the

point, supported on long twisted claws. These nectaries are

three times smaller than the petals. Capsules three.

We have no doubt but our species is the urceolatum of

Jacquin, and sufficiently distinct from exaltatum, of which

it has been supposed to be a yariety. It seems to us to be

more nearly allied to Staphisagria ; and may be the long- _

spurred variety of that species mentioned by WittpENow.

Is perfectly hardy. Its native country uncertain. Com-

municated by Joun Waxker, Esq. of Arno’s-Grove.

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( 1792)

AGITTARIA LANCIFOLIA. LANCE-LEAVED —

eres ARROW-HEAD.

Je ere eiek eae

Class and Order. —

Monoecia PonyanpRia.

’

Generic Character.

Mase. Cal. 3-phyllus. Cor. 3-petala. Flam. fere 24.

Fem. Cal. 3-phyllus. Cor. 3-petala. Pistilla mutta.

Sem. multa nuda. Ase :

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Sacrrraria lancifolia ; foliis ovatis utrinque attenuatis, scapo

inferne ramoso. Willd. Sp. Pl. 4. p. 410. excluso forsan

synonymo Michauxii. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 283.

Sacrrrarra lancifolia. Amen. Acad. 5. p.409. Syst. Vegetab.

ed. 14. p.856. Bot. Repos. 333. Mart. Mill. Dict. n. 3.

Sacirraria foliis lanceolato-ovatis Jacq. Amer. 248.—pict.

121. ;

Sacrrrarra foliis maximis simplicibus oblongis utrinque pro-

ductis, ramulis verticillatis, caule glabro. Brown Jam.

Ranynevutus aquaticus plantaginis folio, flore albo, calyce

purpureo. Plum. Cat. pl. amer. p. 7.—ic. 116. f. 1. —

Sacirraria lancifolia is a native of Jamaica and Cuba, and

perhaps of the continent of South-America; but probably

not of Carolina, as the plant inserted under the above name

by Micuaux, in his Flora of North-America, is, according ta

Punrsu, a distinct species, distinguished by its beaked, sickle-

Shaped seeds, and named by him falcata. In Donn’s nee

: ogue

logue our plant is said to be a native of the East-Indies, but

this we apprehend to be a mistake, though continued in the

last edition by Pursu. | :

If planted in a loamy soil and plunged below the water

in the cistern of the hot-house, it flowers freely and makes

a very handsome appearance ; but it will not blossom without

the aid of artificial heat.

Our drawing was made several years ago from a fine plant

growing in the stove of E. I. A. Wooprorp, Esq, at that

time at Vauxhall. ;

(1793)

Erica Buanprorprana. Lorp BLANDFoRD’S

cero ree oe

Class and Order.

~OcTanpRIA Monogynta.

Generic Character. _

Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. persistens ; limbo A-fido. Anthere

ante anthesin per foramina 2 lateralia connexe. Caps. 4-8-

locularis, 4-8-yalvis. Ege

Specific Character and Synonyms. “

Secr. 5. Breviflore. A. ‘Corolle tubus subglobosus. ~

Erica Blandfordiana ; foliis” _quaternis, — bracteis calyci

proximis, floribus terminalibus subsoli

aristatis. 7%

Erica Blandfordiana foliis quaternis

Erica Blandfordia. Andrews’s Heaths, vol. 3.

. Hort. Kew. ed. alt.

The Erica Blandfordiana is placed by Mr. Drvanper in

the second section o his Breviflore, containing such as have

the tube of the corolla ewer-formed, bractes close to the calyx,

and axillary flowers. 'T'o us it appears rather to belong to the

first section, or such as have the tube nearly globular. It

will, however, if placed there, make a second excepfion with

respect to the form of the anthers, which are said to be crested

in all except in odorata; as in our plant they are awned.

e flowers for the most part grow singly at the extremities

of short branches ; and in the plants which we have examined

are never properly axillary: for although towards the ends of

the principal branches, they are nearly sessile, yet they are

even here surrounded by leaves at the base, proving ene

ibsolitariis, antheris

stand in fact upon branches not elongated. The calycine

leaflets are ovate, acuminate, marginated, with three minute

bractes close applied to their base. ” Tube of the corolla nearly

globular, smooth: laciniz of the limb erect, connivent at first,

but finally spreading. Anthers included. Stigma exserted.

Native of the Cape of Good-Hope, where it was discovered ©

by Mr. James Niven. Introduced in 1803 by Messrs. Lez

and Kennepy, at whose nursery our drawing was made in

February 1813.

N.1794.

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( 1794 )

Rosa GAuiica (6. versicolor). Strirpep Rep

Rose, or Rosa Mounpt.

SE RE EE ae eae se aes ate ae ste ate ate ok oe

Class and Order.

IcosanpRIA Potyaynia.

Generic Character.

Petala 5. Cal. urceolatus, 5-fidus, carnosus, collo coarc-

tatus. Sem. plurima, hispida, calycis interiori lateri affixa.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

3 * * fructibus ovatis.

Rosa gallica ; fructibus ovatis pedunculisque hispidis, caule

petiolisque hispido-aculeatis, Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3.

262 |

(6.) ea Rosa Mundi. Miss Taek: Roses, t se

Martyn Mill. Dict. n. 16.

Rosa rubro et albo variegata, Rosa Mundi, vulgo dicta

(Mundy Rose). Raj. Hist. 1475. n. 35.

Rosa versicolor, Passe eaten Wei einm. Phyt. vol. 5.

p. 231. b. 1c. 869. ag F

> oF &

Rosa Munni, or, as it was s formerly corral called, ‘ss

Mundy Rose, is a variety of the Common Red Rose; the

dried petals of which have for so many years | ‘maintained a

Place in the Materia Medica of every ed country,

though, perhaps, in modern practice, more for the sake of

the colour, and as forming an agreeable menstruum for more

active peinedies, than from any dependance os its own

Virtues, a

This variety, though mentioned by Ray, “agi8

have been more common in England than e é

not occur in either Gerarp or PARKINSON. — ‘When in perfect

health, with its foliage undefaced by ins

peanine not exceeded in beauty by any

ns.

€ cultivated i inour

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( 1795 )

VIOLA CUCULLATA. HoLLow-LEAveD VIOLET.

RRR a

Class and Order.

Penranpria Monoeyntia.

(Syncenesta Monocamia. Linn.)

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-phyllus. Cor. 5-petala, irregularis, postice cornuta.

Anth. cohezrentes. Caps. supera, 3-valvis, 1-locularis.

Specifie Character and Synonyms.

Viota cucullata; acaulis, glabra, foliis cordatis acutis basi

cucullatis serratis, petalis lateralibus basi barbatis.

Viota cucullata ; acaulis, foliis cordatis acutiusculis glabris

basi cucullatis, floribus’inversis, petalis oblique flexis.

Hort. Kew. ed. 1™ 3. p. 288.—ed. alt. 2. p. 44. Willd.

Sp. Pl. 1. p. 1162. Persoon Syn. 1. p. 254. Mart. Mill.

Dict. n. 7. .

Vioxa cucullata, glabra ; foliis cordatis glabris serratis basi

cucullatis, pedunculis longitudine petiolorum, i ob-

oy flexis: lateralibus barbatis. Pursh Fl. . Sept.

eae

Vioxa cucullata is a native of North-America, and was

first described by Dr. Souanper in Arron’s Hortus Kewensis;

where we are informed, that it was introduced in the year

1772, by Dr. Samuen Martin. | 3

It was an early inhabitant of Mr. Curris’s first Botanic

Garden, at Lambeth-Marsh, where we well remember this

accurate observer pointed out to us, that the flowers which

appeared in the spring were uniformly barren ; but that later ~

in the summer apetalous flowers were produced upon very

short scapes, which were as constantly fertile. The produc-

tion of apetalous fertile flowers was first observed i the

IOLA

Viora mirabilis, im which complete flowers appear early in —

the spring upon scapes; after these are fallen, the plant

becomes caulescent, and fertile flowers, which are. for the

‘most part apetalous, are produced upon the stems in the axils

of the leaves. We are informed, however, by Mr. Georee

Graves, editor of the new edition and continuation of the

Flora Londinensis, now publishing, that this circumstance,

of the seed being produced from apetalous flowers coming

later in the season, and growing on very short scapes, con-

cealed among the leaves, is by 1 no means peculiar to VioLa

cucullaia ; but that the same economy takes place in several

other, perhaps i in all the stemless, species.

A hardy perennial; propagated by seeds or parting its

roots ; likes a loamy soil and a damp situation. We do not

know that any figure of this species has been before ewe :

in any botanical work.

( 1796 )

DIERVILLA HUMILIS. YELLOW-FLOWERED

| Diervinta.

- Class and Order. 3

-Pentanpria Monoeyrnia.

_ Generic Character.

Cal. oblongus, 5-fidus. Cor. calice duplo longior, infun-

dibuliformis, 5-fida, patens. Caps. oblonga, 4-locularis,

polysperma.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Diervitta humilis. Persoon Syn. 1. p. 214.

Drervitta Tourneforti; Michaux Fl. Am. Bor. 1. p. 1.

p. 107. . re

Diervitta. Hort. Cliff. 63. t. 7. ;

Lonicera Diervilla ; racemis terminalibus, foliis serratis.

Spec. Pl. 249. Willd. 1. p. 989. Hort. Kew. ed. alt.

v. 1. p. 850. Mart. Mill. Dict. Kniph. Cent. 9. n. 6.

Diervitta acadiensis fruticosa flore luteo. Tournef. in Act.

Paris. 1706. t. 7. f. 1. . Miller Ic. t. 124. (errore 125.)

Duham. arb. 1. p. 209. t. 87. Schmidt arb. t. 116.

Boerh. Lugd. Bat. 1. p. 277.

Diervitta canadensis. Willd. Enum. 1. 222. nee

Diervitta lutea; pedunculis axillaribus et terminalibus

dichotomis trifloris, foliis ovatis serratis acuminatis. Pursh

Fl. Amer. Sept. 1. p. 162. aoe

This plant was first brought to Europe from Acadie, as

the French at that time called Nova-Scotia, by Mons.

Diervitte, surgeon, in commemoration of whom Tourne-

ForT named it. The genus was taken up by Linnaus in

his Hortus Cliffortianus; but afterwards united by him to

NICERA, a union soon after objected to by MILLER, —

its

its fruit being a four-celled dry capsule; and the original

name has been since restored by Jussiev, and is now

adopted by the first Botanists. . _

It is remarkable that the specific name has been changed

by every systematic writer that has recorded the plant under °

the appellation of Diervinia. At first Micnaux applied

that of Tourneforti, but Persoon, in his Synopsis, probably

from the impropriety of joining the names of two Botanists

in the same plant, applied that of Awmilis, which Wi ipE-

now, in his Enumeration of the Plants of the Berlin Garden,

has thought fit to change to canadensis. Had he called it —

acadiensis, as Tournerort had done, we should certainly

have followed him. Lastly comes Mr. Pursu, who, in his

Flora of North-America, has called it lutea. PxErsoon’s

Synopsis being a general system, in every one’s hands, we ©

have thought it right to reject all the names since applied,

and retain that of humilis. ak '

Native of North-America, from Canada to the lofty moun-

tains of Carolina. A hardy shrub; loves a moist soil and

shady situation. Propagated by cuttings or suckers, which

it throws up abundantly. Flowers from May to August ;

but rarely matures its fruit in this country, “and: we have

‘never seen it. That it is a four-celled capsule,’ not a berry,

we take upon the authority of others. Communicated b

Joun Water, Esq. of Arno’s-Grove, Southgate. |

Cartes: Wadworth Bhaiib,

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PuyTeuMA ScHEUCHZERI. SCHEUCHZER’S

RaAmMPIoON.

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Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia.-

_ Generic Character.

Cor. rotata, 5-partita: laciniis linearibus. Stigma 2- s.

3-fidum. Caps. 2- s. 3-locularis, infera.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Puyreuma Scheuchzeri ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis serrato-

dentatis, bracteis linearibus capitulo longioribus, corolle

laciniis medio fenestratis, stigmate trifido.

Puyteuma Scheuchzeri ; capitulo subfolioso, bracteis lineari-

bus capitulo longioribus, foliis lanceolatis dentatis.

Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 919.—Enum. 214.

Puyreuma Scheuchzeri. Allioni Pedem. n. 428. t. 39. f. 2.

Rapuncutus alpinus petreus ceruleus, foliis flori substratis

longis angustioribus. Scheuchz. it. 6. p. 460. ee

Rapuncuxuvs foliis imis longe petiolatis, caulinis linearibus,

integris, bracteis linearibus, duabus imis longissimis.

Hall. Hist. n. 682. — f

Descr. Stems erect, somewhat angular, smooth, a foot

or foot and half high. Radical leaves linear-lanceolate,

narrowed at both extremities, toothed: petioles very long.

Cauline leaves linear, somewhat toothed, Bractes linear,

» quite entire: one of them generally much longer than in the

individual from which our drawing was taken. Head of

flowers hemispherical. ~Calyx five-cleft, segments subulate.

Lacinie Be. b the corolla cohering at the base in a globular

inflated tube, distinct and expanded in the middle, —_-

€

the air to the anthers, cohering again toward the extremities,

and contracted intoacurved horn. Stigma exserted, trifid.

Has much afhnity with Payrevma cordata (No. 1466.);

but differs from it essentially in the form of the leaves and

bractes. ?

A.tionr’s figure does not represent the horned corollas. —

Hauer’s description is excellent; but his specific character,

as quoted by WiLLpENow, is made nonsense of, by a false

punctuation. :

Communicated by Mr. Knieut, from the Exotic Nursery,

in the King’s-Road, Little- Chelsea.

Native of Swisserland and Piemont. A hardy peren- —

nial. Flowers in May and June, and when exposed only

to the morning sun, will keep long in bloom.

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Boraco LAXIFLORA, BELL-FLOWERED

Borace.

EAE AEE EE AE Ae aC aE aE ae ae ate ae

Class and Order.

PenranpriA Monoeynia.

Generic Character. ©

Cor. rotata: fauce radiis clausa.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Boraco laxiflora ; foliis omnibus alternis ovatis acuminatis -

iliatis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis unifloris folio

fongioribus. |

Borraco laxiflora. Decand. Flore Frang. v. 5. p. 422.

Desfont. Cat. Hort. Par. Fischer Cat. Hort. Gorenk.

p. 27.

Ancnusa laxiflora. I'l. Frang. ed. 3. n. 2728. Lois. Fl.

Gall. 1. ‘p. 106.

This plant differs from every other species of Boraco with

which we are acquainted, by its bell-shaped corolla, not very

unlike that of Campanuta rotundifolia. Its stem is weak,

assurgent, very hispid, with stiff shining deflexed hairs ;

leaves ovate-acuminate, sessile, hispid: margin undulate-

_ ¢renate, ciliate ; peduncles axillary, solitary, one-flowered,

longer than the leaf, recurved when in fruit.

he first notice we have of this species is from M. Dr-

CANDOLLE, who described it from dried specimens collected

by M. Lapintarovierg, in the Island of Corsica. This author

was at first induced to refer it to Ancuusa, because it ap-

peared to correspond better with the character given of that

genus by Garrner than with that of Boraco. But Boraco

indica, the species described by Gartner, Decanpovte ob-

Maca belongs properly to the genus Trichoprsma of

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( 1799 )

Nerium oporum(8.) Dovusie SWEET-SCENTED

Rosepay, or OLEANDER.

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Class and Order.

Penranpria Monoeyni,

Generic Character,

- Contorta. Folliculi 2, erecti. Sem. extremitate éuperiord

comosa.. Cor. hypocrateriformis : : faux coronata squamis ay

divisis. Sem. extremitate superiore comosa. Brown.

Specific Character and Synonyms,

Neriwm odorwum ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis ternis foliolio cax

me erectis, nectariis multipartitis ; Jaciniis filiformibne,

ort. Kew. ed. lo Lin, 290. 2s 3

cla irs Willd. Sp. at, 43 1235, Hort Kew. cid wf

alt ee

(a.) Fotis simplicibus, eg ole ongustiaribue: f

Nerion indicum angustifolium, floribus odoratis simplicibus,.

Herm. Lu gd..B. 447 1.438... .

Beturra-areut. Hort. Malad. v. 9. 0, 3. fe 2

Nerium indicum, Mill. Dict. ed. 8. n. 2.

(8) floribus plenis, foliis latioribus.

Nerion indicum latifolium, floribus plenis sdbentiaci

— Lugd. B. 447. t. 449.

Triovanna-arew. Hort. Malad. v. 9. p. 1.t. L

N aa oe a latifolium flore roseo pleno, | Weinm ai Ky

@, [po ; Mss te

Ni — a enican, floribus roseis “amplis. plenis, :

Nerium latifolium indicum, sigs variegato, odorato, pleno,

- Hort. k. p. 45: €. 23,

Nes odorum. @. Bot. Regist. 74.

Souru-Sra Rose. Brown Jam. 181. Hughes Barbad, 218.

ee iia

Ue.

Nerium deine a native of the East-Indies, was taken |

up by yaaa, J in ie Hortus Cliffortianus, as @ variety foc

the common Oleander, a native of the South of Europe and

the Levant: Afterwards, in the Species Plantarum, it was

not even considered as a variety, but both plants were united

as One and the same. Then, in the thirteenth edition of

the Systema Vegetabilium, it is recorded as a permanent

variety, and spoken of as the finest ornament of the Flower

Garden*. :

It was first distinguished as a species by Dr. SouanpEr,

in the Hortus Kewensis ; and as such has since been generally

considered.

Introduced into the Dutch Gardens about the year 1680,

by Bevernineius, and very soon after cultivated in_ the

Chelsea Garden, as appears by a letter from Sir Hans

Stoane to Mr. Ray. It was well known also. to Muitier,

but has been so long lost to our gardens, that when it was

again introduced lately from France, it was considered as

entirely new. The plants of the present importation do not

appear, however, to be in any respect superior to those

originally introduced into Europe from the East-Indies, as

is proved both by specimens still preserved, and by the

figures of Commetin and Weinmann; the latter of which

is both faithfully drawn and well coloured: |

Both species of OteanpeErR are allowed on all hands to

be poisonous to men and cattle ; fortunately the taste and

smell of the bruised leaves is sufficient to prevent any injury

to the former, but the latter are said to have been some-

times killed by browsing upon it. Externally they may

be advantageously applied to the cure of some cutaneous.

diseases. ; 7

Flowers from June to August. Propagated by cuttings

or layers. May be preserved alive in a good greenhouse,

but to have it flower well, should be kept in an airy part of

the stove. .

Our drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Co1-

VILLE and Son, in the King’s-Road, so many years celebrated —

for the cultivation of rare and beautiful flowering shrubs, in

the greatest perfection. :

* Prestantissimus flos adonidum varietate constanti.

( 1800)

Cyrtopopium ANDERSON. ANDERSON’s

CyrToropium.

Class and Order.

GyYNANDRIA Monanpria. ‘

Generic Character.

Labellum wngue geniculato : lamina tripartita. Petala 5,

distincta. Masse pollinis 2, postice bilobe. Brown. —

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Cyrroroprum Andersonii. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 216.

Cymeipium Andersonii. Lambert in Bot. Repos. 651.

~Crrropopium is distinguished from Cympiprom, chiefly by

its three-lobed nectarium, terminating in an articulated claw.

Only one species is at present known, which is a native of —

the West-Indies and was introduced into this country by the

late Tuomas Evans, Esq. to whom it was sent from the

Botanic Garden in the Island of St. Vincent’s, by the late

Mr. Atexanper ANDERSON. 4 . oh ae

_ The flowering scape rises up before the leaves, then divides —

- Into several alternate branches, each being furnished with an

ovate, acute bracte at its base, and bearing a number of

greenish yellow flowers, supported each by a similar bracte

at the base of the germen. As these decay, the leaves shoot

forth from the roots on one side of the scape, are lanceolate,

with petioles embracing and sheathing one another, so as to

form a kind of upright stem several inches long, from the —

top of which the leaves spread out in every direction ; these

are furnished with three strong nerves and numerous strie

between. eeu. pees

Ba Sp mmmnicated by Messrs. Loppices and Sons; flowering

ay. 2 a -

(| 1801, )

NYCTERIUM AMAzONIUM. LAMBERT’s

NIGHT-SHADE.

TEE Ra esa sere se seat ak te a ak ae

Class and Order.

Penranpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character:

_ Cal. A—5-fidus. Cor. irregularis, 4—5-fida. Stam. 4—5,

filamentis. brevissimis ; antheris inzequalibus: infima produc-

tiore [infimis 1, 2, vel. 3, productioribus, | declinata. Stylus

declinatus. _Bacca subrotunda. Caulis herbaceus aut Jrut-

cosus. Folia simplicia aut composita. Pedunculi solitarii

multiflori extraaxillares. .Venrenat in Hort. Malm.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Nycrerium amazonium (fruticosum, polygamum) foliis peti-

olatis semicordato-ovatis repandis cauleque tomentosis

inermibus, calycibus fertilibus aculeatis : sterilibus nudis.

SoLanum amazonium ; fruticosum, polygamum, tridynamum,

tomentosum, subaculeatum : foliis oblongo ovatis, repan-

dis, v. sinuato-lobatis, calycibus hermaphroditis solis

-aculeatis: flore irregulari subineequali. Bot. Reg. 71.

_ Descr. Stem shrubby, covered with a white tomentum.

Leaves scattered, petiolated, ovate, with a creeping undulate

margin, generally extending a little down the footstalk on one

side only, tomentose on both sides, on the upper very soft,

on the under harsher. Peduneles lateral, not axillary, bear-

ing several flowers ina compound corymb. The upper flowers

in the corymb are generally male, and consequently sterile,

the lowermost hermaphrodite and fertile ; of the latter only

the calyx is covered with straight sharp prickles, that of the

male is altogether unarmed. Corolla irregular, 5-cleft: two

of the lacinie widely divaricate. Stamens 5, on very short

filaments. Anthers unequal, declined: in the male flowers

§enerally three long and two short, in the hermaphrodite feted

Jong and three short, or frequently all nearly equal. Style

longer than the corolla, declined. Stigma capitate, violet

- coloured: In the male flowers style and stigma defective.

The genus Nycrerrum has been established by M. Ventr-

NAT in his Jardin de Malmaison. It is very desirable that

other genera, as well defined, should be taken out of Sotanum,

a family consisting at present, of upwards of two hundred

species. These have been lately arranged and described by

M. Donat, a pupil of the celebrated Decanpotze ; and had

his division of the genus been founded upon such principles of

classification as genera can alone be founded upon, his dif-

ferent sections might have served the purpose, whether

designated by generic names or not; but, if this has been

his intention, which however it hardly was, the making a

primary division of the species into aculeate and unarmed,

was stumbling at the very threshold ; separating to a great

distance some that are the most nearly allied. Nor are his

subdivisions, taken from the form of the leaves, less exposed _

to the same failing... | | :

Native of the ‘Bravils, and with us an inhabitant of the

bark-stove, where, if it be kept free from vermin, and allowed

plenty of air,. it will grow to a fine shrub, producing its beau-

tiful violet coloured flowers, throughout the greater part of

the year. Introduced by Aytmer Burke Lampert, Esq. by

whom it was communicated to us.

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( 1802 )

GNAPHALIUM FRUTICANS. SHRuBBY

_ Everuastine. -

megs

JHB EPH ene

“hiagatiite =p eevee Seria dp:

SyncenestA Potyeamia SupERFLUA.

Generic Character.

Recept. nudum. Pappus pilosus s. plumosus. Cal. im-

bricatus, squamis marginalibus rotundatis, scariosis, coloratis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

GyarHatium fruticans ; (fruticosum argyricomum) foliis am-

plexicaulibus ovatis trinerviis mucronulatis subtus Janu-

ginoso-tomentosis, cyma laxiuscula, bracteis oblongis

undulatis.

Gnapnatium fruticans ; fruticosum, foliis ovatis amplexicau-

libus, caule rigente, cyma sessili. Mant. alt. 282.

Gwnaruatium grandiflorum. Bot. Repos. 489. Willd. Sp. Pl.

3. p. 1851. exclusis synonymis. agg

There seems to us to bé the greatest confusion imaginable

respecting GnapHaLium grandiflorum and fruticans. Wii-

DENOW evidently considered our plant as bag. 39

though he has continued the synonym of Burmann, which we

take to be the true grandiflorum of Linnzus; but which is

certainly not our plant. Mr. Anprews has, in the Botanist’s

Repository, given a figure of fruticans under the name of

grandiflorum, for which it is quoted in Hortus Kewensis.

The description of fruticans in the Mantissa, we must

allow, does not correspond altogether with our plant, and it is

from the authority of the specimen in the Banksian Herbarium,

marked as having been compared with that in the Linnean,

that we have yentuged to consider this as the fruticans of

~ Linnaus. ee

, The

The stem, in both plants, is shrubby and covered with a

white wool, and is very similar in growth. But in grandi-

florum. ihe leaves are obtuse and covered.with a thick white |

tomentum on both sides, not unlike white woollen cloth ; in,

jruticans the tomentum on the upper surface of the leaves is

green, and frequently disappears when they are old, they are

also terminated with a small callous mucro, which is wanting

in the other. The branches in both terminate in a long

peduncle, bearing small leaves or bractes, more numerous,

narrower, and even at the margin, in grandiflora ; wider,

more distant, and more patent, with the margin undulated,

in fruticans.. In the former, the flowers are smaller and

crowded into a close capitulum, which in the latter is more |

lax, being rather a cyme than capitulum ; and the peduncle

being more rigid, it is probable that Linnaus considered it

as stem, not as a peduncle, and therefore called the cyme

sessile. Without understanding it in this way, it is difficult

to conceive how a plant answering to his description of

Jruticans, can be nearly related to grandiflorum, which he

expressly states that it is*.

The young leaves being covered with a thick tomentum,

the nerves are scarcely visible, but in the older leaves become

very apparent. _

A greenhouse shrub. Native of the Cape of Good-Hope.

Flowers from June to August.

Bes Since the above was in the press, we have been kindly informed by our

friend, Sir Jamzs Epwarp Smiru, that upon comparing our figure with the

specimen of GNarnatium fruticans, in the Linnean Herbarium, he finds it

to be certainly the same species

N.180s.

Waddell Sexy.

Pub, by. S artis. Walworth : Marek. IE

(1803. ):

Cistus sAmpsucironius. Rover ,

Dwarr-Cistus. _

Clase ind Order. 7

Potyanpria Monoeynta.

Generic Character.

Cor. b-petala. Cal. 5-phyllus: foliolis duobus minoribus,

Capsula. we, |i s

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cistus sampsucifolius ; (suffruticosus stipulatus) caule assur-

gente hispido, feliis oblongo-ovalibus integerrimis planis

superne scabris subtus tomentosis. _— |

Hewiantuemum sampsuchifolium. Mill. Dict. ed. 8.

Cistus pilosus. y. Martyn Mill. Dict. Allioni Pedem. t.45.

J. 1. ? nee fig. 2. que differt foliis margine revolutis.

Cistus foliis villosis lanceolatis stipulis subulatis. Sawv. Monsp.

148.

Heviantnemum, sive Cistus humilis folio sampsuchi, capi-

tulis valde hirsutis. Bauh. Hist. 2. p. 20. f: 2.

Cisrus mutabilis. Jaeg. ic. rar. t. 99? an varietas glabra ?

That our plant is the HeLianrHEMUM sampsuchifolium of

Miter, we have satisfied ourselves from comparison with

Mitter’s own specimens, now preserved in the Banksian

Herbarium. There is likewise one of the same species from

Montpelier. Different mens vary very much with respect

to the hairiness of the calyx, this part being in some nearly

smooth, in others clothed with long hairs. =

ALtion1 considers our plant, pilosa 8, polifolius, apenninus,

and probably mutabilis, as mere varieties of the same species ;

but we would at least distinguish those in which the margins

of the leaves are revolute from the plain-leaved, and conse-

quently the first figure of his pilosus from the second. Pa:

Most Botanists of the present day, and even WittpENow,

in his Enumeration, have again separated the genus Heui-

ANTHEMUM from Cistus : and indeed they appear at first sight

to be sufficiently distinct ; but as the fruit of not nearly all the

species has as yet been examined, and we have already

given some that belong to Hetranrnemum, under the name

of Cistus, we think it right, for the present, to follow the

example of the Hortus Kewensis, and keep them under the

same genus, : |

We have not dared to consider the fringed petals as a .

specific character, suspecting that it is not constant, as the

same variation takes place in a degree in some other species.

Our plant has great affinity with Cistus swrrejanus ; the

roughness of the upper surface of the leaves being occasioned

by short hairs collected in fascicles, gives them likewise

something of a dotted appearance; and should the extreme

narrowness of the petals in the latter be found to be not

constant, they might be considered as the same. a8

It is quite hardy, and well-suited for ornamenting rock-

work. Communicated by N. Hopson, Esq. of the War-

Office, who informs us, that he received it from the Botanic

Garden at Cambridge. Native of the South of France.

N.1604.

aoe

Weddslt.S&

tis. Walworth Marsh gitb.

By Sar

iP.

oad

( 1804 )

Lacasca Mouuis. Sort-Leavep Lacasca.

Class and Order.

SyneEnesia Potyeamia SEGREGATA.

Generic Character. H

Involucrum 5-phyllum, foliaceum simplici serie. Calyculus

!-florus, 5-dentatus. Corollule tubulose hermaphrodite.

Recept. alveolatum, villosissimum. Pappus 0. "a ge

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Lacasca mollis. Henckel a Donnersm. adumb. p.30. Cavan.

in Anales de ciencias naturales v. 6. p. 331.

Lacascra mollis. Willd. Enum. p. 942. —

Descr. - An annual plant, covered in every part with a

soft velvet-like pubescence. Leaves opposite, at the divi-

sions into branches alternate, petioled, ovate-acuminate,

subserrate ; sometimes quite entire. Flowers = me i

itate. Involucre, in our specimens, always five-leaved in

adil series, with two or three small accessory leaflets

within them: leaflets ovate, unequal in size, sessile. Re-

_ceptacle alveolar, with a fine long down in the interstices.

Calycle tubular at the base, five-toothed. Florets tubular,

with five-cleft spreading border. Anthers easily separating,

terminated with a spathula-shaped appendix. Germen without

he name of Lacasca was given to this plant by M.

Cavanittes, in honour of his pupil, and since his successor,

Don Mariano Lacasca. —

_ A tender annual, propagated by seeds only, and requires

_ to be kept in the stove or hot-bed. Flowers in August and

_ September. Native of the Island of Cuba. Communicated

by Mr. Annerson, curator of the Apothecaries Garden, at

Chelsea. Mr. Lameerr raised it also at Boyton last summer,

from seeds brought from Havannah, by Mr. Cowan,

Weddelb a

Pee

423616.

( 1805 )

CLERODENDRUM VISCOSUM. Ciamary

| - Ciropenpaum,

Diovsama idicotoctrnnsé.

Generic Chawneter.

Cal, 5-fidus (nune 5-dentatus)e. Cor. tubo eylindrico : limbo

5-partito patenti: laciniis subeequalibus. Stamina juxta faucem

inserta, exserta, adscendentia : antherarum loculis —-

Bacca pyrenis A, I-spermis. _ Brown. . | 7

- Specific ‘Character and ini

CLERODENDRUM viscosum ; tomentosum, foliis cordatis den-

tatis, corymbo terminali paniculato, calycibus viscosis

laxis dimidio tubo corolle longioribus. Brown i in Hort.

Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 63.

CLERopENDRUM viscosum. Venten. Maln. 25.

Preracu. Hort. i | p. 41. t. 25.

Desc. A shrub, tomettose i in every vat ices the co-

rolla. Branches square. Leaves opposite, cordate-oyate,

acuminate, crenate- dentate, roughish on the upper and soft-

tomentose on the under surface with elevated veins, petiolated.

Bractes ovate-acuminate, petiolated, deciduous, one at each

division of the panicle. Inflorescence a terminal trichotomous

panicle, Calyx five-cleft, segments ovate, acute, thie

one another. Corolla irregular, twbe but little longer than —

the calyx : limb 5-cleft: lacinie nearly equal, the uppermos

alittle the largest, irregularly disposed, looking all up rds,

leaving a wide space between two of them. Stamens 4,

declined nearly twice the “oes of the flower. Antherd ver-

satile, subsagittate, Style equal to the stamens.

Stigma bifid. The pecs are white with flesh-coloured

centre, sweet-scented, but oppressive.

VENTENAT

VenTeNAT considers the Paraéu of the Hortus Malabaricus,

which, by the bye, is a very bad figure, to be distinct from the

Ceylon plant, figured by Burmann, both of which are quoted

by Linnaus as synonyms of his infortunatum, and charac-

terizes the latter by the tube-of the corolla being three times

thelength of the calyx and the leaves quite entire (see Annals

of Botany, v. 1. p. 388). Native of the East-Indies. Re-

uires to be kept in the stove. Introduced in 1796, by

r. Perer Goop. Flowers most part of the summer. Com-

municated by Jounn Waker, Esq. of Arno’s-Grove.

NV. Z do 0.

Bib. by... Curtis. Walworth M aretiasbsb.

( 1806" )

‘Ravs Toxicopenpnox (a.) VULGARE, Roorna

Poson-Oak.

SeeeE HEHE at eee ee i

“i Sia Wyo

Class and. Order.

Pentanpria Tricynia._ saa

Generic Character.

Cat, S-partitus, Petala 5. ie 7 3c cca I-sperma.

s z cific Character and Synonyms.

Ruvs Pakiciabadead's radicans, foliis ternatis : foliolis ven-

__ ~~ tricoso-ovalibus integris aut sinuato-crenatis, racemis

iid Hmibis et axilinibus” sessilibus dioicis. Pursh Fl. Am.

Sept. 205.

Ruavus Toxicodendron ; hisses seitellatten, leucocarpum :

foliolis ventricoso-ovalibus, integris aut sinuato-crenatis :

_ racemis rameis et axillaribus, sessilibus dioicis. Michaux

Fl. Bor. Am. 1. p. 183.

(a.) vulgare ; radicante- acandertas foliolis amplis integris seu

rariter dentatis. Michaux l. ec. Pursh lL. c. ‘A

Ruvus radicans ; foliis ternatis : foliolis petiolatis ovatis nudis

integerrimis caule radicante. Willd. a. Pl.1. p. mal.

cum synonymis. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 163.

Epera trifolia canadensis. Corn. Canad. 96. t. 97.

Vitis canadensis. Munting Phyt. p. 239. f. 60.

(8.) quercifolium ; erectum, humile : foliolis varie sinuato-

lhat batis, subfloratione tomentosis. Michaux l. - Pursh |

man Sis cease ben. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 1481. Hort. -

Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 82.

(y.) microcarpon ; foliolis oblongo-ovalibus longe acuminatis

subrhomboideis, fructu multo minore. Michaux 1. c.

Pursh 1. c.

That Ruvs radicans and Toxicodendron are really va-

rieties of the same species, can hardly be doubted by any ome

who will take the pains to consult the authors quoted, as

synonyms to each. It varies with smooth and pubescent,

with entire or sinuated leaves; with a stem, that now grows

erect and supports itself without aid, now trails along the

ground or ascends a wall or tree, attaching itself by means

of fibres, called roots, but which, as in ivy, serve the purpose

of support, not of drawing nourishment.

The male and female flowers are borne on distinct shrubs ;

our represents a branch of the male plant. Cornut?’s

and Montine’s figures evidently belong to our plant, though

quoted as synonyms of Ruvs Toxicodendron.

This is a verycommon plant in North-America, from

Canada to Georgia, growing in woods and hedges ; and,

with some other species of this genus, is possessed of a

_ poisonous quality ; even its effluvia being peculiarly injurious

to certain constitutions, while others are little affected by it.

When wounded or bruised, an almost colourless fluid

exudes, which turns black when exposed to the air, and will

make an indelible stain upon linen or other substances. This

has been ancceeey a to change the hair te a dark brown.

Quite hardy. Flowers in June and July. Communicated

by Joun Waker, Esq. of Arno’s-Grove.

Pub. b vi if Snatiet, Walwertly. March arhb.

(1807)

_SepUM opposiITIFoLIuM. OPpposiTE-LEAVED —

} _ SEpDuM. 2

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. 5-petals. Squame nectariferm 5, ad

basin germinis. Caps, 5, ie:

Specific Chatcthr 0 and Synonym.

Sepum oppositifolium ; (planifolium) foliis oppositis spathu-

_ latis dentatis.

Sepum denticulatum. Donn Cat. ed. 8. Pursh p. 149. ?

Desc. Stem herbaceous, prostrate; flowering branches

erect. Leaves opposite, fleshy, wedge-shaped, very obtuse,

toothed towards the end, when ele through a lens finely

ciliated with glandular hairs, F hite, in a terminal

dichotomous cyme, sessile on the 1 ‘side of the branches,

which are somewhat recurved; the solitary flowers in the

axils larger than the rest and vedaiieled! ~ Calyx of five

erect leailets, one of which is often smaller than the rest,

Corolla five - petaled : petals lanceolate, acute. Stamens

ten, filaments white, seostal than the petals, five of them —

inserted into the claw of the petal, and the other five into of

the receptacle opposite the segments of the calyx. © nt vers.

| ee ovate, erect, affixed by fs base. Germens five,

White : styles erect: stigmas simple %

Among the alpine plants in the collection of the Comtétee

Vanpes, at Bayes- Water, we met with this, without b eng

able to learn from whence it came. Our friend, Mr.

SRown, soon after met with the same in the little garden «

a weayer at meeehenter, who had the

fatum to it. We had picked itp, as he thought, from some

garden near London, but knew nothing of its native country.

It may be the dentienlatwm of the last edition of the Hortus

Cantabrigiensis ; and if so, it seems that it is a native of

Mount Caucasus. — 2s

It has the characters of Sepum, but is the only instance

we recollect of distinct opposite leaves in this genus ; for in

the species with imbricated leaves it is not easy to determine

whether they are opposite or not. In this circumstance it

approaches to a Crassuza or a Sepras, with the latter of —

which it has a very near affinity. Flowers the latter part of

the summer, and eontinues long in blossom. ve

dar

rth Mor A 12b36.

Walrro

| ( 1808 )

“Acantnus spinosus (6). Prickty Acantuus.

JHCHE HEHE baer

Class and Order. 7

_ Divynamia ANGIOSPER MIA.

Generic Character,

Cal. bifolins, . bifidus. Cor. unilabiata, deflexa,. trifida.

Caps. 2-locularis. 3

Specific Character and Synonyms. :

Acantuus spinosus ; foliis pinnatifidis spinosis. Hort. Cliff

326. Sp. Pl. 891. Reich. 3. p. 202. Willd. 3. p. 398.

as Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 69. Sabbat. Hort. Rom. 3.

Acantuus sylvestris. Park. Parad. t. 331. 7.2. Ger. Emac.

1147. f. 2. Dod. Pempt. 719. f. 2. — 7 :

Acawrnvs aculeatus. Bauh. Pin. 383. Raj. Hist. 1326. .

Acantaus spinosus. Hort. Eyst. 4istiv Ord. 11. t. 1.

Cuamareonta Monspelliensium. Lob. Ic. 2. t.2. f. 2.

~ Carpuvs Acanthus sive Branca ursina aculeata, Bauh. Hist.

3. p. 75.

(B.) Acanruus rarioribus et

Tourn. Inst. 176. Mill. Icon. 7.

Acantuus medius rarioribus et brevioribus aculeis donatus.

Fagon Sch. Bot. 219. ex Millero. Morris. Hist. s. 15.

Acasa <dctain mitioribus spinis. Pluk. Almag. 6.

Acanruus mollis (y.) Martyn Mill. Dict. n. 1.

munitus.

When Linnavs first characterized this plant in the Hortus

Cliffortianus, he used the term foliis pinnatifidis, and this

was continued to the third edition of the Species Plantarum,

er this, by some means, the term got changed to pinnatis,

which has been continued ever since; though it probably

originated in an error of the press; for the leaves are reall

| pinnatifid,

pinnatifid, never pinnate. - We have therefore restored the

original character.

Liynzus, in his Hortus Cliffortianus, says he could hardly

persuade himself that mollis and spinosus were distinct

species; Minter, on the other hand, maintains that not

only they, but likewise this and the shining variety of mollis,

always retain their characters when reproduced from seed,

How Marryn came to consider our plant as a variety of

mollis, ihe leaves of which are sinuate not pinnatifid, rather

than spinosus, we are at a loss to guess, ;

ft should be remarked that the spines, though: short and ,

not very close together, are by no means innocuous, but

sharp and rigid enough to render handling extremely un-

pleasant. }

Its spikes frequently rise, from the middle of the leaves,

three feet in height, and are covered with flowers from

the base to the summit, and continue long in bloom ; so .

that, where it is allowed sufficient room, this plant makes a—

very ornamental appearance, ; :

Native of Italy, of Greece, and the islands of the Archipelago,

and is supposed by Mixer to haye been the prototype of the

Corinthian capital rather than mollis, which Dr. SisrHoRPE

did not find in Greece. ag ee :

Is a hardy perennial, propagated by seeds or by parting its

roots. Flowers from July to September. Communicated by

Mr. Kyigur, of the Exotic Nursery, in the King’s-Road. ”

Ni 809.

Pib ty 8 Cuchi, Walworth, Aprils 188.

(1809 )

SEMPERVIVUM VILLosumM. Hatry Hovuse.eex.

Sees Rei ee

Dopecanpria Dopgcacy

Generic Character.

sperme.

Cal. 8—12-partitus. Petala 812. Caps. $—12, poly-

:. Specific Character and Synonym. Z ad

Sempervivum villosum ; foliis spathulato-cuneiformibus ob-

tusis villosis, nectariis palmatis: lacinulis subulatis. Ait

Hort. Kew. ed.1. v.2. p. 148. edit. alt. 3. p. 171. Willd.

Sp. Pl. 2. p. 933. = 2 :

Sempervivum stellatum ; caule herbaceo pubescente, foliis

spathulatis sparsis. Trans. Linn. Soc. 1. p.251. excluso

synonimo Seguieri? — ; :

E 3

We have no doubt but that the plant here figured is the

Sempervivom villosum of the first edition of Arroy’s Hortus

Kewensis ; haying compared it both with specimens from the

Kew Garden and a native one from Madeira. ‘At the same

time we suspect that it is also the same plant which Sir

James E. Smrru described in the first volume of the Trans-

actions of the Linnean Society, under the name of stellatum.

Our plant was some years since very common in the Chelsea

Garden, and in that of the late Dr. Prrcairn, at Islington ;

and, being an annual producing seeds feadily, might be

cultivated as hardy. Certainly the plant figured by Securer |

as a native of Monte Baldo, appears to be very different,

both from our plant and from Sir James Smrru’s description.

_ An annual plant. Native of the Island of Madeira. Flowers

m the middle of summer, and ripens its seeds in August,

Communicated by Mr, Prunes, of the Sydenham Nursery,

Nid.

i: he On Saas

IY. - Cartivo Wal-we ofly, Aneil 126

( 1810 )

LEPTOSPERMUM GRANDIFOLIUM. LARGE-

LEAVED Soutu-Sea Myrv ie.

: Class and Order.

{cosanpriA Monoeynia, |

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus, semi-superus. Petala 5 unguiculata, stami-

nibus longiora. Stigma capitatum. Caps. 4- vel 5-locularis,

Semina angulosa.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Leptrospermum grandifolium ; foliis lanceolatis utrinque an-

gustatis mucronatis, calycibus villosis : dentibus coloratis,

bracteis gemmaceis persistentibus. aa :

Leptospermum grandifolium ; foliis lanceolatis mucronatis

subquinquenervibus subtus pubescentibus, calycibus vil-

losis : dentibus membranaceis coloratis. Smith in Trans. —

Linn. Soc. 2. 6. p. 299. — ee

Many of the leaves on the lower parts of the shrub and on

the sterile branches exceed an inch and a half in length and a

third of an inch in breadth. The size of the flowers too

exceeds that of any other species of LeprosPERMUM. — Our

friend Sir James E. Smrtu has remarked the great similarity

that exists between this plant and Fasricia levigata; a.

resemblance which struck us so forcibly, that, before we

discovered that it had been already described, we intended

giving it the name of fabricioides. The leaves differ so much

with respect to pubescence, that little use can be made of this

character, the older ones being quite naked, whilst the young

ones are villous on both sides, as are the branches that bear

them ; nor are the number of nerves more to be depended

sz upon,

upon, as these vary from three to seven, according to the

breadth of the leaf. .

-The flowers grow singly at the extremities of very short

Jeafy branches ; and, before they expand, are enclosed within

the same scales, as the bud intended for the future clonga-

tion of the branch. These scales are permanent, and may

be considered as bractes, forming an inyolucre at the base of

the flower. In consequence of this arrangement, although

the flower is really terminal, the fruit, by the elongation of

the branch, must afterwards necessarily become lateral. *

A hardy greenhouse shrub. Native of New-Holland.

Flowers in June and July. Propagated readily by cuttings.

Communicated by Mr. Sweer, late of the Stockwell Nursery.

9 Pee

CALLICOMA SERRATIFOLIA.. ‘SAW-LEAVED ~

‘CALLICOMA. —

AHR Seana doiebliieieastet

~~ “Class and Order. wre

-Doprcanpria Dieynta.

Generic Character. ;

Flores ageregati. Receptaculum: globosum, villosum.

Invol. 4-phyllum. Cal. 4-phyllus. Stam. 8—12. Cor. 0.

Germ. superum, villosum, 4-spermum. Styli 2; divaricati.

Stigmata acuta... < st © , ta

Specific Name and Synonyms. 3

Catricoma’ serratifolia. Bot. Repos. 566. Epit. Hort. Kew.

add. Donn. Cant. a Pursh, p. 154.

Copia. Forst. Gen. n. 30. iP:

Catycomes.. Brown in Flinders’s. Voyage, app. p. 5A0.

SRG ers

~Descr. © Stem shrubby, four feet high, with opposite

ranches, which, when young, are covered with a rusty-

coloured pubescence. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate,

narrowed towards both extremities, equally serrate, ribbed

with simple parallel veins, with a fine net-work in the inter-

stices, smooth and shining on the upper, white tomentose on

the under surface. Petioles pubescent, brown. Stipules two,

Opposite, elliptical, situate between the petioles. Flowers axil-

lary, on peduncles longer than the petioles, collected into

globular heads, having an involucre of four elliptical, unequal

leaves. Common receptacle globular, hairy. Proper’ co

of four or six leaflets, oval, erect, three-nerved, petal-like,

White, pubescent on the outside. Corolla none. Bractes —

between the flowers lanceolate, pubescent, nearly the size of

the leaflets of the calyx. Stamens in the flowers we examined

12, corresponding with the segments of the calyx : hae :

ments

ments thrice the length of the ealyx : anthers yellow, round.

Germen small, superior, villous, with’ four ovula. Styles two,

divaricate: stigmas acute,

Upon comparing the above description with Forsrer’s

Copia, not only a striking resemblance will appear, but

strong reasons for suspecting that both plants belong to the

same genus. Forster indeed describes his Copa as having ©

a corolla, of which our plant is destitute, unless what we

have called bractes may have been taken for a calyx, and

our calyx for a corolla.. Copra is deseribed as octandrous,

and many of the flowers which we examined had only eight,

some twelve, and more have been observed by others. ‘The

germen appeared to us to have only four ovula, which agrees

with Copia. The involucre or common calyx and the re-

ceptacle are the same in both, is

_As the above: observations lead only. to probability, not

certainty, we have thought xight to retain the name of Cau:

Licoma, by which our plant is now pretfy genexally known.

* Mr. Brown, in the Appendix to Flinders’s Voyage to

Terra Australis, refers this genus, together with Codia,

Weinmannia, Cunonia, and Ceratopetalum, to a new natural

order, which he calls Cunontacez. As one character of this

order is a bilocular germen or oyarium, we have, no doubt

but this is the case with our plant, though in so small an_

Barr, of the Northampte

fouse, Propaguted by, cuttings.

Lytarum atarum. Hexanprous Lyrirum.

DopecanpriA Monocyntia.

Generic Character.

* Cai. 12-dentatus : basi eequali. Petala 6. calyci inserta.

Caps. 2-locularis, polysperma.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Lyrurum alatum ; caule erecto tetragono, foliis oppositis

glabris sessilibus, floribus solitariis axillaribus hexandris.

Lyturum alatum ; foliis oppositis ovato-oblongis acutis basi

subcordatis arcte sessilibus, ramis virgatis tetragono-

alatis, floribus axillaribus solitariis sessilibus hexandris.

Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. p. 334

Lyrarum alatum. Epit. H t. Kevw. addend.

=i a

-Lyrurum Vulneraria. Hortulanis,

Descr. Stems erect, four-angled: the angles are acute

from two opposite sides of the stem being deeply grooved,

but are hardly to be called winged, red, smooth, branched

from about the middle. Leaves generally opposite, some- —

times alternate, quite entire, elliptical, smooth, sessile,

Flowers large, shewy, solitary, axillary, on very short

peduncles. Calyx nearly cylindrical, a little dilated upwards, ,

twelve-toothed ; six of the teeth subulate and longer, alter-

nating with other six minute and inflected, Petals six, equal,

inserted into the margin of the calyx. Stamens six only,

Inserted into the tube of the calyx near the bottom ; but

the smaller teeth of the calyx are powdery, as if nature

attempted to convert them into other six anthers. Germen _

superior oblong: style.shorter than the tube of the calyx :

stigma globular, green. $e: 3 -

We have no doubt but that this is the Lyrnrum alatum

of Pursn, though he describes the flowers as being very

small and the leaves acute; the first. circumstance may be

accounted for from the author’s having seen the dried plant

only, in which state the flowers shrink almost to nothing,

and as to the second, although we have generally found the

leaves obtuse, sometimes even a round-oval, yet we have

seen one specimen in which they were narrow and acute.

Native of Georgia and South-Carolina. Flowers in June,

July, and August. A herbaceous perennial, requiring pro-

tection from severe frost. Propagated by parting its roots,

or by seeds. Introduced by Mr. Lyons, in 1812. Com-

municated by Mr. Knicur, of the Exotic Nursery.

( 1813 )j

COMMERSONIA PLATYPHYLLA. BROAD-LEAVED

} COMMERSONIA.

SK eR RRR

| Class and Order.

PenranpriA Penraeynta.

Generic Character.

Cal. 1-phyllus, corollifer. Petala 5. Nect.” 5-partitum.

Caps. 5-locularis, echinata. :

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Commersonia platyphylla ; foliis cordato-ovatis acuminatis

inequaliter dentato-terratis, supra scabriusculis. infra

tomentosis.

Commersonia platyphylla. Bot. Repos. 603. Icon. 519. Donn

Cant. a Pursh 92. ere Ae ae

Commersonia echinata. Bot. Repos. 519. quoad iconem,

aa postea in platyphylla mutato: a planta Forsteri

versa, a She a ie

Descr. A low shrub, with tomentose, irregularly-twisted

branches. eaves cordate, ovate, acuminate, unequally

dentate-serrate, veined, rough on the upper surface, tomen-

tose underneath. Flowers small, white, in lateral panicles,

coming out opposite the leaves. Bractes subulate, one at

each division of the panicle. Calyx five-cleft : segments

ovate, tomentose on the outside. Corolla five-petaled: petals

linear, dilated at the base into two lobes, which conniving

enclose the stamen. Filaments short, attached to the base of

the petals: anthers round, two-lobed. Nectary five-cleft :

lacinie erect, connivent at the margins, patent at their points,

forming a cylindrical cup with a spreading lip. Germenfive- _

_ knobbed: styles erect, approximate: stigmas capitate. a

The specimen from which our drawing was taken, was

communicated from his garden at Boyton, by A. B. Lamserr,

Esq. by whom we are informed, that the flowers are very

fragrant, perfuming the whole stove in warm weather.

Native of the Molucca Islands. Cultivated in the stove at

Boyton. Flowers in June and July. Propagated by

cuttings.

- (- 1814. }

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Cyrtroropium Wooprorpi. Wooprern’s

_ €yrtopopium.

JHE HHGCS EH eieeieeke

Class and Order. —

- Gynanpria MonaAnpria.

Generic Character.

Petala 5, distincta, secunda. Labellum trilobum, cum

processu unguiformi baseos columne aptere subarticulatim

connexum. Masse Pollinis 2, postice bilobe. Brown Mss.

Specific Character.

Cyrroropium Woodfordii ; labello ventricoso : lobis lamin

lateralibus intermedio verrucoso callis cristato breviori-

bus*.

It is not without hesitation that we refer this plant to

Cyrtopodium, more especially on account of the striking

difference in the form of the Jabellum; yet, when more

particularly examined, there are some points of resemblance

in this organ, the lateral lobes of the lamina being in both erect

and ear-like: in Andersonit long and spreading, in Wood-

_fordit shorter and rounder. ‘The connexion with a claw-like

process of the column, though not exactly the same, is not |

altogether dissimilar. In Andersonii the union is by means of

an articulation, which in this is less evident. The con-

nexion allows, however, of some motion, and the parts separate

easily, always at the same point.

Cyrropopium Woodfordii is a native of St. Paul, in the

Brazils, and was sent by E. J. A. Wooprorp, Esq. to

ad Cyrropopium Andersonii ; labello angustius unguiculato, lobis laminze

lateralibus divaricatis intermedio ee ae longioribus.

Mr. Anperson, the curator of the Apothecaries Garden at

Chelsea, by whom it was kindly communicated to us.

~ Requires to be kept in the bark stove, where it produces its

fine spike of flowers in October, being some time preceded

by the leaves. In Cyrropopium Andersonii, the leayes do

not appear till after the flowering is over.

Cae

Erica Fuava (6) rmericata. ImpricatTep

| Yettow Hearn.

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Class and Order,

Ocranpria Monoeynta.

Generic Character.

Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. persistens : limbo 4-fido, _Anthere

ante anthesin per foramina duo. lateralia connexe. Caps.

4—8-locularis, 4—8-valvis. : See ae

Specific Character and Synonyms. —

Sect. 5. Breviflore. Div. B. Corolle tubus urceolaris.

Flores axillares. Bractee calyci proxime. .

Erica flava ; pedunculis prope apicem aggregatis flore

longioribus, corollis subtetragonis.

(a.) ternata; foliis ternis patentibus distinctis, :

Erica flava ; foliis senis. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 392.

Erica flava ; antheris muticis subinclusis, marginibus fo-

liorum ternatorum asperiusculis, corolla ovata costata —

subquadrilineari. Andrews’s Heaths, v. 2. :

(@.) imbricata ; foliis senis imbricatis ramo adpressis.

Descr. A shrub two feet high, with long, simple, some-

what crooked branches. eaves subulate, six in a whorl,

imbricate, more crowded together upwards, and closely ad-

pressed to the stem, giving a truncated appearance to the

Ups of the branches. Flowers axillary, aggregated towards

the extremities of the branches. Peduncles longer than the

flower, nodding. Bractes subulate: two near to the calyx

and one remote. Calycine leaflets subulate, nearly the

length of the corolla, a little spreading. Tube of the Corolla

oblong-ovate, but slightly bellied, four lines long, four-ribbed,

) spreading

spreading towards the mouth, lacimi@ abtuse, rather erect.

Anthers naked, dirty-purple, nearly enclosed. Germen top-

shaped, smooth: style longer than stamens: stigma exserted,

capitate, green. . :

This plant, which was raised from Cape seeds, by Messrs.

Loppicrs and Sons, and communicated by them in September

1815, differs so little from the flava of Anprews, except in

the leaves being much more crowded together, and growing

six instead of three in a whorl, that we can only consider it

as a variety of that species, ‘The tube of the corolla is so

little contracted upwards, that we hesitated whether to seek

for our plant in division B. or D. of the fifth section in the late

Mr. Dryanper’s excellent arrangement of the species. In the

latter division, it would stand next to filamentosa, a change

in the character of which would be necessary, to distinguish

it from flava. : ee

Propagated by cuttings. Flowers in September. Re-

quires the protection of a greenhouse. |

“Poddeld 8 *

Pib. by. S Gartis. Walworth Avriliabzh.

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CLEMATIS CoRDATA. HEART-LEAVED ~~

- Virew’s-Bower. io -s

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Class and Order.

Potyanpria Poryeynis.

Generic Character.

Cal. 0. Petala 4, rarius 5. Sem. caudata.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ciematis cordata ; foliolis cordatis integerrimis, petalis co-

riaceis conniventibus apice revolutis crispatis, aristis

seminum plumosis. :

Ciemaris cordgta; scandens; foliis pinnatis quadrijugis,

foliolis ovatis utrinque obtusis omnibus integris petiolatis-

que membranaceis utrinque reticulato-venosis, floribus

solitariis, petalis subcoriaceis, aristis seminum plumosis.

Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. p. 385? excluso synonymo Abbot.

Ciematis cordata. Walt. Fl. Carol. 156 7? Michinis Fi.

Ror. Am. 1. yp. Bt8t.

The Crematis cordata has often been mistaken for

crispa, which, as represented by Ditventus’s figure, is a_

very different plant, with lanceolate and three-lobed leaflets ;

and, which is a character of more consequence, having the

beard of the seed naked. Whether our plant may not be the

Same with the reticulata of Pursu, we are uncertain ; but

it cannot be the rosea of Sir James E. Smrrn in Apsor’s

Watrer, it seems to differ in having no tendril at the ter-

mination of the leaf. ie e

We received the same species more than seven years

from Mr. Wuirttey, then of Old-Brompton, now of the Fulham

Nursery. Our drawing was taken from a plant communicated

by Mr. Knieur, of the Exotic Nursery, King’s-Road.

Native of South:Carolina and Georgia. Requires to be

protected from severe frosts. Is with difficulty propagated in

any other way than by seeds. Flowers in June and July.

(ol BEZo.-)

PoLIANTHES TUBEROSA. Common TuBEROSE.

SER RE aR ae ee Ree ae

Class and Order.

. Hexanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cor. infundibuliformis, incurva, equalis, Filamenta co-

roll fauci inserta. Germ. in fundo corolle. 2

Specific Name and Synonyms. 5 oe

Roun wrasi* tuberosa. Sp. Pl. 453. Reich. 2, p. 76. Willa. 4

2. p. 164. Hort. Cliff. 127. Kniph. Cent. 11. n. 76.

Knorr Delic. 1. t. T.12. Lour. Cochinch. 1. p. 204.

_ Flora Peruv. 3. 66. Salisbury in Trans. Hort. Soc. 1.

p. Al. t. 2. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 281. Mart. Mill.

Dict. Redouté Liliac. 147. Bot. Regist. 63. |

Hyacintavs indicus tuberosus, flore acca Bauh. Pin.

47. Rudb. Elys. 2. 39. f. 4. tz

Hyacinruus major indicus tuberosa radice. Broce Florileg.

t. 14. f. 1. optima. Vallet Jard. dHenr. IV. Park.

Parad. 111. Raj. Hist. 1164. Theatr. Flore t. 23.2

Hyacinrnus indicus serotinus flore amplo odoratissimo,, 8.

Hist. 2. p. 376. § 4. t. 12. fig. ult. ds

Amica nocturna. Rumph. Ambayn., 3. p. 285. t. 98.

ge pion seu FLORE ossEo. Hernandez Mexic. 277.

(8.) Hyaciwrnus indicus tuberosa radice. Clus. Hist. h

- p. 176.——minor. Fark, Pgead. 111. — Hist. sh

Ger. Emac. HS. f..16 553 Gs

See = i ~

* Siders city, and ‘evSes a flower. Flos urbanus. As this etymology

generally allowed, spelling the word with a y, PoLyANTHES, as has

sometimes done, is evidently erroneous. This ‘spelling occurs in the Hortus

Cliff ortianus, but through inadvertence, as it was corrected by LINN EUS

in the Species Plantarum ; where, as i all his other works, it is spelt

POLIANTHEs, Through similar inadvertence, the wrong spellin, occurs in

the last edition uA AITON’ s Hortus Kewensis, though it was right. in the first.

A no een : Hyxenvras

Hyacituvs indicus tuberosus flore Hyacinthi orientalis.

Bauh. Pin. 47.

Hyacinruvus minor indicus tuberosa radice albus. Swert.

Florileg. t. 14. f.2. Moris. Hist. 2. § 4. t. 12. f. 22.

The first account we have of the Tuserose is from

Cuusius, who received a miserable specimen of it,in Decem-

ber 1594; of which he has given a figure. All the syno-

nyms we have quoted after that of Cxiusrus, are derived

from this source, and the figures quoted are mere copies of

that. There is no other authority for variety @; it is pro-.

bable, therefore, that the only real varieties are the tuberose

with a double flower, and the one with variegated leaves.

It seems evidently to have been first brought into Europe -

from the East-Indies, and hence it has commonly been said

to bea native of that country; yet Mr. Saxissury, in his

elaborate account of this plant, in the first volume of the

Transactions of the Horticultural Society, has shewn that

there is no proof whatever of its ever having been found

wild in any part of the East; but that it isa native of Mexico,

as appears from Hernanpez, in his History of the Plants and

Animals of that Country. From thence it was probably

conveyed to the East-Indies, where the cultivation of it was

speedily and widely spread, for the sake of the fragrance of

its flowers, a quality held there in such high esteem.

The English name, which seems absurd enough, is evi-

dently a corruption of the French Tubereuse; the name by

which it was most probably imported into this country, as it

is said to have been first cultivated in the neighbourhood of

Toulon. ; : i927

The root of this plant is a solid tuber of an irregular shape,

sending forth lateral processes, upon which the buds of the

future plant are formed: these are real bulbs consisting of

concentric layers, as was long ago observed by Morison.

The flowers grow almost constantly by pairs, having a common

bracte to both, and a proper one to each. + SS

The roots are annually imported from Italy, and sold so —

reasonably, that few persons are at the trouble of propagating

_ them here. Though Mr. Sauisgury, from his own experience, —

says that they might be propagated, especially in the warmer

parts of the island, with great advantage. The soil he recom-

mends as best suited to them, consists of light sandy earth,

mixed with one-third part of rotten cow-dung. ieee

_ Flowers the latter part of the summer. Communicated by

Messrs. Convitte and Son, of the King’s-Road.

( 1818")

THALICTRUM AQUILEGIFOLIUM. CoLUMBINE-

LEAVED Mrapow-Rwe. |

HSH eee

Class and Order.

_ Poryanpria Potye@ynta.

Generic Character.

Cal.0. PetalaA, seu 5. Sem. ecaudata.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Tuaxictrum aguilegifolium ; fructibus triangularibus pendu- |

lis, stipulis amplexicaulibus, staminibus petalis reflexis

caducis longioribus..

THALICTRUM aguilegifolium ; fructibus pendulis triangulari-

bus rectis, caule tereti. Sp. Pl. 770. Reich. 2. p. 649.

Willd. 2. p. 1301. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 3A9.

Jacg. Austr. 4. p. 10. t. 318. -Mart. Mill. Dict. n. 18.

Scop. Carniol. n. 672. Krock. Siles. v. 2. p. 244. .

Tuaticrrum foliis triplicato-pinnatis, patulis, obtuse trilobis,

stipulis ovatis, paniculis umbellatis. Hall. Hist.n. LIAL.

Alliont Pedem. n. 1077. Villars Dauph. 2. p. 713.

Tuaricrrum majus florum staminibus purpurascentibus.

Bauh. Pin. 337. Morris Hist. 2. p. 325. § 9. t. 20.

f. 16. Tourn. Inst. 270. — - oe

Tnrarictrum 4, vel. montanum 3. Clus. Pan. 380.

Tuauicrrum majus folliculis angulosis caule levi. Bauh.

Hist. 3. p. 487. Raj. Hist. 403. :

Rura pratensis. Gesn. Ic. din. tab. 9. f.'79., optima.

Tuaxicrrum aquilegifolium is a hardy perennial. Varies

with purple and with white stamens; the former variety is

much the handsomest. The number of stamens, pistils, and

petals, is likewise subject to vary. Our plant had for =

most part five, sometimes only four petals. By the character of

straight fruit, Lriynzvus did not mean that it was not somewhat

curved, but. that it was not twisted ; (a character intended to

distinguish it from contortum) : but, as WittpENow has ob-

served, that the fruit-in the latter species, when perfect, is

exactly similar to that of aquilegifolium, and that it is only

twisted when imperfect: of course this character is of no

Bees ce%

The Cotumsrne-LtEAvep Meapow-Rvwg, or, as it is some-

times called, the Feataery Cotumprng, is a native of moun-

tainous pastures and woods in Switzerland, Austria, Carniola,

Piemont, Dauphiny, Ingria, and Silesia.

Cultivated by Mitter in 1731. Flowers from May to

July. Communicated by Jonn Watker, Esq. Arno’s Grove.

( 1819)

PopoPuyLLUM PELTATUM. Dvck’s-Foort, or

May-Appte.

e Class and Order.

PoxryanpriA Monoeynia.

' Generic Character.

Cor. 9-petala. Cal. 3-phyllus. Bacca 1-locularis, coro-

hata stigmate.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Poporuytium peltatum. Trew Ehret. t. 29. Herbier Artific.

Cent. 5. Dec. 5. tab. 2.

Popornytium peltatum ; foliis peltatis lobatis. Sp. Pl. 723.

Reich. 2. p. 568. Willd. 2. p. V41. Hort. Kew. ed.

alt. 3. p. 287.

Povornyiium peltatum ; caule unifolio unifloro, folio peltato-

palmato lobis cuneatis incisis. Pursh Fl. Am. Sept..p. —

366. Michaux Fl. Boreal. Am. 1. p. 309.

ANAPoDoPHYLLUM. Tournef. Inst. t. 122. :

ANnaPopopuytium canadense. Catesb. Car. 1. p. 2. t. 24.

AconITIFOLIA humilis, flore albo unico campanulato, fructu .

—cynosbati. Ments. pug. t. 14. 3

“<=

As we have referred Popopuytium diphyllum to another

Senus, the peltatum is the only known species of this genus.

A native of North-America, growing in large patches, ge-

nerally in moist shady places, from New England to Carolina.

| he fruit, which we have never seen perfected in this

Country, is said by Mr. Pugss, -to be of the size of a common

Plum, green, eatable, and known by the name of May-Apple. - =

Jussieu has placed PopoppyiiuM at the end of his order —

ANUNCULACE®, and derives from it a connecting link

. ; between |

between this order and his Papaveracem, the Rumapes of

Linnzvs, in which order the last named botanist places it.

A hardy perennial, propagated by dividing its creeping

roots. Flowers in May. Cultivated according to Hortus

Kewensis in 1664. Communicated by Mr, Kenr, of Clapton.

( 1820 or 1 Wors lity it ied

Bryonta QUINQUELOBA. Five-Fivcrrep 2

. Care Bryony. onal ad

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Class and Order. — _

MonazcrA MonapeELpHia.

Generic Character.

“Mase. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-partita. Filamenta 3.—

Frm. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-partita. ‘Stylus 3-fidus.

Bacca subglobosa, polysperma. :

Specific Character and Synonym.

Bryonta guingueloba ; (dioica?) foliis quimquelobatis: lobis

obtusissimis dentato-mucronulatis posticis auriculatis,

pedunculis unifloris geminatis, corollis campanulatis semi~

quinquefidis. a

RYONIA quingueloba ; foliis quinquelobis denticulatis supra

scabris, pedunculis unifloris. Thunb. Prodr. 13.

Bryonta quingueloba, dioica ; foliis cordatis sinu baseos 8

fundo, superioribus palmato-quinquelobatis, lobis oblon-

gis obtusissimis distantibus superne repando -dentatis,

dentibus mucronatis. Bot. Reg. 89.

This very rare plant has been supposed to be the Bryonia

grandis of Linnavus, a native of the East-Indies, and, under

this notion, has been treated as a stove plant, in which situa-

tion we have observed it for some years at Bayswater, in the

Collection of the Comtesse de Vanpes., From this plant our

rawing was made in September 1815.

It is however a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and

would probably do better if treated as a greenhouse plant. We

are indeed informed by the author of the Botanical neg

. that.

that it will grow more luxuriantly, extending its branches —

from thirty to forty feet, and producing larger and higher

coloured bloom, if planted at the foot of a wall with a sliders:

t. The stems are herbaceous and perish every year.

The large, fleshy root only requires to be protected from frost,

and might perhaps be safely taken up after the stems are

decayed, and preserved in dry mould or sand until the spring,

when they might be again planted out.

As no female flowers have .been observed, this species is

supposed to he dicecious.

N 1821.

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Class and Order.

IcosanpriaA Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. trifidus semisuperus. Petala 5. Stamina \ongissima,

exserta. Stigma simplex. Caps. 3- vel 4-locularis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Merrosiprros saligna; foliis alternis lanceolatis utrinque

attenuatis mucronatis, floribus lateralibus confertis sessi-

libus glabris. Smith in Trans. Lin. Soc. 3. p. 272.

‘Uld. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 956. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 185.

Persoon Syn. 2. p. 26. .

—

Descr. A tall shrub with flexile branches. Leaves alternate

or scattered, lanceolate, narrowed towards the base, quite entire, —

smooth, when viewed towards the light with a lens seen to be

dotted with pellucid glands, apex’terminated with a glandular

mucro. The younger leaves are clothed with a silky pu-

bescence, adult ones quite naked. Flowers greenish white, —

in oblong spikes, surrounding the branches near their ex-

tremity. Calyx superior, smooth, cupshaped with a five-cleft

border: segments roundish-oval, mareescent, while the entire

part of the calyx forming a rim above the germen is persistent.

Petals 5, larger than the segments of the calyx, pale green.

Stamens very many: filaments distinct, twice longer than

Petals: Anthers versatile. Germen 3-celled: Style longer

than stamens. Stigma simple. - J

Large specimens of this fine shrub were communicated last

June by Joun Water, Esq. from his extensive and curious

: ~ collection

collection at Arno’s Grove; Southgate, where the shrub has

flourished for some years nailed to a wall with a southern

aspect, without being injured by the severity of the climate.

Native of New South-Wales. Introduced about the year

1788, by the Right Hon: Sir Josrrn Banks, K.B. Flowers

in May and June. Propagated by cuttings.

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(1892) |

ANCHUSA CAPENSISs. Care Buatoss.

JHE HH SHES HEHE

Class and Grice

Pentanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

: Cor. infundibuliformis fause clausa fornicibus. Sem. basi

insculpta.

_ Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ancuusa capensis ; foliis Janceolatis acutis hispidis, floribus

racemoso-paniculatis, calycibus obtusis demum inflatis.

Ancuusa capensis ; foliis lanceolatis, villosis callosis ; floribus

racemoso-paniculatis, cceruleis. Bot. Rep. 336.

Ancuusa capensis ; foliis lanceolatis callosis villosis, racemis

trichotomis. Thunb. Prodr. 34. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1.

p. 289. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 756?

Our drawing of this rare plant was made at GrorcE

Hissert’s, Esq. Clapham-Common, several years ago ; into

whose collection it was brought from the Cape of Good-Hope

by Mr. Niven, his collector, about the year 1800. Being =

biennial, and propagated by seeds only, it is very doubtful if

it still exist in the country.

As we have no other knowledge of Tuunzere’s Plant, than —

the very short specific character in his Prodromus, and our

- Specimens did not correspond altogether with that, inasmuch

as the racemes were not trichotomous, it is very uncertain

whether our plant be the same species as his ; it is certainly

however the same as the one meant by Mr. Arron in the

Hortus Kewensis, and as that figured by Mr. Anprews in the

Botanist’s Repository. :

As in Ancuusa angustifolia the calyx is divided only half

way down, but the lacinia are more obtuse and shorter than

Mn that ; and the whole plant is much less spreading.

Flowers in June and July. Propagated by seeds.

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(1893)

PoMADERRIS LANIGERA. WOOLLY

Pomaperris. |

TAPE H SHEE HS eae

Class and Order.

PENTANDRIA Monbornas fe

Generic Character. ,

Cal. turbinatus, quinquefidus. Petala 5, fornicata, stamini-

bus opposita. Caps. cocculis tribus, membrana operculatis. —

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Pomaperris lanigera ; cymis paniculatis terminalibus, foliis

ovato-lanceolatis integerrimis’coriaceis subtus ferrugineo-

lanatis.

* Ceanotnus laniger ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, integerrimis,

subtus lanuginosis ; ramulis, pedunculis, petiolis, caly-

-cibusque hirsutis. Bot. Repos. 569.

Descr. A shrub two or three feet high, alternate-leaved

and branched. The young branches, petioles, peduncles,

and calyxes, are covered with a rough woolliness, more or

_less tinged with a rust-colour. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, quite

entire, leathery, covered with a soft pubescence on the upper-

side, on the under with white wool more or less tinged with

rust-colour, ribbed with parallel veins. Flowers terminal, in a

panicled, subumbellated cyme. Bractes small oval, concave.

Pedicles thickened towards the upper end, somewhat mealy.

Calyx: five-cleft : segments acute, revolute. Petals five,

concave, crisped at the margin, on long claws. Filaments

five, the length of the petals, inserted into the receptacle at

the base of the claw of the petal. Anthers yellow, oval, be-

Sage] sagittate. Germen, from the union of the lower

part of the calyx, half inferior: style erect, divided ater

into three branches, and divisiblé nearly or quite to the base,

Stigmas capitate. |

_ Not having seen the fruit; we cannot assert that it accords

with Lanityarpiere’s character of Pomaperris; but from

its very near affinity to Pomaperrtis elliptica (No. 1510) we

cannot doubt but that it should be arranged under the same

genus.

Our drawing was made several years ago, from a plant

received from Messrs. Loppigzs and Sons, by Mr. Ep-

WARDs, who observed that the stamens removed, one at

a time, from the petals to which they had previously been

closely applied, towards the pistil, so as te bring the anther

bce of the stigmas, and receded again after shedding the

pollen. ee

__ Flowers in May. Native of New-Holland. Requires the

shelter of the greenhouse. Propagated by cuttings. Com-

municated by Messrs. Loppiges and Sons.

(1824: +)

MESEMBRYANTHEMUM ALBIDUM. WHuiITE-

_LEAVED Fic-Manicowp.

: a

~ Class and Order.

_Teosaxomia Pexracrnts

ee f

"Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus. Petala namerosa, linearia, basi cohwrentia.

Caps. carnosa, infera, polys]

. Specific Character and Synonyms.

‘MEseMBryANTHEMUM albidum ; sis subulatis triquetris

peralbis: basi semiteretibus ; : api obtusis cum mucrone.

Haworth Mesembr. p. 156. ». 32.—— Mise. Nat. 27.——

Pl. Succul. 218. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 216.

Mersemervantuemum albidum ; acaule, foliis triquetris inte-

gerrimis. Sp. Pl. 699. Willd. 2. p. 1029.

MEsemeryantuemum foliis robustis sihitaattuie Hort. Elth.

243. t. 189. 7.-232. cum fructu sed sine flore.

Ficorpes africana, folio t aceee ensiford ai

__ flore amplo aureo. Bradl. Succ. 5. p. 10. t.43._

iF ‘cores africanum triangu ari robustissimo folio. .

ae Wi2. | Peg

— —<

2% Re GRP fa is one of those species

which are more shy of fl ering than many of the genus. __

Mr. Haworu ranks it among'the afternoon flowering ones.

Mr. Groner ; aa in oa ta hs this species b

with him, the flowers opened

g, and continued coe

ne evenin; the expan

fuse an pmeh scent while

Flowers in June, July, and

NV. 1825,

LID

Pub by. S.Gertis Widwovth. Funesahé.

( 1825

VALERIANA MONTANA (6.) ROTUNDIFOLIA.

RounpD-LEAVED MowunTAIN VALERIAN.

ENR EE EEE ER EE EER

Class and Order.

v4 ge ee

_ Trianpria Monoeynia.

~~ Generic Character. —

(as ne

Cal. 0, Cor. 1-petala, basi hinc gibba, supera. Sem. 1.

; Specific Character and Synonyms.

VALERIANA montana ; floribus triandris, foliis ovato-oblongis

subdentatis, caule simplici. Spec. Pl. 45. Willd. 1.

p. 178. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. T4. Jacq. Austr. v..3.

p. 269. Scop. Carn. n. 42. . Villars Dauph. 2. p. 283.

n.6. Gmel. Sib. 3. p.121. Allioni Pedem. n.7. Krock.

Stiles. n. 51. Mart. Mill. Dict. n. 9. fe ae

VaLeriana montana ; foliis inferioribus oyato-oblon

plici pubescente. Wi

VaLeriAna foliis ovato-lanceolatis obiter de . Hall.

nm. 212, SE EP Fi

Vateriana foliis omnibus integris ex ovato acuminatis, le-

vissime dentatis. Hall. Opusc. 188. :

Vareriana alpina scrophularie folio. Bauh. Pin. 164. Prodr.

Vaertana sylvestris alpina prima. Clus. Hist. 2. p. 55. ?

(@.) Vateriana rotundifolia cespitosa foliis cordatis repando-

dentatis, caulinis sessilibus. Villars. Dauph. 2. p. 283.

*. 7; ,

Vaxerrana montana subrotundo folio. Bauh. Pin. 115. Bauh.

_ Phytop. 293. ;

VaLeriana montana. Hist. Lugd. 1127. ed. Gallic. 2. p. 29.

Vaxeriana alpina foliis integris, radice repente inodora. Raj.

Hist. 389, 2 |

VALERIANA

~ Vareriana fripleris, montana, and rotundifolia of Vittans

are very nearly allied. ‘The cauline leaves of the first being,

according to the just-named author, sometimes quite entire,

it is not easily distinguished from montana, except by the

more glaucous colour “of the leaves.

Our present plant, which we take to be the rotundifolia

of Vinxars, is the smallest of the three, scarcely exceeding

the height of eight or ten inches. It seems to vary with

leaves, sometimes quite entire and sometimes slightly toothed.

Harter, In his Opuscula, above quoted, has sought out

the synonymy with great labour, and reduces what had been

considered by Caspar Bavurin and the Botanists of his time,

as several species, to one and the same ;-Vittars, from his

own observations, thinks it right to separate our plant from

- the scrophulariefolia of Bauutn’s Prodromus, in which he

does not seem to have been followed by any more modern

author. On this account we have considered the two as

varieties only ; which Vitiars himself acknowledges they may

be, though he at the same time asserts that he had frequently

found it difficult to distinguish the varieties of ¢ripteris and

montana from one another, but that he was never in danger

of confounding the rotundifolia with any of the varieties of

3 the other two. :

_- A hardy perennial. Nalive of the mountainous regions of -

the South oe Eur i Bae Flowers in May and June. . Com-

municated by Mr. RINGLE, — we Oise Nursery: |

N3826.

Pub. by Fu

to Weel ee 2 = Weeder edicet

POOL. WOW HO Pitt rt 3-182 6

(1826 = ids % ce fe

KicutuM RUBRUM. Rep View’: s Bucross. =

ei Serie dena

Class ae Or ie

PENTANDRIA Monbavies.

Generic Character.

fie

ve : {Re te.

Corolla irregularis, fauce nuda.

Specific Character and Synonyms. j

se ye.

Ecuium rubrum ; caule erecto hi ido, foliis lineari-lanceo-

latis, spica composita [vel subsimplici ] terminali, corollis

subequalibus.. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. pel 787. Hort. ew. ed.

alt. 1. p. 301. ©

Ecuium rubrum ; caule. ex. Seacoeiala previbas tage spicato,

corollis subzequalibus, foliis hispidis. fost Syn. 9. Jacq.

Ast. 6.9.21. t. BS

Ecurum sylvestre hirsutum vida et: Bide Pin. 354.

os 2, rubro flore. / Clus. Pan. eel alee Clus. Hist.

Descr. Stems <u, ana from ‘one to two feet high,

hispid, spotted with purple. — Leaves: ‘s¢attered, linear-lan-

ceolate, acute, coveredwith soft hairs. Flowers grow in the

axils. of the leaves, _ according to JACQUIN and Crusivs, in

very short curled racemes, bt tin our plant consisting of two-

flowers only, so that the sp was rather simple than com-

pound. Calyx -cleft ; segmer nts subulate, hairy, equal to

the tube, but only half the len,

panulate ; border five-cleft ; lacinia subbilabiately arranged,

the upper one being somewhat r than the rest and

emarginate. Stamens longer than corolla, unequal, declined :

anthers oval, incumbent, with blue pollen. ~ Style nearly

€qual to the stamens, somewhat hairy: st gma acute. Ps

“Se a eo he

rth of the corolla: faux cam- °°

The flowers of this species are sometimes pale red, but

never blue or violet-coloured. The synonym of Ciustus

evidently belongs to our plant, and is so quoted by Jacquin;

yet WiLLpENow has continued to apply it to Ecutum vio-

laceum.

A hardy perennial. Flowers in May and June. Native

of Hungary. Propagated by parting its roots or by seeds.

Communicated by Messrs. ConvitLe and Son, of the King’s-

Road, Chelsea. |

Pub-by.8.Curtis .Walworth. Junsr.1616

( 1897 ,

ACACIA LONGIFOLIA. LONG-LEAVED

| ACACIA.

SEE TE SE aR Ik ae estesteak ak aeale ae

Class and Order.

Potyeamia Monaccia.

Generic Character.

Hermapnron. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida vel 5-petala. |

Stam. 4—100. Pist.1. Legumen bivalve. Z

Masc. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida, s. 5-petala. Stam.

4—100. ye

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Acacta longifolia ; inermis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis utrinque

. angustatis trinerviis striatis, spicis axillaribus geminatis

cylindraceis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 4. p. 1052. Hort. Kew. ed.

alt. 5. p. 461. ee é

Mimosa longifolia. Bot. Repos. 207. Venten, Malmais. 62.

“ieee

The long-leaved Acacia is a very ornamental greenhouse _

shrub, growing to the height of eighteen feet and upwards,

and producing abundance of flowers very early in the spring,

at a time when few other plants are in blossom.

Native. of New South-Wales. May be increased by

Cuttings, which are said, however, not to strike very readily.

Introduced by Jonn Orv, Esq. in 1792. Communicated by

oHN Waxker, Esq. of Arno’s-Grove. oe

N. 1628.

Aad. by. S Curtis. Waloorth. June 286.

(1828 )

DiGiTALIs FERRUGINEA. Tron-coLourzp

Fox Gtove. i

dS iseeebeskaeutek

Class and Order.

DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Generic Character.

_ Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. campanulata, 4—5-loba, ventricosa, —

Caps. ovata, bilocularis. ;

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Dicrrauis ferruginea ; calycibus. obtusissimis _marginatis

pov sereile cin ik snipertarial obsoletis: laterali-

bus acutis :. inferiore elongata retusa barbata. _

Dicirauis ferruginea ; foliolis calycinis ovali-oblongis obtu-

sissimis glabris, corolle labio superiore semibilobo:

inferioris lobo medio oblongo concavo barbato: lateralibus

acutis nanis. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 30.

Dicrrauis ferruginea.; calycinis foliolis oblongis obtusissimis

»_glabris, corolle lobis lateralibus_labii_inferioris_acutis, — |

intermedio oblongo hirsuto-concavo, floribus di

bracteis lanceolatis glabris calycis longitudine.

Sp. Pl. 3. p. 286. : ;

Dierraxis ferruginea ; calycinis foliolis ovatis obtusis patenti-

_ bus, corolle labio inferiore barbato. Syst. Veg. p. 470.

Martyn Mill. Dict. n. 6. Sabbati Hort. 2. t.86. Alliont —

Pedem. n. 260. “

Dierrais angustifolia flore ferrugineo. Bauh. Pin. 244,

- Rivin. Monopet. 105. 5

Dicrraris ferruginea ; folio angustiore. Bauh. Hist. 2. p.

oo ee aaa

Drstratin gilvo flore, alias ferrugineo. Lob. Obs. 308. sine

icone.

Dierratis maxima ferruginea. Park. Parad. 380. p. 381.

Jig. 6. Raj. Hist. 768, Lob. Icon. 1. p. 573, a.

e Descr.

Descr. Root perennial. Stem upright, rigid, from three —

to six feet high, clothed with lanceolate leaves quite entire

or slightly toothed. Spike, or rather spike-like raceme, ter-

minal, two or even three feet long, gradually tapering to the

top ; simple, or having a few short branches towards the base.

Flowers crowded together, but solitary, on short peduncles,

supported each by a single, lanceolate, marginated, reflexed

bracte, of which the lower ones are much longer than the.

calyx, the upper ones shorter. Calyx five-cleft ; the three

upper segments erect, the two lower applied close to the

corolla, all of them oval, very obtuse, and edged with a

white membranaceous margin. Corolla drooping, dull yellow

on the outside, within streaked with rusty purple lines : tube

short, contracted : faux suddenly swelling, bellied : limb five-

cleft: two upper lacinie very short, nearly obsolete, rolled

back ; two lateral somewhat longer, acute ; lowermost long, ©

blunt, hollowed, thinly bearded. Stamens shorter than corolla ;

filaments inserted into the tube of the corolla, equal, thickened

at the base, sigmoid: anthers parallel: lobes divaricate.

_ Germen superior, conical, bilocular ; style the length of the

stamens ; stigma simple. ;

Of all the figures above quoted, the only one that repré-

sents even the habit of our plant, is that of Rivinvs.

A hardy perennial, generally perishing after flowering ;

very shewy, from its stature and long tapering spike of |

flowers. * Native of Italy. An old inhabitant of our gardens,

being cultivated by Gerarv above two hundred years: ago.

Our drawing was taken from a specimen, communicated. by

Joun Waker, Esq. of Arno’s-Grove ; our description from

one communicated many years ago, hy Tuomas Furtex

Forster, Esq. earner Vie"

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( 1829 id

CASSIA-LIGUSTRINA. | PRIVET-LEAVED CassiA.

apie aeabiedeabst

7 Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Anthere 3 supreme steriles;

3 infime rostrate. Legumen. oie

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cassia ligustrina ; foliis “septemjugis lanceolatis : extimis

minoribus, glandula baseos petiolorum. Sp. Pl. 541 et

1681. Kd. Willd. 2. p. 523. Hort. Cliff: 159. Hort.

- Upsal. 100. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 28. Mart. Mill.

Dict. n. 24. Gronov. Fl. Virg. 47. ed. 4to. 65, Bot.

Reg. 109. om

Cassia ligustrina ; tenuissime pubescens, foliis septemjugis

-lanceolatis, extimis minoribus, glandula basilari, pedun- _

culis terminalibus subpaniculatis, leguminibus oblongi

subfalcatis. Pursh Fl. Am. Sept. 1. p. 306. fae

Cassia bahamensis, pinnis foliorum mucronatis angustis,

calyce floris non reflexo. Mart. Cent. 21. t. 21.

Senna ligustri folio. Dill. Elth. 350. t. 259.

The privet-leaved Cassta being a native of the warmer

parts of the Continent of North-America, from Virginia to

Georgia, and the West-India Isles, requires to be kept in

the bark stove, where, when in vigour, it makes a handsome -

appearance. 3 Fe ee

Our drawing was taken at Mr. Saxispury’s Botanic

Garden early 7

From —

From comparing the specimens in the Banksian Herba-

rium, we cannot discover any essential difference between

ligustrina and Sophera. | : ee

We are informed by Crayton, that the leaves’ have the

same effects as the Alexandrine senna.

Introduced from the Bahama Isles, by Mr. Marx Carzspy,

in 1726. Propagated by seeds, which are not produced in

our climate, and will, if raised early in the year in a_hot-

bed, sometimes produce flowers in the autumn of the same

year. In the bark stove it will remain as an evergreen

shrub, and attain the height of five or six feet.

N i830.

Pub by. f Curtis Walworth. Jue 1.186. Wead bin0 4

( 1830 )

MyoporuM DEBILE. -ProcuMBENT

Mvyoporvum.

eee ddededbabsede eae eek

Class and Order.

Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA.

Generic Character. -

Cal. 5-partitus, Cor. tubo brevi ; limbo 5-fido, subequali.

Stigma obtusum, Drupa baccata, 2—4-locularis. Semina

1—2, pendula. Brown.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Myoprorum debile ; foliis lanceolatis. apice dentatis, drupis

compressiusculis calyce brevioribus, pedunculis solitariis,

caule prostrato, Brown Prodr. 516. Hort. Kew. ed.

REA 9, COO oe os

Pogonta debilis, Bot. Repos. 212. :

alg Se fae ms od : : ae oe : ig sc ae

SM sha aes “ S Bie ‘

i aoe

een

oe eae 5 a ie ote _

ys *

Myororum debile is a small greenhouse shrub with pro; . ~

cumbent branches. It is not a plant of much show, but

it flowers most part of the summer, and its lively blossoms,

and purple stems studded with glandular tubercles, make a -

Pleasing variety ; and it takes up but little room. In a

cultivated state the leaves are frequently quite entire, but

im native specimens are generally more or less toothed to-

wards the point. | #

Native of New South-Wales. Propagated by cuttings.

Communicated by Messrs. LoppicEs and Sons. f

( 1831)

CALLA PALUSTRIs, Marsti CaLa.

AHS HRS HP Hane

Class and Order.

- Hepranpria Monocynta. Witrp.

GynanprRiA Potyanpria. Liwn.

Monazcra Monanpria. Sowers,

Generic Character.

Spatha plana. Spadix tectus flosculis. Cal. 0. Cor. 0.

acca polysperma. ES

Specific Cherattes and Synonyms.

Catia palustris ; Schiin cordatis, spatha plana, outers undi-

que hermaphrodito. Sp. Pl. 1373. Willd. 2. p. 290.

Reich. 4..p.7 . elton, Cig’ 436. Pollich Pal. n. 865.

Gmel. Sib. 1. ._ Fl. Dan. t. 422. Svensk Bot. 39.

. Martyn Mill. Bict n. 2. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 337.

Caxxa foliis cordatis. Fl. Lap. 320. i od ot

Prouvenzaisa. palustris. Petit Lettres 3, p. 45. cum tab, nas =

RacuNcuLus palustris s. radice arundinacea Plinii. Bawk, —

Pin. 195. Moris: Hist. 3. p. DAD. § FER t.5 fe x

Weinm. Phyt. t. 472. 6. in fructu. .

Dracuncutus aquatilis. Dod. Pempt. 331. Raj. Hise. 1910.

Ger. Emac. 832. f. 3. Park. Herb. 1244. Hort. Eyst.

Ord. Vern. 2. t. 17. Cam. Epit. 362.

cuncutus palustris Polonicus Corvini. Barrel. Ic. 574.

GUINA aquatica sive Dracunculus. Lob. Ic. 600. f 2. -

Hypropirer rubeum. Fuchs Hist. folio Ic. 844. in fructu,

ed. 12mo. p. 92A. sine figura.

The genus CALLA is - peilly recognised, in the natural

arrangement, to belong to the aroidee of Jussieu ; py,

of ee but, in the sexual system of the latter, there

is a peculiar difficulty in assigning to it its proper place.

Linnzus himself placed it in the class Gynandria, order —

Polyandria ; but a. more careful examination of. the parts of |

fructification soon led Botanists to the conclusion, that none —

of the aroidee were really gynandrous. Haernkes, in his edi-

tion of the Genera Plantarum, removed it to Polyandria_

Polygynia ; Scureser inserted it under Monecia Mon-

andria ; and lastly, in Witipenow’s Species Plantarum, it —

occurs in Heptandria Monogynia ; where certainly no one,

from an examination of the species now under consideration, —

would think of looking for it. The stamens are inserted, as

appears to us, without order or definite number in the inter-

stices between the germens, and being surrounded by neither

calyx nor corolla, may be considered as solitary.

he older Botanists considered our plant as a species of ~

Dracunculus. M. Perit, Physician to the Royal Hospitals —

at Paris, made a new genus of it in the beginning of the |

last century, under the name of Prouvenzalia, in honour of

his friend, M. Provvenza, Inspector-General of the Royal

Hospitals, which Linnaus, however, did not think fit to

adopt, but applied that of Calla, a name borrowed from

LINY.

It is a native of Germany and all the northern parts of ©

Europe, but has not been found in Great-Britain, though

Parkinson distinguishes it by the name of “ Our Water-

Was cultivated by Pamie Mintzer, in 1738. Requires —

to be kept in a water-trough. Propagated by its creeping

roots. Flowers in July and August. Communicated by

Mr. Wittiam Kent, from his very fine collection of rare

plants, which he cultivates, with the happiest success, at —

Clapton. : . Gis

N2832.2.

Weldeld Se.

Rid. by.5. Curtis. Walworth Fuly.218:6.

Ni632.4

Bib .by 5 Curtis Walworth. july aath6.

Be ae jo bloo adt shod LBP Sid Maer

PuNica GRANATUM. Common PoMEGRANATE

1 dan A Bhd

eR HEBSSEE Rb

Class and Order. ,

Icosanpria Mownogynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus, superus Potala 4 “Porn multilocalare,

polyspermum. |

Specific Character end Sponyma°

Ponica Granatum ; foliis i odheliatio caule arboreo. Sp. PI.

676. Willd. 2.981. Hort. Chg 184. Hort: Ups. 122.

| -_ Hort. Kew. ed.alt..3. p. 194. Woodv. Med. Bot: 158.

| », 6.58. .Gertn. Fruct. L _p. 183. Pall. Ross. v.1. pars 2.

} _p. 67. Sorn Icon, 270. Trew Ehret. p. 36. t. 71, 72.

_. Lour. Cochineh.1. p. 218.3 Desfont. Atl. 1. 392, -

GRANATA Punica mala... Blaciaw; Herb. 97. et 145.

Remes: si apalte “ Plant. ie :

enon

~~ floribus | sessilibus’ ~ Hall. A¢ : :

Saree malus. Trag. Herb. | : " tiket ath 303.

ed. Gallic. 1. 256. oe Hist 184. a. Ruell. Stirp.

Hist. 239. Tourne/. Inst. 636. Bauh. Pin. 438.

Maus Punica. Bauh. Hist. 1. p.76. Dod. Pempt. 794.

Raj. Hist. 1462. Cam. Epit. 130.

Matum Granatum. Rumph. Amb. 2. p. 94. t. 24.

Matum Punicum. Lob. Hist. 563. diners 419. gn 2.

? 130. Ger. Emac. 1450. Park. Parad. t. 429. f.4, 5, 6.

Granata seu Punica. Weinm. Phyt. t. 557: a, 6, €.

_ (=) floribus- simplicibus-rubris.~ “Bot. Mag. 1832. Poit. et

2 Turp. arbr.- fruit.°22.°

(8.) floribus simplicibus albis. Bot. Repos. 96.

(y) floribus plenis. Trew Ehret. t. 71. f. 2.

The Pomecranate Tree is ornamental, even in foliage,

and sufficiently hardy, not only to bear the cold of our

climate, but, if placed against a warm wail, to produce flowers

freely ; and, in favourable seasons, will even bring its beauti-

ful fruit to a certain degree of maturity. It is probably because

such situations are usually in request for fruit for the table,

that this tree is not more generally cultivated in this country.

The double-flowered variety produces no fruit; but its

blossoms being more shewy, is mostly preferred, as fruit is

hardly to be expected, except in very favourable seasons,

and is, in no case, fit for eating; it is nevertheless pleasing

‘to the eye. In the countries where the Pomegranate is cul-

tivated for use, three kinds of fruit are particularly mentioned ;

- the sweet, the acid, and the vinous.

Native of Spain, Italy, Barbary, Persia, Japan, and

Cochinchina, and cultivated in the East and West-Indies.

According to Turner, it was to be seen in Sion Garden as

long ago as the year 1548. |

Should be planted in a warm situation ; and, according to

Mitter, in a strong rich soil; but is said in its native

countries to affect a poor chalky soil. Propagated by layers,

_ which should be laid down in the spring, and in a year’s

time will be sufficiently rooted to be removed.

The flowers of the double variety are astringent, and were

formerly used in medicine and kept in the shops, under the

name of Balaustins. The rind of the fruit is a more power-

ful —— and is said to be used in Persia, in dying

leather black. Bacon recommends wine made of the sweet

Pomegranates ; or, where that cannot be had, the juice, with

a little sugar and lemon-peel and three or four cloves, to

be taken every morning, from February to the end of April,

as good for the liver*, —_ eee

* Bacon de vita et morte, v. 20.

(1833. )

STAPELIA MACULOSA. SPOTTED-FLOWERED

STAPELIA. :

ETE IER ae eae

Class and Order.

_ Penranpria Dieynia..

Generic Character.

Asclepiadea. Nectar. duplici stellula tegente genitalia.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Stapetia maculosa ; orbiculo solido, rostris alisque teretibus

obiusis, ligulis trifidis, corollis subtus planissimis ad oras

ciliatis, Jacq Stap.

Stareuia maculosa ; corollis quinquefidis levibus planis

ciliatis, fundo orbiculato convexo, coron# exterioris

laciniis tridentatis, cornubus binis clavatis approximatis.

Willd. Enum. 283. =

Srapetia maculosa. Donn Cant. ed. 1, 2, & 3. sed mixta

ed.posteriorum. = ———i—~C:«ws

Orsea maculosa. Haworth Succul. p. 37. —

Srapezia variegata (No. 26.)—picta (No. 1169.)—Bufonis

(No 1676.) and maculosa, are nearly-allied species, and are,

with some others, separated into a distinct genus by Mr.

Haworrn, under the name of 5

The venerable Jacguin’s splendid work on the genus

Stareuia, though published several years ago, owing to the

‘ unsettled state of the Continent, has not till very lately

reached this country. In his figure of our present plant, the’

light parts of se Serie are a deeper yellow, and the staiks

more slender and brown-coloured, circumstances very liable

to vary, but in other respects it does not differ from the one

here given. 2

| $

hs Ja ACQUIN detpived his plait tron this country, under the

flame which he has. adopted, there can be no doubt that it is

the maculosa of the tion. of Donn’s Catalogue. — a a

tl D Good- “Hope. Communicated by —

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“CLERODENDRUM FRAGRANS. | FRAGRANT | _

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Class and Order.

Dinynamia ANGIOSPERMIA.

Generic Character. :

Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. tubo cylindrico: limbo 5-partito, laciniis

zqualibus subsecundis. Stam. exserta, adscendentia. Bacca

dipyrena: ossiculis bilocularibus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

CLERopENDRUM fragrans ; foliis subcordatis dentatis basi

glandulosis, corymbis terminalibus densis hemisphericis.

Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p.63. Vent. Malm: 70. floribus

simplicibus. Willd. Enum. 659. excluso synonimo

Kempferi, :

pubescentibus, subtus basi biglandulosis, corymbo con-

ferto terminali. . Willd. Enum. 659. Fs

Voukmannia japonica. Jacg. Hort. Schenbr. 3. p. 48. t. 338.

floribus plenis, — 3

Cieropenprum fragrans, is chiefly valuable for the sake

of its very fragrant blossoms. It is a native of Japan and

China, and, though generally treated as a stove plant, is not

very tender, It has creeping roots, and we remember once

to have seen an instance where jit had been planted in the

border of the conservatory, that the roots found their way

through or under the brick-work, and the shoots came up in

the open ground, in which situation the plants flourished and

aug e ower

™/~

BF inn

flowered very well during the summer; but perished the

following winter. :

- Witiwexow, in his» Enumeration of the Plants in ‘the

Berlin Garden, has quoted tab. 57, of Kamprer’s drawings

published by Sir Josepa Banks, as a representation of our

plant, but, as we think, without foundation. Communicated

by Jounn Watxer, Esq. of Arno’s-Grove.

AN. 7835.

Weddall. Se -

Pub by. S. Curtis. Walworth. July. 3.2826. ae

( 1835" )

3f Capsicum Bicotor. Dark- FRUITED

: Capsicum.

a Class and ‘Order.

Pentanpgia Monoeynia.

| Generic Character.

Cor. rotata. Bacca exsucca.

‘Specific Character and Synonyms.

Capsicum bicolor ; pedunculis solitariis fructibus oblongis

- gubconicis, corolle laciniis trinerviis bicoloribus, caule

fruticoso.

Capsicum bicolor. Jacg. Fragm. t. 99. f. 1.

Capsicum nigrum; pedunculis solitariis, fructibus oblongis

erectis mucronatis, petiolis glabris, caule fruticoso.

z _ Willd. Enum. 242. 3

amas a oe.

As Jacquin had given a figure of Capsicum bicolor in his —

Fragmenta, some time prior to WitipeNnow’s publication,

we do not see that the latter author had any good reason for

changing its name, we have therefore thought it right to

restore the original appellation.

In a genus so subject to vary in the form of its fruit, it is

not easy to find good specific characters ; in this instance the

fruit, though sometimes terminated in a sharp point, is at

others quite obtuse, without appearance of mucro. The

most striking difference between this species and frutescens,

consists in the size and colour of the corolla, and the dark

purple colour of the unripe fruit; for when mature this

changes to red; the leaves and branches, when the plant

. ; 8

is kept in a light and airy situation, partake, on the upper

side, of the same dark colour. |

We received specimens of this plant fromthe, late Mr,

Nortn’s Nursery, at Lambeth, in the year 1805.

Native, we believe, of the West-Indies, and requires the

protection of the stove in the winter months, but may be

removed into the greenhouse in the summer.

N. 18

Weddell:

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BuPHTHALMUM SERICEUM. SILKY Ox-Ever.

HHH Sai Raieiiek

Class and Order.

- Syneenesta Potyeamia SuPERFLUA.

Generic Character.

Recept. paleaceum. Pappus margo obsoletus. Seminum —

latera, presertim radii, marginata. :

Specific Character and Synonyms.

- Burnrnatmum sericeum ; foliis oppositis approximatissimis

spathulato-oblongis sericeis, calycinis squamis setaceis

hirsutis, caule arboreo. Linn. Suppl. 379. Willd. Sp.

P13. p. 2230. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 123.

Burarnaumum sericeum ; foliis sparsis cuneiformibus acutis

integerrimis villoso-sericeis. Hort. Kew. ed. 1"* 3. p.

245, L’Herit. Sert. Angl. tab. 37. nunquam edita.

BurutHaLmum sericeum is a handsome dwarf shrub, —

the leaves lose something of their beauty in cultivation; the

soft silky whiteness of the pubescence becoming greener and

coarser than in native specimens.

Table 34 of L’Herrrier’s Sertum Anglicum, quoted in

the first edition of the Hortus Kewensis, we believe, was

_hever published ; we do not therefore know that any ‘other

representation of this plant than the one here given, is

before the public. . as

-._ Native of Fuertaventura, one of the Canary Islands, and -

‘is called by the Spanish inhabitants Forjada. Discovered by —

See Masson, and introduced into the Kew Gardens

in | es

May be propagated by cuttings. Requires the protection

_ Of the greenhouse. Flowers most part of the summer.

_ Communicated by Jonny Waker, Esq. of Arno’s-Grove.

N.183}.

Pub. by. §. Curtis Walworth Fu tyi1 626.

( 1887.)

HELIOTROPIUM INDICUM... INDIAN. Torsone,

or HELIOTROPE.

: eerrer rr rer rere

Class and Order.

Penranpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cor. hypocrateriformis, 5-fida, fauce plicata. Stigma’i in-

crassatum subconicum.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Hetiotrropium indicum ; foliis cordatis acutis scabriusculis,

: spicis solitariis, fructibus bifidis. Flor. Seyl. 70. Sp.

Pl. 1877. Reich. 1. 380. Willd. 1. 740. Persoon

Syn. 1.155. Swartz Obs. 54. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1.

Pp. gs? Loureiro Cochinch. 103. Mart. pe Diet.

Hetiorrorium foliis ovatis acutis, spicis solitariis, | Hort. ae

Cliff, 45.

ELIOTROPIUM americanum eden foliis Horan Pink eee

Alm. 182. t. 245. f.4. Dodart Mem. 83. Robert Ic. —

158. Sabb. Hort. Rom. 2. t. 34. Sloane Jam. 1. p.3.

Moris. Hist. 3. p. 451. Raj. Hist. 3. p. 270.

Jacua-Acanea. Pis. Braz. p. 229. a ae

Descr. Root annual. Stem rounded, erect, from one to

two feet high, branched, hispid. Leaves alternate and

™ inte spathulate-ovate, acute, rugose, crenate, naked on

the upper and clothed with a rather soft pubescence on the

Under surface. Branches grow from the axils of the leaves.

ers in long, solitary, terminal, generally simple, but

ee now

]

now and then divided, spikes ; at first blue, but soon fading

to white. _ ;

"The figure in the Hortus Romanus, quoted as a variety,

and as the same with Mu.ier’s, Aorminifolium, is a bad

representation, but does not seem to be at all different from

our plant. Doparr’s figure, copied in Rogert’s Icones, is_

very good. . :

The Indian Turnsole is a native of the West-India

Islands and the continent of South-America. Being annual,

must be raised in the stove or hot-bed.

___ Flowers from June to August. Communicated by Jonn

Watxer, Esq. of Arno’s-Grove.

% Siilegeese J

Ble iyi, i ieee Sea tt

Ni 8.38.

Pub by. 5. Curtis Walworth. Aug’ 2.18216,

J 7

( 1838 )

ZAMIA MEDIA. INTERMEDIATE ZAMIA.

~ Class and Order.

— Diacra Portyanpria,

Generic Character.

Masc. Amentum strobiliforme. Cal. squama obovata.

Sapte Anthere globose, rima dehiscentes, in squama

sessiles, .

Fem. Ament. strobiliforme. Cal. squame peltate. Cor. 0.

Germina 2. Styli0. Bacce 2, l-sperme.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Zamia media ; foliolis oblongoe-linearibus subintegerrimis

muticis rectis, stipite tereti-inermi. Jacg. Hort. Schoenb.

3. p. 17. t. 397 et 398. , :

Zama media; frondibus pinnatis, foliolis lineari-lanceolatis

obtusis sub apice obsolete serrulatis planis, stipite tri-

quetro glabro. Walld. Sp. Pl. 4. p. 846.

Sis

amis media is very distinct both from integrifolia and

angustifolia, and has its name from being in some measure.

intermediate between the two; the pinne or leaflets being

- Narrower and more numerous than in the former, and broader

and fewer than in the latter. The serratures just below the

point of the leaflets are frequently wanting, and seldom visible

to the naked eye. —

- Our drawing was taken from a female plant communicated

by Messrs. Loppices and Sons, by whom it was introduced. ©

Native of the West-Indies. Requires to be kept in the

Stove. Is not recorded in the Hortus Kewensis, nor in

Donn’s Catalogue. < |

Bp,

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MAN Tid

(1839) »

STAPELIA Genmirtona (@) Gos-rrowereD

STaPELIA. 3

He Be Tee

Class and Order.

Prnranpria Dieynta.

Generic. Character.

Asclepiadea, Ne eclur, <duplici stellula tegente Ss ane

Specific Character and Synonyms.

‘Srarevia genuniflora ; corellis ciliatis facie tuberculato-

scabrosis, ligulis tripartitis erectis: laciniis lateralibus

subulatis media sublanceolata. Jacq. Stap.

STAPELIA gemmiflora ; ramis pluribus erectis _tetragonis

dentatis : dentibus suberectis acutis, corolla plana scabra

qeorciies laciniis ovato-lanceolatis margine ciliatis.

asson Stap. p. 14. n. 15. t. 15.

SrapeLia gemmilora ; corollis quinquefidis scabris : laciniis

ovato-lanceolatis margine ciliatis superne quinquenerviis,

dunculis longitudine « corolle, ramis erectis tetragonis

mferne floriferis. Willd. Sp. PL i A 1280 Hort. Kew.

ed, alt. 2. p. 87. me

TRIDENTEA gemasiilora corolla crassissima orga atra,

albo-ciliata. Haworth Suecul. Pp. SAL 5

(a.) ctlits albis. es ee :

(B.) cilits rubicundis. :

Trivenrea stygia ; corollis rugosis: atris, ‘pills pakscchii,

ramis crassis brevibus, Iuteo-viridibus. Haworth cern

pegs. |

a lita

Awe eS , ~ oS

The cilie, or glandular hairs on the margin of the eit.

in our plant and in Jacguin’s, are of a red colour. In

Masson’s figure they are represented white. Mr. Haworru

Considers the tyo varieties to be distinct species, from some

: difference

difference in the stems ; but, in this respect, our plant does

not seem to us to differ materially from Masson’s figure.

The colour of the flower varies from dark purple to almost

black ; and also in the number and situation of the gold-

coloured specks.

Our plant was far less brightly spotted on the underside

than is represented in Masson’s figure, and in Jacgurn’s

these spots were entirely wanting. Neither were the nerves,

so marked on the upper surface of the lacinie of the corolla

in Masson’s drawing, at all visible in our plant, nor are they

seen in Jacguin’s figure. This shows how dangerous it is

to frame the specific characters. from drawings only, as _

Witipenow has done throughout this genus. '

Our drawing was taken at Messrs. Wuitiey, Brame,

and Mitne’s Nursery, at Fulham.

Flowers in June. Native of the Cape of Good-Hope,

ing among the shrubs in the sandy districts beyond

‘ Platte-Kloof. Requires the same treatment as the rest of

the genus.

( 1840»)

“Aum STELLATUM (3) Wuire Missounr

GARLICK.

heehee setae note Mea

“Clas and Order. :

Cor. 6-partita, padent : ‘Spatha multiflora Umbella con

gesta. ee supera.

Specific Character and Sbeden. .

ALLIUM Stellatum; foliis linearibus acute carinatis scapo

sub-tereti brevioribus, staminibus inclusis, germine apice

sexfido.

(a.) floribus purpureis foliorum odore miti. Supra No. 1576,

(8.) floribus albis foliorum odore gravi.

Attium angulosum. Pursh Fl. Am. Bor. 1. p. 225. ? nequa-

quam Linnei.

ALLIUM reticubatum. Fras. Cat. ?

"Deser. var. ke Bulb conical, oblique, levered witha FSbrois ;

bristly coat. Radical leaves linear, acute! y keeled at the back,

not quite the length of the scape, which is nearly rounded,

smooth, erect, generally furnished with two leaves towards

the base, only half. the length of the scape. Flowers white

~ Ina rather lax umbel, frequently proliferous, scent sweetish,

and slightly alliaceous. Lacinie of the corolla erect : internal

ones longer, narrower, and more spreading than the outer.

Filaments equal, all broad at the base and sharp- pointed,

Shorter than corolla, white, inserted into a fle

and connate with the base of the petal and with one another.

Anthers yellow. Germen ‘white, 2

a at the apex: séz yle ye Be

¢gma simple acute, ” i ne t when

—_— like’ ae 3

This plant was represented» to;us as a distinct species, and

its very near affinity with Atiium stellatum, of which it can

be. considered only as a. variety, was not observed till the

whole impression was thrown off. In Fraser’s Catalogue

two species of ALtium are recorded as natives of Missouri,

under the names of stel/atum and reticulatum ; by the latter

was probably meant our present plant, and perhaps so named

from the fibrous coating surrounding the bulb ; but whether —

_ this difference be constant or not, we have had no opportunity

of examining. eS

__ Introduced by Mr. Nurrar, who found it on the banks of

the Missouri, in North-America, Our drawing was taken at

eine J, and J. Frasrr’s Nursery, Sloane-Square. Flowers

in May. |

( 1841.)

- Garpenta Ranpia. Rovunp-LEavep

GARDENIA, or ‘Anpico-Berny.

see tee eee

Class and Order.

Pewraxprta Ee

Gendt wre ee :

~ Bacca infera, 2-locularis, -polysperma. Anthere sessiles in

fance corolle. Stigma bilameliatum, si

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Garventa Randia ; spinosa ; 3 spimi terminalibus binis, foliis

~ obovato-subrotundis, | is glabris solitariis sessilibus,

dentibus calycis subulatis patulis.

Garpenta Randia ; spinosa, spinis ramulorum terminalibus

binis, foliis ovato-subrotundis, corollis hypocra’ ee

bus. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 1230. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1

~—p. 370.

~Garvenis aculeata ; positis floribusque foliis bre-

vioribus, cot ge. ae Kew, ed. ¥. v. 1, p. 295. |

Ranpta aculeata ; ramis bisp sis. ee oa pa Veg.

xio_p. 197, os pi ee 2

Ranoia foliis subrotundis Lonkerts, mis" rainulis bispini-

feris, floribus solitariis. Browne Jam. 143. t. 8. f.1. .

Lycium forte foliis subrotundis integris, spinis et foliis ex

-_adverso sitis. Sloane Hist. 1. t. 2. 2. f: 4.

Lycium magis americanum Jasmini flore foliis subrotundis

lucidis. Pluk. Alm. 234. t. 97. f. 6. | |

Lycium Beloxylon binis aculeis in ramulorum fastigii is ame-

— ricanum, Pluk. Alin. 234. t. 97. f. 5.

Jasminum lucidum americanum folio lucido subrotundo.

Parad. Bat. Prodr. 342.

‘re

Descr. In our ol:housee GarpsniAJ andia is a dwarfish

branched - ‘shrub, with grey bark. Branches towards their

ee extremities

extremities knotted, and from these knots the leaves grow on the

younger branches in pairs, but afterwards in bundles of three

or four together. Leaves roundish, generally obovate, shining

green on the upper and paler on the under surface. Flowers

white, very like those of the Common Jasmine, solitary,

sessile, and generally axillary. Calyx small, five-toothed :

teeth subulate, spreading, connected half-way by a mem-

brane. Tube of Corolla green, shorter than the limb, which

is usually divided into five, sometimes into six, lanceolate

segments, and, according to Parrick Browne, in Jamaica,

constantly into four only. Stamens equal in number to the

lacinie of the corolla: filaments none: anthers linear, sessile,

inserted into the margin of the tube. Germen inferior: style

shorter than the tube, club-shaped : stigma bifid, fleshy.

Varies much in the size of the leaves and in the number

of spines, which latter, in old plants, are sometimes entirely

wanting, and in this state it is supposed by Swartz to be

the Ranp1a mitis of the Species Plantarum.

The berries, which are never produced with us, afford a

permanent blue colour, hence the common appellation in

Jamaica of Indigo-Berry. And if the Lycrum Beloxylon of

Puuxener, above quoted, be the same, which we see no

reason to doubt, the natives on the Continent make arrows of

the wood and ink of the berries, whence it is called by the

English settlers, Dartwood and Ink-Berries. Z

Communicated by Messrs. Loppices and Sons, flowerin

in May. It seems to have very rarely come into blossom in»

this country, as its season of flowering is not marked in the

Hortus Kewensis. Propagated by cuttings. Requires to be

kept in an airy part of the stove.’ :

( 1842 )

GARDENIA RADICANS. RooTINne GARDENIA.

MR EE ER RRR ee i eee ee

Class and Order.

Pentanpria Monoeynia.

_ Generic Character.

Bacca infera, 2-locularis, polysperma. Anthere sessiles

in fauce corolle. Stigma bilamellatum. . es

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Garbdenta radicans ; inermis, foliis lanceolatis, corollis hy-

pocrateriformibus obtusis calyce angulato, caule radi~

cante. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 1225. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1.

p. 368. Bot. Repos. 491. |

_ Garpenta radicans ; inermis, corollis obtusis, calyce angu-

lato, foliis ellipticis, caule radicante. Thunb. Gard. n. 1.

t.1.f- 1. Thunb. Jap. 109. t. 20.

Kurtssrnas altera, folio minori, flore niveo pleno, cujus

gemma nondum explicata speciosam cochlee oblong

figuram exprimit. Kempf. Amen. p. 808. =

5 : Me A

In the way that Garpenta radicans is treated in our

stoves, the stems show no disposition to put forth roots;

_ but probably would, were they suffered to come in contact _

with the earth. It is doubtful, whether it has ever been

seen in this country, or even in China, with a single flower.

‘There is great affinity between this species and GarpENtAa

florida, from which it differs very little, except in the lesser

size of its flowers and leaves, which last are narrowed at

both extremities. The flowers have nearly the same fragrant

smell, and the plant flowering more freely and being more

easily propagated than the true Cape Jasmin, it has of late

be much taken the place of this last, and is frequently sold _

or it. |

Flowers in June and July. Communicated by Messrs,

Loppiges and Sons.

| ae)

- Patomts rruticosa. Larerr Sururny

Puiomis, or JERUSALEM Sage.

Class and Order.

Dibynamta GyMNOSPERMIA.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-gonus, 5-dentatus. Cor. galea incimbens, carinato-

compressa, barbata, emarginata. vel incisa ; labtum inferius

proportionatum : lobo medio majore. Séigmatis labium su-

perius brevius. Brown.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Putomis fruticosa ; [foliis subrotundis [ovato-oblongis] to-

mentosis crenatis, involucris lanceolatis, caule fruticoso. |

Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p.A07. Sp. Pl. 818. Willd. 3.

p. 117. Pers. Syn. 2. 126. Mart. Mill. Dict. n. 1.

Kniph. Cent. 1 et 3. Sabb. Hort. Rom. 3. t. 15.

Putomis involucri radiis lanceolatis. Hort.‘Cliff: 315.

Putomis cretica, fruticosa, folio subrotundo, flore luteo.

Tournef. Cor. 10. :

Putomis capitata lutea grandiflora. Dill. Elth. p. 316. t. 237,

Veins latis salvie foliis. Bauh. Pin. 240.

Verzascum sylvestre. Cam. Epit. 881. Matthioli Compend.

794. ! ag

Verzascum sylvestre alterum. Dod. Pempt. 146.

Verpascum 4 Matthioli. Lob. Icon. 560. § 1. Ger. Emac.

767. f. 1.

SALVIA aie lutea latifolia. Park. Theatr. 52.

Satvia fatua flore luteo. Weinm. Phyt. 4. t. 880. c.

Psevpo-Satvia major lutea latifolia. Moris. Hist. 2. p. 397.

§ 11.

. ree

Putomis fruticosa varies very much in the form and size

of its leaves, which are sometimes cordate-oyal, somtimes

; oblong-oval,

_oblong-oval, and not at all cordate ; at other times again.

they are auriculated. We have observed only two varieties,

which differ in nothing but in size, and not in the relative

width of the leaves. The older authors, by their latifolia and

angustifolia, denoted two distinct species, our present one

and Putomis Lychnitis. Mi.ier made three species of the

fruticosa, but they appear to us to run so much into one

another, that they cannot properly be considered even as

distinct varieties ; except the larger and smaller, which seem

to be permanent. |

The Putiomis Jruticosa is a native of Spain, Portugal,

and Sicily. It is tolerably hardy, and will grow in almost

any soil or situation, though it lives longest in a dry soil ; its

hoary leaves are not deciduous, and make a pleasing variety

in the winter. But severe frost will cut them down to the

: Sapens and sometimes destroy them altogether. Propagated

cuttings. Flowers in June and July. Cultivated by

Gerarp in 1596, :

Nisa.

©, 5s

b.y.5u tis. Walworth. Aug’11816.

( 1844)

BERCKHEYA GRANDIFLORA. LARGE-FLOWERED

BERCKHEYA. |

{HEHEHE SERGE Heseee

Class and Order.

SyncenesiA Potyeamia FrustRANEA.

Generic Character.

Receptaculum favosum. Semina villosa. _Pappus paleaceus

(nunc setoso-paleaceus ciliatus). Cal. imbricatus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Bercxueya grandiflora ; foliis oppositis lanceolatis trinerviis —

spinoso-dentatis subtus tomentosis, calycinis foliolis

spinoso-dentatis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 2271.

Bercxueya fruticosa. Wendl. Obs. 33. t. 4. f. 31.

OHRIA grandiflora; foliis calycibusque oblongis dentato-

Spinosis subtus tomentosis capitulo solitario. Thunb.

Prodr. 140. Act. Soc. Nat. Scrut. Hafn. 3. p. 107.

Rounsa ilicifolia ; foliis oppositis oblongis dentatis spinosis

supra lineatis, caule fruticoso. Vahl Act. Soc. Nat.

Scrut. Hafn. 2. p. 40. t. 7.

Gorteria fruticosa. Berg. Cap. p.302. quoad descriptionem,

Arracryzis oppositifolia ; foliis oppositis. L. Mant. 477.

Reich. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 697. exclusis synon. Sp. Plan‘. ct

Plukenetii. Ce

ARTHAMUs africanus, frutescens, folio ilicis spinoso, flore —

aureo. Wealth. Hort. 13. t. 7,

. Descr, Stem shrubby, about three feet high, divided

into a few upright branches. Leaves opposite, ternate, or,

‘Sometimes scattered, oblong, smooth on the upper surface and

fottony on the under, sinuate-dentate; teeth terminated rik

i. wi

with a rigid, sharp, orange-coloured spe. Peduncle ter

- minal, half a foot long, rounded, cottony, bearing a single,

large, radiated, yellow flower. Calyx imbricaied: outer

leaflets exactly resembling the leaves, but smaller, the inner

series gradually diminishing and becoming less spinous,

innermost series linear-lanceolate, ciliated: all of them ap-

peared to us to be distinct to the base. Receptacle honey-

combed : cells deep with ragged chaffy edges. Seed buried

in the cells, hairy from the base, and crowned with a chafly

many-cleft pappus, whose segments are ciliated. Radius

barren. i : .

__ A greenhouse shrub. Native of the Cape of Good-Hope.

Flowers in June. Not mentioned in the Hortus Kewensis.

Communicated by Messrs. Jenxins and Gwytuer, New-

Road, who are preparing an extensive Botanic Garden for

the use of subscribers ; which, from its vicinity to the centre

of the metropolis and the enjoyment of the pure air of the

Regent’s Park, promises to be.a great acquisition to London

Botanists,

( 1845)

CrerseraA Manenas. SprarR-LEAVED

| CERBERA.

FBR bbe bbe ee

Class and Order.

Pentanpria Monoeynia.

a ~ Generic Character.

Contorta. Drupa monosperma.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cersera Manghas ; foliis lanceolatis: nervis transversalibus,

foliolis calycinis ovato-oblongis patentissimis margine

involutis.

Cerzera Manghas ; foliis lanceolatis : nervis transversalibus.

Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 65. Fl. Zeyl.n. 106. Sp. Pl.

803. Reich. 591. Willd. 1. p. 1222. Obs. It. 91.

Maneuas lactescens, foliis Nerii crassis, venosis, Jasmini

flore, fructu Persice simili venenato. Burm. Seyl. 151.

t. 10. f- 1% . he

Manenas fructu venenato. Bauh. Pin.440. Raj. Hist. 1552.

Argor tactraria. Rumph. Amb. 2. p. 243. ¢.81.

Opoitam. Hort. Malab. 1. p.71. t. 39. see

It is probable that more than one species of Cergera have

been confounded under the name of Manghas. The pecu-

liarity of the corolla-like calyx, which is not much shorter

than the tube of the corolla, will perhaps easily distinguish | .

this from every other species. This calyx is well represented

in the figure in the Hortus Malabaricus, and is particular!

described by Rumpmius, as having the appearance of a stel-

lated flower, of a fine green colour, from the centre of which

the real flower grows on a long tube; his figure ge |

represents the plant after the corollas were all fallen o

leaving only the calyx. Burman’s figure ee

calyx as very small, and closely applied to the tube of the

corolla ; a circumstance which makes it doubtful whether it

may not be intended for some other species. .

The stories of its very poisonous qualities have arisen,

probably, from its being confounded with some other plant ;

its milky juice is not vehemently caustic, and Rumpnius

remarks, that the natives eat the leaves, boiled with other

pot-herbs, with no other effect than gently relaxing the

bowels ; and an infusion of the bark of the tree is used as a

_ familiar cathartic in Amboyna, by the Europeans as well

as the natives. .

With us it is a stove plant. Native of the East-Indies.

Flowers from June to September. Propagated by cuttings.

We were favoured with the specimen from which our drawing

was taken, by our friend Mr. Arron, from the royal garden

at Kew, in June 1815, : ie

N1646.

2 . ca 3

AL y.3 Curtis Walworth Sept ® 1.2828,

( 1846 )

Sminax Giauca. GtAvucous-LEAVED

SMILAX.

Class and Order.

Diecra Hexanpria.

Generic Character.

Masc. Cal. 6-phyllus. Cor. 0. |

Pe Cal. 6-phyllus. Cor. 0. Styli 3. Bacca 3-locularis.

Specific Character.

Smatax glauca ; (caulis teres aculeatus) foliis inermibus

rotundato-ovatis mucronulatis subseptemnerviis subtus.

glaucis, pedunculis brevibus bifloris. oe

We cannot find that this species of Swix, a native of

orth-America, communicated by Joun Watxer, Esq. of

Arno’s-Grove, has been any where described. It approaches

to rotundifolia, but has much smaller leaves, less cordate at

the base, and quite glaucous on the under side ; they have

generally seven longitudinal nerves, but the outer ones are

Soon lost in the margin, and all of them are much less con-

spicuous in the dried than in the fresh leaf: the petiole

1s shorter than the lamina, and is generally furnished with

a pair of tendrils. Peduncles not longer than the petioles,

and for the most part two-flowered. Our plant was a male.

It is hardy, and of easy culture.

Nasay.

tis Walworth..Somt”, 2.2828.

Fy aby. 5, Gar

( 1847 )

Justicia Ecrorium. Lone-sprkep Justicia.

dee eee eee eee

Clast Hid Orter.

Dranpria Monoeynia.

Generic Cha racter.

Cal. hot vel duplex. Cor. irregularis vel subregularis.

Caps. 2-valvis, 2-locularis : ‘dissepimentum = contrarium :

retinaculis seminum uncinulatis.

“Specific Character and Synonyms. ‘i ay P

"ee “Calyce siniplici, corollis bilabiatis : labiis divisis..

Justicia Ecbolium ; spicis terehitibdibws tetragonis iinbricatis,

bracteis ovalibus foliisque oblongo-ovatis acuminatis,

‘galea lineari. Vahl enum. “3 - 117. Hort. Kew. ed.

Sa hte: bop. 36. %

Justicia Echolium ; spicis } ideedinalibus tetragonis, bracteis

“ovatis imbricatis® ciliatis. mucronatis, corollarum galea

~* Jineari reflexa, Vahl aymbi 2. cP: 14. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1,

17 ns yee / foliis lanceolato-ovatis, spicis .

tetragonis, bracteis ovatis ciliatis, corollarum galea re-

flexa. Sp. Pl. 20. Fl. Seyl. 17 Fabr. Helst. aii. -~

Vahl nb 1 pk -Lour. Cochin. p. 23. 5

Justicia Echolium; frutico ag

- superiore lineari, spicarum bracteis ovalibus cuspidatis

ciliatis, antheris parallelis. Hort. Kew. ed. 1"* 1. p. 26.

Mart. Mill. Dict. n. 16.

Justicia viridis ; foliis oblongis integris, spicis terminalibus

-imbricatis, bracteis ovato-acutis, galea lineari reflexa

bidentata. Forsk. Deser. p. 5. n. 14.

ApuHatopa spica longissima, flore reflexo. Burm. Seyl. 7.

a ae De

os cee floris labio superiore 2 ees et ad pees

reclinato. Tournef: o:

Carim-Curini. Hort. Nalab. ¢ OL t. 20.

Curini (forte) prima species. Pluk Phyt (471.7. ee.

Leas bilabiatis : labio

Stem shrubby: branches erect, simple, appearing as if

. Jointed from the intumescence just above the insertion of the

leaves. Leaves opposite, decussate, oval, smooth, pointed at

both extremities, quite entire, somewhat rigid and recurved.

Flowers in a terminal four-cornered imbricated spike. Bractes

oval, ciliated; terminated with a soft mucro, turning purple

towards the point. Calyx 4-parted: leaflets subulate, finely

pubescent. Tube of corolla long curved: limb bilabiate :

upper lip linear, emarginate, bent back: lower lip 3-lobed :

middle lobe broader oval than the lateral ones. The corolla

is white, but changes to a pale green in fading ; scentless.

Stamens two: filaments inserted into the superior part of the

tube: anthers parallel. Germen conical, supported on a

fleshy receptacle: style the length of the tube: stigma

Lixnxus, who has described only twenty species in his

Species Plantarium, divided these into two genera, naming

one Dianruzra from the circumstance of each filament bear-

Ing. two anthers, one above the other; Jacquin and Vanu

have united them into one genus ; which however is so

numerous as to require subdivision ; the latter author having

_ enumerated no Jess than one hundred and forty-seven species, _

though he separated the stemless species under the name of

Exytraria. The first edition of Arron’s Hortus Kewensis

contains only nine species, and the last but twenty-eight. _

Justicia Ecbolium is a native of the East-Indies. Requires

to be kept in the stove. Cultivated by Pamir Mixer in

1759. Propagated by cuttings. Communicated by Jonn

Waixer, Esq. of Arno’s-Grove, in July 1815. Flowers

most part of the summer.

if AHAB: Jrocys xb 2

Sracuyrarpuera urticrrouia. Nerrine

LEAVED Bastarp VERVAIN, |

Dianpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. tubulosus, 4-dentatus. Cor. hypocrateriformis, ine-

qualis, 5-fida, curva. Stam. 4: 2 sterilia. Sem. 2.

Specific Character and Synonym.

SracuytTarpneta urticifolia ; glabriuscula, foliis ovatis acu-

tis usque basin serratis, bracteis subulatis calyce adpresso

brevioribus. :

Cymeurus urticefolius ; foliorum laminis ovali-lanceolatis,

nervo medio subtus rare hirto, czeterum glabris: bracteis

totis adpressis, ovato-acuminatis : calycis dorso edentulo :

stigmate igtegro. Parad. Lond. 53. exclusis synonymis.

Although we consider this to be the same species as is

figured in the Paradisus Londinensis, under the name of

Cympurus urticefolius, yet we believe it to be quite distinct

from SracuytarPHETA jamaicensis, supposed by Mr. Saxis-

_BuRY to be the same. It is of taller growth, its stalks are

far less hairy, the leaves less succulent, sharper pointed and .

More acutely sawed, with the serratures continued to the base

» Of the leaf. In jamaicensis the leaves are more succulent,

broader towards the apex, and quite entire at the lower part ;

teeth more distant and blunter; it is also less eregt in its

Srowth, and has shorter spikes. In our plant the bractes are

rather subulate than ovate, with a membranous border at the

only; they are shorter than the calyx, to which they are

y adpressed their whole length. The calyxes aaa aa

bedded in a deep groove in the peduncle: the outer teeth of

the calyx are larger than the inner, which they entirely con-

ceakryIt; has two fertile stamens ; and we could not detect

any steril filaments.

Communicated by Joun Watker, Esq. who sent it under

the name of Versena violacea. Flowers in the stove most

part of the year. _Propagated by cuttings.

We are not certain of what country it is a native.

( 1849 )

~ Srevia Euparoria. Hemp-AGRIMONY-LIKE

| STEVIA.

KKK KEE EEK EEE E

Class and Order.

SyneenesiA Potyeamia ALQuALs.

Generic Character.

Reeept. nudum. Pappus paleaceus. Cal. cylindraceus,

ex simplici foliolorum serie, :

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Srevia Eupatoria; herbacea, foliis lanceolatis planis in

-petiolum attenuatis trinerviis apice obsolete subserratis,

corymbis fastigiatis, pappo paleaceo et aristato. Willd.

Enum. 854. Idem in Mag. d. Gesells. Naturf. Fr. 2.

Berl. 1807. p. 138. ;

Srevia Eupatoria ; herbacea foliis lanceolatis trinerviis inte-

Sake corymbo fastigiato, pappo paleaceo et aristato.

illd. Sp. Pl. VI75. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 510.

Mustexia Eupatoria. Sprengel in Linnean Soc. Trans. v. 6.

p. 152. #. 13.

ee Pe

The late Professor WitipeNnow, in his Enumeration of

the Plants of the Berlin Garden, has a Species that he calls

Garden, who said he found it to be a hardy herbaceous per-

ennial. Native of Mexico. Flowers in August and September.

j | N18 49.

Pub.bw.8.Curtes Walworth. Seph% 22815

Ni850.

Pub. oy. S.Gurtis. Walworth. Sene™ 2.2826.

( 1850 )

HIALLIA ImBRicaTA. Impricatep Hatta.

AER ERIE Ra Rae ese se ae ae ae ae ae

_ Class and Order.

Drapetpuia Decanpria.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus, regularis. Legumen 1-spermum, bivalve.

Sy > :

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Hausa imbricata ; foliis cordato-ovatis convolutis imbricatis,

floribus axillaribus sessilibus. Thunb, Prodr. p. 131.

Willd. Sp. Pl. 2.3. p. 1170.

Hepysarum imbricatum. Thunb. in Nov. Act. Upsal. v. 6.

_#. 42. & 1 Suppl. Pl. p. 330,

ccm! | r

This very rare plant, not recorded in the last edition of |

the Hortus Kewensis, was communicated by Messrs. Lop-

pices and Sons, in August 1813. _ es

Native of the Cape of Geod-Hope

BERG as growing among grass, UW)

erect at the upper part. | ee

In our specimen, the stem was firmer, and had more the

appearance of alow shrub. Leaves imbricated toward the

extremities of the branches, ciliated with strong hairs along

the margin and the mid-rib, and terminated with a soft mucro ;

they were mostly folded together, partly ——— flower,

which was solitary, axillary, and nearly sessile. We know of

no figure but the one in the New Upsal Transactions, above

quoted. Jacquin, in the second volume of the Hortus

Schoenbrunnensis, has given the figure of a very nearly-allied

Species, under the name of Giycine monophylla ; but which

is certainly not the plant so called by Linnazus. Jacquin’s

plant, though in many respects similar, we - to be a

distinct species from ours, having its stalks entirely prostrate,

leaves more distant, and not folded upon the flower. Pro-

pagated by seeds, %

represented by Tuun-

ery slender stems, but

if this distinction is to be depend

(1851 -

ZAMIA INTEGRIFOLIA. Dwarr Zama.

lorie ies

lass and Order.

_ Diecra Po.yAnpRIA.

~ Generic Character.

Masc. <Amentum eti@Wliforme. Cal. squama obovata.

Cor.0. Anth. globose, rima dehiscentes, in = sessiles.

Fem. Amentum sfotitiforme Cal. squame peltate.

Cor.0. Germina 2. Jf Siti 0. Bacce 2, eerie. Ze

Speci i 3 Character and ‘Synonyms.

Zama integrifolia ; frondibus pinnatis - foliolis lancédlatin

rotundato-obtusis basi attenuatis latere exteriore ad

apicem serrulitis, _stipite glabro subtetragono.. Willd.

i. Hort. Kew. ed. alt.5. p.410.

f adibus pinnatis : foliolis linearibus obtnita:

Linn. on AAS y ee : Neem he ag

omnibus.

fim media published

and more obtuse leaflets,

e smoother footstalk, and

spike, which in media is

ination. We have not,

specimens to determine,

upon or not.

7 Communicated by Messrs. Loppiezs and Sons, flowering |

in August, which appears to be the usual time with us,

though Jacquin remarks, that different individuals flowered

at Vienna at such very different seasons, that it was impos-

sible to determine its proper period. ee

_. Native of the aE cot tanslses and of East- ; Requires

the heat of the stove. a as 4 age

ZAMIA integrifoli disting

' last month, not only by. —

serrulate at the apex, but

the acuminated spadix or flov

obtuse without the conical

however, seen a sufficient num

& 1852 Ne

Motwccenia LAVIS. Smoorn ‘Mocca

Baum.

AeneeeesennenEte

‘Class es 0: next

Diorama Grunosrenua.

ak e

Generic a a

7 «

Cal. costpéntiainds ampats Fa : ¢

Bractee spinosee.

* eek’ ( h ok, and Synbnie:

Moweesisa levis >* abot campanulatis, " quinqueden-

3 : dentibus | ee iticis, foliis petiolatis sub-

ndo-ov is. _ Sp. Pl. 3. p. 129. Enum.

‘ . Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. “al | A

OLUCCELLA levis ; calycibus cantpanulatis subquinqueden-

tatis: denticulis equa ibus. 2 Pl..821. Hort. Upsal.

a _ Sabb. Hort. 3. t. 45.

: - ratio Es

Motvcca leis : Me p

Moris. Hist. 3. 3 $8 §it. ; :

Metissa Moluccana odorata . i aes

Me uissa Molucca levis angeiy 3 levis. Po ark. 8 :

A AQ. f 5. ae

Motvca. Bauh. Hist. £3 p. 234, Ra j. Hist. - Rivin,

~ Mon. 64._

Mouuvca, Ttalis, Melisa Constantinopoitana, Be. Epit

675. 3

Carpiaca, Melica, sive Moluca Sy riaca ins mis Tob,

os Oe E. 516. ~

Mowwecenta levis is an_ annual plant, and, in in

_ favoural le seasons, does not perfect its seeds with us, which

accounts

accounts for its being so rarely met with in our gardens.

To insure the ripening of its seeds, Mitier directs that it

should be raised in the autumn; and the young plants pre-

served through the winter under a frame. In the spring,

they may be planted in the open air, in a warm situation,

sheltered from the high winds. These plants, which have

been preserved through the winter, will flower towards the

end of June, and may be expected to produce ripe seeds,

should the weather be at all favourable.

The calyx in the whole genus is bell-shaped and much

- larger than the corolla, with teeth more or less mucronated :

in this species they are described as being without mucro ;

but this is not the fact: the mucro is indeed small, and

though not pungent when:green, becomes so in drying.

‘The whorls are generally five-flowered, and under each calyx

is a bracte of from three. to five spines united at the base,

which, though at first innocuous, become rigid and pungent ;

these together form an involucre surrounding the stem,

beneath each whorl. — .

Authors differ in their opinion of its scent; PARKINSON _

Joun Baunin,

ee Coe 2

Coie ck =) 25. es

Nisss.

- Lurtis. Waluronth. 0,

[Sy Wea Week eld k=

Po OSS

Rucnopepean HirsuTuM. Haty

RuopopEnpron.

ie siededehelsdehicielehihied

Class and Order.

Decanpria Monoeynia.

+ Gtherte Charice

Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. subinfundibuliformis. Stam. declinata,

Caps. 5-locularis. |

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ruosowsnpnox hirsutum ; foliis ellipticis acutiusculis ciliatis

subtus punctatis, corollis ‘infundibuliformibus. Willd.

Sp. Pl. 2 p.49. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 49.

Ruopopenpron hirsutum ; foliis ciliatis nudis, corollis in-

fundibuliformibus. . Sp. Pl. 562. Mart. Mill. Dict. 4.

Jacq. Austr. p. 61. t. 98. Sop: Carn. n. 480. Villars

Dauph. 3.997308," og

is Sebtus punctatis. Hail.

Ruonopexnzeie foliis oyaling ili

Hist. n. 1016.

Lepum alpinum irsute o> Bide. Pin. ‘468. ‘Raj. Hist. 1005.

Lepum alpinum. Clus. "hae, 74. fig. bona, p. 82.

Lepvum alpinum sive Rosa alpina. Park. Theatr. 77.

Batsamum alpinum Gesneri. Lob. Ic. 367.

Nerium alpinum quibusdam, aliis Ledum birsutum, Bauh.

Mist. 2. p. 21 et 22. ie,

Raat, Levon alpinum Cut. Ge Eee.

‘ities

Ruopopenpron hirsutum and ferrugineum are very much

alike. By the older Botanists they seem to have been con-

sidered as varieties only, and are for the most part described

together, as the smooth and hairy Mountain Rose. They

‘are, however, permanently distinct species. The flowers of

| hirsutum are not 80 lange, and rather less intense in spree’

: ‘ than |

than those of ferrugineum ; nevertheless, a large shrub of

the former, when covered with blossoms, is a highly orna-

mental object. -

Native of the Alps of Switzerland, ‘Dauphiné, Austria, and

Stiria. Flowers in May and June. Should be planted in

peat mould. Propagated by offsets, layers, or seeds, which,

however, are but rarely perfected with us. As the natural

situation of these plants is among the rocks on the summits

of lofty mountains, where they insinuate their roots between

the crevices of stone, we should recommend a trial of them

on old walls, which, when such occur, might often be beau-

tifully decorated by planting them with well-chosen subjects.

Cultivated by Mr. Joun Trapescant, jun. in 1656.

Communicated by Joun Watker, Esq. of Arno’s-Grove.

N18 54.

Pub by. 8. Curtis Weiwor>.

Wedd dll. Se.

( 1854 )

BovuvarDIA TRIPHYLLA. THREE-LEAVED

- Bovuvarpia.

PRE He Rae eRe ese se sks oe te

Class and Order.

Terranpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 4-phyllus, dentiate quibusdam interjectis. Cor.

tubulosa. Anthere incluse. Caps. bipartibilis, polysperma. -

Sem. marginata, sat

Specific Name and Synonyms.

~ Bovuvarpia triphylla. Salisb. in Parad. Lond. 88. Hort.

Kew. ed. alt. 1, p. 245,

Houston1a coccinea. Bot. Repos. 106. Willd. Enum. 156.

Ixora americana. Jacq. Hort. Schenbr. 3. p.4. t. 257.

Txora ternifolia. Cavanill. Ic. 4. p. 3. t. 305. Gawler

Recens. Repos. Bot. 10.

Bovvarosa differs from Hovsronta in having the cells of

its capsule many-seeded, instead of one-seeded; and from

Ixora, in its fruit being a capsule not a berry ; besides other

characters of minor consideration. R.A. Sauissury, Esq.

Eve it its present appellation, in memory of Dr. Cuartes

uvaRrD, formerly superintendant of the Jardin Royal, at

Paris. Mr. Sauissury says, that two varieties of this beau-

tiful shrub are cultivated in some collections about London,

some with shorter, and the other with longer, leaves. We

do not remember to have seen any specimens with leaves so

short as represented in the Paradisus Londinensis. Young

plants have a broader foliage and flowers more erect, than

full-grown shrubs; and there is a variety with pubescen

ves. =“ ee

It is a native of Mexico, and is generally treated as a

greenhouse shrub; but we have known it thrive and blossom

very well, planted ig the open air, in front of the conserva-

tory, where it was protected from frost by the occasional

oyrenpaae Git ty calles Wirodacot tm 1796, by cb

Propagated by cuttings. Introduced in 1794, by the

Right Hon. Sir y Aiba ‘Banks, Bart. K. B.

N1855.

as Weddelt.s>

Pub. by.S.Gurtis - Walworth. 0cb 11.1826.

oe ae

Hippia FRUTESCENS. Surussy Hrppra,

Class and Order.

SynGenesia Potycamra NEcEssARIA,

Generic Character.

Recept. nudum. Pappus 0. Sem. latissimis marginibus,

nuda. Cal. hemisphericus, subimbricatus. Corollule radii 10,

obsolete, subtrifide.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Hirria frutescens ; fruticosa, villosa, foliis pinnatifidis, flo-

ribus corymbosis. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 179. Linn.

Sup. 390. Syst. Veg. 795. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 2382.

Thunb. Prod. 168. Gerin. Fruct. 2. p. 390. t. 164.

J. 6. Martyn Mill. Dict. n. 3. ;

Hirt frutescens. Syst. Veg. ed. 13. p. 661. Linn. Mant.

-Tanacetum frutescens; foliis pinnatifidis: laciniis lanceo-

' Jatis obfusiusculis integerrimis. Sp. Pl. 1182. Berg.

Cap. 243. Kniph. Cent: 1. n. 88. |

Ertocernatus pectinifolius ; foliis planis pinnatis. Syst. Nat.

ed. 12. p, BIO -

Tanacervm africanum arborescens, foliis lavendulee multifido +

"folio. Commel. Hort. 2. p. 201. t. 101.

It has been the fate of this shrub to puzzle even the

father of modern Botany, to determine to what genus it

_ Should be referred. In the Species Plantarum, Linnaus first

placed it under Tanacerum: in the twelfth edition of the

Systema Nature (Vegetab.) he removed it to ErrocepHauus :

and in the thirteenth edition, he remarked, that it had more

affinity with Iva than with Tanacerom ; but concluding that

it was distinct from both, he separated it as a genus, and _

aes ae : i gave

gave it the name of Hippia, under which it has been since

generally recognized.

It is.a native of the Cape of Good-Hope; may be con-

sidered as a hardy greenhouse shrub. Propagated by

cuttings. Flowers early in the spring, and continues in

succession most part of the summer. It was cultivated at

Chelsea in 1710. Communicated by Jonn Waker, Esq.

of Arno’s-Grove. : :

N 1856.

ov. s x p W7

. Lurtis alwe-r th t

Walworth Oet'2.2826. pede

Weddell. Se.

: ( 1856 )

GENTIANA INcARNATA. Lyons’s GENTIAN.

JHE EER eek eke

Class and Order.

Pentanpria Dieynia.

Generic Character. —

Cor. 1-petala. Caps. 2-valvis, 1-locularis : 2 an 2,

longitudinalibus. : |

Specific Character.

Gentiana incarnata ; corollis aggregatis terminalibus dolii-

formibus: ore lacero ineequali, foliis ovalibus, petiolis |

decurrentibus. | é

This hitherto undescribed species of GrnTIAN is a native

of Carolina, from whence it was brought, by Mr. Lyons,

_ about three years since. It has a near affinity with G.

Saponaria and ochroleuca, before published, especially with

_the latter; but the flowers are smaller and blush-coloured,

the segments of the calyx longer, and the limb of the corolla

is more unequally divided. _ oe |

The leaves, in a vigorous plant, before the time of flower-

ing, are of a deep green ; the yellow and purple tinge of the

leaves in the plant from which = ee was taken, was

robably owing to having been too dry. :

Z A bardy pameaniak adits October Communicated

by Mr. Witii4m Kenr, from his collection at Clapton, ~

Weddell Se

626.

Pub.by.S. Curtis. Walworth. Oct™ 1.2

( 1857 )

CieomeE pusescens. Vittovus Cirome.

Jeske ok bee kk abd

Class and Order.

‘TerrapyNnamia Sizigvosa.

Generic Character.

Cal. 4-phyllus. Petala4. Stam. 4—40. Siliqua 1-loca-

is, bivalvis pelysperma. Semina exalbuminosa. Brown.

Speci ific Character.

Reocis pubescens ; ; floribus hexandris, staminibus basi

stipitis insertis, bracteis oblongo-cordatis simplicibus,

ae reflexis, Re pendulis.

. ep 2

ie ee :

i phin. Whole plant, more especially the stem, clothed

with a fine pubescence. Root annual. Stem simple, erect,

Leaves digitate : leaflets” five or seven, lanceolate-oyate,

_ ribbed underneath with parallel veins. Flowers in a simple _

- Yaceme, white: claws of the petal shorter than the lamina.

Stamens six, inserted into the lower part of the stipes ort

footstalk of the germen, and not into t e middle of it, as in a

Cirome pentaphylla: filament. naturally long, ascendant,

and of a bright purple colour; but in the specimen from —

which our drawing was taken unfortunately abortive, a_

_ defect not observed till the plate was ready for publication.

arades simple cordate. Sihgua hws long, and Ee

‘dows: |

For this, as it appears to us, cndpebetbed species of

Cieome, we are indebted to our friend Rorerr Barcuay, —

Esq. of Bury-Hill, who raised it from seeds he received from

Paris ; but its native country is unknown to us.

Flowers in July. Requires to be raised in the stove or

hot-bed, and to be kept constantly under shelter. It pro-—

duced and ripened seeds, however, with us, in an airy

apartment, without artificial warmth. :

nie tae”

Wedldeil Se.

Pud. by. &. Curtis. Walworth. Oct’ 12636

is (1858)

esas?

“SIDEROXYLON MITE. y Lasiecieabaven

| . Tron -Woop.

Class and Order.

- Puyranpna Moxograa.

"Generic Character.

Cor. bfida, Nect, in bleigu Spy. Stigma simplex.

Bacca Pagers.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

SIDEROXYLON mite ; inerme, foliis perennantibus lanceolatis

acutis, pedunculis - leretibus brevissimis aggregatis sim-:

plicibus compositisque.._ si

ape mite ; inerme floribus sessilibus. Syst. Veget. °

232. Willd. 1. 1089 ?

N mite. _dacgq. Collect. a p.2 249. certo certius,

iy “excluso synonymo Milleri.

AY foot mite, Willd. Enum. Pe 249. + A videtay

ob flores solitarios hui : :

7 ate description, it is uncertain

this 3 ‘¥LON mite of Linnaus or not, we

have no Phat. however, but that it is the aww? described

pi a that name, a Jacgurs, i _ Collectane: me

at a ining’ gr

smooth | =8 the under side, ee :

Peduncles axillary,, aggregate, rounded, very short, some

simple and one-flowered, others branched and many-flowered.

out nectaria. Filaments somewhat shorter

than the corolla, white: anthers yellow. Germen roundish ;

_ stigma simple, obtuse, sessile, green. In all which charac-

ters it agrees exactly with Jacguiy’s description. From

= gee melanophieum,

melanophleum, for which species it has been generally

taken in our gardens, it differs, in that this last has obtuse

Jeaves, square peduncles, which, with the calyx and corolla,

are of a flesh colour, and a divided stigma ; in which respect

Jacquin remarks, that S. melanophleum recedes from the

character of the genus, ;

Wiipenow, in his Enumeration of the Plants in the

Royal Botanical Garden at Berlin, has separated from the

genus SipERoxyLon those species which want the nectarium,

under the name of Scteroxytum; but that which he calls

mite can hardly be intended for our plant, as he ascribes to it.

solitary and lateral flowers. .

A handsome evergreen greenhouse shrub, Native of the

Cape of Good Hope, Propagated by cuttings, Flowers in —

i and July. Communicated by Messrs. Loppices and

ONS,

Pub-by. S&. Curtis Walworth Oct® 126

U6.

( 1859 )

Cyxista.

(FHSS bebisicseseae a

Class and Order. 7

_ Dirapenpuia Decanpria.

ie ad Poe ee

_ Generic Character. —

7 “5

Cal. 4-fidus, corolla major : lacinia ‘suprema apice bifida,

vel emarginata ; infima maxima, Cor. persistens. Legumen

subdispermum. — en Ee ON |

Crusra albiflora ; ferrugineo-pubescens, calycibus semiquin-

quefidis : laciniis subzequalibus, bracteis ovatis acuminatis,

corollis calyce majoribus. — $2 ep

Cg a

; q MP t 7 a

Descr. Stem dicibing: Venvered with a rust

is in some degree the whole p ;

leaflets ovate-acuminate ; a

divided very nearly as deep Ww

Segment is somewhat but not much longer than the rest.

Corolla papilionaceous ; vexillum orbicular, ae

with two teeth at the base of the lamina: ale small, with —

one tooth at the base. Carina very much get ae hig :

point, consisting of two petals not united, except for a

small space sitet the middle. Stamens diadelphous, Pn :

. | anthers —

INDE X.

Tn oo the Lalit Names of, the Plants. ‘contained in the Forly-

Third Volume. are alphabetically arranged.

Pl.

1827 Acacia longifolia.

1808 Acanthus spinosus (8).

1840 Allium stéllatum (6).

1822, Anchusa capensis,

1844 Berckheya grandiflora.

1798 Borago laxiflora.

1854 Bouyardia triphylla.

1820 Bryonia quinqueloba.

1836 Buphthalmum sericeum.

1831 Calla’ palustris.

1811 Callicoma serratifolia.

1835, Capsicum bicolor.

1829 Cassia ligustrina,

1789. Cerastium amplexicaule.

1845 Cerbera Manghas.

1786 Cineraria aurita.

1782 Cistus levipes.

1803 Cistus sampsucifolius.

1857 Cleome pubescens.

1816 Clematis cordata.

“1834 Clerodendrum fragrans.

“1805 Clerodendrum viscosum.

1771. Crassula lactoas. ag al

1815. Brica flava, (2.) in b

1842 Gatdenia radicans.

1841 Gardenia Randia.

_ 1856 Gentiana incarnata. —

1802 Gnaphaliam tratieans,

1850, Helleesobiesiis. ;

1855 Hippia

1785 ae trifoli

1790 sb act insignis, . =

oa | 1787 Symphitum tauricum.

: Bie [

Pl.

1847 Justicia Ecbolium.

1804, Lagasca mollis.

1810 Leptospérmum grandifolium.

1812 Lythram alatum.

1824 Mesembryanthemum albidum.

1852 Moluccella levis.

1830. Myoporum debile.

1799 Nerium odorum().

1778 Nicotiana Gaeta slvis,

1801 Nycterium aaneevomiuni:

1784 Peonia officinalis:

1843. Phlomis: Aviticosn. -

1797 Phyteuma Scheuchzeri.

1819 .Pedophyllum peltatum..

1817 Polyanthes tuberosa,

1780 Polygala speciosa.

1823 Pomaderris lanigera.

1779. Psidium cordatum.

1832 Punica Granatum.

1853 Rhododendron hirsutum.

- 1806 Rhus Toxicodendron, os )vulg.

1813 Commersonia Platyphylia. | ee |

781 Rita mois ;

1849 Stevia Eupatoria.

1788 Stobea pinnata.

;

1818 Thalictrum aquilegifolium.

‘ | 1825 Valerian montana,(é. —

= oli.

4777 Vaibatines bipinnatiidum.

1795 Viola cucullata.

1851 Zamia integrifolia,

: 1838 Zamia media,