CURTIS’S

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE;

Flower Garden Displayed:

In which the most Ornamental Foreren Pants cultivated in the Open Ground,

the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented and coloured.

To which are added,

THEIR NAMES, CLASS, ORDER, GENERIC AND SPECIFIC CHARACTERS,

ACCORDING TO THE SYSTEM OF LINNUS;

Their Places of Growth, Times of Flowering, and most approved

Methods of Culture.

. CONDUCTED

By SAMUEL CURTIS, F. L. S.

THE DESCRIPTIONS

By WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, L.L. D.

F.R. A. and L. 8S. and Regius Professor of Botany in the University

of Glasgow.

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GLOXINIA sPEcIosA, var. albiflora. Snowy

Gvioxinia ; White-flowered variety.

KEE KEE EE KEKE KEKE EK

Class and Order.

Dipynami1a ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Gesneriea. )

Generic Character.

Cal. superus, pentaphyllus. Cor. campanulata : limbo

obliquo. Filamenta cum rudimento quinti imo tubo co-

rollz inserta. Caps. 1-locularis. Recept. 2, biloba, late-

ribus inserta,

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Guioxinta* speciosa; subacaulis, foliis ellipticis crenatis

pubescenti-hirsutis, pedunculis erectis tlore longiori-

bus, corolle tubo inflato.

Groxinia speciosa. Loddiges, Bot. Cab. t. 28. Bot. Reg.

t. 213. Bot. Mag. t. 1937.

(6.) floribus albis. :

The usual, or purple-flowered state of this plant has

been already figured and described, both in the Botanical

Magazine and Register. It remains for us to give a repre-

sentation of the white-flowered variety of this plant, which

we believe is yet uncommon in the stoves of this country,

though a pale-purple-blossomed kind is not unfrequent.

* So named by L’HEéRiTIER, in honour of Dr. BENJAMIN PETER

phate ro of Colmar, who had published on Marrynia and some allied

enera.

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LOBELIA MUCRONATA. SHARP-POINTED

LOBELIA.

KEKE RRR REE REE

Class and Order. a

Pentanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Loseuiscez. )

Generic Character.

Corolla tubo hine fisso (raro integro) ; limbo 5-partito :

Anthere counate. Stigma bilobum (nunc indivisum).

Capsula_bilocularis (raro 3-locul.), apice supero bi-

valvi. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Loses mucronata ; foliis sparsis sessilibus oblongo-lan-

ceolatis serrulatis utrinque pubescentibus mucronatis,

racemo brevi subfolioso laxo.

Lospeuia mucronata. Cav. Ic. v. 6. p. 516. t. 516. Schultes

ee Veget. v. 5. p. 43. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1.

p. T1O,

Derscr. Root perennial. Stem erect, herbaceous, two

and a half to three feet high, simple, slightly downy, pur-

plish-red. Leaves numerous, scattered, sessile, by no means

amplexicaul, oblong or oblongo-lanceolate, three to four

inches long, minutely serrated, tipped with a short point

or mucro, downy and very soft to the touch on both sides :

colour a pale green, tinged with red, especially at the mid-

rib beneath. Raceme terminal, short, lax, of twelve or

fourteen spreading, large, and richly-coloured flowers, sub-

tended at the base by bracteas which are, below, large and

foliaceous, above smaller, more or less tinged with purple.

Calyx : tube short, somewhat angled, downy, with five

nearly equal acuminated teeth. Corolla bright crimson,

downy,

downy, pale in the bud, slit on the upper side for nearly its

whole length, through which the style and column of sta-

mens are more or less protruded, limb deflexed, five-cleft,

and somewhat two-lipped. Combined filaments, a cylin-

drical, slender tube, reddish. Anthers lead-coloured.

Seeds of this very beautiful plant were communicated to

the Glasgow Botanic Garden from Chili, the native country

of the species, by ALExanpeR CrucxsHanxs, Esq., and

blossoms were produced in the greenhouse in August, 1832.

Like the Losetia Tupa it will probably be found to be

hardy enough in England to bear the open air, and will

then prove a great acquisition. It is, however, a much

smaller plant than that, in all its parts, bearing a much

shorter and more lax raceme of flowers, but which are

equally brilliant in point of colour. It does not appear to

be known to any author except Cavanities, who has given

a very accurate figure of it in the work above quoted.

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CRYPTOPHRAGMIUM VENUSTUM. STATELY

CrRYPTOPHRAGMIUM.

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Class and Order.

| Dranpria MonoeyniA.

—_— Ord —AcaNTHACER. )

Generic Ebnriilcr.

Cal. 5- partis equalis. Cor. bilabiata val" ringens,, tubo

erecto. Stam. 2, lateri infero tubi inserta. Anthere bilo-

cellate, antice maxime contigue rimaque simplici dehis-

centes, loculi fundo septo communi bilamellato diviso.

Capsula tetragona, bilocularis, septo adnato, polysperma,

a basi seminifera. Semina retinaculis sustensa.— Inflores-

centia 5 racemi vel spice secunda@, vel glomerato-subverti-

_ Bractew et bracteolz pales: ol i cit Nees

v. Esenb. re =

ects Character and Borys!

CrypropHracMium * venustum ; spica terminali composita

brachiata, foliis ellipticis in petiolum alate decurrenti- |

bus denticulatis aga bhi corolla calyce multo sgn.

‘ Nees.

CryProPHRAGMIUM vena Nees von Bieab. Atootle.

Ind. Orient. in Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. v. 3. p. 100.

Justicia venusta, Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. v. 1. pe t. 66.

Ajied. Catal. n. 2470. a. b. 23

Dascr. A ahr according to Dr. Warsi, aitaintlig a

height of four to men feet in its native country, with ‘a

slightly

* From xpuwros, concealed, and Qpuyyos, a partitides = the concealed’

dissepiment of the anther.

slightly branched, but rather stout stem, branches four-—

sided. Leaves opposite and decussate, the full grown ones —

a span or more in length, ovate, acuminate, obscurely ser-—

rated, rounded at the base, and then suddenly attenuated

into a broadly-winged and waved petiole, scabrous on both

sides: the midrib sends off numerous parallel and nearly

transverse nerves, and these again lesser ones or veinlets, —

which anastomose with them. Panicle terminal, large:

peduncle and pedicels four-sided, downy. Flowers hand-

some, arranged in distichous, yet subsecund spikes on the

ultimate ramuli. Calyx small, ovate, five-partite, the seg-

ments nearly equal, narrow-lanceolate, straight or slightly

incurved. Corolla an inch and a half long: the tube

straight, pale purple, the limb deep-purple, white in the

centre, cut into two patent lips; upper lip in two, lower

in three, linear-oblong segments. -Anthers white, promi-_

nent... Style white, a little longer than the stamens, slightly ©

thickened upwards : stigma small, two-lobed. _ 4

A folio plate were scarcely sufficient to do justice to the”

large panicle of this beautiful plant, which Dr. Waxiich

declares to be the loveliest of its tribe with which he is_

acquainted. The colour of the limb of the flowers is a

peculiarly rich purple, but they are too much scattered on

a single branch of the panicle to give the effect produced

ls the entire panicle. It was discovered in the mountains

of Pandua on theeastern boundary of India, and cultivated

in the Calcutta Botanic Garden in 1825, whence Dr. Wat-

Lica introduced it to the English Gare ens, through that of

the Horticultural Society of London in 1828. Its flower-

agg the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden is

tober. . oo: eb ME, ot , ane

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Fig. 1. Flower. vd Stamens and portion of ‘the Style : magnified. at

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‘Class and Order. -s 2 ee - :

_GyNanpRia Moxanprsa Pr i=

(Nat ‘Ord. —Oncanoes. i

| Generic ‘Chanfiler.

Columna cum ungue labelli longitadinaliicr connata in

-tubum (quandoque ecurrentem ovarium). Masse pollinis -

A, parallele, septis completis beeeaeous; pistinete, basi _

“filo Seo ela: weg. auctae. Bre se

. eas ae Eaadulatis obtusis, Praintale cloupaadl wf

‘bracteato terminali, racemo subumbellato, petalistri-

bus exterioribus ellipticis, 2 interioribus lineari-oblon-

gis, labello profunde trifido, segmentis cuneato-ob-

longis obtusis, intermedio lacinula reflexa byobe-*

2 aim, Sitipasitic. " weche kedioa, peallite. many dis-

~ tichous, coriaceous, linear- -oblong, somewhat waved leaves,

sheathing at the base, blunt at the extremity. Beyond the

leaves, the main-stem is elong: = and incurved, and forms -

a terminal peduncle, somewhat compressed, and clothed

with many sheathing, acuminated, membranaceous, com-

pressed bracteas. Flowers large, of a pale, delicate green,

whitish in. the centre, arranged in a corymb-like raceme.

ils patent ; the three outer ones the. largest, elliptical,

obtuse, the two inner ones linear-oblong. Labellum :

tenti-reflexed, the lower part combined with the semicylin=

drical column ; thence suddenly dilated and deeply three-_

cleft, the segments -oblongo-cuneate, the middle one the

broadest,

_ broadest, and haying a small point ago reflexed,

~ which makes the middle segment appear two-lobed. At

the base of the lip are two small tubercles. Anther small,

half-immersed. | Pollen-masses, as in all the Genus, yellow.

This is a fine and very distinct species of Eripenprum,

allied in size and general mode of growth to E. nutans,

but very different in the form of the labellum. It was

communicated from the stove of Mrs. Arnonp Harrison, of

Aigburgh, having been detected in Brazil by her brother,

~ Mr. Wiiuiam Harrison. ; te

Fig. 1. Under side of the Lip. 2. Pollen-masses : magnified.

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MeLALeuca Frasert. Mr. Fraser’s |

| MELALEUCA.

Class and Order.

PoLyaDELPHIA POoLYANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Myrracez. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus subhemisphericus, limbus 5-partitus. Pe-

tala 5. Staminum phalanges totidem elongate, petalis

opposite. Stylus fiiformis Stigma obtusam. <Anthere

incumbentes. Capsula calycis tubo incrassato et ramo basi

adnato connata et inclusa, 3-locul., polysperma. Semina

angulata.—Arbores aut Frutices, plurime ex Nova Hol-

landia, pauce ex India Orient. Folia alterna aut opposita,

bast equalia. Flores omnino sessiles aut subadnati, spica-

ti aut capitati, albi, flavidi aut purpurascentes. DC.

Specific Name and Character,

Me xarevuca Fraseri ; foliis alternis lineari-subulatis com-

pressis enerviis patenti-recurvis mucrone acuminatis

basi attenuatis, spicis ovali-globosis terminalibus, pha-

langibus 12—14-andris, unguibus corolla longioribus.

‘i.

Descr. A lowly, much branched shrub, with many short,

opposite, or subverticillate branches, bearing, generally,

towards their extremities, rather crowded, alternate, quite

glabrous, linear-subulate, compressed, reflexo-patent leaves,

slightly attenuate at the base, acuminate with a mucro at

the

* ptras, black, and arsvxos, white; the same as Caja-puti, or white tree, the

name of the original species in the Malay language, and thence also called

LEUCADENDRON and Arbor alba.

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MeELALEUCA Frasert. Mr. FrAseEr’s

: MELALEUCA.

Class and Order.

PoLyADELPHIA PoLYANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord. —Myrracez. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus subhemisphericus, limbus 5-partitus. Pe-

tala 5. Staminum phalanges totidem elongate, petalis

opposite. Stylus filiformis. Stigma obtusam. Anthere

incumbentes. Capsula calycis tubo incrassato et ramo basi

adnato connata et inclusa, 3-locul., polysperma. Semina

angulata.—Arbores aut Frutices, plurime ex Nova Hol-

landia, pauce ex India Orient. Folia alterna aut opposita,

bast equalia. Flores omnino sessiles aut subadnatt, spica-

ti aut capitati, albi, flavidi aut purpurascentes. D C.

Specific Name and Character.

Metarevuca Fraseri ; foliis alternis lineari-subulatis com-

pressis enerviis patenti-recurvis mucrone acuminatis

basi attenuatis, spicis ovali-globosis terminalibus, pha-

langibus 12—14-andris, unguibus corolla longioribus.

i‘.

Descr. A lowly, much branched shrub, with many short,

opposite, or subverticillate branches, bearing, generally,

towards their extremities, rather crowded, alternate, quite

glabrous, linear-subulate, compressed, reflexo-patent leaves,

slightly attenuate at the base, acuminate with a mucro at

the |

* psras, black, and revxes, white; the same as Caja-puti, or white tree, the

name of the original species in the Malay language, and thence also called _

LEUCADENDRON and Arbor alba.

the point: the surface under a microscope is minutely

dotted, and there are besides several (comparatively) large

and oblong, pellucid dots, when dry striated :—not unfre-

quently, by a twist at the base of the leaves, they become

vertical. Flowers collected into a spike, of a broadly oval,

or subglobose outline, at the extremity of the branches,

only terminated by two or three annotinous shoots. Base

of the calyx where it is accrete with the germen and stem,

very downy : limb of five broadly-ovate, rather small, erect,

reen teeth. Petals five, obovate, concave, erect, white.

stamens all nearly equal in height, combined into five

halanges, each of about thirteen filaments, whose com-

ined portions or claws are much longer than the corolla,

and occupying about half the length of the filaments them-_

selves: all of a delicate rose colour. Style about as long |

as the stamens.

From the greenhouse of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, —

where it was received from the late Mr. Fraser, Colonial

Botanist at Sidney, New South Wales, under the name of

Metatevca genistifolia: but the plant so called by Smita

(Ex. Fl. t. 55,) is very different, having much broader

leaves, and the stamens of a totally different character ;

nor does our plant accord with any described species,

whence I have been led to name it in compliment to the —

person to whom we are indebted for its possession. -

Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Flower. 3. Petal. 4. One of the five bundles of Sta-

mens. 5. Anther and summit of a Filament: magnified

James MONS del? Tub by S. Curtis Claxemreod Essex Jan 11835,

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SciLLA vILLosA. Hatry-LEAvep SQuitLu.

KEE KKK EEK EE KKEKEREEEK

Class and Order.

HexanpriA Monoeyntia.

( Nat. Ord.— AsPHoDELEa. )

Generic Character.

Corolla subrotata. Stamina xqualia, basi petalis adnata.

Capsula supera, trilocularis. Semina globosa. Spreng.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Scitza villosa; foliis lanceolatis laxis villosis, racemis co-

rymbosis, bracteis lanceolatis pedunculis equantibus.

Sprengel.

Scitta villosa. Desf. Fl. Atl. v. 1. p. 299. t. 85. f. 2.

Sprengel, Syst. Veget.v.2.p.67. Schultes, Syst. Veget.

0. 7. p. 566.

Descr. Bulb ovate, coated, about the size of a small

onion, truncated below with a prominent, sharp border,

from within which, many strong, wrinkled, nearly straight

roots descend, their subdivisions spreading and villous.

Leaves (three inches long, half an inch broad) about four,

all radical, spathulato-lanceolate, attenuated at the base,

and there concave in front, nearly flat above, spreading,

more or less ciliated, with rather long, but unequal mone

ing hairs, and more sparingly villous on the upper surface,

glabrous below, and purple in the lower half; involute at

the apex, giving the appearance of a mucro. Scape (an

inch and a half long below the first pedicel) erect, shorter

than the leaves, nearly round, glabrous, pale green. Brac-

tee (seven lines long) single, lanceolate, attenuated at the

apex, persisting. Racemes corymbose, few- (five to seven-)

flowered ; pedicels erect, stout, resembling the scape, each’

springing from the axil of a bractea, embraced by it at the

base, and equal to it in length in the native —

the cultivated plant, twice as long as it. Corolla (nine lines 4

across,) of six petals, spreading ; petals ovate, attenuated —

at the base, each with a small tuft of crystalline tomentum —

at the apex, pale lilac, with a broad, deep green stripe in —

the centre below. Stamens shorter than the petals, rising |

from the leaves of these, and adhering to them by their

backs for a little way ; filaments lilac, tumid in the middle, —

slightly concave in front and nectariferous ; anthers versa- —

tile, pollen yellow. Pistil equal in length to the stamens,

of a dull purplish-green ; stigma small, terminal, villous ;

Style short, conical, six-furrowed ; Germen ovate, six -fur-

rowed, the alternate furrows hairy, trilocular, the dissepi- —

ments double, being formed by a duplicature of the mner —

membrane, opposite to the hairy lines on the germen, and —

globular, several in each —

alternate with the sutures ; ovules

loculament ; receptacle central.

Specimens of this pretty little plant, which no doubt will —

bear cultivation in a warm border in the open air, I receiv-_

ed from my friend Dr. Dickson in 1831, having been gath-_

ered by him in the neighbourhood of Tripoli. Among the—

specimens, some of the bulbs yet retained life : these were ©

planted in the stove, at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, —

and flowered there in November, 1832. Graham.

Fig. 1. Back view of a Petal. 2. Front view of ditto, with a Stamen. ;

3, Capsule : magnified.

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PoMADERRIS BETULINA. BIRCH-LEAVED

PoMADERRIS.

KEK EK EKER EK EREEEEE

Class and Order.

PentranpriaA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord —Ruamnea. )

Generic Character.

Cal. semi-adherens, 5-fidus. Pet. 5 squamiformia, con-

cava, rarius nulla. Stamina lobis cal. alterna iisque brevi-

ora, in petalorum cavitate juniora abscondita. Discus

nullus. Stylus brevissimus, triqueter. Stigmata 3. Cap-

sula 3-cocca, 3-sperma, cocculis interne planiusculis fora-

mine maximo per membranam tenuem tardius solutam

clauso instructis. Semina erecta—Arbuscule aut Frutices

e Nova Hollandia orti, foliis alternis subtus incanis, habitus

Ceanothi ad quoad Genus valde accedit.. D C.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Pomaperris* betulina; florum capitulis subpaniculatis, foliis

ovalibus obtusis superne glabriusculis penninerviis

subtus ferrugineo-lanatis, floribus apetalis. Cunningh.

Pomaperris betulina. Cunningh. MSS.

Descr. A slender, much branching shrub, the old branches

dark-gray and glabrous, the younger ones clothed with

rusty down. Leaves numerous, shortly petiolate, oval or

rene scarcely an inch long, obtuse, slightly attenuated

at the base, coriaceous, the margins slightly revolute, dark-

green and nearly glabrous above, with impressed, pennated

_ * nerves,

— — ————

- ————

* Towa, a covering, and depp, a skin, on account of the peculiar membra-

nous covering to the capsule. ‘

nerves, beneath clothed with a dense, rusty down, deeper

on the prominent nerves and midrib. Flowers small, col-—

lected into dense, bracteated glomeruli or capitula, which

are sometimes on short, solitary, peduncles from the axils of

the leaves, or they form a sort of panicle at the extremities

of the numerous branches. Bractee membranaceous, ovate,

concave, ferruginous, slightly downy, shorter than the

scarcely pedicellated flowers, subinvolucrate. Calyx sub-

campanulate, pale yellowish-white, densely hairy, the lower

part of the tube adherent with the germen, the limb five-

cleft, segments ovate, acute, erecto-patent, hairy at the

base within. Petals none. Stamens alternate with the

segments of the calyx, and longer than they. Filaments

erect, remarkably inflexed at the extremity. Anthers versa-

tile, oblong, yellow, two-celled. Style short: Stigma three-

cleft, the segments linear. ,

This new species of Pomaprrris was discovered by ALLAN

Cunnincuam, Esq. in a ravine at the base of the “ Pine

Hills,” near Bathurst, New South Wales, in October, 1822;

and by the same Naturalist, in 1823, was introduced to the

Royal Gardens at Kew, whence flowering specimens were —

obligingly communicated by W. T. Arron, Esq; in April

1832, It requires the same treatment as the New Holland

plants in general, a soil with a considerable admixture 0)

peat, and such protection from the frost in the winter as iS

afforded by a common greenhouse, or conservatory.

= a

Fig. 1. Capitulum of Flowers, 2. Single Flower. 3. Section of the

Wied part of the Calyx and Germen, 4. Stamen :—all more or less mag-

nified.

Pub br S$. Cartes

tlavenwood

Freer,

Feb? 1.1835.

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BEAUMONTIA GRANDIFLORA. LARGE-

FLOWERED BEAUMONTIA.

a OS

Class and Order.

Penranpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—ApocyneEz. )

Generic Character.

Cal. pentaphyllus, foliaceus, coloratus. Cor. campanu-

lata, tubo brevi fauceque esquamatis, laciniis subequilateris.

Stamina filiformia laxa, antheris subexsertis, sagittatis,

medio stigmati adherentibus, lobis posticis polline vacuis.

Ovarium biloculare, suffultum annulo hypogyno, quinque-

lobo. Stigma oblongum, apicula bifida. Follieult 2 max-

imi, coherentes. Semina ad umbilicum sericeo-comosa,

Wall.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Breaumontia * grandiflora. Wall. Tent. Fl. Nep. Ill. p. 15.

t. 7. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 901.

Kcuires grandiflora. Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 20. Spreng.

Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 634. .

Descr. A climbing shrub, in its native country, of vast

extent ; its long stems and numerous branches sometimes

reaching over trees, at other times straggling near the

ground. Branches rounded, smooth. Leaves numerous,

especially towards the extremities of the branches, large,

broadly oblong, sometimes approaching to obovate, entire,

glabrous, acuminulate, much nerved, on short petioles; the

young ones and extremities of the young branches often

tinged

* Named in honour of the late Mrs. Beaumont of Bretton Hall, an ardent

lover and a munificent patroness of Horticulture.

VOL. VII. Cc

tinged with red. Flowers very fragrant, large, white, termi-

nal, few upon each branch in our plant, but forming a

corymb in native specimens. Peduncles very short, with

large bractee or small floral leaves at the base, reddish.

Calyx large, foliaceous, of five, broad, ovate, waved, patent,

obtuse, coloured pieces. Corolla very large, cream-coloured,

bell-shaped, of a somewhat leathery texture, the tube faintly

striated, the limd five-cleft, the segments rounded, acumi-

nulate, spreading, somewhat oblique. Stamens about as

long as the tube. Filaments thickened upwards, pale

green. Anthers sagittate, white with a brown margin,

combined over the stigma. Style remarkably thickened,

yellow and club-shaped at the extremity, and tipped with

two points, the bifid, dark green stzgma.

Mr. Marnock was so obliging as to send the accompany-

ing specimen from the great stove or dome conservatory of

the noble gardens at Bretton Hall, in May, 1832, and under

the name of Beaumontia longifolia. But on comparing it

with the original B. grandiflora, cultivated in the same

stove, Mr. Marnocx could discover no other difference than

the larger size of the leaves of the plant, and its readily

flowering, while the other never could be made to blossom.

I have, too, the authority of Dr. Watxicn for saying that

this is the B. grandiflora, and that no other species 1s

known to exist.

_ This truly superb plant, in its flowers and foliage not —

inaptly resembling Datura arborea, and equally fragrant,

was introduced by Dr. Waxtice in 1818, from mountain-

woods in Eastern Bengal, where it grows at Chittagong

and Sylhet: as it does, also, at Noakote in Nepaul.

Fig. 1. Stamens, 2. Anther. 3. Summit of the Style and Stigmas:

magnified. =

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( 3214 )

CaLCEOLARIA INTEGRIFOLIA, var. y, viscosissima.

ENTIRE-LEAVED CALCEOLARIA ; very viscid var.

Seek

Class and Order.

DianpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Scropnutarin2. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 4-partitus. Cor. bilabiata: labium inferius calcei-

forme, Capsula semibivalvis, valulis bifidis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

CatceotariA integrifolia; pubescens, erecta, foliosa, foliis

ovato-lanceolatis sessilibus connatis argute dentatis

reticulatim rugosis, paniculis terminalibus corymboso-

paniculatis. :

Carceoxartia integrifolia. Linn. Suppl. p. 86.7? Willd. Sp.

Pl. v. 1. p. 107.7? Lindl. in Bot. Reg. f. 744. (a)—ex-

cluding the reference to Sm. Ic. ined. which is C.

ovata and a very different species—et t. 1083. (6.)

Catceoxaria Salvie folio. Feuill. Per. v. 3. p. 13. t. 7.

(y.) tota pubescenti-viscidissima, foliis multo majoribus

latioribusque. (Tab. nostr. 30, var. y.)

Descr. Stem two to three feet high, rounded, prolife-

rous, as it were, with opposite branches, clothed with ex-

ceedingly viscid hairs, as is the whole plant. Leaves oppo-

site, more or less connate, ovato-lanceolate, much spread-

ing, irregularly and sharply toothed at the margin, rou

with reticulated veins, below paler and more downy: the

lower ones are tapering at the base, but none upon a de-

cided petiole. The main-stem and branches bear at their

extremity, a rather dense, and usually corymbose bi- tricho-

tomously divided panicle. Peduncles pubescenti- glan-

dular, slender. Calyx of four deep, ovate segments. wise

right,

bright, but not deep, yellow, changing, however, in drying

to a full and reddish-orange, subglobose, inflated, upper

lip not much more than half the size of the lower, closed

upon it, both compressed.

It would be a difficult and a hopeless task to endeavour

to determine a Jarge proportion of the CatcroLarias, which

are now cultivated in our gardens; so much have their

characters been destroyed by the mixing of the species.

Even in the native state, from the numerous wild species

that are now in my Herbarium, it is easy to see that the

are liable to much variation: and none, perhaps, so oie

so as that to which I am led to refer the present individual,

which is known in our gardens as C. integrifolia, but

whether of Linn. Suppl. and Wixtp. I cannot say; the

C. salvie folio of Fevirniz. Two remarkable varieties are

figured by Mr. Linptey in the Botanical Register : our’s is

a still more singular state, distinguished by the great size

of the leaves and the viscid nature of the whole plant:—

so viscid, indeed, that it is difficult to separate it from the

paper in which the specimens are dried.

it was raised from seeds by Mr. Cameron, at the Bir-

mingham Botanic Garden, where it flowered in great beauty

_ and perfection in November, 1832.

Fig. 1. Flower : magnified.

( 3215 )

CINERARIA TUSSILAGINIS. COLT’S-FOOT

CINERARIA.

SEE EEE EEE EK EEE EE EE

Class and Order.

SyNGENESIA SUPERFLUA.

( Nat. Ord.—Comrosirz. )

Generic Character.

Receptaculum nudum. Pappus simplex. Involucrum

polyphyllum, zquale. |

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cineraria * Tussilaginis ; floribus laxe paniculatis, foliis

reniformi-cordatis multangulis subtus albido-tomen-

_ tosis, petiolis basi auritis. oa Hee i

Crnerari Tussilaginis. L’ Hérit. Sert. Angl.n. 26. Willd.

Sp. Pl.v. 3. p. 2078. Spreng. Syst. Veget.v. 3. p. 548.

Descr. Our specimen of this plant is little more than a

foot high, rising from a densely fibrous, apparently annual

root. Stem erect, almost entirely glabrous, rounded,

branched almost from the base. Leaves few and mostly

radical, between cordate and reniform, membranaceous,

angled and toothed, green above, white and very tomen-

tose beneath, where it is likewise marked with conspicuous

and rather prominent veins; petiole slightly downy, dis-

tinctly auricled at the base. The stem-leaves are sessile,

so that the auricles and leaf combine, and they become

more ovate upwards, gradually passing into rather large,

on both sides glabrous, bractee at the forking of the panicle.

ers large, handsome, disposed in a lax, somewhat

corymbose

* From Cineres, ashes, from the pale ashen hue of the underside of the

leaves of many species.

corymbose panicle. Calyx purplish-green, of several erect,

sles linear segments. Ear sellow. Corollas of the ra

about twelve or thirteen, lilac-purple, spreading, obscurely

three-toothed at the extremity.

The Birmingham Botanic Garden} so recently formed by

the liberality of the inhabitants of that neighbourhood, has

already, under the judicious management of Mr. Cameron,

brought many rare plants to perfection : as is amply testified

by a box of rare flowering specimens which I have received

during the month of November, the most unpropitious

season, perhaps of the whole year. Among them is the

present at beautiful species of Crneraria, raised from

seeds sent from the island of Teneriffe, where alone it ap-

pears to be a native. The contrast of the dark green of the

upper, and the white, downy hue of the under side of the

leaves, renders it a very desirable inmate of the greenhouse,

or perhaps during the summer it may be found to blossom

in the open air.

It was described by L’Héritier in his “ Sertum Angli-

cum ;” but does not appear to have been known to other

_ authors, and it is now for the first time cultivated in out

gardens.

_ Lessine has united the two Genera Civerarta and SENE-

Rio, there being no distinguishing character between them.

3216. |

Liab: by S. Curtis, Claxenwood Eesex Feb*UNS.

( 3216 )

PRIESTLEYA VILLOSA. ViLLous PriestTLeya.

KEK REE EEE KEE EERE

Class and Order.

Diavetpa1a Decanpris.

( Nat. Ord.—Leceuminosz. )

Generic Character.

Cal. subequaliter 5-lobus, subbilabiatus. Cor. glabra,

vexillo subrotundo, breviter stipitata, alis obtusis subfalca-

tis, carina bicipite dorso curvo convexa. Stam. diadelpha

(9 et 1). Stylus filiformis. Stigma capitatum interdum

dente acuto hee auctum. Legumen sessile plano-com-

pressum ovali-oblongum stylo apiculatum -spermuin,

—Frutices Capenses. Folia simplicia integerrima exstipu-

lata. Flores flavi in capitula subumbellata aut subspicata

dispositi. Differt.a Borbonia et Aspalatho staminibus dia-

delphis, a Liparia calycinis lobis equalibus, forma et estiva-

tione petalorum. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

PriestitEya* villosa; foliis ovato-ellipticis acutis uniner-

viis planis utrinque ramis calycibus leguminibusque

hirsutis. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 122.

Lipari villosa. Linn. Mant. p. 438. Spreng. Syst. Veget.

vo. 3. p. 271.

Borzonia villosa. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 994. Seba, Thes. v.

1. t. 24, f. 2.

Descr. A small shrub, with rather stout, very soft and vil-

lous, alternate branches, naked below, and marked with the

scars of the fallen foliage. Leaves mostly crowded towards

the

* Name given in compliment to Dr, JosepH PRIESTLEY, an eminent

English philosopher, :

the extremity of the stems, about an inch long, scattered,

sessile, elliptical, acute, villous on both sides, and at the

margin, single-nerved, acute, quite entire, the margin often

reflexed. Stipules none. Flowers collected into a com-

pact head at the extremity of the branches, each upon a

very short pedicel, with a minute bractea at the base. Ca-

lyx somewhat ovate, scarcely two-lipped, villous, pale

green, five-toothed, teeth subulate, the two upper ones the

shortest, the lower one the longest. Corolla YF a clear and

rather bright yellow. Vexillum roundish, with a rather

short claw. Ale oblong, somewhat falcate, carina subcym-

biform. Stamens ten, filaments diadelphous, nine united

and one free, white. Anthers subglobose, yellow. Pistil

about equal in length with the stamens. Germen ovate,

clothed with long, silky hairs, and tapering gradually into

the filiform, white style ; stigma obtuse.

_ A native of the Cape of Good Hope, requiring the usual

treatment of the plants of that kind, ani the protection

of a hag atte where it bears at the extremity of its

branches, in the month of November, its heads of bright

yellow blossoms. Although introduced in 1774, by Mr.

rancis Masson, it has not hitherto found a place in any of

our illustrated Botanical works.

We are indebted for the specimens here given to the

Messrs. SHepuerns, who raised it from Cape seed in 1829.

———

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Vexillum. 3. Ale. 4. Cari Cal 4 Sia

mens. 6. Pistil: magnified. anna, 5, Calyx an

hlaxenweed Essex. Feb! Lia35.

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BLETIA ACUTIPETALA. SHARP-PETALED

BLetTIA.

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Class and Order.

Gynanpria Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipes. Div. Erinenprex. Lindl. )

Generic Character.

Sepala patentia equalia. Petala nunc patentia, nunc

conniventia, sepalis equalia. Labellum cucullatum, cum

columna articulatum, nunc basi saccatum, trilobum, disco

sepius lamellato v. tuberculato. Columna elongata, semi-

teres. Anthera carnosa, 8-locularis. Pollinia 8 equalia,

caudiculis 4 pulvereis coherentia—Herbe subterrestres,

foliis ensiformibus plicatis, scapis racemosis multifloris, flori-

bus sepius speciosis. Lindl.

_ Specific Character and Synonym.

BieriA* acutipetala ; sepalis quorum duobus medio lamel-

latis petalisque conniventibus ovatis valde acutis equa-

libus, labelli disco lamellis 5 rectis subundulatis, lobis

lateralibus ovatis, intermedio apice dilato crispato,

scapo radicali alato ramoso, foliis ensiformibus pli-

catis.

Limoporum altum. Jacg. Ic. Rar. v. 3. t. 602. (vix Linn.)

Descr. Bulb roundish, depressed, half buried in the

earth, and marked with circular lines or rings, the scars of

former years’ leaves. Leaves few, ensiform, much acumi-

nated, two to three feet long, arising from the top of the

bulb. Scape arising from the base of the bulb, four to five

a | feet

* In honour of Louts BET, a Spanish apothecary.

feet or more high, and thicker than a swan’s quill, terete,

purplish below, green above, where it throws out three to

four long and more or less patent branches, which bear nu-|

merous flowers subtended by rather large, linear-subulate

bractee. Sepals or three outer segments of the perianth,

ovate, acute, the two lower ones bearing in the inside a

central, pale lamella for nearly its whole length ; petals, or

two inner segments of the perianth of the same size and

shape with the rest, all connivent and of an uniform pale

rose colour, both within and without. Labellum standing

forward within the petals, and rather longer than they, three-

lobed, the disk with five yellow, parallel, somewhat wavy

lamine, the two lateral lobes curved upwards, large, pur-

plish rose-coloured, yellow at the base, streaked with purple

lines, somewhat ovate in shape, middle lobe dilated at the

extremity and much crisped, deep purple. Column linear, —

almost semicylindrical, incurved. Anthers with eight cells |

and eight ovate, waxy, deep yellow pollen masses, attached —

to a common, pulverulent stalk. Germen clavate, rather —

short, slightly twisted. si

My kind and obliging friend, Mr. Henry Suepnern, has, —

I think, correctly considered this as distinct both from —

Bieta verecunda and Brevi florida. Independent of the ~

pale colour of the flower, the segments of the perianth are —

all remarkably acute, and the outer and lower ones are —

always furnished with a strong central lamina. The brac- —

teas, too, are, comparatively large, and the scape is very —

tall, and divided upwards ito long branches. Brett —

verecunda and Burerta florida, its nearest allies, are natives —

of the West Indies ; this of South Carolina, whence it was —

‘ directl received at the Liverpool Botanic Garden. It se E

possibly be the B. (Cymbidium) verecundum of the North —

American authors : and it is, I think, certainly, the Limo- —

porum altum of Jacquin; there the petals are acute, and ©

the elevated line or lamina is distinct y represented in the |

figure. “

—

: Fig. 1. Flower with the Perianth f d ” Phe

Pollen-masses : tatignisfied. orced back. 2. Lip. 3. Column. # 4

‘

3. Cartis, Glaxenreed Ensen, Feb" 11888,

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a Loasa Puacet, var. 6. Mr. Prace’s —

Loasa: var. £. RE

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3 Class and Order.

- PotyApEenepHIA PoLyAnpRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Loaces. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus ovario adherens. limbus persistens, 5 parti-

tus, equalis. Petala 5, lobis, cal. alterna, breviter ungui-

culata, concava. Sguame 5 petaloidex, petalis alterne,

bi- aut trilobz, in conum conniventes et basi intus filamen-

tis 2 sterilibus imstructe. — at 200, exteriora 10 pam

cetera in phalanges 15—17-andras petalis oppositas dispo-

sita ; snttivite erectis bilocularibus’ St us apice trifidas.

Capsula turbinato-oblonga, 1-locul., apice 3-valvis calyce

coronata valyis margine placentiferis, placentis ideo cum

vicina continuis. Semina ovalia creberrima reticulata, DC.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Loasa* Placei ; suberecta dichotoma setis pungentibus ubi-

que tecta, foliis sinuato-pinnatifidis incisis inferioribus

cordatis albo-maculatis longe petiolatis superioribus

oblongis acuminatis oppositis sessilibus, calyeibus pe-

talisque reflexis.

Loasa Placei. Lindl. in Hort. Soc. Trans. v. 6. p. 95.

Hook. et Arn. in Bot. Misc. v. 3. p. 329.

Loasa acanthifolia. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 785. (not Lam.)

(8.) foliis minus profunde pinnatifidis, floribus minoribus.

Descr. Stem herbaceous, three to four feet high, rouch

_ branched, branches rounded, clothed with long hair-like

— strings,

ad ue,

* A name of ADANSON, of unknown origin.

eae

stings, dichotomous. Radical leaves cordate, cut into

many (eleven to thirteen) rather deep, somewhat rounded

lobes, much and irregularly toothed at the margin, and

ciliated with long stings; very veiny, veins reticulated,

the areole each bearing a sting, the poison-bag at the base

of which is seated upon a white, circular spot, where the

epidermis seems loose or separated from the parenchyme

beneath : petioles long, clothed with numerous stings, as is

the back of the leaves, (which is of a paler colour) but

principally on the nerves. The leaves gradually become

narrower, more acute, more sharply lobed, more sessile in

the upper part of the stem, till they assume an ovato-lance-

olate figure, and are quite sessile, small, and acuminate at

the dichotomies. Flowers rather small for the size of the

plant, solitary from the axils of the upper leaves and from

the forks of the branches, erect in bud, drooping when ex-

= Calyx reflexed, of five lanceolate, acuminated,

ispid, leaves. Petals five, strongly reflexed, obovate,

ventricose, their sides and extremity inflexed, notched at

the very apex. Stamens in five bundles, each of many

stamens, and placed opposite to the petals, of which those

which have not discharged the pollen stand erect : the rest

lie back in the petal. Filaments white: Anthers yellow,

four-sided. Alternating with these five bundles, are five

white, ovate, bifid glands, hollow within, externally marked —

= a red band, and bearing at the base five lamellated—

Seeds of this Loasa were sent to the Glasgow Botanic

Garden from Aconcagua in Chili, by Dr. Gizxres, and they

have flowered in the open border during the latter part of

the summer and autumn. It differs from the true L. Place”

of Mr. Linptey, as figured in the Botanical Register, in its

shorter and broader leaves, and more obtuse and shortet

lobes, and in the smaller flowers. The white spots on the

older aud lower leaves give the plant a remarkable appeal

ance. :

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_ Fig. 1. Portion of a Flower. 2. Anther. 3, Gland, with i ndages:

magenta i , with its apper te

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POMADERRIS ANDROMEDAEFOLIA. ANDRO

MEDA-LEAVEB POMADERRIS.

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Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord —Ruamnez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. semiadherens 5-fidus. Pet. 5 squamiformia, con-

cava, rarius nulla. Stam. lobis cal. alterna iisque breviora,

in petalorum cavitate juniora abscondita. Duscus nullus.

Stylus brevissimus triqueter. Stigmata 3. Capsula 3-

cocca, 3-sperma, cocculis interne planiusculis foramine

maximo per membranam tenuem tardius solutam clanso

instructis. Semina erecta—Arbuscule aut Frutices e Nova

Hollandia ortt, foliis alternis subtus incanis, habitus Ceano-

thi ad quod Genus valde accedit. D. C.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Pomaperris andromedefolia ; foliis lanceolato-ovalibus gla-

bris subtus niveo-tomentosis, corymbis terminalibus

confertis calycibus petalisque reflexis. Cunningh.

Pomaperris andromedetolia. Cunningh. in Field's N. S.

Wales, p. 351.

Descr. A branched shrub; older branches dark gray

and glabrous, younger ones downy, somewhat silky, often

with a ferruginous tinge. Leaves in general, about an

inch and a half long, elliptical, lanceolate, petiolate, acute

with a mucro, subcoriaceous, glabrous above and dark-

green, below clothed with an appressed white down, ap-

proaching to ferruginous in the younger ones. Flowers

forming rather small, dense, terminal corymbs, having

brown, membranaceous, caducous bracieas at the base of

. the

the pedicels. Calyx tawny, somewhat rotate, silky with-

out, glabrous within, the short twbe scarcely at all adhering

to the ovarium ; the limd of five oblong, reflexed segments.

Petals spathulate, the lamina dentato-serrate, concave,

closely reflexed, pale yellowish-white. Stamens opposite

the petals, erect or nearly so, longer than the style. An-

thers oblong. Germen or ovary scarcely at all inferior,

silky ; Styles three, linear, combined at the base ; Stigmas

three, acute, hairy.

Another of the numerous novelties discovered by Mr.

Attan Cunnineuam in the more elevated and rocky parts of

the Blue Mountain ranges of New Holland; where, indeed,

it is very common. Specimens were obligingly communi-

cated by Mr. Arron, from the princely gardens of Kew, (to

which it was introduced by Mr. Cunnineuam, in 1823,)

in April, 1832.

——

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal. 3. Pistil: magnified.

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GONGORA ATRO-PURPUREA. Dark-—

FLOWERED GONGORA.

SEEK KKK KEK EEE EE

Class and Order.

GyYNANDRIA MonanpriA.

( Nat. Ord.— OrcuipeEa. )

Generic Character.

Petala 3 exteriora patentissima lanceolata subuniformia,

superiore dorso columne inserto, duobus interioribus par-

vis ad marginem columne insertis decurrentibus. Labellum

vomeriforme subpedicellatum basi superne dentatum, in-

ferne gibbosum. Columna elongata. Masse pollinis 2,

pedicellate. 3

J Specific Character and Bynonyrae-

Goncora* atro-purpurea ; petalorum trium exteriorum mar-

ginibus reflexis, labello superne subseptem-dentato.

Goneora atro-purpurea. Hooker, Ex. Fl. t. 178. Spreng.

Syst. Veget. cur. post. p. 308. |

Descr. From an oblong and cylindrical, deeply sulcat-

ed, fleshy, bulbiform stem, there spring at the extremity

two rather large, ovato-lanceolate, striated and subplicated

leaves, waved at the margin, and tapering at the base.

Scape two feet in length, arising apparently from the base

of the bulb, zigzag, slender, glabrous, terete, dark purple.

Bracteas minute, at the base of each flower. Flower wholly

of a deep purple-brown or chocolate colour. The three

outer petals, an inch long, are much spreading, lanceolate ;

the upper one springing from the back of the column rather

the smallest, the two lateral ones with a large tooth-like

process at the base of the upper margin; all the margins

revolute.

* Named in honour of ANronro CABALLEROY GonGorA, a Spaniard,

and friend of Mutis.

VOL. VI. D

revolute. Two inner petals very small, incurved, with an

acuminated, and twisted apex, fixed by its decurrent base

to the margin of the column, near the base of the superior

and outer petals, and at some distance from the two lower-

“most, outer ones. Lip of so curious a form, as to be more

easily represented in a figure than described in words. It

is nearly an inch long, standing out at right angles from

the flower; having a cylindrical peduncle or stalk at the

base, at the apex of which are four large, curved horns or

tooth-like processes, two obtuse and two acuminated ; there

is an aperture within the base of each of the latter, and

between them two small, upright teeth. The extremity of

the labellum is a laterally compressed, and consequently

vertical plate, double at its upper edge and sharp, obtuse

at the lower edge, and gibbous at its base, acuminated at

the extremity. Germen two to three inches in length,

curved, pedunculiform, not twisted. Column very long,

semicylindrical, broadest upwards, and bearing upon its

back ‘and sides the three upper petals. Anther terminal,

operculiform, deciduous, with two obscure cells, containing

two oblong, but below tapering, deep yellow, waxy, solid

pollen-masses, fixed by their base to an oblong, white gland, —

which forms a beak from beneath the anther, before the

fallmg of the latter,

This rare plant likewise, has been communicated by

Messrs. Suepuerps from the Liverpool Botanic Garden,

where it was introduced by Cuartes Parker, Esq. from

Demerara. It is evidently the same species as the G. aéro-

purpurea figured in the Exotic Flora, from Trinidad, differ-

ing only in the somewhat paler and spotted flowers.

_ The present plant is so closely allied to the Genus C1R-

ruza of Mr. Brown, that-I scarcely know how they can be

distinguished. The latter Genus includes the CymBipI0M

dependens of Mr. Loppers, and my Goncora viridi-pur-

purea: and Mr, Linptey attributes “ a stigma occupying

the apex of the column, and the anther situated at the back

of the column :—but whatever may be the case with the

Cirruza Loddigesii, (Cympipium dependens,) | have shown

that in the C. viridi-purpurea (Bot. Mag. t. 2978. f. 5.) the

proper situation of the anther is to be terminal, though

frequently when detached it is suspended at the back of

the column : the same peculiarity I have observed in G.

atro-purpurea. They all belong to Mr. Linprey’s tribe of

VANDER, oe

Fig. 1. Column with three of the Petals, 2, Labellum.

Swan Ses

WS H. dal® Fab. by S. Curtis, Glaxenwood Essex. Mar 11833.

( $221)

CospurRGIA FULVA. TAWwNy Copureia.

KEKE EEE EEE EEE EEE EEE

Class and Order.

HexanpriA Monoeynis.

( Nat. Ord.—AmaryLLipEs. )

Generic Character.

Perianthii tubus curvatus, cylindricus, subvyentricose am-

pliatus; limbus tubo brevior, equalis, semipatens, cernuus.

Staminum filamenta xqualia, recta vix conniventia e

membrana tubulosa 6-fida orta, laciniis bidentatis bifidis,

filamentis alternantibus ; anthere erecte, Germen inferum

ovatum, triquetrum, 3-locularis; loculis pluri-ovulatis, ovu-

lis biseriatim dispositis. Stylus filiformis. Stigma ob-

tusum. | ’ ‘eS =

Cosureia * fulva ; umbella subquinqueflora, perianthii

aurantiaci laciniis ovatis apice viridi-maculatis, seapo

ancipite elongato, foliis elongatis lineari - ligulatis

striatis obtusis.

Cosuraia fulva. Herbert, in Bot. Register, t. 1497.

Descr. Bulb, according to Mr. Witu1aMs, eight inches

in diameter, elongated upwards into a neck, seven inches

in length, clothed with dark brown, satiny scales, and these

bearing about six linear, ligulate, striated leaves, an inch

and a half broad, and a foot and a half or more in length,

slightly narrower and obtuse at the point. Scape, from the

centre of these leaves, two feet long, erect, ancipitate, bear-

ing at its summit an umbel of four to five, large and hand-

some

* Named in compliment to His Royal Highness Prince Leopoxp of Saxe

Coburg, now King of Belgium. Be

some drooping flowers, enclosed in a large, two-leaved, mem-

branaceous, striated, green spatha, with a pale border, and

having two or three linear-oblong, membranaceous brac-

teas. Pedicels short. Perianth orange-coloured, with a

reddish tinge. Tube very long, enlarged above the middle.

Limb cawpanulate, of five ovate segments, the three outer

ones rather larger, more acute, and terminated with a fleshy

mucro, all of them tipped with a green spot. Staminal

crown a short, fleshy tube, inserted at the base of the limb,

six-cleft, each segment truncated, bidentate, green at the

extremity. In the sinuses of these segments the stamens

are inserted. Ftlaments rather shorter than the limb of the

perianth, erect. Anthers oblong, dorsally inserted, pur-

plish-brown ; Pollen deep yellow. Germen broadly ovate,

obtusely trigonal, three-celled, the cells containing many

oblong ovules fixed to the central axis, and arranged in

two rows, Style longer than the stamens ; Stigma obtuse,

slightly inclined.

Obligingly communicated by Mr. Wiis from the fine

collection of Joun Wittmore, Esq. at Oldfield, near Bir-

mingham, in December, 1831, its usual season of flowering,

with the observation, that the bulbs were purchased four

years previously at Liverpool, and first cultivated by him at

Oldfield, whence he has distributed it to Spofforth and other

collections, and that a temperature of 45° seems most {a-

vourable to its blossoming in perfection. 3

oun native country is probably some part of South Ame-

Fig. 1. Stami

versely : Seirasiod Crown. 2. Germen. 3. The same cut through trans-

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MVYRSINE CAPITELLATA. CLUSTER-FLOWERED

MyrsINgE.

Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia.

7 ( Nat. Ord.—Myrs1neEz. )

Generic Character.

Flores polygami, dioici. Cor. 5- raro 4-fida. Anthere

subsessiles. Ovarium ovulis definitis (4—5). Stigma seepius

lobatum v. laciniatum. Drupa pisiformis, putamine crus-

taceo, monospermo.—Frutices vel Arbusculz. Folia alterna

coriacea. Flores axillares, aggregati, subumbellati. Co-

rolla in plerisque 5-partita, nunc breviter tubulosa. Mas-

culi majores stigmate simplici. Foeminei antheris minoribus

effete? “Bre! BAR erate |

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Myrsine* capitellata; arborea, erecta, foliis oblongo-lan-

ceolatis integerrimis coriaceis, floribus sessilibus in

capitulis axillaribus, stylo longo crasso, stigmate ob-

tuso glabro integro. Wail,

Myrsine capitellata. Wall. in Fl. Ind. Occ. v. 2. p. 295.

Spreng. Syst. Veget. cur. post, p. 69. =

Descr. The plant from which our specimen was taken,

is a young one, only four years old, aud forms a hand-

some shrub, four feet in height; but, in its native coun-

try, it becomes a tree thirty to forty feet high. Leaves

five to six inches long, oblongo-lanceolate, rather acute,

coriaceous, shortly petioled, quite entire, dark green above,

_ much

aaa

* A Greek name, synonymous with Myrtle; and applied to this plant from

the similarity of its foliage. es

much paler beneath, dotted at the margin with ferruginous

points, veins numerous, parallel, obscure. Flowers small,

pale yellowish-green, collected into axillary, sessile, crowd-

ed heads, appearing lateral from the frequent falling awa

of the leaves. Bractee brown, membranous, appressed.

Calyx quinquefid. Corolla five-cleft, its segments reflexed,

and these as well as those of the calyx are often sprinkled

with rust-coloured dots. All the flowers appear to be female.

Anthers rather large, inserted in the tube of the corolla, and

opposite to the segments, sagittate, sessile, dull orange,

robably abortive. Germen globose. Style very large,

ong and thick in proportion to the size of the flower,

filling up the tube and much exserted ; Stigma sometimes

slightly bifid or ragged.

Introduced from Nepal, in 1828, by Dr. Waxxicu, to the

Liverpool Botanic Garden, whence our specimens were

communicated in full flower, in January, 1833. It is treated

as a stove plant, and though the blossoms cannot boast of

much beauty, the foliage is handsome, and of a deep rich —

green colour.

In Nepal, Dr. Watticu assures us that the wood of this _

tree and that of M. semiserrata is of a chocolate colour, —

radiated, compact, and heavy, and much esteemed by the _

hill-people for various carpenter’s works: the ripe

are also eaten.

———_——

nao Flgnsr, (female ?). 2. Corolla of the same laid open. 3 Pistil :

And dy S$. Curtis Gazenwood 233 ex Marchd 1833

Swan Jé

C 3223)

EuGENIA TRINERVIA. 'THREE-NERVED

EuGENIA.

KKK KEKE KEE EE EEREEK EEE

Class and Order.

Icosanpr1a Monoeynia,

( Nat. Ord.—Myrracez. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus subrotundus, limbus ad ovarium usque 4-

rtitus. Petala tot quot calycis lobi. Stam. numerosa,

ibera. Ovarium 2—3-loculare, loculis pluriovulatis. Bacca

subglobosa, calyce coronata, matura, l-rarius 2-locularis.

Semina 1—2 subrotunda, grossa. Embryo pseudo-monoco-

tyledoneus, cotyledonibus nempe crassissimis et omnino con-

ferruminatis, radicula vix ac ne vix distincta, brevissima.

Arbores aut Frutices, pleraque ex insulis Caribeis aut Ame-

rica calidiora orta, Folia et inflorescentia nunc Myrti nunc

Myrcie. D.C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Evueenia* trinervia; pedunculis trifidis aut bis trifidis 3—7-

floris folio brevioribus, bracteis sub flore oblongis ra-

mulis calycibusque subhirsutis, foliis ovali-oblongis

utrinque acuminatis superne adultis glabris subtus

pubescenti-tomentosis trinerviis, nervis lateralibus sub-

marginalibus.

Evernta trinervia. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 279.

Myrtvs trinervia. Sm. in Linn. Trans, v. 3. p. 280. (non

Lour.) Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 482.

Descr. A much branched shrub, with red-brown, downy

branches. Leaves two to three inches long, spa on

abot, *

ied

Maree seen

oe re

* In honor of Prince EvGENE of Savoy, a patron of Botany.

short, downy petioles, ovato- or ovali-elliptical, slightly

acuminate, subcoriaceous, quite entire, with three strong,

parallel nerves, dark green above, and downy only in a

young state, pale beneath, pnbescent, but chiefly so on the

nerves. Peduncles axillary, once or twice trifid, longer

than the petioles, but considerably shorter than the leaves.

Flowers much smaller than those of the common Myrtle.

Petals white, soon reflexed. Style reddish.

From the rich collection of Kew, where it first flowered

in April, 1827, and to which place it was introduced in

1824, by Mr. Attan Cunnincuam, from New South Wales.

Sir James E. Smrru, its first describer, says of it, that

although the teeth of the calyx and the petals also are

generally but four, it isa true Myrrus and not an Eveenta,

the fruit being a berry, with many shining, gibbous, curved

seeds. Dr Canpoite, however, refers it to his Eugenia,

but doubts if it should not constitute a distinct Genus. In —

its three nerves, and general appearance, this plant is allied _

to Mrrrvus tomentosa. Sa

The drawing, from which the figure is made, was, as well

as the specimens, obligingly communicated by W. T.

Arron, Esq.

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Fig. 1, Flower: magnified.

nile

( 3224 )

SyMPLOCARPUS F@TIDUS. STINKING SYMPLO-

carpus, Skunk Weed, or Skunk Cabbage.

SEK KKK KKK KEE KEKE EEE

Class and Order.

TrerranpriA Monoeynis.

( Nat. Ord.—Arompes. )

Generic Character.

Spatha ventricosa, ovata, acuminata. Spadix subglobosa,

floribus hermaphroditicis tecta. Cal. profunde 4-partita,

persistens, segmentis cucullatis, truncatis, demum crassis,

spongiosis. Pet.o. Stylus pyramidalis, tetragonus ; Stig-

ma simplex, minutum. Semina solitaria receptaculo spon-

gioso immersa. Nutt.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Sympiocarpus* fetidus. cs ri

Symprocarrts fcetidus. Nutt. Gen. Am.v. 1. p. 105. Tor-—

rey, Fl. of Un. St. v. 1. p. 181. oe

Icropes foetidus. Bigel. Am. Med. Bot. v. 2. p. Al. t. 24.

Fl. Bost. ed. 2. p. 59. Co? oe

Poruos foetidus. Mich. Am. v. 2. p. 186. Pursh, Fl. Am. —

v. 2. p. 398. Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 836, (imperfect).

Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 766. 2

Dracontium feetidum. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1372. Willd. Sp.

Pl.v. 2. p. 288. : ; a

dit

Descr. Root perennial, large, fleshy or almost woody,

annulated, abrupt, dark brown, throwing out numerous

long, tawny, fleshy fibres, thicker than a swan’s quill, which —

descend deep into the ground. In the early spring, —

the

* cupmrwen, an union, and xapros, fruit, from their being combined with —

the Receptacle into one body.

the crown of this root arise two flowers, surrounded at the

base by large, membranaceous sheathing bracteas, and the

incipient leaves. These flowers have so singular an ap-

pearance, that, at first sight, they might rather be taken

for an artificial production, or even for a shell of the Genus

Cypraa, than for any thing of a vegetable nature, were it

not for their powerfully fetid smell: A short peduncle, much

shorter than the bractez, bears a broadly ovate, acuminated,

involuted both at the sides and at the extremity, spatha, of

which the ground colour is yellow, but so spotted and

blotched with dark purple, as sometimes nearly to obliterate

the original tint, within it is wholly blackish purple. This

surrounds a subglobose, purple, shortly pedunculated spa-

dix, not above an inch in length, and not much bigger than

a good-sized nutmeg, its circumference entirely formed by |

the flowers. These, considered according to the artificial

system, consist of a perianth of four erect scales or pieces, |

remarkably concave and depressed at the top, where they

are purple, while their sides are yellow, and they are s0-

placed and so shaped, that their edges meet, and they forma

square flower, through the centre of which, the tips of the

bright yellow stamens, and purplish style are only slightly

protruded. Stamens four, each lodged in the cavity of @ :

scale of the perianth. Filament very short. Anther broadly

ovate, two-celled, cells opening longitudinally, and facing

the scale, while the back is directed to the pistil or centre of

the flower. Germen small, almost entirely sunk in the

receptacle, Style lineari-pyramidal, four-sided at the base,

terete above, where it is terminated by the small stigma, a

mere discoloured point. “ After the spatha decays, the

spadix continues to grow, and with it every part of the

flower except the anthers. When the fruit is ripe, the

spadix has attained to many times its original dimensions,

while the calyx, filaments, and style are larger, very Pro-

minent, and separated from each other. Within the spadix,

at the base of each style, is a round fleshy seed, as large as

a pea, white, tinged with green and purple, invested with a

_ Separate membranous coat, and with a prominent corcu-

lum, situated in a depression at the top.” (Bigel.) The

leaves do not appear till some time after the flowers, and —

they have not attained their full size till the spatha has

decayed. They are broadly cordate, petiolate, acute, with

numerous and branching veins, which are prominent be-

neath, the mid-rib very broad. Petiole also broad, hollow-

ed in front, sheathing at the base.

Perhaps

Perhaps there is not a more unsatisfactory figure in all

the Fifty-four volumes of the Botanical Magazine than that

of this singular plant at t. 836, under the name of Porsos

fetida, so that a more perfect representation and fuller |

description than are there given, cannot, we think, be

unacceptable to our subscribers. It is a native of North

America, from Canada to Carolina, according to Nurratu,

and was introduced in the year 1735 to our gardens, where

it proves perfectly hardy ; the flowers appearing above

ground along with the earliest spring plants, and those

are succeeded by the foliage. In the northern parts,

whence I have received a fine specimen from my ines-

timable friend Dr. Boorr, and in the middle of the United

States, scarcely a meadow or swamp is found in which

this vegetable may not be discovered at a distance, espe-

cially in the spring season, by its large tufts of rank,

crowded leaves. 3

It has derived its name of Skunk Cabbage, or Skunk-weed,

from the intolerably fetid smell, resembling that of the

animal so called, or Viverra mephitis. Hence too, Professor

Bicetow has called it Icropgs, from cris, a weasel, and ofa,

to smell: but this change of name is quite needless, as the

previously established one of Symprocarpus is not intended

to express, as might at first be imagined, and as Dr. Bie-

ELow supposed, that the fruit resembles that of a Sympro-

cos, but simply the union of the fruit into one compact

body. The odour which characterizes this plant is not

peculiar to it. The fruit of some of the North American

Currants, Dr. Bigexow tells us, especially the Rises ringens

of Micuavux a species often met with on the high mountains

of the Eastern States, emits, when bruised, a scent exactly

similar.

As in other plants of the same natural family, the roots

abound in an acrid principle, even when dry, but which is

readily dissipated by heat. In America, Dr. Curter of

Massachusetts was the first to recommend the use of the

pounded roots in asthmatic complaints, having found it

eminently serviceable in his own case, and it has since been

employed, not only in that afflicting disease, but in catarrh

and chronic coughs, and with evident benefit. Dr. Bigztow,

however, candidly observes, that it should be administered

with much caution, as, when the stomach has been delicate,

he has observed it to occasion vomiting when exhibited even

in asmall quantity. A dose of thirty grains has been found

not

not only to excite vomiting, but to produce headache, ver-

tigo, and temporary blindness.

The germination of this plant is very curious, and has

been thus described by Mr. Nurraty. “ The seed does not

appear to possess any thing like a proper cotyledon; the

embryo, formed in the exact posture of the growing plant

(with the radicle downwards), differs not from it m any

rticular but that of size. In place of a cotyledon there

is a sheathing stipule, similar to that which is ever after

produced ; in fact, it is viviparous. The embryo is seated

in a small umbilical or hemispherical depression, in the

upper end of what may be called a vitellus rather than a

perisperm, judging by its functions : this callus, or seminal

tubercle, is roundish and turbinate, nearly as large as a fil-

berd nut, very solid and carneous, possessing, in a high

degree, the alliaceous feetor of the grown plant; the mu-

tual point of attachment subsisting between this body and

the embryo is, at first, a minute and nearly central funicu- _

lus, which enlarges and becomes more distinct during the —

progress of germination ; but what appears to be most sin-

gular with respect to it is the length of time that it con-

timues attached to the growing plant, lying apparently inert

at the base of the caudex for twelve, or even eighteen

months.”’

F ——

Fig. 1. totes “beens nat. size. 2. Spadix, ditto. 3. The same, mag-

nified. 4. Single Flower removed from the Spadix. 5, Scale of the Peri-

anth with its Stamen. 6. Front view of a Stamen. 7, Pistil : the Germen

being imbedded in the Receptacle. 8. Style and Stigma, or all of the Pistil

that is seen above the Receptacle :—more or less magnified.

Swan Se.

Mar L183 4.

Tub by Sf Curls Glasenwoed Eesex

Wet. A. dett

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BEGONIA RENIFORMIS. KIDNEY-LEAVED

Brecon. rc

Class and Order.

Moncecta PoLyANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Beeontcez. )

Generic Character.

Mas. Cal. 0. Cor. polypetala, petalis pleruinque 4, ina-

qualibus. Fam. Cal.o. Cor. petala 4—9, plerumque in-

equalia. Styli 3, bifidi. Caps. triquetra, alata, trilocularis,

polysperma. 2 : a

Specific Character ~ and Synonyms.

Beconia reniformis ; caulescens, foliis reniformibus angu-

Jatis dentatis, capsule ala maxima acutangula, reliquis

-parallelis minimis. Dryan.

Beeonr reniformis. Dryandr. in Linn. Trans. v.1.p. 161.

t. 14. f. 1,2. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 625.

Descr. Stem three to four feet high, the thickness of |

one’s finger, fleshy. Leaves large, upon petioles as long as

themselves, reniform, with a deep sinus, in comparison with —

other species of the Genus, very slightly unequal, many-

angled, serrated, somewhat pubescent, opaque, marked with

numerous veins, which are sunk on the upper surface ; pro-

minent beneath; green on both sides, but much paler

beneath. The larger leaves are nearly a span in diameter.

Peduncle six to eight inches long, terminated by a di-tricho-

tomous Cyme, the ultimate branches umbellate and very

slender, white. Flowers white, small, slightly downy. Of

the male, the Corolla consists of four unequal, pure white

petals, two of them orbicular or inclining to heart-shaped,

two oblong and much smaller. Anthers numerous, yellow.

Female flowers few in the specimens before me, very small,

the

the petals closed. Germen with one large, white, almost

triangular wing, and two obsolete ones.

From the Botanic Garden of Liverpool, whence it was

communicated as having been received from Professor

Leaman, of Hamburgh, under the name of B. grandis ; but

there is already a Japanese species of that name, and cer-

tainly very different from our’s, which, moreover, appears

to me to accord with the B. reniformis of Dryanper, a

mesh of Brazil, the native country also probably of our

ant.

: It is a good deal allied to the B. longipes of this work,

t. 3061, especially in the general structure of the inflores-

cence ; but in that species, the flowers are considerably

larger, the leaves are much more oblique, and extremely

glossy, and quite glabrous above.

B. reniformis requires the heat of the stove, and its flow-

ering season is January.

It is quite impossible, by a drawing, to convey an idea of ©

the peculiar pearly and semi-transparent appearance of the ~

blossoms, and of the panicle in which they are borne.

Fig. 1. Female Flower, considerably magnified.

‘

, Swan Se.

Lub. by S.Curtis Glarenwoed. Bisex, Mar 11835.

( 3226 )

LEDEBOURIA HYACINTHINA. HyAcInTH-

LIKE LEDEBOURIA.

KEK KEKE EEE EE EK KEE EER

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeyntia.

( Nat. Ord.—Smimacinz. Boyle.)

Generic Character.

Cor. 6-petala: petalis basi staminiferis, persistentibus.

Germen 3-partitum, pedicellatum, subrotundum. Stylus

capillaris, simplicissimus: stigmate acuminato. Ufriculi

3 basi connexi, monospermi; 2 sepe abortivi, et tune 1

obovatus, subcurvatus. Roth.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Lepesourtia* hyacinthina.

Lepesouria hyacinthina. Roth, Nov. Sp. Ind. Or. p. 195.

Sprengel, Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 97. Wall. Cat. of Pl.

in E. I. C. Mus. p. 180.

Me antuium hyacinthinum. Heyne, MSS.

AntueEricum hyacinthoides. Walld. MSS.

Eryturonium Indicum. Rottler (according to Sprengel).

Descr. Bulb ovate, tunicated, about the size of a nut-

meg, coats membranaceous, pale brown. Leaves five or

six in number, four to five inches long, broadly lanceolate,

waved, entire, glabrous, dark green above, with dee

spots, the underside pale and glaucous, finely striated, below

tapering into a sort of membranaceous, silky petiole : Scape

one or two, arising from the summit of the bulb, bearing a

raceme

* In honour of C. F. LEpDEBOUR, author of Travels in the Altaic Moun-

tains, and of a Flora Altaica.

raceme of many drooping flowers. Pedicels red. Petals

greenish-white, reddish at the base, oblong, acute, patent

as far as the middle. Stamens inserted, red: Anthers sub-

globose. Germen on a short stalk, lobed. Style red,

straight. Stigmas obtuse.

This interesting little bulbous plant is a native of the

East Indies, and is well worthy of being introduced, as it

might easily be, to our collections. Indeed some of the

bulbs of the specimens brought home by Dr. Wieurt, are

not destitute of life, and are planted in the Glasgow Botanic

Garden. That gentleman, to whom we are indebted for,

the drawing here given, which was made by a native artist,

states that Leperouria hyacinthina is very abundant at Ma-

sulipatam, less frequent about Madras. In the neighbour-

hood of Alamparua it is also common, growing in moist —

torial grounds, where the ends of its leaves, which curve

ackwards, touch the soil, take root, and produce new

bulbs. Mr. Boyte finds it at Bundelkund.

—

——

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified.

, > oy

Nev RIL

Pad. by NS. Curhs Glaxenwood Essex . Ipril 7 28

dwan Se

( 3227° yas

ERYTHRINA VELUTINA. VetvetTy Ery- |

THRINA,

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Class and Order.

Decanpria DIADELPHIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Lereuminos#. )

Generic Character.

Cal. tubulosus ore truncato subdentato aut spathaceus,

Corolle vexillum longissimum, oblongum, ale et carina

dipetala vexillo multo breviores. Stamina diadelpha, recta,

decimo nune ceteris subcoalito nunc libero alis multo bre-

viore aut rarius deficiente. Legumen longum, torulosum,

bivalve, polyspermum. Semina ovata, hilo lateralii—Ar-

buscule aut Frutices, rarius Herbe. Stipule parve a peti-

olo distincte. Folia petiolata unijuga cum impari, foliolis

loco stipellarum glandulis basi stipatis. Caules et petioli

interdum aculeatt. Racemi elongati, pedicellis sepe terna-

tim approximatis. Flores rubro-coccineit. Semina sepius

rubro et nigro mixta nitida. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Eryrurina * velutina; caule arboreo ramisque sparsim spi- —

nosis, racemis petiolis foliolisque furfuraceo-tomen-

tosis inermibus, foliolis obtusissimis basi subcordatis

terminali deltoideo, lateralibus rotundatis, calycibus

campanulato-spatheformibus hine fissis 5-denticulatis

subcoriaceis densé furfuraceo-tomentosis, vexillo ovali

magno lato reflexo, staminibus submonadelphis lon-

gissime exsertis, carina obtusissime alarumque petalis

- imbricatis concavis exsertis calyce longioribus. Lowe. —

Eryrarina velutina. Willd. Nov. Act. Berol. v. 3. p. 426. —

Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. p. 904. De Cand. Prodr. v. _

* Bpvbzoc, red; from the fine red colour of the flowers of most of the species. _

VOL. VII. E eo

412. Humb. Nov. Gen. Am. v. 6. p. 435. Spreng.

Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 244. (non Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr.)

Descr. A Tree about thirty feet high, with a cylin-

drical, straight trunk, seven or eight inches in diameter,

unbranched, in the single individual observed, to a con-

siderable height, twelve feet or more, covered with a smooth

and even olive-blackish bark, and furnished with a few

scattered, distant, single, very short and small, but strong,

thick, conical, straight spines, three-fourths of an inch long,

each seated on a small knob. Branches spreading, but not

peculiarly straggling, nor with the stunted habit of E.

Crista Galli, L., few in number, distant, elongated, some-

what siinple and straight, growing mostly horizontally, and

forming an irregular, spreading head of fine, densely-clus-

tered, bright green foliage ; armed with spines similar to

those of the trunk, except those of the last year’s growth,

which are unarmed, thick in proportion to their length,

strong ? wrinkled upwards annularly, and marked with the

scars of the fallen petioles; otherwise smooth, and of a dark

olive-green. Leaves deciduous in Madeira, the tree con-

tinuing naked from December to June, produced in tufts at”

the ends of the branches, coming out at the same time, but

on different branches from those which produce the flowers,

of a dark but bright green. Stipules (at the base of the

petiole) very small, membranous and quickly deciduous,

densely furfuraceous, ovato-acuminate. Petioles quite un-

armed, round, five or six inches long, covered with a dense,

furfuraceous, pale ferruginous, or tawny coat. Petiolules

thickened, short, articulated upon the petioles, with a pair

of minute, ovate, acute, fleshy, dark-green stipulets (stt-

pelle) at the joint of the terminal leaflet, and a single one

on the outer or lower side of the joint of each lateral

one. Leaflets three, large, covered; principally beneath

and while young, with a copious furfuraceous, pale yellow-

ish-brown tomentum, which on the upper surface at least

finally wears off and nearly disappears: all very obtuse,

Subcordate, or truncate at the base, and slightly three-

nerved ; all the nerves pale, more furfuraceous than the

rest, prominent beneath, quite straight, nearly simple.

The terminal leaflet is subdeltoid or somewhat three-lobed,

broader almost at the base than long, the three lobes

rounded or very obtuse and shallow. ‘The lateral leaflets

are smaller and rounded, scarcely at all deltoid or oes

lo F

lobed. Racemes unarmed, a foot long, conical, several at

the ends of a leafless branch from the base of its terminal,

yet unexpanded leaf-bud ; widely divaricate, horizontal,

and growing out at right angles with the branch, densely

furfuraceo-tomentose in all its parts except the base of its

main-stem, which is more or less naked, and dark blackish- —

purple on the upper side, and wherever the coat is acci-

dentally rubbed off ; the main stem is nearly as thick as the

little finger at the base, then gradually attenuated, round

throughout and perfectly straight. Flowers produced in

June and July, very conspicuous, large, and handsome, in

irregular, distant, partial whorls of from four to eight or

thereabouts ; the stamens and carina always directed to-

wards the base of the raceme. Bracteolas at the base of

the pedicels, scarcely visible, very minute or obsolete, quick-

ly deciduous ; none at the apex as in E. potanthes, Brot. —

Pedicels round, densely furfuraceous, generally three to-

gether, seldom more, occasionally only one or two, growing

at right angles to the main stem, but irregularly all round

it, halfan inch long. Flower-buds elongated, round, sub-

lageniform, their ends truncated obliquely. Calyx densely

furfuraceo-tomentose, pale brown, of a leathery but soft

substance, dimidiate, or splitting partly down on the upper

side, and resembling a campanulate spatha ; the lower

lamina or limb or part opposite to the cleft, broad, wrink-

led across, truncated obliquely, and with five irregular,

blunt, shallow, nearly equal, small teeth. Standard re-

flexed, large, ample, as broad (an inch and a half to two

inches) as long, bright orange-red (red-lead approaching to

vermillion) ; its limb broad oval scarcely notched, faintly

lined or striated ; the claw short, green at its base. Wings

exserted, Jonger than the calyx, ovate, concave, imbricated

and closing over the keel, about three-fourths of an inch

long and half an inch broad; at first green, finally chesnut-

red, their edge intense purple-red. The éwo petals of the

keel are similar in shape and colour to the wings but

smaller; they can scarcely be said to form any keel, but are

imbricated beneath the two wings, their tips appearing

a little beyond these last. Stamens submonadelphous ;

sometimes apparently diadelphous, nine and one, but the

tube is only split a little farther down than usual, and the

upper single stamen is united at the base with the rest.

However, nine of the stamens are farther and more per-

fectly united to each other than to the tenth in most cases.

The tube formed by their filaments is pale green or white

at the base, deep crimson or purple upwards, cleft wags

own

down or more on the upper side ; abruptly deflexed at the

base, then straight and ascending’, far exserted, 7. e. an meh

or more beyond the keel and wings. Filaments free for

about half an inch below the anthers, smooth, deep pur-

plish-red; five longer than the rest. Anthers small, brown.

Pollen greenish-brown, subtrigonal, equilateral, the angles

very obtuse or rounded. Style as long as the anthers, deep

red. Stigma small, capitate. Ovary slender, elongated,

tomentose, subcompressed. Not unfrequently there are

two ovaries with their styles in one flower, which in other

respects preserves its symmetry, except that the tube of the

filaments is split farther down. Ovules numerous, but few

come to maturity. Pods ripe in December ; the only one

I have ever seen was about three inches long and half an

inch broad, two-seeded, oblong, compressed, contracted

between the seeds, beaked at the apex, stipitate and atten-

uated at the base, perfectly smooth and even, or with a few

faint, irregular veins or wrinkles, dark brown, gaping

a little at the suture, on each side the edge of which runs

a slight groove accompanied by a rib. Internally, it ap-

pears separated into as many large, irregular cells as there

are perfect seeds: the spaces between them as well as the

beak and the slender base of the pod being filled with @

hard, spongy mass, like pith. Seeds much smaller than their

cells, smooth and even, ofa uniform vermillion-red, each with

a regular equilateral, trapeziform or lozenge-shaped, black

mark, rather larger and better defined than in E. poianthes,

Brot., close below the hilum, which is itself convex, with a

fine groove down its middle, and dark-brownish : the seeds

are of a tumid kidney shape, the back rounded, with a very

slight trace of keel ; one-third of an inch long and a quarter

broad. The Pods are very rarely produced in Madeira,

the flowers usually falling off together with their pedicels.

This is the case indeed with all Eryrurine here.

The only individual of this noble species which I have seen in

flower is growing amidst a plantation of other rare exotic trees in the

garden of the Quinta de Valle near Funchal, at a height of three hundred

or four hundred feet above the sea. Of its particular history and intro-

duction it is now impossible to learn any thing with precision. It was

probably imported by a former proprietor of the place, Mr, J. Murpoc#,

with many other rare exotics, inmates of our stoves and greenhouses in

England, which have now attained, in this favoured spot, the size and

luxuriance of forest trees. Lowe.

I am indebted to the Rev. R. T. Lows, for the above description,

and for the drawing made from the living plant in Madeira. It is to be

hoped that it will not be long ere our gardens are in possession of this

splendid species.

Fig. 1. Legumen. 2, 3. Seeds :—nat. size.

Saran Se.

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PsyCHOTRIA DAPHNOIDES. DAPHNE-LIKE

PsycHotria. ss

Class and Order.

PrentanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Rvsiacea. )

Generic Character.

Cal. tubus ovatus, limbus brevis 5-lobus, 5-dentatus, aut

subinteger. Cor. infundibuliformis, brevis, 5-fida, regu-

laris, limbo patente aut recurvo, fauce barbata aut glabra.

Stam. 5, antheris exsertis, aut in fauce inclusis. Stigma

bifidum. Bacca drupacea, dipyrena, calycis limbo coro-

nata, per exsiccationem obtuse 10-costata, pyrenis char-

taceo-coriaceis costatis l-spermis. Semen erectum, albu-

mine cartilagineo, embryone parvo basilari.—Arbuscule,

Frutices, rarius Herb equinoctiales. Folia opposita, peti-

olata. Stipule varie. Pedunculi nunc axillares, sepius

terminales, Flores paniculati aut corymbosi, rarius 4-meri,

et interdum in wisdem individuis 5 et 4-meri. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Psycuorria* daphnoides ; fruticosa dichotoma glabra, ra-

mis furcatis precipue apicem versus foliosis, foliis obo-

vatis basi attenuatis, stipulis suborbicularibus bidenta-

tis parvis, corymbis terminalibus paucifloris, corolle

ore villoso.

Psycnorria daphnoides. Allan Cunningh. in Hort. Reg.

Kew. 7 ?

Descr. Apparently a small shrub, with terete, forked,

glabrous branches. Leaves opposite, about an inch long,

submembranaceous, ©

* From wx», life, and tee, fo support ; on account of the powerful me- —

dicinal properties of the PsycHoTRia emetica. ae

submembranaceous, quite entire, attenuated at the base

and sessile. Stipules small, membranous, roundish, with

two teeth at the extremity. Flowers in small, few-flowered,

terminal, pedunculated corymbs, generally bearing three

flowers at the extremity of each ramification. Calyx small,

adherent with the ovary, subglobose, slightly downy,

with two small dracteas at its base, and crowned with five

minute teeth. Corolla somewhat hypocrateriform, pure

white: the tube a little ventricose, clothed with hairs: the

limb of five oval, concave, spreading, obtuse segments.

Stamens much exserted. Anthers linear-oblong, pale grey.

Style scarcely reaching to the mouth of the corolla, tipped

with a rather large, bifid, glandular stigma.

An inhabitant of the margins of woods on the banks of

Brisbane River, New Holland, where it was discovered by

Auian Cunnincuam, Esq., and by him a living plant was

introduced to the Royal Gardens at Kew, in 1829. A

flowering specimen was obligingly transmitted by W. T.

Arron, Esq. It requires a warm greenhouse, where it

flowers in the month of April, at which time our specimens

were communicated.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil. 3, Stipules: magnified.

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BrASSAVOLA NODOSA. FRAGRANT

BRASSAVOLA.

Class and Order.

GyNnANDRIA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala et Petala subequalia, libera, acuminata. Label-

lum cucullatum, integrum, columnam involvens. Columna

marginata, clavata, stigmate infundibulari, clinandrio pos-

tice tridentato. Pollinia 8, subzqualia, quibusdam aliis

Nara interjectis. Anthera 4-locularis, septis marginatis,

oculis semipartitis—Herbz caulescentes, epiphyte, apice

folium unicum vel alterum, semicylindraceum, carnosum,

supra sulcatum, apice subulatum gerentes. Flores termi-

nales, magni, speciost. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Brassavota nodosa; labello cordato-acuminato basi an-

gusto involuto, sepalis petalisque labelli longitudine

linearibus acuminatis, columnz dentibus lateralibus

integris intermedio bi- tridentato. (Beek os

Brassavota nodosa, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 114.

Epipenprum nodosum. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1350. Jacq. Amer.

p. 226. t. 140. | ;

Cymeipium nodosum. Sw. Nov. Act. Ups. v. 6. p. 73.

Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 722.

Viscum delphinii flore minus, &c. Sloane, Jam. v. 1. p.

25). ¢. 12F. f. 33

Descr. From a short, horizontal rootstock, which throws a

out a few simple fibres, there arise three or four or more

stems, five or six inches high, terete, jointed and so

, : wit

with striated, membranous, whitish-green sheaths, spotted

with brown, each terminated by a single, thick, fleshy, rigid,

subulate deaf, semiterete at the back, furrowed in front, ofa

very dark green colour. At the base of this leaf, and from

a sheathing scale, appears the pedunculated raceme, shorter

than the leaf, of about from ten to twelve moderate sized

flowers, fragant at night. Sepals patent, yellowish-green,

linear-acuminate, rather longer than the labellum ; petals

smaller and uarrower, but of the same colour. Labellum

from a cylindrical, involute, greenish base, suddenly ex-

panding into a whitish cordato-ovate, acuminated, carinated

extremity, the margins often reflexed. Column short, con-

cealed within the involute base of the labellum, cylindrical,

white, with three lanceolate, erect teeth at the extremity, of

which two are lateral or almost in front, and entire, the third

. dorsal, bi- trifid at the extremity. Anther terminal, almost=

concealed by the teeth, hemispherical, with eight cells and —

pollen-masses, four smaller attached to the anterior extre-

mity of as many caudicula, and four larger, affixed to the

ppposite extremity; some lesser globules are likewise at-

tached to the sides of the caudicula. )

- From the stove of Cuartes Horsraun, Esq. Mayor Dh om

Liverpool, who received it from Wriiam Parke, Esq. of

Kingston, Jamaica, in 1830, and obligingly accompanied it

RY the excellent drawing here engraved, from the pencil of

rs. Horsratt. The plant had remained dormant, without

showing any signs of vegetation for about six months after

its arrival in this country, and then put forth one shoot,

which attained its full growth in the course of two months,

when the individual again became dormant for about the —

same period as before. In January 1832, it produced its

blossoms, which the gardener, Mr. Henry Evans, observed

to be fragrant at night.

_ ‘This species is assuredly the same as the plant above

referred to in Stoane, whose figure, indeed, is far more

characteristic than that of Jacquin.

Fig. 1. Labellum. 2. Back view of a Column. 8. Front view of ditto.

4. Anther with its Pollen Masses. 5, Anther Case. 6. Pollen Mass.—

Magnified. ae

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CoRYDALIS LONGIFLORA. LONG-FLOWERED

CoryDALIS. |

KEK KEKE EERE KEE EK EEK

Class and Order.

DiapetpHiA HeExanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—FumariAcez. )

Generic Character.

Petala 4, unicum basi calcaratum. Siliqua 2-valvis com-

pressa polysperma.—Herbe glabre, sepe glauce..

Specific Character and Synonyms. :

Corypauis* longiflora; caule simplici squamigero, foliis bi-

ternatim sectis, segmentis subtrifidis lobis obovato-

oblongis, racemo terminali laxifloro, bracteis ovato-

lanceolatis pedicello brevioribus, calcare subulato

pedicello longiore. Graham. :

Corypauis longiflora. Pers. Vig Pl. v, 2. p. 269. De

Cand. Syst. Veg. v. 2. p. 116. ib. Prodr. v. 1. p. 127.

Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 3. p. 160. Link et Otto, Icon,

Pl. Rar. pars I. p. 3. t. 2. .

Foumaria longiflora. Willd. Syst. Pl. v. 3. p. 860.

Fumaria Schangini. Pall. Act. Petrop. 1779, v. 2. p. 267.

t. 14. f. 1—3.

(8.) Fumaria caudata. Lam. Dict. v. 2. p. 569. (fid. D C.)

Ibid. Encyel. v. 3. p. 563 ? (fid. Willd.)

Corypa.is caudata. Pers. Syn. Pl. v. 2. p. 269. (fid. D C.)

Descr. Tuber globular, about the size of a hasel nut.

Stem to the uppermost flower six to eight inches high,

nearly erect, subpellucid, slightly glaucous, leafy at its

* From xopvdaas, a lark, from the long spur or claw of the flower, resem-

bling that of a lark.

base, sheathed. Leaves shorter than the stem, lengthening

somewhat after the flowers have faded, glaucous, biternate;

leaflets subtrifid, lobes oboyato-oblong. Raceme terminal;

rachis tapering ; flowers scattered loosely ; pedicels (half an

inch long) gradually lengthening as the fruit forms, sub-

erect, round, glabrous, reddish. Bracteas single at the

base of each pedicel, rather shorter than the pedicels when

in flower, ovato-lanceolate, obtuse, gradually diminishing

upwards, nerved. Flower (an inch and three quarters long)

rose-coloured, petals slightly cohering at the base,

imb concave, that of the three upper petals fleshy, the

upper and lower nearly equal, upper suberect, lower almost

straight, wings shorter, their limb oblong, keeled, blood-red

in the upper half, cohering at the apex, keel, when placed

under the microscope found to be tubercled near the apex,

claw long, slender, linear : spur tapering, nearly straight.

Filaments diadelphous, three cohering. within the upper

and three within the lower petal, free for a very little way

at the apex only. Anthers yellow, pollen-granules spheri-

cal. Stigma green, compressed, blunt, sagittate at the

base, crowning the anthers. Germen oblong-linear, an-

gled, ovules numerous. |

-Tubers of this plant, which is a native of the Altaic —

Mountains, were received at the Botanic Garden, Edin- —

burgh, from Berlin, in. 1832, and flowered in the green-

house, during the Decémber and January following.

Graham. ae a

Gi os

Fig. 1. Side view of a Flower, from which the Petals, 4 and 5, are

removed. 2. Pistil 3. Three of the Stamens cohering by their Filaments: ~

Slightly magnified,

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GELONIUM FASCICULATUM. CLUSTER-FLOW-

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Class and Order.

Dracia PoLyANpRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Eurnorsiace2. )

Generic Character.

Flores dioici. Calyx 5-partitus, reflexus; prefloratio

convolutiva, Petala o. Masc. Stamina 12 aut multo

plura, receptaculo multiglanduloso imposita, filamentis

exsertis, antheris adnatis, extrorsis, oblongis. Fam. Stig-

mata 2—3 sessilia, lacera ; evarium carnosum, disco glan-

duloso impositum, 2—3-loculare, loculis l-ovulatis. Fruc-

tus capsularis, 2—3-coccus. Juss.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Getonium * fasciculatum ; foliis ellipticis obtusis, floribus

fasciculatis foemineis stigmatibus brevibus apice laceris.

Getonium fasciculatum. Roxb. Hort. Bengh. p. 73.

Descr. A glabrous shrub, or, probably, small tree, with

rounded,-green branches and alternate leaves, which are on

very short petioles, elliptical, but sometimes approaching

to oblong, at other times almost ovate, obtuse, the margins

entire, or in the younger leaves not unfrequently furnished

with a few coarse serratures. Stipules very caducous,

falling off as the young leaf unfolds, aud apparently of the

same nature as those of the fig-tribe. Peduncles opposite to

the leaves, short and branched, so that the flowers appear

to be fascicled. The perianth is of a greenish-white colour,

s consisting

* A name given by Dr. RoxpurGu, of which the derivation is not stated.

consisting of five oval leaflets, slightly jagged at the edge,

Male flowers with a wrinkled, fleshy disk in the centre,

which bears several stamens: Filaments white; Anthers

oblong, yellow. Female Flowers, according to Dr. Rox-

BuRGH’s drawings in the East India Company’s Museum,

with a similar perianth, and annular disk, surrounding a

rounded, three-lobed germen, crowned with three spread-

ing, wedge-shaped stigmas, lacerated at the extremity.

Introduced from the East Indies to the Royal Gardens of

Kew, whence specimens and a drawing were kindly com-

municated by Mr. Arron. It exists probably in other col-

lections ; for Mr. Arron observes that it bears the name of

Saracopa glabra in some gardens :—and by that generic

name it was probably Dr. Roxguren’s intention once to

distinguish it ; for he observes in the Flora Indica, where

two other specimens are mentioned, (G. bifarium and lan-

ceolatum) that the Telinga name is Soora-gada. It flowers

in August, and requires the heat of a stove. I have only

seen specimens of the male plant. The pistil I have copied

from Dr. Roxsuren’s figure in the India House.

Fig. 1. Flower-bud. 2. Portion of the glandular body of the Male _

Flower, bearing Stamens, 3 and 4. Anthers. 5. Pistil from a Female

Flower (copied from Dr. Roxsurcn’s drawing) :—more or less magnified.

Hyprastis Canapensis. AMERICAN ~

Hyprastis. : ie

SEEK EE EEE EEE EERE

Class and Order.

PoLtyanprRIA Potyeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Ranuncutace2. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 3-sepalus, sepalis ovatis ; Pet. 0. Stamina ovari-

aque plurima. Cariopsides baccate, plurime in capitulum,

stylo terminate, 1-loculares, 1—2-sperme. Semina obo-

voidea levigata. D.C.

For Specific Name and Synonyms and Description and

Figure of the Flowering Plant see our Tab. 3019.

Under the remarks at the Figure just quoted, I mention-

ed the great rarity of this plant, and that, notwithstanding

the extensive correspondence | enjoyed with the Botanists of

North America, it had never been in my power to examine

a native specimen. Through the kindness of Dr. Dartine-

ton of West Chester, Pennsylvania,I have lately been placed

in communication with Dr. SHorr of Lexington, Kentucky,

and amongst a very extensive collection which that gentle-

man had the kindness to send me, (unquestionably one of

the most beautiful I ever received,) I had the great pleasure

to find specimens of Hyprastis Canadensis, and what was

still more valuable, a beautiful drawing of the fructified

state, as it is here given, taken from the living plant.

If in the flowering state, Hyprastis Canadensis, has little

beauty to recommend it to general cultivation, such is not

the case when it has arrived at maturity; at which period,

the two ample leaves terminating the erect and unbranched

stem, are crowned, as it were, with the rich scarlet berry as

large as a raspberry. It is composed of about a dozen

obovate,

obovate, fleshy, and very juicy pericarps, each tipped with

its persistent, recurved style, and containing shining, black,

smooth seeds. The natural affinities of this plant may well

give rise to suspicion that the fruit is better to the eye than

the palate, and it might be dangerous to make experiments

on its esculent properties. About Lexington, the Hypras-

tis Canadensis appears to be not unfrequent, producing

its inconspicuous blossoms before the leaves are fully de-

eae early in April, and its scarlet fruit the beginning of

uly.

Fig. 1, Fruit. 2. Under-side of ditto, nat. size. 3. A single Carpel.

4, 5. Seeds : magnified.

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Class and Order. 4

GyYNANDRIA MonanpriA.

( Nat. Ord.— OrcuipeE2. )

Generic Character.

Sepala patentia, subequalia. Petala sepalis equalia v.

angustiora, rarius latiora, patentia vel reflexa. bellum

cum marginibus columnz omnino v. parte connatum, limbo

integro vel diviso, disco sepius calloso, costato v. tubercu-

lato ; nune in calear productum oyario accretum et cuni-

culum formans. Columna elongata: clinandrio marginato

sepe fimbriato. Anthera carnosa, 2—4-locularis. Polli-

nia 4, caudiculis totidem replicatis annexa.—Herbe (Ame-

ricane) epiphyte, caule nunc apice v. basi pseudo-bulboso,

nunc elongato apice folioso. Folia carnosa, rarissime venis

elevatis striata. Flores spicati, racemosi, corymbosi v, pa-

niculati, terminales v. laterales. Lindl. Meg

Specific Character and Synonyms.

ErmpenDRuM pygm@um; caule repente radicante, bulbis

oblongis diphyllis apice floriferis, floribus subsessi-

libus, sepalis ovatis acuminatis, petalis lineari-lanceo-

latis, labello columnz arcto adnato trilobo, lobis late-

ralibus rotundatis incurvis intermedio integro acuto.

Eripenprum pygmexum. Hook. in Bot. Misc. N. Ser. p.

A9. t. 118. ined. oe

‘

Descr. Stem about the thickness of a crow’s quill, elon-

gated, wavy, creeping, clothed in part with dark brown,

sheathing scales ; throwing out from beneath rather long,

branching roots, and from above, oblongo-lanceolate, com-

pressed,

ressed bulbs, each of the latter terminated by two ob-—

ongo-lanceolate, obtuse, coriaceous, spreading, dark green

leaves, paler beneath. Flower small, solitary, from the axil

of the two leaves, upon a very short peduncle, which is sur-

rounded by a dark brown, sheathing bractea, and several

lesser and pale green ones, some of which appear to be abor-

tive flowers. Three outer segments of the perianth or sepals

are ovato-acuminate, greenish, the two inner, or petals linear-

lanceolate, of the same colour as the outer ones. Labellum

white, adnate with the white, rather short, cylindrical

column, three-lobed ; two lateral lobes large, incurved,

rounded, the intermediate one acute, straight, tipped with

red. Column with a tooth in front of the anther. Anther

orange-coloured. Pollen-masses deep yellow. Germen

clavate, acutely triquetrous. Capsule oval in its outline, —

sharply triquetrous, tipped with the withered floral cover-

ings. }

in 1832, I had first the pleasure of receiving this plant 4

from Mrs. Arnorp Harrison of Aigburgh, to whom it was #

sent by her brother from Brazil. In January 1833, speci-

mens, both in flower and in fruit, were obligingly commu-_

nicated to me by Cuartes Horsraut, Esq. of Liverpool

who received the plant from Wituiam Parke, Esq. Kings-

ton, Jamaica. It has the habit of Dinema, Lindl., but

Se in its flowers the true structure of an EprDEN-

Fig. 1. Flower and Bractea. 2. Front view of a Flower. 3. Two of the.

s, Column, and Labellum. 4. Capsule: magnified. |

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ERYTHRINA POIANTHES. NAKED-FLOWERING

CoraL-TREE.

KEKE KEK EKER EER EK

Class and Order.

Diapeven1aA DecanpRiA.

( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminos2. )

Generic Character. ge

Cal. tubulosus ore truncato subdentato aut spathaceus.

Cor. vexillum longissinum oblongum, ale et carina dipe-

tala vexillo multo breviores. Stamina diadelpha recta,

decimo nunc ceteris subcoalito, nunc libero alis multo

breviore aut rarius deficiente. Leguwmen longum torulosum

bivalve polyspermum. Semina ovata, hilo laterali—Ar-

buscule aut frutices,rarius herbe. Stipule parve a petiolo

distincte. Folia petiolata 1-juga cum impari, foliolis loco”

stipellarum glandulis bast stipatis. Caules et petioli inter-

dum aculeati. Racemi elongati, pedicellis sepe ternatim

approximatis. Flores rubro-coccinet. Semina sepius rubro

et nigro mixta, nitida. DC. iin,

Specific Character and Synonyms.

EryTurina poianthes ; caule arboreo, ramis_petiolisque

sparsim aculeolatis, foliis imermibus ovntosdéltdideld

obtusis basi subcordatis, junioribus utrinque petiolis

ramulis racemisque ferrugineo-pubescentibus subto-

mentosis, calycibus tubuloso-campanulatis subcar-

nosis pubescentibus, ore constricto truncato dentibus

obsoletis, vexillo lineari-lanceolato elongato subfalcato,

staminibus subdiadelphis inclusis vexillo paullum brevi-

ore, carina alisque parvis inclusis calycem equantibus.

Eryturina poianthes. Brotero in Linn. Trans. v. 1A. p.

342. ¢. 10,11. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1246. De Cand.

Prodr. v. 2. p. 411. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 248.

Descr. A low free, fifteen to twenty feet high, with the ¢runk and

branches thick in proportion, the former being sometimes four feet in

circumference. Branches at first erect and straight, but soon becoming

curved and even bent downwards from their own weight and the pecu-

har softness of the wood, which is so light and pithy when dried, as to

resemble cork, and splits very readily. Zrunk and branches covered”

with an even, greenish, ash-coloured bark, the smaller ones almost white,

with small, solitary, scattered, hooked prickles: the main stem oblique,

or even horizontal in old trees, bearing many, subdivided, erect branches,

each tipped, from April to June, with a spike of brilliant scarlet flowers,

which

VOL. VI. F

which are unaccompanied, for most of the time, with a single leaf,

and thus present a most singular and beautiful appearance. Till the ©

period of inflorescence is half over, the tree is quite naked, and does not

produce its full foliage till July, a few racemes only continuing through

eat part of the summer. Leaves copious, large, and handsome, borne

in terminal tufts and springing from buds which are densely clothed

with tomentose, small scales, Stipules ovate, minute and downy, fleshy,

at length indurated, woody and permanent. Prickles from a small point —

or protuberance between the stipules, close beneath the large, prominent

scar of the petiole, and requiring at least two years for their develop-

ment. Petioles round, even, with rarely more than two small, hooked

prickles béneath, covered, when young, with tawny pubescence. |

leaflets on short, thickened stalks, each furnished with a minute stipule,

inequilateral, ovato-deltoid, somewhat heart-shaped, obtuse,

one with a longer petiole, and two small stipules of the same figure, but

ae and larger than the lateral leaflets; all pubescent beneath

when young: the entire leaf measuring nearly a foot in length. Aaceme—

nearly straight and erect, solitary or two or even three s ringing from

the summit of each branch, and at the base of the terminal, unexpanded

leaf-bud, consisting of numerous, closely-crowded flowers, in a

_ cone of spirally arranged buds; its main stem fulvo-pubescent, rounded —

finally nearly a foot long. Flowers of a most brilliant vermillion scat™) ~

irregularly whorled. Pedicels very short, each bearing a small, ovate

tea at the base, and a pair of similar ones beneath the calyx. lyz col

pressed, brownish below, reddish above, downy, rigid, fleshy, subcampanula”®s —

truncated, the mouth contracted, entire, teeth obsolete or with the intervals —

filled up by a continuing membrane. Vezillum forming the whole flower, —

strongly folded together for its whole length, linear-lanceolate, narrow, obtuse,

slightly curved upwards, faintly streaked with longitudinal darker Jines. Wings

very small, their tips just eegpesring beyond the calyx, oblong, concave, TOUNT

ed, pale reddish at i i green below, striated, Petals of the keel

rather shorter and narrower than the wings, but nearly of the same form and

hue, closely embracing the base of the stamens, which last are imperfect! é

diadelphous, a little shorter than the vexillum, and generally sheathed by it

Filaments white ; anthers small, linear; triquetrous. Style subulate

stigma acute. Pod four to nine inches ong, compressed, smooth,

dark brown, oe moniliform, containing a pithy substance, and two 10°

four seeds, which are oval, of a dull scarlet, with a small, black lozenge

mark just below the hilum. pro-

ot an unfrequent inmate of the gardens in Madeira, to which it was Pr”

bably brought immediately from Peston where it is much cultivated, the

native country of this splendid tree being Asia. Besides its singularity and

beauty, the facility with which the various species of ERYTHRINA ame PP”

ted is no small recommendation. Every branch, however y a

en and carelessly stuck in the ground, will readily take root and ira The

flowers are perfectly scentless, like those of the other Coral- S; bee

spread horizontally as they continue to expand, the lower ones opening *

and off in succession as the upper ones advance : thus the maoeme®

preserve throughout the appearance of a candelabrum. In Madeira, few oil

are produced, the blossoms almost all dropping off with the calyx entire, ©

; ving the pedicels attached to the main stem for some little time longer.

These, however, fall also, before the uppermost flowers of the raceme vs

” The Sat rida plant from which the drawing and description tas ei

ws in the garden of the Quinta da Valle, close to its rival

RYTHRINA telutina. Rev. R. T. Lowe.

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SANTALUM ALBUM. SANDAL Woon.

Class and Order.

TETRANDRIA Monoeynta.

( Nat. Ord.— Sanraracez. )

Generic Character. -

Perianthium 4-fidum, tubo ventricoso, deciduum. Glan-

dule 4, fauci inserte, staminibus alternantes. Stigma 3—4-

lobum. Drupa baccata, apice marginata.— / bores %.

frutices glabri. Folia opposita, plana, latiuscula. Flores

terni in pedunculis opposite ramosis : Onenter? caducis. Br.

_ Specific Character and Synonyms.

Sanrarom * album; foliis ovato-lanceolatis venosis, 1 racemis

paniculatis.

Sinraite album. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 497. Roxb. Fl. Indie.

v. 1. p. 462.

SANDALUM “ebuit Rumph. Amboyn, v. 2. p. a2: t. 11.

gli

Descr. Trunk twenty to thirty feet high, hed low

down, two and a half to three feet in circumference, Bark

brownish, scabrous, longitudinally cleft. Branches numer-

ous, much divided, spreading, , and rising in every direction,

forming nearly a spherical | head : the young shoots round

and smooth. " Leaves opposi

entire, glaucous below, from one and a half to three inches

long. Petioles smooth. Thyrsi of flowers axillary and

terminal. Pedicels opposite, the lower pair of each thyrsus

generally three-flowered. Flowers numerous, small, at first

straw-coloured, changing to a deep, te ied purple,

scentless, as are all the external parts of the Srowing plant,

. 2a even

* From the Arabic Ssandal ; or from the Persian Sundul sufed.

; petioled, oblong, smooth, ~

this has been done, is commonly called root Sandal, and is

of superior quality. In smoothing the billets, chips of the

Sandal are of course cut off ; so are also fragments in squar-

ing their ends. These chips and fragments, with the

smaller assortment of billets, answer best for the Arabian

market ; and from them the essential oil is distilled. The

larger billets are sent to China ; and the middle-sized ones

are used in India. The Sandal, when thus prepared and

sorted, for at least three or four months before it is sold,

ought to be shut up from the sun and wind in close ware-

houses ; but the longer it is kept, with such precautions, the

better ; its weight diminishing more than its smell. Pre-

pared in this way, it rarely either splits or warps; both of

which accidents render it unfit for many of the purposes to

which it is applied.

Before the year 1797, Sandal-wood was sorted into three

sizes. Of the first size, thirty-five pieces made a Candy of

560ibs.: of the second size, forty-five pieces, and of the

third size, fifty-five pieces. Since the year 1797, the sizes.

have been sedaded. The first sort now contains sixty-five,

the second sort seventy-two, and the third sort ninety pieces.

All pieces smaller than these, all rank and knotty pieces,

whatever may be their size, together with cuttings, roots,

and the like, are called Carippu, and form a fourth sort.

The chips which are removed in polishing the logs form a

fifth assortment. The first three sorts only are exported to

China, the Carippu to Bengal and Muscat, but to the former

in the greatest quantity. The chips are sent to Bombay,

Cutch, and Muscat. oa" :

The Sandal-wood of the Sandwich Islands, of which I

possess specimens gathered by Mr. Menzies, and by Mr.

Macrae, is a very different species, and is Santatum Frey-

cinetianum of GaupicHAND, and is almost the only article

of commerce that those islands produce ; by means of it,

a very lucrative trade has been carried on with China.

Five new species of this Genus are also given by Mr. Brown

as natives of New Holland, mostly of the tropical parts.

The wood of a species of Prerocarpus, the P. santalinus,

isalso known in commerce by the name of Red Sandal-wood,

having been sent to Linnzus, says Sir J. E. Smiru, from the

East Indies as a kind of Sanratum rubrum, or red Sanders-_

wood, and ascertained to be such by K6nie : it is described

as a hard and heavy wood, of a deep red colour, with black

veins, and as taking a fine polish. Santaline of M. Prt-

LeTIER, is the colouring principle extracted from this wood.

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DRYANDRA ARMATA. SHARP-POINTED —

DryanpRa. i

Class and Order.

%, Pentanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Proreacez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium quadripartitum vel -_quadrifidum. Siena

apicibus concavis laciniarum immersa. Sguamule hypo-

gyne 4, Ovarium uniloculare, biovulatum: Ovula post

feecundationem coherentia. Folliculus lignosus. Disse-

pimentum ligneum, semibifidum fructus maturi. omnino

simile. Receptaculum commune planum, floribus indeter-

minatim confertis ; paleis angustis, raro nullis. Involucrum

commune imbricatum.—Frutices plerumque humiles. Rami

dum adsint sparsi vel umbellati. Folia sparsa, pinnatifida

vel incisa, plante juvenilis conformia, Involucra solitaria,

terminalia, raro lateralia, sessilia, foliis confertis, interiort-

bus quandoque nervis obvallata, hemispherica, bracteis ad-

pressis, in quibusdam apice appendiculatis. gle ae oe

rianthio vix eae Br.

Specific ———. and Syronyme.

icciches flexuose,

~ Leaves alternate ;

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glabrous, clothed with a brown k

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often fasciculated, on short branches, patent or reflexed,

very rigid, lanceolate, glabrous, below only furnished with

several rather long, rigid, dark-coloured hairs, deeply pin-

natifid, the segments patent, triangular, acute and mucro-

nate, dark green above, paler beneath, marked with nume-

rous reticulated, slightly elevated veins, which are glabrous,

while the small areola are white as if mealy. Involucre

terminal, solitary, of numerous imbricated, linear scales,

clothed with short, dark brown hairs, surrounded by a sort

of ray of numerous leaves. Flowers numerous, long, slen-

der, yellow, deeply divided into four very narrow, linear

laciniz, slightly enlarged upwards, in which portion the

linear anthers are, as it were imbedded, Pollen copious,

and as well as the anthers, yellow. .

In the inestimable Prodromus Fl. Nove Hollandie of

Mr. Brown, thirteen species of Dryanpra are enumerated,

and in the Supplement to the same work, twelve new spe-

cies are added ; all of them, as Mr. Brown observes, natives

of the South-western shores. “It is worthy of remark,”

says that gentleman, “ that while Banxsia is generally

read over all the coasts of New Holland and of Van

jemen’s Island, Dryanpra has hitherto been observed

only on that part of the South coast called Lewin’s Land, -

where, however, its species are nearly as numerous an

abundant as those of Banksia itself.” “D. armata was dis-

covered by that gentleman in the country just mentioned,

and from seeds sent from thence by the late Mr. Fraser,

plants have been raised in the Glasgow Botanic Garden,

which flowered in February, 1833.

—

Fig. 1. Segment of a Leaf, seen from beneath, —Magnified.

5237.

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HETEROPTERIS CHRYSOPHYLLA. GoOLDEN-

-LEAVED CHRYSOPHYLLA. :

KEKE EEE EEE EEK EER EEE

Class and Order.

DecanDRIA 'T'RIGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Matpieu1ace. )

Generic Character. —

Cal. 5-partitus, extus ad basin 8—10-glandulosus. Pe-

tala unguiculata, subrotunda. Stam. 10 filamentis subula-

tis basi coherentibus. Styli 3 sursum non dilatati. Car-

pella indehiscentia 3, monosperma, subdistincta, demum

separabilia, desinentia in alam simplicem membranaceam

deorsum (nec superne) incrassatam. Semen 1, pendulum

in quogue loculo. Cotyledones crasse inequales. Radi-

cula supera ad hilum versa.—Arbores, fruticesve sepe scan-

dentes. DC. Gees cee

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Hererorteris* chrysophylla; foliis ovato-oblongis acutius-

culis versus apicem subsinuatis subtus tomentoso-niti-

dis aureis, petiolis brevissimis apice biglandulosis,

floribus axillaribus paniculatis.

Hererorreris chrysophylla. Humb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen.

et Sp. v. 5. p. 163. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 391.

Banisteria chrysophylla. Lam. Dict. v. 1. p. 368. Cav. |

Diss. t. 24. Jacq. Hort. Schenbr. t. 105. _

Descr. A twining shrub, attaining to a great length,

with opposite, rounded branches, clothed with dense ap-

pressed, rusty, and shining hairs, the younger ones com- |

“= : pressed.

* “Erspos, various, and wrepoc, a wing, from the variable shape of the wing

of the fruit.

pressed. Leaves opposite, on short, rounded petioles, oval,

or oval-oblong, entire, somewhat acute and waved, coria-

ceous, dark green and glabrous above, marked beneath,

with several glands near the margin, and clothed with a

beautiful golden-brown, satiny pubescence, as are the pe-

tioles, which have moreover two lateral, green, convex

glands near the extremity. Peduncles axillary, bearing an

umbellated panicle, much shorter than the leaves. Calyx

five-partite, clothed with rusty pubescence, and bearing

eight large, oblong, bright-green, shining, prominent glands,

Corolla of five petals, which are roundish-oval, minutely

crenulate, unguiculate, orange-coloured, becoming deeper

and almost red in age. Stamens ten, erect : filaments subu-

late ; five alternately smaller ; anthers roundish, reflexed,

black at the back, pale and almost white in front. Germen —

ovate, clothed with dense, rusty hairs. Styles three, short,

terete, green.

For the opportunity of figuring this desirable inmate of

the stove, with the rich and golden clothing to the under-

side of its leaves, I am indebted to J. T. Mackay, Esq. ho

sent it from the Dublin College Botanic Garden, in the

early part of March, 1833. It is a native of Brazil and the

Caraccas, and I have received splendid specimens from the

late Rev. L. Gurtpine of St. Vincent’s. In the older state.

of the plant, I find the glands to be obsolete, and thus, ex-

cept in the larger terminal and leafy panicles, I do not see P

how Mr. Linptey’s H. nitida, 8, differs as a species.

——- 7

; Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal. 3. Anther. 4, Pistil :—magnified.

( 3238 )

PoGosTEMON PLECTRANTHOIDES. PLECTRAN-

THUS-LIKE POGOSTEMON.

KEKE KE EEE EKER ERE EERE

Class and Order.

DipyNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord—Lasiurs. Div. Menrnomwex. Benth. )

Generic Character.

Cal. equalis, 5-dentatus. Cor. 4-fida, subbilabiata, labio

superiore trifido patente, inferiori integerrimo acuto subde-

flexo. Stam. 4, exserta, distantia, subdeclinata. Filamenta

barbata. Anthere terminales, 1-loculares, rima transversali

dehiscentes. Benth.

, Specific Character and Synonyms.

Pocostemon * plectranthoides ; suffruticosum, foliis ovatis

petiolatis inequaliter dentatis pubescentibus, spicis

secundis obtusis. Desf. ae

Pocostemon plectranthoides. Desf. in Mém. du Mus.v.

2. p. 155. p.6. Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. No. 1530.00

Descr. Stem woody, erect, obscurely four-sided, more

distinctly so in the branches, very slightly swollen at the -

joints ; bark pale brown, striated, tomentoso-pubescent on —

the young shoots. Leaves five inches long, two and a hal!

broad, opposite, petioled, spreading, ovate, acuminate,

coarsely and unequally serrated, entire and subcunez

the base, pubescent on both sides, veined, the mid L

and primary veins (which pass obliquely for ) promi

nent behind, petiole about a fourth part of the length of

the leaf, channelled above, pubescent. Flowers in =

* From xwyw, a beard, and chyw, a stamen, in consequence of the beard-

ed stamens.

nal, bracteate panicles ; rachis and its branches tomentoso-

pubescent, sprinkled with purple spots, which are also seen

on the back of the uppermost leaves and the lower side of —

their petioles ; bractea ovate, acute, strongly ciliated, pu-

bescent on both sides spotted with purple. Calyx green,

scarcely spotted, clavate, shorter than the bractea, five-cleft,

ubescent, segments acute, subequal, the lowest rather the

ongest. Corolla white, tube slightly compressed, laterally

declined ; limb scarcely so long as the tube, bilabiate, upper

lip erect, trifid, segments blunt, pubescent on the outside,

slightly reflexed at their apices, the central the smallest;

lower lip simple, lanceolate, acute, glabrous, deflected. Sta-

mens exserted, distant, deflected: filaments twice as long as

the corolla, lilac, and covered on their outsides at the mid-

dle with long lilac, moniliform hairs ; anthers pale yellow,

unilocular, and bursting by a slit a little to one side of

their vertex, forming two rather unequal valves. Style

lilac, glabrous, bifid. Stigmas minute, terminal. Germen

four-lobed, placed on a cylindrical disk. o

The seeds of this plant were received at the Royal Botanic

Garden, Edinburgh, from Mauritius in 1830; it blossomed

in the stove for the first time in January and February, |

1833, the blossoms coming in succession for a long time.

Whatever it has of beauty, is derived from its long, lilac, —

_ Ihave referred above to the Kamoun specimen in Wat-_

uick’s Herbarium, with which our plant is identical, because —

more careful examination may induce Mr. Benruam to con-

sider the specimens from other stations distinct. It is pos-

sible that it may have been introduced to Mauritius from —

India. Graham. a |

I have been favoured with a drawing and specimens of

this plant also from the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it

was introduced in 1830, by seeds sent from Dr. WALLIicH,

and where it blossomed in December of the same year.

—"

Fig. 1. Flowerand Bracteas. 2. Flower scarcely expanded. 3. 3. Anthers.

4, Part of a Hair from a Filament: magnified. ee

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( 3239 )

AZALEA LEDIFOLIA, var. 8, phenicea. Purpie-

FLoweErep Fracrant InpIAN AZALEA. _

KKK KEKE KEKE EEE

Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Ruopopenprez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. infundibuliformis limbo 5-fido.

Stam. receptaculo inserta. Caps. 3—5-locularis, valvis

dissepimentum formantibus. Sem. nuda.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Azauea ledifolia; floribus ternis, calyce erecto glanduloso-

-viscido, staminibus sursum curvatis.

Azatea ledifolia. Bot. Mag. t. 2901. (White-flowered.)

Aza.ea Indica, var. aliorum.

Var. 8. phenicea, semiduplex, floribus pheniceis, corolla —

segmentis tribus superioribus maculatis (Tas. 3239.) —

The richly-coloured flowers of this plant make a brilliant

appearance in the greenhouse during the months of Janu-—

ary and February, and form a striking contrast with the

more frequent white-blossomed state; but the present is by

no means so ready a flowerer. That it belongs to the

same species (and not to the A. Indica) there can, I think,

be no question ; it possesses all the essential characters, and

the fragrance is similar, or perhaps more powerful, and

— to persons who are insensible to that of the whi

I have already, under t. 2901, suggested that the double

rose-coloured var. of Azatea Indica, t. 2509, should be re-

ferred to this species : another var. is that given at. t. 2667

of the present work. e"

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Pub by S. Curtis Clasenwend. Exsox May 1 18358,

- Brecunum LaNceota. — LANCE-SHAPED |

BLecuNnum. oi So joct

Class and Order.

Cryprocamia Fi1ices.

( Nat. Ord.—Fuices. )

Generic Character.

Sori lineares continui gemini utrinque ad costam. IJnvo-

lucra membranacea plana versus costam dehiscentia.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Buiecunum* Lanceola; frondibus cespitosis lanceolatis acu-

minatis integris, sterili latiore.

Biecunum Lanceola. Swartz, (according to Sprengel).

Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 4. p. 92.

Biecunvum lanceolatum. Raddi Syn. Fil. Bras.n.118. Ejusd.

Fil. Bras. p. 52. t. 60. f. 3.

Descr. Root densely fibrous. Stipites several from the

same root, tufted, two to three inches long, smooth, or

rough with a few minute, deciduous scales. Fronds four

to five inches long, membranaceous, lanceolate, acuminated

simple and quite entire, glabrous, dark-green above, paler

beneath, costate with many parallel, simple, oblique nerves, —

which reach from the costa to the margin. The sterile

fronds, when present, are seen to be shorter and broader

than the fertile ones. Sori linear, continuous, one on each

side the costa, and contiguous to it. Involuecrum continu-

ous also. Capsules numerous, dark-brown. oe

From the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where it

bears its fructifications abundantly. It is increased by

parting

* Breysor, or Baaxyor, in Greek, from Parad, powerless, insipid.

wound the roots and planting them in moist earth placed

etween two pieces of broken garden pot, a practice, we

believe now very general in the cultivation of Ferns, and a

_very rational one, since such fragments retain the moisture

longer than the soil itself, and thus imitate, as it were, the

crevices of rocks, where this beautiful tribe of plants so

much delights to grow.

B. Lanceola is a native of Brazil, where it appears to be

not uncommon. It is named B. lanceolatum by Ranpp1, but

SPRENGEL gives it as the B. Lanceola of Swarrz, though I

know not in which of that author’s writings it is so called.

It is not in his Synopsis Filicum, and WitipENow has no

species of BLecnnum with a simple and undivided frond.

Fig. 1. Portion of a fertile Frond—Magnified.

IRAE ERE ITE POT ORRIN ES TREES

3241.

Swan

Funel 1838.

Liab. by S. Curtis. Glaxenwoed, Bosex.

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Cynara CarpDuNcULUS, var. COMMON

CarDOooN.

KKK KEE KEK KEK KEE KEK EE

Class and Order.

SyNnGENESIA Potyeamia ALQUALIs.

( Nat. Ord.— Composir#. )

Generic Character.

Squame involucri basi carnose, spinose. Receptaculum

carnosum paleis fissis munitum. Pappus sessilis, plu-

mosus. Spreng. +

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cynara Cardunculus ; foliis decurrentibus pinnatifidis si1ts62

tomentosis, magis minusve spinulosis, st gtect invo-

lucri ovato- oblongis.

Cynara Cardunculus. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1159. Willd. Sp.

Pl. v. 3. p. 1691. Desfont. Fl. Ail. v. 2, p. 28. De

Cand. Fl. Fr. v. 4. p.108. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v.

4.p. 487. Pers. Syn. Pl. v. 2. p. 384. Spreng. cot

Veget. v. 3. p. 368.

Cynara sylvestris. (Artichant sauvage.) Lam. Dict. o. 1,

p. 217,

Common Carpoon. Mathews in Trans. of Hort. Soc. v. 4;

pif

(B.) foliis angustis fere inermibus, involucro superne con-

tracto squamis obtuse spinosis. Bot. Mag. t t. 2862.

After what has been said of the var. 8 of this plant,

figured at t. 2862, it is needless to enter into a description

of the present individual, which I take to be what Mr.

Martuews, in his Memoir on the Cardoons above quoted,

considers as the “ common Cardoon” of our gardens, the

. Cardon pleine inerme” of the French, “‘ growing from.

four

VOL. Vil. - G

four to five feet high: the leaves large and strong, with

broadish segments to the leaflets, of a shining green, with

a little appearance of hoariness on the upper surface, and

generally destitute of spines, though some of the plants

have a few small ones at the base of the leaflets.” Our

plant, which was drawn from a specimen cultivated in the

garden of the Edinburgh Horticultural Society, had only

very small and soft spines in the tips of the lobes of the |

leaflets.

- The descriptive pages of the variety above figured having —

been chiefly devoted to an account of the singular appear-

ance made by this plant in the Pampas of Buenos Ayres,

the present will be occupied by an account of the mode of

its cultivation, as is practised at the garden of the Horti-

cultural Society of London.

The soil to be chosen for the growth of Cardoons, should

be deep and light, but not over rich. The seeds are to.be

sown about the middle of April, in trenches about six

inches deep, by twelve inches wide, into which a small —

quantity of rotten dung has been previously dug. The —

rows are to be set four feet distant from each other, and the

seed sown in patches (three or four together) at abot

eighteen inches apart ; when the young plants have acquil

ed a few leaves, they should be thinned out to single plants.

During the summer, they must be kept free from weeds, —

and in dry weather frequently watered. They require —

much moisture. About the end of October, when the —

plants have attained nearly their full size, a dry day isto —

be chosen, when the plants are free from damp, to com- —

mence the operation of blanching, which is thus performed. —

The leaves of each plant are carefully and lightly tied —

together with strong matting, keeping the whole apes :

then —

and the ribs of the leaves together. The plant is

bound closely round with twisted hay-bands about an inch —

and a half in diameter, beginning at the root, and contin-—

uing to about two-thirds of its height, covering the whole

so as to prevent the earth, when applied to it, coming

contact with the ribs of the leaves. If the Cardoons are £0

be used early, and before frost sets in, the plants may re

main thus banded, without earthing up, and will become

sufficiently blanched for use. But if there is any danger

of their being exposed to frost, then it is necessary that

they should be earthed up in the same manner as Corey |

care being taken not to raise the earth higher than

hay-bands. :

A more

A more common practice is, instead of using hay-bands,

simply to tie the leaves together with matting, and then to

earth up the plants, like Celery ; the first earthing to be in

the beginning of October, and then repeated once a fort-

night, until the plants are sufficiently covered. Upon com-

parison of the Cardoons so treated in the Horticultural

Garden, with those blanched by hay-bands, the latter have

been ascertained to be superior, both in colour, and in the

greater length of the parts blanched.

A French method of blanching has also been tried at the

Society’s garden ; it was done in the following manner :—

The bottom of the plant was first moulded up a little, the

leaves were then tied together with pack-thread, and the

whole nearly to the top was enveloped with a quantity of

long, clean straw, placed in the direction of its length, and

then tied round with strong matting or small ropes: the

leaves were thus blanched without being earthed up, and

speedily became eatable. The process is good, and affords

a neat appearance ; but it is more troublesome than that

first mentioned, and much more expensive; because if frost

is to be excluded from the plant, a very large quantity of

straw must be consumed for that purpose.

In either of the cases of the use of hay-bands or straw, it

is very necessary, to be careful that the plants are perfectl

pes before they are enveloped in the covering: they will

otherwise rot.

It is frequently the practice to sow the seeds of Cardoons

in beds, and to transplant the young plants after they have

been so raised ; but it has been found preferable to sow the

seeds where it is intended the plants should remain: for they

are then better enabled to stand a dry summer, and are,

besides, not so liable to run to flower as when they have

been removed. Hort. Trans. ege

In France, the flowers of the Cardoon are gathered and

dried in the shade ; when so preserved, they are used instead

of rennet to coagulate milk. alt

Notwithstanding that the Cynara Cardunculus is a native

of the North of Africa, and other countries bordering upon

the Mediterranean, it bears our climate remarkably well,

and independent of its usefulness for coeeatien, or in it

really makes a fine appearance in a large garden, or ina

shrubbery.

SFumedl 1835.

tub by § Cartis Claunweod Brsex

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( 3242 )

CoRYDALIS BRACTEATA. BrACTEATED

CoryYDALIs.

KEK KEKE EK EEEEEE KEE EK

Class and Order.

DiapevpoiA Hexanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Fumartacez. )

Generic Character.

Pet. 4, unicum basi calcaratum. Siliqua 2-valvis, com-

pressa, polysperma.—Herbe glabre sepe glauce. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Corypatis bracteata ; caule simplici diphyllo basi unisqua-

mato squama recurvata, foliis biternatim sectis seg-

mentis bi- vel tripartitis laciniis oblongis brevissime

mucronulatis subintegris, bracteis cuneatis flabellatim

Incisis pedicellos superantibus, calcare adscendente

recto obtusissimo pedicellum superante. - Lede.

Corypatis bracteata. Pers. Syn. Pl. v. 2. p. 269. De

Cand. Prodr. ». 1. p. 128. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3.

p. 160. Ledeb. Fl. Altaica, v. 3. p. 243.

Fumaria bracteata. Steph. in Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 3, p. 858.

Descr. Root a globose tuber, throwing out a few radi-

cles from its base. Stem simple, inclined at the base, then

erect, a span or more high, bearing a recurved, oblong,

brown, membranous scale above the base, and above it, two

petiolated, rather glaucous leaves : these are biternate ; the

primary divisions on partial petioles ; the secundary ones

sessile cuneate, more or less deeply trifid, or multifid, the

segments linear or oblong, very obscurely mucronulate.

Raceme terminal. Bracteas large, foliaceous, broadly cu-

neate, multifid ; the lower ones as long as the flowers, all

longer than the pedicels. Flowers of an uniform pale

yellow

yellow colour; the upper and lower petals with large round-

ed deeply emarginate, spreading lamine, often with a mucro

in the notch: calear or spur rather long, nearly straight,

having only a slight curvature towards the obtuse extre-

mity. Inner petals quite closed over the stamens and style.

Germen linear-oblong ; Style short ; Sizgma capitate.

By the liberality of Professor Leprsour of Dorpat our

gardens and our Herbaria have been enriched with some

imteresting species of this Genus, the result of his arduous

journey to the Altai Mountains. The April number of our

Magazine contains the pretty C. longiflora, of which much

finer specimens than are there represented have been since

communicated from the Birmingham Botanic Garden, by

its zealous Curator, Mr. Cameron. The species here figured

also accompanied them, and both were sent to Mr. CAMERON _

by Professor Leprsour. Native specimens from the same —

able Naturalist differ only in their larger size, and the —

almost entirely straight spur to the corolla. It is cultivated

in a cool frame, and in such a situation flowers in March. —

The species iscompared by WitipENow with C. nobilis

but that is a larger plant, and has a far more leafy stell

denser raceme, shorter and much incurved spur, the lamine

of the upper and lower petals are smaller, and those of the —

two inner petals dark-coloured. |

Fig. 1. Bractea and Flower : magnified.

3243,

Pub by §. Curtis, Claxenwood. Kisex Sune LIPns.

( 3243 )

EPAcriIs CERHFLORA. WAX-FLOWERED

Eipacris.

KK KKK EEK EEK KKK RRR EK

Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Epacripes. )

Generic Character.

Calyx coloratus, multibracteatus ; bracteis textura caly-

cis. Corolla tubulosa, limbo imberbi. Stamina epipetala :

antheris supra medium peltatis. Sguamule 5, hypogyne.

Capsula placentis columne centrali adnatis. Br.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Epacris cereflora; foliis lanceolatis patentissimis nudius-

culis subaveniis apice attenuato-mucronatis margini-

bus scabris, floribus patulis axillaribus solitariis se-

cundis, corolle tubo ovato calycem acutum ciliatum

bis superante.

Epacris cereflora. Graham in Edin. New Phil. Journ.

Descr. Stem erect, branched, very slender. Branches

tomentose, purplish. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, dark

green above, paler below, mucronate, subpetiolate, spread-

ing wide. Flowers collected near the extremities of the

branches, white, secund, peduncled, patent. Calyx seg

ments lanceolate, ciliated. Corolla : tube ovate, obscurely

pentagonal, thrice as long as the calyx, pitted on the out-

side between the calyx segments, and having, correspond-

ing elevations within ; limb revolute, segments undulate,

subacute. Stamens subexserted ; filaments alternating with

the elevation within the tube, and adhering through their

whole length to the inside of the corolla; anthers dark

leaden-coloured, pollen granules white. Stigma capitate,

¢é sublobate,

sublobate, flattened on the top. Style glabrous, somewhat

thickened above its base, and again contracted, tapering a

little towards the stigma. Germen green, glabrous, sub-

rotund, embraced by the hypogynous scales at its base.

Unripe Capsule subturbinate, pitted at the insertion of the

style. Seeds erect, on a central placenta.

This species, a native of Van Diemen’s Land, was raised

at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from seeds communi-

cated by Mr. Newsiceine ; and likewise by the Rev. Ep-

warp Craic, in January, 1831. It flowered for the first

time in April and May, 1832, the plants being still very

small.

Many of the plants flowered much more freely in March

and April this year. Graham.

BL. A. deb

Luh by S.C arts. Glarenwood Kiser, Jomo L353.

( 3244)

ACACIA DECIPIENS, var. premorsa. Para-

DOXICAL Acacia, variety.

KEE EEE EEE EEK EK EKKER EEE

Class and Order.

Potyeamia Monaecia.

( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosz. )

Generic Character.

Flores polygami. Calyx 4—5-dentatus. Petala 4—65,

nune libera, nunc in corollam 4—5-fidam coalita. Stamina

numero vario, 10O—200. Legumen continuum. DC.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Acacta decipiens ; stipulis spinescentibus deciduis, phyllo-

diis triangularibus passimque trapezoideis, nervo lateri

inferiori approximato in spinam producto, margine

superiore dente acuto unico glandulifero (varietate,

sepius premorso dentibus duobus vel tribus glanduli-

feris), capitulis subsolitariis multifloris. Graham. :

Acacta decipiens. («.) Brown, in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. p.

465. Bot. Mag. t. 1745. we rg rh v. 2. p.

449. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. ef

Var. 8, premio leihat, in Ed. N. Phil. Journ. for

April, 1833.

‘ee,

Descr. Shrub erect, twigs arched, angled, glabrous ;

bark brown on the stem, green on the twigs. _ Phyllodium

With one nerve, which passes near its lower side, triangular,

the upper angle, except at the apices of the branches, trun-

cated, and terminating in two or three short points, tipped

With the glands, the lower angle extended into a prickle

the continuation of the nerve. Stipules spinescent, spread-

ing, subdeciduous. Peduncles glabrous, pellucid, spreading

longer than the phyllodia. Flowers yellow, capitate, nu-

= merous

merous in each head. Calyx four-toothed, teeth blunt and —

ciliated. Corolla of four petals, petals lanceolate, reflexed. —

Stamens numerous, longer than the corolla. Pistil longer

than the stamens ; germen ovate, downy.

We received, 1831, at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh,

from Mr. Knient of the King’s Road Nursery, the plant

here described, under the name of Acacta premorsa. It —

was probably imported by Mr. Baxrer. There seems, how-

ever little doubt, but that it is a variety of A. decipiens; —

distinguished chiefly by its paler flowers, by the petals —

being more reflected, thus allowing the stamens to spread

more, and producing a less distinctly lobular capitulum,

and farther, by the upper angle of the leaf being oftener

irregularly truncated than is the case in A. decipiens.

It flowered very freely in the greenhouse, receiving the

usual treatment of New Holland Acacias. Graham. 2

———

Fig. 1. Portion of a Flowering Stem. 2. A single Flower: magnified.

I! Fo M' Nab. dei* Tas. by S. Curtis. Glaxenwoed Bote. Sane Lis3ss.

LEONTICE ALTAICA. Ataic LEontTicr.

ERE KEE EEE EEE EERE

Class and Order.

HexanpriA Monoeynta.

( Nat. Ord.—Berserines. )

Generic Character.

Sepala 6, extus nuda. Petala 6, intus basi squamulam

gerentia. Capsula vesicaria, 2—4-sperma. Lamina in

fundo capsule inserta, globosa.—Herbe radice tuberosa,

foliis varie sectis, calycibus sepe coloratis. De Cand.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Lrontice* Aléaica; folio caulino solitario, petioli a basi

tripartiti ramulis segmenta 5 oblonga integra subpeti-

olulata palmatim disposita gerentibus. D C,

Leontice Altaica. Pall. Act. Petrop. 1779. p. 257. t. 8. f.

1,2, 3. Willd. Spec. Pl. v. 2. p. 149. Pers. gar

v. 1. p. 386. De Cand. Syst. Nat. v. 2. p. 26. Prodr.

v. 1. p. 110. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 121. Schult.

Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 22. Ledebour, Fl. Altaica, v. 2.

Descr. Root tuberous. Stem erect, succulent, een,

purple at the base. Leaf solitary, petioled ; petiole 3-par-

tite, divisions spreading, each bearing upon its summit, five

elliptical, glaucous, unequal leaflets, each, particularly the

largest, and those adjoining it, on partial petioles. Racemes

terminal, deflected, of about twelve flowers: bracteas large,

obovate, the lowest rotundato-reniform ; pedicels spreading,

Single flowered, twice the length of the bracteas, farther

ae elongated

a vlecenilii

——

* From aAsw», acovros, from a fancied resemblance in the leaves to the print

of a lion’s foot.

elongated and cernuous when bearing the fruit. Flowers —

yellow. Calyx of six, spreading, elliptical, leaflets. Petals —

six, yellow, opposite to the leaflets of the calyx, erect, —

semi-cylindrical, truncated, biaristate at the apex, about —

half the length of the calyx. Stamens six, yellow, opposite —

to the petals, and longer than they; anthers bilocular, |

opening by the sides folding upwards to the apex, where |

they adhere to the connectioum. Stigma small, simple: —

Style short, angular: Germen inflated, membranous, unilo- —

cular. Ovules four, obovate, green, erect from the base of —

the germen, and afterwards exposed by the rupture of its —

apex. 3

PThis very pretty plant was received by Mr. Fatconer —

from Mr. Goxpie, and flowered very freely in a cold frame —

at Carlowrie in April. It is a native of the Altai Moun-

tains, towards the Western part of which, it appears from _

Leprzour, it is most abundant, flowering early in spring, —

while in the Eastern part it was not observed. According —

to the same author, it does not differ from Leontice Odes

sana of Dr. Fiscuer. ”

In a most valuable collection of Lepesour’s plants, which _

I possess through the inexhaustible kindness of my friend —

Mr. Hunneman, there is a specimen illustrating the singular

appearance occasioned by the protrusion of the unripe seeds

through the ruptured, membranous capsule. Graham. ;

4 “&

. Fig. ‘1. Flower and Bractea. 2. One of the Petals and of the Stamens-

3. Pistil. 4. Ovules situated in the base of the cell,

tH att Lich. by §. Curtis, Harenuoodl Bsvex Sumol 41853. Javan Se

( 3246 )

ARABIS ROSEA. Rosk-coLoureD Rock-

CRrEss, | :

Class and Order.

TETRADINAMIA SILIQUOSA. -

( Nat. Ord.—Crucirerz.) .

Generic Character.

Siliqua linearis ; valvis planis medio uninerviis. Semina

in quoque loculo uniserialia, ovalia aut orbicularia, com-

pressa. Cotyledones plane, accumbentes. Flores albi aut

rarius rosei.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Arasis rosea ; foliis caulinis oblongis semiamplexicaulibus

subcordatis sinuato-dentatis pube ramosa scabris, pe-

dicellis calyce longioribus, siliquis lineari-elongatis

subattenuatis erectis, px

Arasis rosea. De Cand. Syst. v. 2. p. 215. Prodr. v. 1.

p. 142. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 90.

Descr. Stem erect, or somewhat declined at the base, a

span or more high, downy. Leaves oblong, obtuse, downy,

with stellated pubescence on both sides, but chiefly be-

neath, deeply toothed or sinuated, the lower or radical ones

the largest, three to four inches long, tapering at the base,

but scarcely petiolate : those of the stem rather numerous,

oblong, or almost elliptical, obtuse at both extremities,

quite sessile, and somewhat half-embracing the stem, but

scarcely cordate. Flowers large in proportion to the size

of the plant, collected into a dense, rounded raceme or

corymb, of a beautiful and rather deep rose colour. Pedi-

cels slender, longer than the calyx. Calyx of four nearly

equal, erect, or very slightly patent, ‘oblong, green sepals,

Me Vt wo,

two, opposite ones, very slightly saccate at the base. Petals

oblong, cuneate, clawed, obtuse or almost retuse at the

extremity ; the claws pale or even yellowish at the base.

Stamens, the longest of them, shorter than the petals. Fila-

ments whitish purple: Anthers yellow. Pistil : Germen

linear, with four glands at its base. Style short: Stigma

small, two-lobed. As the fruit advances to maturity, the

raceme becomes considerably lengthened. The pods are

three inches or more long, erect, linear, compressed, very

slender, attenuated into the short, persistent style, slightly

beaded by the numerous seeds within, ithaged in a single

row.

_ For the opportunity of figuring this beautiful and rare

plant, I am indebted to H. F. Tarzor, Esq. M. P., who

obligingly communicated the specimens here represented

from the garden of the Rey. Mr. Setwyn, of Kilmington,

Wilts ; where it flowered, probably for the first time in —

this country, in the month of February, 1833. The nearly

ripe fruit appeared in March. The species is a native <

Calabria, and it is best treated by keeping’ it under a fram

though it will perhaps prove quite hardy, only having 8

flowers retarded by the backwardness of our springs.

smmsaiates

— ;

: Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal. 3, Stamens. 4. Pistil: magnified. 5. Ra

BLM del? oO Peer

Libby S. Curtis Claxenwood . if Besecx. Fanelli

| ( 3247 )

PTERIS PEDATA. PEDATE-LEAVED Brake.

EHH inekeok

Class and Order.

- Crrprogastta Fidtcee:

‘Se Nat. Ord.—Finices. )

Generic Piven.

Sort continui, lineares, marginales. Inclicrat e mar-

gine frondis inflexum interius ¢ esas, |

‘te %

Specific Character and. Synonyms.

Preris* pedata; fronde 5-partita glabra, Jaciniis nnati-—

fidis acutiusculis, lateralibus basi unitis, Gdns ‘ae.

flexis, stipite levi. .

Preris pedata. Swartz, Syn. Fil. p. 205. ~- Schick

p. 91. t. 100, Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 358. Ra

Brasil. p. Ad. t. 65. f. 3. t. 66 a y bis. _ Spreng. § |

, Veget. 0.4. p. 10. ~

Hemionitis foliis atro-virentibus, Se. Aline, —— 0. iF

p. 12

ale profunde laciniata, &c. Plum. Am. p. 2A. t.

oF. It. p. WB 4. 162.

Descr. Root a dense mass of dark brown, woolly fibres.

Stipites several from the same root, four to six inches long,

dark purple-brown, glabrous, smooth and very glossy, often

alittle wavy. Fronds very variable. In the specimen before

me, the young ones are palma ely six- -lobed, the lobes short,

obtuse, the margin sinuated. As these advance to matu-

rity, the divisions become ¢ -, the seginents longer, and

the frond is cer dae palmated manner; the ar

is.

* The same as wreps, a Fern, , and that from wrepué, a plume, or

Seather.

dle division deeply pinnatifid, or even bipinnatifid ; the seg-

ments lanceolate, rather acuminated, but not very sharply :

the lateral ones, two on each side, combined at the base, (or

they may be considered, each pair, as one, and bipartite) ;

the lowermost lobes deflexed. The colour is dark green

above, paler beneath: the costa dark purple, especially at

the base of the lobes, and glossy. The involucrum is con-

tinuous along the margin of the whole frond, following all

its sinuosities. Such seems to be the most usual appear-

ance of the plant, but Rapp1 has described and figured

some remarkable variations, to which it seems, in its native

country, to be liable, being more or less divided, and the

segments of very various breadths.

Although not yet common in the stove of our gardens,

where it is readily cultivated, it is of frequent occurrence in —

the tropics, and probably most of the warmer parts of the —

world. It was received at the Botanic Garden of Glasgow —

from Jamaica, where, as well as in Brazil, it is extremel

abundant. The bright green of the foliage, margined by

the pale brown line of the involucre, and the e'lossy black

_ purple stipites render this Fern a desirable inmate in @F

pees

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Limnocuaris Humpoupirir. HumBoupt’s

LIMNOCHARIS.

Class and Order.

PotyanpriA Potyeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Burtomes. )

Generic Character.

Calyx trifoliolatus. Cor. tripetala. Stamina numerosa;

filamentis exterioribus sterilibus. Pistilla 6—20, arcte

posita. Capsule interne longitudinaliter dehiscentes, uni-

loculares, polysperme. Semina numerosa reti capsularum

parietem intus vestienti affixa, adscendentia, ferri equini

instar flexa, transversim scabra. Albumen nullum. Embryo

hippocrepicus.—Herbe aquatice ; acaules aut caulescentes.

Folia petiolata; petiolo basi vaginante. Scapi multiflori,

floribus umbellatis, involucratis, aut pedunculi axillares uni-

flort spatha instructi. Kunth.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Limnocuaris * Humboldtii; foliis apice rotundatis 7-nerviis,

petiolis pedunculisque unifloris cylindricis, petalis

calyce duplo longioribus, pistillis 6. —

Limnocuaris Humboldtii. Rich: in Ann. du Mus. v.1. p.

369. t. 19. Humb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. v. 1. p. 248.

Spreng. Syst. Veget.v. 2. p.634. __ |

Stratiotes nympheoides. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 821.

Descr. Aquatic. Stems a foot or more long, terete,

semipellucid, internally jointed, bearing, at intervals, a

whorl, as it were, of petiolated, roundish-oval and some

what

* From aAwen, mud, and yep, grace, or ornament. Its beautiful flowers

adorn moist muddy places. .

VOL. Vil. H

what cordate, obtuse leaves, with a central rib, which is_

remarkably swollen below, and three slender ones on each

side near the margin: petioles terete, almost pellucid,

jointed within ; their bases surrounded with oblong, mem-_

branous, convolute stipules. Peduncles elongated, single- —

flowered, rising from among the petioles and internally —

jointed like them. Calyx of three, oblong, patent, green —

eaves. Corolla of three, very large obovato-rotundate, —

very obtuse, slightly concave, spreading petals, twice the —

length of the calyx, of a delicate primrose colour, faintly —

striated, rather a deep yellow at the base. Stamens nu- —

merous: Filaments deep, bluish-purple, subulate ; outer —

ones sterile: Anthers linear, ‘purple: Pollen yellow. Pistils —

six, erect, linear-oblong, standing close together, attenuat- .

ed into a rather slender style: Stigma purple, velvety, from —

the extremity decurrent for some way down on the inside.

Some time ago, I received from Mr. Twerente of Buenos -

apie specimens of this plant, gathered in pools or ditches —

of fresh water, near that city. Seeds were likewise sent

from the same source to the Botanic Garden of Liverpool,

where the plants raised from them were successfully treated —

in the aquarium by Messrs. Surpnerps, and the handsome —

and delicate flowers burst open in great perfection in April, —

1833. They are, however, like those of Hyprocnaris Mor-

sus Rane, of our country, very fagacious, and but for We —

greatest care on the part of Mr. Henry Suepuerp, 1 ¢

not have received them in a state fit for drawing. ExeeP’

in the absence of the sterile stamens around the fertile ones, |

I do not see how the Hyprocieys Commersoni of Rich ABD

1, c. p. 368, t. 18, differs from this plant, and it is a0 jnha-

eeu of the same country. I possess what I take to

e same plant, gathered abundantly in British Guian@ by

C. S. Parker, Esq., inhabiting the same places with the

beautiful Pontepersa azurea, Bot, Mag. t. 2932.

——4

— and outer sterile Stamen. 2. Pistils. 9. Single Pistil:

( 3249)

OXYLOBIUM ELLIPTICUM. ELUIPTIC-LEAVED

OXYLOBIUM.

ie Se es os ns Os

Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosa. )

Generic Character.

Cal. profunde 5-fidus, bilabiatus. Cor. carina compressa,

longitudine alarum vexillum explanatum equantium. Sta-

mina toto aut imo calyci inserta. Stylus adscendens.

Stigma simplex. Legumen aut subsessile, polyspermum, ven-

tricosum, ovatum, acutum.—Frutices suffruticesve. Folia

3im Aim verticillata, integra. Flores corymbosi, flavi. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Oxy ogivum ellipticum; foliis ovali-oblongis mucronatis sub-

verticillatis, bracteis infra apicem pedicelli caducis,

capitulis terminalibus racemosis (leguminibus calyce

duplo longioribus. Br.). :

Oxytozium ellipticum. Br. in Hort. Kew. v. 3. p. 10. De

Copa. Prodr. v. 2. p. 104. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2.

Gourcounnts ellipticum. Labillard. Nov. Holl. v. 1. p.

106. t. 135.

Cauuistacnys elliptica. Vent. Malmais. t. 115.

Descr. Shrub erect; bark on the stem brown, greenish

and somewhat silky on the branches. Leaves (one inch long

four lines and a half broad) elliptical, mucronate, coriaceous,

shortly petioled, dark-green, reticulate and glabrous above,

somewhat silky below, reflected in the edges, subverticillate,

four in each whorl. Flowers yellow; in terminal, capitate

spikes. Bractee single below the TR of each pedicel,

and opposite a little above the middle, linear-subulate,

| caducous,

caducous, silky. Pedicels spreading wide, silky. Calyx

equal in length to the pedicel, bilabiate, upper lip of two

approximated, lower of three spreading acute, segments.

Petals five, nearly of equal length; standard concave, semi-

circular, crenate, slightly marked with orange in the throat,

claw short; ale elliptical, truncated at the base, claw ver

slender, keel of two petals united in the middle, subinflated,

each petal shaped like one of the ale, but with rather a

longer claw, and with a pouch projecting outwards and

backwards to near its base. Stamens hypogynous included,

free: filaments slightly compressed: anthers inserted b

their backs; pollen yellow. Style ascending, exserted.

Stigma,small, blunt. Germen pedicelled, shorter than the

stamens, silky. Ovules about eight.

Seeds of this plant were received at the Botanic Garden,

Edinburgh, from Van Diemen’s Land, through Wit.1aM

Henperson, Esq. in February, 1829, marked “ Prussian

Shrub.” The plant has been treated in the greenhouse, in

the usual way of New Holland Shrubs, and in April last,

when above three feet high, it flowered for the first time—

every subdivision of its numerous branches bearing, upon

its apex, a crowded bunch of flowers.

It appears from the Hortus Kewensis that the species was

introduced from Van Diemen’s Land, by Mr. Brown, in

1805 ; but it seems to have been afterwards lost.

The profusion of flowers with which it is covered, and

the continued succession of these during a long while, ren-

ders it a very desirable species for cultivation. Graham.

Fig.1. Back view of a Flower, 2, Front view of ditto, 3, Vexillum,

4. Stamen. 5. Pistil—Magnified. a eS

W del?

tee Atly LIGES

Swetz

( 3250 )

TRILLIUM ERECTUM; var. viridiflorum. Upricntr-

STALKED TriL1i1uM ; pale green-flowered var.

KEKE REE EEE EEE EEE EKER

Class and Order.

Hexanpris TRIeyntA.

( Nat. Ord.—Sminacexz. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 3-phyllus. Cor. 3-petala, patens. Filamenta gla-

bra. Anthere longitudinaliter adnate. Stigmata linearia,

sessilia, reflexa. Bacca trilocularis, polysperma.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Tritium erectum; pedunculo erecto, flore inclinato, petalis

late ovatis subreflexis calycem patentissimum sube-

quantibus, foliis lato-rhomboideis.

Tritium erectum, «, flore atro-purpureo. Linn. Sp. Pl.

p. 484. Curt. Bot. Mag. t. A470. Pursh, Fl. Am. v.

1. p. 245. Elliott, Carol. v. 1. p.427. Torrey, Fl. of

Mid. Un. St. v. 1. p. 376. Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 7.

. 1501.

ee rhomboideum. Mich. Fl. Bor. Am. v. 1. p. 213.

Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 150.

(6.) petalis albis. Mich. Am. le. Gal. in Bot. Mag. t.

1027.

(y.) petalis ochroleucis. Tab. nostr. t. 3250. 'T. pendu-

Jum. Willd. in Nov. Act. Soc. Berol. 3.p.421. Hort.

Berol. t. 35. Pursh, Fl. Am. v. 1. p. 246. Elliott,

Carol. v. 1. p. 428.

That this is the real T. pendulum of W1LLDENow, no one,

I think, can entertain any doubt who will be at the trouble

of comparing our figure with that of WittpEnow. Yet

F ieor that those who will also compare it with T.

in, L

a will be satisfied that it differs from that in almost

nothing

nothing save in the colour of the flower. I fear Botanists

have been misled by the terms “ pendulous” and “ cernu-

ous” applied by authors to the flower of this plant, and

hence many have been led to suppose it to be drooping like

that of T. cernuwm. Whereas the flower is only slightly

inclined, as it were from its own weight, at the extremity of

the slender peduncle.

Our plants were received at the Botanic Garden of Glas-

ow, from Canada, by favour of Mr. Creguorn, and they

owered under a frame in the month of April, 1833. It is

quite unnecessary to enter into a full description of this

variety, which only differs from «, in the differently coloured

tals, and from #, in the same particular, and in the

roader petals.

Fig. 1, 2. Stamens. 8. Pistil: magnified.

tub. by §. Curtis. Glaxenwood. Bseux. July L833.

YOST H. del?

( 3251 )

Levucopocon Ricuer. Ricue’s Levcopocon.

Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Epacrivea. )

- Generic Character.

Cal. bibracteatus. Cor. infundibuliformis, limbo pa-

tenti, longitudinaliter barbato. Filamenta inclusa. Ova-

rium 2—3-loculare. Drupa baccata v. exsucca, nunc crus-

tacea.—Frutices sepe humiles. Folia sparsa, quando

interrupto-conferta. Flores spicati, axillares v. terminales.

Discus hypogynus cyathiformis, sublobatus, raro nullus. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Levcoprocon Richei ; spicis erectis confertifloris folio parum

brevioribus, foliis (subuncialibus) oblongo-lanceolatis

oblongis vel sepé oblongo-ovatis extra medium lati-

oribus 3—5-nervibus supra convexis glabris, drupis

ovatis 5-locularibus. All. Cun.

Leucorocon Richei. Br. Prodr. Flor. Nov. Holl. vol. 1.

p. DAl. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. vol. 4. p. 475.

Levucorogon polystachyus. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1436 (non

Br. Prodr.) bené. ss

Leucorocon apiculatus? Smith in Rees Cyclop. (non Br.

Prodr.)

Leucorocon parviflorus. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1560.

Stypnenta Richei. Labill. Nov. Holl. 1. p. 44. t. 60. (fide

exempl. a D. Lasmtarpiere.) Poiret Encycl. Method.

_ T, p, 483. n. 1. Spreng. Syst. Veget. vol. 1. p. 657.

Srypueria parviflora. Andrews’ Reposit. t. 287. mala.

STyPHELIA Gnidia. Venten. Malm. t. 23. pessima.

es A small, glabrous shrub, with Nae branches.

Leaves scattered, scarcely an inch long, lanceolate or ob-

longo-

longo-lanceolate, acute, rigid, glaucous green, pec

three to five-nerved, convex above. Spikes small, crowded,

terminal, rather shorter than the leaves. Calyx and brac-

teal scales oblongo-ovate, imbricated, white or very pale

green, often red in the centre. Corolla white: its tube

oblongo-cylindrical : its limb five-cleft ; the segments re-

flexed, densely hairy within. Anthers almost sessile, linear-

oblong, brownish-red ; pollen yellow. Hypogynous disk

cup-shaped, lobed, dark brownish green. Germen round-

ish-oval : Style about the same length. Stigma somewhat

capitate.

** The Epacripez& form a most remarkable and extensive

tribe of plants in Australia, the temperate regions of which

they more particularly inhabit, and by their abundance and

wide dispersion upon its coasts, and in portions of its ex-

plored interior, give a striking feature to the vegetation of

that singular country, where they occupy the place of the

Heaths of Southern Africa. Of this highly interesting

family, so desirable to our cultivation, Mr. Brown has de- _

scribed one hundred and thirty-five species; and of these

upwards of one-third are of the Genus of our presett

subject.

“ Although our plant has been already noticed, and under

several names, we are, nevertheless, happy to give a repre-

sentation of it, taken from specimens which Twenge Tast

year in the Royal Gardens at Kew, because it affords us an

si bag of publishing the correct synonymy of a species

clearly but little understood, which has been obligingly

communicated to us by Mr. Brown ; to whom also we are

mdebted for the following observations.

«< Sir James Epwarp Situ, in Rees’ Cyclopedia, first

remarked that I had improperly referred AnDRew’s STYPHE-

LIA parviflora, and Ventenat’s 8. Gnidium to his S. lanceo-

lata, and is disposed to consider them as belonging to my

Leucopogon apiculatus, from which, they are still more —

distinct. Sir James E. Smrrn had received specimens of

his plant from Port Jackson, and these specimens I have

ascertained to belong to Lrucorogon Richei, to that state

especially, in which I observed it between Port Jackson

and Botany Bay, in 1803. He remarks (1. c.) that those

native specimens agree with a plant then not unfrequent 10

Se panten. and hence probably he refers without hesita-

tion to AnpreEws’s figure, which I still designate as a bad —

representative of Leucorocon Richei, as 1 had done 1 ~

ferring it formerly to L. lanceolatus. VEnrENnat’s Seay .

hy LIA

L1A Gnidium, which from circumstantial, rather than internal

evidence, was probably intended for the same species, is

still worse, especially in its leaves. The figure in the

Botanical Register is tolerable ; but Loppiees, in the Bota-

nical Cabinet is the best, being much more characteristic

than Lazitiarpiere’s taken from a specimen with uncom-

monly large leaves, which are not represented as convex,

sensibly widening upwards—two characters, on which I

chiefly depended in distinguishing this species,’ R. Brown,

MSS.

“Thus it appears, that our plant is evidently an old inha-

bitant of the gardens about London, where, by reason of

its disposition to vary in habit as well as in the shape of its

leaves, it has borne several names, although it would seem

it has never been known among cultivators by that origin-

ally applied, and now again restored to it ;—a name, that

has a reference to a tale of distress and privation, to which

M. Ricug, one of the Naturalists who accompanied D’En-

TRECASTEAUX in his voyage in search of La Pryrouse was

subjected, in December, 1792, on the desert shores of

Southern Australia, when the two French ships La Ré-

cherche and L’Esperance anchored among the group of

islands subsequently named, after the admiral’s ship, ‘ the

Archipelago of the Recherche.’ The discoveries made by

Noyts in 1627 on the South coast had terminated at this

Archipelago ; and as it does not appear, that either the Dutch

at that period, or Captain Vancouver when on that coast

in 1791, more than a century and a half subsequently, had

effected a landing, our earliest knowledge of the character

of the productions of this part of Nuyts’ land, slight as it

was, is due to the visit of M. Ricue, and especially to his

subsequent misfortune. i a

= We gather from M. Lasimarprere, (the Botanist of the

expedition,) that on the morning of the 16th of December,

1792, a boat having been sent from L’Esperance to the

main shore, for the purposes of Astronomical observation,

Citizen Ricne (attached as Naturalist to that vessel) accom-

anied the party.

me Quien? the beach on which he had landed, (some

miles to the Westward of Cape le Grand, in long. 121° E.)

and with the design of returning early in ‘the afternoon to

the boat, ‘ that Naturalist,’ says Lasmiarpiere, ‘ became

enraptured with the riches and novelty of all the produc-

tions of that region, which no observer had hitherto visit-

ed,’ and, quickly losing his way, he wandered to some -

B distance

distance inland, over a desert country, occasionally pre-

senting plains of calcareous sand ; nor was he able to find

his way back to the landing place until the third day ! so

that the distress, which his absence had occasioned on board

the ships was extreme. A boat was despatched on the

second day from each vessel in quest of the lost Naturalist,

and the admiral ordered guns to be fired every half hour,

to enable M. Ricue, if still alive, to direct his steps with the

greater certainty towards the anchoring-place: M. Lasit-

LARDIERE himself was of the party.

«The parties traced his course over the sterile waste he

had traversed, to the edge of a large lake, which they con-

cluded had a communication with the sea, as its waters

were salt. The print of his shoes, observed on the margin

of this considerable water, furnished encouragement to

proceed in their search, but that the marks of naked feet

which appeared near his, gave grounds for apprehending

that he had been dragged by the savages into the interior

country. Moreover, one of his pistols and his handker-

chief were found on the sands; and these strengthened in

their minds, their apprehensions of his fate. Further on,

the little smoke that arose from a deserted fire directed theit

steps to the spot, and near it they found bits of paper

on which they recognized the hand-writing of the unfortu-

nate man. Around them, the dismal waste extended far

and wide, but no further trace of M. Ricux was to be found;

when as they were returning towards the landing place,

lamenting the fate of their unfortunate messmate, and had —

nearly reached the shore in a hopeless state of mind, they

beheld one of the boatmen running to meet them, with the

epee intelligence, that Ricue was still alive, and that _

e had just arrived at the landing-place, extenuated with

hunger and fatigue, having been upwards of fifty-four hours

on shore, with no other provision, than some bits of bis-

cuit. When he had recovered from the state of stupor,

into which he had been thrown by so long a privation of

nourisliment, he told his companions, that he had lost him-

self on the first day ; but that near the fire, which he had

found burning, there was a little rill of fresh water, at which

he had quenched his thirst, and urged by hunger, he had

ranged about in the neighbourhood, and in the thickets had

discovered a shrub, which furnished him with some small

fruit, but in a quantity insufficient for the supply of his

necessities. To that shrub, the plant we have here defined

ee al

and figured, M. Lasiitarpiers, who originally described

it, attached the name of the recovered Naturalist, as much

out of compliment to him, as with a view to perpetuate

the remembrance of the circumstances under which it had

been discovered.

“ At the little spring of water,—a rare discovery in the

midst of an arid waste,—he passed the first night, and the

next day was wholly spent in a fruitless attempt to gain the

landing-place. ‘In all this painful peregrination,’ says

Laprituarpiere, ‘ M. Ricue did not meet with a drop of

water, although he saw in those wilds, at some distance

from him, Emus, Kangaroos, and even some of the abori-

ginal inhabitants, who, however, fled before him as he

advanced :—but chance (rather, a kind Providence) happily

conducted him in the evening to the same little rill, where

he spent a second night.’ Notwithstanding the distress to

which his situation had reduced him, exposed as he was to

all the horrors of famine, M. Ricue carried during these two

days ‘a numerous collection of very interesting produc-

tions’ of the country he had traversed ; ‘ but during the

third day, his strength sunk so rapidly,’ before he reached

the boats, that ‘ he was obliged to abandon the whole collec-

tion, not being able to reserve even the most precious arti-

cles.’

“* This first landing on the inhospitable shores of Nuyt’s

Land by the French was not, however, wholly lost to

science ; for M. Lasitiarpiere, amidst his anxiety to urge

the prosecution of the search for his lost countryman, did not

fail to make some observation on the few birds that inhabit

the shores, nor to form some little collection of the fine plants

which, notwithstanding the aridity of the soil, were never-

theless able to maintain an existence. Thus, among other

plants, with which that painful excursion first made us

acquainted, may be enumerated, besides our Leucorocon,

Banxsia repens and nivea ; Cuorizema ticifolia ; Kucatye-

Tus cornuta and Anicgozantuus rufa. The last notice we

find of M. Ricue, after his return to France, is from Lasit-

LARDIERE himself: namely, ‘ that he fell a victim to his love

for science, having made, when already in a very advanced

stage of consumption, a long and fatiguing journey, m

which he consulted his scientific zeal, more than the state

of his health.’ :

“ Mr. Brown has substantially perpetuated his memory,

by giving his name to a very singular plant likewise of this

Order, growing abundantly on the summit and ie ve!

foun

Mount Wellington *, near Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s

Land, which would therefore be almost hardy in our gar-

dens, to which, however, it remains yet to be introduced.

“ No species of Levcorocon is so widely scattered in its —

native country, as the subject of our present paper. It has

been observed occupying portions of the sandy shores of —

New South Wales, from Botany Bay, southerly towards —

Cape Home: again it exists at Port Dalrymple, Van Die-

men’s Land, and on the islands in Bass’ Strait ; and it has —

been gathered at Port Philip and other parts of the South

Coast ; and at King George’s Sound it was observed by

Mr. Brown, in the voyage of Captain Fiivpers ; and on the

shores of the latter, it was subsequently met with by Mr.

Cunnincuam, bearing its white drupaceous fruit in the

month of January (1822). At the present day L. Richeit is

comparatively rare in our gardens, where it requires the

same description of treatment as others of the Order : viz.

the protection of a cold greenhouse, and flowering in the —

spring and summer months.” Allan Cunningham.

a ~ a

* This remarkable mountain, is about the same elevation above the level

of the ocean, as Ben Nevis in Scotland, and its summit is covered with snow

during the winter months. A. C.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil Gy it aie )

MO James MN ab debt

NCES

Hib. hy S. Curtis. Glarnenwood. Essex Fuly L183,

Swan Se,

( 3252 )

PRIMULA AMAENA. Porpite Caucasian

PRIMROSE. |

MEK ERE EEE KEE KK EEK EK

Class and Order.

PenTaAnpriaA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Primutacez. )

Generic Character.

Flores subumbellati, involucrati. Cal. tubulosus, 5-fidus,

s. 5-dentatus. Cor. tubulosa, fauce vel nuda, vel glandu-

yaa limbo 5-lobo. Caps. apice 10-dentata, polysperma.

pr. !

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Primuta amena ; foliis spathulato-oblongis rugosis cre-

nato-denticulatis hirsutiusculis subtus incano-lanatis,

umbellis multifloris tomentoso-villosis, involucris sub-

ulatis, calycibus ovato-oblongis angulatis, corolle

limbo plano glabro tubo calyce vix longiore, collo

hemispherico. |

Primuta amena. M. Bieberst. Fl. Taurico-Caucas. v. 1. _

p. 138. Lehman. Mem. Primul. p. 39. t. 3. Roem. —

et Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 4. p. 137. Spreng. Syst.

Veget. v. 1. p. 574.

Descr. Leaves (three inches and a half long, one and a

quarter broad,) spathulato-oblong, crenate and denticulate,

much attenuated towards the base, but agarce’y petioled,

slightly hirsute and bright green above, densely covered

with white wool below, neatly and regularly rugose, middle

rib and veins very prominent behind, primary veins nearly

at right angles to the middle rib and secondary veins, which

are nearly equidistant, reticulated at the edges of the leaf.

Scape, with the flowers, seven inches high, lateral, erect,

tomentoso-villous ; wmnbel many-flowered ; involucre awl-

shaped ;

shaped; pedicels erect, unequal (from half an inch to an

inch long), pubescent. Calyx (four lines and a_ half

long,) glanduloso-pubescent, pentagonal, ovato-oblong,

five-toothed, angles prominent and green, interstices mem-

branous, diaphanous, and purplish. Corolla very handsome,

purplish-lilac in bud or when recently expanded, more blue

after a few days ; tube scarcely longer than the calyx, purple,

glabrous, wrinkled ; faux hemispherical, slightly glandu-

loso-pubescent and purple on the outside, yellow within ;

limb spreading, nearly flat, segments elliptical, emarginate.

Anthers nearly sessile in the throat, yellow, pollen yellow.

Germen globular, glabrous, lobed. Style (in the specimen

described, but, as in allied species, its length probably

varies) twice the length of the germen. Stigma large, hemi-

spherical.

This most desirable addition to the cultivated species of a

universally admired Genus, was obtained by Mr. Nei

from Mr. Gotpie, who brought it from St. Petersburgh.

It flowered beautifully in the cold frame at Canon Mills in

April last, producing an umbel of eighteen perfect flowers.

In its native station, the Caucasian Alps, it is described by

Marscuat Bieserstein, its discoverer, as havyimg an umbel

with from three to ten flowers ; and a variety is noticed by

Biezerstein in which the scape is wanting, the pedicels

being all radical and single-flowered ; another analogy, if

any were wanting, to confirm the opinion, that there is no

specific distinction between Primuxa vulgaris and P. elatior,

- ourcommon Primrose and Oxlip. Graham.

US Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. Pistil.

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EPAcrIs NIVALIS. SNowy Epadats.

KEE EEE REE EEE EEE EEE RE

Class and Order.

Pentanpria Monogynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Epacrinea. )

Generic. Character.

Cal. coloratus, multibracteatus, bracteis textura calycis,

Corolla tubulosa, limbo imberbi. Stamina epipetala: an-

theris supra medium peltatis. Sguamule 5, hypogyne.

Capsula placentis colamne centrali adnatis—Fraticuli ra-

most, sepius glabri. Folia sparsa, petiolata v. basi simplici.

Flores axillares, in spicam foliatam sepius digesti, albi v.

purpurascentes. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Epacris nivalis; foliis ovato-lanceolatis patentissimis nu-

diusculis infra nervosis apice attenuatis mucronatis

marginibus scabris, floribus axillaribus solitariis se-

cundis in pseudo-spicis longis aggregatis, corolla tubo

campanulato, calycibus acutis ciliatis multo longiora.

Graham.

Epacris nivalis. Dodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1821. Bot. Reg. t.

1531.

Descr. Shrub evergreen, with many long, slender, to-

mentous branches. Leaves scattered, spreading, ovato-

lanceolate, attenuated at the apex and mucronate, dark

green, slightly paler and three-nerved below, nearly gla-

brous, edges slightly scabrous. Flowers solitary, axillary,

peduncled, secund, cernuons, collected into long pseudo-

spikes on the upper part of the branches ; peduncles shorter

than the leaves, tomentous, scaly. Calyx coloured, seg-

ments very acute, ciliated. Corolla white, glabrous ; tube

campanulate, five-sided, pitted on the outside towards its

base, so as to close it over the germen, about thrice as long

as the calyx ; limb of five reflected, cordato-ovate seg-

ments, Stamens alternate with the segments of the limb ;

filaments

Jilamenis adhering to the tube ; anthers nearly sessile in the

throat, red, linear, versatile. Stigma of five lobes, yellow.

Style glabrous, white, attenuated towards itsapex. Germen

globular, green. Hypogynous scales semicircular, closely

applied to the lower half of the germen.

This exceedingly beautiful species was introduced into

the garden of Messrs. Loppices, by H. M. Dyer, Esq. in

1829. The specimens now described form pretty large

bushes, and most attractive ornaments to the greenhouse in

the extensive collection of Mr. Cunnineuam, at Comely

Bank Nursery, near Edinburgh, where they were profusely

covered with blossoms in April. It is extremely difficult to

get written characters to distinguish E. cereflora, KE. nivalis,

and E. iwnpressa, though obviously very different species.

The difficulties are increased by each seeming to vary con-

siderably, and that in parts of structure which were con-

sidered diagnostic of the species. In the reformed charac-

ters which I have attempted, I am forced, in distinguishing

these three from each other, to rely chiefly on the tube of

the corolla.

There is a variety of E. nivalis cultivated by Mr. Cun-

NINGHAM, and obtained from Mr. Low, under the name of

E. variabilis, in which the buds are suberect, the peduncle

as long as the calyx, the tube of the corolla three times

longer than this, twice as long as the leaves, and the sides

grooved nearly along their whole length, the throat bemg

slightly contracted ; in all of which there is a departure

from what has been considered the type of E. nivalis, and

the flowers are larger than in this, the plant is more robust,

slightly different in habit, and is rather less easily propa-

gated by cuttings.

Epacris cereflora is a much smaller plant than either of

the others, the wood is much more slender, the leaves more

crowded, and the flowers little more than half the size of

their's. Graham.

E. impressa ; foliis lanceolatis patentissimis nudiusculis in-

fra nervosis apice attenuatis mucronatis marginibus

scabris, petiolis brevissimis, floribus pendulis axillari-

bus solitariis in pseudo-spicis congestis, corolle tubis

prismaticis calyce acuto ciliato multo longioribus.

Graham.

Fig. 1. Flower, 2, Pistil: magnified.

Swan Se.

Pub by 8. Curtis Glarenwood Essex, Jilly 11855.

WIM ded?

( 3254 )

PULTENZA SUBUMBELLATA, SUBUMBELLATE

: PuLTEN AA. PN the

BEBEREREEE EERE EERE

Class and Order. _ ts 2

Decanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.— Lecuminosa. )

Generic Character.

‘al. 5-fidus, lobis subequalibus in labia dua dispositis ;

basi bibracteolatus, bracteolis interdum tubo adnatis. Ova-

rium sessile, dispermum. Stylus subulatus, adscendens.

~ Stigma simplex. Strophiola seminis lobis posticis incisis.

—Frutices Australasict. Folia simplicia, alterna. Stipule

sepe concrete, intrafoliacee. Flores flavi, sepius in ca-

pitula terminalia congesti. DC.

Specific Name and Character.

Putrenza subumbellata ; foliis sparsis lineari-oblongis ob-

tusiusculis glabris, floribus terminalibus umbellato-

capitatis, calycibus hirsutis.

i. 3

Descr. A low shrub, with nearly erect, wavy branches,

of which the younger ones are clothed with patent hairs.

Leaves about half an inch long, linear-oblong, upon an

excessively short, downy petiole, glabrous, with a very

obscure midrib, rather obtuse at the point, the lower ones

on the branches generally nearly erect and somewhat im-

bricated, the upper ones patent, and sometimes almost re-

flexed. Flowers collected into a somewhat umbellate head,

and standing out horizontally, so that on looking down

upon the flowers you see nothing but the standards. Calyx

very hairy, in two lips, the upper with two, the lower with

three obtuse teeth. Vexillum obovate, attenuated at the

base, almost keeled on the back, bright orange, with a pale,

oblong spot on the back at the base, surrounded Ye a

bets

deep purple-black ring. Ale yellow, oblong, concave,

with a red line. Carina pale. Stamens ten: Filaments

free: Anthers rounded, orange-coloured. Germen ovate,

very silky : Style long, filiform, curved upwards: Stigma

capitate.

For the possession of this highly ornamental greenhouse

plant, the Glasgow Botanic Garden is indebted to Dr.

Scort, who sent seeds from Van Diemen’s Land, from

which plants were raised that blossomed in April, 1833.

The flowers are very bright coloured, and the variegated

vexillum or standard is singularly exposed, so that its

colours may be seen to the best advantage, and almost

every branch bears a head of them.

Fig. 1. Side view of a Flower. 2, Under-side of ditto. 3. Stamen.

4, Pistil. 5, Upper side of a Leaf, and, 6, Under side of ditto.

NMI ST )ANab delt nh by S Cartis Glazenaved Esses ~~ Aug? LIS3S

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CALCEOLARIA CRENATIFLORA. CRENATE-

FLOWERED SLIPPERWORT.

Class and Order.

Dranpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Scropuutarina. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 4-partitus. Cor. bilabiata: labium inferius calcei-

forme, inflatum. Caps. semibivalvis, valvulis bifidis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Catcroraria crenatiflora ; herbacea, foliis ovatis sublobatis

dentatis inferioribus precipue petiolatis utrinque cau-

leque pubescentibus subobliquis, floribus corymbosis

labio superiore minimo inferiore amplo maculato cre-

nato laciniis calycinis late ovatis nervosis. !

CauceoxariA crenatiflora. Cavan. Ic. Pl. v. 5. p. 28. t.

446. Spreng. Syst. Veget.v.1.p.44. Grah. in Edin.

Phil. Journ. June, 1833.

CatceonariA anomala. Pers. Syn. Pl. v. 1. p. 16. }

Caxceotaria pendula. Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 155.

Descr. Herbaceous. Stem (a foot and a half high) erect,

purple towards the base, abundantly covered with soft,

spreading hairs, some of which are long and acute, a greater

number half as long, and glandular. Lower leaves ovate,

petioled (with a petiole seven inches long, three and a

half broad) decurrent along the petioles, slightly undu-

late, sublobate, dentate, suboblique, rugose, pubescent on

both sides, dark green above, much paler below, and there

purple towards the tip. Stem-leaves ovate, subacute, on

much shorter petioles, smaller and more sessile upwards.

Flowers corymbose, primary division in two or three

branches, branches dichotomous with two flowers in the

cleft. Peduncles (an inch and a half long) as well as the

branches

VOL. VII. I

hy ,

branches having the same pubescence as on the stem. Ca-

~ Iyx-segments broadly ovate, subacute, spreading, densely

covered with both kinds of pubescence on the outside, with

the glandular only on the inner, entire, nerved, nerves gene-

rally five. Corolla with short glandular pubescence over

the whole of the outer surface, most conspicuous on the

upper lip, glabrous within, except at the insertion of the

stamens, where there are a few hairs, yellow, sprinkled

with orange-brown spots on the upper part of the lower

lip, and on its inner side near the throat, the spots being

there larger and round, in the former situation smaller and

oblong, while in that part of the lower lip which is inflected

in the throat they become streaks. Upper lip small, semi-

lunar, compressed upon the calyx, cucullate in the centre;

lower lip very large, inflated, about a third of its lower

surface parallel to the calyx, the remainder at right angles

to this, and the upper surface forming an inclined plane

from the throat, crenate at its lower part, the number of

crenatures varying from three to five, and each frequently

emarginate, the inflected portion of the lower lip flat at right

angles to its upper surface. Stamens erect, subexserted ;

filaments conical, slightly curved downwards, somewhat

compressed, and having upon their surface a few erect,

_ Short, glandular hairs; anthers large, pale yellow, lobes

divaricated, equal, deeply furrowed on their outsides ; pollen

cream-coloured. Pistil longer than the stamens ; stigma

small, glandular, capitate ; style glabrous, slightly curved

| downwards ;- germen glanduloso - pubescent, shape and

structure as in the Genus ; placenta large ; ovules very nu-

_ Inerous. t

There is no species of this beautiful Genus which forms so striking a0

object in the greenhouse as this. How far it will bear cultivation n

_the open air, we have yet to ascertain. I can see no reason whatever

_ for the specific distinction between Canceotarta crenatiflora and C.

pendula which is attempted to be drawn in the British Flower Garden.

The chief distinction stated is the difference of the number of the crena-

tures in the lower lip, and the flowers being pendulous or suberect. The

former character I find to vary continually in the flowers even on the

same corymb ; and the latter seems to me to depend solely on the degree

a luxuriance produced by cultivation. I have both plants

ME rae Low, who first raised them from seeds gathered in Chiloe by

‘I. ANDERSON, and who furnished the plant figured as CALCEOLARIA

pendula in the British Flower Garden, and I cannot see a shade of differ-

=o them. The impropriety of unnecessarily changing names is

‘the lutely caricatured by Prrsoon, who, knowing the plant only through

the bad figure of Cavanitxes, imagined the lower lip to be flat, not

nuated, as in the Genus, and therefore rejecting the name of Cava-

NILLES, descriptive of a form found in, though not peculiar to, the spe-

cies, he gave a name applicable only to the figure. Graham.

as a

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lib by 8 Curtis Glazenwood Lisson ehiagy 1833,

MID. MiNab, ded?

( 3256 )

SALPIGLOSSIS LINEARIS. LINEAR-LEAVED

SALPIGLOSSIS.

Class and Order.

DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Sotanez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus seu 5-partitus, subinequalis. Cor. infundi-

buliformis, 5-loba. Filamentum quintum sterile (nune an-

theriferum). Stylus apice dilatatus. Stigma truncatum,

transversum. Capsula bilocularis, dissepimento valvis pa-

rallelo. Semzna punctato-scabra.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Saupictossis linearis; erecta glandulosa, ramis patulis, foliis

lineari-oblongis sessilibus, corolla subregulari infundi-

buliformi fauce dilatata calyce duplo longiore. Grah.

Satriaxossis linearis. Hook. Bot. Mag. sub t. 3113.

NierempBercia intermedia, Graham in Edin. N. Phil.

Journ. 1832.

Descr. Plant herbaceous, perennial, the whole, except-

ing the inside of the corolla, minutely but densely glandu- |

loso-pubescent. Stem (in a young plant about a foot high)

erect, much branched, branches spreading, ascending.

Leaves (an inch and a half long, four lines bread) scatter-

ed, numerous, spreading or reflected, oblongo -spathulate,

almost veinless, with a distinct midrib behind, somewhat

keeled near the base, slightly folded along the middle rib

above. Peduncles (one inch long) solitary, filiform, from

the side of the clefts in the branches. Calyx persisting, five-

parted, angular; segments spreading, foliaceous, linear,

blunt. Corolla (nine lines long and nine lines across) fun-

-nel-shaped, twice the leugth of the calyx ; limb rich purple,

especially when first expanded, darker inwards, and still

further towards the throat dotted with purple on a yellow

ee ground,

ee,

ground, paler on the outside, reais regular, five-lobed,

lobes emarginate, the upper ones rather shorter and rather

more reflected than the lower, throat yellow ; dilated, tube

inflated, a little more so on the lower than the upper side,

clavate, longer than the calyx, nerved. Stamens five, in-

cluded ; filaments glabrous, ascending, of unequal length,

adhering to the tube by their somewhat dilated bases, which

are concave in front, the two longest and the shortest at-

tached to the lower side of the tube at its base. Anthers

short, oblong, lobes much divaricated, bent back, and ap-

proaching each other below, yellow ; pollen-granules minute,

round, yellow. Piséil equal to the shorter stamens. Sétgma

bilabiate, green, lobes blunt: Style slightly thickened up-

wards, glabrous ; Germen ovate, green, glabrous, with a

prominent nerve on two sides, bilocular, dissepiment tumid

in the middle; ovules numerous, subglobular. Seeds brown,

angled, muricated on the outer edge.

Seeds of this plant, which is exceedingly pretty, and very

well deserving of cultivation, were reciad by Mr. Neirr

from Mr. Tweepir at Buenos Ayres in 1832, and the first

specimen brought into flower in the stove at Canonmills in

the end of September. It seemed to be about to flower

take freely, but probably, on account of the season, all the

“i buds dropped off excepting one, which perfected its blos- —

_ soms and seeds. In April it flowered much more freely. It :

strikes very readily by cuttings, and will probably thrive —

well in a dry, light greenhouse.

A better example than this plant cannot be wished by

Mr. Davin Don, in confirmation of his opinion expressed Z

in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, July, 1832,

and in Sweer’s British Flower Garden, t. 172, of the generie —

identity of Nisremperera and Perunra. |

__ The habit of this plant is wholly that of NrereMBERGIA, —

the flower in shape and structure precisely that of Savrr —

GLossis integrifolia of Hooxer, Nrerempercia phenicea 8”

Don. Graham. :

_ Even should this interesting plant, and my S. integrifolia —

prove not to be genuine species of Sarpieossis (with which —

however they accord better than with any other established —

Genus,) I can by no means consent to their being united —

with Nreremperei, the form of whose corolla is most re-—

markable. The stamens in our two plants are manifestly

inequal ; there are four didynamous ones, and a fifth

‘smaller than the rest, but antheriferous. H.

; ——

_ Fig. 1. Flower. 2.

Base of the }¥ i e Stamens.

8. Pistil—Magnifted. of the Flower laid open to show the NS)

ray ft

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EPACRIS HETERONEMA. VARYING-STEMMED

EPAcris.

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Class and Order.

PrentTanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Epacripex. )

Generic Character.

_ Calyx coloratus, multibracteatus, bracteis textura caly-

cis! Corolla tubulosa, limbo imberbi. Stamina epipetala :

Antheris supra medium peltatis. Sguamule 5 hypogyne.

Capsula placentis columne centrali adnatis.— Fruticuli

ramost, sepius glabri. Folia sparsa, petiolata v. basi sim-

pict. Flores axillares, in spicam foliatam sepius digestt,

albi ». purpurascentes. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Epacris heteronema ; foliis elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis

concaviusculis subtus striatis, calycibus acutissimis nu-

dis longitudine tubi, staminibus inclusis, stylo glabro,

ramulis hirsutis. Br. eg

Epacris heteronema. Labill. Nov.-Holl. v. 1. p.42.t.56.

Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 531. ae

Descr. A shrub, with numerous wavy branches, which

are more or less elongated, bare of foliage below, clothed

upwards with numerous opposite and decussate /eaves,

which are horizontally patent above, below closely reflexed,

all of them elliptical or approaching to lanceolate, sharply

acuminated and pungent, thick and coriaceous, slightly

concave and dark green above, without any striz, beneath

pale-coloured, convex, marked with three dorsal and one

marginal stria on each side. Flowers moderately large, in

more or less elongated and slightly leafy, terminal spikes.

Bracteas

Bracteas and calyx-leaves whitish, membranaceous, lanceo-

Jate and acuminate. Corolla pure white, the tube about as —

long as the five-cleft limb. Stamens situated at the mouth

of the corolla, and inclined over it. Filament very short.

Anther oblong, deep purplish red. Pollen yellow. Germen

subglobose, five-lobed, surrounded by an annular lobed

disk. Style short. Stigma globose, downy, yellow.

This pretty species of Epacris was discovered by Laxit-

LARDIERE in Van Dieman’s Land, where Mr. Brown also

gathered it. But it is not confined to that country. Our

friend Mr. Arran Cunnincuam found it in moist, rocky situ-

ations in the Blue Mountains of New Holland, whence he

introduced it to the Royal Gardens at Kew in 1823. It

flowers in the month of May, and was obligingly commu-

nicated by W. T. Arron, Esq.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil and glandular Ring. 4. Portion

of the Stem and Leaves. 5, 6. Front and back view of a Leaf:—More or

less magnified.

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( 3258)

PLATYLOBIUM OBTUSANGULUM. OBTUSE-

LEAVED FLAT-PEA.

KEKE KEKE ERE EEE KEKE REE

Class and Order. |

DiApeLpHiA DEcANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Lecuminoss. )

Generic Character.

Calyx bracteatus, bilabiatus: labio superiore bifido ro-

tundato maximo. Stamina omnia connexa. Legumen

pedicellatum, compresso-planum, dorso alatum, polysper-

mum. Br.

Specific Name and Character.

Piatytosium obtusangulum ; foliis deltoideis angulis obtu-

siusculis cum mucrone, pedunculis brevissimis (caly-

ceque ad basin) bracteatis.

Descr. Stems weak, filiform, irregularly branched and

proliferous from the axils of the leaves, trailing upon the

ground if not supported by a stick, greenish, slightly downy.

Leaves opposite, rather remote, deltoid, subcoriaceous, the

angles rather obtuse, but each tipped with a point: the

younger ones almost cordate, without angles, of a pale .

yellow-green colour. Flowers large, in pairs from the

axils of the leaves, upon peduncles so short that they ma

almost be deemed sessile, and these so covered with three

or four brown, concave bracteas, as entirely to conceal

them : two other larger and opposite bracteas appear at the

base of the calyx. Upper lip of the calyx exceedingly

large ; the two lobes opposite, appressed : lower lip small

and three-toothed. Standard very broad, somewhat reni-

form, with a deep notch at the top, within of a bright |

orange colour with a red ray in the centre: outside orange-

red,

red, with a broad grey-brown cloud at the margin: wings

deep orange-red at the base above. Keel of two very obtuse

whitish petals, deep orange towards the extremity.

_ For the possession of this beautiful plant, the Glasgow

Botanic Garden is indebted to Dr. Scorr, who sent the

seeds from Van Dieman’s Land. These have flourished

and the plants have been treated as hardy inmates of the

greenhouse, where they blossom in May. ‘The species may

possibly be only a variety of the P. traangulare of Brown,

as given in the Botanical Magazine by Mr. Gawter, at t.

1568. But this has a much more straggling habit, and

longer branches, frequently throwing out new shoots from

the axils of the leaves, the old leaves have much more obtuse

angles, and the young ones are not angular at all :—the

flowers are considerably larger and the lobes of the calyx

particularly so. In one respect, indeed, neither the present

plant, nor that of Mr. Sims, coincides with P. triangulare ;

and that is in the exceedingly short peduncles, which are

entirely covered with bracteas ; whereas it is stated in the

Hortus Kewensis by Mr. Brown, “ pedunculis basi apice-

que bracteatis, medio nudis.”’

_ Fig. 1. A Flower and Flower-bud. 2, Back view of the Vexillum. 3.

The Ale. 4. The Carina :—magnified.

WITH dott Pub br 8 Cartas Glazenwood Lssex, davg "11833

( 3259 )

PiatyLosium Murrayanum. Mr. Murray’s

PLATYLOBIUM. |

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Class and Order.

DiapetpHiA Decanpris.

( Nat. Ord.— Leeuminosz. )

Generic Character.

Calyx bracteatus, bilabiatus: labio superiore bifido ro-

tundato maximo, Stamina omnia connexa. Legumen

pedicellatum, compresso-planum, dorso alatum, polysper-

mum. Br.

Specific Name and Character.

Pratytozium Murrayanum ; caule ramosissimo, ramis erec-

tiusculis flexuosis rigidis, foliis deltoideis acute mucro-

natis, pedunculis filiformibus folio longioribus basi

apiceque solummodo bracteatis.

Descr. This plant forms a rather dense bush, about a

foot high, dividing from the base into numerous suberect, _

flexuose branches, bearing other lateral, rather short and _

patent ones, all of them filiform, somewhat rigid or wiry, _

and rather woody. Leaves opposite, almost exactly deltoid,

sometimes slightly acuminated, the angles acute and mu-—

cronate. From beneath the axils of these leaves, conse- —

quently in pairs, arises the peduncle, which is filiform,

longer than the leaf itself, more or less curved, having at

the base about six small, distichous bracteas, and at the

extremity, or immediately at the base of the calyx, two

minute brown bracteas. Calyx considerably smaller than

in P. obtusangulum, but the same in form. The corolla

likewise is similar, only smaller in all its parts. Young

fruit considerably longer than the calyx, linear, sickle-

shaped, stipitate, margined ; the upper margin the — ae

Kee

both hairy, terminated by the rather short style: about

six-seeded.

This plant likewise, as well as the P. obtusangulum, was

received from Dr. Scorr, from Yan Dieman’s Land, at the

Glasgow Botanic Garden, and Mr. Murray, the able and

zealous Curator of that establishment, at once recognized it

as a species quite distinct both from the subject of the pre-

ceding plate and from the P. triangulare of Dr. Sims ; and

I am desirous that it should bear hisname. It bears a great

number of flowers, which expand their vivid petals during

the day, closing as the evening approaches.

Fig. 1. Flower and Peduncle. 2. Calyx, seen in front. 3. Ale. 4.

‘Carina, 5. Young Legume :—magnified.

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WILE. del, Pab by 8, Curlis, Glaxerwood Essex dig 11833

( 3260)

EUCALYPTUS AMYGDALINA. ALMOND-LEAVED

EUCALYPTUS.

Class and Order.

IcosanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.— Myrracez. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus persistens, obovatus aut globosus, cupule-

formis, limbus operculeformis, integer, basi circumscissa et

regulariter dehiscens, deciduus. Pet. 0. Stam. filamenta

numerosa, libera. Capsula 4-locularis, aut abortu trilocu-

laris, apice dehiscens, polysperma.—Arbores (Nove Hol-

landiea) excelse. Folia integerrima, coriacea, sepius al-

terna, rarius opposita, interdum in iisdem individuis varia,

paucis, exceplis glaberrima. Pedunculi axillares, breves,

umbellam 3—5-floram gerentes. Operculum in nonnullis,

ex cl, Brown, exterius calycinum, interius corollinum. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Evucatyprus amygdalina; operculo hemispherico submu- —

tico cupula breviore, pedunculis axillaribus et latera-

libus teretiusculis petioli longitudine, umbellis 6—8-

floris subcapitatis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis basi attenu-

atis apice acuminato-mucronatis. De Cand.

Evcaryrrus amygdalina. Labill. Nov. Holl. 2. 14. t. 154.

Spreng. Syst. Veget.v.2.p.501. De Cand. Prodr. 3.

219. Graham, in Edin. Phil. Journ. June, 1833.

Merrosiveros salicifolia. Gaertner, Fruct. et. Sem. 1.171.

t. 34. fig. 3? |

Descr. With us a rather slender shrub. Branches pen-

dulous. Leaves (three to four inches long) petiolate,

linear-lanceolate, acuminato-mucronate, sometimes falcate

woe we

or subsessile, ovato-elliptical and mucronate; glaucous, —

especially when young; distantly sprinkled with minute, —

transparent dots: middle rib strong, veins and marginal —

callosity scarcely visible till dry. FYowers in axillary five-

to eight- (or more) flowered corymbs ; peduncles scarcely

longer than the petiole, stouter than it, nearly round,

or obscurely furrowed ; pedicels resembling the peduncle,

and not much more slender. Calyx, incldding the coher-

ing segments of its limb (operculum), scarcely so long as

the pedicel ; operculum hemispherical, minutely pointed,

shorter than the tube (cupula). Stamens numerous, white,

longer than the cupula. Style longer than the cupula, but

shorter than the stamens. ’

This species, a native of Van Dieman’s Land, flowered at

the Botanic Garden in the beginning of this month, when

trained against the wall. We have not yet ascertained

whether, like the Eucatyprus pulverulenta, it will thrive

without this protection. Graham. |

a Fig. 1. Flower.with its Operculum. 2. Flower, from which the Opercu-

lum has fallen. 3. A Flower, from which the Stamens are removed : mag-

rol

fied.

WIE deft Pub: by 8. Curtis Clasenwvod Fissex dagust 2/833.

( 3261 )

PLEUROTHALLIS PROLIFERA. PRoLIFEROUS

PLEUROTHALLIS.

KEE KEKE EEE EEK KEE

Class and Order.

GynANnpRIA Monanprlia.

( Nat. Ord.— Orcuiwes. )

Generic Character.

Sepala conniventia, subequalia, lateralibus vel omnibus

connatis. Petala minora. Labellwm liberum, cum co-

lumna subparallelum, integerrimum, petalis difforme. Co-

lumna elongata, aptera, libera, cum ovyario continua.

Anthera apice membranacea. Pollinia 2, nune materia

pulveria ad apicem coherentia—Herbe epiphyte, rhizo-

mate repente filiformi. Caules filiformes, monophylli, sepi-

us vaginatt. Flores avxillares, solitarii, v. Jaseiculati v.

racemosi, herbacei vel fusci. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

PLEvuROTHALLIs prolifera ; caulibus ancipitibus, folio ob-

longo cochleato carnoso prolifero racemo duplo longi- —

ore, bracteis cuneatis cuspidatis cucullatis pedicello

brevioribus, sepalis conniventibus lateralibus semi-

connatis, petalis labelloque conformibus duplo longio-

ribus, clinandrio dentato. Lindl. ae

Prevrotuauus prolifera. Herbert, MSS. Lindl. Bot. Reg.

t. 1298. Hyjusd. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. Part I. p. 6.

Descr. A parasite, with simple, compressed stems, four

to five inches high, partly clothed with two or three large

sheathing, membranous, striated scales, throwing out a few

flexuose, simple, whitish, fleshy fibres from the base, and

bearing a single leaf at the extremity, three to four inches

in length, of an ovate form and acute, between ee

and»

and cucullate, remarkably thick and fleshy. In the hollow —

of this, and from near the sinus at the base, the distichous _

raceme of flowers is produced, arising from a little mem-

branous sheath, and closely appressed to the surface of the

leaf. Bracteas membranaceous, circumvolute, shorter than

the small pedicel. Flowers nearly erect. Leaflets or sepals

of the calyx also erect, lanceolate, the two lateral, or infe-

rior ones, combined for half their length and gibbous, deep

blackish-purple, minutely papillose, within more inclining

to red, or marked with minute, dark-coloured tubercles.

Petals erect, spathulate, half the length of the sepals, of a

deep rose colour, pale at the margin, toothed upwards.

Lip erect, oblongo-lanceolate, dark purple-brown, minutely

hispid at the point, with two small, incurved lobes near the

base, which are ciliato-serrated. Column a little shorter

than the petals, erect, slightly winged and serrated above,

terminating in a membranous appendage (the elinandrium)

_ within which the hemispherical yellow anther is situated.

Pollen-masses two, obovate. Germen very short, jointed

on the pedicel.

Our collections are indebted for the possession of this

very remarkable orchideous plant, to the Hon. and Rev.

Wriuu4am Herserr, who received it from shady rocks at

Boto Fogo, near Rio Janeiro. It flowers in June, and re-

quires the same treatment as the other tropical parasites of

the same family. In general structure the present species

bears a great similarity with the P. saurocephalus, (Bot.

Mag. t. 3030) which inhabits the same country.

Tab. 1. Flower, 2. Flower, from which the sepals and lip are removed.

8. Lip. 4. Anther-case. 5, Pollen-masses :—magnified.

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( 3262 )

CATASETUM TRIFIDUM. 'TRIFID-LIPPED

CATASETUM.

REE REE EEE EEE EEK ERE

Class and Order.

Gynanpria Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.— OrcuiveEz. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium rectum sepius globosum. Labellum sac-

eatum concavum (raro explanatum), sepalis difforme.

Columna aptera bicirrhosa, Anthera cornuta bilocularis.

Pollinia postice biloba, in filo maximo denudato transverso,

demum elastice contractili, inserta. Lindl.

Specific Name and Character.

Carasetum * trifidum: floribus maculatis, petalis duobus

~ eum sepalo superiore conniventibus, labello patentis-

simo plano trifido segmentis lateralibus acuminatis

intermedio crasso obtuso breviore.

Descr. Our plant consisted of a former year’s leafless,

oblong, jointed, and striated bulb, or bulb-like stem, from

the side of which arises a young shoot, with a scarcely bul-

biform stem, sheathed with two or three scales, and bearing

four to five elliptico-lanceolate, waved, acuminated, stri-

ated, and acuminated leaves, bright but pale green above,

paler and somewhat glaucous beneath. Scape, from the

base of the stem, nearly a foot and ahalfhigh. Flowers in

a lax, drooping sptke, large, of lurid green colour, tinged,

and copiously spotted with purple. Bracteas rather small,

green,

* From xara, downwards, and seta, a bristle, from the bristle-shaped

appendages to the column which point downwards.

VOL. Vi. K

green, half embracing the base of the club-shaped germen. ©

Calyx-leaves or sepals three, broadly lanceolate, spreading,

but also incurved, concave, the superior one the narrowest ;

and with this the two oblong lanceolate petals are connivent.

Labellum very patent, lying close within the lower sepals,

shorter than they, plane, or with the sides slightly deflexed,

glossy, and of a rather darker green, and more deeply

spotted than the rest of the flowers, deeply trifid at the

extremity ; the two lateral segments considerably acumi-

nated ; the intermediate one shorter, thickened, and purple.

Column porrected, rather short and semicylindrical, with a

slender, acuminated, subulate point, bearing in front two

long, acuminated filaments, diverging beyond the middle

and lying close upon the labellum. Anther-case oval, with

a subulate point corresponding with that of the column.

For this beautiful and most interesting species of Cara-

serum, the Glasgow Botanic Garden is indebted to Mr.

Lockxnart, who sent the living plant from Trinidad. It

produced its large spike of flowers in the month of May.

Professor Linptry has already figured a species. of the

Genus, (C. cristatum, Bot. Reg. t. 966.) which differed from

all the then known species of Carasetum in the spreading

character of the labellum, and in the manner in which the

sepals are expanded ; but in every other respect, in its habit,

_ foliage, inflorescence, and especially in the structure of its

column, it entirely agreed with Caraserum. The same re-

marks may, with equal propriety, be applied to the present

individual, which is moreover, as a species, totally distinct

from C. cristatum.

Fig. 1. Front view of an entire Flower. 2, Anther-Case. 3. Pollen-

mass.

WIM tel? : Lub by 8.0urlis Alazenwood Keser Sept? 1 1833.

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ASTRAGALUS PROCUMBENS. PROCUMBENT

MiLk-Vetcu.

KKK EKER EEE KEK EKER

Class and Order.

DiapEtpHi1A DeEcANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Lereuminosa. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-dentatus. Corolla carina obtusa. Stamina dia-

delpha. Legumen biloculare aut semibiloculare, sutura

inferiore introflexa.

Specific Character and Synonym.

AsTrRAGALus procumbens; ubique hirsuto-tomentosus, caule

prostrato ramoso, stipulis concretis liberis, foliolis 11-

—14-jugis ellipticis retusis, pedunculis folio longio-

ribus, capitulis racemosis, alis carina multo brevioribus,

leguminibus (immaturis) linearibus hirsutis reflexis. —

Asrracatus procumbens. Hook. et Arn. in Bot. of Beech.

Voy. v. 1. p. 18. et in Bot. Misc. v. 2. p. 186.

_Descr. Root descending, perennial. Stems procum-

bent, in the cultivated specimen short, in our native ones

a foot and a half or more long, procumbent, more or less

branched ; the branches terete, clothed with dense, white

down. Leaves three to four inches long, pinnated with

nearly opposite elliptical leaflets, which in the specimens

before me are likewise clothed with very copious and com- —

pact, white, woolly down, except the lower leaves which, ©

have the leaflets broader and almost glabrous. Stipules”

free from, or not adnate with the petiole, but meeting on the

Opposite side of the stem, where the edges are connate,

membranous, reddish. Peduncles terminal and axillary,

solitary, longer than the leaves, bearing a dense, oval, or

oblong Q

oblong raceme of flowers. Calyx with five rather unequal

teeth, and clothed with short, but shaggy, blackish hairs.

Vexillum broad and roundish, clawed, yellowish in the

centre, the rest bright-bluish purple, but not a deep purple,

with deeper oblique lines. Ale short, pale yellow, ob-

longo-obovate ; Carina obtuse, yellowish below, the rest

dingy purple. Anthers orange-coloured. Germen oblong,

very hairy : Style curved upwards, slender.

Communicated from the Birmingham Botanic Garden by

Mr. Cameron, who raised the plants from Chilian seeds.

It is found in the plains at Conception, Valparaiso, and

Coquimbo, and will probably always require the protection

. a greenhouse, or of a frame. Its flowering season is

ay.

in the Botanical Miscellany, Mr. Arnorr and myself

have had occasion to notice the variable character of this

plant. We there considered that state as », which is

clothed with soft and silky hairs: 6, with the leaves some-

what glabrous above: y, with the stem and leaves gla-

brous ; and 3 with the leaflets linear. The present may

almost be considered a fifth variety, having more copiously

and compactly woolly leaves and stems than any of the

others.

Judging from the very young state of the fruit, I am

inclined to think this plant would be more correctly referred

_ to Puaca.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil. 3, Section of the Ovary : magnified.

Nyt LISS

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DRACOPHYLLUM SECUNDUM. SECUND-FLOW-

ERED DRACOPHYLLUM.

ERK KK EEK ERK KKK KEKE K

Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Epacripez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx bi- vel ebracteatus. Corolla tubulosa, limbo 5-

partito, patenti, imberbi. Stamina epipetala v. hypogyna.

Squamule 5, hypogyne. Capsula placentis ab apice co-

lumne centralis pendulis, solutis—Frutices v. Arbuscule,

ramis dum denudatis annulatis. Folia imbricata, basi cu-

cullatis semivaginantibus. Spice vel racemi terminales :

ali simplices, hi quandoque compositi. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Dracornyttum* secundum; racemo secundo, pedunculis

infimis divisis, corolla tubo subventricoso fauce vix

coarctata limbo obtusiusculo, calycibus ebracteatis,

staminibus hypogynis. Br. | ;

Dracopnytium secundum. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p.

556. Guillem. Ic. Pl. Austr. Rar. p. 1. t. 1. Schultes’

Syst. Veget.v. 4. p. 385. sexes

slimes deena Spreng. Syst. Veget.v.1.p.631.

‘Epacris secunda. Poir. Enc. Meth. Suppl. v. 2. p. 556. —

Descr. A singular-looking shrub, with a good deal the _

habit of some monocotyledonous plants. The stem 1s

branched, and clothed (except in the lower part, a -

mar

—_—,

* Draco, (Dracena draco), and guar, a leaf, from the general resem- ous

blance in the form of the leaves to those of the Dragon Tree. see

marked with scars) with the sheathing bases of the foliage.

The leaves themselves are two to four inches long, linear-

subulate, rather harsh, scattered, reflexed, grooved above,

of a glaucous-green, striated, quite entire. The branches

are terminated with a long and compound, more or less.

dense raceme. Flowers secund, moderately large, Calyx

of five deep, lanceolate, acuminate, appressed, reddish seg-

ments, almost of five leaves. Corolla in our specimen almost

cylindrical, a little ventricose, slightly contracted above the

middle, and there having a dusky band: the rest of the

corolla is pure white: the mouth is slightly contracted : the

limb of five short, spreading teeth or segments. Stamens

hypogynous, much shorter than the tube : anthers oblong,

red-orange. Hypogynous glands five, alternating with the

filaments, nearly square, dark green. Ovary roundish.

Style rather shorter than the stamens. Stigma simple.

This is a rare and highly interesting suffruticose plant of

the Natural Order Epacrivex, communicated by Mr. Arron,

from the Royal Gardens at Kew, where it was first raised in

this country from seeds transmitted by Mr. Attan Cunnin@=

HAM in 1823, and gathered near Port Jackson. The spe-~

cimen was accompanied by the following observations from

Mr. Cunnincuam himself. “ It is found in shaded ravines,

and such humid situations as Ferns delight in. In its native

country, its habit is different from that which it not unfre-

quently assumes in cultivation: for, growing there, as it

always does, on wet sand-stone rocks, almost wholly de-

nuded of soil, its raceme is much fewer flowered, and the —

plant itself altogether of slenderer growth. Some speci-

mens at Kew exhibit an unnatural luxuriance, the raceme —

of flowers being much crowded together, and some of these

being monstrous, (the effect probably of luxuriant growth,)

formed by the union of three or four corollas, and thus

presenting a very broad and somewhat flattened tube, with —

many teeth and an indefinite number of stamens: an ap-

pearance which | never witnessed in native specimens.

The plant is a very desirable one for cultivation, as it

flowers freely with the protection of a greenhouse, and

there ripens seeds, by means of which it may readily be

icreased.”” A. Cunningham.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Hypogynous Scales, Stamens, and Pistil : magnified.

Sp! 1138S

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Pub iy S Curtis Gazenweod

WILT ded

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CaTTLEYA Forpesit. Mr. Forpes’

CATTLEYA.

BKK KEE EEE KEKE EEE

Class and Order.

GynAnDRIA MonanpriA.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcnipe#. )

Generic Character.

Sepala membranacea v. carnosa, patentia, equalia. Pe-

tala sepius majora. Labellum cucullatum, columnam in-

volvens, trilobum v. indivisum. Columna clavata, elon-

gata, semiteres, marginata, cum labello articulata. Anthera

carnosa, 4-locularis, septorum marginibus membranaceis.

Pollinia 4, caudiculis totidem replicatis.—Herbe epiphyte,

(Americane ) pseudobulbose. Folia solitaria, vel bina, co-

riacea. Flores terminales, speciosissimi, sepe e spatha

magna erumpentes. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Carrteya * Forbesii ; sepalis petalisque subundulatis line-

ari-lanceolatis subequalibus, labelli trilobo lobo medio —

cordato subrotundo-ovato argute dentato undulato —

apiculato, Jateralibus minoribus rotundatis planis,

pseudo-bulbis cylindraceis cinereis vestitis, spatha

cylindracea membranacea pedunculo breviore. Lindl.

Carrteya Forbesii. Lindl. Coll. Bot. t. 37. in textu. Bot.

Reg. t. 933. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 117.

Descr. Parasitic. Stem six to eight inches tall, slightly

swollen, and hence somewhat bulbous, sheathed with long,

membranous, cylindrical scales, and bearing at its sabe

mi y

=== =

* Named in compliment to WiLLtam CatTLey, Esq. of London, an

eminent cultivator of plants and patron of Botany.

mity two oblong, firm and fleshy, patent Jeaves, from the

centre of which, and from within a subcylindrical but cari-

nated and slightly compressed sheath, arises the rounded

eduncle, four to five inches long, single-flowered, but

jointed and bearing one or two bracteas, as if occasionally

two or more-flowered. Flower large, handsome. Sepals and

petals spreading, yet imcurved, almost exactly similar to

each other, of a yellowish-green colour, linear-lanceolate,

faintly striated, often with a brownish tint. Lip externally

whitish, cylindrical from the involuted sides, and much

curved, three-lobed at the extremity, the central lobe white

and crisped at the margin, yellow, and bearing three to four

elevated lines in the centre, lateral lobes obtuse, slightly

crenate and reflexed at the extremity. Within, the lip is

very beautiful, having a broad, deep yellow, elevated line in

the centre, the yellow gradually passing into rose-colour at

the margin, and the whole is marked diagonally with forked,

deep red, elevated lines, most branched near the margin.

Column appressed to the labellum, semiterete, whitish,

grooved within, and marked with red lines. Stigma large,

convex, very glutinous. Anther sunk into a recessyom Th

top of the column, four-celled, white, the cells dark brown.

A native of Brazil, and introduced to the Gardens of the

Horticultural Society at Chiswick, by their Collector, Mr.

Forses. Our specimen, in the two seasons in which it has

flowered, (in June 1832 and 1833,) produced only a one-

flowered peduncle, whereas Mr. Linpiey represents two —

blossoms on the flower-stalk. But as if to make up for the ~

deficiency, the size of our flower is much greater.

Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Ditto laid open. 3. Column. 4, Anther-Case. 5. 5.

Pollen-masses:—magnified.

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ACACIA VERNICIFLUA. VARNISHED

ACACIA. ’

;

. Class and Order. :

\ Potyeamia Mone cia. F

. (Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosa. )

Generic Character. |

Flores polygami. Cal. 4—}-dentatus. Pet. 4—5, nunc

libera, nune in corollam 4—5-fidam coalita. / Stam. nu-

mero varia, 10—200. Legumen continuum, exsuccum;

bivalve.—Frutices aut arbores, habitu et foliatione valde

4 = f nil

varie. Spine slipulares sparse aut ae Cand.

Specific Character and Synony 18.

Acacia verniciflua; phyllodiis lineari-lanceolatis subfalcatis

binerviis utrinque glanduloso-punetatis basi attenu-

atis antice uniglandulosis marginibus crassiusculis

scabris, capitulis solitariis subraecemosisve axillaribus,

pedunculis capitulo plus duplo longioribus, ramulis

Virgatis viscidis. A. Cunningham. ‘

Acacia verniciflua. A. Cunningham, in Field’s N.S. Wales,

p. 344. (1824.) Don’s Syst. of Gard. v. 2. p. A404.

Acacia virgata. _ Loddiges Bot. Cab. t. 1246 (1828.)

Descr. A slender, twiggy shrub, remarkable for a glu-

tinous substance, which clothes not only the young stems,

but, although in a less degree, the young foliage also.

Leaves (ov phyllodia,) remote, alternate, two inches or two

inches and a half long, coriaceous, linear, attenuated at

both extremities so as to be somewhat lanceolate, more or

less faleate, two-nerved, punctato-glandulose on both sides,

slightly thickened at the margin, and having a solitary,

conspicuous, sessile gland near the base on the upper mar-

gin. Flowers deep yellow, in globose capitula of a deep

yellow

yellow colour, on peduncles which are longer than the

heads of flowers, and generally in pairs from the axils of

the leaves.

This species of Acacia was discovered by Mr. ALian

Cunnineuam, during Mr. Oxuey’s Expedition in 1817, in

the country around Bathurst, where it flowered throughout

the winter. ‘“ It also adorns the barren hills near Cox’s

River at the cool season of the year, and about December

produces its ripened pods. With us (at Kew, whence the

specimen here figured was sent by Mr. Arron,) it blossoms

in the spring along with many others of its kindred, mingled

with which it forms an agreeable contrast, by its slender

habit, and deep yellow flowers. It was first raised at Kew

from seeds sent from the Colony in the year 1823. Asa

species, its nearest affinity is with A. dodoneefolia, Wi...

and A. graveolens, CunnincHam; from both of which, how-

ever, it is abundantly distinct.””. A. Cunningham.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Leaf:—magnified.

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Ceropecia WicutTi. Dr. Wient’s

CEROPEGIA.

Class and Order.

PeNTANDRIA DiayniA.

( Nat. Ord.—Asc eEpiapEa. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla basi ventricosa, lobo infundi-

buliformi, limbi laciniis conniventibus ligulatis. Corona

staminea duplex (?): interioris foliola lobis exterioris oppo-

sita. Anthere apice simplices. Stigma muticum. Foili-

culi cylindracei leves. Semina comosa.—Suffrutices vel

herbe volubiles. Wight.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Crrorecia Wightii ; volubilis glaber, radice bulbosa, foliis

ovatis acutis carnosis, corolle tubo basi inflato-globoso

limbi 5-fido laciniis linearibus lanuginosis approxima-

tis, lobis corone staminez exterioris integris interio-

ribus alternantibus, interioris carnosis lateraliter com-

pressis albidis recurvis exteriori duplo longioribus.

Wight.

Ceroreeia Wightii. Graham MSS.

Descr. The whole plant glabrous, twining, fleshy. Root

bulbous. Leaves opposite, ovate, acute, succulent, about an

inch long, three or four lines broad, and often nearly as

thick. Umbels lateral, few-flowered. Calyx five-parted,

lacinie acute. Corolla about an inch long; tube slender,

globular at the base, widening at the border, five-cleft ;

lacinie approximated for their whole length, narrow, linear,

purple, (or dark green, H.) densely woolly. Organs of frue-

tification concealed in the inflated part of the tube, and sur-

rounded by the Corona, the exterior lobes of which are

ovate, entire, and alternate with the interior; these latter

are erect, somewhat fleshy, about twice the length of the

exterior series, laterally compressed, white, (stained with

deep rose-colour) and from about the middle upwards

curved

curved outwards, presenting a star-like appearance. -Anthers obtuse,

naked at the apex, two-celled: Pollen-masses erect, attached by the

base. Stigma blunt. Wight.

This very distinct species of Ceropgcta flowered this summer (1833)

in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, where it had been received from the

East Indies, under the name of C. dulbosa. It agrees with that species

in having a tuberous root, a twining, succulent stem, in the leaves, and

‘in the form of the corolla; but is at once distinguished by the corona,

which equally separates it from every other species with which I am

acquainted. I would take this opportunity of calling the attention of

Botanists to‘the form of that organ, as affording the most permanent

characters for distinguishing allied species in this Genus.—In some, its

interior lobes are very long, while the exterior are reduced to a narrow

margin, and these appear opposite the interior, as in C. bulbosa, acumt-

nata, and tuberosa, Roxs., and in another East Indian species in my —

Herbarium.—A second set has the exterior series in five distinct, ovate, —

entire, or two-cleft lobes, alternate with the interior, the interior ones —

more than twice their length, and hooked outwards at the point. To —

Watt. Pl. Rarior. and two undescribed species in my Herbarium.— _

In a third set, all the lobes are ligulate, the exterior double the number —

of the interior, and nearly equalling them in length. To this section —

belong C. elegans, Watt. in Bot. Mag. and two unpublished speeies in

my Herbarium.—A fourth set has the interior lobes long and filiform,

the exterior double their number, ovate, obtuse, and scarcely the le

of the column of fructification. To this section belong one unpublished

species from Nepaul, (C. Wallichii) Wicur in Herb. Royle, and per-

haps C. longifolla, Wau. P). Rar.

In all these, the exterior lobes are at least twice as long as the inte- —

tior.—In the fifth section, the interior lobes barely exceed the column of

fructification, and are about one half longer than the exterior. — To this

section belong two unpublished species in my Herbarium, These are

all that I have had an opportunity of examining with reference to that

point.—The species so grouped, often differ very widely in other re-

spects, thereby producing some very unnatural combinations.

__ In these remarks, I have eniployed the terms erterior and méertor”

_ Series of lobes of the corona, from ‘supposing that the terms outer and

inner corona used by Dr. Brown in his character of the Genus (in the —

_ Wern. Trans.) imply the presence of a double series of parts, or twovel*

_ ticils, a structure which does not, I think, exist. The coronal appendage Fe

_ 1s apparently a campanulate organ, often resembling in form, the limb oF =

the corolla, the ligulate divisions of which represent the interior SeTeS

of lobes, while the intermediate, ventricose portions represent the exte- —

_ Nior. Taking this view of its structure, I infer, that the organ is compose¢ —

of a single verticil of five leaves, the lamina of which ate more oT

united, while the coste are each prolonged into an acumen. The act —

‘men forms the inner lobes, while the lamina more or less develope —

_ form the outer series, If this be correct, it would appear that the

= corona of Crrorzcra, and perhaps of the whole Order AscuEPraDE#,

: “ai to the antheriferous tribe of Metrace#, and may form @

these otherwise very distant Orders. A. Wight,

1, Flower. 2, Staminal 4. Pollen-mass-

x and Pistil >—mnugnified. Crown. 3. Column of Stamens. a

— Pibshy $ Curtis Maxenwood Kesex Sept 1 1853. _ Swan Se:

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ASTRAGALUS VESICARIUS. BLADDERED

Mivk-Vetcu.

KKK EEK EEE EERE EEK EEK

Class and Order.

DiapEvpHiA DecanprRiA.

( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminos.. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-dentatus. Corolla carina obtusa. Stamina dia-

delpha. Legumen biloculare aut semibiloculare, sutura

inferiore introflexa. D C.

Sect. V. Vesicarii; stipulis nec petiolo nec inter se adna-

tis, floribus purpurascentibus aut albidis, calycibus vesica-

riis. :

Specific Character and Synonyms.

AsrraGatus* vesicarius ; diffuso-procumbens pube adpressa

sericeo-canus, foliolis 5—7-jugis ellipticis, pedunculis

folio longioribus, calycibus vesicariis pube nigra ad-

pressa et pilis albidis patulis vestitis, leguminibus hir-

sutis calyce paulo longioribus. D C. oe.

-Asrracauus vesicarius. Linn. Sp. Pl.p.1071. Vill. Delph.

t.42. f.1. De Cand. Astragal.n. 15, Syst. Veget. v.

2. p. 288. Spreng. Syst. Veget.v.3.p.302. =

Astracatus albidus. Waldst. et Kit. Pl. Rar. Hung.v. 1.

t. 40.

Astracatus dealbatus. Pall. Astr. t. 23. f. 1.

Asrracatus glaucus. Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. n, 1484.

Descr. Root perennial, descending, and branched. Stem _

much divided, about a span long, hoary as well as the

leaves

* So named from its affinity with the aerpayaros of DioscoriDEs, the S

Orozus vernus of modern authors. :

leaves from minute, whitish pubescence. Leaves with —

about five pairs of elliptical, opposite leaflets and a terminal

one. Stipules small, linear-lanceolate, free at the base of

the petiole. Peduncles considerably longer than the leaves

from the axils of which they arise. Flowers collected into

a roundish head, which, however, becomes more elongated

as the fruit advances to maturity. Bracteas minute. Pedi-

cels very short. Calyx large, inflated, ovato-globose, of a

greenish-purple colour, five-toothed, downy with black and

white hairs. Vexillum oblong, retuse, purple, much bluer

in the older flowers, and in the dried specimens becoming

deep blue: Ale oblong, on long claws, white with a red-

dish tinge : Carina short, obtuse, with long, straight claws,

_ white, tipped with purple. Anthers deep yellow, almost

- entirely concealed within the carina. Germen oblong,

_ very silky, tapering into a long, slender style curved up-

wards at the extremity, and tipped with the small stigma.

This very handsome and highly desirable species of As-

TRAGALUS iS a native of barren wastes in the South of

France and of Russia as well as of Hungary, and is perfect]

hardy, flowering in May. Although, as cultivated in the

Glasgow Botanic Garden from seeds communicated by Mr.

Orro of Berlin, the flowers are always of a rich purple

colour, becoming darker and almost blue m age, yet they

appear in a wild state to be sometimes cream-coloured or

white.

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Pe en

ce 1. Flower. 2. Carina and Stamens. 3. Ale. 4, Pistil :—mag-_

5 etl LIGSS.

Pub ly S.Curtus, Hazenweod. Es

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Lycunis Pyrenarca. Pyrenean’

CATCH-FLY.

Class and Order.

Decanpria Penracynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Caryoruytes. )

Generic Character.

Calyx tubulosus, 5-dentatus, nudus. Petala 5, ungui-

culata, fauce sepius coronata. Stamina 10. Styli 5. Cap-

sula 1—3-locularis, anthophoro longo vel nullo. DC.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Lycunis Pyrenaica; glaberrima, caulibus cespitesis, foliis

radicalibus spathulatis longe petiolatis, caulinis corda-

tis sessilibus, paniculis dichotomis, calycibus tubuloso-

subcampanulatis, petalis subemarginatis fauce coro-

natis.

Lycunis Pyrenaica. Berg. Fl. Vass. Pyren. 2. p. 264.

(DC.) De Cand. Fl. Fr. v. 5. p. 608. Spreng.

Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 421.

Lycunis nummularia. Lapeyr. Hist. des. Pl. des, Pyren.

p. 263,

Descr. Root perennial, slender, fusiform, and fibrous.

Stems several from the same root, a span or more high,

slender, diffuse, quite glabrous, as is every part of the plant.

Leaves all glaucous green, those of the root spathulate,

and on long petioles, those of the stem cordate and sessile.

Panicles terminal, dichotomous, few- (3—6) flowered. Pe-

dicels long and slender, bracteated at the forkings. Flowers

delicate, and very pale rose-colour. Calyx tu bular, smooth,

broader upwards, and hence somewhat campanulate, green,

_with five rather broad teeth with membranous, brown et

gins. —

VOL VII. L

gins. Petals clawed ; limb oblong cuneate, emarginate,

with two erect, lanceolate, serrated, rose-coloured scales :

—these petals as well as the stamens arise from a recep-

tacle or stalk (anthophora) of the germen. Stamens ten.

Anthers oblong, greyish. Germen oblong: Styles five,

slender. Capsule (young) elliptical, as a | by the

withered stamens and petals, one-celled, many-seeded.

An inhabitant of rocky places in the Basses Pyrenées,

whence I possess beautiful native specimens from the

“Unio Itineraria.”” It has probably only of late been

known in a state of cultivation, and no figure that I am

aware exists of this highly interesting plant, which is so

well suited to ornament an alpine border or rock-work.

It succeeds well likewise in a pot, and is perfectly hardy,

flowering in June. Our figure is made from plants raised

from seeds sent to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, by Mr.

Orro of Berlin.

Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Unripe Capsule with the withered Stamens and Petals.

3. Section of ditto :-—magnified,

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PIMELEA ARENARIA. SAND PIMELEA.

ERE KEE EEE KKK KEK KRKEK

Class and Order.

Dianpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord —TuyMetea. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium infundibuliforme, limbo 4-fido, fauce esqua-

mata. Stamina 2, fauci inserta, laciniis exterioribus oppo-

sita. Stylus linearis. Stigma capitatum. Nux corticata,

raro baccata.—F rutices: Folia opposita vel alterna. Flores

capitati, terminales, foliis involucrantibus sepe dissimilibus,

interdum connatis, rarius spicati vel axillares, quandoque

dioict. Perianthii tubus in plerisque medio articulatus, ar-

ticulo inferiore persistente. Br.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Pimeea arenaria ; foliis (decussato-oppositis) ellipticis ob-

tusiusculis patentibus supra glabris subtus cano-hirtis,

floralibus capitulum 5—7-florum subaquantibus, peri-

anthii tubo brevissimo suburceolato lanuginoso persis-

tenti, stylo staminibus parum longiore, fructu baccato.

Allan Cunningham MSS.

Pimexea arenaria. Allan Cunningham MSS.

Descr. A small, erect shrub, branched in a dichotomous

manner, the branches hairy, especially the younger ones.

Leaves opposite and decussate, ovate, acute, sessile or

scarcely petiolated, standing out horizontally or sometimes

reflexed, obscurely downy above, densely clothed with

appressed, silky hairs beneath, which give the margins a

ciliated appearance ; colour glaucous green. The floral

leaves stand closer together than the rest, forming a sort

of involucre beneath the flower, but they are not otherwise

different. Flowers white, capitate, terminal, pure white,

nearly

nearly erect, and large for the Genus. Pertanth silky on

the outside ; the twbe contracted upwards ; the limb of five

broadly ovate, spreading, rather obtuse segments. Fila-

ments scarcely any; hence the anthers of a deep orange

colour, hardly rise beyond the mouth of the perianth.

Germen oblongo-ovate, very silky. Style as long as the

tube, slender, filiform. Stigma capitate.

“ This interesting Prerea, which appears closely allied

to Mr. Brown’s P. cinerea, a native of Van Diemen’s Land,

I found growing on the bare, exposed, sandy ridges at the

entrance of the river Hokianga, on the Western coast of

the Northern island of New Zealand, where it was observed

in flower in the months of September and October, 1826.

It approaches also near to P. nivea of Laniwy. which, how-

ever, has imbricated leaves and stamens extending beyond

the tube of the perianth; as well as to P. pilosa, Vaunt,

(Banxsta tomentosa, Forsr.) equally an inhabitant of New

Zealand; but that is described as a twiggy shrub, with

lanceolate leaves.”” Allan Cunningham.

Introduced by Mr. Arian Cunninenam, in 1827, to the

Royal Gardens of Kew, whence our flowering specimen

was obligingly communicated by Mr. Arron, in July, 1833.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil. 3. Upper, and f. 4, under side of a Leaf:

magnified.

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PLAGIANTHUS DIvVARICATUS. SPREADING

PLAGIANTHUS.

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Class and Order.

Monapepuia Decanpris.

( Nat. Ord.—Evupnorgiacez ? Bompacen. DC. )

Generic Character.

Flores hermaphroditi. Calyx subhemisphericus, 5-den-

tatus. Pet. 5, ovalia, basi cum tubo staminum unita.

Stam. 10—12: filamenta in tubum cylindraceum unitum.

Pistillum solitarium. Germen ovatum uni- bi-ovulatum,

ovulis suspensis. Stylus crassiusculus. Stigma magnum,

bilobum, hine decurrens, papillosum. Capsula subdru-

pacea, mono-dicocca, apiculata, indehiscens ? Cocculi mo-

nospermi. Semen pendens. Albumen carnosum. Embryo

immersus curvatus: Radicula cylindracea ad hilum semi-

nis versa: Cotyledones majuscule, plane, subfoliacex, lon-

gitudinaliter undulate.—Frutex parvus, virgatus. Folia

linearia, fasciculata, 3-nervia. Flores subsolitarii, parvi,

brevi-pedunculati, flavescentes. ;

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Pracianruus * divaricatus. 3 : :

PLaciantruus divaricatus. Forst. Gen. t. 43. De Cand.

Prodr. v. 1.477. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 81.

Descr. A twiggy shrub, with dark brown and roughish

bark and leaves, which latter are fascicled, small, linear, ge-

nerally broader upwards, obtuse, quite entire and glabrous,

with a central rib, and two lateral, wavy nerves, showing

: some

* From waayios, oblique, and arbor, a flower, from an obliquity or irregu-

larity of the petals, a peculiarity not observable in the present specimens.

some disposition to anastomose with the costa. Among

these leaves the flower appears, solitary or sometimes two

together, small, and upon a very short footstalk. Calyx _

cup-shaped or nearly hemispherical, persistent, having five

small but sharp teeth, glabrous. Petals five, oval or obo-

vate, slightly concave, yellowish, spreading, united by their

bases to the base of the column. Stamens about twelve;

the filaments combined into a cylindrical column or tube:

Anthers broadly oval, two-celled, orange-coloured. Pistil

solitary : Germen ovate with one or two pendulous ovules :

Style thickish : Stigma two-lobed, large and decurrent on

one side, papillose, white. The scarcely mature fruit is a

dicoccous, or by abortion a monococcous and oblique, sub-

drupaceous, slightly downy fruit, with an apiculus formed

of the persistent base of the style. Nut, if it may be so

called, chartaceous, indehiscent. Seed suspended from the

inner margin of the cell with a very short funitculus, albu-

minose : Albumen fleshy. Embryo large, green, immersed,

curved or somewhat conduplicate, the cylindrical radicle —

being turned towards the hilum: Cotyledons large, thin,

almost foliaceous, longitudinally waved.

Hitherto nothing appears to have been known of this

singular plant, except through the imperfect figure and de-

scription of Forster above quoted, who discovered the

plant in New Zealand. Mr. Arran CunnineuAm found it

in the same country, and introduced it to the Kew Gardens,

from which flowering specimens were sent to us in May

1833, and young fruit in the following July, by W.'T. Arron,

Esq. It is indeed a shrub that has little to recommend it

on the score of beauty, but much from its rarity and struc- ~

ture. De Canpotte has referred it to Bompacea, to which

it hasa similarity in the column of the stamens. Mr. Cun-

_ NINGHAM thinks it may perhaps be allied to a section of

Byrrveriacem, DC., and not far removed from HermMaAnntA,

or from Waxreria, in which the fruit is reduced to a single-

seeded carpellum; and that the generally pentadelphous

_ Stamens, and the seeds usually enveloped in a cottony

wool or pulp in Bomsacez forbid its union with that Order.

Tn some respects, there appears to be an affinity with Eu-

_ PHORBIACEA, an idea that has also occurred to Mr. CUNNING-

HAM, as well as to Mr. Donn: and there, not, however,

without great hesitation, I have placed it.

= ok 1. 2. Flowers. 3, 4. Pistil. 5. Section of a Germen. 6, 7, 8 Fruits.

- The same as fig. 7, from which a portion of the coat of the Nut 1s Te —

moved. 10. Transverse, and 11, vertical Secti ete 1

bryo: magnified, 1, vertical Sections of a Fruit. —

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BeaurortiA Damptert. DAMPIER’s

BEAUFORTIA.

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Class and Order.

PoLYADELPHIA PoLyANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Myrracea. )

Generic Character.

Cal. tubus turbinatus, limbus 5-partitus, lobis acutis.

Pet. 5. Staminum phalanges 5, petalis opposite. An-

there basi inserte, apice bifida, lobis deciduis (?). Stylus

filiformis. Capsula calycis tubo incrassato corticata, 3-

locularis, loculis monospermis.—F rutices Australasici, ele-

gantissimi. Folia sessilia opposita aut sparsa. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Braurortia * Dampieri ; foliis oppositis decussatis densis

lato-ellipticis orbiculatisve obtusis trinerviis, nervis

lateralibus obsoletis margine incrassato confluentibus,

unguibus phalangium petalo plus duplo longioribus,

filamentis patentibus (stam. 7—9). Allan Cunningh.

Beaurortia Dampieri. Allan Cunningham MSS.

Dammara ex Nova Hollandia, Sanamunde secunde Clusii-

foliis. Woodward in Dampier’s Voy. (ed. 1729,) v. 3.

p. 110. t. 3. f. 4.

Descr. Apparently a dwarf shrub, with many opposite,

or subverticillate, tortuose, and sometimes reflexed tetra-

gonal (taken in conjunction with the leaves) branches,

which when the leaves have fallen away are quite rough

with prominent teeth and scars. Leaves small, coriaceous

closely placed, beautifully quaternate, generally reflexed,

broadly oval, approaching to orbicular, coming suddenly to

a rather obtuse point, when dry often carinated, dark green

above, scarcely visibly nerved, beneath pale, marked with

glandular dots and with three prominent nerves reaching

from the base to the point, and also a marginal nerve.

Flowers numerous, collected in whorls below the extremity

of a branch. Calyx oval, five-cleft. Petals small, erect, —

oblong-

* In honor of Mary, Duchess of BEavrort, a Patroness of Botany.

oblong-oval, concave, yellow or brownish green, redder

towards the apex, and obscurely ciliated at the margin:

Filaments pale rose, almost white at the base ; the very apex

deep rose-colour. Anthers very small, bifid. Pzsézl, appa-

rently none in the specimen sent. Fruit is represented from a

dried native specimen, gathered by Mr. Cunnineuam, at fig. 6.

* A rare plant, and one of the few shrubs that are to be

found upon the barren, loose, sandy downs of Dirk Har-

tog’s Island, off Shark’s Bay, on the West coast of Aus-

tralia, where its seeds were gathered in 1822, during the

surveying voyage of Capt. P. P. Kine, in H. M. Sloop

Bathurst, and from which the living plants which have

repeatedly flowered in the Royal Gardens at Kew were

raised. ‘That it is the same plant which the celebrated

navigator Dampier gathered in 1699 on the sterile shores of

the neighbouring main, namely, at Shark’s Bay, whilst pro-

secuting his voyage in H. M. S. Roebuck appears very

evident, on a comparison with the figure given in the work

above quoted, as well as from the description of the species

by Dr. Woopwarp: the differences being only such as

arise from cultivation. Speaking of Damara, a generic

name which it seems was applied by Rumputvus, not only to

Pinus Damara, L. (Damara australis, Lams.) but to Mera-

LEucA Leucodendron, L. and another species figured in the

Herbarium Amboynense, Dr. Woopwarp says, ‘ This new

Genus was sent from Amboyna by Rumpuivs, by the name

of Damara, of which he transmitted two kinds, one with

narrow and long stiff leaves, the other with shorter and

broader. The present plant, he continues, is of the same

_ Genus with them, agreeing both in flower and fruit, though

very much differing in leaves. The flowers are stamineous,

_and seem to be of an herbaceous colour, growing among the

leaves, which are short and almost round, very stiff, an¢

_ ribbed on the underside, of a dark green above, and a paler

colour underneath, thick, set on by pairs, answering one

another crossways, so that they cover the stalk. Its fruit 1s

as big as a peppercorn, almost round, of a whitish colour,

dry and tough, with a hole on the top, containing small seeds.

_ Every one that sees this plant without its seed-vessels would

take it for an Erica or Sanamunpa*’, (Passerina, L.) The

leaves of this plant are of a very aromatic taste.’ Allan

Cunningham.

__. For the above account of this interesting plant, I am indebted to Mr.

Attan Cunnincuam, and to Mr. Arron for the opportunity of figuring 1t.

vases — on account of the purgative qualities by the

Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. Petal. 3. Cluster of Fi Under-side

ee ge eee ilaments. 4. Upper, and 5, Un

of a Leaf: magnified, 6. Portion of a dried native specimen in Fruit : nat, size.

WISH del Pub. by S Curtis, Glazenwood. Bie see Let? LI8IS Swan i

( $273 )

Lysimacui1a Azorica. AZORIAN

LoosE-sTRIFE.

Class and Order.

PrentanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.— Primvutacez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus. Corolla rotata, 5-fida. Stamina 5. Cap-

sula globosa, 5—10-valvis.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Lysimacuia Azorica ; foliis brevissime petiolatis ovato-lan-

ceolatis, lateribus incurvis, pedundulis axillaribus so-

litariis unifloris, calycis foliolis subulatis, filamentis

nudis, caulibus brevibus erectis.

Lysimacuia Azorica. Hort. Hafn.

Descr. Stems scarcely more than the length of one’s

finger, erect, slender, reddish, simple or slightly branched

near the base. Leaves opposite, upon extremely short

petioles, glabrous as is all the rest of the plant, ovato-lance-

olate, somewhat obtuse, the sides incurved, pale green, in

remote pairs. Peduncles axillary, solitary, very slender,

nearly erect, twice or thrice as long as the leaf, single-

flowered. Calyx in five very deep, subulate, pale green

segments. Corolla large in proportion to the size of the

plant, rotate, bright yellow ; the limb five-partite, the seg-

ments oval, very patent. Stamens five, inserted opposite to

the segments : Filaments yellow, quite smooth, remarkably

slender, patent: Anthers small, oblong. Germen globose,

small: Style slender, filiform.

This extremely pretty Lysrmacnia was received at the

Glasgow Botanic Garden from that of Copenhagen, under

the

the name here given, whence it would appear to be a

native of the Azores. It is cultivated in a pot, and treated

as an alpine plant ; that is, protected from the fickleness of

our winters, and kept in a cool, shady situation in the —

summer ; and in the month of June, a pot filled with this

little plant is quite a beautiful object; for the peduncles are

_ so long as to elevate the bright and crs spe large

yellow flowers above the tops of the stem and the delicate

pale green foliage. Different as the plant appears at first

sight from L. nemorum, yet, except in the smaller size of

the stem (which, too, is erect,) and foliage, and narrower

leaves with the sides incurved, it will be difficult to point

out any distinguishing characters. Indeed, I suspect it is

the var. “8. minor; caulibus erectiusculis” of Gmetin’s FI.

Badensis, 1. p. 455, as quoted by Roemer and Scuu res.

Fig. 1. Calyx including the Pistil. 2. Portion of the Corolla, with a

Stamen : magnified.

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CARGILLIA AUSTRALIS. SOUTHERN

CARGILLIA.

BEEK EEE EEK KEK KEE EEE

Class and Order.

OctanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.— Esenacez. )

Generic Character.

Flores polygami. Cal. semiquadrifidus. Corolla limbo

quadrifido. Masc. Stam. basi corolle inserta, (nunc hy-

pogyne ?) ejusdem laciniis dupla. Filamenta duplicata.

Rudimentum pistilliHermarur.—Fam. Stamina effeta,

pauciora. Ovariwm 4-loculare, loculis dispermis. Bacca

globosa, calyce appresso cupuleformi infra cincto. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Careiiuia * australis ; foliis oblongis glabris apice obtusis

basi acutis subtus pallidis, calycibus masculis 4-fidis

tubo corolla zqualibus, stylo indiviso. Br.

Careinuia australis. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 327.

Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. t. 204.

Descr. A much branching shrub ; the branches alter-

nate, rounded, glabrous. Leaves alternate, somewhat dis-

tichous, coriaceous, shortly petiolated, oblong, obtuse at

the extremity, acute at the base, glabrous on both sides,

dark green above, pale and yellow green beneath, ob-

scurely veined, the margin quite entire ; petiole very short,

rounded. Flowers distinctly four-sided (both calyx and

corolla), collected into dense clusters or heads on —

short,

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* Named by Mr. Brown, in memory of JamEs CaRGILL, a Physician of

Aberdeen, and a contemporary of CaspAR BavHIN, who described with

considerable care some Scottish Alge, in the Theatrum Botanicum.

short, axillary peduncles, and all inclined to the back of the

branch. Calyx downy, four-cleft, the segments, acute,

erect. Corolla more than twice as long as the calyx, some-

what campanulate, 4-partite, the extremities above recurv-

ed, of a yellowish-white colour, externally obscurely downy.

—Male Plant: Stamens included. Filaments eight, in-

serted in pairs at the base of the segments of the corolla,

and opposite to them, each filament being double, one be-

hind the other, and bearing an oblong much acuminated

anther, opening by a short fissure to each cell, just below

the acumen. Abortive pistil small, subglobose and acute,

with eight furrows.

of New South Wales, as well as on the banks of the princi-

pal rivers of that colony, between the parallels of 27° and

and 35°, where it forms a large shrub, and is usually to be

met with in fruit in the winter season. The Genus is inter- —

mediate between Diospyros of Linnzus and Maza of Fors-

TER ; differing from the former according to Mr. Brown, in

having a four-celled ovarium, and a calyx but partially

divided towards its base, which afterwards forms a cupula

or cup around the lower half of the fruit ; and from the

latter in the quaternary divisions of its calyx and corolla,

the epipetalous insertion of the stamens in the male, and

the presence of the rudiments of those organs in the female

flowers.’ Allan Cunningham.

Our drawing and description are made from specimens

sent by favour of Mr. Arron, from the Royal Gardens of

Kew, to which living plants were introduced from Port

_ Jackson, by Arran Cunnincuam, Esq. in 1825.

—

_ . Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla. 3. Portion of a Corolla, with two double

Stamens. 4, Anther, 5. Abortive Pistil : magnified.

Fab, by S. Curtis. Glazenwood.Esvex. Oct# 1.1833

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TILLANDSIA SETACEA. SETACEOUS-LEAVED

TILLANDSIA, |

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Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord —Bromentacez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 3-partitus, inferus. Petala 3, convoluta, distincta,

basi nuda. Stylus filiformis. Stigmata recta (Lindl. ) vel

convoluta. Fructus capsularis. Semina papposa.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Tittanpsia* setacea; foliis e basi dilatata ventricosa an-

guste subulatis curvatis rigidis extus farinoso-squamu-

losis, scapo folioso, spica solitaria magna sim lici,

bracteis cymbiformibus distiche imbricatis unifloris,

stigmatibus convolutis.

Tintanpsta setacea. Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. v. 1. p. 593.

Schultes, Syst. Veget. v. 7. p. 1207.

Descr. A parasite on the trunks of trees. Stem scarcely

any. Leaves numerous, imbricated, about a foot long,

curved to one side, from a broad, sheathing, and very con-

cave base gradually becoming subulate, grooved, rigid, of

a dingy green, whitish on the outside owing to the numer-

ous, minute scales, which present a mealy surface. At the

flowering season, the stem elongates itself into a leafy scape,

Scarcely a foot in length, and the leaves become gradually

Shorter and broader, till at length, from being imbricated

.* In honor of Extas TiLLANps, a Swedish Botanist, and Professor of

edicine in the University of Abo.

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on all sides, they become the large, cymbiform, imbricated,

distichous, bluntly mucronated scales or bracteas of an

oblong, solitary, simple spike :—these scales are coriace-

ous, free from the little squamule which abound so much

upon the leaves; the margin of a beautiful red. From

each of these scales arises a single flower in succession, one

only being in perfection at a time, and continuing for a

day, and of this the upper half only is protruded beyond

the scale. Entire flowers two inches long. Calyx inferior,

three-partite, pale yellow ; the segments carinated, imbri-

cated : Petals three, twice the length of the calyx, distinct,

convolute, white, purplish upward. Stamens six, arising

from the receptacle, filiformi-subulate, white or purplish, as

long as the corolla: Anthers oblong, brownish- green:

Pollen yellow. Germen superior, oblong, and triangular :

Style filiform, white: St¢gmas three, closely convolute,

yellow.

Among a valuable collection of Jamaica plants received

by the Glasgow Botanic Garden from Mr. Sirus, was the

present truly fine species of Tittanps1a, which blossomed in

the stove in the month of May, 1833. The leaves are of a

pale or whitish hue ; but the scales or bracteas of the spike

are richly variegated with red and yellow, and each bears

im succession, a single and delicate dein: which continues

but for one day.

—

Fig. 1. Bractea, and 2. Flower ; nat. size. 3. Pistil. 4, Stamen; slightly

magnified,

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PIMELEA syLvEstrIs. Woop Pimewea.

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Class and Order.

Dianpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Tnymezez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium infundibuliforme, limbo A-fido, fauce e squa-

mata. Stamina duo, fauci inserta laciniis exterioribus oppo-

Sita. Stylus lateralis. Stigma capitatum. Nux corticata,

raro baccata. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Pime.ra sylvestris ; foliis oppositis utrinque glabris lanceo-

latis acutis, floralibus 4—5 rameis subsimilibus capi-

tulo terminali multifloro brevioribus, perianthiis gla-

bris, tubo infundibuliformi. Br.

Pimetea sylvestris. Br. Prodr. v. 1. p. 361. Spreng.

Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 92.

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~~ This pretty species of the Genus, with its copious heads

of delicate rose-coloured flowers, and prominent stamens

with orange-coloured anthers, has been raised in the Glas-

Sow Botanic Garden from seeds sent by the late Mr. Fraser,

and adds another to the species not hitherto, we believe,

Cultivated in the gardens of Europe.

A shrub, with rather copious, green, and rounded

branches, quite glabrous. Leaves opposite and decus-

Sate, lanceolate or oblongo-lanceolate, acute, or, not un-

Frequently obtuse, single-nerved, glabrous, of a glaucous

Steen colour; those of the involucre smaller, aud shorter

than the capitulum. Heads of Flowers large, of a pale

nse colour. Perianth quite glabrous ; tube infundibuli-

orm, curved, very narrow at the base ; limb = nage :

VOL. vir, M

four ovate segments. F%laments much protruded : anthers

orange. Germen glabrous, ovate, pale green, inferior, in-

serted upon a small stellated tuft of hairs. Style much

longer than the tube of the corolla.

Fig. 1. Flower: magnified.

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Hypericum nyssopiro.ium. Hyssop-LeAvep

St. Joun’s Wort.

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Class and Order.

PotyapeteuiA Poryanpria.

( Nat. Ord.— Hyrericinen. )

Generic Character.

Capsula membranacea. Styli 3—5 in quibusdam nu-

mero variabiles. Stamina numerosa, basi polyadelpha,

Faro numero subdefinita. Pet. 5. Sepala 5, basi plus mi-

nusve coalita et inaequalia——Herbe aut suffrutices. Folia

opposita, sepe pellucido-punctata, aut margine nigro-punc-

tata. Flores varie dispositi.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Hypericum hyssopifolium ; caule herbaceo tereti adscen-

dente, foliis linearibus glabris subnervosis, pellucide

punctatis glaucis glaberrimis in axillis fasciculatis,

calycibus obtusis petalisque contortis ciliato-glandu-

losis.

Hypericum hyssopifolium. Vill. Delph. v. 3. p. 50. t. 44.

Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. p. 470. Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. ».

2. Dp. 9st. De Cand. Prodr. ». 1. p. 362. Spreng.

Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 349. , .

Hypericum alpestre. Fischer in Herb. nostr.

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Of the extensive Genus Hypericum (imtpxoy of Drosco-

RipEs) upwards of one hundred and twenty species are

enumerated by Dre Canpotie. Some are employed medi-

cinally ; but the greater number recommend themselves by

the liveliness and number of thet blossoms—

“ Hypericum, all bloom, so thick a swarm

Of flowers, like flies, clothing its slender rods,

That scarce a leaf appears’— —* Fe

a quality in which our present species is by no means defi-

cient. It is, however, at present but little known in our

gardens. It is a native of the South of France and also of

Tauria, from which latter country it has been introduced

into the Edinburgh Botanic Garden through the liberality

of Dr. Fiscuer. It flowers in the open border in June, and

may be increased by parting its roots as well as by seeds.

«* Stems (a foot and a half high) many from the crown

of the root, ascending, much branched, panicled above,

glabrous, round, marked with two opposite, obscure ridges,

alternating in the inner nodes. Leaves (nine lines long,

three lines broad,) decussating, sessile, elliptico-linear,

glaucous, glabrous, spreading wide, channelled in the mid-

dle, and having a few faint, lateral veins, entire and slightly

revolute in the edge, dotted with minute, pellucid points.

Panicle \arge, terminal ; peduncles three-flowered, the lateral

flowers opposite, and arising from the axils of diminished

leaves. Calyx segments ovate, blunt, marked with pellucid

streaks, frmged with black glands. Corolla (one inch

across when expanded) much contorted ; petals spreading,

clawed, obovate, unequal, nerved, pellucido-punctate, sub-

serrate, ciliated with black glands ; claws longer than the

calyx. Stamens erect ; filaments much shorter than the

corolla, yellow, irregularly connate at the base ; anthers

incumbent, greenish yellow. Stigmata small, of many mi-

nute red points. Styles three, diverging, yellow. Germen

ovate, three-lobed, reddish, striated, afterwards of deeper

red, three-celled. Ovules oblong, very numerous, attached

to the central receptacle. Graham.

Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Calyx and young Fruit: magnified.

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SyYRINGA Josikma. DEEP-FLOWERED

GERMAN Litac.

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Class and Order.

Dianpria Monoeynta.

( Nat. Ord.—Oternex. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 4-dentatus. Cor. infundibuliformis, 4-loba. Caps.

2-locularis, 2-sperma.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Syrinea* Josikea; foliis elliptico-lanceolatis acutis ciliatis

rugosis utrinque glabris supra lucidis subtus albidis.

Graham.

Syrinea Josikwa. Jacq. in Bot. Zeit. 1831, p. 67. Reich-

enb, Pl. Crit. t. 1049. Ejusd. Fl. Germ. Excurs. p.

432. Graham, in Edin. Phil. Journ. June, 1833.

A new species of Lilac, even though less beautiful than

the two in common cultivation, yet being equally hardy,

cannot fail to be a most acceptable ornament to our gardens

and shrubberies. Our valued friend, Dr. Granam, to whom

we are indebted for the specimen and the drawing here

given, was not aware of its istary and previous denomina-

tion when he lately sent it to us under the name of S. Jac-

quinit. From the Botanische Zeitung for 1831, we learn,

that at the meeting of Naturalists in Hamburg, in 1830, on

the sitting of the 20th September, Baron Jacquin exhibited

dried specimens of this plant from Siebenbiirgen, and _.

* From ovpsyé, a pipe, on account of the uses which the Turks make of its

tubular branches.

its discovery was due to “ Frau Raronin von Josika, ge-

bohren Grafin Czaki,” he named it in compliment to that

distinguished lady, and gave it a specific character.—In

another part of the same work we find that not only is the

present species a native of Germany, but that the common

Lilac, S. vulgaris, which has hitherto been considered

almost exclusively of Persian origin, is stated, by Dr. Heur-

rez to adorn with its copious blossoms the inaccessible

chalky precipices of the Cverna Valley and Mount Doma-

elett in Hungary, as well as the whole groupe of rocks

along the Danube, at the military boundaries of Mol-

dowa, Szaszka, Csiklova, and Krassova.

Our T. Josikea, which flowers in the open border in May

and June, is thus described by Dr. Granam, who received

the plant at the Botanic Garden of Edinburgh from Mr.

Boorn, of Hamburg, in 1833.

Shrub erect ; branches spreading, very slightly warted,

twigs purple. Leaves (three inches long, an inch and a

quarter broad) elliptico- lanceolate, attenuated at both

extremities, shining and lurid above, white * and veined

below, wrinkled, glabrous on both sides, ciliated, cilie#

short. Panicle terminal, erect. Calyx, like the pedicels,

peduncles, rachis, petiole, middle rib of the leaf and the

branches, pretty closely covered with short, glandular pu-

bescence, four-toothed, teeth blunt, and much shorter than

the tube. Corolla (half an inch long) clavato-funnel-shaped,

deep lilac, glabrous, wrinkled ; tube slightly compressed ;

limb erect, four-parted, segments involute at their edges.

Stamens adhering to about the middle of the tube ; anthers

incumbent, oblong, yellow. Pistil much shorter than the

tube ; stigmata large, cohering ; style filiform, glabrous ;

germen green, glabrous, bilocular ; ovules four. Graham.

* Resembling, as is well observed by REICHENBACH, the underside of

the leaves of Poputus balsamifera. H.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamen. 3. Calyx and Pistil. 4. Pistil.

Nov * 11833,

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ACACIA GRAVEOLENS. STRONG-SCENTED

ACACIA.

i Ss Sr ss Os Os

Class and Order.

Potyeamis Monazcra.

( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminos. )

Generic Character.

Flores polygami. Calyx 4—5-dentatus. Petala 4—5,

nune libera, nunc in corollam 4—5-fidam coalita. Stam.

numero varia, 10—200. Legumen continuum, exsuccum,

bivalve. De Cand.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Acacia graveolens ; stipulis deciduis lanceolatis acutis utrin-

que attenuatis binerviis undique punctis glandulosis

minutis copiose conspersis, margine antico basi uni-

glanduloso, capitulis geminis ternisve axillaribus, pe-

dicellis cano-pubescentibus capitulum subequantibus,

ramulis angulatis virgatis. Al/an Cunningham (1818).

Acacia graveolens. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1460 (1829). Don’s

Syst. of Gard. v. Ip. 404. n. 44.

Among the remarkable plants of New Holland, and those

which form a striking feature in the vegetation of the coun-

try, may be reckoned the Acacias, and especially that

groupe or tribe whose petioles (the leaflets being abor-

tive) become dilated, resembling coriaceous leaves, no

doubt perform all the functions of true leaves. Of the

real nature of these petioles (to which the name of phyl-

lodia has been given) there can be no question, since, In a

young state, they bear leaflets, and even when perfect are

not always destitute of them. But of the number of these

species, and the great beauty of many, few can form an

estimate,

estimate, except those who haye had the opportunity of

seeing the collections recently brought to this country for

the Herbarium, especially by Mr. Antan Cunninenam, Mr.

Fraser, and Dr. Srezer. To the first of these gentlemen

we are indebted for our knowledge of the present species ;

who found it on the margins of rivulets in the neighbour-

hood of Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land, where it was

observed in flower and fruit in the month of February.

From the seeds which were collected at that period, plants

were raised in the King’s Gardens at Kew; whence it ori-

ginally emanated to other collections around London, and

we also were favoured by W. T. Arron, Esq. with a flow-

ering specimen in the month of May, 1833.

It forms a twiggy shrub in the greenhouse with angular,

' brown, and slightly viscid branches. Leaves, or rather

leaf-stalks (phyllodia) alternate, two to four inches long,

narrow-lanceolate, rigid, slightly glutinous, two-nerved,

with a somewhat thickened margin, acute and tipped with

a curved mucro, at the base having an imperfect gland.

Flowers collected into dense heads, the size of a large pea,

which are sessile, or very nearly so, and standing in pairs

from the axils of the leaves. Calyx cup-shaped, five-cleft.

Corolla monopetalous, five-cleft. Stamens very numerous.

As a species, it may _pashape rank next to A. dodonee-

folia, from which it differs in the more sharply-pointed,

two-nerved foliage, and nearly sessile heads of flowers.

——_

Fig. 1. Portion of a Leaf, 2. Flower: magnified.

280

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FRITILLARIA MINOR. LeEssER ALTAIC

FRITILLARY.

KEKE KEE KKK EEE KKK EK

Class and Order.

Hexanprra Monoeynts.

( Nat. Ord.—Liiacez. )

Generic Character.

Corolla 6-petala, nectarifera, supera. Semina compressa,

marginata.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Frivitzaria minor; caule inferne nudo subunifloro, foliis

sparsis linearibus canaliculatis, flore subtesselato, pe-

talis exterioribus oblongis, interioribus latioribus obo-

vatis. Ledeb.

Frititiaria minor. Ledeb. Ic. Pl. Fl. Ross. Alt. 2. 12. t.

130.— Ibid. Fl. Altaica, 2. 34. Grah. in Edin. Phil.

Journ. June, 1833.

Fritittarta meleagroides. Patrin, in Schult. Syst. Veget.

7. 395.

Of the Genus Frititxaria, so called from fritillus a dice-

box, on account of the shape of the flower, though the

chequered blossom rather recalls the idea of a dice-

board, nineteen species are enumerated by SprenceL, all

remarkable for their large and gracefully drooping flowers,

which render them universal favourites with cultivators.

Of these, the greater number, perhaps the only legitimate

species, are natives of middle or southern Europe or north-

ern Asia. The present new species was discovered by

Prof. Lepesour, in pastures of the Altai Mountains, and

having flowered at Carlowrie, near Edinburgh, early in

May of the present year, we are indebted to Dr. Granam

for the following description and remarks. Bulb

Bulb roundish, white, about the size of a small hazel nut,

with many slender roots from its base. Stem (in native

specimens, from seven inches to a foot high, in the culti-

vated specimen one foot ten inches) erect, simple, single-

flowered in native plants, and almost always so in such,

according to Lepesour; in the cultivated ones three-flow-

ered, pruinoso-glaucous, brown and speckled towards its

base, obscurely three-sided, naked for a considerable way

above the base. Leaves scattered, smaller upwards (in

native individuals four to five, the lower three inches long,

in the cultivated seven, the lower six inches long,) lanceo-

lato-linear, channelled along the upper surface, blunt, sub-

erect, pruinoso-glaucous, half stem-clasping. Flowers geue-

rally solitary in the wild plant, one to three in the cultivated,

springing from a common point at the top of the stem be-

tween two subopposite leaves, and provided with peduncles

(above two inches long), nodding, dark blood-red, obscure-

ly tessellated, pale, more yellow and more distinctly varie-

gated within, nectaries linear ; outer petals oblong, slightly

spreading at the apices, inner broader, obovate, connivent

at the apex. Stamens subequal, about half the length of

the corolla; filaments subulate, slightly dilated at the base,

and very sparingly glanduloso-pubescent ; anthers oblong,

ellow ; pollen granules small, oblong, yellow. Pistil rather

onger than the stamens; stigma tripartite, erecto-patent,

green ; style triangular, cleft to about its middle, the stig-

matic surface extending along the inside of the segments ;

germen of uniform diameter from end to end, distinctly

grooved along the angles, and more obscurely along the

sides ; ovules very numerous, two-rowed in each cell.

This plant was obtained by Davip Fatconar, Esq, from Mr. Goupie,

who brought it from Russia. It varies a little from the wild state.

have native specimens both from Dr, Fiscurr of St. Petersburg and

from Professor Lepesour. The former are smaller, but the inflores-

cence is larger, and the leaves, which are longer and narrower, are

collected nearer to the flower. Even in a wild state, it appears from

Lepesovr, that occasionally, though rarely, there are more flowers than

one on the stem, and the two lowest leaves are sometimes subopposite.

I cannot but think that this plant scarcely differs more from F. Melea-

gris than some of the acknowledged varieties of this species. The great

length of the pendulous part of the stem or peduncle, which LepEBoUR

considers characteristic, and which is figured in his beautiful illustrations

of the Flora Altaica, is not possessed by my native specimens, nor by

Mr. Fatconar’s plant, and the flower in the figure is much less lurid,

and longer in proportion to its breadth, than any of these. Graham. —

—4

Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Pistil: magnified.

F287

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PIMELEA LONGIFLORA. LONG-FLOWERED

PIMELEA.

BREE EEE KKK EEK KEK KEK

Class and Order.

Dranpria Monoeynia.

Nat. Ord:—Tuymetez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium infandibuliforme, limbo 4-fido, fauce e squa-

mata. Stamina duo, fauci inserta laciniis exterioribus op-

posita. Stylus lateralis, Stigma capitatum. Nux corti-

cata, raro baccata. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Pimetea longiflora; foliis linearibus villosiusculis passim

alternis, floralibus rameis similibus, capitulis termina-

libus, limbo dimidium tubi equante, stylo incluso. Br.

Pimetes longiflora. Br. Prodr. v. 1. p. 361. Spreng.

Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 92.

‘eee

The vegetable inhabitants of New South Wales being in

general readily cultivated in peat earth, and easily increased

by cuttings, have been in great request for the greenhouse

and conservatory, and among them are the different species

of Pimelea, of which thirty-four species are enumerated by

Mr. Brown, though thirteen only have hitherto been known

amongst British cultivators. The present was ape

to our gardens by Mr. Fraser, from the Southern shores o

New Holland, and is rendered beautiful by the compara-

tively large and globose heads of pure white blossoms ter-

Minating the slender and wavy branches. Its flowering

Season in the Glasgow Botanic Garden is June.

The stem is four feet or more high, slender, but erect,

divided upwards with opposite branches ofa lame

colour, wavy and almost filiform, hairy, especially upwards.

Leaves opposite, or sometimes alternate, linear, approach-

ing to lanceolate, hairy, with three nerves, prominent and

paler beneath. Flowers collected into globose heads and

destitute of any distinct involucre, the few leaves which

are situated at the base of the flowers being similar to

those of the branches. Perianth pure white, hairy exter-

nally. Tube long and slender: limb of five spreading,

ovato-lanceolate segments. Anthers yellow, scarcely pro-

truded : Pollen orange. Germen inferior, pale green, in-

serted upon a tuft of hairs. Style quite included.

——

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Leaf:—magnified.

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Ficus ACUMINATA. SHARP-POINTED Fic.

Oe Sie Sie Se os ss OO OO

Class and Order. ,

Poryeamia Dicaecra.

( Nat. Ord.— Urricez. )

Generic Character.

Receptaculum carnosum, clausum, apice pervium, andro-

Synum. &osculi pedicellati: Masc. 3-partiti. Stam. 3—

Fam. 4—8-partiti. Stylus lateralis bifidus. Semina in

pulpa receptaculi nidulantia. Spreng.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ficus* acuminata; ramis petiolisque ferrugineo-tomentosis,

foliis lato-ellipticis obovatisque longe tenuiter acumi-

natis supra glabris subtus pubescentibus nervis promi-

nentibus, receptaculis solitariis globosis pendulis fari-

nosis longe pedunculatis.

Ficus acuminata. Ham. Herb.—Wall. in Cat. of Pl. of

E. I. C. n. 4478.

The Genus of the Figs is one of the most extensive among

plants, chiefly inhabiting the tropics, many of the species

constituting trees of gigantic height, no less remarkable

in their fructification than in the sheathing stipules and

milky juice, and bearing a great affinity with the Bread-

Fruit (Arrocarrus). Ficus elastica, and other species pro-

bably, yields Caoutchouc: a few afford esculent fruits,

chiet y the common cultivated Fig, Ficus Carica and the

Sycamore of the Scriptures, F. Sycamorus, whilst the F.

religiosa, Banyan Tree, or Sacred Fig of the Hindoos, is

one of the many astonishing features of Indian vegetation ms

——eeege

- * This Tuts traces to the Celtic Figuezen, a Fig.

« its wondrous branch

Bent down to earth, new stems can launch,

Which upward spring to bend again

And form a forest o’er the plain.”

No where, perhaps, do the species of Ficus so much

abound as in the tropical parts of Asia, and Dr. Watticu

alone enumerates in his Catalogue no less than one hundred

and five species. Among them is the present one, but

which nevertheless does not appear to be any where describ-

ed. It exists among a set of drawings (of which I possess

copies) of Indian Figs, made under the direction of the

late Dr. (Bucnanan) Hamitron, and with the name here

adopted, though I confess that the appellation under which

it has been long cultivated in the Glasgow Botanic Garden

(F’. cerasiformis) is more appropriate. It is a handsome

species, remarkable for its solitary, pedunculated, pendent,

and tempting-looking fruit. It was, we believe, introduced

by Dr. Waxticu from Silhet, and the specimen here figured

was drawn in 1833.

Stem, in our plant, five or six feet high, the branches

as well as petioles every where clothed with a dense, rusty-

coloured tomentum. eaves four or five inches to a span

long, somewhat coriaceous, elliptical; petiolated, veiny,

glabrous above and full green, beneath downy, with the

veins prominent. Receptacles solitary, axillary, globose,

pendent, larger than a bullace-plum, of a deep and bright

orange colour, somewhat mealy and tuberculated on the

surface, and terminating a stalk longer than itself. Flowers,

in the receptacles that were examined, apparently all female.

Perianth three-cleft or three-partite, with the segments

lanceolate and acuminated. Germen pedicellate, oval, ob-

lique, with a lateral style.

———

iy aes Receptacle ; nat, size. 2. Female Flower. 3. The same laid

open ; magnified.

3283.

Bib. by S. Curtis. Claxenwood, Biser. Dee 11835. Soenile Eek

( 3283 )

Lupinus incanus. Hoary Lupine.

TREE EEE EERE EEE EEK

Class and Order.

DiapetpuiaA Decanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosz. )

Generic Character.

Calyx profunde bilabiatus. Corolla papilionacea, vexillo

lateribus reflexis, carina acuminata. Stamina monadelpha,

vagina integra ; antheris 5 parvis subrotundioribus preco-

cioribus, 5 oblongis serioribus. Stylus filiformis. Stigma

terminale subrotundum barbatum. Legumen coriaceum

oblongum compressum oblique torulosum. Cotyledones

crass per germin. in folia converse. DC.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Lupinus incanus ; caule suffruticoso ramoso, foliis digitatis

foliolis lineari-lanceolatis utrinque sericeis integerrimis

subcarinatis petiolo duplo brevioribus, racemo elon-

gato, pedicellis equaliter sparsis patulis, calycibus basi

nudis, labio superiore bi- inferiore tridentato, vexillo

alis breviore emarginato, leguminibus immaturis erec-

tis sericeo-lanatis apicibus approximatis. Graham.

Lupinus incanus. Graham, in Edin. Phil. Journ. 1833.

The beautiful Genus of Lupine, of which the greater

number of species, hitherto enumerated in our universal

Floras, are natives either of the South of Europe or of the

Andes of Peru, has been greatly increased by the disco-

veries of Mr. Dovexas on the north-west coast of America,

where that indefatigable Naturalist has detected no less than

seventeen species in his first visit to the shores of the Co-

lumbia, and several have rewarded him on his second visit,

as well as in California. Thus the Genus may be consid-

ered to have its maximum on the western side of eres

lillera

VOL. VII. N

dillera of North America. The present very handsome

species is a native of South America, and “ was raised by

Mr. Nem, from seed sent by Mr. Tweepie of Buenos

Ayres, and flowered freely in the greenhouse at Canonmills

in June, 1833. It approaches very near to Lupinus multi-

florus of Encyclop. Méthodique, vol. iii, p. 624, and had it

not been for the very conspicuous pedicels in Mr. Nettt’s

plant, I should scarcely have separated them.”

Descr. “ Whole plant silky, excepting only the corolla,

stamens, and style. Stem suffruticose, erect, branched.

Leaves (about six inches across) digitate, leafets about nine,

linear-lanceolate, silky on both sides, carinate below, entire,

very acute. Petiole nearly twice the length of the leafets,

compressed vertically. Stipules (an inch and a quarter

long,) adhering for about half their length, subulate. Ra-

ceme (a foot anda half long) terminal, elongated. Pedicels

scattered equally over the rachis to within a little way of its

base, which is naked, spreading when in flower, when in

fruit erect, springing from the axil of a subulate, caducous

bractea. Calyx bilabiate, the upper lip two-, the lowest

three-toothed, bibracteate towards the base, bractea small,

subulate, adpressed, inconspicuous. Corolla pale lilac;

vexillum reflected upwards and at the sides, subrotund,

emarginate, cordate at the base, orange, and slightly spot-

ted in the middle, keeled behind ; claw short and rigid; ale

rather longer than the vexillum, straight in the upper edge,

curved in the lower, and there cohering towards the apex,

slightly turned up at the point, claws short ; keel half the

length of the ale, more rigid and shining than the other

parts of the flower, and of deeper purple colour at its point,

which is raised above the upper edge of the ale, dipetalous,

petals cohering only near their apices. Stamens monadel-

hous, included, the five with rounded anthers only a little

onger than the others ; anthers orange-coloured ; pollen-

granules very small and nearly spherical. Pistil longer

than the stamens ; stigma very small, capitate ; style subu-

late, glabrous, shining ; germen silky ; ovules several. Un-

ripe Legumes erect, silky-woolly, subcylindrical, tapering

and connivent at their apices.” Graham.

——

Fig. 1. Calyx, includin ari : :

me ; g the Carina. 2. Flower, 3. Stamens including

the Pistil 4. Young Legume: magnified.

Ped, by S Curtis Gla tenweod, Procx Pew t WIS.

( 3284 )

ANTHYLLIS Wessrana. RoseE-coLourEp

Kipney-Vercu, or Lady’s Finger.

KEKE EEE ERE KKK KEKE KS

Class and Order.

DiapetrearA DecanprRis.

( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminos=. )

Generic Character.

Cal. tubulosus 5-dentatus post anthesin persistens, plus

minus vesicarius inflatus. Cor. ale carina et vexillo sube-

quales. Stam. omnia connexa. Legumen ovatum 1—2-

spermum, rarius oblongo-lineare polyspermum semper ca-

lyce induviato tectum.—Herbe aut Frutices. D C.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Antuytus Webbiana ; herbacea erecta incano-sericea, foliis

pinnatis, foliolis 7—11 ovalibus acutis terminali majore,

capitulis subcompositis bracteatis, bracteis cuneato-

rotundatis vix ad medium multifidis, calycibus sub an-

thesin cylindraceis.

Antuytus Webbiana. Hort. Birm.

The Latin generic name of this plant is derived from

avdos, a flower, and sovdcs, a beard, or down, in consequence

of the hairy or downy calyces, a character in which the pre-

sent plant is by no means deficient : whilst the most popular

of its English names has been given from a fancied resem-

blance in the bracteas to the fingers of the human hand :

hence Lady’s Finger (not “ Ladies Finger,” as commonly

written) the Fingers of our Lady, the Virgin Mary, to whose

honour many plants were dedicated by the piety of our

forefathers. The species now given was communicated by

Mr. Cameron in May last, from the Botanic Garden of

Birmingham, under the name here retained: it being con-

sidered new, and having been introduced from Teneriffe by

PuHiie

Puiur Barker Wess, Esq. It is indeed an extremely deli-

cate and pretty plant *, and has at first sight the appearance

of a distinct species, though on a closer examination, it will

be difficult to discover characters by which it may be satis-

factorily separated from our British A. vulneraria. The

side leaflets of the leaves are perhaps more uniform, the

bracteas are less deeply cut, the calyx is more cylindrical

and longer, and the whole herb is clothed with soft, white,

silky hairs, on which, together with the rose-coloured blos-

soms, it depends for its beauty. It is hardy, and should be

cultivated on a dry soil.

Descr. Root perennial. Stems one or more from the

same root, erect, or decumbent only at the base, six to eight

or ten inches high, branched, silky. Leaves mostly from

near the root, pinnated with from seven to eleven, oval,

acute leaflets, of which the terminal one is the largest ; all

of them white with appressed, silky hairs. Flowers in ter-

minal and more or less compound heads. Bracteas round-

ish, cuneate, multifid, silky. Calyx densely silky, cylin-

drical while in flower, with five unequal teeth. Corolla of a

delicate rose colour. Petals, especially the carina, on very

long, white claws. Germen stipitate, three-seeded : Style

long, filiform: Stigma capitate.

* It is teed this species which is mentioned in the List of Plants by

Bory DE St. VINCENT, in his “ Essai sur les Isles Fortunées, where, how-

ever, it only stands as “‘ ANTHYLLIs,” without any name or remark.

——

Fig.1.1. Flower. 2. Carina, 3. Pistil : magnified.

3285.

DeoLseas.

Lub by S$. Curtis. Claxenuacd. ever

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GREVILLEA ARENARIA. SAND GREVILLEA,

Class and Order.

Terranpria Monocynis.

( Nat. Ord.— Proreaces. )

Generic Character.

_Perianthium irregulare ; foliolis laciniisve secundis ; api-

cibus cavis staminiferis. Anthere immerse. Glandula

hypogyna unica dimidiata. Ovariwn dispermum. Stigma

obliquum, depressum, (raro subverticale, conicum). Folli-

culus unilocularis, dispermus, loculo centrali. Semina

marginata, v. apice brevissime alata. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

GREVILLEA (Prycnocarpa) arenaria; foliis elongato-oblon-

gis obtusis mucronulatis subter cinereo-subsericeis

pilorum cruribus adpressis, venis primariis manifestis,

racemis recurvis paucifloris, perianthii laminis pariter

acutis, pistillis tomentosis. Allan Cunningham ex Br.

Suppl. p. 18, in Obs. ad calcem pagine.

Grevittea arenaria. Brown, Prodr. v. 1. p. 378. Roem.

et Schult. v. 3. p. 412. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p.

476. q

Lissantue cana. “ Knight and Salish. Prot. 117.”

Communicated from the Royal Gardens of Kew, through

the favour of Mr. Arron, by Mr. Antan Connineuam, who

observes, that “ it is an old inhabitant of the English gar-

dens, flowering freely in the spring months, only requiring

the shelter of a well-lighted greenhouse, and the care afford-

ed to others of the same section of this extensive, diversi-

fied, and beautiful Genus of Proreace®. It is found in the

alluvial, sandy banks of the Hawksbury River, in the pein!

of New South Wales, where, however, I never could meet

with it, and whence I infer that it has a very limited range in

its native country. Mr. Brown considers it to be very

closely allied to his G. canescens, figured in Bot. Mag. t.

3185.”

So closely indeed is this allied to G. canescens, that, in

most particulars, the description of one will suffice for that

of the other. The perianth, however, is differently formed,

and of a different colour; for whereas in A. canescens it is

of a greenish hue, almost of the same tint as the leaves, and

the segments much acuminated ; here the colour is a dull or

lurid purple, and the segments are simply acute, or almost

obtuse, by no means acuminated.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil: magnified.

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( 3286 )

ANDROMEDA SALICIFOLIA. W ILLOW-LEAVED

ANDROMEDA.

KEKE EEE EEE KEKE EK

Class and Order.

Decanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Enricez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. ovata, ore quinquefido. Capsula

supera, 5-locularis, dissepimentis e medio valvarum.

Specific Character and Synonyms. —

Anpromepa salicifolia ; racemis secundis glabris, foliis lan-

ceolatis subtrinervibus coriaceis basi apiceque attenu-

atis glabris subtus albidis.

Anpromepa Salicifolia. Commers. MSS. Lam. Encycl. ».

1. p. 159. Smith, Ic. ined. t. 58. Hook. Ex. Fl. t.

192. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 2. p. 290.

The northern or mountainous parts both of the old and

new world are the stations given for the greater number of

species of ANDRomEDA: but the present is an inhabitant of

the tropics, and not in very elevated situations. It was first

detected in the Mauritius by Commerson, and we are inform-

ed by our inestimable friend Mr. Texrarr, that it is plen-

tiful in the woods of Belombre. Messrs. Hetstnzore and

Bosrr gathered it in hilly places on the banks of rivers in the

province of Emirena, Madagascar. Hitherto we possess only

figures made from native specimens: but, by the late Mr.

Te rair* it has been introduced to the garden of the late

Roserr

* It is with the most sincere regret that we learn from Professor BosEr,

of the Royal College of Mauritius, and while this sheet is in the press, that

Mr. TELFaiR is no more. Ever since the death of his accomplished lady,

which

Rosert Barciay, and thence to the Birmingham Botanic

Garden, from which we received flowering specimens in

May, 1833. The colour of the flowers is ofa greenish hue,

partaking little of the fine purple so remarkable in drawings

from living, native specimens. It is hardly necessary to say

that it needs the protection of a warm greenhouse, and

should be cultivated in soil containing a considerable pro-

portion of peat.

Descr. A low shrubby plant, glabrous throughout.

Leaves alternate, coriaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, entire,

tapering at the base into a short petiole, costate and marked

_ with a depressed line on each side the midrib, dark green

above, pale and almost white beneath. Racemes terminal,

and lateral. Calyx five-toothed. Corolla pale green, in-

clining to purple, oblongo-ovate, tive- toothed, with a

slightly contracted mouth. Stamens with subulate filaments :

Anthers oblong, two-celled, each cell opening with a pore

at the extremity. Germen five-lobed. Style shorter than

the corolla.

which took place the preceding year, our valued friend, as he himself in-

formed us, seemed to have lost every earthly tie ; and, after a violent, but

short illness of only five days, he breathed his last, on the 14th of July. In

him science has to deplore one of her most ardent votaries, and society one

of the best of men.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamen :—magnified.

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Notratyia Papaver. Papaver-tikr

NUTTALLIA.

Class and Order.

Monapetrpaia Ponyanpria.

( Nat. Ord —Matvacez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. simplex (nunc duplex, ext. triphyllo), quinquefidus.

Capsule plurime monosperme in annulo congeste. (Nutt.

sub Callirhoen. )

Specific Name and Character.

Nourrauuia Papaver ; foliis radicalibus lobatis palmatisve,

caulinis inferioribus palmatis, superioribus simplicibus

digitatisve, calycibus pilosis involucratis, involucro

triphyllo, foliolis lanceolatis pilosis. Graham.

In the Exotic Flora, at tab. 171 and 172, I had the plea-

sure of figuring two distinct species of the present Genus,

detected by Mr. Nurratt on the Arkansa River. Their dis-

coverer has justly remarked, that this Genus, of which the

species are hardy, ornamental, and perennial, “‘ appears to

afford an additional link of connection between the Genera

Sipa and Matva.” Had he been acquainted with the pre-

sent individual, he would have found his idea still further

strengthened, for here, with a habit altogether that of the

other Nurraii&, there is the involucre of a Marva. The

presence of this involucre does indeed appear to me to

distinguish the species at once both from N. pedata and

N. digitata: and this is constant in the wild specimens

sent from Covington, Louisiana, by Mr. Drummonp, in the

spring of 1833, as well as in all the cultivated ones raised

from seeds transmitted by the same indefatigable Naturalist,

and from the same place. These seeds have been distributed

among different gardens, and have probably produced flow-

ering plants in several collections. Scarcely was our draw-

ing finished, from the Glasgow Botanic Garden specimens,

when I had the satisfaction to receive a beautiful figure

| (made

(made by Dr. Grevitxe), and a description from Dr. Gra-

nam*, done from plants of the Edinburgh Botanic Garden,

both of which are here given in preference to my own. It

appears to be quite hardy, and is highly ornamental.

Descr. Stems numerous, from the crown of the root, as-

cending, slightly hairy, hairs adpressed. oot-leaves on

very long petioles, lobed or pedate, thinly sprinkled on

both sides and on the edges with harsh hairs. Lower stem-

leaves palmato-pedate, upper digitate or simple, nerved, all

slightly hairy ; lobes of the radical and lower stem-leaves

more or less inciso-pinnatifid. Stipule ovate, acute, ciliated.

Pedunceles very long, axillary, single-flowered. Involucrum

three-leaved, closely surrounding the calyx, leafets lanceo-

late, hairy. Calyx five-cleft, segments ovate, acute, three-

ribbed, hairy; hairs spreading, acute, rising singly from

tubercles placed on the ribs or edges of the segments. Co-

rolla of five petals, campanulate, large, red-purple ; petals

obovate, truncated, and unequally crenato-dentate at their

extremity, cuneate at the base, and there woolly on the

edges. Stamens very numerous; filaments united into a

somewhat: hairy, conical tube for about two-thirds of their

length; anthers kidney-shaped, reddish-yellow, single-

celled, opening along the vertex. Pistil at first shorter

than the stamens; st¢gmata linear, reddish, hairy, decurrent

along the inside of the numerous, deeply divided, at length

procuced segments of the style; germen depressed, gla-

rous ; cells arranged in a circle, yellowish, each emarginate

on the outside, and within extended into a dark green,

blunt apex. Ovules solitary in each cell, reniform, attached

by the sinuosity and pendulous.

Thave hesitated about describing this plant as a distinct species, fearful

that in the Genus there may be a strong disposition to vary. So many

plants, however, have flowered in different gardens around Edinburgh,

some from imported roots, others from seed—as in Mr. CunNINGHAM’S

Nursery, Comely Bank, at Mr. Neru1’s, and with Mr. Fatconar of Car-

lowrie—and all with precisely the same characters, that I believe it will

be thought at least as distinct from either of the two species already in

cultivation as they are from each other. The presence of the invo-—

lucrum brings the Genus too near Marva. Graham.

* It is very much through the instrumentality of Dr. GraHam, that Mr.

DrumMonp has been enabled to accomplish his long and successful jour-

mies in the southern States of North America, where, amidst many dangers,

and notwithstanding the severest attacks of fever and cholera, he has amassed

a collection of upwards of one thousand species of plants. The NoTraLLiA —

fapaver, and the little known SARRACENIA psittacina are among the most

interesting that have been sent home in a living state. From Takes and

New Mexico it is expected his collections will be still more valuable.

Fig. 1. Flower-Bud. 2. Portio 3 Hit

from the Calyx. ortion of the Style with a Stigma. 3.

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PIMELEA GRACILIFLORA. SLENDER-FLOW-

ERED PIMELEA.

TEE KEE EEE ERE EEE EERE

Class and Order.

DianpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.— Tuymetes. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium infundibuliforme, limbo 4-fido, fauce esqua-

mata. Stam. 2, fauci inserta, laciniis exterioribus opposita.

Stylus lateralis. Stigma capitatum. Nux corticata, raro

baccata. Br.

Specific Name and Character.

Pimetea graciliflora; glabra, foliis oppositis patentibus lan-

ceolatis acutis supra punctatis floralibus subsimilibus

6—7 involucratis capitulo multifloro brevioribus, peri-

anthiis glaberrimis, tubo gracili filiformi-clavato.

Of this extensive Genus the species are very difficult to be

distinguished, and at first sight, the present plant might be

easily taken for the P. sylvestris, lately given at t. 3276 of

this Magazine, and it flowers at the same season ; but on a

more accurate examination, it will be found that the leaves,

which are narrower, are marked with impressed dots on

the upper surface, and the flowers are pure white, with a

much slenderer and more filiform tube. It is extremely

pretty, flowering freely in the greenhouse im common peat

soil, and retaining its snowy blossoms for a considerable

length of time. It was raised from seeds sent by Mr. Bax-

TER from King George’s Sound.

Descr. Stem, in our plants, two feet and two feet and a

half high, erect, slender, branched, chiefly upwards. Leaves

opposite and decussate, rather remote, patent or horizontal,

lanceolate,

lanceolate, acute at both ends, dotted above: those of the

involucre scarcely different from the rest, shorter than the

flowers. These latter are in a rather lax head, and of

snowy whiteness. Perianth with a long, pure white, slen-

der tube, quite glabrous, slightly dilated upwards: the

segments ovate, rather obtuse, spreading. Filaments much

exserted. Anthers oblong, orange. Style exserted, very

slender, with a capitate stigma. Germen ovate, green,

surrounded by a tuft of hairs arising from the receptacle.

Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Flower: magnified.

( 3289 )

-MArspeENIA FLAvEscens. YELLOWISH-FLOW-

ERED MARSDENIA.

Class and Order.

Pentanpria Dieynta.

( Nat. Ord.—AsciepiapEz. )

Generic Character.

Corolla urceolata, 5-fida, nune subrotata. Corona sta-

minea 5-phylla, foliolis compressis, indivisis, intus simpli-

cibus. Anthere membrana terminate. Masse Pollinis

erect, basi aflixe. Folliculi leves. Semina comosa.—

Suffrutices, sepius volubiles. Folia opposita, latiuscula,

plana. Cymex nunc Thyrsi interpetiolares. Stigma sepius

muticum, quandoque rosiralum, rostro indiviso vel bifido.

Br.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Marspenta flavescens ; caule volubili, foliis oblongo-lance-

olatis acuminatis subundulatis supra levibus subtus

ramulisque incano-tomentosis, pedunculis petiolo du-

plo longioribus, cymis confertifloris, corollis subrotatis,

fauce nuda. Allan Cunningham. : ae

Marspenta flavescens. Allan Cunningham MSS.

The Genus Marspenia was so named by Mr. Brown, in

compliment to Witutam Marspen, Esq. an encourager of

Botany, and the able author of a History of Sumatra, a

work of great interest and research. For the discovery of

the species we are indebted to Mr. ALLAN CunNINGHAM, who

found it in New Holland, on the sea-shore at the Illawana

district, in lat. 344°, whence living plants were imported to

His Majesty’s Gardens at Kew, where they flower through-

out the summer months, and whence our specimens were sent

in June, 1833, by Mr. Arron. Mr. Cunnincuam observes,

that it comes near M. viridiflora, a plant discovered by Mr.

Brown in New South Wales, within the tropics.

Descr.' Stem climbing, shrubby, rounded, the branches

downy. Leaves opposite, petiolate, oblongo-lanceolate,

acute, subcoriaceous, waved, dark green and glabrous

above, paler and downy beneath. Peduncles axillary,

about twice as long as the petioles, bearing rather small

- cymes of yellowish flowers, with two small, opposite, brac-

teas at the base. Calyx five-cleft, downy. Corolla rotate,

glabrous, of five deep, patent, ovate, acute, spreading seg-

ments. Staminal crown of five, fleshy teeth, united with the

back of the anthers, which latter are diaphanous at the

extremity. Stigma flat.

Fig. 1. 1. Flowers. 2. Corona, Anthers, and Stigma. 3. Pollen-masses:

magnified,

INDEX,

In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the Seven

Volume of the New Series (or Siztieth. of the Work) a

alphabetically arranged.

3244 Acacia decipiens, var. pre-

morsa.

3279 graveolens.

3266 verniciflua.

3286 Andromeda salicifolia.

3284 Anthyllis Webbiana,

3246 Arabis rosea.

3263 Astragalus procumbens.

3268 vesicarius,

3239 Azalea ledifolia, var. B, phe-

nicea.

3272 Beaufortia Dampieri.

3213 Beaumontia grandiflora.

8225 Begonia feeiirnis

3240 Blechnum Lanceola.

3217 Bletia acutipetala.

3229 Brassavola nodosa.

3255 Calceolaria crenatiflora.

3214 integrifolia, var. y,

viscosissima,

3274 Cargillia australis.

3262 Catasetum trifidum.

3265 Cattleya Forbesii,

3267 Ceropegia Wightii.

3215 Cineraria Tussilaginis.

3221 Coburgia fulva.

3242 Corydalis bracteata.

3230 ————— longiflora.

3208 Cryptop! ium venustum.

3241 Cynara Cardunculus, var.

3264 Dracophyllum secundum.

Dryandra armata.

3243 Epacris cereflora.

3257 — heteronema.

8253 nivalis.

3209 Epidendrum Harrisonie.

3233 —————— pygmeum. ~

3234 Erythrina poianthes.

3227 velutina.

3260 Eucalyptus amygdalina.

3323 Eugenia trinervia.

3282 Ficus acuminata.

3280 Fritillaria minor.

3231 Gelonium fasciculatum.

Pi.

3206 Gloxiniaspeciosa,var. albiflor:

3220 Gongora atro-purpurea,

3285 Grevillea arenaria.

3237 Heteropteris chrysophylla.

3232 Hydrastis Canadensis.

3277 Hypericum hyssopifolium.

3226 Ledebouria hyacinthina.

3245 Leontice Altaica,

3251 Leucopogon Richei.

8248 Limnocharis Humboldtii.

3218 Loasa Placei, var. p.

3207 Lobelia mucronata.

8283 Lupinus incanus.

3269 Lychnis Pyrenaica. _

3273 Lysimachia Azorica.

8289 Marsdenia flavescens.

3210 Melaleuca Fraseri.

3222 Myrsine capitellata.

3287 Nuttallia Papaver.

3249 Oxylobium ellipticum.

3270 Pimelea arenaria.

3288 raciliflora.

3281 ongiflora.

3276 sylvestris,

3271 Plagianthus divaricatus.

3259 Platylobium Murrayanum.

3258 obtusangulum. |

3261 Pleurothallis prolifera, =

8238 Pogostemon plectranthoides. —

3219 Pomaderris andromedeefolia. —

3212 —————-- betulina.

3216 Priestleya villosa.

3252 Primula ameena. —

3228 Psychotria daphnoides. —

3247 Pteris pedata.

3254 Pultenza subumbellata.

3256 Salpiglossis linearis.

3235 Santalum album.

3211 Scilla villosa.

3224 Symplocarpus fetidus.

3278 Syringa Josikea.

3275 Tillandsia setacea.

3250 Trillium erectum, var. viridi-

florum.

‘INDE X,

In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the

- Seventh Volume of the New Serres (or Stxtieth of the Work)

are alphabetically arranged.

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PI. , ;

3244 Acacia, paradoxical, var.

3279 strong-scented.

3266 varnished.

3286 Andromeda, willow-leaved.

3239 Azalea, purple-flowered, fra-

= grant, Indian.

$272 Beaufortia, Dampier's.

3213 Beaumontia, large-flowered.

3225 Begonia, kidney-leaved.

3240 Blechnum, lance-shaped.

3217 Bletia, sharp-petaled.

_ 3247 Brake, pedate-leaved.

3229 Brassavola, fragrant.

3214 Calceolaria, entire-leaved,

very viscid, var.

3241 Cardoon, common.

3274 Cargillia, southern.

3269 Catchfly, Pyrenean.

3265 Cattleya, Mr Forbes’.

+3262 Catasetum, trifid-lipped.

3267 Ceropegia, Dr. Wight’s.

- $215 Cineraria, Colt’s-foot.

— $221 Coburgia, tawny.

$234 Coral-tree, or Erythrina, naked-

|... MoWering:

3242 Corydalis, bracteated.

e es ac ou esa

typtop ium, stately.

(3264 Lona ze gem secund-flow-

e 3236 Dryandra, sharp-pointed.

_ 8253 Epacris, snowy.

8257 ———. varying-stemmed.

8243 sic caren.

3233 Epidendrum, dwarf.

3209 ——__——- Mrs. Harrison’s.

_ 3227 Erythrina, or Coral-tree, vel-

ae vety.

2 "3260 Eucalyptus, almond-leaved.

$223 Eugenia, three-nerved.

3282 Fig, sharp-pointed.

_ 8258 Flat-pea, or Platylobium, ob-

ee hex: eubaia fe

3280 Fritillary, lesser, Altaic.

_ 3231 Gelonium, clustered-flowered.

3206 Gloxinia, showy, white-flower-

ae Ob; var:

3220 Gongora, dark-flowered.

Pi.

3285 Grevillea, Sand.

3237 Heteropteris, golden-leaved.

3232 Hydrastis, American.

3284 Kidney-Vetch, rose-coloured,

or Lady’s Finger.

3226 Ledebouria, Hyacinth-like.

3245 Leontice, Altaic.

3251 Leucopogon, Riche’s.

3278 Lilac, German, deep-flowered.

3248 Limnocharis, Humboldt’s.

3218 Loasa, Mr. Place’s, var. P.

8207 Lobelia, sharp-pointed.

3273 Loose-strife, Azorian.

3283 Lupine, hoary.

3289 Marsdenia, yellowish-flowered. — 2

3210 Melaleuca, Mr. Fraser’s.

3268 Milk-Vetch, bladdered.

3263 —————— procumbent.

3222 Myrsine, cluster-flowered.

3287 Nuttallia, Poppy-like.

3249 Oxylobium, elliptic-leaved.

3281 Pimelea, long-flowered.

3270 Sand.

3238 -——— slender-flowered.

3276 Wood.

3271 Plagianthus, spreading.

3259 Platylobium, or Flat-Pea, Mr.

Murray’s.

3261 Pleurothallis, proliferous.

3238 Pogostemon, Plectranthus-

like.

3219 Pomaderris, Andromeda-leaved

3212 Birch-leaved.

3216 Priestleya, villous.

3259 Primrose, purple Caucasian.

3228 Psychotria, daphne-like.

3254 Pultenza, subumbellate.

3246 Rock-Cress, rose-coloured.

3256 Salpiglossis, linear-leaved.

3235 Sandal-wood.

3255 Slipper-wort, crenate-flowered.

3211 Squill, hairy-leaved. - ye

3277 St. John’s Wort, hyssop-leaved. a

3224 Symplocarpus, stinking, Skut

Weed, or Skunk Cabbage.

3275 Tillandsia, setaceous-leaved.

3250 Trillium, upright-stalked, pale

green-flowered, var. =