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CURTIS’S

Botanical Magazine;

OR,

FLOWER-GARDEN DISPLAYED:

In WHICH

The most Ornamental Forrren Prants, cultivated in the Open

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

represented in their natural Colours.

{O WHICH ARE ADDED,

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

to the celebrated Linnaus; their Places of Growth,

and Times of Flowering ;

Together with the most approved Methods of Cunture.

A WORK

Intended for the Use of such Lapies, Gentiemen, and Garpenens, as wish

to become scientifically acquainted with the Plants, they cultivate.

By JOHN SIMS, M.D.

FreLttow or THE RoyaL anp Linnean Soctetiss.

VOL xix, ©

Being the Seventh of the New Series.

The Firowers, which grace their native beds,

Awhile put forth their blushing heads,

But e’er the close of parting day,

They wither, shrink, and die away ;

But THEse, which mimic skill hath made,

Nor scorched by suns, nor killed by shade,

Shall blush with less inconstant hue,

Which arr at pleasure can renew. Liovp.

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HipreasTRUM POULVERULENTUM. " BLoom~ ”

LEAVED K.nient’s-starR LILY.,........

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Bulbus subrotundus. Folia bifaria. Scapus 2—7 -florus,

pedunculatus, cavus. Germen trigoné et subturbiuate

oblongum, media parte paullim constrictum, divers’ direc-

tione a tubo et pedunculo declinatum. ‘Tubus extis 'tri-

goné sub-infundibuliformis, exterarum lacimiarum margini-

bus summa parte extis imbricantibus. Tubi faux arcta,

obliqué latere inferiore abbreviata, parte’ superiore’ intis

vel levi, vel gibbo parvulo munita, vel fimbriata, vel ca-

lyptrata. Laciniarum. quaterna ——, exterarum

superior duabus latior, internarum inferior duabus' an+

gustior. Filamenta declinata, ima lacinie adpressa,

assurgenter curvata, quaterna longitudinis discrepantia,

quaterna quoque positure variatione gradatim tubo infra

laciniarum junctionem inserta, externa internis breviora;

sed ea tantim que basi consimilium laciniarum sup-+

posita sunt longitudine et positurd consimilia ; ‘smperius —

minis abbreviatum, imum minis elongatum ; superins

altiis, imum profundids insertum. Stylus declinatus:

Stigma trilobum, sepé trifidum. Capsula germine eret-

tior, 3-loc. 3-valv. extus profundé trisuicata. Ovula multa,

biseriatim cumulata, marginibus imbricantibus, angulo

interiori loculi alligata. Semina uno ordine conserta, plana,

integumento exteriore nigro, margine foliaceo cavo, interiore

separabili, albumini magis conformi, albumine obovate

plano. Embryo radicula integumenti interioris basi acumi-

natz, sed non exterioris umbilico approximata. W.H.

Specific Character and Synonyms. nasi

Hirrzastrum pulverulentum ;— \aciniis exteris latioribus,

_foliis cinereo-pulverulentis. basi purpurea. Fyulgido

affine, bulbo et foliis majoribus, peduneulis minis

| erectis,

erectis, germine longiore mints declinato, tubo levi

magis cernuo, filamentis magis fasciculatis.

Amaryiuis pulverulenta hortulanorum.

AMARYLLIs acuminata. Bot. a 534.

Hirreastrum pulverulentum. Nobis in appendice.

Dsser. Bulb four inches in diameter or larger, bearing

blind offsets, which is perhaps peculiar to some of the species

with the mouth of the tube smooth. Leaves exceeding

two inches in width and two feet in length, deep green,

conspicuously covered with a cinereous bloom, purple at

their base ; with. a thick margin which is curved downwards.

Scape about or under two feet, purple at the bottom.

Spathe withering early. Peduncles about six, sloping more

than those of fulgidum. Germen longer and less declined.

Tube more cernuous, about an inch long at top, smooth at

the mouth, Filaments crowded together, the upper late-

rals not, divaricating as in fulgidum.. Lacinié a. little

broader in the middle than those of fulgidum, but not-more

pointed. . Ovules about 52 in a cell. The-plant figured,in

the Bot. Reg. is described as having. the germen green, the

tube. grec yellow, and the limb paler than fulgidum.

That. which is here represented, had the germen tinged with

red, the tube marked like that of fulgidum, the limb. paler

than julgidum.v. miniata (supra 1943), but.a little darker

than the usual colour of fulgidum, and,it appears to bea

finer variety than Mr. Grirrin’s plant: ‘The name of Ama-

ryLiis pulverulenta was given to it. above a. year. ago, and

pretty generally adopted sy,.thoanpantie,-apltinatedl it, aid

r..Grirrin’s plant was so labelled. There does not

appear to have been any sufficient cause for altering the

name to acuminata; on close comparison. of its flowers

with those of fulgidum blown at the same time, the petals

are not in the least more pointed, but a little broader

in the middle. It is very closely allied to fulgidum; but the

eye. distinguishes it at, once by the strong bloom upon its

leaves, which is impressed also ‘on the mules produced from

Regine by its pollen. It is distinguished also by the size,

thickness, and bent margin of its leaves, the size of its

bulb, the peduncles being less erect, the germ less declined

and longer, the tube more cernuous and a little shorter

(not quite an inch on the upper side), the uppér lateral

filaments not straddling apart, the spathes withering before

the —

the expansion of the flowers, which remains green and erect

in fulgidum, and the more numerous ovules.

The name of Amaryiuis having been given by Linnzus

originally to Belladonna with a reason assigned, it has been

thought expedient to leave the name Amaryllis to that

plant and its congeners; and to detach the occidental

group (to which as more numerous it had been proposed to

preserve the known appellation), under the name of Hir-

peastruM, or Knight’s-star lily, following the idea which

suggested the name egquestre for one of the species. See

Appendix, Prelim. treatise and article Hippeastrum. W. H.

References to the figures of the dissections.

1. The style, and stigma expanded. 2. Theripe seed. 3. The embryo

and albumen taken out of the inner integument. 4. Peduncle, germen, and

tube, two petals being cut off to shew the obliquity of its mouth and the

insertion of the filaments. 5. Germen magnified, shewing the ovules in one

cell, 6. An ovule greatly magnified.

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Cicer ARIETINUM. CutcHts or CHICH-PEA.

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Class and Order.

DiapeteaiA DeEcaNDRIA.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus, longitudine corolla : Jaciniis 4 superiori-

bus vexillo incumbentibus. Legumen turgidum dispermum.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Cicer arietmum. Hort. Kew. ed alt. 4. p. 317. — Gdertn.

sem. 2. p. 328. t. 151. De Cand. fi. fr. 4. p. 600.

Cicer arietinum; pedunculis unifloris, seminibus globosis

gibbis foliolis serratis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 1113.

Schkuhr. handb. 2. p. 368. . 202.

Cicer foliolis serratis. Hort. Cliff. 370. Haller Hist.

n. 399. Blackw. Herb. t.55%. Kniph. Cent. 7. n. 11.

Sorn ic. t. 146.

Cicer arietinum ; foliis impari-pinnatis, foliolis serratis

leguminibus dispermis. Lamarck Encycl. 2. p. 1.

Ejusd. Ilustr. t. 682.

Cicer. Rivin. tetrap. t. 19. fig. opt. Tragi Stirp. 609.

Cicer —S Fuchs stirp. fol. p. 267. Cordi Hist.

p- 169. b.

Cicer sativum. Bauh. pin. 347. Cam. Epit. p. 204. Ger.

emac. 1222. Raj. Hist. 917.—sive arietinum. Park.

theatr. 1076. Matth. comm. p. 335. f. 1.

Cicer arietinum. Dod. pempt. 525. Lob. ic. 2. p. 71. —

Descr. Stem. herbaceous, annual, branched, hairy :

branches fiexuose. Leaves odd-pinnate, alternate : leaflets

oval, serrate, villous, Stipules ovate, eared at the base.

Peduncles axillary, solitary, one-flowered, jointed in the

middle, at which part it is suddenly bent back. Calyx _

5-cleft: segments ovate-acuminate, spreading. Corolla —

papilionaceous, blue-purple, said to be sometimes white :

vexillum ovate emarginate, folded inwards so as to conceal

both ale and carina, which are shorter by half. Stamens

diadelphous 3. Germen very hairy. Style filiform : stigma

capitate, yellow. Legume villous, rhomboid, inflated.

Seeds 2, round, gibbous, not unaptly resembling a ram’s

head, (especially before it is ripe, for m drying it becomes

smoother) whence its trivial name. _It is said to vary with

black, white, and reddish brown seeds.

This plant is much cultivated in the South of Europe,

Africa, and the East Indies, and is supposed to be the most.

nutritive of any kind of puls. In France it is used roasted

as a substitute for Coffee.

It does not appear that there is more than one species of

. this genus, such plants ‘as have been united with it being

better referred to other genera. The English name of

Chick-pea in both editions of the Hortus Kewensis is a cor-

ruption of Chich-pea.

Our drawing was made from a plant raised last summer

in Mr. Jenxins’s Nursery, in the Regent’s Park.

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Partuentum Hystreropnorus. CutT-LEAVED

PARTHENIUM.

LEE ERE EEK EKER EERE

Class and Order.

SyneenesiA Ponyeamra NEcESSARIA.

Generic Character.

Recept. paige, planum. Semina obovata subnuda

Cal. 5-phyllus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Partuentum Hysterophorus ; foliis bipinnatifidis. Hort.

Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 180. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 2385.

Parrnentom foliis composito-multifidis. Hort. Cliff. 242.

Parruenium subhirsutum ramosum, foliis multipliciter

incisis, floribus terminalibus. Browne Jam. p. 340.

PARTHENIASTRUM americanum ambrosie folio. Néssole in

Mem de l’ Acadamie Paris ¥711. p. 322. t. 13. f. 2.

Ansinturum Erysimi folio, Achoavan Alpini quodammodo

accedens. Pluk. Alm. 3. t. 45. f. 3. :

_* . Areyrocuzta bipinnatifida. Cavan. Ic. 4. p. 54. t. 378.

Vittanova bipinnatifida. Orteg. Dec. 4. p. 48. t. 6.

The Parruentum Hysterophorus, though cultivated by

Puitip Mitter in 1728, being one of the fifty plants

“se delivered to the Royal Society from the Apothe-

caries’ Garden at Chelsea, in pursuance of the will of Sm

Hans Stoang, will probably continue to be rarely met with

in our gardens, being scarcely an object of request, except

in the general collections of Botanical gardens ; and is

even in such not very easily preserved, being an annual,

and not always maturing its seeds with us.

Native of Jamaica, where it goes by the name of Witp

Wormwoop, and, according to Brownz, is observed to have

much the same qualities as Feverrew ; also of Martinique

and Mexico. Flowers in July and August. Communicated

by Josrrn Sarme, Esq. from the garden of the Horticultu-

ral society.

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ATHANASIA ANNUA. ANNUAL ATHANASIA.

Class and Order.

Syxeenesia Potyeamia ARQUALIs.

Generie Character.

Recept. paleaceum. Pappus paleaceus, brevissimus.

Cal. imbricatus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

ATHANASIA annua; corymbis simplicibus coarctatis, foliis

pinnatifidis dentatis. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 520.

— Sp. Pl. 3. p. 1804. Schkuhr handb. 3. p. 74.

t. :

Lonas inodora: Gaertn. sem. 2. p. 396. t. 165. f. 5.

Exicurysum inodorum, glabrum, Coronopi folio annuum.

~— Monsp. p. 307. Herm. Lugd. Bat. p. 228.

Beutis polyclonos annua africana, coronopi folio, floribus

nudis compactis. Moris. Hist. 3. p. 30.

SanTo.ina africana corymbifera, coronopi folio. Tourn.461.

—_ Sy ag foliis inodorum, Africanum. aj.

ist. ‘

For specimens of this plant we are indebted to N. S.

Hopson, Esq. of Bury St. Edmunds, through whose zeal

for the science of Botany, supported by several Gentlemen

in the County, a Botanical garden has been established in

that town, which promises to become in a few yeats of con-

siderable importance, and is already respectable, particu-

larly for the number of herbaceous plants contained in it.

ATHANASIA annua, though not very ornamental from its

rambling growth, nor possessed of any sweet scent, has the

perty of lasting long in flower in so remarkable a

degree, that Ray thought it merited its name of Aceratum,

signifying

signifying in Greek that which is not subject to grow old,

better than any other _— with which he was acquainted ;

the same flowers which expanded in the beginning of July,

being still m full vigour at the time he wrote, on the 20th

of October.

This quality, as it also lives well in water, renders it

rather desirable for mixing with other flowers in vases for

adorning rooms, a purpose to which its golden yellow heads,

growing on long footstalks, seem well adapted.

Native of Barbary. Cultivated before 1686 by Mr.

Joun Ray, from seeds given him by Sir Hans Stoanz. A

tolerably hardy annual ; but unless brought forward early

by a warm situation or artificial heat, will in most seasons

fail of producing ripe seeds.

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Lopeuia DECUMBENS. DecumpBent Lopewia.-

Class and Order. | ;

Prentanpria Monoeyntia.

Generic Character.

Calyx 4-fidus. Cor. petala irregularis. Anthere cohe-

rentes. Caps. infera 2— s. 3-locularis.

Specific Character.

Losetia decumbens ; caulibus decumbentibus, foliis obovatis

dentatis pedunculis axillaribus solitariis bractea lineari-

lanceolata integerrima brovioribus. _

Descr. Root perennial, creeping. Radical leaves on

young plants petioled, round-obovate, subcrenate, dentate ;

cauline leaves similar, but longer, more deeply notched, and

subsessile ; the floral leaves or bractes are linear-lanceo-

late, obtuse, quite entire, decurrent, making the stem at

this part angular, though elsewhere these are rounded.

Peduncles axillary, solitary, shorter than the floral leaf.

Flowers blue, smaller than in bicolor (No. 525) the two

small lacinie of the upper lip distant and incurved. Ger-

men bilocular. Calycine teeth short, subulate, spreading.

The whole plant is smooth.

We were favoured with a pot of this plant in flower in

August last, from our kind contributor N. S. Hopson, Esq.

of Bury St. Edmunds, under the name of bellidifolia, by

which it is generally known in the gardens ; but Logexia

bellidifolia has upright hairy stems, and flowers in a terminal

panicle on long peduncles.

We cannot satisfy ourselves that our = belongs to

any described species. It may possibly be the anceps of

Tuunserc ; but cannot well be that of Linnaus, which,

as rs from an archetype specimen preserved in the

Banksian Herbarium, was taken up from a plant om

in Ceylon by Konic, and is both erect and annual. We

are informed by Mr. Anperson that our plant is certainly

a. native‘of the Cape of Good Hope. Otherwise we should

have entertained some doubt whether it might not be a

variety of the alata of LbasinarpierE and Brown, which is

‘stated by the latter to be a very polymorphus species.

An herbaceous perennial, easily propagated by its creep-

ing roots. Requires to be protected from frost by a

greenhouse or pit.

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HiippeAsTrRUM sTyLosum. LonG-sTyLep

Knicut’s-star Lixy.

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Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character. Vide supra No. 2273.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Hirreastrum stylosum, foliis suberectis nitidis basi purpu-

rascente, scapo subtripedali, tubo —brevi viridescente

cernuo, fauce fimbriat4, limbo reflexé-mfundibuliformi,

colore inter fulvum et carneum, laciniis exteris latiori-

bus, filamentis plis semuncia, stylo plis uncia limbo

longioribus, stigmate breviter et rotundaté trilobato.

Hipreastrum equestre var. glabrifolia. Nobis in appendice.

Hipreastrum stylosum. 0. in postscripto. W. H.

Descr. Bulb a little flattened like that of equestre.

Leaves like equestre, but more glossy. and purple at their.

. Tube and limb in form and posture much like

Regine, but considerably smaller. like that of

Regine, in greenish white tufts between the base of the

_ petals. Star green, very short, not spread into broad rays.

as in equestre, or prolonged into white stripes as in Regi-

ne. Lamb pale fabeoves pink, veined and speckled with a

deeper colour. Anthers straw-coloured, striped with red.

Pollen bright yellow. Filaments five-eights, Style an

inch and a quarter longer than the corolla. Stigma con-

sisting of three short round lobes. :

Bulbs of this unrecorded species were received last year

by Lord Carnarvon from Maranham in Brazil, and since

by Mr. Brooxes, from Cayenne, and by Mr. Les, from

Brazil. It was at first marked in the appendix as a variety

of equestre, which it resembles in the bulb and in the form _

and posture of its leaves. It is distinguished from a .

spec

species by the different form and posture of the tube and

limb, the absence of the broad-rayed star, and the style being

an inch and a quarter longer, instead of an inch and a quar-

ter, or at least an inch shorter than the corolla, as well as

the length of the filaments. It differs from Regine in bulb,

leaf, star, and the length of the style and filaments, as well

as the colour of the petals, which is not exactly like that of

any known species. Mr. Lee was struck with the resem-

blance of the flower to Hemerocallis jfulva, but the colour

inclines more to flesh colour, and the great length of the

filaments and style appear to furnish the best distinguishing

feature. A name founded on its resemblance to Hemero-

callis would have been inconveniently long. This species,

though very inferior to equestre in beauty, appears to thrive

more freely. W. H.

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CALLA AROMATICA, Aromatic CALLa.

KEKE REE EE EEE EEE EEE

Class and Order.

Moneecta Monanpria. Schreber.

Hepranpria Monocynia. Willd.

Generic Character.

Spatha plana. Spadixtectus flosculis. Cal. 0. Cor. 0.

Bacca polysperma.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Catxa aromatica ; caulescens, subsagittato-cordatis acumi-

natis: lobis rotundatis divaricatis, spatha cymbeformi

spadicem basi femineum suboccultante.

Catia aromatica. Roxb. Fl. Ind. orient. nondum edita.

Caxta occulta. Lodd. Cab. 12. vix Loureiri.

Dracuncutus amboinicus. Rumph. Amb. 5. p. 322. t. 111.

f2?

Our drawing was taken in July 1813, from a plant that

flowered at that time in Sir Apranam Hume’s stove at

Wormleybury ; Messrs. Loppiezs and Sons also raised it

about the same time from seeds, sent by Dr. Roxsuren

under the name of Catia aromatica; but finding very

little scent in the flowers, and conceiving it to answer to

Lovretro’s description of Caza occulta they adopted that

name. But asit does not altogether accord with the charac-

ters given in the Flora cochinehinensis, aid it is likely to

be published under the name of aromatica in Roxsuren’s

Flora, we prefer the latter appellation. :

About two thirds of the spadix were occupied by the _

stamens, and one third at the base with the pistils. Dr.

Roxguren states that these pistils are mixed with abortive _

Stamens ; of which wees hers a

if they had existed they me have been deciduous, and

perhaps more analogous fo the cirrhi of Arum than to

real stamens. The fertile anthers are quite sessile ; these

only come in sight in our figuré, the pistils being entirely

concealed by the spathe. In the position of the different

organs this plant agrees with Canta @thiopica, but not

with the European species palustris.

Dr. Roxsurex obseryes, that it is indigenous in Chitta-

gong, where the medicinal virtues of its root are held in

high estimation, by the natives. According to this author,

when cut, the plant diffuses a pleasant aromatic scent, some-

thing like that of.the scitamineous tribe. In the Calcutta

garden it blossoms nearly the whole year. With us its

time of flowering seems uncertain, Messrs. Loppinegs fix

December as its season, and we were favoured by them with

a specimen of the flower in the present month, November ;

at Sir Asranam Hume’s, as we have observed above, it

flowered in July. —

Bib by.S. Comte. Walworth .

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Litium cAROLINIANUM. CAROLINA

~Marracon Lity.

Class and Order.

HexanpriA Monoeyntia.

Generic Character.

Cor. 6-petala, campanulata: linea longitudinali nectari-

fera. Caps. valvulis pilo cancellato connexis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Litem carolinianum ; caule subunifloro, foliis verticillatis

Sparsisque carnosis recurvis, petalis revolutis apice

compressis. |

Litium carolintanum; glaberrimum, foliis enerviis plerum-

que verticillatis, late subcuneato-lanceolatis sive obo-

valibus, ramis floriferis crassis ternato-terminalibus

(rarius binis aut unico) calycibus valde reflexis macu-

og Michaux Flor. Bor. Am.1. p. 197. Bot. Reg.

Liuium carolinianum ; foliis plerumque verticillatis cuneato-

lanceolatis s. obovalibus enervibus glaberrimis, ramis

floriferis crassis ternato-terminalibus, floribus reflexis, —

corollis revolutis. Pursh. Flor. Am. Sept. 1. p. 229.

Linum carolinianum. Nuttall. Gen. 1. p. 222. Persoon

Syn. 1. p. 359. non Lamarckii.

Litium Martagon ; foliis plerumque verticillatis quaternis,

caule pedali, floribus plerumque solitariis reflexis, co-

rollis revolutis. Walter Fl. Carol. p. 123.

Litium Michauxii. Poiret. Suppl. Encycl. 3. p. 457.

Latium autumnale. Lodd. Cab. 335.

Descr. Stem about a foot high, simple, ay spotted.

Leaves some in whorls and some scattered, fleshy, rigid,

ovate-lanceolate, recurved, undulate, obscurely three-nerved.

Peduncle in the one flowered specimens, and we have seen

no other, continuous with the stem and the same size till it

approaches the flower, when it is much thickened and bent.

Flower nodding ; petals revolute, on the imside yellow

spotted with black, deep orange toward the points, which

are always pressed inwards as if squeezed betwixt the thumb

and finger: on the outside green, tinged with yellow; the

nerve deeply channelled. Filaments green, acute: anthers

versatile, oblong-oval, purplish brown : pollen red-orange.

Style longer than stamens, purple, streaked at the upper

part: stigma very large, three-lobed, brown-purple.

Authors seem to have been very doubtful whether this

species was distinct from Litium superbum, and it is not

improbable that dwarf few-flowered specimens of the latter,

have been confounded with this. Mr. Nurraxt, a real ob-

server, never himself saw it more than one-flowered; but

says that he has been well assured that in cultivation it pro-

duces many flowers on the stem in proliferous stages, and

that it then apparently becomes Litium superbum. We are

quite of opinion that when this has been the case, a single

owered variety of the latter species has been mistaken for

this. Our plant has not in our gardens shewn a disposition

to assume the habit of superbum in any respect.

Native of Carolina and Florida. Flowers in September

and October, and according to M. Loppinees should have the

protection of a frame in winter, at which time the stem dies

down. The proper soil they state to be loam and peat.

Communicated by Messrs. Wurtiry, Brame and Minne,

who inform us, that they bought it of Messrs Fraser, by

whom it was probably first introduced into this country.

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VIBURNUM NUDUM. OVAL-LEAVED VIBURNUM.

See ee ae ee eo

Class and Order.

PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus, superus. Cor. 5-fida. Bacca 1-sperma.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Visurnum nudum ; foliis oblongu-ovalibus subintegerrimis

margine revolutis in petiolum decurrentibus, cymis

ebracteatis.

Visurnum nudum ; foliis ovalibus subrugosis margine

revolutis obsolete crenulatis. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. p. 370.

ed. alt. 2. p. 167. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 1487. Pers.

Syn. 1. p. 326. : |

Visurnum nudum ; foliis integerrimis lanceolato-ovatis.

Sp. Pl. 383. Mill. ic. 2. p. 183. t. 274.

Visurnum nudum ; glaberrimum, foliis ovalibus vel ovali-

lanceolatis, margine revoluto-integris ; cymis ebrac-

teatis pedunculatis. Michaux Fl. Bor. Am. 1. p. 178.

Tinvs foliis ovatis in petiolos terminatis integerrimis.

Gron. Fl. virg. ed.1. p. 33. ed. 2. p.46. (Viburnum.)

This species very much resembles Visurnum Tinus, but

is a taller growing shrub ; the leaves are rolled back at the

margin, and sometimes obsoletely crenate ; they are also

decurrent on the footstalk. The flowering cymes are

altogether without bractes, which in Tinus are fur-

nished at the base with very small subulate ones ; gene-

rally equalling in number the first branches, and forming

an involucrum, but so small that it is hardly conspicuous

in dried specimens. In the species Plantarum of Linas,

Visurnum Tinus and nudum follow in succession, and the

above observation is subjoined to the latter in reference to

the preceding species ; but in WittpENnow’s edition it is

negligently applied to scandens, that species, from the

arrangement there made, becoming the preceding one. _

Native of Virginia and Carolina, hardy. Flowers in the

summer months. Propagated by cuttings. Communi-

cated by Joun Waxker, Esq. of Arno’s Grove.

(| 2282 )

ARUM TENUIFOLIUM. ScoRZONERA-LEAVED

) Arum.

KEKE EERE REE

Class and Order.

Monazc1a Monanpria. Schreber.

Monaecia Potyanpria. Willd.

Generic Character. -

_ Spatha monophylla, cucullata. Spadix supra nudus,

inferne femineus, medio stamineus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Arum tenuzfolium ; acaule, foliis angusto-lanceolatis, spatha

subrecurva, spadice longo vermiformi acuto declinato.

Lamarck Encycl. 3. p. 10. n.10. Bot. Reg. 512.

Arum tenuizfolium ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis, spadice subu-

lato spatha lanceolata longiore. Willd. Sp. Pl. 4. p.

486. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 309.

Arum tenuifolium ; acaule, foliis lanceolatis, spadice setaceo

declinato. Sp. Pl. 1370. Excluso ubique synonymo

Gronovii. :

Arisarum angustifolium. Bauh. Pin. 196. Clus. Hist. 2.

p. T4.—Hisp. p. 304. f. 305. Lob. Advers. 261. Lob.

This very curious species of Arum blossoms in June and

July, but the leaves do not appear till after the flowers

decay. The spathe in our plant was very much lengthened

at the point ; was at first moderately, but afterwards very

much, recurved and spirally twisted, exten ten inches in

a externally green, striate; in y of a dark

id purple colour, curiously gee oie margin undu-—

lated. The spadix at first more inclined to blood-colour,

but finally of the same sordid purple, protruded from the

ee inches, tapering towards

the point, and aptly enough compared to a worm. The

length of this part obliged the draughtsman to curl it

upwards to make it come within the plate. The base of

the spadix contained the female flowers; above which were

white sterile filaments or cirrhi; above these the ses-

sile, bilabiate, anthers with yellow eo and above

these again more cirrhi; aH concealed within the spathe.

Soon after the flower decayed the leaves appeared.

In Cuustus’s time this plant was cultivated in the Dutch

gardens, and Lopez says in the English also; but the

latter author never saw it m blossom.

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

municated by our kind contributor Jonn Waker, Esq.

Pub by S. Curtis Walrorit. D

ees

(| 2283. )

TriroLium Casruteum. Bivue MELILoT-

TREFOIL.

Class and Order.

Ditapvetrenra DeEcANpRIA.

Generic Character.

Flores subcapitati. Legumen vix calyce longius, non

“ dehiscens, deciduum. é

Specific Character and Synonyms.

* Mexiors, leguminibus nudis polyspermis, floribus

racemosis.

Trivonsum corulewm ; racemis ovatis, leguminibus semi-

nudis mucronatis, caule erecto.

Trirotium Melilotus cerulea; spicis oblongis, leguminibus

seminudis mucronatis, caule erecto. Sp. Pl..1077,

Kniph. Cent. 5. n. 92. Krock. Siles. 2. p. 215.

Trirouium ceruleum ; racemis oblongis pedunculatis,

leguminibus ventricosis seminudis dispermis mucro-

natis, caule erecto, stipulis lanceolatis membranaceis.

Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 1352. Hort. Kew. ed. alt, 4.

378.

tistics cerulea ; vacemis ovatis spiciformibus, legumi-

nibus mucronatis, caule erecto. m. Encycl. 4. p. 62.

MELitorus major odorata violacea. Moris. Hist. 2. oi spies

8. 2.24 ks packs

MELILoTUs. in ay Riv. tetr. 9. - Tix

Trirotium odoratum alterum sive Lotus sativa. Dod.

Pempt. 571.

pete odoratum. Fuchs. Hist. t.815. Park. Theatr.

716. Ger. emac. 1195.

Lorus hortensis odora. Bauh. Pin. 331. Lob. ic. 2. as al.

7 7

raiey sy Ivestris. Cam. Epit. 894.

Lorus x eg Blackw. Herb. 284.

Desca.

Descr. Root annual. Stem erect, grooved, smooth.

Stipules 2, subulate-lanceolate, sometimes semisagittate,

and one of them frequently bifid at the point. Petioles

chaunelled, shorter than the leaf. Leaflets elliptical, ser-

rate, with mucronate serratures ; slightly villous under-

neath and ribbed with parallel veins ; terminal one on a

longer pedicle. _Peduneles axillary, erect, twice the length

of the leaf. merase a blue in round-ovate heads.

Calycine segments subulate, the two upper ones shorter

than the rest. Vexillum oblong, emarginate, folded so as

to inclose the ale and monopetalous carina. Legume

smooth, gibbous, somewhat inflated, longer than the tube

of the calyx, generally two-seeded, mucronate by the per-

sistent lengthened style.

The whole of this plant, but more especially the flower-

ing heads and seeds, possess a powerful scent of Foenu-

greek ; an odour grateful to many, but to some persons

extremely disagreeable. It was formerly cultivated in

gardens in most parts of Europe for the sake of its scent,

and was frequently laid in wardrobes to drive away moths.

Caspar Bavain in his Pinax, mentions the use of this plant

made by the Swiss to flavour the “‘ Schabzugar cheese ;”” a

subject upon which we received from our friend Mr. Joun

Watxer the following observations, together with the speci-

men from which our drawing was made. “ The cultiva-—

tion of the Trirotiwm ceruleum is, 1 believe, limited to the

canton of Glaris for the purpose of flavouring the Schab-

zigher cheese, a word differently written even by Germans

themselves, from the various opinions regarding its ety-

mology. Those who write it Schapzieger derive it from

Schaf, a sheep, and Ziege, a goat, stating at the same time

that the cheese is made with sheep and goat’s milk in equal

uantities. This notion is however erroneous, as the

chest se is made altogether from skimmed cows milk. A

poor cheese, thus made, in the patois of the country is

called Zigher, and that word combined with the verb

Schaben to grate or scrape, affords a very satisfactory deri-

vation, and proves that Schabzigher is the correct orthogra-

phy. The clover is cut just béfore flowering ; the leaves

only are used, which are dried, pulverized, sifted, and mixed

with the cheese, which is afterwards pressed into wooden

moulds. It is principally exported to Russia and Holland.”

A hardy annual. Native of Germany. Cultivated by

Dr. Wa. Turner before 1562. Flowers in August and

. September. ae ; FO.

( 2284 )

GiycinE PHASEOLOIDES. Lesser Rep-Beap

GLYCINE. |

KKK KE KKKEKKEERE EEE

Class and Order.

DiapELPpHiA DEcANnpDRIA.

Generic Character.

Cal. 2-labiatus. Corolle carina apice vexillum reflectens.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Guycine phaseoloides ; frutescens, foliis ternatis villosis,

racemis axillaribus, leguminibus tomentosis compres-

.. Sis medio coarctatis dispermis.

Guycine phaseoloides ; foliis ternatis subtus villosis racemis

terminalibus. Swartz Prodr. p. 105.—Flor. Ind. Occ.

1248. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 1060.

Guycine sylvestre scandens, foliis pinnato-ternatis, floribus

spicatis, siliquis bispermibus medio coarctatis. Brown

Jam. 298, 2.

Puaseotus florum spica pyramidata, semine coccineo nigra

macula notato. Plum. Cat. 12?

Douicuos pyramidalis ; volubilis, racemis pyramidalibus

longissimis, leguminibus brevibus dispermis oo a.

angen seminibus subrotundis. Lam. ty ee

p. 296 2?

Descr. Stem twining, villous. Leaves ternate, clothed

with a soft pubescence on both sides. Leaflets ovate-acu-

minate, somewhat rhomb-shaped ; the terminal one on a

longer footstalk than the lateral. Stipules lanceolate, fall-

ing off before the flowers appear. Racemes of flowers from

two to five inches long. lyx bilabiate, purplish brown,

persistent : upper-lip emarginate : lower-lip three toothed :

teeth acute, the middle one the longest. Corolla papilio-

naceous : vexillum oval, brown- le, streaked with

yellow on the inside and green at the base : ale very nar-

row, curved, green : carina the size of the vexillum, green,

: monopetalous.

monopetalous. Stamens diadelphous + Germen linear :

Style filiform, the length of the stamens. Legumen

oblong-oval, obliquely mucronate, compressed, contracted

in the middle, villous, net-veined, two seeded. Seeds

nearly round, bright scarlet, with a black spot extending

over nearly half the seed ; Hilwm large and open.

It is probable that PLumier’s plant the Doxicuos pyra-

midalis of Lamarck is not the same species with the present

subject, being described as having racemes of flowers a foot

and half in length; Swarrz describes them as four or five

inches long, in other respects his description coincides

nearly with our own. M. Porrer considers the second

figure of the genus Asrus in Lamarcx’s illustrations as be-

longing to Guycine phaseoloides ; and there is little doubt

but that it must at least be a congener of it.

For this very rare climbimg shrub, native of the West

Indies, not mentioned in any of our catalogues of plants cul-

tivated in this country, we are indebted to Joun WAKER,

Kisq.of Arno’s Grove, Southgate, who thinks he received it,

when a seedling, from the Hon. and Rev. Wm: Herserr.

oo to be kept in the stove. Flowers in June and —

July. .

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(| 2285)

RHODODENDRON PuNCTATUM. (a.) CAROLINA

DOTTED-LEAVED RHODODENDRON.

SEIS

Class and Order.

Decanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. sub-infundibuliformis. Stamina

declinata. Caps. 5-locularis.

Specific Character _ Gynonyine.

RuopopenpRon punctatum ; ‘foliis oblongi s glabris subtus

resinoso-punctatis, umbellis terminalibus, corollis’ in-

fundibuliformibus. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 607. Hort.

Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 51. Bot. Repos. 36. Venten.

Cele. 15.

RuopopenpRon minus ; foliis ovali-lanceolatis utrinque

sensim acutis subtus he, le floribus

brevissime pedicellatis infun 4 Veet nes ee cap-

sulis elongatis. Michaux Fl. Bor. Am. 1. p. 258.

Persoon Syn. 1. p. 478.

Ruovopenpron punctatum ; foliis ovals. laie-colads Geice

subtus resinoso-punctatis, umbellis terminalibus, corol-

lis infundibuliformibus, capsulis elongatis. Elliott

Flor. Carol. 1. p. 434.

RuopopenpRon punctatum ; foliis ovali-lanceolatis utrinque

acutis glabris subtus ferrugineis resinoso-punctatis, ©

umbellis terminalibus, eng brevibus, dentibus

calycis brevissimis, corollis infundibuliformibus: laci-

niis ovatis subundulatis, capsulis elongatis. Pursh

Flor. Am. Sept. 1. p. 298.

RuopopENDRON unctatum ; foliis glabris subtus punctatis,

viminibus I corollis crispis violaceo-purpureis.

Bot. Repos. 36.

Ruopopenpron punctatum. 8. Bot. Reg. 37.

RHODODENDRUM

Ruopopenprum punctatum was first described by Mi-

cHAUx under the name of minus; an appellation applicable

enough if only compared with maximum, but not at all so

im reference to the whole genus.

It seems to vary considerably in the form and colour of

its flowers. AnpreEws’s figure, in the Botanist’s Sete |

represents the flower as smaller and much deeper coloure L;

in the variety 6. of.the Botanical Register the flower is

much larger, but is free from all spotting ; in our plant the

flower in size was intermediate between the two, and two ©

or three of the lacini# in each were spotted with yellow,

not green, dots. |

Native of Carolina and Georgia. Flowers in June and

July. Introduced in 1786 by Mr. Joun Fraser. Is con-

sidered as a hardy shrub, but its blossoming cannot be

secured without prctection in the early part of the spring ;

our late frosts frequently destroying the buds before they

open. Thrives best in sandy peat. Communicated by

Joun Watxer, Esq.

2286.

(4 Bdvecerde Dil . Putty. burke, Walworth Dec22822. Wedel Se. -

ASTER FRUTICULOSUS. SHRUBBY STAR-

3 WORT.

ERE BELEK EERE EEE E

- Class and Order.

SYNGENESIA PotyGamMiA SuPERFLUA.

Generic Character.

Recept. nudum. Pappus simplex, Corolle radii plures

10. Calycis imbricati squame inferiores patule.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Aster fruticulosus ; fruticosus, pedunculis sub-solitariis uni-

‘floris foliis linearibus fasciculatis bis terve longioribus.

Aster fruticulosus; fruticosus, foliis linearibus obtusius-

~~ culis glabris pun is, pedunculis unifloris elongatis,

calycibus imbricatis diseum equantibus. Willd. Sp.

Pl. 3. p. 2018. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 49. Jacq.

Fragm. p.9. t. 9. f. 4. | |

Aster fruticulosus ; fruticosus, foliis linearibus punctatis,

_ pedunculis unifloris nudis. Syst. Nat. 3. p. 552.

Aster fruticosus ; foliis linearibus punctatis glabris, caly-.

cibus imbricatis, caule fruticoso. Sp. Pl. 1225. Thunb.

Prodr. 159. : .

Aster africanus frutescens, foliis angustis et plerumque

congestis. Commel. Hort. 2. p. 53. t. 27.

Astrr maritimus, fruticosus, hyssopi foliis confertis, flore

albo. Pluk. Mant. 29. t. 340. fF. 19 :

Aster hyssopifolius ; fruticosus, foliis sparsis linearibus

pubescentibus, pedunculis subaggregatis terminalibus,

ramis adscendentibus tomentosis. Berg. Cap. 287?

It appears to us that the plant which has usually been

known in our Nurseries under the name of Aster fruticu-

losus is the angustifolius of Jacquin, having scattered, not

aggregate, leaves; but Jacguin’s, CoMMELIN’s, and ps

Puuxener’s figures above referred to, seem to belong to t

species | # a

species we now give a faithful representation of from the

cil of the late Mr. Sypennam Epwarps.

The plant was communicated, together with several

other rare plants, by Mr. Wit11am Prinete, Nurseryman,

formerly of Sydenham, but now of the King’s Road, Chel-

sea. Flowers in May and June. Propagated by cuttings.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Requires the protec-

tion of a greenhouse in the winter.

CORRIGENDA. —

No. 2272. lin. 1 et 9 pro microcanTHA lege MICRACANTHA.

— - pag. 2, lin. 4, pro Krrenin lege Hircuin.

No. 2278. pag. 2, lin. ult. pro macrocantHa lege micrA-

. canTua ; vel dele totum corrigENDUM.

( 2287 ).

Cnicus Arer. Barpary Onicus, OR

TWIN-THORNED THISTLE.

KKK KEKE EEK EKER

Class and Order.

Syneenesta Pozyeamra ALQuALIs.

Generic Character.

Cal. imbricatus, ventricosus : squamis spinosis. Pappus

plumosus. Recept. villosum.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cnicus afer ; foliis sessilibus lanceolatis subtus tomentosis

subrepandis: lobis emarginatis bispinosis, floribus pe-

dunculatis subcorymbosis, calycinis squamis lanceo-

Jatis spinosis patentissimis. Wald. Sp, Pl. 3. p. 1682.

Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 483.

Carpuus afer ; foliis sessilibus lanceolatis pinnatifidis, lobis

distantibus gemellis in longam spinam terminatis singu-

lis. Jacg. Hort. Schoenb. 2. p. 80. t. 145.

Carpuvus Diacantha ; foliis sessilibus lanceolatis subtus to-

mentosis, spinis binatis, floribus corymbosis, Labill.

=. Pl. Syr. Dec. 2. p. 7. t. 3. Poirét. Encycl. suppl,

. p. 199.

This is perhaps the handsomest species of all the Thistle

tribe, and is really worthy to be aimitted into the flower-

garden.

We see no reason to believe that the Carpuus Diacantha

of Labillardiere and afer of Jacquin, are distinct species,

or even worthy to be recorded as separate varieties ; the

first name has therefore the right of priority ; but Jaceurn’s

hame of afer haying been preferred by WittpENow and the

authors of the Hortus Kewensis may now be considered as

best established, on which account we have adopted a” ‘

The large size and spreading of the persistent, coloured

upper squame of the calyx may be considered as making

a near approach to the genus Caruina. The receptacle is

thickly covered with white soft hairs, amongst which the

obovate seeds crowned with a feathery pappus are im-

bedded.

A hardy annual or biennial, Native of Barbary. In-

troduced by Mons. Txourn in 1800. Communicated by

Mr. Joseru Kyicurt of the Exotic Nursery, King’s Road.

M2288.

Thurtis Del. Fub.b5S Gorts Walworth. Pam.226a2. Weddell St.

( 2288 )

Diantuus PsEuDARMERIA. LONG-SCALED

PINK.

KEKE KEK KKK KEKE KKK

Class and Order.

DecanpriA Dieynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. cylindricus, 1-phyllus, basi squamis 4. Petala 5,

unguiculata. Caps. cylindrica, 1-locularis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Diantuus Pseudarmeria; floribus aggregatis fasciculatis, —

squamis calycinis ovato-subulatis tubum equantibus,

foliis subulatis pubescenti-scabris strictis, Fl. Taurico-

cauc. 1. p. 323. Poir. encycl. suppl. 4. p. 123.

Diantuus barbatus. Pall. Ind. Taur. Habl. Taur. p. 119.

This plant appears to us to have a nearer affinity with

Diantnus barbatus, than with D. Armeria, from the former

of which it is chiefly distinguished by being covered in

ae part with a very minute pubescence, hardly visible

to the naked eye, and by a narrower, stiffer foliage. It

appears by the quotation of Marscuaut a Breserstein to

have been taken for barbatus by Pautas and Hasurrz, and

after all we should not be surprized if it should really turn

out to be the origin of the Sweet William so long cultivated

im our gardens. :

A hardy perennial. Native of dry stony places in Tauria ;

where, as with us, it flowers in June and July. Communi-

cated by Mr. Anperson from the Chelsea garden.

N 2289.

a2.

Pubes Gar tis: Watworth Jani18

( 2289 )

PreripLoca Greca. Common Perreoca.

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Class and Order.

Prenranpria Dicynia.

Generic Character.

Asclepiadea. Masse Pollinis granulose, 5. Filam. dis-

tincta. Cor. rotata.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Periptoca greca;. floribus interne hirsutis terminalibus.

Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p.75. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 1248.

Lin. Sp. Pl. 309. Jacq. Mise. 1. p. 11. t. 1. f. 2.

Lam. Ill. t. 177. Kniph. Cent. 2. Schmidt Arb. 1.

p. 46. t. 46. Lam. Encyel. 5. p. 187. Smith Flor.

greca. 1. p. 165. Ic. 249.

Periproca altera. Dod. pempt. 408. /. 2.

Periptoca serpens angustiore folio. Lob ic. 631.

Peripoca repens angustifolia. Ger. emac. 902. f. 1. quoad-

figuram. |

iecscce folio oblongo. Bauh. Pin. 303.

Apocynum 2, angustifolium. Clus. Hist. 1. p. 125.

Apocynum repens. Cam. Epit. 842. Park. Theatr. 386.

Meee sive Periproca scandens folio longo, flore pur-

purante. Bauh. Hist. 2. p. 133. Ray. Hist. 2. p. 1087.

Perriptoca greca is a handsome climber, which under

favourable circumstances will extend its branches from

thirty to forty feet; and was once in great request for

covering trellis work, arbours, &c. but is now more

generally planted against a pole or the trunk of a tree;

in the former case when it has overtopped its support and

formed a spreading head with the branches entwined to-

gether, it makes a very handsome appearance, ——s

when

when in blossom, for the flowers, though chiefly of a sordid

purple colour, yet being margined with green, are by no

means void of beauty, and are interesting to the botanist

from their very curious structure. It seldom bears seed

in this country, but when it does the seed-pods are long,

somewhat curved, and generally united at their points.

Native of Syria and the Grecian islands; is quite hardy ;

will grow in any soil; and is easily propagated by layers ;

flowers in July and August.

Bab bps. Comtis Wales vt

Pe Jar. 22 S22,

(2290 )

SAPONARIA VACCARIA. Cow Soap-wort.

EK RRR KKK KEK RK EK

Class and Order.

Decanpria Digynta.

Generic Character.

Cal. Sie we nudus. Petala 5, unguiculata. Caps. ob-

longa, 1-locularis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Saponaria Vaccaria; calycibus pyramidatis quinquangula-

ribus, foliis ovatis acuminatis sessilibus. Sp. Pl. 585.

Willd. 2. p. 668. Hort. Kew. ed. alt.3.p.77. Gertn.

Sem. 2. p. 234. ¢. 130. f. 7. Lam. Mlustr. t. oT bh 2.

Pollich Pal.n.408. Decand. Fl. frang. 4. p. 737. Hall.

Fist. n. 907.

Gyrsopuita Vaccaria; foliis ovatis amplexicaulibus gla-

berrimis, petalis emarginatis erosis. Smith Prodr.

Fl. Grec. = 279.

Liycunis Vaccaria. Scop. Carn. 1. n. 511.

Lycunis segetum rubra, foliis Perfoliate. Bauh. Pin. 204.

Raj. Hist. 2. p. 999. Tourn. Inst. 335.

Vaccaria. Dod. Pempt. p. 104. Bauh. Hist. 3. part. 2.

p. 354. Ger. emac. 492.

——— Ill. Tabern. Kreuterbuch p. 1253. ed. Basil

'-Isavis sylvestris Vaccaria dicta. Lob. ic. 352. f. 2.

Lycunis oo Vaccaria rubra dicta. Park. Theatr, |.

p. :

__ Botanists are not agreed to what genus this plant should

be referred, but most of them a time have followed

! in referring it to Saponaria ; Sir James Smit has

however, in his Prodromus of the Grecian Flora, united it

with Gyrsopuita, to which he has probably been —

by its angular calyx and divaricate habit. According to

Gartner the Capsule is five-celled at the base and one-

celled .at the upper part, a structure, which some may

perhaps think sufficient to separate it from both these

genera. To avoid confusion we adhere to the established

name.

The name of Vaccarsa has been given it, it is said, from

its being a favourite food of Cows. In the Hortus Kewensis

it has the English name of Perfoliate Soap-wort, which we

think it right to change because another species is recorded

by the name of perfoliata in WiitipEnow’s Enumeratio.

There appears to be two varieties, one with smaller, the

other with larger flowers, of which our figure represents

the latter. :

From the brilliant colour of its flowers it isan ornamental

annual plant, requiring only to be sown in the spring where

it is intended to remain,.and to:be kept clear from weeds.

We do not know. that any coloured figure of it_has been

_ before given ; that.m the Flora Greca being as yet: umpub-

lished. - Native of Germany-and France. eee

Communicated by, N..S.. Hopson, Esq: from the Botanic

Garden; at Bury St. Edmunds: » : :

A 2291.

Weed delle é

2822.

Pub by. S lurks. Walworth.

W Hert me Deol

(221)

GASTRONEMA CLAVATUM. STRIPED-FLOWERED.

GASTRONEMA.

JebeHHbeHsnbisebk

Clase and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia..

Generic. Character.

Buibus subrotundus. Folia decidua. Seapus astivus:

Germen unculo recté continuatum, trigoné ~ ovale:

Tubus intis brevis parte inferiore curvata, arcta, superiore

ventricos’ ampli. Lacinie breves, subequales. Filamenta

conniventia, alterné longiora ; interiora summé feré, exte-

riora media feré parte tubi regionis ventricose inserta ;

superiora tria prope tubi latera torte declinata, inferiora

recta apicibus conniventibus. Anthere breves, incum-

bentes. Stylus declinatus, lacini# inferiori adpressus.

Stigma trifidum. W. H.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Gastronema clavatum, foliis linearibus, scapo 1—2-floro,

corolla alba rubro striatd, laciniis brevibus reflexis.

Amaryiuis Pumilio. Hort. Kew. 1. 415. ed. 2. 2. 223.

Willd. Sp. Pl. 2.50. Ker Journ. Sc. et A.

Cyrtantruus uniflorus. Bot. Reg. 168.

Amaryuuts clavata. L’Heritier Sert. Angl. 11.

Gasrronema clavatum. Nobis in Appendice, p. 30.

Mio

Descr. Bulb small, roundish. Leaves very narrow,

erect. Scape reddish at bottom, bearing one or two flowers.

Germen triangularly oval, continued from the peduncle.

Lower part of the (ube narrow, cylindrical curved, green ;

upper part wide, ventricose, white, with six conspicuous red

stripes. Limb short, with the segments reflex. Filaments

conniving, the alternate longer; the inner inserted —

the top, the outer near the middle of the ventricose part of

the tube; the three upper tortuously declined round the

sides of the tube, the three lower straight, with their points

conniving. Anthers short, incumbent. Style declined and

pressed against the lower petal. » Stigma trifid.

The seeds of this genus are probably flat and foliaceous,

like those of Cortepsius and. the other genera allied to it.

The sketch was taken from a bulb imported by Mr. Bur-

CHELL from the Cape, which flowered in the Spofforth col-

lection. Specimens vf this plant vary a little in the bril-

liancy of the stripes and the expansion of the limb ; but

I have never seen the germ and lower part of the tube

red, as it is represented in the Botanical Register, nor

the corolla so large. A bulb in Mr. Burcuety’s garden

produced a two-flowered stem in the open border, on which

account the name clavatum has been restored, uniflorum

being improper and Pumilio having reference to the large’

bulbs of Amaryllis, &c. and not to the genus Gastronema.

For the wide difference between Gastronema and Cyrtan-

thus, see the Appendix, p. 28. W.H. or

The outline figures represent

‘1. A perpendicular section of the flower. the . er half,

2. Ditto, the lower half. oR NORE TE

nna

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Watworth; Janina

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(2292). ui ddaj

= > + i,

‘Crinum MoLuccanum.. Moiucca Crinum.

Class and Order,

eo" HexanpriA Monocynt.

Generic Character.

Bulbus columnaris vel sphericus. Folia multifaria (nisi

in C. disticho). Scapus |—60-florus, seminibus maturescen- -

tibus flaccidus. Germen media parte crassius, triloculare,

séssile vel pedunculo directé continuatum. Tubus trigoné |

cylindricus, germine directé continuatus eoque gracilior. |

Lacinie alterne sub-equales, interne plerumque latiores. ”

Limbus patens vel semipatens, ante expansionem inclinatus —

vel nutans: Hilamenta extra faucem tubi inserta, alterna _

vix profuadids et marginibus laciniarum interiorum puncto |

insertionis adnata. Stylus gracilis, apicem versus tenuior.

Stigma obtusum, trigonum, vel trilobatum. Capsula dis- —

sepimentorum destructione 1—2-locularis, sepe difformis |

valvis nullis vel obsoletis, seminibus temere disrupta.—

Ovula‘in. pluri-spermis vix discreta, sed masse cuidum non

separabili in medio posite adhwrentia, apicibus versts dis-

sepimenta tendentibus. Semina carnosa, ‘mtegumento

viridi: nou separabili, sepits magna, difformia ; embryo

cylindrico radicula temere albumen perforante. W.H. —

vere ei ce pees Bis Se ce cos" .

eT Specific Character and Synonyms.

Crintm. moluccanum ; bulbo spherico, spatha bifida erecta —

scobtusa, floribus sessilibus, tubo limbum equante, —

_ -foliis lanceolatis apice elongatis deorsum undulatis.

Crinum! moluccanum. Roxb. Fl. Ind. or. medit. Ker in ©

Deser. “‘ Bulb nearly spherical, the size of a goose’s |

egg, when stripped of its dead integuments of a pale purple _

colour, very different from the deep crimson of Crinum Seyla-

nicum.” Leaves pale greci, striate lanceolate, tapering toa __

point, undulated towards the base, nearly two fectlong, and

=4 ‘ . - an

s inch and a half wide at the base, margin a little rough,

re eight inches high, flat on one side: anid ‘convex on the

dish ‘purple. Spathe membranaceous, two-leaved, .

iar obtuse, striate; flesh-coloured: Flowers in our spe-

cimen four, sometimes six, large, shewy. Germen sessile,

green, unequally — three- cornered : tube striate, flesh-

coloured, equal in length to the limb, which is funnel-shaped :

the lacimia striate, “flesh-coloured in the middle, with

white margins, somewhat recurved at the point. - Stamens

and § style ‘declined, -equal, shorter than the lacmia.

The plant from which our drawing was taken flowered

early in September at. the Earl of Carwarvon’s, High

Clere, Berks ; and as we were.informed by- Mr: Govern, fis

Lordship’ s, Secretary ‘ “the, “bulb was ..xeceived- from Drs

CeRE y, of Serat i

ME Hhonn pace this species as very: soars allied:

to ‘Co speciosum, respecting which and some other species:

ofvunen he has requeste us to insert. the following ob-

servations :-—.

“The Ceylo wi b figured i in she Bot. Bae, 579, under ’

the name of Ao Oa msignis, OF Roxburgh’s Amaryllis,

is the, plant inentioned Appendix p. 27, as being ‘ in ap-

pearance much like the Bengal (aa Speciosum, and

probably of that species.” The inflorescence, .as mapees

sented, is only ‘distin wishable. from that of C.speciosum by

the sap Bperick 2 sae of. Howes. and. a shorter. style, which

however does not appear as if it had-grown out to its fall

length. It is ae that although yo Editor has men- +

tioned four Crinums as nearly allied to it, he has taken -

notice of C. speciosum supra 2217, from which it.

remains to be shewn that it is a distinct species. | Neit =

the. Bengal speciosum. nor this. Ceylon species or variety

appear to have been’ known to Dr. Roxsuren, -and it is

certainly not his C. latifolium, as quoted. in the Bot. Reg.

There is a bulb of latifolium im the Spofforth collection,

sent by Dr. Carry, who had it from Dr. pS hahalhg closely

afi to <eylanicum, haying the same strong, scent, to the

s of the bulb, the same habit and appearance, leaves

ver sient but more undulated, with a rougher Bos se ce

noet-tipped- with red: “beri

padante ueee C. latifolium i is. probably erroneous ; sini ge

all the known species of the subdivision ‘Onxara, have the: »

germen sessile. We take this opportunity of mentioning

that amongst the Lonerroiix, which areal extra-tropical _

and pedunculated, flaceidum as well as longiflarum has the —

filaments Knobbed. C, tes aoe un is at hardy species,” WH,

T hertis Del. | PudbibyS hurts Walworth, Tn. saBss. Weddell St.

( (2293 )

CARTHAMUS C/ERULEUS. BLUE-FLOWERED

CARTHAMUS.

- Class and Order.

SynGEeNnesIA PoLyGAMIA ZQUALIS.

Generic Character.

Recept. paleaceo-setosum. Cal. ovatus, imbricatus squa-

mis apice subovato-foliaceis. Pappus paleaceo-pilosus s,

nullus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cartuamus ceruleus; caule subunifloro, foliis ovato-lan-

ceolatis spinoso-dentatis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 1709.

Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 492.

Cartuamus ceruleus; foliis lanceolatis spinoso-dentatis —

caule subunifloro. Sp. Pl. 1163. Lam. Encyel. 1.

p. 638.

Cyicus ceruleus asperior. Bauh. Pin. 378.

Cnicus alter. Clus. Hisp. 453. f. 454.—Hist. 2. p. 152.

Cnicus flore ceruleo. Lob. ic. 2. 19. |

Cyicus alter cwruleus. Ger. em. 1169. f. 2. Tabern.

Kreuterbuch 1076.

Cyicus alter perennis Clusii. Park. Theatr. p. 260. f. 3.

Carpvuvs erectus ceruleus Cnici facie foliis dissectioribus.

Moris. Hist. 3. p. 159. §. 7. t. 34. f. 19. saltem quoad-

Jiguram.

Onogroma ceruleum. Gaert. Sem. 2. p. 380. t. 160. f. 7.

Cartnamus ceruleus and tingitanus have been by some

supposed to be the same species, and Linnzvs himself has

observed that they are too nearly related; he has indeed

quoted Morison’s figure under his C. tingitanus, which is

only a copy of Cxrustus’s, referred to by Linnaus as repre-

senting his C. ceruleus ; and this has probably occasioned

the confounding of the two species. Lamarck, whilst he

snpposes

supposes that Linnazus’s tingitanus may be a very distinct

species from ce@ruleus, has very properly added the synonym

of Morison to the latter, of which he makes it a variety:

Every one of the figures referred to in our list of synonyms

is either a reprint or copy of that of Cuiusrus, and as far as

our researches have gone we find no other representation of

this rare plant. From Cavanii1ie’s figure and description

of CartrHamus tingitanus, it appears to us to be a distinct

though nearly related species, that having pinnatifid leaves,

whereas our plant bas the margin of its leaves only slightly

serrate.

Native of Spain, a hardy perennial. Communicated by

our friend A. B. Lampert, Esq. from his collection at

Boyton.

J Curtis Det.

bye. CarticWalbworth. Jot 21822.

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( 2294 )

ScoRZONERA PURPUREA, ~. GRANDIFLORA.

Larce PurPLE-FLOWERED VIPER’S-GRASS.

RK KEKE EEE EEK EEE

Class and Order.

SYNGENESIA PoLYGAMIA AQUALIS.

Generic Character.

Recept. nudum. Pappus plumosus, substipitatus. Calyx

imbricatus squamis margine scariosis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Scorzonera purpurea ; foliis lmeari-subulatis canaliculato-

triquetris, caule ramoso. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 150.

Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 435,

Scorzonera purpurea ; foliis lineari-subulatis integris pla-

nis, pedunculis cylindricis. Lin. Sp. Pl. 1113. Lam.

Encycl. Bot. 7. p.15.' Ejusdem Ilustr. t. 647. f. 3.

Scorzonera purpurea ; foliis lineari-subulatis integris cana-

liculato-triquetris, pedunculis cylindricis. Jacg. Austr.

1. p. 23. t. 35.

Scorzonera caule ramoso tereti, foliis linearibus acuminatis,

calycibus obtusiusculis. Gmel. Sib. 2. p. 7. t. 2.

Scorzoners angustifolia subcerulea. Bauh. Pin. 275.

Scorzonera angustifolia elatior pannonica 4. Clus. Hist.

2. p. 139. S. pannonica 5* Clus. Pan. p. 639.

Scorzonera sylvestris, foliis angustis, flore ceruleo. Meniz.

Pugd. t. 1. 7-1.

eee

The plant from which our drawing was made was raised

at the Pulham Nursery from seeds gathered on the Carpa-

thian Mountains by Mr. Hows. It is a showy plant when

the flowers are expanded, but ap to us to be only a

variety of Scorzonera purpurea, although a much stouter

plant, with larger flowers, than that figured by Jacquin in

his Flora Austriaca. | :

A hardy perennial. Flowers in May. Cultivated by

Paiie Mitver in 1759. Communicated by Messrs. Wurr-

Ley. Brame, and Minne.

M2295.

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LYSIMACHIA VERTICILLATA. VERTICILLATE —

Loosk-sTRiFE, 8 ub

Class and Order.

Pentanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cor. rotata. Caps. globosa, mucronata, 10-valvis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Lysimacuta verticillata ; panicula composita verticillata, pe-

dunculis multifloris simplicibusque, calycibus capsula

maculata longioribus. Fl. taur. caucas. 1. p. 141. et.

3. p. 135. Marsch. Cent. 1. t. 32.

Lysimacuia verticillata ; foliis verticillatis oblongo-lanceo-

latis petiolatis, pedunculis axillaribus uni-triflorisque,

petalis ovatis acutis glanduloso-ciliatis, caule pubes-

cente. Willd. Enum. p. 195.

Descr. Stem octangular, rough, branched: branches

naked at the lower part, upwards opposite-leaved, each

petiole bearing four flowers, the peduncles being inserted

on the footstalk and not in the axils. The centre of the

stem bears four leaves in whorls at equal distances with

four flowers on each footstalk. Leaves elliptical, villous

on both sides, minutely ciliate at the margins. Flowers

yellow, very like those of the common Loose-strife ; but

the calyxes entirely without the red margin so constant in

that ; stamens not half the length of the corolla.

Distinguished from Lystmacnia punctata, by the want

both of the. black spots in the leaves and the orange

coloured spots in the corolla; from vulgaris, which it more

resembles in habit, by the calyx wanting the red margins,

and by the flowers growing in much more regular and

: equidistant

uidistant whorls, supported. almost constantly by four

eaeos or leaf-like bractes; but on the side ane Pes these

are generally in pairs. | | Bae ah

ative of the woods of Tauria and Caucasus. Flowers

in July and August. A hardy ornamental perennial. Com-

municated by Mr. Anperson from the Chelsea garden.

N2296.

» arte. 8E Bub. by.S. iartis: Watworth. Deb.zs bss. Wrddsilve

. ey, tnobar\*

( 2296 )

TRIUMFETTA ANNUA, @. ANNUAL TRIUMFETTA.

KKK KK KEKE KEE KERR EE

Class and Order.

Dopecanpria Mownoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cor. 5-petala. Cal. 5-phyllus. Capsula hispida, in qua-

tuor vel quinque dissiliens.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Triumretra annua; foliis ovatis serratis, pedunculis axilla-

ribus trifloris, fructibus hamato-aculeatis: aculeis nudis.

Triumretta annua; foliis ovatis indivisis rarius lobatis.

Lin. Mant.73. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 856.

Triomrertra foliis oblongo-ovatis obtusis serratis, petiolis —

longissimis. Mill. ic. 2. p. 199. t. 298.

Triumfetta indica ; foliis ovato-rhomboideis indivisis subtus

tomentosis, fructibus axillaribus, aculeis nudis. Lam.

Encycl. 3. p. 420?

(8.) foliis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis.

The leaves of most of the species of Trrumrerta

much in form ; most of them that are not generally lobed.

shew a disposition to become so occasionally. In our plant

the leaves were considerably more elongated at the point

than in Mixuer’s figure, but we consider it only as a mere

variety of the same species.

The flowers in this species are perfect, having both calyx

and corolla; it therefore belongs to Barrramia of Garrr-

NER. The three-flowered uncles, added to the prickles

and the outer covering of the capsule being smooth, we

believe, will be found the best characters to distinguish the

Triumrerra annua from the other known species.

Native of the East Indies. Flowers in August and

September. Being an annual is propagated by seeds only,

which however it brings to maturity in our stoves. Com-

municated by Mr. Biaxe from the collection of J. Vere,

Esq. at. Kensington Gore. :

W229.

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es ( 2297 )

Matva AucedA. Vervain Mattow.

KKK KEK EKER KEKE KEE EK

Class and Order.

Monapeuruia Ponyanpria.

Generic Character.

Cal. duplex : exterior 3-phyllus. _ Caps. plurime mo-

nosperme.

Specifie Character and Synonyms.

Matva Alcea; caule erecto, foliis inferioribus angulatis ;

superioribus quinquepartitis scabriusculis, calycis ex-

terioris foliolis oblongis obtusis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3.

p. 790. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 217.

Matva Alcea; caule erecto, foliis multipartitis scabriusculis.

Lin. Sp. Pl. 971. Scop. Carn. 2. p. 43. Host. Syn.

Pl. Austr. p. 384. Poll. Pal. n. 660. Zorn. ic. 219.

Matva Alcea ; caule erecto glabro, foliis cordatis ; inferio-

ribus subrotundo-peltatis crenatis; reliquis profunde

quinquepartitis. Cav. Diss. p.'75. t, 17. f. 2.

Matva caule erecto, foliis seabris, trilobatis: lobis latera-

libus bipartitis, medio tripartito et quinquepartito.

Hall. Hist. n. 1071.

Atcea major vulgaris. Bauh. Pin. 316. Blackw. Herb,

t. 309. fig. mala.

Atcea vulgaris. Dod. pempt. p. 656. f. 2? Lob. ic. 1.

655. f. 27

Aura. Cam. Epit. 669. Fuchs. Hist. 79. t. 80.

Descr. Stems erect, three feet high, rounded, smooth at

the lower part and hairy at the upper, the hairs collected in

little bundles, spreading. Stipules linear-lanceolate, ciliate.

Leaves petioled, 3—5-partite: segments incised, obtuse,

rugose-veined. Peduncles one-flowered, axillary and termi-

nal, aggregate and solitary, somewhat hispid with fascicled .

hairs. Flowers large, rose-coloured, sweet-scented : petals

cuneiform, deeply emarginate or lobed; lobes crenulate

on the inner sides. External calycine leaflets three, ovate,

ciliate ; internal ones 5-cleft: segments delta-shaped. An-

thers very many, white. Stigmas many, purple. Capsules

many, surrounding a conical receptacle, smooth, dilated at

the base: seeds kidney-shaped.

Matva Alcea was supposed by Hupson to have been in-

digenous to this country ; but this has probably arisen from

its having been confounded with some variety of Matva

moschata, and it is not now admitted into the British

Flora.

_A- hardy perennial. Native of Germany and France.

Flowers from July to October. Our drawing was taken

from a plant raised at the Fulham Nursery, from seeds

gathered in the Carpathian mountains by Mr. Howe.

Vhurtic. 2 A

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MALVA MOSCHATA. VAR. 6. UNDULATA.

UnpbuLatep Musk MALLow.

KEKE EERE EE

Class and Order.

MonapELPHiA PoLyanpRIA.

Generic Character.

Calyx duplex: exterior 3-phyllus. Caps. plurime, mo-

nosperme. ;

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Matva moschata; foliis radicalibus reniformibus incisis ;

caulinis quinquepartitis pinnato-multifidis, calyce pi-

loso. Smith. Fl. Brit. 2.742. Engl. Botany, 754.

Matva moschata ; caule erecto foliis radicalibus reniformi-

bus; caulinis quinquepartitis pinnato-multifidis, calycis

exterioris foliolis lmearibus. * Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 790.

Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 217.

Matva moschata. Lin. Sp. Pl. 971. Flor. Dan. 905.

Curtis Fl. Lond. Cavan. Diss. 2. p. 76. t. 18. f. 1.

Matva sive Atcea montana. Column. Ecphr. 147.

Axcea tenuifolia crispa. Bauh. Hist. 2. p. 1067.

(8.) folits atro-viridibus : laciniis undulatis.

Matva laciniata, 8. Lam. Encyel. 3. p.'750?

Matva moschata varies so much in the form, colour, and

degree of hariness of the leaves, that it is not easy to de-

seribe them. Though supposed by Lamarcx to be only a

variety of Matva Alcea, these pions are undoubtedly distinct

species ; moschata is of humbler growth, the leaflets of the

outer calyx are linear-lanceolate, not ovate; the capsules

are pubescent; the hairs of the stem and calyx are erect,

simple, growing from a tubercle, frequently, but not in our

imen, of a red colour ; in Alcea the hairs grow in fasci- _

cles and spread into rays; the musk scent is also wanting

is | in

in the latter ; the shape of the petals is also different, being”

much deeper divided at the apex in alcea, more truncate

in moschata.

Our plant which appears to differ in nothing from Marva

moschata, but m the darker green colour, and more undula-

ied or crisped appearance of the leaves, and larger stature,

circumstances arising probably from cultivation. It pos-

sesses in a high degree the delicate scent of musk, which

is given out by the leaves and especially by the calyxes,

not by the flowers as is usually said; and is best perceived

by drawing the plant through the hand.

A hardy ‘perennial, Communicated by Messrs. Wuittey,

Brame, and Mixng, from the Fulham Nursery.

Hyssopus ORIENTALIS, 6. ORIENTAL

Hyssop.

Ge ee ee

Class and Order.

Dipynamera GYMNOSPERMIA.

Generic Character.

Cor. labium inferius tripartitum: lacinula intermedia

subcrenata. Stam. recta, distantia.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Hyssopus orientalis ; verticillis subsexfloris racemosis secun-

dis, tubo corollz calyce longiore, foliis linearibus.

Hyssorus orientalis ; floribus verticillatis racemosis secundis,

calycis dentibus patulis inequalibus, lacinia corolle

intermedia biloba integerrima, foliis lineari-lanceolatis.

Willd. Enum. p. 599. Flor. Taur. Caucas. 3. p. 389.

Hyssorus orientalis ; floribus axillaribus longe pedunculatis

secundis binis ternisve, lacinia corolle intermedia

reniformi integra, foliis inferioribus lanceolatis den-

tatis ; superioribus linearibus, omnibus punctatis car-

nosis, hultes obs. p. 105.

Hyssorus angustifolius ; verticillis sexfloris recemosis secun-

dis, lacinia corolla intermedia triloba in i

foliis linearibus. Flora Taurico-Caucas. 2. p. 38.

(8.) caule foliisque glabris.

Hyssopus orientalis is very nearly allied to officinalis,

being chiefly distinguished by its linear leaves, and longer

tube of the corolla. In our plant, the deep red ag con-

trasted with the blue corolla was very remarkable; but this

character does not appear to be constant.

By favour of our friend Mr. Rosert Brown we have had

an opportunity of examining an original specimen from

Mr. Apams, preserved in the Banksian Herbarium, —_— :

does not appear to differ from ours, except in being gene-

rally covered with a hoary pubescence, the want of which

may be attributed to-the effect of cultivation... 4

Hyssopus angustifolius of Marscuat, van BreserstEin

is the same species; but having been called orzentalis by

Apams, and his name being published about the same time,

and adopted by WittpEnow, it has superseded. the other.

Native of ‘Paria and Caucasus. ae toe ‘impatient of

cold than the common Hyssop. Gennamiicated by Mr.

Anperson from the Chelsea Garden.

Witddbi>

W adneooth Sie saben.

( 2300 )

Hepycuium spicatum. SpikE-FLOWERED

HeEepycuium.

JeEHEEHEHeek

Class and Order.

Monanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Anthera duplex. Filamentum geniculatum extra antheram

non elongatum. Stylus filamento duplo longior, filiformis,

tenacissimus, in sulco anthere receptus.

Specific Character.

Hepycurum spicatum ; spathis truncatis unifloris, laciniis-

corollz externis linearibus ; labello suborbiculato bi-

lobo stylo longiore.

hina

Desc. Spike terminal, simple. Spathe erect, one-flower-

ed, two-valved : outer valve truncate, green, entirely con-

cealing the inner lesser one. Germen sessile, three-celled :

ovules several, globular, shining. Tube of the corolla ex-

tending an inch beyond the spathe, filiform: the three

external lacinie@ equal, linear: the two internal lanceolate :

labellum erect, suborbicular, two-lobed, with the lobes

emarginate. Anther oblong, embracing the style: stigma

produced beyond the anther, funnel-shaped, hairy within.

Roots of this undescribed species of Hepycnium were

sent by Dr. Waxuicu of Calcutta, to our friend Mr. Kenr

of Clapton in 1820, under the name which we have adopted.

One of them was planted in the open border in the front of

the stove and another in the front of the greenhouse ; both

these stood the winter and made stronger plants than what

were housed, the former produced flowers in October 1821,

from which our drawing was made. pe

Native of Napaul, and being sufficiently hardy to bear

the cold of our ordinary winters, promises to be an aequi-

sition to our gardens, though less ornamental than some of

the tenderer kinds.

N 2307.

Pub. by. S Gertit. Wabworth. Marth. 1422.

( 2301)

CRINUM ENSIFOLIUM. SworbD-LEAVED

Crinum. |

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.—Vide No. 2292,

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Sect. 1. Parentes. Subdiv. nutantes.

Crinum ensifolium; bulbo ovato stolonifero, foliis suberec-

tis angustis acutis, scapo purpureo, floribus patentibus

5—6, limbo albo extis purpurascente, tubo purpureo,

germine subsessili purpureo, loculis dispermis.

Crinum ensifolium. xburg. Hort. Beng. Ker. Journ.

Sc. et A. Nobis supra 2231, in specierum enumeratione

et in appendice p. 22.

Desc. Bulb green, ovate, stoloniferous. eaves nearly

erect, narrow, acute, an inch wide, sometimes about three

feet long. Scape purple. Flowers five or six, patent,

fragrant. Limb white, near four inches long, narrow, the

outer petals purplish without. ube purple, four inches

long, - Germ su ile, purple. Celle with two ovules,

This species is a native of Pegu, and closely allied to C.

Defixum, from which it may be however easily distin-

Suished by the point of its leaves being less erect and more

acute. It is a smaller and much more delicate plant than

Defixum, requiring a stronger heat and less water, the

lower part of the bulb being very liable to be injured by

too much wet, It encreases fast by stolones, but does not

flower so freely as C. Defixum. ;

Flowered ai in April 182] as is supposed for

Fb, bp 5. Crertis Wianlworth. March 4.282.

LV 2302.

Weddell. Se

( 2302 )

Canna GLAuCcA, &. RUFA. Burr-coLourED

GLAUCOUS-LEAVED INDIAN ReEep.

Class and Order.

Monanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

o°<Anthera simplex, filamenti margini adnata. Stylus cras-

‘sus, claviformis. Stigma obtusum. Caps. 3-locularis. Sem.

“globosa numerosa. _

FORT int os

<—e Specific Character and Synonyms. me

‘Canna glauca; foliis glaucis laciniis interioribus tribus

erectis ovatis strictis, labello revoluto.

Canxa glauca; corolle limbo <interiore trifido: laciniis

-' evatis strictis, nectario trilobato fimbriato. Roscoe in

~ Lin. Soc: Trans. 8. p. 339. Hort. Kew. ed. alt.1. p.2.

‘Canna glauca; foliis petiolatis lanceolatis glaucis subtus

\ “‘enervibus. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 4. Excluso syno-

“~ nymo’ Dillenii. i )

Canna glauca ; foliis elliptico-lanceolatis glaucis, laciniis

‘corolla exterioribus erectis, labio superiore trilobato

lobis tribus ovatis strictis ; inferiore indiviso recurvo.

Exot. Bot. p. 83. t. 102. ex anglico versum.

(2.) wnfa; Corollis rubro tinctis: labello variegato inte-

~ gerrimo. ek s e

Mr. Rozerr Brown has very properly separated the

Cannez from the Scrraminex of Linnzus, an order retained

oo under the name of Cannz. See Prodromus

Flore Nove Hollandia, p. 307.

The character of Canna has been considered differently

by different botanists. The flower is furnished with a

real’ persistent superior calyx distinct from the corolla,

which latter Jussrev denominates a consequently ac-

cording to him it has a double calyx. The cor is

monopetalous.

monopetalous, tubular, divided, more or less deeply, into

six lacinie, three exterior generally erect, nearly equal,

acute, and, being frequently more or less green, resemble

a calyx; three interior larger, often differing in size, form,

and position ; now straight, now recurved, and one some-

times nearly, or perhaps entirely obliterated ; though some

traces of it may mostly be detected by careful observation.

Besides these six lacinie there are three other petal-like

appendages, smaller and narrower, one of which is the >

style, more rigid and fleshy than the others, but frequently

equalling, sometimes exceeding, the others in length; the

other two stand opposed to each other; the upper one,

which bears the exhausted anther on its margin, is deno-

minated filament, the lower one generally revolute, and

often of a-different colour, the labellum; these two form

the nectarium of Linnzus, who consequently describes the

anther as inserted in the margin of the nectarium without

filament. But the filament and style are so changed at the

time of the expansion of the flower, that their real nature

cannot be understood without examining them at a much

earlier stage, as explained at No. 2085.

The Corotta of our variety of Canna glauca has its limb

divided into three exterior lacinie, erect, lanceolate, acute ;

and three interior, ovate, nearly equal, all erect; a petal-like

Jilament, bearing the effete anther at the lower part of its

margin, and becoming revolute above ; opposed to this the

labellum, narrow, variegated, quite entire ; style rigid, be-

coming much elongated and undulate.

It is doubtful whether our plant ought not rather to be

considered as a distinct species than a variety ; it differs

from the glauca of Exotic Botany, not only in the colour

of the flower, which in that is a plain yellow without

intermixture, but in the upright internal lacinia being

narrower, more pointed, and sometimes a little notched ;

in the labellum being, in our individual at least, quite

entire, not emarginate at the extremity.

Native of South America; Mr. Anprrson has received

‘it from the Caraccas and from St. Vincent’s. The figure

referred to in the Hortus Kewensis, as authority for ‘its

eee been cultivated by Dr. SHerarp, belongs to Canna

accida.

Communicated last October by our friend Joun WaLKER,

Esq. of Arne’s Grove, Southgate, who raised it from seed

GENTIANA INTERMEDIA. INTERMEDIATE

GENTIAN.

Class and Order.

Penranoria Dieynts.

Gaacikc Character,

Cor. l-petala. Caps. 2-valvis, t-locularis: Recepiaculis

2, longitudinalibus. ;

Specyfic Character and Synonynes.

Gentiana intermedia; foliis obovato-oblongis trinerviis,

floribus terminalibus aggregatis, calycibus foliaceis

inequalibus, corollis ventricosis quinquefidis inapertis :

_ plicis interioribus subsimplicibus.

Gentiana ochroleuca. Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. 1. p. 185 7

Gentiana Saponaria. Michaux Flor. Bor. Amer. 1. p. 176?

mene 2 > oe

Descr. Whole plant quite smooth. Leaves oblong-

obovate, quite entire, obsoletely 3-nerved. Flowers in a

terminal few-flowered head, and lateral on very short

branches bearing from one to three flowers, but never trul

verticillate. Calyx five-cleft: segments very unequal,

foliaceous, one sometimes even longer than the corolla.

Corolla barrel-shaped, segments acute: inner folds simple

or sometimes bifid. Colour ~ ect whitish-green, chang-

ing more or less to violet, internally streaked with violet.

amens and germen only half the length of the corolla :

Jilaments two-edged: anthers distinct. Stigmas finally

spreading and revolute. Both calyx and corolla are now

and then six-cleft. The taste of the leaves is bitter like

_ Most or all of the genus.

Gentiana Saponaria, Catesbwi, ochrolcuca, and inter-

media have a very near affinity, and yet all have some

pomts

points of difference, perhaps sufficient to keep them specifi-

cally distinct. They all have yentricose or barrel-shaped

flowers which continue closed ; the internal plice of Sapo-

narva are fimbriated, of ochroleuca and intermedia nearly

or quite simple; the flowers in Saponaria and especially in

Catesbei (if these plants are really distinct) are more ver-

ticillate, in ochroleuca more crowded at the extremity. of

the stalk ; in intermedia the flowers are altogether terminal,

the lateral ones being never truly axillary, but supported

on short leafy branches; the leaves in the latter are broader

towards the point than in either of the others.

For this, as we believe, unrecorded species, we are in-

debted to Mr. Josern Kyicur of the King’s Road, who

received the roots from North America in the spring of

1820 ; he supposes it to be a native of Virginia. A hardy

perennial. Flowers in October.

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(, 2304 )

ALGE NITIDA. Pouisnep ALOE.

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character —Vide No. 1359.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Secr. Curviflore. Gasteria. Haw.

ALOE nitida ; acaulis, foliis erecto-patulis multifariis sub-

triquetris mucronatis albido-maculatis nitidissimis,

scapo simplici, bracteis assurgentibus.

Abe nitida ; foliis erecto-patulis, latis, multifariis, supra

excavatis, subtus alte carinatis, apice acutis ; atroviri-

dibus, obsolete albido-maculatis, glaberrimis, nitidis ;

marginibus cartilagineis integerrimis. Prince de Salm

Dyck Catal. raisonée. n. 33.

Genii

Desc. Leaves about nine, between erect and pte

surrounding the root in all directions, fleshy, unequally

three-sided, lower side unequally convex, upper’ concave,

a = narrower and flat, dotted with small, a ve

quently confluent spots: angles cartilagineous, slightly

tuber. sharp- sista with’ subpu nt mucro ; when

old they shine like polished marble. Seige erect, a foot

and half in length, compressed towards the base, rounded

at the upper part. Flowers curved, swelled at the base, —

contracted upwards very like those of carinata, (No. 1331)

and Lingua (1322). Indeed the whole section of Curvi-

flore, which form the genus Gasrerta of Hawortn’s supple-

nent, hardly afford any distinguishing characters in either

€ form or colour of the corolla. The flowers are sweet-

scented something like the Hyacinth. The taste of the

leaves is mild without acrimony or bitterness. ,

| €

The specimen from which our drawing was taken was

sent us in March last, by Mr. Tuomas Hrrcuin of Norwich,

who received it from the Prince of Saum Dyck, with whom

it had not blossomed at the time of the publication of his

Catalogue. It was raised from Cape seeds at Utrecht and

communicated to the Prince by M. Van Marco.

Wid dist

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AcHANIA MALVAVISCUS. Scarier ACHANIA.

Class and Order.

Monapetpuia PoLyAnpria.

Generic Character.

Cal. duplex : exterior polyphyllus. Cor. convoluto-clau-

sa. Stigmata 10. Bacca 5-locularis, 5-sperma.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

AcuaniA Malvaviscus ; foliis scabriusculis, acuminatis, fo-

liolis calycis externis erectis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 839.

Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 233.

Hisiscus Malvaviscus ; foliis cordatis crenatis, angulis la-

teribus extimis parvis, caule arboreo. Sp. Pl. 978.

Kniph. Cent.1.n. 31. Swartz. Fl. Ind. occid. p. 1222.

Hisiscus frutescens, foliis angulatis cordatis acuminatis,

petalis ab uno latere auritis. Brown Jam. p. 284.

Matvaviscus arborescens flore miniato clauso. Dill. Elth.

210. t. 170. f. 208.

Matvaviscus arborea. Cav. Diss. 3. p. 131. t. 48. f. 1.

Lam. Encyel. 4. p. 1.

Matva arborea, folio oblongo acuminato glabro dentato.

Sloane Hist. 1. p. 216. t. 136. f. 1.

Awcea indica arborea, folio molli flore amplo eleganter

coceineo. Pluk. Alm. p. 14. t. 257. f. 1. quoad

figuram,

Descr. A tall shrub with alternate, three-lobed, acumi-

nate leaves, serrate, roughish: petioles recurved. Peduncles

axillary, solitary, pie Sees 5 External calyx of several

leaflets linear, erect ; internal of one leaflet with a five-cleft

border. Corolla of five petals, obovate, convolute, never

fully expanding. Column of stamens and styles twisted,

twice the length of the corolla; anthers pen ulous, scat-

tered along the column ; stigmas recurved. :

Native

Native of Jamaica. With us an inhabitant of the stove,

where its handsome foliage and bright scarlet flowers pro-

duced most part of the year, render it very ornamental.

Cultivated in 1714, by the Duchess.of Braurorr. Commu-

nicated by Mr. Buaxe from the collection of James Vere,

Esq.

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( 2306 )

Cactus sPeciosissimus, CRIMSON-FLOWERED

Torcu-THistT Le.

Class and Order.

IcosanpriA Monoeynta.

Generic Character. the

Cal. 1-phyllus, SUperUs imbricatus. Cor, multiplex.

Bacca 1-locularis, polysperma. __ Pen

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Sect. 11]. Ceres, stantes per se.

Cactus speciosissimus ; caule erecto 3—4-gono: angulis

dentatis, flore campanulato patente, genitalibus decli-

natis, stigmatibus decem geminatis. Desfontaines in

ws du Mus. d’hist. nat. 3. p. 190. t. 9. Bot. Reg.

Cactus speciosus ; erectus, leviter quadrangularis, angulis —

dentatis. Willd. Enum. suppl. p. 31.

Qin

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The late Professor WittpeNnow, in a supplement to his

Enumeration of the plants of the Berlin garden, has divided

the genus Cacrus into eight sections, viz. Ecutnocactt,

edgehog or Mammilary Thistles. 2. Mxzocacti, Melon

Thistles. 3. Ceres, Torch Thistles. 4. Cerner REPENTES,

Creeping Cereuses. 5. Ruirsatipes, Pendulous Cereuses.

- Opuntia, Indian-Figs. 7. Puytianrui, Spleenwort-like

Indian-Figs. 8. Pereski#, Barbadoes-Gooseberry. These

Sections have by some botanists been separated into nearly —

a8 man nera; Mr. Hawortu makes seven distinct gene-

ra, retaming the name of Cactus for the second of the above

Sections only, and uniting the third and fourth under or

. 0

of Cereus. .'To the first seetion he gives the name of Mam-

milaria, and to the seventh that of Errpuytium, Phyllanthus

being already occupied.. His other genera all retain the

names given to the different sections. “~ ~~~ a

Cactus speciosissimus,. belongs to the third section. This

plant having been iieddy published under this name in

the Memoires of the museum of eaiural, History and in

‘the Botanical siebdistel 3 ve.adépt-it to: prevent confusion,

though that of speciosus has the right of priority. The

speciosus of M. Bonrianpwas first described and accurately

characterized by M. De Canpotze under the name of phyl-

lanthoides, (vide supra n.,2092.) 0.»

Native of South America. Requires to be kept in the

dry stove and treated as other tender succulents. ©

s Introduced from Paris by the Count Dr Vanpes, in whose

_ collection at Bayeswater,.the plant from which our drawing

was taken flowered: in great. perfection, in July’last, as it

- had done the preceding year. The gardener remarked

that the red-streak to be seen in our drawing below the

flower-bud, constantly denoted the tubercles from which

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MARANTA ARUNDINACEA. INDIAN

Arrow-Roor,

SKK KEK EEEK EKER EEK

Class and Order.

Monanpria Monoernia.

Generic Character.

Anthera simplex, filamento adnata. Stylus petaliformis.

Stigma subtrigonum. Sem. 1. | |

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Maranta arundinacea; culmo ramoso herbaceo, foliis

ovato-lanceolatis subtus Be getige 9 Roscoe in Lin.

Soc. Trans. 8. p. 339. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p.13. Hort.

Kew. ed. alt. 1. p.2.

Maranra arundinacea ; Swartz. obs. p.8. Redouté Lil. 57.

Maranta arundinacea ; culmo — eee itis,

iis monospermis. m. Encycl. 2. p. 588.

Misnsxrs beenbneed “enoncoh folio. Plum. Gen. 16.

Mart. Cent. 39. ¢. 39. : .

Canna indica radice alba alexipharmaca. Sloane Hist. 1.

p. 253. t. 149. nil preter folium. Raj. Hist. 3. p. 573.

Canna indica, angustifolia pdtculi longis ad imum folium

nodo singulari geniculato. Pluk. Alm. 79.

__ The genus Maranra belongs to the natural order of

Cannee of Brown, as distinguished from the Scitaminee.

The present species is a plant of considerable interest,

the elegant article of diet, sold under the name of Indian

Arrowroot, being prepared from its roots, not, as has been

_ Said, by drying and pounding, but by maceration in water

in the same manner as starch is made, from wheat, potatoes

and other farinaceous substances. Great quantities of this

starch have of late years been imported into this ony

from the West-Indies, and rhuch recommended as food for

young children, and as a li¢ht nourishment in sickness.

A similar. substance,’ probably in-every ‘respect of equal

efficacy, and not less salubrious, has of late years been

= in considerablé quantities, in the isle of Portland,

m the roots of the | common | Cuckow-pint (Arum macu-

latum ). Se ae Ap lactciecahekolsk

Native: of tropical South Deine: and cultivated in

all the West-India islands. ,.With us must be kept in the

stove, where it produces its very fugitive blossoms in July

and August. Introduced by Dr. Wit1am Houston before

1732. Communicated by the Hon and Rev. Witu1aM

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AZALEA HYBRIDA ENNEANDRA. Hysrip ©

«os RHODODENDRON-LIKE AZALBA.

Jeieieeioaiestak

res 495 and Order.

Pentranpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character. ;

Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. infundibuliformis aut campanulata,

5-fida, inaequalis. Stam. 5, sub pistillo inserta. Caps. 5-lo-.

cularis. Jussieu. ins 9 tied

Specific Character and Synonym.

Azaea hybrida, enneandra ; floribus racemosis sub decan-

dris, foliis perennantibus.

Ruopopenpron hybridum, enneandron. Herbert in Trans.

Forticult. Soc. v. 3.

For a specimen of this charming fragrant shrub we are

indebted to the Hon. and Rev. Wit1t1am Hereert, who

States that it was raised from seeds of a white-flowered

Azar accidentally fecundated by the pollen of a Ruopo-

DENDRON ponticum which stood near it. ich is the more

probable as the American Azaleas, Mr. Herserrt observes,

rarely produce seed with us, from the want of pollen. It is

a low shrub, with many slender weak branches, produces

abundance of flowers during the summer months, which are

aie fragrant. Leaves evergreen, a little variegated with

yellow. Ruopopenpron hybridum glaucum of Mr. Hersert

figured in the Botanical Register No. 193, the product of

an Aza.ea fecundated by the pollen of RuopopEenpron

maximum, differs from our plant in eating ee leaves,

and an erect, more arborescent stem. e have received

Specimens under the name of Rhod. azaleoides, supposed

to be mule products of Azatea and a from

Messrs. Loppicrs and Sons, Messrs. CHANDLER and Buckx-

incHAM, and from Mr. Txompson of Mile-End. The latter

nurseryman has four varieties, all raised from seeds of an

Azatea, one of which is very fragrant. |

Though these mules have generally gone by the name of

Ruopopenpra because they have more than five, generally

ten, stamens, yet we cannot. think it right to change the

generic name from that of the mother plant ; of which it is

possible, though perhaps not probable, that it may be a

mere seminal variety, when we consider the long list of

varieties, all supposed to owe their origin to AZALEA nu-

diflora ; some of which scarcely differ less from one another

than our plant from some of them. The two genera

indeed, though widely separated in the artificial system of

Linneus, on account of the difference in the number of

their stamens, are apparently one in nature.

- This is a hardy evergreen shrub, well worthy of cultiva-

tion, both on account of its beauty and fragrance. )

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( 2309 )

CERBERA THEVETIA. LINEAR-LEAVED

CERBERA.

KKK KEKE EK EK EKEEKEK

Class and Order. |

Pentranpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Contorta. Drupa monosperma.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cersera Thevetia ; foliis linearibus longissimis confertis.

Sp. Pl. 304. Willd. 1. 1223. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2.

p. 66. Jacg. Amer. 48. t 34. Swartz obs. 102.

Cerzera Thevetia ; foliis linearibus longissimis confertis,

floribus subsolitariis axillaribus elongatis. Poirét En-

cycl. suppl. 1. p. 261.

Anovai Nerii folio, flore luteo. Plum. Cat. Pl. Amer. p.

20. ic. 18. |

Piumeri arborescens, foliis lanceolatis, floribus fauce

ampliatis subcampanulatis. Brown Jam. 181.

Nerio aflinis angustifolia lactescens, flore luteo. Pluk.

Alm. 263. t. 207. f. 3. 7

Anoay-mirni. Piso. Bras. p. 308.

‘Yecortr. Hernand. Mex. 443.

Crersera Thevetia is a native of the West Indies, where

it is said to grow into a handsome tree, from twelve to

fifteen feet in Selecht the branches are rounded and flexile,

abounding in every part with a milky acrid juice, supposed

to be of a very poisonous quality. In our stoves it forms

a handsome shrub; but we believe seldom blossoms, as its

time of flowering is not noted in the Hortus Kewensis,

nor in Sweer’s Catalogue ; indeed it is far from common,

and is rare even in its native country.

Communicated last October by Messrs. Wuittey, Brame,

and Mite. :

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RupBECKIA PINNATA. FRAGRANT PINNATED

RupBECKIA.

ERIE EERE KEE

Class and Order.

SyncGenesiA Potyeamia FRustaneA.

Generic Character.

_ Recept. paleaceum, conicum. Pappus margine 4-dentato.

Calyx duplici ordine squamarum. |

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Rupseckia pinnata; foliis omnibus pinnatis: pinna una

alterave inferiorum bipartita, reliquis indivisis, pappo

integerrimo, caule sulcato hispido. Schrad. neu. journ.

2. p.61. Willd. Enum. p. 921. Pursh. Fi. am. Sept.

<a Dp. OS,

Rupseckia pinnata; foliis radicalibus pinnatis; caulinis

lobatis : summis indivisis, flosculis atro-purpureis, re-

ceptaculo elongato, seminibus nudis. ort. Kew. ed.

alt. 5. p. 130. Vent. cels. 71.

Rupseckia pinnata; caule anguloso ores foliis laci-

niato-pinnatis ; segmentis lanceolatis: disco oblongi-

uscule ovoideo; corollulis dentatis. Michaux Flor.

am. bor. 2. p. 144. : .

Rupseckta pinnata; foliis scabris ; inferioribus compositis ;

superioribus trifidis-quinquefidisve ; summis indivisis.

Smith. Exot. Bot. p. 73. t. 38. ex anglico versa.

Aconrrum Helianthemum Canadense. Cornuti Canad. p.

178. ¢. 179. 7

CurysaNTHEMUM americanum _ foliis magis dissectis.

Moris. Hist. 3. §. 6. t. 6. f. 54. °

Rupsecxia odorata. Hortulanis.

_ Thesynonymy of Rupsecxta laciniata, digita, and pinnata

18 So confused as to be altogether inextricable ; and it is

very difficult to distinguish satisfactorily the different oa ;

| cies

cies. According to Scuraprr’s definitions our plant, if it

be one of the three, must certainly be pinnata ; being the

only one that has a sulcate hispid stalk, that of both the.

others being smooth. Pursa and Wit.penow in his species

plantarum, both refer to Morison’s fig. 53 for laciniata,

and to fig. 54 for digitata, yet the latter is a mere copy of

Cornvtr’s figure referred to by both authors for laciniata.

Wittpenow in his Enumeratio refers to his former character

of digitata as a synonym of pinnata, excluding the synonyms

of Arron and Morison, the latter of which we are inclined

to consider as a synonym of our plant, though the same as

Cornutr’s figure referred in the Hortus Kewensis to laciniata.

Native of North America. Communicated by Mr. Sauis-

BurY from the Botanic garden at Brompton, in August

1815. It is a hardy perennial ; propagated by its creeping

roots. Introduced from the Madrid garden about the year

1803 by Lady Ameuia Hume. 3

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Rota aneustironia. Narrow-.eavep Rus.

KEE EEE EKER EE REKE KER

Class and Order.

Decanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5—A-partitus. Petala concava. Reeept. punctis

melliferis 10 vel 8 cinctum.

Ruta angustifolia; foliis supradecompositis: foliolis lineari-

ellipticis subequalibus, petalis ciliatis, capsule lobis _

acuminatis conniventibus.

_ Rura angustifolia ; foliis supradecompositis: lobis oblongo-

cuneatis subequalibus, petalis ciliatis. De Cand. Cat,

Hort. Monspel. p. 140.

Ruta angustifolia ; foliis inciso-pinnatifidis: laciniis lineari

cuneatis, floribus corymboso-patulis, petalis ciliatis.

Persoon Syn. 1. p. 464.

Ruta chalepensis, @. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 35. De

Cand. Fl. frang. 4. p. 733. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 544.

Ruta chalepensis tenuifolia, florum petalis villis scatenti-

bus. Moris. Hist. 2. p. 508: §. 5. t. 35. f. 8.

We think with Persoon and De Canpouze that the broad-

leaved Ruta chalepensis is quite a distinct species from our

plant, we have therefore not hesitated in adopting their

name. At No. 2018 of this work we have given a figure ofa

species of Ruta under the name of macrophylla, which may

ap be the broad-leaved variety of Ruta c sis.

e believe that the connivent acute points of the lobes

of the calyx will distinguish this, not only from that species, —

but also from officinalis, of which our plant has also been

deemed a variety. :

It is a tolerably hardy shrub; native of the stony soil of

most parts of the South of France, and ‘slasarges F of the

coast of Barbary. We have recéived specimens of it, from

Malta, but whether of spontaneous growl or not we are

uncertain.

Communicated by N. S, Hopson, Esq. from the Botanic

Garden, Bury St. Edmunds.

N23

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April.ssb22,

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SISYRINCHIUM LAXuM. LOooSsE-FLOWERED

SisYRINCHIUM.

KEKE KERR EEE EERE

Class and Order.

Monapetpuia TRIANDRIA.

Generic Character.

Spatha diphylla. Cal.0. Petala 6, subequalia, plana.

Filamenta ommino connata. Stylus 1. Caps. 3-locularis,

infera.

Specifie Character.

Sisyrincuium laxum; caule ramoso, foliis ensiformibus,

spatha subequali triflora, petalis planis striatis ro-

tundato-ovatis cum acumine parvo. |

This new species of Sisyrincuium was introduced into

the Chelsea garden in 1820, by Mr. Orro, Curator of the

Berlin Botanical garden, under the name which we have

adopted. Besides having white streaked flowers instead

of yellow, this plant differs entirely from the figure of

Sisyryncnium convolutum, in the Hortus Berolinensis,

though the specific character given of that plant in

WIiLLpENow’s enumeratio applies to it pretty well.

Communicated by Mr. Anperson of the Chelsea garden,

who has treated it as an alpine, and it has survived the

last winter exposed to the open air.

Native country unknown. Flowers in June.

Nem3,

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( 2313 )

SISYRINCHIUM TENUIFOLIUM. NARROw-

LEAVED SISYRINCHIUM.

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Class and Order.

Monapepuia T'RIANDRIA. -

Generic Character.

Spatha diphylla. Cal. 0. Petala 6, subequalia, plana.

Filamenta omnino connata. Stylus 1. Caps. 3-locularis,

infera.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

SisyRINCHIUM tenuifolinm ; on ancipiti adscendente foli-

oso, spatha triflora, capsulis hirtis, foliis lineari-filifor-

mibus. Willd. Enum. 691.

Marica tenuifolia. Ker, in Journ. of Sci. and Arts. v. 1.

p. ITA.

For other synonyms and description, consult No. 2117 .

The prior publication of this species at the above number

in vol. 47, had entirely escaj our memory, and the

mistake was not discovered till the plates of the present

number were completely worked off and coloured. _

Our present Ifigure was drawn earlier in the morning at

the time the flower was fully expanded, before the petals

were reflexed, as happens in a few hours after. Communi-

cated by Mr. Anperson from the Apothecaries garden at

Chelsea in July 1821.

Pub. by S. Curt, ;

by furtic Walworth: Ameil.2 2822 . Wedddt fc.

Mesprwus oporaTissima. SwEET-sceNTED

SH RWEBOBM chiewoed enicnaio

Class and Order.

TcosaNnDRIA PENTAGYNIA.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus. Petala 5. Bacca infera 5-sperma.

Specific Character and Synonyms. d

Mesritus odoratissima ; foliis trapeziformibus utrinque

ae pimnatifidis: laciniis imciso-dentatis :

ntibus integerrimis. ae

Mespitus odoratissima; foliis utrinque pubescentibus pin-

natifidis: laciniis incisis. Bot. Repos. 590. .

Cratazeus orientalis ; foliis subtrifidis inciso-serratis hirsutis,

floribus pentagynis, calycinis segmentis acutiusculis

reflexis hirsutis. Flor. taur. cauc. 1. p. 387. et. 3.

p. 322.

Cratzeus orientalis. Pall. Ind. taur.

Mespinus orientalis. Habl. taur.

AzaroLt species ramis spinescentibus, foliis utrinque albido-

oe fructibus rubris. Tourn. itin. ed. gallic. 2.

p. 172. |

The number of styles by which Linnzus distinguished

Cratzeus, Sorsus, Mesritus, and Pyrus, being found quite

too uncertain for the purpose, Sir James E. Smit has ex-

cluded the two former and referred the species to one or

other of the two latter according to their fruit. =

But Mr. Linpxey in a paper lately published in the 13th

volume of the Transactions of the | pees ean So i , has

restored the genus Cratacus, finding characters i -

dent of the styles, sufficient to establish what appears to be

a very-natural genus. If the génus Crarzeus be retained,

our plant should certainly rank under it, but as the nearly

allied, species; Mrsprius ,tanacetifolia, is; arranged ; amdér

Mespitus in the Hortus Kewensis, an unwillingness for

changing backwards and ‘forwards restrains us, for the

present, from making any alteration. |

From having compared.our. plant with.Pazuas’s specimen

of Cratzeus orientalis preserved in the Lambertian Herba-

rium, we have no doubt oftheir being of the same species,

though the Taurian plant has a much longer and thicker

pubescence ; but Marscuaun y.. Bieserstern’s character

does not altogether accord with it, and leaves some doubt

whether he has not described the tanacetifolia ; which is

distinguished from our plant, besides the difference of their

fruit, by the segments of the leaves being minutely serrate,

which in odoratissima are only cut into a few larger quite

entire teeth.

A hardy tree... Flowers.in June. . Native of Southern

Tauria on the borders of the Euxine sea. Communicated

by Joun Watxer, Esq. of Arno’s grove.

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HIPPEASTRUM SPATHACEUM, HYBRIDUM. |

LONG-sPATHED, HYBRID KNIGHT’ S-STAR-LILY.

seoseoboboeosseaeaeaeakakakaeae

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.—Vide No. 2273.

_ Specific Character.

Hirrgastrum spathaceum ; spatha erecta persistente pluri-

_ flora, scapo foliis bis longiore, pedicellis cernuis corolle

__ Jacinia ima angustissima, fauce nuda. Bee Pass

eee ee 3 4 ’ Soe53 ©

‘Descr. Leaves 3, lingulate, widening towards the up-

per extremity, rather obtuse, streaked, recurved, shining

green, six inches long and nearly an inch wide at the

broadest part. Scape twice the length of the leaves,

rounded, mealy white. Spathe two-valved, erect, lanceo-

late, three inches long, green, persistent. The corolla

very like that of rutilum, the lower lacinia twice narrower

than the others, star whitish green, faux not at all bearded

as in Mr. Hergerr’s splendens. The stigmas of both the

flowers that were expanded when the drawing was taken

were remarkable in having one of the segments much

longer than the other two.

We received this very handsome flower from Mr. Joseru

Kwyienr of the Exotic Nursery in the King’s-Road.

From the similarity it bears to rutilum (Amary.us rutila

Bot. Reg. 23.) we suspected it might be a seminal variety

of that species, or perhaps a mule production betwixt that .

and equestre, from the resemblance of the spathe to that of

the latter. But we are informed by Mr. Knieur that he

received the bulb from Mr. Epwarp Bearparx, gardener

to Grorce Joun Lecu, Esq. of High Legh in Cheshire,

who has paid particular attention to the cultivation of the

: Amaryllis

Amaryllis tribe. A letter lately received from him by Mr.

Knieur, states “ that in 1814, he impregnated Amary.its

vittata with the pollen of A. Regine ; the seed produced

was sown éarly in 1815, and part of the offspring flowered

in 1818. The early flowers were most of them stripped

of their stamens, and impregnated with the pollen of Ama-

ryllis formosissima, and the seed obtained was sown part

in 1818, and part in 1819; the product of some of the

former blossomed in 1821, and afforded flowers variously

striped with red, pink, purple and white, and one different

from the rest, bearing its ee erect, and blooming one

at a time in succession.” The letter does not state’ to

which of these Mr. Knieut’s bulb belonged. And we can

hardly regard it as in any degree the product of AmaryLLis

formosissuna.

These hybrid productions, so much in vogue at present,

are certainly capable of affording pleasing varieties to the

florist, but to the botanist they create a great deal of con-

fusion and uncertainty. It must be allowed, however, that

valuable physiological discoveries may be made by such

enquiries ; but to obtain satisfactory results, these expe-

riments should be made with much greater accuracy than

they gery *s have been. Not only should the

species which the pollen is supplied be care re-

corded, but care dele be taken sg the reaity

of the access of other pollen; and seeds of the mother

plant, from which all foreign impregnation has been care-

fully guarded against, should be sown at the same time

that the mere seminal varieties may be compared with the

hybrid productions.

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(. 2316)

CaNNA GIGANTEA. TauL CANNA.

KERR EEE KEK KK RE

a Cae ted Order:

Monanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Anthera simplex, filamenti margini adnata. Stylus crassus,

claviformis. Stigma obtusum. Caps. 3-locularis. Sem.

globosa, numerosa.

Specific. Character and Synonyms.

Canna gigantea; laciniis corolle internis tribus diffluen-

tibus, tubo curvo, filamento revoluto infra medium

antherifero, labello angustiore citius marcescente.

Canna gigantea; limbo interiore semicirculari-4-radiato

reflexo-patente, lacinia ima dextrorsum obliquata in-

zquilobo-retusa ; filamento longe ultra antheram pro-

ducto recurvatoque. Bot. Reg. 206.

Canna gigantea. Redouté liliac. 331.

Descr. Stem from three to six feet high, bearing scarlet

flowers, on short peduncles generally growing by pairs.

Calycine leaflets imbricate, sphacelated at the point. Ex-

terior lacinie of the corolla scarlet ; interior ones three, the

same colour, flowing about without order: claws united into

a tube an inch long and curved. Filament fully as long and

broad as any of the lacinia, at first recurved, afterwards

revolute, bearing the anther below its middle. Labellum,

or lower lip of the nectary, like the other lacinie, but

somewhat narrower and sooner withering. Style after ex-

pansion longer and more petal-formed in most of the

species. Before expansion the anther, as in the other

species, is longer than the filament and has a deep groove

down the middle. Style of the same length with a poe

| en

ened extremity extending some way down one edge, the

true stigma, which at the first opening of the flowers is

covered with the pollen. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, very

large, from six inches to a foot and half, or two feet long.

Sur drawing was made by the late Mr. Sypennam Ep-

warps, in January 1812, from a plant that flowered in the

stove at Messrs. Wuittey, Brame, and Mine.

( 2317 )

Canna speciosa. Napaut Canna; QuEMATEE

Of the Nawars.

Class and Order.

MonanpriA Monoeynia.

Generic Character. —Vide No. 2316.

Specific Character.

Canna speciosa; floribus sessilibus geminatis, laciniis co-

rollz interioribus erectis tantum duabus emarginatis,

labello maculato revoluto.

We received the drawing of this plant from the Hon.

and Rev. Wiiut1am Herpert, of Spofforth, in December

1819. It flowered the preceding Septsanber in the open

border, in front of the stove, but did not produce ripe

seeds, as Canna indica will do in the same situation.

It is remarkable from the corolla having only two erect

interior laciniz instead of three, which is the usual number.

These are acute with the point cleft into two unequal

teeth ; are nearly double the length of the exterior Jaciniz,

and narrowed into a long claw. The above particu-

- larity induced Mr. Hergerr to give it the name of bifida,

‘but he informs us that Mr. Roscoe has called it speciosa,

some other species having only two erect internal lacinie ;

as is the case sometimes with lutea (No. 2085), though

other flowers of this species have an intermediate shorter

— eae — which will Scent for our description

an re of that species not exactly corresponding.

The leaves, Mr. Yisseuie pr ele are ono pro-

—. to their length and Jess acute than those of indica

a a. = ;

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PLECTRANTHUS COMOSUsS. TUFTED:

PLECTRANTHUS. :

KEREEREEREERERE EEE

Class and Order.

DipynamiA GYMNOSPERMIA.

Generic Character.

Cal. 2-labiatus, labio inferiore diviso, striatus: fructifer

basi subtus gibbosus. Cor. labiwmn superius 3-fidum, lacinia

media biloba: inferius longius, integrum (plerumque con-

cavum). Stamina declinata, filamentis edentulis (nunc basi

connatis): antheris unilocularibus, imberbibus. Brown.

Specific Character.

PLecrrantuus comosus ; floribus verticillatis sessilibus, ca-

lycis labio inferiore quadripartito, bracteis cordatis

acuminatis caducis. ’

—

Descr. Stem square, obtuse-angled. Leaves ovate-ob-

long, crenate, covered with white adpressed hairs on the

upper surface and tomentose on the under. Flowers in ter-

minal, verticillate spikes, before expansion almost concealed

by large cordate, concave, acuminate bractes, which fall off

as the flowers open and leave the whorls naked. Calyx

hairy, ewo-Tiaioel lower lip divided into four equal seg-

ments. Corolla two-lipped: upper-lip short emarginate

with two furrows: lower contracted above the gibbous

tube, then expanded, boat-shaped, hairy on the outside.

le exserted : stamens incl : anthers violet coloured,

with orange-coloured pollen. eee ae

We believe this to be hitherto an undescribed species of

Plectranthus ; raised from seeds supposed to be from Na-

paul, at the Fulham Nursery, by Messrs. Wurriey, Brame

and Mitne. We find a specimen very much like it, without

the bractes, in our friend Mr. Lampert’s herbarium, from

the Mysore, collected by Francis Hamizron, M. D. late

Bucnanan. | ate

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Arputus UNEpo., vAR. 3. INTEGERRIMA,

KERRIER

Class and Order.

Decanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. ovata: ore 5-fido; basi ucida,

Bacca 5-locularis. oe

Specific Character and Synonyms.

ARBUTUS te or yarn. ag in 2g acer

tis, paniculis ris nutantibus, i yspermis.

Hort. Kew. Pe alt. 3. p. 56. oe

Arsutus Unedo ; caule arboreo, foliis glabris obtuse serratis,

icula terminali, baccis pol rmis. Lan. é

. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 616. Smith. Fl. Brit. p,

AA2. Engl. Bot. f. 2377.

Arsutus folio serrato. Bauh. Pin. 460. Mill. ic. 48.

Arsutus Cam. Epit. 168. Ger. Emac. 1496. |

Arsutus Camarus Theophrasti. Bauh. Hist. 1. p. 83.

(a.) flore simplici, corollis albidis.

(8.) flore simplici, corollis rubicundis,

(y-) flore pleno. .

(é.) foliis mtegerrimis.

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The Argurtus integrifolia of Lamarcg, is probably a va-

riety of Arsurus Andrachne. That our plant, specimens

of which we received from our friend Joun Waker, Esq.

is a mere variety of A. Unedo, we are conyinced, having

received exactly similar specimens from Messrs. LoppipeEs

and Sons, which’ they assured us were raised by them from

seeds of A. Unedo. Asa shrub it appears to be less orna-

mental than the common sort, from which it differs not

only in the ws of the leaves being quite entire, but

also in the branches being smooth. ae

_Is perfectly hardy. Flowers from October to January,

Pudi ty. S Surbis. Wa hee vt}, May. 22892.

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SALVIA BRACTEATA. [LONG-BRACTED

Sace or Cuary. |

Class and Order.

Dianpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

. Cor. inatqualis. Filamenta transverse pedicello affixa.

Sanvia bracteata; bracteis concavis aristatis flore longio-

ribus coloratis ; summis sterilibus, galea rage emar-

ginata, foliis ovatis rugosis

——s A —

Desc. right, ri id, square with rounded angles,

branched, — with ucid Leaves ovate-acu-

minate, crenate-sinuate: uppermost ones entire. Flowers

in distant, about six-flowered whorls; each whorl su

by two ovate-acuminate, concave, streaked bractes, longer

than the flowers, greenish at the base, rose-coloured =

wards the apex which terminates in a filiform awn.

5-toothed : teeth awned, not pungent while fresh, bilabiately

arranged : intermediate tooth of the upper-lip almost wd

solete. Corolla ringent : upper-lip falcate, emarginate, con-

cave, of a bright violet colour, hairy and studded with

pellucid dots: Jlower-lip 3-lobed; middle lobe round,

emarginate, white but soon brown ; lateral lobes

pale violet, Stamens ce club-shaped at

the lower extremity, and thence tapering in a semicircular

curve to a point, bearing a violet coloured anther, with

white pollen; this filament is fixed by a moveable joint

near the broad extremity to a short upright wees Style

exserteds lower segment of the stigma shorter by half

than the upper. -

A hardy perennial ; raise’ from) seeds received from

Russia in the garden of Mr. Kent at Clapton, where it

flowered im, July. 1820, and has ‘survived theytwo® last

winters in the open border. It is a remarkable fine plant

from the large rose: édlduted Bfactés aid blue and white

flowers, yet as far as we have been able to extend our

researches, appears:to.us.to be undeseribed... t.approaches

however to Savia Selarea, in the figure of which in the

Flora greca, the bractes are slightly tinged at the margins

with the same colour.’ But otir plant differs in having the

bractes, and teeth of the calyx more elongated ; the upper-

lip of the corolla narrower, longér! aid ‘of a violet instead

of pink colour ; in the filament being more curved, which

in Sclarea is only turned-upeat ‘the pomt.

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ASTER ALWARTENSIS. FINE-RAYED

STAR-WORT.

KEKE K KEKE EEEK EE

Class and Order. —

Syncenesta Potycamia SuPERFLUA. __

Generic Character.

‘Recept. nudum. Pappus simplex. Cor. radii plures 10.

Calycis imbricati squame inferiores patule. —

Spee : fie Character and Synony ym.

ASTER alwartensis; foliis ovatis basi angustatis integerrimis

_ subquinquenerviis, calyce laxo squarroso, radio multi-

floro tenuissimo. pie x

Aster alwartensis. Lodd. Catal. 1807.

This very shewy dwarf Aster, was raised by Messrs.

Loppices and Sons, from seeds sent them by Prof. Srrruan

of Moscow, from Caucasus, under the name which we have

adopted, before the year 1807; as it occurs in the cata-

logue of their garden of ie But it appears to have

been soon lost, being omitted in their next edition, pub-

lished in 1809. , fe

upra No. 199);

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ERIcA ANDROMEDAFLORA, 6. TRIUMPHANS.

Bioop-seotteD Waite ANDROMEDA-

FLOWERED HEATH. _

Se Si oi, Si SG Ss Ss SI cs Sc, Sc, Sas

Class and Order. )

Ocranpria 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. eee

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Secr. IV. “Catvemm. A. Cristate.

Erica andromedeflora; bracteis a calyce remotis, foliis

patentissimis internodiis multoties longioribus viridi-

bus. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 386. Bot. Mag. 1250.

Andrews Heaths, vol. 3.

(B.) floribus albis maculis sanguineis notatis, corolle limbo —

arctiore.

Erica triumphans. Lee.

ee TAY 3

Though a stouter pee, larger in all its parts than An-

dromedeflora, as the latter usually occurs, yet we cannot

find any characters sufficient to distinguish it as a species,

we are therefore constrained to consider this fine Heath as

only a variety. 1977 <2

Descr. A low shrub, with brown bark, tuberculated by

the ligneous remains of the petioles, or rather buttress-like

stipules to which the petiole is attached. Leaves ternate,

patent, several times longer than the interstices, channelled

on the under side, mucronate, when young ciliated at _

sides.

sides. Peduncles axillary, cernuous, white, with two red

tipped bractes, remote from the calyx. Calycine leaflets

four, oval, concave, mucronulate, concealing the greater

rt of the corolla; white, stained here and there with

right blood-red blotches without fixed form or order,

which however entirely disappear with age. Tube of the

corolla globular with four obtuse angles, diaphanous : limb

four-cleft : lacinie erect, connivent, truncate, white. Anthers

black, crested, included. Germen octagonal, seated on a

fleshy receptacle. Style nearly equalling the limb of the

corolla.

This beautiful Heath was communicated in March last

by Mr. Lee from his very magnificent collection at Ham-

mersmith, where it is known by the name of Erica triwm-

phans.

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( 2323 )

CANNA PEDUNCULATA. Pepunciep CANNA.

KKK KEE EERE KEKE KEEK

Class and Order.

Monanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Anthera simplex, filamenti margini adnata. Stylus cras-

sus, Claviformis. Stigma obtusum. Caps. 3-locularis. Sem:

globosa, numerosa.

Specific Character.

Canna pedunculata ; laciniis externis reflexis; internis

erectis tribus, foliis lanceolatis utrinque angustatis,

floribus pedunculatis.

The Canna pedunculata is a tall, branched species, re-

markable for its narrow sharp-pointed leaves; and, more

especially, for the reflexed outer laciniz of the corolla,

which parts in most of the species are quite erect. The

peduncles too, though, in our individual, not very long,

yet exceed those of the more common kinds. :

We were favoured with the specimen from which our

drawing was taken by Messrs. Loppices and Sons; who

had they plant, under the name which we have adopted,

from Mr. Roscoz the celebrated author of a new arrange-

ment of the Scrramine#, the further illustration of which,

is anxiously expected from the same intelligent source.

It flowered in the stove at Hackney in March.

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- ARUM TRILOBATUM, 8. AURICULATUM.

* AuRICULATED THREE-LOBED AruM.

Class and Order.

Monaecia Poxryanpria.

Generic Character.

Spatha monophylla, cucullata. Spadix supra nudus, in-

ferne femineus, medio stamineus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

** Acaulia, foliis simplicibus.

Arum trilobatum ; foliis sagittato-trilobis, spadice elongato

subulato. .

Arum étrilobatum ; acaule, foliis sagittato-trilobis, fiore

sessili. Sp. Pl. 1360. Willd. 4. p.483. Hort. Kew.

ed. alt. 5. p. 308.

Arum trilobaium ; acaule, foliis cordatis: aliis superne in-

tegris, aliis trilobatis ; spadice longo subulato. Lam.

Fincycel. 3. p. 10. :

Arvo trilobato folio humilius et minus Zeylanicum. Herm.

Parad. p. 78. t. 78. .

Arum humile Zeylanicum latifolium, pistillo coccineo.

Commel. Hort. 1. p. 97. t. 51? |

Arum Ceylanicum humile latifolium pistillo purpureo.

Mill. Icon 1. p. 35. t. 52. 7.2.

Arisarum amboinicum. Rumph. Amb. 5. p. 320. t. 110.

Panvuata Zeylanensium. |

(a.) foliis planis, flore sessili. Bot. Mag. 339.

(8.) foliis basi cucullato-auriculatis, flore pedunculato. —

We received this plant in March last, from Mr. Brake,

age to the late James Vere, Esq. under the name of —

% of

M auriculaium, but it is undoubtedly only a variety —

of Arum trilobatum; the leaves of which species, as

M. Lamarck has observed vary exceedingly in form.

The Arum trilobatum is a native of Ceylon, and Herman

observes that the inhabitants eat the roots, when deprived

of their acrimony by boiling or drying them in the sun.

Putuir Miter received the roots from Ceylon in 1752,

which flowered at Chelsea the two ‘following years; but

we are told in the Hortus Kewensis from the authority of

the philosophical transactions, that this plant was cultivated

by Mr. Tuomas Farrcutxp before the year 1714.

It requires to be kept in the stove.

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VALERIANA RUTHENICA. ALTAIC VALERIAN.

REE EEK EEE EKER

Class and Order.

Trianpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 0. Cor, 1-petala, basi hine gibba, supera. Sem, I.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Vateriana ruthenica ; floribus tetrandris, foliis ovatis car-

nosis i-—n te seminibus palez ovali adna-

tis. alld. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 181.

Vaveriana sibirica. Lin. Sp. Pl. 48. non Willdenovii.

~ Vaerzana lutea humilis. Amman. Ruth. 18. n. 25. t. 3.

Fepia sibirica ; foliis subcarnosis, caulinis pinnatifidis, la-

ciniis integerrimis obtusis subuniformibus caule bifa-

riam piloso. Vahl. Enum. 2. p. 22.

Fepia sibirica. Gertn. fruct. 2. p. 37. t. 86. f. 3.

Fep1a ruthenica. Sweet Hort. suburb. p. 8.

Parrinia sibirica ; foliis subcarnosis pinnatifidis ; laciniis

integerrimis obtusis subreniformibus, caule bifariam

piloso, floribus corymbosis. Dufrésne Valer. p. 54.

Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. v. 3. p. 89.

Parrinia coronata. Fischer Hort. Gorenki. 43.

In Jussiev’s Genera Plantarum, the genus VALERIANA is

considered as making a section of Dipsacee, but afterwards

in the Annales du Muséum, he confirmed the propriety of

separating the Valerianee as a distinct family, and in con-

sequence has divided the Linnean genus Vateriana into

several, either by adopting in part the genera which had

been separated before or establishing new ones. Among the

latter he proposed the genus Parrinia to which both our

present Mea and the one figured above (No. 714,) under

the name of VaLeriana sibirica, belong. It seems generally

agreed

agreed that Wittpenow mistook the species which Linnzus

designated by the name of Sibirica, which properly belongs

to our present plant, but haying before retained: that of

Wittpenow, which is also adopted in the Horrus Kewensts,

we think it least likely to occasion confusion still to adopt

his name, leaving the correction to our synonyms. Our

VaLertana sibirica (No. 714,) is Parrinta rupertris of

Roemer and Scuutrres, Fepra rupestris of Vani. At the

time of publishing our Vaterrana sibirica we observed that

the Varertana ruthenica possess the fragrance of Jasmine,

but it is not altogether without a slight admixture of the

odour of officimal Valerian.

Native of the Altaic mountains, which form the southern

boundaries of Siberia: Flowers in June and July.

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Iris BRACHYCUSPIS. PoIsoNoUs-ROOTED IRIs.

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Class and Order.

TrianpriA Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cor. 6-partita: laciniis alternis reflexis. Stigmata peta-

liformia.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Iris brachycuspis ; imberbis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis lon-

gissimis, laciniis corolla interioribus brevissimis, stig-

matibus spiraliter revolutis.

Iris brachycuspis. Fischer Mser.

The interior upright lacinie of the corolla are in this

species so remarkably short, as to be — altogether

‘concealed from view by the external.

We are informed by our friend Dr. Frectras, who lately

paid a visit to this country, that it is a native of the north-

eastern part of Siberia, near Ochtosk, on the Lena river,

from whence the seeds were brought to the Gorenki gar-

den, by Professor Apams, and distributed seer by Dr.

Fiscuer to several parts of Europe.

The roots are said to be poisonous.

Communicated by Messrs. Wurrtey, Brame, and Mitye,

from the Fulham nursery, in July 1819.

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Generic Character.

Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. fauce campanulata: limbo bila-

biato. Filamentum quintum sterile, longius, barbatum:.

Caps. ovata, bilocularis, bivalvis: dissepimento contrario,

valvis planiusculis adnato. Semina alata. O85

- Arbores. Folia opposita, abrupte-rariusve impari-pinnata,

pinnis impari-pinnatis. Flores paniculati, violacet. Calyx

sepius cyathiformis, nune brevé campanulatus vel subcylin-

drieus dentibus obsoletis.. Corolle estivatio imbricata, labio

superiore breviore bilobo equitante inferius, cujus lobus me-

dius major, indivisus, lateralibus tectus. Stamina antherifera

inelusa: Anthere sepius dimidiate, cum rudimento nano

obi aliertus : nunc complete loculis equalibus divaricatis

apice solum connexis. Brown Mscr. Wi 2d

Jacaranna. Juss, Gen. 138.

Specific Character.

Jacaranpa ovalifolia; antheris dimidiatis, corollis extus

sericeis, foliolis pubescentibus; lateralibus ovalibus

cum mucrone ; terminalilanceolato. Brown Mscr, ~

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-« Jacaranva ovalifolia is very nearly related both to

J. acutifolia and J. obtusifolia of Humsotpt and BonPLAnn

(Plant. equinort. tab. 17 and 18,) between which it ie er

placed. J. acutifolia differs from it chiefly in all the leaflets

being lanceolate, and in having a smaller number of pinhe.

E. obtuszfolia is still more distinct in its leaflets entirely

wanting the mucro, which is both obvious and constant in

our plant, and in having a smooth corolla. J. bahamensis

Nob. (J. caroliniana Persoon; Bienonta cerulea. Lin.) of

which there is in the Banksian Herbarium a single imper-

fect specimen that may be supposed to be authentic, and

J. rhombifolia of Mryer (Flor. Essequeb. 213.) which is

probably

probably not different from the plant found by the late

Dr. Axperson of St. Vincent on the banks of the Esseque-

bo, and cultivated in some of the gardens under his name

of Bienonta filicifolia, are easily distinguished from the

three species already mentioned, by their rhomboidal leaf-

lets, and from each other by differences in the surface of

corolla, which is silky in 1. bahamensis and smooth in J.

rhombifolia. |

I. procera Nob. (Bignonta Copaia. Aublet, B. procera

Willd.) is sufficiently different from all the others in the.

much greater size of its leaflets.which are frequently up-

wards of. an inch in length; in the rachis of the pinne

not being winged ; and in the cylindrical calyx, of which

the teeth are extremely minute. : :

In. five of the above mentioned species, I have ascertained

that the anther are dimidiate, with a hardly visible rudi-

ment. of a second lobe ; a structure which M. Meyer (I. c.)

has expressed by.“ Anthere simplices,’ ‘and introduced into,

his character of the genus. But in an undescribed species

lately found in Brazil (J.tomentosa.Nob.) they are perfect,

consisting of two equal divaricate lobes, as in the greater

part of the natural order. This species differs indeed from

the rest of the genus in its leaves having constantly a ter-

minal pinna. It agrees with them, however, in all. the

“other characters of the flower, and entirely in the structure

of its fruit; it can therefore be regarded as forming only

a section of a strictly natural and well defined genus, still

_ depending on characters not materially different from those

_ proposed for it by M. pre Jussieu ; the only doubtful species

_ bemg the Jacaranpa 2, of Piso, from which the generic _

ne “was ‘auopted.” *Bwown. 2 3 S80 Suet ee

__ For the above elaborate account of the genus JAcARANDA

and its known species, which we doubt not will be highly

acceptable to the botanical world ; we are indebted to our

friend Mr. Rosert Brown. :

_ Our drawing was made in April last, from a fine plant

that flowered, probably for the first time in this country,

in the grand collection of the Counr pz Vannes, at Bayes-

water. Native of tropical South America, and requires to

be kept in. the stove.

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GNAPHALIUM CONGESTUM. COMPACT=- .

FLOWERING GNAPHALIUM.

Class and Order.

SYNGENESIA. PotyGAMIA SUPERFLUA.

Generic Character.

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

bricatus, squamis marginalibus rotundatis, scariosis, colo-

ratis. :

Specific Character and Synonyms.

_ GNAPHALIUM congesium; fruticosum, foliis lanceolatis sessi-

libus trinerviis supra nudis subtus lanuginoso-tomen-

tosis, corymbo coarctato-capitato. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3.

p. 1852.

GNAPHALIUM congestum; fruticosum? foliis lineari-lanceo-

latis superne rugoso-scabris subtus tomentosis, corymbo

glomerato simplici. Lam. Encycl. 2. p. TA. Bot.

Reg. 243.

GnapuHaium tricostatum,; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis tomen-

tosis trinervibus: margine revoluto, capitulis panicu-

latis, caule fruticoso erecto. Thunb. Prodr. 151?

Exicurysum capense Pedis Cati folio et facie. Pettv. Ga-

zoph. t. 82. f. 3. et 4? !

Descr. Stem shrubby, erect, covered with a white woolly

tomentum. Leaves linear-lanceolate, sessile, three-or-five-

nerved; on the upper side dark green, rugose; on the

under white, woolly; margins reflected. Flowers tor the

most part in a compact panicle; calycine scales white, —

tipped with bright red: florets yellow.

hough a straggling shrub, yet the brilliant colour of

the tips of the leaflets of the calyx has a Poe effect,

especially before these are fully expanded. Has been many

years

years an inhabitant of our greenhouses, but not recorded in

either edition of the Hortus Kewensis. Native of the Cape

of Good-Hope, and only requires to be protected from frost

and guarded against damps, which are particularly injuri-

ous to most woolly plants. Supposed to be introduced by

Mr. Francis Masson in 1791.

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ASPALATHUS CALLOSA. OVAL SPIKED

ASPALATHUS.

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Class and Order.

DiapeveuiA DecanpRiA.

Generic Character.

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

muticum, subdispermum.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Aspatatuus callosa ; foliis trinis subulatis equalibus, stipulis

subrotundis callosis, floribus spicatis glabris. Sp. Pl.

1002. Berg. Pl. Capens. 209.

Aspatatuus callosa; foliis ternis trigonis, spicis ovatis.

. Thunb. Prodr. 125. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 966.

Cytisus trifoliatus, juniperinis foliis, floribus luteis in spicam

densiorem adactis, Prom. bone spei. Pluk. Mant. 63.

t. 345. ff. 4.

This shrub has its specific name from the round, callous

stipules that grow at the base of the leaves and remain after

these fall off, giving the branches a warty appearance.

The leaves grow by threes, but are so much crowded to-

gether that they seem to be without order. The erect

position of the ale and carina with the curved extremities

of the former give the flower a very singular appearance.

Aspataruus callosa is not recorded in the Hortus Kewensis

and is very rarely met with in our collections. Native of

_ the Cape of Good-Hope and requires the protection of the

greenhouse. Flowers in August. Communicated several

years ago by Messrs. Loppices and Sons.

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TRADESCANTIA FUSCATA. STEMLESS

SPIDER-WortT.

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Class and Order.

HexanpriA Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 3-phyllus. Petala 3. Filamenta villis articulatis.

Caps. 3-locularis. Sem. papilla embryotega instructa.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

TRADESCANTIA "me ; acaulis, hispida, foliis oblongo-

ovatis multinerviis, scapis sub-trifloris.

Trapescantia fuscata. Lodd. Bot. Cab. 374. Bot. Reg.

A482. se

Trapescantia fuscata is at once distinguished from all

the known species by the difference in its habit ; the leaves

being all radical, and the flowers ae up immediately

from the roots, on leafless scapes generally about three in

succession on each.

It has its name from the brownish red hairs with which

the whole plant, except the corolla, is covered.

In Jussiev’s natural orders Trapescant1a is inserted with

the Juncee from which Mr. Brown has very advantageously

separated it, by establishing the natural order of Commelinee

(vide Prodr. Flore Nov. Holl. p- 268.)

This genus, as well as several others, it has been obser-

ved by Sir James E. Smiru, militates very strongly against

Jusstev’s theory, that no monocotyledonous plants can have

a corolla; and though his followers endeavour to get over

_ the objection, b ating what is most evidently a corolla

by the name of. interior laciniz of the calyx, yet, to our

apprehension, no plant has both a calyx and corolla more

decidedly distinct than all the species of ne

And it is only in compliance with an hypothesis that they

can be otherwise denominated.

Native of Brazil. Requires to be kept in the stove.

Introduced about three years since. The first account

we have of it is in the Botanical Cabinet of our friends

Messrs. Loppipees and Sons. It seems for the most part to

produce imperfect blossoms; for in the Cabinet the flower

is represented as large as that of the common Spider-wort,

and with nearly entire margins; but we have never been

fortunate enough to meet with it in so perfect a state.

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Iris Paciasit, 8. CHINENSIS. PALLAS’s

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Class and Order.

Trianpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cor. 6-partita: laciniis alternis reflexis. Stigmata peta-

liformia. ‘:

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Iris Pallasii; imberbis, foliis ensiformibus conduplicatis

striatis apice incurvis, germinibus longissimis lirato-

cylindricis, stigmatibus carinatis apice serrulatis.

Iris Pallasii, 8. chinensis. Fischer, ex ore ipsius.

Zy-su1-Lan, Mongolensium. :

Descr. Leaves narrow-sword-shaped, folded, striate,

hooked at the point, erect, shorter than flowering-stem.

Spathe acute, green, three-flowered. Flowers pale blue.

Tube funnel-shaped, green. Claw of the deflected petals

twice the length of the oval streaked lamina, green on the

outside with purplish margins: Claw of the upright petals

filiform, lamina lanceolate. Stigmas not exceeding the

claw of the deflected petal in length, bifid, and minutely

serrate at the extremity, deep violet coloured at the keel

with white margins. Germen an inch and half long, nearly

cylindrical, obtusely six-grooved..

Communicated by Mr. Anperson from the Chelsea gar-

den, in May 1820, where it was raised from seeds sent by

‘Dr. Fiscner from Gorenki; who informed us, on his late

visit, that there are two varieties of which this is his

Tris Pallasii, 8.. chinensis. Native of Chinese Mongolia.

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Diosma ERicorDEs. SweEET-scENTED Diosma.

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Class and Order.

PrentTanpriA Monoeynia.

‘Generic Character.

Cor. 5-petala. Nectaria 5, supra germen. Caps. 3, s. 5,

coalite. Semina calyptrata.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Diosma ericoides ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis subtus convexis

bifariam imbricatis. Sp. Pl. 287. Mill. ic. 1. p. 84.

t. 124. f. 2. ees 3

Diosma ericoides ; foliis trigonis obtusis glabris floribus

terminalibus subsolitariis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 1135.

Thunb. Prodr.43? Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 30.

Diosma foliis setaceis acutis. Hort. Cliff. 72. n. 3.

Srrrza africana lariceis foliis floribus albis, Buchu Hotten-

tottorum. Raj. Dendr. 91.

Ericzrormis Coridis folio 2thiopica, floribus pentapetalis

in apicibus. Pluk. Amalth 236. t. 279. f. 5.

The Diosma ericoides ; is a low branched shrub, bearing

a few small white flowers at the extremities of the branches.

The leaves, when rubbed, give out a aromatic, pun-

gent odour, which has no admixture of the foxy smell so

offensive in several species of the .

From ‘the leaves of this shrub the Hottentots prepare a

powder which they call Buku; with this powder mixed

with grease they anoint themselves for the sake of the

perfume. It is supposed that the Hottentots use for this

urpose indiscriminately the leaves of several species of |

iosma ; but the powder prepared from one particular ©

kind is said to be much more highly prized than the rest ;

in so much that a very small quantity, less than a thimble

full, is said to be of the value of a sheep. As the leaves of

Diosma ericoides possess a stronger, more fragrant and

aromatic quality than perhaps those of any other species,

it is probably the very one that is thus highly prized.

As both Bererus and Tuunzere describe the leaves of

their plant as obtuse, which, in the Hortus Cliffortianus,

are said to be acute, it is probable that these authors de-

scribed a different species; on which account we have

entirely omitted the synonym of the former, and marked

that of the latter as doubtful.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Requires to be

protected from frost. Cultivated by Mr. Puivie Minter

in 1756. Flowers from March to September. Commu-

nicated by N. Hopson, Esq. from the Botanic garden at

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Class and Order. _—

Trerranpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 4-phyllus, persistens. Cor. 0, nisi corollam sumas.

Bacca \-sperma: Semine \entiformi.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Rivina levis ; racemis simplicibus, floribus tetrandris, foliis

ovatis acuminatis glabris planis, caule tereti. Willd.

Sp. Pl.1. p. 694. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. 273.

Rivina levis; racemis simplicibus, floribus tetrandris, foliis

glabris. Lin. Mant. 51. Kniph. Cent. 2. Lam. illustr.

t. 81. f£. 2.

Rivina eos ; foliis ovatis-lanceolatis glabris. Mill. Dict.

n. 1. non Linnei.

Prercea foliis ovato lanceolatis glabris. Mill. Dict. ed. 7.

Soranoipes Americana, circee foliis glabris. Tournef: Act.

Paris. 1706.

Rivina levis is especially distinguished from humilis

(supra No. 1781.) by the smoothness of the whole plant

aud the brighter green colour of its leaves. It has the

same valuable property as that species, of bearing’ its

beautiful scarlet fruit, at the same time with the flowers,

through the greatest part of the year.

The berries are of the same colour with those of Rivina

humilis and possess probably the same qualities. We

wish some one who cultivates these plants would repeat

the experiment of Mitter mentioned above in our account

of the last named species, and compare the effect with

that of some other deep coloured juices, particularly with

the berries of Phytolacca decandra. =

ative

Native of the West-Indies and requires to be kept in an

airy and light part of the stove. Flowers most part of the

year. Cultivated by Mr. Pumie Minier in 1733. Com-

municated by the Count pz VanpEs.

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TeMpLeToNtA ReTUSA. WepGE-LEAVED |

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Class and Order.

DrapEetreHiA DEcANDRIA.

Generic Character.

Cal. ebracteatus, 5-dentatus, dentibus parum inequalibus.

Carina oblonga. Stam. omnia connexa, antheris uniformi-

bus.. Legumen pedicellatum, plano-compressum, polysper-

mum. Semina strophiolata.

Specific Character ‘and Synonyms. *

Temptetonia retusa; bracteis a calyce remotis, vexillo

reflexo, staminibus monadelphis. .

Temptetonta retusa. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 269. Bot.

Reg. 383. pois

Rarnia retusa. Venten. Malmais. 53?

Temptetonta retusa and glauca (supra No. 2088,) are so

nearly related, as to render it dubious whether they ought

to be regarded as distinct species, or only as varieties. But

if the characters by which we have attempted to establish

‘them as distinct species, should be found to be constant,

they may safely be considered as such. In glauca the leaves

are glaucous, in retusa dark green; in the former the

bractes are inserted close to the calyx, the vexillum is not

reflected, the stamens are partly at least diadelphous; im the

latter the bractes are in the middle of the peduncle, the

vexillum is entirely reflected, and the stamens are mona-

delphous. It seems difficult to decide to which species the

ia retusa of Venrenat should be referred i for Ane

description accords best with our present plant, re

more nearly resembles that of glauca, both in the colour of

the leaves and the unreflected vexillum. a

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ASTRAGALUS BRACHYCARPUS. SHORT-FRUITED

ASTRAGALUS.

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Class and Order.

Diapetenia Decanpria.

Generic Character.

page plerumque biloculare, gibbum. Semina Ves:

rialia. , a

Specific Character and Synonyms. sien |

Astracatus brachycarpus ; acaulis, foliis ellipticis wee G

tibus, scajill tatemonis folio longioribus, leguminibus

obovatis calycis longitudine. M. Bieb. Flor. taurico-

caucas. 2. p. 201. et 3. p. 498. Kjusdem. Cent. plant.

rar. Ross. 2. 58. inedit.

Astracatus humilis Serpylli foliis. Buxb. Cent. 3. p. 21.

t. 38.

Asrracatus orientalis Nummularie folio glabro. Tournef.

Coroll. 28 ? |

It appears, from a imen of this species which we

have eaieeh from ti Reena that in its native soil it

_ is both of humbler growth and more pubescent than in its

cultivated state. It approaches near to Astragalus monspe-

lensis, (supra No. 375,) but has rounder leaflets and is more

erect; the most important difference is in the legumen,

which, in the present species scarcely exceeds the calyx in

length,

ative of Caucasus near the Constantine-mountain hot-

baths, and on the sides of Mount Beschtan. Communicated

by Mr. Axverson from the Chelsea garden, who raised it

from seeds sent by Dr. Fiscuer = Gorenki. Flowers in

May.

Waddstl. Sc.

Pub. by S. Gartic Walworta tug ILE Zz.

( 2336 )

CRINUM HYBRIDUM ERUBESCENTE-CAPENSE.

Hysrip Erupescent Care Crinum.

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia. __

Generic Character.—Vide supra No. 2292.

Hybrid Character.

Crinum hybridum erubescente-capense ; foliis acutis sub 7-

pedalibus 5 uncias latis, saturate viridibus,’ margine

scabro ; scapo 4-pedali basi purpurascente; germine

viridi breviter pedunculato; tubo flaccide curvat:-

viridi 5-unciali; laciniis 34-uncialibus albis rubro

pallidé striatis, interioribus unciam, exteris 2 latis;

filamentis assurgenter curvatis limbo brevioribus, basi _

sub-gibbosa..

Descr. Circumference of the neck of the bulb 10 inches.

Leaves 18, the longest near seven feet long, acute, deep

_green, 5 inches wide, with a rough margin. Scape 4 feet

high, purple near the base. Peduncles % of an inch jong,

green. Germen green. Cells with about 14 ovules. |

green, curved, 5 inches long. Limb white, striped chiefly

on the outside with red, 3 and 4 inches long, the inner an

inch, the outer 3 wide. Filaments with the points curved

upwards like fishhooks, red towards the extremity. Style

as well as the longest filaments about an inch shorter than

the limb, a little knobbed at their insertion. Flowers about

eleven nearly resembling those of C. capense in fragrance

and expansion. => 7 :

The bulb which produced our specimen was raised at

Spofforth from seed of C. capense ripened in a pond in the

garden in the autumn of 1818, the stigma having been

impregnated by the pollen of C. erubescens v. maor, = ae

__ it flowered for the first time in April 1822, in the stove of

the Eart or Carnarvon, to whom it had been given. Some

of the plants raised from the same pod, together with

several other mules of which capense is the mother, have

endured the two last winters, without any protection, in an

open and unsheltered part of the garden. The size of the

plate renders it impossible to give an accurate representa-

tion of this fine plant. Its leaf is only distinguishable by

the point which is a little less acute from that of C. longi-

florum, Appendix p.11 & 23. Bot. Reg. p. 303. C. capense

has from 27 to 31 ovules in a cell; C. erubescens about 5;

C. erubescente-capense about 14; C. longiflorum from 9 to

ll. The same gibbosity and connecting membrane at the

insertion of the filaments is found in longifloruwm and in

our mule which derives it from erubescens. It is chiefly

distinguishable from longiflorum by the flaccid curvature

of the tube in which it follows C. capense, by shorter

peduncles and blunter leaves. In expansion, breadth of

poate and number of flowers this mule conforms with the

emale parent, W.AH.

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MELASTOMA HETEROMALLA. W ooLy-LEAVED

MELASTOMA.

Class and Order.

Decanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus, campanulatus. Petala 5, calyci inserta.

Bacca 5-locularis, calyce obvoluta.

Specific Character.

Metastoma heteromalla ; foliis cordato-ovalibus integerri-

mis petiolatis subtus flocculoso-lanatis, calycis limbo

membranaceo caduco, petalis obcordatis, antheris basi

arcuatis. Don Mscr.

Descr. Stem shrubby, straight, robust, four-sided, three-

or-four feet high, densely pubescent; two of the sides ”

convex, the others plane, covered at the lower part with a

brownish bark, antl throwing out near the top several

short thickish silky branches. Leaves opposite, petioled,

broad-cordate oval, quite entire, 5-nerved and reticulately

veined, from four to seven inches long, and from three to

five broad, covered underneath with a dense, white, floc-

culent wool; upper surface green, with numerous adpressed

bristly hairs, giving a silky hue to the young leaves.

Panicle terminal, many-flowered, decussately branched :

branches short, thick, stiff, silky. Peduncles short, bifid or

trifid. Flowers violet-coloured on very short pedicles, which

are furnished at the base with two small, coloured, membra-

nous, caducous scales. Calyx oblong, tubular, five-sided,

silky-pubescent: limb five- rarely six-parted, membranous,

reddish, generally falling off with the petals: segments

oblong, obtuse. Peials five, or rarely six, obcordate. Sta-

mens

mens ten, rarely twelve, inserted, on the margin surrounding

the mouth of the calyx: filaments slender, cylindrical, white :

anthers long, subulate, yellowish, arcuate, almost convo-

lute at the base, opening at the top with a single pore.

Style cylindrical, equal, curved towards the top: stigma

small, simple, minutely bearded, pale yellow. Capsule

oblong-ovate, berried, five-celled, five-valved, rarely 6-

celled, 6-valved, opening in the centre of each cell with

an oblong fissure. Seeds numerous, reniform, globose,

dotted. Don Mscr. :

This very beautiful species of Mexastoma is a native

of Brazil. Flowered first in this country as we are

informed at Sion House. Our drawing was taken in March

last at the fine collection of the Comrrsse pe VANpES, ~

Bayswater.

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Wedd lS

PubbyS Gertiy Walworth Aug 11802

( 2338.)

HIBBERTIA DENTATA. BRroOwWN-LEAVED

HitpBertTia.

EO EE Le

Class and Order.

PoLyanprRiIA PoLyGyniA.— iO

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-phyllus, m fructu connivens. Petala 5, decidua.

Capsule plurime (1—15) glomerate.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Hiszertia dentata ; foliis ovato-oblongis ; aristulato-

dentatis, floribus trigynis pedunculatis, caule volubili.

Hissertia dentata; foliis oblongis acuminatis glabris

aristulato-serratis, floribus pedunculatis trigynis, caule

volubili. De Cand. Syst. Nat. Veg. 1. p. 426. Bot.

Reg. 282. |

Hissertia dentata. R. Brown ined. Lodd. Cab. 347.

The genus Hissertia belongs to the natural order of

Dilleniacee of De Cannoute, an order first proposed by

Sauispury in the Paradisus Londinensis. Most of the

genera of this order had been joined by Jussieu either to

his order of Magnolie, or that of Rosacee. )

Hieserria dentata isa climbing shrub and if planted in the

border of a conservatory, to which it is well suited, will, if

properly supported, in a few years attain the height of six

or eight feet. It produces abundance of bright yellow

flowers, which contrast beautifully with the dark brown

foliage amongst which they are seated. In cultivation it

_is principally on the younger leaves that the denticulation

is observable, the full grown ones being either quite entire

or concealing it by the reflection of their margins.

Only two species of this genus are inserted in the Hortus

Kewensis, the volubilis, figured at No. 449, of this work

- under

under the mistaken name of Dittenta speciosa, which is a

‘lofty tree, native of the East Indies. In Dr Canpotze’s

excellent natural system of the vegetable kingdom nine-

teen species are recorded ; all of them natives of New

Holland, and most of them first discovered by that eminent

Botanist and traveller Rosert Brown, Esq. the worthy

possessor of the Banksian library, herbarium and museum,

to whose learning, talents for observation and experimental

knowledge of the vegetable creation, the eyes of botanical

Europe are directed.

Communicated by Messrs. Loppices and Sons. Flowers

in the spring and most part of the summer. Propagated

easily by cuttings and sometimes produces ripe seeds.

Loves a soil composed of peat and loam.

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BuRCHELLIA BUBALINA. CAPE Burcue tia.

KEKE EKER ERE

Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoaeynia.

Generic Character.

Capitulum involucratum. Cor. clavato-infundibuliformis:

limbo 5-fido abbreviato fauceque imberbi; estivatione

mutuo imbricata contorta. Stamina supra medium tubi

inserta ; antheris subsessilibus, inclusis. Stigma cla-

vatum. Bacca calyce alte 5-fido coronata, bilocularis

polysperma. Brown in Bot. Reg.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Burcuenusa bubalina.

Burchellia capensis. Brown in Bot. Reg. 466.

Lonicera bubalina ; capitulis terminalibus pedunculatis,

foliis oblongis integerrimis glabris. Lin. Suppl. p. 146.

Crepuauis bubalina. Persoon Syn. p. 202. n. 12.

Burret-Horn. Colonis batavis. 3

In the Supplementum Plantarum of the younger Linnzus

this plant was referred to the genus Lonicera ; but as it

belongs to the natural order of Rubiacee it will by no

means associate with that genus. Prrsoon joined it with

Swartz’s Cepnzuis the Tapocomea of Auster and Jussieu ;

but Mr. Brown,’ not finding it to accord with any esta-

blished genus, has considered it as distinct from any,

and given it the name of Burcnerua in honour of Mr.

Burcuexx, a very enterprising traveller in Southern Africa,

who has favoured the public with an interesting account

of his travels in that country. And, certainly, persons

who, in spite of deprivations and difficulties, spend a large

portion of their valuable time in such hazardous under-

takings, for the promotion of science, merit this only -

ward of the botanist; but we can by no means approve

of altering the specific name, which, when once established,

should remain inviolate, except for very particular reasons;

we have therefore thought it right to restore the name of

bubalina.

Burcneiuia bubalina is a native of the Cape of Good

Hope, where it is called Buffelhorn or Buffaloe-Horn, a

name given it by the colonists <_< the extreme hardness

of its wood.

Flowers in the spring or summer. Requires to be pro-

tected from frost and we believe has seldom blossomed in |

this country without the assistance of the heat of the stove.

Communicated -* Messrs. Loppiees and Sons. :

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FuMARIA CAVA var. ALBIFLORA. Wattr

. |

HoLiow-rootep Foumirory.

Fo ae ae Sh he ae ee i oe

Class and Order.

Diapetrwia Hexanpria.

Generic Character.

Cal. diphyllus. Cor. ringens. Filamenta 2, membra-«

nacea, singula Antheris 3.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Fumaria cava ; caule simplici, racemo terminali, bracteis

integerrimis, foliis biternatis apicibus tridentatis, ra-

dice tuberosa cava.

Fumarta bulbosa; caule simplici, racemo terminali, brac-

teis oblongis pedunculo longioribus, foliis biternatis

oblongis acutiusculis, radice tuberosa cava. Willd. |

Sp. Pl. 3.p. 860. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 239. —

Fumaria cava; caule simplici, bracteis longitudine forum

integris, radice cava. Curtis in Bot. Mag. n. 232.

Fumaria cava; caule simplici, foliolis obtusiusculis, cal-

cari recurvo, bracteis lanceolatis acutis, radice cava,

Retz. prodr. Fl. Scand. ed. 2. n. 860. Hoffm. Germ,

ee WAS. Kirk. beitr. 6. p. 145. pits

Corypauis bulbosa. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 269, n. 12.

Corypauis tuberosa; caule simplici exsquamato, foliis 2

biternatim sectis, segmentis cuneatis inciso-multifidis,

bracteis ovatis integris, radice cava. De Cand. Syst,

Veg. Nat. 2. p. \17.

Corypauis cava ; radice tuberosa cava, caule simplicissimo

diphyllo, foliis biternatis: intermedio producto,

bracteis oblongis acutis. Wahlenb. Fil. carp. p. 211.

Fumaria major; radice bulbosa, caule simplici, bracteis

integerrimis oyato-lanceolatis floribus brevioribus,

Roth. Germ. 1. 30, 11. 15). s :

Fomaria bulbosa ag a Flor. Dan. t. 605. Kniph. Cent.1,

Fomarta bulbosa radice cava major. Bauh. Pin. 143.

Fumaria

Foumarta radice cava major flore purpureo et albo. Moris.

Hist. § 3. p. 261. t. 12. 7. 6.

Fumari altera, » Cam. Epit.-891. f- 1.

Pistotocuia Fuchs. Hist. 91.

~Ravrx cava. Dod. pempt. 327. Lob. ieon. 759. Park.

Parad. 275.

Aristotocuta flore albo. Hort. Eystt. ord. vern. 1. t. 2. f. 4.

Pseupo-Fumaria. Riv. tetrap. irreg. ic. 73.

Mr. Curtis in an early part of this work separated the

two varieties of Linnzus’s Fumaria bulbosa into distinct

species, and applied to them the very appropriate names of

cava and solida, which Linnzvus himself had affixed to his

varieties. But Waurtpenow inconsiderately retained the

name of bulbosa for the cava, and applied that of Hallert

to solida. And as this author has been generally followed

in the Hortus Kewensis, our present. plant occurs therein

under the name of bufbosa ; though that of solida is adopted

for the other species. De Canporte, apparently to avoid

the anomaly of a hollow bulb, calls it tuberosa, thus unne-

cessarily adding one more to the number of appellations.

_ We believe that the character of entire as opposed ta

one will always distinguish this species from

solida. ~~ )

~ De Cannotte, in the second volume of his Systema, has

erected the genus Fumaria, as established by Linnazus, to

the dignity of a natural order, under the name of Fuma-

riace@. 'Yhis order is divided into six distinct genera, dis-

tinguished chiefly by the number of petals and seeds; and

Foumarra is limited to the monopetalous and one-seeded

species. To this we have nothing to object; but for the

present we prefer adhering to the old name to the adopting

that of Corypaxis to which genus our plant belongs accord-

mg to this new arrangement. Fumarra cava has not been

found indigenous in Britain, though it occurs in shady and

moist situations in almost the whole of Europe from the

north of Italy to Sweden, and even in Siberia and Kam-

tchatka. It was much more common in our gardens formerly

than at present. Flowers from February to the latter end of

April. Communicated by Messrs. Warrier, Brame, and

1nnE. Propagated by cuttings of the root, of which

Parkinson says that “ being broken every part will grow.”

In his time the white variety seems to have been most

common, but is now of very rare occurrence.

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Poreritum caupatum. Smootrn Survupsy

| Burnet. :

Class and Order.

Moneecta PoLyanpRiA.

Generic Character.

Mase. Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. 4-partita, Stam. 30—50.

Fem. Cal. ee: Cor. 4-partita. Pist. 2. Bacca é

tubo corolla mdurato. =

Specific Character and Synonyms.

_ Porertum caudatum [ Dioicum] inerme, frutescens, ramis

teretibus villosis, spicis elongatis laxis. Hort. Kew. .

ed. 1. 3. p. 354. ed. alt. 5. p. 286. Willd. Sp. Pl. 4.

p. 423. Poirét Encycl. Bot. Suppl. 4. p. 415. Martyn

Mill. Dict. n. 4.

_ _ Native of the Canary Islands, from whence it was intro-

__ duced into this country in the year 1779 by Mr. Francis

Masson, but seems to be very little known upon the con-

tinent, as we judge by its not occurring in any of the

systematic writers, except as copied from the first edition,

of Arroy’s Hortus Kewensis.

_ In some respects it differs from the other species of the

genus, but has a nearer affinity with spinosum than the rest.

It seems to be constantly dicecious, the male and female

flowers growing upon distinct shrubs. We have twice in

_ different years received specimens from our friend Mr.

Watxer of Arno’s-grove both of them female, and from

Messrs. Wurrtey, Brame and Minne, a ‘specimen from a

_ Male plant. In the female each flower is supported by a

_ proportionally large, concave, ovate-acuminate bracte, and

_ and two interior smaller ones, (Calyx of Lixnaus) villous,

_ Scariose, deciduous, and applied close to the globular,

_ Sermen. Calyx (Corolla of Lannzus) four-cleft, green ar

. an

with white, smooth, persistent and reflected on the germen..

Styles 2, filiform, with pencilled, purple stigmas. But in

the plant from which our drawing was made the flowers

had generally three styles and six calycine leaflets, which

was not the case in the other specimen and is not its natu-

ral state.

In the male, the bractes and calycine leaflets are the

same as in the female, but there being no germen interposed

the inner bractes are applied close to the calyx. <Anthers

numerous, large hemispherical, supported on slender fila-

ments.

If the inner bractes are to be called calyx, then this part

is below the germen, and the corolla above, which ts a

very unusual anomaly. —

We believe no figure has ever before been: published of

this plant. Requires the protection of the Greenhouse.

Flowers in March and April. :

N 2342.

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sb. by. Gartis

(2342)

ARGEMONE ALBIFLORA. WHITE-FLOWERED

ARGEMONE.

Boe Or eS

3 Class and Order.

PotyanpriA Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cor. 6-petala. Cal. 3-phyllus. Caps. semivalvis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Arcemone albiflora; capsulis quinque-valvibus, peduncu-

latis, foliis subspinosis. fy Hort. Hafn. p. 489.

Arcemone alba. Lestib. Bot. Belg. 4. p. 131.

ArGEMONE mexicana, @. albiflora. De Cand. Syst. veg. 2.

p. 86. = :

ARGEMONE mexicana, «. floribus albis.. Hist. Nat. medic.

et. econom. des Pavots et des Argémones. @. Lam.

Encycl. 1. p. 247. De Freylin Catal. du. Jard. de

Buttigliera. 1810. Syn. Plant. Mus. Florent. 1806.

Cat. Plant. Hort. Patavini. 1812. )

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Arcemone albiflora, has generally been considered to be

only a variety of mexicana, but seems to be a distinct

species, and is recorded as such by Professor HornemAn in

his Catalogue of the Copenhagen garden. Nurrart men-

tions by report only “ not merely a variety, but distinct

Species with white flowers” as occurring in Georgia. In

our plant, for which, as well as for the principal part of the

above synonymy, we are indebted to Purr Barker Wass,

Esq. of Milford House, near Godalmin, Surrey, who raised

it from seeds sent him from Italy by Mr. Atbert Parouint

of Bassano. ae is

The leaves are narrower than in mexicana, much less

sharply spined, with the veins only faintly marked he

| white ;

white; but the principal difference is that the flowers of —

the latter are, for the most part, nearly sessile, being em- —

bosomed in an involucrum of leaves, whereas those of A. —

albiflora are on nearly naked peduncles.

Although native of a tropical climate, like ArGEmMonE —

mexicana, it may be considered as a hardy annual as it

readily ripens its seeds in the open air.

Fhoty Del

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BRACHYSTELMA TUBEROSA. TUBEROUS-ROOTED

BRACHYSTELMA.

SEEKER EK EEK E EERE

Class-and. Oxket:

Pentranpria Dieynia.

Generic Character.

Asclepiadea. Corolla campanulata, sinubus angulatis.

Columna inclusa. Corona monophylla, 5-fida: lobis an-

theris oppositis, dorso simplicibus. Anthere absque mem-

brana apiculari. Masse pollinis erecte, basi inserte.

Brown, Mscr. — pies

Specific Name and Synonym.

Bracuystetma tuberosa. Brown Mscr.

Stapeuia tuberosa. Meerb. ic. t. 54. f. 1. monente D.

Alton.

Descr. Root a round tuber. Stem short, shrubby, branch-

_ed: branches rounded, villous. Leaves opposite, membra-

neous, linear-lanceolate, concave, margins and keel ciliate.

Flowers in half whorls, about the size of Stapexia reclinata

mn. 1397, three or four in each whorl, on short, cernuous

peduncles. Calyx 5-cleft, acute, shorter than the tube of

the corolla, and with the peduncle clothed with short

glandular hairs. Corolla on the outside green, dotted with

red ; om the inside black-purple, streaked with yellow in

the centre: tube bell shaped: limb 5-cleft, margins of the

lacinie revolute, ciliate at the base. Corona 5-cleft: seg-

ments triangular, conniving at the points. Like those of

the Srapeniz, the flowers have a very offensive odour,

in this instance most resembling human feces.

Mr. Brown in his valuable treatise on the natural orders

of Asclepiadee and Apocinee, published in the first volume

of the transactions of the Wernerian Society, has divided

the genus Srapexia, but our present plant, will not unite

with any of the genera there established ; we are ade

ignly

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highly indebted to the friendship of this learned Botanist,

= enabling us to establish the genus of this very rare

nt...

‘ Meersure’s figure, above quoted, which was pointed out

to Mr. Brown by Mr. Arron, represents the flower much

larger than in our specimen, with the segments elongated

to a very narrow point. : ?

A native of the Cape of Good Hope, requiring to be

protected from frost, and more particularly from damps. |

Communicated in blossom in June last, by Mr. Joseru

Knicur of the Exotic Nursery in the King’s Road.

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PAapAVER NUDICAULE, 3. RUBRO-AURANTIACUM.

ORANGE-COLOURED, NAKED-STALKED Poppy.

REE EEK EEE ERK EEE

Class and Order.

Potyanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cor. 4-petala. Cal. diphyllus. Caps. 1-locularis, sub

stigmate persistente poris dehiscens.

Papaver nudicaule; capsulis erectis hispidis, scapo unifloro

hispido, foliis simplicibus oe calycibus

hirsutis. Vide supra No. 1633.

(3.) rubro-aurantiacum. Fiscu. De Cand. Syst. Veg. nat.

2. p. 10. . .

De Canpote enumerates four varieties of Papaver nudi-

caule, of which this is the last, and he observes that it may

probably bea distinct species. Perhaps farther observation

may prove some of the others to be specifically different.

Our Plant, while it differs very materially from the figure

in Flora Danica referred to by this author as a good repre-

sentation of his variety y. radicatum, which has very hairy

leaves, and if the drawing is correct a quite different stigma,

has not however the characters mentioned from Dr. Fiscuer

of adpressed hairs on the seape, and the lobules of the leaves

terminated with a bristle. From the yellow-flowered variet

firured at No. 1633, it differs in size, and in the colour bot

of the flowers and hairs of the scape, and in the form of the

leaves, which are also destitute of all hairiness. Perhaps

the number of the rays of the stigma, may afford a good

specific distinction; which in our plant are eight, in the

one figured in the Flora Danica, if the artist be correct,

only four; but we are not certain of the constancy of this

character. ae tie

The variety mentioned at No. 1633, to have been received

from Mr. Loppiers was probably the same as our plant,

but upon referring to the specimen, we find that the leaves

in that are thinly scattered over with hairs, and the lobes

terminated with a bristle; so that the total want of hairiness

in the leaves appears to have been the effect of cultivation.

Native of Dahuria. A hardy biennial. Flowers in June

and July. Communicated by Mr. Awnperson from the

Chelsea garden, where it was raised from seeds sent by

Dr. Fiscuer. 3

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Orogus HirsuTUs. Hatry Brrrer-Vetcr.

KKK KEE KEK EEE ERE

Class and Order.

DraApELpHIA DECANDRIA.

Generic Character.

Stylus linearis. Cal. basi obtusus: laciniis superioribus

profundioribus, brevioribus. _

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Orosus hirsutus ; foliis conjugatis petiolatis, stipulis inte-

oe Sp. Pl. 1027. ed. Willd. 3. p. 1072. M. B. FI.

Orosus laxiflorus ; villosus, foliis conjugatis ovatis acutis,

stipulis maximis sagittatis, floribus laxe racemosis, la-

ciniis calycinis subulato-setaceis. Desfont. in Anndles

du Mus. 12. p. 57. ¢. 8. :

Orosus creticus latifolius incanus. Tournef. Cor. 26.

Orosvs latifolius repens, flore ceruleo, foliis et siliquis

hirsutis. Boerh. Ind. alt. 2. p. 46. n.7.

Oroxsus sylvaticus, foliis circa caulem auriculatis. Buxb.

_ Cent. 3. p. 22. t. 41. - :

ieentaet

The Orosus hirsutus is a very rare plant, and is not

recorded either in the Hortus Kewensis or any of the cata-

logues of plants growing in our gardens.

It was one of the plants discovered by Tournerorr in

the Isle of Candia, and from his specimens the figure of

Desrontaines above quoted was taken. It is nearest of

kin to Orosus lathyroides (No. 2098) from which it differs

chiefly in having quite entire as well as pubescent stipules

and leaves ; and in the trichotomous division of the upper

part of the stem.

The faultiness of the description added by Wixtpenow,

from a dried specimen, occasioned Desrontaines to mare

7 this

this plant being the same as Orosus hirsutus of Linnaus ;

the raceme which WiLipEeNnow describes as many flowered,

seldom or never consisting of more than five flowers, and

the corolla exceeding the calyx by one-half, instead of

their being equal. )

A hardy perennial. Native of Candia, Thrace, Iberia,

Tauria, and oriental Caucasus. Flowers in May and June.

Communicated by Mr. Anperson, from the Chelsea garden.

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LysimacuiaA ErpHEMERUM. WILLOW-LEAVED

LooseE-StTriFe.

KEKEKEEKKEKREEEEKEEK SE

Class and Order.

PrentanpriA Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cor. rotata. Caps. globosa, mucronata, 10-valvis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Lystmacuia Ephemerum,; racemis terminalibus, petalis obo-

vatis patulis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis sessilibus. Hort.

Kew. ed. 1. v. 1. p. 198.—ed. alt.1. p. 314. Willd. Sp.

P11. p. 816. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. 4. p.121. Mart.

Mill. Dict. n. 2. .

Lysimacu1a Ephemerum; racemis simplicibus terminalibus,

etalis obtusis, staminibus corolla brevioribus. Sp.

Pl.209. Murray Comm. Goett. 1782. p.9. t.2. optima.

Lysrmacuia salicifolia. Mull. Dict. n. 6.

Lysmmacuia Otani. D’Asso Arragon. 22. n. 168. t. 2. f. 1.

Lysmmacuia Ephemerum. D. C. fl. frang. sep. p. 381.

Eprxemerum Matthioli Dod. Pempt. 203. fig. bona Lob. ic.

354. Bauh. pin. 244. Bauh. Hist. 2. p. 905.

Epnemerum spurium Lobelii. Obs. 191. Rob. ic.

. Synonymon Till. Pis. 106. ¢. 40. f. 2. ut pote vix ad hanc

speciem pertinens, ex consulto omittitur.

Lysimacuia Ephemerum, atropurpurea, and dubia before

the publication of Murray’s figures in the Geettingen Com-

mentaries were generally confounded together. Our present

- species is a handsome growing plant with long terminal

spikes of white flowers tinged with purple, and very worthy

of a place in the flower-garden. The dotting on the under-

side of the leaves, mentioned in the descriptions ye —y

: plant,

plant, is so minute as not to be visible with the naked eye

on the upper leaves, but is very evident on the older

ones.

A hardy perennial. Native of Spain, the south of France,

and, according to Tuunsere, of Japan. Flowers from July

to September.

We received fine specimens of this plant from the Bo-

tanical garden at Bury St. Edmunds, im the present year,

but our drawing was taken by the late Mr. Sypennam

Epwarps at the Brompton garden, several years ago.

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Puyreuma spicatum. Spikep RAMPION.

SHREK

Class and Order.

Penranpris Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

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

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

Specific Character and Synonyms.

PuyTEuma sprcatum; spica oblonga elongata, stylis pilosius-

culis, (bi-) trifidis, foliis radicalibus cordatis duplicato-

dentatis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 923. Roem. et Sch. Syst.

Veg. 5. p. 82. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. 355.

Puytevuma spicatum. De Cand. Flor. Franc. n. 2867.

Raruncutus spicatus. Mill. Dict.. Scopol. Carniol. ed. 2.

n. 238. Bauh. Pin. 92. Bauh. Prodr. t. 39.

Raruncutus foliis radicalibus cordatis, tubis bicornibus

revolutis. Hall. Hist. n. 684.

Rapuntium majus. Ger. emac. 453. f. 1.

Raruncutum alopecuron. Dod. pempt. 165.

‘Raruntium majus alopecuri comoso flore. Lob. ic. 329. f. J,

Rapuncuuvs corniculatus spicatus, s. alopecuroides. Moris.

Hist. 2. p. 463. s. 5. ¢. 5. f. 46. )

Rapuncutus corniculatus spicalongiore. Riv. Monop. irreg.

108.

(«.) floribus ochroleucis.

(G.) floribus czruleis.

Some authors have described the flowers of Payrruma

spicatum as being of a blue colour, others of a yellowish

white. It is not improbable that both colours may exist

in the same species, but we are inclined to think that

two different species have been confounded together ; and

perhaps the trifid or bifid division of the stigma =|

distinguis

distinguish them. The late Dr. Romer, in the Systema

Vegetabilium, says the flowers are usually yellowish white,

very rarely blue, and questions whether the latter may not

be a distmct species, being of much humbler growth.

This author enumerates several varieties, differing chiefly

in the form of the leaves and colour of the flowers.

A hardy perennial. Native of the middle parts of Europe.

Flowers in June and July. Communicated by Mr. Jenkins

from his Botanical garden in the New-Road.

The outline figures represent, a radical leaf; a. a flower

magnified ; 6. a stamen magnified.

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Rabiby S bros Walworth. Sen. 2182.

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Erica MuTABILIS. MutTasBLe Hearn.

cee

Class and Order.

OctanpriaA Mownoeynia.

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. “se

Specific Character and Synonyms.

§. IL. Longiflore. A. Anthere aristate.

Erica mutabilis ; foliis ternis quaternisve, floribus termi-

nalibus numerosis. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 369.

Erica mutabilis. Andrews’s Heaths, Vol. 3. Lodd. Cab.

Ab. |

A low crooked shrub with few branches. Leaves ternate,

sometimes quaternate, patent: margins reflected, ciliated

together on the extremities of the branches, on long, coloured

peduncles, at first cernuous, afterwards erect. Bractes 2,

distant from the calyx. Calyx small, 4-cleft: segments

erect, minutely ciliate and terminated with an awn. Tube

of corolla 2 of an inch long, slightly curved, angular,

somewhat enlarged upwards, but contracted at the mouth:

lacinie of the limb cbtuse, recurved at the point, with the

margins reflected at the base. Anthers awned, oblong,

black-purple, protruded very little beyond the tube. Ger-

men top-shaped, grooved, hairy at the top. Style longer

than stamens: stigma capitate. ;

Erica mutabilis is a beautiful Heath, producing a great

number of flowers, at first pale, afterwards of a bright crim-

son colour. Mr. Loppices remarks that it is apt to mor

itself by overflowering, and recommends some of the buds to

be sulted off before they expand to lengthen its life. He

observes too that it is not easily propagated except by seeds. —

Flowers in September and October. Requires protection

from frost and the same treatment as other Cape Heaths.

Communicated by Messrs. Loppiezs and Sons.

burbs. Del. f, ;

mertiv. Del. Bub. by £ Gertis Walworth. sey 21822

( 2349. )

AncuusA BARRELIERI. -BARRELIER’S

BueG.oss..

KEK KKK EEE ERE KEK

Class and Order.

Pentanpria Monoeynia. -

Generic Character.

ibuliformis, fauce clausa fornicibus. | Sem.

és

basi insculpta. 7

Specific Chavactie ‘tll Synonyms.

Ancuusa Barrelieri; foliis radicalibus elliptico-lanceolatis ;

caulinis semiamplexicaulibus, racemis conjugatis, caly-

cibus quinquepartitis tubo corolla equalibus.

Ancuusa Barrelieri ; foliis oblongis subintegris utrinque at- |

tenuatis cauleque simplici hispidis, pease trifidis,

calycibus quinquepartitis. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. 4.

p. 97. ex. De Cand. Fl. Franc. n. 2731. ’

Ancuusa Barrelieri; foliis ovato-lanceolatis, caule erecto,

axillis foliorum florigeris, racemis paniculatis unila-

teralibus, calycibus quinquepartitis, corolla tubo bre-

vissimo. Tenore Fl. Neapol. p. 46.

Ancuusa Barrelieri ; caulibus erectis subsimplicibus, foliis

- oblongo-lanceolatis denticulatis hispidis, racemis con-

jugaite paniculatis bracteatis, calycibus obtusissimis

tubo corolla equalis longioribus. Lehm. Asperif. p.

227. n. 170.

Ancuusa Barrelieri; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, caule

paniculato racemis conjugatis nudis, calycibus quin-

que-partitis: laciniis linearibus obtusissimis, bracteis

linearibus. Baumg. Fl. Transylv. 1. p.122. ex Lehman.

Buexossum Barrelieri; foliis ovato-lanceolatis, caule erecto,

axillis foliorum florigeris, racemis florum unilaterali-

bus. Allioni Ped. n. 164. =

Myosortis obtusa ; caule subsimplici foliisque lanceolatis

acutis subrepandis hispidis, spicis conjugatis subco-

rymbosis,

rymbosis, calycibus obtusissimis. Waldst. et Kit. pl.

rar. Hung. 1. p. 103. t. 100. Willd. Enum. 1. p. 1%.

Roem. et Sch. Sp. Pl. 4. p. 107.

Buetossum sylvestre minus, flore azureo, radice perenni,

italicum. Barr. ic. 333.

It seems now pretty generally agreed that the Myosoris

obtusa of Waxpsrein and Krraisex and Ancuusa Barreliert

are the same. In our plant the leaves were more entire

at the margin than as represented in either of the figures

above quoted, but we see no reason to doubt that jall be-

long to the same species. We do not however pretend

at present to ascertain whether this plant ought to be

arranged under Ancnusa or Myosotts, being entirely led

in regard to it by the authority of Lenman. —

A hardy perennial. Native of Italy and the South of

France. Flowersin May. Communicated by Mr. Anprerson

from the Chelsea garden.

Curtis Walworth. Oot ?. 1824

( 2350.)

ARTHROPODIUM cCIRRATUM. BroApD-LEAVED

ARTHROPODIUM.

Seakeakaeaealeskeokekoskabeak kakakae

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cor. 6-petala, patens, petalis deciduis: interioribus

margine undulatis y. fimbriatis. Filam. barbata.. Anthere

basi emarginate insertw. Germ. loculis polyspermis. Sty-

lus filiformis. Stigma hispidulum. Caps. subglobosa, 3-

locularis, 3-valvis, valvis medio septigeris. Semina pauca,

subangulata, umbilico nudo. Kmbryo curvatus. Brown

mutatis terminis.

‘Specific Character and Synonyms.

Arruropopium cirratum ; racemo diviso, bracteis foliaceis,

pedicellis fasciculatis, petalis interioribus integerrimis,

filamentorum dimidio barbato basi biappendiculato,

foliis lanceolato-ensiformibus. Brown Mss.

AntHericum cirratum; foliis lanceolatis planiusculis: scapo

paniculato, filamentis bicirratis. Forster Prodr. fl.

Austr. p. 24. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 146. 3

Antuericum latifolium. Banks and Soland. Mss.

Another species of Arruroropium, the paniculatum, will

be found at No, 1421 of this work; from which our present

plant differs in the much greater width of the leaves and

revolute bractes; greater size of its white flowers; and both

from that and every known species in the greater length

of the spur-like processes at the base of the bearded part

of the filaments, of which Mr. Brown could only trace

mere rudiments in any of the other species; in the entire

margins of the inner petals; and in the thicker root,

x .

approaching to tuberous ee

Native of New Zealand, where it was discovered by Sir

Josera Banks and Dr. Sotanper, in their celebrated voyage

to the South Seas and round the world, with Captain Coox.

Has been treated as a greenhouse plant, but Mr. Minye

thinks it may prove hardy. Flowers in May and June.

Communicated by Messrs. Wuirtey, Brame, and Mine of

the Fulham Nursery, where it was raised from seeds given

them by the Rev. Witu1am Woon, to whom they were sent

by——Bicee, Esq. late commissioner in New-South-Wales.

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THYSANOTUS JUNCEUS. RUSHLIKE

THYSANOTUS.

KKK EEK KEE EKER ER ER

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynta.

Generic Character.

Corolla 6-petala, patens, persistens; petalis interioribus

latioribus, limbo utrinque colorato, marginibus fimbriatis

ciliis articulatis. Stamina 6, (raro 3,) imz corolla inserta,

. vel hypogna, declinata. Filamenta glabra, brevia. Anthere

lineares, emarginature baseos inserte: 3 interiores sepius

elongate, reclinate. Germen loculis dispermis. Stylus fili-

formis, declinatus. Stigma parvum. ae 3-loularis, 3-

valvis, valvis medio septiferis. Semina bina, altero erecto,

altero pendulo, strophiolata. Brown mutatis terminis.

Chlamysporum. Saxispury. .

Specific Character and Synonym.

Tuysanotus junceus; radicibus fibrosis, caulibus ramosis

diffusis teretibus striatis: ramulis subangulatis, foliis

radicalibus abbreviatis caulinisque strictis patenti-

erectis, umbellis paucifloris, antheris imaqualibus.

Br. Prodr. 283. ‘ ge

Cuiamysporum juncifolium; foliis linearibus integerrimis:

spicis laxe paniculatis, ipsis confertissimis: antheris

recurvis, alternis longissimis. Salish. Parad. Lond.

t. 103.

Our plant did not appear, at the time we received it, to

have either radical or cauline leaves to be distinguished

from the rush like, rounded, streaked stems, branched,

toward the top, into a few, divaricate, slender, somewhat

angular branches, bearing few-flowered umbels; one eg

only

only expanding at a time, which is of short duration, but

very beautiful on account of the delicately fringed internal

petals. .The, outer petals. are linear-lanceolate with a

poy pubescence at the apex. The inner ones are

like the outer, except being bordered with a very broad

margin beautifully fringed. Both series of lacinie are

persistent, the outer ones remaining more or less spread,

whilst the inner close round the oval, trilocular capsule

containing two seeds in each cell. Stamens 6. Filaments

short, yellow, attached below the germen; three of them

alternating with and three opposed to the petals ; the former

bear short, twisted anthers, yellow with purple tips, the

anthers of the latter are more than twice the length of the

other, linear, purple and hardly seem to be polliniferous.

The style is longer than these, curved, purple.

» Mr. Brown places this genus in his natural order of As-

phodelee, in which however he includes several of Jussrev’s

Asparagi; but remarks that from its near affinity with

ArtHRopopium it comes nearer to ANrnericum than to the

Asparagoidee of that order, with which Mr. Sa.issury

connects it. | |

For this very rare. plant we are indebted to Mr. JoszrH

Kwicur of the Exotic Nursery, King’s-Road, who raised

it from seeds he received from New South Wales, in the

spring of 1820. He observes that it is delicate and requires

to be kept in an airy sunny situation, in the greenhouse,

during the winter months. Propagated most readily by

seeds, but may also be increased by cuttings. It flowered

in July last.

_ Native of the country round Port Jackson where it was

‘first discovered by Mr. Rosert Brown.

—

‘The outline fignres shew the parts of fructification magnified and section

of the capsule, i = aE 2“

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Crinum AQuaTicum. AguaTic Crinum.

KEKE KEEEEREREKEEEERE

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynis.

Generic Character —Vide No. 2292.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Sect, 11, Semipatentes, Subdiv. 2. Longifolie

=e Vel inclinate.

Crinum aquaticum, bulbo ovato ; foliis 4-pedalibus, cana-

liculatis, tortuosis, viridibus, margine scabro ; spatha

rubra, unciali, ima parte integra, apice diviso; pedun-

culis sub-uncialibus ; loculis 8-spermis; tubo triun-

ciali; limbo 2-unciali, albo striato, seriis rebescente ;

stylo temere vel incurvato vel declinato ; filamentis

divaricatis apicibus conniventibus (an semper ?), basi

sub-gibbos&, membrana crassa, conspicua, faucem tubi

exsuperante, laciniisque adherente connexis, exterio-

ribus unciam, interioribus ~ stylo brevioribus; stig-

mate crasso, rotundaté trigono, viridescente ; floribus

successivis, odoratis.

Crinum aquaticum, Nobis in appendice, p. 22, _

Crinum campanulatum, In spec. enum. supra 2121.

Crinum aquaticum. Burchell catalogus geographicus plan-

tarum Africe australis extra-tropice, No. 3785. inedit,

Descr. Bulb ovate; leaves four feet long, green, —_

channelled so as to appear cylindrical, tortuous, pointed,

an inch and half wide near the base, with a rough margin ;

scape green, about fourteen inches long: spathe red, one

inch long, the lower half undivided, the upper 2-cleft ;

umbel about 4-flowered, with slender bractes ; peduncles

an inch or less in length, green; germen short, green ;

cells eight seeded; tube slender, a little curved, gna

ree

three inches long, red streaked with green; limb about

two inches long, glossy white with a red streak on each

segment near the base, becoming after a while deep rose-,

coloured without and mottled with rose-colour within, cam-

panulate with the pomts reflected, the inner Segments near

an inch wide, obtuse, the outer narrower, hooked; style pale

red, irregularly incurved or declined, a little shorter than

the limb; stigma large, triangularly rounded, yellowish

green; filaments pale red, diverging with the points con-

niving (Quere whether always?), the outer an inch, the

inner { shorter than the style, united at their base which e

is a little gibbous by a conspicuous glossy green fleshy

membrane adhering to the base of the limb. N.B. The

stigma became larger and yellower after the drawing was

completed. This plant was discovered by Mr. Burcneti

in the E. of the Cape colony in shallow grassy ponds, liable

to be dried up in summer. The figure was made from a

specimen produced in May by a bulb given by Mr. B. to

the Eart of Carnarvon. It is a hardy green-house plant,

not requiring constant immersion. 'The flowers have a

_ powerful fragrance, a little resembling that of C. capense.

The glossy white of the young flowers, and the deep rose-

colour of those which are older, form a beautiful contrast.

The figure represents the inside which is only mottled ; the

outside becomes entirely red. The conspicuous waxy thick

membrane appears to be only an extraordinary enlargement

of the same process which is jistinguishable in C. erubescens,

and C. flaccidum ; and perhaps the posture of the filaments

is not mvariable, since those of C. arenarium and. defixwm

diverge and connive when the flower begins to collapse.

The particles of pollen perhaps smaller than those of any

other species, and the one-leaved spathe is an anomaly

the genus. Its foliage much resembles that of C. capense

but without the glaucous hue, and is still more like that of

C. crassifolium, appendix, p. 23, which last appears to be

the Amaryiuis revoluta, var. B. of the Bot. Reg. 615, 4. —

plant differing in habit and perennial foliage from C. rev0-

lutum, which is AMarytuis revoluta, var. A. of the Bot. Reg-

623. If it had been ascertained that the short filaments

of C..aquaticum always connived, considering its other

remarkable features, we should have detached it from the

genus Crinum under the name Crinopsis. W. HH.

- “as Cell shewing eight ovules. ——-. b..-- Particle of pollen magnified.

_. @. Dissection to shew the stamens, and the ‘connecting membrane at

a5j -thé faux of the tube, ': ‘ ‘ i Sage

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AustrasMEertAa PULCHELLA. Speck LED

> ALsTRazmErtia.

Sebi beiibbeiobieie

Class and Order.

‘Fexanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cor. 6-petala, subbilabiata: petalis duobus inferioribus

basi tubulo Stamina declinata.. Germ. inferum, 3—6-

aNSUIATeds aF exesst 40 yadiang. 2915°°2

cml ig gra om ss et

Austremerts pulchella ; caule erecto, foliis sessilibus lan-

ceolatis, pedunculis involucro longioribus, petalis re-

curvo patentibus acuminatis subequalibus: duobus.

erectis maculatis angustioribus.

Atsvrameria pulchella. Lin. Suppl. 206 ?

AustrameriA Ligta ; caule erecto, foliis lanceolato-lineari-

bus, floribus umbellatis, petalis subconformibus. Flor.

Peruv. 3. p. 59?

Hemerocaxuis floribus purpurascentibus striatis vulgo Ligtu.

Feuill. Peruv. 2. p. 710. t. 4. vix dubia.

Although we have very little doubt but that our plant is

the same species as that described and figured by Father

FevitiEs, and referred to by Linnmzus as a synonym of

A. Ligtu, and consequently that the species published

under that name at No. 125 of this work, is not the original

Ligtu ; yet as that plant is now well known in Europe by

this name, we think that any attempt to restore the original

appellation, were we quite certain of the error, would only

add to the confusion. Not to increase unnecessarily the

number of species we refer our plant to A. pr:lchella, under

which name we received it, though we confess that it does

not well agree with the description in the Supplementum

a Hs Plantarum ;

Plantarum ; and we:do this the more readily as there is no

species described in the Flora Peruviana by the name of

pulchella, which was taken up by Linneus from a drawing

only. There is no figure of AtsrremeriA Ligtu in the

Flora Peruviana of Rurez and Pavon, the drawings and

dried specimens of that plant being lost by shipwreck, but

their description disagrees in very few points with our

present subject; and they refer to Fevmxee’s figure without

stigmatising it as bad; a character given it by WiLLDENow,

and which it well deserves, if intended to represent the

plant now known by that name. The specimens preserved

in their Herbarium now in the possession of Mr. Lamperr,

as A. Ligtu, are more like our plant than the one which

is so called at present; but perhaps may be only varieties

of Pelegrina. .

Our drawing was taken from a weak plant; a stronger

may probably produce more flowers in the umbel and

consequently a greater number of leaves in the involu-

crum. Communicated by Mr. Anperson from the Chelsea

garden in June last ; where it flowered in the greenhouse,

Natiye of Chili whence the seeds were received in 1820,

T Sowerby. Del, dd :

Sowerby. Pub-by:J. Corts Walworth . Oct 11922. Widdell Se.

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PASSIFLORA LUNATA. CRESCENT-LEAVED

Passton-FLOWER: ~

Class and Order.

MonapecpuiA PEnTANDRIA:

Generic Character:

-.. Cal. 5-partitus, coloratus. Cor. 5-petala, calyci inserta.

Nectar. Corona filamentosa. Pepo pedicellata.

| Specific Character and. Synonyms.

petiolis eglandulosis, pedunculis axillaribus geminis,

__. filis corone exterioribus compresso-clayatis.

Passirtora lunata; foliis bilobis punctatis basi subcordatis

biglandulosis, nectarii radiis exterioribus compresso=

Passirtora lunata; foliis cordatis bilobis obtusis glabris,

etiolis eglandulosis, ese gabe asiiiaribass poate,

filis corone clavatis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 612. Hort.

Kew. éd. alt. 4. p..149. Pers. Syn. 2. p. 220. n. 21.

Passirtora biflora; foliis bilobis semilunatis obtusis glabris

subtus punctatis, caule quinquangulo, axillis bifloris.

Lam. Encycl. 3. p. 36. p. 447. t. 271. Cav. Diss. 10,

AbT. t. 288. = =

Granapitia folio lunato, flore parvo albo, fructu succulento

- evato Houstoni. Mart. Cent. p. 52. t. 52. _

Passiriora Vespertilio. Miss Laur. Passion-flowers.

Passrrtora lunata; foliis bilobis punctatis basi subcordatis,

Descr. Stem shrubby, five-angled, climbing by means

of long spirally twisted tendrils. Leaves alternate, three-

nerved, two-lobed: lobes divaricate, obtuse, terminated

with a short bristle (as is the midrib of the leaf between

the lobes) reticulate-veined, marked with an irregular nt

a o

of pellucid dots on the inner-side of the nerve of each.

Petioles short, curved, Stipules two, subulate, persistent,

Pedunceles axillary, growing two together, jointed, with

three subulate bractes below the joint, one flowered. Ca-

lyx (or outer segments of the perianthium) 5-cleft, green

with whitish margin, concave. Petals (or inner segments)

five, rather shorter than the calyx, white. Outer series

of the nectarium or corona nearly the length of the petals,

yellow, compressed, somewhat broadest a little below

the pomt. Germen oval, obsoletely three-cornered, sup-

ported on a thickish column to which the filaments are

united. Anthers oblong. Styles recurved : stigmas large,

rounded. .

Sir James E. Smrrn, who has given a description and

beautiful figure of this plant in his Icones picte, remarks

that the observation in the Systema vegetabilium affixed to

PasstrLora ‘punctata belongs to this plant, but not so the

specific character.

We could not discover any appearance of the two glands

at the base of the leaf besides he row of pellucid dots, nor

do we discover them in either of the figures quoted, nor are

they noticed in Sir James’s full description, though inserted

in the specific character.

Native of Mexico and of Jamaica. Cultivated in the

stove, where it blossoms most part of the year. Introduced

by Dr. Wittram Hovstown in 1733.

: The outline figure represents the leaf of a variety received from JOHN

WALKER, Esq. except in foliage, differing in nothing from our plant.

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SP hertis. Del.

Publy.Sburtis Wabworth. Oct-12 822, WedddlSe.

(2355...)

Crinum ARENARIUM. WATER-ISLAND

Sanp CRINUM.

JE Ebbeekek

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character —Vide No. 2292.

Specific Character.

, Sect. 1. Patentes. Subdiv. nutantes.

Crinum arenarium, bulbo ovato, foliis bipedalibus margine

_Sub-scabro, scapo pedali, umbella 5-flora breviter pe-

., dunculata, germine 3-unciali, tubo sub-4-unciali. vi-

_.// ridescente, limbo sub-3-unciali albo, stylo laciniis et

filamentis longiore. mee

= sa

Descr. Bulb ovate, covered with whitish brown coats.

Leaves two feet long, one inch and half wide, and a little

purple near the base, tapering towards the point, with the

edges a little rough, rather more glaucous, and less erect

than those of americanum, which they much resemble. .

Scape near a foot, green. Spathe one inch and half. Umbel —

5-flowered, with bractes. Peduncles three eights of an inch

long ; germen quarter of an inch long. Cells with six

ovules. Tube near four inches long, pale green, faintly

speckled with red, at first curved, afterwards more erect.

imb white, two inches and three quarters long, the outer

segments three quarters wide, the inner a little narrower,

all terminating with a green point. Filaments a little

knobbed at their insertion, purple except near their base,

at first declined with their points curved upwards, afterwards

diverging with conniving points, the base of each being

embraced by the margins of the corresponding segment of

the limb; the outer filaments six eights, the inner five

| eights

eights shorter than the limb. Pollen orange. Style purple

towards the extremity, half an inch longer than the limb.

Stigma triangularly round, large, with long white fimbriz.

Buds nodding completely before expansion. Flowers with

very little nce 7

Bulbs of this species of Crinum were collected on the

expedition to survey the coasts of Australia, in Water

island on the N. W. coast, lat. 14°, 3’S. and long. 125°, E.

_ of Greenwich, at the entrance of Montagu’s sound. The

bulbs were growing about eight or nine inches below the

surface of a barren sandy soil; the thermometer stood at

94 in the shade, a sea breeze blowing upon it; the ball of

the thermometer being placed in the sand, it rose rapidly

to 130, when it was necessary to remove it to prevent its

bursting, as the scale went no higher than 133.

The bud represented in the figure, nodded completely

the day before its expansion, which took place late in the

evening ; the flower retained the next morning the posture

of tube, limb, and filaments, resembling that of C. america-

num; but before noon the base of the petals began to

contract round the corresponding filaments: The same

change takes place in the flowers of C. defixuwm when they

begin to fade. The specimen was sent at the end of May

from Lord Carnarvon’s stove at Highclere. Bulbs appa-

rently of the same species have been since collected at

Cape Flinders, lat. 14°, 10’ S: long. 144°, 18’ E. WH.

Erratum. in last Number:

Page 2343, line 1 and 12, for tuberosa read tuberosum.

INDEX.

In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the Forty-

Ninth Volume are alphabetically arranged.

—R SS. GS

Pil.

2305 Achania Malvaviscus.

2304 Alée nitida.

2353 Alstroemeria pulchella.

2349 Anchusa Barrelieri.

2350 Arthropodium cirratum.

2319 Arbutus Unedo, 9. integrifolia.

2342 Argemone albiflora.

2282 Arum tenuifolium.

2324 ——-trilobatum.

2329 Aspalathus carnosa,

2321 Aster alwartensis. —

2286 ——= fruticulosus. |

2335 Astragalus brachycarpus.

2276 Athanasia annua.

2308 Azalea hybrida euneandra,

2343 Brachystelma tuberosum.

2339 Burchellia bubalina.

2306 Cactus speciosissimus.

2279 Calla aromatica.

2316 Canna gigantea.

2302 glauca, £. rufa.

2323 —-— pedunculata.

2317 —-— speciosa.

2293 Carthamus ceruleus.

2309 Cerbera Thevetia.

2274 Cicer arietinum.

2287 Cnicus afer.

2852 Crinum aquaticum.

2355 - arenarium.

2301 ensifolium.

2336 ‘hybridum, erubescente

-capense.

2292 moluccanum.

2288 Dianthus Pseudarmeria.

2332 Diosma ericoides,

2322 Erica mene as B. tri-

umphans.

2348 mutabilis.

2340 Fumaria cava v. albiflora.

2291 Gastronema clavatum.

2303 Gentiana intermedia.

2284 Glycine phaseoloides.

2328 Gnaphalium congestum.

2300 Hedychium spicatum.

fag A

2338 Hibbertia dentata.

2273 Hippeastrum pulverulentum.

2315 ————--— spathaceum hy-

bridum.

2278 ———_——--— stylosum,

2299 Hyssopus orientalis, 6.

2327 Jacaranda ovalifolia.

2326 Iris brachycuspis.

2331 —— Pallasii, 8. chinensis.

2280. Lilium carolinianum.

2277 Lobelia decumbens.

2295 Lysimachia verticillata.

2346 -— Ephemerum.

2297 Malva Alcea.

2298 —-— moschata, £. undulata.

2307 Maranta arundinacea.

2337 Melastoma heteromalla.

2314 Mespilus odoratissima.

2345 Orobus hirsutus.

2344 Papavernudicaule, 2. rubro-

aurantiacum.

2975 Parthenium Hysterophorus.

2354 Passiflora lunata.

2289 Periploca ca.

2347 Phy teats ajdexiai,

2318 Plectranthus comosus.

2341 Poterium caudatum.

2285 Rhododendron —— («.)

2333 Rivina levis.

2310 Rudbeckia pinnata.

2311 Ruta angustifolia.

2320 Salvia bracteata. ats

2290 Saponaria Vaccaria.

2294 Scorzonera purpurea, A. gran-

diflora.

2312 Sisyrinchium laxum.

2313 tenuifolium.

2334 Templetonia retusa.

2351 Thysanotus junceus.

2330 Tradescantia fuscata.

2283 Trifolium ceruleum.

2296 Triumfetta annua.

2325 Valeriana ruthenica.

2281 Viburnum nudum.

INDEX.

In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the Forty-

Ninth Volume are alphabetically arranged.

—=sA. TD Se

Pil. PE =.

2305 Achania, Scarlet. 2323 Indian Reed Peduncled.

2350 Arthropodium, Broad-leaved.

2353 Alstreemeria, Speckled.

2304 Alwée, Polished.

2342 Argemone, White-flowered.

2307 Arrow-Root, Indian.

2324 Arum, Auriculate Three-lobed.

2282 ——- Scorzonera-leaved.

2329 Aspalathus, Oval-spiked.

2335 Astragalus, Short-fruited.

2276 Athanasia, Annual.

2308 Azalea, Hybrid Rhododen-

dron-like.

2345 Bitter-Vetch, Hairy.

2343 Brachystelma, 'Tuberous-

rooted.

2349 Bugloss, Barrelier’s.

2339 Burchellia, Cape.

2341 Burnet, Smooth Shrubby.

2279 Calla, Aromatic.

2293 Carthamus, Blue-flowered.

2309 Cerbera, Linear-leaved.

2274 Chich-pea, or Chiches.

2287 Cnicus, Barbary, or Twin-

thorned Thistle.

2352 Crinum, Aquatic.

2355 » Water-island, Sand.

2296 » Molucca.

2301 —-——, Sword-leaved.

2336 , Hybrid Erubescent-

Cape.

2332 Diosma, Sweet-scented.

2340 Fumitory, White Hollow-

rooted.

2291 Gastronema, Striped-flowered.

2303 Gentian, Intermediate.

2284 Glycine, Lesser Red-bead.

2328 Gnaphalium, Compact-flower-

ing.

2314 So eta Sweet-scented.

_ 2322 Heath, Blood-spotted Andro-

. meda-flowered.

» mutable.

2300 Hedychium, Spike-flowered.

2338 Hibbertia, Brown-leaved.

_ 2299 Hyssop, Oriental.

2327 Jacaranda, Oval-leaved.

2302 Indian-Reed, Buff-coloured

eee |

—~, Nepaul,

2316 » Tall.

2331 Iris, Pallas’s Chinese.

2326 —, Poisonous-rooted.

2273 Knight’s-Star-Lily, Bloom-

leaved.

2315 - Long-spa-

thed hybrid, :

2278 Long-

styled. —

2280 Lily, Carolina Martagon,

2277 Lobelia, Decumbent.

2295 Loosestrife, Verticillate.

2346 ——_—_—--, Willow-leaved,

2298 Mallow, Undulated Musk.

2297 » Vervain.

2337 Melastoma, Woolly-leaved.

2283 Melilot-Trefoil, Blue.

2275 Parthenium, Cut-leaved.

2354 Passion-Flower, Creseent-

leaved. :

|| 2289 Peripleca, Common.

2288 Pink, Long-scaled.

2318 Plectranthus, Tufted, .

2344 Poppy, Orange-coloured,

Naked-stalked.

2347 Rampion, Spiked.

2285 Rhododendron, Carolina Det-

ted-leaved, ae

2333 Rivina, Smooth.

2310 Rudbeckia, Fragrant pinnated.

2311 Rue, Narrow-leaved.

2320 Sage, Long-bracted; or Clary.

2312 Sisyrinchiam, Loose-flowered.

2313 - , Narrow-leaved.

2290 Soapwort, Cow. :

2330 Spiderwort, Stemless.

2321 Starwort, Fine-rayed.

2286 ————, Shrubby. _

2319 Strawberry-Tree, Entire-

leaved.

2334 Templetonia, Wedge-leaved.

2351 Thysanotus, Rush-like.

2306 Torch-Thistle, Crimson-flow-

ered. :

2296 Triumfetta, Annual.

2325 Valerian, Altaic.

2281 Viburnum, Oval-leaved.

—

2294 Vipei’s-Grass, Large Purple-

flowered.