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( 2189 )

MAGNOLIA MACROPHYLLA. LARGE-LEAVED >

MAGNOLIA. |

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Class and Order.

Potyanpria Potyeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 3-phyllus.. Petala 9. Caps. 2-valves, imbricate. Sem.

baccata, pundula. .

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Maenouta macrophylla ; ramis medullosis fragilibus, foliis ob-

longe subcuneato-obovalibus : basi sinuata subauriculatis,

subtus glaucis. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p.331. Michaux

Amer. bor. 1. p. 327. Michaux Arb. v. 3. t. 7.

Maenouia macrophylla ; ramis medullosis fragilibus, foliis

amplissimis oblonge subcuneato-obovalibus basi sinuata

subauriculatis subtus glaucis, petalis sex ovatis obtusis.

Pursh Amer. p. 381. |

Maenouia macrophylla. Nuttall Amer. 2. p. 18.

Maenouia macrophylla ; foliis amplissimis obovato-oblongis

basi subauriculatis subtus glauco-subtomentosis. Pozr.

Encycl. Sup. 3. p. 572.

The Maenouta macrophylla is a small pyramidal growing

tree with leaves and flowers larger than those of any other

tree in North-America ; the former growing from a foot to

two feet and a half in length, and six or eight inches. in

breadth, smooth, bright green on the upper and glaucous on

the under side; the latter larger than the blossoms of Magnolia

grandiflora, and in our individual pense probably much

smaller than in its native soil, too large for the size of our

plate. It consists of six white petals, the three internal*

* Authors tribute this colour to the external petals, Michaux

having used he ancl saprtare: but we suspect that this en misprint for

interiora. ; ie POs. ee

ones tinged with purple towards the base. Its locality seems

to be very limited, having been found only in Tenassee, west

of the Cumberland River, and in a small district of North

Carolina, about twelve miles south-east of Lincolnton.

Our drawing was made from.a small tree growing in the

open ground in the garden of James Vere, Esq. where it

blossomed in July last, perhaps for the first time in England.

( 2190 )

CuLorANTHUs MoNosTAcHYs. ONE-SPIKED

CHLORANTHUS, OR CHU-LAN. ;

WEEE TE HEE EE EEE

Class and Order. |

Monanpria Monoeynia.

* Flores apetali.

Generic Character.

Anthera lateri ovarii insidens (indivisa, bilocularis; vel

triloba, 4-locularis). Ovarian monospermum: ovulo pendulo.

Stigma capitatum. Drupa. Brown.

Specific Character.

CuLoranruus monostachys; antheris incurvis trilobis in-_

divisisve, spicis solitariis, floribus alternis. Br.

In the natural system Jussieu considers CHLORANTHUS as |

ee nearly related to Viscum, and has placed it in his family

of Loranthea, as established in the Annales du Muséum, vol.

12. p. 299. But Brown makes it the type of a new order,

to be called Chloranthea, the definition of which we may

expect from him, perhaps in the next volume of the Transac-

tions of the Linnean Society. To this family belong Ascarina

of Forsrer, and Hedyosmum of Swarrz (the Tafalla of Rurz

and Pavon). Its place in the system will be near to Pépe-—

_ racee and Urticee, with both of which it agrees in having

the radicle of the embryo in a direction opposite to the um-

bilicus, and a one-seeded ovarium; but differs especially in

its pendulous ovulum and in habit. Pe es

By the advice of Mr. Brown we have placed Chloranthus

in the first class of the Linnean system, although, he observes,

that only one known species (C. monander Br.) is really and

at the same time constantly monandrous; for in inconspicuus

_ and elatior (Br.) the three-lobed four-celled anther, hitherto

regarded as an antheriferous petal, is according to him com-

posed of three confluent anthers, of which the middle one

only is perfect or two-celled, corresponding with the anther _

of monander, the lateral being dimidiate or one-celled: and in

monostachys both simple and compound anthers are found

in the same spike.

Native of China. Our drawing was taken in August last

at the garden of the Horticultural society, by whom this

hitherto undescribed species was introduced, through their

correspondent Joun Reeves, Esq. F.R.S. and L.S, of Canton.

( 2191 )

RULINGIA PANNOosA. CLOTH-LEAVED Rvu- —

LINGIA. | Lee |

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Class and Order.

PenTanpria Penracynia.

(Inter Maherniam et Commersoniam).

Generic Character.

: Petala 5, € cucullata basi ligulata. Stamina sterilia 5,

indivisa, (Nectarium Lin.). Ovarium 5-loculare: loculis

dispermis. Capsula: septis duplicatis demum 5-partibilis.

Brown.

Specific Character.

Ruuinera pannosa; capsulis echinatis exsertis, foliis dentato

—serratis acutis planis supra scabris subtus tomentosis: in-

ferioribus ovatis subcordatis passimque lobatis; superiori-

bus oblongo-lanceolatis. Br. prodr. fl. nov-holl. 2. inedit.

Our friend Mr. Brown, to whom we are indebied for the

_ above generic and specific cliaracters, places this genus in

_ the natural system, in his order of Buttnertacee, which he

has defined in the appendix to Fuinpers’ voyage, vol. 2. p.

540. It is nearly related to Commersonia, from which it

differs, in the number of sterile filaments, or division of the

nectarium, in the cells of the ovarium being two-seeded,

and in the capsule. Named in memory of Joun Puri

Riitine, author of an essay on the Natural Orders, in

which he has published the ideas of Professor Biirrner

upon this subject. A green-house shrab, native of Port

Jackson, in New Holland, where Mr. Brown discovered -

several other species of the same genus. Communicated by

Mr. Kenr of Clapton, in May last. ‘-:

ig.

Fig. 1. represents a separate flower magnified, as are all

the other figures. 2. The Calyx. 3. A Petal, with its cucul-

lated base embracing an anther. 4. The Germen and: 5

styles which latter approximate so closely as to appear like

one siyle. 5. The nectarium or five barren filaments,

undivided, and wanting the filiform bodies, which are inter-

posed between each in Commersonia.

( 2192 )

Gaunca onenraLis. Orrentan Goats-Rus.

died sess ak se ak ae ae aR de sk ace te ae

Class and Order.

Diapetpaia Decanpria.

Generic Character,

Cal. dentibus subulatis, subeequalibus.. Legusmen striis ob-

liquis, seminibus interjectis. |

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Gateca orientalis ; foliis pinnatis: foliolis ovato-lanceolatis

acutis, stipulis ovatis, leguminibus pendulis. Marsch. a

Bieb. Flor. Taur. cauc. 2. p. 182. Suppl. p. 485.

Cent. PL rar. Ross. 2. t. 67. yee j

Gateea orientalis ; foliolis ovato-acutis nervosis levibus,

stipulis ovatis integerrimis. Lam. Enecyel. 2. p. 596.

Persoon Syn. 2. p. 330. Mey, Ji ¥e

Gaxgea orientalis ; foliis pinnatis : foliolis ovatis acuminatis

- gilabris, stipulis ovatis, floribus cerneis.. Wélid. Sp. Pl.

3. p. 1241. Hort. Kew. ed. ali. 4. p. 355. |

Gag¢a orientalis latifolia altissima, flore ezruleo. Tournef.

Cor. p. 27. e | |

Ga.zca montana. Schultes obs. p. 154. Hojffm. Hort. Mosq.

m. 1402. Donn Cantab. ed. 9. p. 244. Lodd. Catal.

1820. p. 46. |

dictate

Descr. Stem herbaceous, flexuose, obscurely fluted, pu-

bescent at the upper and smooth at the lower parts. Stipules

oval, concave, reflexed, quite entire, except that sometimes

they have two little processes at the base. Leaves pinnate :

ts about seven pair, rounded at the base, pointed at the

end, lively green, somewhat villous on the under side. Pe-

duncles generally two together from the axil of the terminal

eaf. Flowers pale violet, in a long raceme, pendulous from

short horizontal pedicles. Bractes linear-lanceolate a

‘ a s reflexed.

reflexed. Calyx pubescent. dle shorter than the vexillum :

Carina shorter than the ale. Filaments all united at the

base, but one of them farther distinct than the rest. -.Pollen

orange-coloured. Legumen somewhat curved, linear, pen-

dulous.

The Gateea orientalis does not occur in the first edition

of Arron’s Hortus Kewensis, being introduced in the year

1801, since the publication of that work by the late Right

Hon. Sir Josern Banks, Bart. whose death will be long la-

mented, as an irreparable Joss, particularly to the whole

Botanical world. In our nurseries it has often gone by the

name of Galega montana, under which it still stands in the ~

last editions of Loppinees and Donn’s Catalogues.

We have not seen any representation of this plant, the

- figure quoted from the supplement to the Flora taurico-cau-

casica in the second volume of the Century of rare Russian

plants by M. Marscuatt, not having as yet come to hand.

It was first described by Lamarck in the Encyclopédie

Botanique from a specimen collected by Tournerorrt, and

preserved in Jussieu’s Herbarium. _

Native of the subalpine woods of Caucasus and of the

Levant. Flowers from June to August. . |

A hardy perennial, not undeserving a place in the flower

garden. Our drawing was taken from a plant communicated

by. Mr. Jenxins from his Botanic garden in the New Road ;

our description from one with which we were favoured by

_ Messrs. Loppices and Sons in June 1807, under the specific

name of montana. ‘ ,

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Siva Napaa. Smoota Virerian Siva.

seas th Rats ses seae

Class and Order.

MonapDELPHIA Poxyanpria,

Generic Character. -

Cal. simplex, angulatus. . Stylus multipartitus. Capsule

plures, mono- s. trisperme.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Siva Napea; foliis subquinque-lobis glabris: lobis oblongis

acuminatis dentatis, pedunculis multifloris, capsulis muticis

acuminatis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3, p.'765. Hort. Kew. ed.

alt. 4. p. 206. Pursh Fl. am. Sept. 2. p. 453.

Siva Napea; caulibus virgatis ramosis, foliis glabris cordatis

palmatis, lobis quinque acutissime productis, petalis

concavis cuspidatis. Cav. Diss. 5. p. 277. t, 132. f. 1.

Napaa levis; pedunculis nudis levibus, foliis lobatis glabris.

a Veg. ed. 14. p. 896. Lam. ill. gen. t. 579. f. L.

cycl. 4. p. 420. Hort. Kew. ed. 1°* 3. p 417. 5

Narza hermaphrodita; pedunculis nudis levibus, foliis

glabris, floribus hermaphroditis. Sp. Plant.965. Fabr.

Helmst. 281. ‘ ;

Siva foliis palmatis, laciniis lanceolato-attenuatis. Hort.

Cliff. 346. . Hort. Ups. 198. |

A.tua virginiana Ricini folio. Herm. Lugd. 22. cum icone.

Matya aceris folio virginiana. Tourn. Inst. 95.

Sma Napea is more generally known in our nurseries by

the name of Napaa levis, under which it occurs in the first

_ dition of Arron’s Hortus Kewensis. It has indeed been the

fate of this plant to be transferred backwards and forwards —

between these two genera. Lainnxus at first ranked it under

— remarking, however, that it differed so much from the

er species, that it might easily constitute a new genus.

52 gh y Accordingly

Accordingly in the Species Plantarum, it occurs under the

name of Narza hermaphrodita, changed afterwards to

Napa levis. Cavanilles reunited Nap#a with the genus

Sip4, im w:.ich he has been followed by most botanists since,

but Jussieu has retained the genus Napaa distinguishing it

from Sipa by the want of obliquity in the petals and of any

articulation in the peduncle; the latter character, however,

certainly fails, as the peduncles are as evidently jointed just

below the calyx, as in most species of S1pa,

A hardy herbaceous perennial, from four to eight feet high,

native of Virginia in North America. Cultivated by Mr. ©

Prrer Cox.inson before the year 1748, Flowers in August

and September. Communicated by our friend Ayumer

Burxe Lampert, Esq. from his collection at Boyton.

Pibd. bey 2 Gartia, Watworty, Wovaisee, Wed dei se

bis bye sya toy Sees

DicitaLis TOMENTOSA. WooLy LEAVED

Fox-Guove.

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Class and Order.

Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. campanulata, A—5-loba, ventricosa.

Caps. ovata, bilocularis.

Specific Character.

Dicirauis tomentosa; foliis tomentosis rugosis serratis

in petiolum decurrentibus utrinque concoloribus, floribus

quaquaversum spectantibus.

Descr. Stem about 2 feet high, somewhat branched,

villous. Leaves alternate, oblong-oval, petiolated, decurrent

down the petiole and a little on the stem, tomentose and

rugose on the under side. Terminal raceme many flowered,

side-ones few-flowered: Flowers bright blush-coloured, large,

spread in every direction. Bractes lanceolate, quite entire,

longer than the peduncle. Peduncle rising, not horizontal,

calyx villous: segments oval, the uppermost one smaller by

nearly half than the rest. Tube of Corolla within the calyx

white, above the calyx dilated into an oblong faux, convex

underneath, flattened above: mouth gaping, a little hairy:

upper-lip short, rounded, slightly emarginate: lower-li

3-lobed: middle lobe long, round oval, spotted and hairy

within, side lobes very short. Stamens within the faux:

anthers didymous: lobes finally so divaricate as to stand at

right angles with the filament. Style equal to the stamens:

stigma 2-lipped. Germen conical, 2-celled: ovules affixed

to a central receptacle. o

We have not found any thing said about this species, but

informed that it was received from Vienna under the

name that we have adopted, by Mr. AnpErson, of the Chelsea

, where it flowered, and our drawing was taken in

une, 1819. But we find »by a specimen from Philip

Miter, now in the Banksian Herbarium, that it was culti-

vated by him, and supposed to be Digitalis Thapsi. From

which, however, it seems to differin many material points, as

in the leaves being of the same colour on both sides, supported

on long footstalks, not sessile; in the greater length of the

bractes; in the flowers not being secund or looking one way,

and of a brighter colour, These-plants are, however, too

nearly allied, and perhaps may only be varieties of the same

species. : .

A hardy biennial, propagated by seeds. Its native country

unknown. : eres

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- GEODORUM CITRINUM. Lemon-coLovrEp

GEopoRUM. ! 2

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Class and Order. —

GyNANDRIA MonaANDRIA.

Generic Character.

~ Labellum cucullatum, ventricosum (nunc basi calcaratum),

sessile, cum columna non articulatum. Petala conformia,

- subsecunda. Masse pollinis 2, postice lobulo aucte.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Geoporum citrinum ; scapo foliis breviore, spica pendula :

floribus congestis, labello basi subcalcarato ; apice obtuso

integerrimo. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. ait. 5. p. Wi.

Poir. Encycl. Suppl. 5. p. 689.

Groporum citrinum. Bot. Repos. 626. ~

Descr. Leaves all radical, lanceolate, many-nerved, upon

long sheathing footstalks. Scape lateral, shorter than the

leaves, with alternate sheathing leaves or bractes, the upper

ones more expanded from the stalk than the lower, terminating

in a cernuous spike of flowers of a pale greenish yellow colour,

the labellum of which is beautifully variegated with crimson

veins. The Column erect, semicylindrica!, crowned with a

two-celled, opercular, deciduous anther, containing two pollen

masses, united to a very short pedicle or lobe at the base,

attached at the margin of a hemispherical cavity (the st¢gma)

just below the anther, filled with a viscid liquor, into which

if the pollen masses are immersed they are almost instantane-

ously dissolved.

he first notice we have of this rare and beautiful plant,

belonging to the natural order of orchidee, is in ANDREW’s ©

Botanist’s Repository. The drawing was made by our -

Es ment

mented friend, the late Mr. Syp—ennam Epwarps, from a fine —

plant, communicated by Messrs. Loppices and Sons in July»

1812, and our description drawn up at the same time. _

Native of the East Indies. Introduced by the Right Hon.

Sir JOSEPH Bans, Bart.

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(2196 .)

- ACONITUM SEPTENTRIONALE, 8. CARPATICUM

CARPATHIAN WOLFS-BANE. |

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Class and Order. :

PoryAnpRiA T'RIGYNIA.

Generic Character.

Cal. 0, Petala 5, supremo fornicato. Nectaria 2, pedun-

culata, recurva. Silique 3. s. 5. ci se :

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Aconitum septentrionale ; galea conica, foliis palmatis quin-

que-lobatis: lobis cuneiformibus inciso-dentatis, pedicellis —

basi bracteatis. —__ OEY ge

3 (a.) caule foliisque pubescentibus.

= Aconitum septentrionale. Koelle Acon. 22. Willd. Sp. Pl.

| 2. p. 1235. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p.322.

Aconitum Lycoctonum @. flore ceruleo. Reich. Syst. Veg.

2. p. 615. Flor. Dan. t. 123...

Aconitum Lycoctonum floribus pallide ceruleis, Gm, Sib. 4.

p: 439.7 —... ’ b

| (8.) carpaticum; caule foliisque glaberrimis, corollis lurido-

§ -purpureis.

Aconitum Lycoctonum 8. ceruleum ; floribus ceruleis, herba

floribusque magis elongatis, foliis profundius et distinctius

palmatis. Wahlenb. Fl. carpat. 163.

‘Descr. Stem flexuose, angular, quite smooth. Leaves

smooth, veined, dark green on the upper, and pale on the

under, side, palmate, 5-lobed : lobes wedge shaped, incised :

' footstalks channelled, embracing the stem. Flowers in ter-

minal racemes, of a lurid purple colour mixed with green,

Supported on very short pedicles, with three small subulate

bractes, generally all close to or very near the sae The

Pee a ee

5 petals are all connivent: the upper one (galea) conical,

terminated in a long tube, nearly straight, obtuse: lateral

_ petals (ale) roundish : lower petals slightly bearded, not

pendent, as in most of the species. These petals are called

segments of the calyx by Jussizeu and De Canpo.ie, who

give the name of petals to the smail coloured scales surrounding

the germen, which are wanting in this species, and to the two

singular bodies inclosed within the tube of the galea called

by Linneus Nectaria, which are supported on long pedicles

or claws terminated by a horn-shaped body (Cucudlus of

WitipEnow) forming at one end a sort of spur (calcar of

‘De Canpotte) and expanded at the other into a border or lip

(tabium).- In our plant this part is recurved at the spur and

truncate, and slightly emarginate at the lip. Filaments dilated

and cohering at the base. Germens 3, oval. Style shorter

than stamens, Stigmas 3, simple. Capsules 3, recurvedly

divaricate. .

This variety is a native of the Carpathian Mountains and

first described by M. Wantenserc who has published an —

excellent Flora of those regions, but is considered by him as —

only a variety of Aconitum Lycoctonum ; he observes low-

ever that the two continue distinct from one another, and are

never found intermixed. Aconitum septentrionale a. a native.

of Norway, Russia, and Siberia, differs from our present plant

in being pubescent, and also apparently in the shortness and

recurvature of the galea or casque, which part is long and

nearly straight; or what curvature it has is downward, con- |

trary to what takes place in Patuas’s specimen of septen-

trionale, preserved in Lameerr’s Herbarium. =

A hardy perennial. Flowers in June, July, and August.

Communicated by Messrs. Wuirtey, Brame, and Mune, of -

the Fulham nursery, who raised it from seeds collected in the

Carpathian Mountains. |

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(2197)

ANcHUSA ITALICA. ITALIAN Buexoss.

Seek ese sks sk sk sealeseakeae

Class and Order.

: PENTANDRIA Mownoeynia.

| Generic Character.

Cor. infundibuliformis, fauce clausa fornicibus. Sem. basi

insculpta.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ancuusa italica ; floribus cabaccnaliins fauce barbatis, caly-

cibus quinquepartitis fructiferis erectis, foliis. lucidis

strigosis. 1. taur. cauc. 1. p. 122. |

Ancuusa italica ; foliis lucidis strigosis, racemis bipartitis

diphyllis, floribus subequalibus fauce barbatis. Retz.

Obs. 1. p. 12. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 556. Hort. Kew.

ed. alt. 1. p. 289.

Ancuusa italica foliis lanceolatis undulatis ; summis acumi-

natis, squamulis faucis corolle penicilliformibus. Trew

pl. rar. p. \4. t. 18.

Ancuusa paniculata. Lehmann asperif. 1. 230. Sm. prodr.

Flor. Grec. 1. p. 115. Fl. Grec. t..163?

Ancuusa Alcibiadion. Dod. pempt. p. 629.

Buetossum foliis linguiformibus asperis, spicis supremis ge-

mellis. Hall. Hist. n. 599. Exclusis synonymis.

Buexossum italicum flore ceeruleo. Hort. Eyst. Ord. Aist. 8.

t 5.

Buc.ossum angustifolium. Lob. ic 1. 576.

Buetossum vulgare. Bauh. Hist. 3. p. 578. Ger. emac.

p. 798.

Contre italicum. Fuchs. Hist. fol. t. 343.

Ancuusa italica, being much the most common species in

many parts of the south of Europe, has been often confounded

with officinalis, and indies, was not distinguished py it by

NNEUS.

Linnazus. Rerzivus has taken much pains in setling the

synonymy of our present plant. The character first pointed

out by Trew of the scales closing the faux of the corolla being

erect and bearded or pencil-formed, added to that of the

segments of the calyx being divided to the base, will perhaps

distinguish it from every other species, unless paniculata, in’

which the same characters hold good, be considered as distinct,

as has been lately alleged; though both are united by Sir

James E. Smiru in his Prodromus flore greece, as well as by |

Leamann. As we have had no opportunity of examining a

living specimen of the Madeira plant we cannot take upon us

to decide the question ; but judging from the appearance of

the specimen brought by Masson from Madeira, we should

not consider that to be distinct from italica. At all events

we think it right to retain the name of zéalica so long applied -

_ to this species, by the older botanists as well as the modern,

in preference to that of paniculata; although it is a native

not of Italy only, but also of Swisserland, France, Spain,

Portugal, Greece, the country about Algiers and Tunis, and

perhaps of the island of Madeira. The figures of Doponavs,

Loser, and Gerarp, all from the same block, are good re-

presentations of our plant. |

A hardy perennial. Flowers- most part of the summer.

Communicated by Mr. Anperson from the Chelsea garden.

N 2098

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JASIONE PERENNIS. PERENNIAL SHEEPS-BIT.

JGR E ee ee

Class and Order.

Pentanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Involucr. 10-fidum. Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. 5-petala, regu-

laris. Anthere basi coherentes. Caps. infera, bilocularis,

polysperma.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

JASIONE perennis ; foliis linearibus sublevibus planis obtusi-

usculis. Lam. Encycl. 3. p. 216. Ilustr. Gen. t. 724.

[2 Ss !

JasIonE montana, 8. perennis, radice perenni. Linn. Suppl.

p. 392. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 889.

_Descr. Root perennial, putting forth several upright

simple stalks, bearing each a single hemispherical, ‘finally

globular, capitulum of flowers, the lower part clothed with

linear, obtuse leaves, quite smooth except a few hairs at the

edge towards the base, neither toothed nor undulate; the

upper part naked, angular, forming a peduncle from four to

six inches long. Involuecrum of about ten lozenge-shaped

leaves, serrate. Calyx superior, persistent 5-tooth: teeth

subulate. Corolla 5-cleft: lacinie linear, filiform. Stamens.

5, shorter than the corolla. Anthers oval, bursting before

the expansion of the corolla, as in most campanulacee, but,

as far as we could observe, at no time united, as in montana.

Germen inferior, 2-celled. Style after impregnation length-

€ning beyond the corolla. Stigma club-shaped, villous,

- finaily bilid, |

lt has been much doubted whether this is a distinct species

or only a mere variety of Jasione montana ; but if our ob-

servation of the anthers being always distinct is correct, it

can no longer be doubtful. It is‘also a larger, smoother plant ;

and after a cultivation of more than ten years M. LaMarcx

found it to continue distinct,

Native of the South of France. Flowers in July and

August. Communicated by Mr. Jenxrys from his Botanical

garden in the New Road.

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DoparTiA ORIENTALIS. ORIENTAL DopARTIA.

TR Re eee eee ee

Class and Order.

Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. labium inf. duplo longius. Caps.

2-locularis, globosa.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Dopartia orientalis; foliis linearibus integerrimis glabris.

Sp. Pl. 883. Willd. 3. p. 355. Hort. Kew ed. alt. 4.

p. 52. Flor. taur. cauc. 2. p. 84. Gmel. Sib. 3. p.

200. n. 9. Mill. ic. t, 127.

Doparrtia orientalis flore purpurascente. Tourn. Corol. p.

A7.—It. 3. t. 208. Engl ed. 3. p. 188. c. icone.

Coris juncea aphyllos. Amm. Ruth. N. 46. t. 5.

This singular plant, which is more curious than beautiful,

was first discovered by Tournerorr in his travels in the

Levant, near a monastery in the neighbourhood of Mount

Ararat. This celebrated botanist gave it the name of Do-

DARTIA, in honour of M. Doparr, of the Royal Academy of

Sciences, at that time physician to the then Dowager Princess

of Conv, and afterwards to the King. M. Doparr, he re-

marks, was one of the most learned men of his age, and equally

esteemed for his modesty and integrity. It is also found very

plentifully in salt-marshes in Caucasus. Lee

A hardy perennial. Cultivated by Paitre Mutter in 1752. °

Flowers July and August. Communicated by Messrs.

Warrier, Brame and Minne.

Fits by Sluwsig. Wale oth,

Versena LAMBERTI. LaAmBeERT’s VERVAIN.

Sees Rese skates ae sek

Class and Order.

Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA.

Generic Character.

Cor. limbus subbilabiatus, 5-lobus, inzequalis. Stam. in-

clusa. Ulriculus evanidus. Sem. 2—4.

_ Specific Character and Synonyms.

Versena Lamberti; tetrandra, spicis laxis solitariis, caule

hispido decumbente radicante, foliis oblongis inciso-

dentatis apice integerrimis. =

Versena Aubletia. Bot. Reg. 294.

Verzena bracteosa. Pursh, non vero Michaux.

In the Sth volume of this work, No. 308, there is a figure

of Verbena Aubletia; from which we do not scruple to con-

sider this as a distinct species; for although it is not very

easy, perhaps, to find very good diagnostic characters, yet

Whoever has carefully: compared the two plants cannot hesi-

tate to pronounce to which he should refer any, even small

specimen, that may be offered to him. The stem of Aubletia

is almost constantly erect, and shows no disposition to creep;

of Lamberti decumbent, and throws out roots wherever it

touches the ground; the leaves of the former in length

seldom greatly exceed their breadth: of the latter they are

frequently three times Jonger than broad, and the point of the

leaf has no incision for some way down. Our plant is also

much more hairy, and its spikes of flowers are usually much

longer, and very sweet scented, which those of Aubletia, we

leve, are not. Z

Mr. Lamsert, to whom we are indebted for the living

specimen from which our drawing was taken, informs us

that a whole border of this plant in the open ground in his

garden

garden at Boyton survived the winter of 1818, without pro-

tection ; but that last year nearly the whole perished from the

severity of the frost. |

It appears by the Flora Peruviana of Ruiz and Pavon,

that there are some other species of Verbena, which have as

near an affinity with V. Aubletia as the present species,

which was brought from Carolina by the late Mr. Lyon, and

was considered by Mr. Pursu as the bracteosa of Micnavx,

with the character of which, however, it does not at all agree.

Flowers in June, July and August.

N2q

Pub.by.§ Lartis Walworth DP scaabis.

Waddell § c

(2 2201>-Jor

Cupnea Circ#orpes. Encaanter’s Nieut-

SHADE-LIKE CUPHEA.

KEKE EEE EERIE

Class and Order.

DopecanpriA Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 6—12-dentatus: basi hinc gibbosa. Petala 6, calyci

inserta, Caps. 1-locularis, hinc cum calyce longitudinaliter

dehiscens. Brown in Hort. Kew.

Specific Character.

Cupnea circeoides; racemo terminali: pedicellis sparsis,

bracteis linearibus, foliis ovatis petiolatis pubescentibus.

Smith, Mss. -

We were favoured with a living plant of this new species of

Curnea by Mrs. Mackie, from her nursery in Norwich;

who raised it from seeds given her by Sir James E. Surrn.

Our friend Sir James informs us, that he picked the seeds

from his only specimen, given him by Wm. Swainson, Jun.

Esq. who discovered it growing in shady places at Pernam-

buco in South America, where, however, it is very rare.

Sir James has further informed us, that it is a tender

annual, requiring the heat of the stove; that “it differs from

Curnea decandra of the Hortus Kewensis in having an erect

herbaceous stem, elongated foot-stalks, downy like the leaves

and branches, alternate flowers and linear bracteas; while

C. decandra has a shrubby, diffuse, smooth stem, opposite

flowers, and roundish stalked, bracteas.

“Circza racemosa (Lyturum racemosum Linn. Suppl.)

which is nearest to circeoides, has a diffuse, apparently her-

baceous stem, opposite flowers and bracteas like those of :

decandra,

‘

—

decandra, leaves rough-edged, smooth on the surface, on

short footstalks.”

The petals. in our specimen were very, minute, perhaps not

properly developed from deficiency of heat. Flowers in Sep-

tember. Propagated by seeds-only.

Torus De Bib. by. §.bartis Walworth Duc 25:0, Wadddl Se.

A i lat <r. AS. —

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DENTARIA PENTAPHYLLA. Frve-LEAvED

ToorTH-wortT.

deka deed eae

Class and Order. :

WT xceapraives Siniqvosa.

Generic Character.

Siliqua elastice dissiliens valvulis revolutis. Stigma in-

tegrum. Cal. longitudinaliter connivens. g

— Specific Character and Synonyms.

Denraria pentaphyllos; foliis digitatis. Hort. Kew. ed. I.

. 2. Pe 387. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 480. Persoon Syn.

Denrania foliis summis digitatis. Sp. Pl. 912.

Denvraria digitata. Lam. Encyel. 2. p. 268. D.C. flor.

Jrang. A. D. 686. oo a :

Carpamine pentaphylla; caule simplicissimo apice triphyllo,

foliis quinato-digitatis: foliolis elliptico-lanceolatis _in-

ciso-serratis, corolla staminibus duplo longiore. Hort.

Kew. ed. alt. 4 p. 101. i

Denraxia pentaphylla foliis mollioribus. Garid. Prov. 152.

4. 29. :

Denraria foliis quinis digitatis. Hall. Hist. n. 469.

Dentaria pentaphyllos. Bawh. pin. 322. Clus. Hist. 2. p.

162. f. 1. and 2. : ae

SaxiFRAGA montana, radice squamis s. nodis denticulatis in-

signis. Gesn. fase. 1.t.1.f- 1. fig. opt.

Viowa dentaria prima. Dod. Pempt. 162. fig. bona.

Auarastrites nemoralis alpina ~herbariorum. 400.

686. f. 1. — ‘ee

Poe

The genus Denraria has been united by Mr. Brown, in

the Horius Kewensis, to that of Carpamine. But there is

something in the general aspect of all the species hitherto

referred to Dentaria, so peculiarly different from ——

to say nothing of the singular apparatus about the root, that

however difficult it may be to find proper generic characters

to distinguish them by, we feel quite unwilling to give up a

name by which these plants have been so long generally

known. PO 3

The roots of all the species of Denraria are more or less

scaly. In our plant the: scales are fleshy, cordate, concave,

at first white, but turning to a dull purple with age. ~

A hardy perennial. Propagated by dividing the root.

Flowers in April, May and June. Communicated by Ro-

BERT Barcray, Esq. of Bury Hill.

42203

barbie Dols / . Pub. by.S Curtis Walworth. Jan-x182, viii:

( 2203 )

ONCIDIUM FLEXUOsUM. Z1c-ZAG ONcIDIUM.

SRR Re eee ie He

Class and Order.

GynanpRiA Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Labellum explanatum, lobatum, basi tuberculatum. Petala

patentia (2 antica nunc connata). Colwmna alata. Masse

pollinis 2, postice bilobe ; medio affixee processu communi

stigmatis. Br. in Hort. Kew.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Oncip1um flexuosum; labello bilobo guttato lacinias multoties

superante, bulbis ovatis compressis basi apiceque foliatis,

scapo paniculato: pedicellis divaricatis, radice repente.

Oncipium flexuosum. Lodd. Cab. n. 424.

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This beautiful Oncidium is in many respects similar to the

one published at No. 1491, under the name of Oncipium

bifolium, but differs in having a panicled scape, flattened

bulbs which are furnished with leaves at their base as well as

at their point. The labellum is larger in proportion to the

other lacinie of the corolla, more exquisitely two-lobed and

covered with minute red dots.

Native of Brazil. Flowers in June and July, and the

blossoms continue for six weeks or longer before they drop.

Requires the constant heat of the stove. Introduced by

Messrs. Loppipces and Sons, and published, under the name

which we have adopted, in their Botanicai Cabinet.

2 - a

K2204.

P.Srme. Deir

ARETHUSA BULBOSA. Buxsovus ARETHUSA. :

Class and. Order.

Gynanpria Monanpria. _

Generic Character.

Labellum inferne cum columna connatum; superne cu-

cullatum; intus cristatum. Petala 5, basi conmata. Pollen

angulatum. Brown in Hort. Kew.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Aretuusa bulbosa; radice globosa, scapo vaginato unifloro,

petalis interioribus incurvatis, labello subcrenulato.

Areruusa bulbosa. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 205. Lam.

Encycl. 1. p. 242. :

Areruusa bulbosa; radice globosa, scapo vaginato, spatha

diphylla. Sp. Pl. 1346. Willd. Sp. Pl. 4. p.80. Lam.

Illustr. t. 729. f. 1. ex Plukenetio.

Aretuusa bulbosa ; aphylla, radice bulbosa, scapo vaginato

unifloro, calycis laciniis superioribus incurvatis, labello

subcrenulato. Michaux Fl. amer. bor. 2. p. 160. Pursh

_ Fil. amer. sept. p. 890. :

HELLEBORINE mariana monanthos, flore longo purpurascente

liliaceo. Pluk. Mant. 100. t. 348. f. 7.

(ete

For the drawing of this very rare plant we are indebted to

- Rosert Granam, Professor of Botany in the university

of Edinburgh. It flowered in the Botanic garden in June

t and continued in blossom about a fortnight. The bulb

was imported from Canada, and arrived early in December

1819. We believe no representation of this plant has been

published except that by Plukenet, from a dried specimen,

and Lamarckx’s figure in his illustrations of the genera, which

@ppears to be a copy of the former. Vin

The plant is, as Professor Granam observes, not strictly

aphyllous, but has three or four leaves, sheathing the scape

and one, another, but with little or no expanding: portion. -

Whether these sheaths all arise from the root, or from the

stalk itself was not ascertained. In the former case only the

term scape is strictly applicable. 2.

Fig. 1. Represents the whole plant above the ground with

the flower in its greatest perfection.

2. A back view of the flower when it began to fade,

at which time the germen’ was considerably

lengthened. |

The spathe after the flower was removed.

The column shewing the pollen mass overhanging

the stigma.

The same with the pollen mass turned up to shew

its attachment.

The bulb, taken after the plant was decayed.

Se Ge

(| 2205)

CoNvoLVULUS BICOLOR. Two-CoLOURED

BIND-WEED.

. Class and Order.

Pentanpria Monoeynia. —

Generic Character.

Cor. campanulata, plicata. Stigm.2. Caps. 2-locularis:

loculis dispermis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Convotvutus bicolor ; volubilis, pubescens, foliis cordatis an-

gulatis ; pedunculis axillaribus unifloris, bracteis lineari-

lanceolatis calyci involucriformi approximatis.

Convo.vutus bicolor. Hort. Bengal.p. 14.

Convotvutus involucratus. Bot. Reg. 318. vix Willdenovii.

Convotvutus bicolor is a native of Bengal and probably

of the Mauritius. It appears by the catalogue of the Calcutta _

garden to be an herbaceous perennial, and to flower there in

the rainy season ; with us it seems to be annual and to blossom

in May and June in the stove. As in Convotvunus Tur-

pethum the two outer segments of the calyx are much larger

than the three internal ones which ca ~aagiee but are not

fleshy as in that. There is a particularity pointed out by

Mr. Herserr in the Corolla of this plant that we have not

observed in any other species of Conyolvulus, which is, that

the stamens are supported on five projecting bridges or valves

crossing the mouth of the tube, much in the same way as

those of Campanula arise from the points of arched valves at

the bottom of the tube: betwixt these valves appear five,

transparent, yellowish cells. A a

Convotvunus involucratus of WiLLDENOw is a native of

Guinea, and a specimen of it is preserved in ee Banksian

Lis erbarium,

herbarium, which was-collectéd*in that country by Professor

Arze.ius. As far as we can judge from an imperfect speci-

mén, and ‘a ‘description not more perfect, we cannot think

_ that our plant is the same as that; we therefore prefer the

name by which it is recordéd'in the catalogue of the Calcutta

garden, and under which we received a specimen of the same

species from the late ‘Dr. Heyne; in which the peduncles

were constantly single-flowered as in both Mr. Hersert’s

and Sir Apranam Hume's plants.

Our drawing was made from a sketch of a seedling plant

by the Hon. Winrtram ‘HEkBERT, transmitted to us with a

flower and part of the foliage, early in May 1819.

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VICIA ONOBRYCHIOIDES. SAINT-FOIN VETCH.

Class and Order.

DiapeEteH1A DEcANpDRIA.

Generic Character.

Stigma latere inferiore transverse barbatum.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Victa onobrychioides ; pedunculis multifloris folio longiortbus,

floribus distantibus, foliolis linearibus, stipulis semisa-

gittatis lineari lanceolatis basi dentatis. Walld. Sp. Pl. 3.

p. 1099. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 312.

Vicia onobrychioides ; pedunculis multifloris, floribus distanti-

bus, foliolis linearibus, stipulis inferne denticulatis. Sp.

Pl. 1036. Allion. pedem. n. 1198. t.42. f.1. Desfont.

Al. 2. p. 163. De Cand. Flor. franc. 4. p. 591. -

Victa foliis ellipticis, floribus racemosis erectis, stipulis argute

dentatis. Hall. Hist. n. 425.

Vicia onobrychidis flore. Bauh. Pin. 345.—prodr. 149.

iinet

Descr. Root annual. Stems climbing, square. Leaves

pinnate, terminated with a branched tendril: leaflets linear,

obtuse, mucronate, from ten to fourteen. Stipules semisa-

gittate, toothed at the base; superior ones frequently cuspidate.

Peduncles axillary, twice the length of the leaves. Flowers

In a secund raceme, large, distant. Calyx bilabiate : teeth

acute, those of the lower lip longer than the upper. Vexillum

much longer than the ale and carina. Stamens all united.

Germen linear, straight, many-seeded. Style rising at a right

angle. Stigma obovate, hairv all round. :

Vicia onobrychioides resembles Victa Cracea in habit and

foliage, but is at once distinguished from it by the much

greater size and paucity of the blossoms, and by the propor-

tionate shortness of the ale. In as much as the ae is

a airy

hairy all round, and not on the under side only, and the

filaments are all connected, it even deviates from the

characters of the genus.

An ornamental, hardy annual. Flowers in May, June,

and July. Introduced in 1789 by Mr. Joun Hunniman.

Communicated by Mr. Jenxins from his Botanical garden in‘

the New-Road.

Pub. by:S. GavtisWateor th” Weddill § x,

( 2207 )

SAXIFRAGA IRRIGUA. FouNnTAIN SAXIFRAGE

see kskaedetesese kee

Class and Order.

Decanpria Dieynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. 5-petala. Caps. 2-rostris, 1-locularis,

_ polysperma. be

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Saxirraca irrigua ; foliis palmato-quinquepartitis : lobis in-

cisis ; caulinis digitatis, caule paniculato diffuso, petalis

oblongis calyce pius dup!o longioribus, stylis filiformibus

Marsch. a Bieb. fl. taur-cauc. v. 2. p. AGO.—v. 3. p. 295.

Poir. Suppl. encyel. v. 5. p. 75.

Saxirraca aquatica. Fl. taur-cauc. n. 784; nomine inter

addenda mutato.

Saxirraca petrea; foliis radicalibus palmato-quinquepartitis:

lobis lateralibus coalescentibus multifidis, caule paniculato

laxo. Gouan Illustr. p. 29. t. 18. f.3??

Saxirraca irrigua. Marsh. Cent. pl. rar. ross. 2. t. 73.

_ Steven de saxifr. cauc. in. Mem. Mosq. 4. p. 82. n. 12.

The whole plant is covered with glandular hairs, which

secrete a viscid juice. é

The figure quoted from Govan’s illustrations, though said

by Marscuatt, in his Flora taurico-caucasica, to be a good

representation, is very doubtful, and probably belongs to

Saxifraga aquatica, which this excellent botanist at first con-

sidered to be the same species with his plant, afterwards

separated from it under the name of irrigua. We have not

been able to see the figure in the Century of rare Russian

plants by the same author: that part not being yet arrived

in this country as far as we have learnt. ~ 7 |

Our drawing was made from a plant raised in the Chelsea

garden from seeds, sent by Dr. Fiscner from Gorenki, and

communicated to us b Mr. Anperson, the worthy Curator

of that excellent establishment.

Dud, by: 5 Oartis Watworth, Tan 2.1822.

( 2208.)

CrRINUM DEFIXUM. Derrp-rooTED CRINUM.

SEE SESE Seale ai ae a aR ae eR eae ae ae

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynta.

Generic Character.

Tubus cylindricus, germine directé continuatus eoque

gracilior, limbo sepe longior, emarcescente limbo plerumque

magna parte persistens. -Limbus ante expansionem nutans vel

inclinatus. Lacinie alterna equales, citeris sepe dispares.

Filamenta, vix extra faucem tubi,. corolle pariter inserta.

Stigma trigonum, plerumque vix divisum, aliquando trilo-

batum. Germen media parte crassius, 3-locular2, loculis

1—3l-spermis, sessile vel pedunculo directé coniinuatum,

Capsula difformis, dissepimentorum destructione 1-2 locularis.

Semina carnosa, viridia, sepius magna et difformia.

Folia plerumque multiforia. W.#H.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Crinum defixum ; bulbo oblongo, foliis rigenter erectis margine

glabriusculis scapo longioribus, laciniis lineari-loratis tubo

brevioribus, germinie subsessili. fe

Crinum defixum, supra N. 2121. p.5. Ker in Journ. Sc. and

Arts. v. 3, p. 105.

Crinum asiaticum. Hort. Bengal. p. 23. Roxburg M. S.

Bevurta-pota-rary. Rheede Hort. Malab. 11. 75. t. 38. _

Sten

_ Descr. Butlh stoloniferous, oblong-spherical, about two

inches diameter above ground, when cultivated bright green :

rowing naturally in the deep mud of water-courses in

engal, in which situation the neck of the bulb is necessarily

prolonged till it reaches the surface in a cylindrical form.

es shining, from two to three feet long, with a tapering

blunt. point, about an inch wide, the lower part deeply chan-

nelled like a half cylinder, the margin bristled with a few

minute points. Scape generally shorter than the leaves,

coloured on one side. Germen without peduncle: cells ori-

ginally one or two seeded. Tube from three and a half to

Sng six inches long, tinged with red. Limb nodding

Lacinia a little more than a quarter of an inch wide, ee

east

less than three inches Jong, white. Filaments spreading in

the channels of the corresponding petals with their points

curved inwards; anthers dark brown, versatile; pollen orange.

Style inclined, coloured as well as the filaments one half of its

length, and both an inch shorter than the limb. Stigma a

whitish fimbriated point, when perfect minutely -three-lobed,

like that of C. flaccidum. Umbel with six to ten flowers,

fragrant at night. Seeds flatter than in most species.

Dr. Roxsuren observes that although the germen is sub-

sessile, the capsule is occasionally protruded on a short

peduncle. In our plant the germen and ripe capsules were

absolutely sessile; in Crinum erubescens however, of which

the germen is in general almost sessile, that of a seventh

central flower is occasionally on a peduncle nearly two inches

long; so that it is very possible that Crinum defixum may vary

in the manner be. has stated. vn

This very elegant species thrives in our stoves with the

bulb entirely above ground and stript of all its obsolete coats,

under which treatment it is of the same glossy green as the

leaves. In the summer time it should be plunged in water

just deep enough to cover the bulb. _ Strong bulbs will flower

twice between June and October. The length of the tube of

Crinum defixum varies much in different flowers produced

by the same bulb; in our specimen it was three inches and

a half. In all the species of Crinum of which the limb nods

before its expansion, the tube appears to be permanent while

the seed is ripening; in those of which the limb is only inclined

without nodding, the tube perishes in great part and sometimes

entirely. The nodding and inclination of the limb do not take

place if the plants are removed into a low temperature ; and

it seems probable that in the species of which the tube is very

strong, it resists the influence of the light and heat which m

that case acts upon the limb entirely ; while in those, of which

the tube is less rigid, it yields a little, and the limb is less power-

fully affected. 1t is a singular feature of the genus Crinum

that some species have the cells originally monospermous, some

two seeded, some four seeded, and others polyspermous, but

with so much variation that C. flaccidum has seven ovula 10

each cell and C. capense, which is closely allied to it, from

twenty-seven to thirty-one in each cell; and that the monos-

permous and polyspermous sorts breed as freely together a5 _

those which might be thought more nearly allied. W. H.

For the whole of this article, as well as for the drawing,

—— m5 ——

a. The bulb, natural size with a stolon issuing from it. - “b. A seed.

ce. A miniature of the whole plant, shewing the line of water.

we are indebted to the Rey. and Hon. Wintiam HERBERT.

Wadaetl Se.

Pub.ty.$.tucke .Walworth .Bhsshe.

( 2209.)

Ricinus. communis, Tur Parma Curtsti,

on CASTOR-OIL PLANT, }

aes eae Se

Class and Order.

M ONGECIA oe 7

Generic Character.

Mase. Cal. b-partitis, » Cor. 0. Néinhite numerosa.

Fem. Cal. one Cor. 0. — 3, bifidi. 8 Or

3-locularis. Sem. 1. —— Ses am se

Specific Character and peers

Racrnvs communis ; foliis pelieiss palmatis: lobia: lanceolatis

serratis, stigmatibus tribus bifidis ees ese ;

echinatis. : 4

Ricinus communis; foliis ‘peltatis sn braikasis serratis. Lin.

Sp. Pl. 1430.-—Mill. tcon, &. 219 & 220... >.

Ricinus communis; foliis peltatis palmatis, ‘lobis lonosidtii 2

- serratis, caule herbaceo pruinoso, stigmatibus tribus

apice Lifidis, capsulis echinatis. Willd. Sp. PLA. p. b64,

Ricinus foliis peltatis serratis: ‘petiolis ‘plofil dlifarid-aBlore

Cliff. 450. Hort. oF gk Ba oe ge

Regnault Bot. hs

Ricinus albus. Rumph. Amb. & . og : seg

Ricinus vulgaris. Bauh. Pin. 439. Blackw. Herb. t

Cam. Epit.959. Dod. Pempt.. 367. Raj. Hist.

Park. Theatr. 182. Fuchs Hist. ic. 340. |

Ricinus gallis Palma Christi, Lob. Hist. 392. Lob. ic. 688,

Gerard emac. 496.

Ricinus minor. Hort. ‘Eystt. ial astia, 8. t. ll.

AVANACU. Hort, Malab. 2. t. 32. :

The older Botanists gave this whack the name of Ricinus

from the similarity which the seed bears to the Tick, which

loathsome animal has the same name in latin,

It is doubtful whether t ere is in reality any specific

ee difference

difference between the communis, viridis, africanus and

lividus; of which WittpENow makes as many distinct

species. It seems that though an annual in temperate

climates, it becomes a moderate-sized tree not only in tropical

countries, but, as was observed both by Crusius and Ray,

also in the southern parts of Europe. Myxer thought that

among the annual kinds which he cultivated himself in the

Chelsea garden, he observed several species, which always

kept distinct, when raised from seed year after year. Perhaps

a greater attention to the stigmas and the fruit, with an

opportunity of proving by cultivation, how far the characters

are permanent, may decide otherwise ; but at present we

feel obliged to consider our plant as the Ricinus com-

munis ; although the stigmas are divided quite to the base,

so that they might be numbered as six distinct stigmas; which

in Reenavtt’s figure appear bifid at the point only.

Of the modern figures, that of Reenautr is the best. But

in none of those that we have seen the stigmas are represented

so much like those of our plant, as in the ancient one of Fucus,

published nearly 300 years ago. All the other figures of the

older Botanists are copied from that of Doponaus, except

Bester’s in the Hortus Eystettensis,

The oil which has been so much used of late years, as an

efficacious, and at the same time gentle laxative, under the

name of Castor oil is prepared from the seeds of this plant.

Ricinus communis is a native of both the Indies, and per-

haps of the south of Europe. Cultivated in England in 1548.

Flowers in June, July and August. Our drawing was taken

by Sypennam Epwarps, at the Chelsea garden, several

years ago.

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VERONICA ORCHIDEA. ORCHIS-FLOWERED

SPEEDWELL.

Sees eee es

Class and Order.

Dianpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cor. limbo 4-partito: lacinia infima angustiore. Caps.

2-locularis. ; ; |

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Veronica orchidea; foliis oblongis crenatis obtusis cauleque

pubescente, spica terminali, laciniis corolle linearibus

tortuosis antheras superantibus. Wahlenb. Fl. carpat.

p. 4.. . Z

Veronica orchidea; foliis oppositis cauleque pubescentibus ;

radicalibus oblongo-obovatis crenatis in peticlum decur-

rentibus; caulinis oblongis crenato-serratis subsessilibus,

laciniis corolla lanceolatis acutis tortuoso-conniventibus.

Besser Galic. n. 18. Flor. taur.-cauc. 3. p. 9. Roem.

et Sch. Syst. veg. 1. p. 94. n. 28. :

‘en

Desc. Stem upright, rounded, somewhat rough. Leaves

Opposite, crossed, in distant pairs, sessile, lanceolate, crenate-

serrate, veined, fleshy, smooth on the upper and roughish on

the under surface. Flowers violet-coloured, on long terminal

spikes. Bractes linear, longer than the calyx. Calyx of

four ovate, ciliated leaflets. the two lower ones longer than

the upper. Corolla irregular, tube gibbous: lacinve four:

upper one broad at the base, acuminated, the other three

linear, variously twisted, all emarginate: faux hairy. Stamens

on very short filaments: anthers large, purple, didymous

with the lobes united at the apex only, just appearing above

the orifice of the tube. Germen nearly globular. Style

Shorter than calyx. Stigma obtuse. oe

It is doubted, both by WaAn.enspere and Marscuat v.

Breperstein, whether this plant is not a mere variety of

Veronica spicata. We eannot but think, however, that it

is decidedly distinct, not only from the slender tortuous

lacinie and the greater length of the bractes, but espe-

cially from the extreme shortness of the stamens; the anthers

but just emerging from the faux of the corolla and lying close

together at the base of the upper and broader laciniz; which,

occasioning a sort of resemblance to the flower of an orchis,

gave rise as we suppose, to the specific name. It must be

observed, however, that according to the last-mentioned

author, these characters are not constant.

We believe that no figure was (before) extant of this plant,

and that it is quite new in this country, being raised by Mr.

Kent, of Clapton, from seeds received by him from Dr. ©

Fiscrer, of Gorenki, in 1819.

A hardy perennial, native of Caucasus, and of the Carpa-

thian mountains, growing in warm and dry situations. Com-

municated by Mr. Kenr, in July 1820,

SF beertés Del

Ped by. S. GertisWaloorth, Bhs ou. Widddi.$

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SyMPHORIA RACEMOSA. SNoWw-BERRY.

Jee ede

Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Germen 4-loculare : loculis 2, polyspermis, sterilibus ; 2

monospermis, fertilibus. Bacca coronata. Cor. tubulosa,

brevis, 5-fida, subsqualis. Cal. 5-dentatus. Brown.

Lonicere sp. Lin. .

Specific Character and Synonyms.

SympHoria racemosa; racemo interrupto subterminali, co-

rolla intus barbata.

SympnHoria racemosa; racemo terminali, corolla imtus_bar-

bata. Persoon Syn. 1. p. 214. Michaux Flor. Bor.”

Amer. 1. p. 107. Pursh Fl. Amer-sept..1. p. 162.

Sympnoria racemosa. Lodd. Cab. 230. Nuttall Gen. PI.

Caprirotium, PerictyMENUM, CuamMa&cerasus, XyLOos-

TEON and Diervitta of Tournerort, as well as SyMPHoRI-

carpos of Dit.enivs were united by Linnus into one genus,

under the name of Lonicera. Later botanists, however, —

seem generally to concur in restoring the three last to the —

rank of distinct genera. eee

Our present plant belongs to Ditienivs’s genus Symphori-

carpos, changed by Persoon to SympHoria; a genus esta-—

blished from Sympuoria conglomerata, the Lonicera Sym- _

phoricarpos of Linnxvs. mere get

Sympnoria racemosa was first mentioned by Micuavx,

and a figure of it has been lately published by Messrs. Lop-

DiGEs and Sons in their Botanical Cabinet, where it is stated,

that they first received it in the spring of 1818, from Mr.

Roserr Carr. ee

Descr. A low bushy shrub; bark of the branches brightish

brown. Leaves opposite, round-ovate with a mucro, mostly

quite entire, but on the lower part of the shrub sometimes

irregularly —

irregularly notched, smooth, glaucous. Flowers grow on the

slender, terminal branches in pairs, at first distant, but

toward the extremities crowded together, supported on_very

short pedicles; sometimes the branch becomes leafy beyond

the flowers. Calyx superior 5-toothed, as it often, if not

generally, is in S. conglomerata, though described to be

A-toothed. Corolla rose-coloured, campanulate; limb 5-cleft,

obtuse: faux filled with hairs, below which the tube abounds

with honey. Stamens 5, inserted at the upper part of the

tube, shorter than the corolla with the laciniz of which they

alternate. Germen ovate, with two or three small bractes

applied close to its base. Mr. Brown has observed that it is

four-celled, 2 of the cells bearing each several ovula, but

which are always abortive; the other two have each a single

seed, which alone come to maturity. An analogous circum:

stance takes place, he observes, also in the fruit of Linnza,

and of Asetta, two nearly related genera belonging to the

same family, the caprifoliacee ; in both which the germen is

3-celled, two of the cells having several imperfect ovula, and

the other a single ovulum, which alone comes to maturity.”

The mature berry of Sympuoria racemosa appears. to be

only 2-celled, the expansion of the fertile cells obliterating

the others, Each cell contains a kidney-shaped seed, much

smaller than the cavity containing it.

Native of Upper Canada, and the banks of the Missouri.

Flowers in July, August and September, succeeded by large

snow-white berries, which hang till the approach of winter

It.is perfectly. hardy. Communicated in July last by Messrs.

Wauitter, Brame and Ming, of the Fulham Nursery.

__* Vide characters and bP ee three new. species of plants, found

_S,

in China, by Clarke Abel, Esq. by ROBERT Brown, F. R.

N2272.

Pub. br. &, Gurtis Walworth Frbaa 4s

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-GAsTROLOBIUM BILOBUM. T'wo-LoBED

G-ASTROLOBIUM.

Class and Order. ‘

Decanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus, bilabiatus, ebracteatus. Cor. papilionacea,

petalis Jongitudine subequalibus. Germen dispermum,

pedicellatum. Stylus subulatus, adsendens. Stigma simplex.

gumen ventricosum Semina strophiolata. Brown.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

~Gasrrotosium bilobum; foliis (uncialibus) subtus subse-

riceis retusis; lobulis rotundatis mucronulo longioribus,

leguminis pedicello tubum calycis equante. Brown in

Hort. Kew. ed. alt 3. p.16. Bot. Reg. 411,

Gastrotogium bilobum, is a handsome shrub which blos-

soms freely in the summer months, bearing its flowers in ter-

minal umb Is, which are surrounded in manner of an invo-

lucrum, by the fine green foliage, silky underneath. The

other leaves grow in irregular whorls on the stem.

_The specific character was framed by Mr. Brown, to

distinguish it from another species collected by him, in which

the leaves are truncated at the point.

Native of the South-west coast of New Holland, where it

was discovered by Mr. Rosert Brown. Introduced into —

the Kew Garden in 1803. Communicated by Messrs. Lop-

PIcEs and Sons, in July last. |

Pub. by 6. bivtic Walwortt. Feb 11ies

Wadl ad So

( 2213) |

Hepysarum averyum. Axpine Hepysarum.

“

4274S

Class and Order. pale

Diapeiteaia DecanpRia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. carina transverse obtusa. Lomentum

articulis monospermis compressis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Hepysarum alpinum; caulescens erectum, foliis pinnatis

ovato-lanceolatis glabris, racemis elongatis axillaribus,

bracteis pedunculo brevioribus, articulis lomenti penduli-

glabris. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 1207.

Hepysarum alpinum ; foliis pinnatis, leguminibus articulatis

glabris pendulis. Sp. Pl. 1057. Hort. Upsal. 232.

Hepysarum saxatile, siliqua levi, floribus purpureis, inodo-

rum. Amm. Ruth. 116. n. 152. 153.

Hepysarvm foliis pinnatis, leguminibus articulatis glabris pen-

dulis, caule erecto. Gmel. Sib. 4. p. 26. n. 35. t. 10.

Descr. Stem tall, branched, fluted. Leaves odd-pinnate ;

leaflets about twelve pair, ovate, obtuse with a small mucro,

ribbed with parallel veins on the under side. Flowers crim-

son, in long racemes, on foot stalks longer than the leaves.

Calyx 5-toothed: two upper teeth shortest, the lowest one

longer than the rest. Vexillum rolled back at the sides.

Ale not half the length of the carina. Stamens diadelphous:

anthers didymous. Style filiform: stigma vey small, capitate,

Germen shorter by half than the sheath of filaments, haying

many ovula in distinct cells. Seed-pod jointed. _

This is a very ornamental plant from the brilliant colour

of the flowers, which are produced abundantly from May to

A :

= Ae A hardy

A hardy perennial. Native of Siberia. Not recorded in

the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis ; Hepysarum alpinum

of the first edition having been determined to be the same

with H. obscurum of Linnaus, a native of Switzerland,

figured at No. 282 of this work. The species under con-

sideration is much larger and handsomer

Communicated from Mr. Knicgut’s Exotic Nursery in the

King’s-Road in May 1819.

N 2214

J Remtis Dat.

BiB dy 5. farts Walworth. F ii ates Witt

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Lepeckia NupA. Nakep Lepeckia.

Jeet ieiied dead

Class and Order.

DiapetepH1a Decanpria.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus: laciniis acutis; sinubus rotundatis. Legu-

men cylindricum, polyspermum. ate Sg

Specifie Character.

‘Lezecxia nuda; subaphylla, ramulis alternis teretibus mu-

cronatis, racemis axillaribus, corollis calycibus pedicellis

que concoloribus. :: |

Descr. Shrub between two and three feet high, upright:

branchlets (probably in reality the footstalks of a compound

leaf, the leaflets of which are mostly abortive) rounded, ter-

Minated with a soft mucro: leaflets only here and there a

defective one, ovate, recurved. Flowers purple, on axillary

racemes, longer than the branchlet. Pedicles nodding, equal

to or longer than the calyx, which is cupshaped, with five

acute teeth all pointing downwards, whence the two upper ones

are distant with a wide rounded sinus between them. Corolla

- Papilionaceous, red-purple, as are the calyx and pedicle. Vex-

illum erect, spreading, obovate, having a streaked star at the

base and very short claw. Ale the length of the vexillum,

rounded at the base. Petals of the Carina joined together

at the apex, prolonged at the base into long, subulate, recurved

spurs, whence the claw appears to be in the middle of the

Petal. Stamens diadelphous; anthers minutely awned, by

the point of the filament projecting beyond its lobes. Germen

near; many seeded: séyle rising at a right angle: stzgma

capitate, lobed. ae

Raised from Cape-seeds in the year 1814, by Messrs. Wuur-

Ley, Brame, and Mine, at the Fulham Nursey, and sec tonae?

et nica

nicated to us in flower in October 1819, under the name of

Leseckia contaminata; but it in no respect corresponds

with THunBere’s character of that species, nor indeed with

the description of any recorded species, so that we are obliged

to consider it as one hitherto undescribed.

Fe besrhi-ig Bak Pub ty Siurtes Walworth Zeb. 2Az

( 2215 )

OxaLis VIOLACEA. VIOLET-COLOURED

W oopn-SorreE..

Class and Order.

Decanpria PENTAGYNIA.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala unguibus connexa. Stam. ineequa-

lia: 5 breviora exteriora, basi connata. Caps. angulis dehis-

cens, 5-gona.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Oxaxis violacea ; scapo umbellifero, foliis ternatis obcordatis,

calycibus apice callosis. Sp. Pl. 621. Jacg. Hort. 2. p..

84. é. 180. : e |

Oxaxis violacea ; acaulis, scapo bifido umbellifero, floribus

nutantibus, foliis ternatis obcordatis glabris, stylis stami-

nibus exterioribus brevioribus. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 786.

Pursh Fl. Am. Sept. 1. p. 322, Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3.

p. 122.

Oxauis violacea; foliis terhalss obsolete villosis, stylis brevissi-

mis, filamentis interioribus equalibus, floribus clausis

cernuis, expansis erectis. Jacq. Oxal. n. 14. p. 35.

t. 80. f. 2.

Oxauis violacea ; scapis umbelliferis foliis ternatis ciliatis :

foliolis obcordatis i oe Lam. Encycl. 4. p.

686. x. 26. | eee

Oxatis violacea; scapo eaticall aibelldiens, pedicellis sub-

‘viscido-pubentibus, calycis laciniis apice callo croceo,

corolla violacea. Michaux Fl. Bor. Amer. 2. p. 39.

Oxys purpurea virginiana, radice lilii more nucleata. Pluk.

Alm. 274. t. 102. f. 4.

Oxauis violacea is a native of North America, from New

England to Carolina. The leaves are smooth, varying with

regard to colour, sometimes quite purple on the under surface,

sometimes

sometimes only slightly tinged; in plants that do not flower

they grow much larger and are marked with an obscure-purple

band on the upper surface,also. ‘They have a pleasant acid

taste like our wood sorrel. Scapes longer than the leaves, ter-

minated with a simple or divided umbel of pale-purple flowers,

which are erect while expanded, but cernuous both before and |

after expansion. According to PLuKENeEr a capitulum of bulbs

is sometimes formed after the flowers drop, as in the Crow-

Garlick. In the flowers we examined, the pubescent style

was twice the length of the longest stamens, but we are well

~ convinced that the comparative length of the style and stamens

is too variable a character to be depended upon to distinguish

the species by.

‘Introduced in 1772, by Dr. Samurt Martin. Flowers

most part of the summer. Communicated by Mr. JosePH

Knieut of the Exotic Nursery, King’s-road, in July last.

Hardy, but it is safer to give it the protection of a frame in

the winter season.

JS Curtis Del,

Pub.by.5 fiertis Walworth. Frb.21he2,

N26

Wadd tl.Se-

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Dryrpis spinosa. Prickty Drypts.-

THEE ESHER

a “Class and Order. ; tie

" Poxranpria Tryeynta.

; Generic Character

Cal. bedentatua, Petala5. Cans circumscissa, monosperma.

Specific Character and Synonyms. |

Drvris spinosa. Sp. Pl. 390. -Willd. 1. 1513. Persoon

Syn. 1. p. 331. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p.175. Jacq.

Hort. Vind. 1. p. 19. t. 49. Scop. Carn. 1. p. 225.

Gaert. sem.2. p. 218. ¢. 128. f. 12.

RYPIs spinosa ; foliis oppositis subulatis, stipulis lanceolatis

dentato-spinosis. Lam. illustr. v. 2. p. 550. t. 214.

Dryris italica aculeata, floribus albis umbellatis compactis.

Mich. Gen. 24. t. 23. |

Dryris Spina alba foliis vidua. Bauh. Pin. 388. |

Dryris Theophrasti Anguillare. Lob. Hist. 460. Ed. Germ.

965. Lob. ic: 780. fil.

Drypis Ger. emac. 1112. e. Gee a k

Carpvus foliis tenuissime spinosis ad instar J uniperi. Morison

. Hist. 2. pBleyiewary 8

age

Descr. Stem weak, diffuse; branched, knotted: Joints

hollowed on one side, convex on the other, each changing

alternately ; said to be biennial, but according to others be-

coming shrubby ; the arid branches of one year throwing out

Sreen branches the next. Leaves opposite, subulate, flat on

the upper and convex on the under side, spinescent; superior

ones lanceolate, toothed at the base. Flowers pink-coloured

or white, aggregate in dichotomous corymbs. Calyx tubular,

5-toothed. Corolla of five narrow bifid petals with long slen-

der claws, crowned at the faux with two scales like those of

the genus Silene. Stamens 5, equalling the petals. Germen

round,

al a a a IO ae

round, somewhat flattened, one-celled with two ovula affixed

to the bottom of the cell; only one of which probably comes

to maturity, as the capsule is described to be one-seeded.

Styles 3. Stigmas simple.

Few plants are more difficult to handle with naked fingers

than this, every leaf being armed with a sharp spine which

with age becomes very rigid; yet the Ass eats it greedily,

» whence its vulgar name in its native countries signifies in

English Asses herb. Native of Barbary and Italy. Flowers

with us from June to September, in the open ground. In-

troduced by Nicuotas Josep pe Jacquin, M. D. in 1775.

Communicated by Mr. Wiii1am Anperson from the Chelsea —

Garden. :

The outline figures represent 1. a stamen, 2. a petal, 3 a

side view of the same, 4. the pistil and the calyx; all somewhat

magnified.

Pub, ty S luctis. Walworth .Marcn.2.1842,

Weddell Sc.

Ret le eek

Crinum Speciosum. Sprciovs-FLOWERED-

Crinum. : 3

MER Re ee ee

Class and Order.

Hexanpara Moshuxuse,

Genesis Character.

Tubus cylindricus, germine directé continuatus eoque gra-

cilior, limbo swpe longior, emarcescente limbo plerumque

magna parte persistens. Limbus ante expansionem nutans

vel inclinatus. Lacinie alterne zquales, ceteris sepe dis-

pares. Filamenta, vix extra faucem tubi, corolle pariter

inserta. Stigma trigonum vel trilobatum. Germen media

_ parte crassius, 3-loculare, loculis 1—31]-spermis, sessile vel

pedunculo directé continuatum. Capsula sepe difformis,

dissepimentorum destructione 1—2-locularis. Semina car-

nosa, viridia, seepius magna et difformia. Folia plerumque

multifaria. Vide supra No. 2121. W. H. sig

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Crinum speciosum; bulbo spherico, foliis loratis undulatis

margine scabris apice obliquo acutis scapo subterete,

multifloro longioribus, germine sessili: loculis mono-

_ Spermis. : a

Crinum speciosissimum. Supra No. 2121, p. 6.

‘eee

Descr. Bulb large, spherical, reddish. Leaves multi-

farious, undulate, thong-like with a sharp oblique point, 2 or

3 feet long, 2 inches wide, deep green, with a rough margin.

Scape roundish, 2 feet high or more, green, reddish towards

the base. Spathe short, withering early. Umbel 7—20

flowered, interspersed with bractes. Flowers fragrant. Tube

with obsolete angles, 3—4 inches long, green, minutely

marked with red, withering with the limb. Limb wide-

wi withering ceaakidees,

funnel-shaped, with the points bent back, drooping before

expansion. Lacinie white, striped outside with red and

greenish towards the base, ending with a hook, 33 inches

long, the three inner not an inch, the three outer more than

an inch wide. Filaments white, curved upwards; anthers

ash coloured ; pollen very pale yellow ; style curved like the

filaments and of the same length, red towards the end; stigma

a white triangular point, a little divided. Germen short,

sessile. Cells one-seeded. a. represents a ripe seed; b. a

miniature of the whole plant.

This species was first discovered by Dr. Carey in the North

of Bengal; in foliage it very much resembies Crinum moluc-

canum, but it is a plant of larger stature, and it may be easily

distinguished in a young state, by a much slenderer and some-

what oblique point to the leaf.

It requires the earth in which it grows to be kept constantly

moist, though it is not so impatient of sunshine as moluccanum.

{t thrives well with a pan of moist sand under it upon a warm

flue, and flowers freely, especially in the autumn, usually pro-

ducing two successive scapes. ae

It is worthy of observation, that although it nearly agrees

with C. capense in the form of the corolla, and in the perish-

able tube of which scarcely 3 of an inch is persistent, the cells

which in capense are from 27 to 31 seeded, are in this species

l-seeded. The number of ovules varies exceedingly in the

different species of most genera of Amaryllideze, and cannot

be relied upon as a generic character.

It is observable that in some specimens, or, perhaps in 4

variety of C. Broussoneti, differing in no other respect, the

stigma is very deeply 3-cieft. The greater or less division of

a stigma which is angular or Jobed appears tu be a very uD-

certain feature. The various species of Crinum differ much

in the greater or less width and expansion of the lacinize, but

there is quite as much difference between the breadth of the

- outer and inner laciniz in the narrower C. erubescens a8 10

C. speciosum-or any of the broad sorts. That the laciniz of

the narrower sorts become pendulous or revolute, is probably

owing to the want of breadth to support their length, upon"

the same principle that makes a slender slip of paper curl ot

hang down while a broader one remains straight.

Was. Herpert.

2218.

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Pub.be. S. Curtic,

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CALENDULA CHRYSANTHEMIFOLIA. LARGE-

FLOWERED MARYGOLD. 2

Te RE ee ee dese dese & ek eae

_ Class and Order.

Syncenesia Potyeamia NEcEssaris.

Generic Character.

Recept. nudum. Pappus 0. Cal. polyphyllus, zxqualis.

Sem. disci membranacea.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Catenputa chrysanthemifolia; foliis cuneato-obovatis lyrato-

incisis scabriusculis, caule fruticoso erecto. Hort. Kew.

ed. alt. 5. p. 169. Bot. Reg. 40. é

CaLenpuLa chrysanthemifolia; toliis obovatis sublyratis sca-

briusculis, caule suffruticoso. Vent. Malm. 56. Pers.

Syn. 2. p. 492. Lam. Encycl. 7. p. 278.

This shewy shrub has very much the habit of OsrgosrEr-

MUM, and was formerly known in our gardens under the name

ef Osrrosrermum grandiflorum. M. Ventenat, who first

described this plant as a species of CALENDULA considers it as

partaking: of the characters of both genera, and speaks of the

florets of the disk being all-barren ; we did not however find

that to be the case in our plant, very many of the florets of

the disk having as perfect ovaria as those of the radius.

According to Venrenat the flowers open about eleven in

the forenoon, and close again by three or four in the after-

hoon ; they are the largest in the genus, but scarcely so

large as this author describes them, when he says they are

Se the size of those of the China Aster. ee ae

ative of the Cape of Good Hope, requiring the protection

of the Greenhouse ee the winter i Flowers freely most |

part of the summer. Our drawing was made many years ago

in the month of April, from a plant in the nursery at Ken-

‘ington, at that time belonging to Messrs. Grimwoop and

Wrees. Introduced by Mr. Masson in the year 1790.

N 2219

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Wedd sll. Se

Pub. by. S. Gertie Walworth. Merter2 Fn.

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ARABIS NUTANS. NoppiING WALL-CRESS.

Tee eee ee ae ae se eae see

Class and Order. |

TerraDyNAMiA Siziquosa.

Generic Character.

Siliqua linearis stigmate subsessili coronata : valvis venosis

v. nervosis. Semina uniseriata. Cotyledones accumbentes.

Calyx erectus.. Brown in Hort. Kew. |

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Aranis nutans ; foliis subdentatis; radicalibus obovatis utrin-

que pilosis scabris; caulinis ovalibus, racemo subnutante.

Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 105.

ARaBis nutans; foliis subdentatis; radicalibus obovatis ;

caulinis lanceolatis, caule folioso, racemo fructifero nu-

tante, siliquis secundis. Willd. Sp Pt. 3. p. 537.

ARaBis nutans; racemo seminifero erecto apice nutante, foliis

subdentatis ciliatis; radicalibus obovatis ; caulinis oblon-

is glabris amplexicaulibus, siliquis erectis subsecundis.

oench Method. p. 258 epee :

Arasis pumila; foliis radicalibus obovatis subdentatis’obtusis

utrinque scabris; caulinis sessilibus oblongis subhirsutis,

racemo subnutante. Waulfen in Jacq. Collect. 2 p. 59.

Jacq. Austr, t. 281.

Arasis scabra. Allioni Ped. n. 974.

coium foliis radicalibus subrotundis scabris dentatis; cau-

linis amplexicaulibus hirsutis. Hall. Hist. n. AAT.

‘Carpamine pumila bellidis folio alpina. Seguir Veron. 387.

Carpamungs alterius emula plantula. Clus. Hist. 2. p. 1297

Mor. Hist. § 3. t. 4. f.47?

ieee

Arasis nutans is the pumila of Jacquin, under which

name it is most generally known ; but Morncu having pre-

Viously described it under that of nutans, this name has sight

right of priority, and is accordingly adopted by WiLLDENow

and in the Hortus Kewensis. Linnzus considered this species

to be the same as‘his bellidifolia; but most botanists, who have

collected the plants in their native soil, agree in regarding

them as quite distinct. Arasis nutans grows on the highest

alps near to the region of perpetual snow; bellidifolia on the

borders of springs and rivulets formed by the melted snow

in less elevated situations. But after all we have found it

impossible to select satisfactorily the synonyms as applied by

different authors to-one or the other.

Our plant possessed none of the roughness of the pumila of

Jacquin; but this may. be lost by cultivation. It agrees well

with Moencn’s description of his zutans, but not so well

with that of Jacqutn’s pumila by Wutren ; and indeed we

entertain some doubts whether these: authors describe the

same species. Communicated: by:Mr. Kien. of the Exotic

Nursery, King’s Road.

NV 2220

ARN a

Pub by S Aartce Weiwre A

Hie 1 ii 1 7

( 2220 )

ARUM SPIRALE. SpirRAL-FLOWERED ARUM.

ARR eee sek sealek deak ase at ae

Class and Order. :

Monaecia Poryanpria.

Generic Character.

Spatha monophylla, cucullata. Spadix supra nudus, inferne

femineus, medio stamineus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Arvo spirale; foliis lineari-lanceolatis, spadice lanceolato spa-

tha oblongo-lanceolata spiraliter torta breviore. Willd.

Sp. Pl. 4. p. 487.

Arum spirale ; acaule, foliis lanceolatis spatha spirali sessili.

Reiz obs. 1. p. 30. n. 104. 3

Our drawing of this very rare plant was taken, by the late

Mr. Sypennam Epwarps, at Mr. Vere’s curious collection at

Kensington Gore; but we had no opportunity of examining

the living plant. The spadix is said by Rerz to be very

Short, which is probably the reason that it does not appear in

the drawing ; neither is it at all visible in the specimens pre-

served in the Banksian Herbarium. According to Rerz the

Arum spirale is a native of Tranquebar. Mr. Vere’s plant

was supposed to come from China.

T skartinD A.

Teva,

Wedd So.

( 2231)

Nicotiana Lanesporrrit. LANGSpoRFr’s

TosBacco.

Hea sete se ese sk ae sea sk ak ate ae sete

Class and Order.

Pentanpgia Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cor. infundibuliformis, limbo plicato. Stam. inclinata.

Caps. 2-valvis, 2-locularis.

Specific Character.

Nicortana Langsdorffii; herbacea, viscoso-villosa, foliis ovatis

sessilibus decurrentibus, floribus cernuis: limbo subin-

tegro tubo gibboso ter breviore.

Nicotiana Langsdorfii; fruticosa, foliis ovatis in petiolum sub-

decurrentem attenuatis cauleque villoso-mollibus, floribus

cernuis, limbo subintegro, Hor. phys. Berol. t. 10.

Descr. Stem between two and three feet high, with us

certainly herbaceous, clammy-pubescent. Leaves distant, oval,

sessile, decurrent, smooth and dark green on the upper surface,

villous and pale on the under. Flowers yellowish-green, grow

in thin, naked, upright panicles, on peduncles curved at the

end, which become erect when the flowers drop. Calyx clam-

‘my, five-toothed with one tooth longer than the rest. Tube

of the corolla an inch long, curved, irregularly dilated at the

end; limb generally oblique, obsoletely 5-lobed or nearly

entire. Stamens included; anthers circular, flattened, two

celled: pollen blue. Capsules erect, conical, two celled.

Seeds globular. Z

Our drawing of this rare species was made from a specimen

sent us from Mr. Lameerr’s garden at Boyton, in August

1819. We saw it also last year in the Chelsea garden,

flowering freely in the open ground. Native of Chili.

Tae Pick by 3 Garton Wabworth:, Mavcisi. 1 lle.

Wriddell. te.

( 2222 )

Yucca stricra. Lyon’s NARROW-LEAVED

Apam’s NEEDLE.

TE I ee EE ee ee ee te

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia. |

Generic Character.

Cor. campanulato-patens. Stylus 0. Caps. 3-locularis.

Specific Character.

YUCCA stricta ; acaulis, foliis lanceolato -linearibus -stric-

tissimis apice elongatis, scapo basi ramoso: ramis simpli-

cibus, corollis orbiculato-campanulatis.

This, as we believe, hitherto unrecorded species, was

introduced from Carolina a few years ago by the late Mr.

Lyon, and appears to be the most desirable species of the

whole genus, as it grows fast, and blossoms very freely in

the open ground. The leaves are long, straight, and length-

ened into a very tapering point, with a few scattered threads

along the margin ; the seape is about four or five feet high,

growing very upright, bearing many flowers of a more glo-

bular form than those of any of the other species, and having

several simple branches near the base. It has been supposed

to be the angustifolia of Pursn, but is a much larger plant,

and from comparing it with a specimen of the latter com-

municated by our friend Mr. Lampert from his garden at

Boyton, seems to be a very distinct species. We have a

drawing of this, the true angustifolia of Pursa, which we

shall take an early opportunity of publishing.

Our drawing of this valuable acquisition to our gardens

was taken last July at the Fulham Nursery, Messrs. Wurr-

Ley, Brame, and Mine.

Serb aWajwaorth. tprd 2.2852.

Putty

( 2223 )

LIPARIA VESTITA. CONCAVE-LEAVED-LIPARIA.

KEKE EEE ERR REE

Class and Order.

DiapetpHi1A DecanpriA.

Generic Character.

_Cal. 5-fidus: lacinia infima elongata. Cor. ale inferius

biloba, Staminis majoris dentes tres breviores. Legumen

ovatum.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Lipari vestita; floribus capitatis, foliis ovatis concavis subtus

lanatis. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p.318. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3.

p. 1115. Thunb. prodr. 124. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 309.

Poir. Encycl. suppl. 1. p. 680. sub Borbonia.

Liparta villosa. Bot. Repos. 382.

Genista africana folio cochleariformi, flore luteo. Seb. Thes.

]. p. 38. ¢. 24. f. 1.

Lamarck unites the genus Liparia with Borponia, and

remarks as a circumstance not a little singular, that Linnaus

should have joined the genera Polygonum, Fagopyrum, Per-

Sicaria and Bistorta into one, and at the same time have

divided the genus Genista of the older botanists into several,

distinguished by minute characters which hold good only in

a few of the species. It may be observed however that the

united genus Polygonum does not contain so many species

as that of Aspalathus alone, and that however difficult it may

be to find efficient characters to distinguish them by, there is

80 great a difference in habit, as, united to their number, im-

periously to demand their separation. ee

The very remarkable foliage of this shrub gives it a singular

and striking appearance, making a pretty variety in the green-

house, especially while the plant is young and vigorous ; for

in old plants the stems become in part bare, and many of the

aves turned to a rusty brown colour.

3 Liparia

Lipari vestita was introduced into this country from the

Cape of Good-Hope in the year 1800, by Grorce Hiszerr,

Esq. and our drawing was taken at his garden three or four —

years after. Flowers in May and June. |

N 2224

F. kage ten Etat.

Pu bby +S. Lier bie Wadworth A prety ihas

medal Se A

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SEDUM CARULEUM. BLUE FLOWERED

STONECROP.

See eek ek eseikseae ae eededese

Class and Order.

Decanpria PENTAGYNIA.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. 5-petala. Sguame nectarifere 5, ad

basin germinis. Caps. 5.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Sect. Teretifolia.

Reg 520. 3

Sepum azureum. Desfont. Atl. 1. p. 362.

Sepum c@ruleum ; foliis oblongis alternis obtusis basi solutis,

cyma bifida glabra. Vahl. Symb. 2. p. 51. Willd. Sp.

Pl. 2. p. 766. Persoon Syn. 1. p. 512. n. 26. Bot.

of Barba ry.

tensive collection at Clapion.

—_—

Desc. Stem branched, decumbent, smooth, spotted. Leaves

alternate, distant, oblong-ovate, fleshy, convex below and flat-

tish above, spotted; a very small part of the base not adherent

to the stem. Flowers pale blue, growing sometimes in simple

racemes, at others in dichotomous panicles, both terminal and

axillary. Calyx, in the plant we examined, always seven-cleft,

persistent and increasing in the fruit. Petals regularly seven.

Stamens fourteen: seven longer, opposed to the petals, and

seven shorter, opposed to the segments of the calyx. Germens

seven, white, changing to red, acute, incurved. The taste of

the plant watery and free from acrimony. Native of the coast _

_ Flowers in August and September. Propagated by cut-

tings. Communicated by Mr. Witt1am Kenr, from his ex-

them. All the figures are somewhat magnified.

The ist figure on the left hand represents a single flower viewed in front.

we 2d a petal with one of the longer stamens. ‘The 3d the receptacle and

Page with a short stamen between each and glands at the base. The 4th

Se calyx. The 5th below the others, two of the pistils with a short stamen

N2225.

Waidelt

Puch by. S Gartic Watw ovth. Apert aglea.

( 2225 )

AspaLaTHus CHENoPopA. GoosE-FooT

ASPALATHUS. :

Fee ee sete eae eee ae ee ae a ae

Class and Order.

Diapeieu1a Decanpria.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus: lacinia superiore majore. Legumen ovatum, —

-muticum, subdispermum.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Aspatatuus Chenopoda; foliis fasciculatis subulatis strictis

mucronatis hispidis: interioribus brevioribus, floribus

capitatis hirsutissimis. Soland. Mss. apud Banks.

Aspatatuus Chenopoda; foliis fasciculatis subulatis mucro-

natis hirtis, floribus capitatis hirsutissimis. Sp. Pl. 1000.

Berg. Cap. p. 200. ;

Aspatatuus Chenopoda; foliis fasciculatis trigonis mucronatis

rigidis pilosis, capitulis hirsutis. Thunb. Prodr. 126.

Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p.954. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 262:

Cuamaztarrx s. Chenopoda monomopatensis. Breyn. Cent.

p. 23. -4. 117 :

Genisra ericoides africana, flore luteo. Seb. Thes. 1. p. 39.

t. 24. f. 4. : A

RuTEX Arricanus Geniste aculeate foliis recurvis summo

capite ceesarie villoso. Pluk. Amalth. 101. t. 397. f. 6.

Nera capensis capitata foliis rigidis Ray Append. 246. n. 1.

fide Solandri.

A greenhouse shrub; native of the Cape of Good-Hope.

Stem much branched: branchlets short, hairy, terminated

with a capitulum of flowers inclosed in an involucrum of hairy

ear mucronate leaves, much less rigid than those on the

stem ; leaves subulate, thinly hairy, fasciculate, the outer _ )

in the bundles much longer than the inner, all armed with a

very sharp pungent mucro. Flowers large, yellow stained

with red; vexillum, much larger than the ale and. carina,

villous on thé outside. ; es

The Cuamaiarix of Breynius appears to us to be rather

a doubtful synonym. The figure we have quoted from Sesa’s

Thesaurus is not a bad representation of our present subject,

except that the hairy bractes which should surround the ca-

pitula, are omitted. But the two figures quoted by Brretus,

though said by him to be pood, certainly do not belong to

our plant, but seem to be representations of Puytica plumosa.

Linnaus has quoted one of the same figures in the species

Plantarum, but that quotation is probably a mere typograph-

ical error of 23 instead of 24, repeated by WiLLpENow, PER-

soon, and others.

It. is a plant of rare occurrence in our collections, though

supposed to have been cultivated by Puizae Mitier in 1759.

Communicated to us by Messrs. Loppiees and Sons last

July. cores :

N 2226

J | Bub by 3 bertis Wabeorth Aprvts + 543

v, pe }

( 2226 )

LAVATERA TRILOBA. 'THREE-LOBED LAVATERA.

WE Ree se eae eke eck sea seek ae ae ae.

Class and Order.

MonapELpuHIA PonyaNpRIA.

Generic Character.

Cal. duplex: exterior trifidus. Caps. plurime, monos-

perme.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Lavatera triloba; caule fruticoso, foliis subcordatis subtri-

lobis rotundatis crenatis, stipulis cordatis, pedunculis ag-

gregatis unifloris. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 219. Sp.

Pl. 972. Willd. 3. p. 794. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 250.

n.6. Jacq. Hort. t. 74. Kniph. Cent..7. n. Al.

Lavarera triloba; foliis subcordatis obsolete trilobis in trian-

gulum plicatis crenatis stipulis cordatis, pedunculis ag-

gregatis unifloris. Cav, Diss. 2. p. 37. t. 31. f. 1.

Attu fruticans hispanica, aceris monspessulani incanis

foliis, grandiflora, saponem spirans. Pluk. Alm. 24.

Phytt. 8. f. 3. ie

Atrua frutescens folio rotundiore incano. Bauh. Pin. 316.

Auruma frutex. Clus. Hisp. p.90. ic. 91. Lob. Ic. 654. f- 1.

Atria fruticans hispanica, Hort. Eyst. Ord. estiv. 6. t. 4.

Lavarera triloba was cultivated by Pamir Mitter in

1759; but seems to have been little known in our gardens of —

late years. Our friend Mr. Lamzerr met with it in a garden

in the country, but could not discover from what source it

came there. “He describes it as being powerfully musk-scent-

ed; which is the more remarkable as we do not find that any

author has mentioned the scent, except PuukeNner who com-

pares it to soap; could he mean perfumed soap? :

Native of Spain. Flowers in June, July, and August.

Communicated by A. B. Lamsert, Esq. from his garden at

oyton. |

Pub. by. S. Ceamtis . Wn teenth. Anni = Ww, a

SR ie... io i

( sae)

AMARANTHUS SPECIOsUS. SHEWY AMARAN-—

THUS. — |

Clais and Order.

Monazcra PENTANDRIA.

Generic Character.

Mase. Cal. 3-s. 5-phyllus. Cor. 0. Stam. 3. s.5. _

Fem. Cal. maris’ Cor. 0: Styli 3. Caps. 1-loculatis,

circumscissa. Sem. 1: se

Specific Character.

Amaranruus speciosus ; pentandrus, caule erecto ramoso,

foliis oblongo-ellipticis utrinque acutis longissime petio-

latis, racemis terminalibus compositis subverticillatis.

There is certainly considerable affinity between our present

Subject and AMARANTHUS sanguineus of the species Plantarum,

and Mitier’s figure is not altogether dissimilar to our plant,

but Witipenow’s figure in his Monograph of the genus does

not accord with it, neither does the specimen of that species

in the Banksian Herbarium.

he Stem is erect and much branched; the middle leaves

oblong-elliptical, red-purple, brightest on the under side, ta-

ering at both ends, on long slender footstalks ; flowers bright

frimson, on compound terminal racemes, and also on lateral

axillary simple or less compounded ones: the branchlets are

Short, and grow two or three together, separated from the rest

_,"Y @ small distance between them, giving the racemes some-

What of a verticillate appearance.

This fine Amaranraus was raised in the garden of Sir

Grorcr Sraunron, Bart. at Leigh Park, from Napaul seeds _

Siven him by H. I. Coresroox, Esq. It appears by an ac-

“ount transmitted by Sir Gzorce’s gardener, Mr. TOR

Hatt, that the Amaranthus speciosus requires a considerable

degree of artificial heat to bring it to perfection. He sows

the seeds in March, in peat and vegetable mould, in a hot-

bed ; when they have been up a few days he transplants

them into separate small pots, and places them in the frame

again. In two or three weeks they require shifting into

larger pots ; and when become strong plants he removes them

into the hot-house, shifting them into larger pots, as they ad-

vance ‘in size, where he suffers them to remain till they come

to their full beauty, when they may be removed to the green-

house or conservatory. Upon first removing them to a colder

situation they sometimes flag so much as to make it ere

to return them to the stove for a few days, when they will

recover their pristine vigour and may be again removed to a

colder atmosphere, in which they will continue in beauty two

or three months. Indeed Mr. Haut observes that a plant that

he grew last year still retains its life and beauty : (March 12.)

If this species be a native of Napaul, it seems remarkable

to us that so much artificial heat should be necessary to bring

it to perfection. 7

N 2228.

Putty 5. Gurkis Walworth. Apr ils28e, Wetadsli sc.

( 2228. ).

_ Favkia repens. Creepine Farxta.

EEE eee eae see eee

Class and Order.

Penranpria Dicynta. (Hexanpria Willd.)

Generic Character.

Cal. 1-phyllus. Cor. I-petala. Styli 2. Sem. 4. Lin.

Suppl. p, 31.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Farxia repens. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 317. Willd. Sp.

Pl. 2. p. 249. Thunb. Diss. nov. gen. 1. p. 17. Lin.

Suppl. p. 211. Persoon Syn. 1. p. 287. Bot. Repos.

Convotvuwus Falckia ; foliis cordatis excisis, caule sarmen-

toso. Thunb. Prodr. 35. Convolvulus Falkia Jacquini,

est longe alia planta.

Descr. Root creeping, perennial. Leaves in bundles, on

long filiform petioles, fleshy, cordate, quite entire; lower pe-

tioles in particular very long. Peduncles erect, growing from

between the leaves, rather longer than the petioles. Calyx

tubular, five-angled, with a five-cleft margin, persistent. Co-

rolla bell-shaped, margin five-lobed: lobes revolute, emargi-

nate. Stamens generally five, rarely six, inserted into the

receptacle. Germens according to Brown four, pubescent,

Connected by pairs at the base through the medium of the

styles. Styles two, divaricate: Stigmas globular.

This plant in habit and corolla is exactly a Convotvuius

but differs in the fruit. It belongs however to the natural

order of convolvulacee, of which Mr. Brown has made a

Second section, having two or four unilocular ovaria instead of

@ single one, in his Prodromus of the plants of New Holland,

4n inestimable work, the continuation of which is so ardently

Wished for by all botanists. ‘This section contains Dicnonpra

of Forsrer, distinguished from FALKIA especially by having

two, two-seeded ovaria. ae

Our drawing was taken at Mir. Higsert’s late collection at

Clapham Common, and the description from a plant commu-

nicated by, Mr. Jossru Kieut of the Exotic nursery, King’s _

Road, Little Chelsea.

N229.

TF furtis. Det. Pub. by. 5.Aertis. Walworth. Aprils ss, Wild Se-

( 2229 )

RANUNCULUS PEDATUS. CUT-LEAVED

CRrow-FOooT.

Class and Order.

Potyanpria Potyeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-phyllus. . Petala 5, intra ungues poro mellifero. ‘Sem.

nuda.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ranuncutus pedatus; foliis radicalibus digitato-partitis peda-

tisque : lobis linearibus subentegerrimis caulinis sessilibus

tripartitis, caule erecto paucifloro. ee

Ranuncuxus pedatus; foliis glabris, radicalibus petiolatis tri-

partitis pedatisve, lobis linearibus integris bifidisve, cau-

linis sessilibus partitis, summis linearibus, caule erecto

) nese calyce adpresso. Decand. Regn. Veget. p.

Ranuncuvus pedatus; foliis radicalibus ternato-pedatis, ra-

meis ternatis, foliolis linearibus integerrimis. Waldst. et

Kitaib. Hungar. 2. p. 112. t. 108.

Ranuncutus pedatifidus. Smith in Rees Cycl.? Decand. Regn.

Veget. 1. p. 258?

Entertaining great doubts whether the Ranuncutus peda-

tifidus of Smrru and pedatus of Waxpvsrem and Krrarser

ought to be considered as distinct species, although recorded

as such by De Canpoxze, we transmitted the engraving of

our plant to our friend Sir James E. Surra, who kindly com-

pared it with his specimens, and informs us, that it appears to

€ a representation of his pinnatifidus, except in the deeper

division and smaller number of lobes of the radical leaves and

the want of the soft hairs on the stem, circumstances evidently

i ‘That these plants both belong oe

liable to great variation. hat

the same species is rendered the more probable, from the

Hungarian pedatus being found likewise on the authority of

Dr. Fiscuer, in the neighbourhood of the Volga. According

to De Canpotte the stem of Ranuncutus pedatus is some-

times pubescent, sometimes smooth, and sometimes smooth at

the lower part and pubescent at the upper.

A hardy perennial of little beauty. Flowers in April. Com-

municated by Mr. Josera Knicut of the Exotic Nursery.

| PHOS Camels Watwerth Avarith 824,

( 2230 )

EUGENIA MYRTIFOLIA. MvyRrTLE-LEAVED

EUGENIA.

Th ee ee ee eee eek eae ae ae ae

Class and Order.

Tcosanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 4-partitus, superus. Petala 4. Bacca 1-locularis,

1-sperma,

Specific Character. ;

Eveenia myrtifolia; foliis ellipticis, pedunculis trichotomis

lateralibus terminalibusque, staminibus petalis multo lon-.

gioribus, calycibus quadrifidis.

Descr. An ever green shrub with flexile square branches,

the angles of which are slightly winged. Leaves opposite,

elliptical, not acuminate, smooth, shining, very like those of

the common broad-leaved Myrtle. Flowers white, in terminal

and lateral trichotomous corymbs. Calyx superior, persistent,

four-toothed: teeth spreading, red. Petals 4, alternating with

the teeth of the calyx, deciduous, white, a little larger than the

calyx. Stamens very many, inserted into a fleshy, undulated

ring. Germen inferior, top-shaped. Style red, persistent, a

little shorter than the stamens. Stigma simple or slightly

clubbed. Fruit not seen.

The taste of the leaves acid and aromatic, of the flowers

Sweet and gratefully acid. a

This species is decidedly different from EucEenta elliptica ‘

No. 1872 of this work, the flowers are much larger with

very long deciduous stamens, but do not grow in such long

terminal panicles; calyx spreading with a four-cleft limb ;

leaves smaller, not acuminate, and the parallel veins on the

under surface much less distinct. |

Native of New Holland. Introduced by Messrs. Loppices

and Sons ; and cultivated by them in the conservatory, where

it thrives luxuriantly. Propagated by cuttings. Communi-

cated to us in September 1820.

42231.

Ss Best. ‘by 5 Lube Watworth, Magadan,

( 2231)

CRINUM DEcLINATUM. SLOPING-FLOWERED

| Crinum. .

EE ETE TE ET ee ee ee

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Vide supra, No. 2217,

Specific Character,

Crinum declinatum; bulbo oblongo, foliis sabensacsrecureis

acutis undulatis margine levibus, scapo multifloro, corolle

laciniis loratis, germinibus pedunculatis assurgenter cur-

vatis. ; se

Desc. Bulb green, columnar, about 7 inches long.: leaves

somewhat erect with the point acute and hanging down, un-

dulated, smooth edged, 44 inches wide. Spathe 4 inches or

more ; Umbel about 24-flowered. Flowers sweet, successive,

nodding before their expansion: tube green, 3 inches long:

lacinie bent back, channelled, + of an inch wide, 43 inches

long, stained with red on the outside towards the end,

specially in the buds, the three exterior ending in a claw,

the three inner notched at the point ; filaments wide spread

and bent upwards, deep red the upper half of their length,

the three outer 4 an inch, the three inner 4 of an inch longer

than the style: anthers Jong with orange pollen ; style red ;

stigma a red triangular point; germen and peduncle each

near an inch long, horizontal, curved upwards, green speckled

with red; cells one-seeded: Ovule oblong-oval. 2

Some bulbs of this unregorded species of Crinum, which

I believe were received by Dr. Carey from Silhet, were sent

two or three years ago from Calcutta under the mistaken

name of sumatranum, which is a very different species with

rigid and rough-edged leaves, and a sessile or sub-sessile

Sermen. ee ae

Specierum

Specierum Enumerationi Addenda.

Crinum brachyandrum supra 2121, \p. 8. is a very distinct

species. Column 5 inches high, whitish ; leaves about 20,

rather erect, from 3 to near 5 feet long, and scarcely 23 inches

wide, dark green, with smooth margins, obtusely acuminate

like those of C. defixum: Scape green, above 2 feet long;

flowers about eleven, of which seven expand at the same

moment, the buds having nodded in a circle round the scape,

and the rest before the first wither; germen subsessile; tube

green, 23 inches long; lacinie 34 inches long, and $ wide,

white ; filaments just tipped with pale purple scarcely an inch

longer than the tube, all bent upwards ; style an inch longer

than the filaments, declined, above an inch thereof pale purple;

stigma small, triangular, white; germen sessile: cells 2-seeded.

Raised by seed from Sidney in New Holland.

Crinum procerum, A native of the Birman empire. It is

asserted and appears to be quite distinct from C. toxicarium,

and is said to exceed C. amabile in stature. Flowers white,

tinged with red, as those of sinicum.are with yellow.

Crinum declinatum. Supra No. 2231. alias

Crinum macrocarpon. Carey Mss. Native of the country

near-Ranjoor. Leaves narrow, very long and stiff. Flowers

pure white: lacinie broader than those of toxicarium.

two inches in diameter. a a,

~.. Crinum toxicarium; of which there are two varieties in

this country differing chiefly in foliage, is the asiaticum

the Botanical Magazine, No. 1073. wel

W. Herbar} Det.

Bub. bo. 5. funtis Walworth. Many. 2.2 G22-

Weedldell. Fz.

( 2232 )

Do.uicHos sinensis. Curnese Douicnos.

te Rae ese hae Rake ae ck ae ae ak ale skate

Class and Order.

Diapeiruia Decanpria.

Generic Character.

Vexilli basis callis 2, parallelis, oblongis, alas subtus com-

primentibus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Doticuos sinensis; volubilis, leguminibus pendulis cylindricis

torulosis, pedunculis erectis multifloris. Amoen. Acad.

4. p. 326. Sp. Pl. 1018. Willd. 3. p. 1038. Hort.

Kew. ed. alt. 4, p. 292. Jacq. Hort. Vindob. 3. p. 39.

é. TI.

Douicuos sinensis. Rumph. Amb. 5. p. 375. t. 134.

Descr. Stem voluble, roundish, striate, smooth. Stipules —

_ Ovate acuminate, lengthened at the base beyond the point of

insertion, which gives the appearance of their being spurred.

aves ternate: leaflets rhomb-shaped, smooth on both sides,

veined. Petioles 1d long, smooth: partial petioles short, pu-

bescent. Peduncles axillary, shorter than the petioles, but

by being often continued beyond the head of flowers these

ecome sessile. Legume linear, sigmoid about 5 inches long,

marked with the impression of the seeds. Seeds when ripe

of a red purple, about twenty, separated by membranaceous

septa.

Drawing and specimen of the plant communicated by the

_ Reverend and Honourable Witu1am Hersert of Spofforth ;

who raised it from seeds received from the Cape of Good-Hope

under the name of the Caffre Bean. He received seeds of the

same likewise from Mr. Burcuatt, who informed him that the

plant was cultivated by the Caffres : it is however undoubtedly

the same species as the specimen of va sinensis aon

Banksian Herbarium ; nor do we see any reason to think it

different from Rumr’s and Jacgurn’s plants above referred

to, and which is cultivated in many parts of the East, varying

with red and white seeds. We understand from Mr. Hersert,

that when sown in the open ground in Mr. Burcnatu’s garden _

at Fulham it did not clime, but in the stove at Spofforth, though

it remained upright till it was six or eight inches high, it then

began to grow rapidly, twining to the height of eight or nine

feet, and produced perfect seeds; but in the open ground it

produced a few flowers only, and no seeds.

M2233

rm Wed alt, a

Pub.by. S. Gurtis. Wau tor orth. Mey. 22421.

( 2233 )

ASPALATHUS CILIARIS. CILIATED ASPALATHUS.

KKK RRR KKK ERE KERR

Class and Order.

Diapetpuia Decanpris.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus: lacinia superiore majore. Legumen ovatum,

muticum, subdispermum.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Aspataraus ciliaris; foliis ternatis fasciculatisque trigonis acu-*

tis ciliatis, capitulis terminalibus, calycibus flores equan-

tibus. :

Aspatatuus ciliaris ; foliis fasciculatis scabris subpilosis, ca- —

pitulis terminalibus. Thunb. Prodr. 127. Willd. Sp.

Pl. 3. p.. 958. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 263.

_Aspatatuus ciliaris; foliis fasciculatis filiformibus scabris,

floribus terminalibus sessilibus, vexillis pubescentibus.

Lin. Mant. 262.

The genus AspaLaruus is very extensive, and very few of

the species have been as yet satisfactorily settled, the very

short specific phrases in Professor Tuunsere’s Prodromus

being quite insufficient to determine them by ; and the larger —

work of which this was supposed to be the harbinger, after

having been expected for twenty years, must now we fear be

quite despaired of.

Our figure was drawn by the late Mr. Sypennam Epwarps

from a plant communicated by Messrs. Loppices and Sons,

under the name of Aspatataus ciliaris, and is therefore the

same as the species so designated in the Hortus Kewensis,

where it is said to have been introduced by them. We are

sorry to find that both this species and A. chenopoda pub-

lished in our last number have now entirely perished. By

an oversight we omitted to add as a synonym of the last

mentioned species, Lodd. Bot. Cabinet. No. 316.

34.

22d

tf»

Pub. by S Gumbis Walwror fh.

( 2234 )

PreLARGoNIuM pioicum. Dra@cious BLack-

FLOWERED STORKS-BILL.

Plats femina. | 3

IHS HE SSIES enix

: Class and Order.

- Monapetpuia PEentrannetia,

Generic Character.

_Cal 5-partitus: lacinia suprema desinente in tubulum ca-

pillarem, nectariferum, secus pedunculum decurrentem. Cor.

5-petala, irregularis. Filamenta 10, inequalia, quorum 3—6

castrata. Arilli 5, monospermi, aristati, ad basin receptaculi

rostrati: aristis spiralibus introrsum barbatis,

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Sect. I. Acaulia, radice rapacea.

Prtarconium dioicum ; umbella composita, foliis simplicibus

ternatisve hispidis, floribus dioicis, petalis concoloribus.

Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 162. - :

Geranium foliis lobatis integrisque hispidis obtusis, calycibus

monophyllis, laciniis linearibus, floribus nigricantibus

dioicis, radice tuberosa. Bot. Repos. 209. Bee

Petarcontum dioicum comes very near to the melanan-

thon of Jacquin; and having been figured as such by Mr.

ANDREws, is generally known by that name in our nurseries ;

but the radical leaves are for the most part quite entire, or

Only three-lobed, which in the latter are pinnate, with the

pine again divided ; it is also described by Jacquin as having

Ve fertile stamens, whereas our plant is constantly dioecious,

Ae al bearing

bearing the male and female flowers on distinct plants. It is

observed in the Botanists Repository, that this plant increases

by tubers produced at a distance from the original root, with

which they are only connected by slender fibres.

Native of the Cape of Good-Hope. Requires the protection’

of a good greenhouse, and flowers best in the heat of the stove.

Blossoms in June and July. ens

Our drawing was taken from a female plant, communicated |

in May 1819, by Mr. Joszpu Knieut, of the exotic nursery,

King’s Road.

+ Meow. ade

dy. S lats's. Wanbwortt

— ( 2235-+)

‘MELASTOMA OSBECKIOIDES. OSBECKIA-LIKE

MELASTOMA.

Teh ee eee eee

Class and Order.

DeEcANDRIA Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus, campanulatus.. Petala 5, calyci inserta.

Bacca 5-locularis, calyce obvoluta.

- Specific Character.

Metastoma osbeckioides ; foliis oblongo-ellipticis trinerviis

margine nervisque ciliatis, floribus terminalibus aggre-

_ gatis calycibus apice setosis.

Desc. Stem shrubby, upright, covered with a furrowed

bark: branches, short, square, hispid. Leaves opposite,

oblong-elliptical, on short footstalks, three-nerved, nerves

and margin ciliated, pale underneath. Flowers terminal,

Trose-coloured, three or four together, on short smooth pe-

duncles. Calyx cup-shaped with a five-toothed border, and

a scale-like appendix between the teeth: teeth acuminate,

terminated with a bifid or trifid bristle. Corolla five-petaled :

Petals obovate, clawed, three-nerved. Stamens ten, on short

filaments inserted into the margin of the calyx: anthers cur-

ved, reflected into the cavity of the calyx and finally opening

at the apex to discharge the pollen. Germen nearly ;

y at the point, Evé-celled ovula many, a toa

central receptacle.

This plant belongs to the natural order of Melastomacea,

and in several respects approaches nearer to the genus Os-

BECKIA than that of Metasroma, but being ccm Oo

think it better to retain it with the latter genus, at least till

the whole shall undergo a reform; for, as Mr. ‘Brown has

remarked, <‘ the generic diyisivns of the whole order remain

to be established”.

Our drawing was made from a plant communicated by

Witiiam Kent, Esq. of Clapton, who received it from Ro-

BERT Barcuay, Esq. Bury Hill, by whom it was introduced

from the Mauritius. Cultivated in the stove. Propagated by

cuttings. Flowers in September and October.

M R230.

Weddell Se

O tlurtig DA. ; Pubsy.S turtis, Walworth IM ay.2.2 432.

( 2236 )

Yucca ANGUSTIFOLIA. NARROW-LEAVED

Apam’s-NEEDLE.

Tie eke see se se alee ok ak ale

Class and Order. —

HexanpriA Monoeyni.

Generic Character.

Cor. campanulata, patens. Stylus nullus. Capsula trilo-

cularis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Yucca angustifolia; acaulis, foliis glaucis, longo-linearibus

mucronatis margine filamentosis, capsulis oblongo-obo-

vatis, scapo simplici.

Yucca angustifolia; acaulis; foliis longo-linearibus rigidis

margine raro filamentosis, capsulis magnis obovato-cy-

lindraceis. Pursh. Flor. Amer. Sept. 1. p. 227.

Yucca angustifolia. Nuttall Gen. Pl. amer. 1. p. 218.

geaiiein

The present plant is the true Yucca angustifolia of Pursu,

and different from the one which has been usually so called in

our collections, and which we have already published under-

the name of stricta (No. 2222). The scape of angustifolia

is simple; the leaves are still narrower recurved, and the

threads on their margins very much longer; the lacinie of

the corolla more acute; and it is altogether of humbler

growth. Pursu described his plant from Norratt’s herba-

rium ; and our plant was raised from seeds brought over by

Mr. Nurratt, and presented to our friend Avtmer Bourke

Lampert, Esq. in whose garden at Boyton it flowered in July

- Our specific character is chiefly a version of that given

by Nurrat in his work above referred to, which, though

small in bulk, is weighty in valuable matter.

NV 2237.

J iurtia Det. Pub. by) S$. Gurtis. Walworth Funerrbr. Wedd dll.Fe.

(. 2237)

THALICTRUM ALPINUM. ALPINE MEADOW-

Rue.

ae ee dese eae eae te ses ae seak ates a ae

Class and Order.

PotyanpriA Potyeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal.0. Petala 4. s.5. Sem. ecaudata. -

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Tuaticrrum alpinum ; caule simplicissimo subnudo, racemo

simplici terminali. Spec. Pl. 767. Willd. 2. p. 1295.

Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 346. Sm. Fl. Brit. 2. p. 584.

Engl. Bot. 262. Lightf. Fl. Scot. 286. t.13. f. 1.

Tuaticrrum alpinum; caule simplicissimo subnudo digitali,

racemo simplici terminali, floribus nutantibus, foliorum

segmentis glabris. De Cand. Regn. Veget. 1. p. 175.

Flor. Frang. 4. p. 874. ;

Tuaticrrum minimum precox foliis splendentibus. Morvs.

Hist. 3. p. 325. sect. 9. t. 20. f. 14. fig. pessima.

THALicrRUM minimum montanum atrorubens foliis splenden-

tibus. Raj. Syn. 204. Boerh. Ind. alt. 1. p. 44. t. 1.

ieee

An elegant little alpine plant; native of the mountains of

Kamschatka, Newfoundland, Lapland, Greenland, Iceland,

and the Pyrenees; and also of Scotland and Wales. The

only tolerably good representation of this scarce plant hitherto

published is that in English Botany; and even this has been

apparently drawn from an imperfect specimen, as it does not

express correctly its habit; the flowers being naturally cernu-

ous, and the filaments too slender to support the anthers in an

erect position. ae

Pies narsher of stamens and of pistils differs in the same

individual; the former from eight to twelve, the latter from

tw i

oo A hardy

A hardy perennial. Communicated by Mr. Knicur of the

Exotic Nursery, King’s Road, in April 1820. |

The outline figures represent first the four petals or calyx

of Jussieu, the 2d the stamens, and the 3d the four pistils,

surmounted by the divaricate anthers, all magnified.

Pub bys Gurtis Wabrorth Fiumessdar.

—-

( 2238 )

Lospetia Katmit. Kaum’s Lopetia.

KEK KEE EEE KEKE EEK

Class and Order.

Penranpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. 1-petala, irregularis. Anthere cohe-

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

Specific Character and Synonyms. —

Lorewa Kalmii; tenuis, erecta, simpliciuscula, foliis radicali-

bus spathulatis, caulinis linearibus tenuissime denticulatis,

floribus racemosis alternis remotis pedicellatis. Pursh

Fl. amer. sept. 446.

Lorewia Kalmii, caule erecto, foliis lanceolato-linearibus ob-

tusiusculis alternis integerrimis, racemo terminali. Sp.

Pl. 1318. Walt. Carol. p. 218. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. 939.

Lopenia Kalmii. Michaux Fl. amer. bor. 2. p. 153. Nuttall

Gen. Pl. amer. sept. 2. p. 76.-

Rapuntium canadense pumilum, linarie folio. Tournef. Inst.

164,

Descr. “ Stema foot and half high, angled, smooth. Ra-

dical leaves indistinctly crenate, hairy on both sides: Cauline

alternate, bluntish, smaller towards the upper part of the stem,

_ Smooth on both sides with minute yellow teeth. Peduncles

hairy, one-flowered, arising from the axilla of the upper leaves,

having two little bractee above their middle.” :

For the drawing and description of this plant, of which we

lieve a figure is now for the first time published, we are

indebted to Dr. Rosert Grauam, Professor of Botany in the

university of Edinburgh. It flowered in the Royal nic

Sarden there in August 1820.

It is marked as an annual in the species Plantarum of

Linnzvus and Wiitpenow; but this is probably a mistake

as the Professor says, in his letter, that the roots were sent

by Mr. Biarir from Canada at the end of 1819, together with

those of Catyrso americana, Areruusa bulbosa, and Cato-

pocon pulchellus (Limoporum tuberosum, Bot. Mag. 116);

all of which flowered the following year.

Nurratt describes the bractes as being at the summit of

the peduncle ; that they were nearer the middle in our plant

might perhaps be occasioned by its having been flowered

under aframe. The same author remarks that he has scarcely

ever seen any plant, the flower apart, which so imposingly

resembled Campanuta rotundifolia. We have often been

struck by a similar resemblance in habit between other species

of these two genera.

Native of Canada and New York in North America, and

therefore no doubt perfectly hardy. Not recorded in the

Catalogue of the Kew garden and probably now first intro-

duced into Great-Britain. ;

N 2238

Weddell Se

Pub by 5. Gurtis Walworth Junerza8e1

( 2239 )

Iris Psrtup-Acorvus, 8. PALLIDO-FLAVA.

PaLe-YELLow Water Irts.

Class and Order.

TriANDRIA Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cor. 6-partita: laciniis alternis reflexis. Stigmata petali-

formia.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ir1s Pseud-Acorus; imberbis, radice crassa solida horizontali,

foliis ensiformibus, petalis alternis stigmate minoribus.

Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. 115. Willd. Sp. Pl-1. p. 232.

Curtis Flor. Lond. English Botany 578. Redouté

Laliac. 235. =

(8.) pallido-flava ; floribus pallido-luteis, foliis apice magis

elongatis. : : ,

There does not seem to be sufficient difference between

this plant and our common Iris Pseud-Acorus to constitute

a distinct species, yet there is something that pervades the

whole aspect not quite agreeing with our native species ; nor

does it require so wet a soil. cs

It is said to have been imported from Carolina by the late

Mr. Lyons; yet we do not find it recorded as an American

species either by Micnaux, Pursn, or Nurrat. a

ee ’ A Bp "ot, Bak Kes

ut Pi; Ao teuad ; hast vets, f ets. oes Ma

Pubte 64

Siete Walworth:

Weddell 52

Frere, 22852.

( 2240.)

CrocUS VERNUS, y. OBOVATUS. LARGEST

Purp.Le Serine Crocus.

TERE AEE EE ENE EE EE ETE EE ee

| Class and Order.

TrianprRiA Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Spatha plerumque 2-valvis: valvula interior multo an-

gustior. Cor. infundibuliformis: Tubus longissimus, basi

subterraneus : Limbus 6-partitus, regularis. Stigmata 3.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Crocus vernus; corolle fauce pilis eigen clausa. Hort.

Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. 80. Bot. Mag. 860. ubi synonyma

petenda.

(w.) communis; laciniis erectis conniventibus ovato-lanceo-

latis. |

Crocus vernus. English Bot. 344. Redouté Liliac 266.

(G.) neapolitanus ; laciniis ovatis, stigmatibus antheras su-

perantibus.

Crocus vernus, @. neapolitanus. Bot. Mag. 860.

(y.) obovatus; laciniis obovatis obtusissemis crenulatis, an-

theris stigmata superantzbus.

Crocus obovatus ; piliger, laciniis rotundato-obovatis inflato-

incurvis lateribus alte imbricatis, stigmatibus latissimis.

Haworth in Trans. Horticult. Soc. 1. p. 133.

Mr. Hawortn, who communicated the plant from which

our drawing was taken, considers it as a species distinct from

vernus, of which Mr. Ker, to whose authority we are inclined

to submit, makes it only a variety. But as the latter botanist

has inserted the length of the stigmas extending beyond the

anthers, as a character of vernus, the anthers in our plant

exceeding the stigmas in length might be regarded as estab-

lishing a sufficient specific distinction, provided this character

should be found to be constant, which however we very much

doubt.

Whether

Whether the Crocus which Crustus received from Naples

belonged to our plant, to B, or to a variety of bicolor, av

is suspected by Dr. Gotpgacn, the author of a monograph

on this genus, cannot now be possibly ascertained.

Mr. Hawortu says that his Crocus obovatus varies with

white, variegated, purple, and brilliant dark-purple flowers:

of which varieties our drawing represents the latter.

Flowers early in April.

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( 2241 )

MELAsToma SANGUINEA. RED-vEINED

MELASTOMA.

HERA AEE RSE

Class and Order.

Decaxpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus, campanulatus. Petala 5. (nunc 6. vel 4.)

¢ealyce inserta. Bacca 5-locularis, calyce obvoluta.

Specific Character.

MELAstoma sanguinea; dodecandra, foliis ovato-lanceolatis

quinque nerviis, pedunculis terminalibus solitariis uniflo-

ris, germinibus globosis hispidissimis.

Desc. Stem shrubby, extremely hispid with strong bristles —

of a dull red colour, branched crosswise. Pettoles hairy, red,

horizontal, united by a stipulaceous membrane : leaves ovate-

lanceolate, sometimes cordate, five-nerved, shining on the

upper surface and covered with rough points, margin scabrous,

under surface scabrous, pale, with nerves and transverse pa-

rallel veins of a bright red colour while young; the lower -

leaves are eight inches long and five and a half wide: upper

ones narrower. Flowers large, rose-coloured, terminal, so-

litary. Germen globular, covered with strong incurved and

tangled bristles. Calyx, superior, six-cleft: segments lance-

olate with six very small intermediate segments. Petals six,

te, concave, fleshy, crisped, having an acidulous taste.

Stamens twelve, six longer and six interior shorter: anthe-

riferous portion of the filament incurved, and terminated at

the base with two yellow spurlike appendages. Style declined,

shorter than the stamens. Stigma truncate. : .

The red colour of the pubescence and of the petioles, and

more especially of the nerves and veins on the under acta

of the leaves, has given occasion to the name we have applied

to it; but it is most conspicuous in the latter whilst. young,

disappearing in great measure in a more advanced age.

There is a near affinity between our plant and Metastoma

malabathrica (supra No. 529) likewise an East-Indian species ;

_ but they may be at once distinguished by the number of petals

and stamens, unless it should be found that this character is

subject to variation.

Among the undescribed species of Metastoma in the Bank-

sian Herbarium we find one which appears to be the same as

our plant, brought from the straits of Sunda by Sir Grorce

Taunton, and another not quite so certain from Macao by

Mr. Davin Netson. The one from which our drawing and

description were taken, was raised from seed received from

China, by Mr. Broexe of the Northampton Nursery, New-

ington-Green, by whom it was communicated in October last

year. Cultivated in the stove, where it forms a very handsome

free growing shrub.

( 2242 )

DENDROBIUM CUCULLATUM. HoopEp

DENDROBIUM.

JHE

| Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria. |

Generic Character.

Labellum ecalcaratum, articulatum cum apice processus

unguiformis, cujus lateribus petala antica adnata calcar emu-

eu9 Masse pollinis 4, parallele: Brown in Hort. Kew.

. p. 212. |

Specific Character.

DenpRoxsium cucullatum; caulibus pendulis, foliis bifariis ]an-

ceolatis acuminatis, pedunculis oppositifoliis subbifloris,

labello indiviso circumscriptione ovato basi cucullato.

Brown Mss.

_ Our drawing was taken from a plant which flowered in the

hot-house at Spring-Grove, the seat of Lady Banks, in March

last. We had not an opportunity of seeing the plant ourselves,

and are entirely indebted to the friendly assistance of Mr. Ro-

BERT Brown for any intelligence we can give about it. It is

a Native of the East Indies, and was sent to this country by

the late Dr. Roxgurcu ; among whose unpublished drawings

Is the figure of at least a very nearly related species which he

calls Denprosium Pierardi, having been sent, by Mons, Pre-

RARD, to the Calcutta garden from Chittagong, where and of

various parts of the Delta of the Ganges it isa native. There

is however too much difference between our plant and Dr.

Roxsuren’s figure to justify their being considered as the

same species. In his drawing the flowering stems are entirely

without leaves, the colour of the flower is a pale yellow, the

lip large and shovel shaped ; being dilated at the upper ex-

tremity into a flattish obovate form, slightly curled at the

margin

margin and somewhat ciliate; incurved at the base into a

tube concealing the column of fructification. In our plant

the base is incurved in the same manner, but the incurvation

is continued in some degree to the extremity, and the whole

labellum is much shorter. The stems of our plant are most

probably pendulous in their natural state, though trained under

cultivation in an upright direction ; it is not unlikely too that

in an older plant the flowering stems may be entirely destitute

of leaves which was the case towards the extremity, as shown

in our figure; but the different form of the labellum, to say

nothing of the colour of the flower, will, we imagine, always

keep them distinct.

N2243'

A, s Pat

J, Gartes Del

Push. by 5 .Lurti¢c. Water orth. Fee, aP as.

Wed All. Fo-

( 2243 )

CLAYTONIA SIBIRICA. SIBERIAN CLAYTONIA.

Beak sete sak ak ak sede ake sie ale ake ales sie ake

Class and Order.

Pentanpria Monoeynta.

Generic Character.

Cal. 2-valvis. Cor. 5-petala. Stigma 3-fidum. Caps. 3-

valvis, 1-locularis, 3-sperma.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ciaytonia sibirica ; foliis nervosis: radicalibus caulinisque

ovatis, racemo secundo. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 1186.

Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 53.

Crayronia sibirica ; foliis ovatis. Spec. Pl. 294.

Limnia. Lin. in Act. Stock. 1746. p. 130. t. 5.

‘ieee

Cxayronia sibirica has a very near affinity with Alsinozdes

(supra No. 1309) but differs in having its leaves nerved and

paler underneath, stem more simple ; in the colour and shape

-d the petals, which are more obtuse and terminate in a slender

Claw,

Mr. Sauissury in his account of Crayronia spatulefolia

(Paradisus Londinensis 77) has suggested that the Siberian

species must perhaps be restored to their former title of

Limnia, as differing in habit and in having only three seeds

in the pericarpium, which bursts with elasticity ; but virginica

and perfoliata, both natives of America, have for the most part

only three seeds, and the capsules of the latter certainly burst

with elasticity. Notwithstanding the criticism of the same

learned botanist, we must maintain that our drawing of the

petals of virginica is correct, as applied to the plant from

which it was taken, and confirmed by a living specimen which

we have since examined. : eg

Crayronta sibirica is a hardy annual. Native of Siberia.

Propagates readily by seed. Flowers most part of the sum-

mer. Communicated by Mr. Kyieut of the Exotic Nursery

in May 1820.

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PuscHKINIA SCILLOIDES. SQUIL-LIKE.

PUSCHKINIA.

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynta.

Generic Character.

Cor. |-petala, 6-partita, infera. Nectarium brevissimum,

6-dentatum, coronans faucem. Stamina intra nectarium.

Marschall é@ Bieb.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Puscukinia scilloides. Adam in Nov. act. Petrop. Marsch.

Cent. 2. t. 91.

Puscnxinia scilloides; foliis radicalibus geminis. Fl. Taur.

Cauc. 1. p. 277. et. 3. p. 266. —

Apvamsta scilloides. Willd. Enum. suppl. p. 16.

Descr. Stature and habit of Scizza amena. Leaves ra-

dical, two or three, lanceolate, striate, concave, sheathing,

erect. Scape very little longer than the leaves, bearing a ter-

minal corymb of about six flowers, white, streaked and tinged

with a delicate blue: footstalks unequal, lower ones much the

longest. Corolla six-parted: lacini patent, lanceolate. Nec-

tarium half the length of the lacinie, tubular, divided half

Way into six connivent lacinie#, unequally toothed at the point.

Anthers yellow, bilocular, on very short filaments attached to

the upper part of the tube of the nectary. Germen superior,

oval, marked with six longitudinal lines, three-celled, with

many globular, shining ovules. Style somewhat longer than

the tube of the nectary : stigma obtuse, lobular.

This plant differs from Sciuia and OrniTHOGALUM by the

nectarium or corona, which perhaps may be considered as

formed by the union of six broad filaments, the free part ex-

tending

tending beyond the insertion of the anthers, and in being

toothed, shewing some affinity with several species of Allium.

This plant was named in honour of the late Count ApoLtos

Mussin Puscuxin by Dr. Apams, and was first recorded in the

Flora Taurico-Caucasica by M. Marscuatt v. Bizserstesn,

A hardy perennial. Communicated by Mr. Wittiam AnpER-

son of the Chelsea Garden in March last. ;

N 2245

Pubs by. 5. Gurtis Walworth, vate Sa -4 G22.

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Vanna Roxpureuit. CHEQUER-FLOWERED

: | VANDA. see

KEKEKK KEKE KEKE EERE

Class and Order.

GYNANDRIA MonanpDnrRIA.

Generic Character.

Labellum calcaratum, cum basi simplici (breviusque pro-

ducta) columne aptere continuum, trifidum, lobo medio car-

noso. Petala patentia, distincta. Masse pollinis 2, obliqué

bilobe. Brown in Bot. Reg. n. 506. Intrat orchidearum

sectionem [V*": ejusdem authoris, in Horti Kewensi editione

altera v. 5, p. 205, propositam, quibus anthera terminalis,

mobilis, decidua ; masse pollinis demum cereacee.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Vanva Roxburghii; ovariis contortis, petalis oblongo-ovatis

undatis, foliis oblique tridentatis. Brown in Bot. Reg.

n. 506.

Cymeipium tesselloides. Roxb. ic. inedit.

Vanna. Sir William Jones in Asiat. Res. 4. p. 302.

__ This beautiful parasitic plant is a native of Bengal, where

it grows more especially, but not exclusively, on the Man-

g0-Tree. In common with many other parasitical plants

of tropical countries it puts forth long root-like tendrils, by

which it attaches itself strongly to the trunk or branch; but

these organs probably do not perform the office of roots, or

that of drawing nourishment from the juices of the sup-

porting tree; for this plant, like many others, to

be, as Sir Wituiam Jones observes, a true air-plant, and

will live and thrive in a pot without earth or water.

Sir Witiiam Jones refers to Eripenprum retusum of

NN&us as a synonym of this plant, but it is etees’ | rery

: istinct

distinct from the Anfieli Maravara of Rurepe, quoted asa

synonym by this author.

Our drawing was taken froma plant, which flowered in

November 1820 at Spring-Grove, the seat of Lady Banks,

being suspended from the top of the stove in a basket with

moss.

N 2246

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Pub-by 5. Gsotis Watworth July. 2.2822.

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HAKEA NITIDA. SHINING-LEAVED HAKEA.

KEKE REE EEE EERE RE KE

Class and Order.

TerranpriraA Monoeynia.

Generic Character. ~

Cor. 4-petala, irregularis. Anthere apicibus concavis

corolle immerse. Glandula hypogyna, dimidiata, (raro

biloba.) Folliculus superus, ligneus, 1-locularis: loculo

excentrico. Seminum ala apicis longior nucleo.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Haxea nitida ; foliis lanceolatis oblongisve basi attenuatis

spinuloso-paucidentatis integrisque nitidis subvenosis

ramulisque glaberrimis, capsulis bicalcaratis ovatis

gibbosis apice compressis intus leviusculis. Brown

in Lin. Soc. trans. 10. p. 184. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl.

p. 384. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. 208.

This handsome shrub was first found by. Mr. Brown on

the southern coast of New Holland in his voyage with

in Furspers. And was introduced into the Kew Gar-

den by Mr. Perer Goon in 1803. The specimen from

which our drawing was taken was communicated by Messrs.

Waurttey, Brame, and Mixyz, from their ample collection

at Fulham, where it flowered in April 1821. It requires to

be protected from frost.

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DILLWYNIA CINERASCENS. GREY

) DILLWYNIA.

Class asad Order.

Decanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

- Cal. 5-fidus, bilabiatus, basi attenuatus. Cor. papiliona-

cea, petalis staminibusque deciduis medio tubo calycis

insertis: vexilli lamina duplo et ultra latior quam longa,

divaricato-biloba. Germendispermum. Stylus uncinatus.

Stigma capitatum. Legumen ventricosum. Semina stro-

phiolata. Brown in Hort. Kew.

Specific Character.

Dittwynta cinerascens ; corymbis terminalibus sessilibus,

foliis filiformibus erectis: mucrone innocuo brevissimo

subrecurvo, ramulis calycibusque sericeis. Brown

MSS.

Mr. Brown possesses many species of this penne, which

he divides into two sections; in one of which, the petals and

Stamens are deciduous; in the other (Xeroreratum. Br.)

these parts are marcescent. It is to the latter section that

our present plant belongs. The three species recorded in

the Hortus Kewensis, ‘all belong to the first; and from this

division the above generic character seems to have been

More especially framed, the author having at first intended

to have made distinct genera of them, but has since thought

it more advisable to consider them only as sections of the

Sane genus.

Native of Van Diemen’s island; where it was found near

the Derwent, by Rozerr Brown, Esq. in the year 1804.

A hardy green-house shrub, requiring only protection

trom severe frost. Communicated by Wii114M Kent, Esq.

from his rich collection at Clapton. .

At No. 1545, vol. 37 of this work, we have erroneously

given a figure of Dizzwynta floribunda under the name of

ericifolia. The true ericifolia has a nearer resemblance to

our present subject, but may be distinguished from it by

the deciduous petals and stamens, -the naked calyx, and

pungently mucronated scabrous leaves. The specific cha-

racter and synonyms there giyen should be expunged and

the following inserted '

Dittwyn1a floribunda; floribus axillaribus geminis foliis

subulatis mucronatis. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 15.

Dittwynia floribunda. Smith in Lin. Soc. Trans. 9. p. 262.

Exot. Bot. t. 26.

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ONOSMA SIMPLICISSIMA. . SIBERIAN SIMPLE

ONOSMA.

Chdis nds Radic

Penranpria Monoeynia.

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. , Generic Character.

Corolla campanulata: fauce pervia. Anthere basi ha-

Mose. Semina 4.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Onosma simplicissima ; corollis ventricosis, foliis lineari-

lanceolatis hirtis. Willd. Sp. Pl.1. p. 773.

_Onosma simplicissima ; pilis prostratis sparsis, caulibus flo-

riferis simplicibus aggregatis, foliis linearibus acuti-

usculis, antheris filamentis brevioribus. Marsch. a

Biéb. Flor. taur. cauc. 1. p. 133. Id. 3. p. 131. Cent.

Pl. rar. Ross. 2. t. 57. nondum visa.

Onosma simplicissima ; caule subsimplici, foliis lineari-

lanceolatis hispidis subtus albido-pilosis, fructibus

Sens Marsch. Casp. App. p. 137. Ann. of: Bot. 2.

p. All.

Onosma sibirica. Lam. illustr. n. 1836.

Sen

At No. 889, in vol. 23 of this work, we have givena figure

of the Onosma taurica of Marscnatt v. Breserstetn, in his

account of the vegetable productions between the Terek

Kur rivers, which flow into the ian sea. This

author in his Flora taurico-caucasica es the same a

_ Variety of Onosma stellulata of the Flora Hungarica. __

Onosma simplicissima differs from the above in the hairs

of the leaves, especially on the under side, being much

longer and softer, solitary and not stellulate, in the leaves

being longer, narrower, and more pointed, and in the paler

Colour of the flowers; differences pointed out in et lora

urico-

taurico-caucasica, all of which apply to our plant ; to these

may be added the corolla being uniformly ventricose with-

out the angles which appear in the corolla of taurica.

This species is described as having a number of simple

stems growing in an aggregate manner; but in our plant

the lower part of the stem survived the preceding winter,

and the flowering stalk with several shoots were produced

from the top of it. Whether this circumstance was acci-

dental, or a permanent variety of the ordinary state of the

species we are not able to determine ; we cannot consider it

as specifically distinct.

A hardy perennial ; native of Siberia. Flowers in May

— : une. Communicated by Mr. Anperson of the Chelsea

arden.

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Pub. by. 5. Grtis. Wo twrorthFiig.2.2 82.

J. Gartis. Det,

STYLIDIUM TENUIFOLIUM. FINE-LEAVED?

StTyLipium.

Class and Order:

Gynanpria DIAnprRIA.

| Generic Character.

Cal. bilabiatus: Cor. irregularis, 5-fida: lacinia quinta

(Labello) dissimili. Columna rectinata, duplici flexura.

Aathere bilobe: lobis divaricatissimis. Caps. bilocularis..

Brown in Hort. Kew. 5. p. 222.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Stvupium tenuifolium ; suffruticosus, foliis angusto-lineari-

bus sessilibus pilosiusculis, fauce nuda, labello appen-

diculato. Brown Prodr. fl. Nov. Holl. p. 570. Encycl.

bot. Suppl. 5. p. 413.

Sextiprum laricifolium ; caule elongato confertim folioso,

foliis subsetaceo-linearibus, panicula_pyramidato-ra-

‘Mulosa.. Richard in. Pers. Syn. 2. p. 210. Jussieu in

Ann. du Mus. d’ Hist. Nat. 18. p. 19. t. 3.

‘_e

Tn ouraccount of'another species of this curious genus, of

Which Mr. Brows in. his Prodromus has recorded and cha-

Tacterized no fewerthan forty-five; we have given an account

of the irritability of the column of fructification, which is

: Wis)” remarkable in: our present subject (vide supra No.

_, The Stysimm tenuifolium forms a very small upright

) Subs while all the rest of the known species, except one

Lin. fruticosum) are herbaceous.

Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle gave the true account of the

ture of the flower of this genus, which, being ignorant

that it was before-established. by. Proféssor Swanrz under its

presen

present name, he called Cannone; but afterwards he took

up the notion that the stigma was not at the upper extremity

of the column but at its base. M. Rict arn with’ as little

ae considered the fifth lacinia of the corolla, the

bellum of Brown, as the true stigma ; and Jussieu in the

18th volume of the Annales, even after the publication of

Brown’s Prodromus, has adopted the opinion of Ricuarp,

which, in the Linnean system, would remove the genus

from the class Gynandriate Monadelphia. But the English

botanists still agree in considering the stigma to be placed

at the upper extremity of the column, where it is partly

covered by the anthers, and only becomes truly developed

after the bursting of these organs. -

The:plant from which our. drawing was made was com-

municated by Mr. Josern. Knicur of the Exotic Nursery in

the King’s Road, where only we haveas yet seen it. It is

not recorded in the Hortus Kewensis, nor in Sweer’s more

extensive list, the Hortus Suburbanus. . ~ ah

Native of the country about Port Jackson in New South

Wales. Requites the protection of a greenhouse, and blos-

soms better for the assistance of some artificial heat.

HH to. Mite

SS ithaca ciaemmatieae aitiaieete ISS

Fig. 1, The germen and calyx. 2. The pubescence surrounding the

“anthers. 3. The column. 4, The corolla: all magnified. ;

Oe ee re sie anineatie-s(sttenclighicen cies 7 creased ae

N 2250.

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Fourcra@a GiGANnrTea. Cid Fowcnaea,

cbbebdebisebobleitat

Py ee and Order.

Hexanpnia re a

Generic Character. 3

Cor. supera, 6-petala, patula; Fitamenta corolla brevic

inferne o rab superne subulata, | Mi ca aad %

incrassatus._ : ) OR Bk IF

ia 8 uleg i caulescens, foliis ogg Be

oi ae integervimis

Hilcnes gi cantea. ag eee in Usteri Anat, der ite,

19. ps 54... Plant. grass. 126*.

yee Setida ; caulescens foliis integ an, i. sono mane

corollis hexapetalis. ‘Willd. Se natn

Collect. 2. p. 212. Icon. rar. rat t. 37. Lin, Syst.

Veg. ed. 14. p. 388.

ALor americana; viridi rigidissimo et foetido folio Piet dicta

indigenis. Commel. Hort. 2. p. 35. t. 18. sine inflores-

centia.

This genus is ; rather too ae allied to Acave, from

which it has been separated by Venrenat, and named in

honour of M. Fourcroyr, author of the elements of Natural

History and Chemistry ; a separation adopted in the Hortus

Kewensis, but rejected by M. Pomer in his supplement to

the Encyclopédie botanique. The principal points = mr

it differs from AcAve are the shape of the stamens and

rolla, the comparative length of these organs and the Fontes

of the style.

The Furcra@a gigantea is a truly gigantic plant; the

Sy,

scape } from the bosom of the leaves, which are seven a

feet long, to the height of above thirty feet, producing nu- a) ;

merous: alternate branches, again divided into branchlets,

one of which with its flowers is represented in our figure.

A lanceolate-marcescent bracte at the base of each branchlet,

and small bractes at each pedicle. Flowers white, pendu-

lous, on short slender stalks. Germen inferior, 3-cornered,.

striate, aboutian inch long, a little curved, 3-celled. Petals

6, oblong-lanceolate, equal, somewhat fleshy. Filaments:

6, narrowed at both ends, bread in the middle, not half the:

length of the petals: Anthers oblong, versatile: pollen yel-

low. Style 3-cornered, longer than. the stamens, hollow >

stigma capitate, pubescent. Nectaries 3, oblong, spreading,

at the point, inserted at the-base of the style. Under-the:

outer bark the liber divides into very tough fibres.

_ . The growth of the flowering stem was extremely. rapid.

- A Specimen of one of the branches between four and five

feet long, from one of the branchlets of which our drawing

was taken, was sent us in December last by the Right

Honourable Earl Powis, from his Lordship’s seat at Wall-

eott, in Shropshire, together with a rough sketch of the

whole plant.

This plant’ seems to have equalled’ in size that described

and figured by Jacquin as above quoted; and, like it, pro-

duced a great number of viviparous bulbs.

Native of South America. | Cultivated’ according to Mt.

Arrow in 1690, at the Royal garden at Hampton-Court.

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Pubby.S Curtis Walworth, fs 2 8er.

Weddall. St

( 2251 )

LOBELIA PEDUNCULATA. LONG-STALKED

Lose LIA.

KKK KEKE KEKE EEE EERE

Class and Order.

Penranpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. 1-petala, irregularis. Anthere cohe-

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

Specific Character. :

— Losenia pedunculata; foliis petiolatis recurvis pinnatifidis :

pinnis bifurcatis, pedunculis elongatis lateralibus soli-

tariis subbifloris, caule suffruticoso.

Geen

This very rare species was communicated by Messrs.

Loppicrs and Sons some years since. It is nearly related

to, but specifically different from, Losenia coronopifolia

(supra n. 644.) The flowers are much smaller, the colour

of the tube purple; the peduncles, which are full as lon

as in coronopifolia, grow from the sides of the branches an

are not confined to their extremities as in that ; the leaves

are entirely different.

Native of the Cape of Good-Hope, flowers in October

and November ; requires the shelter of a Greenhouse in the

winter.

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( 2252 )

CRYPTOSTEMMA CALENDULACEA, a Mary-

GOLD-FLOWERED CRYPTOSTEMMA.

KEKE K EEE EEE EEE KEE

Class and Order.

SyNGENESIA PoLYGAMIA FRUSTRANEA.

Generic Character.

Recept. favosum. Pappus paleaceus lana implexa seminis

tectus. Cal. imbricatus. Brown in Hort. Kew.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Crrprostemma calendulacea; ligulis indivisis, foliis pinna-

tifidis dentatis subtus tomentosis. Br. in Hort. Kew.

ed. alt. 5. p. 141.

Arctoris calendulacea. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 2347.

(a) foltis lyrato-pinnatifidis, ligulis tridentatis. aie}

_ ‘Arcrotis Calendula, flosculis radiantibus sterilibus duodonis

sh foliis lyratis nigro-denticulatis. Sp. Pl.

306. |

ANEMONOsPERMOs africana, Jacobee maritime foliis, flore

sulphureo. Commel. rar. 36. t. 36. fig. bona. €

ANEMONOsPERMos afra, foliis et facie Taraxaci incanis.

Breyn. ic. 27. t. 15. :

(8.) foles runcinato-pinnatifidis, ligulis acutis integerrimis.

Arcroris calendulacea; flosculis radiantibus sterilibus, foliis

_ -Yuncinatis subtomentosis. Syst. Veg. ed. 14 p. 791.

Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. 2. p. 16. t. 157. -

ANEmon® affinis exthiopica, fibrosa radice, flore Asteris,

Taraxaci foliis subincanis. Herm. Lugd. 41. t. 42.

Descr. Leaves lyrate-pinnatifid, three-nerved, on the

per side green, hispid: on the under tomentose, white.

eduncles at the ends of the branches two or three together,

long, striate, clothed with weak red hairs, one-flowered.

Calyx

Calyx imbricate, inner scales rounded, smooth, with a pur-

plish brown scariose margin : outer ones smaller, ovate, ter-

minated with a pencil of soft white hairs, nodding before the

flower expands. Receptacle honeycombed, bristly. .Germens

covered with wool, which nearly conceals the paleaceous

pappus. Floscules of the ray many, sterile, slightly three-

toothed at the point, two-ribbed, pale yellow, purplish

underneath. Floscules of the disk hermaphrodite, cup-

shaped, smooth, greenish, with a black-purple five-cleft

border. Anthers connected, black-purple, shorter than the

floscule. Stigma exserted,; covered with the yellow pollen,

cylindrical, finally divaricate.

CryprosTemMA is a genus established by Mr. Roserr

Brown from the heterogeneous assemblage formerly ar-

ranged under Arcrotis, and has its name from the wool of

the seed partly concealing the paleaceous pappus with

which it is crowned.

There exists the greatest confusion in the synonomy of

Arcrotis calendulacea and hypochondriaca ; WitupENow has

applied Commetin’s synonym, which is a good representa

tion of our plant, to both. Jacqurn’s figure differs from our

plant in the smaller size, in the leaves being narrower, in

the florets of the ray being sharper pointed and quite entire,

and of a greener colour; but it should be observed that in |

drying, the florets of the ray in our plant become quite green

and sharp pomted. It is possible that they may be distinct

—— but we consider them as varieties, and have en-

eavoured to apply the synonyms adapted to each. .

Native of the Cape of Good-Hope. A tender annual.

Flowers in May and June. Communicated by Messrs

Cuanpier and Bucxinenam of the Vauxhall Nursery

“VL \ aaa tyS. Getic Walerovth.

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N 2253.

Weddsl. 5*:

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DIGITATIS ORIENTALIS. Levant. Fox-Guove.

KEELER EEE EEE EEE

Class and- Order.

DipynaMiA ANGIOSPERMIA,

Generic Character.

Cal, 5-partitus. Cor. campanulata, 4—5-loba, ventri-

cosa. Caps. ovata, 2-locularis:

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Dierratis orientalis ; foliolis calycinis lanceolatis pube-

scentibus, coroll2 labio inferiori maximo spathulato.

Lamarck Encyl. 2. p. 280. Bot. Reg. 554.

Dieitais orientalis ; calycinis foliolis oblongis acutis pu-

bescentibus, corolle lobis lateralibus labii inferioris

obtussimis, intermedio spathulato ciliato plano, floribus

distantibus, bracteis oblongis pubescentibus calyce

beg ey Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p.286. Persoon Syn.

. p. 163.

— orientalis Tragopogi folio, flore albido, Tourn.

or. 9.

This plant was first discovered by the celebrated botanist

Tournerort, during his travels in» the Levant ; and

Lamarck, in that valuable compilation, the botanical part

of the Encyclopédie Methodigue, has given a description of

It from Pomuiebone's specimen, preserved in JusstEv’s

herbarium. But M. Porrér, in the supplement to the same

work, has erroneously referred this species to Dierraxis

lanata ; which, though nearly allied, is very distinct.

The latter plant is figured at No. 1159 of the Botanical

ine ; but we believe that a living specimen of orten-

talis has never been seen in this country, nor even in

Europe, till the seed was transmitted from’ Constantinople

to Sir Josepn Banas by Lady Liston, to whose zeal our

gardens

— are indebted for several rare and some new plants.

hat from which our drawing was taken was raised from

_ this seed, and flowered last April in Lady Banxs’s garden,

at Spring Grove.

Dierrauis orientalis differs from lanata in having a much

more lax spike of flowers, which grow alternately and dis-

tant, are paler coloured, and have less of the ferrugineous

reticulated marking within side, and none without ; in having

the calyx and the whole outside of the corolla more pubes-

cent, but especially in having the upper and lateral seg-

ments rounded instead of pointed as in that; the radical

and lower leaves are also much longer and narrower.

It is an herbaceous perennial ; and we imagine must

require protection from severe frost.

Pub. od Qos Ww aafies Wedd al. S'¢

( 2254 )

Rota LINIFOLIA, 8. LARGE-FLOWERED

FLAX-LEAVED Rue.

KEKE EEK EEE EERE

Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus. Petalaconcava. Recept. punctis melli-

feris decem cinctum. Caps. lobata.

Specific Character and Synonyms. .

Ruta linifolia ; foliis lanceolatis subsessilibus glabris, i-

cule ramis pubescentibus, petalis ovatis. Marsch. Fl.

Taur.-Caucas. 1. p. 309.

Ruta Linifolia ; foliis simplicibus lanceolatis glabris, fila-

mentis ciliatis, caule simplici herbaceo. Welld. Sp. Pl.

2. p. 544. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 32. Bot. Re-

posit. 565.

Rura sylvestris linifolia hispanica. Boce. Mus. 2. p. 82.

t. 73. Barrel. ic. 1186.

(@.) grandiflora ; foliis spathulato-lanceolatis glaucis, panicula

congesta.

Ruta montana foliis integris subrotundis. Buxb. Cent. 2.

p. 30. t. 28. f. 2.

We should certainly have considered this plant as a dis-

tinct species from the Ruta Linifolia figured by Mr.

Anprews in the Botanists Repository ; and Mr. Hawortn,

to whom we are indebted for the communication of the

living specimen from which our drawing was made, from

the garden of the late Mr. Swainson, is quite of the same

opinion ; but not having had ourselves an opportunity of

comparing the plants together, we cannot venture to de-

viate from the decision of the learned and accurate author

of the Flora Taurico-Caucasica. _

_ Our plant grows, according to Buxsaum, about Ridosto,

in Romania. The late Mr. Sypensam Epwarps observed

that the flowers were possessed of a scent similar to that of

cowslips.

N 2255.

L. Curtis Det,

Fibdy. S$ fotce Wr, :

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(2255)

SILENE LACERA. JAGGED FLOWERED

CATCHFLY.

ERK KKK KEE EKER EERE

Class and Order.

DEcANDRIA T'RIGYNIA.

Generic Character.

Cal. monophyllus, ventricosus. Petala 5, unguiculata.

Caps. supera, semitrilocularis, apice dehiscens, polysperma.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Sirens lacera; calycibus inflatis solitariis, petalis multifidis

coronatis, foliis spathulatis undulatis ; floralibus sessili-

bus, caule decumbente.

Cucusatus lacerus; petalis multifidis, calycibus campanu-

latis, foliis spathulato-ovatis, caule adscendente. Flor.

taurico-caucas. 3. p. 303. Steven in Mem. Soc. nat.

Mosq. 3. p. 262. et in Trans. Lan. Soc. v. 11. p. All. —

t. 34.

Descr. Stems diffuse, decunibent, covered with a pu-

bescence, which, when magnified, appears beaded or

moniliform. Leaves ovate-spathulate, undulate with long,

channelled, stem-embracing footstalks. Upper ones sessile,

ovate-lanceolate. Peduncles mostly solitary, one-flowered,

axillary and terminal. Calyx inflated, ten-streaked, five-

cleft. Corolla white: petals lacerate, crowned with two

oblong, distinct adpressed appendices. Stamens 10, five

shorter, attached to the claw of the petal, and five longer,

Mserted into a glandular substance surrounding the base

of the ovate germen, which is one-celled, without an ap-

pearance of septum that we could observe: styles three,

sometimes only two. :

This species was first described in the transactions of the

Linnean Society by the Chevalier de Steven, pi has

ewise

likewise noticed the curious moniliform pubescence of the

stem. But with respect to the corona, which in our plant

was very distinct, this author remarks that there was scarcely

any. In other respects we find nothing contradictory in the

two descriptions.

Native of the eastern Caucasean Alps, where it grows

amongst the fragments of Schistus. Flowers in May and

June. Communicated by Mr. Anperson from the Chelsea

garden.

Fig. 1. Represents the pistil with the five longer stamens. 2. One of

the petals with a shorter stamen attached to the base of the claw, shewing

also the corona.

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GLopuLaria vuLearis. Common GLoBULARIA

or Bue Daisy.

KEKE EKER KEKE EEE

Class and Order.

TrrranpriA Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. communis imbricatus ; proprius tubulatus, inferus.

Corollule labio superiore 2-partito; inferiore 3-partito.

Recept. paleaceum.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

GLoputaria vulgaris; caule herbaceo, foliis radicalibus

obovatis retusis petiolatis ; caulinis lanceolatis.

Grogutaria vulgaris; caule herbaceo, foliis radicalibus

tridentatis ; caulinis lanceolatis. Sp. Pl. 139. Willd.

1. p. 540. Hort. Kew. ed. alter. 1. p. 222. Schkuhr |

handb. 1. p. 65. t. 21. Pollich Palat. 1. p. 138. Scop.

Carniol. n. 132.

Grogutaria vulgaris; caule herbaceo folioso, foliis radi-

calibus petiolatis obovatis subedentulis ; caulinis lan-

ceolatis. Lam. Encycl. 2. p. 730. Id. Mlustr. t. 56. f.1.

Grogvutari foliis radicalibus emarginatis, ex nervo aristatis,

caulinis lanceolatis. Hall. Hist. n. 218.

Betuts cerulea caule folioso. Bauh. Pin. 262.

Betws cerulea apula et monspeliaca. Tabern. Kreuterbuch

709. f. 1. & 2. Lob. ic. 478. é

APHYLLANTHES Anguillare, sive Globularia bellidi similis.

Bauh. Hist. 3. part 1. p. 13. cum icone.

een

Descr. Radical leaves obovate-spathulate, quite entire

or somewhat emarginate at the apex with a small projection

of the middle nerve, smooth, many, spreading about. Stem

from three to six inches high, erect, clothed with oblong

oval leaves, irregularly scattered, sessile. Flowers pt in

a dense

a dense globular head. Involucrum or common calyx of

many leaflets, like the cauline leaves, but smaller. Calyx

proper tubular, five-cleft: teeth subulate, acute, ciliated.

Corolla monopetalous : lacinie five, filiform, unequal: the

three upper ones three or four times longer than the two

lower. Stamens 4, distinct, longer than the corolla: anthers

two-lobed, deep blue. ‘Style shorter than stamens ; stigma

ne Receptacle paleaceous. Taste of the leaves slightly

itter.

This plant apparently varies very much in the size of the

radical leaves, which in our specimen, with the footstalk,

rarely equalled an inch in length, whereas Potticu describes

them as being four inches and a half long ; perhaps more

than one species have been confounded together. The

three teeth at the apex of the leaf are very frequently

wanting altogether, and are always much less remarkable

than in Grosutaria Alypum. According to Scopoxr the

leaves of the former year are emarginate with a mucro in

the middle and the young leaves three-toothed. |

Native of Switzerland and the south of Europe. Flowers

in May. Communicated by Mr. AnpErson from the Chelsea

garden, who received it from Switzerland through Mr.

SCHLEICHER.

N2257.

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( 2257 )

CHAPTALIA TOMENTOSA. WooLy-LEAVED

CHAPTALIA.

KEKEKKEKR EEE REE ERE RE

Class and Order.

Syneenesia Potycamia NECESSARIA.

Generic Character.

Receptaculum nudum. Pappus simplex. Flosculi radii

in duplici serie difformes, feminei. Flosculi disct masculi

bilabiati.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cuaptauia tomentosa; foliis obovato-oblongis retrorsum

denticulatis supra lanatis subtus argenteo-tomentosis,

flore nutante. PRE

Cuaprauia tomentosa; foliis spe Ramee integerrimis

subtus argenteo-tomentosis, scapo nudo unifloro, flore

nutante. Pursh. Fl. Amer. Sept. 2. p. 577.

Cuapratia integrifolia. Ventenat Cels.61. Nuttall Gen. 2.

p. 188.6 =:

scapo ok de nutante unifloro: ligulis raduanitibun

femineis ; flosculis extimis filiformibus femineis ; intimis

infundibuliformibus submasculis. Michaux Flor. Bor.

Amer. 2. p. 121. |

Tussizaco integrifolia; scapo unifloro nudo, flore radiato

nutante, foliis sessilibus oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis

oe subtus tomentosis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p.

964. |

Perpicium semiflosculare?, Walt. Flor. Carol. n. 318.

Descr. Leaves radical, oblong-obovate, obtuse, narrowed

at the base into a short petiole, margin denticulate with

teeth directed downwards, green and woolly on the upper

surface, and covered with a dense white cottony pubescence

on the under. Scape without bractes, upright, one-flowered,

cottony, twice or three times longer than the leaves. Calyx

cylindrical: leaflets linear, lower ones shortest. Flowers

white, nodding. Ray many-flowered, quite entire, female :

within the ray is a row of female flerets with an imperfect

petal, shorter than the style, and within that another row,

likewise female, without any corolla: stigma bifid revolute.

Male florets ‘confined to the centre of the disk, bilabiate :

upper lip, im our specimen, apparently quite entire, lower

hp generally two-cleft, both revolute.

Our plant having been brought from Paris by Mr. Wat-

KER, there can be little doubt but that it is the same with

VenTENAT’s ; but his figure represents the leaves as quite

entire and the flower nearly upright... Pursa and Micuaux

also both describe the leaves as quite entire. But the de-

scription by Nurratt, who had no doubt seen the living

lant, agrees well with our own observation. The denticu-

ation being in all cases small, and in some perhaps nearly

obsolete, might escape notice in dried specimens, and

indeed, as the leaf shrinks in drying, are nearly concealed

by the thick tomentum, which extends quite to the edge.

, Cuapratis, a genus established by Venrenar and named

in honour of M. Cuaprat, will comprehend likewise Tusst-

Lago nutans, albicans, dentata, and perhaps some other

“species, together with part of the genus Perpicium. We

doubt indeed whether Tussizaco dentata of Linnavus taken

up from Promier (Icon. 40, f. 2.) be not the same species

with our plant.

Ah perennial. Native of North America. Com-

by Jonn Wanker, Esq. : :

NV 2258.

¢,

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(2258 )

EuPHoRBIA EPITHYMOIDES. BrROAD-LEAVED

SPURGE.

Class and Order.

DopecanprRIA TRIGYNIA.

Generic Character.

Cor. 4- s. 5-petala, calyci insidens. Cal. 1-phyllus, ven-

tricosus. Caps. 3-cocca.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Evupuorsia epithymoides ; umbella Se anetics trifida :

subbifida, involucellis ovatis, foliis obovato-oblongis

subtus villosis, capsulis papilloso-hispidis. |

Evuruorsia epithymoides ; umbella quinquefida: bifida, invo-

lucellis ovatis, foliis lanceolatis obtusis subtus villosis.

Sp. Pl. 656. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. p. 452. Jacq. Flor.

Austr. 4. p. 23. t. 344.

Eupnorsia epithymoides; umbella quinquefida: bifida, in-

volucellis ovatis dentatis, foliis integerrimis lanceolatis

obtusis retusis subtus villosis, capsulis papilloso-his-

pidis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 909. Persoon Syn. 2. p.

16. Art. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 165. Bot. Repos. 616.

Tirnymatus epithymi fructu. Col. Ecphr. 2. p. 52. t. 51?

Prprios altera species. Bauh. Pin. 292 7

Jacquin observes that the Involucrum of this species con-

sists of five leaflets nearly like those of the stem: and says

the umbel is generally divided into five rays, which are

again divided into three, and these into two. In cultivation

there is less constancy in the numbers of the divisions of ~

the umbel. The stem, leaves, and involucella, are covered

with a dense soft pubescence scarcely visible to the naked

eye, but more evident in the young state. We have never

seen

seen the leaves nearly so broad in proportion to their

length as they are represented in the figure in the Botanist’s

Repository.. The plant described and figured by Corumna,

which is quoted as a synonym by Linnzus, is so different

from Jacquin’s, that this author expresses a doubt of its

being the same, though he speaks confidently of his own,

_ bemg the same species:as that of Linnaus.

A hardy perennial. Native of Austria. Flowers in May

and June. Cultivated according to Donn in 1805. Com-

municated by Mr. Anperson from the Chelsea garden.

N 2259

TGurese Ded,

( 2259 )

SESELI GUMMIFERUM. Gummy Meapow-.

SAXIFRAGE.

Se oe es os a ee ee

Class and Order.

Pentranpria Dicynia.

Generic Character. —

Umbelle globose. Involucrum folio uno alterove. Fructus

ovatus striatus. :

Specific Character and Synonyms.

SEsEL1 gummiferum ; involucellis monophyllis multifidis

umbellulas zquantibus, foliis subtripinnatis glaucis :

pinnulis cuneatis trifidis.

SEsELI gummiferum ; imvolucellis polyphyllis ; foliolis lan-

ceolato-linearibus basi lato-connexis, flosculis subses-

silibus, caule folioso, foliolis cuneiformibus. Sm. Exotic

Bot. t. 120.

SeseLi gummiferum ; involucellis polyphyllis basi connatis,

foliis subtripinnatis glaucis. Porr. Encycl. suppl. 5

p. 139. ;

Sir James Smiru has remarked that this species is nearly

related to Seset1 Hippomarathrum ; and it seems to have a

still nearer affinity with Srse11 dichotomum, a species pro-

bably not known to him at that time. Indeed it appears to

us, that these three species might with advantage be sepa-

rated from the genus Sersexi, from the true ies of which

they all differ in having a monophyllous » or one in

which the leaflets are all broadly united at their base,

and perhaps also in the form of the seed, but whether this

is alike in all the three in question we have not had an

opportunity of examining. : :

This plant was first found by Pattas in the Crimea, who

has repeatedly mentioned it, without giving any description

: ne

or figure. But it has since been both described and figured

in Exotic Botany by our friend Sir James Epwarp Smita,

from specimens received from Mr. Lameerr and the late

Lady Amexra Hume. This plant, as well as Sxrsexs dicho-

tomum when wounded in dry and warm weather exudes a

strong-smelling gum-resin.

A hardy perennial. Flowers in August. and September. —

Communicated by Mr. Anperson from the Chelsea Garden,

( 2260) :

SPARTIUM RADIATUM. Starry Broom.

KEKKEKEREEE KEK KEK

Class. and. Order.

Diapecpuia Decanpria.

Generic Character.

Stigma longitudinale, supra villosum. Filamenta ger-

mini adherentia. Cal. deorsum productus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Spartium radiatum ; foliis ternatis linearibus, petiolis dila-

tatis persistentibus, racemis capitatis terminalibus,

ramis angulatis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p.934. Hort. Kew.

ed. alt. 4. p. 257. : : |

Spartium radiatum; foliis ternatis linearibus sessilibus,

petiolis persistentibus, ramis oppositis angulatis.

#%. 996. Mill. icon. t. 259. f. 1. a .

Spartium radiatum; ramis oppositis tetragonis stipula

foliorum persistente fultis, apice umbellatim floriferis,

foliis ternatis linearibus subverticillatis. Jacg. Col-

lect. 3. p. 83.

Seartiom minimum montanum triphyllon. Col. Eephr. 1.

p. 295. t. 294. fig. bona.

Genista radiata ; foliis oppositis ternatis linearibus, petio-

lis persistentibus brevissimis dorso tricarinatis. Lam.

Encycl. 2. p. 622. .

Genista radiata. Scop. Carn.2. p. 51. ~ :

Genista radiata seu stellaris. Bauh. Hist. 1. part 2. —

p. 399. cum icone. Ray. Hist. 1727. ‘“

The ternate subulate leaves of this plant being opposite,

ive it a verticillated aspect, which at once distinguishes it

m the rest of the genus. Lamarck observes that there

- are no characters in the fructification by which Spartium

and Genista can be distinguished from each other; on

which

which account he has, as well as Jussieu, united them into

one genus, and remarks that Genista lusitanica of Linnzus

in its characters taken from the fructification, corresponds

in every respect with our present plant, and that indeed,

except by the spines of the former, these two plants could

hardly be distinguished as species. On the other hand

Méncu has made three other genera out of these two,

under the names of Genistoipes, GENIsTELLA, and Scorpius.

Spartium radiatum forms a low branched shrub, which

is sufficiently hardy to bear the cold of our ordinary winters.

Native of Italy and Carniolia. Cultivated by Pamur

Minter in 1758. Flowers in June and July. Communi-

cated by Joun Warker, Esq.

N 2261.

Dea

Pub ey. burtia Watworth. Genz é21. Wedd At. Se

( 2261 )

Orosus NIGER. Buiack Birrer-Vetcu.

KKK ERE EEK

Class and Order.

DiapELpHiA DEcANDRIA.

Generic Character.

Stylus linearis. Cal. basi obtusus : laciniis superioribus

profundioribus, brevioribus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Orozgus niger; caule ramoso, foliis sexjugis ovato-oblongis.

Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 1076. Spec. Pl. 1028. Hort.

Kew. ed alt. 4. p. 304. Pollich Pal. n. 674. Scop.

Carn. v. 2. p.59. Decand. Fl. Frang. 4. p. 586. Fi.

danica. t. 1170.

oe ramoso ; foliis ovatis, duodenis. Hall. Hist.

n. 418.

Orosus pannonicus I. Clus. Hist. 2. p. 230. Clus.

Pannon. p. 737. icon ad finem appendicis.

Orogus sylvaticus vicie foliis. Bauh. Pin. 352. Rivin.

Pentap. 60.

Astracatoipes. Dod. Pempt. 551.—altera Lob. ic. 2. p.'78.

A rather ornamental hardy herbaceous perennial, which

owes its name to the circumstance of its always turning

black in drying. Hatter remarks-that its roots are sweet.

Native of most parts of Europe, but not of Britain. Culti-

vated in 1596 by Joun Gerarp. Flowers in June and

July. Communicated by Joun Waker, Esq.

N 72262

rt Da Puh-by. 5 Gertin Woadworth. Sea. 822.

Wetdeli. ae»

( 2262 )

CINERARIA AURANTIACA. ORANGE-COLOURED

CINERARIA.

KR EEEEEERRRRE

Class and Order.

Syncengesia PotyGAMIA SUPERFLUA.

Generic Character.

Recept. nudum. Pappus simplex. Cal. simplex, poly-

phyllus, zqualis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cineraria aurantiaca ; floribus. subternis terminalibus,

caule simplici, foliis radiealibus ovatis obsolete cre-

natis; caulinis lanceolatis integerrimis, calycibus

sphacelatis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 2081. Poir. Encyel.

Suppl. v. 2. p. 264.

CinerartA aurantiaca ; foliis radicalibus ovatis iolatis

subdentatis ; caulinis linearibus integerrimis decurren-

tibus, caule paucifloro. Hoppe cent. pl. 4.

CINERARIA aurantiaca (G.) tomentosa. Dec. Fl. Franc. 4.

p- 170. Lodd. Cab. 325. |

CinerariA alpina. var. Wulfen in Jacq. Miscell. 1. p. 156.

: t.1%. f- 4. All. Ped. n. 738. t. 38. f. 2.

Cinerari integrifolia. Vill. Dauph. 3. p. 225.

Descr. Radical leaves ovate, iolate, subcrenulate.

Stem erect, about six inches high, tomentose. Cauline

leaves lanceolate, quite entire. Flowers in a terminal

corymb from two to four, of a red orange colour, both

the ray and disk. Calyx cylindrical. Leaflets in one simple

series, sphacelate at the tip. Pappus sessile, simply —

hairy. Stem aud leaves covered with a thick, white, cotton

tomentum. There is said to be a variety with anoetle

leaves.

Native of the Alps of Dauphiny, in Piedmont, and of

Mount Cenis. Flowers in May. Communicated by Mr.

Anperson from the Chelsea Garden. 1s not recorded in the

Hortus Kewensis, nor in Sweer’s Hortus Suburbanus.

N 2263.

Pub-by. 5 foteg Watrerth. Sep 22621.

T. CaartieD al.

( 2263 )

ERICA SANGUINOLENTA. DARK-FLOWERED

HEATHu.

KEE EERE

Class and Order.

OcranpriA Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. persistens: limbo 4-fido. An-

there ante! anthesin per foramina duo lateralia connexe.

Caps. 4—8-locularis, 4—8-valvis.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Secr. VI. Parviflore B. Anthere aristatw. Folia terna.

Erica sanguinolenta ; floribus terminalibus, foliis linearibus

mucronulatis, corollis cyathiformibus hirtis pedunculis

remote bibracteatis longioribus, stylo exserto.

Erica sanguinolenta. Lodd. Cab. 468.

A low thickly-branched shrub, seldom exceeding eight

inches in height. Leaves linear, mucronulate, smooth or

clothed with thinly scattered hairs, about one third of an

inch long, ternate. Flowers very numerous, of a very dark

blood enlntt, terminal on small branches, usually four toge-

ther, sometimes three, two, or only one. Peduncles shorter

than the corolla, with two minute bractes distant from the

calyx, whose leaflets are ovate, closely adpressed to the

cup-shaped corolla, covered on the outside with white glan-

dular hairs, very open at the mouth: border four-clett,

erect. Anthers very dark, shorter than the tube of the

corolla. Style exserted : stigma capitate.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers most part

of the Summer. Propagated by cuttings. Communicated

by Messrs. Loppices and Sons.

ZZ Lh AZ

SF frevtis, Dew. Pub.by S.curtis Wotworth. fy aadus, <9 Atel

7. ee

Ponta pusens. Downy Peony.

Class and Order.

Poxtyanpria Dieynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Styli0. Caps. polysperme.

Specifie Character and Synonym.

Pzoni pubens ; foliis biternatis ; foliolis lanceolatis subtus

mollissime pubescentibus, germinibus albido-tomen-

tosis, stigmate suborbiculato, caule petiolis peduncu-

lisque hirsutis.

Pzonta lobata. Desfont. Cat. Hort. Paris? vix De

Candollii.

This plant was received from the Royal garden at Paris

by our friend ALexanper Mac Leay, Esq. under the name

of Pmonra lobata, and may therefore be the species so called

by M. Desronrarnes, in his catalogue of the garden. It

can however hardly be the lobata described by M. Dz Can-

DOLLE, in his Regni Vegetabilis Systema Naturale, as he de-

scribes his plant to be in every part smooth, and the division

- of the leaves as totally different. In our specimen the leaflets

were lanceolate, very much pointed, smooth above, but

very villous underneath ; the stem, the petioles, and pedun-

cles hairy ; germens 2, covered with a white tomentum,

and crowned with a round, cap-like, deep-purple stigma ;

Jilaments of a deep crimson colour : ‘anthers oblong.

It flowered in Mr. Mac Leay’s garden in May last ; and

also in that of the Horticultural Society. Mr. Sasive, who

has probably the ag 8 collection of Peonys extant, con-

siders it as entirely different from any species described in

the highly valuable monograph on this genus by the late

Grorce Anperson, Esq. published in the twelfth volume of

the transactions of the Linnean Society ; a work that we

regret

regret we — to consult:when giving our account of

the Pzonia Moutan var. papaveracea. No, 2175.

It is a hardy perennial); its native country, unknown ;

indeed it is uncertain whether it is the natural product of

any, or the produce of cultivation, as Mr. Sapine suspects

may be the ease; ‘not with this only; but with some others

that are at present regarded as distinct species.

I Sn BBR. pg RSENS DE RARE ya ean ak Ph AO

WN 2265.

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(| 2265 )

SPARTIUM viIRGATUM. Lone-TwIGcED:

Broom.

esolseke spoke skate okt obeae sb teat ste abate

Class and Order:

Diapetpara Decanpria.

Generic Character.

Stigma longitudinale, supra villosum. Filamenta ger-

mini adherentia, Cal. deorsum productus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Spartium virgaéum ; foliis simplicibus lanceolatis, ramis

virgatis striatis diffusis, racemis terminalibus. L’Herit.

Stirp. nov. 2. p. 183: in conspectu fasciculi septimi

nunquam editi. 2

Spartium virgatum ; ramis teretibus striatis, foliis lanceo-

lato-oblongis sericeis, calycibus infundibuliformibus

bilabiatis hirtis, vexillo carinaque pubescentibus.

Hort. Kew. ed. 1.3. p. 11.

Spartium virgatum ; ramis teretibus striatis, floribus axil-

laribus solitariis subracemosis, vexillis carinaque pu-

bescentibus, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis sericeis. Willd.

Sp. Pl. 3. p. 928. Hort. Kew: ed. alt. 4. p. 255.

Cytisus tener ; foliis simplicibus lanceolatis, ramis teretibus.

Syst. Veg. ed. 14. p. 667. Jaeq. Collect. 1. p. 40. Ie.

far. t. t. 147.

Genista gracilis. Poiret Encycl. Bot. 2. p. 715.

In our specimens the flowers grow constantly in terminal

few-flowered racemes, on very short branches, and are so

described in Jacgurn’s Collectanea. WitipEnow, however,

has altered the character, and described the flowers as axil-

lary and solitary, on which account we have preferred that

given by L’Herimer. We suspect that specimens of

: Spartium:

Spartium purgans have been sometimes confounded with

this plant. : |

Native of Madeira, and usually considered as a. green-

house shrub; but according to the experience of Mr.

Watxer, in a trial of one winter at Southgate, it appears

to be hardy enough to bear being exposed without shelter.

Flowers from March to June. Introduced to the Kew

Garden in 1777. Propagated by cuttings.

etis Walworth Och. Sa.

Weddell.

( 2266 )

ERICA GEMMIFERA. GEM-BEARING HEATH.

SEK KKK EERE KEE EEE EEE

Class and Order.

OctanpriA Monoeynia.

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.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Secr. II. Lonerritora. F. Anthere mutice. Folia qua-

terna. Flores axillares. Bractee 2-calyci proxime, tertia

remota.

Erica gemmifera ; ramis apice clavatis foliis ovatis ciliatis

aristatis, tubo corolla apiee angustato. :

Erica gemmifera. Lodd. Cab. n. 457.

This species has a very near affinity with Erica Massoni,

but differs in the greater length of the flowering branches,

in the sterile ones being thickened instead of contracted at

the extremity ; in the leaves being shorter and more erect ;

in the whorl consisting of fewer flowers, having the tube

narrowed at the extremity, not inflated as in Massoni.

The flowers shine like a gem, being covered with a resi-

nous varnish, more solid, and consequently less viscous

than in E.. Massoni.

A native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers in the

summer months. Propagated by cuttings. Will not bear

over watering. Communicated by Messrs. Loppices and

Sons, according to whom it was introduced in 1802.

( 2267 )

RANUNCULUS CASssUBICUS. CASSURIAN

CrowFroorT.

EERE EEE RE

Class and Order.

PotyanpriA Potyeynta.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5, intra ungues poro mellifero.

Sem. nuda.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ranuncuivs cassubicus ; foliis radicalibus reniformibus

_ crenatis ; caulinis digitatis serratis ; supremis lineari-

bus subintegerrimis, caule multifloro.

Ranvuncuuws cassubicus ; foliis radicalibus subrotundo-cor-

datis crenatis ; caulinis digitatis dentatis, caule multi-

floro. Sp. Pl. 775. Willd. 2. p. 1314. Hort. Kew.

ed, alt. 3. p. 353. Lam. Encycel. 6. p. 108. :

Ranuncuwus cassubicus ; foliis glabris radicalibus petiolatis

reniformibus crenatis, caulinis in lobos lineares serratos

partitis. Dec. Syst. Veg. nat. 1. p. 267.

Ranuncutus aconitifolius folio rotundo ad radicem presto-

lante. Loes. Pruss. 225. t. 72.

Ranuncvutus rotundifolius vernus sylvaticus major vel

cassubicus, folio Thor seu Calthe. Breyn. Prodr. |.

p. 45. Tourn. inst. 285.

The leaflets at the first division into branches are repre-

sented by Laset, as in our figure, oblong-ovate, and by no

means linear, an epithet that at most can only be applied

to the uppermost leaf.

This species has been by some, with very little reason,

regarded as a variety of Ranuncunus auricomus ;

which it appears to us to be totally distinct.

_ A hardy perennial, rarely to be met with in our gardens,

naire neither beauty nor fragrance to recommend it

to cultivators. Native of Prussia, Pomeranian Cassubia,

and Siberia. Introduced in 1794 by Messrs. Loppiees and

Sons, by whom it was communicated to us.

WV2267.

Buddy. § Gdtis, Waimorth . Octizhu Webidell. Fc

Patsy. 5. Ceatis Walworth, Ocbrabes..

N 2268.

Weddal Fv

aS os

( 2268 )

MELALEUCA DECUSSATA. DeEcussATE

MELALEUCA,

KER EEE REE EEE EERE

Class and Order.

Potyapetpuia Icosanpria.

Generic Character.

Staminum phalanges 5, petalis opposite, elongate : An-

there incumbentes. Caps. 3-locularis, polysperma, con-

nata et inclusa calycis tubo incrassato basi adnato (ramo).

Brown. :

Specific Character and Synonyms. —

Mexatevca decussata ; foliis oppositis decussatis ovali-lan-

ceolatis trinervibus, spicis ovalibus glaberrimis, pha-

langibus polyandris : unguibus brevissimis. Brown in

Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 415.

An elegant flowering shrub, first discovered by our friend

Rogert Brown, Esq. on the south coast of New Holland,

near the port of Lincoln. Introduced into the Kew garden

in 1803. The leaves in this species are opposite cross-

wise, making four equal ranks; and like most of the natural

order are aromatic, having a slight taste of Cajeput.

Cultivation makes a considerable change in the inflores-

cence of this shrub ; the flowers often appearing to grow in

roundish heads on peduncles; but these are in reality |

branches, with sessile flowers ; and after the flower decays

are elongated, and the part of the branch on which the

fruit grows is thickened, so that the capsules become half

immersed in the wood.

Flowers from June to September. Requires the shelter

of a greenhouse. Propagated by cuttings. Communicated

seven years ago by Messrs. Loppicss and Sons.

. M2269.

Y, Cae bg hk

Pub by S furtis Walworth O2t2 522 Wedel

( 2269 )

LAVATERA PLEBEIA. MALLow-LIkE LAVATERA.

KEEEEEEKERERE EE EEE

‘Class and Order.

Monapetrenura Ponyanpria.

Generic Character.

Cal. duplex : exterior trifidus. Caps. plurime, mono-

sperma. —

Specific Character.

Lavatera plebeia ; caule herbaceo scabro, foliis quinque-

lobatis subtus pubescentibus, pedunculis axillaribus

aggregatis, petalis cuneiformibus emarginatis acutis.

Descr. Stem erect, five or six feet high, scabrous. Leaves

generally five-lobed, with the lower lobe sometimes divided,

the terminal one elongated, smooth above, green-tomentose

underneath, margin crenate: Petioles the length of the

lamina, with which they are united by a sort of joint.

Peduncles aggregate (in the specimen from which our

figure was taken solitary), of unequal lengths, swelled at

the upper extremity. Outer Calyx half three-cleft, obtuse ;

inner Calyx half five-cleft, acute. Flowers very like those

of the common mallow: Petals striate, wedge-shaped,

emarginate : Claws distant above, united at the base. Seeds

about twelve, surrounding a conical ser ge a

Our drawing was taken from a small plant raised in a

t, communicated by Mr. Knicut, of the Exotic Nursery,

in July; but our description from vigorous plants grow-

ing in the open ground at Messrs. Wurrtey, Mitne, and

Brame’s in September. In the latter the middle lobe of

the leaves was more elongated, and the flowers usually

aggregate, from two to five together. The stem had all the

appearance of being herbaceous, but in a specimen kept in

a pot at Mr. Kenr’s after the flowering was over, the stem

became ligneous and put forth fresh shoots the whole

length ;

length ; so that it may be either herbaceous or frutescent,

according to the treatment.

Native of New Holland ; first observed in one of the late

expeditions beyond the Blue mountains. Mr. Brown col-

lected a nearly related, but distinct species, on the southern

coast.

N 2240.

T.bortle Dad . Putt bas rkie Wabwerth.Cctar §ar. Wedadeli Se.

( 2270 )

GAZANIA UNIFLORA. GOLDEN-FLOWERED

GAZANIA.

KEEKKEEEEK KEE ERR RE

Class and Order.

SyNGENESIA PotyGamiA F'rustranea.

Generic Character.

Recept. epaleatum (nudum; v. alveolatum germinibus

exsertis). ma villosissima. Pappus piloso-paleaceus

ne monophyllus : tubo foliolis imbricatis tecto v. nudo.

ROWN.

Specific Character.

Gazania uniflora ; caule fruticoso decumbente, foliis spa-

thulato-lanceolatis subtus tomentosis, scapo unifloro

calyceque glaberrimis, radio concolore.

Gorteria uniflora; herbacea, foliis obovato-oblongis ob-

tusis subtus niveo-tomentosis, caule decumbente, pe-

dunculis unifloris. Thunb. Prodr. 162. Act.

Nat. Hafn. 0. 4. pars. 2. p. 5. t. 2. f. 2.

GORTERIA pa teeine caulibus unifloris depressis, foliis lance-

olatis indivisis subtus tomentosis. Lin. Suppl. p. 382.

Syst. Veg. ed. 14. p. 784.

The habit of this plant is exactly that of Gazania rigens

(GorrTeRIA rigens. Bot. Mag. t. 90), and the leaves shew

somewhat of the same tendency to become lobed. But the

calyx is smoother than that of the latter, which, though other-

wise smooth, has ciliated segments ; the flowerismuchsmaller,

and wants the dark purple eye at the base of the ray, this

part and the disk being of one uniform colour, except a

slight increase of intensity towards the base of the tgule.

ative of girs of Good Hope, on the sea coast, near

the river Zecko. Flowers in July and August. Propagated

by cuttings. Communicated by Mr. Josepu Knient, from

his extensive collection at the Exotic Nursery, Kings-road.

N2271.

Wradit \e-

ehuniaa ,

Pub bys. Tari pW tee th

( 2271)

PHYTEUMA SCORZONERIFOLIA. SCORZONERA-

LEAVED RAMPION.

Class and Order

Pentanpria Monoeynia.

Generie Character.

Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. rotata, 5-partita, laciniis lineari-

aes Stigma 2- s. 3-fidum. Caps. 2— s. 3-locularis,

infera.

Specific Character and Synonyms:

Puyteuma scorzonerifolia ; spica elongata cylindrica, foliis

lineari-lanceolatis canaliculatis dentato-serratis, stig-

mate bifido.

Puyteuma scorzonerifolium ; spica elongata cylindrica, flori-

bus inferioribus remotis, foliis lanceolatis crenatis ;

superioribus linearibus. Willd. Enum. p. 215.

Puyteuma scorzonerifolia ; foliis omnibus oblongis leviter

crenatis ; supremis linearibus, spica elongata. Villars

Dauph. 2. p. 519. t. 12. f. 2. Excluso synonymo

Allioni. De Cand. fl. frang. 3. p. 713.

Descr. Stem erect, simple, smooth. eaves linear-lan-

ceolate, decurrent down the footstalk, dentate-serrate, sides

folded inwards, smooth. Spike oblong. Flowers crowded

together, subsessile. Bractes shorter than the small, cam-

panulate, five-toothed Calyx with linear distant segments.

Corolla 5-cleft : lacinie linear, united at the point and

bulging open downwards ; but after flowering distinct the

whole length and twisted about irr y- Stamens

five: Anthers oblong, red, quickly shedding their —

Pollen ; with which the style is entirely covered when first

projected and appears club-shaped, but afterwards the

‘ Stigma

Stigma becomes bifid and recurved, by which, as well as by

the length of the spike and want of the long bractes, it is

distinguished from Puytruma Scheuchzeri. (Supra t.1797)

which has a trifid stigma. Varies with a white flower.

Native of the Alps of Dauphiny. A hardy perennial.

Flowers in July and August. Communicated by Mr.

Anverson from the Chelsea Garden. Is not recorded in the

last edition of the Hortus Kewensis.

NV 2272.

faa.

Cecrtia Wake srth.0 ct2:

Sharia. Dal.

( 2272). |

“Avo Microcantna! SmALL-sPINED ALOE.

KEKE ER EK RK EEK

Class and Order.

HexanpriaA Monoeynta.

Generic Character.

Cor. erecta, ore patulo, fundo nectarifero. Filamenta -

receptaculo inserta. |

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Sect.* Corollis cylindricis reflexis.

ALoE microcantha ; foliis limeari-loratis canaliculatis mar-

gine spinulosis, racemo umbellato laxo, pedunculis

corolla longioribus.

Axor microcantha ; foliis anguste ensiformibus inferne albo-

maculatis, maculis sepe tuberculiformibus oblongis

sparsis numerosis, spinis marginalibus rectis albis

minutissimis. Haworth Suppl. Pl. succul. p. 105.

Descr. Leaves linear-lanceolate, scarcely a foot and a

half long, half an inch wide at the base, and gradually

tapering to the point ; deeply channelled, margins armed

with very minute white spines somewhat recurved, palish

- green with white oval distinct spots, not very fleshy, and of

a supple consistence. Scape nearly a foot long, semicylin-

drical at the lower part and sme above, clothed with

distinct, ovate, acuminate, streaked, scariose Bractes, half

embracing the stem. Flowers in a terminal, subumbellate,

lax raceme, at first erect, then nodding. Peduncles white,

erect, longer than the corolla, which is cylindrical, an inch

and a half long, with rose coloured petals tipped with

green, a little recurved at the point: the three exterior

ones somewhat the shortest. Misments ual: Anthers

oval, orange coloured: Style the length of the corolla:

Stigma capitate.

For

For this very rare species, which is supposed not to exist

in any of our other collections except in that of Kew,

where it was introduced about two years since from the

Cape of Good Hope, we are indebted to Tuomas Kircuin,

Esq. of Norwich, in whose garden, rich in succulent plants,

it flowered in July last.

INDE X.

In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the Forty-

Eighth Volume are alphabetically arranged.

|G en a.

Pi. : Fi,

2222 Adam’s-needle,Lyon’s narrow- || 2263 Heath, Dark-flowered.

leaved.

2236 Narrow-leaved.

2272 Aloe, Small-spined.

2227 Amaranthus, Shewy,

2204 Arethusa, Bulbous.

2220 Arum, Spiral-flowered,

2233 Aspalathus, Ciliated.

2225 —— Goosefoot.

2205 Bindweed, Two-coloured.

2261 Bitter-Vetch, Black.

2265 Broom, Long-twigged. _

2260 - Starry.

2197 Bugloss, Italian.

2255 Catch-fly, Jagged-flowered.

2257 Chaptalia, Woolly-leaved.

2190 Chloranthus, One-spiked.

2262 Cineraria, Orange-coloured.

2243 Claytonia, Siberian.

2208 Crinum, Deep-rooted.

2231 Sloping-flowered.

2217 — Specious-flowered.

2240 Crocus, Largest purple spring.

2267 Crowfoot, Cassubian.

2229 ————- Cut-leaved.

2252 Cryptostemma, Marygold-

aie: 7

2192 Goat’s-Rue, Oriental.

2246 Hakea, Shining-leaved.

| 2241

a Wood-sorrel, Violet-coloured,

2266 -Gem-bearing.

2213 Hedysarum, Alpine.

2269 Lavatera, Mallow-like.

2226 Three-Lobed.

2214 Lebeckia, Naked.

2223 Liparia, Concave-leaved.

2238 Lobelia, Kalm’s, ~~

2251 - Long-stalked.

2189 Magnolia, Large-leaved.

2218 Marigold, Large-flowered.

2237 Meadow-rue, Alpine.

2259 Meadow-Saxifrage, Guminy. .

|| 2268 Melaleuca, Decussate. ~

2235 Melastoma, Osbeckia-like.

Red-veined.

2203 Oncidium, Zig-zag.

2248 Onosma, Siberian simple.

2209 Palma-Christi; or Castor-Oil

plant.

2264 Peony, Downy.

2244 Puschkinia, Squil-like.

2271 Rampion, Scorzonera-leaved.

2254 Rue, Large-flowered, flax- .

leaved. ge a .

2191 Rulingia, Cloth-leaved.

2207 Saxifrage, Fountain. .

2198 Sheeps-bit, Perennial.

2193 Sida, Smooth Virginian.

2258 Spurge, Broad-leaved. —

3 ak op, Blue-flowered.

torks-bill, Dicecious black-

flowered. “i

2249 Stylidium, Fine-leaved.

| 2221 Tobacco, Langsdorft’s.

2202 Tocth-wort, Five-leaved.

2245 Vanda, Chequer-flowered.

2200 Vervain, Lambert’s...

2206 Vetch, Saint-foin.:

2219 Wall-cress, Nodding.

2239 Water-Iris, Pale-yellow.

2196 Wolfs-bane, Carpathian. ~

INDEX.

In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the Forty-

Eighth Volume are alphabetically arranged,

SAW Gs—

Pl. Pi.

2196 Aconitum septentrionale, 6. 2198 Jasione perentis,

carpaticum.

2272 Aloe microcantha.

2227 Amaranthus speciosus.

2197 Anchusa italica.

2219 Arabis nutans.

2204 Arethusa bulbosa.

2220 Arum spirale.

2225 Aspalathus chenopoda.

2233 — — ciliaris.

2218 Calendula chrysanthemifolia.

2257 Chaptalia tomentosa.

2190 Chloranthus monostachys.

2262 Cineraria aurantiaca.

2243 Claytonia sibirica.

2205 Convolvulus bicolor.

2231 Crinum declinatum.

2208 - defixum.

2217 speciosum.

2240 Crocus vernus, y. obovatus. —

2232 Cryptostemma calendulacea a.

2201 Cuphea circexoides.

2242 Denbrobium cucullatum.

2202 Dentaria pentaphylla.

2253 Digitalis orientalis.

2194 ————- tomentosa.

2247 Dillwynia cinerascens.

2191 Dodartia orientalis.

2232 Dolichos sinensis.

2216 Drypis spinosa.

2266 Erica gemmifera.

2263 —— sanguinolenta.

2230 Eugenia myrtifolia.

2258 Euphorbia epithymoides.

2228 Falkia repens.

2250 Furercea gigantea.

2192 Galega orientalis.

2212 Gastrolobium bilobum.

2270 Gazania uniflora

2195 Geodorum citrinum.

2256 Globularia vulgaris.

_ 2246 Hakea nitida.

2213 Hedysarum alpinum,

2239 Iris Pseudacorus, £. pallido-

flava.

2269 Lavatera plebeia,

2226 - triloba.

2214 Lebeckia nuda.

2223 Liparia vestita.

2238 Lobelia Kalmii.

2251 pedunculata.

2189 Magnolia macrophylla,

2268 Melaleuca decussata.

2235 Melastoma osbeckioides.

2241 sanguinea.

2221 Nicotiana Langsdorffhi.

2203 Oncidium flexuosum.

2248 Onosma simplicissima.

2261 Orobus niger.

2215 Oxalis violacea.

2264 Peonia pubens.

2234 Pelargonium dioicum.

2244 Puschkinia seilloides,

2271 Phyteuma scorzonerifolia. —

2267 Ranunculus cassubicus.

2229 —pedatus.

2209 Ricinus communis. ~

2191 Rulingia pannosa.

2254 Ruta linifolia, 8. grandiflora.

2207 Saxifraga irrigua.

2224 Sedum ceruleum.

2259 Seseli gummiferum.

2193 Sida Napewa.

2255 Silene lacera.

2260 Spartium radiatum. —

2265 Spartium virgatum.

2249 Stylidium tenuifolium.

2211 Symphoria racemosa.

2237 Thalictrum alpinum.

2245 Vanda Roxburghii.

| 2200 Verbena Lamberti.

2210 Veronica orchidea.

2206 Vicia onobrychioides. =

2236 Yucca angustifolia,

2999 .—— strict, >