THE BOTANICAL REGISTER: CONSISTING OF Coloured Figures or EXOTIC PLANTS, CULTIVATED IN BRITISH GARDENS; HISTORY AND MODE OF TREATMENT. nee THE DESIGNS BY PHpyvenbam Cpwards, ARLIOW OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. VOL. II. O —— "iret semper. nec fronde caducâ Carpitur. LONDON; PRINTED FOR RIDGWAYS, PICCADILLY, "1816. MESI APPENDIX TO THE CATALOGUE OF BOOKS IN THE FIRST VOLUME; og, List of Books quoted in the Second Volume in addition to those quoted in the First. ÁMBR. phy. Hyacinthi Ambrosini Phytologie partis prime. tomus primus, Bonon. 1666. fol. Asiat. research. Asiatic Researches, or Transactions of the Society in- stituted in Bengal for inquiring into the History and Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences, and Literature.of Asia, (Printed verbatim from the Calcutta edition.) London, 1798, seqq. 8vo. Balbis ic. & descr, fasc. Not received in this country. Bradl. succ. Rich. Bradley historia plantarum succulentarum. Decades 5. Londini, 1716—1727. 4o. Cum. epit. De plantis epitome Petr. Andr. Matthioli aucta à Joach. Came- gario. Francofurti ad Mæn. 1586. 4to. Clayt. MS. Numeri et note Plantarum, quibus D. Clayton specimina transmisit, undà confecta est Flora Virginica à Gronovio. Museo iano asservata. ' Comm. rar. Casp. Commelini plante rariores exotice horti medici Am- stelodamensis Lugd. Batav, 1706. 4to, Decand. Asirag. Augustini-Pyrami Decandolle, Astragalogia, nempê . Astragali, Bi , et Oxytropidis, nec non Phace, Colutem, et Lessertise Historia iconibus illustrata. Parisiis, 1802. fol. Dodart. mem. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des plantes, par M. Do- dart. Paris, 1676. fol. Daham.arb. Traité des arbres et arbustes, di se cultivent en France en pleine terre, par M. Du Hamel du Monceau. ‘Tomes 2. Paris, 1755. 4to. -Dunal syn. Solanorum Generumgue affinium Synopsis, seu Solamorum Historie editionis secunds summarium; autote Mich, Félix Dunal, Monspelii, 1816. 8vo. . a? ile wv Flor, grac. 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Exactisóima. descriptio rari0fum quarum- am plantarum que cultivantur Roms in Home Fartiesiano. Pagg. 101; cum figg. sere incisis. Rome, 1625. fol. .- - Houst. MSS. Willielmus Houstoun, Scotus; cui nova debemus plantarum americanarum genera. vo . Jacq. oral, Oxalis. Monographia, Iconibus illustrate. Autare Nic. Josepho Jacquin, Vienne, 1794. 4to. eo. Demi. A Knorr. thes. Thesaurus rei herbario rtensisque universalis; apud Ge. Wolfg. Knorrii haredes.” Voll. 2. Nürnberg, 1770. fol." ' o. an ilar PTA Labillard. syr. _ Icones plantarum Syrjæ tarlonidi, syct6t6 Jac. Jal. Labil- lardiêre. Decas 1—5. Lutetiæ Pari, 17911812, 4tó. A Lob. hist. Plantarum seu stirpium historia Matthise de Lobel. Antverpia, 1576. f. ek : mu Lob. ic. Ejusdem plantarum sen stirpi nium icones. Tomi M2; Antyerpis, 1581—1591. mo. obl. - ` ` il Mareg. bras. . (Guil. Pisonis et Ge. Marcgravii) Historia naturalis Brasilia. ugd. Bat. et Amstelod. 1648. fol. Pw - Marsch. Bieb. taur. cauc. Flora Taurico-Caucasica exhibens stirpes phe- nogamas in Chersoneso Taurica et Regionibus caucasicis sponte cres- centes. Auctore L. B. Friderico Marschall â Bieberstein, Voll. 2 Charkoviâ, 1808. 8vo. > > * Mart. cent. Joannis Martyn, Historia plantarum rariorum. Cènt. L Londini, 1728. fol. ve Mert. ic. d. Atbeeldingen vai Zellsiiio gosisken, ddor Nicolas. Moers: burgh, hortulanus van den Kruidtaitt vat Plaidy iniveriteje te Ley my 1775, fol. |. -- ~ u . Meerb. ic. 2. Plantarum selectarum icones picte, Alte â Nic. Meerburg. Lugd. Bat. 1798. fol. Mentz. pugs Mentzel, Christ. Lexicon plantarum polyglotton universale, Berol. 1715. fol." ii Je : Meench meth. Conr. Moench, Methodus plantarum horti botanici et agri Marburgensis a staminum situ. Marburg, 1794. 8vo. Nouv. Bulletin. * Bulletin des sciences par Ia Société Phllomatique. "Án 8, 1815, seqq. 4to. Osbeck. ves. Pehr Odbecks Dugbokiifier en Ostindisk res, Stockholm, 1757. 8vo. Philosoph. trans. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. London, 1665, segg. 4to. Plant. grass. Histoire des plantes grasses, par A. P. De Candolle, avee leurs figures en couleurs dessinés par P. J. Redoutê. Paris, an 7, seqq. 4to. Pluk. mant. L. Plukenett Mantissa Almagesti botanici. Londini, 1700. Ato. Quer flor.espan. Continuacion de la Flora Española, que escribia Don Jos. Quer, ordenada, suplida y publicada por Don Cas. Gom. de Ortega. Tomos, 6. Madrid, 1784. 4to. Raii dendr. Dendrologiam hanc componit liber Joannes Raii vigesimus uartus in Supplementi ejus Historie Plantarum Tomo tertio, qui est Supplementum. Londini, 3704. fol. Relig. houst. Reliquie Houstounianz, seu Plantarum in America Meri- dionali à Gul. Houstoun collectarum icones, manu propriâ sere inciste; cum descriptionibus ê schedis ejusdem, in Bibliotheca Jos. Banks asservatis, Londini, 1781. 4to. Regn. bot. La Botanique mise â la portée de tout le monde, ou collection des plantes d'usage dans la Medecine, dans les Alimens et dans les Arts, par les S'. et De, Regnault, Paris, 1774. fol. Rob.ic. $19 plates engraved by Nic. Robert, A. Bosse, et Lud. de Chas- tillon. fol. Smith prod. fl. grac. Jac. Edv. Smith, Floree Grece prodromus. Vol. 1. Londini, 1791, 1792. 8vo, vi Tabern. ic. Yicones plantarum. (ezdem ac in Tabernamontani Krünter- buch,) Francofurti, 1590. 4to. obl, Thunb. diss. de Oral, Carolus Petrus Thunberg Dissertatio de Oxalide, Upsalim, 1781. 4to. Volckam. norib. Joh, Go. Volckameri Flora Noribergensis. Noriberge, 1700, 4to. Wern. trans, Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society. Vol. 1. For the years 1808,—9,—10. Edinburgh, 1811. 8vo. Zorn ic. Johann Zorn. Ycones plantarum medicinalium. Centt, 5. tabb. snes: color, 500. Nürnberg, 1779——1784. 8vo. i | | | ENGLISH ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO VOLUME II. Acacta, Houstoun's.,.....; Air-plant, Buenos Ayres ...». Alpinia, Upright dowering ... Amaryllis, Corana.,...... Amnryllis, Green-fowered . Amaryllis, Hyacinthine . 164. 163. Amaryllis, Pustulons-leave 72. Amsonia, Broad-leaved ., 151. Arctotis, Dwarf ...... 129. Arctotis, Dwarf tricolor ».....».....18l. Arctotis, White tawny-stained suffru- tescent...,,.... 130. Azalea, Flame-coloured . 145. Azalea, Honeysuckle, Pale red 120. Barbadoes-cherry, Stinging 96. Bellfower, Crowned siberian +... 149. Bindweed, Shrubby Madeira . 183. Bouvardia, Three-leaved . . . 107. Bowstring Hemp, Ceylon 180. Bracbysema, Broad-leaved . 118. Dutterwort, American 126. Cacalia, Bicolor .. Cacalin, Oval-leaved . Caldasia, Pair-flowered Camellia, Blush .... Cassia, Privet-leaved .... Chelone, Purple .. Chelone, Scarlet ., Comílag, Esculent-rooted . Crinum, Mr. Herbert's Crotalaria, Purple .. Cryptarrhena, Crescent-lipped . Currant, Missourie .. Cynanchum, Hairy . . Cyrtanthus, Narrow glaucous-leaved Cyrtanthus, One-leaved ... . Cyrtanthus, Spiral-leaved ... Cytisus, Silky ......... Daffodil, White Mountain . Garland-flower, Red .. Heath, Sealing-wax . . Honeysuckle, Glaucons american, wi tawny flowers ... Honseleck, Tree .. Hypoxis, Mr, Burchell’ Ixors, Lerge-ftewered Scarlet Ixora, Roxburgh's....... Jasmine, Spanish or Catalonìan 91. Kempferia, Sumatra .... .178. Lebeckia, Spotted-stalked 104. Lily, Dwarf, or Sarana ..188, Lobelia, Refulgent . 165. Luogwort, Blue-fowered panicled .... 146. Melaleuca, Scarlet ..... Melon-Thistle, Mr. Vere's Milk-Vetch, Nut-podded . Milkwort, Large-flowered . Mitella, Two-leaved ..... Nightshade. Decurrent-leaved . Nightsbade, Desfontaines's . . €Enothera, Curled-leaved . Passionflower, Apple-fruited . Passionflower, Curassoa .... Passionflower, Flesh-colonred .. Passionflower, Red-fruited .. Pensa, Sealy. Plum, Birch-leaved Mi ^ Plumeria, White East Indian .. Pogonia, Adder's-tongue-lcaved Poppy, Armenian <....o..ooos. Prostanthesa, Villous-flowered . . 143. Southernwood-leaved african 108, Rose, Double white Moss-Provios Safflower, or Bastard Saffron Ses-Daffodil Bes-Dagodil, Canary Soldier-wood ,... Stone-Crop, 'Three-leaved american. , . » 149, Strawberry-Tree, Oriental .. ar. 13. Tritonia, Reflex . «18$. Tulip, Horned sen 127 Uropetalon, Grey-leay: ees 156, Valerian, Purple........ » 155. Viper's-Bugloss, Long-flowered .,.,,. 194. Virgin's-Bower, Brachiate Webera, Perfumed ...... eO 1049. Wood-sorrel, Narrow finger-lenved ` Cape a. “117, D A a Edwards 3 : ED a € Pu by E. Ridyuuy 170 A olli, Men. 1 1814 Ls > MS Y 4 ul 91 S JASMINUM ‘grandiflorum. Spanish or catalonian Jasmine. EM DIANDRIA MONGGYNILA. JASMINUM. Supra vol. 1. fol. 1. . | Dit. foliis compositis. 7 i J. grandiflorum, foliis pinnatis: foliolis obtusiusculis, gemmis horizontes : libus. Hort. Kew. 1. 30. J. grandiflorum. Linn. sp. pl. 1.9. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 4. Meerb. - ic. t 1. Desfont. fl. atl. 1. 6. Brotero fl. lusit. 1.12. Quer ff. . espan. 5. 260. Ruiz y Pavon fl.perwo. 1.6. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 41. ahl enum. Y, 34. Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 1. 18. Jasminum officinale, £. Gouan hort. 5. ; J. hispanicum. flore majore externê rubente. Cat. pl. hort. lond. t. 7, ` Merian surinam. (. 46. Knorr thes. 1. t. T. 1. J. candiflorum majus. Ger. emac: 892. f.9. Tabern. ic. 885, J.catalonicum. Park. parad. 406. . Gelseminum catalonicum. Cam. epit. 37. Chamegelseminum grandiflorum peramenum. Lob. hist. 443. Pitsjegam-Mulla. Rheede mal. 6. 91. t. 52. Arbuscula erecta, glabra, 3-4-pedalis, non scandens, ramosa; rami divisi, graciles, virentes, foliosi, per duo latera exarati sulco. Folia decussato-distan» Ha, patentissima, petiolata, trijuga cum impari, lavia ; foliolis ovatis, laterum «equalibus subsessilibus obtusis, “nis duplo majori, longè acuminato. Pedun? culi terminales lateralesgue, axillares, tricholomo-triflori v. modó ultra; pes dicelli extimi suffulti bracted modo foliaceo-amplá modô minutá. Cal. viridis, dentibus setaceis. Cor. sesguiuncialis, alba, extern? purpureo-suffusa ; tubus erectus, angustà cylindricus, X partes unciæ longus; lacinie 5, explanata, elliptic, ‘obi E A species the nearest of any to the common Jasmine (Jasminum officinale;) but differs from that in having an upright subarbbreous stem, with divergent woody branches which do not reguire to be supported, and never acguire any thing near the length these do in the other, the entire plant seldom exceeding four feet; in having horizontal, not upright buds, leaves-of a brighter green, obtuse closer lateral leaflets, the one at the end much larger acuminate and most timés decursively confluent with the two next; in hav; ing a larger, more substantial, and more exquisitely fragrant bloom, generally suffused withrcrimson on the outside. *^: A native of the East Tidies; and if not aborigimal, eer- tainly naturalized in the island of Tobago, where the woods, VOL. 11. B according to Miller who received it from thence, are filled with this shrub. In Surinam, we are told by thc ingenious M. Sybilla Merian, it is spread over the country like a native bush, and is freguented by peculiar reptiles. But still it is not generally considered by naturalists as indi- genous inany part of the West Indies or the South American continent. From being cultivated in Catalonia, especially in the neighbourhood of Barcelona, to a greater extent than in any other part of Europe, it has acquired the english specific name by which it is known among us. Ít occurs hkewise in almost every garden in Valentia, Murcia, and Andalusia, where, as in Catalonia, it is completely domes- ticated, thrives in the open ground the year through, and is hardly ever without bloom. In Portugal it goes by the name of the Italian Jasmine. The perfume, called Essence or Oil of Jasmine, is obtained from this species. The Moors manufacture the stems of their tobacco-pipes from its branches, where a tube is formed at once by evacuating the slender column of pith. The date of its introduction into Europe appears to have escaped the records of botanical chronology. 1t was already known in England in 1629. ; Usually propagated by ingrafting in a stock of the common sort, on which it takes well, aud becomes hardier than when had from layers. In this state it is imported from the Mediterranean by the Italian-Warehousemen, along with Orange and Lemon Trees, Myrtles, and Arabian Jasmine, with which it is usually kept in our greenhouses. But if strong well-rooted plants are turned out from their pots, without disturbing the mould they grow in, then placed in a warm border against a wall, and covered with mats in frosty weather; these will grow much more vigorously, and produce a longer succession and greater guantity of bloom than such as are kept in pots under shelter. The common white Jasmine, supposed mative of the East Indies, but the natural abode of which has been left a blank by the editors of the Hortus Kewensis, has been, found by some late russian naturalists to be indigenous in Imeretia, Circassia, and the adjacent regions, pisi, The calyx. b A section of the tubular portion of the corolla. € The istil, — / (Jb Srvaddy Marr J. 72777 > s EA by J Csel pure ded” c 7 "uu vela / wa Syl 92 CALDASIA heterophylla. Pair-flowered Caldasia. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. CALDASIA. Cal. (inferus), persistens, tubulosus, ore 5-den- tato. Cor. (hypocrateriformis, flexa :) tubus angustus calyce longior, erectus: limbus (nutans,) 5-partitus, subbilabiato-rotatus, laciniis 2 su- perioribus collaterali-couniventibus, majoribus: 3 inferioribus subeguali- bus inter se, divergentibus. Fil. capillaria, declinata, corolla wgualia, Inserta summo tubo infra faucem. (Germ. trispermum.) Stylus capillaris longitudine staminum. Stig. 3, replicata. Caps. ovata, 3-gona, 3-luc., S-sperma, 3-valv., valvis. medio septiferis: recept. centrale, 3-quetrum : sem. elliptica. Herba ebracteata exstipulacea: radix fibrosa: folia sparsa, floralia opposita : flores axillares. Cavan. ic. 6. 21 (sub Bon- PLANDIA); nonnallis mutatis. C. heterophylla. Willd. hort. berol. 1. 71. t. 71. enum. 902. Bonplandia geminiflora.. Cavan. ic. 6. 91. t. 539. . ; Bonplande â tleurs axillaires. Poiret suppl. encyc. de Lamarck, 1. 678. ; Herba graveolens, annua? dense subviscoso-pilosa pilis patentissimis articu« latis diaphanis glandulosis, Caulis erectus, 1-2 pedalis, teres, spars? ramosus, ramis ascendentibus superné versis remote floriferis. Folia distantia, varicoso- nervosa rachide mediá nervos plurimos parallelos costatim approximatos et sur» sùm obliquatos utrinque emittente; inferiora sparsa, petiolata, oblonga, sub- lyrata, acuta, serrata, 3-4-uncialia, ramea superiora asita unica alterne rifero, gradatim decrescentia, subsessilia, elliptic nceolata, integriora, versús basin longiìs attenuata, Flores pedunculati, gemini, terminales et per alterna paria axillares, foliis breviores: pedunculi 1ftori, paralleli, erectius- tuli, subequantes calycem. Cal. membranaceo-herbaceus, gus, tubulosus, anguste turbinatus pentagonus angulis extenuato-prominentibus et nervo medio parallelo interceptis, 5-fidus segmentis erectis ovatis angulato-acuminatis, intis glaber, tubo cum fauce simul equalis, Cor. 4 uncies-lónga, tubus pallidus, cylindricus, ad faucem ubi flexus atque. dilatatus postic? pubescens: limbus violaceus, glaber, laciniis wrda ogi; binis supremis basi intis alba areolâ lineis violaceis figuratd notatis. Fil. conniventia, basi barbata et sursum pilis nonnullis vagis conspersa, subequalia: anthere dorso appense, extror- sùm verset. Gens. parvum, ellipticum, viride, glabrum: ‘stig. intis pue bescentia, The first notice we trace of this plant is in the works of Cavanilles, where it founds a genus, by the title of Bon- PLANDIA, given in honour of the associate and coadjutor of Monsieur de Humboldt. But in a tract in the Transactions of the Berlin Academy for 1802, Professor Willdenow has attributed the same title to a genus instituted from the tree which affords the drug called * Angostura Bark," aud B2 has been followed by Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland, in their “ Plantes Equinoxiales;” while Carnasta has been substituted for the generic name of-our plant, in com- liment to Don Josef Caldas, an eminent botanist native of opayan in New Granada, now living. A tender herbaceous fibrous-rooted annual? diffusing a strong smell, to us like that of the conimon Horehound. Stem. 1-2 feet high, upright, branched, branches ascend- ing, scattered, covered, as well as the foliage, with a close pubescence of sub-viscid transparent glandular mi- nutely articulated erected hairs. Lower cauline leaves 3-4 jnches long, scattered, petioled, oblong, sublyrate, acute, serrate; upper rameous ones opposite, subsessile, elliptic- lanceolate, entire, one of each pair alternately. flowerbear- ing, the whole marked with many near parallel transverse varicose subascending nerves, issuing from each side of a middle vertical rachis. - Flowers -peduncled, -terminal and axillary in distant alternate pairs, parallel, upright, shorter than the foliage. Calyx herbaceous, tubular and tapering downwards, narrow, pentagonal, with sharp prominent angles, segments 5, angularly ovate, pointed, upright. Corolla less than an inch in depth, subbilabiately hypocra- teriform, tube bent at the faux where it widens, limb in- clining forwards, segments obcordate and oblong, two upper largest converging, with a white figured spot at the base of each. Stamens connivent, projecting, _ declining, about equal to the limb, bearded at the base. Germen small, smooth, oblong, trilocular, and three-seeded, Stigmas pubescent inwards. Native of Mexico; introduced since the. publication of the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis, by Mr. William Anderson, curator of the Chelsea Physic Garden. Mr. Ed- wards was favoured with the specimen from which the draw- ing was made, from Mr. Aylmer Bourke Lamberts collec- tion at Boyton, Wiltshire, in January last. Willdenow says, if kept in the stove in winter and in the open air in summer, it will ripen the seed. Mr. Lambert's gardener observes, that it is peculiarly liable to be infested with the red spider, and that it is only to be rescued from that plague of the hothouse by copious waterings over the head of the plant, ` ‘ a The calyx. ô The corolla. c isse i pistil; slightly magnified, 5 The same dinsected "würd Ts Syd. ^ Cllwandd D eL E Bl by Fehr NTO Pall, Mars I 4016 4 cul: 93 . STEVIA Eupatoria, Hemp- Agrimony-like Stevia. . SYNGENBSIA POLYGAMIA BQUALIS. STEVIA,” Recept: nudum. Pappus _sristato-paleacens. Cal. cylindraceus ex simplici foliorum serie. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1774. S. Eupatoria, foliis lanceolatis in petiolum attenuatis trinerviis apice: ob- soletê subsersatis, eorymbis fastigiatis, pappo paleaceo & aristato. Willd. in Mag. r pereli. nat. f: zu Berlin, 1807. 138. Stevia Eupatoria. tlid. sp. pl. 3. 1775. Id. enum. 854. Hort. ` Kew. ed. 2. 4. 510. | u Stevia purparea. Persoon syn. 9. 402. Mastelia Eupatoria. Sprengell in Lin. soc. trans. 6. 152. t. 13? Planta herbacea, perennis, bipedalis, nunc recumbens. Caulis paniculaio- ramosus; rami teretes, villosi, lazè foliosi ramulis floriferis corymboso-fasti- giantibus, ` Folia laziîs sparsa, sessilia, oblonga, uscialia v. infra, obtusa €um brevi acumine, integra, v. rarids superne obèr et. obtus? subserraia, punc- fata, margine villosa, frineroia, deoreim Scip ai lic peine lata sue mis ramulis in corymbulos 7 appro: zimati, B-flose 1 i, į- cundi; pedicelli Jfüstigiantes à in su i foliis. axillares, 1- a Cal. virens, villosus, duplo brevior flosculis; feliola. 5, dae Ml ri , carinata, çon- viventia in tubum oblongum. seuli, discoidei, tubulato-hypocrateriformes, extern villosi, limbo radiato-partito, laciniis lineari-oblongis, obtusis concavis, bis magisve brevioribus tubo. ‘Anthera inclusa, mutica. Stigmata 2, capil- lacea, lomgiìs exserta, divaricata; replicata. | Germen longum, ac. calyz gracile, verticale, nerooso-angulatum: pappus biformis, ex paleis tribus brevi aia alternantibus cum aristis totidem setaceis plumosis subaquantibus Á genus as yet wholly mexican, recently introduced into our gardens, and likely, from the species which it already counts, to prove of some extent.” The name has been given by the late Professor Cavanilles, in commemo- ration of Dr. Peter Jacob Steve, or Esteve, an eminent phy- sician of Valentia, and professor of botany in the univessiz of that city, about the middle of the sixteenth century. It differs from Eurarorrum and AGERATUM by a calyx of one rank of leaflets, and by a pappus, one portion of which is long and awned, the other short, paleaceous, and obtuse. 'The present species is described as being usually recum- bent, but the drawing was made from a specimen which was supported, so that the appearance it might have had when free, has probably not been preserved in the figure. It seldom exceeds two feet, is. herbaceous and perennial; and forms (when supported at least) by the numerous fas- tigiately panicled branches, a compact broad level-topped corymb, studded with small rose-coloured flowers. Calyx reen, comprising five fertile discoid fforets, which are tu- ular, villous, and twice as long as the calyx, with a radiate limb 2 or 3 times shorter than their tube. Germens on a bare receptacle, even with the calyx, slendér, tapered downwards, with nerved angles: pappus six-fold, of 3 short. obtuse pointless paleas alternating with as many setaceous plumed awns, nearly equalling the floret in length. Anther enclosed, pointless. Sigmas capillary, extruded far beyond the floret, divaricate, recurved. Foliage sessile, loosely scattered, seldom exceeding an inch in length, patent, oblong, dotted, villous at the edge, three-nerved, obtuse with a short point, sometimes obscurely and bluntly serrate at the upper part. We do not think ourselves so certain of Dr. Sprengell’s synonym as of that of Willdenow. The figure which is annexed to the deseription given by the former of those botanists, does not correspond with the text, where the awns in the pappus are said to be five, while the dissections in the engraving show but three, in our opinion the real number. But neither figure nor description are such as to in- spire much confidence, altho’ we believe them intended for the present species. : The drawing was made from a plant sent to Mr. Ed- wards in October last, by Mr. N. S. Hodson, from his col- lection at South Lambeth. Marked in the Hortus Kewensis as hardy; but we should think must require shelter in the winter. a An te or compound flower: magnified. 5 A floret taken from the flower, with the germen: magnified. c The germen and pappus. ©. " í £ mM?" 7 r p Lilly ELLA 4] O.J gwag. / / Á Boh ly I Rea Li. del. / Cdwane [4 y < S ye £ 94 PASSIFLORA ‘maliformis, ^ Apple-fruited Passionflower. MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA, PASSIFLORA. | Suprà vol. 1. fol. 13. Div. foliis indivisis. uu P. maliformis, foliis oblongo-ovatis cordatis triplinerviis venosis inte- gerrimis, petiolis biglandulosis, involucro triphyllo flore majore. Willd. sp. pl. 8. 608. Passiflora maliformis. Amen. acad. 1. 220. fig. 5. Linn. sp. pl. 9. 1355. Hort. Kew. 3. 306. ed. 9. 4. 148. Jacq. hort. schanb. 2.27. t. 180. Andrews's reposit. 217 (in textú 207 sed malè.) Miss Lawr. ` passionfl. Passiflora 4. foliis cordatis productis, petiolis biglandulis, fructu spharico, pericarpio duriore. Browne jam. 398. Clematitis indica latifolia, flore clavato, fructu maliformi. Plum. amer. 67. t. 89. . Tota bra. Caulis teres, icosus, 12-20-pedalis, icem erassus, ME oe ramosts, eo ang pallido-fuscus. Folia ovato-oblonga, bast subcordata, acuta, integerrima, 9-nervia, irmula, suprà nitida, a reticelato-venosa, 4-6 uncias longa: petioli bsglandulosi (Jacq.), unciales : stipulee Janceolate, parabolice. Pedunculi petiolo duplo longiores, axillares, uniflori, solitarii, deflexi. Flores pendulo-cernui, potentissimi, indè reflect, Jfragrantes. Involucrum .3-phyllum, positum prozim® pon? calycem et sub- longius, herbaceum, rubro-nervosum, foliolis lato-ovatis, acutis, -sesquiuncia- yh eglandulosis, integerrimis. Cal. herbaceus, diametro fermê triunciali, $ parte urceolato-arctatus, intús supernà sanguineo-punctatus, seg- nedi ci D mceolatis, dorso medio carinatis, extern. setd mero principis continu apice prafizis. Cor. imposita calycis : similis calycs forma colore atque direciona sed brevior 2-8-plo angustior tenerior insignida punca tata et mutica, Corona S-plez, rubro violaceo et albo punctata aique annulata; exteriores radii duplo breviores proximis interioribus, subulato-filyformes reflexi et retorti in cincinnos ; interiores a'guamtes calycem, lineariesubulati, i- dali, compressi, numerosi, a parte compressa collaterales, erecti, patuli ; in- timi parvi, tuberculiformes, conici, parietem colli cavitatis calycine sine ordine obvestientes.. Operculum horizontale, accumbens annulo prominulo inferiori incrassate baseos columna. Septum album, parüm elevatum, cavum j- mum circinans.. Columna duplo v. ultra brevior calyce, teres, glabra, rul punctata, supra basin incrassata cinctague annulis duobus carnosis parùm dis- dantibus, inferiore marginato-ertenuato, superiore obtuso. Anth. luteæ. Stigmata viridia, anticè reniformi-obtusata, Germ. elliptico-oblongum, gla- brum. Bacca (Pepo) oblongo-v. oblato-rotunda, viridi-favescens, tectus core tice crasso solido subputamineo-indurato : pulpå seminum flavicante subacidâ, A climbing shrub, natural to many parts of the West Indies. In Jamaica it is frequent in the woods, where the B fruit is said to form a principal part of the food of the wild swine. It is also used. at the dessert, the pulp possessing a subacid flavour grateful in hot climates. The hard shell- like rind is dried, and manufactured in the french colonies into snuff-boxes, bonboniéres, and other toys, such as we sometimes see formed of the peel of Lemons or of Limes. The species comes the nearest to laurifolia of any other known to us; but differs in having a broader three-nerved cordate-oblong foliage of a yellower green; by larger sti- pules; by a red-veined unnotched glandless involucre, which is rather longer than the calyx; by outermost co- ronal rays, that are retroverted and wound in ringlets; and by.a pericarp, or seed-vessel, which is round, even, and almost as hard as that of a walnut in its green peel. The * bloom is slighly fragrant, green and white, variegated with dots and circles of red and violet. When the shrub is of sufficient age, and planted in thé border within the bark- bed of the stove, an abundance of both bloom and fruit is. produced. We have purposely omitted the standing synonym from, Millers Dictionary, the description differing in so many ; points, as to make it impossible for us to believe the writer ad this species in view. The plant has been long known in our collections; but if Miller's is really different, we have no means of knowing at what time it was first intro- " duced. | The drawing was made in November last, from a plant of long standing in Mr. Vere's collection at Kensington Gore. It had been in bloom for more than two months. in succession. « An outer ray of the crown. Âm inner rwy Uf the same: ¢Thd . lower ring of the pediment of the column. g The upper one. e The oper- culum or ruffle, FA The small tubercles which line the neck of the calycine- e tube, and form the inmost compartment of the crown. g The fruit partly: enclosed by the involucre, li gu ysy Cl Etico del Bi ly f R ^ f , d 4 Me p 2. Ridgway lye Siccuds/ My . Merch 4.1800. T 95 im ^ > -PASSIFLORA rubra. von. Redffujted. Passionflower. . "n MONADELPHÍA. PENTANDRYA. U PASSIFLORA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 18. . ' Div. Foliis bilobis. * "P. nibra, foliis cordatis bilobis acutis mucronatis subtìs pubescentibus, či petiolis eglandulosis, fructi obovato. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 611. : Passiflora rubra. Amen. acad. t. 222. fig.9. Linn. sp. pl. 2. 1356. . Swartz. obs. 336, Jacq. ic. rar. 1. t. 186. * Coll. 1. 136. Cavan. . diss, 10. 445. t. 268. .. Hort. Kew. 3. 307. ed. 2. 4. 149. Miis Lawr. pasionf . P. folis tenuioribus trinerviis bicornibus lunatis: sinu anteriore obtuso. 'U Browne jam. 398. ' ‘ . Clematitis mdica, flore clavato suaverubente, fructu hexagono coccineo, - "folio bicomi. Plum. amer. 68. t. 83. Flos: passionis folii media lacinia quasi abscissa, flore minore carneo. +, Sloane jam. 1. 999. Herbacea, perennis, altitudinem biorgyalem v. ultra attingens, villosa. "Caulis ramosus; rami flexuosi, hirsutis villosi, angulati, rubentes. Folia denta, mollius villosa, subcordata, semitruncato-biloba lobis bicorni-distantibus antrorsim flexis acuminatis mucronulatis sinu lato lunato distinctis et interdüm án medio sinüs altero tertio brevi aique obsoleto interceptis, rubro-trinervia : tioli Tereles, lazati, patentes, rubentes, eglandulosi, pilosi, folió plwriês Eines + stipule bine laterifolie, subulato-lineares, parom, rubre. Pe- dlunculi solitarii (modo. trini aggregati? ) 1:ffori, axillares, folio: breviores. Flores nutanies, subrubentes, sesquiunciam circa transversi, subodori, fupacis- sini. Cal. rotatus, €xternê villosus, herbaceo-pallescens, rubro-striatus, disco subierceolato-arctabís, subtus. gibboso-prominens et o centrali inirusus, segmentis oblongo-lanceolatis.: Cor. tenuior, pallidowordescens, lacinia seg- mentis .calycinis 2-8-plo angustiores, lineares. Corona subroseo-rubescens ; radii exteriores param. breviores, calyci, numerosi, serie simplici densati, erecto-patentes, filiformi-attenuati, obtusi ; interiores minuti sic ut non nisi accurate perscrutanti obvii, pede exteriorum altern® positi : operculum nudum plicatum membranosum incumbens nectario profundè depresso, Recept. co- umnæ glabrum, zonatum dissepimento crasso albo;` stipes ruber, glaber, maculatus, germine viz alterá vice ior. Germ. ellipticum, sericeo-hirsu- fum, canescens. Anth. oblonge, virides. Stigmata subpileato-capitata, or biculata, depressa, fulva. Pepo oblongo-rotundus v. ovato-oblongus, sepits sulcis senis prominulis subhexagonus, ruber, pubescens, parenchymate corticis coriacei albicante ; mod in segmentis senis sponte dehiscens? Sem. migra, A West Indian species, found abundantly in the island of Jamaica, where it is popularly called “* The Bull-hoof,” also “ Dutchman's Laudanum.” The first name has been most probably suggested by the form of the leaf; the other VOL. UI, € derived from the medicinal virtue of the flowers, of which, according to Browne, a tincture is formed by infusion in wine or spirits, used in the leeward parts .of the island for the same purposes as Laudanum, having the reputation of being a safe narcotic. A perennial villous plant; stem slender, weak, of a red- dish hue, herbaceous, but Jacquin says”not annual, climb- ing to the height of 10-15 feet. Leaves distant, pliant, covered with a soft-pubescence; at-the lower half broadly cordate, at the upper truncafe with a crescent-shaped in- cisure, between the two acuminate lobes which form the "horns of the sinus an incipient. third one often appears with a small mucro, this is rounded and broader than long; «petioles short and flexile. Flowers solitary, of distinct co- Hours, but so combined as to afford the appearance of a uniform dull red, about.an inch and half over, villous and streaked on the outside, nearly scentless; peduncle pliant and slackened, the inner rank of the rays of the crown being very small and masked by the outer, is easily over- looked ou slight inspection. Germen clothed by a dense silky pile. . Fruit, from which the specific name is taken, ‘is described as of a dingy red colour, pubescent, sometimes nearly of the size and form of an olive, sometimes spherical, ‘sometimes ovate, with six external parallel equidistant lon- gitudinal ridges, more or less raised; when ripe, accofding to Jacquin, it sometimes separates at the top into six valves. Rind thick, coriaceous and white within. Seeds black. ` Near akin to the PassreLora capsularis of Linnaeus, which Mr. Dryander believes to be the same with the punctata of Miss Lawrance's drawings of the plants of this genus; but distinct from the capeuiaris of Miller, which appears by his own specimen in the Banksian Herbarium to be à mere variety of oblongata. In the Hortus. Kewensis rubra is stated to have been: cultivated by Miller, on the presumption it was his capsularis; but his own specimen showing he had a different plant in view, the authority is irrelevant. : ' | m The drawing was made from a plant which flowered late in tlie autumn, in the stove at Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne's nursery, Parson's Green, near Fulham. a A ray of the outer row of the crown, ô The inner row of minute ; s The nectary, d The partition between that and the receptacle “ thg Syd E G dwanda.del "CY qo El I Fut ty I. Ridgway. MO Recadlly March 810. ruth. Fe 96 . _ MALPIGHIA irens, Stinging. Barbadots, Cherry. DECANDRIA TRÍGNLA, : . . MALPIGHIA. ` Cal. 5-partitus, persistens, laciniis quibusdam extús biglandulosis, - Cor. pet. 6, calyci alterna, disco bypogyno inserta, unguiculata, üngue lineari. Stamina’ filamentis basi coalitis, anthera subrotandie. Germ. simplex: styli 3:"stig.S. ( Drupu baccata t-loc- laris, tripyrena, nucibus monospermis. Willd.) Arbores aut fruiiter, quidam sarmentosi ; folia; opposita, simplicia, substipulacea,' qua j sublàs aut margine selosa, setis urentibus utroque fine liberis ; petiolus ŵn. pluribus bast ints appendiculatus aut dilatatus; pedunculi arillures aut terminales, uni aut muliffori. Jussieu gen. 258. M. urens, foliis oblongis, setis. bicuspidatis decumbentibus, pedicellis elongato-capillaceis genicülatis unifforis ‘in’ pedunculo brevi sübagére- gatis. on db due s Malpighia wrens, | Linn. sp, pl. 1. 600; Cavan, diss, 8. 407. t. £35. - fig: 1. Hort, Kew, 9. 104 ed. 2. 3. 104. . Willd. sp. pl. 9. 794; (excl. synom.: Mill, dict. n. 4.' qupd spectat editionem. octavam, ubi agitar dé plantê hud hujus loci.) - ^ ^ LU Wn Malpighia viinitea, foliis oblotigié: hispidis, racetnis'alaWibus; Browne jum. RÐ. Y... - .. : | MAYA Ml ue fta y M.. foliia oblphgo-ovatis acuminatis setis pungentibus, pedunculis uhifloris — vertirillatia. . Mill, dict. ed. 7. n. 8. Je. 191. t. 181, f. 1. M. Tela tllo ubtüs spinoso. . Plum. ic. 160. £. if fede, Aúbor' bsccifefa, folio ob longo subiilisiiün Spinis subtüs obsito, fructu. cêrasino sditató polypyreiiôt Gueichlis: Cailiculutia.. Sloane’ fami. 9. 306. t. 907. f. 3. Ha s hoec . Frutex ors ramosus, corlice fusco ; rami superna yillosi. Folia dis- tantid, Súncialia; oblonga, “modo sa cui bren dcumine, venosa cum rachide subtús villosá, breviter petiolata; adepérsa: prasstrtimh â prono: setis- rigidis, urenti-pungentibus, utroque fine cuspidatis, ^l. superficiei parallelo-ac- cumbentibus, à medio affizis, longitudinaliter directis. Flores per corymbos folio breviores. lazos: plurifloros solitarios .axillari-oppositos ordinati s pedunculus, curtus erectus fuscus villosus robustus bracteolatus + pedicelli aggregalim ap- fusi, geniculo bracteolá geminá . sitá stipato infra medium intercenti, Cal. parvus, carnggulus, à T or ime 2 conti integra margine subesplicate. Stam. unguibus petalinis rüm longiora : fle petalis lateralibus astantia duplo crassiora reliquis. Drapa baccata, trisulca, colore formå et mole fermè cerasino: nuces extrorsum c2 'This genus is chiefly composed of shrubs belonging to the West Indies, where they have acquired among the Eng- lish colonists the title of “ Barbadoes Cherries,” from the likeness of their fruit, both in form and colour, to the european Cherry. In several sorts it is eatable. The present species is called in Jamaica, where it grows naturally, * the Couhage-(cortuptly? Cow-itch) Cherry," from the stinging foliage. It is an upright branching shrub, seldom exceeding 4 or 5 feet in height, with a “brown bark, pubescent on the young wood. Leaves oppo- site, scarcely 3 inches in length, oblong with a short point, beset, particularly underneath, with numerous straight pa- rallel Dristle-shaped stinging prickles, pointed at' both ends, fastened down at the middle, lyiug parallel with the surface of the leaf, one point turned towards the summit, the other towards the base; being sharp, rigid, and brittle, they penetrate the flesh on the slightest touch, and break- ing off, leave behind the cause of a distressing irritation not easily allayed. The flowers are placed within the axils of the upper | foliage, upon a short thickish peduncle terminated by several slender flexile one-flowered fubaggregated pedicles, jointed and embraced by two small dractes below their middle. Segments of the calyx biglandular outwards at the base. Corolla of a palish rose-colour, somewhat irregular, having the upper middle petal more distant, and the two lower connivent. Drupe or stone-fruit three-furrowed, about the size, form, and consistence of a cherry, containing three small yellow nuts. Native of South America. Cultivated in 1737 by Mr. P. Miller. Blooms in the autumn. The drawing was made from a plant in the hothouse at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, at Hammersmith. aThe calyx. BA of the corolla. e'The stamens, monadelphously © webbed near the base, Pa The germen, and styles with stigmas. ph . 7 Smith He Syl Edu e "di IM. Zu he 7 Ki Laur, € 4 la a f Y » ESAU d 170 Pe ad, tly a f teh. / fi / y 97 CLEMATIS brachiata. Brachiate Cape-Virgin's Bower. POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 2l. CLEMATIS. Cal. 0. Cor. pet. 4, rariüs 5. Germina supera, plurima, receptaculo communi imposita, unicuique sty/us.unicus ; st simplex. Capsule totidem monosperme non dehiscentes, aristate, aristh sepé plumosâ. Caulis sep? frutescens, sarmentosus aut erectus; folia opposita, simplicia aut ternata aut pinnata ; flores axillares aut sapiós terminales, solitarii aut sepids corymbosi, in quibusdam.dioici, in paucis instructi calyculo turbinato bifido à petalis paululàm remoto. Jussieu gen, 232. . Div. scandentes. C. brachiata, foliis quinato-pinnatis, rariìs ternatis, infernis modô biter- matis, foliolis ovato-lanceolatis, subdentatis; pedunculis 3:5-floris, brachiatis; corolla 4-petala, nutante, acuta. Frutex sarmentosus, Celsissimà scandens ope summorum foliorum cire vorum ad instar se contorquentium, sempervirens, brachiato-rümosus. Folia brachiato-opposita, quinato-pinnata, prozïm? sub paniculá sep? tenata, in- Jeriora biternata, gl bra, lucida, à supino atro-virenlia, semipedalia v. circa; foliola firmula, ima, distanîta, 1-2 uncialia, ovata, acuminata, in summo. dimidio dentibus imaqualibus laziüs densidsve serrata, 5-neroin retion~ lato-venosa, 2 exteriora minora, nunc confluentia cum terminali: petiolus comaiübis ilis, elastico-rigens: partiales bis ter breviores folio. Pedunculi Porras dé inato-brachiati, Joliosi, villosi; in summis ramis oppositi, axil- lares; solü siricti, robusti, foliis breviores ; pedicelli recurvuls, erasei; teretes, 1-flori 2 foliolo simplici, flore. breviores, infra. medium geniculati eb stipati bracteis 2 ovato-lanceolatís decussantibus foliolum ad basin positum. ores primi cermui, indè ‘nutantes erectiores, viridi-favescentes. | Cal. O, Cor. 4-petala, coriacea, tota tomentosa, - revoluto-rotitta, ' argualis, obsoleta striata n Cine decidua 5 petala ovajo-oblongo » lanceolata, acuta., - Stamina parim breviora, lineari-subulata, plano-convexa, dorso et superne intis pilosa, $nfernê intus nuda; anth. lineari-oblonga, adnate, erecta, recuroula. Pig. tile tais subegualia, congesta et land spissá sericeá implexá continentes. An unrecorded species, and the only one of the genus from the Cape of Good Hope (where it was found growin naturally by Mr. Niven) as yet known to have blossom in our gardens. It has been lately raised from imported seed by Mr. Middlemist, nurseryman at Shepherd's Bush. The specific name is borrowed from the Banksian Herba- rium, in which we found a sample of the spontaneous plant, collected by the late Mr. Masson. A slender evergreen branching sarmentose skrub, climbs ing, when it finds the means, to' a considerable height, which it reaches by the.help of the upper leaves, that serve as claspers, and twine themselves round whatever suits for, support. Foliage of a dark. shining green, brachiate, qui- nately winged, next the panicle often ternate, lowermost biternate; leaflets ovately lanceolate, loosely and irregularly serrate at their upper half, three cuter ones sometimes con- fluent: petioles slender, ‘wiry, elastic. Peduncles axillary, opposite, upright, ' villous, 3-5-flowered, brachiate and shorter. than ‘the leaves; each pedicle set in the axil of a simple ovate leaflet, one-flowered, thick, with a bibracteo- lated joint below the middle. . Flowers coriaceous, sweet- scented, of an opaque greenish buff colour, at first cer- nuous, afterwards less declined, entirely covered by a short close downy pile: petals 4, recurvedly rotate, acute, de- ciduous. .Pisti]s held together by a long entangled closa silky wool with which they are covered. . A greenhouse plant of easy culture. Propagated by layers with the facility common. to sarmentose plants. wers. about November... . ^ A genus comprised in the Ranunculaceae of Jussieu... Am order: by which-it is the intention of Professor Decândolle: to commence his ardtous, and till now unattempted, enter-' prise, "^ The System of Vegetablês arranged according to. natural affinity.” -An attemptof which the proved talent ofi the author justifies'the- best expectation. He is now here" to avail himself of the treasures In the library and'herbaridta: of Sir Josepli Banks, made free to science with a munifíoeuce; that. has no-example;. and rêsorted to from every: peint of- the'globe with a confidence that has never beet: mdulged! ny vamo 707 oe ' n ; Thedrawing was made from a plant that flowered at the. reenhouse of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, Parson's Green, near Fulham; and we'hear that at Messrs. Lee and Kennedy's. nursery, ‘Hammersmith, there: is anothêr un- recorded’ species of the: genus frdm: ‘the Cape: of Good: Hope, which:has; not. yet flowered: here, : but.is expected: toi do seithis summer. . Qoi wen A migo a A stamén:. D/A pitik 98 f ACACIA Houstoni. Houstoun's Acacia. POLYGAMIA MON(ECIA. Ord, Nat. LEGUMINOSE. Jussieu gen. 345. | ACACIA. Hermarn. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. (regularis infundi- buliformis,) 5-fida v. 5-petala. Stam. 4-100. Pist. Y. bivalve, (continuum s. non articulatum. — Gertu.) Mascus. Calyx, corolla, et stamina ac in hermaphroditis. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 1049. Arbores aut frutices, inermes aut ad basin petiolorum passtmve acu- leata. Folia abrupt? pinnata, vesper contracta manè expanduntur. Flores capitati v. spicati, axillares terminalesve. Jussieu gen. 3465 (sub Mimosa.) ~ Dig. Foliis duplicato-pinnatis, caule inermi, spicis filiformibus. A. Houstoni, inermis, foliis bipinnatis, partialibus subsexjugis, propriis multijugis, petiolis tomentosis, spica terminali interrupia, Willd. sp. pl. 4. 1069. Hort. Kew, 2. 5. 465. Anweslia falcifolia. Salisb. paradis. 64... Mimosa Houstoni. L'Herit. sert. angl. 30. Relig. houst. t. 263 (ic. sine titulo.) : MU . Mimosa houstoniana. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 16. Gleditschia inermis. Linn. sp. pl. 2. 1509; (excl. syn. Dukameli.) Acacia americana non spinosa, flore purpureo, staminibus longissimis, siliquis planis villosis, pinnis foliorum tenuissimis. Houst. MSS. 22, Pola cais, ddysgu) pine ndgiidrïoncilen, mil olia > juge; pinne &driunciales, multijuge, pinuulis contiguis linegri-angustis: panos brevi obliquo, basi: per paria, Mr Ruentibus, rachidi subiüs aittozis ab angulo altero obliguato baseas, ab altero acuio et sublato liberis, subths appress? villosis, veréus idrumque fineh pinnae drecrescentibus ; tachis communis basi articulata, partiales etiam. Racemus spicatus, distantér compositus, terminalis, erectus, f sco-villosus : pedunculi -3, aggregati, crassi, semunciales "v. ultrá, pedicellis capitato A-6-floris, brevissimis, bast articulatis, Cal, inferus, parvulus, arctus, iriplo brevior corollé, coriaceus, B.fidus, lobis brevibus ovatis, Car. coriacea, lenta, 5a partita, extiis fusco-villosa, intús albicans, glabra, 2 fundo brevit?r turbinato petens, laciniis ovato-lanceolasis, plurits brevior staminibus. Filamenta. nu- Merosa, capilaria, biuncialig ultrdve, basi in brevem wrceolum incrateato Fundo coralle acoretum serie simplici connata, indè libera sanguintó-rubentia ef Ipzitis divergentia in coronam amplam obconicam : anth. parvule, lutee. Germ. album, oblongum, inclusqm urceólo etamipso, continuum cum stylos pin Jiliformit, parüm superans «amina, 2-3 crassior lamentis : stigma m, pileato-capitafum, we ' The differential marks principally relied upon in dis- tinguishing Aeacta from Mimosa, genera intimately blended VOL, II, D ON i NN N | Y N i N a ANN » M \ M Fre aig, April SABIO. mn gun í ds. del both in habit and character of inflorescence, havé been ob- tained from the fruit. In the first this is a bivalved legume or pod of one entire piece, bursting lengthways; in the se- cond a /omentum or articulated pod, parting at the joints into one-seeded fragments, each opening by-two valves. Their generic division had been already established by Tournefort, ut suppressed by Linnzus, was resumed by Gartner, and has been adopted by Willdenow. The present species is very commonly mistaken in our rdens for the East ‘Indian grandiflora, which differs in' faving the wings of the leaf in 17 or.18 pairs, each wing consisting of 30 or 40 pairs of leaflets, each leaflet ovate at the base, and entirely distinct from the opposite one. In Houstoni the leaf has seldom more than six or eight pairs of wings, the leaflets of which are ascendent and oppositely con-. fluent, having truncated bases attached obliquely by their:out-- .ermost corners along a ledge at the under side of the petiole. In our hothouses it grows toa tall tree-like shrub, floweriug freely when of sufficient age, and producing abundanoe of suckers when cut down, which, from its lofty growth, is necessary in the stove. Corolla small, persistent, of a thick : leathery substance, white and smooth within, on the outside downy and of a reddish brown colour, enchased in a still’ smaller deciduous calyx. The beauty of the bloom consists in the long capillary crimson stamens, which. spread them-.- selves out into a broad inverted hollow cone, of from two ` inches to two and a half in depth. According to L'Heritiet- the fruit or pod is linear-oblong, acuminate, compressed, torose or knobbed where the seeds lie, and covered on the outside by a close reddish brown nap: seeds sevetal, ob». long, compressed, with an ocellated mark: at each end, affixed along the straighter back of the pod to both the inner edges of the seam. | Native of South America, where it was collected by’ Dr.: William Houstoun, and sent to this country in 1729. The drawing was made from a plant of more than seven. feet high, which bloomed in the hothouse of Mr. John. Hall, at Notting Hill, from whose collection Mr. Edwards, - has been liberally supplied with ‘specimens of several in-. teresting plants. . i IDEE a The calyx. & The corolla. c The ` bases- ment of the samens. d The pistil connected or monadelphous / ` ESTADO uh Fe. ? "ic A Pub by F Ridgway 170. Jiccadi lly : etl IS VO CANDIA La, det E c, b. Py 99 : SEMPERVIVUM arboreym. (o Tree- Houseleck. DODECANDRIA DODECAGYNIA, SEMPERVIVUM. Cal. inferis 6-12-partitus. Petala 6-12, imo calyce inserta, calycinis divisuris alterna, Stamina totidem akterna petalis: anth. subrotundee, Germ. 6-12, basi interiori juncta, exterior glaudulosa: styli & stigmata totidem. Caps. 6-12, uniloculares, poly- sperme, intüs bivalves, marginibus valvarum seminiferis. Herbæ aat suffrulices ; folia succulenta, alterna, plana, in rosam terminalem con» fata; Jlores. corymboso-cymosi terminales, in S. arboreo 80-andri, ussigu gen; 307. ME j S. arboreum, caule arborescente levi ramoso foliis cuneiformibtis gla- briusculjs ciliatis, ciliis patulis mollibus. Hort. Kew, 2. 147. Sempervivum arboreum. Linn. sp. pl. 1.664. Mill, dict. ed. 8. n. 5. Désfont. fi. atl. 1. 389. Brotero fl. lusit. 2.378. Smith prodr. fl. grec. d. 934. ‘Quer fl. espan. 6.281. Plant.. grass. 183, Willd, sp. 2.930. Hort: Kew: 9: 3. 171. m Sedum majus:arborescens. Bradi, suec. Dec. 4. 1. Sedam arborescens, — Bes. cyst. aut. ord. 3. fol. 8. fig. 1. S, arborescens majus grecym.. Lob. ic. 579... Sedum majus legitimium. “Clus. hist. 2. 58. Joubarbe arborescente, Lam. encyc. 3. 988. < Frutex ^ suceulentus, sempervirens. . Caudex carnoso-lignescett, cubthalte ad orgyalem usque, nunc brachium crassus, erectorremasus; rami cristi, teretes, fuscescentes, nudi, leves, cicatrizati, non florigeri foliis in rosam gatu- lam nutantem 3-4 uncias transuersam' approzimatis comati. Folla ambientêr sparsa, numerosa, er infôriorum cash ierminalia,. sessilia, coriaceo-eresmt cuneato-spathulata, let? viridantia, ciliis tenuissimis albis marginata, Caules terminales, virides, carnosi, teretes, infra flores laxiüs consits foliis minoribus deciduis sensim decrescentibus, terminati thyrso lazo, mu tifloro, patulo subuilloso, bracteis sphacelatis caducis intêrspêrso: pedunculis divisis, pedi. cellis l-fforis. Cal. carnoso-succulentus, 9-li-partitus, extús lanuginosus. Cor. paulo major, lutea, primd imbricato-contorta, inde stellato-divaricala, acuta. Glandule sguamiformes membranacec alba apice eroso-dentate, toti- dem ac germina. Stam. 18-22, alterna inserta bast petalorum, alterna in imo calyci: fil. lutea, subulata, corolla equalia, patentia: anth. dutem, subrotunde. Germ. 9-11 in orbem digesta, intàs bast conneza, rostrata stŷlig totidem divergentibus : stigmata puncta acuta. Caps. leguminose, oblonge, rostratim recurve, extrorsim convexa, introrsim iscentes : sem, nike y ralia, subrotunda, One of our most common rate greenhouse-plants, and of the longest standing, having been cultivated here from be- fore 1640; but is not very frequently seen in bloom, and is rather impatient of frost. Clusius notices its having been D2 introduced into the collections of the Low Countries in his day, but as not having then flowered. Native of the Levant. Freguent in Portugal, where, altho' completely naturalized, Brotero suspects it is not aboriginal. Its favourite spots are rocks, old walls, and ruins. Dr. Sibthorpe found it in the island of Cyprus; the spanish botanist, Don Josef Guer, in Gallicia, growing on the walls which environ the city of.Vigo. An arborescent succulent shrub, from three to seven feet in height; well characterized by the name of Tree- Houseleek, being what we might conceive our own humble. mative stemless weed of the same generic name would be- come on assuming the dimensions and characters of a tree. The caudex or trunk is sometimes as thick as a man's arm, proliferous, with upright thick brown branches of a con- sistence between succulent and ligneous, round, with a. smooth shining bark, scarred by the vestiges of the fallen foliage. Leaves succulent thick terminal, disposed in the. form of a full-blown rose from 3 to 4 inches over and in- clined outwards, sessile, between cuneate and spathulate, of a light green colour, surrounded by a tender narrow white ciliate edge. Flower-stem from the centre; beset below by ` numerous smaller deciduous leaves, beyond these branching out into a large handsome thyrse, with flowers of a golden- yellow colour; the peduncles of which are divided and sub- pubescent. Corolla stellate, pointed. Glands at the base of the germens in the form of scales. The drawing was made last summer from a plant in the greenhouse at Mr, Weeks's nursery, King's Road, Chelsea. a An outline of a flower, showing the position of tho scale-shaped mem» branous glands, situated at the base of the germens. : AC CA QM INN A | NY e A CNW NU "M S NW \ Syd 2, 7277. da. del 4] n Bi ) d á math. Je Pl. by S Ridgway YO Kecadilly ‘ Y ut. / ISO. i r 100 : IXORA blanda. Roxburgh’s Izorá. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. RuBIACRE. Jussieu gen. 196. : ^ .. Bic. VI, Fructus monocarpus bilocularis dispermus,, Folia oppo-: sita. g ` nc ' IXORA. Cal. l-phyllus, superus, minimus, 4-fidus. Cor. re- gularis, tubo longo gracili limbo obtuse guadripartito. nth. ad faucem' subsessiles exseria, limbi laciniis alterna. Bacca 2-loc. loculis disper- mis, (rectiús 1-spermis monénte D*. Brown.) Frutices; flores termi- nales corymbosi aut conferti. Jussieu }. c. 203. Y. blanda, foliis ovali-v. ovato-lanceolatis, cyma trichotomo-décomposita contracta; numerosa, compacta. | y ” Exora alba. Roxburgh corom. ined. cum fig. pict. et exempl. sicc. in mus.’ banks.; (nec aliorum.) a i .. Frutex erectus, glaber, ramosus, cortice fusco. Folia subundulata, ner, vosa, 3-4-uncialia : stipula interfoliaceæ, acumine subulato-elongato. C terminalis, bracteolata, stricta, convexa, alba, pedunculis rubentibus. Flores inodori; tubus strictus, aliguotiês longior limbo, lacinise ellipticæ, denud re- survaiæ. Stylus emicans tubo ferm? ad longitudinem limbi. Stig. 2. Ixora is a, branch of the Rubiacee or Madder-tribe of Jussieu, one.of the more interesting natural divi- sions. Within it, besides the Madder, we find the Coffee- tree, the Cincuona that yields the medicinal bark, the GaRDENIA florida or Cape-Jasmine, the. Catesnxa or Lily- Thorn, and a chain of species connecting, thro' almost in-, sensible transitions, the gigantic-flowered PonrLANDIA, with a nearly microscopic-flowered Gariuw. -A verticillate foli- age is said to mark its herbaceous members among all dico- tyledonous vegetables, an opposite one connected by sheaths or stipules, the shrubby and arboreous. But the characters selected from the flower and fruit, as applied by Jussieu, are now found no longer to define this mass, which has been divided by Professor Decandolle into four orders; of these, that of the Coffeacee comprises Ixora, the fruit of which Mr. Brown has found to have two single-seeded loculaments, not two double-seeded ones, attributed to it by his pre- decessors. The same eminently accurate observer also tells us, that he has found the above habit in the foliage, instead of exclusively marking the arborescent Rubiaceae, to blend itself so intimately, and by such near transitions, with the foliage of the Apocynea, that he is yet at a loss to discri- minate the tribes in-that respect. ' Rubiacee as an ordinal designation is defective, being derived from a genus at one of the extremes of the whole; and whosé image, altho’ familiar in these climates, is less obviously transfused thro' the tribe than that of almost any' other in it. ` The present species had been considered by Dr. Rox- burgh âs Ixora alba, one that was first instituted by Lin- neus in the Flora Zeylanica from a sample in Hermann's' Herbarium, But a reference to the archetype now in the possession of Sir Joseph Banks, showed that plant to be of a distinct species from blanda. In alba the foliage is elliptic with an abrupt point; the cyme more simple and fewer. flowered.than here, the corolla nearly three times larger, the segments lanceolate and printed. The synonym sub- stguently adjected from the Hortus Malabaricus, we. suse. pect to belong to neither. - a IE Dr. Roxburgh found the plant in the gardens of Bengal. He speaks of it as a handsome upright branching shrub; very like Ixora coccinea; with leaves from 2 to 5 inches leng, slightly undulated, upper ones sessile, lower petioled, Cyme white-fowered, with red stalks, decompounded, but cómpact, numerous, close, more so in the specimens ga Y. thered in India than in the present. Stipules terminated a long, subulate point. Segments of the corolla elliptic, re-. ` carved, ` Introduced some few years back from India. Requires: to. be kept in the hothouse, a ANN 2^ “The drawing was made last November at the nursery of. Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, at Hammersmith, the only place. iu Which we have seen it. ' US a The calyx, 5 A flower dissected vertically, ç The pistil. D /O/ Anth Je Syd .Edurarnda. delo. Sub hy Y, Mad gun “yo EA lly : (pul f. /d t i 101 CACALIA ovalis. Oval-leaved Cacalia. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA JEOUALIS. | l CACALIA. (Receptaculum nudum. Semen pajpposums Pires flosculosi.) Cal. simplex oblongus, basi caliculatus. | Pappus pilosus. Jussieu gen. 178. Herbe v. frutices succulenti. Div. Herbacee. C. ovalis, foliis crassiusculis, villosis, infernis ovalibus repando-dentatis petiolatis: supernis sublyrato-amplexicaulibus. ( MS Herba perennis villosa. . Folia succulenta, utrinque breve villosa densis et iomentosê a. prono ; inferiora caulina 3-4-uncialia, ovali-elliptica, remote et breve dentata, apiculo calloso fusco in dentibus, mediâ costá subtüs varicosá nervos aliquot. distantes utrinque emittente, petiolo crasso sæpè purpurascente ; summa remota, parva, sessilia; basi incisa, dentibus crebrioribus. Caulis ses- gui-tripedalis, erectiusculus, subvillosus, infra sanguineo-rubens, terminatus paniculá pluriflorá, distante, fastigiata, ramis v. pedunculis 1-fforis, striatos teretibus, appresso. uni-bibracteolatis.. Flores odori, flavi, erecti, discoidei v. Jlosculosi. haud multúm infra unciam transversi. Cal. quasi monophyllus, campanulato-oblongus, sub-12-phyllus, X w. circiter brevior flosculis, subvil- losus, basi imbricatus foliolis aliquot brevissimis. Flosculi numerosi, omnes hermaphroditi, clavato-tubulosi, glabri, versus .peripheeriam curvati; tubus teres, dilatatus in limbum cum fauce simul eo triplo breviorem ;, laciniae lanceo» late, erecte. Anth. 5-dentata, flava, equans Siehe; Stigmata flava, fili- Jormi-subulata, longiús exserta, bifurco-divaricata, superne pruinosa. Germ, pluriês brevius flosculo, oblongum, teres : a albus, sericeus, minutissime denticulatus, vix equans tubum flosculi. ecept. planum, areolatum, areolis papillam minutam includentibus. We have not traced our plant in any recorded species. A specimen of it has been deposited in the Banksian Herba- rium, which had flowered in the Kew Gardens, and is stated to have come from China. It approaches in general habit very near to Senecio divaricatus, a rayless species of Chinese Groundsel; but there the foliage is of smaller size, lanceolate, and closely serrate, and the florets of the peri- phery of the flower, altho' floscular or tubular, are yet sta- menless. A character which separates Senecio from Ca- CALIA according to the Linnean arrangement in order, as well as genus. A perennial herbaceous plant, from a foot to a foot and half high. Leaves succulent and thick, with a short piled pubescence on both surfaces, closer on the under; lower eauline ones elliptic or oval, with short teeth separated by broad shallow sinuses, from 3 to 4 inches long, with a purple petiole; upper ones, remote, small, sublyrate, sessile, closely toothed. Stem slightly villous, purple below, branching into a loose somewhat level-topped panicle of one-flowered peduncles, which are round and striate, with one or two appressed small bractes. Flowers yellow, odorous, upright, sometimes nearly an inch over. Jorets numerous, nearly a fourth higher than the calyx, clavate-tubular, smooth, bending towards the periphery of the flower; tube round, nearly three times as long as the /imó and faus together. Anther yellow, 5-toothed, equal to the limb. Stigmas yel- low, far protruded, divaricate. Germen several times shorter than its floret: pappus or seed-crown white, silky and most minutely denticulate. Receptacle flat, dotted, - The drawing was made from a plant which flowered last January, in the hothouse at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, at Hammersmith, the only place in which we have ever met with it. a am -o .. a The receptacle, stripped of its florets, 5 A floret with its germen, and pappus or seed-crown. Zn fo . E iluranela Dif, 27 HD by F Ridgway IJO Snl 7 7 Se) br (02 102 ROSA provincialis. B muscosa ; fl. pl. albo. Double white Moss- Provins Rose. ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nat. Ord. Rosacem. Jussieu gen. 53. ROSA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 46. R. provincialis. Supra vol. 1. fol. 53. di For the account of the species we refer to the fifty-third article of this work. In that place the single red Moss variety of the Provins Rose is the subject, in this the double white Moss of the same species. Both of them more rare and highly prized than any of the others. The one before us, we take it for certain, has originated in a plant of the common double red Moss Rose, from the flower of which the colour had been discharged, either thro' the effect of accident or intentionally by peculiar culture. Nor has the first tint resumed its place, but a white flower has been already transmitted for more than fifteen. years, thro' a numerous series of scions. We are informed, that the first plant of this variety was pro- duced at Mr. Henry Shailers nursery at Little Chelsea. The drawing was made at Messrs. Colville's nursery in the King's Road, Chelsea. In Jussieu's tribe of Rosacec, besides the Roses, are com- prised as co-ordinate subdivisions, the Pomacee, including Apples, Pears, Quinces, Medlars, Hawthorns, &c.; the Sanguisorbe or Burnets; the Potentille, such as Cinquefoils, Strawberries, Raspberries, Avenses, Sc. &c.; the Spiree or Meadow-sweets and Drop-worts; the Amygdalee, compre- hending Almonds, Peaches, Apricots, Plums, Cherries, Sc. &c.; the Prockie, a tropical section, besides others whose places do not seem finally decided upon. With the greater portion of this vegetable assemblage how many of us are familiar, whom the proposition, that the whole is connected in affinity by the progressive transitions of its constituent species, and circumscribed by a common cha- racter, will notwithstanding strike as strange and impro- bable. Yet, according to Jussieu, the divisions we have VOL, IF L enumerated, besides being true within themselves, to a system where those things are placed the nearest which differ the least, are likewise so strictly connected with each other as that they cannot be transposed from the places already allotted to them, and formed into distinct approxi- mating orders, nor yet resolved into one unbroken by such partitions. The marks that denote the tribe throughout, are, a corolla (when that part is present) consisting of a de- finite number of equal petals inserted in a calyw of one piece, bearing the stamens below the points at which the petals are inserted ; germens bearing the style laterally, an albumenless seed, in which the rudiment of the future plant is extended in a straight line, and an alternate stipulated foliage. The various fruits of this order present perhaps the readiest and most instructive examples, that these climates can naturally furnish, of the different modifications by which, thro' intervening species, one form passes gradually into another of very distinct appearance and combination. By the practised observer changes on which these attend will have been noted in the flower, but being there less "Obviously expressed, the real influence and importance, which belong to them in the economy of the plant, will, in this tribe at least, be more palpably and conclusively demonstrated to the beginner by the conspicuous distince tions exhibited in fruits with which he is already familiar. 103 — Sy. É arai d. del. P ip > : ; Smith. He Fibby Z Ridgway rjo ooh lly 3 God. y 187 Ó. 103 MELALEUCA fulgens. Scarlet Melaleuca. POLYADELPHIA JCOSANDRIA. Nat. Ord. Mywm (recentiìs Myrracer.) | Jussieu gen. 322. Div. I. Flores in foliorum axillis aut in pedunculis multifloris op- positi. Folia plerumque opposita et punctata. MELALEUCA. Cal. turbinatus, limbo 5-fido, deciduo. Pet. 5, parva, summo calyci inserta, ejusdem laciniis alterna. Fil. basi con- nata in fasciculos 5 (elongatos Brown.) sub petalis insertos: anth. ob- longe, incumbentes. Stylus 1. Jussieu l. c. 393. Caps. 3-loc., poly- sperma, connata et inclusa calycis tubo incrassato basi adnato (ramo.) Broin in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 410. Frutices rariìs arbores: flores sepiüs in spicam cylindricam sum- mis foliis infernatem dispositi. Folia alterna, opposita v. verticillata, simplicia, plerdmque punctata. _ Dix. folia opposita v. verticillata. = M. fulgens, foliis oppositis lanceolato-linearibus acutis unmervibus, spicis ovalibus glaberrimis, phalangibus (staminum) multifidis : ungui- bus (phalangium ) longitudine petalorum. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 4. 415. Arbuscula rigida, erecta, ?amosa ; cortex cinnamtmeo-füscescens, exuens suticulam per philyras lineares : rami ascendentes, patentes. Folia distantiis decussata, ascendentia, rigida, sessilia, angusta, lanceolata, uncialia, subtüs convexa "viridia saturatiis at parc? punctata, suprà concava glauca sine punctis. Flores pro genere majusculi, ramulos aliquot novellos sparsos cum ¿psis simul è veteriori et sep? defoliato ligno inferis in caule enatos in spicam nudam infra folia ambientes : filamenta coccinea, subsesguiuncialia. A species made known in the second edition of the Hortus Kewensis by Mr. Brown, who discovered it growing on the south coast of New Holland; and one which proves to be the most ornamental of any MELALEUCA we possess in our collections. The genus belongs to the Myrtle-tribe, and naturally joins to MernosinEnos; but having the filaments united in separate parcels, and not, as in that genus, wholly distinct írom each other, ranks in a different class of the artificial system of Linnzus. Fulgens is a slender hard-wooded branching tall shrub, with a palish smooth bark, inclining to red in the young wood; in the old brown, with a cuticle which peels off in ; E 2 long narrow stripes. The leaves are loosely decussated, each pair crossing; the other at rather distant intervals: each leaf is directed upwards, is about an inch long, narrow, lanceolate, rigid, on the under side convex green and con- spicuously dotted with dark-glandular papille, the seats of an aromatic lymph, on the upper concave glaucous spotless, and without any trace of the nerve that traverses the middle length of the under. Flowers in naked spikes surrounding below the foliage some few branches, produced at the same time with themselves from the circumference of the stem. Calyx green, oblate, urceolate. Stamens an inch and half long, with scarlet filaments united for the length of the short reddish corolla in five distinct multifid shafts. The plant belongs to the greenhouse department, and is rather tender. Thrives in a mixture of hazel-loam and peat-mould. Flowers early in the summer, and is very or- namental. | Introduced in 1803 by Mr. Peter Good. . The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs, Whit- ley, Brames, and Milne, Parson's Green, Fulham. a The corolla dissected vertically... 4 The pistil. Note.—In the article SryLIDIUM graminifolium, vol. 1. fol. 90, second page, line 20, for * monadelphous” read “ monopetalous." 10 4 Syd E nyt ded GY. / yop 4 o e â 4 Abe by Fa Hide PO Arce ill, y d d 1016. Fully. Je :2-3-pla brevior, abrupt? surrectus, glaber : stig. punctum ol 104 LÉBECKIA contaminata, . Sipotted-stalked: Lebeckia. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIEA. Nat, Ord. Lecuminosm. Jusseugen.945. — 0. o Div. V. Cor. irregularis papilionacea, Stam. 10, diadelpha.' Lb- gum. i-loc., 9-valv. Ids 1. c. 359. ~” LEBECKIA. Cal. 5-partitus: laciniis acutis; simubus rotundatis, Legumen cylindricum, polyspermum. Thunb. pref. part. post. Fru- tices. Folia simplicia, ternata, v. rarô abrupt? pinnata? L. contaminata, glabra, ex petiolis filiformibus aphyllis remotis erectis , Virgata; pedunculis racemosis; carina lateribus bicalcarata, Lebeckia. contaminata. Thunb. prod. 122, Willd, sp. pl. 3. 946, Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 4. 961. MM Spartium contaminatum. Linn. mant. 268. Hort. Kew. 3. 10. rami puden rylosi, ex petiolis a; juncets remotis sparsis virgati. Pro foliis petioli subnudi, erech, yn cw ati, aculi, ¢ Wnh) interiori facie exarati levi sulco ibidemque obsiti stipulis senis parvulis mucroniformibus per myn de HE T iN s omnind observavimus, i digi, older sold, Todi r compress eb robtstiores petiolis, purpur ulati, rachide,florunt an premarginatd ‘putantes, oon anif Cal. unilabiato-inflexus, ob mia i dulinequalia basis icillaie. Germ. filiforme, rectum, glabrum, polyspermum : stylus us, We find no figure of this remarkable plant; which has been known in our collections from 1788, when it was in- troduced by Mr. Masson from the Cape of Good Hope. It partakes, with some few more of its tribe, in the curious habit of producing a foliage of bare leaf-stalks (petioles). 'Those of this nature have been only known to furnish a GANN MED MU” SD UN leaf to the petiole while seedlings, or one here and there occasionally and irregularly at a later stage of growth. On that in Mr. Griffin's conservatory at- South Lambeth, from which the drawing has been taken, we found no sign of any leaf, but merely long slender petioles, resembling so many bare rushy twigs. On one of the spontaneous speci- mens preserved in the Banksian Herbarium we observed two abruptly pinnated leaves, the one with two pair of ob- long obcordate leaflets of about half an inch in length, the other with three pair. The genus was instituted by Thunberg, and seems prìn- cipally distinguished from Spartrom by the numerously seeded cylindric legume or pod, and the broadly rounded sinuses of the calyx. : 'The present plant was about five feet high, vímineous, with round streaked glaucous scattered branches. On the side of the petioles which faced the branch, appeared generally six small teeth-like stipules, arranged in three pairs, equidistantly situated between the two extremities of the petiole, at the base of which was an articular constric- tion with a pale yellow zone, Flowers smaller than those of the common yellow Lupine, of a red-violet colour, not, as in the specimen observed by Linneus, yellow ; racemes few-flowered, terminating the solitary straight upright axil- lary peduncles, which were marked with the purple spots that have suggested the name for the species, The corolla is singular, as far as our experience reaches, in producing on each side of the carina (or boat of the flower,) from within outwards, a short hollow conic pointed spur directed backwards along the side with an ascending curve. A greenhouse plant, apparently of easy culture; thriv- ing most in peat-mould; flowering late in the autumn. a Calyx. bVexilum. «Carina. d One of the twoalas. ¢ Stament and pisil. SF Pistil , P ullae cel. Gal hy F gnn 1/0 Accadi lly ^ loyd. AM. — py HN) MA zs Y ENT a WS eA ANÍS m 105 TILLANDSIA xiphioides. Buenos Ayres Tillandsia or Aiv-plant. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Bmowstym. Jussieu gen. 49. Diy. I. Germen superum. . . TILLANDSIA. Cal. S-partitus. Cor. longior, tripartita pyt tubyloso-trifida. Stam. ima corollá inserta. Caps. obtusè 3-gona, 3-loc. polysperma, seminibus papposis. Folia vaginantia, plerumque fadicalia ; flores in scapo aut caule spicati aut paniculati, singuli spa- thacei. Plante herbacee plurime parasitica, ali Agavem, alia Bromeliam, aliz Aloém habitu mentientes. Id. loc. cit. 50. lato-grumosum. . Germ, triquetro-pyramidatum, 8-loc.; loc. unoquoque ovelig numerosis repleto : stylus continuus, longè exsuperans stamina 5 stigma suba é&lavato-continuum, hinc canaliculatum, resinâ fuscd induratá obductum, atque Jiliferam, educens filos plures arachnoideos elasticos tenaces ad antheras usque dazandos gyratim. A genus belonging to the small order of Bromelie, or Pine-Apple tribe; and differing from PrrcAI8NIA, in having a completely superior germen. Its numerous species are parasitic, growing upon the bare trunks and branches of trees, sometimes on the naked face of rocks. A fact which may serve to diminish the wonder of their vegetating for yous when suspended elsewhere by a thread, and which as procured them the name of Air-plants, also applied to some Orchideous vegetables gifted with the same property. VOL. II. F Of the present singular species we have found no ac- count. Its inflorescence, in this instance, consisted of a single sessile upright highly fragrant white flower, little less, when fully extended, than four inches long, issuing from a bivalved spathe wrapped round by the upper leaves of the short stem; at the two upper joints of which, in hollows on each side within the surrounding sheath, we perceived the rudiment of either a flower or branch. Calyx herbaceous, enclosed, an inch and half high; tube of the corolla slender, higher than the spathe; limb tripetaloid, segments obliquely reflectent, obovate-oblong, twice shorter than the tube, unevenly crenulated. But the strangest anomaly presents itself in the stigma, which is clavately elongated, chanuelled on one side, and coated by a brown hard substance like resin, from some small points in which issue several fine elastic tough threads, floating down in ringlets among the, anthers that lie without the mouth of the tube below, and in which the pollen appeared to be moist, and gru- mously granulate. To such stigma we know of nothing analogous among vegetables. Have we been imposed upon by some extraneous substance or some casual excretion? We state the appearance with diffidence, even after the most scrupulous inspection, and shall scarcely feel secure till we meet the like in another sample. ` Native of Buenos. Ayres. Flowered in one of the hothouses at Castle-Hill, the seat of Lord Fortescue, in Devonshire; from whence the specimen was received by Mr. Edwards in March last. The lower foliage was copied from an un- coloured drawing made by Lord Fortescue, who bad the goodness to communicate it to Mr. Edwards for that pur- pose; the stem and flower having been sent up by the gardener without the root-leaves. Its only culture for five years past had been, in being suspended by a.string in the hothouse. a The bivalved spathe. & The 3-parted calyx. c The tube of the co- rolla and one segment of the limb. . d A stamen, e The pistil, ew. 7066 Zl QUU HUS: Lib by. R Y Ride ihe y PA d y / ; si “ay (JU Peeedidly i May! IS IO faul. 4€ 106 _PENZA squarhosa, Scaly Penea. . TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. : Nat. ord. PLANT INCERTA sepis, — Monopetalre germine supero. © Jussieu gen. 419. er Fn i PENA. Cal. 2-phyllus. Cor. campanulata. Stylus 4-gonus- (v. filiformis.) Cups. 4-gona, 4-loc., S-sperma. Willd, sp. 1. 66.” Frutices semper virentes, rigentes. ' 1 P. squamosa, foliis rhombeo-cuneiformibus carnosis. Lin. mant. 331. — Pena squamósa. Linn. sp. pl. 1. 169. Thunb. prod. S0. Willd. sp. pl. 1.628. Hort, Kew. 3. in add. 485. Ed. 2. 1. 248. ‘ Pensa tetragona. . Berg. cap. 36; (synonymon certum, etù nusquain : aliubi assumptum.) . . . Frutex rigidus, preliferus ; caulis rotundatus, cicatricibus tumidis scaber y rami foliosi tetraguetri, recóns enati gummoso-unctuosi v. vernice diaphaná obducti, sepids rubentes. Folia opposta, decussata, sessilia, patentissima, plana, duplo longiora interstitiis, semuncialia w. circitár, crassa, rigida, Phombeo-olovata acumine lato brevi, pruinata papillis atomoideis, opaca, nervo medio depresso, stipulata squamulis 4? parvis dentiformibus bedi, gummi limpido immersis, transeuntibus faciem supinam baseos folii ab extra utroque latere. Flores 2-5, terminales, aggregati, árciati, sepins 5 in quincuncem or-' dinati, incolucrati bracteis foliacess, imbricato-conniventibus, pallido-virentibus, cuneatis, comvoluto-concavis, gummoso-unctuosis, | supernd ciliatis, acumine. recurvo, majoribus quàm folja. Cor. subsesquiuncialis, tubulosa, A stricta ; tubus obtúsë 4-gonus, pallidus, diametro penne corvina: majores limbus 4-partitus, ¿ruciatus, eyualis, patens, reflexus, roseo-lucems, laciniis ovato-ellipticis, obtusis; Stam. dimbo «qualia, ore tubi posita, laciniis al- terna, erecia, robusta, papillosa; fil. latins ligulata, concava, fora, CORDES, sanguinea ; anth. ngiores, lanosolat longa, i ime, adnate re- erplaclo d distincto verticali Sarin ifie roseo, Fororsits arido Sufrorsim igero aique supra n infra looulos incumbente apice filamenti ; Toeuli 2 Presiores aneold receptaculi, lineares, verticales AM versis stigma dehiscentes fssurá medió longitudinali; pollen é globults minu- tissimis granulatum. Pist, equans stamina; stylus rmis, gracilis, rectus, ruber; stig. airo-sanguineum, capitato-4-gonum, obsolete 4dum, glabrum, nitidum. A scarce and remarkable plant; native of the Cape of Good Hope, and belonging to a genus of so distinct a na- ture from that of the others of any known tribe, that the points by which it connects in affinity with the general scheme of vegetables are yet to be determined. In Jussieu's arrangement it stands in the reserve of unplaced genera, such as await either until the species wanting to combine F2 them with the general plan shall be discovered, or until relations not yet developed shall be unfolded in those already known. The name has been adopted by Linnzus in commemora- tion of Peter Pena, the coadjutor of De Lobel, in the work entitled “Stirpium adversaria nova,” published in 1751. A low rigid shrub, of rather straggling growth; stent ptélifetous, prominently scarred ; branchés leafy, young ones glazed- with a transparent gum-like varnish, which har- dens and bécomes opaque in the old. Leaves decussated, - horizontal, flat; thick; rigid, twice as long as the intervals, obovate, rhomboidal, broadly pointed, of an opaque green ; ` wd A? minute brown, pointed, immérsed in the varnish which covers the branch, and forming a brown ridge wliich tráverses the upper face of the foot of the leaf from: without the sides. Flowers 2-5, terminal, aggregate, most commonly 5 standing in the order of à quincunx, and form- ing â close oblong fascicle, enveloped by foliaceous im- bricated bracies larger than the leaves, pale green, var-. nished, ciliate upwards, with a recurved point. : Corolla au: ihth or more in length; tube obtusely guadrangular; Airub 4-parted, cruciate, of a deep glossy rose-colour, three times” shorter than the tube, obtuse. Stamens equal to the limb, blood-red, upright; anthers upright, inserted at the inner: flat front of their receptacle nearly one third above the base: under the cells, which are adnate, vertical, parallel, conti-;. guous, dark brown, somewhat shorter than-the plain of the. receptacle, opening lengthways towards the stigma, against which they incline on parting with the pollen. i A greenhouse plant, difficult to preserve, and not-easify' thulfiptied. Cultivated in a. mixture of hazel loam and péát: mould, Introduced by Mr. Masson in. 1787. : The ‘drawing was made in March, at the nursery: of. Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith, a source from which we have long received a most liberal and unreserved” supply of rare plants of the greatest use to our botanical pursuits. : 4 Corolla dissected vertically. 4 Pistil. 107 . BOUVARDIA tiphylla. 775077770: Three-leaved: Bouwardias . noy ©, TEFRANDRIA' MONOGÍNTA. | . Nat. ord. RumnacE. Jussieu gen 100.7 i i tu hely .. BOUFARDIA. Cal. (supetus) 4-phyllis, dentibus: quibmedany: interjectis. Cor. tubulosa, Anthere incluses. Caps. bipartibilis, : ; sperma. Sem, marginata, Hort, Kew. ed. 2:1. 245. ; B. triphylla. | Salisb. paradis, 88. | 204 . Bouvardia triphylla, Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 245. Ut Houstonia coccinea. “Andrews’s reposit. 106. — Persóon syn. 1. 185 Ixora americana. Jacq. hort. schanbr. 3. 4.1. 257; (nec Linnoîi.)- Ixora ternifolia,- Cavanill. ic. 4.3. t. 305.- Recens, pl. in reposit. botan. depict. 37. Persoon syn. 1. 130. . . oU . 'Caulês plures sufrutioosi evecti, parlón ramosi; téretés, villorkli pan dales, pennam columbinam crassi. ^ Folia terna, breviter petiolata, tin ata, acuta, integerrima, utrinque et ad oras willis brevissimis scalirs, patene tissima v. refleza, unam alteramve unciam longa. Stipule subulate, erectie, terne, cum foliis alternantes. ` Pedunculi terminales, plusculi, erecti, $3tori, etiam semel dichotomi, scabri, stmunciam v. unciam i, Flores inodori, erecti. Cal. ef germen hirta. Cor. coccinea, foris villosula, uncialis. ' Anth. HAavide, Cal. 4-phyllus, superus, -persistens, foliolis lanceolatis. acuminatis patentissimis. Cor, J-petala; tubus (tetragono-) cylindricus, longissimus, erectus. Limli %ifidi et brevistimi laciniis ovalis, obtusis, paténtissimis. Fil. subulata, tota feré quanta tubo adnata. Germ. inferum, turbinatum cum vertice ultra calycis ortum prominente subbifido. Stylus subulaiws, erectus, tubo corolle brevior. Stigma obtusum, oblongum. Jacq. loc. cit. i When we turn to the description of the Ixora americana we are at a loss to account for Jacguin's having conceived our plant to belong to that species. Ixora americana is stated to be a tree, with leaves that have long petioles, and a flower in which the tube is shorter than in any other of the genus: all of them features which have no existence here. We since find our plant intruded upon HousToNta, from which, as well as Ixora, it has been judiciously re- moved by Mr. R. A. Salisbury, and made the foundation of a genus, called after Dr. Charles Bouvard ; a former super- intendant, and one of the earliest as well as most consider- able benefactors of that celebrated national establishment, the botanic garden at Paris. . The plant is become very general in our collections. It is suffrutescent and perennial, from one to two feet high, o corymbosely branched, with a. round stem, covered with a very pale smooth'bark. Leaves usually in threes, obovately lanceolate, smooth except at the edge and middle nerve; sti- pules 3, sheathing, alternate with the 3 leaves. Flowers bear- ing some resemblance to those of the Trumpet-honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens), of an orange-scarlet colour, rather below an inch in length, and thicker than the diameter of arctow-guill, upright, straight, scentless, terminating the branches in loosely corymbose panicles ; peduncles freguently . trichotomous, and three-flowered; pedicles shorter than co- tolla. Tube somewhat quadrangular; limb many times shorter, obtuse. Mr. Salisbury, fom whom we have bor- rowed nearly the whole of what we have said of the cha- racter, mentions two varieties, the one with narrow, the other with broad leaves. “ Native of Mexico. Introduced into the Madrid gar- dens in 1791; into those of England by Sir Joseph Banks in 1794.. A hardy greenhouse plant of easy culture, Pro- . pagated by cuttings. Flowers from July to October. The drawing was made from the nursery of Messrs, Kennedy and Lee, at Hammersmith. ` a Calyx. 5 Corolla dissected vertically. c Pisti ^ /OP ud £ diia m TTA 32 : tl p oo 7 Pu hy X abge “JO Steadelly 3 Vay AIO. 108 ijf 'HONNA 'abrofanifolia; >< ` Southernwood-leaved African: Ragwort.... ... Dea dioe LL Qoa nt IU t : | SENGENESIA POLYGAMIA NECESSARIA. — Nat. ord. ConRyYMmFERE. . Jussieu gen. 177. vs j Div. II. Receptaculum nydum. Semen papposum:. Flores; ra- iati. : - mM mE OTHONNA. Flores radiati, flosculis masculis. (androgynis sterilj- bus) ligulis foemineis. Cal. 1-phyllus subcylindricus aut patens, apice 8-14-dentatus aut 8-14-fidus, — Pappus pilosus aut subnullus. _ Receptu- tulum quandoque (alveolato-) villosum. ^ Species quedam. suffruticose ; folia simplicia aut pinnata. Id. loc. cit. 180, 181, 189. | n WN Div. foliis incisis pinnatisce. O. abrotanifolia, foliis multifido-pinnatis linearibus, caulis geniculis .. .Willosis, - Linn. sp. pl. 9. 1310. Othonna abrotanifolia. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 4. Thunb. prod. 168. " Hort. Kew. 3. 277: ed. 2. 5. 316. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 9375; (excl. synon. Seb. mus. quod O. pectinate.) mE Cineraria abrotauifolia. - Berg. cap. 292. ta Jacobwa africana fratescens, folis abrotani s. crithmi, major et minor. : Folckam- norib: 995. t. 925. ' ' (8) foliis laxioribus, brevioribus, pinnis latioribus, planioribús. Ex specim. -: in Herb. Bunkt. |. . . ir Asteroplatycarpos africana frutescens, -crithmi marini foliis. Comm. hort. 9. 63. t. 39. ^ Suffrutex iferus ; rhmivdscendentes, teretes, a ie confertim foliati, gremio ioco epi (und? pedunculus ) dens? lanati, . Folia pote ei] dia, sparsa, multifaria, conferta et basi imbricato-approtimata, pitentia, carnosa, crassa, lineari-pinnata cum impari, glabra, foliolis decurrentibus, distantibus, alternis v. oppositis, filiformibus, acutis cum sulco suprà ; petiolus communis foliolis similis sublatior tamen et utringue sulcatus. Pedunculi terminales, solitarii, erecti, teretes, glabri, 1-9-unciales, ljffori, Flos sa- turatiìs sulphureo-lutescens, sesquiunam ad 2 uncias transversus v. magii. Cal. herbaceus, ex loboso-cylindrico patens, medium ultra multi-(19-) fidus, equalis, acutus. Radius vecurvo-ezpansus, ligulis totidem ac segmenta calyci, lamina JHneari-oblongá, tridenticulatá, longitudine disci transversi, revoluto- emarcescente, tubo gracili deorsüm ampliato: discus numerosis, «equalis calyci, flosculorum limbo urceolato-campanato, semisfido, laciniis ovato- acuminatis; tubo ligularum simili. — Anth. 5-dentata, equans limbum, flava. Stigmata 2, revoluto-divergentia. Germ. pappo pluries brevius, cylindricum, oblongum: pappus copiosissimus, sericeus sub lente plumosus, sursim et deorsüm diffusus, mollissimus. Recept. alveolato-setaceum, alveolis membranoso-marginatis, setoso-dentatis, à profundis in peripherid decres- centibus versús centrum. A suffrutescent species, much cultivated in the green- houses about London, on account -of its early flowering, easy culture and propagation. A narrow foliage clothes the branches to the top, in the manner of. thàt:of" the com- mon Southernwood, which it. resembles in form; each leaf is from an inch toan inch and half long, fleshy, un- equally linear-pinnate; petiole furrowed above and beneath ; leaflets decurrent, 11-13, filiform, pointed, furrowed above enly, generaily opposite or nearly so; sometimes alternate, lowermost very small, three uppermost placed tridentways. Stem round, proliferous; branches upright, producing a solitary smooth. round one-flowered bracteless peduncle from. am. apex tufted with thick white wool forming the centre of the terminal leaves. Flowers of a uniform pale golden yellow, from an inch and half to two over. Receptacle alveolate or honeycombed, edge of the cells membranous, with fine bristle-like teeth, gradually higher as the depth of the cells diminishes towards the centre. ., In bloom from January to March. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Cultivated at Hampton Court Gardens in 1692. We are acguainted with two varieties: the one with a broader flatter foliage we take to be Commelin's plant. The present is that of Vo]ckamer, whose figure of it, tho” coarse, is very characteristic. Samples of both are pre- served in the Banksian Herbarium. The drawing was made at Messrs. Colville's. nursery, King's Road, Chelsea. : a Calyx, dissected vertically, showing the bristly-alveolated receptacle, - deprived of the florets. b A Boret of the disk and germen, € A floret of the ray and germen, 07 7) / i Fel ( diva teld. del. f Ridgway /70 D "ur! n Ally. Hay! IP VO. 109 CASSIA ligustrina, Privet-leaved Cassia. DECANDRIA ' MONOGYNIA. Nat. Ord. LEGUMINOSA. Jussieu gen. 345. s Div. I. Cor. regularis. Legumen multiloculare, sæpiùs bivalve, dissepimentis transversis, loculis monospermis. Stamina distincta. Id, c. cit. CASSIA. Supra vol. 1. fol.'83. C. ligustrina, foliolis septemjugis, lanceolatis, extimis minoribus, glane dulâ supra basin petiolorum, Linn. sp. pl. 1. 541. ] Cassia ligustrina, Hort. Kew. 2. 52. ed. 2. 3. 28. - Pursh amer. sept. 1.306. Willd. sp. pl. 9. 593. . C. babamensis. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 12. C. bahamensis, pinnis Yolioruin mucronatis angustis, calyce floris non reflexo. Mart. cent. 21; cum tab. Senna ligustri folio. Dill. elth. 350. tab. 259, fig. 338; ( exclus figurá Jructús pertinente ad diversam speciem et malo desumptá tabulis Plu- mierianis. ) WN Frutex orgyalis ; caulis teres ramosus, liosus ; rami striati, ascendentes, sparsi, virides, conspersi rarâ lanugine. olía numerosa, multifariam sparsa, -S-juga, sæpiùs "TZjuga, B-O-uncialia, lat? virentia ; petiolus viJJosiuscsdus, supra articulum. baseos tumidus & notatus glandulâ pared tumori insideni8 antic; foliola distantia, brevissima. petiolata, sesqui-8-uncialia, lanceolata, basi ct margine minute villosa, ceterum glaberrima, interiora minora: stipules gemina, parva, herbaceee, subulate, recurve, villose, caducar. Flores sub» paniculato-terminales, panicule 2 conymbis plurifioris solitariis in azillis folio» Tum ramos terminantium & sensim in bracteas decrescentium:. pedunculi erecti, villosi, pedicellis _fastigiantibus, flore brevioribus, singulis suffullis bracted Propriá herbaceá ovatá acutá concavá. Cal. subherbaceus, lanuginosus, pluriês minor corollá, foliolis rotundatis, concavis, non reflezis, 2 intimis tenertoribub submajoribus. Cor. flava, sine macula, obsoletins nervosa ; pet. summo obcor- dato latiori reliquis obovatis, 2 imis minoribus : omnibus unguis. brevissimus, Anth. ferm? occidentalis (supra fol. 83.) appendicibus verd minis conspicuis, de infarnè -spern versis esos cscentes per paria, flavo-fuloescentes, Pist. üssurmens, . pedicellatum, longum, teres, villosum; stylus parim or, brevis, surrectus, glaber: stigma punctum cum cavo obtuso; intră versum, ciliatum, Legum. compressum, lineare, polyspermum, S-unciale latitudine fer? 4 partis unciæ, fuscum, cartilaginso-marginatem, acutum, A shrub which grows naturally in Virginia, the Bahama Islands, and Jamaica. Introduced by Mr. Mark Catesby about the year 1726. It requires to be kept in the bark- bed of the hothouse; where, although it flowers prett freely, it has not been known to seed with us. Ín Dil- VOL. HI, G lenius's work, we find a sumptuous engraving of the species, taken from a plant that flowered in Dr. Sherard's celebrated garden at Eltham ; but the figure of the fruit which ac- companies it, has been borrowed from Plumier's drawings, and evidently belongs to'a distinct species. Millers Cassta ligustrina is another species; but his bahamensis the same with the present. It is said to attain 7 or 8 feet in height; stems some- times several, at most about the thickness of a finger, round, surrounded by green ascendent somewhat grooved branches, thinly sprinkled with a short fine down towards the inflorescence; /eaves numerous, set round the branches in all directions, 5-9 inches long, of-a clear lively green, drooping at sunset, pointing upwards at sünrise, horizontal about noon; petiole downy, considerably enlarged over the joint at the base, and bearing a small gland in front of tbe tumor above; leaflets 5-8-, but oftener 7-paired, from an inch, and a half to 3 inches long, lanceolate, minutely villous at the edge and base, smooth: stipules 2, lateral, small, res curved, subulate, herbaceous, villous, deciduous. {nflo- rescence a leafy upright panicle formed of several 3c or more- flowered corymbs, lowermost issuing separately from: the axils of the upper leaves, which gradually decrease to mere bractes; uppermost terminal, aud. sometimes dichotomous. Calyx subherbaceous, villous, not reflectent. Corolla deep: yellow, without spots, and with nerves less prominently marked than is usual in the genus; upper petal obcordate, broader, the rest obovate, the two lower smallest. Stamens nearly as in Cassta occidentalis of the 83d article of this work. There is a variety with a smaller foliage. The drawing ‘was made from a plant which flowered in great perfection last autumn in the collection of Mr. John Hall, at Notting. ill. @ The calyx. 5 The stamens and pisti. c The pistil detached. /70. / | a £f f y fru fi : yt a é "T : ap EY M, f- Á th md j Syd Care Ru". r [A hy af ‘ A ent ui af y 6 ye My ` Mary 110 CACALIA bicolor. Bicolor Cacalia. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA JEQUALIS. Nat. Ord. Corymeirer®. Jussieu gen. 177. CACALIA. Supra fol. 101. ; Div. Herbacee. C. bicolor, caule herbaceo ramoso, foliis lanceolatis glabris dentatis : caulinis (superioribus) amplexicaulibus; rameis (inferioribus) petio- latis. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1731. Cacalia bicolor. Roxburgh MSS. corom. cum tab. pict. ined. Salisb. paradis. 25. Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 4. 499. Perennis, bipedalis : caulis ramosus, glaber, striatus, Susco-purpurascens, rami subvillosi, erecto-patentes, florigeri. Folia decrescentia, glabriuscula, subtis Jere semper lete purpurea ; inferiora petiolata, lanceolata, laxius nec «egualitêr inciso-serrata, summa ramis supposita amplexicaulia sublyrato- sagittata. Pedunculi caulis ramorumque terminales, rari, distantes, fasti- po. villosiusculi, striati, uniflori, consiti bracteis nonnullis vagis mem- ranosis subulatis, summis imo calyci contiguis patentissimis. Flores puniceo crocali, fere unciam alti, Cal. cylindricus, oblongus, apicibus purpureis acutis. Flosculi numerosi, excedentes calycem, subnutantes v. curvati versús peripheriam floris. Stigmata divaricato-ezserta. Catera fermê ac in C. ovali folii superioris 101. — This fine coloured species, according to Dr. Roxburgh, was received at the botanic garden in Calcutta, from the Moluccas, in 1790; and was introduced by Sir Joseph Banks into this country in 1799. An herbaceous perennial plant, in our specimen about two feet high; stem dark-purple, somewhat angular, smooth, branched. Leaves scarcely succulent, usually of a fine bright purple at the under side, nearly smooth, or with a slight scattered pubescence on the middle nerve; lower ones petioled, lanceolate, deeply distantly and un- equally serrate; upper stem-clasping, lyrately sagittate. Flowers between crimson and orange colour, nearly an inch long, terminating the stem and branches in a loose few- flowered panicle; peduncles distant, striate, somewhat vil- lous, growing out into a loosely scattered corymb, beset with a few irregular distant subulate membranous bractes, the upper ones of which are patent, and sutround the base G 2 of the calyx to which they are contiguous. Calyx cylin- drical, oblong, with purple points. Florels numerous, overtopping the calyx, bending towards the periphery of the flower. Stigmas divaricately protruded. In the other points it agrees very nearly with CAcaALIA ovalis recorded in the 101st article of this work. Reguires to be cultivated in the hothouse, where it flowers in the autumn. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- ley, Brames, and Milne, King's Road, Fulham. It had been raised from East Indian seed. a The calyx and bractes dissected vertically; showing the receptacle bared of the florets, A floret and its germen. Note.—Fol. 99. p. 1. bottom line. For “ Clusius notices its having . been,” Sc. read “ Clusius notices it as having been,” $e. M | | o) v | Jyd duro da. del. y SW 5 / Y Wa Rid ; y ‘ | 4 Pa eu A e cro FF, . íj "Pe Smith Je ly May A 18/0. 111 CYNANCHUM pilosum. Hairy Cynanchum. PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Nat. Ord. AscurpiADEm.. Cal. 5-divisus, persistens. Cor. mo- nopetala, hypogyna, regularis, decidua. — Stam. , laciniis limbi alternantia. Anth. biloculares. Pollen ad dehiscentiam antherarum .coalescens, in massas numero loculorum. Germ. 9. Styli 2, arctê approximati. Stigma ambobus commune, dilatatum, pentagonum, an- gulis corpusculiferis. Folliculi 2, altero, nunc abortiente. Placenta suture, intüs applicita, demüm libera. Sem, numerosa, imbricata, pen- dula. Albumen tenue, Div. AscuEPIADEE vers. Masse Pollinis 10, leves, per paria (diversis antheris. pertinentia), affixze stigmatis corpusculis, sulco longi- Audinali bipartibilibus. Fi. connata, extìs sepiìs appendiculata, CYNANCHUM. _ Cor. subrotata, partita. Corona staminea monophylla, 5-20-loba, dum 5-fida lobis antheris oppositis. Anth. membranâ terminate. Masse pollinis ventricose, pendule. Stigma iculatum. — Fol/iculi Waves. .comosa, Plante perennes v. suf- rutices, utplurimüm volubiles (et lactescentes.) Folia nyna me ‘belle interpetiolares. Patria varia a gradi 59°. lat. 32% lat, austr. Brown Asclep. in Wern. trans. 1. 19, 21, 43. a Sar ag Dic. III. Corona staminea tubulosa, columnam includens, ore 5-10- fido, laciniis carinisve interioribus nullis. Massa pollinis apice m E ae ae Caulis volubilis. Folia s ata. Le palo: fols ovatis acutiusculis calycibusque pi corona 10-fida po sec ma 6 Brown l. c. et in Hort. Kew. ed. 2.2. 77. ‘Periploca africana. Linn. sp. pl. 1. 309.. Mill. dict, ed. 8. n. €. Jacg. misc. 1. TOW Thunb. prod. 47. Hort. Kew. 1. 301. Andrews's reposit. 557. Willd. e pl. 1. 1951. Cynanchum caule volubili ramoso, foliis subovatis cum acumine. Hort, Comm, rar. 18. t. 18. A. scandens africanum, convolvuli minoris folio, et caule hirsuto. Pluk. alm. 37. t. 137. . indicum air bali foliis. Moris. hist. 3. 611. sect. 15. t. 3. f. 62. Suffrutex villoso-canescens, graciles, elastico- e. infe ec T folia perfoliato- oc me ed ele r suaveolentes, ce A plant from the Cape of Good Hope, long known in our green-houses; and more interesting, from the singularity of its appearance, structure, and colour of the blossom, than in point of ornament. The species is a milky suffrutescent slender twining evergreen, covered with a short close hoary pubescence; stems several, filiform, elastic, and tough, from one to three fcet high, more roughly pubescent than the fo- liage, winding one round the other in a wreath when no support is by. Leaves in distant pairs, oblong-ovate and subcordate, short-pointed, under an inch in length, and rather above the half of one in breadth, villous on both sides; petioles perfoliate, short, firm. Peduncles lateral, alternate, solitary, few, about the length of the leaves, terminated by a short closish corymb of from about 5-12 small upright sweet-scented brown and white blossoms. - Calyx very small, 5-cleft, pointed, patent, persistent. Co- rolla of a faded liver-colour, of one piece, 5-parted, stellate, segments widely separated, narrow, linear, twisted, obtuse; _Stamineous crown a white narrow campanulate pentagonal tube, notched at the brim, of the same height as the column of fructification, to the angles of which it is cemented at the base, and the whole of which it encloses and guards, in the way of the paper or glass bells, in use to prevent candles from flaring. Filaments united cylindrically : anthers ter- minated by a pointed membrane. Germens 2, halved-ovate lengthways; styles 2 subulate; stigma common to both, large pentagonal, bifid at the apex; furnished at each angle of the 5 faces with a corpuscle and two filiform processes, each suspending from its apex. a small ventricose yellow ' pollen-mass, separately attracted from a loculament of dif- ferent bilocular anthers. The species contained in the Linnean Cynancuum have been considerably reduced by Mr. Brown in his late ar- rangement of his order of Zsclepiadee. But even under this reduction he thinks it still resolvable into six separate ge- nera, the characters of which he has marked out in the form of six heads of as many sections. Cultivated by Miller in 1796. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- ley, Brames, and Milne, King's Road, Fulham. a The calyx. b A detached flower. € The column of fructification; entire, 772 íf, i iW WT, ETIN ly JU lh eli. del f; My : May E ISO ^"c07€ /À gwa (PO E. Wy, " Aly F: à v. 119 CAMELLIA japonica. i. Blush Camellia. MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. vat. Ord. Turacez. Mirbel in nouv. Bulletin. 8. 389. AURANTIA. Jussieu gen. 262. Div. III. Fructus polyspermus capsularis, Folia non punctata. Genera Aurantiis & Meltis afia. CAMELLIA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 12. C. japonica. Supra vol. 1. fol. 22. (i) Blush Camellia. Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 4. 235. Andrews's reposit. 660. Jig. 9. For an account of the species we refer to the twenty- second article of this work. The present is one of its more rare and ornamental varieties; and we believe was intro- duced some few years back from China, by the late Lady Amelia Hume. [It varies in itself from a deeper to a paler flesh-colour. The drawing has been made from a plant in Mr. Knight's nursery in the King's Road, Chelsea. The genera, which had been distributed by Jussieu in three divisions under his order durantia or the Orange- tribe, in which CAMELLIA was included, now form four distinct orders. Of these, that of the 7Aeacee contains only Tura and CAMELLIA, well-suited congeners in a na- tural arrangement, but separated by Linnzus in compliance with the rule of his system, which establishes the coa- lescence of the filaments into one or more parcels, a funda- mental difference in one set of classes from another set, where that character is not present, without regard to na- tural affinity. This rule seems to us to trench more re- peatedly on the natural relations of species, and to be com- pensated by fewer corresponding advantages than any other devised by the genius of the author of that professedly artificial, but in great part natural as well as profoundly in- genious and most useful system. In respect however to 'THEA and CAMELLIA, neither of these characters is so com- pletely marked in one or the other, but that both genera might rank under the same title, without any essential de- parture from the above rule, But is the reduction of two or more universally known and long established, altho' per- haps unnecessarily narrow genera, into one, such an ad- vantage even in a natural method as repays the inconve- nience which infallibly accompanies innovation? In the most naturaÌ system, genera, as well as larger divisions of aìl de- nominations, are mere devices in aid of science; and have no other standard of limitation than the general assent ac- corded to the experience of their use in the management of a collective mass, unwieldy for the purposes of know- ledge without them. Nor can any other divisions be formed . when we admit a creatión of distinct species confining throughout by equable transitions. Wi | 1 f pd C disunda. def. ull AC JUE by SF Ridow , ff g . Y A. ad gu uly M70 Treva dilly FA / IS/0. 113 ARBUTUS Andrachne. Andrachne, or the Oriental Strawberry Tree. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Egicz (recentids Ericeæ.) Jussieu gen. 150. Div. I. Germen superum. ARBUTUS. Cal. 1-phyllus, persistens, minimus 5-partitus. Cor. l-petala, ovata, limbo parvo 5-fido revolute. Stam. (hypogyna) non exserta. Stylus 1. Stigma 1. Bacca. 5-locularis, loculis poly-v. uni- spermis. — Frutices aut sufiutices; fotia alterna; flores axillares aut terminales, subracemosi. Receptaculum germinis 10-punctatum. Bacca A. Unedonis granulatu Fragarivides. Jussieu gen. 160. ' A. Andrachne, caule arboreo foliis ovatis integris serratisque paniculis pubescentibus erectis, baccis polyspermis. Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 3. 56. . Arbutus Andrachne. Lina. sp. pl. 1.566. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n.2. Hort. Kew. 2.72. Willd. sp. pl. 2.617. Lamarck encyc. 1. 226. Du- hamel arb. ed. nov. 1. 76. t: 22. FI. grac. prod. 1. 274. Marsch. Bieb. taur. cauc. 1. 119. ‘ Andrachne frutescens, spica erecta, foliis ovatis integerrimis et serratis. Ehret in philosoph. transact. 57. 114 t. 6. - Adrachne Theophrasti. Clus. hist, 1, 48. ` i . Arbuscula sem irent, sul is. aulis feres assurgeni?r ramo- $us, cortice levi, coidermide bro aud. Folia ramos motellos sparsim ambientia, proxima, coriacea, petiolata, elliptica, 8-4 uncias longa, ses- guiunam ad ultra 2 usque lata, integerrima vi superne obtusb su modo retusa, supra glabra, pallentia infra cfflorescentiâ cartilagined glabratá albidá lineamentis reticulatis subtiliter. i riptá: petiolus ruber, 2-3-plo brevior. Racemi finientes ramos, numerosifiori, penicutato-composita nu- tantes, divaricati, viscoso-villosi ; racemuli ez foliis sensim in bracteas de- crescentibus, summus M v^ lori; pe incu ‘fon rdi laterales pua . alterni, reflezo-patentes, 90-30-flori ;. icelli unzflori, solitarii, sparsi, sub- secundo-inflesi, prosimi, Jiliformes, sensim decrescentes, suffülti bracteolá ovatd, acutá, concavá, rubidá, villosá. Cal. parvulus, vofatus, pubescens, . segmentis ovatis cum acuminulo. Cor. ovato-globosa, chloroleuca, magnitu- dine vir pisi minoris, extús nuda, intús tota mia pilosa, basi ampliata atque bullis 10 diaphanis extern? insignita; limbi lacini transversa. latiores revolute. Stam. duplo breviora: fil. alternantia scrobiculis 10 internis nece tariferis fundi, ventricoso-subulata, posa, incurvo-conniventia, immediata hypogyna, pediculo brevi aftenuato sub tumore; anth. subferruginea, oblongo- ovate, compresse, annezæ 2 summo dorso inter cornua, loculi sacciformes intùs rimá longitudinali obliquatá dehiscentes, utrique aristá continud pont dorsum reflexd ind2que incurvo-assurgente terminati. Germ. hirsutum, infra annulo glanduloso crasso .10-angulato castaneo-fusco intra filamenta posito cinctum; stylus corolla equalis, columellaris, teres, strictus, virens; stigma papilloso-capitatum, virens. (Bacca fragarioides, spherica.) Guided by his view of the original specimen, the Che- valier de Lamarck has separated the Arbutus folio non ser- VOL, IL. | H rato of Tournefort by the name of integrifolia, from the Ansurus Andrachne of Linnzus, of which it had previously been the undisputed synonym. The main distinctions he relies on are, that the leaf of integrifolia is rounded at the end with a short central point, that the bractes are longer than the flowers, which have exceedingly short edicles, and that the plant had been found only on Mount Ida, in Candia; circumstances that do not be- long to the plant before us, and which may really prove to be solid marks of its specific difference. But M. de Lamarck has, besides this, detached from Andrachne the sy- nonym adduced by Linnzus from Clusius's work, and trans- ferred it to integrifolia. In this he seems to err in the face, of his own showing, for none of the features peculiar to his plant are to be perceived either in the figure or description found in that work; both which, as far as they go, coincide with the Linnean species. Professor de Jussieu is per- suaded that he remembers formerly to have seen Tourne- fort’s plant in the Jardin du Roi at Paris, from whence, however, he says it has long since disappeared. Andrachne is native of most parts of the Levant. M. Marschall von Bieberstein, in the Flora taurico-caucasica, says that he found it growing on the sides of rocks about most of the maritime villages of the Crimea; where it -- varies with a somewhat villous subserrate foliage, and with one that is perfectly smooth and entire, and is called by the inbabitants Jaban-Dephne or Wild Bay-tree. ' A handsome evergreen shrub, growing sometimes near 8 feet high, with a stem 3 inches in diameter. The bark quite smooth, and in the winter of a fine red colour; in the spring the epidermis peels off: spontaneously. The berries; which do not ripen here; are said to be round, like those of 4. Unedo, or Common Strawberry-tree, and about the size of a Raspberry; the germen, however, is pubescent; which is not the case in Unedo. ' The branclies are irregular. It survives our common winters in tlie open air when the plant is become woody ; but should be raised under cover, where it must remain at least four or five years before it is planted in the open border; and then ought to be placed in a war! sheltered position, and dry soil. | MAN Cultivated by. Dr. Sherard in 1724. The drawing was made in April, at Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milnes, King's Road, Fulham. 0n a Calyx. 5 Corolla dissected vertically. c Pistil.. . > ee ^ 114 PLUMERIA “acuininata. White East-Indian Plumeria. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord; ArocvNkEm. Jussieu gen. 145. Div. I. Germeu duplex. Fructus bifollicalaris. Semìna mon yapposa. ; PLUMERIA. Cal: parvus obtusé 5-fidus. Cor. (contorta) in- fundibuliformis, tubo longo sensim ampliato, limbo obtusê 5-partito . patente (erecto in P. pudicá.) Anthere conniventes exserte. Stylus vix ullus; stigma bifidum. — Folliculi deorsüm flexi, longi, ventricosi ; semina margine membranaceo alata. Arbores aut arbuscule; folia alterna integra magna ; flores subcorymbosi terminales, plures abortivi. Jussieu gen. 145. i P. acuminata, foliis lanceolatis planis acuminatis. Dryander in Hori. Kew, ed. 2. 2. 70. Plumeria obtusa. [Loureiro cochinch. 117; (nec aliorum.) | Flos convolutus. Malaicè Bonga gulong tsjutsju. Rumph. amb. 4. 85. t. 38. d " Arbor mediocris ; rami rari, dispersa divaricati, elongati, crassi cum facie tumido-succulentá, lactescentes, .cinereo-virentes, fragiles, glabri, eicatrizats, a comá parcá pena foliorum terminati indéque florigeri. Folia obovato-lanceolata, longius in petiolum attenuata, 9-14-unciales latitudine sub- guadriunciali, costata nervis obliquis parüm dissitis apice flexis .& in lineam continuam nonnihil. cis marginem confluentibus. Flores laziìs qymosi, assury gentes, odoratissimi ; pedunculus terminalis, teres, robustus, nudus, supera? pluris divisus, virens, pedicelli 1-fori. Cal. esiguus, obtusis, herbaceus, Cor, candida, disco favescens, hypocrateriformis ; limbus contorto-rotabus paulominds unciis 3 tranversus, laciniis distantibus, sublineari-oblongis, obe tusis; tubus paritm brevior, intus ad stamina usque pilosus. Stam. tubo cir- cumposita prope fundum ; anth. sessiles, . Theonly species of the genus yet recorded from the East Indies, the rest being all from the West Indian islands and South American continent. We find it in no system- atic enumeration of vegetables, except the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis. In India it is a universal and Cone stant ornament of the garden; in China and Cochin- china likewise. In Batavia the chinese colonists use the flowers in confectionary; the females, as an ornamént in their hair. Pese A middle-sized tree, with a stem growing to about four feet high before it brancbes, measuring samples a fnot in a . do oft uc adal June l (340 diameter about the root; branches straggling, long, forked, naked, thick, brittÌe, lactescent, smooth, scarred, full of pith, with the swollen appearance peculiar to the genus, ash-green-coloured, terminating in a shortly tapered obtase point, surrounded by the foliage, from the centre of which the inflorescence is produced. Leaves deciduous, multi- farious, near, spreading, obovately lanceolate, acuminate, 10-14 inches long, 3-4 broad, petiolate, of a bright deep- green, tapered towards the petiole, many-ribbed, nerves from each side the rachis, opposite, bending forwards at the top where they inosculate and form a continuous line below the margin of the leaf, Flowers large, extremely fragrant, disposed in a loose many-flowered assurgent cyme, slow in evolving, and lasting in beauty for several months together: peduncle robust, round, fleshy, green. Calyr very small, obtuse. Corolla contorted, hypocrateriform, white with a yellow disk; /imb nearly 3 inches across; seg- ments rather longer than the tube, distant, oblong, blunt, undulated near the base; tube of the diameter of a small pen, hairy within down to the anthers, which are sessilê low its middle, near the bottom: pistil equal to the sta- . mens. We missed the opportunity of inspecting the co- rolla for description, after Mr. Edwards had made the drawing. There cannot be a more eligible ornament for a lofty hot- house. That, from which the figure was taken in July last, had been in Mr. Vere's collection at Kensington Gore, for more than 23 years, and was about 14 feet high, but had been occasionally shortened on approaching the glass at the top of the stove. The species was introduced by Sir. Joseph Banks about 1790. | Willdenow has adduced the figure of it in the Hortus Malabaricus, as the probable synonym of P. obtusa, a very distinct species from the West Indies. B It should be kept constantly in the tan-bed. We be: lieve it never blossoms here till of a considerable Propagated by cuttings. New branches are produced by the side of the inflorescence during the slow progress of its evolution, which gives the peduncle the appearance, of being central instead of terminal. ` — — a Calyx.- 5 Stamens, as seen in the vertically dissected tube of Corolla, c Pistil. EA FU | 170 yr | N$ A e, tecadlly v^ nel. (UD. 115 ERICA ardens. - Sealing-wax Heath. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Em (nuperids Exicex.) Justieu gen. 159. Div. I. Germen superum. ERICA, Supra vol. ì. fol. 6. Diz. V. Breviflore, Corolle longitudine quartam uncie partem su- perantes, nec semunciá longiores: Tubus calyce longior. Dryander in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 390. Subdiv. A. Corolla tubus subglobosus. Anthere cristate in omnibus preter odoratam. Id. loc. cit. ] ' E. ardens, bracteis duabus calyci proximis; tertia remota, Dryander lor. cit. ; Erica ardens. Andrewss heaths. vol. 2. Fruticulus dumosus humilis elastico-rigens. Folia terna, decussato-se- Jeria, confertiuscula, nec densa, seniora saturat? viridia divaricato-recw Juniora pruinato-o; imbricato-erecta, cuncta petiolata, crassa, rigi $ partem uncia longo, lanceolato-linearia, â supino planiwicula, pri od lata, glabra, marginata cartilagine tenuissimá subtilitór serrulatá, ord exinda veflezá introrsüm declivi discum argenteo-candicantem dorsi. circumsepiente : petiolus erectus, ligulatus, firmus, basi gibbosus, 9-&-plo brevior. Flores terminales ramulorum brevium lateralium ramos inferis ambientium, suMerno- cernua, urceolato-ovata,. brevi collo parim arctata, ore ampliasculo: aperta g limbus brevis, erectus, laciniis rotundatis, transversim. latioribus. Stam. in- clusa ; fil. ligulato-Jinearia, attenuata, complanata, alba, intra ventrem corolla repressa cum flezurá anfraciuosá; anth, ferruginea, cristata. Germ. oblato- rotundum, essum, virens, glabrum, 8-torosum, basi annulo giandulom viridi 8-punctato cinctum. Stylug basi bulbosus, teres, robustus, erectus, albi- dus, equans corollam : stigma nigricans, obiusum, obsolet? 4-fidum. A species now pretty common in the collections round London, where it blossoms towards the end of March. Its source, as.well as of the far greater part of its numerous ornamental congeners, ìs the Cape of Good Hope. Intro- duced by Mr. William Rolliston in 1800. A dwarf bushy elastic shrub. Leaves in threes, decus- sated, six-ranked, near, not close, older omes of a dark deep green colour, outstretched and recurved, younger ones imbricated, frosted; the whole petioled, hard, somewhat fleshy, about + of an inch long, lanceolately linear, nearly flat. above, with a thin finely serrulate rim, beyond which the border is reflectent and shelves inwards, so as to form a deep ledge round the sunk disk of the under surface, which is of a silvery white, petiole ligulate, short, pressed to the branch, protuberant at the foot. Flowers cernuous, ` generally in threes, from the ends of the short branchlets, which are produced sometimes loosely sometimes closely but irregularly at the sides of the principal branches con- siderably below the top, thus forming a kind of oblong panicle: peduncles one-flowered, more than once and a half Shorter t| the corolla, ‘filiform, firm, reflectent, red, . frosted: bractes nearly of the shape of the leaves, but smaller and coloured; two near the flower, one removed from it. Calyx about three times shorter than the corolla, coloured, leaflets ovate and like the bractes. Corolla of the colour of red sealing-wax, coated over with a shining diaphanous viscous substance ensnaring all the small in- sects that light upon it, rather more than a quarter of an inch long, urceolately ovate, slightly narrowed at the short neck, opened by a widish orifice; limb upright, very short, . Segments rounded and broader than deep. Stamens de- pressed to below the orifice : filaments ligulately linear, flat, tapered, bent with deep doubles, the lower of which slants outwards; anthers crested, reddish brown. Germen round, depressed, green, smooth, 8-knobbed, with a glandular ting below the base; style columnar, bulbous at the foot, equal to corolla; stigma obtuse, obscurely quadrifid, nearly ac Requires, like the rest of the genus from the same ‘regions, the protection of the greenhouse; and to be 'planted in peat-mould from the surface of sandy heaths. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Col- ville, in the King's Road, Chelsea. wCalyx. b The stamens. cA detached staman; magnified. d Pisik - “MO l, i Feb by $ Ridgway. 170 Fecadilly une. 1816. A (e i Zyd- du a y del A Saul. gs: 116 CHELONE barbata. Scarlet Chelone: DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA... Nat. ord. BieNowim. Jussieu. gen. 137. Div. I. Fructus capsularis bivalvis, Caulis herbaceuss . CHELONE. Cal. 5-parütus.S-bracteatus, Cor, basi . fauce inflata, limbo bilahiata, superiüs emarginata, inferiìs 3-fida, :, Fila». mentum. quintum sterile, ceteris brevius.. Stylus 1. Stig, 1. Caps (supera) ovata, 2-loc. 2-valv. polysperma, valvis medio sepiiferis, re- ceptaculo centrali valvularum septis applicito ; semina numerosa margine membranacea. Herba basi Hgnosa, oppositifolia, flores denad- sncati: terminales. : Character ex. C. glabra.” Jussiew gen. 137: c. barbata, labio inferiore corolla. barbato, fauce . hiente,. foliis integer». rimis; radicalibus: petiolatis, spastiulate-lanceolatis, canlinis sessilibus. lanccolatio, floribus. pendujis paniculatis.. Manch. suppl. meth. pl. 167. Chelone barbata. Cavan. ic. 3. 99. t. 249. Willd. sp. pl. '$. 226, Hort. Kem. ed. 9:4. F. > Chelone fôrmoga. Mendl. bot. beobacht. 51.: Thompson's bot. displ. 4. C. Ruellivides. | Andrews's seposit:34.. Herba perennis, lactescens ; radix fbrosa, rhisomate, ferme. LEM sea pares, terete, erecti, glabri, glaucesemntes ac jti 3 '5. Sim olia opposite, patentia, caulina. distantia, , uk evadqni fma mn a ica, ned dit Sere longa latitudine Panicula caulis continua, longa, . erecta, opposite Mn, Pinus ""ricbfalidoéa ; fores cerned, Bn Cli solia tariis, erectiusculis, axillaribus dichotomo-bifloris, ferie d i» ¡Diacsacia sub singulo pedicello, imis, corollâ longioribus. Cal. baceus, connivens; acubus, “persistens, Cor. miniaìo-felgeiy ae padalino eolgnis, sulsesquiuncialis, i suprà ventricosiorig limbus. semitringena,. brevis, : labio: was periore perrecto, obtuso; inferiore di , inis flavo-barbato. Fil. glaa, imo tubo accreta, summa duo basi ulboso-incraisata ; anth. didyma, lobis verticali-divaricatis. Germ. pyramidatum ; stylus filiformis; stigma ob- fusum, A perennial herbaceous species, tolerably hardy and very ornamental. Native of Mexico. Introduced i in 1794 by Sir Joseph Banks, and now become very general in our -gardens, lt may be said to be suffrutescent, as thê caudex; or upper continuation of the rootstock, never dies com- pictely à down to the ground. The whole plant, except the loom, is smooth, glaucous, and lactescent; leaves op- posite, decrescent, lowermost from six to eight inches, or more, in length, scarcely ever one in breadth, spatulately lanceolate, petioled, near; wppermost distant, linearly lan- ceolate, sessile. Panicle terminal, upright, tall, slightly pyramidal, opposite-flowered, distant, subfoliaceous till the leaves gradually diminish to bractes; peduncles axillary, so- litary, upright, slightly divergent, dichotomously two- flowered, with a small brecte under each short pedicle, de- crescent, lowermost longer than the flower, which seldom exceeds an inch and a half. Calyx small, green, 5-parted, campanulate, acute, bracteless. Corolla of a red between vermilion and salmon-colour, deeper and shining along the upper side, elongatedly tubular; faux dilated, somewhat flat- tened at the upper side, three times longer than its diame- ter or more; limb sémiringent, short, upper lip straight, obtuse, notched, lower tripartite, deflected, bearded, hairs yellow. ‘Filaments cemented to the lowermost part of the tube, two uppermost having bulbously enlarged pediments; the fifth antherless and smooth, placed between the up- permost pair. In Pensremon the barren stamen has a shaggy pubescence extended along the upper side, something in the way of a mane, which constitutes a principal mark of distinction between that genus and the present, which were formerly considered as one. Requires to be kept in a warm dry sheltered situation, : where it will flower throughout the greater portion of the summer and autumn. Propagated by parting the root, and - by cuttings, or slips. The drawing was made from a plant Mr. N. S. Hodson had the kindness to send to Mr. Edwards, from his col- lection at South Lambeth. a Calyx. 4 Corolla dissected vertically. c Pistil. / 71 117 OXALIS flava. Narrow finger-leaved Cape Wood-sorrel. DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Nat. Ord. Gerania; Jussieu gen. 269. Div. Genera Geraniis affinia. , „OXALIS. Cal. 5-partitus, persistens, Pet. 5, hypogyna, latere levitêr connexa. Stam. hypogyna, filamentis basi coalitis, alternis bre- vioribus; anth. subrotunde, Germ. simplex. (Styli filiformes. Stig- mata obtusa.) Caps. brevis aut oblonga, 5-gona 5-loc. loculis mono- aut poly- spermis, 5-valv. valvis introflexis & receptaculo centrali affixis, sin- gulis loculum constituentibus & extús elasticé bipartitis; semina com- pressa transversim multistriata arillata, receptaculo annexa. Herba quadam radice tuberosá, caulescentes aut scapose ; tia confertim al- terna, ternata aut rarids abrupte pinnata, petiolo basi dilatato (stipu- laceo?), juniora Filicum more in spiram involuta; pedunculi in scupis terminales, in caulibus axillares aut et terminales, nunc 1:flori medio bisquamulosi, nunc umbellatim multiflori umbellá subinvolucratá. See minis minimi embryo videtur rectum absque albumine. Genus à GERA- NIIS distinctum stylis pluribus, capsule formå et dehiscendi modo, em- bryone recto, albuminis defectú: an TRIBULO aut ZYGOPHYLLO «ffi nius? Jussieu gen. 270. O. flaca, acaulis, scapo 1-floro foliorum longitudine, foliis digitatis linearibus canaliculatis acutis, stylis staminibus exterioribus breviori- bus. Willd. sp. pl. 9. 804. : Oxalis flava, Linn. sp. pl. 1.621. Thunb. diss. de Oxal. n. 24. 23, Prod. 83. Jacq. Ozal. 20. n. 93. 116. 0.73. Hort. Kew. 2. 115. ed. 2.8. 131. | 2. O. bulbosa angustis digitatis foliis, flore solitario luteo. | Burm. afr. 68. t. 27. f. 4. pui ovatus, tunicá fuscá subnucamentaceá, nucleo amygdalino-carnoso. Caudex squamosus, plîs minds exsertus . Folia confertim. terminalia, plis minds 5, digitata, glabra. Petioli basi articulati, crassi, compressuli, firmi, 1-2-unciales. Foliolá 5-9, sessilia, ligulato-linearia, subattenuata ‘deorsim, ez complicatis canaliculatim vel plan? explicanda, obtusa cum minuto acumi- stulo, integerrima, subtilissim punctata subtús pallidiora, 2 lineas plas minüs lata, 1-2 uncias longa. Pedunculi plures, 1;ffori, basi articulati, subsemi- teretes, glabri, staturá fere gorm superne bracteolis 2 subalternis. Calycis foliola lanceolata (obtusa), erecta, apicibus patula, Cor. triplo v. magis longior, flava; lamina laciniarum, rotundate, ample, integre, latere exteriore dorsi rubentes. Fil. basi coalita, interiora denticulata, «qualia, pilis capitalis brevissimis raritêr aspersa cum denticulis glabris ; exteriora. pilis capitatis hirsuta. Anth. oblonga, incumbentes, flava. Germ, ovato-oblongum, S-sulcatum, glabrum, pallens. Styli brevissimi, subtds capitate hirsutuli, taterum glabri. Descriptio â diffusiore Jaguini desumpta. VOL. TI. 1 'The place of this genus in a natural system does not seem to be finally determined. By Professor de Jussieu it has been provisionally enrolled in his order of Gerania or Geranium-tribe. Some species of it are to be found in each of the four guarters of the globe; but of rather more than a hundred that are already recorded, about ninety are natives of the Cape of Good Hope. "The present is from thence, and was introduced by Mr. F. Masson in 1775. Bulb about the size of a filbert, ovate, consisting of a crustaceously membranous covering, and a white kernel of the consistence of an almond. Stem more or less elevated above the ground, scaly. Leaves 5 or more, terminal, di- gitate, smooth; pefioles 1-2 inches long, thick, compressed; leaflets 5-9, linear-ligulate, each at first folded separately; then expanded, obtuse with a small point, niinutely dotted, paler at the under side, 1-2 inches long, about two lines road. Peduncles several, nearly of the stature of the petioles, jointed at the base, one-flowered, having two smal ractes placed alternately near its top. Corolla deep yellow. Filaments connected at the base, inner ones denticulate, sprinkled with short capitate hairs, from which the small teeth are free: outer ones thickly covered by the same kind of pubescence as the inner. Styles very short, pubescent underneath, smooth above. When the leaflets are closed the foliage has a very distinct appearance from that which it has when these unfold. ' _A greenhouse plant, cultivated în small pots filled with | a mixture of peat-mould and hazel loam. The drawing’ was taken this spring at Mr. Creswell’s conservatory iB Battersea Square. „, © Calyx. B Stamens and styles, when removed from the corolla. d The Quai. c A long and a short stamen. í Lr Smith Fo h $e é we yc a« (O ^ g fr. fh. le 7» y J Sarlgu “try 1) o Preta Lf ^ : $ Y fu (tx | IW/O 118 BRACHYSEMA latifolium. ` Broad-leaved Brachysema. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. Ord. LEGvMINOS)B, Jussieu gen. 345. Dip. IV. Cor. irregularis papilionacea, Stam. distincte, aut rarb basi coalita. Legumen uniloculare bivalve. Arbores aut frutices ; Jolig simplicia aut ternata aut impari-pinnata. Íd.l. c. 351. BRACHYSEMA. Cal. 5-fidus, parùm inequalis, tubo ventricoso. Cor. papilionacea, vexillum brevius carind compress’ alas eguantd. Germen pedicello basi vaginulá cincto. Stylus 6liformis, elongatus. Le- gunìen polyspermum, ventricosum. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 3. 10. B. latifolium, foliis ovatis planis, vexillo oblongo obovato. Brown ip Hort. Kew.'ed, 9. 3. 10. i Frutex procumbens, cano-pubescens, ramosus, Folia coriacea, ovata v., cordata, muéronala, venulosa, suprà glatico-virentia, ‘infra pube bredi apprers8 albicastiay: rachide subtus inente et margine rubentia, brevissime iolata : stipule 2, subulata. Inflor. axillaris, foliis brevior; pedunculi -8;flori, viz calyçi ezquales, curpati ; pedicelli etiam his breviores, aggregati, bracteolá minutd ad pro Cal. cano-fuscescens, oblongo-campanulatus, sub- semuncialis, bilabiato-partitús, «equalis, labio” summo porrecto; divarical2 emarginato, infimo depressiore, trifida, segmentis subulatotancevlatis. Cot. clongato-papilionacea alis adductis, punicea, unciam cum und tertid porig glterius circitêr longa ; vexillum reliquis petalis inter se isometris duplo brevius, ipothalatum, Jenind refezá oval-oblongdy dico striate favicmte “ale trand- versiin opposite,” ke secundùm marginem caring, lineari-oblongas, subfal- cate, acumine obliguo brevi: carina detecta, porrecta, retusa, petalis alarum subsimilibus at ferà duplo latioribus, infernê nigricantibus et solutis dein confer- fuminatié; Stan: equentía corollam; exsurgeatia è caria y fil. rubicunda anth, incumbentes, flava. Germ. ollongiusculum, sericeo-hircutum, insideng brevi pedicello è centro circuli carmosi crassi promïnuli sublOtorulosi: ori- undi fundo calycis intra filamenta; stylus “aliformis, ruber, supra aduncus j stigma obtusum. A rare greenhouse plant, native of the south-west coast of New Holland. Firct found by Mr. Brown, by whom the genus in which it ranks was instituted in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis. The inflorescence reminds us of that of KENNEDIA rubicunda, long known in our collections ; but our plant stands in another class and order of the Lin- nean system, owing to the filaments being separate, and not connected, as in the great majority of its natural co-or- dinates with a papilionaceous bloom and leguminous fruit, 12 Tt is a small trailing pubescent branching shrub. Leaves - ovate or cordate, coriaceous, firm, veined, mucronate, of a glaucous green above, white below, from being covered by a minute silky pubescence, midrib prominent beneath, red as is the margin of the leaf: stipules subulate: petiole short. Inflorescence axillary, shorter than the foliage; peduncles 1-3-flowered, about the length of the calyx, curved, pedicles still shorter, aggregate, with a small bracte at the ase. Calyx oblong-campanulate, scarcely half an inch “long, bilabiately divided, upper lip broadly emarginate, lower trifid with lanceolate divisions. Corolla elongatedly papilionaceous with the wings drawn in, crimson, about an inch and one third of one in length; verillum or standard twice shorter than the rest of. the petals which are all of one length, spatulate, blade oval-oblong reflected' with a streaked yellow disk; wings opposed to each other broad- ways, converging along the sides of the keel, which is opên above and appears as of a piece with these, linear- oblong, subfalcate, with a short slanting point; keel or boat straight, retuse, of two petals similar to those of the wings, but nearly twice as broad, separated below, cemented to each by the inner edges above. Stamens equal to the corolla, rising at the summit from out the keel. Germen somewhat oblong, covered with a shaggy soft pubescence; supported by a very short thick pedicle, placed in the centre of a low obtuse fleshy circular excrescence,, situated within the filaments at the bottom of the calyx. Style filiform, red, crooked at the top; stigma obtuse. ' The drawing was made from a specimen which flowered in the eonservatory of Mr. Creswell, in Battersea Sguare; in April last. U i : n Vinh M Syd. Edwards. del PEE. 5 Pab ty Es Hit guay 1/0 SrccatiNy iia ne / 1810 119 WEBERA corymbosa, Perfumed Webera. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. Ord. Rustacex. Jussieu gen. 196. Div. IV. Fructus monocarpus bilocularis polyspermus. Folia opposita ; caulis sape frutescens. WEBERA. al. l-phyllus, semi5fidus, erectus, acutus, per- sistens. Cor. l-petala, infundibuliformis.. Tubus calyce longior. | Limbus 5-fidus: lac. ovato-oblongis, recurvis, inferné medio villosis, Fil. brevissima, tubo imposita; anth. lineares patentes, Germ. inferum. subrotundum (polyspermum.) Stylus elevatus, teres, striatus, desinens ìn stigma clavatum, obtusum, angulato-alatum alis 10 membranaceis, angustis.. Annulus carnosus styli basin ambiens. Bacca subglobosa, calyce coronata. Sem. (abortu) solitaria, orbiculata, hinc plamuscula, indé convexa, centro lateris sui plani medio dissepimenti baccæ adfixa. Schreb. gen. 2. 794. n. 1733. W. corymbosa, inermis, foliis oblongis acutis, corymbo terminali. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1994. Webera corymbosa. Hort. Kem. ed. 2. 1. 371. Canthium corymbosum. Persoon syn. 1. 200. Rondeletia asiatica. Linn. sp. pl. 1. 244. R. foliis petiolatis. Flor. zeyl. 80. Mill. dict. ed. 7. n. 2. Cupi. Rheede mal. 2. 37. (. 23. tex erectus, tandèm suborgyalis ; rami oppositi, teretes. Folia decus- ita distantia, coriacea, petiolata, elongato-lanceolata, acuminata, 6-8-uncialia latitudine biunciali majoreve, nervoso-costata, venosa, supra gia- bra, saturat? viridia, subtús pallentia, subvillosa ad nervos, ne Reza, summa novella subtis tota quanta gummoso-unctuosa: petioli. multotiès breviores ; stipulæ interpetiolares, vaginantes, cuspidatee. Panicula corym- bosa, azillaris et terminalis, pedunculis cymoso-plurifloris, y erectis, villosiusculis et resinoso-unctuosis, pedicellis brevibus teretibus bracteolâ acutá ad basin cum alterá superiore at remoiá â flore, Germ. inferum, subrotundum, coronatum intra calycem disco isoperimetro glanduloso crasso suprà depresso + cal. ejusdém continuus, 4-5-1-8-partitus, campanulatus segmentis. acutis, tubo brevioribus, alternis s duplo v. magis minoribus, Corgha alba, denuo flavescens, semuncid brevior, hypocraierifarmio exis glabra ; tubus ampliusculus, fauce clausus fimbrid hirsutá; limbus $ parte ferma longior, 5-partitus, rotato-rcflezus, ciliolatus, laciniis ovalibus. obtusis twm acuminulo, qualibus, disco barbatis. Stam. parüm breviora limbo, alterna cum laciniis, tandem reflexa : fil. brevissima, ad fimbriam faucialem inserta : anth. nluri2s longiores, lutea, sagittato-lineares, introrsim. dehiscentes, memo branoso-mucronatee. Stylus teres, brevis continuus cum stigmate clavato, corolla eguali, molendinato aut alis 10 angustis per paria proximioribus angu- lato, notato utrinque suturá depressâ verticali indicante naturam sudm bilobam. Corolla nondum expanse accumbunt antherar stigmati, exciptturque harum sin- gula intra sulcum per singulum alarum par formatum. A species not mentioned in the first edition of the Hortus Kewensis, but registered in Millers Dictionary which preceded that work, as one cultivated at the Chelsea Garden. Nothing, however, is there said of it but what has been borrowed from the Hortus Malabaricus; and we own we generally suspect the accuracy of Miller, who inspires little confidence as a critic, when we find him recording plants as cultivated by himself, which are not repeated in the nearly cotemporary edition of the Hortus Kewensis. - -A rare and handsome evergreen shrab, belonging to th Cinchonacee, à division of the Rubiacea, lately detaches from the latter, and formed into a separate order, as sug- gested by Professor de Jussieu. Sem from 7 to 8 feet Feb, upright; oppositely branched. Leaves coriaceous, zemotely- decussated, divaricate, 6 or 7 inches long, of à bright lively green, elongatedly lanceolate, subobovate, mo- derately petioled, ribbed, somewhat reflected at the edge, downy on the nerves at the under side; where while ‘the .Ìeaf is young, the surface is spread over with a resinous or gummy. varnish gradually extending itself with the growth of the leaf until it becomes scarcely perceptible; stipules 2, interpetiolar, sheathing, cuspidate. Blossom white, fading to yellow, small, exquisitely fragrant, axillary and terminal, corymbose, peduncles several-flowered, cy- mose, viscous, subvillous, lower opposite and axillary, Calyx shallowly campanulate, 4-5-8-parted with the alter- nate segments often twice the smallest, villous, continuous with the round green germen, which is capped by a thick discoid glandular process holding the style on an upper depressed plane. Corolla less than half an inch in depth, hypocrateriform ; tube shorter than the limb, closed. just below -the orifice by a narrow pubescent circle;. limb reflectent, six-parted, not contorted, ciliate, smooth ôn the outside, bearded at the disk within, segments ovates oblong. . Stamens equal to the limb, reflectent; filaments . several times shorter than the anthers, inserted at the mouth of the tube; anthers yellow, sagittately linear, mucronate, bursting inwards vertically. Style upright, short, round, forming with. the stigma a continuous clavate shaft equal to-the limb; stigma decagonally fluted with shallow mem: branous ridges and alternately wider grooves, pseudo: bilobed, â broad. sunk seam. marking 1ts division into deêp segments. whieh donos come asunder, Previous to the expansion of the flower, each alternate broader groove of the stigma will be found to enclose one of the anthers between its edges. Native of the East Indies, common in most parts of the coast of Coromandel, and said to be fond of sandy spots. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith, where it was accounted a stove- plant. It had been raised there from imported seed, a Calyx. 5 Corolla dissected vertically. c Pistil Syl. Anota. del , fraith at Fak hy P d MP uM geny ne KecadMy Pily d I. ‘ 120 AZALEA nudiflora. y. Pale red Honeysuckle- Azalea. 8» PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Ruovovennra. Jussieu gen. 158. Div. I. Corolla monopetala. . AZALEA. Cal. 5-partitus, persistens. Cor. imo celyci inserta, infundibuliformis aut campanulata, 5-fida, inequalis. Stam. sub pistillo inserta. Germ. superum; stylus unicus; stigma simplex capitatum. Caps. 5-loc., 5-valv., valvis utroque margine introflexo singuli» loculum constituentibus polyspermum, et axi centrali. annexis; sem. minuta, Frutices. Flores axillares aut terminales, subsolitarii aut racemosi, irecteolati Folia A. procumbentis opposita, margine revoluta. Jussieu oc. cit. A. nudiflora, subnudiflora ; foliis lanceolato-oblongis utrinque glabrius- . culis, concoloribus, nervo suprà lanuginoso, subtüs setigero, margine ciliatis, floribus amplis non viscosis, tubo laciniis lougioie, calycis dentibus brevibus ovali-subrotundis, staminibus longissimé exsertis. Pursh loc. infrà cit. sub periclymenoidi. : ; ‘Azalea nudiflora. Linn. sp. pl. 1. 214. Mill. dict. 8. n. Duham. arb. 1.85.t.3. Hort. Kew. 1. 202. ed. 2. 1.319, Willd. sp. pl. 1. ., 831. Persoon syn. V, 212. . . Azalea periclymenoides. Mich. bor-amer. 1.151. Pursh amer. sept. 1. . 152. A. periclymena. Persoon syn. 1.213. —— — — | ` Cistus virginiana, periclymeni flore ampliori minds odorato. Pluk. maul. 49. (a) coccinea. Curtis's magaz. 180. Hort. Kew. l.c. (8) rutilans. Hort. Kew. &.c. ' (y) carnes. Supra. Hort. Kew. l.c. (3) alba. Hort. Kew. l. c. X» papilionacea.. Hort. Kew. 1. c. (2) partita... Hort. Kew. l. c. . . (a) pol: ; floribus 10-20-andris. Pursh loc. cit. ‘Ons. Far. +. (bicolor) Horti Kewensis in speciem separatur d Pursh E nomine bicoloris. lô, di or MM strict rutex bi-tripedalis 7 is v. ultra, divergentér ramosus, ramis annotinis strictis teretibus aphyllis glabris, cortice rubro-fuscercente, novellis pilosis. Folia de- 'cidua, ramorum novellorum ambientêr terminalia, patentia, biuncialia v. ultrà. dnfbynd intensiús roseo-rubens, micans; tubus subcompressus, 5-gono-rotunda- tus; limbus parim brevior, bilabiato-rotatus, laciniis oblongis acuminatis un- dulatis, summis 3 imbricato-conniventibus, extimá media latiori ellipticá, infimis 2 divaricatis, Stam. corolla $ parte longiora, declinato-atsurgentia, infra VOL. II. K. . medium pilosa: anth. oblongee, breves, verticales, medio dorso affizet, intros verse, Serruginee, apice Eforeninat. Germ. virens, hirsutum; stylus @quans stamina, nisi propê basin glaberrimus ; stig. virens, capitatum, trans» versim compressum, papillosum. ` ` vt > We have enumerated a part of the many varieties of this beautiful shrub already known in our gardens. Ac- cording to Mr. Pursh the species is found in North America, from Canada to Georgia, and sometimes with double flowers. In the neighbourhood of Philadelphia jt is known to vary with from 10 to 20 stamens; a proof, Mr. Pursh observes, of its being of the same natural, genus as RHODODENDRON, which is on the other hand freguently found with fewer than ten stamens, its general quota. But all AzALEAS are said to have occasionally more than their standard number of five stamens. A hardy plant, rarely much above three feet high, de- cidaous; branches subverticillate, lowermost but little above the root, spindled, straight, smooth, naked, hazel- brown, those of the same year hairy. Leaves appearing rather later than the inflorescence, surrounding the young green branches, of the same colour on both sides, two inches . or more long, nearly smooth, ciliate; rib downy above, ` with soft bristles beneath. Umbel terminal, many-flow- ered, partly preceding the foliage; pedicles twice shorter than the flowers or shorter, hairy, parted by small narrow bractes. Cal. small, herbaceous hirsute and fringed, bila- biate, upper lip with recurved divaricate divisions, lower with minute ones. Corolla not viscid, but pubeseent out- ` wards, rather more than an inch deep, funnelformedly rin- gent, geniculately bent, upwards flesh-coloured or pink, downwards of a deep rose-colour, glittering ; tube slightly compressed; limb rather shorter, segments acumjpate, un- dulate, 3 upper converging imbrieately, outer middle one broadest, two lowermost divaricate. Stamens protruded a third farther, assurgent, pubescent below their middle: anthers with a doubly perforated point. Germen hirsute? style equal to stamens: stigma green, capitate, transversely compressed, roughened. N ropagated by layers and imported seed. Thrives best in bog-earth. The drawing was made in April, from 4 plant in the collection of Colonel Ansley, at Ottachoust, * "North End, Hammersmith. . o —— a Calyx. bStamens. c Pistil. ( — /2/ 4 ' a Y V T / (Cv ted t tb, Jd Č 3 ; Es Jub, Y Teu may JO. Lecadilly Loly 110. 121 CYTISUS proliferus, . Silky Cytisus. o DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. Leauminosm. Jussieu gen. 359. Div. Y. Corolla irregularis papilionacea. ` Legumen 1-loc., 2-valv, Frutices aut herbe; Solía simplicia aut ternata aut rarids digitata stipule nunc subnulla, nunc conspicue imo petiolo adnate aut ab oder istincte. CYTISUS. Cal. subbilabiatus suprà bidentatus & infrà tridentatus, Hunc brevis campanulatus, nunc longior cylindricus. Corolle vexillum reflexum; ale et carina simplex comniventes supra stamina. Stig. sipar plex. Legum. oblongum compressum polyspermum. — Frutices aw Suffrutices inermes, rarids arbuscula ; olia ternata; stipule subnullg aut minime ; flores terminales aut axillares, solitarii aut rarids spicati, plerdmque lutei. Td. loc. cit. 354. c. proliferus, floribus umbellatis latéralibus, caulibus erectis, foliis ele iipticis erectis subtis sericeis, calycibus lanatis. Hort. Kew. 3. 51. Cytisus proliferus. Linn. suppl. 388. Venten. cels. 13. Willd. sp. pl. 3.1196. Hort. Kew: ed. 2. 4. 322. - Lamarck encyc. 2. 248. Scobon. Tenerjff. . . Frutex vimineus, elatior, sempervirens, pubéstens. Rami longi teretet, hirsutits villosi, cinescentes, paténtes, flesiles, foltati, racemoso-ramulosi, Tn mulis. numerosis, axillaribus, solitariis, brevibus, umbelliferis. Folia nume- rosa, aparsa, petiolata, ternata ; foliola Janceolato-ovalia, mucronata, aj pa villosa, subiŵs .sericeo-albicantia, petiolo duplo magisve iora.. Umbella 4-8-flora è gemmá communi solitariá, terminali, pedicellis 1-floris, verticillatits fons, i partes uncie longis, fliformibus,. willosis, bracteolem linearem imo bio calycis aüpressum gerentibus. ` Peracta florescentia brevis ramulus excres» eere pergit 2 centro pedicellorum in longum ramum, ita ut fructus maturug evadat infernus in co. Flores ‘nulantes, pedicellis equales, inodori. Cal. lanatus, cylindricus, labiis equilongís, summo bidentato-exeiso, imo integerrimo Janceolato-navioulari, Cor. major, alba, vergens dein in ochroleucam, extern lawuginosa ; vexillum ovato-rotundum, emarginatum, refleciens, lateribus Poné dorsum conniventibus; ale huic isomeira, duplo angustiores, supra carinam convergentes à latere suo interiore, margine corrugate ; catina par. brevior, compressa, obtustla, petalis supern? toharentibus, Stam. monadel- pha, equalia ; anth, aurantiace. Germ. lineare, :compressum, sericeo-hirsue um stylo filiformi parüm brevis; stigma punctum viz tumidum, pubtru- Mo This fine evergreen shrub is native of the Canary Islands, from whence it was introduced by Mr. Masson in 1779. In the Island ef Teneriffe, where it is found on the mountains, tt is küown by the tame of Seobon. With us it requires to K2 be kept in the greenhouse, and.will grow to a consider- able height, producing a stem an inch in diameter. We have seen the long branches bending with a profusion of flowerbearing branchlets (from which it derives its specific title) scattered on all sides of them for the length of more than two feet. _. The whole plant is pubescent, and has a soft silvery ap- pearance when in full bloom. Branches round, long, flexile, leafy, racemosely branchletted, branchlets numerous, axil- lary, umbelliferous, solitary, short. Leaves numerous, scattered, petioled, ternate; leaflets lanceolately oval, mu- cronate, silky, thinly so and green above, beneath thickly sô and' white, twice the length or more of the petiole; Umbels 4-8-flowered issuing from a bud at the end of the branchlets; pedicles verticillate, one-flowered, about three fourths of an inch long, filiform, flexile, hairy, with a linear bracteole pressed against the lower lip of the calyx. As the flowers fade the branchlet begins to extend itself rapidly from the centre of the umbel, so that.by the time the fruit is ripe, that has the appearance of. belonging to a blossom which had been produced at the bottom instead of the summit of the branchlet. Flowers inclining forwards, about the length of their pedicles, scentless. Calyx woolly, cylindrical, dps equal, upper one notched, lower entire na- vicular. Corolla largish, white, tending to cream-colour, downy on the outside; vexillum or standard ovately round, notched, reflectent, with sides that meet together behind its back; ale or wings as long as the vexillum, but twice as narrow, converging over the carina, wrinkled at the edge; carina or boat but little shorter, compressed, obtuse, with the two petals cemented together upwards. Stamens mona-, delphous, grown together into a membranous tube ; not dia- delphous and consisting of two sets, the one nine-stamened, the other single, as is more usual in the genus. Anthers of an orange-yellow. Germen linear, compressed with à long silky pubescence; style filiform; stigma a scarcely enlarged point. - Drawn in April, at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, King’s Road, Fulham. a Calyx. ô One of the two ali or wi d The carina or boat. e The ten = tubulariy monadelphous stamens, “Te pistil or germen, style, and AA WW Y S UN WI PN p Saut , : 3795 Syl C finora dot IS, hy © e Ibn 1/0 Licadly It, É AVAL 192 ARCTOTIS acaulis. Dwarf Arctotis. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA NECESSARIA. Nat. ord. CoRYMBFERIR. Jussieu gen. 177. : iv. VII. Receptaculum palesceum. Semen pappoeunr, peppo plumoso aut piloso aut aristato (v. paleaceo). Flores ebpiler radiati. : ARCTOTIS. Supra vol. 1. fol. 39. A. acaulis, pedunculis radicalibus foliis lyratis, Linn. sp. pl. 2. 1906. : Arctotis acaulis, Hort. Kew. 3. 274. ed. 9. 5. 169. ehret. 53. f. $58). Willd. sp. pl. 3. 2348; (excluso Jacq. hort. schanb. 2. 16. t. 158). i ` Anemonospermos Africana foliis plantaginis flore sulphureo. Comm. rar, 35. t. 35. ` (8) foliis longè lyratis acutè dentatis. Arctotis speciosa. Jacq. hort. Schanb. 2. 18. t. 161. Willd. sp. pl. 3. ` 2350; (exclusa A. grandiflora. Hort. Kew.). : M A. acaulis. Mill. dict. 8. n. 6; (ex specimine archetypo in Herb. Banks. ). Radix rhizoma descendens perenne. Folia plurinia, radicalia, ambientia, erecto-recumbentia, lyrata, 4-6-uncialia, crassiuscula, remotins mucronato- wel subspinuloso- denticulata, supra densê et ins villosa virentiague, infra to» mentoso-candicantia et varicoso-nervosa, lobis lateralibus oblongis je p terminali magno ovato dn Mn o unculi res, radicales, es [E Sore lores, uniffori, teretes, Fobusti, striati, fistulosi, Wille ia. atn ih interpersis hit modo bracteà lineari, rard et folio in axilid gerente pedu: m alterum, stipati. Flores plus quàm duas uncias transversi, radio infüs lutescentes cum basi atro- purpureá, extús punicantes, disco nigricantes, revoluto-emarcescentes. Calycis squama exteriores arachnoideo-lanata, fuscescentes, subulato-appendiculate, Partim refleza: partim. appresse, interiores erecta, glabra, lamin’ obovatd scariosá margine sphacelato-punicante. Catera fermé ac in ARCTOTIDE au- ma NN superioris 82, sed pappum habet paleaceum in simplici serie, nec du» ici ac in ed. ` A dwarf perennial species from the Cape of Good Hope; cultivated in our collections before 1759. The bloom is produced in succession from April to June, or longer; and Tequires a warm sunshiny situation to expand in perfection. Leaves several, sometimes many, radical, ambient, inner upright, outer recumbent, 4-6 inches long, lyrate, thick- ened, surrounded by loosely set small mucronate teeth, green above and thickly covered by a rough longish pile, which feels like plush, beneath tomentose white and vari- cosely nerved; lateral lobes oblong, somewhat ascendent, not uniform; terminal one large, ovate, doubly and some- times sinuately indented. Peduncles several, sometimes many, radical, equal to or nearly twice the length of the foliage, one-flowered, round, thick, striate, piped, roughened by a close partly purple-coloured longish pile, sometimes with a linear bracte at some distauce below the flower, now and then with a leaf near the base, from the angle of which another peduncle is produced. Flower exceeding two inches in diameter; ray yellow within, puce-coloured red without, rolling outwards as it decays, disk nearly black. Outer scales of the calyx araneously pubescent, terminated by a longish matrow subulate shaft, part of them reflectent, part pressed to the inner. In respect to the other parts of the flower; they resemble nearly those of Arctotis aureola, of the 32d article of this work, except that the paleaceon6 pappus of the seed is of one, mot of two ranks, as in that. : A hardy greenhouse plant, Propagated by dividing the root, ^. . The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy at Hammersmith. ' , a A floret of the ray. 5 A sterile floret of the disk. c A vertical seos tion of calyx and receptacle. ] — —À 193 “ NARCISSUS montanus. o “ , m White Mountain Daffodil: - y HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Narciss. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germen inferum. . . AMARYLLIDEE. Brown. prod. 296. Ut Sect. f. Radix bulbosa. Flores spathacei, umbellati, rar soli- tarii. : ` NARCISSUS. Infor. pedunculata, uni-multiflora, umbellata, terminatrix scapi; spatha inæqualissimè bivalvis valvâ exteriore fol- liculari. Cal. 0. Cor. regularis, infrâ tubulosa, suprà sexfida rotatos v. radiato- explanata, carond campanulatá parietis interes tubi continu. Stam. tubo diversimodê adnata, alterna longiora v. sequalia, inclusa co- roná, erecta, rarida inclinata. Stylus 1, coronam seguans v. exsertns; stigma 1 subtrilobo-obtusum & hians, v. 3 brevia. Caps. 3-loc., 3-valv., polysperma, valvis medio septigerís : sem. biseriata, plura, globosa modd variê pressa, ` , _ Bulbus tunicatús, involutus indusiis membranaceis, Folia 1-9-plura, bifaria, carnosa, lorata atque planiusula, v. canaliculato-semiteretia, modóve teretia et juncea. Scapus centralis, Flores vari? albicantes aut | Jiacicantes raró. virentes, Valoa interna spathe inclusa angustissima, modoque vir conspicua. Differt PANCRATIO coronâ non cqnnectenig samina extra tubum. . “ N. montanus, subuniflorus; germine exsuperante apatham ; “corolla cernua dein nutante, limbo subrecurvo duplo excedente coronam cys- thiformem ; staminibus sequalibus foliis planis, . * SUUM! Queltia poculigera. Salisb. in tram. hort. toc. 1.350... gg.» Narcissus totus albus maximus, calyce mediocri serotions, . Barrel, 61. ".711.1.048. — . . SENE N. montanus sive Nompareille totus albus. Park. par. t. 71. fig. 6... Trato-elongata, glauca. Scapus. istis subegialís, . » ] cernuus, totus guantus albidus, subbiuncialis, odorus. Germ. oblongum, trisulcum, y The second section of the Narcissi of Jussieu has been converted by Mr. Brown into a separate order under the title of Amaryllidee. The genuine affinity of its genera is remarked in one of those summaries by which M. de Jussieu concludes and reviews each of his orders in succession; and in which perhaps are to be found the brightest displays of the sagacity which so eminently distinguishes him. The difference between NAncrssus and PANCRATIUM lies in the crown of the corolla; this in the former does not coalesce with the stamens above the mouth of the tube, while on the latter it is connected with them for its whole length or nearly so. o Notwithstanding the present species has been cultivated and described by Parkinson before 1629; yet we do not find it recorded, nor its figure or description even quoted - as a synonym to a plant, in any general system of vegetables. It comes the nearest to Nancissus incomparabilis; but differs from that in having a flowerstalk two or three times longer than the tube of the corolla, and fully equal to the spathe, not two or three times shorter ; in having a germen above, not enclosed within the spathe; a smaller flower of one : colour, and on emersion from the spathe completely cernu- ous, oblong-lanceolate segments, a proportionately shorter crown less conspicuously plaited and curled. Legoes gene- rally four, lorately elongated, flattened, glaucous. Stem, about equal to these, round, compressed, subancipital. Flower generally but one, white, about two inches deep; odorous, diverging.after complete expansion.from the stem. Tube nearly of the diameter of the germen, green, two or three times shorter than the peduncle. Lim partly. re- curved, nearly equal. Crown plaitedly-streaked, crenulatély eroded. Stamens inserted below the mouth of the tube, but protruding beyond it, tho’ not beyond the crown, connivent. Anthers linear, yellow. Stigma an obtuse obscurely 3-lobed hollow point. : Mr. Salisbury tells us that the species is found wild in the Pyrenees. He recommends the cultivating of it in a 4leep and moist soil. A very rare plant in our collec- tions, nor had we ever seen it until the present specimen «was kindly sent us by Mr. George Anderson, from bis garden at West Ham, Essex, in April last, "This gentle- man has, we understand, the completest collection 'of thê "species of this genus of any one in England, U e > 124 ECHIUM grandiflorum. Long-flowered Viper's Bugloss. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. Ord. Bonracinez. Jussieu gen. 128. Div. III. . . ` BoRAGINEE. — Cal. 5-divisus, (rarò 4-divisus,) per- sistens. Cor. hypogyna, 3-petala, sæpissimè regularis, 5-fida, nunc 4-fida; æstivatione imbricata. Stam. epipetala, numero laciniarum et cum iis alternantia, rarò plura. Germ. 4-partitum, 4-spermum, v. sim- plex 2-4-loc., ovnlis definitis pendulis. Nucule 4, distinctee v, infra connatæ; nunc Drupa 4-loc. v. Bacca 2-4-pyrena. Sem. exalbuminosa, modb albumine lamelliformi, carnoso, mbryo inversus. Herbe v. frutices. Folia alterna, exstipulata, sep? aspera. Flores in spicis sepè secundi, nunc pauiculati, v. corymbosi, quandoque. axillares soli- tarii; Brown prod. 492.. ' ECHIUM. Suprà vol. 1. fol. 36. D y E. grandiflorum, caule glabro, folis lanceolatis supra: scabris, floribus cymosis zqualibus, corollarum tubo longissimo. — P'enten. malmais. 97. Echium grandiflorum. Andrews's repost. 20. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. Echium formosum. Persoon syn. 1. 163.. . ; E. regulariflorum. Recens. pl. in reposit, botan. depict. 11. n. 42. —— | longitudi birie ialia, latitudi - ‘alia. Flores i, foli püsicula, secure nutartes, sicul. pheres terminales el pri pedun- culate, divaricato-dichotomer v. conjugate,. , alternd se d brevior, profund? partitus, segmentis lanceolatis, erecto-conniventibus, ena t margine api perire longiore. „Cor, ran, arw raderer > P. OT EINE: BEDI s biunrialfe, rectitséma] y ? pe osa gre ner mh è plicato-attenuatus, superna feplicto-ampliatw limbo longior, intus in medium aj supra germen hireutus ; ua palestianiwus laciniis. rotundatis, transverse joribus ef gentia, subassurgentia, pro terti sud parte adnata corolla, Stylus persistens A handsome-flowered shrubby species, introduced by the late Mr. Masson, from the Cape of Good Hope, in L VOL, II. 1787. It differs from its congeners by an entirely regular cylindrically elongated corolla. . We have seen no specimen which: has exceeded three feet. Stem straight, about the thickness of a finger, naked and scarred downwards, upwards herbaceous and leafy. Leaves scattered in all directions, halfstem-embra- cing, spreading and recurved, elongatedly lanceolate, about three inches long and the half of one broad, convex and hispid above, smooth beneath, with a serrately hispi edge. Flowers large, pink or deeply flesh-coloured, dis- posed on the upper part of the stem jn a recurved patent jeafy panicle, of terminal and axillary divaricately dichoto- mous (or rather conjugate) nodding spikelets, rachis of each double flexuose alternate one ranked and bracteate, outer half shorter, sometimes one- and always fewer- flowered, with a broader ovate leaf placed at the base of the divi» sions: bractes foliaceous, single, longer than the pedicles. Calyx herbaceous, rough, twice shorter than the corolla, deeply parted, segments lanceolate upright, one larger than the rest. Corolla from an inch and half to near two inches deep, cylindrical, narrowed downwards, * quite straight; tube several times longer than the limb, segments spreading, broader than long, rounded, with fine transverse wrinkles or plaits on the inside. Stamens reaching to the base of.the lim , adnate for a third of their length, unequal, diverging, with a slightly assurgent bend. Style continuing for some time attached to the germen after the corolla has fallen off: stigma emarginate. ' A greenhouse plant. Propagated by cuttings. Requins to be planted in peat-earth. Blooms in May and June The drawing was made from a plant which flowesed ia the conservatory of Mr. W. Creswell, Earl's Court, Bromp- ton, at the same time with its congeners centicans und „fruticosum, figured in the frst volume of this work. » m w'OMyx. 3 The corde disepcted vertically, o Pistil, - M~ wv ^ qi 5 J f » , AR 2 / tf Hyd C dmaimnedu de? "TE Hi. H 195 RIDES aureum. Missouri Currant. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. Ord. Cacti; Jussieu gen. 310. Div. I, Petala et stamina definita, | RIBES. Cal. superus quinquefidus coloratus. Pet. 5, summo calyci inserta et alterna. Stam. eidem opposita, ibidemque inserta; anth, compresse incumbentes. Germ. simplex; stylus 1; stig.2. Bacca globosa, umbilicata, 1-loc., polysperma, receptaculis 2 oppositis semini- feris. — Frutices, alii inermes, alii spinosi spinis simplicibus aut partitis, quibus axillares gemma ramulorum squamose ; folia alterna, in spines- centibusparitér axillaria, petiolo basi dilatato semiamplexicauli in iner» mibus ciliato aut interdüm ciliis rigidis spinuloso ; pedunculi axillares aut è gemmis, erumpentes, spinescentium 1-3-flori, inermium racemosoe multiflori ; flores Y-bracteati, bacce esculenta. Jussieu gen, 310. Div. Ribesia, inermia. R. aureum, inerme, glaberrimum ; foliis 3-lobis: lobis divaricatis inciso- .'paucidentatis petiolo basi ciliato brevioribus, racemis laxis densé mul- tifloris, calyeibus tubulatis pedicellis longioribus: tubo gracili: laciniis ; Oblongis obtusis, petalis linearibus laciniis calycis. duplo. brevioribus, _ bracteis linearibus longitudine pedicellorum, baccis glabris. Pursh amer. sept. 1. 164. Ribes flavam. Ad specim. nativum à Nacarchis Lewis et Clarke ad ca- taractas Columbia fluvii ( Aprili 1806) lectum in Herb. Dom. A. B, Lambert repositum. i^ (8) Foliis villosiusculis, pedunculis villosissimis.. iu Ribes longiflorum. — Fraser's cat. (1813). Ad specim. plura spontanea lecta ad Missouri fluvium a D. Nuttall et in Louisianá superiori à ` D. Bradbury in Herb. Dom. A. B. Lambert asservata. í ` Rami teretes, ramuloso-frugiferi, fuscescentes epidermide in senescéntibus desquamato-dehiscente. Folia ambientia, oblata, ovato-triloba lobis apiee in- ciso-dèntatis, ceterum integerrima, nervosa, glabriuscula, omninò erugata, villoso-ciliolata, exteriora quedam pagpiec dilatate baseos petioli villosi pilosa ; Juniora atomis resinosis irrorata, adulta ad lentem albo-punctatis. Racemi 2 e. communibus solitarii, multiflori, erectiuscult, subbiunciales et suprà,, ongiores foliis, infra medium nudi, supra thyrsoideo-floridi; pedunculo iia strictiori, pedicellis 1-fforis, flore 3-4-plo brevioribus, erectis, m decrescentibus solitariis interstinctis, cum germine Constrictîm | articulatis. Flores aurei, gratê odori, erectiusculi. Germ, curt? cylindricum, subrotundum, lave, virens nervis translucentibus. Cal, elongato-hypocrateriformis, glaberrimus, subuncialis, . diametro fere penne corvine, subarcuatus, segmentis duplo brevioribus tubo toto tereti, subequali- bus, cuneato-oblongis, apice rotundatis atque subinflero-concavis. Cor. petala his duplo breviora, pallidiüs lutescentia supern? tandèm roseo-rubentia, obovata, plana, erecta, collaterali-contigua, apice erosa. Stam. viz breviora, intervallis petalorum astantia : anth. ovali olio transverse compresse à dorso affize, bracteis Soliaceis gradati erecta, margine externá rubente loculorum dehiscentes ; pollen ochroleucum, Stigma viride, bifidum, equale corolle. Bacce glabra esculente. A native of North America, where it has been found in Upper Louisiana on the banks of the Missouri, by Messrs. Bradbury and Nuttall; also on the other side of the Rocky Mountains on the banks of the Columbia by Captains Lewis and Clarke, in the celebrated journey across the American continent to the Pacific sea, performed by those officers at the order of the government of the United States. In Mr. A. D. Lambert's Herbarium there are specimens from each of these quarters, which seem to differ in no other respect, than that some of those from the Atlantic side of the Rocky Mountains are more conspicuously pubescent, and with larger bractes than those from the side next the Pacific. With us this prettty shrub has as yet no other value than that which arises from a colour and fragrance of blossom unlooked for in this genus; but in its native place it is highly prized for the excellence of the fruit, which is said to be larger than any of our more common garden .sorts. 'The bush is perfectly hardy, and seems to thrive in almost any situation, blossoming freely about the middle of May; but no fruit has been obtained during the five years it has been known in our gardens, the flowers dropping off pre- maturely at the constricted joint below the germen. In size and manner of growth it resembles our common currants ; but the foliage is considerably smaller, of a bright green, unwrinkled, indented only at the top of the three lobes into which it is divided, and in our specimen its surface on both sides was without pubescence, but the edge shortly ciliated. Flower-bunches numerous, scattered, solitary, produced as usual in the genus from a common bud with the foliage; flowers 10-20, quite smooth, nearly an inch long, of a bright golden yellow, disposed on the upper half of the peduncle in the form of a thyrwe; peduncle villous, almost upright, pedicles 3-4 times shorter than the flower, separated by foliaceous entire gradually decreasing bractes. Cal. tubular and slightly curved. Petals pale yellow, changing at the top to a bright pink-colour. Stamens equal to the petals. Stigma deep green, bifid, Introduced by Mr. Nuttall. The drawing was made at Mr. Knight’s nursery, in the King’s Road, Chelsea. -5 a The flower dissected vertically. 120 AAA e ci UCA FM tl e HN a a 7 ( Syd Chara, del- | / Saib At. Bh by Fr UO Hi, ol ¡MO 126 PINGUICULA lutea. Yellow american Butterwort. DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. Ord. Lysimacuim. Jussieu gen. 95. Div. III. Genera Lysimachiis affinia. LENTIBULARIUE. Cal, divisus persistens. Cor, 1-pe- tala, hypogyna, irregularis, calcarata, bilabiata. Stam. indlusa, ime corolla inserta. Anth. simplices, nunc medio constricte. Germ. 1-loc. Stylus 1, brevissimus. Stigma bilabiatum. Caps. 1-loc., polysperma; placenta centrali magna. Sem. parva, exalbuminosa. Embryo nunc indivisus. Herbe aquatica v. paludose. Brown prod. 429. PINGUICULA. Cal. bilabiatus, suprà trifidus, infrà 2-fidus Cor. irregularis, basi calcarata, fauce coarctata, limbo bilabiata, superiìs triloba, inferiús biloba brevior. Stam. brevissima. Stylus brevis; stigma bilamellatum, antheras tegens. Caps. receptaculo centrali libero. Folia radicalia pinguia ; scapus \-florus ; flos inversus. Jussieu gen. 98. P. lutea, nectario subulato recurvo corollá campanulatâ breviore, fauce - barbatâ, labiis dentatis, scapo subvilloso. Vahl enum. 1. 193. Pinguicula lutea. Walt. carol. 63. Michaux bor. amer. 1. 11. Pursh amer. sept. 1.14. Persoon Fa 1,4 17, P. campanulata. Lamarck in Journ. d'hist. nat. 1. 334. tab. 18. fig. 1; (de planta siccatá). Persoon syn. 1. 18. Perennis. Folia radicalia, plurifaria, imbricato-ambientia, patentia, ovaia, obtusa, vesiculis diaphanis conspersa, margine inflexá, subuncialia. Scapi 2-3, filiformes, erecti, 2-7-unciales, pilis capitato-viscidis villosi. Cal. cano-virescens, pubescens, segmentis obtusis. Cor. sine maculâ flavescens, 2 uncic transversa obscurê bilabiata ; tubus calyci equalis, extús sub fauce im- pressus sulco, et cum calcare venis obsgleté purpureis pictus; limbus ez-. planatus, laciniis subcequalibus, labii i (floris resupinatione duobus obc rdatis subangustioribus, ¿px PM emarginatis, collaterali-conni- vestib IR supremi ab inverstfiores tribus e ualibus, cuneato-obcor- datis, subquadricrenatis ; palatum flavo-barbatum, de fauce penicillato-pro- minens : calcar corollâ 3-plo magisve brevius, subulatum, sub fauce decurva- tum. Germ. oblato-rotundum, obliquum, vesiculari-punctatum; stylus ob- soletus; stigma subpetaloideum, transversum, labio antico majore oblato- obcordato sub anthesi super antheras revoluto, postico parallelo minimo erecto subovato. Stam. albida, collateralia, basi connexa et sub fronte resupinati germinis. inserta, instar fer? corniculorum divergentia, dein ancurvatim assur- gentia, duplo breviora calyci: fil. robusta, teretia ; anth. peltato-adnate, oblato-rotunde, extrorsim obliquate, vertice foramine rotundo dehiscentes : pollen ochroleucum. By Professor de Jussieu this genus had been appended to his order of Lysimachie, not however as a genuine co- ordinate, but provisionally, until its relations were more strictly ascertained. Since then it has been included by Monsieur Richard, in his order of Zentibularie or Bladder- wort-tribe, consisting of aquatic or marshy plants, the cha- racter of which has been still more recently defined by Mr. Brown. The generic appellation of PrucurcurLA refers to the unctuous shining appearance of the foliage of the common european species; so do the english and french ones of Buiterwort and Grassette. 5 Lutea is a native of North America, where it grows in the pine-barrens of Lower Carolina, and differs from its congeners by a yellow crenated corolla, with a tufted pro- truded palate. It has been now first introduced by Messrs. Colvilles, nurserymen in the King's Road, Chelsea, who flowered it last May in pots of bog-earth, placed in pans of water on the flue of their hothouse. The plants had been sent them by Mr. Nuttall, a very intelligent collector, now in America. Root perennial. Leaves radical, multifarious, imbricately ambient, spreading, ovate obtuse, an inch or more in length, vesicularly speckled. Scapes from the root, 2-3, one- flowered, filiform, upright, 9-7 inches high, covered with short glandularly capitate hairs. Calyr green, with a greyish pubescence, segments blunt. Corolla about three fourths of an inch or more across, obsoletely bilabiate ; limb flat, nearly egual, resupinate, the two segments of, the upper lip (by the inversion of the flower become the iaer) obcordate, rather narrower, deeply emarginate, converging at their inner margins, the three of the lacér (by inversion the upper) cuneately obcordate, each crenated with about 4 incisions ; palate bearded, deep yellow, protruded beyond the orifice of the tube of the corolla; spur 3 times or more shorter than the corolla, subulate, pointing downwards with a curve. Stigma subpetaloid, unequally bilabiate, placed transversely on the germen, and consisting of two flat laminar lobes, the lowermost and largest of which bends itself downwards, so as to lap over the two stamens inserted below the base of the germen in front, assuming an upright direction when the anthers have parted with the pollen; the upper lip or laminar lobe is several times smaller, pa- rallel with the back of the larger. Germen uniloculaf, speckled with small whitish pustules. . a The back of the calyx. 4 The corolla removed from the calyx. c The same dissected thro’ the spur or nectary, and showing the palate or upper side of the faux. d The two stamens, detached. e The pistil. 197 TULIPA cornuta. Horned Tulip. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. Ord. Liria. Jussieu gen. 48. (Ex nobis nunc rectiìs MELANTHACEIS Brown prod. 272 co-ordinunda. ) TULIPA. Flores terminales, nudi, solitarii, cauli sessiles, Cal O. Cor, infera, hexapetala, campanulato-patens, regularis, subaqualis, de- cidua. Fil. hypogyna, erecta, crassiús subulata: anth. oblonge, erecto- vibratiles. Germ. prismaticum. Stigmata apicibus compresso-compli- catis et varié reflexis valvarum germinis intüs adnata, canaliculata. Caps. oblouga, coriacea, 3-loc., 3-valv., valvis medio septigeris, septis margine interna utrinque seminiferis: sem. numerosa, biseriatim cumulata, plana, incrassato-marginata, introrsüm attenuata; a/bumen corneum, Bulbus solidus ovato-pyramidatus, indusio crustaceo v. scarioso- membranaceo tectus, latere altero obliquate baseos radicans; altero anno post prolatum fructum enixus basi axeos rhizomatose propaginem similem Jfrugiferam cum aliis sterilibus in toto periturus. Folia caulina, subbifa- ria, 3-plura, amplexicauli-vaginantia, carnosula, lineari- v. oblongo- lan- ceolata. Caulis subscaposus, uniflorus, rariùs divisus. Genus confine Me- LANTAI nuperids in WURMBEAM ef ORNITHOGLOSSUM distracti. T. cornuta, uniflora; corolla è fusiformi-campanulata patentissima, pe- talis longissimis, caudatis. Tulipa cornuta. Redouté liliac. 445. 1 Bulbus generis. Folia 3, elongato-lanceolata, long? acuminata, glauca, ubi latiora subundulata. Caulis teres, sesqui-bipedalis, subflexuosus, glaber, uniflorus, indivisus. Corolle petala longitudinis fer? 5-uncialis, latitudinis ubi latissima vir excedentis 3 partes uncie, colore varia, supernà involuta. Germen prismatico-columnari, unciam cum alterius fer? p parte altum ; lobi capitelli stigmatosi profunde compressi, revoluto-divaricati. Stamina germine ex und quintá sud parte circiter breviora. The roots that produced the specimens from which the present drawing has been made, were imported by Mr. Hamilton (under-secretary in the department for foreign affairs) from Constantinople, and flowered last May at Mr. Knight's nursery in the King's Road, Chelsea. We have found no mention of this remarkable Tulip any where ex- cept in one of the later numbers of the work upon Liliacées by M. Redouté, where it is stated to have been introduced into the Parisian gardens directly from Persia, in 1811. It is the nearest to Turpa gesneriana of any other species; but differs from that as well as from all we are acguainted with, by the depth of its fusiformly campanu- late corolla, its narrow caudately lanceolate petals, and by stamens about one fifth shorter than the germen. The bulb is the usual one of the genus. Leaves 3, glaucous, elon- gatedly lanceolate, far acuminate, undulate where broadest. Stem from a foot and half to two feet high, round, smooth, slightly flexuose, one-flowered. Corolla about five inches deep. Filaments smooth. Germen columnar, prismatic, about an inch and one fourth high. Sigmas 3 deep late- rally compressed lobes, edgewisely revolute, channelled at the upper edge, and forming a triangular capital to the column of the germen, much as in the common garden- Tulip. We did not perceive that the bloom had any scent, The species is stated to be as hardy, and of as easy culture and propagation as any of the other kinds, and to have produced seed and offsets in abundance in the Parisian gardens. To us it appears the most interesting acquisition that has fallen to the share of the florist for a long while. We certainly did not expect that so conspicuous a floWer had escaped the older florists, with whom .the bul- bous plants of the Levant seem to have been greater fa- vourites than with our modern gardeners. Wê did not think that there remained even a variety of a Hyacinth or Tulip within the reach of the correspondent of a Turkey- merchant that was unknown to them, much less so remark- able a species. It appears to be as inconstant in its colour as gesneriana (the common garden-Tulip). =o pb Sud y J tcc ill y t Luy LISTO, Final Le 198 CROTALARIA purpurea. Purple Crotalaria. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. Ord. Lecuminosa. Jussieu gen. 345. woe Y. Cor. irregularis papilionacea. Legumen 1-loculare bi- valve, CROTALARIA. Cal. profundà trifidus, lacinià infimá sub- trifidà. Corolle vexillum alis et cariná sæpè longius. Stam. omnia connexa cum fissurá dorsali. Legumen pedicellatum turgidum 1-2-sper- mum. Herbe aut frutices; folia simplicia aut ternata aut rariîìs digi- tata; stipula subnulle, aut conspicue et à petiolo plerâmgue distincta ; Jores sepê spicati, nunc terminales, nunc axillares aut foliis oppositi, Legumen in plurimis breve 1-2-spermum, in guibusdam longius poly- spermum. Jussieu gen. 354. Div. foliis compositis. . C. purpurea, folis ternatis: foliolis obovatis retusis, racemis terminali- bus, floribus saturaté purpureis. Venten. malmais. 60. Crotalaria purpurea. Persoon syn. 2. 985. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 273.. Frutex orgyalem mod? acquirens caulem, erectus, infra nudiusculus et fusco- 'corlicalus, suprà contractie ramosus, ramis sparsis, foliatis, villoso-incanigo Folia laz? et irregulariter sparsa, ternata, petiolo et subtàs appressê villosa, | Juniora suprà lanugine ferê pulvereo-subtili opacata, venosa ; foliola obovatge elliptica, retusa, reflexa, medium majus modo subsesguiuneiale et petiolo communi fer? sa longus stipulis binis minutissimis villosis deciduis, Racemi terminales, erecti, multiflori, nunc Jere subpedales, infra subfoliosi, ind? nudi, pedunculo communi tereti lanuginoso, pedicellis flore brevioribus, prope calycem stipatis bracteolis 2 minutis oppositis decurrentibus, Cal. lana finorus, profundis bifidus, segmento supremo bidentato-truncato, imo trifido bulis lanceolatis, medio longiore cuspidato distantiore, lateralibus ascendenti> bus. Cor. saturat? roseo-purpurea magnitudine Jer? Ononts rotundifoliæs vexillum ascendens, emarginato-rotundum, 3-4-plo longius calyce, ocello albo et flavo ad basin notatum: ale cequilonge isti, 9-9-plo angustiores, supra carinam convergentes: carina parüm brevior, discreiè dipetala, incurvoe assurgens, petalis conniventibus suprà, im margine ima ad flezuram brevi lobulo subauriculotis. Fil. pro duobus tertiis partibus monadelphicà connata, Germ. sessile, subcylindricum, rectum, glabrato-viride, polyspermum : stylus und tertiá parte brevior, albus, setaceus, subarrectus: stigma punctum, obtuse tum, obsoleté 2-fidum. The first mention of this plant is in the splendid work destined to record the rare plants cultivated in the garden of La Malmaison, edited by Monsieur Ventenat; one of the many costly books which the governments of France, and of some parts of Germany, have enabled their artists and VOL. IL, x men of science to give the world. The species is remark- able in its genus for the fine purple-rose-colour of the blossom, which in the others is commonly yellow. It re- minds us rather of af Onowts or Rest-liarrow, than of what we have been accustomed to regard as â CROTALARIA; and is one of the many ornamental vegetables we owe to the late Mr. Masson, who sent the seed from the Cape of Good Hope in 1790. A woody upright shrub, sometimes, we are told, acquir- -ing the height of six or seven feet; stem naked downwards, with a brown smooth bark, upwards contractedly branched, 'pubescent, grey, leafy. Leaves irregularly and loosely scattered, ternate, appressedly villous underneath and on the petiole, above, especially when young, strewed over by a -subtle down and reticulately veined ; leaflets obovate, retuse, reflectent, middle one largest, from three parts of an inch to one and a half long, and then nearly three times the length of the common petiole: stipules 2, minute, villous, decidu- ous. Racemes terminal, upright, many-flowered, sometimes ‘extended to near a foot in length, with a round villous peduncle ; pedicles shorter than the corolla, with two minute .decurrent bractelets placed one on each side, a little below the calyx.. Calyx villous, deeply bifid, upper segment truncate and bidentately scooped, lower trifid, with lanceo- late lobes, of which the middle one is poìnted and stands apart from the other two. Corolla about the size of that of Ououis rotundifolia: vexillum or upper petal ascendent, round, emarginate, 3 or 4 times higher than the calyx, with a white spot yellow in the disk at its base: ale or ‘side petals of the length of the vexillum, 2 or 3 times nar- rower, converging over the carina or two lower petals which are rather shorter, disjoined, meeting by their edges above, and bowed upwards with a small earlet or lobe on their lower edge at the bend. Filaments monadelphously connate. Germen sessile, nearly cylindrical, straight, smooth, and many-seeded ; style about a third shorter, white, setiform, nearly upright: stigma an obtuse obsoletely bifid point. - The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- ley, Brames, and Milne, King's Road, Fulham. a Calyx. 4 Vexillum. c One of the two ale. d Side view of the Carina. ¢ Stamens. f Pistil or germen style and stigma. g A pod. "m Vater ) )- da fi : : fyd Eduard del Pub Ly IS port jo Pecadilly Avg" 11410 129 INGA purpurea. Purple Inga, or Soldier-wood. POLYGAMIA MON(ECIA, Nat. Ord. LEGUMINOSE. Jussieu gen. 345, Div. I, Cor. regularis. Legum. multiloculare, sæpiùs bivalve, dissepimentis transversis, loculis monospermis. Stam. distincta, Ar- bores aut frutices; folia abrupt? pinnata. INGA. HERMaApPH. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. tubulosa 5-dentata. Stam. numerosa monadelpha. Legum. 1-loculare, seminibus pulpá vel arillo involutis. Mascus. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. tubulosa 5-dentata. Stam. nus merosa monadelpha. Wild. sp. pl. 4. 1004. Div. foliis conjugato-pinnatis. - MAN I. purpurea, inermis, foliis conjugato-pinnatis: pinnis guadrijugis: fo- olis oblongis obtusis basi inzqualibus, petiolis eglandulosis, capitulis pedunculatis. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 1021. Inga purpurea. Hort. PA ed. 9. 5. 454. Mimosa purpurea. Linn. sp. pl. 9. 1500. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 15. Hort. Kew. 3. 439. Andregs's reposit. 379. Acacia frutescens, non aculeata, flore purpurascente, alia. Plum. ic, tab. 10. fig. 9. NEM Frutex ramosus, ramis flexuosis, badio-corticatis, alterna et remotiüs folin- dis. Folia subuncialia, acut? stipulata, conjugato-pinnata, levia, reticulato- venosa, sub lente ciliolata, petiolo communs partialibus breviore intia lanu- ginoso, bracteolá ad pedem conjugationis ; pinne 4-juge, foliolis articulato- subsessilibus, obovatis vel oblongis, apice rotundatis cum mucronulo, basi obliguatis, latere interiore lamine plurimüm angustiore ; parium 2 imorum pinna singule ingqualissime. | Pedunculi solitarii, supern? in ramis asillares, erecti, compressi, striati, virides, folia aquantes vel subsuperantes, aj yio Jlorigeri, versis medium poti bracteolis 2 minulis. Flores subhemi: - fico-capitati absque pedicellis, excedentes unciam. . Cal. herbaceus, corolld triplo brevior. Cor. tenerior, profundiüs divisa, citó emarcescens, fer? guinguiês brevior staminibus.. Stam. 7-9? punicea, pro longitudine corolla tubuloso-connata, ind? distincta. Germ. teres, glabrum ; stylus longitudine et colore füamentorum, ai crassior, suprà sepé cum gyro flesus; stigma punctum obtusum. . Inca, which includes a numerous array of species, has been formed by Willdenow, at the expense of Mimosa; its chief difference from which, as well as ACACIA, is, that the seeds of its legumes or pod are envelopped either by a Coat of pulp or a dry loose covering, termed the aril; neither of which are found on the seed of Mimosa or Acacia. m2 hamaca; A ASA 'The present is a shrub which belongs to the West Indies, and was introduced by Dr. William Houstoun before 1733. It seems even now to be scarce, and is not easily brought to flower. The specimens we have seen, have not exceeded three feet, and been branched nearly from bottom to top, The branches are flexuose, with a brown bark, furnished with alternate widely set leaves. Leaves rather more than an inch long, acutely stipulated, conjugately pinnate, smooth, reticulately veined, and when magnified are seen to be minutely fringed, common petiole shorter than the two partial ones, a small bracte at the junction of the last; each pinna or wing has four pair of leaflets, which are sessile with a joint, obovately oblong, rounded at the top with a small point, slanting at the base, inner side of the blade far narrower than the outer, leaflets of the lower pair very un- equal in size. Peduncles solitary, axillary in part of the upper, but not topmost, leaves of the branches, about egual to or rather longer than the leaf, upright, compressed, streaked, bearing the flowers at their top, with a pair of very minute bractes placed near their middle. Flowers without pedicles, forming by their numerous long crimson red filaments a nearly hemispherically radiant head at the end of each peduncle, Calyx herbaceous, tubular, thrice shorter than the corolla. Corolla of a tenderer and less permanent substance, deeply cleft; soon decaying, nearly five times shorter than the stamens. Stamens 7-10? mona- delphously connate for the length of the corolla, then dis: tinct, straight. S/y/e of the same length and colour as the filaments, but much thicker, often coiled at the upper part, In some of the flowers of the same head the pistil is gene- rally wanting, as in Acacia and Mimosa; which brings these genera within the first order of the twenty-third class of the Linnean system, comprehending sucb as have fertile and sterile flowers intermixed on the same individual. 'The drawing was made last May, at the hothouse of the' botanical establishment of the Comtesse de Vandes, Bays- water. It requires to be kept constantly in the tan-bed of the.stove. pi a The calyx and corolla. 4 The monadelphous body of stamens. c The istil. "MO b a ¡es D dd ZZ ” — > ; . Zu lh ac^ a a hs. del. Sul A F Flying 4 dont eh My ^ lrg F. SOND. “Be. 130 ARCTOTIS maculata, White tawny-stained suffrutescent Arototia, : SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA NECESSARIA. Nat. Ord. Corvmeiremz. Jussieu gen. 177. : Dio, VII. Receptaculum -paleaceum. Semen papposum, pappo plamoso aut piloso ayt aristato (v. paleaceo). Flores sepiŵs radiatie 4RCTOTIS. Suprà vol, 1, fol. 39, A. maculata, flosculis radiantibus -fertilibus, caule suffroticoso, -foliis Pinnatifido-lyratis angulato-dentatis, subtis tomentosis. — Wl/dosp. pé. . 3. 2355. Arctotis maculata. Jacq. hort, schanb. 3. 67. t. 379. Arctotis caulescens. Thunb. prod. 165. Caulis suffruticosus, supra herbaceo-elongatus, tomenteso-eandigans, ra- mosus, sepius radicans; pedunculis pedalibus, teretibus, striatis, villosis, gnifloris, erectis, medio v. ed circitêr stipatis bracteá vagá elongoto-linéári. Folia plurima, caulina, distantia, lyrata, sinuato-pirnalifida, arachnoidea, suprà subcano-virentia, villis mollibus consita, longiora subdecemuncialia, lobis distantibus, sinualo-dentatis mucrone calloso in dentibus, Wermindli majore ipso subtrilobato, lateralibus paucis oblongis obtusis ; raghide suptà-nnpustio- simá et intra laminam utrinque subconniventêr assurgentem canaliculato- depressd. Flores diametro ferà triunciali. Cal. infra arachnoideus, squamis extimis appendice lineari-subulatd reflexd non hirsulâ prafixis, intimis lamind scariosá subhyalind ovatá obtusd, Radius numerosus, fertilis, acutus, intùs ochroleuco-alb cans, apice fulvo, basi purpureo-maculatus, subtüs fulvescens aliquandd cum mistá purpurá. Pappus peteacens, biseriatus, extern? mini. mus. In omni nobis notá ARCTOTIDE radius floris emarcescit revolutim. This handsome flower, we are told, has been long in our collections, but not having been distinctly recorded by Miller, or in either edition of the Hortus Kewensis, we are unable to fix the date of its first appearance in this country. It differs from Ancroris aspera (fol. 34 of this work) in the colour of the flower, in having a far softer foliage and without the rough pubescence that is perceived in that of the other, and in tbis not being here undulate or curled at the margin, in having far more unequal lobes and separated by wider intervals, and a very narrow midrib sunk between the sides of the blade nearly as in a channelled leaf; by the appendages of the outer leaflets of the calyx not being hirsute as there; its sfem is also less decidedly frutescent or woody, the herbaceous portion of the plant more extensive, and in all those we have seen, radicating. Stem upright, seldom exceeding two feet and half high with its inflorescence, coated over by a white short down- like frosted silver, Leaves lyrate, sinuately pinnatifid, with wide intervals and irregular lobes, soft, greyish green above and covered with soft pubescence, white underneath like the stem, terminal lobe largest and subtrilobate. In mode of growth it is nearly similar to the aspera of this work. Ray more than two inches across, of a cream-coloured white on the inside, suffused at the points and back with a tawny yellow hue, at the inner base, above the short tubes of the florets, of a blackish purple colour. A hardy greenhouse plant. Easily increased by cuttings planted out in the open ground. Requires a considerable share of water in the summer months, during which it continues to produce a succession of bloom. 'The drawing was made at Messrs. Colvilles” nursery, in the King's Road, Chelsea. a A floret of the ray, with its germen. & A floret of the disk. c Tha calyx dissected vertically, to show the receptacle of the flower. en f A, / ( Jud ( ard qt wt Y tase 50 UM OCA ¿ny mi 11816 131 ARCTOTIS tricolor. Dwarf tricolor Arctotis, SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA NECESSARIA. Nat. Ord. ConyxmrERm. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. VII. Receptaculum paleaceum. Semen papposum, pappo plumoso aut piloso aut aristato (v. paleaceo). Flores sepius radiati. ARCTOTIS. Supra vol. 1. fol. 32. A. tricolor, acaulis; foliis lyratis, repandis, suprà obsoletê villosis, sub- tùs tomentosis; foliolis extimis calycinis totis linearibus subelavatis - erectis tomentoso-candicantibus cum mucrone recurvo. Arctotis tricolor. Jacq. hort. schanb; 2, 27. t. 159. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 2349. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 169. Acaulis, perennis. Folia plurima, radicalia, multifaria, patentissima, 4-5-uncialia, exteriora plura lyrata, repanda, "I-nervia, suprà obsolet2 pubescentia, tactui asperiuscula, nervis arachnoidea, subtüs land arancosd candicantía, lobo terminali ovato-oblongo, lateralibus paucis obliquis obtusis integris; interiora pauca erectiora laminá ovato-lanceolatá integra. Scapi villosi, uniflori, sesunciales ad pedales, bracted vagá versús medium posit. Cal. campanulatus, subarachnoideus, at infra virescens, et foliolis nonnullia infimis candicantibus instar costarum insignitus; foliola intima subhyalinos scariosa, ovato-lanceolata, subrubentia. Radius 2 uncias transversa excedens, tridenticulato-acutus, intús ochroleuco-candicans, basi atropurpureo-maculatus, extits urascens. Discus nigricans. Germina radii et serierim aliquarum riphæricarum disci fertilia i sericeo-hirsuta, centrahiora' sierilia. nuda: Pappus serie simplici, paleaceus. Tricolor differs from acaulis, which appeared in the fasciculus of the last month, by a foliage, which is obso- letely villous on the upper side, not covered by a dense rough pile, and by a flower of a different colour; but more decidedly by the remarkable outer leaflets of the calyx, which are narrow linear subclavate recurvedly mucronate and of a.frosted white colour; the innermost ones are also more pointed than in acaulis. Lo The curious economy and sensitive property which we observed in the style and stigmas of aureola and aspera, and described in the 32d and 34th articles of this work, are likewise found in the three species since published, and will be so probably in many, if not all, others of the genus, Of whatever colour the ray of the flower has been, in the species which have fallen under our notice, the disk ' has uniformly been of a deep shining blackish brown, pre- vious to the complete expansion of the florets; when it becomes of a dusky opague green. The first appearance is produced by a tesselated surface formed of small blackish flat protuberances at the backs of the segments of each floret; these lie uppermost before expansion, when the whole plane is gradually broken up by the extrusion of the stigmas, and the backs of the segments being reversed by the unfolding of the limb, the inner surface comes in view in their place. In the present species the leaves are several, all radical, generally lyrate, one or two of the inmost entire with an ovately lanceolate blade, covered beneath by a white cots- tony pubescence; the short pile on the upper side is more easily perceived by the feel than sight, and scarcely db- stures the green colour of the leaf. Scapes or peduncles from six inches to a foot high, radical, one-flowered, vil- lous. .Flomers nearly three inches across; ray white on the inside with a purple black base, on the outside deep purple. The pappus of the seed consists of oblong obtuse palem or chafís piaced in a single series. | . Native of the Cape of Good Hope; from whence it was introduced by the late Mr. Masson in 1794. Like the rest of its congeners requires to be sheltered in the greenhouse; and planted in a mixture of peat-earth and hazel-loam. Easily propagated by suckers. Blooms from May to July. "The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy at Hammersmith. . & A floret of the ray and germen. b The same of the disk. c The calyx dissected vertically, to show the paleaceous or chaffy plume of the re+ €eptacle of the flower, as it appears when deprived of the florets. Fyd. CGaluranald del. £ > Tb ho, ye Mid greeny 170 Fria lilly 3 Aug. a SEO. VEF. oe 132. LILIUM pumilum. Dwaif Lily or Sarang. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Waun. Jussieu gen. 48. - . . LILIUM, Infor. sepihs pedunculata. Cal. 0. Cor. infera, hexapetalo-partita, turbinato-campanata, erecta v. cernya, laciniis lanceo2 latis patentibus v. revolutis, intìs exaratis sulco medio longitudinali nudo v. ciltato. Stylus cum stigmate tritoroso-capitato clavatus. Caps. car- tilaginea, turbinata v. oblonga, trigona, 3-loc., 3-valv., valvis medig septigeris, septis margini interne utrinque semipiferis. Sem. npmerosâ, plana, discoidea, ip loculis cumylata duplici ordine, extrorsüm rotundata, Mtrorsüm attenuata. Bulbus vari? squamosus, nudus, sep? per rhizoma infrà productum repens. Caulis foliosus, simpler. Folia plurifaria, carnosula, vurid lancgolata, nuyc radicalia et caulina, nunc sola caulina, nunc sparsa. €t cpufertjora, nunc verticillata et distantiora. — Intlor. terminalis, 1-multiflora in umbellam, corymbum, thyrsum, racemum, v. panicula disposita, foliaceo-bracteata aut erticillatim. cincta, pedunculis 1-floris modo referentibus ramos, rarô divisis. Cor. speciosa, sepiŵs majuscula. Discrepat confini FayruuuARiA er bulbo squamoso, ex foliis inter- stinguentibus flores, non superantibus eosdem in comam, exque coro gon exiis ad basin torosá nodis senis respondentibus cavulis totidem mel; diferis. L. pumilum, folis lineari-subulatis sparsis glabris, floribus reflexis, corollis revolutis intús glabris. Redouté liliac. 378. A Lilium reflexum, montanum humile, angustifolium, Sarana Mungulis in Dauriâ, Messerschm. Amm. ruth. 105. n. 138; (nec verð planta cui pro synonymo datur in Gmel, sib.) "n" — Bulbus albus compacto-squamosus ouato-pyram; mogaitugine SCH avellana major. In nid "Pagi folia cuncta caulina, lazis sparéa paten- tissima carnosula linearia, acuminata, 2-9 uncias longa, viz lincám lata, ob- Sole. canaliculato-carinata, sub lente pustulis minutis. oblongis ducidis cre» lerrimis puncticulata, margine levia et obtusula, Cavlis 6-7-uncialis crase situdine penne corvine, erectus, nudo spatio summa folia el inflorescentiam interveniente, teres. Flores i durantiaco-coccinei, stond Ea ap odor’, 14, aumbeoliati, lis biu. ialibus, longioribus cor , erectis, t inflexis, Fatis totus pipe iine deciduis ad basin _verticillato-cinctis. Cor. cernua, ad basin usque revoluto-reflera, immaculata, intiis striatula, nuda tub culis omnique pube; lacinie lanceolate, infra medium sulco glabro marginibus cuniculatim conniventibus exaratæ, apice lanuginosa.— Stam. coroll equalia, Jfasoiculato-divergentia, pallido-rubentia + anth. vibratiles, polline aurantiaco. Germ. viride, golunngre, teraidrigoms, equans ylym rubido-fuscum ; stigma capitato-tritobum. The smallest flowered species yet known of the genus, and quite new in the gardens of this country. A repre- VOL. II, N sentation of it has appeared in a recent fasciculus of Mons. Redouté’s work on Liliaceous plants; where it is stated to have then bloomed in the garden of the Museum of Natural History of Paris for the first time, and is surmised to be a native of Peru. But the presumption, in regard to its origin, must have arisen from some mistake. The seed from which the present plant has been raised was derived from Moscow, by way of Berlin. And the species is cer- tainly native of the oriental provinces of Russia, particularly of Dauria, where its roots, as well as that of other species, are eaten, and called Sarana by the Mogul natives. It comes near to chalcedonicum and pomponium, but differs from both by having a corolla free from excrescences, and by a amooth-edged groove down the segments; as well as from each respectively in other points. The root is a white bulb, about the size of a blackbird's egg; while barren, producing three or four lorately lanceo- late leaves, about half an inch broad, tapered downwards as if petioled. In the fertile plant the foliage is wholly cau- line. Stem 6-7 inches high, not thicker than a small oaten straw, loosely set with fleshy patent narrow linear pointed leaves from two to three inches long, and little more than a line broad, obscurely carinated or keeled, with a blunt even unciliated edge, Flowers odorous, 2-4 in a terminal umbel, surrounded at the base by an egual number of leaves, with a naked interval between them and the uppermost stem- ones; peduncles about two inches long. Corolla of an un- spotted orange-red or flame colour, cernuous and revolutely reflectent to the base, shorter than its peduncle ; the groove in each segment runs from about the middle to the base, and converges at the edge, so as to form a covered channel or pipe. Germen green. Style and stigma reddish brown. Filaments red, divergent; pollen orange. A hardy plant. Introduced by Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at whose nursery in the King's Road, Fulham, the drawing was made in June last, ` — Ó— a A barren root, with the foliage. & The pistil. 2 x Lit tidad der 133 CONVOLVULUS suffruticosus. Shrubby Madeira Bindweed. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. ConvoLvuLs. Jussieu gen. 132. Div. I. Stylus unicus. . CowvorLvuLacEx. Brown prod. 481. Sect. I. Ger- men unicum. . CONVOLVULUS. Cal. 5-partitus, nudus, v. bracteis 2 mino- ribus imbricatus, persistens. Cor. 1-petala, hypogyna, regularis, cam- pauulata, 5-plicata, limbo 5-lobo, decidua. Stam. imæ corolle jose ejusdem laciuiis alterna, limbo breviora, Germ. 2-loc. (raró 3-loc. ?), loculis dispermis; basi cinctum glandulá anuulari. Stylus indivisus. Stig. 2, filiformis. Caps. valvata, valvis margine appositis angulis dissepi- menti liberi basi seminiferi. Herba (rarà frutices) volubiles v. prostrate, sapiiis lactescentes. Folia alterna, exstipulata. Brown prod. 481, 482. Div. Caule volubili, C. suffruticosus, foliis oblongis subcordatis acutis, caule suffruticoso levi, pedunculis trifloris multiflorisque. Dryander in Hort. Kem. ed. 2, 1. 331. Oss. Omnino diversus â Convolvulo suffruticoso Desf. Jl. atl. et Per- soon syn. qui species non volubilis. . Caulis feres, viridi-fuscescens, ramosus, conspersus lanugine rará aique . viz manifestá, Folia saturatà viridia, oblongo-cordata, acuminata, utrinque [suprà appress2] subvillosa, infra varicoso-nervosa, longiora triuncialia : peti- olus 3-plo brevior, villosus. "Pedunculi axillares, villosuli, superantes petio- lum, breviores folio, sepiìs trichotomo-triflori, sub trichotomid bibracteati, ‘nunc divisi ultra atque multiflori. Cal. triplo brevior corollá, herbaceus, venosus z Soliola supernà patentia lata cum brevi acumine et ciliata. Cor. tota quanta usque ad calycem rotato-dispansa, uncias feré binas transversa, alba, flavescens in disco, ad plicas lineis 5 purpureis ahis totidem externis villos 4 nceolatis respondentibus radiata, obsoletó 5-gona, 5-quiès emarginata : junior involuta tota extús serigeo-hirsuta. Stam. duplo ultrave brevioria corolla, Sasciculata, inferno barbata: anth. sagittato-lineares, ochroleuce. Germ. pyramidatum, albicans, glabrum : stylus Óisulco-filiformis (quasi ex duobus conforrurainatus), apice breve bicruris : stig. 2 filiformia, albida, cruribus styli pedicellata. A species introduced from the island of Madeira by Mr. Masson in 1788; but does not appear in the first Hortus Kewensis, and is only recorded in the late edition of that work. It affords a very decisive sample of the difference of the stigma of its genus and that of ÍPOM&A, now the main point of distinction between the two, as has alread been noticed in the sixty-second article of this work. It is also an instance, among numerous others, by which we see the herbaceous genera of the colder climates assuming N2 the garb of shrubs in their atlvancê to warmer regions, where in the hottest we find them sometimes converted into vast trees, as in the papilionacedus division of Jussieu's order of Leguminous plants. ‘Yellow disk and five purpte linés answering to the same number of broader villous ones on the outside, flatly ex- panded down to the short tube within the calyx, less than two inches across, óbsólefely five-cornered ; while rolled together, the whole exterior is covered with a hirsute pubescence. Stamens bearded downwards. Style filiform, ‘with a double groove, as if composed of two grown to- gether, shortly forked at the top, each point holding a White filiform stigma. Germen smooth. , „A hardy greenhouse plant, of the easiest culture. Mal- tiplied by cuttings. Flowers în June and July. The draw- ing was made at the nursery of Messrs, Whitley, Brames, and Milne, King’s Road, Fulham. a Calyx. Lower pert of the corolla dissected vertically. c Pisti A ca 13h. N bing My 128 y Ny LA MI WM Aineti y d ) h / "P f) ^h tt s 4r tl ase thls LP FK; Á D iY YO Aer / y E EK Y 184 PAPAVER floribundum. Armenian Poppy. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA Nat. ord. ParaVERACEE. Jussieu gen. 935. Div. T. Stamina (hypogyna) indefinita; &nthere filamentis adnate. PAPAVER. Cal. diphyllus, caducus, Pet. 4. Germ. 1; sty» das O; stigma radiatum persistens. Caps. 1- (s. incompleté multi-) loc., polysperma, ovata aut oblonga, pluribus instructa receptaculis [totidem quot radii stigmatis] seminiferis, ad partetes intìs prominulis, dehiscens ed picem sub singulo radio totidem foraminulis infra univalvibus. Sem numerosissima. Herbe. Folia alterna. Flores solitarii terminales; succus lactens. Jussieu gen. 236. ee ange CRO lui i LAN Dio. Capsulis glabris. P. floribundum, foliis imis pinnatis superis pinnatifidis, villosis, incisis$ rdmìs floriferis axillaribus et termmalibus ; pedunculis unifloris; cap- y aulis glabris, oblongis. — Desfout. in ann. du mus. 1). 376. t. 33. Papaver orientale, tenuitér incisum, ad caulem floridum. Tournef. cor. 17. ,. Hierba perendis? 1-2- , glauca. Folin setis erectis sparsis ossictte Bione fldvescentibus hi ¿ tadioelia plurima, basi imbricata, multifario, vultriuncinlia, oblongata, de medio petioli impari-pinnata, pinnis oppositis detrescentibus subtritobo-pinnatifidis proximis obliguatis subundulatis, lobis ineegualitór incisis, lobulis prafixis setä longiore; petiolus subtis et margine ilosus, pr planiusculas: caulina distantia, tandèm sessilia, dein serie cei. Caulis patenti-pamculatus, robustus, Jezuoso-erectus, teres, heit, etis vagis rarissimis conspersus, rami axillares et terminales, divisi in pedum- culos 3-5 filiformes unifloros suffultos bracteâ foliaced, summi corymbord- Jastigiantes simpliciores'nudiores. Flores ante anthesin pendulo-nutantes, dein erecta. Cal. 'o-ellipticus, 'dvo passerine minor, setis confertim eckinahe,, odò parcids, vel ontinó depilis. Cor. uncias tres transversa, miniato-splendens, petalis. subquaternis, obovato-rotundatis, plicato-corrugatis, margine su eroso-repandis. Stam. ochroleuco-pallida. Germ. virens, j-oblongum, "eorsüm contractum ; stigma violactum, 4-6-radiatum, velutinum. Found by Tournefort in Armenia, and registered by him in the Corollary of his Institutes under a short specific, Phrase, meant, like the others in that work, for mere titles to correspond with his Herbarium and the drawings by Aubriet, the artist who accompanied him during his travels in the Levant. But it was the intention of this accom- plished naturalist to have given the world a work, consist- ing of descriptions and further history of the plants con- tained in this Prodromus or Index; when his purpose was defeated by a premature death, Thus the principal part of the plants he had enumerated were left to be ascertained only by access to unpublished documents. Within these last few years this want has been in part supplied by Prof. Des- fontaines, who has published engravings of a judicious selection of the drawings, and descriptions from the original specimens of the Herbarium, in the Annals of the Museum of Natural History at Paris, Among the figures is one of the present species, of which there is a specimen from Tournefort's Herbarium in that of Sir Joseph Banks. It now makes a first appearance in the collections of this country, having been raised by Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne from seed received through Berlin from Moscow, at which last place several extensive botanic gar- dens have been lately formed by some of the principal in- habitants. Through these means many rare and curious oriental vegetables, well suited to our climate, might be easily obtained. We are not certain whether the species is perennial or biennial. We know of none that approaches it in the abundance of bloom. The foliage is about three inches high, of a glaucous or blueish white hue; thinly hispid, with upright hairs, a longer bristle terminating each lobe of, the leatlets of the pinnated leaves, these turn yellow in the dried plant. The stem is from one to two feet high, of the thickness of a common pen, and branched from near the base to the summit, smooth or with a few straggling bristles, branches often divided. Corolla three inches or more across, salmon-coloured. Germen green, smooth, oval-oblong, narrowing towards the base: stigma violet- purple, conical, varying from with 4 to with G rays. Stamens pale straw-colour. The drawing was made iu June, at the garden of the above-mentioned nurserymen, in the King's Road, Fulham. Jyd Edward del Sub by S Ridgway Poutty Aug 118 A) Fut bE 135 . TRITONIA. refracta, Reflex Tritonia. TRIANDRIA, MONOGYNIA, Nat. ord. Ensatm. Linn. et Nobis in Ann. bot. 1. 219. Trives. Jussieu gen. 57. IRDEE. Brown prod. 302, TRITONIA. Infor. alterné spicata, distincta sputhis bivalvibus conduplicatis unifloris non aristato-laceris. Cor. supera, infundibulifor- mis sepê resupinata; limbus varié patens, sexpartitus, equalis vel in- squalis, regularis v. irregularis, brevior v. longior tubo, fauce inflata vel angustâ turbinatá. Stam. summo tubo infra faucem posita, contigua v. divergentia, iuclinata rariús trifaridm erecta: anth. à dorso pensiles y, incumbentes. Stylus filiformis. Stig. 3, membranosa, canaliculatoe linearia, replicata, rard bifida. Caps. pergaminea, ovato-rotunda ob- Îongave, tritorosa, triloc., trivalv., valvis medio septigeris margine intern& ntrinque seminiferis : sem. globosa variéve pressa, magnitudine íerê Sina- peos: albumen comeum, - Bulbo-tuberis nucleus castaneo-carnosus, frugifer quotannis reno- vandus, indusiis perennantibus membranaceis nervosis involutus, nunc per fila rhizomatosa tuberipara repens. Folia plura, collaterali-bifaria, gramineo-ensata. Caulis culmaceus, nunc polystachio-ramosus, Flores majusculi, sepiüs secundo-inflexi, ferd semper intra labium inferius nevis ( nectarostigmatibus ) trinis discoloribus sepe in callos totidem com- pressos sublevatis insigniti. Nobis in Aun. bot. 1. 227; et in Curtis's magaz. 1275. HourruvNia. Houtt. nat. hist. 12. 448; ejusd. Pf. syst. 11.599. MonnnEriA. Redouté liliac. 53. Hexaciotris. Ventenat decas gen. pl. 6. n. 3. Differt. confini SPABAXIDE, preprimis spathis mon aristato-laceris; Gwamono, seminibus non altis, lxiâ, tubo corolle ultra insertionem staminum in faucem continuato. T. refracta, spica. reflexa ; corollis erecto-secundis, resupinatis: tubo infundibuliformi, longiore limbo semiringente ecalloso ; staminibus as- cendentibus ; stigmatibus bifidis. . . Tritonia refracta. Nobis in Ann. bot. 1. 228, et in Curtis's magaz. 1975, verso fol. absque tabulá. . Gladiolus Cea. fae . coll, suppl. 26. ic. rar. 2. t. 241. Vahl enum: 9. 109. Redouté liliac. 419. Gladiolus resupinatus. Persoon syn. 1. 45. 22. . Folia angustis ensata, glauco pulvisculo irrorata, erecta, interiora longiora sesguipedalia, ima brevia vaginantia purpurascentia, caulina ramos amplec- tentia. Caulis bipedalis strictus, gracilis, remol? divaricato-subpanicu tus, infra spicam supra folia refractus, 8-4-stachyus. — Spicse simplices, reflexa ose, secunda, laxius sub-T.florm. Flores mies, arreco-resu- Pinati, | sesquiunciales. Spathm brevissima _ spha o-albicantes, aqui. valves, purpureo-striatules, acute, valvá posticá bifidá. Germ. oblongum, breve, rotundato-trigonum. Cor. viridi-ffava, infundibuli ormis; tubus ilis tereti-trigonus, continuatus in faucem longiorem turbinato-campanu- m fundo intus flavicantem et, suprà flavo-trimaculatam ; limbus subina- qualis bis brevior tubo cum fauce, laciniis ovatis ; labium summum erectum, Collaterali-divergens, concolor, laciniis lateralibus posticà versis obliquatis, media latiore subcordatá ; labium imum reflerum, connivens, subbrevius et depressius, maximá parte intens? flavescens, laciniis 3 striá medid purpured lanceolato-lineari verticali pictis, utrinque inflexis, media duplo angustiore at «equilongá ceteris, Anth. ochroleuca, fauce brevé emicantia, bast sagittate, â dorso verticali-pensiles. Stig. albida, decuroa, bifida, apiculis eroso-Jaceris. Trironta may be always known from Ixra, by a tube which is enlarged to a broader faux, below which the sta- ` mens are inserted, not as in Ixia, immediately at the foot of the limb; from Grapro:ps and BAPIANA by seed, which is neither alate (winged) nor baccate (berried); from Spa- RAXIS, to which it comes the nearest, by closer fitting un- lacerated spathes. In colour and inflection of the limb it is variable, like other genera of the order. The present is one of the rarest species of the tribe; and, as far as we can trace, has been now first introduced from the Cape of Good Hope by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy of the Hammersmith nursery, where the drawing was made in June. The stem or culm is from a foot and half to more than two feet long, of the size and appearance to be exe pected in a grass of the same stature, divided into three or our divaricate distant branches, each terminated by a spike of about 7 flowers as well as itself. The foliage consists of several grassy slightly glaucous narrow leaves, equitant and sheathing below, facing each other by the edges of the blade, reaching to the hase of the uppermost spike. Flowers fragrant, inverted, about an inch and half deep, of a pale greenish yellow colour, mottled with a deep orange yellow within the faux, and at the sides of the segments of the lower lip. Spathes very small, white, when viewed near streaked with purple, scarcely higher than the germen they enclose. Stamens ascendent, scarcely surmounting the orifice of the faux. Stigmas bifid, with uneven tips. ; A hardy greenhouse plant; requiring to be kept in peat warth, and to have the bulbs taken up, and the offaets 1e- -moved at least every second year. — —— « Corolla dissected vertically, $ Pistil Truth AC Ji d Gdiverd del > Pyl ' by Xx Jeder 1/0 p ecu My J oft “11810 156 PRUNUS prostrata. Birch-leaved Mountain Plum. ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Rosackx. Jussieu gen. 834. Div. FII. Germ. unicum superum monostylum. Nux mono- ait disperma, nuda aut swpius drupacea. Arbores aut frutices, AMYG« DALEE. PRUNUS. Suprà vol. 1. fol. 97. P. prostrata, pedunculis geminis, foliis ovatis inciso-serratis eglandulosis Subtüs tomentoso-albicantibus, caule prostrato. Labillard. syr. 15. t. 6. . Prunus prostrata, Willd. sp. pl. 2. 997. Smith prodr. ft: grat. 1. 840. . Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 199. Amygdali incanz, var. - Pallas ross. 1. 33. fab. 7 ; unicê tamen quoad Jiguram à sinistris tabule; alie ambe enim sunt reverâ Amygdali incane. | Prunus cretica montana minima humifusa, flore suave rubente. Tournef. cor. 45. i Frutex humilis, ramosior, ramis sepiüs deflexo-prostratis, cortice nig Suscescente glabro. Folia ovato-rotunda, utroque fine attenuata, eglandulosa, nervosa, serrata," suprà willosiuscula, subtùs tomentoso-albicantia, tertiam Nnciee partem circitèr longa, brevissimê petiolata : stipulæ parvulæ lanceolata. Flores subgemini, subsessiles, axillares, viz eequantes | » roseo-rabentes, Cal. tubulosus, 5:fidus, extús villosus, segmentis siellatis subcoloratis lanceo- tato-oblongis, 2-8-plô angustioribus pelalis, intàs albo-barbatis. Pet. rosacea, subrotunda, ungue brevissimo, viz longiores segmentis calycinis, Stam. 20-24 subexserta, erecta, calyci inserta serie alterne duplici: anth. peltata, rotunda, Jlavescentes, inflexa. Germ. viride, ellipticum, compressum, submudum : stylus exsuperans antheras, filiformis, ` strictus, rubidus, infernê lanatus ; stigma unilaterale, obliquum, lobiformi-dilatatum, concavum. Drupa (di- cente Labillardiére) ovata, rubra, pulpá. perpaucá obducta: nux ovata, suturis vix prominulis. Looking at the blossom, we should have thought this species had ranked under AMYGDALUS. , But the limits be- tween that genus and Prunus are decided by the stone of the fruit; the shell of this in the first genus is punctured at the outer surface by numerous small holes, nearly as fine as pores; a feature which is not found in the latter, the s el 1 of which is distinguished by the prominent sutures of the margin. And those who have had the opportunity of ex- amining the fruit of our plant, have found it ta belong ta Prunus. VOL. 11, 9 Native of particular mountains in the Levant; of Ida in the island of Crete, of Parnassus, and of Lebanon, where it is said to grow in a region elevated 1000 fathom above the level of the sea, spreading itself along the ground, which it covers with its lively peach-coloured bloom, as soon as the snow has completely disappeared from the spot. The Che- valier Pallas received samples of it from the neighbourhood of Tefflis, the capital of Georgia in Asia, but seems to have mistaken it for a variety of AMYGDALUS incana, along with - which he has figured it in the same engraving. The wood of the bush has much the appearance of our common sloe; nor is the foliage thoroughly the almond kind, and the species may be looked upon as one of the connecting links between that genus and the plum. The specimens we have scen have been about 3 feet high; the stem not procumbent, as described to be iu its native abode, but had long branches which were so bent as to lie along the ground. The foliage is of a round oval form, ta- peed at each extremity, not more than one third of an inch ong, nerved, serrate, clothed with white down on the under surface, obsoletely petioled. Flowers generally in pairs, scarcely equal to the leaves, nearly sessile. Calyr tubular, with stelately expanded segments, which are bearded on the inside. Petals roundish, 2-3 times broader, but scarcely longer, than the segments of the calyx. Sta- mens 22-24, alternating in two rows, one above the other, upright, longer than the corolla: anthers round peltate, Germen nearly smooth, green: style higher than the sta- mens, reddish, upright, bearded below: stigma unilateral lobe-shaped. According to M. Labillarditre, the plum is ovate and red, with a very thin coat of flesh, and a stone in which the sutures have scarcely any projection. ` Introduced by Mons, Cels in 1802. Hardy. Flowers in April and May. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith. . g The calyx dissected, to show the insertion of the stamens. 5 The pis! h JA y, ARTY i p/m Le Ja. Gadwcagds dol. | : persia ea Jak by $ Ridgway (GO Fuccadilly Sept. 1 1810 cf 137 CACTUS gibbosus. Mr. Vere's Melon- Thistle. ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Cacti. Jussieu gen. 310. Div. II. Petala et stamina indefinita. CACTUS. Cal. urceolatus aut longior tubulosus, squamis nume- rosis appendiciformibus sap? imbricatis tectus, suprà germen deciduus, Petala numerosa multiplici serie, summo calyct inserta, basi subcoalita, interiora majora. Stam. ibidém inserta paritér infra coalita, antheris ob- longis. Stylus longus; stig. multifidum. Bacca infera, umbilicata sguamularum vestigiis exasperata, l-loc., ad parietes seminifera; poly- sperma seminibus in pulpâ nidulantibus. Arbores aut frutices, pingues, formá varii sapiús aphylli et articulati, plerìmgue obducti spinis fasci- culatis et pilis in singulo fasciculo intermiztis. Opuntiæ stamina titilla- tione irritabilia. Jussieu gen. 311. Div. Echinomelocacti, subrotundi. C. gibbosus, oblongiusculus, 16-angularis; spinarum fasciculis in un& serie jugis costarum, alternantibus cum tuberculis totidem nudis elongato-mammosis et compressiusculis, Cactus gibbosus. Haworth pl. suce, 173. 3 uncias, diamal Turbinato-cylindricus, sordid2 virens, parùm excedens 8 uncias, diametro 2 com dimidio! castato-an, us; coste longitudinales 2 fuberculis obesis ressis coronatis areold pland fusco-tomentosd spinis sub-T validissimis acicularibus serie simplici fasciculate divergentibus (junioribus albo et fusco variis) armatá, et ex alis alternis macrioribus. Compresso-mammillaribus, glabris inermibus at lurimiim prominentioribus; in summo vertice Jari er, depressus, que pour armati orbalus et mammillaribus diminutis ` tessellatus. Flores (hic 2f axillares in fasciculis spinarum costas terminan- tium, solitarii, yit triunciales, inferis calycini virentes, superis petalini sordescentes et pallidescentes, intús candicantes, inadori. a L ylndricus squamis. obtusis appressis albidis dissité sparsis. consitus, reci prim penná mapre crassior uncialis persistens, ultrà deciduus. — Petala numerosa ` obcuneato-ligulata mucronato-obtusa, basi coalescentia, interiora longiora, vir latiora. 'Spinse recentiüs ena proféctó Erinacei similes; seniores deperdunt coloris variegationem. A species not yet received into any general enumeration of vegetables, nor till now known to botanists by the in- florescence. It has been cultivated in the hothouse of Mr. Vere, at Kensington Gore, from before 1808, and flowered in June last, for the first time. This gentleman's rdener informs us, that it was raised from seed received Tom Jamaica by Messrs, Lee and Kennedy, of the Ham- o2 mersmith nursery. It belongs to the section of the Genus arranged under the appellation of “ Echinomelocacti,” or “ Melon-Thistles,” from the form and armature of the spe- cies of which it consists, Some of these strange-looking vegetables are said to exceed two yards in girth in their na- tive places, and are composed of a succulent green flesh of one consistence throughout. In times of drought they are known to be sought for by the cattle, who after stripping off their spiny covering with their horns, devour them greedily. The entire genus, with the exception of C. Opuntia, common to both Europe and America, is spontaneous in the West Indian Islands, and the warmer parts of the american continent; where its numerous aud multiform species are said to grow from fissures in the sides of: the steepest rocks. The fruit (or fig or pear, as it is sometimes called from its shape) is esculent in most of them. 'The present specimen, the only one we have seen of the species, was not much more than three inches high, of an oblong cylindrical form, depressed at the summit, somewhat narrowed towards the base, and had 16 angles or ribs. Each rib or angle consists of a vertical rank of tubercles of two different forms, alternating one with the other, one sort having a depressed tomentose crown, armed with a diver- gênt fascicle of about 7 or 8 horny acicular thorns, the other sort narrower, free from all pubescence and armature, and projecting much beyond the other. The flowers spring from the axils of the uppermost thorny fascicles, which ter- minate each rib at the outer edge of the depressed thornless - tesselated area of the summit of the plant; these in this. instance were two, nearly 3 inches in length, externally of a reddish or liver-coloured green, internally white, scent less. Corolla composed of numerous obcuneately ligulate petals, arranged in several imbricating ranks. ermen about an inch long enclosed within the green cylindrical outwardly loose-scaled persistent calyx. : — « A flower dissected vertically, to show the stamens, style, stigmah: sad the interior of the germen enclosed in the persistent tubular porter, ) Calyx. iif te Sm dh dd : e. "nt a / D P E Q 8 4 Syd Ed vesda ded Sd hf Ayo; ij" Sedd, Fep! 1 13/6 o 138 LONICERA divica. g. : Glaucous american Honeysuckle with tawny flowers, | PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord, CAPRGLIA. Jussieu gen. 210. HAU Div. I. Calyx calyculatus, aut bracteatus. Stylus uuicus. , Corolla monopetala, oo. LONICERA. Suprá vol. 1. fol. 31. . Div. Periclymena, caule volubili. L. dioica, vesticillis subcapitatis bracteolatis, foliis deciduis subtis glaucis: summis connato-perfoliatis, eorollis ringentibus basi gibbis: Hort. Kew. 1.930. : Lonicera dioica. Lian. syst. veg. 13. 381. Hort, Kew. ed. 8... 377, . Lonicera media. Murr. in nov. comm. gott. 1776. 98. t. 3. Jdem im, Linn. syst. ceg. ed. 14.216. Schmidt arb. t. 109. | Lonicera parviflora. Persoon syn. 1. 213. ` ; Caprifolium parviflorum. Lamarck encyc. 1. 728. Pursh amer. sept: 1. 161. NN Caprifolium bracteosum, Michaux bor. amer. 1. 105. . d Frutex 9-A-pedalis trunco brevi epidermide lacero-rimosd ; ramasis, ùn- dique plaucissimus, nisi ón: facie supmd foliorum. 'Peduneuli 'erectí, termio nales. “Flores vezticillati, verticillis 2-4 subcapitalimapprozimatis, pitentábes; bractem caumunes 2 sub guague verticillo date, hrevistimas, partigen. 4 minima sub quoque germine, Germina sessilia, , conferia.. | e “ obsolet? 5-denfatus. “Cor. purpareo-fulvescens, brevis vix, quant $ unción, obliguato-ringens; tubus crassus, nervosus, basi ant: didy ‘ bosus; limbus Srdivisus, labio. summo S-fido ascendente, margine, s y imo 2-pardito laciniis divaricatis, apivaliter. convalutis. Stam. (rim) ur divergentia, exserta, incuroaia, summa breviora; fil. alba, ip. tota mre a eum pilis rarioribus omen iia pi an Supls longè ér. us súbusacialis, virens, is: stig. pŴe a ia decidua, . diatantia,: patentissima, :avato. q. elliptigo- a, $-6-kncialia latir tudine sesqui-trixnciali, subtus glaucoralbicantia, florale distans floribus conn nato-perfoliatum, catera sessilia, opposito-contigua, (Bacca ovato-oblonga, hænicea, umbilicata, carne dulci viscosd, monosperma.. Seta. Jong, compressum, ineequale, luteum.) 9n cs A hardy deciduous twining shrub, native-of North Ame- rica, where, according to Mr. Pursh, it is found from New England to Carolina. Although introduced by Mr. Peter Collinson as far back as 1766, by no means common in our gardens. A peculiarly glaucous hue distinguishes it from most others of the genus; but its claims to our attention either in point of ornament or fragrance are very slender, variety and curiosity are the principal inducements for giving it a place any where. 'The flowers are sometimes yellow, and not of a tawny purple, as in the present sort; which is however the only one we have seen. It has been called media, by Professor Murray (who was niot aware that it was the dioica of Linneus), from having a corolla of a length between that of the others of the two sections into which the genus is divided, viz. the Periclymema and the Chamecerasa. Nor can we account for the name of dioica, upon better grounds; technically it should indeed imply, that the species had flowers with only stamens, and others with only pistils, on distinct individuals. But as this is not the case here, we are induced to suspect, that dioica was meant in this instance to designate a species with a flower, partaking of the nature of that of both the above divi- sions of Lonicera. Michaux's name of bracteosum has been suggested by his assuming the Jarge connate leaf near- est the inflorescence for its bracte or involucre; but the real bractes being all very small and inconspicuous, it isa ' name too liable to mislead, and certainly inexact. The specimens we have seen have not exceeded four or five feet, with a very short stem or trunk, dividing into several branches, and having an epidermis splitting in longi- tudinal clefts. The leaf nearest the flower is connate and per- foliate, those below sessile and opposite, ovate, oblong, en- tirely patent, from three to six inches long, white under- neath; peduncles terminating the branches and branchlets. Inflorescence distant from the nearest pair of leaves, and consisting of 2-4 capitately approximated several-flowered whorls, with two shallow broad bractes below each. The corolla is little more than half an inch long; tube thick short didymously rotuberant outwards at the base; the two segments of the lower lip of the limb divaricate and rolled spirally, Filaments pubescent. Berry orange scarlet. , The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs Whit- tey, Brames, and Milne, King’s Road, Fulham. Sy) Pound, olet. i Fabi" by I Balgrwg 170 nah Fd 4 139 AMARYLLIS coranica. Corana Amaryllis. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Nancissi. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germen in- ferum. AMABYLLIDEE. Brown prod. 290, AMARYLLIS. Supra vol. 1. fol. 23. A. coranica, foliis bifariis alternê utròque versùs falcato-obliguatis serru- latis; scapo plano duplo altiore umbellâ numerosâ; corollis regula- ribus infundibuliformibus revolutis duplo longioribus pedicellis: tube duplo breviore limbo. Bulbus ovato-sphæricus, diametro sæpè novemunciali, integumentis nervoso- membranaceis fere. innumeris extern? versis in crustam crassam duram et Sragilem conferruminatis tectus. Folia 6-12, lorata, sesuncialia ad bipedalia, maximum sesguiunciam lata, glauca, suprà convexiuscula et striata. Scapus lateralis, inclinatus, plano-anceps, glaucus. Spatha bivalvis, ovato-lanceo- lata, sphacelata, lores 20-40, laziüs et comveriìs umbellati, suscessivis vesperis dispandentes, odorati, purpureo-pallescentes at subtristà e opac? : E icelli teretes, subunciales, ramentis bracteaceis interstincti, neque ac in RUNSVIGIA cum fructu clavato-elongandi, Germen breve, „oblongum, roe tundatum, polyspermum, ovulis 15 circitêr in singulo loculo biseriatim congestis. ‘Corolle tubus ‘subuncialis, rotundato-trigonus, fauce nudá ; limbus eodem. duplo longior, turbinato-campanulatus, supernê revolutus, laciniis ad basin usque distantibus, lineari-lanceolatis, subequalibus, lineas 2 circitêr latis, alternis hamato-apiculatis. Stam. § parte breviora limbo, erecto-divergentia : fil. ori tubi imposita, corolla concolora : anth. lineares, post anthesin lunulato- curvaiee, incumbentes, vibratiles. Stylus filamentorum concolor, tristriato» filiformis, parüm attenuatus, inclinatus, flori agualis : sg. punctum obtusum. Besides being new and ornamental, the present species has a claim to our interest as the first. fruit offered to the ublic from the long and arduous expedition of Mr. W. J. Burchell This meritorious traveller has recently returned to his country after an absence of more than five years, four of which have been unremittingly occupied in ex- ploring the regions adjoining the settlements at the Cape of Good Hope, in such directions and for such distances as - have enabled him to investigate vast tracts not visited by any European. Zeal for science prompted the undertak- ing, and his own purse has defrayed the expense o it. He is now preparing a narrative for publication from t e sources of a very copious journal. This will be followed by a separate work devoted wholly to natural history; ín each branch of which his collections are ample, but most extensive in Botany and Zoology. A map will prove the attention that Geography has received at his hands. The landscapes, portraits of the natives, and drawings of the various objects of his attention are both skilful and numerous. So that taking into account the industry and acguirements of this gentleman, we may justly expect one of the most instructive and amusing books which have appeared. The following are the memoranda with which he has obliged us concerning the subject of this article. “I dis- “ covered this beautiful plant in the Corana country, in the “interior of Africa, several days’ journey beyond the * Orange river, in the latitude of 28 degrees south.’ It “* grew in a grassy plain of sand, in such profusion as to re- “ mind me of a vast bed of choice flowers. The air was “ perfumed by an odour from the blossom resembling that * of the Tuberose. It begins to open its flowers in succes- “ sion about. sunset, and continues in beauty for about a “week or fortnight. The bulbs as they stood when I “ found them were nearly nine inches in diameter, of a “* spherical form enveloped in a coat formed by innume- “ rable integuments, the outermost of which were grown to- “ gether into a hard brittle mass, forming the exterior bark. “ From an estimate of the number of the integuments, I “ should judge the larger bulbs the growth of not less “ than 200 years, probably of 300. When divested of the * external exuviz, the live part does not exceed 44 inches “in diameter. Notwithstanding those I have brought “ home have been 3 years and 3 months out of ground, they * are now growing in my garden in as flourishing a state as * on their native spot, and have flowered in perfection. . In “ their own climate the bloom is produced in December, “and it is not unworthy of remark how readily they have ** yielded to the reversal of the seasons in this part of the “ globe by flowering in June.” , AMARYLLIS coranica (the specific appellation of which we have adopted from Mr. Burchell) has considerable affi- nity with Brunsvicia falcata (Curt. Mag. 1443), but is much smaller in the bloom, which is also revolute; nor are the peduncles angular ‘or continuously and clavately elongated with the ripening fruit. But the most material difference, and that which distinguishes the genera, is, that e a here the capsule is short rounded, many and closely seeded, full, and swoln abruptly above a round peduncle; but there, long turbinate acutely triangular few and tuberously seeded, always in great part empty, and egnably continuous with an angular peduncle. In foliage, however, they tally ex- actly; this in both is bifarious lorate glaucous and falcate or bent at the edge like a scythe, and towards each side alter- nately, with a slender finely serrulate membranous margin. Our plant recedes from the other also in the following fea- tures; the scape is flat acutely ancipital, more than twice as long as the inflorescence and inclined. Flowers some- times 40 in the umbel, of a dull palely shaded rose-purple, not four inches long with the peduncles. Tube obtusely trigonal, about twice as short as the limb, which is regular turbinately campanulate and revolute at the top, with narrow lanceolate segments keeping apart down to the base. Stamens a third shorter than the limb, upright and divergent. Stigma an obtuse point. Germen shortly ob- long, rounded, even, nerveless, and replete with seed. The drawing was taken from a plant in Mr. Burchell’s garden at Fulham, NOTE. In the 1217th article of Curtis's Botanical Magazine (one for which we are responsible), it is observed, that HaMANTHUS tozicarius was defective in a principal feature of that genus, but that the fruit being then unknown, its removal to another place might be as well suspended. We have now seen its fruit in Mr. Burchell's Herharium, and find it 5 be the genuine tri ue trally Jobed few.seeded membranous capsule of BRUNSVIGIA, with genus the plant agrees also in habit, and in which it should certainly be included. VOL. II. P ==, "m IN | == A fl N N Ni NY uus $7 | | N ON 4 Pi N 3 B. NUN "a ^ y PON ys Bit. Edurands del. = EOS x Ca e 7y € " Gd hy u^. Reulgway /7t. Bc aedjudly. Sept £ VON. . 140 SOLANUM decurrens. Decurrent-leaved Nightshade. E PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Vat, ord. SotANEm. Jussieu gen. i94. Dio. II. Fructus baccatus. SoLANEE. Brown prod. 443. . Div. I, Corolla limbo sepius plicato. Stamina numero laciniarum, Embryo valdê curvatus. SoLANER vere. | Brown loc. ch, Subdio, 4. Pericarpium baccatum. Id. eod, loc. SOLANUM. Supra vol. 1. fol. 71. ' Div. Aculeata. Sub-div. Corollis b.fidis, baccis calyce aucto et aculeato tectis. Am theris equalibus.. . S. decurrens, caule fruticoso villoso aculeato, foliis pinnatifidis, laciniis acutis, sinuato-dentatis, racemis cymosis lateralibus terminalibusque, Dunal solan. 232. n. 195. t. 3. D.; (sub S. Balbisii). , Solanum decurrens. Balbis ic. et descr. fasc. 1. 17. €. 1. | S. Balbisii. Dunal loc. cit. Poiret, suppl. encyc. Lamarck. 3. 776; : (sub Morelle de Baibis.) - : S. brancefolium. Jacq. ecl. 14. €. T. ` S. sisymbriifolium. Lamarck encyc. 4. 307.1. 83. Illust. gên. 2386, Persoon syn. 1. 998. Dunal solan. 939. Frutex mod orgyalis, erectus, viscido-hirsutus, aculeatus, ramosus, nau- seosd olens. Folia wiscoso-villosa, petiolata, oblonga, semipedalia et ultra, sinuato-pinnatifida, ad nervos flavo-aculeata, lobis ateralibus lanceolatis inte- ris v. repando-dentatis, summo majore ovato-acuminato, angulato, inciso-lo« ato; petioli longi aculeati, semiamplexicaules, subdecurrentes. Racemi las terales folio inferis oppositi et terminales, semipedales, multiflori, disticho- secundi, ex revolutis arrecto-evolvendi, floribus primariis 2 aut 3 hermaphro= ditis fertilibus, ceteris. sterilibus masculis > pedunculi aculeati, hirsutis pe- dicelli ebracteati filiformes flore duplo breviores, Cal. herbaceus, utrinque viscoso-villosus, extis aculeatus jn flore fertili, stellato-campanulatus, segmentis ovato-lanceolatis duplo brevioribus corolla. -Cor. candidissima, micans, subdi» aphana, extüs lanuginosa, rotata, sesquiunciam transversa, medio tenüs 5- da, laciniis lato-ovatis, breve acuminatis, distinctis sinubus acutis. Stam, declinato-conniventia, fer? triplo breviora corolla, equalia; anth. lutea, duplo mentis, curvule. Germ; parvulum, ovato-conicum, glanduloso- lon iores 4; on M villosum as (in sterilibus brevissimus) în Sertilibus (17 ms stamina, declinatus, Jliformi-clavatus : stig. continuum viride, ovato-oi ongum, eb a dymum, obtusum, pruinosum. (Bacca eroceo-rubens, subovata, pari cerasi, Bilocularis, glabra, viscosa, primüm calyce aucto tecta, dein eodem reflezo nuda, edulis.) A species recently introduced into this country, and not recorded in the last Hortus Kewensis; but which appears Pa to have been known for some time in the collections of France, Gerinany, and Italy. Its historians are not, how- ever, unanimous concerning the place of its origin; some state it to be from the Isle of France, others from South America. Mr. Anderson, who. superintends the Apo- thecaries' garden at Chelsea, informs us, that it was first raised in this country by himself from seed received from a 'garden in Germany. ' A branching upright shrub, reaching with us the height of five or six feet, clothed by a shaggy viscid pubescence intermixed with scattered spines, more numerous at the merves of the foliage; when smelled near of a disagreeable odour, somewhat like that of weeds from a muddy pond; a smell we have perceived also in the flower of Irriciuw Foridanum. Leaves 6 inches or more in length, oblong, sinuately pinnatifid, lateral lobes repandly dentate or entire, terminal lobe largest angular ovate, and cut into lobules: petioles half stem-embracing, decurrent. Racemes terminal and lateral, half a foot long, many-flowered with flowers pointing the same way in two ranks, from revolute straight- ening as the bloom evolves itself in succession; two or three primary flowers fertile, the others sterile, having an incom- plete pistil. Calyx stellately campanulate, viscidly pubes- cent within and without, armed in the fertile flower. Corolla white, glittering, and subdiaphanous, regular, about an inch and half across. Stamens equal, nearly three times shorter than the corolla: anthers twice longer than the filaments. Style clavately filiform; stigma oblong, ovate, green, sub- didymously lobed. Berry of an orange-colour, about the size of a cherry, said to be eatable, , The drawing was made in the fine collection at Mr. Vere's, Kensingtón Gore; where it is kept in the bark-bed of the stove. Jacquin speaks of it as a greenhouse plant. . e Thecalyx. 5 The stamens, thi lla is dis« ected and unlgided. c The pati ^ ay PPPear when the corolla is 10 ^L LAD HA Le tly i “MM ADNA 2) 141 ALPINÍA calcarata. Upright flowering Alpinia, MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ` Nat. ord. Canne. Jussieu gen. 62. ,. ,SCITAMINE®, Brown prod. 305. ALPINIA. Cal. superus, tubulosus, brevior, ore subtrilobo. Cor. tubulosa limbo duplici; exteriore tripartito submeguali: interiore dissimili, inter laterales exteriorum inserto, unilabiato basi utrinque denticulo aucto. Stamen fauci intra laciniam anticam extetiorum — insertutti, Filamentum lineare extra antheram non elongatum. Anthera filas inento adnata, biloba lobis distinctis, parallelis, bilocularibus, per axin longitudinalem dehiscentibus, sutura marginibus inflexis dissepl- mento, demim obsoleto, insertis. Pollen globosum, leve. — Corpuscula (stamina sterilia) parva teretiuscula basin styli stipantia. . Germ. 3-loc. loculis polyspermis, ovulis angulo interno gemino ordine affixis. Stylus filiformis longitudine filamenti iu sulco antherm receptus. Stig. dilatatum cavum obsoleté 3-gonum. Caps. 8-loc., 3-valv., polyspertna, carnosa. Sem. subrotunda, mutud pressione angulata, arillata. Infor. paniculata , "e laxé racemosa, caulem terminans. ^ Herba uromatica. Radix perennis sepiìs tuberosa, repens. Caulis simplex. Folia simplicia, 1-nervia, venis acutangulis, creberrimis, simplicissimis; petiolo vaginanti, vaginá hinc fissili, ora indè ligulam (Graminearum instar) productâ. Bractea communes caduca; partiales spathacee, cucullate. Brown loc. cit. 305, 906. (Excerptim ê caractere ordinis). A. calcarata, nectario ovato-oblongo apice semibifido, folijs ensiformi- bus, capsula hirta. Roscoe in linn. soc. transact. 8. 347. Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 1. 5. Renealmia calcarata. Andrews's reposit. 421. Globba erecta. . Redouté aa pls, dales, teretes, supernè versis ndix fibrosa, repens, caules plures, pedales, teretes, n bescentes, gwad digiti minoris. Toliorum lamina angustiìs lanceolata, pane. Inflorescentia erecta, com; yosito-racemosa ; pedunculis 2-3:floris, racteg partiales subdiaphane, albicantes. Flores albo, luteo, et punicce varii, (Ex Redoutmo.) The Scitaminee of Linnaeus correspond with the Canna ; of Jussieu. From the last Mr. Brown has drafted a portion of the genera, and collected them into a separate order, to which he restores the appellation of Scitaminea, pre- fixing that of Canmez, to the small assemblage which is left, The first he characterizes by the aroma inherent in the plants which compose it, an interior and exterior co- rolla, single stamen, anther with two lobes, and seeds hav» ing a vifellus, a multiform variable viscus of far less fre- quent occurrence than. any’ of the others which belong to seeds; usually situated between the rudiment of the future plant and the albumen, from which, however, as well as the cotyledon, Mr. Brown thinks with Gartner, that it is essentially distinct, notwithstandiug the contrary opinion of some others, That of the Cannee, which agrees in most points with the preceding, he has distinguished by an anther with one lobe only, a seed without the vitel/us, and by the want of aroma, or by that which they have being very feeble. Mr. Edwards was favoured with the specimen from which the drawing was taken by Lord Caernarvon, who had.the kindness to send ìt from his seat at Highclere in Hampshire, in June last. As we had no opportunity of seeing the blossom after the drawing was made, we shall mot attempt its description. : The species was introduced in 1804, by Mr. Aylmer Bourke Lambert, from the East Indies, where it had been . discovered by Dr. William Roxburgh. -Like the whole order it requires to be kept in the hot-house; and is propa gated by parting the root. ; | — a The pisti. à Stamens. €———— E Syd. Ci cdd eb Tec) 2 yf k Vie ey. E Ao gua. 170 GU Llyr Sep ve 1510. Smith ce 142 SEDUM ternatum, | IEEE Three-leaved american Stonc-crop, : DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA, Nat.ord. SEMPERVIVE. Jussieu gen. 907. SEDUM. Cal. inferus, 5-partitus. Pet. 5, imo calyci inserta, ealycinis divisuris numero «qualia et iisdem altema. Stam. dupla quo» rum alterna petalorum ungui inserta, alterna imo calyci: anth. su tundm. Germina petalis numero egualia, basi interiori juncta, exteriori glandnlosa glandulis sguamiformibus; styli et stigmata totidem. Caps. totidem, 1-loc., polysperma, intis bivalves, marginibus velvarum semi» niferis. Herbe succulente; folia alterna, planu aut teretia; flores corymbosi, axillares et sepiìs terminales. Jussieu gen. 307, B. ternatum, pumilum, repens} foliis planis rotundo-spathulatis ternis, eyma subtristachya, floribus sessilibus, octandris, cemtro decandro, Pursh amer. sept. 1. 394. Sedum ternatum. Michaux bor. amer. 1. 277. Persoon eyn. 1.512. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 119. Sedum deficiens. Donn cant. ed. 6. 126, Sedum octagon. Hortulanis. Sedum americanum. Herb. Banks. . Sedum annuum caule compresso, foliis obversé ovatis. Gron, virg. ed, 2. 71. Sedum saxatile floribus albis, foliis succulentis subrotundis, caule rubente, Clayt. Herb. n. 891. : e Anacampseros ternata. Haworth succ. 114. . n. . Herba perennis cespitosa: caules stricti, foliati, Aoriferi sub frgenciales, Prúinosi, subrubentes. Folia caulina plana, crassa, terno-verticillata, verticillis decussatis, glabra, semuncialia v. infra ad uncialia v. suprà ; florelia oxalidon- ceolata. Inflorescentia terminalis, numerosa, sæpiùs irifurcodrietachya fore solitaria in centro trifurcationis ; spice recurvo-divergentes, alterno-secunde, Soliate, foliis poné spicam alternantibus cum floribus, Cal. Merbaceus, 4-partitus, is lineari-oblongis, obesis, obtusiusculis, corallá j-parte brevior, Cor. alba, 4-partita, semunciam transversa, stellata, laciniis angustine (anceolatis, acuminatis, canaliculatis. Stam. 8, & breviora. corolla, equantia pistilla : anth, erectas, sagittato-ovate, rubida-brunnee, Germ. 4, al d, erecto-stellata, ob. longa, attenuata, ints suturá marginata et basi rimá labris tumidiusculis pro- minentioribus hiulca : stylus brevis continuus subulatus ; stig. punctum acutum, Squame hypogyne minute denud lutescentes, oblongo-quadrate, subdenii- formes. The species was recorded in the Flora virginica of Gro- novius (1743), but seems to have missed its Ê ace in all sub- seguent enumerations of plants, until Michaux's work ap- peared (1803), in which it stands under the present name, A native of North America, where it is found on rocks ìn the western parts of Pensylvania, Virginia, and Carolina. We know of no figure of it; although one of the hand- somest and fittest plants for covering walls or rock-work of any in our gardens; into which it was first introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1789. Begins to flower in June, and continues to do so abundantly for a considerable time. Soon forms a large close tuft, with stems about four inches high. Leaves flat, succulent, thick, in whorls of three each decussating the one the other at small dis- tances, from half an inch to more than an inch in length, those on the stem which do not belong to the inflorescence, Obovately spatulate, or with a roundish blade narrowed downwards, those more immediately connected with the inflorescence alternate, much narrower, oval lanceolate. Flowers, terminal, octandrous, generally in three many- flowered spikes, deriving from the same point at the sum- mit of the stem, and having a single decandrous flower seated at their confluence, recurvedly divergent, leafy, with flowers pointing inwards, and alternating with the floral leaves, the upper ones of which are disposed in a double row behind them. Calyx herbaceous, 4-parted, with thick linear oblong bluntish segments. Corolla white, 4-parted, about half an inch across, stellate, with narrow lanceolate channelled divisions. Stamens 8, a third shorter than the corolla: anthers reddish brown. Germens 4, white, stellate, oblong-acuminate, with a suture along the inner margin, More prominent and partly dehiscent towards the base. Hypogynous scales. minute, oblong, sguared, becoming yellow. ' The drawing was made from a plant at the nursery of Messrs Lee and Kennedy, at Hammersmith. A hardy plant, requiring the common treatment of the other sorts, í Syst. ( Awards del 2 à mt NAVA AL Gop E AR rca V TD FTrwadiliy Uct.f 1876 al yf “ Ua EU AC / Altec: y Y € . E : T 0T UM — — d — 143 PROSTANTHERA lasianthos. Villous-flowered Prostanthera. DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. Lasiavm. Jussieu gen. 110. Dio. IP. Stamina fertilia. Cor, bilabiata. Cal. bilabiatus. ' Lamata. Brown prod. 499. Div. II. Stam. 4 fertilia antheris omnium v. duorum completis, Sub- . div. B. Cal. bilabiatus. . PROSTANTHERA. Cal. tubulosus, bilabiatus, fructús clausus, tubo striato, /abiis indivisis, obtusis, Cor. 1-petala, hypogyna, tubulosa, ringens. Labium superius galeatum semibifidum, «stivatione equitans inferius S-fidum laciniá mediá majore, biloba. Filamenta sub sinubus labii inferioris interlabialibusgue inserta. Anth. bilobe (omnes completz) subtis calcarate, Germ. 4, monosperma, basi mediante stylo connexa, disco glanduloso insidentia et infrà cincta, ovulis erectis. Stylus 1, à receptaculo ortus. Stigma bifidum. Sem. (Cariopsides.) 4, calyce per- sistente recondita, Embryo erectus; Cotyledones plane. . Frutices caule 4-angulo, ramis oppositis, glandulis sessilibus. con- qus gravéolentes. Folia opposita, exstipulata, simplicia, plerdmque dentata v, crenata, petiolis basibusve cum ramo inarticulatis. Flores v. racemosi terminales, bracteis. subtendentibus caducis, o. axillares soli- fari; Pedunculis omnium juxta apicem bibracteatis. Calycis labium inferius nunc retusum, Antherarum calcaria è puncto. insertionis orta, in diversis diversa, sapŵìs bina per lobos respondentes descendentia, usque infrì adnata, altero breviore, quandoque deficiente, utriusque apice cristato. Cariopsides nucamentacea; subbaccate. Albumen nul- lum v. parcum. Brown prod. 499, et 508. P. lasianthos, folis lanceolatis dentato-serratis glabris, racemis panicu- latis, corollis utrinque hirsutis calcare longiore lobum bis superante, Brown loc. cit. 508. . 4. Hort. K. Prostanthera lasianthos. Labill. nov. holl. 2. 18. t. 157. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 426. Frutex staturâ nunc 2 arbored, erectus; rami decussoto-palentes, ad Soliorum intervalla faciebus alternis utrinque sulcati. Folia decussato-distantia, tentia. i iolata, oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, glabra, subis nercosa, Femotine arene Prats, mula Flores balsamicê odorati, fn summos ra mos folioso-paniculati, composito-racemosi ; racemulis decussato-azillaribus tera minalibusque, lurifloris; pedicellis. unifloris decussatis brevioribus corolldy y bracteolá ad basin aliisque 2 oppositis angustis paulo infra calycem stipati. Cor. subsemuncialis, albicans, furbinato-ringens, intra tubum P co pun tata ; faux lanata ; labium summum obcor: ato-rotundum, brevi 5 m, imul deflexum, crispum, 3-lobum lobo medio majore subrotundo apice an. longius, n gulatin exciso maculá rubrá didymá ad basin. Stylus equans gekam., Auth, violaceo-caerulescentes. VOL. II. 2 Native of Van Diemen's Island and New South Wales, where it forms a tall upright shrub of the height of eight or ten feet. In bloom it has a very lively appearance. The - flowers expand in rapid succession, and are quickly shed ; their scent is balsamic and not unpleasant. Branches, foliage, general and partial racemes as well as pedicles uniformly decussated and patent. Leaves sub- stantial, shortly petioled, oblong-lanceolate, pointed, smooth, nerved beneath, shallowly and distantly serrate. Jnflores- cence of composite racemes, disposed at the end of the branches in a broad pyramidal panicle; partial racemes terminal and axillary, of several flowers, pedicles shorter than the corolla, with a small bracte at their base, and two narrow subulate opposite ones just below the calyx. Calyx green, bilabiate, closing over the germen when the corolla falls off, tube striate, lips entire. Corolla about half an inch long, whitish, pubescent on both sides, tubular, turbinate, ringent, dotted with purple inside the tube; upper lip vaulted, obcordately rounded, shallowly bifid, lapping over the dower previous to expansion, the latter longer, deflectent, trifid, undulate at the edge, with a larger two-lobed middle segment having a ~ double red spot at its base. Anthers two-lobed, all of them perfect, with a spur from the lower side of each lobe, that of one lobe twice the length or more of that of the other. Stigma bifid. Cariopsides (see explanation of this term iu fol. 87) 4, like nuts, with a somewhat berried or fleshily thickened exterior coat. The generic name has been compounded by M. Labil- larditre of recoge and av noe, in allusion to the appendages to the lobes of the anthers. No drawing has yet been pub» lished from a living plant. Mr, Edwards has been en- abled to make the present by the favour of Lady Aylesford, iu whose collection at Stanmore the specimen flowered this summer.  greenhouse plant, introduced by Mr. Aylmer Bourke Lambert in 1808. We have not yet met with it in any of the nurseries near London. — — a Calyx. 5 Corolla dissected. c A stamen magnified to show the anther and the two different sized spurs. d Pistil, — a A Syd. [^ dwa "Lel d. del. Jul hy e Had Gi e i Prcadily. OHS, ¡S10. Ss SS J à ult nio e 144 PASSIFLORA minima. Curassoa Passionflower. MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. Nat. ord. Passirtoregx. Jussieu in Anuales du Muséum. 6. 102. PASSIFLORA. Supra vol, 1. fol, 13. P. minima, foliis trilobis glabris, lobis lanceolatis intermedio longiore, petiolis biglandulosis, pedunculis geminis longitudine petioli, floribus apetalis, caule basi suberoso, Willd. sp. pl. 3. 616. . Passitlora minima, Linn. sp. pl. 9. 1359. Aman. acad. 1. 299. t. 10. Jig. 19. Swartz obs. 338. Jacq. hort. t.20. Cavan. diss. 10. 144. t. 966. Hort. Kew. 3. 30y. ed. 2. 4. 151. Miss Lawr. passionfl, Passiflora hederafolia. p. Lamarck encyc. 3. 38. 1. 92; (sub Grena- dille}. P. fo) nitidis trilobis, medio angusto longiori, lateralibus quandoque auritis, fructu minore nitido baccato. Browne jam. 328. Caulis teres, glaber, 10-pedalis v. ultra, suffruticosus, deorsúm suberoso- corlicatus, Folia alterne distantia, saturatà viridia, subcordato-triloba, S-nervia, maximum 2 uncias cum dimidio longa, lobis integris acutis medio oblongo-lanceolato majore, lateralibus divaricatis, basi petiolo et margine vila losula ; petiolus semuncialis v. ultrà paulo infra laminam purpureo-biglandu- losus. Stipule parve, subulatee. Cirri intrapetiolares. Pe licelli axillares, Sepiàs gemini, uniflori, «quales petiolo at plurimüm graciliores, subpubes- centes, lazi, suprà medium crassiores et articulati. Involucrum O. Flores parvuli, luteo-virentes, Jragrantes, nutantes. Cal. viridis, Jirmilus, 5-fidus, patens, extús atro-purpurascens subdecemradiatus, tuberculo prominulo acutulo ad pedem singula divisure posito, fundus externe converus brevis et non in- trusus, lacinice ovato-oblonge, oblusulee. Cor. 0. Corona duplez, bis brevior calyce; radii extimi filiformes, obtusi, plurimi, proximi sed non contigui, infra erectiusculi indè recurwi, virides apice flavi, intimi. iisdem subalterni, duplo breviores et graciliores capitato-dilatati vel clavati, virides : operculum violaceum planum plicatum, Columna calycem subescedens, Fil. subulata ; anth. breves, oblongo-rotunde, polline flavo. Germ. globosum, glabrum, viride: styli cum stigmatibus capitato-clavati, diyaricati, Bacca spherica, violacea, glabra parva, viz piso major, The present species is among the oldest which inbabit our hothouses; having been introduced by Mr. Bentinck (afterwards Lord Portland) in 1690. Native of the dutch West India Island, Curacao, and according to Swartz of Jamaica. Very nearly akin to suberosa, but has a foliage more distinctly lobed, with the two narrower lobes. divari- cately elongated; a suffrutescent stem, which is corky and cracked in stripes at the base only, and a smaller blossom; a2 altho' not the smallest of its genus as its specific name would imply. Stem climbing, seldom exceeding ten feet. Leaves dis» tant, dark green, subcordately-three-lobed, five-nerved, largest about two inches long, side lobes narrowest and far divergent from the middle one, slightly villous at the base and margin, but more conspicuously so at the petiole, which is about half an inch long, with two small purple opposite glands just below the blade. Stipules small, subulate. Pe- dicles one-flowered axillary, generally in pairs, subpubescent, as long as the petiole but much slenderer, flexile, ‘jointed and thicker about the middle: ¿nvolucre none. Flowers small, of a yellowish green, fragrant, nutant. Calyx firm, patent, purplish-black beneath, and marked with ten radiant streaks, base shallow convex, not dinted, a small pointed tubercle at the fork of each division of the limb, segments ovate oblong, obtuse. Corolla none. Crown double, twice shorter than the calyx; external rays filiform, obtuse, many, near, but not contiguous, upright and green below, re- curved and yellow above; inner alternating with these, twice as short and twice as slender, capitately widened above; operculum plaited, of a violet colour. Column rather higher than the calyx. Germen globular, smooth, green. Berry spherical, nearly the size and colour of a black currant. The drawing was made from a plant cultivated in the hothouse at the nursery of Messrs Whitley, Brames, and Milne, King's Road, Fulham. » Us M ———— — R.R. mte. - 145 - AZALEA calendulacea. a, Flame-coloured Azalea, PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Ruovovennra. Jussieu gen. 158, Div. I. Corolla monopetala. AZALEA. Supra vol. 9. fol. 120. A. calendulacea, subnudiflora; foliis utrinque pubescentibas: adultis hirsutis, foribus amplis non viscosis, calycis dentibus oblongis, corolla tubo birsuto laciniis breviore. Pursh amer. sept. 1. 151. Azalea culendulacea. Michaux bor, amer. 1. 151. Poiret suppl. encyc, de Lamarck 1. 549. n. 9. Azalea pontica, 8. calendulacea. Persoon syn. 1. 212, (a) floribus flammeo-calendulaceis. Supra. (8) floribus croceis. Curt. mag. 1721. Ramuli novelli villosi. Folia lanceolato-oblonga villosa, ad nervos hirsu- tula, ciliata. Umbelle subfoliate pluriflore, pedicellis tubo corolla breviori« bus, viridibus, hirsutis. Cal. herbaceus, hirsutus, subbilabiatus, segmentis 2, summis oblongis obtusis submajoribus, 3 imis minimis aculis. Cor. majus flammea, bilabiata, inagualis, eztìs capitato-villosa, hirsutins ad tubum. et carinas laciniarum ; tubus obfusê angulosus, angulo superare prominentiore ceteris, ut faux intàs villosus; limbus 5-partitus, pend duplo longior tubo, 2 uncias transversus, venosus, márgine crispâ, laciniis cordatis acuminatis, mucronatis, labii summi mediá majore, distante 2 lateralibus, apice seflesd, imi 2 divaricatis subfalcato-obliquatis . lanceolato-cordatis: duplo minoribus summá medió. Stam. rubentia, exserta, declinato-assurgentia, inferno barbata willis raris, imo tubo adnata. Stylus subiriuncialis, duplum ferê corolla 3 stigma virens, depresso-capitatum, papillosum. The present variety of this species seems to be univer» sally acknowledged the most ornamental shrub in North America; where it is found on the banks of rivers and the slopes of hills in Georgia and Carolina. Bartram, in the account of his travels through those parts, has made parti- cular mention of it, and is the first author we believe who has noticed it. He describes it as producing a blossom of the richest red, orange, and gold colours, and sometimes of pale yellow and cream-colour, all sometimes in different flowers on the same plant, at other times on separate plants, He says it grows in insulated clumps, sometimes im copses and in open forests, often in dark groves with other shrubs about the bases of the hills, especially in the vicinity of brooks and rivulets: and that the bushes of it are so abundant and covered with such a profusion of bloom, that on their saddenly opening to his view as he came from dark groves, he was at first struck with the apprehension that the woods of the hill-sides on which they grew were on fire. It seldom excceds six or seven feet in height, generally not much more than three, but spreads its branches around to a considerable extent. The bloom appearing before the leaves are much developed, the blaze of its splendour is but slightly subdued by the intermixture of foliage, The colour in the plant we have shown in our figure reminds Mr. Pursh of that of a well-known variety of the Marvel of Peru (MiragiLis Jalapa), and which in fact it strongly resembles. The specilic name has been suggested to -Michaux by the flower, in his view of it, agreeing in colour with that of the common Marygold (CALENDULA officinalis). One of the yellow varieties has a strong resemblance to the AZALEA pontica. Leaves oblong lanceolate villous on both sides, more roughly so at the nerves and veins. Umbels of several flowers, fully expanded before the leaves are developed. Calyx hirsute, with an upper lip of two longer oblong ob- tuse lobes, and a lower one of three minute pointed ones. Corolla large, covered with glandularly capitate hairs, roughly so at the tube and the keels of the segments; limb almost twice the length of the tube, two inches across, veined, undulate at the edge, segments cordate, acuminate, with asmall point at the end, the middle one of the upper lip the largest, the two of the lower lip twice smailer than this and divergent. The tube and faux are villous on the inside. Stamens extending beyond the corolla; style at least three inches long, and nearly twice the length of the corolla, The drawing was made in July, at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith, the only place where we have met with the plant. As hardy as any of other species of the genus from America, and thrives like them in bog-earth. The two varieties were introduced some few years ago by the late Mr. Lyon. — — a Calyx. b Stamens. c Pistil. a A —— af >^ D | N A | y | D Ww. de ION Al kd LG y. | Hd y \ EG AM uu m. (0) ud E 7 o^ - a t us ft P. a 3i hod a SK he SE Uu, Way [JO RS ee elly 9) / / /& Mb 14 eo. Z f t : ape 11! ram 146 PULMONARIA paniculata. a. Blue-flowered panicled Lung-wort. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Bortacineæ. Jussieu gen. 128. Div. IIL . BoRAciNEm. Brown suprà in fol. 124 excerpt. PULMONARIA. Calyx 5-gonus, 5-fidus, Corolla infundibuli- formis sub5-loba erecto-patens; fauce nuda. Stigma emaiginatum, Fructus gymno-tetraspermus. Flores subcorymbosi terminales, in P. inaritimá spirati. — Quedam non asperifolie: Corolle tubus in alis culyci equalis, in aliis multo longior. Jussieu gen. 130. P. paniculata, calycibus abbreviatis quinquepartitis hispidis, foliis ovato- oblongis acuminatis pilosiusculis. — /Jort. Kew. 1. 189. Pulmonaria paniculata. — JVifld. sp. pl. 1. 769. Pursh amer. sept. 1. 131. Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 1. 292. (x) floribus czruleis. (8) floribus albis. Caulis 2-3-pedulis, erectus, striatus, asperiàs pubescens, ramosus. Folia sparsa, distantia, decrescentia, ovato-lanceolata, hispido-scabra, pube brevi, nervosa nervis infra peripheriam anastomazantibus, acuminata, tn petiolum subalatum attenuata, longiora subtriuncialia. Panicule sulfoliose, ex axillie summorum foliorum et terminales, hispide, plurjflore, nutantes, floribus per paria approximatis, supremis confertioribus : pedicelli recurvati, breviores corolla. Cal. abbreviatus, campanulatus, hispidus, segmentis lanceolato-acu» minatis, cingentibus basin tubi. Cor. caduca, semunciam superans, ez TOCOS rubente coerulescens, lucida, tubuloso-campanulata, glabra; tubus crassus, cylindricus basi tumidiusculus, intüs barbatus et cinclus fauce tandulis 5 breve prominulis rotundatis luteis alternantibus cum filamentis ; limbus oblongo-campanulatus, obsolet2 pentagonus, brev? Bfidus, lobis rotundatis, patulis, transversim latioribus. Stam. inclusa, erecto-conniventia ; fil. fauci Juztà infra glandulas inserta, membranacea, subspathulato oblonga, nervo medio longitudinali introrsüm prominent ; anth, lineari-oblonga, filamento sublongiores, â dorso receptaculi supra fissuram basi, affiza, erecta. Stylus persistens, cegquans stamina, tetraquetro-setaceus, basi connectens cariopsides 4; stigma apicula obtusa tumidiuscula. A hardy ornamental perennial species, native of Hud- son's Bay. Not figured in any work known to us; altho introduced by Dr. Solander as far back as 1778. Even now not common in our collections. The drawing was taken at the. nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy at Hammersmith, the only garden we have ever seen it in. Stem 2-3 feet high, streaked rough, branched. Leaves scattered, distant, ovately lanceolate, hispid, pubescence short, nerved, nerves confluent a little within the margin, tapeted towards the base into a short subalate pefiole, the largest about three inches in length. Panicles leafy, from the axils of the upper leaves and terminal, hispid, several- flowered, nutant, flowers in each approaching by pairs, uppermost closest: pedicles recurved, shorter than the co- rolla. Calyx very short, campanulate, hispid, segtnents acuminate. Corolla somewhat more than half an inch long, soon falling off, young of a rosy red, full blown of a shining $ky-blue colour, smooth, tubularly campanulate; tube wide, cylindrical, swelled at the base, bearded inwards, and sur- rounded at the faux by 5 shortly prominent roundish glands alternating with the filaments; /imb oblong-campanulate, obsoletely pentagonal, shortly five-cleft, lobes rounded, patent, broader than long. Stamens enclosed, upright, connivent; filaments inserted at the faux just below the five glands, membranous, oblong, subspathulate, with a pro- minent midrib; anthers linear-oblong, rather longer than the filaments, appended from the back of the receptacle of their loculaments, upright. Style persistent, equal to the stamens, tetragonally setaceous, connecting by its base the usual four naked seeds (cariopsides); stigma a small swollen obtuse point. : Will do with the usual treatment of hardy perennials. Propagated by seed, and by parting the root, There is a variety with white flowers, a Calyx. 5 Corolla dissected. ç Pistil ; Liarnals. dedo: ly d s Sy wuy T7171717177177T77 T7 E € “ e ya : Smith. a. 147 CENOTHERA odorata, Curled-leaved (Enothera, OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Nat. ord. OnacrE. Jussieu gen. 317. à Di. III Stylus unicus. Fructus capsularis, Stamina petalorum upla, GNOTHERA. Cal. monophyllus; superus, longus cylindricus Spice deciduus cum limbo 4-partito, Pet. 4, summo calyci inserta, ejusdem laciniis alterna. Stam, ibidém inserta; anth. oblonge iocum- bentes. Stigma 4-fìdum. Caps. longa cylindrica sub4-gona 4loc. 4valv. polysperma, valvis medio septiferis, seminibus nudis numerosis angulatis receptaculo centrali affixis. Herbe, quedam lignosa; folia alterna ; flores solitarii axillares. Jussieu gen. 319. CE. odorata, foliis lineari-lanceolatis subdentatis undulatis, caule villosó suffruticoso. Jacq. ic. rar. 3. t. 456 KEnothera odorata. “Jacq. coll. 5. 107. Willd. sp. pl. 9. 308. CEnotliera undulata. Hort. Kew. ed. 9, 2. 342. («) caule, nervis foliorum, calyce, germinegue rubentibus, (8) caule, nervis foliorum, calyce, germineque virentibus. Suffruticosa, perennis. Caulis sesqui-bipedalis de propa basin ramosus & Soliatus [in plantis annotinis modo simplex] ; rami nunc plurimi hirsutida villosi, ad hyemem usque procrescentes et flores successive promenies. Folia sparsa, distantia, sessilia, lanceolata, deorsum parùm angustata, sursŵm longè cuspidato- attenuata, utrinque villosa, lucido-virentia, undulata, preprimis Epira Roralia que basi ovata, inferiora modo explicata atque plana, denticulis paue tissimis remotis callosis obscuriüs marginata, costá mei iâ cum nervis seme v. octonis longitudinalibus, longiora 3-4 uncialia, summa latiora modo parüm infra unciam basi transversa. Flores in summis foliis axillares, successtyi, solitarii, sessiles, odorati, vesper? ezpandentes, mane croceo-emarcescentes, Germ. sub- tetragonum, villosum, longius tubo calycino. Calyx villosus, sesquiuncialis z tubo recto tereti striato; limbo deflezo â parte ferè longiore ; segmentis justa infra apicem cornuto-mucrenatis. Corolla lutea 2 uncias vel magis transversa 3 pet. lato-obcordata, emarginaturá profundâ et acutá. Stam. $ parte breviorg corolla. Stigmata 3-plo breviora stylo. ' The present species was first raised in Europe in 1790, from a collection of seeds made by the surgeon of a mer- chant-ship, at Port Desire (a harbour on the eastern coast of Patagonia, frequented by vessels on their passage to the Pacific Ocean). - Sir Joseph Banks purchased the parcel which was brought home, and presented a part to Pro- fessor Jacquin; by whom our plang has been figured in the “ Icones plantarum rariorum,” and its history given in his VOR Ih B * Collectanca;” where the native place is said to be on the banks of Champion river; a river npknown to Geo- graphy. Both the figure and history escaped the learned editors of the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis, until the species had appeared in that work under a new name, as unrecorded. "Ihe oversight was subsequently detected by Mr. Brown, and we now give tbe species by the prior ap- pellation. A tolerably hardy perennial plant, of the easiest cultis vation, growing almost anywhere, and scattering the seed spontaneously, bv which means a sufficient succession of young plants may be obtained without trouble. The stem never dies completely down, even in the open air, but in the greenhouse it is said to survive completely, and become an evergreen, Sometimes destroyed by very severe frost. Now very common in our gardens, and de- servedly so, from the elegance and singularity of the foliage and fragrance of the bloom. 'This last expands about sunset, and fades at.sunrise; and the branches con- tinuing to grow in length thro’ the whole summer, till stopped by the frost, a long succession of flowers is kept up. Stem from one to two feet high or more, simple or numerously branched, leafy from near the foot to the sum- mit, sometimes green, sometimes deep purple throughout. . Leaves scattered, distant, sessile, lanceolate, far tapered, somewhat ovate at the base, slightly villous on both sides, not smooth as described in the Hortus Kewensis, upper ones conspicuously undulate, lower less so and sometimes quite flat, all of a deep shining green colour; sometimes with purple, sometimes with pale green nerves, Flowers yellow, solitary, sessile, axillary in the upper foliage. Calyx pale green or purplish, an inch and half long; tube a fourth shorter than the deflectent limb. Petals, when fully ex- panded, little less than two inches over, obcordate, deeply and sharply emarginate. Germen longer than the tube of the calyx ; sometimes green, sometimes purple. : The drawing was made from a plant in the Apothecaries’ Garden at Chelsea. ' ——M a Seed-vessel before it becomes dry. ——M————M—————— IIA ——M ———— . Syd Edwards TP Jut hy PR lg way 176 Pweadlly (os E: INFO 148^ ; / J nul aiy 148 POGONIA ophioglossoides. Adder's-tongue-leaved Pogonia. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, Nat. ord. Oncmnazm. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 809. Div. JHI. Authera terminalis, inserta, persistens. Masse pollinis v. pulver&e v, è corpusculis angulatis: basi v. infra apicem affizw. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 901. POGONIA. Labellum sessile, eucullatum, intüs cristatum. Pe- tala 5 distincta, eglandulosa. Pollen farinaceum. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 203. P. ophioglossoides, radice fibrosa, scapo dissitê bifoliato 1-0-floro, foliis ovali-lanceolatis, labello fimbriato. Pursh amer: sept. 2. 590; (sub ARETHUSA). E ` Arethusa ophioglossoides. — Linn. sp. pl. 9. 1346. Michaux bor. amer. 2. 159. Lamarck illustr. t. 729. f. 2; (de sicco). Willd. sp. pl. 4, 80. Arethusa radice fibrosa, scapi folio ovali, foliólo spathaceo lanceolato. Gron. virg. ed. 2. 139. Cypripedium folio eaulino orato-oblongo, terminali lanceolato plano. Gron. virg. ed. 1. 110. " . Helleborine virginiana ophioglossi folio D. Banister. Pluk. alm. 189. f, 93. f. 9. .H. antica flore in summo caule unico carneo, barba purpurea fimbriata, foliis ophioglossi, radice fibrosa. Clayt. MSS. n. 77. ynn Radix crassé fibrosa, simplicior, rigida, horizontalis. Caulis erectus, simplex, bifoliatus, uncias 5 altus. Folia 2 semivapinanti-desurrentia, laming obali-lauceolatâ 9-5-nervi, inferioris subsesguiunciali, superioris viz semunciali, Flos 1 (viz 2?) semuncialis, nutans 1 oblongo-semicampanulatus, semiringens : pet. 5, dilutiìs lilacina, fornicato-ascendentia, isometra, 9 exteriora diver entia lineari-lanceolata duplo a Hora ma, isve, concava, 2 interiora oba Soato-oblonga sub summo hod inbrizato-conntoentia. , Labellum viz longius, Pandurato-obovatum, fimbriá brevi patente pectinato-inctsá fransoersê purpureo- striatá barbatum, intus pilis densis suprà aquatis infernt versüs decrescentibus cristatum, basi subventricosum, Columna transvers? striata lineis purpureis, duplo brevior et appressa labello, semiclavata, dorso rotundata, facie, ana, aw pra utrinque dentato-fissa lobulis contiguis, inferne complexa marginibus involu- tis unguis labelli, Operculum anthers antrorsim columne continuo-connerum. This singular little plant was introduced by Mr. Nuttall, to whom our collections are indebted for several of their rarest specimens. Native of North America, from Ca- nada to Carolina, and grows in mossy bogs and swamps. Although well known in our books, and represented by two figures from dried spontaneous specimens ;, it has, we be- R2 4 lieve, never till now been introduced into any european garden, nor been represented anywhere from the living lant. Root perennial, fibrous, fibres thickish, simple, wiry, horizontal. Stem under six inches high, upright, simple, two-leaved, one-flowered. Leaves halfstem-embracing and decurrent, blade oval-lanceolate, three-nerved, that of the lower leaf an inch and half long, of the upper scarcely half an inch. Flower nutant, oblong, semicampanulate, semi- ringent, about half an inch long: petals 5, of a palish pink: or lilac colour, ascendent, vaulted, of one length, three outer ones divergent, linear-lanceolate, concave, twice the nar- towest or more; inner iwa obovately oblong, converging imbricately under the arch of the mìddle of the three outer- most. Lip scarcely longer than these, obovate, somewhat contracted at the sides below the middle, bearded by a nar- row pectinated purple-streaked horizontal fringe round the front edge, beset within by a level-topped crest or comb of compact hairs, growing shorter as they descend inwards, unguis or narrow part somewhat tumid or enlarged at the base. Column twice shorter than the lip to which it is pressed down, semicylindrically clavate, streaked trans- versely by purple lines, rounded at the back, flat in front, clasped at the base by the inflected sides of the unguis or narrow portion of the lip, at the top dentately cleft on each side, lobules contiguous. Anther persistent. Pollen mealy. We had not an opportunity of examining the anther and stigma so completely as we wished. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Col- ville, in the King’s Road, Chelsea. ‘The plant is most probably quite hardy; but in order to secure its flowering it was planted in bog-earth, and the pot placed in a pan of water m the hothouse, as soon as the roots arrived from America. Without this treatment we should most likely not have been enabled to have procured the present figure of it. — a The outline of an artificially extended flower. 5 ‘The-column with the anther turned up ous of its place of insertion. oo o —_—>—— — —_——_ ___—_ — we W i E 1 ^ 9, T p py zo. neq. "n : Ee IE / Fy C arre unb i /; Pwt by um Av nt AI AZ V, Orbe f f^ VA ` South Ta 149 CAMPANULA coronata, Crowned siberian Bell-flower. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Wat. ord. Campanutacen. Jussieu gen. 163. Div. I. CAMPANULACEE. Brown prod. 550. Sect. I. - Corolla monopetala regularis. Antheræ liberse, CAMPANULA. | Suprà col. 1. fol. 56. —- € eg ——— . Div. foliis levioribus. . C. coronata, foliis radicalibus petiolatis cordatis subdaplicato-serratis ; ` caulinis sessilibus lanceolato-linearibus integerrimis, rigidis: corona subcallosa tubulosa; seguali et inclusa basibus dilatatis filamentorum. Campanala liniphylla. — 1 inscribitur specimen sibiricum spontaneum Pallasio receptum, absque foliis radicalibus in Herb. Banks. reposi- tum. Campanula foliis linearibus rigidis integerrimis longissimis, spica tere minante secunda, Gmel. sib. 3. 162. f. 33. fig. 8 ; (pessima ; delineata ad exemplarium siccatum mancum sine foliis radicalibus ).. Herba perennis, graveolens, Folia difformia, radicalia lato-cordata, acuminata, duplicato-v. ineguali-dentata, subbiuncialia, lenta. 3 petiolus la- mine subequalis: caulina firma, multifariam sparsa, remotiuscula, erectos patentia, sessilia, lineari-lanceolata longe attenuata, costâ caniculata. et curia nata, tactui scabriuscula, ad lentem infra subvillosa, longiora suMriencialis, viz tres lineas lata. Caulis rigidus sesqui-bipedalis, simpler, striato- teres salurat? viridis, infern® foliosus, racemo paniculato terminatus, tactub scabriusculus et ad lentem pubescens. Panicula remota, subpyramidata, pedalis, pedicelli erecto-patentes, bracteâ acuminatá suffulti indè und aut alterâ suprà stipati, superiores unjflori, inferlores pauci divisi, ad summam triflori ; flores cernui, violaceo-cerulescentes, inodori, a eg excedentes 4 partes uncie. Cal. stellato-patens, segmentis angustis subulatis glabris 5-gui2s pene breviori» bus corollá. ` Cor. inflatins campanulata oblongiuscula, longitudinaliter rugosa, stubplicato-5-nervis, sub limbo obsolet? constricta, lobis 5 brevibus angulari-ücu- minatis, recurvulis, cqualibus. Germ. saturate virent, parum longius calyce, oblongum, angulosum, glabrum; summo disco auctum coroná cartilagined cyathoideo-tubulosá, lutescente, superna extis lanuginosd, margine subdeniato« repandá, contectá filamentorum basibus dilatatis et iisdem equali. Stam. £ breviora corollá ; filamentorum bases membranose lineari-oblongee utrinque laná allá marginale indêgue implezo continentes 3 anth. erecto-continte, wide bute. Stylus erserfus, clavato-teres, violaceus, erectus; stig. 3, $3, srassins linearia, pruinoso-pubescentia, revoluto-replicata. A rare species, not recorded in any general system of vegetables Phor known in our collections until introduced last year by Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, from Moscow, by way of Berlin. From a spontanee speci- nen, without radical leaves, received from the Chevalier Pallas, under the name of CAMFANUtA liniphylle, and de- posited in the Banksian Herbarium, we know it to be native of Siberia. The figure and description in thé Flora Sibirica ef Gmelin have been taken from an imperfect dried plant; and the present are the only ones published from the living plant. We have not retained the specific title of liniphylla, as there existed already a species known by that of linifolia. 'The name we have given refers to tbe crown on the disk of the germen; a feature completely anomalous in the genus, as far as the species are known. A perennial hardy herb, with a rank disagreeable smell. From a foot to a foot and half high; leaves of two forms; radical broadly cordate, acuminate, doubly or unequally dentate, with a petiole about equal to the blade: cauline scattered, sessile, substantial, not close, uprightly patent, linear-lanceolate, far tapered, channelled and keeled at the midrib, rougliish to the touch, seen through a magnify- ing glass shortly subpubescent, the longest three or four inches long, scarcely three lines broad. Stem upright, round, striate, simple, leafy downwards, stiff, terminated by a pa- niculated, somewhat pyramidal raceme of distant flowers, nearly a foot in length; pedicles uprightly patent, with a leaf- like bracte at the base, and one or two above, upper one- flowered, some of the lower three-flowered. Corolla cer- nuous, of a violet-blue colour, scentless, scarcely exceeding three fourths of an inch in depth, campanulate, slightly jnflated, oblong, vertically wrinkled, nerves five, plaited, a faint constriction below the limb; segments short, angularly acuminate, recurved, equal. Filaments dilated at the base into linear oblong membranes, which are connected together by a short white woolly fringe at the edges. Style extruded be- yond the corolla, violet; stigmas 3, green, revolute. Germen crowned at the summit by a pale yellow cartilaginous hol- low cylinder downy upwards on the outside, enclosed within the bases of the filaments, to which it is equal in length. The drawing was made in July last, at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, in the King's Road, Fulham. Of the easiest cultivation in any situation in the Open ground. a Stamen with dilated base. ò The flower stripped of the corolla and stamens; magnified. c Stigmas. d The crown, as seen when uncovered. € Segments of the calyx. fA flower with the corolla removed. 4 The bases of the filaments which cover the crown, g The sti they ape pear before they diverge. . & The stigmas as ey ^p Eu. Lat oe LU = End 150 POLYGALA speciosa. . Large-flowered Cape Milkwort, DIADELPHIA OCTANDRIA. Nat. ord. PenicuLares. Jussieu gen. 99. Div. I. Stamina non didynama, 2 aut plura. , POLYGALA. Cal. 5-partitus, laciniis 2 longè majoribus ale formibus sap? coloratis. Cor. convoluta in tubum supra fissum, limbo. 2-labiatum, labio superiore bipartito fisso, inferiore concavo subtîs bars bato aut imberbi, intus obtegente stamina in duas fasces collecta; anth. 1-loc. Stig. subbifidum. Caps. ( Legumen biloculare) compressa, ob- cordata. Herbe aut frutices; Jolia plerdmque alterna; flores 1-3-brace teolati, alterni, larè aut dense spicati, terminales. Jussieu gen. 99. P. speciosa, crìstata, fruticosa, appendice duplici, racemis ebracteatis . Subterminalibus multifloris, foliis alternis oblongo-cuneatis glabris, Curt. mag. 1780. ‘ Polygala speciosa. Herb. Banks. . Frutex suborgyalis, Junceo-virgata, ramis novellis tumidiusculis, Folia sparsa, laxa, lineari-oMonga, angusta, subcuneata, sessilia, deorsum attenuata, Hacemi terminales, lar? spicati, erecti, multiffori, rachide interrupt? angulosá, pedicellis 1-Aoris, 3-plo brevioribus flore, lanuginosis, Hexilibus, decurois, basi cinctis bracteolis 2-3 deciduis. “Flores 3 partes uncia: longi, penduli, violaceo-purpurascentes. Cal. segmentis tribus duris livido-virentibus obtusissi- mis, 3-plo brevioribus lateralibus 2 am; lis alzformibus coloratis falcato« rotundis. Cor. subtripetala, bilabiata; labium supremum verillum bipetali« num tubuloso-convolutum, parüm longiâs segmento supremo cis, incumbens Parte imá interiore caring; infimum carina monopetala follicularis, alig calycinis sublongior, falcata, compressa, assurgens Hexurá ventricosd, acumie natá, fissurá interná ventrali labris villosis arè conniventibus, subtis infra apicem educens cristam amplam bipartitam decompositam multifidam concolorem porrectam, Stam. in; tubuloso-monadelpha fissurá verticali ciliatá, ind distincta: anth. erecte, Jilamentorum. subi vato-continue, 1doculares, sube urnato-cylindrice, apice dehiscentes ore obliqua revolutim marginato hing lanceoluto-appendiculato : pollen subfluido-grumosum, | aureum, splendens, Germ. parvulum, compressum, obcordatum gi brum, biloc., loculis Tespermis stylus subfusiformis, rigidus, robustus, de medio arrecto-inflexus, E deque roseo-rubescens, infra attenuatus, è puncto gracili insertus germini, latere interiori barbatus + stigma amatum, anticê pubescens et rima longitudin incisum, : The finest species known of the genus; recently in- troduced into cur gardens, and not incorporated, in any Systematic arrangement of vegetables. Native of M: e ape of Good. Hope, where specimens have been collec - y late Mr. Masson, and deposited in Sir Joseph Banks's Her» barium by the name we have adopted, . ; VOL, H. 3 A greenhouse shrub, growing to the height of six or seven feet, perhaps higher, branching upwards with nu- merous rusby twigs, generally thickened or swollen towards the end, altogether reminding us of those of thé Spanish Broom. Leaves scattered, rather distant, linear- oblong, narrow, somewhat cuneate, with a small point, ses- sile, tapered downwards. Racemes terminal, spiked, loosely flowered, upright; rachis, or general stalk, interruptedly angular; pedicles one-flowered, three times shorter than the corolla, downy, bending; bractes 2 or 3 at the base of each, minute, deciduous. Flowers large, about 3 parts of an inch long, of a violet-purple colour, but when dried fading to a pale rose or flesh colour. Calyx with 3 hard round- pointed segments of a livid green, three times shorter than. the two larger petal-like ones of the sides, which are round _ and coloured. Corolla of 3 petals, bilabiate; upper lip a Small vexillum or standard of two petals rolled together into a tube, but little longer than the upper segment of the calyx and resting upon the lower portion of the keel or under petal; under lip.a keel or carina of one petal, folli- tular, rather longer than the wings of the calyx, falcate, compressed, ventricose at the bend, acuminate, edges of the fissure ciliate and connivent, bearing beneath from below the apex a large bipartite decompoundedly multifid crest of its own colour and projecting horizontally; a part when inspected through a magnifier of great beauty. Stamens tubularly connate below, with a ciliated. fissure above: anthers upright, continuous with the filaments, one- celled, cylindric, opening by an urn-like orifice, revolute at tbe edge, and projecting a lanceolate appendicle from the under part; pollen grumous, of a shining yellow colour like the shell-gold used for painting in water-colours, Style fusiform, rigid, bent upwards. Stigma hooked. Cells of the germen one-seeded. 'The drawing was taken from a plant in the collection of Mr. Griffin, at South. Lambeth; by whom we understand the species was introduced. We also received a specimen from Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, of the Hammersmith nursery. As yet a rare plant. a The calyx, showing the two alate or petal-like segments. ó The stamens. e The superincumbent vexillum of two petals, «c The pistik d The carina, boat, or keel, ^ E - Q Syd O RAE del 7 2. Tu Suath. scalp v TA by S Iesus (JO Frecadilly Nave : /. MW NW rr me AR 151 AMSONTA latifolia. Broad-leaved Amsonia. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. AvocinEm. Cal. 5-divisus, persistens, Cor, 1-petala, hypogyna, regularis, 5-loba, sestivatione imbricata, decidua. Stam, epipetala, laciniis limbi alterna. Fil. distincta. Anth. 2-loc., longitu- dimalitêr dehiscentes. Pollen granulosum, stigmati immediatê applici- tum. Germ. 9, v. 1 biloc., in plurimis polyspermum. Styli 2, v. 1, Stig. 1. Fructus follicularis, capsularis, drupaceus, v. baccatus, duplex ¿vo simplex. Sem. sepissimê albuminosa. Embryo foliaceus. Plumula “inconspicua. Arbores v. Frutices (modo Herbe) sepà lactescentes. Folia opposita, nune verticillata, raro sparsa, integerrima, ciliis glandulisoe interpetiolaribus sapids instructa. Inflor. subcorymbosa. Brown prod. 1. 465. Div. IT. Semina non comosa. Fructus bifollicularis. Id. eod. AMSONIA. Contorta. Cor. infundibuliformis, fauce clausa. Folliculi 9, erecti, — Sem. teretia, nuda, apicibus obliqué truncatis, Stigma margine annulari. Folia alterna. Persoon syn. 1. 269. A. latifolia, caule glabriusculs, foliis ovali-lanceolatis superioribus pro» missê acuminatis subtüs ad nervos pubescentibus, Pursh amer. sept. 1. 184. - Amsonia latifolia. Michaux bor-amer. 1. 321. Persoon syn. 1. 269. Hort. Kew, ed. 2. 9. 72. Amsonia Tabernemontana. Walt. carol. 98. Tabernemontana Amsonia, Linn. sp. pl. 1.308. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. 300. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1246. . Anouymos suffruter, &c. &c. Gron. virg. ed. 2.35. . . Apocynum virginianum, asclepiadis folio, floribus pallidà czruleis, radice crass, Pluk. phyt. t. 115. fig. 3. Herba, radice perenni. Caulis ramosus, erectus, teres, slater, superna lividus. Folia sparsa, distantia, erecto-patentia, lanceolata, breviüs petiolata, 2-3-uncialia v. magis, subtàs pallido-pruinulata (in spontaneo villosa. J, ciliolata, Flores terminales, laz? paniculati, subcymosi, ceerulei, Violam vedolentes * edicelli bracteolâ squamiformi suffulti. Cal. lividus, parvulus, lobulis acutis. Or. erecta, semunciam subexsuperans, tubulosa, angusta, in Jaucem parúm latiorem increscens, limbo 5-parttto tubo Y parte fer? breviore, stellato, laciniis lineari-oblongis, concavis, obtusis : faux barbá allá supra stamina diffusâ et implexá infra ea deflexâ clausa. Stam. ori fawcis inserta, barbá nidulantia conniventia : anth. longiores filamentis brevibus, à dorso su à maculato ap- pense, subdidymo-biloculares, ovate, sursüm attenuate. Germ. s lymo- conicum, breve, glabrum: styli 2 filiformes, concreti, vel soluti: stigma viride, crassum, depresso-capitatum, suturá transversá suprà, subtüs margine albá annulari deorsúm spectante cinctum. 62 Said by Mr. Pursh to grow in wet shady woods ìn Carolina. With us a tolerably hardy perennial plant, of easy culture, and long known iu our gardens. The stem dies down annually; this is round, upright, branching, smooth, aud of a livid or bluish green above. Leaves scattered, distant, upright-patent, lanceolate, shortly petioled, two or three inches long, somewhat downy beneath (villous in spontaneous specimens), shortly ciliate. Flowers blue, terminal, loosely panicled, tending towards a cyme, having a fragrance resembling that of the Violet: pedicles with a small scalelike bracte. Calyx small, livid, lobules acute. Corolla upright, rather longer than the half of an inch, tubular, narrow, slightly enlarged towards the faux, limb 5-parted, nearly a third shorter than the tube, stellate, segments linear-oblong, concave, obtuse: fauv closed by a white pubescence. Stamens inserted at the orifice of the faux, and buried in the pubescence, connivent: anthers Jonger than the short filaments, subdidymous, tapering up- wards, spotted at the back. Germen conic, as if of two parts, short, smooth: styles two grown together, seldom separated: stigma green, thick, depressedly capitate, tra- versed above through the centre by a straight suture, sur- rounded underneath by a white annular deflectent- ledge. Although so long known in Europe, we can find no figure of it, except the diminished engraving, from a dried specimen in Pluknett's work. The present drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, King's Road, Fulham. We have omitted the synonym of Miller's Dictionary, as a white flower without scent, is there spoken of. a The calyx. 5 A corolla dissected vertically. c Pistil. Smath souh ot MAS (ja Sieaddly N Sub. by £ Ridywa jd. Clwb del: 152 PASSIFLORA incarnata. g. ` Flesh-coloured Passionflower ; with purplish fruit. MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. Nat. ord. PassirLorE=. Jussieu in Annales du Muséum. 6. 100. PASSIFLORA.. Supra vol. 1. fol. 13. P. incarnata, foliis trilobis serratis, lobis oblongis acutis, petiolis bi- glandulosis, involucro triphyllo, foliolis lanceolatis glanduloso-dentatis, filis corone corollâ longioribus. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 621. Passiflora incarnata, Linn. sp. pl. 2. 1360. Amen. acad. 1. 930. ñ. 19. €. 10. fig. 19. 4. B. C. D. E. Mill. dict. ed.8. n.1. La- marck encyc. 3. 40. Walt. carol. 223. Miss Lawr. passionft. Hort. 7 Kew. 3. 310. ed. 8. 4. 153. Michaux bor-amer. 2. 37. Push amer. sept. 9. 445. Barton's elem. of bot. ed. Lond. cum tab. ( Omissis passim synonymis Jacguini et Cavanillesii, que aut non hujus loci aut conficta). ; pallo foliis trilobis. Gron. virg. ed. 2. 140; (ex specimine arche- typo apud Herb. Clayt. in Mus. Banks.). ` P. foliis crenatis tripartito-divisis, Pluk. adm. 981. . i Granadilla folio tricuspide, latè scandens, flore amplo specioso urpureo alboque variegato, fructu magno ovato. Fructus â nonnullis inter , edulia habetur. Clayt. n. 151. Granadilla hispanis, Flos Passionis italis. Hern. mer. 888. t. 890. Granadiglia overo Fior della Passione. Tab. sen. Napoli 30. oct. 1622. Fra Donato d'Eremitâ. (A single plate in Sir Joseph Banks's Li- ._ brary.) IN aq. Clemats trifolia s. Flos passionalis, flore viridi. Moris. hist. 9. 6. sect. 1.t.1.fíg. 9. . : man. dedica repens triphylla s. folio hastato. Ambr. phyt..89. t. 90, Murucuja maliformis alia. Marcg. bras. 21. t. 71. . . Maracoc s. Clematis Virginiana. Park. parad. 393. t. 395. fig. 7. Maracot indicum. Hort. farnes. 49. t. 50, 52. aditi Vera e natural effigie della pianta indiana chiamata Maraco, Granadilla, e fior della Passione D. N.S. (Tobia Aldini, Venetia a di 28 luglio. 1620). Single plate in Sir J. Banks's Library. Vera " ad vivum. expressa effigies folii et floris plante Maracd vulgà nominate Flos Passionis; qualis floruit horto Joannis Robini botanici regii mensibus Augusto et Septembri 1612 & 1613. ( A single plate in Sir Joseph Banks's Library.) o. WN (a) foliis vag et ad nervos Ptbvillosis ; germine villoso; bacca viridi- lutea. WR (4) foliis nudiusculis; germine glabro; bacca e nel angus Frutex altè et latè scandens, ramis Jo basi fr yin orá Pico dosis, modo subvillosis. Folia profundiüs tritoda, Tobis obl vatis acutis sim? deflexa, lucido-virentia, modò subvillosa, " o Mcd: serratis dentibus apice decurvis cl glanduloso-incrassaiós, ip tico: petioli suprà canaliculati, juxtà infra laminam biglandulosi. Stipulae parve, lineari-subulate. Cirri longiores foliis. Flores axillares, solitarii, pedunculo triguetro breviore foliis. Involucrum parüm distans flore, tri. phyllum, equale, connivens, vix attingens ultra tubum calycis ; foliola rhom- beo-ovata, lanceolata, glanduloso-serrata. Cal. sesquiunciam longus, crassus, spongiosus, fundo extüs profundo intrusus, inferne pro & parte campanulato- tubulosus, indè 5-partitus, rotatus, segmentis oblongis intüs albicantibus lanis, extüs wirentibus carinatis, cariná altá mucrone falcato terminalâ. Pet. tubo calycis imposita, parim breviora at plurimum angustiora et tenuiora ejusdem segmentis. Corona multiplex, conferta, crispa ; radii gradatim ab enterne brevissimis papilliformibus et numerosis ad extern calcem equantsima, in orbem patentissimi, setaceo-filiformes, flexuosi, violaceo et albo varii. Oper- culum plicatum, violaceum, incumbens septo ascendente nectarit. Nectarium album, tubulosum, subbicameratum, septo medio incompleto deflexo. Columna inclusa, violaceo-maculata. Germ. viride, ovale, glabrum, exsulcum. Anth. viridi-lutee. Styli clavati, stigmatibus continuis subdidymo-capitatis, obliquis pruinosis. Bacca (v. Pepo) sordidê v. livid? purpurascens (nunc flavescens yA formâ fer? et magnitudine ovi columbini vel modo globosa et pene duplo major, pulpâ luteo-virescente ; sem. atropurpurea. This is the first species of the genus which was intro- duced into Europe, and has suggested the generic name. The plant was originally discovered by the Spaniards, who called it, like the other sorts Granadilla, from a resemblance they conceived the fruit to bear to that of the common Pomegranate. But on its appearance in Italy, which seems to have occurred in the commencement of the 17th century, superstition descried in the configuration of the different parts a mysterious representation of the Passion of Christ, and the priests strove to turn the new vegetable prodigy to account. The leaf, as is well known, was expounded to be the spear which pierced the side, the twined threads of red and white which form the crown of the flower the lashes of the whip tinged with blood, the five encircling stamens the crown of thorns, the column in the centre of the flower a miniature of that, which served in the flagella- tion, the three clavate stigmas the three nails used in the crucifixion. The plant was pronounced a miraculous em- blem of those sufferings, and received the sanctimonious title of Fior della Passione, or Flos Passionis, afterwards combined by Linnzus into the technical name of Passrrrona. Figures of it were manufactured for devotional purposes, and made up of crude representations of the instruments themselves, instead of their presumptive symbols. An image of this kind has been placed at the side of that of the natural vegetable by Parkinson, an old english bota- nist, whose orthodoxy is much affronted by this monkish device, which he charges, according to the humour of his day, to the Jesuits. — aad  native of Carolina and Virginia, most probably also of some parts of South America. It will not do with us in the open ground, where if the root survives for a time, the rest dies down in the winter; but in the hothouse it ac- guires a stem, and grows with great luxuriance, extending itself to the distance of twenty feet or more, if placed in a bed prepared in the floor. The bloom is produced in abundance for two or three months in succession, while the branches continue to advance in growth, each flower lasting only the day through. Of late it has been cultivated for the sake of the fruit, which is sometimes used in the dessert. This is about the size and shape of a large pigeon's egg, or sometimes twice that size, and theu more globu- lar; when fully ripe, in such as we have seen, it has been of a dingy damascene colour, with a yellowish green pulp and black-red seed. The flavour is thought to partake of that of hoth the melon and the strawberry; but to us the combination seems much inferior to either of these fruits singly. In beauty it is evidently behind the more common and hardy cerulea, introduced from the Brazils nearly a century afterwards. We have purposely omit- ted the standing synonyms from the works of Jacquiu and Cavanilles; the figure in the first appcaring either to belong to another species, or else to have been chiefly put together from description, if not fancy; that in the se- cond is manifestly copied from the first. In the hothouse the stem never dies down to the ground. Flower-bearing branches angular, green, fistular, blossoming in succession as they lengthen. Leaves deeply three-lobed, of a lightish, but bright, green, as well as the branches sometimes slightly villous, lobes oblong-ovate, acuminate, glandularly serrate, with the teeth /guryen downwards at the point, middle lobe largest : petioles bir glandular. Stipules small, subulate. flowers fragrant axils lary, solitary: peduncle triquetral, shorter than the leaf. Involucre small, near to the flower, 3-leaved, egual, Fed vent, scarcely reaching beyond the tube of the calyx ; leaflets rhomboidally ovate, lanceolate, p rei misc Pei alf deep, thick, spongy, h; about an inch and half deep, ' for about one third deeply dinted in the centre of its base, for a pe thence 5-parted and rotate; ga oolong: whitish within and flat, outwards green and keele » kee deep terminated by a falcately extended WM * point. Petals inserted at the mouth of the campanulate tube of the calyx, and nearly as long as the segments, but- much narrower and thinner. Outermost rays of the crown as long as the petals, numerous, close, divaricate, filiform, flexuose, white variegated with violet-red ; innermost scat- tered, resembling small papille or tubercles. Germen green, elliptical, quite smooth. Nectary divided by an in- complete partition or septum. The present specimen differs slightly from those de- scribed by most authors, where the leaves are somewhat villous, especially at the nerves, the germen pubescent, and the outer surface of the fruit yellow; while in ours the leaves had in general scarcely any pubescence, the germen was smooth, and the fruit when completely ripe had changed at the surface from yellowish green to dingy purple, of nearly the colour of that of the purple Egg plant. Differences, however, affording no grounds to suspect a specific difference, when we find that in every other re- spect the plants agree minutely with each other, and are yet so remarkable and peculiar in their general appear- ance and habit. We have compared our plant with the prototype of the species of the Flora Virginica preserved in Clayton's Herbarium, in Sir Joseph Banks's Library, and have no doubt of their specific identity. As the plant is often cultivated in a greenhouse, and sometimesin the open ground, specimens in those situations have a narrower and far less luxuriant foliage than is found in such as, like the present, have grown in the border of a hothouse. The drawing was made from a plant in the collection of Lord Tankerville, at Walton upon the Thames, where the fruit ripens in abundance. We have divided the species into two varieties, which however we believe to arise in part from the difference in the places of cultiva- tion, for the convenience of those who may wish to keep them specifically asunder. Young seedling plants at Messrs. Colville's in the King's Road, Chelsea, had nearly all undivided leaves, altho' near a foot high; the uppermost were just beginning to break into lobes. a The flower dissected vertically. à The be ourd, Pepo) dissected horizontally. y rry (or gourd, po) 193 Fiz Va hoard del 155 / Lmh e Volp Y. Tide La) T Swlgowy / Y O Steele We, Cnm. 148 16 153 CRYPTARRHENA lunata. Crescent-lipped Cryptarrhena. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. Orcuivex. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 309. Div. IV. Anthera terminalis mobilis decidua. Masse pollinis demüm cereacez. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 905. CRYPTARRHENA. Petala 5, distincta patentia. Labellum ecalcaratum : lamina dilatata esplanata. Columna libera, aptera. An- thera apice cucullato columnæ inclusa, porrecto-adscendens. Mass pollinis quatuor. Brown MSS. Cryptarrhena lunata. Brown MSS. Herba humilis. Folia radicalia numerosa, multifariâm ambientia, pa- tentia, crassiuscula, carnosa, remotiùs nervosa, exteriora recumbentia, sub- ovato-lanceolata, acuminata, subtriuncialia, lætè virentia, interiora erectiora, lineari-lanceolata. Caulis longior istis, striato-teres, crassitudine penne corvine, inferné jfeliolis aucis Dc IN erectis vag? stipatus. Spica subbiuncialis, inclinata, hairs digesta, nuda. Flores viridi-lutei, vix tertiam partem uncie transverst. We had not the opportunity of inspecting the flower of this plant after the drawing was made; but to the greater | advantage of Botany, Mr. Brown has had that opportunity. He has found it au unrecorded vegetable, aud to possess features so distinct from those already known of the tribe, as to make it expedient that it should form the foundation of a new generic group. All we know of its history is, that it was lately received by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, of the Hammersmith nursery, from Jamaica, and that it flowered in one of their hothouses in the course of last summer. A humble herbaceous species; and, judging by analogy, probably parasitic. Leaves radical, — zi a of multifariously patent, fleshy, thickish, meg vd ME a bright grass-green colour: outer recum es broa of ; " ceolate, and somewhat ovate, acuminate, ria par in ' inch across, almost three inches in length; inner more up right, linear-lanceolate. Stem higher than these, simple, round, angularly striate, bearing a few linearly subulate leaf- lets, placed irregularly towards its base. Spike many-flow- ered, loose, bent. Corolla hardly the third of an inch over, green and yellow ; and, as we are told, having scarcely any scent. a The outline of the front view of a magnified flower, with the lid of the anther forced back, showing the loculaments. & The outline of a mag- nified flower viewed sideways, showing the cowled part of the columa which covers the anther. — Y — foll / Inh o! | 154 IXORA grandiflora, Large-flowered scarlet Ixora, TETRANDRIA MONOGYNTA. Nat. ord. RumicEx. Jussieu gen. 196. Div. VI. Fructus monocarpus bilocularis dispermus, Folia op- posita. IXORA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 100. I. grandiflora, foliis sessilius, oblongis, acutis, basi cordatis; segmentis calycis acutis: laciniis corollz ovali-lanceolatis, acutis. Ixora coccinea. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 159; (exclusis synonymis Osbeck, Rumph, et Burman). Lamarck encyc. 3. 343. Ixora foliis ovalibus semiamplexicaulibus, floribus fasciculatis. Linn, Flor. zeyl. 22; (affirmante specimine archetypo Herbarii Hermanniani in Mus. Banks.) Jasminum indicum, lauri folio, inodorum umbellatum, floribus coccineis, Pluk. alm. 196. t. 59. fig. 2. — Ratambala, s. Cerasus sylvestris zeylanica pavonina umbellata latifolia, floribus coccineis holosericeis. Herman. zeyl. 36. Schetti, Rheede mal. 2. 17. t. 12. a Frutex 4-6-pedalis, erecto-ramosus. Folia distantêr decussata, sessilia, subcordato-oblonga, acuminata, nitida, 3-4-uncialia, sesquiunciam lata ma- gisve. Stipule ovato-subulate, carinate. Cyme terminales, subsessiles, breves, multiflore, simpliciores, trichotome ; pedunculi curti, colorati, tris idi, infra trichotomiam bibracteati, pedicellis brevissimis, medio trium ebracs teato : bracteæ duriuscule. Cal. parvus, coloratus, 4-fidus, segmentis cam- panulato-conniventibus, acuminatis, patulis. Cor. pro genere magna, mintato- coccinea, extús opacata lanugine adeó minutá ut viz nist oculo armato percipi- endå ; tubus sesguiuncialis, laciniis limbi aliguotiês longior, The present is the species intended by Linnæus, in his Flora Zeylanica, for Ixora coccinea, as proved by the prototype-specimen in the Hermannian Herbarium at Sir Joseph Banks. Another species however has long and generally borne its name in the european collections, and filled its place in the recent botanical works, | For instance, in the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis and Curtis's Botanical Magazine; and we should think it misapplied criticism, to attempt to reinstate a name Ps "nr of priority, in face of a prescription $0 grounded. E E therefore corrected the error, by restoring the synonyms we deem to belong to the species; but have ay dig I specific title. (Osbeck, adduced as a synonym by Linnaeus, YOL. JI, F evidently has another plant in view, probably that figured in the Botanical Magazine, the Ixora coccinea of our gardens. Ixora grandiflora has been recently introduced by Sir Abraham Hume, to whom, and Lady Amelia Hume, our collections owe many of their handsomest and most curious vegetables. Native of various parts of India, where it is said to flower nearly the year round. It forms a shrub from four to five feet high, with a stem of inconsiderable girth, much branched, and covered with a reddish brown bark. Leaves opposite decussated at largish intervals, sessile, 3-4 inches long, 14-2 broad, oblong, pointed, subcordate at the base, smooth. Stipules ovate, subulate, keeled. — Cymes very short, loose, but many-flowered, trichotomous: peduncles short, coloured, trifid, with two small hard bractes beneath the trichotomy, the middle pedic/e of the three. which form it, having no bracte. Flowers vermilion, large for the genus, more than an inch and half long, scentless. Seg- ments of both Calyx and Corolla acute, those of the latter lanceolate. In India the bloom is highly prized for its beauty, and according to Rheede, esteemed an acceptable offering in the worship of Ixora, a Malabar idol, which has afforded to Linnzus the generic name. The purple berries, or berried capsules, are about the size and form of a cherry, and are said to be the food of the peacock; whence the shrub has been sometimes called Cerasus pavonina. The drawing was made last August from a plant in the hothouse at Sir A. Hume's, Wormleybury, Hertfordshire. —— OÌ ve a Pistil. Wyr + 7 Po . ee de E. Ff by ope regret, /7O Torche ly « Lor X. VIVO, Md 155 YALERIANA Cornucopiz. Purple Valerian. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Dipsacem. Jussieu gen. 194. Div. II. Flores distincti. VALERIANA. Cal. simplex superus 5-6-(3-4)-dentatus, aut marginatus subinteger maturatione in pappum plumosum evolvendus. Cor. tubulosa basi calcarata aut gibba, limbo 5-fido æquali aut rariìs inequali. Stam. sepê 3, rariüs 1-0 aut 4. Stig. 1-3. Sem. pappo- sum, aut capsula 2-3-loc. 2-3-sperma (modô loculamento 1 fertili) apice nuda aut calycinis dentibus coronata. Caulis herbaceus. Folia opposita. Flores pleràmque corymbosi terminales. Jussieu l. c. 195. V. Cornucopia, (diandra, irregularis;) foliis ovatis nervosis, radicalibus spathulatis, caulinis sessilibus. Vahl enum. 2. 19; (sub FEDIA). Valeriana Cornucopim. Linn. sp. pl. 1. 144. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 12. Desfont. atl. 1.29. Hort. Rew. 1. 51. ed. 2.1.76. Fl. greca. 1. 93.t. 39. Lamarck encyc. 8. 312. Fedia incrassata. Monch meth. 486. Fedia Cornucopim. Gertn. sem. 2. 37. t. 86. f. 3. Vahl loc. cit. Lam. et. Decand. fl. franc. 4. 246. Valerianella cornucopioides. Rivin. monop. t. 5. Valerianella cornucopioides, flore galeato. Tournef. Inst. 153. Pseudo-valeriana cornucopioides annua purpurea. Moris, hist. 3. s. 7. 104. t. 16. fig. 27. Valeriana indica. Clus. hist. 9. 54. Radix | füsiformis. Caulis ramosissimus, patens, teres, glaber, carnosus, Joliosus. Folia opposita, subcarnosa, levia, ovalo shtonte obtusa, basi im- primìs dentata; inferiora petiolata; superiora subsessilia, basi gt imm Cymz terminales, subtrichotome. Pedunculi incrassati, carnost. — Dractese imbricate, lanceolate, ciliate. Flores erecti, rosei. Cal. superus, p ; laciniis patentibus, ovatis, acutis, persistentibus. Corolle tubus en T5, geniculatus, subtüs brevissimê calcaratus ; limbus bilabiatus ; roe labio E Jeriore basi pallido, trilineato. Stamina 2, erecta, exserta, hn is ip ooh limbi : anth. cerulee. Stylus longitudine staminum. pen lum. A aps. elliptica, ventricosa, 3-locularis, calyce coronata: sem. solitaria, oblonga. Smith in Flor. grec. ad loc. cit. A genus consisting of species prere! cami respect of their general features, yet curiously d E the form and numbers of the parts of both flower and fruit, and consequently not easily framed together by ee character. Varies through the different species yddio one to with 2, 3, and 5 stamens; from with a globular, T2 to with an emarginate or a trifid stigma; from with a nearly obsolete calyx, to with one deeply five-cleft; from with a spurred, to with a spurless tube; from with a regu- lar, to with an irregular limb, from with no capsule, to with one that is thick and three-celled. It has been drafted by Gertner, who has collected a portion of the species, into a separate genus, he calls Fepra, to which our present plant belongs; but the alteration has not been adopted by My. Dryander, in the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis. ` A hardy annual plant, not very common in our gardens, where, however, it has been cultivated ever since 1596. Native of the department of the Var in France, of Spain, Sicily, Greece, and Barbary. From three or four inches to a foot or more in height. Root fleshy, fusiform. Stem subdivided into many branches, patent, round, smooth, fleshy, leafy. Leaves opposite, somewhat fleshy, smooth, ovate-oblong, obtuse, indented, at the base principally; lower ones petioled; upper ones subsessile, narrowed at the base. Cymes terminal, subtrichotomous. Peduncles thick- ened, fleshy. Bractes imbricate, lanceolate, ciliate. Flowers upright, rose-coloured. Calyx superior, bipartite; with patent ovate, acute, persistent segments. Tube of the corolla slender, geniculate or kneed, very shortly spurred beneath; limb bilabiate, 5-cleft, with a pale lower li marked with 3 lines. Stamens 2, upright, extruded, al- most the length of the limb: anthers blue. Style the length of the stamens: stigma bifid. Capsule elliptical, ventricose, three-celled, crowned by the calyx: seeds solitary oblong. The drawing was made from a plant in the collection of Lord Tankerville, at Walton-upon-Thames. a An entire flower. Pistil. Ex 7 A [4] + dE n wards EV A Lo 1O Pe wy Fm 11810 Juhi; 156 UROPETALON glaucum. Grey-leaved Uropetalon. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat.ord. AspuoneL. Jussieu gen.51. Div. IV. “Flores spi- cati. Radix bulbosa. Cor. sexpartita, basi stami- nifera. ] ASPHODELES (includentes ÁsPARAGOS plerosque Jus- sieuii). Brown prod. 274. UROPETALON. Zuccacnia. Bodin in Schrad. Journ. fur die bot. 1.204. Dircanr. Usteri ann. der botan. St. 2. 13. Infor. scaposa, simplex, racemoso-spicata, bracteato-distincta. Cal. O. Cor. infera, nutans, tubuloso-sexfida, limbo subduplici, laciniis 3 includenti- bus intimas 3 erectiores seorsim conniventes, cunctis inferné connatis v. rariús solis intimis, extimis reflexis et sepids caudatis. Fil. adnata, in- clusa: anth. verticales à medio aflixe, introrshm verse. Stylus cras- siusculus, tereti-3-gonus, trisulcus, ex 3 filiformibus solubilibus coarc- tatis. Cups. erecta, membranacea, elliptica, trilobato-trigona, lobis alté compressis, 3-loc., 3-valv., valvis septiferis margini internze utrinque seminiferis. Sem. numerosa, cumulata, complanata, festá nigrá, nitidâ Bulbus tunicatus. Bractem simplices, membranose. Folia plura, erassiuscula, vari? lorata, ambientia. Genus inter SciLLAM et ALBU- CAM veniens; necnon hinc Drimiæ accedens. U. glaucum, foliis lato-lanceolatis, erectis, scapo multò brevioribus; pedunculis longissimis. Burchell MSS. . y . Bulbus ovato-globosus. Folia plurima (septena circa), sesuncialia ad. pe- dalia, 2-3-plo breviora scapo, basi convoluto-ampleza, erecta, lorato- oblonga, lanceolata, ac tota planta glauca, plana, exteriora latiora latere utroque subrefleza, interiora angustiora cuspidata, Scapus erectus, parüm Rexuosus, 2-3-pedalis, crassitudine Jer? penne scriptoriz majoris, terminatus racemo spicatim educto, multifloro, irregulariter et remote sparso, patentis- simo; pedunculis strictis, l-floris, flore duplo longioribus magisoe, suffultis bracteá lineari-lanceolatá sphacelatâ, erecto-patenti us ad divaricatos. Cor. viridi-fulvescens, extern? glauco rore canescens, unciam fer? profunda, tubu- doso-campanulata, laciniis oblongis, obtusis, intüs glabratis, ad medium usque conferruminatis, inde solutis, limbi extimi refleco-patentibus extra apicem parietis interne caudam educentibus ipsis æquilongam crassam subulatam conte pressam, limbi intimi erectiìs conniventibus, patulis, ecaudatis. Fil. brevis- sima, planiuscula: anth. oblonge, lutea, mucronate, sagittata. Germ. 3 sulcum, Stig. 3, replicata, inclusa. An unrecorded species found by Mr. Burchell near Klaarwater, a village beyond the Gariep or Orange river, at the Cape of Good Hope. By combining with it two species, to which we have added a third, its discoverer has instituted a new genus, and one that relieves LACHENALIA and Sciuta, each of an heterogeneous associate, by receiv- ing the viridis of the former and the serotina of the latter. It consists at present of; glaucum. The subject of this article. viride. LacHENALIA viridis, Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 986. crispum. Burchell MSS. serotinum, SciLLA serotina, Curt. mag. 859, 1185. L. viridis had already been made the foundation of a separate genus, by the title of Zuccacnia; this was not however adopted, and the name has been applied to another family of plants. S. serotina had likewise suggested a new genus, by the name of Dircani; this was also neglected. To us the present genus appears a most useful one, and adapted to receive some of the species which do not con- veniently fall into the ranks of either ScILLA, LACHENALIA, or ALBUCA, yet partake of the features of each. Bulb tunicate, ovately globular. Leaves about seven, from six inches to about a foot high, 2-3 times shorter than the scape, upright, lorately oblong, lanceolate, glaucous like the rest of the plant, flat, convolute, and sheathing at their base, oufer ones the broadest and reflectent at the sides. Scape upright, scarcely flexuose, 2-3 feet high, abont as thick as a large pen. Raceme long, spiked, many-flow- ered, irregularly and distantly scattered, spreading hori- zontally; peduncles straight, two or three times longer than the flower, from upright to divaricate, with a linear-lanceo- late sphacelately membranous bracte at their base. Corolla of a greenish tawny colour, glaucous or clouded with a grey bloom or hoar on the outside, almost an inch in length, tubularly campanulate; segments oblong, obtuse, smooth and shining at the inner surface, cohering half way up, then separated, those forming the outer limb reflectent, pro- truding from beneath the apex of the interior coat a thick subulate compressed appendage half as long as the whole segment, those forming the inner limb straighter, converg- ing more narrowly, slightly patent, without the appendage, much shorter. Filaments very short, inclosed, inserted be- low the mouth of the tube. Anthers mucronate. Stigmas 3, enclosed. Germen three-furrowed. Bloom scentless. greenhouse plant. The drawing was made from one A that flowered in August last, in the collection of Mr Burchell, at Fulham. — | W Pub by aye A dqueoy 1/0 Precadill y PD cg. 7 an A ——íNí | 157 HEDYCHIUM angustifolium, Ted Garland-flower, MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ‘Nat. ord. CANNm. Jussieu gen. 62. Scrraminta. Brown prod. 305. HEDYCHIUM. Authera duplex. Filam. (lineare) geniculatum, extra antheram non elongatum, Stylus filamento duplo longtor filiformis, tenacissimus, iu sulco anthera receptus. Roscoe in Trans. lin. soc. 8, 349. H. angustifolium, spica sesfariám decussata patentissima è fasciculis subtrifloris verticillato-ternis : labello didymo. Hedychium angustifolium, Roxb. corom. 3. t. 251. Hedvchium coccinemn. Smith in Rees's cyclop. in loco. Rhizoma carnosum, perenne, subtuberoso-incrassatum, stoloniferum. Caules erecti, simplices, inflorescentiá tenits vaginati petiolis fistulosis y Folia bifaria, patentia, decrescentia: petioli iniìs trans pedem lamine membranâ tenui semivaginante ovato-rotundá ochreati: lamine ad maximum pedales v. parúm longiores, unciam late, ovato-lanceolate, longè attenuate, aristato- cuspidatee, nervis rectis parallelis ascendentibus costá mediâ utrinque. eductis conferta striate. Inflor. terminalis, composita, spicata, stricta, cylindracen, è Jasciculis numerosis rard quadriforis, vix excedens folia; rachis robusta, ri» gida, virens, Spatharum foliola arctè invicèm amplexa, exteriora herbacea, calyci equalia, interiora membranosa, flores distinguentia. Flores sessiles, aubbiunctales, miniati, odorati. Germ. hirsutum. Cal. superus, membranosus, tubulosus, subdiaphanus, 3 partes uncia longus, corollam infra arct? vaginans, Breve ct obtuse 3-dentatus, hinc longiàs dehiscens, extús rarè pubescens. Cor. 1-pet. tubulosa, resupinata, nitens; tubus teres, uncialis, paul) pennâ passerind crassior; limbus duplex, exterior 3-partitus, tantillim longior tubo, laciniis «egualibus, flaccidis, angusté ligulatis, involutis, acutis; interior tripartitus, Jirmior, difformis, bilabialus, laciniis lateralibus 2 subbrevioribus lanceolato-line- aribus infra attenuatis, media (labello) insidente ungui longo lineari, laminá fat obcordato-bilobâ lobis elliptico-oblon, is obtusis, suprá diver, entibus. Truneuli thalamei 2, lutei, connati, teretiusculi in summo germine. Fil, in tubi ore posi- tum, farè duplo longius labello, crussiusculum, inclinato-porrectum, canalicu- tum, corolla concolor, parúm attenuatum. — Anth. coccinea, lincaris, basi sub- sagittata, vix 4 partem unciar longa, ex loculis 2 linearibus marginalibus, pro tribus suis partibus adnatis filamento. Stylus viz filo bombacyno crassior, pardm allior stamine. Stig. exiguum, viride, triquetro-infundibuliforme. The fine natural order of plants to which the present belongs, has been lately illustrated by Mr. Roscoe, the accomplished historian of the Medici. . Of this genus, however, only one species, well known in our collections by the specific name of coronarium, had fallen under his observation. No other had been recorded until four were added by Sir James E, Smith, in Rees's Cyclopudia, from VOL, m, Y specimens collected in India by Dr. Buchanan. We can scarcely doubt, that our plant is the coccineum of these, notwithstanding some slight differences in the detail, scarcely indeed exceeding such as might be expected in a description from the dried specimen, when referred to the living. But the identity of our plant with the angustifolium of the late Dr. Roxburgh being beyond a cavil, and the account of it having long been written under that title, and now actually printed in the forthcoming fasciculus of the work on the “ Plants of the Coast of Coromandel,” we feel ourselves warranted in adopting it, although not the one first published. The species was found by Dr. Roxburgh on the coast of Coromandel; by Dr. Buchanan in Upper Nepaul. Re- cently introduced into this country by Sir Abraham Hume, who has supplied the specimens gathered in his hothouse at Wormleybury from which the present drawing has been made, with his accustomed liberality. Rootstock fleshy, stoloniferous, perennial. Stems simple, upright, sheathed to the inflorescence by the fistular pe- tioles of the foliage. Leaves bifarious, patent, petioles surmounted within the foot of the blade by a broad rounded-ovate membranous ochrea: blade seldom exceed- ing a foot at the longest, ovate-lanceolate, narrow, far-ta- pered, awned-acuminate, streaked with close-set parallel ascending nerves issuing from each side the midrib. Zn- Rorescence substantial, straight, composite, loosely spiked, patent, in six rows, decussated, consisting of numerous 3-4-flowered convolutely sheathed fascicles in whorls of. three, the whorls intersecting each other alternately : rachis or common peduncle green, smooth (as described in the orange-coloured variety of Sir J. Smith's coccineum), rigid, thick, from 3 to 4 inches in height or more, but not over- topping the foliage. Spathes rolled closely one within the other, outer valves or leaflets herbaceous, even with the, calyx, inner membranous, one to each flower. Flowers sessile about two inches long, of a soft vermilion colour, fra- grant, but not so richly so as in coronarium. Germen hirsute. Calyx membranous, tubular, semitransparent, 3 fourths of an inch long, closely fitted to the tube of the corolla which it sheaths, shortly and bluntly tridentate, having a deep rent on one side from the edge downwards, thinly pubes- cent. Corolla monopetalous, tubular, shining, of one colour; tube an inch long, not thicker than the stem of a bi blackbird's quill, limb double, exterior 3-parted, nearly a fourth longer than the tube, segments egual, linear, narrow, involuted, acute, interior 3-parted, reversed, firmer than the outer, irregular, bilabiate, lateral segments rather the shortest of the three, narrowed downwards, lanceolately linear, the centre one or dip-piece (the nectary of Linneus) projected on a long narrow linear unguis or footpiece, lamina or blade broad, obcordate, didymously lobed, lobes el- liptic, diverging upwards. The two ercrescences at the sum- mit of the germen, short, connate, roundish, yellow; these are common to the whole order, and are supposed by Mr. Brown to be imperfect stamens. Filament nearly twice the length of the lip-piece, robust, channelled, slightly tapered, of the same colour as the corolla. Anther double, scarlet, scarcely i of an inch long, linear, sagittate at the base, ad- nate for about ¿ parts of its length. Style not much thicker than the thread of the silkworm, very tough, little longer than the stamen. Stigma small, green, funnel-form, tri- angular. Reguires to be kept in the tan-bed of the stove; to which beauty, singularity, and long succession of blossom, render it a valuable acguisition. a An outline of the flower. ve Sy d C durada. del P H I, hy, f b dgway 1/0. Piccadilly Dec 1181 6 Sai MD. 158 ORNITHOGALUM prasinum. Pea-green flowered Cape Star-of- Bethlehem. ` HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Nat. ord. Aspnovert. Jussieu gên. 53. Div. IV. Flores spicati. Radix bulbosa, Corolla sexpartita, bast 'staminifera. ORNITHOGALUM. — Infor. racemosa, bracteatìm distincta, Cal. 0. Cor. infera, regularis, subzqualis, patentissima, emarcido- persistens; raró comuivens; nunquam cerulea aut rubra. Fi. erecto- patentia, subulata, basi sapé dilatata, alterné latiora. Stylus erectus subnullus v. brevis v. setaceo-elongatus. Stigma obtusum v. capitato- trilobum. Caps. membranacea, oblonga v. ovata, trilobo-trigona, rariìts hexagona, lobis modo compressis, 3-loc., 3-valv. valvis medio septiferis, Sem. numerosa in angulo interno loculamenti singuli biseriata, globosa sæpiùs angulosé pressa, raris compresso-paleacea ; testa nigricans. Bulpus tunicatus. Folia 1-plurima, carnosula, ambientia, ra- dicalia. Scapus simpler. Racemus spicatim productus, vel corymbosus. Bractez solitarie. SciLÀ dignoscendum tantummodo ob flores nun- quam carulescentes neque rubentes. Differt D&iMi ob corollam non inferuê conniventem in tubum, et bulbum compactiôs tunicatum. O. prasinum, foliis glauciusculis, suprà tortis; racemo divaricato, longà peduneulato ; filamentis basi ovatis: stylo longiore germine. . Bulbus ovatus, integumentis subfuscis. Folia plurima (4-9) erecto-patentia, subpedalia, lorato-attenuata, involuto-concava, cuspidata. Scapus glaucius- culus, excedens folia, teres. Racemus oblongus, lazus, tentissimus; pe- dunculis strictis, 2-3-plo longioribus corolla: bracteis mbranosis, lanceolatis. Cor. horizontem respiciens, stellato-patens, unciam pen? transversa, glauco- virens, inodora : lac. subeguales, oblonga, obtuse, mix 2 lineas late, exte- riores sublatiores depressiores concaviusculg apice inflezee, interiores planiores apice glanduloso-albicantes, versús basin utrinque deflezee, Fil. y parte breviora laciniis, alba, ovato-subulata, plana, alterna basi ventricosiora ; anth. breves, lutec, incumbentes. Germ. virens, ellipticum, 3-lobum, siriá per dorsum cujusque lobi ductá, et nervo. prominulo in sulco singulo lobos intercipiente : stylus tristriato-setaceus, longior germine, albus, apiculo stigmatoso de exstperante stamina. The boundary which separates ORNITHOGALUM from SciLLA, as these genera have been handed down to us, de- pends upon a feature usually considered the least charac- teristic of any among vegetables, viz. the colour of the flower. There seems to be an understanding among bota- nists that no blue or red flower can belong to ORNITHOGA- LUM, which genus has become the receptacle of the plants with any other coloured flower, that would else fall as con- veniently into the ranks of Scirra. A sort of compromise which has evidently arisen from respect for long-esta- blished names, applied when only few and distant species were known. Subsequently discovered species, as is often the case, have in length of time connected the genera so closely as to leave no distinction but the too arbitrary and instable one of colour. In Scirza the blue often varies to white; when all distinction ceases. The genera will one day be united, or else divided into smaller groupes. The present is an unrecorded plant, recently introduced by Mr. Burchell, who found it within the colony at the Cape of Good Hope, not far from Graaf Reynett. It is near akin to suaveolens and odoratum, but differs in having an entirely green flower which has no scent, by a glaucous foliage which is generally twisted towards the upper part, and by filaments with an ovately dilated base. ` Bulb ovate with light brown integuments. Leaves from 4 to 9, upright, patent, nearly a foot high, tapering from near the base, pointed. Scape little higher than these, slightly glaucous, about the thickness of a pen. Raceme many-flowered, loose, divaricate; peduncles straight, two or three times longer than the corolla: bractes membranaceous, lanceolate. Corolla fronting towards the horizon, nearly an inch across, stellate, of a green colour resembling that of the inside of the Pistachio-nut; segments nearly equal, oblong, obtuse, scarcely two lines broad, outer omes rather broadest, more depressed, slightly concave, inflectent at the end, imer flatter, glandularly thickened and whitish at the ends, sides deflected towards the base, so as to give them the appearance of being unguiculate. Filaments about one third shorter, upright, patent, white, ovate- subulate, flat, alternately wider, rather higher, and more broadly ovate at the base. Germen green, elliptically three- lobed, with a streak down the back of each lobe, and a prominent nerve intervening between the lobes: style se- taceous, three-streaked, longer than the germen, white: stigma obtuse, pubescent, overtopping the stamens. The drawing was made at Mr. Burchell's, Fulham, where several specimens of the species flowered jn August last. A hardy greenhouse plant. Z Ey E ii Kid rt^ etg “VO Ficcakdlly e cei dà. DIO. o L. Edecirrda A ael. Se 4 Y 4 7T ni 159 HYPOXIS obtusa. Mr. Burchell s Hypoxis. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Narcisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. III. Genera Nar- cissis non omninò affinia. Aspnopsreæ. Brown prod. 274. Div. Genera inter Asphodeleas et Amaryllideas media, HYPOXIS. Infor, fistuloso-pedunculata. Cal. O. Cor, supera, hexapetalo-partita, regularis, æqualis, explanata, firmula v. coriacea, persistens. Fil. disco glanduloso corolla: infixa, brevia: anth. majusculæ, sagittatæ, erectæ. Stylus crassus, brevis: stig. 3, verticalia, adnata, anticê sulcata, unita v. soluta. Cups. oblongiuscula, trigona, triloc., po- lysperma, evalvis, basi angustior: sem. subglobosa v. angularia, affi angulo interno loculamenti ; testa nigra, sæpiùs punctata. Radix rhizoma bulbiceps polymorphum, interdùm tunicatus bulbus includens rhizoma. Folia ambientia, plurifaria, radicalia, sapiüs canaliculato-trigona, rigidiuscula. Scapi sep? plures successivi. Pe- dunculi bracteati. In capsulâ mafurá modo obliterantur septa, gua priùs evidentissima. Sem. modo biseriata, pedicellato-funiculata. H. obtusa, rhizomate cylindrico, conico; foliis margine et cariná hir- sutis; scapo hispido, plurifloro, subracemoso: corolle laciniis obtusis. Hypoxis obtusa. Burchell MSS. . . . Rhizoma bulbiceps magnum, annulatum, veleribus basibus setosum. Folia plurima (10), fasciculata, erecto-patentia, lineari-lanceolata, rigida, carinaíp: triquetra; exteriora torta in spiram, interiora longiora angustiora, sub- octouncialia, ad maximum 2 gre uncia lata, long? acuminata. Scapus strictus, inclinatus, teres, Jolis subbrevior. Flores lutei, inodari, pauci, laxiùs et interrupt? racemosi, superni subcymoso-fasligianles : pedunculi flori- bus 2-3-plo breviores, equales bracteis lineari-subulatis carinatis, Germ. breve, hirsutum, continuum pedicello. Cor. intàs nitens; laciniis elliptico- oblongis, exterioribus subangustioribus, parva mucrone prafixis, interioribus utringue deflexis. Anth. lanceolate, 3-plo longiores filamentis subulatis Jlavis. Stylus duplo brevior staminibus, conicus, triqueter; stigmata coe adunata. An unrecorded species discovered by Mr. Burchell du- ring his late travels iu the interior of Southern Africa, cn the sandy plains in the vicinity of Litákoon, the chief place of the Bachapin nation, distant about 1000 miles N. E. from Cape Town. u The rootstock of most tunicated bulbs is enclosed within concentric laminz, and forms the nucleus of the bulb; but in this genus it constitutes far the larger portion of the whole, and bears the bulb at its summit, or in the centre when flattened, in the shape of a bud, and is thence termed bulbicipitous. In the present species the rootstock is of considerable magnitude, cylindric and conical, marked with annular scars, and bristled with the fibrous remnants of the bygone foliage. Leaves many (10), fasciculate, upright, pa- tent, outer ones twisted, inner longest, marrowest, about eight inches high, linear-lanceolate, tapering from near their base, triangular, with a sharp keel and channel, about three fourths of an inch over at the broadest, thinly pu- bescent, except at the edges, where they are thickly so. Scape stiff, inclined, round, hispid, rather shorter than the inuer leaves. Flowers few, scentless, of a shining yellow colour within, disposed in a loose irregular raceme, upper ones subfastigiate: pedicles equal to the linear-subulate keeled bractes, two or three times shorter than the corolla. Germen short, roughly pubescent, continuous with the pedicle. Corolla persistent, firm; segments nearly equal, elliptically oblong, obtuse, outer rather narrowest, with a small subpubescent point, inner deflectent at each side. Anthers lanceolate, three times longer than the subulate filaments, yellow. Style half the length of the stamens, conical, triquetral: stigmas united. Hyroxis borders closely upon GacEa, a genus which Mr. Salisbury has judiciously detached from OrNITHOGALUM ; but in that the corolla is inferior, below the germen. . The drawing was taken from a plant which flowered in Mr. Burchell's collection at Fulham in August last. Re- quires the shelter of the greenhouse, nt) Oeo f. ld eead Fly. c y LF. Sl geu /7O E. | D» 160. SANSEVIERA zeylanica. = 274. Ceylon Bow-string-hemp. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Nat. ord. Asparact. Jussieu gen. 40. Div. I. Flores lierma- phroditi, germen superum. ` SANSEVIERA. Liriope; Lour. Samia; Cavan. ALETRIS; Gart. Cal.0. Cor. infera, tubulosa, limbo sexpartito reflexo. Fil. summo tubo imposita, patentia, haud medio incrassata. Stig. capitella- , tum v. crassum et trifidum, - Bacca 3-loc., loculamentis monospermis, uno vel et altero sepê obliteratis. ‘ Herba perennes, stolonifere. Rhizoma crassum, repens: scapus radicalis, composità racemosus v. spicatus floribus in fasciculos numerosos proxim? sparsos segregutis, aut simplicissimà spicatus. Folia omnia radi- calia, pluri-v. bifaria, sápà crassa atque dura, carne fibrosá. igre dignoscitur. DRACIENÁ nisi ob Jilamenta non fusiformia, sed equabiliter crassa, tum ob folia et caulem rhizomati insidentia, non elevata cate dice fruticoso. ' S. zeylanica, foliis glabris oblongis acutis planis et lineari-lanceolatis canaliculatis, stylo longitudine staminum, bracteis pedunculi longitu- dine. Willd. sp. pl. 9. 159; (exclusis synonymis Thunb. Cavan. et Lour.). | Sanseviera zeylanica, Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 278; (excluso. synonymo Roxb. corom.). Redouté liliac. 290. : . Aletris zeylanica. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 4. Aletris hyacinthoides. æ. zeylanica. Linn. sp. pl. 1. 456. Hort. Kew. 1. 464. Aloë hyacinthoides. a. zeylanica. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 1. 1. 321. Aloë zeylanica pumila, foliis variegatis. Comm. hort. 2. 41. t. 21. Pluk. alm. 19. t. 956. fig. 5. a E Folia plurima, peu erecto-patentia, rigida, crassa, sub-9-uncialia, lanceolato-subulata; A bast transverse unciali sensim attenuata, involuto-canali- culata, glauca, undata maculis transversis alternis atro-virentibus latis, cartilagineo-marginata, exteriora breviore. Caulis teres infern? versis foliolis nonnullis vagis bracteaceis. Racemus comp » numerosus, cylindricus, plurimèm ezsuperans folia: Horum fasciculi pauciflori, subsessiles v edd pedicellati, proximi, bracteati. Cor. sesquiuncialis, ex viridi alba, angusti d tubulosa, semisezfida, infra G-striata, attenuata et cum pedicello circumsciós urticulata + limbi lac. ligulatae, aequales, subcarinate, obtuse, in as strinque cris y Gpice incurvo-cavate, mucrone brevi pruínulosá. |. mbo $ Ea te breviora, patentia, breviora. Anth. incumbentes. Germ, loculis l-spermis. Stylus corolla equalis, inclinatus, filamentis crassior, S-striato. Sliformis ; stigmate brevissim’ S-lobo, obesiusculo. The nearly allied species guinténsis, we believe is known to bloom frequently in our collections, but the pre- VOL, II. x sent very rarely, Miller never succeeded in flowering it; and was told at Amsterdam, where it had been long cul- tivated, that it was never known to blossom at that place. A very common plant in the hothouses of this coun- try, and kept for the sake of the curious foliage; the pre- sent, however, ìs the only one of which we have seen the inflotescence. Introduced by way of Holland about 173). The synonym adduced from Dr. Roxburgh's work, in the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis, seems to belong to a very distinct species, the leaves in that being longer than the stem, linear, caudate, not glaucous, and described as acquiring the height of 3 or 4 feet. It has altogether a very different aspect from zeylanica. The Sarmia spicata, adduced by Willdenow, plainly belongs to guineensis; the LimropE of Loureiro to neither. The english generic de- nomination is adopted from the use, to which the fibres of the foliage of one of the species are said to be applied in India. The genus borders hard upon Dracawa, and is princi- pally distinguished from it by not having fusiform filaments, nor leaves and stem supported by a frutescent caudex or trunk. Species of it belong to India, China, and, as said, to Guinea. Thunberg and Mr. Burchell found two at the Cape of Good Hope, one of which is very near to guineensis, if not the same, and the other to zeylanica. . The leaves of our plant scldom exceed 8-9 inches in height, and arc about one and a half over at the widest part, broadly subulate, involutely channelled, of a glau- cous hue, variegated by broad dark green undulated al- ternate bars which cross from one side to the other, bor- dered by a narrow cartilaginous rim. Stem round, upright, higher than the foliage; raceme numerously flowered, cylin- drically elongated, composed of closely scattered few- flowered shortly pedicled bracteate fascicles. Corolla greenish white, about an inch and half long, narrow, tu- bular, divided in six parts to the middle, tapered towards the base, connecting by a jointlike constriction with the pedicle; segments divaricate, narrow, linear, equal, slightly eeled, obtuse, finely curled at each edge below the middle, incurved at the apex, with a small point. Filaments patent, about one third shorter than the limb. Celis of the germen one-seeded. Style equal to the corolla, inclined, thicker than the filaments, Stigmas three short obtuse lobules. The drawing was taken at the late Mr, John Hall's, at Notting Hill, U | ps 5 " £ ^ e) r 6 Syd. Pu ana WYN MA e fud 4) 4. T 161 PANCRATIUM maritimum. Sca- Pancratium, or Daffodil, HEXANDRIA MONOGYNLA. Nat. ord. Nancisst. Jusieu gen. 54. Dio. IT, Germen ine ferum. . AMARYLLADRAE. Brown prod, 296. Sect. I. PANCRATIUM. | Suprà vol. 1. fol. 43. —— P. maritinum, spatha multiflora, foliis lineari-lanceolatis, nectarii dene tibus 12 non sicniferis, Widld, sp. pl. 2. 49; (exclusis synonymis plantarum indicarum ct americanarum ). Pancratium maritimum. Linn. sp. pl. 1. 418. Cavan. ic. 1. 41.4, 56; (excl. syn. Milleri), Hort. Kew. 1. 411. ed. 2.2.2919. Salisbury in Trans, (inn. soc. 2. 7O. t. 9. Desfont. atl. 1, 283. Redoutê liliaa, 8. Lam. et Decand. fl. franc. 8. 230. Flor. grac. t. 309. Pancratium marinum. Ger. emac. 173. 3. A Pseudonarcissus marinus albus, Pancratium vulgô. ^ Park. parad. 106, t. 107. fig. 5 Noon Hemerocallis valentina. — C/us. hist. 1. 167. HI ads quu Bulbus tunicatus, subglobosus, integumentis fuscis. Folia plurima (8), ligulata, angusta, concaviuscula, erecta, subbifaria, ‘longiora scajo, semunciam transversa, glaucissima, estriata, dorso conveziuscula,. acumine brevi obtasa terminata, — Scapus sesguipedalis vel ultra, compresso-teres, glaucus, estrigtus, Spatha bivalvis, Aplo ferè brevior floribus, sp acelata, lanceolata. Umbella 2-7.flora v, ultrà subsessilis, v. pedicellis crassis brevissimis. Flores longi, albi, fragrantissimi: germ. oblongum, _obtusd trigonum, glaucum; tubus coroll virens, ampliatus in faucem turbinatam, S-A-uncialis ; limbus órevior tubo; lac. recurvo-stellatis lineari-lanceolatis infern? longè cum coroná con- cretis ; interioribus sublatioribys ad latera tenerioribus atgue subdia hanis, . tantummodò ex striâ medió extern? virentibus, poo crassiari er tern? omnind viridia ; corona ampla, und quartá parte brevior limbo cui lon- issimé adnata, turbinato-cylindracea, 12-fida, dentibus gngularibus dqualibu. Seam, brevissima, conniveujia, parüm longiora dentibus corone; anth, verti- cales, subconniventes. Stylus corollé parum brevior, inclinatus; stigma punc- tum obtusum. Native of the South of France, where it is found deeply buried in the sand among the rocks on the sea-shore; of Italy, the Levant, Spain, and the Barbary Coast. Intro- duced into our gardens nearly two centuries ago, yet very rarely known to blossom in them. We had never seen it in bloom, nor even heard of its having been seen in that state in this country, till the present autumn, when it flowere in Mr. Griffin's collection at South Lambeth, where it had x3 been treated as a hothouse planf. Miller seems to have mistaken P. illyricum for it, as many gardeners of the pre- sent day have also done. Its fragrance is exguisite. P. carolinianum of Linnaeus, an american, and P. vere- cundum of Solander, an east indian plant, had been con- sidered as belonging to this, and included in the synonymy. But Mr. Dryander, whose sagacity is seldom at fault, has dismissed them entirely in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis. Indeed the fact of the specific identity of three plants of this genus, indigenous of three so widely parted regions, does at least require the voucher of the strictest scrutiny to be securely admitted. And we have no reason to think that such test has been applied in the present case. Mr. Pursh it is true adopts, in his American Flora, the sy- nonym of the european plant for his species, but we believe that he never had an opportunity of deciding their. identity from a comparison of living specimens. Root a roundish tunicated bulb with brown coverings. Leaves several, in this individual eight, ligulate, narrow, slightly concave, bifarious, upright, rather longer than the scape, about half an inch across, very glaucous, streakless, slightly convex along the back, shortly and obtusely pointed. Scape from eight inches to a foot and half high, cylindrical, compressed, glaucous, unstreaked. Spaihe of two sphacelated lanceolate valves, almost four times ‘shorter than the flowers. Umbel 2-7-flowered or more, nearly sessile, or with very short thick peduncles. Flowers ‘large white: germen oblong, obtusely triangular, glaucous; tube of the corolla green, 3-4 inches long, slightly enlarged towards the faux; /imb shorter than the tube, segments linear-lanceolate, adhering for a considerable distance to ‘the’ crown; inner ones rather broadest, of a tenderer and semitransparent substance at the sides, thicker and exter- nally green along the middle; outer ones substantial, wholly green at the outer surface; crown large, wide, about one fourth shorter than the limb to which it adheres, for a great length, cylindrical, narrowed downwards, 12-cleft, with pointed equal teeth. Stamens short, connivent: filaments scarcely longer than the teeth of the crown. 162 \ I 7 WI \ i Jud. seul Fyd e divards. del > 3 ^ y Pub lj j R ud guy NIU Tanad hy a) ec l isle 162 CYRTANTHUS collinus, Narrow glaucous-leaved Cyrtanthus. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Narcisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Dio. II. Gemen ino ferum. AMARYLLIDEE. Brown prod. 996. Sect. I. CYRTANTHUS. Cal.0. Cor. supera, nutans ad cernuam, tu- bulosa, clavata, curva, regularis, submegualis ; /ac. limbi ovato-oblonge tubo cum fauce triplo breviores v. ultra. Fil, fauci tubi inserta apice conniventia, inclusa. Bulbus e£ habitus omnino AMARYLIADIS. Folia bifaria, S-plurima, angustiùs latiùsve lorata. Spatha communis bivalvis, multiflora. Um- bella pedunculata, bracteatim interstincta. AMARYLLIDIS conjunctissi- mum genus, at limbus corolla plurimüm, brevior tubo, Fructum mas turum non vidimus; sed germen triloculare atque ovula plura biseriatg 1n loculis. €. collinus, foliis subtrinis, linearibus, glaucis; pedunculis flore aliquo- tiès brevioribus, laciniis limbi apice rotundatis ; staminibus os tubi non excedentibus. "Bulbus globoso-ovatus, integumentis fuscescentibus. Folia 3, infernê ver- sis attenuata, canaliculato-involuta, subpurpurascentia, suprà esplicatiora, viz tertiam uncie lata, acumine obtusulo. ' Scapus cylindraceus, glaucus, crdstte tudine penne scriptoria mediocris, foliis denud subbrevior. Spatha multi(10)- Jora, lanceolata, rubido-sphacelata, pedicellos exsuperans, mbella cernua miniato-coccinea, Cor. subbiuncialis, lineis senis pallidioribus hexangularie striata, aliguotiês longior pedicello, tubus gracilis in faucem plurimim ampliorem cylindraceam dilatescens ; limbus campanulato-patens, | tubo cum Sauce quater brevior, laciniis oblongis obtusatis, interioribus tantuliim latiori- | bus, exterioribus mucronulatis, Stylus adscendens; stig. 3, brevia, replicata, ` ore tubi emicantia, Stam. brevissima, nec excedentia basin limbi, conniventia, alternê subbreviora ; anth. incumbentes. Germ, glabrum, brevà oblongum, rotundat? trigonum, striis 6 albis notatum; 3 polyspermum ovula 2-seriata. . An undescribed species, very recently introduced by Mr. Burchell, by whom it was found on the hills near Ge- nadendal, about 100 miles distant from the chief town at the Cape of Good Hope. It is about the size of, and near akin to angustifolius, but differs from that, in having leaves i i i ith which are glaucous, and not bright green; a germen wi six Whitislr lines that are continued throughout the co- i incli - han in rolla, which inclines more to a poppy colour t angustifolius; in having the segments. of the limb of an elliptic oblong form, with a rounded point, not ovate and acute; in having stamens so short as not to elevate the tops of the anthers above the orifice of the faux, not equal in length to the limb; a style which scarcely overtops these, and lastly, in having ‘pedicles two or three times shorter than the flower, not egual to it. In character the genus scarcely differs from AMARYLLIS by any other feâture than in having a limb three or more times shorter than the tubular portion of the corolla. Bulb ovate. Leaves three, narrowly lorate, glaucous, narrowed and involutely channelled downwards, flatter up- wards, scarcely more than the fourth of an inch broad. Scape glaucous, hardly equal to the leaves, about as thick as a middling sized pen. Spathe many (10)-flowered, lan- ceolate, sphacelate, reddish, longer than the peduncles. Corolla cernuous, of a deep scarlet or poppy colour, about two inches long, several times longer than its peduncle, marked with six longitudinal equidistant paler lines; tube sleuder, widening into a much broader cylindrical faux; limb nearly four times as short as the tube and faux together, segments oblong, obtuse, iuner rather broadest, outer ter- minated by a small mucro. Stamens exceedingly short, yellow. The drawing was made from a plant which flowered in Mr. Burchell's collection at Fulham, this autumn. A green- house plant, « The corolla dissected vertically. MAW WN y^ Ms / |— 9 Nb. fe V Z mA / 44. de 7 / (TAL LE 163 AMARYLLIS hyacinthina. Hyacinthine Amaryllis. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Nancissi. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. IT. AMARYLLIDE&E. Brown prod. 996. Sect. T. AMARYLLIS. Supra col. y. fol. 23. Div. bi-multiflore, irregulares, infundibuliformes, nutantes. A. hyacinthina, umbellâ subsessili: foliis petiolatis lamina nervosâ; limbi laciniis lateralibus 2 supremis connivenubus: staminum summo remoto. Bulbus funicatus, ovatus. Folia 2-8, inflorescentia dit tardiora, bifaria, recumbentia, coriaceo-crassa, ovato-oblonga acumine abrupto, plana, nervoso- striata, venis cancellata, saturatà viridia, costá carinata, uncias 8 longa, 9 circiter lata: petioli crassi, plano-converi, 3-plo breviores. Scapus longior foliis, cylindricus, estriatus, infra rubescens. Spatha sphacelata, 2- valvis, multô brevior floribus. Umbella subcapitato-arctata, 9-10-flora, brac- teato-distincta : flores erecto-nutantes, uncias 2% longi, albo et rubro-cya- neo variegati, inodori. Cor. infundibuliformi-ringens, incqualis ; tubus viblabeo-albienns, pluriês brevior limbo, antrorsúum curvatus, cylindricus, dorso planiús depressus cum nervo prominulo ; limbus de fauce brevi nudá staminigerá et subtüs gibbosá semiradiato-divaricatus, lacinize lanceolata, pliis miniis un- dulate, exteriores 3 una cum interiorum imá mediá angustiores subeguales concolores violaceo-albicantés, labii summi 3 arrecto-conniventes, 2 laterales latiores firmiores planiores saturatê hyacinthine macula ampla alba oblonga de supra medium disco usque ad basin pictae margine interiori invicem contin- gentes ut mediam pene excludant, labii infimi 3 stellate, laterales 2 apice revo- lute, media deflexa. Stam, X parte breviora limbo v. magis, declinato-assur- gentia, alterne sublongiora, albicantia, unum distans et summo limbi labio accumbens: anth. breves, oblonga, incumbentes, albicantes. Stylus formå colore directione et fer crassitudine filamentorum : stigma punctum simplex : germ. subelobosum, tubi concolor, crassiusculum, 3-loc.; loculamenta colla- terali-disperma, ovulis erectis oblongis fundo infizis, feré ac in PANCRATIO amboinensi aliisque nonnullis ejusdem generis. A recent and unrecorded acquisition, of great curiosity, and due with so many others to the zeal and intelligence of Mr. Griffin in his botanical pursuits; which have en- abled him to form the most extensive assemblage of this fine tribe of plants of any perhaps in Europe. Having ob- tained information of the existence of the present species, he did not remit his researches until it was 1n his possession. It was discovered in the Brazils, by Mr. E. Woodford, while residing in that country. In relation x pa mn. as at present known, it exhibits several anomalous features; viz. the hyacinthine blue of the corolla, the two converging segments of the upper lip which are dissimilar to the rest, an upper stamen removed from the others and accumbent to the superior lip of the limb, the petioled bladed pro- minently nerved foliage, and lastly a germen with disper- mous cells and ovula inserted at the bottom of these. In the latter character it agrees with PANCRATIUM amboinense and some others of that genus. But its general accordance is manifestly more complete with AMaARvLLIs than with any other generic groupe, and its anomalies, in our judg- ment, are not of a nature to render the separation of it into a new one expedient. Bulb tunicate, ovate. Leaves 9-3, about eight inches long and 2-3 broad, appearing long after the bloom has gone by, bifarious, recumbent, firm, substantial, petio- led; blade ovate oblong, abruptly pointed, flat, latticed by veins crossing the vertical nerves, deep green, mid- rib prominent beneath. Scape rather higher than the leaves, cylindric, unstreaked, reddening near the base. Spathe of two valves, sphacelate, much shorter than the flowers. Umbel nearly sessile, subcapitate, 9-10-flowered, with in- tervening bractes: flowers of a purplish or violet-blue and white, nutant, about two inches and half long, without scent. Corolla funnel-form, ringent, unequal; tube purplish white, several times shorter than the limb, bent forwards, cylindrical, depressed at the upper side which has a pro- minent nerve; /imb half radiately expanded down to the short subventricose naked faur, segments lanceolate, more or less undulated, the three outer ones, and the lower middle inner one, all of a purplish-white colour, and nar- rower than the remaining two; the 3 forming the outer lip upright and connivent, the two lateral of these broader, firmer, and flatter, of a deep hyacinthine-blue colour, with a large oblong white spot from above the middle down to the base, mutually converging so as nearly to hide the centre segment; the three forming the lower lip stellate, as well as the two lateral ones revolute. Stamens a third shorter than the limb or more; declined, uppermost one removed from the others, and bent back against the upper lip: anthers cream-coloured. Stigma simple. Requires to be kept in the hothouse, where it flowered in the autumn, at Mr. Gritiin’s, South Lambeth. a A flower-bud. Sruth sergi hilly fan / 1617 teca ) IR iaa y i/ () ae Pub by edo del. M - 164 AMARYLLIS calyptrata. Green-flowered Amaryllis, HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Nancissi. Jussieu gen. 54. Dio. II. Germen ín. ferum. AMARYLLIDEE. Brown prod. 996. Sect, I. Radix bulbosa. Flores spathacei, raró solitarii. AMARYLLIS. Supra vol. 1. fol. 93, Div. bi-multiflore, tubo coronato. Folia bifaria. A. calyptrata, biflora, semiringens; foliis plurimis; tubo coronato membranâ brevi decolori integerrimâ. | Folia coriaceo-firma erecto-patentia, lorato-lanceolata, 2} pedes longa, sesgui v. 2 uncias lata, non glauca, clathrato-venosa, costá media canalicu- lata et carinata, deorsim attenuata rigida involuta, sursàm planiuscula longà acuminata, acuta, Scapus (modo plures successivi) parüm brevior folis, robustus, rectus, cylindraceo-attenuatus, levissima compressus, glaucus, estri- atus, infern? purpurascens. Spatha bivalvis, membranosa, striatula. Flores maximi, diutini, subflavido-virentes, nutantes, pedunculati, 5-unciales, ab imo pedunculo ad summa stigmata usque 9-unciales, bis altiores spathâ; pedunculi calamum crassi, subeguales germini v. pore longiores, virentes, rotundata trigoni. Germ. obesius pedunculo, unciale, obsolete pulvinato-trilobum, levis, exsulcum, non glaucum. Cor? rictus transversim latior; tubus germiné subisoperimeter, rectus, cylindraceus, obsolete triangularis, intensiüs virens, bis brevior limbo + limbus 6-partitus, infrà imbricatus, chloroleusus, clathrato» venosus, laciniis subegualibus,. lanceolatis, acutis, versus marginem pallidi- oribus, undulatis, exterioribus 3 dorso ibbosioribus, cariná saturate virenti- bus, inflezis, mucrone compressá, interioribus disco lanioribus involutis Tê» flexis, summa media arcuatá, antrorsúm depressá, lateribus reflezá, laterali- bus ejus binis divaricato-recurvis, sublatioribus, sursŵm obliquatis ; inferiori- bus 3 inter se equalibus prostantioribus, lateralibus 2 mediam summam referen- libus, imá medi laterales 2 summas. Corona faucialis ore triangulosê contracta. Stam. exserta, fasciculata, declinato-assurgentia ; fil. robusta, tereti- trigona, subulato-attenuata, rubore lurido obsoletà varia: anth. violacea, pol- line flavo. Stylus staminum concolor, longior atque crassior: stig. revoluta, The present is the fourth unrecorded species of the genus made known in this work, and the introduction of which is due to Mr. Griffin. The hyacinthina of the fas- ciculus for the preceding month, was the first evidence of an Axanyrns with a blue flower; the present the first of one with a green flower, Until their appearance amongst us, an AMARYLLIS of either of these colours T LIT chimaera, Calyptrata is moreover remarkable in navi the membrane which crowns the orifice of the tube and sur- VOL, II, Y rounds the base of the stamens, entire, not as in all the species where it has been yet met with, split or unravelled into a sort of fringe, or divided into scale-like lobes. A feature which narrows the compass of that part of the technical character which separates the genus from Nar- cissus, to the insertion of the filaments to within the tube below the base of the crown in that genus, and to their in- sertion at the summit of the tube on a level with the crown in this. A native of the Brazils, where it was found by Mr. E. Woodford, and sent by him to this country. Bulb tunicated. Leaves many, firm, substantial, bifa- rìous, upright, patent, lorate, lanceolate, about two feet and a half in length, from an inch to an inch and half in breadth, not glaucous, latticed-veined, channelled at the midrib and keeled, downwards narrowed involute and stiff- ened, upwards flattened, far acuminate. Scape (sometimes two or more in succession) rather shorter than the foliage, thick, cylindrical, tapering, straight, very slightly com- pressed, glaucous, not streaked, reddening below. _ Spathe bivalved, membranous, finely striate, twice shorter than the flowers. Lowers two, of the largest dimensions in the genus, of considerable endurance, of a yellowish green colour, without scent, peduncled, about five inches in length, from the base of the peduncle to the summit of the stigmas nine inches: peduncles as thick as a large pen, about equal to the germen or rather longer, trigonal with rounded corners, green. Germen of greater circumference than the peduncle, about an inch long, obscurely 3-lobed, lobes pulvinate, not glaucous, unfurrowed. Orifice of the co- rolla widest crossways; tube nearly of the same diameter as the germen, straight, cylindric, obscurely trigonal, deep green, twice shorter than the limb; dimb six-parted, semi- ringent, imbricated below, pale green, latticed-veined; seg- ments nearly equal, lanceolate, acute, undulate, paler at the edge, three exterior ones convex at the back, where they are of a deeper green and keeled, toward the top conni- vent, with a compressed point, three interior flatter in the disk involute reflectent: upper middlemost vaulted, inclining forwards; the two side ones divaricately recurved, slanting upwards, a little broader than the rest; three lower ones forming the nether lip, projecting more than those of the upper lip; two lower lateral ones resembling the upper middle segment; lower middle one resembling the two upper lateral ones. Crown shallow, membranous, colourless, entire, sur- rounding the filaments at their base, but not connecting them like a web, as in Pancratium. Stamens fasciculate, declined, assurgent, projecting beyond the corolla; fila- ments thick, trigonal with rounded corners, subulately ta- pered, of a dingy pale mottled red: anthers violet-coloured, with yellow pollen. Style of the same colour as the fila- ments, but thicker, and of greater length: stigmas re- volute. The drawing was taken from a plant which flowered last September in Mr. Griffin's hothouse at South Lambeth. r ; / fyd M durado di / T 165 LOBELIA fulgens. Refulgent Lobelia. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. (Nonaullis Monadelphia Pentandria,) Nat. ord. CAMPANULACEE. Jussieu gen. 103. Dio. II. An» there connate. CAMPANULACEE. Brown prod. 559. Sect. II. Co- rolla irregularis (nunc 5-petala). Anthere sepé con- nate. LOBELIA. Suprê vol. 1. fol. 60. L. fulgens, erecta, simplex, subpubescens ; foliis elongato-lanceolatis attenuatis subintegerrimis, racemo multifloro, genitalibus longitudine Corolle. Pursh amer. sept. 2. 448. . Lobelia fulgens. Andrews's reposit. 659. Aiton's Epitome, 370; in Add. Donn cant. ed. 8. 57. Willd. hort. berol. 85. cum tab. Enum, 217. Radix perennis, fibrosa, stolonifera. Caulis herbaceus, erectus, bipedalis el altior, Fryer y ramosus, ife E sulcato-subangulatus, prasertim basin versùs, ex toto pube tenui obducius. Folia alterna, sessilia, ut caulis Pubescentia, lanceolata, ápice attenuata, venosa, remotê denticulata, margine revoluta, inferiora 9-4 icaria, superiora sensim minora. lores race- mosi, termina cwdd Bracteme lanceolate, pedunculo longiores, ine Jfériores majores, subintegerrime, pubescentes. Pedunculi alterni, pubesoentes, talyce breviores. Calyx I-phyllus, 5-partitus, laciniis lanceolatis, acutis, in- tegerrimis, erectis, l-nerviis, apice patulis. Cor. coccinea, Tubus ovate» oblongus, calyce longior, initio integer posted lon; inalitèr utroque latere issus. Limbus 5-partitus, laciniis 2 superioribus lineari-lam > ane, gustis, basi erectis, apice reffezo-patentibus, 3 inferioribus oblongo-lanceolatis, TOflexis, planis. Fil. lineari-lanceolata, margine coluerentia, apice et bast parìm sejuncta. Anth, erecta”, lincari-oblonga, coherentes, apice pilosa. Germ. 10-sulcatum. Stylus fain Stig. bilamellatum. “Caps. apice dehiscens. Sem. minuta. Willdenow. owt, Under the head Losrrra splendens, in the first volume of this work, we have noticed the introduction of that species from Mexico, along with the present. Both were obtained from seeds found in specimens which the illus- trious travellers, Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland, had pre- served in the Herbarium they brought home with them. Both have been rapidly multiplied, and already found their way into every garden and window. The present blossoms from August until the frost destroys it; splendens is somewhat forwarder, and rather more hardy. tered in the greenhouse the seed is sometimes ripened ; but the more usual way of propagating it, is by dividing the suckers from the root-stock. A perennial fibrous-rooted herbaceous plant, clothed, ex- cept at the corolla, by a close fine nap, which distinguishes ìt at first sight from splendens. Stem. upright usually two feet high, somewhat angular and furrowed, especially near the base. Leaves sessile, narrow- or long- lanceolate, veined, distantly denticulate, reflectent at the edge, lower ones 3 or 4 inches long, upper gradually smaller. Raceme many- flowered, upright, terminal, pointing in some degree to one side. Peduncles shorter than the calyx. Segments of the calyr entire, acute, patent near the top. Corolla scarlet, but of a lighter and more glowing hue than in splendens ; larger than in cardinalis, now yielding its place in our col- lections to the new-comers. Filaments linear-lanceolate, cohering, except at the summit and base, equal to the co- rola, not longer as in cardinalis: anthers linear-oblong, cohering, pubescent at the top. Seed very small. Mr. Pursh has included it in his account of the plants of North America, as growing on the Mississipi, but he had only seen it in our gardens, and gives no authority for its belonging to the station he mentions. The drawing was made at Messrs. Colvilles’ nursery, Chelsea, A FF area del. Sith, Se Pet 2 ut hal prt t, ZO een etl. DEN vA 14//. aa —— - 166 MITELLA diphylla. Two-leaved Mitella. DECANDRIA DIGYNIA. Nat. ord. SAxiFRAGE. Jussieu gen. 308. Dic. I. Fructus superus capsularis, apice birostris. MITELLA. Cal. 5-fidus, persistens, Petala 5, laciniata ant pinuatifida, summo calyci inserta, ejusdem laciniis alterna. Stam. ìbi- dem inserta. Caps. l-loc., 2-valvis, valvis zqualibus. Folia sim- plicia, pleraque radicalia; flores in scapo nudo aut opposite diphyllo laxe spicati terminales. Jussieu. M. diphylla, foliis sublobato-acutangulis dentatis, caule erecto supernê opposité diphyllo, Pursh amer. sept. 1. 313. . ` Miteila diphylia. Linn. sp. pl. 1. 580. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 1. Hort. Kew. 2. 83. ed. 2. 3.73. Gart. sem. 1. 208. t. 44. f. 6. Mich. bor- amer. 1. 270. Rob. ic. 80. Lamarck illustr. 1. tab. 373. fig. 1. Willd. sp. pl. 9. 659. Schkuhr handb. 1. 375. t. 190. Cortusa americana altera, floribus minutìm fimbriatis, Mentz. peg. t. 10. C. americana, spicato flore, petalia fimbriatis. Herm. par. 180. Sanicnla s, Cortusa indica, flore spicato fimbriato. Dodart mem. 999. Herba perennis, pubescens pilis brevibus interspersis tripld longiori- bus; caulis semipedals ad dodrantalem, parim supra medium opposito- bifolius. Folia cordato-subtrilaba lobis acutangulis, inciso-dentata nist in sins baseos ubi integerrima, pilosa, nervosa, subrugosa, radicalia erecta, 2-5, longè petiolata, stipulis binis ovato-lanceolatis membranaceis ciliatis cuspidatis suprà glabris; caulina superna, subsessilia, uncialia v. magis. Racemus continuus, distans foliis, remotiùs multiflorus, sparsus, erectus: fores ( 14-16) par- vuli, albidi, pedicellis calyce brevioribus teretibus villosis suffultis bracteâ subæ- quali ovato-rotundâ denticulatá glabrâ apice erosá velacuminata. Cal. pubescens, scgmentis ovatis cum acuminulo, erectissimis, albicantibus. Cor, albas pet. unguiculata ad divisuras calycinas posita, ungues his æquales, ¿ mine ; - rotunde v. elliptice, pinnato-multifide lacinulis capillaribus | tam, inclusa calyci, ejusque tubo incrassato ad punctum ubi inseruntur. petala circumposita. Fil. brevia, subulata, apice inflexa: anth. subrolunde, lutee. Germ. ova- tum, conicum, virens, minut? pubescens: stig. 2 obtusa, erquantia stamina. Native of North America, where it grows in shady laces, near springs, among rocks. Cultivated in 1731 by filler, in Chelsea Garden. Perfectly hardy; but loves a soft loamy soil and shady situation. Is propagated, by parting the root in autumn. Flowers about May. he genus belongs to the tribe of Saxifrages. . EE A perennial rooted herb, coated with shortish hair of unequal lengths. Radical leaves from two to five, with longish petioles; blade patent, cordate, faintly 5-3-lobed, lobes shallow, acutely angular, deeply dentate, five-nerved, subrugose, an inch long or more, with two ovate lanceolate cuspidate smooth ciliate membranous stipules; cauline al- most sessile, opposite, placed nearly half way up the stem. Raceme continuous, distant from the two cauline leaves, upright, loosely scattered, many-flowered, patent. Flowers small, whitish, on round villous pedicles shorter than the calyx, with a nearly equal ovately round smooth denticu- late generally acuminate bracte at the base.. Calyr pu- bescent, with straight whitish ovate pointed segments. Co- rolla rotate, white, petals five, unguiculate, inserted opposite to the intervals between the calycine segments, claw or tail equalling these, blade roundish or elliptic, pmnately mul- tifidous, segments of almost capillary fineness. Stamens shorter than the calyx, placed within its thickened tube at the point where the petals are inserted. Filaments short, subulate, inflectent at the point: anthers roundish, yellow. Germen ovate, conic, green, minutely pubescent: stigmas 2 obtuse points, continuous with the valves of the germen, equal to the stamens. The drawing was made from a plant which flowered in «Mr. N.:S. Hodson’s. collection at South Lambeth. a A magnified dissected flower, showing the pistil, the stamens, and the insertion of the petals into the calyx. A uo Beds hU Op 2 uty 7, 7 A 7 Fes 7m ZZ Farn f. ff! | nh rd —; 167 CYRTANTHUS spiralis. Spiral-leaved Cyrtanthus. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Narcisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. III. Germen ine ferum. AMARYLLIDEE. Brown prod. 996. Sect. I. Radix 8» bulbosa. Flores spathacei, raró solitarii. CYRYANTHUS. Supra fol. 162; ubi omittendum est verbum “curva,” et pro. * lacinie limbi tubo cum fauce triplo breviores" legendum “ laciniæ limbi fauce breviores," pro “ Fil. fauci tubi inserta” ponendum ** Fil. fauci supra tubum inserta," e£ pro “ spatha multiflora,” ** spatha uni-multiflora." Dignoscatur AManvutive er limbo breviore quàm faux tubulosa, mon longiore; filamentis insertis fauci supra tubum, non summo tubo infra füucem. Semina in C. angustifolio paleaceo-compressa. — Fortà eliam in reliquis congeneribus. C. spiralis, pluriflora, foliis subtrinis, ligulatis, spiralibus, obtusis, glancis, Cyrtanthus spiralis. Burchell MSS. Cyrtanibus angustifolius. Jacq. hort. schanb, 1. 40. t. 761 (non alio- rum); tantummodo tamèn quod ad figuram bulbi aphylli floridi; folia enim in textá descripta et icone seorsim delineata suspicamur species Pertinere aliena. HN Cyrtanthus ventricosus. Willd. sp. pl. 9, 49. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 9, 222. Bulbus oblongo-ovatus magnitudine £f? ovi gallinacei, industo glabraio Jusco, nervis rectis parallelis remotiusculis striato. Folia tardiora inflores- tentià, 2-3, erecta, spiralitr contorta, semipedalia, dimidium uncie lata, inferno versús attenuata, subsplendentia, glauca. Scapus pedalis, penná enseriná crassior, columnari-strictus, teres, viridis rubedine aliquá suffusus, lauco rore opacatus. Spatha 2-valvis, lanceolata, subeguans pedunculos, Úmbella subseptemflora, bracteis interstincta, foribus cernuis miniatis biune cialibus, Cor. clavato-cylindracea, ubl latior diametro Jere ne olorina ; tubus gracilis, recurvus, in faucem inflatis et abruptius dilatatus quàm. in congeneribus glauco aut angustifolio; limbus pen? quater brevior portione tus bulosá, patens, laciniis elliptico-ovatis, exterioribus mucronulatis: Stam. medium timbi usque vel ultra prostantia : anth. fave. Stylus equans stamina, We have no doubt that our plant is of the same species with that cited from the Hortus Schenbrannensis of Jacguin, in as far as relates to the description an figure of the plant with a bulb and inflorescence, wit rout leaves; but we suspect that the foliage describe M the text, and represented in another part of the plate, belongs VOL. I 2 to another species. The mistake has probably arisen from some accidental trausposition of the specimen in the period of time that intervened between the taking of the descrip- tion and drawing of the flower, and the subseguent ap- pearance of the foliage. The true angustifolius (figured in Curtis's Magazine: 271) is very distinct from that of Jacguin, it is altogether a smaller plant, with clear green, still narrower, not spirally wreathed leaves, and a corolla with acuminate segments. The present species is an extremely rare plant; and al- though recorded in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis, we have never met with it in any collection except in that of Mr. Burchell, by whom the plant from which our figure was drawn was found at Uitenhage, near Algoa Bay, in the territory belonging to the colony of the Cape of Good Hope. This gentleman brought home many of the bulbs, several of which flowered in 'his garden at Ful- ham, in September last. Bulb oblong-ovate, with smooth light brown integu- ments, streaked, but at widish intervals. Leaves generally appearing after the inflorescence has gone by, from two to three, ligulate, upright, spirally wreathed, about half a foot high, half an inch broad, narrowed downwards from below the middle, glaucous, yet somewhat shining. Scape thicker than a large guill, columnar, about a foot high, glaucous over green, tinged with purple. Spathe as long as the peduncles. Umbel of about seven flowers, divided by bractes, flowers cernuous vermilion, inclining to salmon colour, about two inches long, with the diameter of the stem of a swan-quill, twice as long as the peduncles. Corolla of a clavately cylindric form, with a slender short £ube enlarging into a wider faux, and rather more abruptly than in that of either of the allied species, glaucus or angustifolius ; limb four times shorter than the tubular portion of the flower, patent; segments elliptical, ovate, outer three with a small point. Stamens standing out as far as the middle of the limb, or farther: anthers yellow. Requires keeping in a greenhouse during the colder part of the year. 100 San / Hj de / A E - 3 a — NW f EU 1 Y | A Ñ E N "fif. | '| (| i ay S70 ya Pat. by E Rdg w Ga Eduards. del: —^ a 168 CYRTANTHUS uniflorus. One-flowered Cyrtanthus. HEXANDRIA MUNOGYNTA. Nat. ord. Nancissi. Jussieu gen, 54. Div. III. Germen in- ferum. AMARYLLIDEE. Brown prod. 906. Sect. I. Radix bulbosa. Flores spathacei, raró solitarii. CYRTANTHUS. Supra fol. 167. C. uniflorus; folio solitario, lineari, glauco : limbo subzquante faucem. Amaryllis clavata. L’ Heritier sert. angl. 11. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 52. Folium erectiusculum, aquans vel superans scapum cum flore, viz lineam latum. Scapus teres, erectus, culmum triliceum crassus, stbspithameus, glaucus ien rubescens. Spatha foliolis duobus lineari-attenuatis, duplo longioribus ultrave pedicello fusco-virente. Germen oblongum, lineare, olus trigonum, Cor. horizontali-nutans albida, extus striis sex equidistantibus lateritiis v. puniceis per omnem longitudinem hezanguloso-notata, intús lineis totidem sangui- neis brevibus è fundo tubi alternè cum striis extimis ductis radiata, biuncialis, rectiuscula, ubi latior diametro digiti v. circitêr ; tubus fusco-rubens, subequalis ermini, angustus, ampliatus in faucem ventricosiis cylindricam limbo æqualem : imbus patulus, laciniis ovatis acululis nervo medio intús prominulo, exteriori- bus 3 mucronatis. Filamenta brevia faucem viz exsuperantia, incurvo-conni- ventia + antheræ incumbentes, lutee. Stylus ruber parüm excedens antheras ; stig. 3, rubra, patentia, A species wavering between Cyrrantuus and Asa- RYLLIS; but agreeing with the former, in having filaments which are inserted into the faux above the tube, and a regularly patent limb, as short as the faux or shorter; and we have enrolled it there. Indeed the two genera are in all else so close, that we can detect no other marks to keep them clear. Our plant was recorded by L'Heritier as an AMARYLLIS, and called clavata, before the present genus had been instituted. Several bulbs of it have been now first brought into this country by Mr. Burchell, three or four of which produced their blossom i of these 7 y the larges the’one figured here had by ar the largesi and l ightest coloured flower, that of the ot | calibre, with less widely expanded segments, and with i i i ile-red, not of a the six external stripes of a dingy ti , bright carmine, as in that of the present. It grows spontaneously at the Cape of Good Hope, near Cam- z2 tour's river. Approaches AMARYLLIs by the vittata of that genus. Ledf upright, linear, glaucous, scarcely more than a line broad. Scape round, as thick as a wheaten straw, about seven inches in height, glaucous, reddish below. Spathe of two narrow tapered leaflets, twice longer than the.pe- duncle. Germen oblong, linear, obtusely trigonal. Flower nutant, whitish and hexangularly marked with six vertical narrow eguidistant crimson stripes, about two inches long, and nearly of twice the diameter of a swan-guill: tube of a dusky red, about equal to the germen, slender; faur equal to the limb or longer; segmenis patent, ovate, somewhat acute, with a vertical middle nerve inwardly prominent. Filaments scarcely reaching beyond the faux, short, in- curvately connivent: anthers yellow incumbent. Style red; stigmas red patent. The drawing was taken this summer at Mr. Burchell's, Fulham. /) £) Syd C dwarda. del { Fub by I Ridgway MIU P road / / » y P ìi LI om V EO. / 169 GLADIOLUS edulis. Esculent-rooted Cornflag. TRIANDRIA MONQGYNIA. Nat. ord. Eusarm. Lim. ord. nat. VI. Nobis in ann. bot. 1. 219. lminEs. Jussieu gen. 57. Imgm. Brown prod. 302. . GLADIOLUS. -Luflor. alterna, disticho-spicata, pauci-ntultifiora, distiucta spathis bwalvibus lanceolatis, valvá anticá duvolvente, posticam angustiorem. Cor. supera, tubulosa, .6-fida, infundipuliformus, ibre- gularis, tubo erecto gracili în faucem brevem v. cylindraceo-glongatan ampliato, limbo G-partito bilabiato, subaquali et divaricato, v. qu simo laciniá summa porrecto-depressá. — Fil. ori tubi inserta, collaterali- adscendentia, inclusa. 41th. Imeari-oblonga, introrsïm Suspense, ver- satiles, verticales. Stylus cum directione staminum, tristriato-filiformis Stig. lamelle 3 elongata, obversê attenuate, complicato-canaliculate, replicate. Caps. membranacea, ovato-oblonga, obtuse trigona, ;3:loc., 3-valv., valvis medio septiferis. Sem. numerosa, gemino ordine imbri- catim cumulata, internz margini septi utrinque annexa, cincta alá mem- branaceâ latá circum nucleum parvum cartilagineum; alà ob testam nucleo grandion et paucâ pulpá obducto expletam rarissimé obliterata, — Bulbo-tuber globoso-ovatum, integumentis sembranoso fibrosis, er- ternis crassitudine maximè vartis. Folia d, «collaterali-disticha, &nfr& vaginantia et vaginá radicali membranas, compliza ; lamina plano- ensata, rariŵs decussato-guadrangalaris, modo ad paginam utramque bisulca cum margine utrinque. elevatá, v. interdim cartilagine crassâ circumscrigta, Caulis culmaceus,, sapids simplex, , teres v. nunc tri- queter, — [n proximis Bamana eb ANTMOLYZA, praler habitum diversum, semina non alata. G. edulis, foliis longissimis linearibus glaucis, nervo utrinque prominente: limbi laciniis caudatis. Gladiolus edulis. Burchell MSS. 2l. . Bulbo-tuber ovato-conicum, nucleo castaneo-carnoso, indusio reticulato, fusco. Folia subguaterna, cauli infernê imposita atque duplo longiora, po xima, lineari-acuminata, viz sesquilineam ta, glauca, plana, merw medio quadrato utrinque extante nec tamen cum elevatione adeeguante lanum ransver- sum folii, Spica multi-( sub-8-) flora, remotiuscula, flezuosa, a. Spi 7 ¡valves; valve duplo breviores floribus, sphacel to-membranose, tenues, a@guivalves; Valvi arctiìs convolute interiore bifidá. Cor. dilutê purpurascens seequiunciatis, semiringens, labiis inequalibus: tubus gracilis perüm d » tar pi Vi pa- tham; laciniis cum cuspide tenui longa abruple acuminatis, s må latiore arcuato-adscendente remotá ; ceteris rhombeo-ianceola! o 7 bus, lateralibus 2 summis oppositis, latioribus quàm tres infimæ sanguineo-piciæ atque invicèm aguales. re i hell in A precorded species, found by Mr. Burch South Africa, near Litâkoon; almost the farthest inland point in that direction visited by any european who has returned to the Cape of Good Hope. It differs from the many others we have examined, by a corolla with rhom- boidally” lanceolate segments terminating in long abruptly marrowed caudately tapered points. The roots are roasted and eaten like chestnuts, which they resemble in taste and guality. ` Bulb-tuber ovate, tapered, with a kernel nearly of the substance of a chestnut, and netted integuments. Leaves very long, four or thereabouts, placed towards the bottom of the stem, twice as high as that, linear, acuminate, laucous, scarcely a line and half broad, having a square idrib prominent from both surfaces, but not egualling in depth the breadth of the blade. Spike 8-flowered or thereabouts, loose, upright, flexuose. —Spathes sphacelate, rolled close, twice shorter than the flowers; valves egual, inner one bifid. Corolla of a very diluted purple, nearly bleached, about an inch and a half long, semiringent, with unegual lips: tube slender, equal to the spathe; segments suddenly narrowed into a long slender point, upper one broadest, arched, standing aloof; the rest rhomboidally lanceolate connivent, two upper lateral ones opposite and broader than the three lowermost, which are marked with crimson. The drawing was taken in September, from a plant at Mr. Burchell's, Fulham. E Ly L. Cdwouarts. Db re ee o by da 7 172 Leecmditly ou / Ag 7 , Jo | | 170 CARTHAMUS tinctorius. Safflower, or Bastard-Saffron. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA JEQUALIS. Nat. ord. CyNAROCRPHAUE. Jussieu gen. 171. Div. I. Cineroccphale vere. Squame calycis spinose, CARTHAMUS. Flores hermaphroditi, ^ Cal. multiplici serie - polyphyllus, imbricatus, squamis interioribus simplicibus acuminatis aut Spinosis, exterioribus basi arctis, apice foliacco divaricatis, et margine dentato- aut sinuato- spinosis. Recept. tectum pilis. Herba spinose aut mites, quedam calyce subinermi minds congeneres. — Semen C. tinctorii nudum pappo mox deciduo. Flosculi radiales ex Hallero neutri aut abortientes in C. lanato et C. cretico indè ad CaLcrrrapam depellendis et Cancirraps benedicta afjinioribus. Juss, gen. 172. C. tinctorius, caule glaberrimo, folis ovatis integris. spinoso-dentatis, seminibus nudis. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1706. Carthamus tinctorius. Lin. sp. pl. 2. 1169. — Hasselg, it. 483. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 1. Beckmann ín Nov. comm. goett. IV. 94. Regn. bot. Garin. sem. 2. 375. t. 161. fig. 2. Allioni pedem. n. 569. Zorn ic. 140. Hort. Kew. 3. 150. ed. 2. 4. 491. Lam. et Decand. HA. franc. 472. Lam. illustr. t. 661. f. 3. nicus sativus S. Carthamus officinarum. Rumph. amboin. 5. 215. t. 49. Cnicus vulgaris. Clus. hist. 2. 152. . . Herba annua nunc S-pedalis. "Caulis erectus, teres, strictus, solidus, glaber, 2 viridi albidus; superna fastigiato-ramosus. Folia sparsa, caulina, patentia, semiamplexicaulia, ovalia, acuminata, venosa, nuda, spinuloso~ dentata ; radicalia oblonga, infernê angustata. Flores capitati, ramulorum in pedunculos Jfistuloso-clavatos abeuntium terminales, crocum redolentes. Squame calycinæ numerose capilato-compacte, interiores arct? conniventes lineari-lanceolatee nervoso-striate wilo minuto tect _ simplices, medie squarrose semifoliaceee, exteriores patentissine omninò | folia. ;Floseali ultra unciam longi, plurimüm superantes calycem, omnes androgyni, glabri, graciles; tubus striatus supernê coccineus, 3-plo longior limbo; Jiml us 5- partitus, connivens, flavus aurantiaco notatus, laciniis ovali-lanceolatis mar- gine involutis, erectis. Anth, inclusa, flava, obtusata. Stig. flavum, ezser- secundüm marginem canaliculato-dehiscens, quasi con- uminatis et peripheriam Sem. fur- tum, simplex, lineare, n Jectum ex 2 laminulis ad oppositos discos confêrr versüs solutis. Germ. glaberrimum, calvum, compresso-anceps. binatum, nitidum, niveum; testâ nucumentaced ; umbilico suprà basin posite. i LL t i ing in the gardens A native of Egypt, recorded as growing In t of this country as far back as 1551. The flowers con- stitüte a dyer's drug, which forms a considerable article of commerce. The plant is said to have been once cultivated to a considerable extent in Gloucestershire; but has long since ceased to be so in any part of England. In the hands of the dyer it is made to impart a fine rose or ponceau colour to silk. In the Levant and Spain, it is much used as a culinary ingredient, so it was formerly here. A red pigment for painters is made from the stamens. The cosmetic rouge, called Vegetable rouge, Spanish vermilion, Lake of Carthamus, receives its hue from safflower. The seed has a place in the Materia medica, but we believe is no longer prescribed in practice. This 1s sometimes called Parrot's corn, being a grateful and wholesome food for that tribe of birds; altho' noxious, as it is said, to all other animals. Allioni enrols it among the native vege- tables of the country about Nice, where it grows on dry hills, and if not aboriginal is domesticated to a great ex- tent. An annual plant, sometimes three feet high. Stem whitish, upright, solid, rigid, smooth, branched upwards, branches scattered and generally fastigiate. Zeaves scattered, loose, cauline ones halfclasping, patent, oval, acuminate, veined, naked, edge spinously indented; radical ones oblong, nar- rowed towards the base. Flowers capitate or artichoke- shaped, standing upon a thickened fistular terminal pe- duncle continuous with each branch, smelling something like the true saffron. Calyr:of numerous scales, innermost of these narrow lanceolate, externally. villous,connivent, middlemost semifoliaccous squarrose, outermost perfect leaves and entirely patent. Florets discoid and fertile, an inch or more long, overtopping the calyx, orange-red, slender, smooth; tube three times longer than the limb; segments connivent, uprigbt, lanceolate-oval, involuted at the edge. Stigma protruded, simple, linear, splitinto a groove round the edge, as if of two equal laminz conjoined inwards at their disks. Seed turbinate, shining, white, with an in- tegument like a shell. A common hardy annual; but of which we have not found a coloured figure in any english work. The drawing was taken at Messrs. Whitley, Brame's, and Milne's nur- sery, King's Road, Fulham. — , 8A flower dissected vertically, showing the germens and florets stand- ing imbedded in the hair of the receptacle. â A detached floret. Mr c Syr lodewartths Bêl. " A š ; ^ y p DEZA by D Kedger Jr ond IO roll V / IT. l / M . 171 CRINUM cruentum. Mr. Herbert's Crinum. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Nat. ord. Nancisst, Jussieu gen. 54. . Dio. II. Germen ine erum, H AMARYLLIDEE. Brown prod. 996. Sect. I. Radix bulbosa, Flores spathacei, umbellati, raró solitarii. CRINUM. Supra vol. Y. fol. 52." - “> C. cruentum, bulbo stolonifero ; foliis amplê loratis, acuminatis, mare gine glabro; spatha herbacea elongato-oblonga apice rotundata: lacie niis limbi plus duplo brevioribus tubo. Bulbus extern? livido-purpurascens, stolonifero-repens. Folia atrovi- gentia, coriaceo-crassa multifaria, infrà convoluto-vaginantia, suprà recum- bentia longiora guadripedalia, 4 uncias cum dimidio lata, margine leevíssimo. Scapus (nunc bini successivi) compressus v. anceps aciebus rotundatis, viridis, Spatha foliaceo-virens erecta, valud majore semipedali, Umbella inclinata, sessilis, multi-(7-) flora, bracteaceo-distincta. Flores ad emarcescentiam usque excrescentes in longitudinem, ut denud uncias undenas extendi possint, stricti, exbódorati, roseo-purpurei, senescentes maculis albis interrupt, Germ. vi- vens, subcylindric? oblongum, obsoleté trigonum, glaberrimum, estriatum, ezsulcum viz tubo continuo crassius. Tubus strictus, septemuncialis in longi- pribus, calamum crassus, pallido-virens, trigono-cylindricus angulis. obtusis, exsulcus, estriatus: limbus recurvo-stellatus, laciniis elongato-lanceolatig subtriuncialibus latitudine & partis uncia, exterioribus dorso medio viridiuse culis, interioribus sublatioribus. Fil. sanguinea, und quartá parte breviora limbo v, circitêr, gracilia, divaricata : anth. in lunulam curvande, vibrater, Jineares. Stylus vir robustior filamentis, equalis, fori, intens? puniceus, tri- guetro-filiformis; stigma punctum atrosanguincum parüm dilatatum, We did not expect so soon the appearance of one of the same genus, that should vie with the magnificent amabile, introduced two or three years ago by Sir Abraham Hume, But in beauty of the corolla the present is at least equal to that, if it yields the points of fragrance and copiousness of blossom. ‘It appears to be an unrecorded member of the nus; and has now first flowered in Mr. Herbert's hot- ouse at Spofford, near Wetherby, in Yorkshire, And our thanks are due to that gentleman for the entire inflores- cence and some of the foliage, which were sent to Mr, Edwards by his direction, along with the principal part of the subjoined account of the plant. We do not find it mentioned in Dr. Roxburgh's manuscript enumeration of VOL. IL AA the Coromandel plants, but are informed by Mr. Herbert that it was imported from the East Indies. It differs from all by the long berbaceous round-pointed upright leaflike spathe, colour of the flower, and extraordinary length of the tube. Bulb large, outside lividly purple, stoloniferous. Leaves thickish, multifarious, spreading, of a dark green celour, four feet or more in length, 4-5 inches broad, pointed, entire and smooth edged. Scape (sometimes two in succession) compressed, green. Spathe half a foot in length, upright. Umbel inclined, sessile, with about 7 flowers, separated by bractes.. Flowers peach-coloured-purple, slightly scented, increasing in length till they fade; when extended measur- ing almost a foot, mottled with white as they go off. Tube straight, rigid, of the thickness of a pen, pale green, triangular with blunted corners, not furrowed, twice the length of the limb or more; limb stellate, recurved, seg- ments narrowly lanceolate, about the third of an inch broad, outer ones greenish at the back. Filaments about a fourth shorter than the limb, slender, divaricate, deep purple. Style not much thicker than these, equal to the flower, crimson; stigma a black-red point. It requires to be kept in the stove, and to be furnished plentifully with water. The bulb should be placed upon the surface of the soil. To be propagated by suckers’ pro- duced from the base of the rootstock or axis of the bulb. ew £ E à cb | y bc / 0 : E» wo Syt Clos, dd MAH —O E — 172 — AMARYLLIS flexuosa. Pustulous-leaved Amaryllis. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord, Nancissi. Jussieu gen. 54. Dio. II. Germen im N ferum. ` NU AMARYLLDEE. Brown prod. 996. Sect. I. Radix : > ‘bulbosa. Flores spathacei, umbellati, rard solitarii. . AMARYLLIS. Vide supra vol. 1. fol. 23. , i. Dio. Hexapetalo-partite: subrotata. Folia bifaria. A. flexuosa, spatha pauciflora; foliis loratis angustis obtusulis minutâ' pustuloso-punctatis; limbi laciniis recurvo-divaricatis undulatis, unâ fasciculo declinato staminum subtensâ, remotá. Nod. de amar. in Journ. of scien. and the arts, v. 2. p. 305. n. 89. Amaryllis exuosa. Jacq. hort. schenb. 1. 35. t. 67. Willd. sp. pl. 2. GO. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 229. Undulata minor multiflora ; humilis major pluriflora; flexuosa mazima pauciflora: ceterum inter se persimiles. FA folia modó pedalia, semun- ciam lata, subtis pallentia et conspicuis pustulata. Scapus bipedalis, modd calamum crassus. Umbella laza, pedunculis strictis, fragilibus, longioribus spathâ subrosed lanceolatá sphacelatá. Cor. rosea, laciniis tantitm ex disco incrassato cennexis, ceterum distantibus. Stigmata fria, feplicata, rubra,’ puberula. Germen loculis suboctospermis. Capsula bulbisperma, Viz cone stanter? , Bulbus indusiis membrano-fibrosis, plex intergerino Fibrarum bom- bycino atque ductili. Nob. in loc. cit. A native of the Cape of Good Hope. Introduced by Mr. Masson in 1795. It is extremely difficult to define any distinctions between this species, humilis, and undulata, which do not resolve into difference of size and its conse- quences. In ffezuósa the leaves are twice or thrice broader than in humilis, and the whealy or pustulous efflorescence which covers them is more conspicuous, but that is all. In humilis the same appearance is more prominent than in un- dulata, where the foliage is the narrowest of the three. In each the undulate segments of the corolla converge towards the upper middle one, forming a semicircularly radiated lip, the lowermost middle one sometimes keeping its posi- tion under the style, sometimes slanting away from it with the others. The seeds in all are with us small green succu- lent roundish bulblike masses but more numerous in flecuosa than in the other two. They may be distinct species, and probably are, but ye confess ourselves unable AA to elicit a single stable discriminating mark except size, 'They are all hardy greenhouse plants, and flower nearly together in the autumn. Fleruosa, in our apprehension, is a point at which the genus connects itself with Bruns- VIGIA. Bulbs ovate, covered with numerous whitish membrano- fibrous integuments; fibres silky, dúctile. Leaves bifa- -rious, lorately elongated, slightly concave and involute, biuntly acuminate, minutely whealed or pustulous, more conspicuously so at the under surface, where they are of a paler hue, from 9 inches to a foot long, and about half an inch broad. Scape 1-2 feet high, round, about as thick as the tube of a middle-sized pen. Umbel few-flowered, loose; peduncles straight and rigid, green, brittle. Spathe shorter than these, lanceolate, sphacelate, reddish. The lower seg- ment generally keeps in its place under the style, and does not slant away with the others towards the upper middle one, as in humilis, but we are doubtful if this is constantl the case. Stamens fasciculate, declined.- Style declined, bowed and red upwards: stigmas diverging, subpubescent : germen 3-lobed, trigonal with rounded corners, knobbed : loculaments 8-seeded, or thereabouts. Those in undulata and humilis are fewer seeded. i The drawing was made in Mr. Griffin's garden at South Lambeth, where it flowers in the autumn. A hardy greenhouse plant; multiplying by offsets from the bulb, ' A J ne th Se Loly Fs 84]. 2 ^ AMAIA Ly Fa Mr pres y Sen S70 ^ “tty 92 A, steld ete fe L^ JJ Syr FK 173 + KARMPFERIA pandurata, > ` Sumatra Kempferiq. ~ ' MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Nat. ord. Canna. Jussieu gen. 62. ' : SCITAMINEE. Brown prod. 305. ‘ KEMPFERIA. Anthera duplex. Filam, extra antheram elone tum, apice bilobatum. Corolle lacinie lineares s€utm. ‘Roscoe in. rans. linn. soc. 8. 351. 0o! HEEL Herbe acaules. Rhizoma tuberosó-ovatum, carnosent,’ bulbitéps, sobolibus biennibus prorepens. Folia radicalia, bifarin. Infor. ra- dicalis, bracteato-spicata, sapids centralis. Cal. superior, subcylindri- cus, ore arctato inaqualitór diviso. - Corolla: tubus snsignitôr elongatus gracilisgue; labellum non resupinatum, magnum bilobatum, prastans colore. 'Trunculi thalamei subulati. Stigma infundibuliforme. Germ. YN loculis polyspermis: ovala annexa ami fructâs. ^ Vers, ex angl. oxb, a "EE K. pandurata, foliis petiolatis, ovali-lanceolatis, spica centrali, laciriiis 2 summis limbi interioris obovatis, obtusis : labello pauduriformis Ex angl. Roxb. 2. . . lU. Kaempferia pandurata. Roxb. in Asiat. research. 11. 328. €, 9. (edit. Lond.) Roscoe in Trans. linn. soc. 11. 274. r Kæmpferia ovata. Roscoe in Trans: linn. we. 8 35h o 6 Curcuma rotunda. Linn. sp. pl. 1. 8... Willd. sp. pl. 1. 14. Zerumbet claviculatum, Rumph. amb. 5. t. 69. fig. ` o Manja-Kua, Rheede mal. 11. t. 10; (: innuentibus. Roxb. et Rosc. ). Rhizoma flavo-carnosum aroniaticum radiculas fibrilliferas crassas strictas fasciculato-demittens, Folia bifaria, sesqui-bipedalia, erecta; petioli twoo- duto-canaliculati, basi complezo-voginantes rubicundi, vaginis radicalibus . cincti, intis trans medium membrand ochreati; laminae lazè nervosa, abraptids Gcuminata, aristate, 3-4. uncias late, subtüs la ugine rará deciduá' con- sperse, supra efflorescentiá dens minut albidd item vüréam wianifestd tect. Spica imbricato-bracteata, 'pluriflora ;_frores singulatim. expandentes. Cal. vald2 brevior tubo. Cor. 2-S-uncialis, al incarnada, venie ge o-puni- cantibus picta; tubus duplo longior limbo, erectiusculus, albus, snide piforus 4 limbus nutans, 6-partitus, campanulato-semiringens, lacinia 3 ex riores angustiores oblonga S-nerves isometræ, media summa lanceolata ncn latior 2 aliis linearibus obtusulis subjectis dorso labellis 3 interiores latiores, , 9. laterales superiores obovate subbreviores, una ia, rior. labeli um omnibus us crassius, & parte majus, porrecto-deprestum, car 8 um, "wr longum, involuto-concavum, corrugatum, unciam ath gm ham ncam tah Vi emarginatum, intüs basi barbatum. Fil. brevius anther: Fr ra ripi dum lineare fragile compress? canaliculatum ad antheram ilatat Pira bilobo-fissum revolutum. Stylus capillaceus: sigma park excedens yam, infundibuliforme, compressum, pallidum. both given Messrs. Roscoe and Roxburgh, who have both. ` peculiar attention to the fine tropical order of Scitamineous vegetables to which our plant belongs, are agreed in the opinion of its being of the same species “with that figured in the plate we have quoted from the work of Rheede, And if the Curcuma rotunda of Linnzus has been founded upon this figure, and we can trace it to no other source, that species resolves of course into K/MPFERIA pan- durata. A native of Sumatra; introduced subsequently to the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis hy Sir Abraham Hume. The drawing was made from a specimen which flowered this autumn, in the hothouse of Mr. Griffin, at South Lambeth. It may not be supererogatory to some readers, if we remark, that Ginger, Arrow-root, and Turmerick (the basis of Cur- . rie-powder), substances familiar to every one, are preparas: tions of the tuberous root of different species belonging to the same natural tribe with the plant before them. K/MPFERIA, according to Dr. Roxburgh, differs from the closely kindred genus MHEDYCHIUM by a radical in- florescence and foliage; by a corolla in which the lip is not, reversed, and a filament which terminates beyond the anther in two small lobes. Rootstock of pandurata round-ovate, sending out straight fasciculately descending thick fleshy radicles beset with fibres. Leaves bifarious, petioled, from a foot and half to two feet high, upright; petioles channelled, sheathing, en- closed at the base by rootsheaths, and having a mem- branous stipule or ochrea, which crosses them within, near their middle, and is continued in a narrow border down- wards along their sides: blades ovcily lanceolate, loosely nerved, terminated by a somewhat sudden point, awned' three or four inches broad, thinly sprinkled with deciduous down beneath, clouded over at the upper surface by a fine white efflorescence, scarcely perceptible but through a magnifier. Spike of closely imbricated bractes ; flowers se- veral, appearing one ata time. Calyx several times shorter than the tube, contracted and unegually cleft at the orifice. Corolla 2-3 inches high, pale flesh colour, with crimson veins; tube white, twice the length of the limb, slender, straightish, pubescent within; ¿imb six-parted, nodding, campanulate, semiringent; three exterior segments, nar- rowest, oblong, 3-nerved, of one length; of these the middle one is the uppermost of the flower, lanceolate pointed and broader than the other two, which are linear *'— hr blunt and placed at the back of that termed the lip; three inner ones wider, two constitute the upper lateral segments of the limb, and are obovate and rather shorter than the rest, the other is the labellum or lip, and is much the thickest and largest of the whole, as well as more gaily coloured, broadly oblong, involutely concave, wrinkled, emarginate or notched, an inch long or more, bearded at the base within. Filament shorter than the double anther, substantial, bulky, white, compressed, channelled. Style capillary: stigma just above the anther, funnel-form, com- pressed, pale. The flesh of the root is yellow, and the flavour is compared by Rheede to that of Ginger and Saf» fron combined, a A flower expanded more than naturally, to show the form of the seg- ments. b Upper portion of the filament, with the anther and the two lobes that extend beyond ít. Vida n Y 11017 3 pow ond. pes Se 7 i bed | 7 j /4 hy / FP TE LL LP " u y. Y _” bad dica el L ote s T 174 + PANCRATIUM canariense. . Canary Sea-daffodil, or Pancratium, HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Nat. ord. Narcisst. Jussieu, gen. 54. Dio. II. Germén in- ferum. ' AMARYLLIDES.' Brown prod. 296. ` Sect. I. Radix * bulbosa. `. Flores spathacei, umbellati, raró. solitarii. PANCRATIUM. Supra vol. 1. fol. 43. . Div. Stamina spatiis alternis dentium interjecta. P. canariense, multifiorum ; - foliis- bifariis lanceolato-loratis, glaucius- «ctilis, obtüsulis, tubo bis-brêviore limbo, filamentis lacinulas corona 12-fidsb tion exsuperantibus, Bulbus globosus. Folia plura infra cylindraceo-vaginantia, indè erecto- patentia, loratè elongata, subinvoluto-canaliculata, deorsdin subarctata, obtuso» acuminata, obsbleté nervosa, sesquipedalia vel altiora, maximum į- "unciam lala. ^ Scapus lateralie, compressus, glaucus, parim brevior foliis. Spatha lanceolata, cuspidata, superans unculos. Umbella 7-8:fora, erecia, alba, remissè odora, unculis .angulosis flori pen? agualibus. Germ. parüm brevius tubo, lineari-oblongum, triquetrum, duplo crassius pe- dunculo; ovulis numercsis in loculamento enga baaria Cor. reigu- uncialés vel parüm altior ; tubus virens, angustus, sezsulcus, drigaeter ; lim bus stellatus, infra breve adnalus corona, laciniis lanceolatis, t- dine. duplá limbi, extimis 3 Jatioribus: corona $ parte brevior limbo, turbi- nata, patula, inciso-dentata, dentibus 12 angulari-acuminatis agualibus in- tegerrimis. Stam. conniventia, brevissima: anth. lutece, lunulatæ, vibrates, wguales vel longiores filamentis, Stylus triquetro-filiformis, inclinatus, cure vus, firkulus, equans florem: stigma puncium obtusum parüm tumidum. l Considering thie moderate extent of the Canary Islands, and the frequency with which they have been investigated .by intelligent and industrious botanists from all quarters of Europe; 'we did not expect to find that they possessed a native liliäceóus plant, so conspicuous as the present, which remained to be registered. But we can find no record of it within the chronicles of Botany; nor in any Her- barium to which we have access. The specimen that afforded the drawing, bloomed this autumn in the hothouse of Mr. Griffin, at Lambeth. It is indigenous of the island distinguished in the e of the Grand Canary; and was brought cluster by the nam the winter of 1815 by Dr. C. Schmidt, into this country in y Y a gentleman new associated to the expedition to the Niger. VOL, Jh 53 It differs from the other species we are acquainted with, by the shortness of the tube and filaments, the last of which scarcely equal the dwarf lobules of the crown. And we did not find in the bloom the delightful fragrancé of its con- gener. It belongs to that division of the genus whose species have the filaments placed distinctly in the alternate intervals of the teeth of the crown, as opposed to that whose species have filaments which are not distinct in the intervals, but confluent with six of the teeth. Leaves bifarious, several, cylindrically sheathed below, diverging from thence, lorately elongated, sublanceolate, glaucous, obtusely acuminate, slightly involuted, obscurely nerved, contracted downwards, at the broadest of the blade about an inch and half across, in height a foot and half or more. Scape outside the foliage, which it nearly equals, compressed, glaucous. Spathe lanceolate, cuspidate, longer than the peduncles. Umbel white, 7-8-flowered, upright, slightly scented; peduncles angular, nearly equal to the flower... Germen but little shorter than the tube of the corolla, oblong, linear, three-sided, about twice the thick- ness of the flower-stalk; rudiments of seeds numerous in cach cell in two rows. Corolla about an inch and half long, or rather more, tube green, slender, six-fluted, tri- angular, scarcely half the length of the limb; “mb stellate, downwards adhering shortly to the crown, segments nar- row-lanceolate, the three outermost broadest: crown oné third shorter than the limb, inversely conical, spread at the mouth, and cut into twelve angular equal entire lobules or teeth. Filaments very short, in the intervals between the pairs of teeth, to which they are equal, connivent: anthers iow. bent into crescents after parting with the pollen, alancing, as long as the filaments or longer. Style trian- gularly filiform, inclining, curved, substantial, length of the flower: Stigma an obtuse point, but little enlarged. ^, tA r vto Y “st ts f, of, a ` , f 2 EA 777 a TA i iaa " . yr 4. hy BF Hil pus y Jena /7C decidue My Set / fd 4 175 CHELONE obligua, Purple Chelone. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. Bicnonix. Jussieu gen. 137. Div. I. Fructus capsularis bivalvis. Caulis herbaceus. CHELONE. Suprà fol. 116. C. obliqua, foliis petiolatis, ovato-lanceolatis inegualitêr serratis oppo- sitis levibus; floribus densé spicatis: corollis purpureis... Manch meth, 442. Chelone obliqua Linn. syst. veg. ed. 13.463. Hort. Kew. 2. 330. ed. 2.4.7. Willd. pis. 225. Schkuhr hand. 2. 188. t. 172. Chelone glabra. £. Linn. sp. pl. 2. 849. Michaux bor. amer. 2. 24. Pursh amer: sept. 9. 427. . Chelonê purpurea. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 9. WN Chelone foliis ovato-lanceolatis serratis, floribus rubris. Mill. ic. tab. 93. Chelone floribus speciosis pulcherrimis colore Rose damascene. — Clayt, n. 974. ‘ Digitalis Mariana serratis densioribus rigidis et angustis foliis, semine Fagopyri. Plik. mant. 64. t. 348. f. 3. Herba nnis radice nie, Caulis articulato-fistulosus, big lis, Histantr foliotus, modô axillis ramosus. Folia decussata, triuncialia, ob- longo-lanceolata, acuminata, rachide utrinque parallelo-nervosá, nervis denti- busque conspersis pilis articulatis. Spice: terminales, densatim multiflore, decussato-tetrasticha, bracteis herbaceis icibus ovato-acuminatis ( mediâ majore) distincte. Cal. 5-partitus foliolis ellipticis concavis apice rotundatis, Cor. semiringens, roseo-purpurascens; tubus brevissimus, angustus ; faux magna, oblonga, plano-convexa ; limbus coarctalus, parous ; labio ya infers obtuso emarginato, inferiori reflexo trifido intüs barbato. — Fil. > , compressa, pilosa; sterile quintum rubellum: anth. didyme lanate. Stylus longitudine staminum : stig. obiusum. Caps. ovato-globosa, glabra, dissepimento duplicato ez inflexis vd oularum marginibus formato; receptacu- lum ob m fungosum, in axi capsule positum, cum dissepimento non con- hatum. Sem. numerosa, deorsüm imbricata, membranaceo-marginata. Plue rima Linnzó Gertner et Mcench suppeditata. . A well-known hardy perennial, flowering in the au- tumn; native of North America, where it is found at tbe sides of rivulets, on the high mountains of Virginia and Carolina. Sent to Miller by Mr. Clayton in 1752. It is found to grow freely with us, and: is easily propagated by the creeping root; but thrives most in damp shady posi- tons. Mr. Pursh is of opinion with some other botanists, that the plant is not specifically different from the white sort BBE (glabra); we have abided by the Hortus Kewensis, ín which they are separated. The generic appellation was suggested to Tournefort by the figure, of the corolla, which his fancy had assimilated to the shell of a tortoise (xut) in miniature. The species will soon, we suspect, be supplanted in our gardens by the CHELONE Lyoni; Pursh amer. sept. 2. 737 [major Curt. magaz. 1864] a rival sister of new appear- ance and of very near resemblance, but of much larger sta- ture throughout, a cordate-based ovate foliage, and a more resplendent flower. In our plant the stems are jointed and’ fistular, about two feet high, distantly leaved, sometimes branching from the upper leaf-axils. Leaves opposite, decussatéd, about three inches in length, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, rib. bedly nerved with a prominent midrib or rachis,.beset at the nerves and teeth by small articulated-hairs. -Spikes ter» minal, closely manyflowered, decussately tetrastichous or four rowed, with the flowers of two opposite rows crossing those of two intermediately opposed rows by alternate. pairs; bractes herbaceous, in threes, ovate, pointed, middle one the largest. Calyx 5-parted, leaflets elliptic concave round-pointed. Corolla semiringent or oscitant by the under lip only, rose-purple: tube very short, narrow ; faue ample, oblong, plano-convex; limb contracted, small; upper lip inflectent obtuse notched at the end or emarginate; lower reflectent trifid bearded within. Fertile filaments 4, white, compressed, hairy: the. fifth sterile red: anthers didymous or twinned, woolly. Style the length of the stamens: stigma obtuse. Capsule globular verging on ovate, smooth, with a double dissepiment or partition formed by the inflection of the margins of the valves; receptacle oblong spongy in the axis of the capsule; clear of the dissepiment: seeds numerous, imbricated downwards, with â membranous border. - The order of Bignoniacee, as limited by Mr. Brown, does not include the present genus; nor, indeed, any of the herbaceous genera comprehended in the Bignonie of Jussieu. ` ‘ a The calyx. ¿Lower part of the corolla dissected, so as to show the four fertile stamens; and the fifth sterile filament. e The pistil. : D Ll AUF “ttt eld E ty y CAT. Y Sona /7O Ferry FAS tit. Sand te. A 176 ASTRAGALUS caryocarpus, T Nut-podded Mill-Vetch. © ` Y. < DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. Lecuminosa. Jussieu gen, 345. Div. VI. Cor, irregularis papilionacea. Legum. 1-Ioc. (in Astras golo et Biserrulá biloc.) 2-valv. Herbe aut frutices aut arbuscule d Jolia impari-pinnata. . 2h! t ASTRAG ALUS. Cal. l-phyllus, cylindricus, 5-dentatus, 5.^ fidus, aut nunc 5-partitus, sepiìs corolla brevior. . Vex. oblongum ova- tum aut rotundum, sepids emprginatum, ,nunc lateribus reflexis, alis longius aut nunc æquale, ^ Ala stipitatêe limbo oblongo, basi hinc auri- "eulato. Car. obtusa, alis brevior aut subsegualis, basi'bipes. Germ: sessile v. nunc stipitatum, forma varium. Stylus a basi v.'medio inc H flexus. Stig. simplex, subcapitatum. Legum. sessile rard stipitatum, formâ magnitudineque varium, biloc., semibiloc., v. vix semibiloc,; su- turá inferiore introflexà; sem. reniformia, numero paria in quoque loculo. Decand. Astrag. 22. - SM Dio. 1. Stipulis caulinis s. petiolo non adkarentibas." A. Corollis pur- pureis aut albo-roseis. o. Caulibus diffusis. © i A. caryocarpus, sericeo-canus, multiceps caulibus subsimplicibus: foliolis . (17-25) lanceolato-ellipticis brevè petiolatis.subtüs sericeis; pedunculis ` axillaribus spicâ duplo longioribus: leguminibus vuciformi-inflatis, - rugosis. ` Astragalus crassicarpus. Fraser’s catal. 1813; (â carnoso Pursh amer. ; 1 sept, 9. suppl. 740, toto celo distans). ^>. : . Pevennis’ Gaules herbacei, v G-assur gentes, spithamai ad pedales, pilosi, viridi-purpurascentes, undati. Folia altern2 distantia, patentia, foliolis is ris, semuncialibus, triplo angustioribus quàm suboppositis, lazis, suprà longas stipulee ovato cuspidatee, pilose. Pedunculi cequantes v. superantes oia; spice: 8-14-flore glomeratez v. laxids extensa; flores subsessiles, % per acia ni e. arth oblongi, distincti bracteis sericeis lineari danceos is non æquantibus ces, Cal. duplo breviar corollá, o-hirsutus, sube coloratus, lacinulis subulatis egualibus. Cor. violaceo + vex. us alis, reflexum, ovato-oblongum, emarginatum: ale obomgo-fükate: car. brevior alis, ventricoso-infleza, obtusa, emarginata ventre et apice intens? colo~ rata, petalis 2 coherentibus. Anth. aurantioce. Germ. polyspermum, gla« rum, teres, virens, brevius stylo, Stylus albicans, subulato-teres: sti e parum incrassatum glabrum obtusum. Legumen Juglandem apte satis in ‘parce exhibens, mole ferm2 Nucis moschater, spongioso-cartilagineum, fuscum, labrum, profunda rugatum, suturá prominente divisum, mucronatum y bilocu- fare dissepimento duplicado completo pergamineo ; sera. plura in loculo utrogue. - Astragalogia, or the history of. the Milk-worts, has. oc- cupied two splendid folios; one with coloured engravings by the Chevalier Pallas, the other, the more recent, by Professor Decandolle, with uncoloured plates, But neither volume comprises the present species, which was found in Upper Louisiana by Mr. Nuttall, by whom it has been lately introduced into this country. Mr. Pursh, who knew it only by the name we have cited from Fraser's Catalogue, had surmised it to be the same with the carnosus of the Supplement to his American Flora. But that is a very distinct plant with numerous spreading branches, terminal sessile spikes, and a lignescent or suffrutescent stem; as proved by the prototype specimen, found by Mr. Bradberry in another part of Louisiana, and now in Mr. Lamberts, Herbarium. Gum Tragacanth is a secretion of more than one species in the Levant. ... Our plant is perennial, tolerably hardy, herbaceous, and covered by a hoary nap. Stems several, first procumbent, then ascending, simple, with a waved appearance. Leaves alternate, patent, distant; leaflets mostly opposite, 17-25, or thereabouts, expanded, placed at open intervals, shortly petioled, smooth on the upper surface, with a closely press- ed nap on the under; about half an inch long, and about three times narrower across, lanceolately elliptic, bluntish, with a small point, tapered towards the petioles. Pedunciés axillary, twice as long as the spikes or longer, equalling or overtopping the leaves. Racemes (spikes) 8-14-flowered; glomerate, or sometimes extended and loose; flowers almost sessile, about 3 of an inch long; ôractes linear, subulate, ubescent, not equal to the calyx. Calyx about half the length of the corolla with a. brown shaggy nap, purplish- green, with small pointed even teeth. Corolla pale violet- purple; veri/lum rather longer than the wings, ovate, ob- long, notched at top; wings. falcate; keel shorter than the wings, inflectent, ventricose,-obtuse, notched, of a deep bright colour. Anthers orange-yellow. Germen green, smooth, round, several.seeded, shorter than the white in- flectent style: stigma slightly thickened, smooth, obtuse, Pod, when ripe, about thesizeof a nutmeg, not unlike a stinted walnut; shell bilocular, fungously cartilaginous, con- tracted into furrows, divided outwards by a prominent suture; inwards by a double entire dissepiment of the sub- stance of parchment: secds several in each cell. The drawing was taken from a plant sent from Mr. A; B. Lambert's seat, Boyton, in Wiltshire. 7 _€ A native pod. à Two gathered at Boyton, b. D^» ^, 7 134. Chw th ede. KITA 2 SF E m x Š A Tedgwag Y Sons IJO Siccadilly Je. t 181] Imith. Se — UN Mn G—— M 177 . SOLANUM fontanesianum. Desfontaines's Nightshade. DETTA PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA; Nat. ord. Soane. Jussieu gen. 124. Div. II. Fructus bac- catus, ME SoLANEm. Brown prod. 443. Sect. I. Corolla limbo sepits plicato. Stamina numero lacipiarum. Embryo valdé curvatus, SoLANEE VERE. Brown loc. c. SOLANUM. | Supra vol. 1. 71. Dio. Foliis pinnatifidis, bipinnatifidis pinnatisectisque. Corollis 5 fidis; baccis calyce aucto et aculeato tectis. Cryptocarpum. — . ubdiv. Antheris inegualibus. ` S. fontanesianum, caule sublignoso annuo aculeato piloso, foliis pro- funde pinnatifidis, laciniis shiuatis, corollis subregularibus, autheria parvis, infimá apice curvatá subfuscá. Dunal syn. 46. n. 986. ejusd. Solan, ed. 2. inedit. cum tab. Poiret suppl. encyc. de La- "Dla neret. vie sesquipedalis pilis dipitto-tellteo,compendiat> pappi annua, viz sesquipedalis pilis stipitab is v. 7 é Sormibus cum si cibus misti Mrtutios Tud aculeis. armata snaguali- bus aliis validioribus acicularibus lutescentibus, aliis parvulis setaceis purpureo- migricantibus. Caulis cavus, rigidus, aculentissimus aculeis p Sie pernê axillis ramosus. Folia, pubem canam viridi-translucentia, sudecariose rigentia, 4-uncialia, ovato-oblonga, inderrupt? subbiginnatifide, hy petiolis nervisque utrinque aculeata, lobis interrupt? profi e divi ipsisque sinuato-pinnatisectis, lobulis sursŵm dilatatis, rotundatis ; petioli S-plo breviores laminis. Racemi pauci-(4) flori, laterales, superni, foltis dis- tantes, de revolutis. erigendi, secundi, breve pedunculati. ~ Cal. srceolotus, S-fidus, lanatus, echinatus, multàm minor corollá, segmentis utrinque pue bescentibus, parcis tamen intús, oblongis, acutis, summá majore, ali- Bus ejus 2 minoribus quàm. duo infima; tubus fatus. germine, intis levis, pari passu cum incluso fructú augescens in mensuram dultee baccee capacem. Cor. subirregularis, lutea, extüs lanata, 4 partes unci ferm transversa, inermis; tubo brevi; limbo concavo-rofaio, sinuato-quinguangulo, angulis . breu attenuatis. Stam. declinato-conniventia ; fil. bis breviora antheris: auth. aroe ratione congenerum sectionis o wf equales, jma quinta pi Prosi’ jecta, longior, fuscescens, apice inflexa, Stylus equalis siamims iongo, dreimal ten nb lente puberulus, compresso-subclavatus, prosima infra. stigma breve bilobum obitér constrictus. : In a former article of this work, we noticed the history of the Solanums or Nightsbades, by Dr. Dunal, of Mont- pellier, which had then just reached us. A work in which more than 200 species were arranged with great perspicuity and discernment under one generic head. We have now re- ceived a Synopsis of the same vegetable family from the uer same pen, augmented to 340 species, of which more than 320 are ranked under SoLANUM. And we cannot refrain from applauding the industry and ingenuity displayed in the internal organization of the group, in the view of ob- viating an idle subversion of a well-established genus, and the wanton incumbrance of new names. "We:have no account of the indigenous abode of the present plant; which has been lately introduced by Mr. Anderson, the superintendant of the Garden of the Com- pany of Apothecaries at Chelsea, and was received by him from some of the Parisian gardens. It belongs to the sec- tion of the genus comprising the species the calyx of which grows co-extensively with the enclosed germen, up to the complete maturity of the berry; and borders very closely on cornutum and rostratum, but differs from both, in being throughout of a much smaller size, and having the prickles of the stem deflectent; specially from the first in being annual, not perennial, by a stem with a roughish pile, not as in that smooth, and by smaller anthers; from the second by a compoundedly, not simply divided foliage; and in other points from each. Our plant was scarcely a foot and 4 half high, and covered with a pile of pedicled stellately pencilled hairs, intermixed at certain points with others of a simple structure; the whole beset with numerous unequal sized prickles. Stem rigid, hollow, branched at the axils of the upper leaves. Leaves somewhat harsh, shining green. through the hoar of the pubescence, about four inches in length, ovately oblong, interruptedly subbipinnatifid, waved or curled at the edge, prickly at the petioles and along the nerves on both surfaces; lobes deeply parted and sinuately indented; lobules dilated and rounded at the end. Racemes short, few-flowered, lateral, and standing wide of the leaves. Calyr unequally echinated ‘at the tube which keeps the fruit. Corolla yellow, nearly regular, about three parts of an inch in diameter, woolly on the outside, sinuately pentagonal, with short pointed cor- ners. Anthers small for the section of the genus, the longer fifth subtended to the other-4, tinged with brown, inflectent at the summit. Style equal to the longest anther. . Requires the usual treatment cf common tender annuals. The drawing was made in the autumn at the Chelsea garden. a The corolla dissected, to show the tube and stamens. & The pistil. > LATIN ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO VOLUME II. Acacia Houstoni ..... Alpinia cuicarata . Amarylfis calyptrata Amaryllis coranica Amaryllis flexuosa . Amaryllis hyacinthina Amsonia latifolia ... Arbutus Andrachne . Arctotis acaulis, . . Arctotis maculata . Arctotis tricolor . , Astragalus caryocarpus +... Azalea calendulacea. Azalea nudiflora. y. . Bouvardia triphylla . Brachysema latifolium Cacatia bicolor . Cacalia ovalis . Cactus gibbosus Caldasia heterophylla Camellia japonica. i. Campanula coronata . Carthamus tinctorius Cassia ligustrina . . Chelone barbata . Chelone obliqua . Clematis brachiata Convolvulus suffruticosus (în icone e malta 199) Crinum cruentum... Crotalaria purpurea . Cryptarrhena lunata . Cynancbum pilosum Cyrtanthus collinus . Cyrtanthus spiralis Cyrtanthus nniflorus . Cytisus proliferus . Echium grandifloram Erica ardens .. Gladiolus edulis . Hedychium angustifoliam . Hypoxis obtusa. Inga purpurea Ixora blanda. Jxora grandiflora VOL. II. Folium, Jasminum grandiflorum .... Kempferia pandurata . Lebeckia contaminata . Lilium pumilum ... (mal? in icone 1 Lobelia fulgens . ... Lonicers dioica. 8. . Malpighia urens . Melaleuca fulgens . Mitella diphylla ... Narcissus montanus CEnothera odorata . Ornithogalum prasinum Othonna abrotanifolia Oxalis flava ........ Pancratium canariense . Pancratium maritimum . Papaver floribundum . Passiflora incarnata. B. Passiflora maliformis Passiflora minima. Passiflora rubra. Penes squamosa Pinguicula lutes Plumeria acuminata Pogonia ophioglossoide: Polygala speciosa . Prostanthera lasian Prunus prostrata .... Pulmonaria paniculata Ribes aureum....... Rosa provincialis, 8. (muscosa ff. albo pi). «102. Sanseviera zeylanica Sedum ternatum ... Sempervivum arboreum ... 99. Solanum decarrens. ... . 140. Solanum fontapesianum . Steria Eupatoria Tillandsia xiphioides .. Tritonia refracta . Tulipa cornuta . . . Uropetalon glaucum Valeriana Corpucopim . Webera corymbosa . . cc GENERAL LATIN ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO VOLUMES I. AND HH. Volumen. Acacia Honstoni. v. 2. Achania mollis, v. 1. . Alpinia calcarata, v. 2... Amaryllis calyptrata. v. 2 Amaryllis coranica, v. 2. ... Amaryllis crocata, v. 1. . Amaryllis flexuosa. v. 2. Amaryllis hyacinthina. v, Amaryllis rutila, v. 1. Amsonia latifolin. v. 9. Arbutus Andrachne. v. 2. Arctotis acaulis. v. 9. Arctotis aspera, v, 1. Arctotis aureola. v. 1. Arctotis maculata, v. 2. . Arctotis tricolor. v. 2.. Asclepias curassavica, v. 1 Asclepias tuberosa. a. v. 1 Astragalus caryocarpus, v. 2. Azalea calendulacea, a. v. 2. ++ Azalea nudiflora. y. v. 2. Beaufortia decussata. v. 1. Bouvardia triphylla. v. 2. Brachysema latifolium, v. 2, Bryonia quinqueloba. v. 1 Cacalia hicolor, v. 2. Cacatia ovalis. v. 9, . Cactus gibbosus, v. 2. - Caldasia heterophylla. v. 2. .,. Calendula chrysanthemifolia. v. 1. Calendula Tragus. B. v. 1. Calotropis gigantea, v. 1 Camellia japonica, è v. 2. - Camellia japonica, 4. v. 1. Comeilia Sasanqua. v. 1. +. Campanula aurea. &.. v. 1. - Campanula coronata, v. Zo... Campanula pentagonia. v. 1. . Carthamus tinctorius. v. 2. Cassia ligustrina. v. 2. + Cassia occidentalis, v. t... Chelone barbata. v. 2. - Chelone obliqua. v. 2. . Clrysantbemum indicum. e, 3, v. 1. Clematis brachiata. v. 2. . Convoivulus suffruticosus. Coreopsis incisa. v. 1. Correa speciosa, v. 1 Correa virens, v. 1. Crinum cruentum. v. 2 Crinum pedunculatam, v. 1. - Crossandra undulefoli Crotalaria purpureg. v. 2. €ryptarrhenn lonata. v. 2. v. 8. Cynanchum pilosum. v. 2. =+... Cyrtantbus collinus. v. % ....- Volumen, Cyrtanthus spiralis. v. 2. , Cyrtanthus uniflorus. v. 2.. Cytisus proliferus. v. 9, Dahlia superflua. «. v. t. Digitalis ambigua, v. 1. Digitalis canariensis. v. 1. . Echium candicans, v. 1. Echium fruticosum, v. t Ecbium grandiflorum. v. 2. Elichrysum proliferam. v. 1. . Epìdendrum fuscatum, v. 1. Folium, "167. - 168. A, . 55. < 64, tenens 4B, . 44, . 36, +194, . 21. 65, Epidendrum nutans. v, 1. . 17. Epidendrum umbellatum. v. 1. . 80, Erica ardens. v, 2. . «H5, Erica Glamentosa. v, 1, * 6 Erica tumida. v. 1. . 65. Erigeron glaucam. v. 1. » 10, Fragraris indica. v. 1. . 6h Fumaria aurea. v, 1. » 68, Fumaria exima. v. 1 .... 50, Gardenia radicans. Y. 1... - 78. Gazania pavonia. v. 1. . Gladiolus edulis. v, 2. Gloriosa superba, v. 1. . Gnidia oppositifolia. v. 1 Gnidia pinifolia. v. ).. Gossypium barbadense. v. 1..... Grislea tomentosa. v. 1. .. Hedychium angustifolium. v. 2. Hibiscus heterophyllus. v. 1. Hypoxis obtusa, v, 2.. Inga purpurea. v, 9... Ipomea hederaces. v. 1 Tpomeea insi, v.d. Ipomeea mutabilis. v. 1 Ipomea paniculata. v. 1. Ipomoes sanguinea, v, i. Jpomoea tuberculata. v. t. Ixora blanda. v. 2. Ixora grandiflora, v. 2. Jasminum azoricum. v. 1. Jasminum grandiflorum. v. 9. . Jasminum hirsutum. v. 1. . Jasminum Sambac. v. 1. Kempleria pandurata. v. 2. ... Lebeckia contaminata. v. 9. Lilium pumilum. v, 2. Liparia hirsuta. v. 1 Lobelia fulgens. v. 2. Lobelia splendens. v. 1. Lonicera dioica. B. v, 9. . Lonicera japonica. v. 1. « Lonicera tatarica, v. 1 Malpighia urens. v. 2. . Melaleuca fulgens. v. 2. Melianthus major. v. 1- . $0. LATIN INDEX TO VOLS. !. Folium. Volumen. Mimosa sensitiva. v.l. .. Mitella diphylla, v. 2. ... Monarda punctata. v. 1 Narcissus montanus. v. 2. Nerium odorum. 6. v, 1. . XEnothera odorata. v. 2. Ornithogalum presinum. v. 2. Othonna abrotanifolia. v. 9. Oxalis flava. v. 2... Peovia albiflora, B. v. 1. + Pancratium canariense. v. 2. ~ Pancratium maritimum. v. 9. Pancratium ovatum, v. 1.. Papnver floribundum. v. 2. ... Passiflora glauca. v. 1. Passiflora holosericea. v. 1. Passiflora incarnata. B. v. 2. Pessiflora laurifolia, v. 1. . Passiflora lutea. v. 1. . Passifiora maliformis, v. 2. Passiflora minima. v. 2. Passiflora perfoliata. v. 1., Passiflora quadrangularis, v. 1. Pass.flora rubra, v,2. . Patersonia glabrata. v. Lo»... Persa squamosa. v. 9. Phlox suffruticosa. v. 1. .,,. Pinguicula lutea. v. 2. Pittosporum undulatum, v, Lo... Plumeria acuminata. v. 2, ..... Pogonia ophioglossoides, v. 2, Polianthes tuberosa, v. l..... Polygala speciosa. v. 2, , E Folumen, Folium, Prostanthera lasianthos. v. 9, «s. Protea longifolia. 9.1... Protea pulchella. v. 1. . Prunus japonica. v. 1. Prunus prostrata. v. 2. Pulmonaria paniculata. v, 2. Rhododendron punctatum. 8. v. J. Ribes anreum. v.9. ..... Ricotia egyptiaca. v. 1. .. es 49. Rosa provincialis. B. (muscosa fl. albo i HU . 109, Rosa provincialis. B. (muscosa ft. simpl.) yd... seve 58. Rosa sulphurea. v. 1. < 46. Sanseviera zeylanica, v.2. «160, Sedum ternatum. v.2. . Sempervivum arboreum, Senecio speciosus. v. 1. Solanum amazonium. v. Lo... Solanum decurrens, v. 9. . Solanum fontanesianum. v.3. .. Stevia Eupatoria. v.2. + Stylidiom graminifolium. Styphelia longifolia. v. 1 Tillandsia xiphioides. v. 9. Trachelium ceruleum, v. t. . "Tritonia refracta, v. 2. . Tulipa cornuta. v. 2. Uropetalon glaucum. v. 2. . Valeriana Cornucopia. v.9. . Viola altaica. v. 1. ... Webera corymbosa. v. 2. .... ~ Witsenia maura, v, 1. v. 1. NOTES. Solanum amazonium. Vol. 1. fol. 71. f The fruit of this plant being unknown to us, we had placed the species hypothetically in the subdivision of those having a calyx that grows co-ex~ tensively. with the inclosed berry. But Dr. Dunal, in his recent Synopsis of the genus, has placed it under the following division ; . “Corallis subirregularibus, 5-fidis, laciniis acutis reflexis; antheris inequalibus; baccis globosis calyce aucto non tectis." e does not seem to have seen the fruit; but is likely to have formed & mote correct judgment than ourselves. i Passiflora incarnata. Vol. 9. fol. 159. We find that doubts have arisen, whether the plant of the above article is of the same species with the Carolina or virginian one, formerly much cultivated here in the open air; and which, ìf really distinct from this, we have not seen, except in a dried state. That our plant is of the same species with the one first introduced into Europe, and in so far the incarnata of Linnzus, is a fact, in our mind, proved beyond a cavil by the excellent cotemporary figures and descriptions, which we have cited in their place. We stated in that article, the differences which then sug- gested themselves to us as distinguishing the one plant from the other; but perceiving none such as we thought could be relied on for safe or valid specific discrimination, we recorded them as mutual varieties or subspecies, leaving it to the taste of others to divide or not in a different way, In doing so, we were actuated by the desire Qf avoiding an in- csutious increase of the idle nuisance of controvertible and iterated species. And in this state we shall Jeave the decision of the point to those who have ampler means of judging, or are more competent. 'The following notice regarding our plant is due to the kindness of Mr. Boehm, from whose seat at Ottershaw, that figured in this work was originally procured for Lord Tankerville’s collection. It goes to prove it a native of the Brazils; and thus furnishes a better ground for a belief in its specific difference than any we are aware of; although we have yet to learn that it has been ruled by nature that Carolina and the Brazils shall not produce plants of a species common to both countries. Mr. Boehm’s gardener informs him, that the plant was introduced from Portugal, where it is much cultivated, in 1808: that it is supposed to be native of the Brazils: that it flowers here from May to August: that the fruit is in perfection from August to November: that the best soil for it, is a light loam, mixed with black mould; and the most appro- priate place of growth, a conservatory, where it can have plenty of air ; for if this is not admitted freely, the fruit will not set. . Dr. Barton, an american botanist of eminence, who has given a figure of the Carolina or virginian plant in his Elements of Botany, tells us that jt is known by the name of the May-Apple in the United States; and Clayton says that some people eat it. We may add to the differences we have previously noticed, that the involucre of the north american lant is smaller than the one we now see in our hothouses; but then the whole out-of-doors plant is smaller, ; NOTES. Ixora grandiflora. Supra vol. 9. 154. Sir William Jones, in a treatise on indian plants, in the fourth volume of the Asiatic Researches, informs us that Ischwara is one of the names of the Deity Siva; but that there is no iudian god known by the appella- tion of Irora. The latter is probably an orthography adopted, by the Dutch Editor of the Hortus Malabaricus, from the ear. And as con- venience of articulation ìs of more importance than conformity to de» rivation in a technical generic name, we do not regret that the Dutchman was thus much less learned than the english critic; supposing always that Linnzus would have taken up the other for the title of the genus. Amaryllis calyptrata. Supra fol. 164. Since the above article was printed, the same plant has produced a third flower-stem. The inflorescence of this agreed in every point with that of the two preceding, but the segments of the corolla were con- spicuously marked in the disk with numerous tile-red dots, generally con- fent along the nerves; the stamens were not mottled, but of a pale uniform dull-red colour. We have annexed a cut of the Capsule (A), which has ripened since; and an outline of a detached seed (B). Addenda descriptioni priori, Lacinie limbi disco lateritio-punctata, punctis sep? lineato-confluen- tibus. Caps. oblato-ovata, triventri-triloba, suprà breve arctata, lobis pulvinatis, supernd gibbosis, ventre tumido deorsdm promisso. Sem. foliaceo-compressa, numerosa (200 v. ultrà) ordine duplici deorsúm obli- guata, margine interiore. sibi invicêm incumbentia, elliptico oblonga, NOTES. uncialin, fumosa, membrané amplissimá subdiaphaná alata; albumen verticale, castaneo-carnosum, album, anguste obovatum, infern2 versds attenuatum, compressum, retentum funiculis interaneis duobus, rum unus rect? ab umbilico ductus, alter prope apicem enatus reflectitur secundùm latus; hnc linea % opaca parallele quibus alam insigniri videmus. The capsule of this species differs from that of all others known to us in the genus, by the cousiderable deflexure of the lower protuberance of each of the three lobes. The seeds also differ; they slant downwards, and the inner margins of the two series in each loculament lap alter- nately one over the other; they are of the colour of smoked glass; and the flat downwards tapered nucleus is placed near the upper extremity of the margin. [n the other species of the genus with flat seed, the two piles or rows are separated as if they had been one cut through by a knife, the integument is black, and the nucleus is placed near the base of the margin. Mr. Griffin took more than 200 seeds from the present capsule. Fol. Fol. Fol, Fol. ERRATA. VOL I. 6.1. 91; pro “ villosutis” lege ** villasulis,” 68. 1. 8; pro “ calyce" lege ** corolla.” . 90. 1. 4 & calce pag. pro ** JPilld, in cit. 55. Mag.” V. “ Willd. in cit. Mag. 65.* 90. overleaf, L 20; for “ monadelphous" read ** monopetalous.” In Indice latino; pro “ Patersonia glabra" 4, ** Patersonia glabrata.” Fol. Fol, Fol. Fol. Fol. Fol. Fol, Fol. Fol. Fol. Fol. Eol. Fol. Fol. Fol. Su VOL. IL. 99, last line; for “ notices its having" read ‘ notices it as having.” 100, 1. 3 from bottom; expunge “ now,” 100, over leaf, 1. 8 from bottom; for “ subulale” read “ subulate,” 110, 1. 7 from bottom ; for “ stem clasping" read “ stemclasping." 123, 1. 16 a calce; pro “ Barrel. 67” |. “ Barrel. ic. 67." 125, 1. 25; pro “ cataractus” 1. * entaractas." 125, I. 9 from bottom; for “ thyrze" read ** thyrse.” 126, 1.16 a calce pag. pro “ labii supremi (floris resupinatione infimi" lege “ labii ine fimi (foris resupinatione supremi). 126, 1. 14 a cales pag. pro “ infimi (supremi ab inverso flore)" lege “ supremi (ob im- versum forem infimi). 126, over leaf, |. 19 from bottom; for “ upper lip (by the inversion of the flower become the lower)” read ** lawer lip (by the inversion of the flower become the uppe»).” 126, over leaf, 1. 17, 16 from bottom; for “< Jower (by inversion the upper)” read * upper (by inversion the /ower).” 127, V. 78, from bottom; for “ from a collection of seeds, &c. &c.” read “ from seeds collected at Port Desire (n harbour on the eastern const of Patagonia, frequented by vessels on their voyage to the Pacific Occan,) by the surgeon of a merchant-ship.” 124, 1, 8 from bottom; for “ for mere titles" read “ for a mere title.” 152, vers, l. 11; pro “ cnlycem equantibas” lege “ calycem equantes,” 170, over leaf, l. 16 from bottom ; for ** externally, villous connivent” read ** externally villous, connivent.” N.B.—The Bookbinder will observe that the plate of CoNvoLvuLus uffruticosus has been engraved by mistake with the number 132 instead of 133; and that of Lizium pumilum with 133 instead of 132. THE END OF VOL. II. Priuted by S. Gosnell, Little Queen Street, London,