THE S BOTANICAL REGISTER: |; V. CONSISTING OF Coloured Figures OF EXOTIC PLANTS, CULTIVATED IN BRITISH GARDENS; HISTORY AND MODE OF TREATMENT. AA THE DESIGNS BY Sypdenbam Cowards, FELLOW OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. 3 VOL. I. G nec fronde caducâ viret semper Carpitur. Rx LONDON: PRINTED FOR JAMES RIDGWAY, PICCADILLY. 1915. s Gosnell, Printer, Little Queen Street, London. "E f yg (> 6 Á n v 6 nu E P 7° | © E i d | fi ALPHABETICAL LATIN INDEX TO VOLUME I. For. ACHANIA mollis. e. .o..o.oo»r.o..... os ll; Amaryllis crocata.... oo 88. Amaryllis rata ....- i eee eeeos$ q (2 DS) Arctotis aspera ...... si vst mA Arctotis aureola..;.... «0000020005: 82) Asclepias curassavica ,,.,...».3«.s» va Bl* Asclepias tuberosa. 2........».*«***. 76. Beaufortia decussata......... » 18. Bryonia quinqueloba ................82, Calendula chrysanthemifolia ..........40. Calendula Tragus, 8. ................28. Calotropis giganten.. > eesis op eot oo DB Camellia japonica. /b.'./.2««.» carnoso. 28, Camellia. Sasangua..,.........«.«.».«...».. sv sieh 12. Campanula aurea... erro coser e D7S Campanula pentagonia............... 56, Cassia occidentalis ....... ..... 88. Chrysanthemum indicum a. è. 4, Goreops)s ÍNCISA ws wa 5 edyn cir Gau ola 1074 Cosreg speciosa... ase Ke z eo pars RON Correa virens ...... 3. Crinum pedunculatum ..,.....,..,...52. Cressandra undulefolia .,............ 69. Dahlia superfina. a... © os. 0% «evita ev SJODI Digitalis ambigua .......o o» o...» ...... 64, Digitalis canariensis ....,..........* Echium candicans......... Echium fruticosum....+..o.........0.....0..... 36. Elichrysum proliferum ...............21. Epidendrum fuscatum ...............67. Epidendrum nutans ............»....l7. Epidendrum umbellatum ...........». 80. Erica filamentosa 6. Erica tumida... ee ¿de Pancratium ovatum .. “diane. ddo Passiflora glauca ........««**««««*« BB. Passiflora holosericea ...oo.o.oo.o...... 59 Passiflora laurifoli2.................-13 Passiflora ]utea...,.......«.««**«*-* 79 Passiflora perfoliata «+... ...o.........-78 Passiflora quadrangularis ............. 14, Patersonia glabra ..... „5b. Phlox suffruticosa......... Pittosporum undulatum ......-»*«**»* 16. Polianthes tuberosa............»«.***. 63» Protea longifolia..........».»«**.» 47. Protea pulchella ....o.oo............ 20% Prunus japonicâ .........»....*..» 27 Rhododendron punctatum B. ..........37. Ricotia 2gyptiaCâa.........«.*..»..49, Rosa provincialis. B. muscosa; A. simpl. . 53, Rosa sulphurea .....ov.+o......0.......46, Senecio speciosus ...........» Solanum amazonium ....... eere Zhe Stylidium graminifolium.............. 90. Styphelia longifolia.................. 94, Trachelium. ceruleum ..,....**-«»*79e Viola altaica ........**«**» e9»... de Witsenia maura v» vo os oseca oiee edesim sss. eee» é eoo 7% ....... cc ENGLISH INDEX TO THE FIRST VOLUME. For. ACcHANIA, lobed-leaved woolly.........11. Amaryllis, reflex-flowered ............38. Amaryllis, vermilion-flowered .........23. Arctotis, plain orange-flowered ........32. Arctotis, rough-leaved.......++.... .. 34. Beaufortia, cross-leaved ...... .......18. Bell-flower, broad-leaved golden ....... 57. Bell-flower, five-angled ..............56, Bryony, five-fingered ....... dodo va 82. Calotropis, curled-flowered ...........58. Camellia, Lady Banks'S ............ SUIS. Camellia, the Pompone ..... ev ib OM Cassia, occidental........ cs 20d. Corcopsis, cut-leaved......... a Correa, green. ....000000% SOC iG 48. Correa, party-coloured...... ......... 26. Cotton-Tree, Barbadoes .............84. Crinum, or Botany-bay lily.... Crosandra, waved-leaved .. 000052. ...... 0. 69. Dahlia, crimson fertile-rayed..........55. Elichrysum, sprouting ..........+... va 21, Epidendrum, brown........ rr 67. Epidendrum, nodding ...............17. Epideudrum, umbel'd ...... SAO OD 80. Erigeron,.Fordyce's,....,. oe... ..10. Foxglove, Canary shrubby ........... 48. Foxglove, greater yellow ..... cn Fumitory, golden american ...........66. Fumitory, Lyon's new ........»..«*.. 50. Gardenia, double-flowered dwarf.......73. Gazania,. hazel-ringed ............... 85. Gloriosa, superb........ ad C M iris Gnidia, pair-l€&Ved.......v..«..«. © Gnidia, fir-leaved....... “ces. 10 Grislea, downy-leaved ...,.........v. 80, Groundsel, red-flowered..... Ls db, Heath, long-peduncled..... way du O Heath, scarlet bloated-flowered........ 65. Hibiscus, various-leaved .............99. Honeyflower, the great ..,........«.,. 45. Honeysuckle, japanese. .... O Honeysuckle, upright, tartasian bro Bike Ipomoea, blood-flowered. ..... a'e die D Ipomcea, bicolor-leaved .,....,.......75. Ipomtes blue american... ....«.. « «ed 85. Ipomea, blue shrubby ...... y oee SH Ipomea, panicled ......... “CAG AU 62 Jpomcea, tubercled .,.,.*...*...... 86. Jashuné, aradan .... «e> 5c. We Jasmine, azorian or ivy-leaved.........89. Jasmine, bright-leaved............*.15. Liparia, shaggy-stemm'd ,............ 8. Lobelia, shining... o's .¿ 60, Marygold, Cape-, grey-leaved i: V628 Marygold, Cape-, large-flow ered shrubby 40. Marygold, indian,. the yellow and the white ooo connect 4, Monarda, .spotted............0:..0100+87 Nightshade, new purple sbrubby.......71. Pachysandra, trailing .................83. Passionflower, glaucous-leaved ........ 88. Passionflower, laurel-leaved or Water- lemon ..........---. ee dá eb oe TBs Passionílower, perfoliate DeF PEE +. 78. Passionflower, square-stemm'd, or Grana- dilla Vine........),..:.:»:.. Cv de VS JA Passionflower, velvet-leaved........... 59. Passionflower, yellow-flowered ........ 79. Patersonia, grey-flowered.............51. Peony, esculent ....... se ODIO ci Phlox, shining-leaved........ SOc OO teli Plum-tree, double-tlowered chinese.....97. Pittosporum, waved-leaved ........... 16. Protea, long-leaved ...... «sv»... +47. Protea, waved-leaved ......... SO ta 20. Rhododendron, . plain-flowered dotted- FUB RU ori coo sea uite co id Uan 97 Micoua, egyptian..... yc. ca .49. Rose, double yellow .. 41... y. df Rose, Moss-Provins, single-flowered ...53. Rosebay, or Oleander, double sweet- scented serococororororioroioro o SG Y SUN yr FOYER Sea-daffodil, oval-leaved ooo s esse cv Oe Sensitive-plant, the ..... ova deere A. O Strawberry, yellow-flowered ..........61. Stylidium, grass-leaved ..............90. Styphelia, -long-leaved ............... 94. Swallow-wort, Curassoa ............. 8l. Swallow-wort, tuberous, or Orange Apo- cynum..... — ce bes ...... 76, Throatwort, blue... +++ cL Tuberose, common. +00 “vv... ee GBs Violet, tartarian.... “eu V 927 r 54. Viper s Bugloss, Cape, shrubby , ...30. Viper's Bugloss, Tree-, hoary......... 44. Witsenia, downy-flowered ,........... da NOTES. JASMINUM hirsutum. See article 15. 'The figure of this having been taken from a plant during the winter, the bloom was not expanded to perfection. Hence the corolla has a concave obtuse form and a contracted mien, which do not belong to it in the summer. {n that season the bloom is convex, acuminate, and of a much broader appearance; and the new foliage is then more conspicuously pubescent than the old. GAZANIA pavonia. See article 35. Le Phe plant spoken of as a hybrid production between the above species and GAZANTA rigens, towards the end of the article we have quoted, we find has been figured and described by Willdenow, m his Hortus Berolinensis (p. 97. t. 07), as a distinet species, by the name of Gorrerta heterophylla. It may be so; but we are inclined to think it a mule production. O a Article 70. line 5. of the english text, For “ Its mode of growth is similar to" read “ In mode of growth it is similar to.” ERRATA. Leaf. line. Fol . 8.1.17. For “ Peyrouse” read “ Pérouse." Fol. 7.1.14. Pro “ C. volubilis? lege “ C. incisa, volubilis." Fol. "ol, Fol. Fol. Fol. Fol. Fol. Fol. Fol. Fol. Fol. Fol. Fol. Fol Fo! Fol Fol 13. 1.26. Post ** Amen. pone ** acad." 20. 1. 15 a calce pag. 1. Pro ** uncias" lege “ uncie.” 21. 1.17. Pro * pl.” lege * pf.” 23. I. 14 a calce pag. 1. Pro ** ochroleuco" lege ** chloroleuco.” 32. 1.9 a calce pag. 1. Pro “ cnetraliores” lege ** centraliores.” 32 verso. l. 23. For “ Bočrhave" read ** Boérhaave.” 34. 9d page, l. 12 from bottom. For “ flower" read ** flowers.” 43. 1. 4 a calce pag. 1. Pro “ ex limbo” lege “ è pede limbi rata.” 49. 2d page, 1l. 4. For “ Lunaria’ put ** LUNARIA.” 51. 1.15 a calce pag. 1. Pro “ interiores" lege ** exteriores," 53. 1. 16 a calce pag. 1. Pro “ Búerh” lege ** Boérh.” 53. 9d page, l. 8 from bottom. For * Common Rose" read “the Common Provins Rose." 59. 1. 14 a calce pag. 1. Pro “ operculo incompleto" lege ** septo v. dissepimento.” . 59. 2d page, I. 2. from bottom. 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Sem. exalbuminosum. — Frutices sepiůs volubi/es. Folia composita, nunc simplicia, petiolo articulato. Flores in corymbis oppositi. Brown. prod. 1. 520, 521: revocato Moconio Jussei. J. Sambac, folis simplicibus, oppositis, ovatis v. ellipticis acutis, v. cordato-rotundis, glabris; ramis peuolis pedunculis calycibusque vil- losis; racemis solitariis, simplicibus. Jasminum Sambac. Hort. Kew. 1. 8. ed. 9. 1. 15... Andrews's re- posit. 497. Willd. sp. pl. 1.35. Vahl. en. 1. 25. Mogorium Sambac. Lamarck. encyc. 4. 210. Tllustr. 1. 93. t. 6. f. 1. Nyctanthes Sambac. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 18... Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 1. Jasminum arabicum. Cat. pl. hort. londin. (A. D. 1730) t. 7. J. limonii folio conjugato. Burm. zeyl. 198. t. 58. f. 2. Flos Manore. Rumph. amboin. 5. 59. t. 30. Nalla-Mulia. RAeed. malab. 6. 87. t. 50. Sambac arabum s. Gelseminum arabicum. Alpin. egypt. 72,73. Clus. cur. post. 3. Syringa arabica foliis mali aranti. Bauh. pin. 398. (a) fios simplex. (8) flos multiplicatus. Andrews. loc. cit. (y) flos plenus. Kudda-mulla. — K/ecd. loc. cit. 89. t. 51. Nyctanthes grandiflora ; foliis ternis oppositisque. Lour. fl. cochin. 21. Biorgyale. Caulis teres, glaber, cinereus: rami. subvolubiles, virides, villosi ; ramuli oppositi, axillares, obscure tetragoni, in fine florifert. Flores in racemo impari-bracchiato subquini ad unum: bractea basi pedicellorum appressa. Folia &ivaricaía, distantia, membranacea, opaca, venosa, brevis- sume petiolata, ad summum 3-uncialia : ramulorum sapius difformia et mi- nora. Segmenta calycis suboctona, tubo semunciali floris dimidio breviora, subulata, erecta. Cor. nivea, purpureo-emarcescens, caduca: limbus sub- octopartitus ; lac. oblonge, obtuse, v. ex supernê inflexo margine subacute. A favourite throughout the East on account of the fra- grance of the bloom; but said to be native of only the warmest parts of India. An assertion universally repeated, but without any precise authority, that we can find. No author speaking of it pretends to have seen it, or eveh heard of its being seen, in any other than a cultivated state. VOL. I. B Rumphius remarks, that the plant thrives about the houses in Amboyna, but soon disappears, when these are deserted, Thunberg and Lourciro mention its cultivation in the gar- dens of China and Cochinchina, but as an exotic. Dr. Roxburgh, among his unpublished drawings, has a Jasmine, found spontaneous in thickets on the Coast of Coromandel, which he takes for the type of the species ; but which appears to us far too distinct to be readily admitted as such ; having a many-flowered trichotomous inflorescence ; a six-cleft calyx and corolla, with the seg- ments of the latter tapering to a point, divaricate bractes beneath the divisions of the panicle, and a foliage of an ap- pearance different from that of Sambac. With us the Arabian Jasmine thrives best in the bark-bed of the stove, where it continues to blooni for six or seven months in succession; and when led along the frame of the building, attains 20 feet or more in length. The leaf has been assimilated by some to that of both the orange and lemon-trees. The flower drops easily from the calyx x, and in decaying changes to a deep purple 'hue; the limb is under an inch in “diameter, with segments rather shorter than the tube. Formerly this shrub was imported by the italian- warchousemen from the Mediterranean; but this being en- grafted on the common Jasmine, was esteemed of less value than that from the layer, on account of the disproportionate (and thence unsightly) g growth of the stock and graft. Its cultivation with us is recorded as far back as the year 1665. Clusius tells us that it was received at Florence from Cairo as a novelty, in the year 1660; the date probably of its standing in that part of Europe, where it has become uni- versal. The large full variety, known among gardeners by the name of ‘the * Tuscan Jasmine,” acquires a much broader disk with a shorter tube, by the filling of the flower. The bloom of this is strung by the females of India in the evening of the day into chaplets and necklaces. Sambae is the Arabian appellation of our plant; which, according to Alpinus, is in great request at Cairo. Our drawing was made at the botanical establishment of the Comtesse de Vandes, Bayswater. a A flower deprived of the limb, somewhat magnified and dissected, so as to show the position of the stamens and pistil, Ji v% Edward: Def. Pub byd Polo way 79. Piccadilly Mert 1245. Lt FO Se e » " e t Pi Cd + o GNIDIA oppositifolia. Pair-leaved Gnidia. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. GNIDIA. Cor. longa filiformis, limbo 4-fido. Syuamule 4-8, laciniis alterne. Stylus filiformis lateralis ; stig. capitatum hispidum. Sem. corolla tectum. Folia in paucis opposita ; flores terminales dis- tincti aut rariüs aggregati. Jussieu. gen. 77: revocata sub cadem ejus & Bergio mutuata Nectandra. Obs. Jn Gnidia simplici corolla ab articulo tubi caduca. G. oppositifolia, folis decussatis, ovatis v. ovali-lanceolatis, acutis, glabris: callis staminiformibus 4 nudis supra faucem : staminibus 8 sub fauce. Gnidia oppositifolia. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 519. Syst. veg. ed. 13. 309. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 428 ; (excluso Thunb. cum char. spec.) Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 9. 413 ; (hacce varietate tenis.) G. levigata. Thunb. prodr. 67. Wendl. botan. beobacht. 17. tab. 2. Jig. 14. Andrews's reposit. 89. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 426. Thymelza africana Sanamundz prioris Clusi facie. Pluk. almeg. 367. phyt. t. 323. fig. 7. (8) rami, folia floralia, limbus intůs, calligue (in sicco saltêm) purpu- rascentia. Passerina levigata. Aman. acad. 4.312. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 513. Mant. 375. Nectandra levigata. Berg. capens. 134. 'Thymelea foliis planis acutis, coma & floribus purpureis. Burm. afr. 137. tab. 49. fig. 3. Frutex. Caulis erectus, eicatriculis prominulis consitus, glaber, pennam corvinam crassus: rami virgati, superni, foliosi, divisi; ramuli filiformes, Jloriferi. Folia unguicularia, patentia, glauco-pruinata, modo apice ruben- tia: floralia parům latiora conniventia. Flores subquini, terminales, aggre- gati, sessiles, pollicares, extůs albo-sericei : tubus angustus, levissime dilatatus in füucem, striatus, supra germen articulato-constrictus : lacinie limbi hoc quater breviores, oblonge, rotundata, primo explanate, inde replicatis late- ribus convexe : ad divisuras pro squamulis petalodis, corpuscula 4 stamina mentientia. Anth. sessiles, duplici serie. Germ. sericeum. The tendency of the present species to unite with STRUTHIOLA, is curiously evinced by a transition of the more usual petallike scales, into four small inorganic bodies, representing as many stamens with short filaments and adnate yellow anthers; as well as by the subsiding of all the real stamens below the orifice of the tube. Linneus, in a later work, has combined this species from two of distinct genera, into which he had for- BQ merly divided it. Willdenow, in his edition of the Species Plantarum, has perplexed his record of the plant, by in- troducing into its synonymy the oppositifolia of Thunberg, which has downy leaves; as well as by separating from it the levigata of that author and of Wendland, which belong to it. We have followed the editors of the Hortus Kewensis, in terming that the corolla in this plant, which others have termed the c calyx. The specimens we have seen, have been from one foot to two feet high. Leaves in some nearly ovate and shorter, in others oblong and narrower; of a glaucous hue, which proceeds from a whitish | efflorescence, appearing like shagreen when inspected through a magnifying-glass. Flowers light yellow, rendered nearly white on the out- side, by hairs of that colour. Pollen deep yellow. Style and stigma white, below the lower anthers. In the Bank- sian Herbarium we find spontaneous specimens with the branches, floral leaves, and stamenlike bodies of a purple colour, such as they are described by Bergius and Burman; but differing from the present in no other respect. The whole plant: seems devoid of any peculiar scent. Native of the Cape of Good Hope; from whence it was sent to the Kew Gardens, by Mr. Masson, in 1783. Belongs to the green-house, reguiring little care, and is easily multiphed by cuttings. Should be planted in peat-mould. Blooms in winter and summer. The genus is arranged by Jussieu in his natural order of Thymelez. The drawing was made at Mr, Knight's exotic nursery, King's Road, Fulham, | — O a The flower magnified and dissected, so as to show the position of the 4 false and 8 real stamens; also the lateral insertion of the style, and the .pencilled stigma, Aware Del. 7 a. e i " i Ls rì pi i Pub by I Ridgway 170. Piccadilly Mart 1815 La P San f br! t 3 CORREA virens. Green Correa. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNTA. CORREA. Cal. monophyllus. Pet. 4, conniventia. Anth. in- cumbentes, 2-loculares, longitudinalitér dehiscentes. Caps. supera, 4- valvis, 4-locularis, è valvulis intlexis. Stigma 4-fidum. Frutices foliis oppositis, simplicibus, pubescentiá stellari ; calyce cam- panulato, integro, denticulato; petalis in aliquibus connatis, corollam monopetalam stmulantibus, Smith. in hu. trans. 4. 219. C. virens, foliis oblongo-cordatis; corolla cylindrica, pendula: petalis coherentibus; acuminibus discretis, patulisque. Correa virens. Smith. erot. bot. 2. 95. t.72. Hort. Kew. ed. 2.2. 540. C. viridiflora. Andrews's reposit. 496, C. reflexa. Ventenat. malin. 13. Labillardiêre Voy. à la recherche de la Peyrouse. 2. 120. Persoon. syn. 1. 419. Mazeutoxeron reflexum: — Labillard. loc. cit. 66. t. 19. Erecta, rigtda, ramosa, pube compositá ferrugineá deciduá inegualitěr consita : rami axillares, oppositi, assurgentes, Folia brevissim? petiolata, membranacco-rigidiuscula, divaricata s. reflexa, rugosa, subtůs tomentoso- albicantia, margine obsolete. dentata depressaque, ad summum biuncialia + floralia dina nunc ita reflectuntur ut includant florem inter se-ad instar invo- lucri. Flores terminales solitarii v. gemini; pedunculi breves, sepě instructi bracteis 2 oppositis. Cal. bilinearis, cupulatus, dentibus 4 minutis in margine. Cor. uncialis, crassitudine penne scriptori«e, caduca, viridis, albo tomento pru- inosa ; labro brevi 4 lobo, lobis attenuatis. Stam. in recept. germinis, exserta, caduca: fil. alterna breviora ab infra curvata et cochleari-dilatata, intůs cavo nectarifero exsculpta ; reliqua sulcato-clavata : anth. ant? anthesin viridi- lutescentes. Germ. hirsutum. Stylus exsertus, perstans. This shrub, when four or five feet high and in full bloom, which it usually is about November, forms the most singular and pleasing ornament for the conservatory that we know of, especially when care has been taken to top the branches, so as to render it close and bushy. It is a hardy green- house-plant; easily multiplied by cuttings; thriving only in peat-earth. Introduced by Mr. George Hibbert, in whose botanical establishment at Clapham it was raised in the year 1800, from seed sent from New South Wales, of which and Van Diemen’s Land, it is a native. The Bank- sian Herbarium has specimens from, both countries, in which we perceived nothing that suggested the idea of the two plants belonging to distinct species. 3 Stem of a rusty brown colour: leaves deep green on the upper somewhat convex surface, whence the pubescence at last disappears, leaving it roughened by the small glan- dular prominent points on which each hair had stood. The two floral leaves are sometimes bent so far back as to em- brace the flower between them in the manner of an invo- lucre, The coherent petals of the corolla, when fallen from the calyx, separate by a space at the base, about equal to that by which they diverge at the top. In the Banksian Herbarium we find several species of this genus from dif- ferent parts of Terra Australis, none of which, according to Mr. Brown, grow in any part of those regions lying within the tropic. After some contestation, Correa seems to be now una- nimously allotted to Jussieu's natural order of Rutacee (Diosmeg. Brown in Bot. of Terra Australis; appended to Flinders's Voyage. ). The drawing was made in November, at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, King's Road, Fulham. a A portion of the upper half of the corolla reversed. 4 One of the four shorter stamens, showing the nectariferous cavity on the inner side of the di- lated base of its filament. c Calyx and pisti; d A branched hair of the pubescence, magnified, 9 AN mI £ mwr ardir F) 2 , "A > + Py, Á U > A ¿ redr Del. Pub. by d Ride FWD, Poeta; (v Dart 1318 LS anfom Ye. 4 CHRYSANTHEMUM indicum. «.3. The yellow and the white quilled indian Marygold. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. CHRYSANTHEMUM. (Recept. nudum. Sem. nudum s. non papposum). Flores radiati. Cal. hemisphæricus imbricatus, squamis interioribus membranaceis. Caulis simplex v. ramosus ; fol. simplicia v. pinnata ; flores terminales, solitarii v. corymbosi ; squame calycine ob- longe, v. ovate scariose ; ligule lutee v. lutescentes, albe aut pur- purascentes. Jussieu. gen. 183: revocato LEUCANTHEMO Tournef. Div. Chrysanthema: squamis cal. oblongis: lig. albis v. purpurasc. C. indicum, caulibus suffrutescentibus ; foliis petiolatis, ovatis, sinuato- pinnatifidis, villosis, lobis 3-5, mucronato-dentatis: floribus corym- bosis. Chrysanthemum indicum. Lin. sp. pl. 2. 1253. Thunb. jap. 320. Lour. cochin. 499. Curtis. mag. 327 ; (cum ic. var. purp. pl.) Wilid. sp. pl. 3. 2147. Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 5. 95. Anthemis artemisiefoha. Willd. in der gesell. naturf. fr. zu Berl. n. schr. 9. A81. Ejusd. sp. pl. 3. 2184; et Enum. 911. A. stipulacea. Manch suppl. meth. pl. 958. A. grandiflora. Ramatuelle in Journ. d' hist. nat. 9. 234. Desfont. arbriss. 1. 315. Matricaria indica. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 3. M. sinensis, minore fl., pet. X umbone ochroleuco. © Pluk. amalth. 142, 1. 430. f 3. M. sinensis. Serune. Rumph. amb. 5. 959. t. 91. f. 1. Tsjetu-pu. Rheede. malab. 10. 87. t. 44. Kik, Kikf, v. Kikku, i. e. Matricaria. Kempf. am. ex. 875. (8) los plenus. E Chrysanthemum maderaspatanum oxyacanthe fol. cesiis ad marginem spinosis, cal. argenteo. Pluk. alin. 101. t. 160. f. 6. Herba perennis, stolonifera, villosa, © Caules plurimi, angulato-teretes, 2-3 pedales: rami fastigiantes, pubescentes. Folia crassiuscula, sparsa nisi divisuris proxima, numerosa, remota, 3-5 nervia, subtůs č villis densioribus pallescentia, in petiolum longiusculum attenuata, sæpiùs ad basin rudimento JSoliaceo sessili utrinque rt Calycis squame numerose, lanceolate, intima sphacelato-obtuse ; ligule radii aliguotiês his longiores. Recept, luzu- rians paleaceum ; alioquin nudum ? A native of China; from whence the now so well-known purple variety was brought to France by Monsieur Blancard, a merchant of Marseilles, in 1789. To France we are in- debted for its introduction into. this country, where, in 1795, it was considered as new by the nurserymen, and sold at a very high price. The other varieties have ap- peared subsequently, and from other quarters. The species had however certainly been cultivated at Cbelseain 1764, by Miller, who received it from Nimpu; but was most probably soon lost, since we do not find it mentioned in the first edition of the Hortus Kewensis. The receptacle of the flower, in the specimens which have been inspected in european gardens, has been found to be clothed with chaff-like bractes; while that of those from India, in various Herbariums, is said to benaked. Hence both the specific identity, as well as the admissibility of the former into a genus, of which a naked receptacle is a character, have been questioned. But from subsequent observation it appears now to be held, that the chaff is ad- ventitious, and an effect of luxuriance; so that, on this head at least, its present rank is no longer disputed. When cultivated in Provence, the florets are said to be studded with yellow powdery highly odoriferous particles, which disappear in the colder climate of Paris ; where, as we are told, the florets have a greater tendency to retain their tubular or, as the gardeners term it, “ quilled” form; and not to open into thongs or ligule. In that state the appearauce of the flower is considerably altered, the paler opaque exterior of the florets presenting itself, instead of the deeper-coloured bright interior. No flower varies more in colour, whence it has become by its numerous hues a prin- cipal decoration of our conservatories in the dreary months of November and December. It survives in the open air our severest winters, in any soil (except a very wet one) and situation; but succeeds best when dressed and attended to; seldom expanding in perfection unless under shelter and in warmth. A favourite with the florists throughout India, but particularly in China, where it is kept in a dwarf state, and the flowers treated much in the same way as directed by our gardeners for the management of the Carnation. We have heard that the single-rayed plant is in our gardens, but have not seen it. The bloom, when smelled near, reminds us of the Chamomile, of which by some authors it has been esteemed a congener. We are told, if cuttings about four or five inches long are taken from the upper part of the stems in May or June, and planted in garden-mould, under a hand-glass, m the usual way, they will take root and flower the same season in a dwarf state; and if only one flower is left to stand, the bloom will be considerably larger than when more remain. m“ ES anfom Se Pub bv I Ridg way 1 po Pievadiliy« Mort. 1815, Sy?” Ldwarde Del “e” 5 WITSENIA maura, Downy-flowered Witsenia. TRIANDRIA M/ONOGYNTA. WITSENIA. Cal. o. Cor. erecta, regularis, subegualis, persis- tens; tubulosa, 6-fida limbo explanato v. connivente : rariús hexapetalodi- artita. Stam. inclusa, erecta : affixa basi laciniarum exteriorum. Germ: merum v. subsemisuperum, polyspermum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus. Stig. obsoletě trina. Caps. lignosa, trigono-ovata: 3-loc., 3-valv., val. vis medio septigeris. Sem. biseriata, angulosa. Arbuscula sempervirentes. Caudex palmoideo-lignescens, erectus, an- ceps, simplex v. divisus: folus vaginatus ensatis, numerosis, collaterali- distichis, equitantibus, flabellatim divergentibus, striatis, glaucis; ter- minalibus confertissimis. Flores spathacei : spathe 2-valves, uniflore, clause ; seorsim bracteata aut geminatim per squamas communes imbri- catas, in caule ancipiti cymosé vel spicatê elevate; rariüs in caudice sessili-terminales: valva inter. membranacea delitescens. W. maura, spathis geminatis : limbo connivente; laciniis 3 extimis dorso hirsutis, ; Witsenia maura. Thunb. diss. nov. gen. 34. c. ic. Ejusd. prodr. 7. Murr. in syst. veg. ed. 14. 83. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 247. Lamarck. ill. 1. 108. t. 30. Vahl. enum. 9. 47. Redouté liliac. 245; (tab. è sicco desumpta.) Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 2. 109. Ixia disticha. Lamarck. encyc. 3. 333. | Antholyza maura. Lin. mant. 175. Syst. veg. ed. 13. 78. Bi-guingue pedalis, divisa, necne. Spathe sesquiunciales, inequivalves, bifide, per paria in pedunculo communi disticho-spicate, v. sessiles in fine caudicis: paria singula à squamis communibus foliaceis distichis simul imbri- cata. Cor. 2-uncialis, clavato-cylindrica : tubus viridescens, duriusculus, ampliatus in nigrum collum at parům, limbo clauso 4-plô longior: lacinize ovato-attenuate ; exter. discolores, tomento brevi extůs flavicantes, intüs glabrato-virentes ; inter. penicillo flavo in AU, celerum nude ag virides. Stam. stricta, viridia : fil. semitereti-subulata : anth. viz breviores, à basi bilobâ cucullatě pertusá stabiliùs infixee : pollen flavum. Germ. bilineare, oblongum, teres, apice depressum, subsemisuperum ; pro uná 4td parte intra corollam liberum, ubi lucido-virens ac leviter 3-sulcum. Flos totus nitet. pa» pulis atomoideis densissimis, omnino ac FERRARLE. This very singular plant, dried flowers of which have been long and very generally admired in the Herbarium, first ap- eared in this country in 1790; having been sent by Mr. Tasson from its native country, the Cape of Good Hope, to the Kew Gardens. It has however never been known to flower with us till last December, when several fine speci- mens showed their bloom together at Hammersmith, in the VOL, I, c nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy; by whose liberal communication of them, we are enabled to present our readers with the first figure from the living plant yet pub- lished. The genus, as far as it is yet known, belongs wholly to the neighbourhood of the Cape of Good Hope; unless indeed Tarena should at last be found to be of it. The species ap- pear to bear the same relation to the rest of the Ensate, that DRACENA, Yucca, and their kindred frutescent genera, do to the herbaceous Liliacez. Botanists vary as to the situation they ascribe to the germen. In the present species the upper fourth part of that organ is evidently detached from and within the tube of the corolla, and consequently supe- rior; while the remainder is as plainly grown to and united with the tube, and therefore inferior. In corymbosa it ìs simply inferior. We mean to be precise on this point, as we stand so far in contradiction to some very eminent botanists. In the four species known to us a peculiar sameness per- vades the foliage of them all; but the reverse 1s as remark- able in the bloom. Fruticosa and partita are not yet known to be in our gardens. — The latter is curious for its hexape- taloid corolla, with long linear-spatulate segments; and was first recorded in the Annals of Botany (v. 1. p. 237) from very perfect spontaneous specimens in Mr. G. Hibbert's Herbarium. Monsieur Ventenat (in Dec. nov. gen. plant. 1.) has separated corymbosa under the generic name of NIvENIA: a separation in our judgment, to say the least of it, most inexpedient. On the authority of Monsieur Bruguičres, the stem of maura is said to yield a strongly saccharine juice. We suspect that it is a plant reguiring the growth of a considerable number of years before it flowers. In Mr. Grif- fin's Collection there is a specimen, at this time little less than five feet high, which has not yet flowered. It thrives best in peat-earth, and reguires no greater degree of warmth than will prevent the frost affecting it. When the flowers are terminal and sessile, the upper leaves extend beyond them; but when these, as in our specimen, are elevated upon a common peduncle or stem, they generally extend beyond the leaves. Thunberg found it flowering in April and May on the sides of the hills near False Bay. The green part of the flower dries yellow. a A flower dissected to show the position of stamens and pistil. ¿A spathe disposed so as to show both valves. c Shows that portion of the germen which is detached within the flower and superior, as distinguished from the lower portion, which is grown together with it and inferior. 2, ——X n È , "oco d RALL VU, WEY fe Zp H 2 Pub By P. DZ, Tal Law arado 6 ERICA filamentosa. Long-peduncled Heath. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ERICA. (Germ. superum.) Cal. 4-partitus, interdům daplicatus. Cor. (persistens) campanulata, sepè ventricosa, 4-fida. Anth. bicornes aut emarginate, exsertæ aut latentes (antê anthesin per foramina 2 an- nexe. Dr.) Stig. sub-4-lobum. Caps. 4-(8-) loc., 4-(8-) valv., calyce cincta. Suffrutices; fol. minuta, opposita aut verticillata aut sparsa; flores aut axillares aut terminales, varie dispositi. Jussieu. gen. 160. Div. V. Breviflore. Corolle longitudine quartam uncie partem su- perantes, nec semuncià longiores: Tubus calyce longior. Dryander. in Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 9. 390. Subdiv. V. D. Corolle cylindrice, vel superné dilatate. Id. loc. cit. 3906. E. filamentosa, floribus axillaribus, foliolis calycinis subulatis, pedunculis flore longioribus. Lem loc. cit. 398. Erica filamentosa. Andrews’s heaths. vol. ©. Caulis remote prolifer: rami divaricato-assurgentes, foliis capillati densis, arrectis, filiformibus, aculis, villosutis, albá lineá in dorso: petiolis mem- branaceis sesquilinearibus elasticis. Inflor. numerosa, pedunculata, verticillatě axillaris in foliis aliguantům apicis inferioribus : pedunc. flore 4-lineari lon- giores, rubri, flexiles, filiformes, instructi bracteis 2 oppositis à calyce re- molis, cum alterá inferiore. Cal. herbaceus, corollá duplo brevior, segmentis subulatis, rubro-ciliatis. Cor. cyathoidi-cylindrica, roseo-pallescens, lacinulis brevibus, rotundatis, patulis. Stam. ab und tertia parte inclusa : fil. alba apiculo inflezo, brunneo : anth. mutice, brunnec, conniventes. Germ. latě turbinatum, striatum, areolá planá hirsutá ampliori coronatum : stig. inclu- sum, quadrangulo-capitatum. F1 The arrangement of this perplexing and extensive genus by Mr. Dryander, in the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis, appears to us a display of as much acute discrimination aud distinct definition as has been ever made within equal scope. It is a model, and we suspect will not soon be equalled. The specimens we have seen of EnicA filamentosa have not exceeded two feet; with branches in two distant whorls, converging into a ‘kind of corymb. Its slender capillary foliage standing on narrow membraneous petioles, is set simultaneously into a very peculiar vibratory motion by the slightest impulse. The plant flowers in all seasons of the year. Introduced from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. CS William Rollisson in 1800. Like most of its congeners from the same guarter, it reguires to be sheltered from frost, and planted in the black earth found at the surface of our sandy heaths. The drawing was made at Mr. Knight's exotic nursery, Fulham. a Stamen magnified, showing the awnless anther. 8 Pistil magnified, ghowing the flat shaggy summit of the eight-furrowed germen. c A side view of a magnified leaf, d Its flat narrow elastic petiole, = | Pub. 5 v d ole way 170. Prren ally Mart the. ES anfom e. MICI pn Del. Í COREOPSIS incisa. Cut-leaved Coreopsis. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA FRUSTRANEA. COREOPSIS. (Radiata: Pappus aristatus: Recept. paleaceum.) Cal. polyphyllus, foliolis à receptaculi paleis vix aut parùm distinctis. Recept. planiusculum v. levitěr convexum. Flosc. disci hermaphr., fer- ‘tiles; radii feminei s. neutri, ligulis disco transverso æqualibus s, longio- ribus, steriles. Pappus 9-3-aristatus: aristis glabris s. retrorsùm scabris. Gartn. sem. 9. 457. Herba erecta ; fol. sepiůs opposita, in quibusdam multifida; flores axillares et sepiüs terminales ; ligule quarundam albide. Jussieu. gen, 188. Est Bivens radio larvata. Gartn. C. volubilis, fruticosa, villosa: foliis petiolatis quinatis et ternatis, fo- liolis ovato-lanceolatis, subpinnatifidis v. meiso-serratis, ultimo bis-ter majore : radio integerrimo. Caulis 8-pedalis v. ultrà, dextrorsim volubilis ? spadiceo-corticatus, superna virens, teres, striatus, assurgentêr ramosus, remotě foliosus: rami divaricati, axillares, oppositi, foliis 2 in basi... Petioli folio breviores, connato-amplexi- caules, canaliculati : foliola mollia, subtůs pallidiora, è nervo medio emittentia utrinque alios plurimos parallelos (pinnas coherentes in summos dentes solu- tas designantes? ) ; lateralia basi inegualia. Flores erecti ramulorum supe- riorum caulisque terminales, umbellate cymosi, flavi : radio infra unciam transverso : pedunculi rariis furcati, striato-filiformes, biunciales, uniflori, è Solits simplicibus werticillato-approximatis. Cal. duplex, polyphyllus, sube» qualis, disco parům brevior : exterior herbaceus, urceolato-radians, č foliolis linearibus acutis, basi gibbosis, cum striá in dorso; interior membranaceus, paleis disci lanceolatis concaviusculis exactê similis at subcoloratus. — Flosc, radii subseni, neutri, ligula ovali-lanceolatá, T-nervi, rugis trinis sulcatá : disci bis breviores, fauce corrugalá, ore revoluto, 5-fido. Recept. planum, Germ. subteres, ciliatum, bicornt-aristatum, aristis retrorsŵm scabratis, tubulo sine fauce cequalibus : stig. 2, linearia cum mucrone, à supino hirsuta, citra Juscam semiexsertam antheram replicata, Three very nearly related, but distinct species, seem to have been confounded under Coreopsis reptans. First, the Linnean plant with simple ovate lower, and ternate upper leaves, deeply serrate, with oblong teeth, and a flower having an indented ray: second, that of Sloane’s work ( Hist. 1. 261) repeatedly, but erroneously adduced for its synonym; but in which none of the leaves are ovate simple and deeply serrate, but uniformly ternate and shallowly serrate, with short triangular teeth: 4Aird, our present incisa, where the leaves are all either quinate or ternate, deeply cut, and the ray of the flower pointed and guite en- J tire. Of Linneus’s plant we can only judge from what he himself has told us, and from the figure in Dr. Smith's * Spicilegium," which we should have taken for our plant, but for the indented ray, no simple ovate leaf being shown there. Of the species described and figured by Sloane, a specimen sent from Jamaica by Dr. Houston, is deposited in the Danksian Herbarium, as the Linnean reptans; so are two others from the same quarter presented by Mr. Shake- speare, but these in truth belong to the present species, and are distinct from both the preceding. Our plant had been raised from seed about three years ago, and attained the height of eight feet, supporting itself by twining round its prop. Corymbs generally five- flowered, terminating the branchlets that issue from the axils of the upper leaves: flowers of a golden yellow, dark- ened in the disk by brown half-extruded anthers : peduncles sometimes divided above the middle. Stem about the thick- ness of a large wheaten straw near the base. Upper leaflet of the leaves about 2 inches long. Having seen only one living specimen, and that under very artificial culture, we have not ventured to call it vo/ubilis, although apparently the fittest name.—A native of Jamaica, and perhaps of other parts of the West Indies. Messrs. Colville, to whom its introduction is due, have no recollection of whence they obtained the seed from which it was raised. Requires to be kept in the bark-bed of the stove, where it flowers about December. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, King's Road, Chelsea. a The calyx and chaffy receptacle. & A sterile floret of the ray. c A fertile floret of the disk seated between the two barbed awns of the ger« men. d, The same magnified, SAR" FWA Dal. Pub by I Pria way 170 Piovadily Mar a 115 SS em ve. 8 LIPARIA hirsuta. Shaggy-stemmed Liparia. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. LIPARIA. Cal. wceolatus 9-labiatus, suprâ 3-fidus, infrâ longior 2-dentatus aut indivisus laciniá interdům longissimâ petaloideà. Corolla carina 2-petala, apice connivens. Anth. 3, c«teris breviùs stipitate iu apice vagine staminifere ex Lin. Stigma simplex. Legumen ovatum, 1-loc., 9-valv.; sem. pauca. Frutices glabri habitu BonsoNux aut sepiüs villosi; folia simplicia, sessilia, villosa aut glabra; stipule subnulle ; flores axillares aut ter- minales, solitarii aut sepiůs plures. Stam. decimum non deficiens ex oko Lin. Jussieu. gen. 353. L. hirsuta, caule tereti, subsericeè hirsuto ; racemis terminalibus sepiùs geminatis ; foliis obovato-oblongis, glabris, trinervibus. Liparia hirsuta. Thunb. prod. 194. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1117. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 318. (Nec vero Menchii in suppl. method. 59.) Frutex 8-pedalis : caulis erectus, prolifer, infernê defoliatus, cicatrizatus ; rami virgati, numerose foliosi, speru Folia exstipulata, sparsa, patula, rigida (fere ac Rusci), sessilia, o ovato-oblonga, mucronato-acuta, Jere un- cialia, interstitiis plus duplo longiora, periphariâ obsoletê cartilaginea. Ra- cemi à foliis superioribus sensim in bracteas hirsutas abeuntibus tanquàm ab involucro cincti, toti hirsuti nisi corolla, erecti, multiflori imbricatim sparsi : bractea foliacee, calyce breviores, appresse, cuspides phacelato-nigricante : edicelli ¿nclusz. Cal. € basi intruso-obtusatá urceolatus, 5-fidus, segmentis wyo RR 4 superioribus conniventibus, summis 2 breviüs discretis, infimâ re- motiore majore, cuspide nigra. Cor. flava, tota de calyce erecto-reflexa : pet, subisometra + vexillum cordatum lobis subunidentatis, apice bifidum, margine involutum : alee dolabriformes suprà in margine inferiore subexcise, inter se carinam arrecto-cuspidatam à basi bifissilem obvoluto-velantes. Fil. diadelpha f simplex et equaliter 9-partitum). Germ. lanceolatum, hirsutum : stylus ongior, setaceo-continuus: stigma bifurcum dente antico hispido, postice glabro. Of this handsome species, we know of no figure extant in any work yet published. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and was introduced by Mr. Masson in 1792. Our plant was about 3 feet high; stem about the thick- ness of a large pen, with many divided slender pliant branches surrounding it at a point high above the root, and where the white silky pubescence is conspicuously thicker and longer; the branchlets are terminated by single or double racemes, each bearing 8-12 scentless gold-coloured flowers, parted by hairy bractes about 4 lines long, with black sphacelate points: petals about half an inch long; style when magnified pubescent, about equal to the germen : calyx sitting close to the lower part of the corolla, with a remarkable concave or dinted base; leaves about the third of an inch wide at most. The boundaries of the genus have been as yet but incompletely defined, and require revision. The Lirarra hirsuta of Moench's work, above quoted, is a very different species, but not BORBONIA trinervia of Bergius, as he presumes. This flowered at Kew in 1794, and was deposited along with a spontaneous Cape specimen in the Banksian Herbarium, by the same title that Moench has given it; but was not recorded in the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis; the Liparia hirsuta of which is Thunberg’s and the present plant. So that a new name re- mains to be adopted for Moench's species, which is not yet published in any other work known to us than his own. Our plant has a forked stigma, a calyx that does not answer to that of its generic character, nor are three of the anthers more shortly stipitate than the others; but still we believe it to be a good Lirarra. The drawing was made from a fine plant that flowered last January, at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Drame, Milne, and Co. Parson's Green, Fulham; where it had been raised from seed. a Calyx with the pedicle attached. 5 The simple and the nine-parted stamen. c The pistil. d The forked stigma, magnified. e One ofthe two ale or wings of the flower. | i| Il $ Syd. Edwards del. Lublishd by J kidgway, 170 Piccadilly, April 7.1815. 9 IPOM(EA sanguinea. Blood-flowered Ipomeea. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. IPOMC(E A. Cal. 5-partitus, nudus. Cor. campanulata v. infundi- buliformis, 5-plicata. Germ. 2-3-loculare, loculis dispermis, Stylus indivisus, S94 capitatum, 2-3-lobum. Caps. 2-3-locularis. Herb volubiles, quandoque erecte. Folia indivisa v. lobata, nung pinnatifida. Semina in quibusdam comosa. Brown. prod. 1. 484. I. sanguinea, pedunculis supernê cymoso-trichotomis, folia cordato- triloba v. hastata superantibus ; limbo oblato-ventricoso ; staminibus ascendentibus, longé exsertis. Ipomeea sanguinea. Vahl symb. 3. 33. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 885. Frutex volubilis, ramosus, totus nudus; cortex badius, rimosus infra, supra lineato-verruculatus. Folia subtriuncialia, petiolata, cordato-v. aurito- triloba (viz unquàm integra), 5-nervia, subtůs pallidiora ; lobi acuminati, medius longior oblongo-lanceolatus, laterales conniventes v. sepě divaricati, posticè latiores & in angulum sinuato-dentatum repandumve ad basin producti, sinu petiolari subrotundo $ profundo distincti: petiolus filiformis, sulco su- pino. Pedunculi. axillares, solitarii, virides, filiformes, folio longiores, su- pernè cymosi, pedicellis 2 lateralibus trifloro-trifidis, medio unifloro: brac- teola acuta ad basin cujusque. Cal. herbaceus corollá aliguotiês brevior, à Joliolis setaceis infra dilatatis $ connexis. Cor. erecta, levitěr arcuata, miniato-sanguinea, unciam longa, angusta, clavato-tubulata, compressa, sub- tùs ventricosior ; limbus oblato-globosus, ventricosus, ore contracto 5-dentatus;, tubo fauci juncto pluriés brevior. Stam. accumbentia, subinequalia. Stylus capillaceus. Stigma papilloso-granulatum, capitatum. The present is the only representation of this rare and sin- gular plant yet published. The species was first recorded and described by Professor Vahl in his “Symbolæ bota- nice,” from specimens sent to him from the danish West- indian island of Sainte Croix. In the living state it seems to have been unknown in Europe, until it appeared in the collection of the Comtesse de Vandes, into which it had been introduced by Mr. R. A. Salisbury, who had received the seed from the West Indies. It has not found a place in the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis; and has been ge- nerally mistaken for Ipomaza repanda, a very distinct species, Willdenow has marked it as an annual, of course at a ven- ture, seeing that he has no authority for so doing in Vahl, the sole source of his information concerning the plant. It is in fact a high-growing, twining, leafy, evergreen shrub, with a stem about the thickness of a man's thumb near the VOL. I. D base, just above which it divides into numerous slender flexile branches, towards the ends of which the flower- stalks are produced from the axils of the leaves, sometimes drooping, at others upright. When placed in the bark-bed of the hot-house it grows with great luxuriance, and may be led along a trellis-work to a great length in all direc- tions. ‘The bloom is of a deep orange-scariet colour, about an inch long, with the diameter nearly twice as large as that of a crow-quill, beginning to appear about February and continuing for some weeks in succession. ‘This is orna- mental, and approaches that of coccinea; but differs at first sight by its very remarkable limb, a part which seems not to have been correctly made out by Vahl in his dried plant, a duplicate of which he has sent to the Banksian Herbarium. "The side-lobes of the leaves are sometimes horizontally divari- cate, at others convergent, but scarcely ever confluent with the middle one; and are sometimes indented, sometimes rounded and entire at their lower angle or earlet.—We have not heard, that it has yet been multiplied in any way; nor that it has produced seed.—Our drawing was made at the botanic establishment of the Lady we have mentioned above, at Bayswater, in February last. A — a The calyx removed from the corolla. The corolla dissected longitu- dinally, to show the position of the stamens. c The pistil. Ln és varda dA. Z Y v. teo. 7 cm J -— LIES par PÁKY ente sy WEES ss A Accadilty.. Aput Á ZE Lima th, Jt JO 10 ERIGERON glaucum. Fordyce's Erigeron. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. ERIGERON. (Recept. nudum. Sem. papposum. © Flores radiati.) Flores radiati ligulis linearibus numerosis. Cal. oblongus imbricatus inaequalis. Pappus pilosus. Ligule in aliis albide v. purpurascentes, lutea in aliis quarum insupèr anther@ nonnunguâm basi 2-felose YNuLAs indicant. Jussieu. gen. 180. i E. glaucum, foliis ciliatis, glaucis, yiscosis ; radicalibus alato-petiolatis, paucidentatis ; caulinis sessilibus integris. Herba perennis. Rhizoma carnoso-caudescens ; caules supernê ambientesy plures, ascendentes, villosi, striato-teretes, pedales v. ultrà; pedunculi erecti, pauci, in ernê positi, axillares, distantes, foliati, uniflori. Folia tenera, pruiná caná $ exsudato visco obducta, graveolentia, 8-nervia, venosa ; radicalia plurima, 4-uncialia, spathulata, quasi in rosam approximata ferê ac in BRAS- SICA, lamina obovatá, unciam lati, laxé à lateribus serratá, latum petiolum versus attenuata; caulina decrescentia, angusté oblongata v. PRE È 5 dis. tantia, Flores erecti, solitarii, transversè subbiunciales. Cal. herbaceus, ordine plurali polyphyllus, equalis, patentissimus, confertus, disco isometer ; foliola linearia, acuta, carinato dorso pilosa. Discus amplus, convexus, flavus ; flosc. villosi, extůs toti papilloso-punctati, laciniis erectis : anth. flave, parům emicantes : stig. 2, oblonga, crassiora, erectiora. Radius lilacinus, numerosus (flosculis tot quot calyx foliolis? ), explanatus, integerrimus, S-linearis & disco bis altior, inferně extüs villosus, ligulis anguste lanceolatis: stig. 2, capil- lacea, replicata, in stylo productiori. Germ. nal S simillimum, verticale, compressum, sericeum, striatum: pappus sessilis, capillaris, obsoletě denticulatusy bis dagr. Recept. pulvinatum, nudum, scrobiculato-punctatum. At first sight our plant appeared to resemble so closely several both american and european species, with which we were already acquainted, that we hardly expected to find it, as we did upon a more attentive inspection, keep specifically aloof from all which had been recorded in any work known to.us; and that it had not found its way into the extensive Herbariums at Sir Joseph Danks's or Mr. Lam- berts. Not to rely upon ourselves, we had recourse to more than one learned botanist, who liberally communicated the result of their researches, which agreed with our own. It first appeared amongst us about three or four years ago, in the collection of the Comtesse de Vandes, whose expe- rienced and industrious gardener (after whom we have called it in the english name) had raised it from seed, which he is almost sure came from South America, and he suspects D4 from Buenos Ayres. He tells us it is easily cultivated, and as easily multiplied by parting the root; that it will do in the greenhouse, where however it should be considered as rather tender. When in flower, which it is about Novem- ber and December, it reminds us of the well-known AsrTER alpinus. The rootstock rises into a fleshy and ultimately brown stem, resembling that of Colewort, but not thicker than a common guill; sometimes nearly 8 inches in height, bearing a closish head of /eaves, from among which several flower-stems, each terminated by a single flower, and pro- ducing from below a few distant one-ílowered leafy stalks placed in various directions. Leaves glaucous and viscous, with a disagreable smell like that perceptible in some of the SCROPHULARLE (Figworts): on the rootstock these are broadly petiolate, with an obovate blade at times more than an inch in breadth, loosely serrate at the sides, entire at the top; on the flower-stem and stalks several times narrower, entire and sessile. The florets of the lilac-coloured ray are rather broader than usual in this genus, where the almost capillary narrowness of these affords a chief mark of its separation from Aster. The drawing was made in the garden of the Lady we have mentioned above, at Dayswater. We saw several others, but not in flower, at Mr. Gray's nursery, Kensington Gore. If any one whose eye this may meet, should be acguainted with any circumstance relating to this plant that has escaped us, and should think proper to com- municate the information to Mr. Ridgway, the publisher, or to Mr. Edwards, it will be inserted in a subseguent Number. a The calyx of the flower enclosing the pulvinate (cushioned) scrobicu- late (pitted) receptacle stripped of the florets. 6 An hermaphrodite floret from the disk on its germen, which is crowned with a long hairlike pappus (down): magnified. c A female floret from the ray with its germen: slightly magnified, -7 Apel v diri "qutt d del y xi An cth „fe . IA ly Aha quray 170 Accadi tly Mf MIS 11 ACHANIA mollis. a. Lobed-leaved woolly Achania. MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. ACHANIA. (Stam. in tubum corolliferum connata, indefinita. Fructus simplex multiloc.) Cal. tubulosus 10-striatus 5-dentatus, caliculo 8-phyllo cinctus (uterque persistens). Pet. convoluta, basi hinc auricu- lata. Anth. in apice & superficie tubi contorti. Stylus 1; stig. 10. Bacca 5-loc., 5-sperma. Frutex; flores solitarii axillares. Jussieu. gen. 273; sub MaLvavisco. A. mollis, foliis tomentosis, foliolis calycis exterioris patulis. Hort. Kew. 2.459. Ed. 2. 4.233. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 839. (2) foliis angulatis. Dryander. in sched. banks. Achania mollis. Andrews's reposit. 459. (8) foliis indivisis. Dryander. loc. cit. Achania mollis. Thompson’s bot. displ. t. 5. Caulis teres, erectus, tomentosus, suprà distantér & divaricatě ramosus. „Folia petiolata, remota, mollia, canescentia, ovata et indivisè acuminata v. ovato-triloba lobo medio angulato-attenuato lateralibus brevissimis, petiolo aliguotiês longiora, subserrato-dentata. Flores longius pedunculati, erecti, unciales, in foliis rameis $ caulinis supernis. Cal. exter. sub-8 phyllus ; foliola patula: inter. monophyllus, hinc fissurá und ceteris profundiore : uterque villosus. Cor. turbinato-convoluta : pet. 5, obovato-oblonga, hinc bast aucta lobo columnam stamineam involvente. "Tubus stamineus apice 5-den- tatus: anth. ex oblongis orbiculatim dehiscentes ; pollen è spherulis levibus grossius granulatum. Stigmata fimbriata, punicea. We have two varieties of this species in our gardens: the one with ovate-oblong undivided acuminate leaves intro- duced from Jamaica; the other, the present plant, intro- duced in 1780 by Mr. Benjamin Bewick, from South Ame- rica. We have'also two other species of the genus, presently distinguishable by the foliage, but very similar in the bloom to each other. All of them grow in a loose wide-spreading way, so as to take up much room, but Malvaviscus far more so than the present; of which we have never seen any specimen that has exceeded four feet. When its flowers, which stand in the axils of the upper leaves of the stem and branches, are numerous, it is very ornamental, more so than either of the other two. In Malvaviscus, which is the largest growing, and of the oldest date of the three with us, the foliage is of a dark shining green and rough, in the present grey and clouded, being covered with a short, close and soft pubescence. The genus was named ACHANIA by Dr. Solander from a Greek word that refers to the flowers not opening; which it never does more than is shown in our figure of the present species. A good repre- sentation of the variety (3, will be found in “ Thompson's botany displayed,” a periodical work of great merit begun in 1798, but which has not, (from what cause we do not know,) proceeded beyond a fourth fasciculus. "This variety has never fallen in our way; but the present is very com- mon in our stoves, where it reguires to be kept both sum- mer and winter, or else will not flower in perfection. Pro- pagated by cuttings. Blooms late in the autumn. The leaves are 3-4 inches long, and 9-3 broad. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the King's Road, Chelsea. a A petal extended so as to show the lateral lobe, which in its place is (with those of the other four) wound round the base of the stamineous column, thus preventing the expansion of the flower. è The entire pistil drawn out of the stamineous sheath. c The hollow stamineous column, showing the appearance of the five-cleft orifice when the pistil is withdrawn. Syd Edwards abl. Pub by J Ridgway 170 ficcadilly Aprtl 1 1815. 12 CAMELLIA Sasangua. Lady Banks's Camellia. MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. CAMELLIA. Cal. 5.-partitus coriaceus, squamis plurimis minori- bus infra cinctus. Pet. 5 (plurave), magna basi coalita (circà discum hypogynum). Fil. infra coalita in coronam cui petala adnascuntur ; anth. subovate. (Germ. polyspermum). Stylus 1: stig. 3. Caps. (coriacea S-pulvinato-v. abortu globosa), 3-sulca, 3-cocca, 3-sperma. Frutex ; folia alterna, coriacea; gemma axillares imbricatim squamose ; flores axillares © terminales, subsessiles (v. pedunculati), in hortis pleni. Jussieu. gen. 269. Hc proculdubio 'TnEA revocanda. C. Sasanqua, ramis virgatis capsulâgue villosis; foliis junioribus ellip- tico-lanceolatis, serratis; petalis obovatis vel obcordatis. Camellia Sasanqua. Thunb. japon. 973. t. 30. Syst. veg. Murr. ed. 14. 639. Cavan. diss. 6. 306. t. 160. f. 2; (č Thunb. mutuata). Willd. sp. pl. 8. 842. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 9. 235. Poiret. suppl. encyc. de Lamarck. 9. 48. Cha-whaw. Chinensibus: ex Staunton in Macartney's Emb. 2. 467; eum Icone. Sasanqua. Kempf. am. exot. 853. Ejusd. MSS. in mus. brit. fig. 25. "Thea oleosa. Loureiro cochin. 339? Frutex 8-pedalis, Ramuli alterni, laxi, rufescentes. Flores axillares $ terminales, solitarii ?, albi. Cal. 5-6 phyllus ; foliola inequalia, ovata, im- bricata, corolla multò breviora, decidua. Pet. 5-6, obovata emarginata v. brevi acumine, uncialia. Fil. plurima basi connata. Caps. dense villosa. (Thunb.) The separation of CAMELLIA from Tura, although prior to the present prevailing caprice for frittering down useful genera into useless, appears to us too inexpedient, if not in- convenient, to be continued, especially since itis known that the filaments of the latter are at least partially connate. Were both to be retained, the present plant might have been per- haps more appropriately placed under Tura. It is of recent introduction into Europe, having been first received from China (to which it belongs as well as Japan) in 1811, by the Court of Directors of the E. I. C. ìn the Cuffnels, Capt. Wellbank. We believe it first flowered in the con- servatory of Sir Joseph Banks, after whose Lady it has been named in the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis. Our drawing was made from a plant that flowered last au- tumn in Mr, Griflin's collection at South Lambeth; but which we had not an opportunity of inspecting for descrip- tion, after Mr. Edwards had drawn it. It is of guick growth, attaining the height of about 8 feet, smaller in all parts than japonica, but larger than THEA, with round branches of a brownish red colour, deciduously villous, pliant, and weak. The number of petals is very variable, as well as the indentation of their circumference. We have extracted the following notice of it from Sir George Staunton's ac- count of Lord Macartney’s embassy to China. “A plant “ very like the tea flourished, at this time, on the sides and “ the very tops of mountains, where the soil consìsted of * little more than fragments of stone, crumbled into a sort “ of coarse earth by the joint action of the sun and rain. “ 'The Chinese call this plant cha-whaw, or flower of tea, on * account of the resemblance of one to the other, and be- * cause its petals, as well as the entire flowers of arabian * Jessamine (the subject of the first article of the present “ work), are sometimes mixed among the teas, in order to * increase their fragrance. This plant, the cha-wbaw, is “ the Camellia sasangua of the botanists, and yields a nut, * from whence is expressed an esculent oil, equal to the “ best which comes from Florence. It is cultivated on this “ account in vast abundance; and is particularly valuable “ from the facility of its culture, in situations fit for little “else.” We cannot help suspecting that the Tura oleosa of Loureiro, which he tells us grows wild about Can- ton,is the same plant, although he calls its peduncles three- flowered, probably meaning that they grow three together; a circumstance that does not square with Thunberg's ac- count of Sasangua, nor with the figure in Sir George Staun- tons work, nor with the plant at Mr. Griffins; yet we were told, that at Sir Joseph Banks's, two and three flowers were certainly produced from the axils of some of the leaves. Loureiro says the oil is used for lamps, as well as for culi- nary purposes; but that it is inferior to olive-oil. The plant belongs to the greenhouse, and will soon be common; but is far inferior to japonica in beauty. "Thunberg says that the chinese women use a decoction of the leaves to wash their lair. Syd" Edward DA. Pub NS Rzdgwąy. 770 Prccacdelly Arnall 1 70175. 13 PASSIFLORA laurifolia. Laurel-leaved Passion-flower or Water- Lemon. MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. PASSIFLORA. Cal. inferus, basi urceolatus, limbo 5-partito magno colorato, laciniis sub apice mucronatis, simul cum corolla mar- cescentibus. Cor, 5-petala, calyci inserta. Corona interior ex imo calycis limbo enata sub petalis, colorata multipartita laciniis numerosis filiformibus radiantibus v. erectis; duplex intůs altera corona conformis sed brevior & depressior urceolo inserta; intima sepě circa stipitem cen- tralem connivens. Germ. stipiti erecto insidens; sty/i 3, clavati; stig. 9, capitata. Stam. summo inserta stipiti sub germine, fi/. basi breviter connatis, ultrà distinctis horizontalibus; anth. oblonge incumbentes. Bacca carnosa cortice interdüm solido, forma & mole varia, levis, raró pilosa, 1-loc. polysperma receptaculo seminifero triplici parietibus aflixo; sem. numerosa compressa, arillata arillo membranaceo pulposo ; embryo planus a/bumine carnoso tectus. Herbe scandentes, interdŵm lignose ; folia alterna stipulacea, simplicia, integra v. lobata v. rariùs partita petiolo nudo v. utrinque glanduloso ; cirri axillares ; pedunculi 1-3 axil- lares V-flori, infrà calycem plerümque articulati, mvolucro ad articulum sepě triphyllo v. 3-partito lac. integris v. rariüs dissectis, interdüm minimo v. 1-folio v. nullo. Jussieu. gen. 397. P. laurifolia, folis indivisis, ovato-oblongis, acuminatis, venosis, nervo uno longitudinali, glabratis, in summo petiolo 2-glandulosis, subundato- planis. Passiflora laurifolia. Lin. sp. pl. 2. 1356. Amen. 1. 990. t. 10. f. 6. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 16. Jacq. obs. 1. 35. hort. 2.76. t. 162. Swartz. obs. 333. Cavan. diss. 10. 454. t. 984. Sowerby in Linn. trans. 2. 94. t. 4. f. c. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 609. Schneevoogt. ic. 38. Miss Lawr. passionfl. Hort. Kew. 3. 307. ed. 2. 4.148. P. folis ovatis, petiolis biglandulis, bacca molli ovata. Browne. jam. 327. P. arborea, laurinis foliis, americana. Pluk. alm. 282. t. 211. f. 3; (absque flore.) Clematis indica, fructu citriformi, foliis oblongis. Plum. amer. 64. t. 80. Marguiaas. Merian. surinam. 21. t. 21. Fruticosa, 3-orgyalis $ ultrà, diffusè ramosa, tota glabra; rami teretes. Folia 2-4 uncias longa, 1-2 lata, saturatě viridia, integerrima : petiolus brevis: stipula 2 setace@ : cirri axillares, longi. Pedunculi solitarit, longi- tudine petioli, infra teretes, inde -triangulosi. Flores fragrantes, subbiun- ciales, cernui, reflexi. Involuc. 3-phyllum, flori subeequale ; fol. late obovata, concava, superne serraturis & glandulis marginata. Pedicellus tereti-attenua- tus. Cal. fol. lanceolata, mucrone incurvo extůs sub apice, corolle concolora. Cor. pet. Ais similia sed mutica et angustiora, sanguineo-punticulata. Corona 8-plex, annulis purpureis variegata ; radii exter. fere bis breviores, reclinati, leretes, supernê compressi, apice abrupto eroso ; medil erecti, obtusuli ; inter. rudimenta brevia sine ordine sparsa. Circà columnam areola plana cavitatem VOL. I, E nectar ifer am in fundo urceoli operiens. Bacca viridi-lutescens, albo-punctata, mole $ ferè formå ovi gallinacei, glabra lanuginosave, obsolete $ rotundatě trigona. Semina compr esso-cordata. One of the oldest stove-plants in our collections, having been introduced from the West Indies by Mr. Bentinck, af- terwards Lord Portland, in 1690. It has been found wild by Plumier and Jacquin in the Island of Martinique, grow- ing only in the closest groves and thickets, where it winds itself round the trees for support. According to Swartz and Miller, it is known among the english colonists in the West Indies by the name of “the Water-Lemon © ” Jacquin and Browne say by that of “the Honeysuckle;” the latter attributing the former appellation to maliformis, a closely allied species. Among the french colonists the fruit is in- cluded in the denomination of * Pommes de Lianes.” This is nearly of the form and size of a smallish Lemon, yellow spotted with white, having a soft leathery rind, enclosing a mass of separate brown flattish cordate cohesive seeds, each coated by a thick pulpy membrane constituting the esculent portion of the fruit, much as the case is with the Pomegranate. The pulp is watery and sweetish, of a pleasant taste, for the sake of which the fruit is eaten, as well as medicinally i in fevers. When the rind is broken at the top, the eatable contents are obtained at once by a slight compression. ‘The flowers are both fragrant and beautiful; the young foliage is of a bright tender green, gradually darkening till nearly black, in which it re- sembles, as well as slightly i in shape, that of the Laurel. ‘The way to grow the present, and indeed all the tropical Climbers, is to plant them in a border of earth formed round the inside of the bark-bed of the stove, and parted off from the tan by thick boarding down to the bottom of the bed: the whole to be backed by trellis-work for them to climb on. Ín this way they thrive in great luxuriance, and are made to form a bower, some part or other of which is in bloom nearly the year through. Propagated without diffi- culty by lay: ers and cuttings. Our drawing was made at the Comtesse de Vandes's, Bay. swater. n a A ray of the outer circle of the crown. è One of the inner, 14 PASSIFLORA quadrangularis, Square-stemmed Passion-flower or Granadilla Vine, MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. PASSIFLORA. Supra fol. 13. P. quadrangularis, foliis indivisis ovalibus subcordatis glabris, multi- nervis, petiolis glandulosis, caule membranaceo-tetragono, stipulis ovali-oblougis. Hort, Kew. 3. 306. Passiflora quadrangularis. Lin. sp. pl. 2. 1356. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 20. Jacq. amer. 931. t. 143. pict. 113. t. 918. Swartz. obs. 332. Sowerby in Lin. trans. 9.91. t.3. f. a. - Cavan. diss. 10. 453. t. 233. Willd. sp. pl. 3.608. Miss Luwr. passiouft. Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 4. 148. P. folis amplioribus cordaus, petiolis glandulis sex, caule quadrigono alato. Browne. jam, 327. Caules fruticosi, superné virides, subsimplices, crassi, membranaceo-tetra- quetri. Folia subsemtpedalia, cordato-oblonga, acuminata, integra, nitida : mn sepiůs utrinque 3-glandulosus : cirri longissimi: stipula ovato-lanceo- ate. Flos maximus, nutans, oblatus, patentissimus. Pedunc. triqueter. In- volucr. 3-phyllum ; fol. magna, ovalia, concava, basin versůs serrata. Pedic. teres, apice subattenuatus, Cal. fol. è disco subspongioso extrorsim extenuata, lata, lanceolato-elliptica, obtusa, mutica, intůs albo-rosea. Cor. pet. similia, sed tenuiora angustioraque. Corona 5-plex ; radii exter. diseriati, suberecti, subeaserti, tereti-subulati, flexuosi, albo-violaceo-variegati ; inter, parvi, tu- berculiformes, conici, in plano declivo sine ordine 4-5-seriati. Operculi rudi- mentum (pars speciei fortè propria) horizontale, partim in radios ab apice contra portionem incrassatam columne accumbentes dissectum. Operculum horizontale, introrsŵm à margine biseriatě © inegualiler denticulatá columne accumbens. Nect. in fundo cavo urceoli, à septo incompleto columna contrario transversé subbicameratum, Bacca magnitudine ferm ovi olorini, oblonga, elliptica, luteo-virens. die Much cultivated in the West Indies as an ornamental climber, especially for arbours and covered walks, for which it is eminently adapted by a rapid and extensive growth, beautiful and fragrant bloom, and broad deep green foliage. But as well as laurifolia of the preceding article, it is said to be peculiarly liable to be infested by the most noxious ser- pents, who haunt it for the sake of the mice and squirrels that feed upon the fruit, and are the favourite prey of these reptiles.—Jacquin never saw our plant but in a culti- vated state. Swartz makes it a native of the woods in the West Indies. Yet neither he nor any author expressly states the having seen it, or even heard of its having been EZ seen, wild. It was cultivated in this country by Ph. Miller in 1760; and is pretty general in our hot-houses, where it sometimes ripens the fruit. This is nearly as large as, but more oblong than a swan's egg, with a thick soft spongy rind, smooth and of a dull yellow-green on the outside, lined within by a loose membranous sack filled with a mass of pulpy-coated seed. "The sack is easily parted from the rind, and the pulpy contents are eaten at the dessert, mixed with wine or without. The pulp is watery, rather fra- grant, and is said to have a grateful taste, something be- tween sour and sweet (aigre-doux).—The bloom is the largest and handsomest of any species known to us; and is usually produced abundantly about August or September. We have mentioned in the preceding article what is esteemed the best mode of treatment for the tropical species of the genus. Our drawing was made at Dayswater, in the hot-house belonging to the Comtesse de Vandes; the richest, we believe, iu plants of this family, of any in England. | ————— 9 a The Nectary: bits incomplete mid-partition. c The operculum or cover to the nectary. d The imperfect operculum: a part which is probably peculiar to this species. e The inner imperfect rays of the crown. f The double row of perfect rays of the same. g The column that supports the parts of fructification. A A stamen. The germen. 7 The style and a stigma. ^1 d. Ldwards del. Lublishd by A. Ridgway, 770 Lia aduly April I 618. 15 JASMINUM hirsutum. Bright-leaved Indian Jasmine. DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, JASMINUM. Supra fol. 1. J. hirsutum, foliis numerosis, cordatis, utrinque villosis, lucidis, ramis petiolis bracteis calycibusque hirsutis; inflorescentia umbellato-aggre- gata, pedunculis brevissimis, subtrichotomis. Jasminum hirsutum. Wild. sp. pl. 1.36. Vahl. enum. 1. 30. Smith. exot. bot. 117. t. 118. Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 1. 16. (Excl. passim allegatis Rheede, Ray, & Osbeck.) J. pubescens. Willd. sp. pl. 1.37. Vahl. enum. 1. 26. J. multiflorum. Andrews’s reposit. 496. Nyctanthes hirsuta. Linn. sp. pl. 1. 8; (excl. syn.) N. pubescens. Retz. obs. bot. fasc. 5. 9. N. multiflora. Burm. ind. 5. t. 3. f. 1; (excl. syn.) Caulis biorgyalis, lignosus, flexilis, teres, scandens, griseus, opposito» ramosus ; ramuli teretes, virides, è willis copiosis hirti. Folia numerosa, interstitiis duplo longiora & pro genere densa, patentia, cordata, acuminata modô cum mucrone v. ramea nonnulla rotundata, saturaté viridia, nitida, nervosa, utrinque villosa sed juniora manifestius presertim subtůs & in nervis, ad summum 2 uncias longa $ sesquiunam lata: petiolus incurvus. Flores er apice ramulorum, in pedunculis curtis subtrichotomis quàm bractez lineari- lanceolate pluriés brevioribus cymoso-aggregati, 3-30, inter majores generis, nivel, odoratissimi. Calycis dentes subsepteni, longi, carinato-subulati, tubo breviores, erecti. "Tubus crassis cylindricus, laciniis subegualis v. longior : limbus fer? unciam transversus, sub 8-partitus, laciniis oblongis, basi cordatis. Anth. magne, oblonga, lutea, subsessues, in tubo inferne. Stigma tubo sub- emicans, clavato-oblongum, 'viridulum, pruinulatum. Linnzus, in recording this plant by the present specific name, has adduced a false synonym, truly belonging to GurrrARDA speciosa ; and had thus involved the species in an obscurity, that could never have been dispersed by his accompanying vague specific phrase; but which has been lately cleared up by a reference to the specimen in his Herbarium, made by the present possessor of that botanical treasure. By whom also the synonymy has been reformed, and completed by recalling to it the authors the mistake had misled. Among those usually cited, however, we have omitted Osbeck, who describes his plant as having undulate, elliptic-lanceolate, ovate leaves; by which he should seem rather to point to undulatum, another closely allied East In- dian species, than to hirsutum, Dr, Roxburgh, among whose unpublished drawings in the Banksian Museum is one of this plant, found it in the E. I. Company's botanic garden at Calcutta, where it was said to have been received from China. The Doctor subseguently ascertained it to be a native of Bengal. From him we learn that the flowers are sometimes near thirty in a bunch, and that even in those regions of beautiful plants it is in great request. The dark green shining foliage, which is the most abundant and thick-set of any of the simple-leaved species that we are ac- guainted with, covers whatever it grows against nearly as closely as Ivy, and forms a remarkable contrast to the snow-white blossom. This is exceeding fragrant, and shows itself about August, continuing to blow in succes- sion for several months together. It does not turn to purple in the decay, as that of the Arabian Jasmine, nor 1s it so fugacious. "The lower leaves of the flower-bearing branches are generally several times smaller than the others and rounded; the older leaves are often nearly naked, gra- dually shedding the pubescence that covered them. In the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis, by a mistake exceeding rare in that valuable work, the species is stated to have been cultivated by Miller in 1759, on the authority of the seventh edition of his dictionary; where indeed he has recorded a plant by the title of Nycranrues hirsuta ; but which, upon critically examining his description, will be found really to be the Nycrantues Arbor tristis. The present plant is in fact of recent introduction, having been first sent from the East Indies by Dr. Roxburgh to Lady Amelia Hume. It is said to be easily multiplied by layers, and should be planted in the ground by the side of the bark-bed of the hot-house; a small spot on the outside of the bed will answer the purpose. Our drawing was made at the garden belonging to the Comtesse de Vandes, at Bayswater. We should observe that the plant described by Vahl (enum. 1. 97) for JASMINUM undulatum, we take to be the present species, and not the Linnean Nycrantues undulata ; and this opinion is confirmed by his guoting for it Bur- man's plant, which is the Jasminum hirsutum and not the undulatum. — rí í Y a The calyx. ¿The tube of the corolla deprived of the limb dissected te show the position of the stamens. c The pistil, “caa elw Mar 7 4815. r p 6 by $ ^P. en ry r , al were dels “Ar a ta fda Apra " 4 16 PITTOSPORUM undulatum. Waved-leaved Pittosporum. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. PITTOSPORUM. Cal. pentaphyllus, inferus, deciduus. Cor. pet. 5; ungues concavi, in tubum urceolatum conniventes ; /amin«'pa- tentes. Stylus filiformis. Caps. supera, subgloboso-angulata, mucro- nata, 3-loc., 3-valv.: /oculamentis resinà liquidà scatentibus: dissepi- menta valvulis contraria : sem. nonnulla, angulata. Ex sched. Solandrt in Mus. banks. Arbuscule. Folia alterna v. sparsa. P. undulatum, foliis ovali-lanceolatis, utrinque attenuatis, undulatis, pe- tiolisgue glabris: pedunculis ramorum terminalibus, aggregatis, villosis, suprà viscosis & sepius divisis. Pittosporum undulatum: Andrews’s reposit. 383. — F entenat. cels. 76. Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 9. 98. Arbuscula tripedalis & ultrà, erecta, superné werlicillatim $ corymbosč ra- mosa, cortice fusco demům resinoso-pulverulento. Folia sparsa, juxta pedun- culos approximata 1n apice ramorum, deflexa, uncias 4 v. magìs longa, sesqui- unam lata, tenuissimê reticulato-venosa, firmula, saturate viridia, sublüs pallida : petiolus semuncialis vel ultrà. Pedunculi plures, foliis subbreviores, sep? trichotomi ; pedicelli flore breviores, papilloso-nitentes, bracteolá ad basin. Flores albidi, semunciales, odoratissimi. Cal. campanulatus, corollâ Jere bis brevior, ac pedicelli papulosus et viscosus, celeritèr emarcescens : foliola. lanceolata. Cor. cylindraceo-campanulata : pet. subspathulato-oblonga, stri- ata; ungues in tubum conniventes; lamina in limbum breviorem p Stam. duplo breviora, immediate hypogyna, qualia, erecta; fil. filiformi- subulata, stricta: anth. flave, sagittate, erecta, introrsüm dehiscentes, Pist. staminibus eguale, virens: germ. ovale, exsulcum, sericeum, biloc.? polyspermum resiná liguidâ 1ntüs madens : stylus ejusdem fere longitudinis, crassiusculus, teres, atomoideo-papulosus, nudus, exsulcus, parüm attenuatus ; stig. obsoletě capitato-2-fidum. This shrub was introduced by Sir Joseph Banks from New Holland in 1789. It is desirable on account of the great fragrance of the bloom, which is compared by some to that of Jasmine; to us it appears far stronger, but not so grateful. Monsieur Ventenat was misinformed, when he stated it to be a native of the Canary Islands. A thick strongly aromatic liquid exudes from the pores in the rind, congeals into a thin resinous coat, and at last breaks down into a whitish powder. Dr. Solander has compounded the generic name of two greek words, importing that the seed is covered with pitch or resin. The present is a hardy F greenhouse plant, and flowers from March to May. Mul- tiplied by seed and cuttings. The drawing was made at Messrs. Lee and Kennedy's, at Hammersmith. a The calyx, as it separates before it falls. 6 A petal. d The pistil. (A, ; Li) OY 2 nf 7 O, IR utoway y ) ØD ns y ; d í {OC it 17 EPIDENDRUM nutans. Nodding Epidendrum. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. EPIDENDRUM. Cal. 0. Cor. Pet. 5, oblonga, patentia. La- bellum basi ecorne, tubulatum, columnam amplectens, lamina erecta, patula. Columna germini teretiusculo infero imposita, gibba, apice su- pra foveam adfigens Antheram 2-4-locularem, singulo loculo includen- tem Corpuscula pollinis 1-4, pedicello communi anticé inserto, affixa. Stig. ante foveam Anthere, concavum. Caps. oblonga, 3-gona, 1-locu- laris, 3-valvis. Sem. numerosa, minutissima, subrotunda; 4rillo scobi- formi induta. Swartz. Fl. ind. occid. 3. 1485. Herbe perennes, pa- rasitica. E. nutans, caule simplici, foliis ovato-lanceolatis amplexicaulibus, flori- bus subspicatis nutantibus, lamina labelli triloba, lobo intermedio tri- dentato. Swartz Nov. Act. ups. 6. 68. prod. 121. flor. ind. occid. 3. 1499. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 117. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 219. Radices crasse, filiformes, longe, albide. Caulis (nunc plures aggregati ) 1-2 pedalis, crassus, simplex, foliosus, subteres, suberectus, s. arboribus hori- zontali situ adnascens. Folia sessilia, vaginantia, amplexicaulia, alterna, obliqué patula, ovato-lanceolata, acuta, plana, subtüs levissimé carinata, inte- gra, lineata, glabra, subcoriacea. Vagina foliorum caulem arcte cingentes, teretes, lineata, glabra, rubicunde. © Pedunc. terminalis, solitarius, longi- tudine fer foliorum ( spithameus ), compressiusculus, vaginis aliquot remotis lanceolatis albido-purpurascentibus munitus, glaber. Flores terminales, sub- spicati, approximati, 90-90, sessiles, majusculi, lutei, spicam nutantem re- ferentes. Bractea lanceolato-lineares, carinate, longit. sepè germinis, pal- lide. Pet. 5, isometra, patula : 8 exter. ovato-lanceolata, acuta, lateralia, subfalcata, planiuscula, integra, elevato-striata, extüs luteo-rufescentia : 2 inter. lineari-acuminata. Labellum columne basi adnatum, amplectens. La- mina Aorizontalitêr deflexa, 9-loba ; lobis lateralibus ovatis, integris, con- vexis, intermedio 3-dentato : dentibus lateralibus cornuum instar erectis, medio defleco. Calli 2 prop? faucem, und? ad apicem lobi intermedii sulci 3 elevati. Columna /abello brevior, erecta, teres, apice dilatata, marginibus biloba. Anth. 4 loc. in foveá apicis columne, corpuscula solitaria oblonga, pedicel- lata tegens. Caps. oblonga, 6-carinata, magna. Swartz. Native of the mountains of the western side of the Island of Jamaica, where it grows (as the generic name implies) on trees, striking root in the fissures of their bark. First brought to England by Admiral Bligh, in 1793. The cultivation of tropical parasitic vegetables was long regarded as hopeless with us; it appeared a vain attempt to find substitutes for the various trees each species might affect, within the limits of the hot-house. But experience F 2 has shown, not only that they succeed as easily as any other plants from the same climate; but that, from the little space they occupy, they are peculiarly suited to the stove, for which their curious structure and beauty render them most desirable acquisitions. We are told they should be planted superficially in proportionate pots of hazel-loam, and placed on the shelf or the flue of the hot-house, but never plunged into the bark-bed. The genus is of Jussieu's natural order of Orchidez, re- arranged a few years since with great perspicuity and judg- ment by the learned Dr. Olof Swartz ; and still more re- cently revised and enlarged by Mr. Brown, in his Prodro- mus of the Flora of New Holland, with the accuracy for which he is justly praised. ‘The bloom of this species is of a lemon-colour, darkening as it decays to a reddish brown; the spike is constantly bent on one side, and offers a cha- racteristic name for the species. The whole plant measures from one to two fect in height. It has been elaborately de- scribed by Swartz, among many others of the same tribe, in his Flora Indie occidentalis. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, at Hammersmith, in February last. a "The upper part of the shaft of the fructification, showing the 4 oblong parallel pollen-masses, as they present themselves, on the removal of the lidshaped moveable anther from the aperture of the cavity in which they have been formed: magnified. 4 The pollen-masses withdrawn from the cavity: magnified. c The same in a different position, showing their granu- late filiform pedicles: very much magnified. The moveable lidshaped anther, frontwise: magnified. This forms the brown spot seen at the apex of the shaft in the flower. e Its converse, with the base of the partitioning of its four cells: magnified. f Stigma: magnified. Ó < vd č die LAD dd del, y MW, YU MAL M L - uh by J | idg tsay J70 mu f 40 GA y “MY, P T fn 16 BEAUFORTIA decussata. Cross-leaved Beauforiia. POLYADELPHIA JCOSANDRIA. BEAUFORTIA. (Cal. varbinatus, 5-fidus. Cor. pet. 5, calyci imposita). Staminum phalanges 5, petalis opposite. Anthere basi inserte : apice bifide lobis deciduis! Caps. 3-loc. monosperma, connata et inclusa calycis tubo incrassato basi adnato (ramo). Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 418. Frutices. Folia sessilia, opposita, rariùs sparsa. B. decussata foliis oppositis decussatis ovatis ovalibusve multinervibus, phalangium unguibus longissnnis; filamentis radiantibus. Brown. loc. cit. Caulis 3-4-pedalis erectus, 2 vittis striatus cuticulosis longitudinalibus post dilapsa folia per intervalla determinata cicatricum desquamantibus : rami vil- losi, teretes, subverticillati, numerosé et patulé sed non confertim foliati. Folia subsemuncialia, firma, duriuscula, obovato-v. elliptico-lanceolata, medio carinato-costata, nervis pluribus striata, opacê viridia, subtůs punctata, basi villosa. Flores binatim v. ternatim azillares, nutantes, in racemum numero- sum cylindraceum summis ramis infernatem aggregati. Cal. tertiam partem uncie longus; segmenta acuta; tubus hirsutus. Cor. pet. limbo calycis «qualia, ovato-rotunda, concava, punctata, viridia, © Phal. stam. 4-5, coc- cinee, unciales, columellares, basi barbate, suprà in filamenta antherifera triplo breviora secedentes : anth. crustaceo-tunicatee, atrosanguinee, erecta, â basi infixe, de superne medio tenis bifurco-didyme lobis attenuatis divaricatis : loculi ambo introrsŵm infra furcam dehiscentes : pollen flavum. Germ. tur- binatum hirsutum: stylus setaceo-filiformis, flexuosus v. contortuplicatus : stig. simplex. A genus formed by Mr. Brown, and first recorded in the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis. It consists, as at pre- sent known, of four species, all natives of the South-west : coast of New Holland, two of which are already in our gardens. Comes very near to MELALEUCA: but has a one- seeded three-celled capsule, and anthers that are inserted at the base, and divided above into two lobes. The present species has grown in our collections to the height of nearly five feet: the branches few, situated far up on the stem, subverticillate; as well as that striped by four broadish longitudinal cuticular fillets, which at last scale off by de- terminate portions, parting at the base upwards, within the intervals of the scars left by the fallen foliage. The inflo- rescence is produced below the branches, and owes its beauty to long scarlet stamineous shafts, branching at the head into distinct filaments, four or five of which project from each small green and nearly unseen corolla. The foliage is harsh, of a dull opague green; each leaf about half an inch long and the third of one broad. The pollen issues from the inner side of the cells from below, to within the fork of the anther. Discovered by Mr. Brown. Introduced by Mr. Good in 1803. A greenhouse plant; requiring a mixture of loam and peat-mould to grow in. Our drawing, the first published of any species of this genus, was made in February last, from a plant that flow- ered at Mr. James Dickson's, nurseryman in Acre-lane, leading from Clapham to Brixton. a An entire flower. 4 One of the five stamineous shafts bearded at the base within. cA petal of the corolla. «¿The pistil with its hirsutely crowned germen. e An entire anther, with part of the filament: magnified. J The same as it bursts and ejects the pollen. 49 Syd Edwards del. ub i Se utp , May 2 1815 JK c^ 4 er way Mecca vu, y Lag d - 19 GNIDIA pinifolia. a. White fir-leaved Gnidia. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. GNIDIA. Supra fol. 2. G. pinifolia, foliis sparsis, acerosis, carnosulis, floralibus plurimis lan- ceolato-extenuatis, capitulo brevioribus; corolla extůs villosa, squa- mulis 4 sericeo-hirsutis limbum stellato-decussantibus. Gnidia pinifolia. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 512. Berg. cap. 122. Mill. dict. ed. 8.n.1. Thunb.prod.76. Willd. sp. pl. 9. 424; (excl. Lin. suppl. cum sectione ultimá adjecte note, © Wendl. quoad locum cit.). An- drews's reposit. 52. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 9, 412. G. radiata. Wendl. obs. 15. t. 9. f. 19. Rapunculus foliis nervosis linearibus, floribus argenteis non galeatis. Burm. afric. 119. t. 41. f. 3. Valerianella zthiopica frutescens, Rosmarini folio, fl. albo. Seba. thes. 2. 39. t. 39. f. 5. (a) flos candidus: squamule laciniis 3-plo minores. (8) flos sub-ochroleucus : squamula laciniis subzequales. Frutex proliferus, pedalis, vix culmo avenaceo crassior, glaber, inferna cicatrizatus, indé numerose , & patentèr foliosus; rami subsimplices. Folia 3 partes uncie longa plus v. minus, rigida, linearia, obesiùs carinato- triquetra, à supino planiuscula, à prono carinato-convexa, mucronata, brevis- sim? petiolata ; floralia plurima, bis-ter latiora, erectiuscula v. radiato-verti- cillata. Flores plurimi, sessiles, apice ramorum aggregati. Cor. tubata, gracilis, subuncialis ; tubus in faucem parům dilatatus, obtusè quadrangularis acute tamen in frustro germinitego infra articulum, ubi etiam glaber* limbus cruciato-explanatus, intus nudus ; lac. oblonge, obtusule, tubo 2-3 breviores : sguamulae petalodes, concolores, oblongo-lanceolate. Fil. adnata: anth. Sulve, oblonge, 4 emicantes precociores, 4 delitescentes. Germ. glabratum, ovatum, basi angustatum : stylus situ laterali generis, imas antheras non attin- gens: stigma hispidum. A native of the Cape of Good Hope, cultivated in the Chelsea physic-garden, by Philip Miller, in 1768. The bloom is of a pure white, with little scent during the day, but sweet by night. We have never seen a plant of it more than a foot high. The foliage reminds us of that of some of the firs, and is much more numerous and close in the spontaneous specimens we have seen, than in the garden ones. Requires to be kept in the greenhouse; will do with the same treatment as the hardier Cape-shrubs; and is readily increased by cuttings. Blooms freely in February and March, and lasts long in flower. The GNIDIA pinifolia of the Supplementum of the the younger Linnaeus, inserted among the synonyms of the present by Willdenow, is evidently a very distinct species, having only two, and those axillary, flowers at the end of each branch. This has been recorded by Gmelin ( Syst. nat. 7. 33.) under the name of GNIDIA acerosa, and in Dr. Martyn's edition of Miller's Dict. under that of GxiprA Sparmanni. Wendland's pinifolia is the imberbis of the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis ; and his radiata is the present species. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the King's Road, Chelsea. a A detached flower. ¿The pistil; showing the lateral position of the style on its germen. c A flower cut open vertically, showing the « petal- like glands that intervene between the segments of the flower, and likewise the situation of the 8 stamens. ( All slightly magnified.) v 77 4 / y > E “yc i y fod Fiat by SN y we # j fey the 4 V / / queris 77€ feodi j TE . "AT. SANOLTATANA s VA cr. f JK Ii 20 PROTEA pulchella. l Waved-leaved Protea. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. PROTEA. Cor. bipartibilis, inæqualis, labii latioris laminis stami- niferis cohærentibus. Anth. apicibus concavis corollæ immerse. Sgua- mule 4 hypogynæ., Germ. 1-spermum. Stylus subulatus. Stig. an- gustiùs, cylindraceum, Nur undique barbata, stylo persistenti caudata. Ltecept. commune, paleis abbreviatis persistentibus. Jnvolucr. imbri- catum, persistens, ` Frutices modů proceriores et quandoque arborescentes, modo suba- caules. Folia integerrima. Capitula terminalia, rariùsve lateralia : Receptaculo planiusculo, nunc convexo, sæpissimè glabro, paleis quan- dôgue connatis alveolato: Involucro magno; colorato, turbinato c. hemispharico: Corolla labio latiore sep? 2-3-aristato. Brown in trans, linn. soc. 10. 74. P. pulchella, foliis lineari-lingulatis marginatis nitentibus scabriusculis, ramis parùm tomentosis, involucri bracteis interioribus apice lauceolato- dilatato sericeo marginibus nigro barbatis, corollæ aristis vix longitudine laminarum, stylo pubescenti. Brown. loc. cit. 81. Hort. Kew. ed. © I. 180- Protea pulchella, dndrews’s reposit. 270. Folia opaca margine ciliata. Protea speciosa. Jar. fol. glabris. Andrews's reposit. 277. Folia margine concolori. Protea pulchella. Var. speciosa, Andrewss reposit. 442. Figura bractearum interiorum diversa, aristis corolla Jamina longioribus. Caulis mollissimè villosus. Folia coriacea, rigidiuscula, numerosa, nec conferta, sparsa, patentia, elongato-oblonga, 3-4 uncias longa, ab 1 tertia parte ad 2 tertias uncias lata, venosa, laxius subundulata v. potiüs subflexuosa, atomoideo-scabrafa, ciliata v. nec, modo à supino versus basin villosa, ceterum nuda, utrinque parüm attenuata, acumine brevi. Capitulum erectum, soli- farium, tibiis cyatkaides folia excedens: invol. incarnato-rubens, extus sericeum ; bractee inter. elongato-spathulate, intůs glabrate, barbá densá effusá proliziori nigrá in summd margine. Corolle 3-unciales, extůs mole lissimè hirsuta, biaristate, Stig. subulato-attenuatum, apicula calloso. This pretty shrub was found by Dr. Roxburgh, on the mountains in a district of the Cape of Good Hope, called Stellenboch. Not having had the opportunity of examin- ing the plants, we have followed Mr. Brown in enumerat- ing the above synonyms as of varieties of the same species. The involucre, which surrounds the numerous corollas of the inflorescence, constitutes the beauty of the plant. In our specimen some few of the upper leaves had a pink VOL. I. G cartilaginous edge; the rest, however, an edge of the same colour as the disk. Introduced by Mr. Masson in 1795. It is said that plants of it have flowered the third year from seed. Propagated by cuttings. Of easy cultivation; re- guiring, however, the shelter of a greenhouse, and to be planted in light loam mixed with a large proportion of sand. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, at Hammersmith, in March last. | a The broad lip of the corolla, formed by the coherent lamine, 2-awned. b The opposite lip, of one lamina. c The stigma. d The pubescent style. e The stigma: magnif. f Three of the stamens, as they are situated in the cavity formed by the laminz of the united upper lip: magnif. g The fourth stamen, as situated in the narrow lip. Eu. Jy a, La wards del, md y Vy 7 Flood Uy Ma YA i945. Lub 21 ELICHRYSUM proliferum. Sprouting Elchrysum. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. ELICHRYSUM. Flores tubulosi, marginales pauciores foeminei, Cal. imbricatus inequalis, squamis scariosis, interioribus disco longioribus membranaceis nitidis, radium coloratum constituentibus. Recept. nudum. Pappus plumosus v. pilosus. — Suffrutices ; folia alterna, sepe tomentosa ; Jlores terminales; calyx persistens ; squama radiales colore varia; ha- bitus GNAPuaALH. Jussieu. geu. 179 ; sub XERANTHEMO, suppressis Ericunvso alienis. E. proliferum, caule ramosissimo, argenteo-tomentoso; ramo omni ra- musculis crebris foliaturâ obesá minuta loricatis obsito, Elichrysum proliferum. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1905. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 22. Xeranthemum proliferum. Lin. sp. pl. 2. 1202. Berg. cap. 272. Houtt. nat. hist. der pl. 6. 72. t. 51. f.2. Thunb. prod. 152. An- draws's reposit. 374. i X. afric., imis Gnaphalii foliis, supernis verò cupressinis teretifoliis, fl. maximo Persice colore. Pluk. am. 213. t. 442. f. 4. Elichrysum Abrotani feeminz foliis. Breyn. ic. 98. t. 17. f. 1. Frutex prolifer, erectus, divaricatě ramosissimus, elastico-rigens ; caulis & rami feretes, candicantes, subaphylli, ramulis numerosis curtis imbricato- Soliolosis undique velut veprecula spinis consiti. Folia plante adulta ramea- sola, vix lineam excedentia, coriaceo-crassa, subconica, obtusa, à dorso viridia nitida nudiuscula, à supino pubescentia, imbricato-appressa, omnium singulum emisso sub axilld ramulo deciduum : plante anno junioris alia diversa caulina mollia numerosa patentia spathulato-oblonga, tomentoso-albicantia, uncialia, sensim decrescentia, itidem in axillá ramifera; obtinent quoque similia in uno aut et altero ramo inferiori, nec ultrà. Flores in ramis ultimis termi- nales, solitarii, ampli, purpurei. Cal. infra hemisphericus, tomentoso-sguar- rosus, suprà glabrato-radiatus, foliolis interioribus lineari-lanceolatis. Flos discoideus, planiusculus, griseus. Flosc. cylindrici, purpureo-fusci, 5-dentati. Masc. stigmate 0; germine glabro. Fem. similes, peripherici ; stigmate ex- serto, bifido; germine hirsuto. Pappus utrique similis, flosculis «equalis, è pilis capitato-plumosis ; in feminis copiosior. Recept. depresso-converum, nu- dum puncticulatum. Polygamie necessarie planta. * Throughout this genus, the beauty of the inflorescence is in the calyx. This being of a scariose substance, and enduring for years with little change, has been the cause that our plant has been admired upon the shelf of the Botanist, and among the figures of his books for at least half a century before it reached his garden. Asan “ ever- lasting" for the winter-boughpot, Linnzus proclaims it G 2 without an equal, “sine pari pro flore perennante.” Its branches are very elastic, and have the appearance of frosted silver, from a dense white nap that covers them. Within the first. year's growth, the stem is observed to put forth numerous hoary oblong-spatulate and linear leaves, de- creasing from an inch to scarcely two lines in length. Si- milar ones are also borne by one or two of the lower branches, but all disappear after or before the end of the first year, none such being reproduced, nor indeed any of any sort on the stem and principal branches. Each leaf of the adult plant produces from its axil a short branch, simi- lar to that on which itself was first produced, then falls off, thus forming the most bushy shrub of the genus. An entire flower of the preceding year is almost always found faded, but not decayed, in the fork of the flowering branches of the present. Plukenet is the only author, who seems to have noticed the difference of the primary leaves from that of the succeeding ones. "The plant is peculiarly subject to be destroyed by the damp of winter-fogs; and should be kept in the most light and airy part of the green- house that can be selected. Ít thrives best in black sandy peat-mould. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, where 1t 1s found on the tops of the mountains. Introduced by Mr, Masson in 1789. ELICHRYSUM at present consists of the shrubby species formerly included in NERANTHEMUM ; from the herbaceous ones of which it has been detached by Willdenow, as differing in character, by a receptacle not clothed with chaffy bractes; but naked, and by a pappus not of chaffy bristles ; but of simple or else feathered hairs. The drawing of the flowering branch was made at Messrs. Colville's nursery ; that of the separate leaf and branches, in Mr. Creswell's conservatory, Battersea-Sguare. a A vertical section of the flower. 8 A female floret in its place. c An: inner leaflet of the ray of the calyx. d A male floret and smooth germen. é The same magnified. „f A female floret and hirsute germen crowned by a more numerous pappus. g The same magnified. A One of the lowermost primary stem-leaves. ¿A lower branch of the yearling plant. Ad 7 Syd Creta. de l- p» 7m th de. Sab Les / $7 "s Š Fa $ BR IA "my 170 cese lilly May /./d/J. 22 CAMELLIA japonica. u. The Pompone Camellia or Japan-rose. MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. CAMELLIA. Supra fol. 12. C. japonica, ramis glabris, flexuosis; foliis elliptico-lanceolatis ; corolla coriaceo-crassa, campanulata; staminibus cylindraceo-conniventibus ; stigmatibus profundê discretis. Camellia japonica. Linn. sp. pl. 2.982. Thunb. jap. 272. Jacq. coll. 1. 117. Hort. Kew. 2. 460. ed. 2. 4. 235. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 842. («) Single red Camellia. Curt. mag. 49. Cav. diss. 6. 305. t. 160. f. 1. Jacq. ic. rar. 9. 553. Schneevoogt ic. 7. Duham. ed. N. 243, t. 11. Thea chinensis, pimente jamaic. fol. fl. ros. Pet. gaz. t. 33. f. 4. Tsubakki montanus s, sylvestris, fl. ros. simplici. Kampf. am. 850. t. 851. (8) Semidouble red Camellia. Andrews’s reposit. 559. Rosa chinensis. Edwards's Birds. 9. t. 67. (y) Double red Camellia. Andrews’s reposit. 199. (3) Middlemist's red Camellia. (s) Myrtle-leaved red Camellia. Curt. mag. 1670. (2) Anemone-flowered, or Warratah Camellia. Curt. mag. 1664. (n) Peony-flowered Camellia. Andrews’s reposit. 660. f. 1. (6) Double-striped Camellia. Andrezos's reposit. 91. (+) Blush-Camellia. Andrews's reposit. 660. f. 2. (x) Buff-Camellia. (a) Double-white Camellia. Andrews’s reposit. 25. (4) Pompone Camellia. Supra. Our variety (strictly a full one) having all the stamens grown out into petals, and the corolla filled by them some- thing in the same way as that of the Pompone variety of the Provins-rose, which it approaches in colour, has been called by the gardeners the Pompone-Camellia; and is, we believe, the last imported. This fine evergreen shrub, in all its varieties, is the pro- duce of China and Japan, where it forms a chief feature of every garden and grove. It is said to attain the size of a considerable tree, with a short trunk, dividing into nume- rous spreading branches; leaves substantial, alternate, shortly petioled, elliptically ovate, acuminate, serrate, shining ; pe- duncles 1-flowered, terminal, generally solitary, sometimes 2-3; calyx herbaceous, imbricate, with about 9 broad ovate deciduous leaflets ; petals 5-7, round, flat, emarginate, longer than the calyx, substantial, fleshy, grown "together by an extended base; filaments very many, grown to each other at the base and to the concrete part of the corolla, con- verging into a hollow cylinder, shorter than the petals; anthers roundish, yellow ; style filiform, somewhat angular, length of the stamens ; stigmas 3. We have enumerated the eleven varieties of this species, as given in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis, adding a twelfth. The common red one was first cultivated by Lord Petre in 1739. The single-flowered of this, now serves for little else than as the stock to ingraft or inarch the rare ones upon, most of which are of very recent intro- duction ; and by their number prove the industry of the florist of the parts they come from. All will live in the. open air in England, but the natural time of flowering falling in a season too inclement in these parts for the ex- pansion of the bloom, they can never be seen in perfection in any place but the ‘conservator y; where they thrive best when planted in the ground; and we are told the single red one has there attained the height of fifteen feet, with a head in proportion. We have never seen or heard of a single-flowered white variety. Loureiro, in his Flora of Cochinchina, has a Camellia drupifera, most probably not specifically distinct from Japonica; this he describes as hav- ing white bloom. His description is however too vague to ascertain their specific identity. The drawing was made in the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, at Hammersmith, in February last. ji d : | Sa ^ Vi 44 | j + / i by E Kadquray 179 PL eg d Uy. May, LAVIS orale de 23 AMARYLLIS rutila. Vermilion-flowered Amaryllis. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. CAL. O. Cor. supera, nutans v. erecta, tubulosa 6-fida, infundibuli- formis ad hexapetalodi-partitam rotatam ; irregularis regularisve : laciniae zequilonge, similes, recurve v. raró conniventes, Fil. inclusa, medio disco v. summo tubo insita, declinato-assurgentia, raró erecta, rariìs conniventia. Anth. versatiles, Stylus inclinatus, corolla equalis. Stig. apex apertus v. 3 replicata. Caps. membranacea, oblongo-trigona v. oblato-spheroidea X trisulca, 3-loc., 3-valv., valvis medio septigeris : semina biseriata, paleaceo-complanata, v. varié pressa, Y. globosa, nunc unicum emollescente albumine bulboso-laxatum replens v. dilacerans cap- sulam. Bulbus tunicatus. Folia crassiuscula, ab angusté ad latě lorata, ab uno paucisve bifariis ad plurima multifaria, post v. antě scapum veni- entia. Spatha communis scapum terminans, t-bivalvis, 1-multiflora, Horibus umbellatis sessilibus v. pedicellatis, bracteato-distinctis, Semina quarundam funiculo suo fungoso incrassato subarillato-immersa. A. rutila, spatha subbiflora, celeritêr arescente; floribus incluso-pedi- cellatis, nutantibus, brevitér tubulosis ; limbo turbinato obliguê rin- gente, laciniis 3 superioribus reflexo-conniventibus, inferioribus por- recto-divaricatis, ima duplo angustiore, distantiore: fauce tubi nuda. Bulbus subrotundus, albus, miniato-maculatus. Folia 3-plurima, bifaria, subpedalia, sublanceolato-lorata, infra unciam lata, apice obtusula. Scapus extra folia, compresso-teres, glaucus, pedalis, crassitudine penne olorine. Spatha 2-valvis, pedicellis duplo longior, citů arescens, nec arrecta. Germ. oblongum, obtuse trigonum, tubo bis brevius, 3-striatum, viride, ftetum ovulis numerosis cumulatis complanatis. Cor. subquadriuncialis, in hiatu miniato- - micans, saturatiůs striata, fundo ochroleuco sexradiato > tubus subsemuncialis, trigonus, germini cequicrassus : limbus turbinato-campanulatus, 2-labiatus ; lac. elongato-lanceolate, undulata, 3 exter. latiores, carinate, mucronata, laterales 2 mediam summam versůs obliguate, inter. mulice: ima media lineari-lanceolata, antrorsům directa. Fil. miniata, declinato-incurva, alterna plurimüm longiora, corolla vero 1 tertiá parte breviora : anthere sulphuree, tandèm lunulato-curvate. Stylus crassior, miniatus, trigono-teres : stig. 3, profundiüs discreta, replicata, alba, teretia, obtusa, pube brevissimá pru- inaid. An unrecorded species, and not known in our collec- tions, until very lately imported by Mr. Griffin, from whose botanical pursuits we have already derived the in- troduction of other new and curious plants. It was received by the way of Portugal, from St. Paul's in the Drazils. Every one will perceive the close resemblance of our plant to AMARYLLIS equestris (miniata of the Flora peru- viana); but on inspecting the interior of the tube of the corolla, the whole of this in rutila will be found to be completely smooth, while its mouth in eguestris is always pubescent; the segments are also narrower and longer in the present species, the stigmas far more deeply separated, and the spathe dries guickly away, and does not remain upright and long unaltered as in the other. More distinc- tions will probably be detected on a comparison of the liv- ing specimens of the two. They are natives of opposite sides of the South American continent; equestris (miniata) being found in Peru, in woods and field-sides on the Andees; and is called by the spanish colonists lacre de montana, or mountain-sealing-wax, in allusion to the colour of the flower. And it is said that where the bulb is cut, the part on exposure to the air becomes vermilion ; and that the juice is used as an ink for the signature of the name to letters, having been found to acquire the same fine colour when dry. These circumstances most probably belong also to rutila; the flower of which is scentless; the vermilion on the inside sparkling and streaked with deeper coloured featheréd lines; on the outside opaque suffused with pink and tinged partially with green and yellow; the funnel or throat within of a greenish white and six-rayed. The drawing was made from a bulb that flowered with more of the same species in the dry-stove in Mr. Griffin's garden at South Lambeth, in March last. a A lower portion of the corolla cut through vertically on one side and detached from the germen, ta show the insertion of the stamens, and smooth tube. 4 The pistil when dissected from the corolla. Amith Se. f Luc (dati. cfe. Le (tvý Te) Bee y JY Pe Ffecadelty Pue 4A. MI. M dr Hal ty AR 24 STYPHELIA longifolia. Long-leaved Styphelia. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. STYPHELIA. Cal. 5-partitus, bracteis 4 pluribusve texturá calycis. Cor. elongato-tubulosa; tubo intüs juxta basin fasciculis 5 vil- lorum : limbo laciniis revolutis, barbatis. Fil. epipetala, exserta: anth. simplices. Germinis 5-locularis loculi monospermi. Drupa subessucca, putamine osseo, solido, Frutices erecti v. ascendentes, ramosi, glabriusculi. Folia sparsa, brevissime petiolata, mucronata. Flores axillares, nutantes v. divaricati, speciosi, pedunculis unjfloris, raro 2-3-floris, Squamule hypogyne 5, distincta, rard connate. Brown, prodr. 537. S. longifolia, foliis elongato-lanceolatis apice attenuatis suprà concavius- culis margine levibus, ramulis pubescentibus. Brown. loc. cit. Caulis 3-pedalis, erectus, teres, numeros? sed non confertim foliosus, su- perně ramosus, badio-corticatus. Folia 2-uncialia, erecta, interstitiis pluri- mim longiora, rigidissima, angusta, lineari-attenuata, cuspidata fine pun- gente, concava, nervis parallelis dens? striata, bast et in brevissimo petiolo villosa. Flores subnutantes, plurimi, virides. Pedunculi uniflori, in ramis superni, axillares, solitarii, breves, villosi, bracteis squamati. Cal. her- baceus, rigens, tubuloso-connivens, acutus, nervulosus, infrà brevitór cum corolla (qué duplo magisve brevior) conferruminatus. Cor. sesgutuncialis, penna corviná fer? duplo crassior, subdiaphana, extis glabra, intus nisi ubi recondit. germen villosa: lacinice limbi ligulato-lanceolate tubo % parte bre- viores ; resiliunt hecce sub dehiscentiam nist elastico, inde in gyros plures re- wolvenda. Fil. corolle «qualia, tubum adnato-decurrentia, ob recedentem limbum exserta, conniventia : anth. fuscescentes, à medio dorso appense, versatiles, secunde. Germ. conicum, 5-gonum, basi cinctum squamulis 5 crateroidi-conniventibus : stylus capillaceus filamentis altior et plurimum gra- cilior : stigma capitatum. —s It A rare species, and one that has not found a place in the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis, nor been figured in any work: nor had we beard of its being in any collection, until we met with it in that of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy at Hammersmith, where the drawing was taken in March last, from a plant that had been raised from seed. Native of New-South-Wales; found by Mr. Brown in the neighbourhood of Port-Jackson. It approaches in the colour of the flower to viridiflora, but is very different m the foliage, which in that is obovate-oblong, flat, and about one inch long; not, as in this, tapering from the base up- wards, concave and about two inches long. It is a woody VOL, I. H shrub, with hard leaves. The plant we saw, was about three feet high, and leafless below the branches. Spontaneous specimens of both /ongifolia and viridiflora are preserved in the Banksian Herbarium. Thrives in'peat-earth, and reguires to be kept in the greenhouse. a The calyx sheathed at the base by imbricate bractes. c The pistil with the 5 small scales under the germen. 4 The germen and hypogynous scales: magnified. 6 The corolla dissected vertically, so as to show its pubescent interior, and the insertion of the filaments. Lyd Chwardd del. d i null Ae i | | À Hit by F Azuay 170 Kecadlly Janet IL. 25 MIMOSA sensitiva. The sensitive plant. POLYGAMIA MON(ECIA. MIMOSA. Hermaph. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. O, s. 5-dentata. Stam. 8. Pist. 1. Lomentum in articulos monospermos secedens. Masc. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. O, s. 5-dentata. Stam. 8. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 1098. Arbores v. frutices suffruticesve, inermes aut ad basin petiolorum passimve aculeati ; folia abruptě pinnata ; flores capitati v. spicati, axil- lares terminalesve, regulares, quidam abortu masculi v. feminei. Stam. distincta. Folia omnium vesper contracia manê expanduntur, guarun- dam sensibilia nimis ad tactum comprimuntur & nutant. Jussieu. gen. 3406. M. sensitiva, caule petiolisque aculeatis, foliis conjugato-pinnatis, folio- lis subdimidiato-ovatis acutis subtüs pilosis, intimis minimis. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 1030. Mimosa sensitiva. Lin. sp. pl. 2. 1501. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 7. Trew. ehret. 54. t. 95. Hort. Kew. 3. 439. ed. 9. 5. 455. ZEschynomene spinosa prima s. brasiliana latifolia, siliquis radiatis. Breyn. cent. 1. 31. t. 16. Caulis lignosus, debilis, gracilis, striatus, axillariter ramosus, villosus, aculeis recurvis conspersus. Folia alterna, distantia, conjugato-pinnata pin- mis bijugis : foliola in@quilatera, oblonga latere intimo rectiore, subtůs ap- presso-villosa, venosa, interius utriusque. paris conforme sed maxime diminu- tum ; petioli communes surrecti pubescentes semiteretes à supino striati, basi articulati stipulá parvá acuminatá ad utrumque latus: partiales triplo breviores, stipuld subulatá porrectá anticâ in articulo baseos alteráque posticá pone furcam. Capitula purpureo-albicantia, pedunculata, in axillis foliorum superiorum scpiüs gemina, petiolo breviora; suprema paniculato-producta. Cal. exiguus, quadrangulatus, 4-fidus, in pedicello brevissimo : quos corám habuimus omnes hermaphroditi. Cor. 0. Stam. 4, longé exserta. Stylus lateralis, The appellation of * the sensitive plant" having long since been very generally transferred in our gardens from the present species to the Mimosa pudica or “ humble plant," a small annual that occurs in almost every collec- tion, where tender annuals are cultivated; this article may serve to recall to our readers the original owner of that name; a plant rarely seen in this country. The extraordinary effect of the perceptibility of the pre- sent and other Mimosa, has given rise to much speculation among physiologists, which however appears to have af- H 2 forded no satisfactory or very interesting result. It is certain that when this plant is in. health and growing in a sufficient degree of warmth, the leaves, upon being smartly touched, fold together by their leaflets, and their stalk sinks; the same change of position takes place spontaneously in them all every evening for the night; and the posture then assumed is, according to Linnzus, that of the sleep of the plant. A leaf that has collapsed either naturally or from arti- ficial irritation, is perceived to resume its extended state by a gradual vibratory motion, compared by Miller to that of the index of a clock. The discovery of the end attained in this phenomenon is most probably reserved for a diligent attention to the economy of these vegetables on their native spot. 'The root of all of them emits a most offensive smell, resembling that from a sewer at the time of impending rain. The species is marked in the Hortus Kewensis for bien- nial. Its stem is woody and brittle, and sometimes ac- guires the height of 8 feet; but must have support. Several new ones have been discovered in South America (of which country all are natives), by Messrs. Bonpland and Hum- boldt. Native of the Brazils. Introduced in 1733 by Dr. Houston. Varies much in the size of the leaflets. The drawing was made from the only living specimen we have seen, and which had been raised from seed received from Jamaica, in the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Ham- mersmith. a The calyx: magnified. 6 The same dissected, to show the insertion of the stamens: magnified. c The pistil; showing the lateral insertion of the style into the germen: magnified. 4 A flower-head, on which the bractes alone remain, with two unripe seed-vessels; which become Lomenta or jointed pods, parting transversely by one-seeded articulations. / 2 pa TD A / yc Syd Lt war rate oi Seb ly I Ridgway Svccidilly Lune! (AS 26 CORREA speciosa. Party-coloured Correa, OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. CORREA. Supra fol. 3. C. speciosa, foliis oblongis, obsoleté ovatis, planis, apice rotundatis ; corolla cylindrica, erecta; stylo infrá medium pilis radiato-penicillatis barbato, Correa speciosa. Donn. cant. ed. 6. 100. — Aiton’s Epitome. 366. Andrews's reposit. 653. Frutex Aabitu simillimus Correa virenti (supra fol. 3). Folia verd Fusciùs virentia obsoletiús ovata latiùs obtusata sublongiùs petiolata quàm in ed, neque reflectuntur. Rami septůs superne trichotomo-triflori. Cor. non pen- dula, subsesquiuncialis, diametro penne scriptorie majoris, distinctissimě bicolor, infra saturatè rosea, supra breviùs vividé virens, ceterum omninò virentis. Stam. parům exserta ; 4 breviora bast subspathulato-dilatata, con- cava, longiora infra intüs sulcata. Pili in stylo tenuiores et longiores : stig. viride. In general habit this species strongly resembles the Corr#a virens of the third article of this work, but has an upright brilliantly two-coloured corolla, and a pubescent style. It has been omitted in the Hortus Kewensis. Native of New-South-Wales, where it was first found by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Solander. Introduced in 1804. Like the rest of the genus, yet known, in our gar- dens, it is a hardy greenhouse plant, and peculiarly suited to the border of a conservatory, where it flowers freely in March and April soon after virens ; and, as well as that, is wholly without scent. A mixture of hazel-loam and peat- earth is what suits it best. Multiplied by cuttings, which strike easily. We have seen specimens that have had a leaf with a somewhat depressed margin and convex disk ; and others, as the present, where the leaf is entirely. flat and slightly assurgent, in which the marginal indentation becomes more conspicuous. The drawing was made at Mr. Knight's exotic nursery, King's Road, Little Chelsea, in March last. a A detached flower. è A stameg, 6 The pistil, 27 nelh A A YO Fiecad dy FA / NSF. tel yeu P4 P M y Sil by 3 27 PRUNUS japonica. Double-flowered chinese plum-tree. ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. PRUNUS. Cal. inferus, campanulatus, 5-fidus, deciduus. Pet. 5, ori calycis inserta, segmentis alterna. Stam. ibidem adnata sub petalis. Germ. 1. Stigma 1. Drupa: nux monosperma suturis prominulis, Arbuscule ; folia alterna, stipulacea. — Interdàm pologyna; quod Jorsân lusus luxurie. Separatur à Jusseo in CERASUM, PRUNUM, S ARMENIACAM. P. japonica, (inermis) foliis ovato-v. ovali-lanceolatis, duplicato-serratis, glabris; pedunculis geminis v. solitariis, striato-teretibus, folio duplo brevioribus : pistillo in medio villoso. Prunus japonicus. Thunb. jap. 201. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 994. Arbuscula glabra: rami teretes, cortice cinereo lucido. Folia decidua, petiolata, ultrà unciam longa, protractiùs acuminata, immersé nervosa, venu- losa: stipula 2, herbacee, lineari-subulate, serrato-dentate, petiolum @quantes aut excedentes. Flores albo-incarnati semunciam magisve transversis pedunculi uniflori, semunciales, è gemmis modů sub ramulum aggregatis, modo solitariis huicque sublateralibus, rarissimè è centro gemme communis, Cal. pallidê virens, venosus, tubo brevi oblatè campanulato pentagono, seg- mentis recurvo-rotatis, ovatis, obtusis, serratis. et. nive elliptica, acutula, basi angustata. Germ. viridia, gemina, rarò trina, vix unquàm unicum ; stylus albescens, subvillosus : stigma simplex. It is now at least seven or eight years since this pretty flowered species first appeared in England; but we believe it has not been recognised till at present, from the time of Thunberg’s notice of it in its native place. We met with the specimen, from a branch of which the drawing was made, in the conservatory appropriated to chinese vege- tables, at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy in Ham- mersmith; where it formed a small branching tree, about five feet high, and was covered with bloom by the begin- ning of April. The petals of the flower are somewhat mul- tiplied, but not so as to destroy fertility; its small uneat- able fruit being (as we were informed) perfected every year, and generally by pairs on each stalk, an effect probably of luxuriant variety. Its introduction is due to the late Mr. Charles Greville, who received it from China, and was the first to cultivate it in his botanic garden at Paddington. We suspect that, like many other chinese plants, it will be found sufficiently hardy to live in the open ground. At present being rare, it is kept in the conservatory. Seems to be of as easy culti- vation and propagation as any of the common species of the same genus. EE a The calyx deprived of the corolla, to show the stamens. & The calyx cut down and deprived of the corolla and stamens, to show the two pistils, 24 F M y. # y „dn eî ull A K^ 28 CALENDULA Tragus. B. Grey-leaved orange-coloured Cape-marygold. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA NECESSARIA. CALENDULA. Recept. nudum. Flores radiati ; flosc. centrales masculi, ambientes hermaphroditi; ligule fæmineæ. Cal. simplex, polyphyllus, æqualis. Sem. disci membranacea, marginalia diversa ab interioribus. Pappus nullus. Herbe aut frutices. Flores sap solitarii terminales. Jussieu. gen. 183: mutatis nonnullis. C. Tragus, caule suffruticoso, debili; foliis sparsis, ligulato-linearibus, ciliolatis, acumine brevi; seminibus suborbiculatis. Calendula Tragus. Hort. Kew. 3. 271. ed. 2. 5. 168. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 9345. (a) foliis carnosulis, firmulis, integris v. raritér dentatis, virentibus, bre- vissimè villosis, hispidiusulis, subtus-elevato-puncticulatis, balsamicè odoratis; radio discolori, ligulis subplicato-striatis. Calendula Tragus. Curt. mag. 408. Jacq. hort. schoenb. 2. 14. t. 153. l (8) foliis carnosulis, flaccidis omnibus integerrimis, ciliatis, nudis, (ad lentem) puncticulato-pruinosis, glaucissimis, inodoris ; radio concolori, ligulis explicatissimis estriatis. Calendula flaccida. Venten. maim. 20. C. Tragus. 8. Persoon. syn. 9. 499. C. Tragus. Kenig in Ann. of Bot. 1. 386. Suffrutex vir lignescens, 2-4-pedalis, erectus, ramosus, debilis: rami axillares, teretes, lax foliosi, in pedunculum longum 1-florum nudiusculum obsoletiüs striatum subvillosum tactui scabridulum producti. Folia sessilia, surrecta, 2-4 uncias longa, 9-4 lineas lata, obtusula cum brevi acumine, inferiora versis basin attenuata ; in ramis nondum floriferis in fasciculum ap- proximata. Cal. virens, oblato-campanulatus, hispidulus : segmenta lanceo- lata, acuta, erecta, margine membranacea. Flores ampli, disco nigricantes. Flosc. radii steriles, totidem quot calycis segmenta, ligulá oblongatâ, unciá longiori, apice obtusatá, angustissimê 3-dentatá ; tubus brevis, extůs e pilis brevibus articulatis villosus, germini inversé pyramidato triquetro «qualis : modo adsunt stigmata 2 linearia replicata in stylo brevi, modo desunt omnino. Flosc. disci numerosi, vix lineas 2 excedentes, arrecto-5-fidi, pubescentes ; anth. fusce, emicantes ; stigmata partim exserta fusca, in hermaph. recurvo- patentia, în masc. clavato-contigua : germina obcordato-complanata, mem- branaceo-alata, glaberrima, centri sterilia, peripharie fertilia. Recept. scrobiculato-punctatum. Had we relied simply on our own judgment, we should probably, as well as Monsieur Ventenat, have separated this plant into a distinct species from Tragus, and said that it was intermediate between that and oppositifolia ; ap- VOL. I. 1 proaching the latter by the form, colour, and surface of the foliage, and receding from it as to the position of the same; while on the other hand it agreed with the former in having a scattered and not opposite foliage, and differed again in the colour, form, and surface of that. But we have trusted probably to safer guides, in following the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis and Persoon's Synopsis Plantarum. In (œ) the leaves are sometimes entire, some- times indented, deep-green, firm, covered with a short somewhat hispid pubescence, roughened with small points like shagreen, and possess a balsamic scent, which Jacguin attributes to the flower, instead of them; the ray is of two colours, yellow or white within, purple without, and slightly plaited. In (@) the leaves are glaucous or grey, always entire, naked, ciliate, flaccid, smooth, and entirely scentless; the ray is of a uniform bright orange-colour, quite flat and plaitless. As to all other points the resem- blance of the two varieties is certainly complete. "The lower part of their stem is somewhat woody, and comes near in consistence to that of the common lavender-bush. The present plant has been generally knówn in the nur- series by the name of CALENDULA aurea, and is by far the most showy of the two; the flower, which sometimes ex- ceeds 3 inches in diameter, opens in the morning, when the sun shines, but closes in the afternoon and on the ap- proach of rain: this it will continue to do for many days in , Succession. When fully expanded, a passing cloud will disturb it. (=) was introduced by Mr. Masson in 1774, from the Cape of Good Hope. Of the particular origin of (6) we have learned nothing; it is stated generally, by Mons. Ventenat, to be native of the Cape of Good Hope. Both vary from 2 to 4 feet in height, and require support when in bloom. A greenhouse plant of easy culture; flowers early in April; is increased by cuttings or slips, with nearly the same facility as the common pink. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the King's Road, Chelsea. a A floret of the ray and germen. b A fertile floret of the periphery of the disk and germen: magnified. c A barren floret from the centre of the disk: magnified. d A vertical section of the calyx, showing the pitted chaflless receptacle of the flower after the florets and germens are removed. i ——— RS —— ey, iui SAC bl / y tecerchi y /JO 4 / hy Zz aly (U) 4 D P def € ( Aral s Ayd. 29 HIBISCUS heterophyllus. Various-leaved Hibiscus. MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. HIDISCUS. (Cor. pet. 5. Stam. hypogyna in tubum corolliferum connata, indefinita. Fructus simplex multilocularis.) Cal. 5-fidus v. 5-dentatus caliculo polyphyllo (5-30, rarissime 3) aut multipartito cinctus. Anthere in apice & superficie tubi. Stylus 1; stig. 5. Caps. forma varia, 5-loc., 5-valv., loculis polyspermis, rarò monospermis. © Fyutices aut herbe ; flores axillares & terminales. Jussieu. gen. 273. H. heterophyllus, folis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis plerümque lobatis, aculeato-serratis, calyce exteriore 10-phyllo, caule fruticoso aculeatis- simo. Venten. malm. 103. Hibiscus heterophyllus. Persoon. syn. 9. 254. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 998. H. grandiflorus. Salish. Parad. Lond. 22. | Frutex procerior : caulis erectus, axillaritěr ramosus, distantér foliosus, à tuberculis spina prafizis laxiùs echinatus. Folia alterna, semipedalia, cum petiolo erectiusculo articulata, divaricata, elongato-lanceolata, sepiús ex lobis 3-5 palmata, costi mediá nervos alternos obliguos antrorsim aculeolatos utrin- que emittente: petiolus à supino hirsutus: stipula laterales, lanceolate, anguste, pubescentes, decidue. Pedunculi solitarii, axillares, 1-ffori, crassi, teretes, erecti, petiolo breviores, è Luberculis: densis stellato-setosis hispidi. Cal. inter. â pubescentiá pedunculi exacté simili incrustatus, uncialis, ultra medium 5-fidus, urceolatus, segmentis lanceolatis extůs obsoletě elevato-tri- sulcis» exter. viridior, parüm brevior, parciüs penicillato-villosus ; foliola semitereti-subulata, campanato-conniventia, basi distincta. Cor. grandis, tenuis, intůs albicans $ partim. purpurascens, extůs pubescens ; areol disci atrosanguinea, ubi cum tubo stamineo commissa barbata: lac. obovate, Colum. staminea concolor disci, striata, subpubescens, maxima sud parte antheris pedicellatis onusta, 5-fida laciniis modo ramoso-divisis antheriferisgue et caudatis : pollen primo luteum indè purpureum, è spharulis levibus granu- latum. Stig. lobiformia, replicata, Germ. oblato-conoideum, sericeo-hirsu- tum. A native of New-South-Wales, where it grows to be a considerable-sized shrub, and is manufactured by the natives into a rude cordage, suited to their purposes. In- dependent of the handsome bloom, it is curious for the variety in the foliage, where the footstalk sometimes holds an undivided one-nerved leaf, but oftener a palmate one of 2, 3, or 5 lobes, and as many nerves, to be depressed or elevated from a joint at the top of the footstalk. The flowers are of short duration, and produced singly from the axils of the upper leaves. The plant was dis- 19 covered by Colonel Paterson on the banks of the Hawkes- bury river; and first cultivated in this country by the late Mr. Charles Greville, in the conservatory of his botanic- garden at Paddington, in 1803. We have learned nothing in relation to its culture, or the modes of increasing it. The drawing was made from a branch obtained for us by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, of Hammersmith, in March last. a The inner and outer calyx: and a magnified detached stellately bristled tubercle of the pubescence which incrusts the outside of the inner calyx. b The stamineous tube, containing the pistil. c One of the branching caudate segments that form the mouth of the stamineous tube, with two ad- hering anthers: magnified. d The style and stigmas, withdrawn from the stamineous tube. — > v el Eid cf "A S; LRL ye SM lul ly dian f. AL A : Pill . De iu n» 30 GRISLEA tomentosa. Downy-leaved Grislea. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. GRISLEA. (Flores polypetali.) Cal. tubuloso-campanulatus 4-(6) dentatus coloratus persistens. Pet. 4 (6) minutissima. Stam. longissima ascendentia; anth. subrotunde. Caps. globosa substipitata, calyce brevior 1-loc. polysperma receptaculo magno. Frutex ramis parallelis vimineis; folia disticha; flores in corymbis axillaribus confertis oppositis secundi, sursům flexi. Jussieu. gen. 331. (Char. ad GRISLEAM secun- dam solam confectus.) Interddm additur floris partibus. G. tomentosa, foliis sessilibus subtüs tomentosis corymbis (cymis) axilla- ribus patulis. Willd. sp. pl. 2.321. Grisiea tomentosa. Roxb. corom. 1. 99. t. 31. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 347. Woodfordia floribunda. Salisb. Parad. Lond. 42. Lythrum fruticosum. Lin. sp. pl. 1.641. Andrews's reposit. 467. Frutex ramosus, erectus: rami villosi, bifariôm foliosi. Folia opposita, cordato-lanceolata, interstitiis longiora, divaricata, obscuré viridia, venosa, subtůs tomentosa, subsessilia petiolo feré obsoleto, 2-uncialia, 2 partes uncie lata. Flores cymosi, miniato-coccine? : pedunculi 5-15-flort, in foliis supernis axillares, solitarii, folio breviores ; pedicelli calyxque villosiusculi. Cal. cla- vato-tubulosus, semuncialis, subassurgens, ore fundi nectariferi extůs annulato- protuberans, 6-multifidus, ad furcam cujusque divisure notatus tubercula sphacelato nervum externé terminante et bast petali membranacet parvi lanceo- lati corolle 6-multipetale opposito. Stam, 8-20, uncialia, equalia, assur- gentia, fundo nectarifero adnata: anth. 2-loculares, orbiculate, peltato- incumbentes. Germ. sessile, elongaté oblongum, teretiusculum ; stylus erectus, filamentis 2-3-plo crassior ; stig. simplex. -— In point of ornament, this shrub seems to us in some sort to fill in the hothouse, the same place that the Fucusra coccinea does in the other departments of the garden. Native of the hills and valleys of the northern provinces of the Carnatic, where it flowers during the cold and at the beginning of the hot season; with us from April to May. The calyx is of a bright scarlet colour, tigre and serves as a covering to the seed-vessel, by which the beauty of the plant is considerably prolonged in India; but here the seed is seldom perfected, and the calyx decays sooner. Dr. Roxburgh tells us, that its appellation in the Telinga dialect is Seringie, and that he does not know any use that is made of any part of the shrub. Its generic name commemorates the author of the Viri- darium lusitanicum, Gabriel Grisley. © Linneus had ar- ranged this species under LYTHRUm ; from whence it has been removed to the present genus by the late Mr. Dryan- der, under whose inspection Dr. Roxburgh's work on the Coromandel plants was edited. It requires to be kept al- ways in the stove. Varies much in the number of its sta- mens, segments of the calyx, and number of petals, from Six to twenty, perhaps more. Introduced in 1804 by Mr. William Salisbury. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- ley, Brame, and Milne, King's Road, Parson's Green. a The calyx dissected, to show the insertion of the petals of the corolla between the segments of the calyx. 4 A stamen: magnified. c The pistil : magnified. al Men fh. M e Y a cal. LUNAS . de / Sal ly F dyu di YO Feed Hy Pw ' ui ol LONICERA tatarica. Tartarian Upright- Honeysuckle. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. LONICERA. Cal. superus, 5-4-fidus basi bracteatus. Cor. mo- nopetala, tubulosa, 5-fida; limbus subaqualis, regularis v. bilabiatus. Stylus 1: stig. capitatum v. crassum. Bacca sepiůs polysperma. Frutices volubiles aut erecti. Folia opposita, quorundam basi con- nata. Inflor. in pedunculis axillaribus $ terminalibus multifloris bi- Jlorisve & solitariis; aut sessilis capitata terminalis aut verticillata axil- laris. Genus à Jusseo suppressú Lonicera appellatione in quatuor dispertitum, SYMPHORICARPON nempě, DIERVILLAM, NYLOSTEON, & CAPRIFOLIUM. Dic. Chamecerasa, pedunculis bifloris. L. tatarica, baccis distinctis, foliis cordatis obtusis. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 986. > Lonicera tatarica. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 247. Gmel. sib. 3. 134. n. 7. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 5. Pall. ross. 1. 55. t. 36. Jacq. coll. 1. 34. ic. rar. t. 37. Schmidt. arb. t. 111. Hort. Kew. 1. 339. ed. 2. 1. 379. Georgi. beschr. des russ. reichs. 4. 778. Chamecerasus fructu gemino rubro, foliis glabris cordatis. Amm. ruth. 184. n. 969. (8) foliis minoribus, flore albo. Lonicera pyrenaica. Willd. arboret. 181. Frutex dumosus suborgyalis, stoloniferus, à basi ramosissimus ; rami un- deguague in orbem densati, glabri ; ramuli novelli decussato;foliosi, floriferi. Folia decidua, brevitěr petiolata, oblongo-cordata v. ovata acumine brevi obtuso, glabra, nervosa; juniora sep? ciliata. Pedunculi in foliis supernis axillares, solitarii. Ynvoluc. bifolium, foliolis linearibus uno versi cum flori- bus suis divaricatis; bracteze gemine ovate opposite involucrum decussantes, germen singulum includentes. Germ. sessile, nitidum, coronatum calyce minimo 5-dentato. Flores 2 eidem pedicello insidentes, & in omni pari sibi mutuô à dorso obversati. Cor. semuncialis, incarnato-albicans, surrecta ; tubus bast extrorsúm gibbus;' limbus longior, bilabiatus, lacinie oblonge, obtuse, summa 2 erectiores à latere interiore imbricato-conmiventes, laterales divaricate, ima remotior. Fil. inclusa, tubi adnata et intra eum villosa: anth. viridi-lutescentes, erecta, 4-sulca. Stylus filiformis, curvatus, villosus, stamina viz «eguans. Stigma viride, T egeris sublobato-indentum, suprà corrugato-convexum. Bacca subrotunda, subdepressa, rubra, nitida. Sem. pauca, compressa, flavescentia. One of the most desirable shrubs we know of. It forms a close round extensive bush of five or six feet in height, feathering on, all sides down to the ground, and is in full leaf and bloom in the middle of April, or sometimes earlier. It ìs perfectly hardy, and will grow in almost any soil and situation. Notwithstanding these advantages itis cer- tainly far from being common in gardens or shrubberies. The finest plants of it we have seen, are in Mr. Joseph Kirke's nursery, at Old Brompton, at which place the drawing was taken. A native of the oriental provinces of Russia, where it is frequented by the spanish or blister-fly (Lyrra vesicatoria. Gmel. syst. nat. 1. 2013, the former Cantuants of the shops), which is collected by the apothecaries from this bush. The berries are eaten by the common people, although disgust- ingly bitter, and not entirely innoxious. "The stem, which is sometimes two inches in diameter, is used in the manufac- ture of walking-sticks, and the handles of instruments; it is n solid, of a yellowish-grey colour, and beautifully veined. Cultivated in 1752 by Mr. Miller, who raised it from seed, sent from Petersburgh, where it had been received from Tartary. It varies in the shade with flowers entirely white. In Jussieu's arrangement and nomenclature this species belongs to XYLOSTEON. a The corolla dissected, to show the pubescence of the filaments within the tube. 4 The pistil between the two bractes, showing the germen crowned by the minute calyx without the corolla; 470 Proadibly / b by J U P Ry CP Ait 32 ARCTOTIS aureola. Plain orange-flowered Arctotis. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA NECESSARIA. ARCTOTIS. (Flores radiati.) Recept. setoso-alveolatum. Semina dorso semibiloculari v. bisulco. Pappus paleaceus. Cal. imbricatus : squamis apice scariosis. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 169. Herbae, v. haud raro frutices. Folia. integra v. multifida. Flores sepius solitarii, radio revoluto-emarcescente. | A. aureola, fruticosa; appendiculis extimarum sguamarum calycis re- flexis, cuneato-oblongis acumine lato brevissimo, subarachnoideis, Arctotis aspera. 8. Lin. sp. pl. 2. 1307. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 9356. Hort. Kew. 3.273. ed. 9. 5. 173. A. aspera. y. undulata. Berg. cap. 317. A. undulata. Gert. sem. 2. 438. A. foliis pinnato-sinuatis, lac. oblongis dentatis. Mill. dict. ed. 7. n. 3. Arctotheca Jacob®® folio flore aurantio pulcherrimo. Vaill. act. paris. 1720. 330. 3 : Anemonospermos afra; folio Jacobzze tenuitêr laciniato ; flore aurantio pulcherrimo. Boerh. lugdb. 1. 100. t. 100. Caulis /ignosus, in plantá senescente crassus, cortice suberoso rimoso tectus, ramosus : rami albicantes, striis purpureis. Folia numerosa, remotiüs sparsa, v. fasciculato-approximata, modo auriculato-amplexicaulia, surrecto-patentia, lyrato-sinuata, v. profundê pinnatifida et modů interruptě, suprà villosa et sub- arachnoideo-velata, asperiuscula, subtüs tomentoso-candicantia $ varicoso= nervosa, subsemipedalia, subsesquiunciam lata ; lobis undulatè eroso-dentatis apice rotundatis; denticulis mucronatis. Pedunculi solitarii v. gemini, termi- nales $ axillares, subaphylli, elongati, 1-flori, striati, villis atropurpureis pubi albide interspersis nigricantes. Cal. hemispheroideus, virens, subglaber, ordine guintuplá ineguali imbricatus; squame extime, minores appendiculis nec subulatis nec hirsutis, media subovate margine nigro-scariosá, intime laminá latá hyalino-scariosá apice purpurascente. Radius aurantiacus, extüs tinctus rubore, transversč sind, fertilis, foemineus, numerosus, simplex : ligule elongato-oblonge, lineas circitêr 3 late, subbiplicate; tubo brevi glabro: stigmata lamine 2 ovales, exserte: germina parva, turbinata, sericeo-villosa, coronata paleis pluribus latis apice denticulato-rotundis ipsis bis-ter longioribus alidque serie externa acuta 9-plo minore cinctis. Discus calyci equalis purpureo-nigricans ; flosc. glabri, profundě 5-fidi, apice re- flexi 8 fulvo-fuscescentes, cnetraliores steriles : anth. incluse ; pollen auran- lacum : stylus lutescens, elasticus; in sterilibus sub fructificatione ferè pro altero tanto se extendens, rursůsgue contrahens ; hic stigma clava elongato- cylindrica, mox omni polline â cingente anthera accepto ipsi inutili onusta supra discum elevanda, ind? excusso in circumdantes flosculos füemineos onere intra suum flosculum iterům recondenda. H«c dům nuper emersa mire sensi- lis ; ed versus vivo motu se inclinans ab unde tactŵ vel levissimo fuerit exci- pm In periphceriá disci flosculi plures hermaphroditi fertiles, stigmate ermé radi. VOL. I. K To us the present plant appears a distinct species from aspera, of which however it has been always recorded as the variety ©.. Without laying any stress on the larger and differently coloured flower, it may be distinguished by a foliage by no means various to the extent it is in that, where the central upper stem-leaves have commonly a broad disk with a shallowly indented margin, and are trans- formed in the same plant by intermediate changes into deeply pinnatifid ones with a very narrow disk, in which the villous pubescence intermixed with the araneous one that covers the upper surface, is far more abundant, longer, and harsher than in the present plant; but the more palpable mark is in the outermost scales or leaflets of the calyx, which in aureola are reflex, obversely or cuneately oblong, flat, with a broad shortly pointed termination, and a slight araneous pubescence beneath ; but in aspera, revo- lute, subulate or acicular, with a remarkably close shaggy pubescence. This plant, although it has been long and very generally known in our gardens, probably ever since the time of Miller, has never been represented by any figure that we can trace, except the diminished engravine we have guoted from Boorhaave’s Index to the Leyden Garden. It becomes shrubby as well as aspera, acquiring by age a hard-wooded close-fibred stem of nearly an inch and half in diameter. Notwithstanding this, to have either of the species in perfection, they should be frequently renewed by cuttings, which strike easily if planted in a border of light earth during any of the summer months. "These, when properly rooted, may be potted in the autumn, in order to be shel- tered for the winter in the greenhouse or garden-frame. In summer they can scarcely be supplied with too much water, if properly drained. Old plants are apt to become mouldy, and should be frequently cleared of their decayed leaves. Both species are very desirable acquisitions for the green- house, since, besides the beauty of the bloom, easy culture and propagation, they afford a succession of flowers nearly the year round, Native of the Cape of Good Hope. | The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs, Colville, in the King's Road, Chelsea. a A vertical section of the calyx and receptacle. 5 A floret of the ray, with the germen and double pappus. c A floret of the disk, showing a barren stigma covered with pollen, as protruded from within the tube of the anther to above its floret, in order for dispersing the pollen among the fer- tile stigmas ; after which it reverts to its former position within the anther. Pail bw FK 9. . 7 4 s mL (A = dm. l AH př ©, AO 0 A4 Free delle Alu hidd ts. == AN 33 PACHYSANDRA procumbens. Trailing Pachysandra. MONCECIA TETHRANDRIA. i PACHYSANDRA. Masculi. Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. 0. Feminei. Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. O. Styli 3. Caps. 3-cornis 3-loc. Sem. 9. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 339. P. procumbens. Michaux. bor. amer. 9. 178. Willd. ubi supra. Pursh: amer. sept. 1. 37. Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 5. 960. Herba perennis, sempervirens?, rhizomate horizontali undique à stolonibus prorepente. Caulis simplex, decumbenti-assurgens, infra pedem longus, tenax, teres, rubro-fuscescens, vix eguans crassitudinem penne scriptorie, flexuosus, sulcatus, tomentosus, superne subcomoso-foliosus, inferne spiciger nudus v. squamis nonnullis vagis stipatus. Folia petiolata, plurima, sparsa, approxi- mata, erectiuscula, ovalia, s@pè apicem versůs utrinque grossius paucidentata, ìm nervis villosa : petioli subunciales. Spice androgyne in pedunculo 1-3- uncial cauli subsimili squamà bractenceá ad basin appressá, vage, nude, erecta, summe modo in imis foliis axillares, supernê multifloro-mascule, in- Serné bifloro-faeminee ; laxis sparse. Flores subsemunciales, sessiles, erecti, virides, lineis interruptis densisstmis sanguineis cinnamomeo-rubentes : MASCU- LUS bracteà ips? subsimili exceptus : cal. turbinato-campanulatus ; foliola ovato- acuminata, ciliolata, lateralia bina opposita exteriora, reliqua duo includentia : fil. crassa hujus axi cárnose inserta, subtriplo longiora, subclavato-teretia, compressa, rugosula, erecto-divergentia, alba: anth. parvule cinnamomee, erecta, ovato-oblonge, basi sagittate, biloculares, summo filamento breviter â dorso introrsim adnate, loculis intůs profunde distinctis, extůs rachi prominente connexis. Foemineus masculo profectó similis, sed aliquantulàm minor, & bracteis pluribus (3?) squamiformibus (und exteriore ) imbricatus : pist. floris concolor ; germ. tricocco-subrotundum, cocculis singulis dispermis in stylos sibi equicrassos semitereles breves intüs sulcatos continuatis; stigmata 3, ex- serta, replicata, pro flore magna, lingulata, acuta, extüs convexa, rugosula, intüs plana, explicata, glabra striâ mediá prominulâ, margine ciliolala. (Caps. 3-cocca, 3-cornis, 3-loc. : sem. in singulis loculis bina, oblonga, summo loculo appensa, levigata ). Native of rocky parts in the Alleghany mountains, where it grows in shady situations, First found by Michaux. An herbaceous perennial evergreen plant of humble growth; seldom, we believe, exceeding the dimensions of the sub- ject of the present figure, but spreading itself in every direction by suckers from a somewhat creeping rootstock. Of little value in the flower-garden but as a botanical curi- osity. At present the only known species of the genus; which has been, we understand, decided to belong to Jus- sieu's natural order of Euphorbia. The contrast of the tall K 2 massive white filaments of the upper flowers with the propor tionately small cinnamon-coloured calyx and anthers, forms the conspicuous feature of the bloom, which is slightly fragrant. A perfectly hardy plant, and will grow in any shady situation ; flowering in March and April. Introduced by Messrs. Frasers in 1800. The drawing was taken at Mr. Joseph Kirke's nursery, Old Brompton. —— A a The 4 stamens of the male flower separated from the calyx. à The pistil of the female flower separated from the calyx. Imith , dt Ay Casert) „otel. Ably y Sutga 3" Saedjily Jy ff 3. o, JA ARCTOTIS aspera. Rough-leaved Arctotis. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA NECESSARIA. ARCTOTIS. Supra fol. 32. A. aspera, fruticosa; foliis indentatis v. profundê pinnatifidis, suprà subarachnoideis, asperiůs hirsutiùsque villosis; appendiculis squama- rum extimarum calycis revolutis, subulatis, hirsutis. Arctotis aspera (a). Lin. sp. pl. 2.1307. Hort. Kew. 3. 973. ed. 9. 5. 173. Willd: sp. pl. 3. 2356. A. arborescens. Jacq. hort. schoenb. 9. 23. t. 171; (exhibens frustrum caulis plante senescentis cum ramo inferiore florifero, foliis macrescen- tibus profundè pinnatifidis.) Willd. sp. pl. 3. 2357. A. foliis pinnato-laciniatis crispis caule ramoso fruticoso. Mill. dict. ed. 7. n. 8. Anemonospermos africana, fol. cardui benedicti, florum radiis intüs albis. Comm. hort. 9. 45. t. 93. Planta tota ex villis densis asperiusculis pubi subarachnoide@ interspersis hirsuta. Folia lyrato-spathulata, v. indentata, v. sinuata, v. profundê pinna- tifida, suprà viridi-cana, subtůs candicantia. © Pedunculi subscapiformes, hirsuti, sulcati, modo foliolis subbinis vagis remote stipati. Pollen luteum. Stylus chloroleucus. Cetera omnia, preter colorem & que suprà in charactere specifico distinximus, ferê ARcTOTIDIS aureole fol. super. 32.. Flos tamen minor calyxque angustior. It is not always an easy task to recognise the species of this family, owing to the variation in their foliage, especi- ally when viewed under the different aspects imparted by age or luxuriance of growth ; a circumstance that may have been the cause why the present has not been known by Jacquin as the aspera of Linneus, but been published by that botanist under a new name. The figure he has given is of a specimen of a fragment of the stem, to which only a lower branch is attached; in this the leaves are all deeply pinnatifid with a narrow disk, as is usual, as far as we have seen, in all branches of old plants of this species. We have been amused by observing the newly expanded flowers of this and aureola, on a bright warm day, under the shelter of a greenhouse; when the stigmas of the barren florets may be perceived to emerge from within the tube of the concealed anthers, carrying up the pollen parted with to them by those organs, and which is seen to adhere in a thick coat of yellow powder, to afford it from this new position the means of an access necessary to the otherwise unprovided stigmas of the surrounding ray: a task to which the proper organ is evidently here incompetent. By and by the same are seen to retreat gradually within the cavity of the now empty anthers. When recently emerged and charged with pollen, they bend and incline themselves with a lively motion on the slightest touch, but always in the direction whence the impulse came; and in so doing necessarily part with a portion of the pollen that covers them. And as the honeyed liquid which attracts the insect to the flower is deposited in the ray that surrounds the disk, the impulse will be the more certainly given by that mean, probably the only one, from the side towards which it is requisite that the pollen should be carried. The style, by the extension and contraction of which the stigma is made to advance and withdraw, seems to consist of a sub- stance resembling e/astic gum (Caoutchouc), and may be repeatedly drawn out to a considerable extent like that, contracting to its former dimensions when left to itself with the same elastic force. The outer series of the chaffy seed-crown, shown in the dissection, seems not to have been elsewhere noticed; at least not in any work known to us. The flower of both this and aureola have a slightly bit- ter smell. n Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Cultivated here be- fore 1710. The drawing was made at Mr. Rolls's nursery, the King's Road, Chelsea. a A vertical section, showing the bristly alveolated receptacle, deprived of its florets. 6 A fertile floret of the ray, with the germen crowned by a double paleaceous pappus, enveloping the tube of the fioret, above which the stigmas are elevated. c A barren floret of the disk, in which the stigma is shown in the elevation it acguires to aid in the distribution of the pollen among the florets of the ray: magnif. 7, "d alo bry £ rro / ff > Heras ^l Lug Aly 4437 Att why ole / "P 35 GAZANIA pavonia. Hazel-ringed Gazania. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA FRUSTRANEA. GAZANIA. (Flores radiati.) Recept. epaleatum (nudum; v. alve- olatum germinibus exsertis). Semina villosissima. Pappus piloso- paleaceus. Cal. monophyllus: tubo foliolis imbricatis tecto v. nudo. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 5. 140. Herbz perennes; rhizoma brecitêr caudescens, procumbens. Folia integra v. pinnatifida. Flores solitarii : duplici nisü se claudentes; ubi enim connivet radius, ibi ligula singula sese arctě involvit à lateribus suis seorsim, iterüm divergente radio sese explicatura. G. pavonia, foliis pinnatifidis suprà pilosis subtüs tomentosis : laciniis ovali-lanceolatis, scapo unifloro, caule decumbente. Brown, ubi supra. Gorteria pavonia. Andrews’s reposit. 523. Rhizoma divisum, fuscum, sepiůs pluriceps. Folia plurima, rigida, fas- ciculato-approximata, petiolato-lyrata, pinnatifida, suprà & in nervis undique hispida, subtůs candicantia, lobis mucronato-acutis integerrimis, sensim. in- Jernè versůs decrescentibus in meros mucrones; petiolus basi dilatatus con- voluto-amplexicaulis. Pedunculus scaposus, uniflorus, è centro foliorum quibus altior, seepiůs foliolo uno aut altero lineari vag? stipatus, subpubescens. Cal. nudus, cupulatus, viridis, nigro marmoratus, subarachnoideus, setulis albis tuberculo nigro insitis scabratus, suprà imbricato-multifidus lacinulis erectis, ovalis, exciso-attenuatis, obtusis, muticis, glabris, let? virentibus peripheeriá nigra. Radius numerosus, simplex, uncias 4 magisve transversus, aureus circulo ud basin intůs ferrugineo & figuris albis fulvisque notato, extůs carulescente : flosc. neutri tubo complanato solido; ligula spathulato-lanceo- latá, apice levissime. indentatá, dorso carinato-biplicatá. Discus numerosus, ustulato-fulvescens, altitudine calycis, hermaphroditus, fertilis : flosc. cum barbá longá sericea ascendente germinum intermixti, tereti-tubulosi, 5-lineati, glabri, 5-fidi lacinulis subulatis inferně conniventibus supernè stellatis. Anth. utea, inclusa, acute 5-dentata. Stylus ubi cingitur antherá violaceus, infra albidus : stig. parüm crassius, clavato-elongatum, lutescens, totum exsertum, superne in duo replicata secedens, basi annulato-protuberans : germ. coe obconicum, aloes suo triplo altius, tectum pilis densis tenuissimis & mollissi- mis, flosculo parŵm brevioribus : pappus his triplo brevior, paleaceo-pilosus, multiplex in serie singulari. Recept. convexum brevitěr alveolato-pilosum. The genus was founded under its present name by Gert- ner, by detaching from GORTERIA its well-known rigens ; and has been since judiciously adopted by Mr. Brown, in the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis, wbere two other species have been added, of which the. present is one, In GonrERIA the pappus, or seed-crown, is a mere ciliate edge, and the calyx closes and finally hardens round the seed, which it retains and falls off with; circumstances that do not belong to GAZANIA. The subject of the present article is from the Cape of Good Hope, where it was collected by Mr. Niven, for Mr. Hibberts late botanic establishment at Clapham, about the year 1804. The specific name seems to have been suggested by some resemblance in the colour of the ray to that of the corolla of the Tiripia pavonia. The coriaceousiy thickened calyx is formed of a concretion of numerous unegual leaflets, the inner ones of which remain separated near the top, into about 4 imbricate series. The dark irregular marks and small one-bristled knobs or tu- bercles, that are seen on its outside, denote the termina- tions of the several leaflets that are merged in its substance. When the flower closes in the evening, or from the absence of sunshine, besides the general movement by which the ray converges, each of its broad semiflorets rolls itself up very compactly from each side, inwards, to the middle; to expand again in the morning, or when the sun appears. In GAZANIA rigens the circle that encompasses the foot of the ray is black, here of an hazel-brown on the inside, and blue on the opposite surface. At Messrs. Colvilles and Mr. Knights nurseries, we have seen a plant which we take to be an hybrid, or cross production of the two, partaking in almost egual proportions of those parts in which the pa- rents differ, but altogether smoother and more robust than either; the very circle of the ray is partly black, as in rigens ; partly brown, as in pavonia. The present drawing was made in part at the Comtesse de Vandes' botanic-garden, and in part at Messrs. Fraser's, in Sloane Sguare. The species is certainly perennial, although marked in the Hortus Kewensis as biennial. Should be kept in the greenhouse, where it reguires no'care beyond an occasional supply of water. Easily multiplied by dividing the root- stock. a The calyx deprived of all the florets. ¿A vertical section of the re- ceptacle, with the lower portion of the calyx. c A floret of the ray; frontwise. d The back of the same. e A floret of the disk ; with its ger- men and seed-crown, or pappus, enveloped in the pubescence that grows from the former. Syd Bbweridd deb. i MAN A ; VÀ » à / ao Bb ty JA queens 770 Ao, SRI A Uy Mly ue /d 75 "4 36 ECHIUM fruticosum. Shrubby Cape- Viper's Bugloss. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ECHIUM. (Fructus gymno-tetraspermus. Faux corolla nuda.) Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. tubo brevi, limbo ampliore, campanulato, ob- liguê 5-lobo inzquali. Stigma 2-fidum. Flores spicat? aut spicato- paniculati, in spiculis secundi. Species quedam suffrutescentes. Frans: gen. 130. E. fruticosum, undìgue pubescens; floribus in summis ramis laxê sub- corymboso-paniculatis; tubo fimbriâ villosà 5-lobâ clauso : staminibus inclusis, inzequalissimis. Echium fruticosum. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 199. Berg. cap. 39. Thunb. prod. 33. Hort. Kew. 1.186. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 782. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 908; (excluso Jacguino.) i E. caule fruticoso, ramis foliisgue pilosis. Mill. dict. ed. 7. n. 7. E. africanum fruticans foliis pilosis. Comm. hort. 2. 107. t. 54. Frutex 3-pedalis, ramosus, cortice fusco ; rami albo-villosi, patentes. Folia numerosa, non conferta, sparsa, patentissima, coriaceo-crassa, elongato- oblonga acumine brevi, deorsům subattenuata, sessilia, ex punctis elevatis piliferis villoso-strigosa, cana, avenia costá mediâ subtàs prominulá, 1-2-un- cialia, 2-4 lineas lata. Panicule laxe ramorum terminales tandem corymboso- Jastigiantes, singule ex spiculis pluribus pedunculatis axillaribus patentibus sepè conjugatis, evolventibus sese floribus sensim arrigende. Bracte@ dimi- nuto-foliace@, persistentes. Flores suaveolentes, ferme unciales, ante espli- cationem roseo-rubentes, inde cerulescentes. Cal. herbaceus, vix semuncialis, subbilabiatus, hirsutus; segmenta lineari-subulata, 2 summa proximiora, imum subminus. Cor. extůs pubescens, turbinato-campanulata, bilabiato- obliguata, nervis 5 albis equidistantibus striata ; laciniae breves, subsemiovato- rotundate, summa 2 proximiores, porrectiores. Stam. ori villoso tubi angusti brevissimi imposita, declinato-assurgentia, divergentia, unum plurimům bre- vius. Stylus filamentis duplo gracilior, fusino-filiformis, pro maximá sud parte villosus, utrinque breviter attenuatus © glaber: stig. obtusum, levissimě 2- fidum, We do not doubt that tbe present plant is the Ecurum fruticosum of the Hortus Kewensis; but certainly have some doubt whether that of Jacguin, admitted for a synonym in the late edition of that work, is of the same species. There the inflorescence terminates each branch in a simple continuous scattered axillary upright spike of smaller flowers, and the leaves are of a more ovate form and shorter. Spontaneous specimens of each have been evidently grouped together, as of one species, in the Banksian Herbarium. VOL. L L But still we think their diversity is of that sort that cannot be presumed an effect of either age or seminal incon- stancy. And we have no reason to think it has been proved by experiment, or even deduced from any analogous varia- tion in other species of the tribe. Our plant is undoubtedly that of Bergius, whose description is complete; of Com- melin, of Thunberg, and of Miller as a specimen from the Chelsea garden proves. We have no reason to suspect its not being likewise that of Liunzus, who quotes Commelin's figure; but we have not seen his specimen, and what he has said of it will not serve to decide so near a distinction. It comes very close to glabrum, but that is destitute of pubescence, and is glaucous. The colour of the corolla varies from nearly all blue to nearly all pearl-colour, and the plant has a very different appearance when the several spikelets are completely evolved, from that which it has when these are only partially so. While the leaves are young and fresh, the appressed pubescence can scarcely be said to be hard, but when these are full grown or dry, this is as rigid nearly as if of metal; each hair stands upon a small tubercle or elevated callous point, which is sometimes white, like chalk. The bloom smells like honey. Bergius notices the pubescence in the orifice of the tube, but as an appendage to the bases of the stamens. Cultivated in 1759 by Miller. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. A green- house plant; thriving in peat-earth with a mixture of hazel- loam ; and if placed in a pan of water just before the bloom expands, this will be larger and more purple than other- wise. Blooms in May and June. Multiplied by cuttings. The drawing was made from a plant in Mr. Creswell's conservatory at Earl's Court, Brompton. We saw one at Mr. Colville's nursery, in the King's Road, with larger flowers, some of which were of a peach-colour, and nearly transparent; the young branches were also very red. And another at Mr. Knights exotic nursery, in which the flowers were smaller and bluer even than in the present, and the young branches entirely green, without any mix- ture of red whatever. a The calyx. 5 The tube of the flower deprived of its limb, and cut open to show the insertion of the stamens and the villous orifice. c The pistil. | PANI = WA MM NO Id Cdwardg. deb. prem, | St Petr by S Fg, ge Siecaddly Sy /. IM S E —o 37 RHODODENDRON punctatum. g. Plain-flowered dotted-leaved Rhododendron. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA, RHODODENDRON. Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. monopetala, infan- dibuliformis, limbo patente, 5-lobo. Stam. corollæ inserta, declinata. Germ. superum; stig. simplex. Caps. 5-loc., valvis utroque margine introflexo singulis loculum constituentibus polyspermum, & axi cénuali annexis: sem. minuta. ^ Frutices. Flores axillares aut terminales, spicati aut subcorymbosi, pedicellis. longis unitioris basi bracteolatis. Gemma in plurimis. ler- minales imbricate. Jussieu. gen. 158. R. punctatum, foliis ovali-lanceolatis utrinque acutis glabris subtüs fer- rugineis resmoso-punctatis, umbellis terminalibus, pedicellis brevibus, dentibus calycis brevissimis, corollis infundibuliformibus, laciniis ovatis subundulatis, capsulis elongatis, Pursh amer. sept. 1. 298. Rhododendron punctatum. Willd, sp. pl. 2. 607. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 9. 51. R. minus. Michaux. bor-amer. 1, 258. Persoon. syn. 1. 478. (2) corolla minore supra in fauce viridi maculata. . punctatum. Andrews’s reposit. 30. Venten. cels. 15. (8) corolla majore, maculis viridibus experte. Supra. : Frutex proliferus 2-4-pedalis, badio-corticatus i folia subtůs $ rami un- digue resiná sudatá primo albido-crystallizante inde Jerrugineo-exsiccante dens? punctata. Folia subtriuncialia coriacea, suprà lurido-viridia immersê reticulato-venosissima, glabra. Umbella pluri-(6-8) flora, pedicellis corollá duplo brevioribus, bracteis extimis sphacelatis, intimis viridibus. Cor. roseo- pallescens, limbo subbilabiato-rotato, laciniis rotundatis, equalibus, 3 su- premis subantrorsům conniventibus, 2 infimis subretrorsům divaricatis. Fil. infra medium crassiora barbatague > anth. introrse, secundům sulcum dorsa- lem affixe, poro gemino dehiscentes. Stylus filamentis duplo crassior & brevior, deflectendus ; stig. obliguč & transverse semicapitato-obtusum, anticê papulo- sum, This handsome variety of the dotted-leaved Rhododen- dron has been very lateÌy raised from seed imported from America by Messrs. Fraser, nurserymen, in Sloane Square, by whom the other variety was introduced in 1780. It differs from that, in being a plant of a more compact growth, With a broader foliage, a corolla an inch or more in depth, and of an uniform pale pink colour, entirely free from the green spots that are so conspicuous in the upper part of the faux of the other; where the corolla is little more than half L2 the depth of the present. The species is native of the moun- tains of Carolina. Like most other North American plants, it grows with us in the open air; but the buds which contain the flowers are apt to be so far affected by our late frosts, as to prevent a perfect expansion of the bloom, unless the plant has been removed into a greenhouse conservatory or some kind of shelter very early in the spring. Should be planted in bog-earth, where it attains the height of three feet, and sometimes even four. The present variety pro- mises, independent of the superior beauty of the flower, to be a more valuable acguisition than the old one; as it has not the defect of becoming straggling and bare, which that has. Propagated by layers, as well as seed. a The pistil, showing the manner in which the small five-cleft calyx con- verges round the germen when the corolla has been removed. 8 A stamen. c The outline of a detached flower from the old variety, to show the dif- ference of size between the two, and the manner of the spotting of the co- rolla in that. QAM S by J Kapu Ye Het by A SM 38 AMARYLLIS crocata. Reflex-flowered Amaryllis. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. AMARYLLIS. Supra fol. 23. A. crocata, spatha bivalvi, pluriflora, pedicellis subaquali; corolla in- zquali, nutante, divaricato-ringente, tubo germen vix zequante ; lacinia summa remota, partim reflexa, lateralibus cunctis in imam deflexam & duplo angustiorem obliquantibus : fauce tubi nuda. Bulbus tectus membranis pallido-fuscis. Folia plura, bifaria, recurva, lorato-lanceolata fine obtuso-attenuato, striata insterstitiis per lineolas trans- versas interruptas cancellatis, subsesguipedalia duasque uncias ad summum lata, nec glauca. Scapus glaucissimus, bipedalis, columnaris crassitudine digiti majoris, teres, basi purpurascens. Spatha (in presenti specimine) 4- Hora, lanceolata, citò exarescens, reflexa, striata. © Pedunculi erecti, biun- "ciales, obtuse triguetri. Germ. viride, oblongum, obtusê trigonum, tubo crassius et ferè longius; loculi ovulis fæti numerosis. compresso-cumulatis. Cor. miniato-crocata, venis simplicibus parallelis striata, subquadriuncialis ; infernê brevitér in tubum virentem imbricato-connata ; faux brevis, amplis turbinata, intůs stellata radiis senis subrhomboideo-lanceolatis flavo-virentibus ; limbus radiato-recurvus; laciniae ovali-lanceolate, subundulate exteriores trine latiores, hamato-mucronate, suprema in labium summum procul segregata, laterales due superiores horizontaliter divergentes, opposite, mutice, latere utroque replicato-undulate, infima omnium angustior, elongato-oblonga, apice rotundata. Stam. declinato-assurgentia, alternà longiora, corollá + circitêr breviora : fil. $ stylus rubent. Stigmata profundius discreta, lineari-teretia, obtusa, alba. — The same collection which two months ago enabled us to add the AMARYLLIS rutila to the list of this splendid genus, has in the present supplied another unrecorded species, su- perior in beauty to the former. It is said to have been found in the Brazils by Mr. E. Woodford ; and received by the way of Lisbon by Mr. Griffin, with whom it flowered in the dry-stove of his garden at South Lambeth in May last, for the first time. Independent of other peculiarities, it is at once dis- tinguished by the remarkably insulated upper middle seg- ment of its corolla, farther removed from its two immediate lateral ones than in any species we can recollect, and forms alone the upper lip of the flower; while the under-lip may be said to consist of the remainder, four of which converge towards the lower middle one, which does not project as 1n rutila and equestris. The flower has no scent, is of a bright glittering salmon-colour, about four inches deep, and almost six across the widest dimension of the aperture, nearly transparent and streaked with longitudinal parallel veins, not visibly barred in the intervals, as in the leaves. The mouth of the tube is entirely smooth. Stem two feet or more high, clouded with a blueish or grey bloom; /eaves considerably shorter, of a clear unclouded green, and irre- gularly latticed-veined, the intervals between their straight longitudinal parallel veins being crossed or barred by broken lines at equal but irregularly disposed distances; in the way that both flower and leaves are in AMARYLLIS reticulata. It has been suggested to us, that the double-flowered variety of the plant, introduced a few years since by Messrs. Fraser, of Sloane Sguare, and known among the gardeners by the name of AMARYLLIS pulcherrima, may belong to this species, the colour being nearly the same; but we take that to be AMARYLLIS equestris, or a species nearer to that than to the present, if really distinct. The corolla is there, however, too much deformed by the multiplicity of petals to afford decisive evidence of such close distinction; espe- cially as the tube is filled up, and it cannot be discerned with which the interior of that agrees. a Three of the stamens as they are placed on the tube, which is cut open and separated from the rest of the corolla. 4 The pistil. c An unripe capsule. d A diminished figure of the whole plant, after the flower has faded, and the fruit is set. 99 IPOMCEA mutabilis. Blue shrubby Ipomea. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. IPOMGA. Supra fol. 9. Dio. Caulis colubilis. I. mutabilis, fruticosa, pubescens; foliis cordatis integris trilobisve, acuminatis, suprà appressé villosis, scabriusculis, infrà tomentosis ; floribus in summo pedunculo plurimis cymoso-aggregatis (cymulis sepius segregatis); calyce arcto, villoso, subaquali, suprà laxo. Frutex sempervirens, altissimè scandens, radice $ superius in caule sar- menta promens innumera purpurea asperiůs villosa ; caulis crassitudine digiti, lignosus, Jlexilis, tenax, cinereo-corticatus : rami teretés, volubiles alterně remotěgue foliosi, novelli subtomentosi. Folia petiolata sinú baseos obtusissimo v. subtruncato, ad summum guadriuncialia, vix longiora quàm lata, suprà viridia, subtůs tomentoso-albicantia venisque varicosis adscendentibus cum aliis transversis cancellata : petiolus parům brevior filiformis, suprà obsoletê cana- liculatus. Pedunculi stricti, teretes, asperiůs villosi, ramiformes, petiolo plurimům longiores, axillares, solitarii, multiflori, suprà composito-cymosi ; cymae 1-3, congesto-trichotome, breves, terminales $ laterales, proxime, brevitèr stipitate vel sessiles, folio diminuto ad basin posito segregate, villose; pedicelli calyce breviores, laterales singularum trichotomiarum plures, bast bibracteati, medius nudus; bractee subulate. Cal. uncialis; foliola an- gusta, lineari-lanceolata acumine longo subulato laxo, conformia, intima 2 parüm minora. Cor. magna, triplo magisve longior ; tubus albus in faucem Cylindricam pro altero tanto ampliatus ; limbus rotato-campanulatus, mana vividissim? cyaneus, inde è plicis rubere incipiens, totus vesper? roseo-emar- cescens, lacinie rotundate, medio fisse, Latta 5 interstincte. Stam. erecta, tubo faucis inclusa, albida, bast barbata, 2 breviora satis. Stigma granulato- globosum, album. Mba, We have to add another species to this encumbered genus; at least we are unable to reduce the present to any recorded plant that we can trace. It approaches near to Irowca congesta of Mr. Brown (prodr. 485), which we take to be ConvoLvuLus multiflorus of the Banksian Herba- rium from New Holland; but there the leaves are all entire, smaller, and covered on the upper surface with a short dense pile like that of velvet; not as here, somewhat roughened by a thin appressed pubescence; nor is that a shrubby species, none of which indeed came within the ob- servation of Mr. Brown in the parts of New Holland he visited. A plant of rapid and extensive growth, having in the VOL, L M present instance attained the length of near 60 feet within the space of three years from seed; and had not the swarm of runners it produces from both root and stem been re- peatedly stopped and removed, would probably have ex- tended itself on all sides to the same distance, and overrun the stove in which it grows. We can hardly conceive any single vegetable to form a more pleasing and durable orna- ment than this; which should be led round the hothouse along a lath or iron-rod, when the twining branches, clothed by a broad heart-shaped foliage, will constitute a thick evergreen wreath, from various parts of which, throughout its whole extent, a succession of large azure bloom is kept up for months together; so that the entire circumference of the house will be daily enlivened by fresh appearances of it. Individually the flowers are but of short duration; in the morning, of a vivid ultramarine blue; by mid-day, reddening at the plaits of the border ; before sun- set, wholly suffused with red, when they dissolve. The stem is of a tough pliable wood, in external appearance much like that of the AmrsroLocurA Sipho. The foliage varies from cordate and undivided, to two three-lobed with broad lanceolate divisions. A stove plant, and should be placed in a border of rich loam formed within the tan-pit, and boarded off from the tan down to the bottom. No plant can be easier to multiply; the runners protruding their roots, even while suspended in the air, from beneath the leaf at every Joint. Native of South America, Raised from seed brought from Vera Cruz about three years ago to Alexander John- ston, gardener to Mrs. Hatch, Clayberry Hall, Essex; but whether gathered in the neighbourhood of the town, or in the interior of the country, cannot at present be ascer- tained. The drawing was made at the botanical establishment of the Comtesse de Vandes, Dayswater. a The stamens as they stand within the cylindric faux. è The pistil. ardd del. ML by E Hutt 94 “JO Pera Le tly Magi 1 ^f, li "dee do a LO "IM ld Le 40 CALENDULA chrysanthemifolia, Large-flowered shrubby Cape-marygold. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA NECESSARIA, CALENDULA. Suprê fol. 98. C. chrysanthemifolia, foliis cuueato-obovatis lyrato-incisis scabriusculis, caule fruticoso erecto. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 169. Calendula chrysanthemifolia, Venten. malmais. 56. Persoon. syn. 9. 402. q Suffrutex qualis CALENDULA Tragus 8 folii superioris 28, Pedunculi solitarii, teretes, uniflori, nudiusculi, ramorum MA erectorum con- finut, uti rami calyx atque folia hispidiŵs villosi. Folia sesqui-biuncialia, sparsa, horizontalia, distantia, cuneato-v. obovato-oblonga, incisa segments Sinubusgue angulatis acutis modóque -subdentatis, in petiolum decursivo- attenuata. Flos totus flavus, maximus generis: flosc. radii feminei, totidem ac foliola calycis, sesquiunciales longioresve latitudine vix bilineari, lanceolato- lineares, in tubo brevi & paullàm supra eum pilosi, 5-nerves, obsolete plicati, apice seepiůs anguste tridentati, subtüs partim rubore tincti: stylus flavus exsertus; stig. 2, linearia, acuta, recurvata, flava: germ. obpyramidatum, glabrum, 3-quetrum, angulis membranoso-extenuatis : disci hermaphroditi, steriles calyci equales, extůs villosi, cylindrici, basi in tubulum brevem gla- brum constricti; limbus erectus, acuminatus : anth. partim. exserte, apice 3 dentate; stig. 2, lineari-oblonga, obtusa, patula, satis supra antheram ele- vata: germ. obcordato-oblongum, complanatum, subinequilaterum lateribus membranaceis quorum externo pibbosiore, apice obliguê depressum, margine brevi membranaceá externě versůs productiore et quasi subauriculata, Just such another undershrub as the CALENDULA Tragus of this work (see fol. 28) ; attains the same height, requires, like that, to be supported while in bloom, and is propagated in the same way, but is generally more numerously branched, In the foliage and flower there is considerable difference; the latter is thelargest yet known of the genus. The whole of the herbaceous part of the plant is covered with a short harsh pubescence. It blooms freely most part of the summer, is very ornamental, and the flower lasts long unfaded; nor does it require so bright a day to expand as in Tragus, nor close so capriciously from change of weather as in that. Monsieur Ventenat, by whom it was first made known, considers the species as partaking of both OsrEOsPERMUM and CALENDULA; agreeing with the former in a fertile female ray and barren hermaphrodite disk, with the latter in the seed. M2 Native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was introduced by Mr. Masson in 1790. ‘Till lately usually known among our gardeners by the name of OTHONNA grandiflora. When the flower has been expanded for some time the ray becomes revolute in the circumference, and the disk appearing higher and more convex than usual in the genus, owing to a greater extension of the styles, it then reminds us of that of some RupDBECKIAs. A green- house plant, thriving in a mixture of peat-earth and hazel- loam, The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley Brame and Milne, King’s Road, Parson’s Green. e A floret of the ray.. b A floret of the disk: slightly magnified. c A vertical section of the calyx, showing the receptacle deprived of al] the florets. 41 Smith Jt pel no rrt ll, ‘ de /. ” : | a "T , H 7. Sib iy E EN Fi O She ned lf A hey “LS / S i âl SENECIO speciosus. Red-flowered groundsel, SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. SENECIO. (Recept. nudum. Sem. papposum.) Flores flosculosi, ant radiati, ligulis aut flosculis marginalibus feemineis. Cul. simplex, quasi monophyllus, erectus conicus, basi calyculatus s. cinctus squamulis apice sphacelatis aut nigrescentibus, maturatione reflexus. Puppus pi- losus. Suffrutices aut sepiüs herbe ; folia integra aut pinnatifida ; ligule quorumdam. rubentes, quorumdam brevissima ferè flosculose. Jussieu. gen. 181. Div. Floribus radiatis: radio patente. © Foliis pinnatifidis.. » S. speciosus, corollis radiantibus, caule subsimplici nudiusculo, foliis radicalibus petiolatis oblongis sinuato-pubesceutibus. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 5. 43. Senecio speciosus. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1991. Senecio Pseudo-China. © Andrers's reposit. 991 ; (nec aliorum.) Herba perennis, graveolens, pilis asperiusculis glanduliferis tecta ; radix fibrosa; caulis tereti-striatus, nunc infra uniramosus, suprà subaphyllus ; folia semiamplezicaulia, inferně caulina, longitudine 3-5-unciall, latitudine vir unguôm unciali, elongato-lyrata, inegualitěr oblusêgue sinuato-excisa, acute dentata, basi subauriculata $ utrinque deflexa, pubescentiá à prono Sepe purpurascente ; unum aut et alterum in summo caule, sagittato-lanceo- latum. Flores pauci (3-42), odori, pro genere magni, satural purpurei, corymboso-terminales ; pedunculi bracteá appressá ad basin. Cal. semuncialis, cyathoidi-cylindricus, virens, squamulis paucis lineari-subulatis inequalibus apice purpureis imbricatus. Radius sesquiunciam transversus ; flosc. Po stellato-distantes, diametro disci duplo v. magis longiores, ligula planá ineari- oblongá, 5-nervi, obtusa & apice levissimě tridentatá ; tubus haud multům brevior, filiformis, germine 3-plo longior : stylus parům ezsertus ; Stig. 2, linearia, replicata. Discus hermaphr., numerosus; flosc. infundibuliformes ; tubus gracilis, faux brevior campanulata, limbus stellatus, acutus, pur- pureus : anth. atropurpurea, pro maxima sud parte exserta : stigmata pur- purea, filiformia, ad usque inter fissuras anthere reflexa, apice (sub lente. J orbiculato-pubescentia. Germen in flosculo utroque simillimum, gracilius tereti-striatum ; pappus simplex, pilosus, longitudine tubi florum. Recept. planum nudum. An ornamental species of a genus where few such are to be expected. The foliage has a rank weed-like smell, not unlike that of the common Dead-nettle; the bloom how- ever, which is produced about May or June, is rather fra- ede The stem rises from a foot to a foot and a half ligh; the leaves have sometimes the appearance of being radical, but when the stem is fully grown out they will be found to be all truly cauline, although situated low; these have sometimes a purplish hue beneath, owing to the pu- bescence having there assumed that colour, but are more commonly all green. The part of the world to which the species naturally belongs, seems not to be precisely deter- mined. We have heard it called siberian by some, chinese by others. Introduced by Mr. George Slater in 1789. It is a hardy greenhouse-plant, reguiring no particular treat- ment; and is propagated by off-sets from the root, which are however produced but sparingly. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the King's Road, Chelsea. a The calyx. ¿A floret of the disk, with germen and pappus. c The same of the ray. d A vertical section of the calyx, to show the enclosed receptacle, (el. AL € f yN ed thed Pm 42 PJEONIA albiflora. £. Esculent Peony. POLYANDRIA DIGYNIA. PEONIA. (Capsule polysperme, intůs dehiscentes. Petala re- gularia.) Cal. pentaphyllus aut 5-partitus. Pet. 5. Germ. 2-5, (cincta membrana communi varia profunditatis); styli O; stig. 2-5, capitata. Caps. tomentose; semina ovalia, succo rubro colorata. Folia sepě magna, \-2-pinnata aut 1-2-ternata, foliolis lobatis ; flores subsolitarit terminales magni, varie purpurei aut rariŵs albidi. Jussieu, gen. 234. P. albiflora, foliis biternatis: foliolis ovato-lanceolatis integris nudis capsulis recurvatis glabris. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1222. Peonia albiflora. Pall. ross. 1. 92. t. 84. Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 3. 316, Georgi beschr. des russ. reichs. 3. 4. 1049. P. lacteo flore, foliis utrinque viridantibus et splendentibus, Amman. ruth. 77. n. 103. Gmel. fl. sib. 4. 184. n. 13, (a) P. albiflora. — Andrews's reposit. 64. (8) P. edulis. Salisb. parad. lond. 78. (y) P. albiflora flore pleno. — Andraws's reposit. 619. Herba perennis. Rhizoma tubera plura fusiformia demittens. Caulis è vaginá radicali, erectus, rigidus, crassitudine calami, vir angulosus, sesqui- a Folia alterna, distantia petiolo longo stricto, biternata et modě ulteriùs divisa ad simplicia atque integra ; foliola horizontalia, ovali-lanceolata, saturatě viridia in nervis dirio glabra, subtŵs lucida pallida et varicoso- nervosa, margine ciliolato-asperiuscula, ad summum sesuncialia latitudine biunciali. Flores subtrini, solitarii, axillares summo terminali, fastigiantes, pedunculo longo foliolis nonnullis vagis diminutis stipato. Cal. persistens ex Joliolis herbaceis cum aliis coloratis oblato-rotundatis intermixtis. Cor. petala 8-10, albo-erubescentia, obovata, rotundata, margine summá integra v. den- ticulato-erosa, sesqui-biuncialia. Germ. sepiús 9, rariùs 5, glabrata, rubra ; membrana perigyna brevissima, plicatim corrugata margine ineguabili, hic ind? fissa; stig. continua, glabra, laminosa, ovata, introrsům complicantia, extrorsüm recurvata. A hardy herbaceous perennial plant, native of the fur- thermost parts of Siberia. The root, which consists chiefly of a fascicle of parallel cylindrically tuberous fibres, is said, in the * Flora rossica," to be used by some of the Tartar tribes, as an article of food; and its seed reduced to pow- der, as an ingredient of their tea. The bloom of the present variety is large and showy, diffusing a very powerful, and to some people not unpleasant scent. The species was in- troduced by the Chevalier Pallas in 1784. Flowers about June. We are told of both a single and double variety with petals of a fine rose-colour. We have not seen either. The peculiar membrane which in this genus surrounds the group of germens, in the present species is narrow and in- conspicuous; but in a chinese one, supposed to be the single-flowered Pxronta Moutan, envelops them entirely. By some botanists we find this part considered as an in- herent and peculiar feature of the genus; by others as an in- cidental and partial excrescence. Mr. Brown, who had ob- served in the double variety of Moutan, that where there was an incipient multiplication of the group or body of ger- mens, these formations were constantly accompanied by se- parate imperfect ones of this part; tells us that subsequent observations have counterbalanced the weight he at first at- tached to this fact, and that he is now inclined to give but little importance to the part, at least as a generic feature. The drawing was made from specimens for which we have to thank Mr. Sabine, of Edward Street, Cavendish Square. K. The calyx. 8 A stamen. c The pistillums. d The perigynous mem- rane. gy mm 43 PANCRATIUM ovatum. Oval-leaved Sea-daffodil. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. PANCRATIUM. Infor. umbellata in scapo terminalis spathâ bi- plurìvalvi ; rariůs uniflora. Cal. 0. Cor. supera, infrá tubulosa, /imbo sexpartito, radiato. Fil. fauce tubi imposita, erecto-divergentia, infra à membrana varie altitudinis in coronam connexa: anth. introrsům vibra- tiles. Germ. polyspermum, v. sepè loculis dispermis. Stylus corolla subaegualis, inclinato-assurgens : stigma simplex, trinave linearia. Caps. 3-loc., S-valv., valvis medio septigeris: sem. plurima, vel pauca, aut abortu solitaria atque loculo conformia. , Bulbus tunicatus. Folia bi-v. plurifaria, angustě ligulata ad ES tico-lanceolata, rar) angustě semitereti-petiolata lamina transversè la- tiore. Flores erecti aliguandô à limbo nutantes. Testa seminis rariùs nierescit. A Cwyno tantüm propter stamina monadelpha diversum. Alias accedit Amarytribi ad ejusdem species cum fauce mem- branaceo-fimbrialá. Distinguitur Narcisso ex coroná fauciali colli- gante stamina ipsi longiora, neque ac in eo breviora includente. Div. Multiflore. P. ovatum, sessiliflorum ; folis bifariis, ovalibus, utrinque brevitêr at- tenuatis, striatis; tubo tereti, estriato, limbum subzeguante; laciniis linearibus infrà medium involuto-crispatis: corona dentibus integris. Pancratium ovatum. Mill. dict. ed. 6. (Lond. 1771. 4to.) n. 9. i P. amenum. Andrews's reposit. 556; (figura parùm bona, sed huic â certiori jure pertinens quam amoeno, cui quidem incertó datur in Curt, mag. No. 1467). Nec aliorum. P, amboinense. £. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 419. : s P. foliis ovatis, nervosis, spatha multiflora, staminibus nectario longiori- bus. Mill. dict. ed. 7. n. 9. á DI P. foliis amplis ovatis acuminatis petiolatis, spatha multiflora, staminibus nectario longioribus. Trew. ehret. tab. 28... t B Folia plura, reclinata, pedalia magisve, 4-6 uncias lata, deorsům in petio- lum aliguoričs angustiorem pluričs breviorem parům crassiorem attenuata. Scapus foliis binding, glaucus, complanato-anceps, margine utringue mem- branaceo-acutá. Spatha 6-8-flora, herbaceo-albicans, plurivalvis, tubo bre» vior, erecta, valvis extimis oblongis obtusis. Cor. candida ; tubus 2-uncialis, strictus, obsoletissimè 3-gonus, limbo superne radiato-recurvo subeegualis ; lacinie exteriores subangustiores vix duas lineas lata, viridi-mucronate + corona tubulato-infundibuliformis à limbo tota libera, dentibus senis intersta- mineis acutis integris. Stam. ex limbo und quintá parte breviora : anth. gra» Giles, fulue. Stig. viride, subcapitellato-depressum. Four closely resembling species of this genus, all from the West Indies, have for a long time been cultivated in VOL, I. N our stoves ; and liave created some perplexity among bota- nists as to their distinction. Three of these, viz. caribeum (fragrans of the 2d edit. of Hort. Kew.), amenum, and speciosum, have been correctly figured in Curtis's Botanical Magazine; and we have now an opportunity of publishing the fourth, the one of the least frequent occurrence. This may be distinguished at first sight from the other three by a smaller flower, much slenderer in all the parts, and by â proportionately far broader foliage. Linnzus has made it a variety of amboinense in his second edition of the Species Plantarum, evidently from a very imperfect acguaintance with both; no two plants that can be included in the same genus being more widely and clearly distinct when sufficiently known. Miller, by whom the present species was cultivated, has recorded it in the sixth and last guarto edition of his Dictionary, by the name we have adopted ; but we do not find that it has since been received into any systematic enumeration of vegetables as a separate one. It approaches amenum (lately published in Redouté’s Li- liacées, tab. 413, by the name of fragrans) the nearest of any other; but still differs, beside the smallness of the flower and breadth of the foliage, by a tube that has no trace of an hexangular form, by a limb, that, instead of be- ing a third longer, is scarcely egual to the tube, and by a crown in which the interstamineous teeth are entire, and not bipartite. All the four species are very fragrant, and if kept constantly in the bark-bed will flower twice, and some- times even thrice a year. The figure we have adduced in the synonymy from the Botanist's Repository, we formerly believed to belong to azmezuz but now think that it has been more probably intended for ovatum; in truth, it is hard to say where it belongs. Ovatum, though of long standing, is far from a common plant in our collections; it is inferior, in point of ornament and fragrance, to the other three, especially to speciosum and caribeum, of which last a correct and characteristic figure has been very lately given in Willdenow's “ Hortus berolinensis” (tab. 73). The drawing was made from a plant which flowered in the hothouse in Mr. Griffin's garden at South Lambeth. The stem was about the length of the outer leaf, which was about one foot long and half of one broad, —— ih ÏO a The pistil freed from the corolla, e , E 7) 2 "mm Ape. Cede tele del. Pl by P S70 m Atl iz. by / VALS. 44 ECHIUM candicans. Hoary Tree-Viper's Bugloss. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ECHIUM. Supra fol. 36. E. candicans, caule fruticoso, foliis lanceolatis nervosis ramisgue hirsutis, foliolis calycinis oblongis lanceolatisque acutis, stylis hirtis, Hort. Kew. 1. 186. Echium candicans. Lin. suppl. 131. Syst. veg. ed. 14. 189. Jacq. coll. 1. 44. ic. rar. 1.30. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 782. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 299. Planta arborescens, erecta, ramosa, modo or yalis, corlice cinereo, ri- moso; rami suprà transversim cicatrizati, novelli crassi, succulenti, stricti, hirsutiùs villosi, approximatě nec wer confertim foliosi. Folia numerosa, spithamea, sparsa, patentissima, modo passim subverticillata v. rariüs passim per paria opposita, villoso-canescentia, in nervis precipuis scabrida, angustiis lanceolata, in acumine longinquè attenuata, suprà immerse nervosa nervis ascendentêr prolongatis, subtüs varicosis ; in petiolum semiteretem basi dila- tatum attenuata. Panicula cylindrica spicata rami terminatrir; spicule multe, modů rare $ remotiores, mod in cylindrum pyramidatum imbricato- congeste, pedunculate, sparse, axillares in foliis supernis diminutis, ex partim retroflexis sensim arrigende, biseriato-secunde, bracteis parvis fo- liaceis persistentibus lanceolatis singularibus externě ad utrumque latus stipate. Cal. herbaceus, hirsutus, «equalis, segmentis lineari-lanceolatis, obtusulis, Cor. è minoribus generis, dilutě roseo-cerulescens, equalis, subbilabiata, ob- tusa, extůs pubescens. Stamina long? exserta, assurgentia, s@piùs rubentia, The white hue so conspicuous in this plant, and which has suggested the specific name, is communicated by a short thick villous pubescence that covers nearly every part of it. The stem is of a close-graìned hard wood, and sometimes nearly two inches in diameter near the base. The bloom is produced in April and May, and continues long in beauty, the [flowers expanding themselves in suc- cession as the numerous spikelets, which are rolled inwards and point towards the axis of the common panicle, proceed in evolving themselves to complete extension. Monsieur Ventenat has expressed a doubt whether the figure we have quoted from Jacquin's works, really belongs to this species; but seems to have overlooked the reasons assigned in the “ Icones rariores" for the peculiar appear- ance of the specimen from which that figure was taken, the stock of which is said to have assumed the one more NZ usual to the species as it advanced in age. We own we do not see any cause to guestion the specific identity of the plants; and the acutest and most diligent of synonym- ists, Mr. Dryander, although aware of the objection (as it appears he was by a manuscript note in the Banksian Library), has adopted it for the synonym of our plant in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis. This shrub is usually kept in the greenhouse; but we are told does better when planted against a wall in a border of lieht sandy soil in a southern aspect, where it survives our common winters and produces an infinitely finer bloom. We have seen the inflorescence of some so treated more than a foot long, and very crowded. Native of the island of Madeira, where it grows on rocks, and is said to attain the height of six feet or more. Introduced by Mr. Masson in 1777. The drawing was made from a plant in Mr. Creswell's conservatory, Earl's Court, Brompton. a The calyx, 6 The corolla dissected vertically. c The pistil. ” gi y VA ny 4 e Sa vale ^L wg Se tby ^ SF Aa 45 MELIANTHUS major. The great Honey-flower. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. MELIANTHUS. Cal. magnus profunde 5-fidus coloratus per- sistens, laciniis inaegualibus, infimà remotá ceteris minore, deorsum gibbà X cucullatà, intůs cavá X fovente glandulam mellifluam (ex disco hypogyno hinc enatam ?) membrana propria conduplicatà cinctam. Pet. 5 ligulaeformia ; 4 inferiora declinata, glandulae inserta extra membranam, basi X apice distincta, medio agglutinata; quintum nunc ceteris proxi- mum, nunc procul inter lacinias 2 calicinas superiores enatam. Stash. 4, germini circumposita; horum filamenta 2 superiora distincta, © inferiora breviora basi connata inter germen & glandulam media; anth. incumbentes. Germ. 4-striatum ; stylus 1; stigma sub 4-fidum. Caps. membranacea vesicaria 4-loba, 4-loc.; loculi medio 1-spermi, com- pressi alaformes, suprà distincti & angulo interiore dehiscentes, infra margine connati in dissepimenta angusta, introrsům apice incisa pro semi- num receptaculo centrali; sem. subrotunda, nitida; embryo cotyledoni- bus parvis, radiculá longiore intra albumen caruosum. Frutex; folia alterna, impari-pinnata petiolo alato, stipulacea stipulis distinctis aut in unam petiolo intůs adnatam connatis ; flores spicati axillares aut ter- minales, singuli bracteati. Jussieu. gen. 297. M. major, stipulis solitariis petiolo adnatis. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 402. Melianthus major. Lin. sp. pl. 2.892. Mill. dict: ed. 8.n. 1. J. Miller illustr. Hort. Kew. 9. 367. ed. 2. 4. 69. M. africanus. Herm. lugdb. 414. t. 415. : Suffrutex modo orgyalis, radice latě repente. Caulis cuniculalus, bast crassitudine pollicis, Folia decursivè pinnata, amplericaulia, rope trita divitis narcoticè olentia ; foliola ovalia, acute serrata: stipulae in unam auriculato-cordatam supra petiolum connate. Racemus erectus, laxé spicatus, subconcolor ; bracte simplices, cordato-acuminate pedicello tereti-striato $ corollam «quante parům breviores. Stam. subulata, longitudine calycis. Stylus siti horum ; subulatus. Germ. 4-gonum, 4-dentatum. Native of the Cape of Good Hope; whence it was brought to Holland in the year 1673, and thence to Eng- land by Mr. Bentinck, afterwards Lord Portland. An undershrub, (that is, a perennial plant, which is partly woody and partly herbaceous) sometimes attaining the height of ten feet, or even more, and spreading itself in all directions by suckers: stem piped, woody below, herbaceous above; leaves large, grey, decursively pinnate; leaflets in four or more pairs, with a single terminal one, 3 oval, deeply and evenly serrate, when bruised diffusing an unpleasant narcotic smell: raceme of a purple-chocolate- colour; if sbaken dropping a sweet brownish liguid, which is secreted by its peculiar nectary, placed within the bag or spur at the base of the lower segment of the calyx, and from which the genus has obtained its appellation. To the natives of the Cape and its neighbourhood this juice is a well-known dainty, and when the plant is in bloom the flower is unfailingly plucked by the first of them that de- scries it. The calyx is here the conspicuous feature of the inflo- resence; the corolla being both inconspicuous and fuga- cious. The last has been rightly described as of five petals by Jussieu, not of four, as we find it said to be in the Genera Plantarum and subsequent compilations. When the flower is reversed, it reminds us of some insect of the grass- hopper kind, Usually kept in the greenhouse; but Miller says, the surest method to have it flower, is to plant it in the open ground, and to cover the shoots in frosty weather, so as to prevent their being killed at the top; having first chosen a wall with a southern aspect, and placed the plant in dry rubbish, that it may shoot less vigorously, be consequently less succulent, and therefore farther without the influence of frost. For, if the stalk is killed at the top, although it sprouts again, it will not flower the same season. Mul- tiplied by suckers taken off at any time from March to September. In favourable summers it ripens seed. The drawing was taken at Mrs. Howard's nursery, King's Road, Little Chelsea, in May last. a The flower as it appears when the calyx has been removed. ¿The nectary taken from the segment of the calyx which contained it. c The separate fifth petal of the corolla. d The four coherent ones of the same. e The pistil, ji vi Ay NN X NN A A” PS A f \ MNA. WN NW NN "mean AN, \\ \ \\\ | * 33 i i “sm MU LU 4 N NW SWYN, N Ne Cr / o / y, Syd Cef to vt thy elt 4 f 4 f / 4 EA Sub. by P Kidguay y ne Hecadilly Argh 1044 46 ROSA sulphurea. Double yellow Rose. ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. ROSA. (Germ. plura indefinita, calyce urceolari suprâ coarctato tecta, quasi infera, singula monostyla. Sem. totidem.) Cal. urceolaris collo coarctatus, suprà 5-fidus laciniis oblongis, © nudis, 2 utrinque appendiculatis, 1 hinc tantüm appendiculatà, (raró omnibus nudis). Pet. 5. Stam. brevia. Singulo stylo stigma simplex. Cal. baccatus sphariceus aut ovoideus, limbo persistente coronatus, fovens semina numerosa oblonga hispida. — Fru/ices, plerique aculeati aculeis sparsis; folia impari-pinnata (raro simplicia), stipulis aleformibus (rarô spina- Jormibus ) imo petiolo communi adnatis ; flores solitarii aut subcorymbosi terminales, sepe magni, in hortis pleni. Jussieu. gen. 335, et 459 m app. R. sulphurea, germinibus globosis, petiolis caulegue aculeatis, aculeis caulinis duplicibus majoribus, minoribusque numerosis, foliis ovalibus. Hort. Kew. 9. 901. Rosa sulphurea. Willd. arb. 905. sp. pl. 2. 1065. Miss Lawr. ros. t. 77. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 258. Smith in Reess cyclop. sub verbo Rosa, n. 3. R. lutea. Brotero fl. lusit. 9. 337 ; (nec aliorum). R. glaucophylla. Lhrh. beitr. 2. 69. . hemispherica. Herrmann. ros. 19. R. lutea multiplex. Park. par. 417. t. 415. f. 6. Ger. emac. 1967. f. 6. R. lutea s. flava maxima fl. pl. Hort. Eyst. vern. ord. 6. fol. ©. f. 4. R. flava pleno flore. Clus. hist. 114. et app. alt. $ cur. post. 6. Frutex modo orgyalis, cortice badio-fulvescente : folia 3-4-pinnata, foliolis glaucissimis ellipticis v. obovatis, simpliciter serratis ; stipulae lacere. © Cal. oblato-hemisphericus, pube glandulosá hispida frequentiori sed non densâ con- &persus. The history of the plants that compose this popular genus, which has appeared in the last fasciculus of Rées's Cyclopedia, coming from the pen of Sir James Smith, it would be an injustice to our readers to omit availing our- selves of the account of the present species. “ This fine and singular species, strangely confounded by “ many botanists, with Rosa lutea, was received by Clusius * from the Levant, but its native country is not precisely “ known. It has been cultivated in England for near 200 “ years, and is perfectly hardy as to cold, but very impatient * of low, confined or smoky situations; nor does it in the most “ favourable often expand its copious and truly glorious * flowers to advantage. We have seen them in the greatest ** perfection, on a poor gravelly soil, exposed to east winds, * about out-houses and hovels, where no care was taken of “the plant. The bush is larger than in R. /utea, and evi- “ dently distinguishable by the pale glaucous hue of its * smooth inodorous leaves. The prickles of the stem are of “ two kinds; some twice as large as the others. Flowers “ large and very double, without scent; of a rich but deli- “ cate golden yellow, their inner petals when perfect so pro- “ fusely and elegantly crumpled, and so brightly transpa- * rent, that neither the structure, nor the colour of any * other rose, can give the slightest idea of their beauty ; much less has any artist, except perhaps Van Huysum, in * one or two of his finest pictures, done this flower tolerable * justice. The flower is well drawn in the old Hortus “ Fystettensis.” We must not however pass over old Parkinson, to whom we owe the first detailed account of this fine shrub; an account that in spite of guaint style and homely language has not yet been surpassed in distinctness of description, or in information relating to the economy of the plant. At that early period of its introduction (before 1629) our au- thor had observed the bad effect of the vicinity of London on its growth, as well as the difficulty there was of having it bloom perfectly in any part of this country. He remarks the round flattened calyx, the blue foliage and the even serrature of the leaflets, as distinguishing it from all other roses. Nor has the pale opague yellow of the outer petals of the flower, as distinguished from the bright golden colour of the inner ones, escaped him. Had it scent, he adds, it would be of all others of highest esteem. He tells us it was first introduced from Constantinople by a merchant of the name of Lete, that with him it failed; and was again imported from the same place by a merchant, called Frangueville, with whom it prospered; and to whom we probably owe the stock now in our gardens. Miller, who is at fault throughout in regard to this plant, asserts that it was brought by the French from Canada; if so, it must have been first carried there. Some old books attribute the yellow colour of the flower to a rose having been ingrafted on a stock of the Broom-plant ! "Our drawing was made from a specimen kindly sent to Mr. Edwards by Mrs. Vicary of Holywell, near Ox- ford, obtained from a garden belonging to Mr. Justice at Sutton, near Abingdon. ‘ ' ce. V Syd, c IT del. SAL by Í Iudyway “ye < t AVI, 1 SC 47 47 PROTEA longifolia. Long-leaved Protea. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. PROTEA. Supra fol. 90. P. longifolia, foliis elongato-linearibus basi attenuatis, involucri turbi- nati bracteis glabris acutis imberbibus, corolla aristis laminá longiori- bus, stylo pubescente apice curvato. Brown in linn. soc. transact. 10. 83. Protea longifolia. Andrews’s reposit. 132, 133, 144. Persoon. syn. 1. . 116. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 190. Protea vidua. Recens. pl. in reposit. botan. depict. 39. n. 199. Protea Lepidocarpodendron. Herb. Linn. Lepidocarpodendron, foliis angustis longis salignis nervo rubro; florum plumis violaceo-purpureis. Boerh. lugdb. 2. 186; cum icone. Folia numerosa, patentissima, spathulato-ligulata, angusta, nuda, avenia, papillis minutissimis albidis (sub lente) densissim? conspersa, sesuncialia v. ultrà, 9-4 lineas lata, acumine obtuso. Bractew exteriores involucri ovato- lanceolate, interiores lineari-lanceolate. Corolle involucro «eguales vel nonnihil longiores, hirsutiùs lanate sed non dense, pilis in aristis atropur- purascentibus. Stylus biuncialis, albo-villosus, subulato-attenuatus, com- presso-teres, flexurá brevi infra stigma. Stigma subulatum, acutum, glabrum, hinc basi nodo obliquo subsemicirculari protuberans. A species that may be known by its long narrow foliage from all its nearest akin that are yet recorded. It is more rare, and multiplied with greater difficulty, than the pulchella of the twentieth article of this work. The bloom is less showy than in that, yet of considerable beauty, but not so freely produced. We find no account of the size the shrub acguires, and it is needless to speak from the single Specimen we have seen in a greenhouse, and of which we knew not the age. What we have already said concerning the treatment of pulchella in the article we have mentioned, applies egually to the present species. Introduced by Mr. Masson from the Cape of Good Hope in the year 1790. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs, Lee and VOL. I. o Kennedy, Hammersmith, the only place in which we have met with it. a The broad lip of the corolla with three of the stamens. 6 The narrow lip of the same with the fourth stamen. c The upper part of the style with the stigma. 4 ^ wards del. Gil ly P Ralpway go Hecadel ly Sl M. (SY 5. bnith. At 48 DIGITALIS canariensis. Canary shrubby Fox-glove. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. . DIGITALIS. Cal. 5-partitus inequalis. Cor. basi tubulosa, su” ‘pra dilatata patens, limbo 4-(5-) lobo inzequali. (Modo adest) rudimentum quinti staminis vix conspicuum. Stigma simplex, aut bilamellatum. Caps. ovata, acuminata, bilocularis, bivalvis, receptaculo centrali ad am- bitum marginato utrinque seminifero, dissepimenti vicem supplente, & valvis parallelo seu earumdem marginibus circümapposito. Sem. nume- rosa, X minuta, Folia alterna, flores spicati terminales. Species pauca fruticulose. Jussieu. gen. 190. D. canariensis, foliolis calycinis lanceolatis, coroll acute labio superiore longiore bifido; inferioris lobis lanceolatis subzequalibus, foliis lanceo- latis serratis, caule fruticoso. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 30. Digitalis canariensis. Lin. sp. pl. 2. 868. Hort. Kew. 2. 346. Mill. ic. 1. 60. t. 120. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 988. Lamarck. ill. t. 595. f. 2. Digitalis acanthoides canariensis frutescens, flore aureo. Comm. hort. 9. 105. t. 53. x Digitali affinis canariensis, solidaginis acutis folis levitèr pilosis, flore aureo cucullato. Pluk. alm. 40. t. 395. f. 2. Gesneria foliis lanceolatis serratis, pedunculo terminali laxé spicato. Hort. cliff. 318. Frutex erectus, modo 5-pedalis, teres, rubro-fuscescens, pubescens, ramosus, superno foliorum vestigiis notatus. Folia numerosa patentia, ramos infra spicas sparsim. approximat? ac ferč comatìm ambientia, uncias 5 plus minus longa, 2 circitěr lata, decurrentia, ovali-lanceolata, acuta, deorsům longè attenuata, decursivê petiolata, serrata dentibus brevibus mucronato-curvatis, reticulato-venosa, suprà asperiůs lanuginosa, infrà subtomentosa, nervis vari- cosis. Racemi erecti, ramos spicatim terminantes, laxiůs multiflori, simplices, pedunculo modo pedali, bracteis simplicibus, pedicellis corollá nutante duplo magisve brevioribus. Flos omnis extüs lanuginosus : laciniw calycine cuspi- dato-lanceolate : cor. subsesquiuncialis obsoletě venosa, fulvescens, intüs sor- did? lutescens ; labium summum recurvo-porrectum acute bifidum ; infimum 3- Jîdum, lobi lanceolati, medius lateralibus patentibus duplo major. Stam. ascendentia : anth. vertice rotundata, infra bilobo-patentes, formá ferè ferri equini. Stigma simplez. P Originally raised from seed brought from the Canary Islands; and known to have been cultivated here by the Duchess of Beaufort in 1698. A downy upright shrub, sometimes growing to the height of five or six feet, generally naked, except at the branches below the spikes, where the foliage is numerous 04 and close; leaves oval lanceolate, about five inches long, and from one to two broad, tapering for a greater length down- wards than towards the summit, harsh. Spikes upright, many- flowered, loose, scattered, sometimes near a foot long; corollas of a tawny burnt yellow without, of a purer yellow within; inodorous, and shaped like those of the Acanruus or Bearsbreech, ‘The bloom begins to show itself in May and June; and there is generally a succession of it on the same plant until winter arrests the progress. Commonly raised from seed. 'The soil it prefers is a light sandy loam. Requires merely a protection from frost, but should be otherwise kept as hardily as is consistent with that precaution, and supplied with plenty of water. The drawing was made from a plant in the extensive nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, King's Road, Parson's Green, Fulham. a The calyx and pistil after the corolla has been removed. è The lower segment of the corolla dissected, so as to show the insertion and position of the stamens, Syd Caw cwr y. del. Abby S Sway GO aec y, Aol. {1/45 Poth de. 49 RICOTIA «gyptiaca. Egyptian Ricotia. TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA. RICOTIA. Cal. (tetraphyllus) connivens. (Corolle) petala (4 in crucem disposita, unguiculata,) apice plana obcordata. Stylus: 0. (Silicula oblonga sessilis: valvis planis; septo obliterato unilocularis. Cotyledones accumbentes obcordate. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 98.) Folia pinnata; foliolis lobatis. Lunaria fructus sed unilocularis angustior. Sem. circiter 4. Jussieu. gen. 239. R. egyptiaca, foliis pinnatis: foliolis incisis, floribus racemosis, siliculis pendulis. Persoon. syn. 2. 194. Ricotia egyptiaca. Lin. sp. pl. 2.912. Hort. Kew. 9. 386. ed. 9, 4. 98. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 477. Lunaria egyptiaca.. Mart. Mill. Dict. n. 3. Lunaria Ricotia, Gerin. sem. 9. 289. t. 149. f. 1. Roth. catalecta bbt. 3. 51. : A L. foliis supradecompositis: foliolis trifidis, siliguis oblongis pendulis. Mill. ic. 9. 113. t. 169. Cardamine Lunaria. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 1. 9. 656. Planta annua, debilior et modů diffusa, tota glabra. Caulis ramosus, ede communitěr brevior. Folia inferiùs caulina, impari-pinnata, distanter ` bijuga z foliola petiolata, laminâ latá rotundatá integra v. sepiùs lobato- ¿ncisá. Racemi multiflori, ramorum continui, erectiuscult, sensim elongandi; pedicelli /lore breviores, ebracteati, distantes, sparsi. Cal. subcoloratus, foliolis lineari-oblongis, apice patulis, 2 alternis basi gibbis et saccatis. Cor. erecta, purpurascens, alba in disco ; petalorum ungues angustissimi, calyce parům altiores. Stam. longitudine unguium. Pistillum his. vix «quale : stylus suónullus: stigma in sensi illi à quo comprimitur germen contrario compressum, obtusiús lanceolatum, secundům utramque aciem pubescens. Si- licula membranacea, subdiaphana, lanceolato-ovalis, subrhomboidea, unciam viz unam longa: sem. pauca, orbiculata, lenticulari-compressa. An annual plant, by no means common, although of long standing in our gardens, having been cultivated in 1757 by Miller; who says that it had been brought a few years be- fore from Egypt to the royal gardens at Paris. Very like the common annual or mediterranean Stock. The genus was instituted by Linnzus, and distinguished from LUNARIA, chiefly by its sessile unilocular silicle, which is not, as in that, conspicuously pedicled and divided into two loculaments by a persistent detached dissepiment pa- rallel with and equal to the valves. ene Gertner has however subsequently asserted that such a dissepiment is present in Ricorra, and has given in his car- pological work an engraving of its silicle, in which that part is shown as complete and distinct as in Lunaria, only not so conspicuously pedicled. Willdenow has replied, and maintained that Gertner has figured a silicle of LUNARIA rediviva for one of Ricoria @gyptiaca. Dr. Roth, in his * Catalecta botanica," rejoins iu support of Gartner, and avers that the dissepiment is always present in the unripe silicle, but being of a very tender delicate substance, it breaks from the frame of the suture, and adheres to the valve opposite to that on which the seed is seen to lie, showing itself in partially detached scaly fragments. But Gartner's figure is plainly of a ripe silicle belonging to the present plant (and not, as Willdenow gratuitously avers, to LUNARIA rediviva); in which, however, no one else pretends to have seen à dissepiment in the state he has represented it. So that we are to suppose either that he has met with an ano- malous specimen, or (with less candour) that he has pre- sented us with an offspring of his prepossession. Mr. Brown, whose accuracy merits the greatest confidence, has always found this part ultimately obliterated, although clearly present in an early stage. Sir James Smith has recorded a new species (tenuifolia) in the first part of the second volume of the “ Prodromus Flore grece ;" in a note on which Mr. Brown is made to say, that * the fruit of the genus is not constantly unilocular;" which seems to us to be in no way the equivalent of what he has said himself concerning that part, in the character we have quoted from the Hortus Kewensis. The seed should be sown in a sheltered border, where the plants are to remain. This will come up in the autumn, and the plants will flower early in the summer. It may be also sown in the spring; when the plants will flower later. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith. a The calyx. A petal. c The six stamens. d A germen. e One valve of the silicle after the opposite one has been removed, showing the position of the seed. fA seed dissected so as to show the embryo, the radicle of which is seen to be placed opposite the fissure ef the cotyledons, and in relation to these called accumbent. 4 Byd Chwrs aef, yf b. / M Ant Je Rd by ŵ hu tgway (70 x Aree el lb n, È dept Z PKS. 50 FUMARIA eximia. Lyon's new Fumitory. DIADELPHIA HEXANDRIA. FUMARIA. Cal. minimus. Pet. inequalia & irregularia, quo- rum 1 vel 2 basi calcaratum. Fil. 2, basi latiora X approximata, singula triantherifera, antberá media biloculari, lateralibus forsan unilocularibus. Stylus brevissimus; stigma orbiculatum bisulcum. Siliqua monosperma brevis non dehiscens, aut polysperma longior bivalvis, aut capsularis globosa inflata polysperma trivalvis. Folia multipartita, interdüm bi- pinnata aut biternata, racheos apice nonnunguâm cirrhoso ; flores spí- cati terminales, Jussieu. gen. 237. Dic. Corollis bicalcaratis. F. eximia, foliis decompositis; racemo composito, racemulis bracteatis, pendulo-cymosis; corolla infrá cordata, lobis posticis brevissimis ex- trorsüm lato-rotundatis, introrsům conniventibus ; fauce bilobo-apicu- latà; stigmate in laminam cruciato-guadratam bimucronatam com- presso. Folia levia, bipinnata foliolis oblongis pinnatifidis, laciniis acutulis. Caulis haud rarò ramosus. Racemus multiflorus, compositus ; racemuli plurimi, cymosi, sparsi, sepe iterům divisi; pedicelli filiformes, laxi, flore pendulo triplo breviores, basi bibracteati. Corolla rosea, subuncialis, bilabiata ; labia exact? «qualia, divaricata, ovali-lanceolata, in concavo disco atropurpurea ; faux clausa, atropurpurea, terminata lobulo bifido, lateribus alatis. Stylus directus : stigma lamina peripharicè cartilaginea, erecta, quadricornis vel quadrata et utrinque exterius leviter indentata. A species of which we have not been able to trace any account. It comes very close to the siberian spectabilis, especially in regard to the corolla; but there the raceme is simple and the pedicles are without bractes. Perbaps other differences may exist; for the latter has not yet reached our gardens, and is only known to us by a slight descrip- tion and the figure in Ameenitates academice; unless in- deed a specimen in the Banksian Herbarium from Nootka Sound should prove to be the same, which we suspect is the fact. Formosa is the nearest to erimia of any species cultivated in this country ; but in that the lobes at the base of the corolla are longer and narrower, and not, as here, rounded and prominent at the edge; neither is the apex of the faux two-lobed, nor the stigma four-cornered, but has only two cartilaginous corners or angles, and is herbaceous and rounded at the base. The whole plant in formosa is like- wise upon a far smaller scale, and the foliage of a dark dull glaucous greeu. Eximia was introduced by the late Mr. Lyon from North America, about four years ago. It seems not to have fallen in the way of Michaux or Mr. Pursh, at least we cannot find it in their works. At present by far the most ornamental plant of the genus; and in a situation that suits it, soon forms a large close tuft, throwing up stems of nearly three feet in height, with bunches of flowers in proportion. ‘The foliage is of a considerable breadth, and of a peculiarly lively tender green. Blooms in May and June. Perfectly hardy. Pro- pagated by dividing the tuberous knobs that compose the root. The genus has bcen in some recent publications separated into Coryparis and Fumaria; but the editors of the Hortus Kewensis have not bcen seduced to adopt so wanton an innovation. The drawing was made at Mr. Knights nursery, Little Chelsea, King's Road. — Y —À , & The six diadelphous stamens and pistil, as they appear when the corolla is removed. 6 The pistil after one of the sets of stamens which enclose it is removed. - c One of the two sets of stamens. d A view of the inside front ef one of the two petals which form the faux or centre-piece of the corolla. Rt by pnr pio Really dpt l MMS. dile de TW 51 PATERSONIA glabrata. Grey-flowered Patersonia. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. MONADELPHIA TRIANDRIA. (Hort. Kew.) _PATERSONIA. Cor. hypocrateriformis, regularis; Tubo gra- cili; Limbo sexpartito, laciniis interioribus minutis. Filamenta con- nata. Stylus capillaris apice sepissimé tumido. Stigmata 3, lamina- formia, indivisa. Caps. prismatica. Sem. numerosa. Plante perennes. Radix fibrosa. Caulis nullus v. simplex, brecis, quandóque ramosus. Folia angusto-ensiformia, compacta. Scapus radicalis caulemve terminans simplex ebracteatus. Spatha communis bivalvis, includens partiales nonnullas, confertas, uniftoras. Flores sensim erumpentes, speciosi, cerulei, immaculati, fugacissimi. Anthere stigmataque flava. ` Styli aper tumidus, plerümque medio constrictus. Stigma deflerum. Capsula spathis tecte. Semina sapids angulo interno loculi, nunc columna centrali affixa. Brown. prod. 1. 303. P. glabrata, stigmate deflexo, corolla laciniis interioribus dimidium tubi staminei aguantibus, scapo caule longiore spathisque glaberrimis ni- tidis, foliorum carina baseos lanatá. Brown, ubi supra 304. Caudex brevis cespitoso-ramosus, badio-fuscescens. Folia erecta, diver- gentia, collaterali-disticha, infernê equitantia atque purpurascentia, plura in singulo fasciculo, lineari-ensata, striata, glabra, firmula, hinc conveziuscula; margine obsoletiůs ciliata. Caulis modo altior, modů subbrevior v. his equalis, 4-uncialis v. nunc altitudinem duorum pedum acquirens, teres, levitér com- pressus, glaber. Spatha sphacelata, lanceolata, multiflora, striata, glabra ; bracteze anteriores cariná subsericee. Cor. hypocrateriformis ; tubus spathe «qualis, ruber, angustus, triquetrofiliformis, striatus, rectus, germine duplo ultràve longior, laná deciduá infra medium consitus ; limbus amplus, uncias 2 transversus, violaceo-pallescens, rotatus, infernê breviüs imbricato-connivens, laciniz interiores elliptico-obovate, retuse apiculo villoso, inferne â margine altero incumbentes alteri CONTORTARUM more, quod singulare nec aliubi in ENSATIS nobis obvium : interiores erecte, saturatè violacea, subulata, tubo stamineo breviores $ appresse. Stam. limbo 2plo breviora; fil. pro 3 cuniculato-connata ; anth. flave, erecto-divergentes, filamenta cequantes, laminiformes, ovato-attenuate, loculis 2 angustis secundům marginem re- ceptaculi latioris atque introrsüm converi adnatis. Stylus apice tumidus, in junctura stigmatum articulatus : stig. alba, infra unguiculata unguibus co- adunatis, suprà laminoso-lobiformia, orbiculata, refleza, villosa, antheras eeguantia ; primo ab imis unguibus arrecta, inde simul ad latus alterum re- Sracta. Germ. tubi floris isoperimetrum, lineari-prismaticum, glabrum. One of the latest acquisitions for our gardens ; and not before recorded as being to be met with in them. Found by Mr. Brown in New South Wales, in the vicinity of Port Jackson; and first introduced by Messrs. Lee and VOL. I. P Kennedy, who raised it, from imported seed, at their nursery in. Hammersmith, where our drawing was made iu July last. A perennial herbaceous plant, with a low upright suf- frutescent reddish brown rootstock, branching out into many short arms, each of which is terminated by a fascicle of several narrow ensiform edgewisely bifarious evergreen leaves, forming a rather close grassy tuft; stems solitary, upright, from between the centre lcaves of each fascicle, than which they. are sometimes higher, at others scarcely even with, smooth, terminated by a hard sphacelate many- flowered smooth bivalved spathe; flowers parted from each other by single membranous concealed bractes, expanding in succession, seldom two at once, tender, fugacious, of a pale violet or grey colour; each of the three large extended outer segments overlapping the other by one of its edges in- dependently of the small inner alternating connivent ones, a disposition usual to the whole of the segments in the co- rolla of the Conrorra:; but, as far as our observation has reached, an anomaly in that of tbe Exsare. The uiti- mately refracted group of stigmas of some of the species is likewise a peculiarity. The genus comes nearer to ARIsTEA and WITsENIA, than to any others we are acguainted with. The present appella- tion has been assigned it by Mr. Brown, in bis valuable work on the New Holland plants, in commemoration of his friend, Colonel Paterson, formerly Lieutenant-Governor of the colony of New South Wales; a gentleman whose name has been long familiar to the naturalist. In adopting it, a slight passe-droif is manifestly offered to Monsieur Labillardiêre, by whom the genus had been previously established under the name of GENosinis ; less distinctly indeed, and from a single species. 2 : ; à A Belongs to the greenhouse; thrives in peat-earth, and requires a pleutiful supply of water in the summer season, — hm a A flower attached to its prism-shaped germen, and deprived of its three larger segments, to show the three minute inner ones, the partially mona- delphous stamens and the stigmas. è The stamens and the refracted stig- mas; somewhat magnified, MM / fp /Ì P pw c A AC f / / Jf tal ds Chu WI LHL. à É Mi ly, J Ridguray 170 Becadilly PRES. (4/5 ——— A ele 52 CRINUM pedunculatum. Botany-bay Lily or Crinum. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. CRINUM. | Umbella ramentis bracteaceis interstincta, spatham generalem bivalvem excedens. — Caf. 0. Cor. supera, regularis, tubuloso- „sextida ; tubus strictus; limbus sexpartitus, radiatus, subzqualis. Stam. tubo adnata, indè divergentia ; auth. lincares, vibrate. Stylus reclinatus. Caps. membranacea, oblato-spherica, pulvinato-triloba, 3-loc.; sem. numerosa, + horizontalia, duplici serie cumulata, margini interiori septi utrinque annexa, anguloso-compressa, vel nune in loculamento quod replet precociùsve dirumpit tantummodo unum aut alterum emollescente albumine tuberoso-laxatum. Ab © AMARYELIDIBUS. onsids tubulosis .solummodo regularitate corolle discrepaus; à PANCRATIO defectú membrane staminilege. H EMANTHO valde affine. Bulbus mod) caudicis vel stipitis ad instar productus, totus extat. humo. Folia fasciculato-divergentia, oblongà loratevě lanceolata, canaliculato-cxplicanda. C. peduuculatum ; bulbo cylindrico, glabro; scapo centrali, lato-com- presso ; umbella pedunculata ; stylo staminibus breviore. Crinum pedunculatum. Brown prod. 1. 997. Crinum taitense. Redouté liliac. 408. A Crinum australe. Donn cant. ed. 6. 83. A genus connected by the closest affinity with AMARYLLIS, from the larger tubular-flowered species of which it differs only by the greater regularity in the disposition of the seg- ments of the corolla. The present plant is a native of New South Wales, and has been very generally confounded with Crinum asiaticum ; the cause, most probably, of its not having found a place in the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis. But it differs from that species, by the bulb, which grows upon a large rootstock entirely above ground, is smooth and of a cy- lindric form, resembling very much that of the leek, ex- cept in dimension, which varies from the circumference of a man's arm to three times that size, and even more; also by a broader flattened stem, and bya style that is shorter than the filaments. Leaves many, fasciculate, mul- tifariously divergent, broadly lorate-lanceolate, ydig concave, smooth and entire at the edges, two or türee feet p 2 long. It is generally larger than asiaticum, but not so large as amabile the finest flower we know of this natural order. A stove plant. Has been known in our collections, ac- cording to Donn's Hortus cantabrigiensis, from the year 1790; "but we are not informed by whom it was introduced. Multiplied both by off-sets, and bulbiform seed; of easy cultivation, and flowers freely. The specimen from which the drawing was made was sent us from the nursery of Messrs. Colville, King's Road, Chelsea. It was small and few flowered, comparatively with many others. & The pistil, dissected from the corolla. A. A | Dy Y AN 7 VM / Ff ll, | (77 = " Wi \ Y) 4 | 7" f i | | : ZA Ec / 4 e - A Wf fi | / \ | Y 47) | = a j y^ / tj JE Z / ly y FU Je la del. - eb rr Syd d n n th IL 1 C af / IPIS / p b, fll, af Ir yM 53 ROSA provincialis. 8. muscosa; fl. simpl. : Single-flowered Moss- Provins Rose. ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA, ROSA. Supra fol. 46. R. provincialis, fructibus subrotundis, pedunculis petiolisque hispidis, aculeis ramorum sparsis subreflexis, foliolis ovatis subtüs villosis : ser- raturis glandulosis. Hort. Kew. 2. 204. Rosa provincialis. Du Roi harbk. 2. 349. Wild. sp. pl. 2. 1070. arb. 314. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 18. Hort. Kew. ed. 9.3. 961. Smith in Rees's Cyclop. sub Rosa n. 26. R. burgundiaca ; provincialis. Persoon. syn. 2. 48. R. provincialis major, fl. pl. ruberrimo. © Boer. ind. alt. 9. 252, Common Provins Rose, Miss Lawr. ros. t. 8. Scarlet Provins Rose. Miss Lawr. t. 22. Blush Provins Rose. Miss Lawr. t. 1. White Provins Rose. Miss Lawr. t. 4. Childing's Provins Rose. Miss Lawr. t. 45. Blandford or Portugal Rose. Miss Lawr. t. eion (8) Calyx pedunculi petioli ramuligue glanduloso-viscosi. Rosa muscosa. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 99. Du Roi harbk. 2. 368. Hort. Kew. 2. 207. ed. 9. 3. 264. Brotero fl. lusit. 345. Réssig rosen. cah. 9. t. 6. R. provincialis spinosissima, pedunculo muscoso. Cat. pl. hort. londin. (A. D. 1730) 66. t. 18. RA R. rubra pl. spinosissima, pedunculo muscoso. Mill. ic. 148. t. 221. f. 1. Boerh. ind. alt. 9. 252. Double Moss Provins Rose. Curtiss mag. 69. Miss Lawr. ros. 14. Double white Moss Provins Rose. Single red Moss Provins Rose. Supra. (y) Folia floresque duplo minores. Rose de Meaux. Miss Lawr. t. 31. Pompone Rose. Curtiss mag. 407. Miss Lawr. ros. t. 50. Rose de Rheims. Miss Lawr. ros. t. 71. "To which are most akin; Rose St. Francis. Shailer's Rose. Miss Lawr. ros. t. 76. Miss Lawr. ros. t. 88. _— — In most of the late systematic enumerations of plants, the Moss Rose stands recorded as a separate species, by the title of muscosa. Butin the more recent account of the genus by Sir James Smith, we find it merged as a variety in pro- wincialis. That it is one either of that or centifolia, is an opinion that dates from the first mention of the plant. The following is the account given by Sir James Smith of the species provincialis. * Native of the south of Europe, at least it is so con- “ sidered, though a_ plant too generally cultivated for any * thing to be averred on this subject. With us it is hardy, * flowering in June and July. Most of the varieties are “ increased by roots or layers, and remain tolerably distinct; * the different forms of variety y are least permanent. Stems “usually 3 or 4 feet high, straight, very prickly. Leaflets * 5, of a rounded bluntish figure, veiny and rugose. Sti- € pulas linear-lanceolate, acute, undivided ; most entire in * their lower part. Flówers two or three, or more, at the ** top of each branch, large, delightfully fragrant, of that * peculiar bright crimson hue, popularly termed a rose- * colour, with broad brown stains on the backs of the outer “ petals, which are permanent in the otherwise white variety, * represented in Miss Lawrance's t. 4. In all our cultivated * varieties the flowers are double, with slight remains of “ stamens or styles; so that the fruit never ripens. We have “ however seen, in the ample collection of roses at Messrs. “ Lee and Kennedy's, perfectly single flowers of the Moss * Rose, which those experienced cultivators have proved ‘“ to be only a variety of the Common Provins Rose. In- * deed we have been told in Italy, that this variety loses .“ its mossiness, almost immediately, in that climate.” How the Moss Rose has been proved to be a varicty of the Common Provins one, remains untold. The present single Moss variety, we know has not been produced in that state from seed ; but reduced to it from the double or rather full state (either accidentally or intentionally) by peculiar culture. Accordingly we find it to be barren, as we should have expected from the mode by which that state had been induced ; but which most probably it would notchave been, had it sprung up single from the seed. The only evidence we know of a mutual variation between „the Moss and Common Rose, is the similarity of the two in all points except the moss-like viscous efflorescence of the ‘first; a difference of such a nature as may be easily sup- posed incidental, and indeed is admitted to be so in one of the varieties of another species of the genus. Rossig, who has lately published a work on Roses, con- taining good coloured figures, says, that the Moss Rose 15 found on the Alps: | Vit a i | e Brotero does not mention any tendency in it to lose ¡ts mossiness in the climate of Portugal. Known in this country in 1724. Miller first saw it in Dr. Boerhaave's garden at Leyden in 1727, and then took it for a variety of the Provins Rose; but afterwards, find- ing it of more difficult increase, changed his opinion. Usually propagated by layers. The present, as well as the double white variety, are rare and high priced. The gardener's title of the species is by some derived from Provence; by others from Provins, the town in Champagne. The drawing was made partly from a plant in the fine collection of roses at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Ken- nedy, Hammersmith; and partly from another in Mr. Shailer's nursery, Great Chelsea. bo j Al» X A MX id cA Dl ento, det. Rh by I Ridgway 110 Recudilty Cel 4 1545. Y 54. VIOLA altaica. Tartarian Violet. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. VIOLA. Cal. monophyllus hinc sub petalo supremo fissus, 5-parti- tus laciniis basi productis. Pet. 5 ingqualia; supremum impar majus, basi corniculatum. © Anth. coalite apice membranaceis, fil. distincta. (aut monadelpha ?) quorum © basi appendiculatá in superioris petali cornicuium irrepentia. Stigma acutum aut urceolatum. Caps. 3-gona 1-loc. poly- sperma, S-valv, valvis medio seminiferis; embryo rectus tenuis subcylin- dricus in albumine carnoso centrale. Herbe aut raro frutices; folia alterna stipulacea ; pedunculi axillares 1-flori, flore sape inverso. Jus- sicu. gen. 204. V. altaica, caulescens, glabra; folis crassiusculis, ovatis ovalibusve, crenatis; floribus inversis, undulatis: petalis rotundatis, transversê latioribus, subreniformibus. Perennis, cespitosa brevis. Caules reclinato-assurgentes. Folia carnosula, firma, glabra, vix 3 partes uncie longa, apice rotundata et petiolo lon iora, vel nunc in petiolum ipsis longiorem attenuata et acutula. Petioli glabri, tri- quetro-canaliculati. © Stipulee bine erecta, ye fat rr sublyrato-incisa dentibus subtrinis in utroque latere, apice rotundate. Pedunculi foliis duplo vel magis altiores, scaposo-erecti, robusti, tetragoni cum sulco in dorso, leves, uti calyces livido-virentes, haud multum infra reflexum apicem bracteis 2 minutis oppositis instructi. Calycis foliola oblonga parům attenuata acumine obtusulo, margine obsoletě cartilagineo-serrata, postice truncato-denticulata, dentibus apice glandulosis. Cor. folio plurimům amplior, stramineo-pallescens, orificio longitudinali ques labiato-barbata. Petala omnia imbricatione pro- Sunda invicem incumbentia, oblato-rotundata ; supremum (ob resupinationem infimum) infra medium lineis pluribus ceruleis pictum, apice retusum, bast lamine flavicans, ungue intůs barbatum, cornu recto lobos po calycinos vir exsuperante; lateralia supremo angustiora, infra medium stris paucis plumosis ceruleis picta, basi lamina barbata ; infima supremo bis, lateralibus ter, ferà latiora, imberbia, unicolora. Stigma virens, urceolatum. A plant that has passed very generally in our gardens for Viora uniflora, but with scarcely any better claim than that of being indigenous in the siberian districts of the russian empire as well as the other, Uniflora is a linnean species, and stood at first without a synonym, but described as having a one-flowered three-leaved stem, cordate dentate leaves, with very short petioles and a dwarf peduncle; features that would by themselves sufficiently decide the difference of the plants. But Linnaeus has subsequently in the Mantissa adduced for the synonym of his species, a VOL. I. Q plant described and figured in the Flora sibirica of Gmelia, which makes the difference palpable, and leaves it beyond dispute. Nor do we recognise our plant in any recorded Viora. In the Banksian Herbarium we find specimens of it received from the Chevalier Pallas, which were gathered on the Altay mountaius in Siberia, on the confines of the chinese dominions. It has a flower that varies in size, but which is always larger than the leaf, and the largest of any species known to us. The foliage varies from ovate rounded and longer than the petiole, to oval and slightly attenuated each way, but especially towards the petiole, which is then longer than that: a variation perceptible even in the two spontaneous specimens of the Banksian Herbarium. The whole plant is smooth, the peduncles robust, resem- bling scapes, aud as well as the calyx of a livid blueish green; spur of the corolla scarcely extended beyond the lobes of the calyx. "Phe blossom cannot be said to be fra- grant, yet when smelled near, a bitterish, but not un- pleasant odour is perceptible. Being still rare, it is carefully kept in garden-pots in a frame or pit with the alpiue plants. But seeding freely, and being easily propagated by parting the root, it will es be common, and may then be treated like other hardy violets. Its introduction is known to have been from Russia; but we have not ascertained precisely the time when it came, by whom sent, nor by whom received. . We should observe, that flowers produced early in the summer are often more than twice the size of those pro- duced at a more advanced period of the year. The drawing was made from a plant in the nursery of Messrs. Fraser, in Sloane Square. It flowers for months in succession., a a The stamens and pistil as they appear when the corolla and calyx are removed. ó Three from the body of the five coherent stamens detached and extended: magnified. c A single stamen, showing the short filament, large anther with the membranous appendix on its summit: magnified. d Pistil, showing the ovate trisulcate germen, short style, and urceolate stigma: magnified, : FA CN VN NM \ | uf | \ bd Y \ \ \ \ | \ i e Led. Chords, de hud Z NP " a del. - ly F Red: god /PU rentas Fly LJ 25 DAHLIA súperfiva, « Crimson fertile-rayed Dahlia. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. DAHLIA. (Recept. paleaceum. Pappus nullus. Caf. duplex : exterior polyphyllus; interior monophyllus, 8-partitus. Mort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 87.) Lose. radii tot quot segmenta calycis, grandes, ovales hand rarò steriles, Semina compressa latere interiore prominentiore, obsolete 2-dentata. Plante (herbacee) alte rudesque, radice (pererni) tuberosa fasciculata, Caulis teres. Folia opposita, plus minus decomp: si a, aspera. Flores autumnales, speciosi, pedunculis longis terminales, rcmu/is fotiis- que superioribus sensim. minoribus quasi paniculati, ante florescentiam cernut radio nocte connivente. COREOPSADI prorimum. Salisb. paradis. 16; nonnullis mutatis. D. superflua ; caule non pruinoso, ligulis foemineis. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5.87. Georgina superflna. Decandolle in annales du muséum. 15. 910. Georgina variabilis. Wild. enum. 899. hort. berol. 2. 93. (e) rubra. G. variabilis : purpurea. Willd. hort. berol. t. 93, G. purpurea. Filid, sp. pl. 3. 2124. (8) purpurea. Dahlia pourpre. Thouin in ann. du inus. 3. 493. t. 9. f. 1. D. pinnata. Cav. ic. 1. 57. ( 80. Andiews's reposit. 408. (y) lilacina. ‘G. variabilis: lilacina. Willd. hort. berol. t. 94. G. rosea. Willd, sp. pl. 3. 2124. ; D. rosea. Cavan. ic. 3. 33. t. 265.—rose. Thouin, ubi supra, f. 3. D. sambucifolia. Salish. parad. 10. (y) pallida. G. variabilis: pallida. Willd. hort. berol. t. 95. (2) nana. D. pinnata: nana. — Andrems's reposit. 483. (+) punicea. Supra. eig : i Radix composito-tuberosa, tuberibus elongatis, divergentibus. Caulis-erec- tus, ramosus, glaber, orgyalis. Folia ampla, decursivè pinnata cum impari, foliolis ovatis, acutis, serratis, modo hispidiusculis, basi sæpè ed, gwern ? summa sensim simplicia. Flores magni, nutantes, solitarit v. gemint, cau = et ramos in pedunculis longis patulis terminantes. Cal. exter. vir ii, dup o brevior, 5-phyllus, basi cum interiore confluens : inter. ba co n. natus, fundo plano. Styli in radio haud rarô obliterati. iscus flavus, radio aliguotiês angustior ; flosculorum tubus brevis gracilis, «wer longior amplior, Tanbés erectus acuminatas. Anth. lutea, impulsu c» y ientis stili protrusa, indè soluto vertice editis stigmatibus intra Hosculum vi elastici, Jila- mentorum retracta. Stig. tota exserta, divaricata, aurea, linear ta et $ e versus attenuata, villis brevibus hirsuta. Germ. utrumque simillimum, tubo Rosculi brevius, obversum, compressum, subbidentato-truncatum. QZ This fine species constantly rising in.value by the pro- duction of fresh varieties of the richest and brightest colours, is becoming one of the most general ornaments of our flower-gardens in autumn. It is raised from seed with the freedom of an annual, and the varieties are multi- plied and perpetuated with the certainty and extensiveness of.a perennial. Only two species are yet known to us, and these separated by marks, both wavering and indis- tinct. Frustranea is however, as far as we have observed, a slenderer plant than the present, with a narrower foliage, smaller flower, and a stem with a more conspicuous coating of the whitish hoar-like effloresence, termed bloom in fruit. Both species grow to the height of seven or eight feet, with stems in proportion, and are leafy and branched throughout. The filaments of the stamens are elastic, and by extension admit of the anther being protruded above the floret by the impulse of the stigmas from within; as, charged with pollen, they advance to their station through its 5-valved membrane which opposes their outlet at the sum- mit; withdrawing the same to its place when these have passed. A tender out-doors plant, requiring a deep bed of rich mould for its cultivation; and that the roots should be taken up and preserved from frost and wet during the win- ter, ina shelter where they can be covered with dry sand or ashes. When the roots are divided, in order to multiply the plant, care should be taken to remove a portion of the rootstock, containing at least one eye or bud in the de- tached part. Native of Mexico. Introduced by the way of Spain in 1789, by the late Lady Bute. The drawing of the present showy variety, lately received i Jm is >. è y from Paris, was made at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kenuedy, Hammersmith. -— M a The outer and inner calyxes without florets. è The lower section of a floret of the ray, showing the tube and germen detached from each other. cA floret of the disk, with the chaff or bracte attached to the germen, showing the anther, as protruded by the style from within, before a passage is yielded to the stigmas through the valves of its summit. d The same after the stigmas have emerged from within the anther, and this has been withdrawn within the floret by the contraction of the elastic filaments. Sab by IAS 70 Seca das. Oct. f: [NS JE. A J A 4 A o 56 CAMPANULA pentagonia. Five-angled Bell-flower. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. CAMPANULA. (Cor. monopetala, regularis. Anth. libere.) Cal. superus 5-(raró 4-) fidus. Cor. campanulata (v. rotata), 5-fida, Filamenta basi dilatatà. Stigma (5-) 3-2-lobum. Cups. (5-) 3-2-locn- luris, sepiùs infera foraminibus lateralibus aperiens, nunc apice supero valvato (v. foraminibus superis dehiscens). Herba raro Suffrutices, /actescentes. Folia alterna, nunc opposita, Infiorescentia varia. Flores distincti. Brown. prod, 1. 560. Div. Capsula longissima prismatico-cylindrica, foraminibus superis dehiscens. C. pentagonia, ramosa, diffusa; foliis inferioribus oblongis, obtusis, su- perioribus lanceolatis ; floribus solitariis; corollis calyce longioribus. Desfont. in annales du muséum. 11. 143. t. 18. Campanula pentagonia. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 239. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n.11. Hort. Kew. ed.2. 1.352. Willd. sp. pl. 1.914. Prismatocarpus pentagonius. © L Herit. sert. angl. 3. Campanula pentagonia flore amplissimo thracica. . Tournef. inst. 112. . cretica arvensis, flore maximo. — Tournef. cor. inst. 3. Speculum Veneris flore amplissimo thracicum. Radi hist. 742. Annua. © Caulis sesuncialfs ad pedalem, ramosus, diffusus, rotundato- angulosus, pubescens. Folia alterna, patentia, sessilia, angusta, uncialia et longiora, setulis nonnullis vagis albis consita, subtüs To ; inferiora sub- spathulato-oblonga, superiora lineari-oblonga vel lanceolata. Flores majusculi, ceruleo-purpurascentes, caulis et ramorum terminales, solitarii, clausi in alas 5 complicati. Germina Ais longiora, pedunculos referentia, triquetra, pilosi- uscula. Cal. foliaceus, stellatus, angustus, acutus, subsetuloso-oliabus at laz2, corollâ subbrevior, negue reflectendus. Cor. unciam profunda, rotata, plana, semiquinquefida, laciniis obovato-ellipticis, retusis, mucronatis, villis paucis anucroni circumpositis, nervo medio tn dorso setulis 2-3 versus apicem instructo, Stamina corolla subduplo breviora, externě pruinata : fil. membranacea, bast dilatatá sertato-conniventia, ullrà tandêm recumbentia : anth. bis fermê bre- viores. Stigmata 3, post feecundationem supra antheras replicanda. Capsula 2-3-uncialis, angulis costata, trilocularis, loculis polyspermis. The Camraxuras, with an elongated prismatic capsule, as in the present species, have been repeatedly marked out as the stock of a new genus. They were actually formed into one by L'Heritier, in his * Sertum anglicum, by the title of. Prismatocarpus, and its character developed with the sagacity and precision which belonged to that excellent botanist. But in every subsequent general system or cata- logue of plants, we find that all the species which composed it, have returned within the pale of CAMPANULA; where, indeed, they sometimes occupy a distinct place, to which their former generic character is prefixed as a sectional phrase: an arrangement which we confess in this instance appears to us to be the more convenient and desirable of the two, and prevents the needless increase of new names. Monsieur Desfontaines has ascertained the synonyms from Tournefort, by a reference to the IIerbarium of that author. He has also dropped an opinion that our plant may be a variety of hybrida; but gratuitously, and without sug- gesting a reason why he thinks so, or adducing a proof of the fact of its being so. When the corolla is closed, five flat folds are formed by the doubling of the divisions of the limb, wbich extend themselves in the shape of as many Wings or angles, like the feathers of an arrow; a circum- stance that has suggested the specific name, A hardy annual, but not common in our collections. It requires no other care, after being sown in the spring, than that of seeing that the plants are parted by sutficieut dis- tances by thinning them out, and that weeds are kept "n Cultivated by Ray before 1636. Native of Tur- ey. The drawing was taken from the extensive nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, King’s Road, Par- son's Green, Fulham, in July last. a The stamens after they have parted with the pollen, showing the coronal form into which the filaments converge permanently at their dilated bases, and the manner in which they diverge beyond. è A separate stamen, with its valve-like dilated base. c The pistil, d The capsule, crowned by a persistent calyx and withered corolla. dd. Bwcs del. Lal. De Fab by, I Rlgway Wyo Beca My Oct. MENS. = 57 CAMPANULA aurea. «. SA Fa Broad-leaved golden Bell-flower. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. CAMPANULA. Supra fol. 56. C. aurea, capsulis quinquelocularibus, foliis ellipticis serratis glabris, floribus subpaniculatis quinquepartitis, caulibus fruticosis carnosis. Hort. Kew. 1. 993. Campanula aurea. Linn. suppl. 141. Wild. sp. pl. 1.912. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 351. (x) latifolia. Campanula aurea. Venten. malmais. 116. (8) angustifolia. Campanula aurea, Jacq. hort. schenb. 4. t. 472. Suffruticosa, sempervirens, lactescens. Caudex pedalis $ altior, teres, Crassus, carnosus, nunc tumidus, cicatrizatus, divisus, in summitate foliosus. Folia firmula, sparsa, approximata, patentia, elliptico v. oblongo-lanceolata, ym 9. duplicato-serrata, deorsům longe attenuata, decursivè petiolata, cetě virentia, glabra, lucida. Caules floriferi, annui, terminales, pyramidato- paniculati, remote foliati, stricti, multiflori, pede breviores, crassitudine Jerme penne olorine ; ramuli v. pedunculi axillares, sparsi, divaricati, 1-3- fori; pedicelli 1-flori, folio diminuto bracteati, secundo-assurgentes, flore, 2-3 breviores. Flores inodori, erecti, ustulato-flavicantes, turbinato-campa- nulati, ultrà unciam longi. Germ. obversè pyramidatum, decemangulare, viridi-flavum, glabrum, calyce parüm brevius, 5-loc. 5 receptacula ovulifera 5, duplicato-septiformia, angulos columellae decurrentia, placentam duplicem secundům marginem parieti oppositam gerentia. Cal. persistens, coriaceo- rigens, 5-partitus, campanato-connivens, laciniis ovato-lanceolatis, distantibus, subincurvis, planis, aculis tntůs lucidis. Cor. inclusa, pallidior, cylindrico- radiata, basi calycis imposita ; infrâ in brevem cylindrum connata, indê re- curvata, consistentid & glabritie ferč calycis, sed ez duplo angustior, laciniae lineari-lanceolat«e, cuspidatee, | foliolis calycis denuò intervenientes, | Stam. corolla bis breviora, basi sertato dilatata $ inflexa, Stylus columellari-teres ; stig. 5, Jineari-lobiformia, acuta, dorso conveziuscula et villosa, ad basin usque radiato-replicanda, apice in spiram torquenda. A genus familiar, by means of some species or other, to the inhabitants of every part of Europe, but in all instances within that boundary ouly known as a purely herbaceous plant. Towards the warmer regions beyond that boundary, others appear of the description of undershrubs, with a solid woody permanent stem ; genuine Bell-flowers, however, m all other respects. Of such the island of Madeira has af- forded two species now cultivated in our gardens, of which the present is one, Its stem seldom exceeds a foot in height, is branched at top, where the flower-stems are produced, and is often irregularly and partially protuberant. ` The herbaceous portion of the plant is lactescent, as throughout the genus. Leaves substantial, of a tender lively green, glossy at the upper surface, in the broad- leaved variety sometimes nearly three inches across. — Into- rescence a leafy upright patent stiffened pyramidal panicle; flowers scattered, many, but not close, of a burut-yellow colour, firm and substantial, glossy, scentless. Calyx, re- markable for being of the colour of the corolla, and for the upright direction of the leaflets. "This has assumed the form by which it abides loug before the narrower paler corolla which is contained within it; and appears for some time in its centreas an oblong pointed scarcely taller cylinder, at last gradually thrown open by the elastic force of the stigmas in extending themselves after they have received the pollen of the anthers under its enclosure; the segments then fall back in the intervals of the calyx. Stigmas five, ultimately radiate to the base, furred at the back, where the polleu is retained in a thick coat, carried off from the anthers which have been pressed against them at that part by the narrow space of the corolla during the progress of their extension. Introduced by Mr. Masson in 1777: but even at this day far from a common plant in our collections, notwith- standing its handsome bloom and easy culture. If plauted In à proportionate pot of common sandy loam, and placed in the greenhouse in winter, it requires no more care than the commonest vegetable of that department of the garden. lo us it has the formal appearance of an artificial plant. Chiefly, we believe, raised from seed, which is sometimes ripened with us. _ According to Mr. Masson's notes preserved in the Bank- sian Library, the variety « is found at Madeira on spots near the coast, B on rocks in the interior of the island. The drawing was made from a fine specimen, with seve- ral flower-spikes, at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, in the King's Road, Parson's Green, Fulham. a A vertical section of the whole Aower, the line passing on one side the style. 5 The receptacle holding the ovula of one cell of the germen. c The dilated coronally converging bases of the filaments, d A segment of the corolla. e A leaflet of the calyx. © - Al ly S Ra way MO Aecad bly Obl. (dti i A, d Cit yh velel ——————P— = 58 CALOTROPIS gigantea. Curled-flowered Calotropis. PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA, Nat. ord. Ascrerianea. Cal. 5-divisus, persistens. Cor. mono- petala, hypogyna. Anth. biloculares. Pollen ad dehiscentiam antherarum coalescens in massas. Styli 2, arctê approximati : stigma ambobus com- mune, dilatatum, pentagonum, angulis corpusculiferis. Folliculi 2; altero nunc abortiente : placenta suture intüs applicata, demüm libera. Semina numerosa, imbricata, pendula : albumen tenue. apa Div. Asclepiadez vere. Masse Pollinis 10, leves, per paria, (diversis antheris pertinentia), affixe stigmatis corpusculis, sulco longitudinali, bipartibilibus, Filamenta connata, extüs sepiìs appendiculata. : CALOTROPIS. Cor. subcampanulata, tubo angulato, angulis intüs saccatis, limbo 5-partito. Corona staminea 5-phylla, foliolis carineformibus, tubo filamentorum longitudinaliter adnatis, basi recurvâ. Anth. membrana terminate. Masse pollinis compresse, apice attenuato affixe, pendula. Stigma muticum. _ Follic. ventricosi, leves. Sem. comosa. Frutices erecti, glabri. Folia opposita, lata. Umbelle ine terpetiolares. Flores speciosi. Brown asclep. 19, 21 & 39. C. gigantea; corolle laciniis reflexis involutis. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 9. 78. í dc Asclepias gigantea. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 312; (exclusis Plukenetti et Alpini synonymis). Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 18. Hort. Kew. 1. 305. Willd, sp. pl. 1. 1964. Ericu. Reed. mal. 2. 53. t. 31. Ericu, americana. Seb. thes. 1. 41. t. 96. f. 1. Madorius. Rumph. amb. auct. 24. — i ; i Frutex mod orgyalis, tomento deciduo candicans. Folia decussato-di- stantia, patentia, crassiuscula, fragilia, obovata acumine brevi, infrá s auriculata, quadriuncialia & majora, areolá brevitêr barbatâ supra petiolum Panicula sub cymoso-fastigians, laxa, ab inter petiolos ez- surgens. Cal. parvus, stellatus, appressus. Cor. subuncialis, abegemy rascens, pro 3 divisa, disco crateroidi-depresso us ing pesíky -= reflezo, laciniis ovato-lanceolatis, obtusulis, posticè involutis, superně obliquatis. Organorum strues inclusa, conica, truncata, molendinata, laminis 5 parüm profundis subcultrato-compressis aguidistantibus basi ange qe & externě versůs intortis juxta apicem bicorniculatis cum suturá villosá in dorso tubum stamineum eguantibus atque ansularum totidem ad instar decurren- libus. brevem crassum. The opinions of botanists concerning the nature of pe sta- mens in the natural family to which our plant belongs, have been long divided. Examined in the expanded flower, these organs were uniformly seen after the pollen had been VOL. I. R completely excreted by the anthers, had coalesced into masses definite both in number and form, and these had been taken up by appropriate processes of the pistils. Viewed thus in their final station on the stigma, these bodies were by some observers held to be the stamens of a gynandrous flower, while the remainder of the stamineous structure. was left unaccounted for. By others, who combined with the view of those parts that of the natural relation of the parent-plant to the rest of the vegetable system, and drew their conclusion in part from analogy, the same bodies were surmised to be the distinct secretions of the cells of the five bilocular anthers of as many stamens of a pen- tandrous flower; and both their formation and station to be secondary. A supposition which has been recently reduced to certain knowledge, and the structure and economy of these parts ascertained by Mr. Brown in a series of observa- tions made at much earlier stages of their formation than it had occurred to others to observe them in. Carorropis consists of but one species besides the pre- sent, which is a tall upright plant, sometimes acguiring the height of 6 or 8 feet, covered, unless at the corolla, by a soft white deciduous down; leafless, except towards the upper part, producing throughout a thick milk-coloured juice, which presenti itself on the slightest puncture. Corolla purplish white, with five vertical prominent com- pressed appendages, fixed at equal distances along the out- side of the stamineous tube, resembling so many diminutive porcelane handles, or brackets. These are the nectaries of Linnzus; are partly hollow and partly solid, but contain no liquid as far as we observed; and of the share they bear beyond ornament, in the economy of the plant, nothing seems to be known. . A native of the East Indies, where it is said to grow in sandy places. Cultivated in this country from the year 1690, at which time it was in the royal garden at Hampton Court. Requires to be kept in the hothouse. Fhe drawing was made in July last, at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, King's Road, Par- son's Green, Fulham, i | a The calyx, detached. è The centre-piece of the flower. c The pistils, as seen when the stamineous tube has been dissected vertically, and one portion removed. d Two of the ten pollen-masses in their positions on one of the five faces of the stigma. e One of the same, detached. f An empty anther turned back, to show the pollen-masses that have been secreted from lis opposite cells. ` : ad —— SA af 59 PASSIFLORA holosericea. Velvet-leaved Passion-flower. MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA, PASSIFLORA. Supra fol. 13. P. holosericea, foliis trilobis tomentosis: basi utrinque denticulo reflexo, Linn. amanitat. acad. 1. 996. i. 10. f. 15. Passiflora holosericea. Lin. sp. pl. 2. 1359. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 9. Hort. Kew. 3. 309. ed. 9. 4. 152. .. Cavanill. diss. 10. 459. t. 291. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 618. Miss Lawr. passionfl. | Granadilla folio hastato holosericeo, petalis candicantibus: fimbriis ex purpureo et luteo variis. Martyn. dec. 5. 51. t. 51. Frutex ezcelsiàs scandens, ramosus, pubescens. Folia quadriuncialia v. circitèr, alterna, distantia, mollia, cordato-triloba lobis nervo setaceo-extante aristatis extimis mancis medio ovato-oblongo acumine obtuso, tomento brevi vestita, subtus pallescentia et non long? pone sinus loborum areolá parvá deglubità elandulam fuscam tenente (rarius aliis pluribus huic constellatim circumpositis ) obsita, basi dentibus 4 vel 2 extrorsům respicientibus incisa : petiolus subsesquiuncialis glandulis binis humentibus supra basin instructus. Corymbi axillares 2-5-flori peliolos yix exsuperantes : pedicelli pedunculo ferm? duplo longiores: juxtà infra florem articulati, laterales bracteolis tribus vagis appressis sphacelatis medii tantummodò unica (involucri vice? ) stipati. Flos transverse subbiuncialis, rotatus. Cal. extůs wirens, villosus, intis corolle concolor, basi planiusculus, subintrusus ; foliola ovato-oblonga apice rotundata. Cor. tenuior, candicans ; pet. foliolis paul) breviora latioraque, cum ungue brevi: corona exterior parŵm brevior, erecto-patens, ex radiis numerosissimis, ordine densato circumstantibus, lineari-lanceolatis, cultrato- compressis, infrà purpureis erectis, suprà flavis reflexis ; interior parcior, laxior, duplo brevior, erecta, ex radiis capillaceis lobo compresso truncato capitalis ; intima membranacea, plicata, lacero-truncata, nectario incumbens. Receptaculum concavum, purpureo punctatum, villosum, operculo incompleto brevi crasso carnoso extůs striato luteo intůs tomentoso albo à margine corone intime occulto vallatum. Stipes fructificationis maculatus, germine ter lon- gior: germ. viride, sphericum, obsoletě 3-lobum, lanuginosum: stigmata orbiculata, pulvinata, pallidé virentia. Anth. ochroleuca. Although the blossom of the present species does not display the splendid colours which distinguish that of the greater portion of the genus, the delicacy of its form, its abundance and long-continued succession, go far to atone this failure. The stem is climbing, clothed with a dense soft down, and attains the length of twenty feet or more, extending itself on all sides by slender numerously flowered branches. The foliage is unegually trilobate, the side lobes being little more than the sites of obliterated R& lobes; both surfaces are coated with a soft velvet-like pile. The flowers diffuse a fragrance which reminds us of that which proceeds from a medley of the finer kinds of ripe fruit. The corolla and inside of the calyx are of a trans- parent tender white, and come very near to those of lunata, but are larger. The fruit we have not seen, but have heard described as small, roundish, and of a yellow colour. Native of South America; where it was found by Dr. Houston, growing naturally at La Vera Cruz. Introduced before 1733. A stove plant, reguiring the same culture as that we have recommended for its tropical congeners in the thirteenth article of the present work. The drawing was taken at the botanical establishment belonging to the Comtesse de Vandes, Bayswater. a A stigma. 8 The germen. cA ray of the outer crown. d Some of the rays of the inner crown. e The inmost crown. f The nectary. g The incomplete operculum or cover. % The receptacle. ¿The stipe or column of fructification. 4 An anther. — — Spit blaned, del 254 £ D Zen I. dh M by 4 M tag | Ye Secaditty Oot 4. 1513 60 LOBELIA splendens, Shining Lobelia. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, LOBELIA. Corolla irregularis tubo hinc fisso (rard integro); limbo 5-partito. Anthere connate. Stigma bilobum (nunc indivisum). Capsula bilocularis (rarò 3-loc.), apice supero bivalvi. Herba (v. Suffrutices) plereque lactescentes. Folia alterna, integra v. laciniata, raro fistulosa. Flores racemosi terminales, v. axillares solitarii, pedicellis bibracteatis v. nudis. Anthere sepids barbate. Brown prodr. 1. 569. L. splendens, folis angusto-lanceolatis, denticulatis, margine planis, cauleque glaberrimis: racemo terminali. Willd. hort. berol. 86. cum tab. Radix perennis, fibrosa, č centro exserens brevissimos stolones. Caulis 2-4 pedalis modô ramosus, sulcato-subangulatus, purpureus, glaberrimus, nitidus. Folia sessilia, 2-3 pollicaria, apice attenuata, approrimata, nitida. Flores terminales, racemosi, subsecundi. | Bracteze lanceolate, pedunculum subequantes, denticulate. Pedunculi calyce breviores, ut tota planta glabri. Cal. 1-phyllus, superus, 5-partitus, lac. lanceolatis acutis integerrimis, erectis, l-nerviis, apice inflexis. Cor. coccinea, glaberrima, splendens ; tubus ovato- oblongus, calyce longior, initio integer posteà longitudinalitér utroque latere Jissus ; limbus laciniis binis superioribus, lineari-lanceolatis, angustis, bast erec- tis, apice reflexo-patentibus, 3 inferioribus oblongo-lanceolatis, deflexis, planis. Stam. fil. lineari-lanceolata, margine coherentia, apice et basi yml sejuncta ; anth. erecta, lineari-oblonge, coherentes, apice pilose. Germ. (semiinfe- rum), calyce obductum, 10-sulcatum > stylus filiformis : stig. bilamellatum. y S-loc., 9-valv., calyce tecla, apice dehiscens, Sem. minutissima.— illd. An addition to our gardens subsequent to the enumera- tion of the species of this genus in the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis. Native of Mexico, - Fe well as fulgens, which made its appearance in Europe at the same y a seed brought hod by Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland from their celebrated travels. Introduced from Paris about a year ago. May be known from fulgens at first sight, altho' closely akin, by a smooth shining surface, which in the other is clothed by a short close pubescence, imparting to it a paler opague appearance, as if A were ob- scured by dust. Splendens is the taller-growing plant, pro- duces offsets from the axis of the rootstock in a horizontal direction, not from the side, perpendicularly; the leaf is flat, and in no way revolute at the margin ; and the corolla ìs of a still deeper and brighter poppy-colour than in the other. The long-familiar cardinalis, closely allied to both, has a corolla of the same form and colour, but upon a much smaller scale, an elliptic rugose decursively petioled leaf, not broad at the base, and embracing a considerable por- tion of the circumference of the stem, as in both its above relatives. At present our plant is generally kept in the greenhouse; but is in fact hardy. When grown in large-sized pots filled with rich loam, and not of too loose a texture, will attain the height of four or five feet, form many branches, and continue to show a succession of bloom from July to November. Multiplied with great facility by suckers, and sometimes, we are told, by seed, which it ripens on the continent. Miller, in the 7th edition of his Dictionary (RAPUNTIUM. n. 2.) has a species, the description of which, as far as it goes, agrees with our plant in every thing, exceptin the mention of a short spike of flowers, and guite entire leaves. He says it was taller, larger flowered, and more tender than cardinalis, and that it came from Campeachy. We do not find it adopted or noticed elsewhere; but have some sus- picion that it was of the present species, which has been since lost in our collections. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, King's Road, Parson's Green, Fulham, a The stamens and pistil, detached. ¿The pistil withdrawn from the stamens, dyd DD 35 4 GAF e ab iy /. Fidgway (70 Leceredibty OF F MKS. 61 FRAGARIA indica. Yellow-flowered Strawberry. ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. FRAGARIA. (Germma plura indefinita, verê supera, receptaculo communi imposita, singula monostyla. Semina totidem nuda.) Caf. patens 10-fidus laciniis alternis minoribus. Pet. 5. Receptaculum semi- niferum magnum, pulposum, baccatum coloratum, sepě deciduum. Herbe repentes, passim sepè radicantes; folia ternata, rarissimè digi- tata v. simplicia; stipule petiolo adnate ; flores sepiůs corymbosi ter- minales, quidam dioici; receptaculum esculentum. Jussieu. gen. 338. F. indica; calycis laciniis exterioribus majoribus obovatis tridentatis. Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 3. 973. Fragaria indica. Andrews's reposit. 479. Duchesuea fragiformis. Smith in lin. soc. trans. 10. 373. - i - Pubescens, reptans, flagellis filiformibus, rubidis, hirsutis, duriusculis. Folia in nodis solitario-distantia, ternata, foliolis rhombeo-ovalibus, inegua- litèr modóque subduplicatim crengto-incisis, utrinque pube rariori sericeis, brevioribus petiolo hirsuto: stipule gemine, parve, lanceolate, opposite amplexicaules.. Pedunculi azillares, solitarii, uniflori, hirsuti, stricti. Cal. saturate virens, rotatus, pilosus, foliolis equilongis ; interioribus 5 angulato- ovatis, acutis, post anthesin conniventibus ; exterioribus totidem patentissimis, obovatis, apice tricrenatis mediâ crenâ duplo latiore. Cor. calycem viz equans, flava, rotata, decidua, petalis oblongo-obcordatis. Fructus ma sphericus, saturatè coccineus, nitidus, inodorus, insipidus, seminibus cre nitentibus concoloribus obitèr receptaculo baccato adharentibus consitus. A species remarkable for uniting in itself the blossom of the Cinguefoil and the fruit of the Strawberry ; but has no other value in the garden than that which may be put on the fine bright poppy-coloured fruit as an ornament, being on the other hand destitute of all flavour and fragrance. Native of the mountains of the continent of India, where it was seen by Dr. Buchanan on the sand by the sides of the rivers in Nepaul. We hear that there is still another yellow-flowered species with insipid ens fruit, which is as peculiar to the islands of India as ^X o to the continent, but which has not yet, we believe, reache the european gardens. Introduced by the late Mr. Charles Greville, by pis it was cultivated at Paddington in 1804. Usually treated as a greenhouse plant; but we have seen it in a still more flourishing state in the open ground at Messrs. Whitley, Brames', and Milne's nursery, Parson's Green. The drawing was made from a plant kindly communicated to Mr. Edwards by Mr. N. S. Hodson, of South Lambeth. Sir James Smith, misled by an unfaithful figure and im- perfect specimen of the species, had conceived the seed to be baccate, having a covering of juicy pulp as in the Rasp- berry and Blackberry, instead of the dry one of the Straw- berry, which really belongs to it. Combining this charac- ter with the yellow bloom and biformed calyx, he has been induced to make our plant the foundation of a new genus, which he has called DucHEsNEA, to commemorate Mons. Duchesne, the ingenious author of the illustrations of the species of FRAGARIA. Taking it however for granted, that the misconceived nature of the seed has been mainly relied on in framing the new genus, we consider the structure as baseless, and deserted by the framer. e The calyx with stamens and pistils, after the corolla has been removed. OZ WW dŷ. de NWN N V ig \ i| Syd Chu wits del E i£ “O p ^ " p. by ^ 7 Kadyurey "go Aei cetditly 4 ftr Y Sh i > y 62 IPOMCEA paniculata. Pamcled Ipomeea. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. IPOMT A. Supra fol. 9. I. paniculata, foliis palmatis: lobis septenis (quinis v. trinis) ovatis acutis integerrimis, pedunculis paniculatis. (Char. ex Lin.) Ipomea mauritiana. Jacq. coll. 4. 216. hort. schoenb. 2. 39. t. 200. Convolvulus paniculatus. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 923. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 865. Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 1. 334. Matta-pall-tiga. — Hindás, ex Roxburgh in MSS. Pal-modecca. © Rheed. mal. 11. 101. t. 49. Perennis, lactescens, tota glabra. Radix ex tuberibus congestis elongatis, teretibus, extus fuscis. Caulis (modo plures ) volubilis, subbiorgyalis, teres, ramosus, calamum crassus, annuus. Folia petiolata, alterna, permeates sub- poc 7-nervia, glabra, lobis extimis brevioribus, sinu lato brevi ad asin: petiolus folio parum brevior. Pedunculi axillares, solitarii, multi- Hori, longitudine ferme foliorum, erecti. Cal. subglobosus, parvus, durius- culus, chloroleucus, longitudine tubi corolla, foliolis subrotundis, dorso alt convexis, imbricato-conniventibus. Cor. subbiuncialis, roseo-pallescens, ur- ceolato-campanulata ; tubus brevis Aft pote anon albicans ; faux 3-plo longior, multotiès amplior, ventricoso- v. urceolato-cylindrica ; limbus huic subeequalis, patens, laciniis retusis sini lato brevi cum mucrone in medio. Fil. alba, inclusa, fauci egualia, erecto-conniventia, basi barbata, 2 longiora : anth. ochroleuce. Stigma capitato-didymum, corrugatum. Caps. 2-loc., 4-valv. Sem, lanata. * In distinguishing the characters of Coxvorvurus and Irouca, Linnzus had combined differences taken from the stigma with others from the corolla. But the differences of the one not being uniformly conjoined with those of the other, and in the corolla having no definable limit, he had been repeatedly led to refer to Coxvorvorus plants with the stigma allotted to Ipomaa, as in the present in- stance. Many similar transpositions having accumulated, from the attempts of succeeding botanists to conform in their arrangement of species to the characters so constituted, the two genera had become nearly useless in relation to each other. But Jacquin, in his late reform of their cha- racters, has relied singly upon the difference of the stigmas; and no dislocation seems to be thence inferred in the natural connexion of the species that could have been avoided by more complex combinations, as the species are now found VOL. I, S to fall into their places with facility, and to range to ad- vantage. Mr. Brown has since thought it necessary to de- tach from both genera a division, under the appellation of Carysrécia, which he distinguishes by a calyx which is enclosed between two leafy bractes, and by a capsule which is unilocular. The present plant is â native of the East Indies, where, according to Dr. Roxburgh, it grows in hedges and thickets; flowers during the wet season; and affords pro- vender to cattle. Jacquin mentions it as native of the Isle of France. The former says the stem grows some fathoms in length, and dies down every year to the root; the lat- ter, that in the Isle of France it winds round the trunks of trees to the height of twenty feet, and does not die down annually ; altho' we see it certainly does when culti- vated in our stoves. The root is perennial, and consists of elongated round fleshy lactescent tubers, brown on the out- side. Leaves 3-6 inches long, palmate, 7-nerved, divided to beyond the middle into 5-5-7 lobes, the outer ones of which are smallest. The 5/oom is ornamental, and appears. about July in many flowered cymose panicles, from the axils of the upper leaves. Corolla about 9 inches deep, bright rose-colour within the faux, paler at the limb; on the outside the colour shines thro' a white porcelane-like glaze. Seed woolly. Introduced in 1799 by Mr. Thomas Gibbs. We owe the opportunity of taking the present drawing to- Mr. John Hall, in whose hothouse, at Notting Hill, the plant flowered this summer in great perfection. We had never before seen it in flower; but we had found young plants of it at Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne's nursery. | . Propagated by parting the root. Should be kept in the tan-pit, and led along the rafters of the house, or suffered to twine round props placed for the purpose. a The corolla dissected, to show the stamens. & Thè pistil, with didy- mous-capitate stigma. y th, SR » Fy Ewe "Lt. del 63 Ms POLIANTHES tuberosa. Common Tuberose. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. POLIANTHES. Cal. 0, Cor. infera, infundibuliformis, tubo erecto, limbo nutante equali, sexpartito, patulo. Stam. fauci corolla inserta : anthere filamentis longiores. Stylus filiformi-triqueter, inclu- sus tubo: stig. 3, laminosa, obcordata. Cups. basi tecta calyce, 3-loc. 3-valv. polysperma : sem. plana, gemino ordine disposita. Radix tube- roso-bulbosa, folia radicalia longa, caulina squamiformia 5 flores spicati, seorsim aut geminatim spathacei. Jussieu. gen. 56; (mutatis nonnullis). P. tuberosa. Lin. sp. pl. 1.453. Hort. Kew. 1. 457. ed. 2. 9. 981, Redouté liliac. 147.. Lour. cochinch. 1.204. Ruiz & Pavon fl. per. 3.66. Salisbury in trans. hort. soc. 1. 41. t. 9. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 164. Hyacinthus indicus tuberosus fl. Narcissi, Rudb. elys. 2. 39. f. 4.—f. Hyacinthi orientalis. id. eod. f. 2. H. indicus major tuberosà radice. Park. par. t. 113. f. 1.—minor. id, eod. f. 9. ..... à; H. indicus tuberosà radice. Clus. hist. 176. Amica nocturna. Rwmph. amb. 5. 285. t. 99. Omizochitl. Hern. mex. 277 ; cum icone. (8) flos plenus. Tuberosa. I. Trew. Fl. Imag. t. 135. Radix rhizoma feres, crassum, tunicato-bulbiceps. Folia plurima, radicalia, multifariam ambientia, semi-sesquipedalia, infra unciam lata, lorato-lanceo» lata. Caulis 3-4 pedalis, teres, foliosus, folus sensim decrescentibus, sparsis. Bractea pari cuique florum communis duas alias unam singulo flori propriam includens. Corolla 2-23 uncias longa: limbus tubo verticali striato duplo brevior, obtusus, subequalis, Anth. virides, erecta, lineares, introrsum verse, polline luteo. -Stylus tubo eguilongus, 3-queter, glaber, albus, cras» siusculus. Stigmata parum divergentia. . Clusius was in possession of this plant in 1594, and is, we believe, the first writer who mentions it. The pre- cise date of its appearance in Europe has, however, never been fixed, and the country it is natural to, is still a ques- tion. "The Hortus Kewensis makes it indigenous of the East Indies; Mr. R. A. Salisbury, who has devoted an ela- borate treatise to the plant, of Mexico. As far as we have searched, the latter opinion alone seems to be supported by any thing like direct evidence. No writer we have turned to even hints at an authority for its having been found wild in any part of the East Indies. The title a" indicus," constantly joined to its specific phrase by the older botanists, i Jee. uc e with them might refer to either East or West Indies. But in the history of the plants of Mexico, compiled from ob- servations made on the spot by Hernandez, the plant is said in precise words “ to be produced in the temperate and cool districts (of Mexico), and to be a kind of Narcissus, not known in the old world.” Here we can hardly avoid inferring, from the first part of the sentence, that it is meant to be recorded as indigenous; although we may be inclined to dispute the authority of a naturalist of two hundred years ago, who presumes to decide a plant's not being; native of any other part of the globe than Ame- rica. lather Camell, again, whose account of the vege- tables found in Luzon (one of the Philippine isles) has been added by Ray to his own work, tells us uneguivocally that the plant had been imported by the Spaniards from Mexico, by whom it was called Vara de S. José, Saint Joseph's wand, and that it was known by the name of the Mexican Aspho- del. The Flora peruviana, on the other hand, enumerates it merely as a garden-plant in Peru; altho' that work is cited by Monsieur Redouté, as well as the learned writer of the botanical articles in Rees's Cyclopedia, as enumerating it for one of the wild plants of that country. The appellation it has obtained with us of “ The Tube- rose," evidently originates in its having been distinguished by all the older botanists from the bulbous-rooted Hyacinth, by the description of the * Hyacinth with a tuberous root,” Hyacinthus tuberosus, or tuberosá radice. The present ge- neric name is sometimes written PoLyYANTHEs; but since it is admitted to be compounded of zcug and ce, alluding to its being a favourite in towns, and not of zeAvg and 90c, we shall scarcely be thought pedantic in saying, that the spelling at the head of this article is right. | The roots are annually imported by the Italian warehouse- men from ltaly and Portugal, and sometimes from the warmer parts of North America. They arrive early in the spring, aud if then planted, by a slight assistance from the hotbed, flower in the open air about September. The main root perishes after flowering, and is replaced by a brood of offsets, which become flower-bearers in their turn, The double variety is known to have been raised from seed by a Mons". de la Cour, at Leyden, about 60 or 70 years ago. Cultivated in England by Parkinson in 1699. ! | em 080 a A flower dissected, to show the stamens and pistil. 64 DIGITALIS ambigua. Greater yellow Fox-glove. DIDYNAMIA ANGI OSPERMIA. DIGITALIS. Suprâ fol. 48. tibus ; galea lata levitêr emarginata; labii inferioris lacinia intermedia acuta, folis ovato-lanceolatis pubescentibus. Roth Cutalecta bot. fasc. 9. 59. | Digitalis ambigua, Lin. suppl. 280. Syst. veg. 14. 562. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 985; (excluso synonymo Murray, dictante Roth). Hort, Kew. 2. 345. ed. 2. 4. 28. Schkuhr handb. n. 1799. t. 174. Roth neue beytr. 1. 2. 15. Id. in ann. of bot. 2.37. Ehrhart phytoph. 62. D. grandiflora. Allion. pedem. 258. Lam. © Decand. fi. franç. 3. 596. D. ochroleuca. Jacq. austr. 1. 36. t. 37. Pers. syn. 2. 162, a lutea. Mattusch. sil. n. 471.—8. Leers herborn. n. 487. » purpurea. Gmel. tub. 194. ; , D. folis calycinis lanceolatis, galea incisa, faucibus maeulosis. | Hall, helv. n. 831. Digitalis. Riv. monop. 104. D. major fl. luteo amplo. Park. par. t. 881. f. 4. D. flore luteo. Besl. eyst. est. 1. f. 3. © dr Perennis. Caulis 1-2-pedalis, simplex, foliosus, subviscido-villosus, erectus. Folia sparsa, multa, nec conferta, sessilia, elliptico-lanceolata, nervosa, à Prono et ad margines villosa, â supino parciůs modóque subnuda, obsoletiüs serrulata, basi utrinque deflexa. Racemus terminalts, multiflorus, lazê spicatus, secundus, yr racteatus ; bracteis pedicello longioribus. Flores cernut, villosi. Foliola calycina 3 superiora anguste lanceolata, 2 inferiora lanceolat? oblonga et duplo ferme latiora. Cor. ampla, parům purpurea minor, ventricosa, lutea seepêgue venis Fulvo-fuscescentibus reticulata, intus pilosa ; labium superius brevissimum, rotundatum ( indentatione ex bar om variá ), inferius productiùs trilobum, lobis triangularibus, medio duplo latiore. Pistillum & stamina partim pubescentia, Capsule calyce duplo longiores. D. ambigua, calycinis foliolis lanceolatis inzqualibus, corollis pubescen- — Ambigua was first distinguished as a species under E appellation by Professor Murray. Yet, according to i Roth, the plant which that botanist had in view was q the present, but one between it and lutea, nearer oné t = latter, and since named media by the Doctor, but adopte by Persoon in his * Synopsis," under the title of intermedia. Thus, should the two plants prove to be really c species, the name of ambigua will desiguate the one for byl. CAovenrts bed iw - à gam v Ledo ly gne 190 Lecaditl, Nov 1. 1845 71 od. de which it was not originally intended. In intermedia the stem is described as smooth ; not pubescent, as in the pre- sent ambigua, the leaves pubescent only at the edge and base; not so over both surfaces, especially the under, the bractes smooth; not pubescent on both sides, the leaflets of the calyx egual; not conspicuously unegual, the upper lip of the corolla obtusely bifid; not broad rounded and slightly emarginate, the middle segment of the lower lip obtuse and straight; not acute, and somewhat reflex at the top. "The flower of intermedia is also much smaller than in our plant, of a paler sulphur colour, and its calyx nearly twice as large. ` Ambigua is a hardy plant, and will grow almost any- where without care. Propagated by seed and by parting the root. Blooms in July and August. Native of the more southern parts of Europe, especially of Germany, chiefly affecting mountainous situations. No mention is made of its possessing any portion of the medicinal qualities for which the closely allied purpurea is famed. The drawing was made at Mr. Knight's nursery, King's Road, Little Chelsea. a The corolla dissected, to show the stamens. è The pistik 65 ERICA tumida. Scarlet bloated-flowered Heath. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ^ ERICA. Supra fol. 6. Div. II. Coniflore grandes. Corolle infernê dilatate, semunciâ lon- giores. Dryander in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 380. Subdiv. III. A. Anthere aristate. Idem, ubi supra. E. tumida, pubescens; bracteis duabus subulatis calyci proximis, foliis decussato-quaternis, corollis villosis pluriês longioribus calyce. Fruticulus strictus, undique extůs villosus. Folia patentissima, decussato- quaterna, vix 2 lineas excedentia, linearia, obsolete subulata cum obtuso acumine, villis brevibus hirta, lateribus reflexis in sulcum posticum conniventi- bus. Flores aggregato-terminales, subquaterni, pedicello je duplo v. ultrâ breviore, opacê sed letě coccinei, ac cerinthoidis quos plurimüm amulant. Cal. herbaceus, stellatus, ut pedicellus pilis capitatis conspersus, multotiès brevior corollâ, foliolis referentibus folia caulina nonnihil. dilatata : bractee due contigue opposite horizontales externě versus directe. Cor. subuncialis, ovato-cylindrica, inflata, villosa, ore constricta, lacinulis erecto-patulis, ob- tusis, brevissimis. Stam. libera inclusa: anth. pallido-fusce, aristate, aristis subulatis, serrulatis, antherâ parům brevioribus. Stylus easertus, coccineus, filamentis pluriós crassior, striato-teres, inclinatus, assurgens : Stigma capitatum, obsolete 4-gonum, aterrimum, We do not find this species registered in any publica- tion that has fallen in our way, or if it is, we have not recognised it. At a first glance our plant might be easily mistaken for a variety of the more common Erica cerintho- ides, with which it participates to a considerable extent in habit and colour. But in tumida the foliage is on a much smaller scale than in that, the inflorescence disposed by twos and fours, not in numerously crowded-flowered bunches; its corolla is also remarkably distended and of nearly three times the circumference of that of cerinthoides; its anthers are awned, in that awnless; the stigma inclosed in that, pro- truded in this. In £umida the corolla is about an inch long, in the other somewhat longer; in both of the finest scarlet hue, clouded by the pubescent covering of the exterior surface. Introduced, we understand, about three or four years ago by Mr. Niven, from the Cape of Good Hope. It re- guires, like all the congeners from that part of the world, ff Co, venti) bef, ) 4 4, . deh Fi / 4 4 . u 4 y hid / 440 y WO y ov V. F e. A fy to be cultivated in sandy peat-mould, and sheltered from frost in an airy light greenhouse. We have seen no speci- mens of it much above a foot high, and even such are as yet very rare. The drawing was taken this summer at Messrs, Colville's nursery in the King's Road, Chelsea. a The calyx; detached. 6 A stamen, showing the anther with its ser- rulate awns. c The pistil. All more or less magnified. 66 FUMARIA aurea. Golden american Fumitory. DIADELPHIA HEXANDRIA: FUMARIA. Supra fol. 50. Dio. Corollis unicalcaratis. F. aurea, caule ramoso diffuso, foliis bipinnatis, foliolis partitis lineari- lanceolatis utrinque acutis, racemis secundis, bracteis lato-lanceolatis subdenticulatis, siliquis teretibus turgidis (torosis) pedunculo duplo lon- gioribus. ( Pursh ubi infra, sub Se ) Corydalis aurea. Willd. enum. 740. Pursh amer. sept. 2. 463. Annua. Caulis diffusê ramosus. Folia pinnata, foliolis pinnatifidis, lobis lineari-lanceolatis acutis, interdüm incisis. Racemus pluriflorus, simplex. Bractee lanceolata, supra denticulate, pedicellum «guantes v. longiores. Cor. flava, semunciá longior : calcar oblongum, obtusum, rectum, pedicellum equans, dimidio corolle longius : petalum infimum infra medium gibbosum, lamina acutâ. We learn from Mr. Pursh, that the native abode of this plant extends from Pensylvania to Virginia, and that shady rocks are the situations it principally affects. The first mention we find of the species is in Will- denow's late enumeration of the plants cultivated in the Berlin garden. It has not found a place in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis. From the common Fumarra lutea it differs in being biennial, not perennial; in having a corolla with pointed petals, not blunt and rounded ; à spur more than half the length of the flower, straight and equal to the pedicle, not deflex, and several times shorter than both pedicle and corolla; by a seed-vessel which is torose and twice as long as the pedicle, not linear, even, and shorter than the pedicle. The corolla is of a golden yellow, more than half an inch long, and has a protuberance below the middle of the undermost petal. In reality, were it not for the colour of the flower, lutea would not have presented itself as the point of comparison, but sempervirens, to which it is far nearer akin. We have not learned the date of its introduction, but suspect that it has found its way here from the parisian gardens, where it had probably travelled from that of Ber- lin, in which it is known to have been raised by Willdenow VOL. I. T ud Creal) AA As £ Ly Y A VELE tg) 4 , x P, P ^ " HAS " Une 4 7 y Fi j #7 (€ yb Jy he tr £. VANI M hh. Te. from seed, sent him from America by one of his correspond- ents in that country. Tolerably hardy; but is best secured in a warm sheltered border, where it will flower about June, and ripen the seed freely. The drawing was made at Mr. Knight's nursery, King's Road, Little Chelsea. a The calyx. â The upper petal or lip. c Thelower. d The two centre. petals, forming the centre-piece, called its faux. e The stamens. „f The pini, g A siligue or pod, with permanent style and stigma. A A detached acc . t 67 EPIDENDRUM fuscatum. Brown Epidendrum. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Sect. V. Anthera terminalis, mobilis, operculiformis, decidua. Pol- linis masse cereace®, leves. Brown prod. 330. EPIDENDRUM. (Cal. 0. Cor. 5-petala, patens. — Labellum ecalcaratum, lamina patulá). Columna cum ungue labelli longitudinali- tér connata in tubum (quandoque decurrentem ovarium). Masse pollinis 4 parallele, septis completis persistentibus distincte, basi filo granulato elastico aucta. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 917. Herbe perennes, parasitice. Caps. 3-valvis: sem. plurima, minutissima. $$$ ——- - E. fuscatum, caule simplici, foliis oblongis acuminatisve, pedunculo ter- minali elongato, spica globosa, columna petalis breviore. Swartz in Nov. act. ups. 6. 69. 3 ` Epidendrum fuscatum. Smith spicil. 21. t. 23. Andrews's reposit, 441. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 120.. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 5. 218. Epidendrum anceps. Jacq. amer. 224. t. 138. —— Epidendrum secundum. -Swartz obs. 325; (nec aliorum). gi a Radix crassè fibrosa. Caudex tereti-compressus tectus vaginis foliorum, basi subbulboso-tumidus. Folia coriacea, alterna, disticho-patentia, vaginan- tia, carinata, lamina oblonga cum apiculo brevi oblique reflexo, modòve sub- lanceolatá, glabrá, subtilitěr striatá, saturatě viridi, subtůs pallidiore v. pur- purascente. Caulis continuus, strictus, 1-2 pedalis, compressus, totus vaginis alternis aridis carinatis acutis striatis internodia equantibus vestitus. Spica brevis, secunda, in corymbum digesta, refracta, nutans, terminalis v. ez vagina lateralis (in vegetiore planta forte jm 2). Bracteæ solitarie, lanceolate, germine triplo ¡Aria Pet. explanata, isometra, 3 latiora ovali-lanceolata, 2 linearia, 3-plo angustiora, modô deflexa. Labellum petala superans, rotun- datum, trilobum, lobo medio emarginato-retusum apiculo in sinu. Columna brevis, inclinata apice alis binis lateralibus truncatis suprà antheram inflexim conniventibus. Germ. subteres, striatum. r—— The above generic character allots a far narrower ex- tent to the genus, than is admitted by that we had pre- fixed to EPIDENDRUM nutans in the seventeenth article of this work. Fuscatum, like its congeners, is found growing on the trunks and branches of the trees, somewhat in the manner of the Misletoe with us. It is a perennial herbaceous plant, seldom exceeding a foot and half in height, with the fibres of the root thick and fleshy; stem sheathed by the lower portions of the foliage ; leaves coriaceous, distich, patent, T2 DA Sy humid. det. Mb SR. | | pf, ŵ d J Ridgway 170 Lie tly ov /. 1845 i Aut de a y d — alternate, varying from half an inch to an inch and half in breadth, sometimes rounded with a short point at the top, sometimes lanceolate, sometimes of a silvery hue beneath and thickly covered with minute green dots, at others purplish, — Flozwer-stalk long, terminal, upright, entirely clothed by alternate sphacelate deciduous sheaths, in strong plants bearing several spikes? Spike refracted, many-flowered, pointing one way, with the flowers dis- posed in the form of a corymb. Corolla sessile, about three parts of an inch long; petals of a dusky reddish brown; lip of a yellowish herbaceous colour, with a firmness and gloss that gives it the appearance of being formed of wax; scent very faint. Native of the West Indies. Found by Swartz in Ja- maica, on trees growing on the mountains. Introduced by Lord Gardner in 1790. Produces several flowering stems from the same root at various times of the year. Requires the treatment which we have already recommended for another species (see fol. 17) from the same regions. The drawing was made this summer from a specimen in the hothouse at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith, a A front view of the summit of the shaft of fructification with a portion of the lip, showing the 4 pollen-masses as they present themselves upon the removal of the anther from which they have been excreted. 6 The 4 pollen- masses extracted from the recess in the summit of the shaft. c The anther frontwise. d The converse of the same, showing its 4 partitions. All somewhat magnified, 68 PHLOX suffruticosa. Shining-leaved Phlox. . PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. PHLOX. Cal. 5-fidus aut 5-partitus connivens. Cor. hypogyna, hypocrateriformis, tubo longo, limbo plano 5-partito. Stam. inaequalia, non exserta, filamentis imo tubo insertis X eidem ultra adoatis, antheris sagittatis, Stylus 1. Stigma 3-plex. Caps. 3-loc., 3-valv., valvis medio septiferis. Sem. solitaria. Herbe; folia opposita. simplicia, Jloralia interdüm alterna; flores subcorymbosi terminales. + Habitus Sa- ponarie, sed flos monopetalus. Jussieu. gen. 136. P. suffruticosa, erecta, glaberrima; caule tereti maculato levigato, foliis ovato-oblongis subcarnosis suprà nitidis atrovirentibus, subtus pallidis, corymbis fastigiatis, ramis inferioribus elongatis nudiusculis, corollae laciniis lato-obovatis subretusis, dentibus calycinis lanceolatis mucro- natis. (Pursh, ubi infra, sub P. nitidâ). Phlox suffruticosa. Willd. enum. 200. Phlox nitida. Pursh amer. sept. 2. 730. in suppl. Caulis bipedalis et ultra, strictissimus, teres, maculatus, corymboso-ramo- sus, suffrulicosus, sempervirens ; rami summitate numerose Wr ragni Jori- Jeri, cymoso-fastigiantes, ad lentem superne subpubescentes. Folia distantia, long? acuminata, firma, atroviridia. Cor. limbo saturatê vividêgue violaceo- purpurascente, stell centrali ex radiis 5 saturatioribus picto, laciniis lato-ob- cordatis, retusis, subimbricato-contiguis. Nearly akin to Purox carolina, but in that the stem and foliage are pubescent ; in this entirely smooth, except as to a very minute loose pile upon the stalks of the corymb. “The flowers are here of a more brilliant violet-purple than in that, the foliage of a far darker and more shining green, and of a considerably firmer thicker substance: but the more remarkable distinction is the suffrutescent stem, which continues undecayed, and in leaf at the lower part the winter through. Willdenow, in his account of the plants cultivated in the Berlin garden, has been the first to establish the species, and by the above name. Mr. Pursh, unacquainted with this circumstance, has inserted it in the supplement to his North American Flora by another, Native of South Carolina. Blooms with us from the end of July to the end of October, Seldom exceeds two € by Cty till de Z. ^ Dn ; ue de i feet in height. Ornamental, and succeeds in the open air if planted in a warm sheltered situation. Being yet rare, we have found it more freguently cultivated in pots, in order to be placed in the pit or frame during the winter. Propagated by parting the roots. | The drawing was made from specimens communicated by Mr. N. S. Hodson, of South Lambeth; and Messrs. Lee and. Kenneday, of the Hammersmith nursery. | a The calyx. b A flower dissected vertically, to show the position of the stamens, c The pistil. 69 CROSSANDRA unduleefolia, | Waved-leaved Crossandra. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. CROSSANDRA. Cal. 5-partitus, inaequalis. Cor, monopetala, hypogyna, staminifera, limbo unilabiato, Stam. inclusa ; antheris. uni- locularibus. Ger. disco glanduloso basi cinctum: stylus 1 : stigma 2-lobum. Caps. biloc., loculis 2-spermis, elasticè bivalvis: dissepi- mento contrario. Sem. retinaculis subtensa: testa laxa: albumen’ nul- lum. Brown prod. 1. 472, 473, 475; et in Hort. Kew. ed. 2.4.57. Frutex. Folia opposita, exstipulata, indivisa. Flores in spicis ter- minalibus et axillaribus, tribracteati. C. undulefolia. Salisb. parad. 12. Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 4. 54. Harrachia speciosa. Jacq. eclog. pl. 33. t. 2. Li Ruellia infundibuliformis. Ann. of bot. 2. 100. Andrews's reposit. 542. : Justicia infundibuliformis. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 21. Vahl. symbol. 2. 17. enumer. 1. 164. Willd. sp. pl. 1.99. ; Manja-Kurini. Rheed. mal. 9. 191. t. 62. Frutex sesquipedalis. Truncus erectus, brevis, teres, in fine calamun anserinum crassus, cortice cinereo tectus : ramos plures emittens pedales $ ultra, virides, teretes, ad juga foliorum nodosos. Folia opposita, decussata, lanceolato-ovata, 3 pollices longa, sesquipollicem lata, g abra, integerrima, undulata, obtusata, petiolis duplo brevioribus semiteretibus ; superiora ità approximata ut hinc indè quaterna simulant. Rami axillares. Spice acutě tetragone, longè pedunculate. Bracteæ in quolibet flore $5 exter. ovata, cuspidata, navicularis, nervosa, pubescens, pilis glandulosis minutis ciliata ; interiores 2, lineares, eguilonge. Cal. inferus, foliolis membranaceis, ova- tis, cuspidatis, villosis, ciliatis, 3 exter. majoribus. Cor. k sos, bg 4 limbo dimidiato : tubus longitudine bractearum, inferne glo oso-tumidus, al- bidus, supernè flavescens, angustus, striatus : faux geniculo cum tubo conneza, tubulosa, angusta, superně sulcata, extůs glabra, intůs ut et tubus villosa, in limbum ampliata latum planum, patentissimum, speciosè miniatum, unilatera- lem, inegualitěr 5-lobum, laciniis profundè emarginatis, mediá paulo majore. Anth. solitarie in singulis filamentis ; versaliles, o; fave, pubescentes. Stylus filiformis longitudine tubi. Caps. lanceolata, obsolete 4-gona, semipol- licaris. Sem, orbicularia, plana, fusca, paleis obtusis undique tecta, Suniculis „umbilicalibus, hamiformibus, persistentibus, elasticis, dissepimento affixis, quibus mediantibus capsula tandem dehiscit. Jacq. fil., ubi suprà. > It has been the fate of this plant to be removed from its original situation in Justicia to be the stock of a e genus by two botanists, so nearly at the same time, t y neither seems to have been apprized of the intention of the ether, Hence its late appearance under two new names. Hd (hard dal Sub by SI Rudy 2 ^ d i guay 170 Riaddly. er l. 1445 Aut Se That which we have adopted, in conformity with the Hortus Kewensis, is derived from a trivial feature in the anthers; the other is bestowed in compliment to one of the Counts Harrach, who is said to be a great encourager of Botany in Austria, where he resides. Both the botanists had, however, neglected to insert among its generic cha- racteristics, the feature which is chiefly relied on to keep the genus asunder from RUELLIA, viz. the unilocular anthers. Indeed one of them has not even noticed it in his general description. ‘This omission has been supplied by Mr. Brown in the character we have prefixed to the present article. In the closely kindred genus APHELANDRA, the anthers are likewise unilocular, but the corolla is bilabiate, not one-lipped, as in this. Our shrub, we are told, has not exceeded the height of two feet in any european collection. The bark on the stem is greyish, on the branches, which are all axillary, green. 'The spikes terminal, numerous, imbricate, and guadran- gular as in so many species of this natural order. The co- rollas about an inch and half long, of an opaque salmon- colour, more or less deep, sometimes approaching to ver- million. Native of the East Indies. Introduced by Dr. William Roxburgh, about the year 1800: according to whom it flowers the year round in the Bengal-Gardens, and becomes a pretty large shrub. With us a stove-plant; propagated.by cuttings. When it has several branches, and the spikes terminating; these are completely in bloom, it is certainly very ornamental. The drawing was made at Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne's nursery, King's Road, Parson's Green. a A detached entire corolla, showing the globularly distended base of the tube. HA portion of the tube dissected, to show the enclosed stamens. c The pistil, d The outer bracte of the three that belong to each flower. 70 LONICERA japonica. Japanese Honeysuckle, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Lonicera, Supra fol. 31. Div. Periclymena, caule volubili. L. japonica, sempervirens, villosa; pedunculis solitariis, bifloris, axil- laribus, racemoso-approximatis; floribus longis, ringentibus : foliis omnibus distinctis. Lonicera japonica. Thunb. jap. 89. Syst. veg. Murr. ed. 14. 916. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 985. Andrews’s reposit. 583. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 378. Lonicera Periclymenum. Lour. cochin. 150; (nec aliorum). Nin too; itêm Sin too, vulgó Sui Kadsura ; et ex colore, Kin gin qua, i. e. auri argentique flores appellata. Periclymenum vulgare; s. capri- folium non perfoliatum baccis atropurpureis v. nigris. Kempf. aman. 185. Frutex orgyam ultràve ascendens, ramosus, villoso-hirsutus, volubilis. Folia perennantia, subcordato-ovata, attenuata, acutiuscula, villosa, reticulato- “venosa, subtüs cinerascentia, 1 ad 2 uncias cum dimidio longa, 3 ad 1} trans- versa; petioli fforalium caulem vel ramulum connato-cingentes, semiteretes, semunciales magisve. Ramuli floriferi, oppositi, axillares. Flores in racemos Joliosos lax? decussatos approzimati, terminales : pedunculi biflori, à longiori- bus petiolo sensim brevissimi; in axillis- foliorum diminutorum interdum „in bracteas descrescentium solitarii > summi duo modo in quadriflorum coadunati. Cal. brevis, acute B-dentatus, arctus,- cinctus bracteis 2 oppositis rotundis ciliatis + ipsis alia subulatá longiore in sensi contrario directa suffultis. Cor. ex argenteo-candicante es A sesguiuncialis, equabiliter tubulata, angusta, divaricato-bilabiata labio altero 3-plo latiore trifido, extüs dens? villosa pilisgue capitatis conspersa. Stigma viride, pileato-capitatum. A native Honeysuckle of China and Japan, where, ac- cording to Kempfer, it is known by tlte name of “ Gold and Silver Flowers;" the corolla changing from a silvery white to a golden yellow. Its mode of growth is similar to the common Honeysuckle of our hedges; and can be no Where seen to such advantage as planted in the border of à conservatory, where a proper support to wind its long branches upon has been provided. About the middle of | summer a profusion of bloom appears, of the richest fra- grance; the odour not of the kind afforded by the european Species, but rather approaching that of the Orange-flower, the Tuberose, and Cape Jasmine. It is evergreen, and co- VOL, I, U WA Hb, uos d T y 4 LE WL Fot oai y Kao. 1. 1813 iod AI A vered throughout with a short close pubescence. All the leaves are distinct and petioled; but the petioles of the upper ones are in fact connate, encircling the branch, in the way of the true perfoliate leaf, usualin the upper foliage of this genus, The species is remarkable, as partaking of the characters of both the divisions under which the rest of the genus have been commonly arranged. It has the long flower and twining stem of the Periclymena, with the solitary two- flowered axillary peduncles of the Chamecerasa; thus un- dermining Jussieu's genera, XYLOSTEON and CAPRIFOLIUM, as diis lire from Lonicera, and confirming the pro- priety of preserving the latter so far at least entire. Fi- gures of the plant freguently occur in chinese hangings and drawings, it being, as we are told, in great estimation in China for its beauty and fragrance. Introduced in 1806 by the Court of Directors of the East India Company, in their ship the Hope, Capt. Pendergrass. Sent by Mr. William Kerr. 'The drawing was made this summer, from a plant in the conservatory reserved for chinese plants, in the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith, . Multiplied principally by layers, which take root very freely. --—— a The flower dissected, to show the position of the stamens. 5 The pistil. 7i SOLANUM amazonium. New purple shrubby Nightshade. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. SOLANUM: Cal. 1-phyllus, 4-15-dentatus lobatusve, persistens, sæpè post efflorescentiam erescens, Cor. (infera) l-petala, rotata ; tubus brevis; limbus magnus, plicatus, 5-angulatus lobatusve, interdům 4-6-lo- batus, patens, (modů irregularis). Stam. aliquandd 4-6: fil. subulata, minima, interdům inequalia: anth. oblongæ, approximate distantesve, seplus zequales, interdüm ineguales, apice poris 2 dehiseentes. Stylus filiformis, rectus v. deflexus, in floribus Jertilibus longior staminibus, in Jl. sterilibus subequans filamenta : stigma obtusum, subsimplex, aut 2-3-4-fidum. Bacca subrotunda, ovata, oblonga, glabra, apice puncto notata, 2-3-5-loc.: placenta carnosa, convexa, aut convexo-concava nunc à dissepimento non discreta, nunc ope lamina intermedie longi- tudinalis dissepimento utrinque ad axem affixa: sem. plurima, subro- tunda, ovata, sapiůs compressa, margine cincta, glabra aut minutissimè er one pulpâ molli diaphanâ szepissimé convoluta. Dunal solan. 16. Caulis herbaceus aut frutescens, inermis aut aculeatus, aut rarô spi- nosus. Folia simplicia, integra, lobata, decompositague, alterna, in plurimis geminata, raro ternata. Pedunculi solitarii aut plures, sim- plices aut multifidi, axillares aut extra-axillares, oppositifolii aut sparsi aut terminales. Pedicelli Sot AN1 tuberosi sub flore articulati. Fructus S. esculenti magnus, sub5-loc. Huic flos 6-9-divisus. Dunal, ubi suprà. Div. Aculeata. Sub-div. Corollis 5-fidis, baccis calyce aucto $ aculeato tectis. S. amazonium, fruticosum, polygamum, tridynamum, tomentosum, sub- aculeatum : foliis oblongo-ovatis, repandis v. sinuato-lobatis ; calycibus hermapbroditis solis aculeatis : flore irregulari, subinzequali. Frutex 3-4-pedalis, erectus, pilis brevibus stipitato-stellatis densis his- idiusculis canescens. Caulis inermis, teres, flexuosus, dichotomo-ramosus. olia remote alterna, rariùs 2-8 approximata, petiolata, patentia, elongata ovata, lobis lateralibus sepe obsolescentibus nunquàm profundis obtusissimis terminali longiùs attenuato, basi sepiús inegualia, à supino Er ue flavi- cantia ; inferiora majora in nervis $ petiolis sparsim aculeata, ongitudine haud rarò sesunciali. Racemi plurimi, extraazillares, multiflori, terminales & late- rales, internodiales, foliis opposito-alternantes, ebracteati, patentes, revoluto- evolvendi (ac HELIOTROPII), disticho-secundi ; pedicelli 1-flori, erecti, flore breviores. Flos primarius cujusque racemi solus hermaphroditus, ceterz masculi, Cal. corollá duplo v. magis brevior, 5-fidus, laciniis lineari-suba- latis, und distantiore ; in hermaph. cum pedicello echinatus, (fructu simul ex^ crescens? ) ; in mare inermis atque cadens cum corolla. Cor. ur us uncias Jer? transversa, sinuato-guinguefida (in masculis plurimüm profundius ), vio- lacea cum stella mediâ flavá radiis externis 5 tomentosis respondente ; lacinize ovato-lanceolate, summam mediam versůs obliquate, infime 2 sublongiores divaricatiores. Anth. flave, subsessiles, contigua, declinata ; in maribus vá = <= P 7 p y, ins. y Se Lu "pul f. da £ y inequalissime, 3 imis maximis corniformibus arcuatis parallelis corollá paulo brevioribus : in hermaph. parüm inequales, corolla 9-plo fer? breviores. Stylus virens, arcuato-declinatus, altitudine ferč corolla. Flos masculus nondům expansus refert papilionaceum non apertum. The Solanums have recently given occasion to a valuable monograph, in which more than 200 species are displayed : a large proportion of which has been supplied by South America. The author is Monsieur Dunal, a pupil of the celebrated Professor de Candolle. Considerable pains ap- pear to have been bestowed on an analytical arrangement of the species, the best defence we have against an inundation of new generic names. A supplement is announced, and is to contain many more figures than are in the former part. 'This had been already communicated in manuscript to Monsieur Poiret, who has introduced the substance into à late volume of the supplement to Lamarck's Encyclopedia. We have not, however, been able to discover our plant in any species. It agrees in part with ¢ridynamum; but the stem in that is described as herbaceous and prickly, and no mention is made of the species being polygamous, nor of any difference between the barren and the fertile calyx. In the last points our plant coincides with polygamum, but there again the barren flowers are not tridynamous, viz. with three anthers large, the others small. Amazonium would have ranged under NycTERIUM, but that genus has been reduced to SoLanum by Monsieur Dunal. 'The species is shrubby, flexuose, dichotomously branched, clothed by a close short pile of stellately pencilled stipitate hairs; and has not, we believe, exceeded four feet in height with us. Racemes numerous, many-flowered, placed be- tween the leaves, so as to be alternate with these as well as opposite to them; at first revolute, as in Hzrro- TROPIUM. lowers pointing one way, nearly two inches across, of a bright violet blue, with a yellow 5-rayed star, answering to a tomentose one of as many rays on the out- side: the primary one of each bunch fertile, with a calyx armed with prickles and growing with the germen of the future berry, as that grows: the others barren, and we may observe, that as no offspring is confided to their care, so no arms have been bestowed on them, and they fall when the flower falls. 'The corolla of both flowers is irregular, but that, of the barren one more conspicuously so, the angles or segments being separated by much deeper sinuses than in the fertile one. The longest leaves we have seen were about six inches long and three broad; of an elongated ovate form, and sinuately lobed with shal- low rounded side-lobes, generally unegual at their base, usually beset by a few tawny subulate prickles scattered along the nerves on both surfaces, but more thickly on the petiole. The whole foliage is often tinged with a tawny ycllow hue on the upper surface, but is always white beneath; its upper lobe far attenuated, but blunt. Said to be native of Mexico. Perhaps the most orna- mental species of the genus; affording a succession of bloom from the middle of summer to the beginning of winter. Reguires to be kept constantly in the tan-pit of the hot- house; buf not in too crowded a situation, for in such it soon loses the lower foliage and appears ragged. Introduced by Mr. A. B. Lambert, of Boyton House, who has distributed it to others with his usual liberality. The drawing was made at the Physic-garden, Chelsea ; an establishment fast recovering its former reputation under the care of an excellent horticulturist, Mr. W. Anderson, lately appointed to the superintendence. — —— a The unarmed calyx of a barren flower. à The stamens of a barren flower. c The armed calyx of a fertile flower. d The pistil. e The sta- mens of a fertile flower. 72 TRACHELIUM ceruleum. Blue Throatwort, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. TRACHELIUM. Cal. superus, 5-fidus. Cor. infundibuliformis, tubo longo, limbo 5-lobo. Filamenta basi non dilatata. Stylus 1. Stizma globosum. Caps. 3-locularis (foraminibus ad basin dehiscens. Gaertn.) Flores corymbosi terminales bracteolati. Jussieu. gen. 165, T. caruleum, ramosum, erectum; folis ovatis serratis planis. Linn. suppl. 143. Trachelium ceruleum. Lin. sp. pl. 1.243. Mill. dict. ed. 8. Gertn. sem. 1. 115. t. 31. f. 4. Hort. Kew. 1. 996. ed. 2. 1. 355. Lamarck. illustr. 2. 73. n, 2599. t. 126, Willd. sp, pl. 1. 926, — Desfont. at- lant. 1. 182. Schkuhr handb, 1. 131. t. 40. T. azureum. Gouan hort. 100. 'Trachelio azuro umbellifero. Pon. bald. (ital.) 44; cum ic, Valeriana czrulea urticae folio. Barr. ic. 683, 684. Rapunculus valerianoides ceruleus. Moris. hist. 2. S. 5. t. 5. f. 52. Cervicaria Valerianoides cerulea. Bauh. pin. 95. Biennis. Radix crassè fibrosa. Caulis sesqui-bipedalis et ultrà, teres, glaber, supernê subcorymboso-ramosus, erectus, Folia alterna, laxa, ovato- acuminata, inegualitěr serrata, petiolata, 2 uncias circitěr longa, unam ferè transversa. Flores parvi, cerulei v. albi, numerosissimi, in cymam con- Jêrtam erecto-fastigiantes, terminantes ramos. Corolle tubus erectus, fili- Jormis, gracilis ; limbus patentissimus, laciniis parvis ellipticis concavis. Fil. ore tubi imposita, capillaria. Stylus exsertus, erectus, Caps. parva sub- globosa, rotundato-trigona ; sem. minutula, numerosa, elliptica, compressa, glabrata. Grows naturally in shady places in Italy and the Levant. Found also by Monsieur Desfontaines in Barbary, where it grew in the rocky fissures of Mount Atlas. Cultivated in our gardens in 1640. | A biennial plant; seldom exceeding two feet and a half in height ; fowers either blue or white, upright, small, produced in close numerous-flowered somewhat convex cymes at the end of the branches, which are placed at the upper part of the stem; leaves loosely alternate, ovate, acuminate, une- qually serrate, smooth as well as the rest of the plant. In bloom from July to September. Both scientific and ver- nacu]ar appellations have been suggested, by the long tube or neck of the corolla, Auth eon Fab by J Ralywny rje Měny oe LI Fal Churrada. del. Propagated by seed, which should be sown in the au- tumn, according to Miller, soon after it is ripe. When the plants are large enough they are to be transplanted into a border, with an eastern aspect, where they may remain till the autumn following, and then be planted where they are to flower, which they will do the next summer. But the plant thrives best on old walls and ruins, where it will shed its seed and multiply without any further trouble, if there be but earth enough for it to strike root in. It endures our winter much better in such a situation than in the most sheltered border of the flower-garden. The drawing was made from a plant sent by Mr. N. S. Hodson, of South Lambeth. CT Rm ___a A flower magnified, showing the germen and calyx. è The corolla dissected, to show the insertion of the stamens; magn. c The pistil; magn. =e 73 GARDENIA radicans. Double-flowered dwarf Gardenia, "en | PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, -. GARDENIA. Cal. 5-dentatus aut 5- (9-) fidus laciniis interdìm obliquatis. _ Cor, infundibuliformis tubo sapé longo, limbo plano .5-9-üdo. Stam. antheris sessilibus, intrà faucem latentibus aut parüm exsertis. Bacca sicca 2-4-locularis polysperma, seminibus numerosis duplici série dispositis in singulo loculo. Arbores aut frutices. © Folia opposita. Flores subsolitarii terminales aut axillares. “Genus in vivis recognoscendum. © Jussieu. gen. 202. | x G. radicans, inermis, foliis lanceolatis, corollis hypocrateriformibus ob- tusis, calyce angulato, caule radicante. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1225. Gardenia radicans. © Thunb. diss. de Gardenia. n. 1. t.1. f. 1. jap. 109. t. 20. Syst. veg. Murr. ed. 14. 251. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 368. Andrews's reposit. 491. . | utsjinar, altera. Kampf. aman. 808. Frutex pedem parům ezsuperans, ramosus, plaber ; caulis teres, crassitudine calami. Folia-opposita vel sepiús terna, elliptico-lanceolata, firmula, utrinque attenuata longinquiàs tamen versus lasin, l-2-uncialia, viz unquam tres partes uncie transversa, lucida, saturate viridia, patentia. Stipule intra- Soliacea, vaginantes, membranacee, ovate. Flores ramorum terminales, erecti, solitarii. Cal. virens, angulatus, glaber, 5-parlilus, segmentis acu- minatis erectis tubo corolla ferê duplo brevioribus. Cor. alba, coriacea, odo- ratissima, flavido-emarcescens. - - 8 PI The present species is only known: to us -as bearing flowers in a multiplied state. It is not easy to say in what respect it differs from GARDENIA florida (the Cape Jasmine), except in being of much inferior size., Radicans seldom exceeds the height of a foot, florida often becomes six or seven feet high; the leaf in the first is from one to two inches long, and seldom more than three parts of an inch over; in the latter nearly three times tbat size, of a more oblong form, and not tapered nearly so far towards the base. The disproportion between the flowers of the two is less; these in both are of the same coriaceous substance, whiteness, and delightful fragrance, and in both fade away, after nearly a fortnight's endurance, to a yellow hue. ‘The habit ascribed to the present species, of putting out roots from the stem above ground, and which has suggested the name, VOL. I. X / tt Ja Ath P erelid ly LV / /d/5 * o Án a byway Vis j 4 Fh FE. ) A renta del, VA has not been observed here, except when the plant has been kept for some timein a peculiarly warm damp situation, It is plain that this new comer will supersede the long-standing florida. It is propagated with the greatest facility, and by management may be made to flower nearly the year round. When a flower dies, two new branches ap- pear by the side of its stalk, each of which, if the plant is continued in the hothouse, will soon produce a flower in its turn, and so on in succession. But florida is a plant of more difficult management, flowers onlŷ once in the year, and that far more shily; takes more room, and has no su- periority in beauty. A cutting of radicans, as soon as it has taken root, will bear a flower. The nurserymen generally keep their stock of these plants, from the autumn till about March, in the greenhouse, and then plunge them into a common hotbed ; by which means -they are presently brought into bloom. Plants so treated last longer, and continue amore healthy, than when kept constantly in the hothouse. Much cultivated in China, from whence it was sent by Mr. William Kerr in 1804, to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, in the Henry Addington, Captain - Kirkpatrick. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, King’s Road, Little Chelsea. Plants of it are now frequent in all the principal nurseries near London, being most justly in great request. 74 NERIUM odorum. B. Double sweet-scented Rosebay or Oleander. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. NERIUM. Conrowra. (Cal. 5-partitus, parvus, persistens. Cor. infera,) hypocrateriformis. Faur coronata squamis 5, divisis. Limbi laciniis inzquilateris, ecaudatis. Fil. medio tubo inserta. Anth. (con- niventes) sagittate, ‘aristate, medio stigmati cohwrentes. Germ. 2. Stylus 1, filiformis, apice dilatato. Stigma obtusum (orbiculo insidens, Juss.) Sguame nulle hypogyne , . . . . . denticuli in basi calycis, extra corollam. © Folliculi erecti cylindracei, (longè acuminati. Juss.) Sem. extremitate superiori comosa. Frutices erecti. Folia terna, elongata, coriacea, venis numerosis, parallelis. Brown asclep. 71; et in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 67. N. odorum, foliis lineari-lanceolatis ternis subtůs costatis, laciniis caly- cinis erectis, squamis faucis multipartitis, laciniis filiformibus. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1233. Nerium odorum. Hort. Kew. 1. 297. ed. 9. 9. 67. N. odoratum. Lamarck. encyc. 3. 456. N. Oleander. Lour. cochin. 115. o indicum. Mill, dict. ed. 8. n. 2. erium. 8. Hort. cliff. 76. : N. aera Md floribus odoratis simplicibus. Herm. lugdb. 447.1. 448. Oleander sinicus. Rumph. amb. auct. c. 93. t. 16. f. 1. Tsjovanna areli. Rheed. mal. 9. 1. t. 1. (8) foliis latioribus, floribus plenis. — latifolium. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 3. Verium. y. Hort. cliff. 76. N. latifalium PEE MER odoratis. Herm, lugdb. 447. t. 449. Belutta areli. Rheed. mal. 9. 3. t.2. hi Arbuscula vir unguâm altitutidinem ovgyalem excedens ; faciem ex nons T^ vimineam pra se ferens, Folia lineari-lanceolata, 4-6 ue titudine minùs semunciali ad uncialem : petiolus crassus, curtus. Fio terminales, bracteolati, multi, laxč cymoso-paniculati, sesquiunciales ultrave. Linnaeus had included in Nertum Oleander the ES species from the East Indies, together with that of the sy of Europe and the Levant. They were first separated in the former edition of the Hortus Kewensis, the present be- ing distinguished by having the segments of e tight, and the scales at the mouth of the tube multifa E y parted and linear. Besides these marks, its foliage is gene x 2 A dab. bd Y V il i ey 4 74 My (Y AK ali z" \ | j £ f h x A A » | S My Wg ^ È SD > Ye E f ) Y ALA / ^ iy 1 A A i i Py K E > j £ A Y á ZZ N ln Y ii uy P. | / x y 74 P, JM Arbpvey “ye renty Sy LS. T SM x Firth Ze rally of lighter green and less substantial, and the bloom odorous. Miller made three species of them, of which the double variety of odorum constituted one. The present plant is a straight branching shrub, remind- ing us of the Osier, seldom exceeding 7-8 feet: stem round, bark brown: leaves firm narrow-lanceolate, 3-6 inches long, 3-1 inch broad, generally in threes: cymes terminal, many- flowered, loose: corolla much multiplied, peach-coloured, becoming redder when exposed to the open air for any time; scent resembling that ot bitter almonds, or rather the peruvian Heliotrope, but still more powerful. Cultivated in the Chelsea physic-garden in 1683; but had either become very rare or been entirely lost: for, on the return of an intercourse with France, plants of it brought from thence were regarded as novelties by our gardeners, and supposed to be different from those formerly in the country. But this is a mistake, the present be- ing certainly the variety cultivated by Miller, as we have proved both by the description in his dictionary and the specimen in the Banksian Herbarium. However, this will not depreciate its worth, since there cannot be a more desirable plant for our collections. It is known in the West Indies by the name of the South Sea Rose, and was much cultivated there for ornamental fences, till having been found noxious to the cattle that browzed it, it was confined to the garden. Both this and Oleander have the reputation of being poisonous. From size well suited to the border of the conservatory ; will do in the greenhouse, but we have never seen it in such perfection as in the hothouse, where it will continue to bloom till winter sets in. Multiplied by cuttings. The drawing was made at Mr. Knight's nursery, King's Road, Little Chelsea. The plant is now in almost all the principal nurseries near London, M YT A. Pe pa È F pt »^ del. rty ud f (4 cant, Pec /. M b . j 4 Slgway (qa A 75 IPOMCEA insignis. Bicolor-leaved Ipomeea. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. IPOMQGA4. Supra fol. 9. I. insignis, glabra, volubilis; foliis cordatis integris v. lobatis, acuminatis; cymis dichotomis ; calyce brevi, obtuso, convexo : corolla hypocrateri- formi. Ipomeea insignis. Andrews’s reposit. 636. — Aiton's Epitome. 369. add. Radix perennis, tuberosa. Caulis herbaceus, teres, ramosus, 3-orgyalis vel magis. Folia 3-6 uncialia, 3-A-uncias lata, modů 3-loba, lobis parům pro- fundis preter terminalem, interdům sinuato-lobata lobis pluribus irregularibus, modo indivisa, subtůs sepiùs purpurascentia, varicosè '[-nervia, nervis omnibus principibus ab eodem puncto divergentibus : petiolus in summo dorso ubi con fuit cum folio glandulá humente utrinque notatus, ac paniculate, (vid. fol. 62.) | Pedunculi solitarii, axillares, erecti, robusti, folio longiores, floribus pluribus multisve cymoso-terminati ; pedicelli modô dichotomi, flore breviores, bracteolà acutá stipati. Cal. tubum brevem corolle includens, foliolis lato— ellipticis, convexis, conniventibus, glaberrimis. Cor. roseo-pallescens, urceo- lato-hypocrateriformis, 14 unciam longa; tubus Sauce 3plo angustior ; faus amplius cylindracea, limbo longior; limbi laciniis brevissimis, rotundatis, emarginatis. Stam. inclusa basi barbata. . Stigma capitato-didymum. When grown in a border of mould, parted off within the tan-bed of the hothouse, our plant makes each year a fine display, attaining the length of 30 feet, with nu- merous branches, producing abundance of glossy pink bloom in separate large bunches. On plants that are left to grow in small garden-pots, or are yct young, the cymes seldom consist of more than five or six flowers, and these sometimes contracted nearly into the form of an umbel. But in full-grown plants, which have sufficient depth of mould, the flowers are from 15 to 20, in a broad dichotomous cyme. The species comes near to paniculata (see fol. 62); but the flowers of insignis are generally paler, smaller, and more numerous. The foliage of the two is. very distinct, that of paniculata being always palmate, while in this it varies from entire, to three-lobed, with: pointed shallow side-lobes, sometimes to 5-7-lobed, but then sinuately and irregularly so; it is also usually tinged with violet-red, or purple, beneath. In the leaf of paniculata the upper pair of nerves issue from the mid-rib, at a point nearly half an inch above that at which the two lower pair are produced; but in insignis all these spring from one, point at the base. The petioles in both have a small gland placed on each side the convex back, at the point where they enter the leaf, from which drops of a clear liguid are seen to distil. The roots of both are tuberous; the stems annual. Among Dr. Roxburgh's unpublished drawings of Coro- mandel plants in the library of Sir Joseph Banks, we found one of a plant under the name of ConvoLvuLus fastigiatus, which we have little doubt is the present species. We could not find, however, any description or account of it. In the drawing the seeds do not appear to be pubescent, as is the case in paniculata. Unless this should be our plant, its native country does not seem to be determined. Multiplied by cuttings with facility. To display it in perfection, an extensive trellis and rather lofty hothouse are reguired. The drawing was made at Messrs. Lee and Kennedy’s nursery, Hammersmith, in October last. Introduced in 1806 by Mr. Benyon, of Englefield House, Berkshire. a A section of the lower part of the corolla, to show the insertion of the filaments. 6 The pistil. Syd Calend, $ dol Y. Ma ty J Rgwny 90 Ticcadilly Loc 11/5. PAE Je 76 : ASCLEPIAS tuberosa. «. Tuberous Swallow-wort, or Orange Apocynum. PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Nat, Ord. AscLepiapea. Cal. 5-divisus, persistens, Cor. mono- petala, hypogyna, regularis, decidua. Stam. epipetala, laciniis limbi alternantia. — 4nt/. biloculares. Pollen ad dehiscentiam antherarum co- alescens, in massas numero loculorum. Germ. 9. Styli 2, arctě ap- proximati. Stigma ambobus commune, dilatatum, pentagonum, angulis corpusculiferis. — Fo//iculi 2, altero uunc abortiente. Placenta suture intìs applicita, demüm libera. Sem. numerosa, imbricata, pendula. Albumen tenue. Div. ASCLEPIADEE vere. Masse Pollinis 10, leves, per paria (diversis antheris pertinentia), affixze stigmatis corpusculis, sulco longitu- dinali bipartibilibus. — //. connata, extůs sepiìs appendiculata. ASCLEPIAS. Cor. 5-partita, reflexa. Corona staminea simplex, 5-phylla: foliolis cucullatis, ê fundo exserentibus processum aversum corniformem. Masse Pollinis compresse, apice attenuato affixe, pen- dule. Stigma depressum, muticum. — Folliculi leves. Sem. comosa. Herba erecte. Folia opposita, nunc alterna! v. verticillata. Umbelle interpetiolares. Brown asclep. 19, 21, 36; et in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 9, 80. A. tuberosa, caule erectiusculo summitate divaricato-ramoso hirsutissimo, foliis sparsis oblongo-lanceolatis, umbellis subcorymboso-terminalibus. Pursh amer. sept. 1. 183. Asclepias tuberosa. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 316. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 11. Hort. Kew. 1. 309. ed. 2.2. 82. Michaux bor. amer. 1.117. Willd. sp. pl..1. 1273. Apocynum nova anglie birsutum, tuberosá radice, floribus aurantiis. Herm. lugdb. 646. t. 647. Dill. elth. 35. t. 30. f. 34. (8) caule decumbente foliis sublinearibus hirsutissimis umbellis lateralibus. Pursh ubì supra 184. Asclepias decumbens. Lin. sp. pl. 1.314. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 10. Walt. carol. 106. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1268. A. hirsuta foliis ovatis obtusis subsessilibus, caule decumbente. Gron. virg. 27. ed. 9. 37. Apocynum carolinianum aurantiacum pilosum. © Petiz. sice. 90. Hirsutiůs pubescens, preter corollam. Radix perennis, elongato-tuberosa, crassa, modo profundissima. Caulis sesqui-bipedalis, decumbens vel erectius- culus, divaricato-ramosus. Umbellee in ramis fusco-rubentibus plures, corym- boso-fastigiate, multiradiate, in pedunculis communibus secundo-lateralibus & terminalibus, singulis inter folia bina — sitis, biuncialibus ad fer? ob- soletos: pedicelli 1-ffori, flore subtriplo longiores. Folia suprà pro majore vel minore spatio opposita, deind 2 sparsa ; inferiora elongato-oblonga acumine Jere obsoleto, basi minimüm attenuata, v. subcordata ;. petioli breves. Flores aurantiaco-crocati, vix quartam uncie partem excedentes. Cal. corollá 3-plo brevior, foliola lanceolata. Corona stam. obtusa, corolla lacinias equans. A plant very generally native in most.of the states of America, where it goes by several denominations ; such as * Butterfly-weed," from being a favourite resort of the in- sects of that tribe; “ Pleurisy or Ache-in-the-side plant,” from its medicinal virtues, said to be of considerable ac- tivity; besides some others. The stem varies in its direction, being sometimes decum- bent, sometimes nearly upright, and unites in itself, in a greater or less degree, both the opposite and alternate habit of foliage; circumstances not ascertained by its first his- torians, and which have caused the separation of the two varieties into as many species. A greater or less proportion of the upper leaves are always opposite, the rest scattered. Mr. Pursh mentioned to us, that he had found it grow- ing on mounds of sand which had been gradually accumu- lated by the wind to a considerable height, having a root which descended to near two fathom in depth: that in such situations the stem was decumbent; in sheltered fertile ones generally upright. The leaves vary from three inches long and nearly one broad, to very narrow ; from oblong, to lanceolately attenuate, and to linear. The stem froin one to two fect high, or more. The name of “ Swallow-wort” takes its rise with the european officinal species (AscLEPIAs Vincetovicum) ; and seems to be a version of Hirundinaria, the denomination that plant appears under in most of the works of the old botanists; to whom the name was suggested by a visionary assimiiation of the fruit-vessel with its plumed seed, to a Swallow on the wing. Generally raised from imported seed. Requires to be placed in a warm, dry, sheltered border of light mould. When its tuberous root has become large, it does not bea transplanting well. Sometimes seeds with us. Cultivated in 1690 in the garden at Hampton Court. Blooms from July to September. The drawing was made at Messrs. Colvilles nursery, King's Road, Little Chelsea, a The calyx. è The stamineous tube surmounted by the stigma, the crown being removed. `e A leaflet of the stamineous crown, with its horn- shaped process. Syd. FE) Ml. | | E m Ie. Prod ly u Z horny pe A Vreeerele l lp. y A /. Id 17 GLORIOSA superba. Superb Gloriosa. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNTA. GLORIOSA. Cor. infera, 6-partita, egualis, regularis, laciniis undulatis, longissimis, reflexis. Stam. imis laciniis inserta, stylo (obli- quo) breviora. Caps. ovalis, 3-loc., 3-valv., polysperma; sem. in ge- mino ordine disposita in singulo loculo, globosa. Caulis herbaceus, scandens, ramosus; folia apice cirrhosa ; pedunculi V-flori, axillares et terminales ; radix fuberosa. Jussieu. gen. 48; sub METHONICA, G. superba, folis cirrhiferis. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 437. Gloriosa superba. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 1. Hort. Kew. 1. 434. ed. 2. 9.247. Gertn. sem. 1. 69. t. 18. f. 1. Willd. sp. pl. 2.95. I.G. Müller sp. pl. . Schneevoogt ic. 35. © Andrews's reposit. 199. Methonica superba. Desfont. ann. du Muséum. 1. 197. Redouté liliac. 96. : Methonica malabarorum. Herm. lugdb. 688. t. 689. Pluk. alm. 949. Phyt. t, 116. f. 3. Lilium zeylanicum superbum. Comm. hort. 1. 69. t: 35. Rudb. elys. 2. 178. f. 7. Mendoni. RAeed, mal. 7. 107. £. 57. Radix perennis, fragili-carnosa, compresso-elongata, gnomonicê curvata cruribus demissis, digitum circitér crassa, promens gemmam è summa flerurà, Caulis herbaceus, orgyalis et ultrà, teres crassitudine calami scriptori, glaber, Joliosus, debilis, ope foliorum apice cirrhato-prehensilium sustentandus ; ramosus ramis simplicibus, 2 oppositis, 3- 4ve verticillatis. F olia sparsa, dis- tantia, ovato-lanceolata, longis caudato-acuminata, cirrho spirali prafiza, Pedunculi solitarii, axillares, 1-flori. Flores 2-3-unciales, cernui, denuò miniato-coccinei. Corolle lacinie elongato-lanceolate, de prope basin tote reflexo-arrecte, undulata. Fil. subulato-elongata, Sa laciniis warum basi inserta breviora; anth. vibratiles. Germ. oblongum. Stylus lorstonfatit2e assurgens, ad basin defracto-obliguatus et angulum rectum cum germine efficiens, virens, striatus: stig. 3, gracilia, patula. The extravagance of the present generic name, its being accompanied by a specific one little less exaggerated, q being an adjective, and more worthy of the whim o a dutch florist than of the taste of Linneus, have pro- voked several attempts to get rid of it for that of eee NICA, an appellation the plant is known by in Mala ar. But we see no defect in any name by which a genus is ge- nerally and rightly known, of which the i bor can ever egual that infallibly caused by the change of it; VOL. i Y and prefer the well known denomination to that less known, altho' of better taste. The plant is singular as well as beautiful. The scarlet undulate retroverted ascending segments of the corolla, are likened by Linneus to so many flames; the sty/e points horizontally, and appears as if broken at the base and fallen on its side; the root is a fleshy brittle elongated somewhat flattened tuber, bent downwards on each side from the middle into a kind of arch, from the upper part of the centre of which the stem rises; in old plants a catenation ef these forms a structure of very singular appearance. Monsieur Desfontaines recommends the taking up of these when the stem decays, and laying them by in the hothouse, before they are replanted in the spring. The stem is from six to ten feet high, weak and supported by the hold that the leaves take of the neighbouring plants, by means of a spiral tendril growing from their point. The corolla varies from two to three inches in depth. The plant has the reputation of being poisonous. Its place in the natural system is among the Lilia, near to EnyrHRonruM and Uvvrania. Native of the East Indies. Introduced by Mr. Bentinck, afterwards Lord Portland, in 1690. We suspect the plant from Guinea is a distinct species. Requires to be kept, while growing, constantly in the tan-pit of the hothouse, where it flowers late in the sum- mer. Multiplied by parting the tubers. The drawing was made from a plant which flowered this autumn in Mr. Vere's collection at Kensington Gore. a A segment of the corolla, with a stamen attached. 4 The pistil, after the corolla is removed. alk Je. j ^ 79 PASSITLORA perfoliata. Perfoliate Passionflower. MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. PASSIFLORA. Supra fol. 13. P. perfoliata, folis cordatis bilobis obtusis mucronatis, summis sub- amplexicaulibus, petiolis eglandulosis, calyce campanulato, petalis calycis laciniis duplo longioribus. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 611; (excl. Syn. Mill. Dict.) | Passiflora perfoliata. Lin. sp. pl. 9. 1956. Amen. acad. 1. 222. t. JO. f. 8. Swartz obs. 334. Jacq. hort. schenb. 2. 98. t. 180, Willd. sp. pl. 3.611. Andreŵs's reposit. 547. Miss Lawr. pase -sionfl. Hort, Kew. ed. 9. 4. 149. P. normalis. 77/04. phytog. 1. 9. P. foliis trilobis: cruribus oblongis obtusis: intermedio fer’ obsoleto setulá terminato. Browne jam. 328. V g pri Flos passionis perfoliatus s. periclymeni perfoliati folio. Sloane jam. 1. 230. t. 142. f. 3. 4. : Caules ramosi, superne angulati, villosi. Folia alterna, subtriloba, brevia, latissima, transversim oblongata, basi cordata, trinervia, subtůs venosa, lauca, punctis annularibus puncticulum elevatum cingentibus passim notata ; Tobi laterales simul vati circa 2 uncias transversi, ovato-oblongi, divaricati ; intermedius órevissimus obsolescens, erectus, omnes obtusissimi et setulâ mi- nutá terminali, Lobi ambo sinüs postici in summis foliis sic connivent ut hacce mentiantur perfoliata. Petioli ‘villosi, sinú foliaceo breviores. assur- genles, sine glan us. Stipule parom, subulate. — Pedunculi azillares, 1-flori, villosi, folio transverso breviores, solitarii geminive, bracteolis seta- ceis (3?) pro involucro. Cirrhi longissimi. Flores subsesquiunciales, po erectis- Cal. 5-fidus, ferè pro dimidio cupulatim tubulosus, segmentis stel- lato-patentibus, subulato-linearibus, coloratis. Corolla petala summo tubo calycis imposita, ejusque segmentis subduplo longiora, oblongo-lanceolata, plana, acuta, erecto-patula, a mascentiá aperta, quod insolitum. Corona duplex ; exterior divisa corolle basi imposita. triplogue brevior, arearen nivens, virens, margine coccinea, radii non numeros, carnosuli, he 2 obtusi, sepè per alterna paria concreti; Interior (v. oper un. "n d arida, decolor, lacero-partita, deflexa versus ndum tubi ca S Col eptum nectarii parietem tubi parům supra basin columnee circinans, Lo Tn ez- seria: stipes teres, gracilis, corollam fêrê cequans, glaber, Aea P d vid longior : anth. lineari-oblonge, verticali-versatiles, virides. Germ. glabrum: stig. obligue capitata, bilobo-emarginata, virentia. The flower of this species has several features which dis- tinguish it strongly from that of the others of the genus in this work; it is open from the time of its appearance in the bud-state; the disk of the calyw rises into a cupular tube for nearly balf the length ; the petals are longer and y2 broader than the segments of the calyx, and are placed on the inner rim of its tube; the rays of the outer crown converge cylindrically round the column; the inmost or operculum is deflected along the side of the tube towards the bottom down to the dissepiment, that forms a circle on the inner wall a little above the base of the column, which has a slender stipe that elevates the parts it supports beyond the corolla. The species differs from P. Murucuja chiefly in having the crown parted into lirear stripes, and not of one connected piece. The upper leaves are remarkable for encircling the branches which bear them by the lobes that form the sinus or indentation at the base, and thus assuming the perfoliate mien of the upper foliage of certain sorts of Honeysuckle. The stem we believe seldom exceeds the length of ten feet, is villous above, as are the peduncles, petioles, and even the leaves along the nerves at their under surface, where they are likewise glaucous and veined. Native of the West Indies Found by Dr. Swartz growing in hedges on parched spots near the sea, on the southern side of Jamaica; by Sloane on the wooded rocky mountains of the same island. © Introduced by Mr. William Fordyce in 1806. Requires the. treatment we have recommended in the fourteenth article of this work for the tropical portion of the genus. The drawing was made this summer from a plant which flowered in Lord Tankerville's collection at Walton-upon- Thames. a One of the petals. 5 A segment of the upper portion of the calyx. t The dissepiment of the nectary. d The inmost a es or deflected Sper culum. e The outer crown. f The column; which is a stipe or stalk coated by the 5 united filaments to where these divide, bearing the pistil on its summit. g A stamen, ‘è The germen. i without the corolla, germen. 7A style. k The calyx Syd. Chal f. uM. Se 19 PASSIFLORA lutea. - Yellow Passionflower. MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. PASSIFLORA.. Supra fol. 13. P. lutea, foliis cordatis trilobis obtusis glabris, petiolis eglandulosis, pe- dunculis axillaribus geminis, petalis calyce duplo angustioribus. #Villd. sp. pl. 3. 615. Passiflora lutea. Lin. sp. pl. 2. 1358. Aman. acad. 1. 994. t. 10. f. 13. Mill. dict..ed. 8. n. 3. Cav. diss. 10. 444. t. 267. Jacq. ic. rar. 3. t. 607. Coll. 2.282. Michaux bor. amer. 2.37. Pursh amer. sept. 2. 444. Hort. Kew. 3. 308. ed. 9. 4. 151. P. foliis trilobis cordatis egualibus obtusis glabris iutegerrimis. Gron. virg. ed. 9. 140. ; A Clematis passionalis triphyllos, flore luteo. Moris. hist. 1. 7. sect. 1. t. 9. Kw Flos passionis minor, folio in tres lacinias non serratas minüs profundas diviso. Sloane jam. 1. 931. Herbacea. Radix perennis, repens; caules plurimi, annui, ramosi, cirrhis diffusé. scandentes, teretes, graciles, viz pedes 4 excedentes, superne striati, utt pedunculi petioli & folia juniora subtůs pilis minutis laxis mollibus villosi. Folia: valde oblatè cordata, transversim latiora, venosa, 3-nervia, truncato-triloba; lobis latis brevibus obtusis acuminatis v. rotundatis setulâ brevi in apice, medio productiore, lateralibus divaricatis obsolescentibus s petioli bolando, producti: stipulæ exiles. Pedunculi azillares, ca- pillacei, 1-flori, sepiŵs gemini, petiolo longiores, erecto-patentes, pauld infra calycem articulati, © Cirrhi his laterales et intermedit. Flores erecti herbaceo-flavescentes. Invol. aut Bractee 0? Cal. extus herbaceus, villosius- culus, basi intrusus, stellatus, foliolis lineari-oblongis, obtusulis, dorso trisulcis. Cor. pet. albicantia fermè triplo minora, tenera, lanceolato-linearia, explanata. Corona lutea, triplex; exterior Eguans calycem, patentissima, ex radiis numerosis filiformibus; interior triplo brevior, simplex, erecta, ex radits plurimis gracili-clavatis; intima (si mavis operculum) membranacea, plicata, incumbens nectario. Septum annulus carnosus in fundo floris prominulus distinguens receptaculum columne â nectario. Fil. superně ligule mem- branacee divergentes : anth, lineari-oblonge, flave. Germ. viride, glabrum, elliptico-trigonum : styli saturatě virides. Bacca v. Pepo rotunda, viz piso major. The present species, and the guadrangularis already given in the fourteenth article of this work, are, we suspect, ex- emplifications of nearly the extremes of size in the flower of this genus. Probably likewise of the fruit, which in the one is of the size of a pea, in the other larger than a swan's oo 222" In the natural system Passirrora was first assorted with the Capparides, or vegetables allied to the Capcr- plant; afterwards more correctly with the Cucurdiacce or Gourd-tribe. From these, however, it has been since detached by the present luminary of the science, Pro- fessor de Jussieu, and forms the foundation of a separate natural order to which it gives the name. The order is distinguished from that of the Cucurbitacee, by being furnished with stipules, by having stamens and pistil in the same flower, by a germen detached from the calyx and corolla, by stamens concrete with the stipe or stalk of the fruit, by anthers of a quite different conformation, distinct from each other, and fixed to their filament at the middle. In the artificial system, the genus had fluctuated between Gynandria and Pentandria, but is now correctly fixed by Cavanilles in Monadelphia; the filaments being connate, and also below the germen, not upon it, as in a gynandrous flower. The fruit is a berry of the sort specified by the term pepo, of which we know no closer equivalent than gourd. In the West Indies it is called by the spanish name of Gra- nadilla, from being full of seed, as in the Granata or Pome- granate. The species is native of Jamaica, Virginia, Carolina, and Florida. Will endure our common winters planted at the foot of a warm wall. 'The roof is perennial aud creeping. The stem herbaceous, diffusely branched, climbing by ten- drils, seldom exceeding four teet. "The foliage varies much in size, and when young has a minute soft pubescence on the under surface, as well as the petiole, peduncle, and branches. The flowers are generally in pairs, and appear about August. In the article Passtrtora holosericea (fol. 59), we have in two places termed the dissepiment or partition between the receptacle of the column and the nectary, by mistake, * the incomplete operculum or cover." By operculum the inmost membranous crown, a sort of rufile that lies over the nectary, is meant. The plant was introduced by Catesby in 1714. The drawing was made from a specimen with which Mr. Edwards was favoured by Lady Aylesford, from her col- lection at Stanmore. a Outer crown. ¿Inner crown. clnmost crown or cover. d The dis éepiment of the nectary. e Ananthen J One of the styles. qa 4 Syd, Edita det. cs SA ty dM Kudy 190 Randy Sam /. Idi. “ Saith. A. do 80 EPIDENDRUM umbellatum. Umbel'd Epidendrum. ; GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, EPIDENDRUM. Supra fols. 17, 67. À E. umbellatum, canle simplici, foliis oblongis subemarginatis, floribus in sinu folii terminalis confertis, lamina labelli triloba, lobo intermedio emarginato, Swartz în Nov. act. ups. 6. 68: Epidendrum umbellatum. Swartz prod. 121. Fl. ind. occid. 3. 1501. Willd. sp. pl. 4.117. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 218. E. difforme. Jacg. amer. 223. t. 146. Ladices simplices, repentes, rigide, albide. Caules (nunc unicus) ag- gregati, semipedales, simplices, compressiusculi subflezuosi, foliosi, glabri. olia alterna, ovato-oblonga, basi vaginantia, obliqua, patula, subindè re- curvata, integra, apice parům emarginata, avenia, glaberrima, crassiuscula : vagina arcie, apice aperte, compressiuscule, margine ancipites, (hinc folia subtůs basi carinata,) striate. Flores (sesquiunciam excedentes) è sint folii terminales, aggregati, brevissime pedunculati, ( plures ) numerosi, majusculi, ( viridi-lutescentes ;) vagine (bractez) spatheformes, plures ad basin pe- dunculorum, oblonge, acute, pallide ( involucelli instar.) Swartz. Petala ¿sometra, lanceolata, patula, striata, 2 interiora plurimům angustiora linearia. Labellum petala pele arial lamina deflexa (flos enim torsione germinis resupinatus), transversim. latior, oblato-subcordata, triloba, venosa, costuld recta transeunte medium de fauce, cujus orificio astant glandule 2 elevata virentes ; lobi laterales rotundati, posticè secundùm utrumque latus columna profundis deflexi, medius multò minor bifidus lobulis obtusatis planis. Columna ferm? duplo brevior corolld ; ale laterales marginis paulo ultra an- theram producte v. obsolescentes. Germen petalis plus duplo longius. Anthera fusca, loculis 4 parallelo-convergentibus : Masse pollinis globose, pallidê dute, appendicibus filiformibus brevibus alterá fine conneze. A species which is very rarely met with in our collec- tions, and remarkable in the genus for an aggregated sub- sessile inflorescence, issuing from the bosom of the upper- most leaf on the stem, separated at the base by small en- closed spathaceous bractes, and standing upon very short nearly obsolete pedicles. Flowers several, an inch and half long, upright, of a green- ellow colour. Stem simple, little more than half a foot high, sheathed the whole length by the lower attenuated postion of the leaves; these alternate, distich, patent, ob- ong, substantial, firm, smooth. A native of the West Indies, where it grows on the trunks of trees, sometimes horizontally, sometimes perpendicularly downwards. Iq- troduced in 1793 by Rear-admiral William Bligh, in the Providence. ras : Professor Jacquin having described in the specific phrase to difforme the column of the flower as equal to the corolla, and the /abellum as obcordate; Dr. Swartz has had the precaution to rename our plant, subjoining Jacquin's merely as a probable synonym. In his general description, how- ever, the former will be found to speak of the column, only as almost equal to the corolla. We have reviewed attentively what each of them has said of his subject, and inspected both specimens of their plants in the Banksian Herbarium (where Jacguin's indeed is flowerless), and are persuaded of the specific identity of the two. The corolla, when full blown, by a contortion of the lower part of the germen which supports it, is always resupinate, that is, with the directions of the upper and lower halves of its plane reversed, as in the european Violets. Germen together with the short continuous pedicle about an inch high, cylindrical, tapering downwards, prominently three- ribbed, unilocular, with three parietal placentiform recep- tacles, attaching numerous ovula. Corolla superior, five- parted, segments lanceolate, equal in length, varicosely nerved, (wo inner very narrow and linear. Labellum ( Nectary Linn.) placed between the two outer lateral segments of the. corolla, which it rather exceeds and differs from in form and consistence, conjoined for the length of its narrow up- right turbinately tubular spurless «unguis with the column in front; lamina broad, patent, cordate, rounded, transversely broader, conspicuously veined, 3-lobed, two lateral lobes large, rounded, descending far down the sides of the column; middle one small, cleft into two blunt flat lobules; a straight prominent nerve passes to the apex from the mouth at the base, on each side of which is placed a raised green-coloured glandule. Column (or gynandrous style) upon the summit of the germen, upright, semicylindrical, one third or more shorter than the corolla, edge of the summit scarcely raised beyond the anther. Stamen an anther inserted nearest the nether side of the summit of the column, lid-shaped, move- able, deciduous, brown, hemispherical; cellules 4, parallel, convergent, standing on the inner front of the lid-shaped receptacle, and immersed in the cavity at the summit of the column. Pollen-masses 4, globular, compact, smooth, pa- rallel, each tailed by a short granulated thread, by which it becomes fixed to the stigma, when the case of the anther from a cell of which it has been excreted, falls off. Stigma concave, fronting the labellum at the top of the column, close to the anther. Capsule 3-valved, fenestrate, that is, with lateral openings, its frame remaining connected at both ends. Seeds numerous, minute, resembling filings; coated by an aril, pointed at each end. Requires to be kept in the hothouse ; and will do with the treatment we have recommended for the other species in this work. The drawing was made from a plant which flowered this autumn in the collection of Mr. Griffin, at South Lambeth. a The labellum and summit of the column, showing the pollen-masses in the position they retain after the case of the anther has fallen: magnified. b The four pollen-masses removed from their position. c The inner front of the quadrilocular anther. d Its converse, WOL. Y. Z x « Anal te. y f£, 3 A J x $ Fyth Edwards. del. gh, / hy i / Kulma /7 Q Pecadilly. fal. 1440 P 81 ASCLEPIAS curassavica. Curassoa Swallow-wort. PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. ASCLEPIAS. Supra fol. 78. A. curassatica, foliis lanceolatis petiolatis glabris, nitidis, caule simplici, umbellis erectis solitariis lateralibus. Linn. sp. pl. 1. 314. Asclepias curassavica. Mill, dict. ed. 8. n. 1. Swartz obs. 106. Jacq. miscell. 1. 99. t. 9. f. 9. Hort. Kew. 1. 306. ed. 2.2.81. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1266. A. erecta, foliis angustis acuminatis verticillater ternatis, floribus umbel- latis terminatricibus. Browne jam. 183. 2. Apocynum radice fibrosa, petalis coccineis, corniculis croceis. Dill. elth. 34. t. 30. f. 33. A. curassavicum s. americanum, fibrosa radice, floribus aurantiis, Cha- menerii foliis latioribus. Herm. paradis. 36. t. 36. A. erectum folio oblongo flore umbellato petalis coccineis reflexis. Sloane jam. 1. 906. t. 199. f. 45, © A. curassavicum fibrosa radice floribus aurantiis Chamenerii foliis angus- tioribus. Pluk. alin. 96... Phyt. t. 138. f. 3. ` Radix perennis, fibrosa. Caulis erectus, bipedalis v. magis, teres, viridis, lanupine albá rará obsoletids pubescens. Folia saturat? virentia, distantiůs decussata, lanceolato-oblonga, in petiolum proliziùs attenuata, subglabra, nervo. medio emittente alios laterales 'subadscendentes. Pedunculi interpetiolares, ad paria superiora foliorum alterni, solitarii, umbellà pluriflorá erecta lazâ simplici terminali, pedicellis bast bracteolatis. Foliola calycis virentia, lan- Pin je acuta, 'villosiuscula, refleza, duplo breviora corolla. Cor. crocato- coccinea, laciniis deflexis, lanceolatis, apice incurvulis. Corona staminea aurantiaco-flavescens, brevis ; foliolis medio tubo affixis, cucullatis, obiusissi- mis, singulis corniculum subulatum super stigma ascendens & inflecum esse- rentibus fundo. Stigma maximum, apice plano depressum. Folliculi fusiformes, subtriunciales, crassitudine digiti. Grows naturally in the West Indies. In Jamaica it is known by the name of ** Wild Ipecacuanha,” and is said to be employed by the negroes for the same medicinal purposes for which the genuine Ipecacuanha is used. The seed, buoyed by asilky plume, is wafted far and near like that of our thistles, like that attaches itself to whatever it meets in its course, and separates at last from the plume which bas sus- pended it, to seek the soil and germinate: proving by this habit a troublesome weed. Even in our hothouses, where it seeds freely, an inconvenience is perceived in as far as the other plants are disfigured by the downy seed. ES Root fibrous. Stem, seldom we believe rising above three fect in height, as well as the foliage of a full deep green. Upon attentive inspection, a whitish pile will be perceived to spread itself more or less over the whole plant, but more copiously on the stem peduncles and calyx. | Umbels up- right, rather numerously but not crowdedly flowered ; bloom scarlet and saffron-coloured. Plants of it last with us three or four years, but after the second year become naked, and do not produce so many flowers as at first. So that it is best to keep up a succession of them, which may be easily done by seed. The mould in which they are planted should be rich; the pots kept constantly in the tan-bed, and water supplied very sparingly in the winter. Professor Jacquin, to whom so much is due in the eluci- dation of the structure and economy of the stamens and pistils of this natural order, has displayed in bis Miscellanea Austriaca those parts in the flower of this species by very detailed and clear dissections. By these the mode, in which the pollen-masses are taken up from the cells of the anthers and held by the double thread that issues from the corpuscle at each angle of the pentagonal stigma, is well charac- terized, and reminds us of the way in which a magnet at- tracts and holds a substance within its influence. They are seen suspended by pairs, like the drops of ear-rings, one at the end of each thread, each lifted from the cell of a dif- ferent anther, Cultivated in 1692 in the Hampton Court Garden. Blooms from June to October. Varies with white flowers. The drawing was made from a specimen with which Mr. Edwards was favored by Lady Aylesford, from her collec- tion at Stanmore. a The calyx. ¿The centre-piece of the flower deprived of the five cowl-shaped leaflets that form the stamineous crown. c One of these leaf- lets detached. 4 An outline of the unripe follicle or univalvular fruit, in the ies it was found on the plant from which the drawing ofthe flowers was made. Pik « Fy. bdmandy. del. a 7 - 6 . ' s LA hy B A Top] //0 Hreadhly, Jan / ut : 02 BRYONIA quinqueloba. Mas. Five-fingered Cape Bryony. Barren-flowered. MONCECIA MONADELPHIA. BRYONIA. Monoica v. rar) dioica. (Cal. 1-phyllus, campanu- latus, 5-dentatus: denticulis subulatis. Cor, 5-partita, campanulata, calyci adnata: laciniis ovatis. Gen. pl. 663.) Masc. Fil. 3, brevissima, iufrà coalita, 2 diandra, 1 monandrum. Fan. Stylus 3-fidus ; stig- mata 3, emarginata. Bacca (infera) parva subglobosa levis, 1-(3- Gaertn. ) loc., polysperma; sem. pauca, (non plura senis, cellulis propriis conclusa. Gertn.) Radix tuberosa. Caulis herbaceus, scandens, flexuosus, Folia alterna, cirrhis axillaribus instructa, punctis. callosis aspersa. Flores axillares, pedunculis V-multifloris. Jussieu. gen. 394. B. guingueloba, dioica; foliis cordatis sinu baseos profundo, superioribus palmato-quinquelobatis, lobis oblongis obtusissimis distantibus, superné repando-dentatis, dentibus mucronatis, Bryonia quinqueloba. Thunb. prod. 13. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 622. Radix perennis, magna, oblonga, communitêr fusiformis, carnosa. Caules herbacei, subangulati, ramosi per cirrhos scandentes. Folia 7-nervia, dis- tantia, inferiora sepe cordato-quinquangularia : lobi superiorum subequales intervallis latis dioergentes, extimi 2 divaricati atque posticê sic auriculati ut conniveant imbricalim sinumgue baseos integrent, cum folium dicerelis pelta- tum: circumscriplio cunctis subrotunda ; diameter vix unquàm tribus unciis latior; omnia conspersa punctis. callosis : petiolus órevis, flexus. Cirrhi spirales, capillares, solitari, petiolis laterales. , Pedunculi collocati inter cirrhum et petiolum, breviores folio, sepiis gemini, alter 1-florus, alter pau- ciflorus, nunc alius effeelus (numne fcemineus abortiens ? ). Masc. Flos ochroleucus, 1-2 uncias transversus. Cor. rotato-campanulata, tenera, lanugine molli brevissimi pruinata, picta venis, laciniis trinervibus. Stamen breve : fil. crassum : anthera capitata, erecta, oblato-globosa, aurantiaca, constans lined sursům et deorsùm flexá in plicas arctas, Native of the Cape of Good Hope; till now, only known by its specific phrase in Thunberg's Prodromus. In cag A our gardens into which it has as yet found its xt e plant has been taken for BRYONIA grandis, an East In ian species; and in consequence treated too tenderly. It wi do in the conservatory and greenhouse; but thrives most at the foot of a wall with a southern aspect, where its stems will extend themselves to the — 30 or 40 feet, and produce larger and higher coloured bloom. Root large, fleshy, tapered, nearly as m the rise Bryony of our own hedges. . Stems. herbaceous, , slender, angular, flexuose, climbing by spiral filiform capillary ten- drils. Leaves cordate, deeply indented at the base, lower ones often repandly pentangular with an open petiolar sinus or hollow, upper ones palmately five-lobed, lobes oblong, outstretched, rounded, and sometimes broader upwards, two lowermost eared at the base so as to lap over each other and close the petiolar sinus, when the leaf appears peltate : all are repandly denticulate, with a mucro or point at the end of each small tooth, and thickly speckled with small callous dots which in a dried state often assume a chalky white- ness. Peduncles set between the petiole and the ten- dril, shorter than the leaf, commonly in pairs, 1-3 flow- ered; sometimes we find a third, but which we have not seen come to perfection with us. Flowers of a pinkish buff- colour, 1-2 inches across. Ánther, an orange-coloured ob- late ball, formed by a narrow continuous line winding in short egual close alternate folds upwards and downwards, round a receptacle or knob at the point of the filament. The plants in our collections have produced none but bar- ren fÌowers, such as have the stamen only; hence we have presumed the species to be dicecious, producing the fertile flowers, those with the pistil, on a distinct plant. In Jussieu's system the genus makes a part of the or- der Cucurbitacee or Gourd-tribe: an order of which the genera, from imperfect definition and inconnexedly assorted species, are almost useless, and their revision by a compe- tent botanist an urgent want in the science. Duvowta quinqueloba is no where mentioned as a plant ever known to have been in any european collection ; nor can we say at what period it was introduced. Mr. Edwards received the branch froin which the drawing was made from Lady Aylesford, by whom the plant was purchased, at the nur- sery of Messrs. Whitley and Co. in the King's Road, Par- son's Green. The Banksian Herbarium contains a spontaneous speci- men, remitted by the late Mr. Masson from the Cape of Good Hope. Increased with ease by cuttings; but the root soon ac- quiring considerable bulk, small-sized garden-pots should not be used for the plants. a The calyx. 6 The stamen standing on the disk of the corolla. angular, flexuose, climbing by spiral filiform capillary ten- drils. Leaves cordate, deeply indented at the base, lower ones often repandly pentangular with an open petiolar sinus or hollow, upper ones palmately five-lobed, lobes oblong, outstretched, rounded, and sometimes broader upwards, two lowermost eared at the base so as to lap over each other and close the petiolar sinus, when the leaf appears peltate : all are repandly denticulate, with a mucro or point at the end of each small tooth, and thickly speckled with small callous dots which in a dried state often assume a chalky white- ness. Peduncles set between the petiole and the ten- dril, shorter than the leaf, commonly in pairs, 1-3 flow- ered; sometimes we find a third, but which we have not seen come to perfection with us. Flowers of a pinkish buff- colour, 1-2 inches across. Anther, an orange-coloured ob- late ball, formed by a narrow continuous line winding in short equal close alternate folds upwards and downwards, round a receptacle or knob at the point of the filament. The plants in our collections have produced none but bar- ren flowers, such as have the stamen only; hence we have presumed the species to be dicecious, producing the fertile flowers, those with the pistil, on a distinct plant. In Jussieu’s system the genus makes a part of the or- der Cucurbitacee or Gourd-tribe: an order of which the genera, from imperfect definition and inconnexedly assorted species, are almost useless, and their revision by a compe- tent botanist an urgent want in the science. Bryonta quinqueloba is no where mentioned as a plant ever known to have been in any european collection; nor can we say at what period it was introduced. Mr, Edwards received the branch from which the drawing was made from Lady Aylesford, by whom the plant was purchased, at the nur- sery of Messrs. Whitley and Co, in the King's Road, Par- son's Green. The Banksian Herbarium contains a spontaneous speci- men, remitted by the late Mr. Masson from the Cape of Good Hope. Increased with ease by cuttings; but the root soon ac- quiring considerable bulk, small-sized garden-pots should not be used for the plants. a The calyx. è The stamen standing on the disk of the corolla. 7 ; i yd Edw / ald del. | = th. / mn) LM ty S eden 170 Healy Sen Jh. 1816. 83 CASSIA occidentalis. Occidental Cassia. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. CASSIA. Cal. 5-partitus coloratus deciduus. Cor. regularis: pet. 5, quorum inferiora majora. Stam. (declinata,) 3 inferiora longiora anthe- ris longis arcuatis, 4 lateralia antheris brevibus, 3 superiora brevia antheris effoetis. Germ. pedunculatum. Legumen oblongum bivalve dissepi- mentis transversis multiloculare loculis monospermis, nunc planum mem- branaceum siccum, latius et breve, aut longum & angustius, nunc sub- cylindricum lignosum intüs spé pulposum vix dehiscens. Arbuscude aut suffrutices; folia pinnata, opposite 1-12-juga aut rariůs multijuga, pe- tolo communi ad basin aut et inter foliola sepê glanduloso ; flores axil- lares spicati aut raris subsolitarii. Jussieu. gen. 348. C. occidentalis, glabra ; foliis subquinquejugis ovato-lanceolatis, margine scabris, exterioribus majoribus, glandula basilari, pedunculis multi- floris axillaribus et subpaniculato-terminalibus, leguminibus linearibus falcatis. Pursh amer. sept. 1. 305. Cassia occidentalis. Linn. sp. pl. 1. 539. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 1. Swartz obs. 159. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 518. Michaux bor-amer. 1. 961. Hort. Kew. 9. 51. ed. 9. 3. 96. Cassia planisiliqua. Linn. sp. pl. 1.540. Willd. sp. pl. 9. 518 ; syno- nymum moniti Herbarii et note manuscripte in Museo Banksiano assumptum. C. foliolis 5-parium ovato-lanceolatis, glabris glandula supra basin petiolo- rum. Roy. lugdb. 468. i C. herbacea, major, erecta, ramosa, foliis oyato-acuminatis, siliquis an- gustioribus compressis, spicis laxioribus terminalibus, assurgentibus. Browne jam. 224. 10. Senna occidentalis, odore opii viroso, orobi pannonici foliis mucronatis, glabra. Comm. hort. 1, 51. t. 96. Sloane jam. 2. 48. t. 175. f. Dida Herbacea, biennis? v. suffruticosa, sesqui-tripedalis, punctis vagis scaber, exaratus deorsùm à singulo paio sulcis duobus. Folia superiora foliolis quinque parium, ovato-lanceolatis, glabris, margine scabris, acuminatis, exte- rioribus sensim majoribus, ftetidis. Racemus terminalis. (Linn.) Flores per paria? Cal. subherbaceus. Cor. pet. concava, flava absque macula, venosa, brevitêr unguiculata ; summum medium obcordatum, emarginatum ; lateralia 2 superiora obovata, infernê versùs attenuata ; inferiora 2 divergentia. In floribus quos coràm habuimus stamina 2 corolla subequalia filamentis antherá longioribus, 4 (6?) filamentis antherâ brevioribus, reliqua cassa: anth. 2 inferiores mazime, arcuate, apice biforata, margine infimá lobulo laminoso e ; laterales 4 biforate lobulo antico obsolescente ; relique — ist. corolle «quale, virens. Germ. sericeum, compressum; stylus 3-plo brevior ; stigma rima secundùm latus interius styli directa, supra dilatata, glabra. Legumen fuscum angustum subfalcato-lineare, marginatum lined sartilagineo-albicante. "The species grows naturally in the West Indies, in Vir- ginia and in Carolina, is sometimes described as herbaceous and biennial, sometimes as perennial, sometimes as frutes- cent or shrubby. Botanists have given it a full share of their attention, but it had been no where exemplified by a coloured figure. The stem seldom exceeds two feet in height, generally branched; /eaves pinnate, leaflets five-paired, ac- cording to Linneus only threc-paired in the maturer plant, outer pairs gradually larger, each leaflet ovate lanceolate, rough at the edge; petiole with a single protuberant gland on the inside of its base: when handled they diffuse a strong narcotic scent, which in our colonies has acquired the plant the appellation of “ ‘The Stinking Weed.” Flowers on the racemes (which are axillary and terminal) in pairs; corolla concave, veined, of a dullish unspotted yellow colour; anthers opening by a double orifice at their summit, from the under margin of which a roundish lami- nar lobe is projected; fading from a light to a tawny yel- low. Stigma a dilated termination of the style, of a deep vivid green colour, Legume or pod, narrow, falcately li- near, flattened, torose or protuberant where each seed lies, edged by a narrow pale cartilaginous border. Upon the authority of a MS note in the Banksian Mu- seum, written when the Herbarium of that establishment „was collated with the Linnean, we have resolved Cassia planisiliqua into the present species. Planisiliqua was first recorded by Van Royen (or rather by Linneus under his name) in a work subsequent to the Hortus Cliffortianus in which occidentalis first appeared, and had been probably taken up solely from the figure cited for it from Plumier's work. The specimen found under that name in the Lin- nean Herbarium is an East Indian plant with eight-paired leaves, and plainly neither that of the description nor of the synonym. The drawing was made from a plant raised from seed, which flowered this autumn in Lady Aylesford's collection at Stanmore. A hothouse plant cultivated by Philip Miller in 1759. In Jamaica it is very common, and we are told used by the negroes as medicine. a The stamens and pistil. © A stamen: magnified. ¢ The lobe that „projects from below the double orifice of the larger anthers.: magnified. d The pistil; magnified, Jilly Sel / . 1810. CO > / Rulyway yO P 4 M RA by ily. del. 84 GOSSYPIUM barbadense. Barbadoes Cotton-Tree. MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Nat. ord. Matvacex. Div. 11I. Stamina in tubum corolliferum connata, indefinita. Frue- tus simplex multilocularis. GOSSYPIUM. Cal. cyathiformis (brevissimus) punctatus (re- pando-) sub5-lobus, calyculo cinctus majore (plauo) 3-fido laciniis dentato-cristatis, (Cor. pentapetala.) Anthere (reniformes) iu apice & superficie tubi. Stylus 1, (columnaris longitudine staminum :) stigmata 3-4, (crassiuscula,) Caps. (3-s.-4-loc., 3-s. 4-valvis Gen, pl) poly- sperma, seminibus lanà involutis, (angulo loculamentorum centrali duplici serie affixis. Geert.) Arbuscula aut frutices quidam subherbacei ; Jlores axillares. Folia quorumdam nervo pracipuo subtůs glanduloso. Jussieu gen. 274. G. barbadense, foliis superioribus trilobis, inferioribus quinquelobis, caule leviori, seminibus liberis. Swartz obs. 266. Gossypium barbadense. Linn. sp. pl. 2.975. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 2. . Hort. Kew. 2. 453. ed. 9. 4. 224. Swartz in Nov. act. holm. 1790. 21. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 806. G. frutescens annuum, folio trilobo, barbadense. Pluk. alm. 172. Phyt. t. 188. f. 1. i 01 : à; i Caulis orgyalis et ultrà, suffruticosus, biennis et ultrà, ramosus, levis: rami erectiusculi, teretes, leves s. pubescentes. Folia diam. 4-5-unciali : lobis ovalis, acutis, nervosis, subtůs pubescentibus et quoque suprà ad nervos s petioli teretes, paiuli. Pori 3 in nervis foliorum medii. Pedunculi 1 -flori, Segmenta calycis exterioris magna, cordata, laciniato-cristata, acuta. Flores magni, flavi. Pet. basi coherentia, obcordata, imbricato-rotata lobo altero sinus summi eccentrici obsolescente, extra imbricationem forts pubescentia, maculá sanguine in bast. Caps. ovata, acuminata, glabra, Sem. oblonga, plura, nigra land albâ involuta. Tota planta sepius conspersa atomis atro- purpureis. Scarcely any diligence can at this day enable us to deter- mine, so precisely and securely as it were to be desired, the species Linnzus intended by barbadense. The specimen in his Herbarium being doubtful; the figure cited for it, from Plukenetťs work, deficient in character; and the specific phrase too vague for near distinction. The present plant however is that which has passed traditionally in our collections for barbadense, and is the one of the Banksian Herbarium, Hortus Kewensis, Swartz, Willdenow, pec The species approaching the nearest to it are the East Indian VOL. I, AA religiosum with coloured wool, and the South American hirsutum with green seed, each distinct from the present, where the wool is white and the seed black. Yet Dr. Swartz, after observing the three in their cultivated state in the colonies of the West Indies, says, that they are with diffi- culty recognised from each other; and that they vary in so many and such material points, that he can easily believe them to be one species. But are not near species of most phenogamous vegetables liable, from intermixed culture, “ to run,” as the gardeners say; or, in other words, to be- come a mixed race? And are not close species which pro- duce the staple of a long-standing and extensive commerce, and have been purposely brought together with the view of experiment and improvement, especially liable to inter- mixture of race and consequent variation? But can we adduce as evidence of derivation from a same primary type, intercurrent variations of vegetables so circumstanced ? The plant with us is perennial, and grows to the height of 7-8 feet; the stem dying down every year, after produ- cing seed, if kept constantly in the bark-bed of the hot- house. 'The cotton or wool consists of the fleeces of the seed, forming a separate ball in each cell of the capsule. When picked from the capsule for use, this is freed from the seed * by means of a small mill, consisting of two bright steel * rollers, each about an inch in diameter, set parallel within “the distance of about the 20th part of an inch. ‘These * rollers move different ways, and draw the cotton through * them, while the seeds are forced out of their respective “little balls of down in which they are enclosed." It is of inconceivable elasticity; and a large mass, by a compres- sion familiar to those who pack it for carriage, may be re- duced within a compass incredibly small. Said to be a dan- gerous cargo, being subject to take fire if at all damp when packed, and burning upon admission of air with great fury. The drawing was made from a plant which flowered in Mr. John Hall's collection at Notting Hill; whence speci- mens were liberally communicated to Mr. Edwards. a The 3 balls of cotton, one in each loculament. 3 Dissepiment placed at the centre of a reflected valve. f The back of one of the three valves. c A seed partly bared of its wool. d The stigmas. e The anthers of the monadelphous stamens. “ J tho. A , IA Ut ecl, My Fel 1! SY (i. yr Lil. by P hudywuy 1/0 a Syl € dandy, del. 95 IPOMCEA hederacea. Blue american Ipomcea or The morning-glory. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 1POMGA. Supra fol. 9. I. hederacea, annua, pubescens; foliis cordatis, profundiůs trilobis, lobis acuminatis, medio ventricoso, sinubus arctatis fundo rotundatis ; pe- dunculis uni-trifloris ; tubo calycis barbato, laciniis bracteisque approxi- matis recurvis ; corollà subinfundibuliformi. Ipomoea hederacea. Jacq. coll. 1.124. Ie. rar. 1. t. 36. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 884. Persoon syn. 1. 184. Ipomeea barbata. Roth catalecta bot. 1. 37. Id. in Neue beytr. 156. Ann, bot. 9. 13. Persoon syn. 1. 184. Ipomea Nil. Pursh amer. sept. 1. 146; (exclusis Bot. Mag. $ Dil. elth. quoad fig. 91.) i Convolvulus Nil. Michaux bor-amer. 1. 189; aliorum quoque cùm agatur de plantá boreali-americaná sub illo nomine pro eadem specie cum asiatica vel australi-americaná minds rectě sociata. Convolvulus czruleus, hederaceo folio magis anguloso. Dill. elth. 1. 96. t. 80. fig. 99. C. Hore pulchro czruleo, foliis in sinus angulosque divisis. Clayton n. 504. in Gron. virg. ed. 2. 99. C. trifolius Virgineus. Park. theatr. 169. i Annua, volubilis. Caulis teres, ramosus hispidiusculè villosus, altè scan- dens. Folia plůs minis triuncialia, nunquàm non divisa, interdům subguin- queloba, utrinque appressè villosa, lobis lateralibus adscendentibus conniventi- bus, à medio ventricoso latiore profundiůs et arctiüs inciso sini cum fundo ro- tundato distinctis, petiolo Airsutzore, 2-4-unciali. Pedunculi axilares, so- litarii, 1-2-flori, violacei, horizontali-divaricati, petiolo breviores, fructiferé arrecti, modo adeb curti ut flos ferm? sessilis, superno hirsutiores. Bracteas 2 opposite, lineares, hirsute, acutule, suprà recurvate, floribus supposite instar calyculi. Cal. tres partes uncie longus, ferm? &guans dimidium cos. rolle, tubo brevi hirto pilis copiosis spissis subrufescentibus, foliolis isometris, ovato-attenuatis, subulato-elongatis, nudiusculis, cum pilis raris glandulá parvâ insitis, in fructu revoluto-divergentibus, interioribus duplo angustioribus. Cor. infundibuliformis, vjolaceo-cerulescens, tubo brevissimo, fauce turbinatá, limbo rotato-patentissimo, vivide ceruleo, sesquiunciam ferê transverso, lacia niis brevibus rotundatis, mucronatis, emarginatis: Fil. basi barbata. Stigma capitatum, granulatum, 2-3-lobatum. Caps. oblato-rotunda, erecta; sem. sublunata, interně versus attenuata, nigra, glabra, circiter 2 in singulo loculo. The Cowvorvurus hederaceus of the first edition of the Species Plantarum comprised, as varieties, plants which constituted the purpureus, Nil, and hederaceus of the second edition of that work, But still two distinct species are AA found to remain comprised in the synonymy of Nil; the present, and the one figured in the 188th plate of Curtis's Botanical Magazine by that name. And if we were to de- termine hederaceus and Nil by the synonyms adduced by Linneus, we should be of opinion that they included four species between them: 1. The asiatic plant; (Curt. bot. Mag. t. 188. Dill. elth. 96. t. 80, fig. 91.) 2. That from the Coast of Guinea; (Dill. elth. 97. t. 81. fig. 93.) 3. The South American plant figured in the Flora Peruviana of Ruiz and Pavon, t. 119. f. a. by the title of Irowaa cus- pidata ; (Dill. elth. 99. t. 83. fig. 96.) 4. The one before us from North America; ( Dill. elth. 96. t. 8. fig. 92.) Mr. Brown, in his Prodromus of the Flora of New Hol- land, according to his view of C. Nil and hederaceus of Linnzus, has reduced them to one species, which he has transferred to Ipoma@a by the name of hederacea. But Jac- quin had already enrolled our plant in that genus by the same appellation, which we have maintained for it in right of priority; and the rather as NW is thus vacant for the other. In our plant the lateral lobes of the leaves converge to- wards a broader ventricosely ovate centre one, from which they are separated by deep contracted sinuses, rounded at the bottom. In the other the lateral lobes are shorter, and diverge from the one in the centre, which is lanceolately ovate, and separated by shallow divaricate sinuses, some- times obliterated. The tube of the calyx in the present is clothed with a thick hirsute tawny pubescence; the seg- ments are long, subulate, and revolutely patent, in the other straight and connivent. The limb of the corolla is here rounded, there cornered. Itis seen in perfection only in the very early part of the day, and is called * the Morning Glory,” in America. The seed should be sown in the spring, with that of other annuals, and the plants treated like those of the twining kinds. The species is seldom seen in our gardens, altho' known in them from the days of Parkinson. Native of Virginia and Carolina; growing near gardens and in hedges on river-sides, The drawing was made from a plant raised in the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Milne, and Brame, in the King's Road, Parson's Green, from seeds received from Paris. a A section of the corolla. 6 The pistil, c Seed-vessel and calyx. | 86 $ e O^. air t di ADA e AR Lt ^ c Puy.. © drvartdls del. 4 Ml by F Bidgweay 1O Lec acylhy, Fet 4. LALO 86 IPOMQEA tuberculata. Tubercled Ipomeea. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. IPOM@A. Supra fol. 9. L tuberculata, frutescens ; ramis tuberculatis; foliis guinato-digitatis, foliolis © extimis integris v. bi-tripartitis; pedunculis 3-4-floris, erectis ; calyce brevi, obtuso, crassiusculo ; corolla hypocrateriformi. Convolvulus digitatus. Roxb. corom. MS. cum icone pictá inedità in Museo Banksiano. Suffrutex gracilis, volubilis ; caulis (aliquando plures) teres, ramosus ; rami tuberculis nunc passim innocuè subspinescentibus scabrati. Folia glabra, 2-3-uncialia, foliolis ovali-lanceolatis, obtusulis, mucronulatis ; extimis bre- vioribus sep? bi-trilobo-divisis, subpetiolatis v. sessilibus et cum proximis duo- bus obiter coherentibus: petiolus non multüm brevior folio, sulco à supino exaratus, sepius consitus tuberculis minutis vagis. Pedunculi axillares, solitarii, Persi ur mode crassiusculi, erecti, folio breviores, superně bi- bracteolati ; pedicellis brevibus. Cal. tubo bis brevior, virens, crassus, sub- cordato-ovatus, foliola exteriora 3 cordata, convexa dorso, obtusa ; interiora 2 sublongiora, tenuiora, subacutiora. Cor. 2 uncias circitêr profunda, laci- niis brevissimis rotundatis, de fauce intůs violaceo-purpurascente per limbum sulphureo-pallescens. Stigma capitato-didymum. Sem. pauca, majuscula, pubescentia, externis angulis lanata. A species extremely near to the Coxvorvurus mucronatus, first recorded by Forster as native of the island of Tanna, in the South Sea; but afterwards, in his account of the vegetables collected by himself at the Cape Verd and other islands in the Atlantic (see Commentationes R. S. S. Gottin-: gensis) as natural to St. Jago. The last place is that in- scribed on his sample, and on his drawing in the Banksian Museum, where it is found under the title of acuminatus, which was changed upon publication. Samples, now pre- served in the above Museum, have been collected subse- guently in the same guarter by Sir George Staunton, and this is, we have no doubt, that whence Forster really brought the plant, not from Tanna. The species comes likewise near to the Ipomaza pendula of Mr. Brown's Prodromus of the Flora of New Holland. But independently of difference in the general port of the plants, the present is distinct, in having a foliage without any traces of being ciliate; in having 3-4-flowered pedunclgs ; and by a corolla that is rather salver- (hypocrateriform) than funnel-shaped (infuri- dibuliform). The rough tubercled branches of our plant afford at first sight another distinction. In pendula a woolly pubescence will be found near the base of the petioles, which we did not perceive here. Iromæa tuberculata is a slender twining suffrutescent plant, attaining the height of five or six feet; native of the East Indies, where it grows in the hedges; flowers during the cold season, and is reckoned the most orna- mental of its genus. Stem round, with a brownish bark ; branches numerous, tubercled, with here and there a tu- bercle assuming a spinelike appearance. Leaves smooth, quinate, 2-3 inches in diameter; leaflets oval-lanceolate, obtuse, with a small point, outer ones generally shorter and 2-3-cleft, commonly distinct from the rest, and sub- petioled : petioles shorter than the leaf, minutely tubercled. Peduncles solitary, firm, trichotomously three-flowered, up- right, shorter than the leaf, bibracteolate. Calyx thick, of a deep green colour, two or three times shorter than the cylindrically lengthened faux; outer leaflets rather shorter, cordate. Corolla about two inches deep, of a pale violet- purple throughout the tubular portion, of a faint yellow at the limb; segments rounded and shallow. Seeds largish, brown, few, woolly at the angles. Last spring a packet of seeds arrived from the East Indies, sent by Sir Evan Nepean to Messrs. Whitley, Milne, and Brame, nurserymen, King's Road, Parson's Green; among them were those from which the present plant was raised. "These were stated to have been collected in the botanic garden at Calcutta. On the transfer of the species from Convorvurus to Iromea, Dr. Roxburgh's name of digitatus could not be retained, it being already occupied by another. « The section of the lower part of the corolla. è The pistil $7 La š A E ek stonek: A Smith. Je Fut ^y S KedgwoylJO Recadily Feb f. ISIO. y n byl Oduvardd. ole L, 87 MONARDA punctata, Spotted Monarda. DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. MONARDA. (Stamina 9 fertilia © abortiva, sub labio corolle su- periori inserta.) Cal. cylindricus striatus 5-dentatus. Cor. (hypogyna,) cylindrica longior bilabiata, (staminifera,) superiìs recta angusta integra, involvens stamina, inferiùs reflexa latior 3-loba lobo medio longiore. Germ. (4, 1-sperma basi mediante stylo connexa. Brown. prod. 499 :) stylus 1, ex receptaculo enatus; stigma bifidum. Sem. 4, (Cariopsides. Richard.) erecta, basi affixa receptaculo, in calyce persistente recondita ; embryo absque albumine. Jussieu. gen. 111. Caulis herbaceus, tetra» gonus. Rami oppositi. Folia petiolata, opposita, indivisa remotiusculd serrata, resinoso-punctata. Verticilli v. capitula multiflori, involucrati, Bractea _setucez. Vahl enum. 1. 220. M. punctata, glabriuscula, floribus mediocribus verticillatis, bracteis lanceolatis nervosis coloratis verticillo longioribus, foliis lanceolato- oblongis remoté serratis glabris, caule obtusangulo, villoso-canescente, Pursh amer. sept. 1. 18. Monarda punctata. Lin. sp. pl. 1.32. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 3. Hort. Kew. 1.37. ed. 9. 1. 51. Andrews's reposit. 546. Vahl enum. 1. 220. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 126. Monarda lutea. Michaux bor-amer. 1. 16. M. floribus verticillatis, corollis punctatis. Gron. virg. ed. 2. 6. Clinopodium virginianum angustifolium, lamii flore luteo maculato. Moris. hist. 3. 375. s. 11. t. 8. f. 8. Clinopodium virgivianum angustifolium, floribus amplis luteis purpuro- maculatis, cujus caules, sub quovis verticillo, 10 v. 12 foliolis rubenti- bus est circumcinctus. Pluk. alm. 111. phyt. t. 94. f. 1. Radix perennis. Caulis herbaceus, tetraqueter angulis rotundatis, ramosus, villosus. Folia sesgui-biuncialia, lata semunciam, lanceolata, ascendentêr nervosa, à medio sursùm serrata, petiolata, resinoso-punctata glabriuscula, sub lente inspecta villosa, odorata. Verticilli plures (3-5) azillares, sessiles, capitato-densati, erecti, Involucra suboctophylla, longiora floribus, patentis- sima, violaceo-rubentia, foliolis plus minus inequalibus, basi ciliatis. Cal, minutě villosus, ore pilis prolizioribus barbatus, dentibus acutis denu? stellatis. Cor. uncialis, flava, resinoso-punctata, dense villosa, semiringens ; tubus gracilis longitudine calycis ; faux brevis, turbinata, antice intrusa; labium superius e un, erectum, rubro marmoralum, dorso carinatum, apice bar- batum ; inferius. remissis rubro-punctatum, lobo medio rotundato intůs con- vezo recto 3-plo latiore, lateralibus subdeflexis. Filamenta villosiuscula. . Anth. à summo ad imum biloba, lobis perpendicularitěr divaricatis. Stylus capil- laceus, villosus; stigm. 2 înegualissima. The Labiate, to which Moxanpa belongs, compose one of the most obviously signalized symmetrical orders in the whole of Jussieu's System. In that of Linnaeus, however, a portion of these naturally co-ordinate plants, from having two of the four stamens imperfect, have been excluded from the Class Didynamia, which comprises the bulk of them, and in critical strictnessincluded in Diandria; among these is the present genus. The features which characterize the genera throughout this natural tribe, are, a monope- talous bilabiate corolla, four single-seeded germens con- nected at the base by the style, and fruit which abides within the persistent calyx. Each fruit consists of four (from miscarriage sometimes fewer) dry one-seeded peri- carps, adhering in such manner to the integument of the seed as not to be discriminated from it. Every such peri- carp, with its contents had been till recently deemed a naked seed; but is now included, by Mr. Brown, in the Il cariopsis, appropriated by Monsieur Richard to the sind. Punctata is â tolerably hardy perennial plant, native of North America, where it is found, according to Mr. Pursh, in sandy fields, in the tract of country which reaches from New Jersey to Carolina. Its most conspicuous ornament consists in the pink bractes, which form the involucre beneath each whorl of the inflorescence. The yellow co- rolla, when inspected near, will be found thickly spec- kled with small resinous dots, and variegated, or rather marbled, with pink stains. We do not know the exact height the plant may reach, but have never seen it more than a foot and a half high. "The bloom smells like that of the common Balm; the foliage more like that of Mint. The teeth of the orifice of the calyx ultimately spread into a small star. The imperfect stamens are filaments without anthers, The anthers of the perfect stamens divide into two vertically divaricate lobes. The style is villose, with two simple setiform stigmas of very unequal lengths. Cultivated in this country in 1714, by Mr. Thomas Fairchild. The drawing was made this summer from plants which flowered in the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, at Hammersmith. om I 1 a The calyx. 5 The corolla removed from the calyx shown laterally. c The same dissected vertically, to show the two perfect stamens and pistil, and also the two imperfect filaments. d The pistil, with the two unequal stigmas. X x (SIRO) a Ù D s - & p X Id ly f Muy tjo Recadilly Jel, / (dl Y. AL 88 PASSIFLORA glauca. Cayenne Passionflower. MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. PASSIFLORA. Supra fol. 13. P. glauca, foliis cordatis, trilobis, glabris, lobis ovatis equalibus, petiolis glandulosis, stipulis semiovatis. Hort. Kew. 3. 308. Passiflora glauca. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 618. Jacq. schenb. 3. 70. t. 384. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 159. Passiflora stipulata. Aublet guian. 2. 830. t. 325; (sine flore.) Tota glabra. Caulis fruticosus, ramosissimus, teres (striatulus,) cirrhis simplicibus axillaribus scandens, 10-pedalis et ultrà. Folia alterna, basi cor- data, semitriloba, integerrima, 5-nervia, subtůs glauca & venulis reticulata, suprà saturatě virentia, lobis ovatis & obtusis : petiolo tereti (suprà et utroque latere sulco exarato, subtetraquetro, subtüs convexiusculo), plus minus sesquiunciali, et utplurimüm bi-quadriglanduloso. © Stipulae gemine, falcato- oblonge, integerrima, obtuse cum setulá terminali, opposite, fer? unciales. Pedunculi uniflori, axillares, solitarii, patentissimi, unciales, supernê brac- teolis duabus oppositis lanceolatis & acutis (rectiìs tribus ovatis verticillatis proinvolucro.) Flores odoratissimi, diametri duarum cum dimidiá unciarum. Calycis foliola 5, lanceolata, acuta, patentissima (tandèm reflexa,) foris virentia, intüs pallida. Petala alba, figura longitudine (inflexione) $ siti calycis, Radii corone plurimorum ordinum: exteriores (ordine gemino) patentissimi, ferè longitudine corolla subulati, ad basin nivei, dein violacet, hinc iterům albi, (in serie secunda non multům breviores:) reliqui erecti, albi, capitati, brevissimi, (convexiùs fastigiantes) numerosi, intimi longiores & peg usque ad stamina. Filamenta unâ cum columnâ communi stylo et stigmate pallida, punctisque sanguineis aspersa. Anthere flave. Germ. ovale, nitidum, viride. Jacquin loc. cit. This fine shrub, a native of Cayenne, is not often known to blossom inour collections. When planted in theground within the hothouse, it mounts to a considerable height, and we have seen it with a tall flexible stem, nearly an inch in diameter; branched and climbing, as usual with the genus, by claspers. Leaves broader than long, 4-5 inches over, half three-lobed, cordate at the base, lobes ovate, obtuse, dark green on the upper side, grey on the under and reticu- lately veined: petioles with from 2 to 4 glandular tubercles: stipules two, opposite, large, parabolical, lanceolate. Pe- duncles solitary, one-flowered, rather thick: involucre of three small ovate bractes, close below the flower. Flowers fugitive, tender, delightfully fragrant, little less than three inches in diameter. Calyx and corolla nearly of one VOL. I. BB size position and inflection, first patent, then reflex; the former greenish without, pale within; tbe latter uniformly white. Crown variegated in circles of white and violet; ouier rays filiform, subulate, slender, in a double some- what alternately unequal series, nearly even with the co- rolla, patent; inner rays much shorter, erect, promiscu- ously crowded, capitate, forming a convex umbellike disk in the flower, an appearance which we are not aware they assume in any other species; inmost rays of the same shape but taller than the inner, in one rank and inclined to- wards the column which they surround and mask, standing immediately upon the operculum or small ruffle that lies over the nectary, a feature which constitutes a second anomaly in the genus. Germen elliptic, smooth. Shaft of the column, filaments, style, and stigmas spotted. Anthers yellow. The drawing was made in the beginning of last autumn, from a plant which flowered in the collection of Comtesse de Vandes, Bayswater. The specimen was too far decayed after Mr. Edwards had finished the design, for us to take the description of the flower, and we have relied chiefly on the drawing in what we have said. . Aublet, by whom the species was first recorded, found it growing naturally in Cayenne, but did not see the blossom. Introduced in 1779 by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, of the Hammersmith nursery, a Outer double rank of rays. ¿Inner multiplied rays. e Inmost single rank, stationed on tbe operculum and surrounding the shaft of the column, d The fleshy elevated pediment of the column, e The nectary. = — Mawl. Se i UN Es f Us / ání Aird gue 4 V ¢ ‘ 1 2 ; / tyi fl Piccadilly A Fob LISTO 99 JASMINUM azoricum. Azorian or Ivy-leaved Jasmine. DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, . JASMINUM: Supra fol. 1. Div. Foliis compositis. J. azoricum, foliis ternatis ; foliolis ovatis subcordatisque, calycibus cam- panulatis glabris, corolla laciniis tubo equalibus. Vahl enum. 1. 31. Jasminum azoricum. Linn. sp. pl. 1.9. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n.6. Hort. Kew. 1.9. ed. 9. 1. 17. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 39. J. azoricum trifoliatum, flore albo odoratissimo. Commel. hort. 1. 159, t. 82. Frutex sempervirens in hortis adminiculatus longitudinem viginti pedum acquirens, ramosissimus 3 rami teretes glaberrimi folia pedunculi calycesque virore leto nitentes. Ramuli lazè paniculato-floriferi, in foliis superioribus axillares, villis minutissimis subpubescentes; pedunculi subelastico-rigentes brachiato-oppositi et terminales; pedicellis trichotomis v. unifloris, extimis basi bracteolatis. Folia ternata, remota, firmiůs membranacea. superficie et consistentiâ fer? CirR1 Aurantii ; foliolis petiolatis, subundulatis, subcordato- attenuatis, acuminatis, terminali duplo majore, proliziŵs petiolato, sesqui- triunciali : petiolus communis divaricatus, subflexuosus, rigidiusculus. Cal. turbinato-campanulatus, estriatus, brevis, denticulis 5 minutis erectis, ovato- acutis. Cor. alba, longitudine viz excedens trinas partes uncie, forts ali- quando purpureo suffusa ; tubus subsemuncialis 3 limbus parům brevior, laciniis 5 explanatis, oblongo-lanceolatis, acutis, basi subovatis. Anth. flave, medio tubo sessiles, latentes. Stigma tubo exsertum, clavato-bifidum, compres- sum, viride. Bacca nigra, globosa magnitudine ferê PRUNI Cerasi minoris. Flores odoratissimi. Grows naturally in the island of Madeira, and has been known in the dutch gardens according to Commelin from 1693, in the english from about 1724. No plant presents itself more constantly in ‘our greenhouses than this. The bright lively hue of its evergreen foliage, the fragrance and long succession of the bloom, render it a favourite with all gardeners. When planted in the border of a conservatory it may be trained to the height of 20 feet and more, and will frequently ripen its berries, which are about the size, form, and colour of a small common black cherry. Our milder winters do not destroy it when planted in a warm border against a southern wall; and so treated it thrives better than in any other situation. An evergreen shrub, Stem slender, requiring to be sup- = BB 2 ported; branches, peduncles, and calyx bright green. Leaves ternate, membranous, smooth, with largish cordate acumi- mate petioled leaflets, of a full shining green, like that of the foliage of the Orange-Tree, terminal one from an. inch and half to three inches long. Blossom white, pro- duced from the axils of the outer foliage and ends of the branches, in loose trichotomous brachiately disposed pá- nicles. Calyx tubular, short, minutely 5-toothed. ‘Tube of the corolla slender, longer than the elliptic-lanceolate expanded segments. We have found no coloured representation of this species, altho’ one so long and generally popular with those who amuse themselves in the flower-garden. It is multiplied by offsets and layers with ease; but is in such general request, that the nurserymen tell you, that, let their stock of its plants be ever so large, they never have one too many. The drawing was made at Mr. Rolls’s nursery, King’s Road, Little Chelsea. EEE a The calyx. 6 The tube of the corolla dissected, ta show the stamens. | c The pistil, ď A ripe berry. 1 “CN eS Y y Ps pA E brana. del. ‘ Ds Luth A | LA by E, Ridgway /70 M. ccedi lly Pelos. ISU ; 90 s STYLIDIUM graminifolium, Grass-leaved Stylidium. GYNANDRIA DJANDRIA. STYLIDIUM. Cal. superus, 2-labiatus, persistens. Cor. 1-pet., irregularis, 5-fida, lacinià quintà (Labello) dissimili, minore, deflexâ (raró porrectà), reliquis patentibus (raró geminatìm coherentibus;) tar- dius decidua. Fil. cum stylo in: columnam longitudinalitèr connata. Columna reclinata, duplici flexurd. — Anthere stigmati incumbentes, biloba, lobis divaricatissimis. Stylus 1: stigma obtusum, indivisum. Caps. 2-valv-, 2-loc., dissepimento parallelo superné quandóque incom- pleto. Sem. axi dissepimenti affixa, erecta, parva. Album. semini conforme, carnosum, suboleosum. Herba (v. Suffrutices) scapigere w. caulescentes. Folia radicalia, conferta, in petiolum quandoque attenuata ; caulina sparsa, nunc ver- ticillata, sepê minora bracteaformia, rarô apice cirrhosa v. basi soluta. Inflorescentia varia. Calycis labium ezterius bidentatum v. 2-partitum, interius 3-dentatvm v. 3-partitum. Cor. purpurea, alba, violacea, rarò lutea, extis sep? pilis glanduloso-capitatis, tubo basi torto, nunc brevissimo; fauce sepiüs coronatá denticulis glandulisve, guandôgue nudá; limbi laciniis 4 majoribus geminatìm approximatis, utriusque paris alter sepe minore. Labello ante expansionem labio angustiori calycis opposito (antico), torsione tubi mox laterali, disco sepissime crassiusculo, intůs parüm convexo, basi utrinque lacinulá sepids appen- diculato, quandoque simplici. Columna linearis, limbo longior, ad ejusdem latus alterum (ubi labellum) exserta, dum reclinata flexurá exteriore subtüs irritabili, irritata cum impetu resurgens, laterique op- posito floris incumbens stigmate deorsům spectante. Anthera ante ex- pansionem lobis verticalibus, modicê patentibus, demům divaricatissimis, apicibus nunc distinctis, longitudinalitêr dehiscentibus. Stigma primo obsoletum antheris incumbentibus. occultatum, post earum dehiscentiam auctum, subexsertum, quandoque hispidulum v. papulosum. Brown, prod. 1. 565, 566, 507, Div. I. Capsula ventricosa, subovata, nunc spherica v. oblonga. Subdiv. B. Folia radicalia conferta, squamis nullis interstinctis. Calycis labra (3) dentata. Scapi aphylli. Brown, ubi supra, 567, 568. S. graminifolium, foliis linearibus margine denticulatis, racemo sub- spicato simplici scapogue glanduloso-piloso, labello basi appendiculato. Brown, ubi supra, 568. y Stylidium graminifolium. Swartz in Mag. der gesell. nat. fr. zu Berlin, 1807. 49. tab. 1. f. 1. Willd. in cit. 55. Mag. Id. sp. pl. 4. 140, Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 999. Labill. noc. holl. 2. 65. t. 215. S. serrulatum. Persoon. syn. 9. 210. Ventenatia major. Smith exot. bot. 2. 13. t. 66. Candollea serrulata, Labill, in annal. du mus. 6. 454. t. 64. f. 2. A genus established under the present name by Dr. Swartz. Its species are numerous, and found in the East Indies, New Holland, and Van Diemen's Island. The flowers, after some contestation among botanists in regard to their structure, are proved to be gynandrous, with two anthers; but still of a nature that brings them in contaet with the Campanulacee, and not with the Orchidee. We know of no representation of the present species taken from the living plant. It was found by Sir Joseph Banks in New South Wales; afterwards by Mr. Brown in Van Diemen's Island. © Root fibrous, perennial. Leaves radical, ambient, numerous, lanceolate-hnear, denticulate. Scape central, a foot or more high, longer than the foliage, leafless, simple, round, about as thick as a straw of grass, as well as the inflorescence beset throughout with glandular hairs (something in the way of Drosera.) Racemes spiked, upright, numerous; larger bractes ovate, concave, single; smaller nearer to the germen, double. Cal. superior, per- sistent, bilabiately parted; upper lip trifid, lower biíìd. Cor. of a dim pink colour, monadelphous, tubular, by a half-contortion of the tube from facing the lower lip of the calyx, turned to face one side of the insterstice between the two lips: tube longer than the calyx, orifice beset by 4 small bifid teethlike lobules: limb quinquepartite, irregu- lar, patent; 4 larger segments obovate, in pairs, one of each pair somewhat smaller; the fifth or labellum placed in front, separated by a deeper fissure, small, deflected below the divisions of the other four on one side of the interlabial cleft of the calyx, oblong, with two minute as- cendent linear lobules one on each side its base, thickened and somewhat convex inwards at the disk. Germen obovate, brownish : column rising trom the summit of this, linear, longer than the limb, reclined and bent with a double curve, protruding from the corolla thro’ the gap left by the depres- sion of the labellum, but upon the slightest excitement beneath the outermost curve, passing with a sudden spring to the opposite side of the flower, hanging over the limb with the stigma pointing downwards. An endowment apparently given to preserve the parts intrusted to its care from being injured by insects, previous to the com- pletion of the purpose for which they have been designed. Anthers two, yellow, incumbent on the plane of the stigma which crowns the shaft of the column, two-lobed, lobes from vertical diverging divaricately. Stigma green, obtuse, NE E SHA ÚU A entire; at first imperceptible and concealed by the superin- cumbent anthers; upon their disruption developing itself by increase of bulk, prominence, and supervening pu- bescence. Capsule obovate, bilocular, pubescent, opening vertically: seeds numerous, small, roundish, fixed at the axis of a partition parallel with the valves. Introduced by Mr. P. Good in 1803. A greenhouse plant, flowering most part of the summer. The drawing was made last year at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith, the only place where we have met with the species. a Three bractes of two kinds. â The germen. c The calyx. d The la- bellum or fifth segment of the limb of the corolla. e One of the two small linear appendicles at its base. f The shaft of the column. g The stigma and incumbent anthers. A The bifid teethlike lobules that line the orifice of the tube. ¿The stigma, after the anthers have exploded; magnified, New Works in course of Publication by Ripeways, Piccadilly. 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