ТНЕ BOTANICAL REGISTER CONSISTING OF Coloured Figures or EXOTIC PLANTS, CULTIVATED IN BRITISH GARDENS; WITH THEIR HISTORY AND MODE OF TREATMENT. —— THE DESIGNS BY Sydenham Cowards, FELLOW OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. VOL. HL ¿7 nec fronde caduca viret semper. Carpitur, LONDON: PRINTED FOR JAMES RIDGWAY, PICCADILLY, | 1817. кез GARDEN. PP M кыла ашы»---- S. GosxzLL, Printer, Little Queen Street, Londen, анинин —— APPENDIX ТО THE CATALOGUES ОҒ BOOKS IN THE FIRST AND SECOND VOLUMES; on, List of Books quoted in the Third Volume in addition to those quoted in the First and Second. A CT. curios. Acta physico-medica Academie Nature Curiosorum, Norimb. 1727--1154. 4to. Baumgarten en. stirp. transylo. Enumeratio stirpium magno Transylvanise Principatui, preprimis indigenarum. Auctore Johanne Christiano Gottlob Baumgarten. Tomi 2. · Vindobonx, 1816. Вуо.. Beauvois flor. d’Oware. Flore d'Oware et Benin en Afrique, par A. M, F. J. Palisot-Beauvois. Vol. 1. Paris, an ХИ, (1804.) fol. Bigelow flor. bost. A collection of plants of Boston (in America) and its environs, with their generic and specific characters, synonyms, de- scriptions, places of growth, and time of flowering, and occasional remarks. By Jacob Bigelow, М. D. Boston (America), 1814. 8vo. Bonpland nav. $ malmais. Description des plantes rares cultivées à Mal- maison & à Navarre. Раг Aimé Bonpland. Paris, 1818—1816. fol. Burchell Catalogus Africanus. Not yet published, Cav. prel. Descripcion de las Plantas, que D. Antonio Josef Cavanilles lemostrd en las lecciones públicas del ano 1801, precedida de los principios elementares. Madrid, 1802. 8vo. Clus. erot. Caroli Clusii Atrebatis, Aule Cesarez quondam Familiaris, Exoticorum Libri Decem. Antwerpie, 1605. fol. (cum hist. impressi €t compacti). Comment. petropol. Commentarii Academix Scientiarum Imperialis Petro. politanz. Tomi 14. Petropoli, 1728—1751. 4to. Corn. canad. Jac. Cornuti eanadensium plantarum, aliarumque nondum editarum historia. Parisiis, 1635. 4to. De la Roche pl. nov. Dan. de la Roche descriptiones plantarum aliquot novarum. Lugd. Bat. 1766. 4to. Forsk. descr. Flora egyptiaco-arabica, sive descriptiones plantarum quas er /Egyptum inferiorem & Arabiam felicem detexit Petr. Fors| Баш 1775. Ato. А2 іу Galles. citr. Traité du Citrus. Par Georges Gallesio, auditeur au Conseil d'Etat & sous-préfet à Savone. Paris, 1811. 8уо. Garid. prov. Histoire des plantes qui naissent en Provence, & principale- ment aux environs d'Aix, par Mons. Garidel. Paris, 1719. fol. Haworth mesembr. Observations on the genus Mesembryanthemum, by Adrian Hardy Haworth. London, 1794. 8vo. Haworth misc. nat. Miscellanea naturalia, autore A. Н. Haworth. Lon- dini, 1803. 8vo. Houtt. nat. hist. Natuurlyke historie of nitvoerige beschryving der Dieren, Planten en Mineraalen, volgens het samenstel van den Heer Linnaeus, (door Mart. Houttuyn.) Tweede Deel. 14 vols. Amsterdam, 1773— 1783. 8vo. Jacq. fragm. Fragmenta botanica figuris coloratis illustrata, ab anno 1800- ad annum 1809, per sex fasciculos editos operá et sumptibus Nic. Jos. Jacquini. Viennz Austrie, 1809. fol. Journ. of scienc. and the arts. Journal of Science and the Arts, edited at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Published quarterly, No. 1—7. London, 1816--1817, seqq. 8vo. Krock. siles. Ant. Joh. Krocker Flora Silesiaca. Vol. 1—2. Vratislawiz, 1787—1790. 8vo. Kunth nov. gen. et spec. Nova genera et species plantarum quas in Регі- grinatione Orbis novi colligerunt descripserunt, partim adumbraverunt Amat. Bonpland et Alex. de Humboldt. Ex schedis autographis Amati Bonplandi in ordinem digessit Carol. Sigismund. Kunth, Vol. 1. Lutetie Parisiorum, 1815. fol. Loddiges's botan. cabinet. Botanical Cabinet, consisting of coloured deline- ations of plants from all countries, by Conrad Loddiges and Sons. The plates by George Cook. fascic. 1—6. London, 1817. Small 440. Рай, it. P. S. Pallas Reise durch verschiedene provintzen des Russischen Reichs. 3 Theile. Petersburg, 1771-—1776. 4to. Paters. it. A narrative of four Journies into the country of the Hottentots, and Caffraria, by William Paterson. London, 1789. 4to. Plum, nov. деп. Idem ut Plum. spec. quod vide “ In Cat. of Books quoted in the first Volume of this Work.” Poirel voy. en barb. Voyage en Barbarie, ou Lettres écrites de Pancienne Numidie pendant les années 1785 & 1786. Par M.l'Abbé Poiret. 2 Parties. Paris, 1799. 8vo. Ponted. diss. Pontedera, Jul. Dissertationes botanica 5--11; impressæ cum Anthologiá. Patav. 1720, 4to. Y Rec. soc. d'agr. Tagen. Recueil des travaux de la Société d'agriculture, science et arts d'Agen. 1 vol. in 8vo. Agen, 1804. Salisb. prod. Prodromus stirpium in Horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium, auctore R. A, Salisbury. Londini, 1786. 8vo. Schrader's journal. Journal für die Botanik, herausgegeben von Schrader, Gottingen, 1799—1803, 10 fasc. 8vo. Schultes obs. J. A. Schultes, M. D. Observationes botaniem in Linnei Species Plantarum ex editione С. L. Willdenow. (Eniponti, 1809. 8vo. Swartz gen. et spec. fl. Genera et species Filicum ordine systematico re. dactarum, adjectis synonymis et iconibus selectis, nec non speciebus recentér detectis et demúm plurimis dubiosis, alteriüs investigandis, Auctore O. Swartz. · Absque appositione loci aut anni impressionis, 12mo, Swartz syn. fl. Synopsis Filicum eorum Genera et Species systematicà complectens. Adjectis Lycopodiaceis et descriptionibus novarum et rariorum specierum. Ке, 1806. 8vo. Thunb. ir. Car. Petr. Thunberg, Dissertatio de Iride. Upsalize, 1782. 4to. Thunb. iz. Ejusdem dissertatio de Ixia. Ibidem, 1783. 4to. Thunb. mor. Ejusdem dissertatio de Morzá. Ibidem, 1787. 4to. Vélins du Museum, Coloured drawings of plants which have flowered in the Botanic garden at Paris, by various Artists, preserved in the Librgry of the Museum of Natural History at Paris. ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO VOLUME III. Folium. ACROSTICHUM alcicorne .......-262, 263. Aerides paniculatum . .920. Amaryllis equestris. В. . 984. Amaryllis fulgida „226. Amaryllis psittacina . .199. Anemone palmata ... - 200. Anthocercis littorea . ‚919. Asclepias incarnata . . - - 250. Aster Nove Anglie .. ‚183. Barleria mitis ...... ‚191. Bignonia venusta .... · 249. Bouvardia versicolor ..... .245, Bromelia nudicaulis .. . 203. Brunsfelsia undulata ..... . 228. Bruasvigia Josephiar. 8.. 193. Cactus Dillenii ...., . + 255. Callistachys lanceolata Campanula lactiflora . Campanula lilifolia Campanula sarmatica . Canna gigantea... Cheiranthus Cheiri. y. Chironia jasminoides . Cistus vaginatus .. Citrus nobilis. 8. . Clematis aristata Convolvulus pannifolius . Crinum bracteatum . Crotalaria retusa.. Cuphea procumbens . 4. 216. „941. 236. 237. 206. Disa prasinata ...... Donia glutinosa 387, et in notis append, vol. 3. Duranta Plumieri Epigwa repens .. Eucrosia bicolor Euphorbia punicea Genista canariensis Gloxinia speciosa . Glycine bituminosa . Gnaphalium apiculatum +. Gnaphalium congestam .. Gonolobus diadematus . Grindelia glutinosa, ia notis append. hujus vol. Grindelia inploides. . . . Hemanthus coarctatus , Hibiscus pedunculatus Hibiscus phoeniceus ... Hibiscus tiliaceus ..... Hydrophyllum canadense . Hyoscyamus canariensis Hypericum »gypticum . Ipomaa obscura Iris dichotoma . . Jasminum revolutum .. Mabernia grandifiora Maipighia fucata . Marica gladiata .. Mesembryanthemum tigrinum Ophrys teathredinifera . Orchis longicorua . . Oruithogalam niveum Pancratium angustum Pancratium calathinum . Passiflora adiantifolia Passiflora angustifolia Pavetta indica .. Pittosporum revolutam . Polygonum frutescens Protea neriifolia ... Psoralea pedunculata Reseda odorata. В... Rhododendron dauricum. В. Rhododendron hybridam . Selago fasciculata Silene pensylvanica . Sparaxis grandiflora Stenanthera pinifolia Sterculia Balanghas . Teedia lucida. .....- Teedia pubescens ... Trapa natans ...... Tulipa oculus solis ............ 2... 948, 4 Jf 7 || ` у || à j ) ) суй ot J qe | | / a О Факат, del 1 р || 7 2 у | x 4 Es Jul by E Ларин би ~ i c Loca 44% Mar | n 178 JASMINUM revolutum, East Indian Highland Jasmine, —— DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ‘ Nat. ord. Jasminsz. Jussieu gen, 104. Div. YI. Fructus bacvatus, JaswINEX, Brown prod. 830, JASMINUM. Supra vol. 1. fol, 1. ` Div. Foliis compositis. J. revolutum, erectum; folüs impari-pinnatis, subtrijugis, foliolis ovata» lanceolatis, subpetiolatis; cymis terminalibus pauci-plurifforis laxis: antheris mucronatis tubo partim exsertis, Jasminum revolutum. Curt. magaz. 1791, ` Jasminum 8, Hardwioke in Asiat. research. 6, 349: (edit, londinen. in 8v0.) Frutex majusculus v. arbuscula, sempervirens, cortice fuscescente, glabra: rami, alterni novelli virentes, erecti, flexuosi, subangulosi, Folia alterna, di- stantia, sæpiùs trijuga, nunc 2-v.A-juga, interdüm ternala, ramorum novise sima haud rard simplicia, suprà atrovirentia et opaca, .subtits pallidiora, Juniora lætiùs viridia subnitentia : petiolus suprà unisulcus, infrà convexus г foliola sita, breve petiolata, ovato-acuminata, Terminale majus, unciale ad biunciale о. ultra. Cymi subtrichotomi, erectiusculi, 6-12-Aori; pedicellis gracilibus bracteolá subulatá затей basi appressá; foribus odoratissimis. al. campanulatus denticulis, 5 acutis sinu lato rotundato interstinctis. Corolla aurea; tubus crassus, semuncialis v. tantillim magis; limbus 5-fidus equalis tubo, patentissimus, recurvus, laciniis latis ellipticis obtusis. Anth. majus. cule subsessiles, mucrone prafiza, emicantes tubo. Stigmata 2 clavatoe нга, Jasmine is of those genera, the type of which has per- vaded the four quarters of the globe; but in unequal propor- tions. In Europe the name has become popular chiefly through the common white species, officinale ; one not however indigenous within the geographical boundary of that quarter; in relation to which, its first appearance takes place in asiatic Georgia and Circassia, No white-flowered species belongs to Europe, where the yellow-flowered fru- ficans alone has a station; unless indeed ћитие, another of similar hue, shall prove to be european; a fact not yet ascertained, although the plant is universally known by the name of the Italian Jasmine. None of the genus approaches these islands nearer than by the-south of France and Italy. The great majority of the congeners of this delightful group, has been engrossed by India. Africa has several. - Only VOL. ш, В one has been assigned to the southern division of America; to the northern not one. Captain Hardwicke's account, in the Asiatic Rescarches, of his Journey to Sirinagur, the chief town of the province of that name in Tibet, is followed by an appendix containing scientific descriptions of the plants observed in the route. Among them is that of a yellow Jasmine, found by the side of a watercourse between the mountains at Adwaanee; and so depicted as to leave us no doubt of its identity with the present species; one point of whose spontaneous origin is thus determined to be in the highlands of the north- west frontier of Hindustan. We gather from the same source that the plant forms a large bush. АП those we have seen in our collections, thongh young, are of robust growth; and are said to be derived from one introduced about three years ago from India. Фет, in the largest we have seen, about the thick- ness of a swan-quill, with a smooth pale brown bark. It grows upright, and has as yet no appearance of requiring support, as the generality of the congeners do. The young branches are green, flexuose, and furrowed, or angular above. Leaves alternate, unequally pinnate, on the upper side of an opaque blackish green when old, on the under much paler, unequally trijugous, or with 3 pair of leaflets and an odd one, sometimes with 2 and 4 pairs, seldom ternate, and now and then the top ones on a branchlet are entirely uncompounded; petiole furrowed above, convex beneath; leaflets opposite, shortly petioled, ovately lanceo- late, acuminate, terminal one the largest, often twice the size of the rest, and from one to two inches long or more. Cymes terminal (6-12)-flowered, subtrichotomous, loose. Flowers of a golden-yellow hue, and of the richest fragrance. , Calyx short, cylindrically campanulate, teeth short, pointed, separated by broad shallow rounded sinuses. Limb 5-parted, an inch or more across, segments broad, elliptic, round pointed, recurvedly expanded, the length of the tube. Anthers large, nearly sessile, protruded in part from the orifice of the tube, mucronate. Stigma 2-parted, clavately united or with the lobes clubbed into one. - The drawing was taken in the conservatory of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith. М | — _ a The tube of the flower dissected to show the stai . pistil with the stigmas artificially disunited. c A berry.. d The M Tie pi а E т. 00204-00 nds, dal. gway ama tf Беса March 1. СА СРИНИН 179 CRINUM bracteatuin. и ` Short-leaved Crinum. \ А — HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ~ Nat. ord. Nancisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germen inferum. AMARYLLIDEX. Brown prod. 296. Sect. Т. Radix bulbosa. Flores spathacei umbellati, raré solitarit. CRINUM. Supra vol. 1. fol. 52. С. bracteatum, bulbo subcolumnari; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusé acu- minatis cum puncto cartilagineo, margine levissiniis, subundulatis; umbella multiflora pedunculata pallido-bracteosa; limbo tubo sub- longiore; stylo breviore staminibus. - ] ‘Crinum bracteatum. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 47. Jacq» hort. scheenb. 4. 1. t. 495. -Crinum brevifolium. Roxburgh MSS. cum tab. pict. In the Library of the East India Company. у ; Bulbus magnus ovalo-cylindraceus 4-5-uncialis, non verd porraceus w. pro- ductus in collum, radiculis crassis. Folia plurima, multifaria, patentia, 1- sesquipedalia, uncias 8-5 lata, utrinque striata, exteriora sapiüs cartilagine tenni alba integerrimá abeunte іп cuspidem callosam marginata, deorsim bre- « (оног angustata atque erecta. Scapus B-untialis ad pedalem, ха com- pressus, intüs planior, extis cómvezior, Umbella 10-20-flora, conspicue "distincta bracteis pallidis lanceolatis tubum subsuperantibus. Spatha 3-uncialis, Flores magni, alli, odori, brevà pedunculati, uncias 5 in extensum superantes: tubus rectus, terelinsculus, obsoleto trigonus, calamum crassus; lacinie limbi ‘recurvo-stellate, lanceolato-lineares, subaquales, eequantes w. subsiperantes tubum, exteriores tertíam em uncie lute, canaliculato-concave, interiores ‘angustiores planiores. ЕЙ. regulari-divergentia, ex tertiá parte breviora „limbo о. magis, superne sanguineo-rubentia; anth. vibrate, fledtende. Stylus brevior staminibus, sanguineus: stig. punctum viride, obsoleta. trilobulatum г germ. breve, oblongum. The number of the recorded species of the stately tro- ical group to which our plant belongs, has been nearly trebled by the late Dr. Roxburgh, during his assiduous su- perintendence of the botanic garden at Calcutta: while the address with which he has selected and defined the discriminating marks of congeners of such signal simplicity and sameness of configuration, in the unedited portion of his Plante Coromandele, would of itself constitute no mean memorial of his skill. The plant which is the subject of this article is native of the Island of Mauritius; was first introduced into the gar- den at Calcutta; and from thence, by Sir Abraham Hume, into this country: but seems to have been known in the B continental collections of Europe for about twenty years i; although the place of its spontaneous abode had. not en ascertained till now. It is among the smallest of the genus, but of considerable elegance, and very fragrant. Bulb 4 or 5 inches high, of an ovately cylindrical form, but not porraceous, or elongated into a neck or above- ground-stem. Leaves many, multifariously divergent, from a foot to a foot and half long, from 3 to 5 inches broad, oblong or broadly lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, edged by a narrow threadlike white smooth cartilage terminating in a hard point, generally curled or waved towards the base, where they are for a short space involute and contracted. Scape from 8 inches to a foot high, considerably com- pressed, flatter on the side next the bulb than on the орро- site one. Spathe about three inches long. Umbel 10-20- flowered, bracteose, or conspicuously intermingled with nu- merous pale lanceolate bractes longer than the tube of the corolla. Flowers white, shortly peduncled, when extended about five inches long: tube straight, roundish, obsoletely trigonal: segments of the limb recurvedly stellate, ге- flectent, lanceolate-linear, nearly equal, as long as or rather longer than the tube, exterior ones about the third of an inch broad, interior flatter and a little narrower. Filaments regularly divergent, a third shorter than the limb or more, crimson upwards; anthers balancing, bent. Style shorter than the stamens, crimson: stigma a green ob- soletely trilobulate point: germen oblong, short. The drawing was made from a plant which flowered last autumn at Wormleybury, the seat of Sir Abraham Hume, in Hertfordshire. у Like the rest of the genus, it must be kept іп the bark- bed, or on the flue of the hothouse. Not recorded in the late edition of the Hortus Kew- ensis. —— By the side of the leaf and inflorescence we have shown i the upper part of the bulb diminished, те an outline “ SOE ~ авот. del. 4 ESTA 2 Ж ену eun. Aa Ж Таса и Жо tthe. СА ССА е 180 HYOSCYAMUS canariensis, ` Canary Henbane. . — А PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord- Soranem. Jussieu gen. 194, D суша сарыг, озо £f . t в бәкі SCYAMUS. . tubulosus 5-fidus, pérsistens, Cor. Һурофуһа, infundibuliformis, limbo patente obliqué 5-lobo inæquali. Stam. epipetala, Stylus unicust stigma capitatum. Caps. supera (bilocularis) ovata, utrinque compressa et sulco exarata, apice circumscissa seu operculata. Неге; folia floralia sep? geminata; flores solitarii axillares, sep? secundi. Juss. Н. ‘canariensis, suffrutescens? foliis inferioribus cordato-ovatis, іпсізде angulatis fine integris, obtusis; floralibus ovatis ellipticisve subintegris. Perennis? pilosus. Caulis strictus, teres, pilis albis mollissimis divaricatis hirsutus, Folia lazè sparsa, divaricata, solitaria, petiolata; pilosa imprimis subtiis, pubescentiam canam viridissim? at sublurida translucentia, ex cordatis evadentia ovata, lobulis gradatim obsolescentibus; floralia sæpiùs integerrima acutula, raró gemina, quorum alterum pauló minus, subcollateralit2r approii- matum, nunguam oppositum. — Racemus terminalis, fleruoso-erectus, foliosta, remotits multiflorus, alternus, distichus: flores axilares, solitaris, erecti, singulatim explicandi, brevissim& pedicellati. Cal. Aerbaceus, lurido-virens, fubuloso-campanulatus, molli-pilosus, s із 5. lalis, patentibus, muticis, 4-ріо brevioribus. tubo. Cor. è minoribus, subcaduca, fugaz, sframineb- dutestens fauce violaced, рағдт inaequalis, altior latiorgue. calyce; limbo rotato-patente laciniis brevibus, obversts, transvers? latioribus, summis, 2 ma- Joribus. Stam. inclusa, declinata, Germ. post базат corollam ex operculo suo viridissimo umbontto-rotundo іп оте tubi calycini apparens. An unrecorded native of the Canary Islands; recently introduced by Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne. The seed was a present from Dr. Schmidt, the learned natu- ralist, who, with more of his associates, has just fallen в victim to the fatigues of the expedition intended to ex- plore the Niger. We can scarcely yet venture to speak of the size the plant may acquire, nor of its duration. We believe it to be suffrutescent and perennial, and that it will never exceed a foot and a half in height. It does not seem іп- clined to produce many branches. The stem is upright, round; covered with a long dense pubescence of very soft white straight patent hair. Leaves of a deep lurid green, loosely scattered, divaricate, petioled, cordate and ovate, with angular incisions at the sides, the lobules of which аге shallow and bfoad, at the end entire and rounded, whole blade seldom more than 91 inches long, soft-haired, espe- cially underneath; floral leaves alternate and bifarious, ovate and elliptic, generally entire, seldom two to- gether, when one is rather smaller, and placed almost collaterally in respect to the other, never oppositely. Raceme terminal, upright, flexuose, alternately and dis- tantly manyflowered, leafy, distichous or two ranked; flowers axillary, very shortly pedicled, solitary, upright, opening one at a time. Calyr of a lurid green, inferior, persistent, substantial, nearly 3 of an inch long, tubularly campanulate, soft-haired; lobules 5, broad, patent, short, awnless, nettedly veined, 4 times shorter or more than the tube. Corolla caducous, higher and wider than the calyx, of a yellowish straw-colour, violet within the faux or throat; limb patent, very slightly irregular, segments broader than long, obverse, two uppermost larger. Stamens deflectent. _Germen concealed within the tubular portion of the calyx; lid green, rounded, visible in front of the tube as the fruit advances to maturity. But we missed the opportunity of inspecting the corolla after the figure was taken, and must refer to the plate concerning that part of the flower. The species appears to come the nearest in habit to the pusillus of Persia, of any we are aware of: but that is an annual, and has a pinnatifid foliage. .__ The drawing was made in December, at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Co. King’s Road, Parson’s Green, P" NO O e А Sy = ИД 6 беч 2 4 4 ғ n — қ М р m жез / - T y 170 : песку M aa 1187] ul by Е T « Judi ih мма оқ 181 HAMANTHUS coarctatus. Close-umbelled Bloodflower: HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Nat. ord. Narcıssı. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germen inferum, > AMARYLLIDER, Brown prod. 296. Sect. I. Radix bulbosa; Flores spathacei, umbellati, rard solitarii, _ i | HEMANTHUS. — Umbella terminalis, multi-numerosiflora: spatha polyphylla erecta, вере colorata, raró diphylla aut reflexa. Саѓ, 0. Cor. supera, erecta, regularis, sequalis, tubuloso-sexfida, limbo sexpartito con- nivente у, stellato, longiore tubo. Fil. summo tubo insita, erecta, exserta. Stylus setiformi-elongatus; stig. punctum simplex, v. 3 minuta replicata. Васса globosa v. oblongiuscula, вере colorata, levis, exsulca, tri-v. (abortu) bi-uniloc., loculis monospermis: sem. erectum, conforme loculo: albumen carnosum, durum, . Plante bulbos, senposce, perennes: bulbus tunicatus v. spits bifarióm squamosus laminis incequalibus, ovatus, indusio tectus т. nudus; rhizomate sep? infra extruso, raris composilo coagmentato et bulbicipite, interdum radia culis tuberoso-incrassatis. Folia pauca sepiüs bina, bifaria, coriaceo-crassa, angusta elongata et canaliculata ad orbiculata et plana, erecta ad humistrata, тағд petiolato-vaginantia laminá oblongá. Scapus nunc stipulis 2 radicalibus sæpè coloratis marcescentibus immediat? stipatus. Umbella congesta inclusa ай (ағат ezsertam. Spatha in quibusdam haud malè corollam TULIPE refert. Limbi basis modo arctior tubo summo sezgibboso-dilatato. Ex multifloro vergit ad prozimum CRINUM. Н. coarctatus, stipulis 2 radicalibus intrafoliaceis nascentia folia simulanti- bus: foliolis spathee pluribus coloratis erectis obtusissimis umbellam con- gestam sequantibus: foliis glaberrimis: corolla infundibuliformi. . ' Hemanthus coarctatus. Jacq. hort. scheenb, 1. 90.1.57. — Willd.sp. рі. 2. 25. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 2. stad . Totus glaber. _ Bulbus oblongo-ovatus, squamosus magnitudine pugni, compressus squamis v. laminis crassis, caros, truncatis, sordidè albentihus margine tenuissimo fuligineo marcidoque circumdalis, distichis, imbricatis. Folia prodeunt post scapum florentem, 2v. 3, elongate sublanceolata, acutula, integerrima, ulrinque ad lentem punctatula, striatula, crassa, coriacea, pla» niuscula, tota let? viridia et immaculata, erecta u. patula, Jere pedalia, Sep? ad latus scapi alia folia simul prodeunt, parva et subrubentia, qua verd ultra non prolongantur, sed sic perstant, tandem marcescentia. Scapus ante Jolià, valdé compressus, erectiusculus, ad јона lateralis, viridis cum punctis sanguineis, 8 v. 9 uncias longus. Involucri magni foliola feré 6-(8) oblonga obtusa parumpér concava, integerrima, erecta, sardide sanguinea (venosa ^ latitudine et ‘situ іпадиайа, biuncialia, Flores numerosi, erecti, pedicellati, longitudine involucri. Germen oblongum. Cor. infernd albida, superna pal- lidè miniata: tubus brevissimus, supern? parumper (sezgibbus) ampliatus : (limbi basi constricti) lacinice lineares, obtuse, superné concaue, erecta, «quales unciales, Fil. subulata, erecta, corolla concolora, eádemque ad unam tertiam longiora: anth, flawr. Stylus erectus longit. et colore filam : stig. ob- tusum flavescens. Jacquin 1. с. Hzxantnus, as at present defined, has no spontaneous species without the continent of Africa; and there only within or near the tropics. Its nearest kindred in the cor- responding сјићајев of Asia and America are comprized under Crinum. In Europe one or two yellow species of Амл- BYLLIS are its nearest relatives in that quarter of the world. HxwaNTHUS dubius of Humboldt and Bonpland is an evident anomaly in the group; and a plant we suspect not reducible. to any established genus, without compli- tating the character of the same, so as to perplex more than an additional new name will encumber. We believe it to Ъе а congener of the Crinum urceolatum of the Flora Peruviana, another heterogeneously assorted species. ` Coarctatus was introduced from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr, Masson, in 1795. Bulb oblong-ovate, compressed, bifariously tunicated, laminas in two opposite compactly imbricated series, broad, fleshy, truncated, outermost shortest. Leaves 2-3, posterior to the inflorescence, broadly lorate, wide pointed, smooth-edged, spotless, nearly flat, divergent, a t or more in length. Stipules 2, radical, one on each side next the scape, broad as the foliage but very short, party-coloured, haying the appearance of nascent leaves, but are membranous, and decay without elongating. Scape much compressed, green, thickly speckled with crimson dots, 6-9 inches high. Leaflets of the spathe 6-8, large, upright, of a dark orange-scarlet colour, oblong, of unequal breadth, veined, obtuse, even with the numerous-flowered icled crowded umbel, Corolla narrow-funnelform, white elow, раје vermilion above; tube short, dilated upwards with six small protuberant corners; base of the limb con- tracted and narrower than the mouth of the tube; segments linear, turbinately connivent, obtuse, concave at the upper part, equal, nearly an inch long. Filaments subulate, up- Tight, ef the same colour as-the border or limb, which they overtop by the distance of about one third of their whole length. Style upright, equal to the stamens, and of the same colour: stigma obtuse. The drawing was taken last autumn from a plant in Mr. Griffin's conservatory at South Lambeth. By no means ‘common in our collections. Does not require any peculiar care, and will thrive in a greenhouse. Te ny pe ово MEA RE met UT, 0 amm me EE TT In | 152 өзе n ЖА ж Y heit 182 босанды esae IP + Жюз» 1 procumbens. бын © Риби end Cuphea, | T dd s сиве у SH : €———— DODECANDRIA MONOGYNIA, * Nat. ord. Baurcarix. Jussieu реп. $20. | RN DI Dic. T. Mores polypetali. И ее м S CUPHEA. Cal. tubulosus 12-striatus 6-(19-Brown.) dentatas dente sa» 3periore latiore; (basi hinc gibbosus; Brown in Hort. Kew.) Pet. G; insequaba ‚summo calyci inserta et ejusdem. divisuris alterna, 2 superiora majora, Stam. insertione insequalia, nempé hine 8 có-ordinata et conformia, indè 4 ‘minora’ gemino ordine Sisposita uorum 2 «superióra villosa; anth. sabro- ‘tunde.. - t oblonga 1-loc., calyce tecta, cum ‘ipso simul hinc fissa et . tunc cymbiformis; recept. centrale à media per rimam erumpens flexum, .circitàr 5-spermum seminibus lentiformibus quasi spicato-secundis. — Herba wundiquz viscosissima, folia opposita. azillis үрім sepia обет ramis eris, superióribus subanifloris. Juss, gen. е с. procumbens, caule herbaceo, ramis procumbentibus yiscosis, foliis ovato- с tócymbens. . Per: 356. _, ыма a N^ annua pubescent трдин, Caulis procumbenti-astur, piis ami asil- brevior calyce. Cal. persistens, violaceo~striatus, ЭЁ caulis: pubescens, hin ви Basi superiore subcalcarato-productá, fauce д ore subbi- labiato, labio summo viridi productiore recurvo bipetalifero, imo &-petalifero minbre as dentes 6 callosi apice setifero. Pet. bilabiato-rotata, - distantia, rosca purp ypurascentia,- tenera, fugacia, obovato-spathulata, calyce breviora, und: оза, ungue brevi angusto, lamina subrotundá; superioris labii 2 majora. . Fil, inclusa pilosa apice infleza ordine gemino fauci oes inserta, 5 alterna breviora, suprema 2 sub antherd land densä barbatu. us inclusus alius т subulato-setacens, ‘subglaber pilis paucis vagis, supra Snes persisiens, germinis membranacej albi асин continuus: stig, su . ies of a.genus belonging to the same natural order, in ереді arrangement, as the indian GnisLEA. tomentosa f the 30th article, of this work, and as the common Purple sestrife (Lyrarum Salicaria) found at the side of our own rivers. Native of Mexico, and very lately intro» ginced from the Berlin botanic garden, from whence it was WoL. HL ^ ` с a К E received both by Mr. W. Anderson, of the Apothecaries’ botanical establishment, and Messrs. Whitley and Co. On referring to the Banksian Herbarium, from which the Сорнкл lanceolata. of the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis was adopted; we are-led to suspect that that plant, though very near, is distinct.as a species from this. Its stem is entirely upright, much slenderer, and the pubescence white; a flower situated near one of the branches has a peduncle even longer than the calyx, all are upright, and the plant is upon a smaller scale throughout. Bat -still the specimen is teo shattered and imperfect for a safe deci- sion, and may have been one of feeble growth, and the di- rection of its stem and flowers may have been altered by the mode of drying the plant. Yet we are inclined to be- lieve it essentially distinct. Be that as it may, the appel- lation of procumbens should certainly be maintained оп the | score of priority, whether the plants should prove ultimately of one species or not. | = . The present is ап annual. First raised in Europe by. Pro- fessor Cavanilles, in the garden of the Buen Retiro, at Madrid. In part procumbent, in part ascendent; stem herbaceous viscidly and ropghly pubescent, with purple hairs, a foot or more long, branched; branches axillary, low down, alternate, simple, bluntly 4-cornered. Leaves opposite, patent, ovately lanceolate, slightly pubescent with - white hairs, nerved, rachis or midrib. varicose.beneath, from an inch and a half to near three inches long, diminishi as they advance towards the summit of the stem to meré bractes: petiole short, hirsute, _ Flgipers. numerong, loose, rininating. stem. and branches. in leafy racemes, alternate, solitary, iziterfoliaceons er lateral between each pair of leaves, nutant, irregular, about an inch across the corolla: peduncles longer than the petioles, two or three times shorter than the calyx. Calyx purplish, tubular, with 12 raised streaks and a pubescence the same as that of the stem,. ventricose beneath, upper side of. the base projecting like a | short’ obtuse ‘spur, faux widened, orifice slightly bilabiate, patent, upper lip largest bearing 2 Peale: lower smaller aring 4 petals; lobules or teeth 6, callous, thickened; pointed by a terminal bristle. Petals inserted within the. rim of the orifice of the ‘calyx; arid’ alternating -with. the. teeth, rose-purple, bilabiately rotate, with open intervals О fugacious, tender, obovately spatulate, undulate, shorter than calyx, upper two largest. Filaments enclosed, hairy, inserted in two alternating series in the faux of the calyx, five shorter than the rest, uppermost two-bearded, with dense purplish wool close under the anther. Style ‘white, enclosed, subulately lengthened, nearly smooth, with a few downy, hairs scattered above the middle, curved at the top, persistent, continuous with the thin membranous white tapered germen: stigma subcapitate. The drawing was taken late in the autumn at the nur- sery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at Parson's Green, where it was kept in the greenhouse. — а А flower dissected vertically, showing the insertion of the petals into the calyx, ‘and that of the stamens, 6 The pistil, с2 , 17 1 / | 9 A M de 72. 2 Z Nidgway and Sons 7, С еее А March С = я 183 "ASTER nove өлейік, i : ein. ; "RS b Berker u - 3 , ; ¡FUERA 2 но р БҰРАР ti КО эсси о. PENGENESIA нар EN : Nt, ond: Сокүмвтғғал. Jussieu gen. 1 ; v. eceptaculym nudum. Ena posum., ‘Flores В in Tussilagine et Senecione flores partim py yin . ASTER. Flores radiati, ligulis р ми чан 10, lances «Ch imbricatus, squamis inferioribus Кый, Pappus pilosus. pünioulati aut corymbosi ; ligule violacee aut purpuraicentes aut albida, свите, Srdiculesa, А alpini caulis spl uniflorus: ` Juss, MET ЫЛ. . "Din. Herbacei foliis Илеагйш denosolalisos integterim ds. А. nove auglie, foliis lanceolatis integerrimis . cordatis mplexicsufitas pilosis, calycibus discum superantibus laxis, foliolis lineari- lanceolatis ` subequalibus, саше hispido.: : Hort: Kew. 8: 201. МІ Aster hore anglie. . Lim. sp. pl. 2.1229. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 5. үз - Kew, ed. 2.6.58. Michauz bor. атаң. ns. Wild, Ps 2082, "i Aster folijs lanceólato-linearibus alternis. tegerrimis semi-amp lexieaulibus, онђив ‘capitato-termindtricibus. Gron: virg. ed.9. 124, Ci ‘Aster novm anglie altissimus hirsutus, | жеде: amplis picor cali, pedunculis brevissimis. Cal“ са tus урана фаш о жауа coloratis viridibusve, lanceolato-lingarj] ape acuminatis, sai, suba superantibus discum floris, Radius cyaneus vel pu urco-rubens. Flosculi wesgentes, limbo brevi fusco-purpureo, de 5 ovato-acuminatis, s incluse.. Stigmata 2, replicata, linearia, lutea. Germen albo- sericeum, oblongum, раррб fulvescente. р Of about one hundred species of Aster which have been enumerated by Willdenow, upwards of sixty belong to North America. Mr. Pursh has since increased that num- ber to seventy-eight in his North American Flora. The present s jecies is said to be found from Canada to Virginia, Our plant i is evidently, even to the variety, the same de with ont ЂЕ the Flora Virginica; а fact we have esta- blished by comparison with the prototype specimen in Clayton's Нега шт. We doubt, however, whether it is that intended by Pursh, since we did not find it to be the same with the one he has referred to іп Mr. Lambert’s Herbarium. We have seen no figure of this gay flower in any work, except the diminished uncoloured engraving in the dutch publication we have cited above. Yet the species has con- tinned very generally to enliven our colléctions, at the close of each succeeding year, from that of 1710 4o the present. : A perfectly hardy perennial, thriving fo almost any Situation. Stem from seven to eight YA kigh,- brownish red, bispid, flexnose above and divided loose broad fastigiant panicle of simple iia ao branches. Leaves cordately Ay stemelasping, I linear-lanceolate, narrow, three inches or more in length, gradually diminish- ing, subhispidly villous; lobes at the base d Flowers hrgísh, disposed at the end of the branches in few-flowered close corymbs; pedencles very short. Calyx campanulate; deaflets.in few ranks, green or party-coloured, Tanveolately linear, pointed, yillous, equal to, or er than the disk of the flower. Ray va from deep blue to purplish red. Florets of the disk yellowish, with a short brown-purple limb; segments ovate. pointed. Anthers enclosed. Stigmas 2, yellow, linear, divergent. Germen silky, oblong: hair of the pappus or crown inclined to tawny. ` The drawing was made in November last, at Mene. Whitley, Brames, and Milnes, in the King's “Read, Par- son's Green, Fulham. ст“ eal A floret of tlie disk. 5 A floret of he вау. ~ Hh: екімей feciptaclé deprived of all the Sordo, nad Simected vérticafly. у Syd С dida del E Lay 2 Лету бу, dens М ( тке (1, Жа J m EA acil) 184 — DIDYNAMIA OYMNOSPERMTA. Nat. ord. Vrrices. Jussieu gen. 106. : Dio ИТ, Genera Viticibus авина. DE LAGO. . tubulosus 4-(5-) fidus insequalis. Cor. tuo brevi аш filiformi longiori, limbo er) equali egt inequali, : білім dg stigma 1. Semen 1-2, calyce tectum. Herbg aut syffrutices ; pes ‚flores in plurimis Eranthemo et Verbenz affines, irregulares tubulosi 1-2; spermi, alternè эрш terminales, spica simplici a multiplicis іп равной regulares ect Q-spermi subcorymbosi.termin DEA genere ordige depelleud. Jusaigu 1. с. 110. „л М 8, Susciculota, corymbo multiplici, foliis obovatis glabris serratis, Еһ fasciculeta. Lin. syst. veg. ed. 14. 568. Wild. ep, pl. 3. 185, Узар. ie rar. 3.1. 496. coll 3. 246, Hori, Kew. 2. 355. ed, 2. 3.452 aules ascendentes v. erectiusculi, sesquipedales, fruticosi, teretes, (oppo» sito-) ramosi, iafernd lignosi et fusci, calamum сі lira crassi. Folia ( i ovata (deore igidula, crassula (coriacen), modic® decurrentia, rigidula, crassula (coriacea) foliojewa dense flariforia in. foliis supremis be laribus undigua, sparsis арр ix matis, аррар Jasciculati, densi, convesuls, omne simpul unam alteramve масзат à «guanies, Bracter ( ) ad {flores laneeclkien, acute, con- cave, calycem amplexantes, coque. . longiores, virentes. Flores ‚fortitär et grat? .olentes, calyce pallido, corolla pallid? carrulea, germine viridi, fila. mentis styloque albis, antheris sulphureis. Cal. profunde E-sectus, persistens: p p linearibus, ориги, concavis, erectis, аиан. is е tubus angust? ipfundibuliformis, parùm incurvus, са і ngior. Limbus ridus ten mor tubo duplo brevior: pio fe oblongis, obtusis, ріпті: 2 inferioribus brevioribus minüsque profunde sedis, constituentibue veluti Jabium, superius corolla inversa. fi. capillaria, tubo: corollae innata г 2 eateriora longiora. corollam «quant, Anth. oblonga (capitate, apice dila- tato filamenti adnato-incumbentes) transuersé ассгейе apice dilatato filamenti, Germ. obvers? ovatum, compressum obtusum, Stylus filiformis, erectus, stas minibus longior. . Stig. simples obtusum. Jacq. nonnullis ex nobis additis. ` ; A dwarf shrub; native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was introduced in 1774 by the late Mr. Masson.. Stem ascendent or nearly upright, round, about a foot and half high, woody and brown-barked below, of the thickness of a common pen or thicker. Leaves closely, or sometimes loosely scattered round the whole of the green branches, scarcely an inch in length, diminishing as they ascend to the form of bractes, obversely ovate, tapered to- wards their base into a kind of petiole, deeply and widely serrate, with pointed teeth, of a thick leathery substance and stiff, slightly decurrent, entire or unindented at the sides below, bright green, entirely smooth, of a bitterish taste. Corymbs compound, terminal, crowdedly fasciculate, vonvex, from one to two inches over, composed of fastigiant closely scattered corymbules leafy downwards, ‘thickly flowered upwards and axillary in the uppermost diminutive leaves. Bractes single, one below each flower, lanceolate,’ pointed, concave, embracing the calyx and nearly twice its length, green. Flowers small, of a highly ‘scented fra- grance, calyx pale, corolla pale blue, germen green, fila- ments and style white, anthers sulphur-coloured. Calya deeply five-cleft, persistent; segments linear, rather obtuse, concave, upright, equal. Corolla monopetalous or of one piece; tube narrow-funnelform, slightly curved, nearly twice as high as the calyx: limb or border five-cleft, spread out, twice shorter than the tube; segments oblong, obtuse, flat, two lower ones shorter and less deeply parted, forming the kind of upper lip to the resupinate corolla. Filaments capillary inserted in the tube, two exterior equal to the border of the corolla. Anthers oblong, capitate, incumbent, adnate to the enlarged apex of the filament. Germen obo- vate, compressed, obtuse. Style filiform, upright, longer than the stamens. · Stigma simple, obtuse. A hardy greenhouse plant, requiring nearly the treat- ment of a Cape Heath, and to be: planted in a mixture of black peat-mould and hazel-loam. Blossoms in the au- tumn. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs, Lee and Kennedy at Hammersmith. By no means a com- mon plant. We have trusted in a great degree to Jacquin in our description, having missed the opportunity of inspect- ing the inflorescence until it was too far gone for our purpose. — Ff €—— а Calyx, with the pistil as it when the сого P 3 The corolla dissected vertically. е ala із removed, ad Syd. Fawards auf. 7 White Sc. Brownlow St. lub “by Ridgways, 772 Liccadilly, . N 2 7 Ud ys 185 STERCULIA Balanghas Crown-flowered Sterculia. —— MONIECIA MONADELPHI4. Mort. Kew. Dodscandria Monogyuia. Wind. Nat. ord. MaLvacez. Jussieu gen. 271. Div. VI. бтенсілдасеж. Ventenat malmais. 91. STERCULIA. Cal. coriaceus, quandoque tubulosus, 5-dentatus, sæpiùs campanulatus, 5-fidus v. 3-partitus; laciniis v. stellatim patentibus v. arcuatim introflexis. Stipes centralis productus in urceolum 5-dentatum dentibus 2-S-antheriferis. Germ. S-striatum intra urceolum insidens. Stylus 1, germine incumbens. Stig. subslobum. Capss. 5 (aut pauciores quibusdam abortivis) coriacez, uniloc., mono-polysperme, (gelatiná per rimam exsudante tumentes Juss.), suturá interiore dehiscentes marginibus seminiferis. Enibryo albumine carnoso et bipartibili cinctum ut in plerisque Sapotis. Cotyledones irregulares crassissime, у. tenues. Radicula ascen- dens v. umbilico opposita, Arbores. Folia alterna, simplicia, aut digitata ; petioli sub apice articu- lati. Stipes quandogue solo germine, quandoque germine v. staminibus оге batus. Ventenat loc. cit. S. Balanghas, foliis ovatis integerrimis alternis petiolatis, floribus panicu- 7 datis. Linn. sp. pl, 2. 1480. - Sterculia Balanghas. Cavan. diss. 5. 286. 1. 148. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 872. ` Hort. Kew. ed, 9. 5. 338. . р Southwellia nobilis. 54485. parad. lond. 69. Nux malabarica sulcata mucilaginosa fabacea. Pluk. alm. 266, Cavalam. Rheede mal. 1. 81. tab, 49. - Arbor excelsus diametro bi-tripedali. Folia membranacea, rs, те- Reza, ovali-o. obverso-oblonga, nitid2 virentia, sesuncialia ad pedalia, triplo Jere angustiora quàm longa, rachide subtits varicosá nervis lateralibus alternis distantibus et pilis vagis stellatis parce conspersis acumine abrupto obliquato г petioli teretes utroque fine incrassati: stipulee ратуше татее caduca: pubes- centes, subulate, Racemi elongato-fleriles ramorum parte terminali surculosá aphyllá fusco-et stellato-pubescente è propriis. gemmis paniculatim circum- nati, plurimi, diffusiis divaricati, compositi, lax? multiflori, flexuosi, „Лизсо-ющоя, pedunculis partialibus distantibus pluri-unifloris, pedicellis, ropriis filiformibus divaricatis supra medium articulatis: bractete minima, flores in extensum viz semunciam transversi, sordid? chloroleuci extern? sub- JSiusco-villosi, Calyx turbinato-campanvlatus ; limbus 5-partitus, tubo longior, ех radiato arcuatim connivens, laciniis distantibus lineari-lanceolatis lateribus reflexis, post. anthesin. invickm recedentibus. Сот. 0. Stipes fructificationis longitudine fer? dimidii calycis, teres, laber, erectus, apice dilatatus. Fil. 0, gi ман спуст) teres, gía С акани Anth. luc summi stipitis margine circumposite, loculis didymis. Germ, ruberrimum, hirsutum, tri-quinguelobo-globosum. Stylus stipitis concolor versüs antheras secundum latus germinis reffezus s stigma pileato-capitatum, rolund? tri-quinguelobum. VOln Ш. 2 P Native of the East Indies, where it grows in rocky and sandy tracts to a large tree, the trunk of which is some- times from two to three feet in diameter. The drawing was made last summer from the first of the species cultivated here; still in the hothouse of Sir Abraham Hume at Wormleybury, in Hertfordshire; where it had been introduced by Lady Amelia Hume in 1787. Willdenow, viewing the column in both the sterile and the fertile flowers as an integral and independent member, has ranked the genus in the class Dopgcawpmu. In the Hortus Kewensis, after Linnzus, the genus stands in Monacıa Monabetpnia, the column, when from the failure of the germen it supports only anthers, being designated as the monadelphous union of the filaments of the stamens, and, by à whimsical and arbitrary conversion of terms, when it süpports the perfect germen as well as atithers, as the independent and common pediment of both organs. Its true place seems to us to be in Mon&cıa PoLYANDRIA. Leaves membranous, scattered, reflectent, ovally or obversely oblong, bright green, from six inches to a foot in length, nearly three times longer than broad, terminated by an abrupt slanted point, midrib prominent beneath nerves lateral alternate distant studded underneath with composite stellate hairs: petioles round thickened at both ends: stipules growing on the branch, small, subulate, pubescent, caducous. Racemes long, flexile, growing from their proper buds in a panicle round the terminal leafless brown and stellately pubescent shoots of the branches, many, diffusely divaricate, composite, loosely many-flow» ered, flexuose, brownly villous; partial peduncles distant,. from one to several flowered; proper pedicles filiform, diva- ricate, jointed above the middle: bractes minute. Flowers, when extended, scarcely half an inch across, of a dull yel- lowish or greenish white, externally brownly pubescent. Calyx turbinately campanulate; limb 5-parted, longer than the tube, segments converging archwise and united at their points with open intervals, lanceolately linear with reflectent. sides. Column half the length of the calyx, round, smooth upright, dilated at top. Anthers didymous, placed round the rim of the apex of the column. Germen scarlet, hirsute, 3-5-lobed, globular: style bending downwards along the side of the germen, that the stigma may reach the anthers: stig- та 3-5-lobed, rounded. toc ` o —= « The column bearing the germen and anthers. ју / Jyd ( Р 094 del. / ы» / ШУУ, бу, n t3 ) Јоса. Ap ШАУ ge 186 PITTOSPORUM revolutum, Yellow Pittosporum, —_ aan PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. оті. Ріттозроввж. Brown in append. to Flinders's voy. 2. 54%, . PITTOSPORUM. Cal. pentaphyllus, inferus, deciduus, foliolis subequalibus. Cor. pentapetala, petalis inferné in tubum coherentibus, superné acutis recurvis. Stam. hypogyna, cum petalis alternantia; inclusa, Germ. superum: stylus unicus: stig. subcapitatum. Caps. 1-Joc., stylo umbilicata, bi-aut trivalvis, polysperma; valvulis medio septiferis: sem. angulata septo inserta, duplici serie superposita: embrye minutus, propa umbilicum, inclusus albumine carnoso. Frutices v. arbores, inordinat? ras mosi, folia alterna, brevi petiolata, exstipulata, inteperrima ; flores terminales, exillaresve, subracemosi, bracteati. Bonpland loc. infra cit. 56, P. revolutum, foliis ellipticis obtuslusculis subtüs pubescentibus marging revoluto.. Dryander in Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 2. 27. Pittosporum tomentosum: Bonpland nav. & malmais. 1. 57.1. 91. Pittosporum flavum. Rudge in trans. linn. soc, 10, 298; cum icone ad sica cum delineatá, р Frutex erectus, caulescens, spars& ramosus; rami teretes, inferno versüg nudiusculi о. foliis paucis vagis, in surculis novellissimis ferrugineo-tomentosi, crebriüsque foliati. Folia sparsa, oboersà ovali-oblonga acumine ab abrupto brevique vari producto, deorsüm long? attenuata, subtús lunuginosa vel. pofius tomentosa іп junioribus tomento denso ferrugineo, tri-quadriuncialia, latitudine unciali y. sesquiunciali, suprà glabra, saturatà virentia, margine brevi reflezo cincta. Flores pallido-flavi, nutantér et simplicitér racemosi terminales: pe- duntulo recurvo tereti alle plos inte Ho forugineo, uni-biunctalis v. ultra, rifero, pedicellis plàs minds fastigiantibus, nunc quasi umbellatis, pese САМА aln calycinis similibus, apice reflexis, Cal. patens, | pallidà virens, extüs viscoso-villosus, corollá $ brevior; fololis lanceolatis, уйт inequalibus, intús glabris. Tubus corolle triplo longior limbo, pal- Жаш, cylindricus, subventricosus, suturis 5 ubi coherent ungues pelalorum atriatus, intús viscosus; lamine limbi fave, leves, oblonge, obtuse, ртітд ра- fentes, ind? revolute. Fil, alba, longitudine tubie Anth. furvo-fulve, ес apice emicantes, sagittato-oblon e, dorso longè supra basin appense, intro- “verse, rimá laterali utrinque dehiscentes: pollen flavum. Germ. oblongum dens? ferrugineo-hirsutum, biloculare, succo resinoso scafens, ovulis numes rosis: stylus teres, strictus, duplo brevior germine, virens: stig. pileato-v. de- presso-capitatum. Pittosporee is the name of a natural order defined by Mr. Brown, in a treatise on the vegetation of Terra, Australis, which forms the Appendix to the Voyage of Cap» tain Flinders. In this valuable tract, besides the illustra, ‘tion of the characters of the so termed natural orders or ‘families of vegetables, a laborious and judicious attention mE I p2 . has been devoted to mark out their geographical distribu- tion; a subject interesting as a part of their history, and important as the probable means of arriving at the know- ledge of the general law which regulates that distribution. In justice to our readers, we shall extract the paragraph which relates to the group comprising the subject of the present article. ' : « Authors have generally been disposed to consider Prr- * тозровом, Bursaria, and BILLARDIERA, as belonging to * Rhamnec or Celastrine, from both of which they are * certainly widely different; and they appear to me to * constitute, along with some Australian genera, à very * distinct natural family. Pittosporea: form a small tribe, * chiefly belonging to Тегта Australis, where most of them ** have been observed in the principal parallel; but certain “ species of all the published genera exist at the south end «of Van Diemen’s Island, and both Prrrosporum and “ Bursaria are found within the tropic. Prrrosrorum, the * only genus of the order which is not confined to Terra * Australis, has the most extensive range in that country, “ and has been found in many other parts of the world, “namely, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, the Society and “ Sandwich Islands, the Moluccas, in China, Japan, and “even Madeira. It has not, however, been observed in “ any part of America.” The present species is native of New South Wales, and was introduced by Sir Joseph Banks; and altho’ present in our gardens in 1795, has been figured by Mr. Rudge in 1811, from a dried stick, as the substitute of an erroneously supposed absentee. | An upright shrub, about three or four feet high, scat- teredly branched; branches round, nearly leafless down- wards, leafy at the new shoots, where they are covered with a‘tomentose russet nap. Leaves scattered, obversely and ovally oblong, with a variously tapered point, sometimes abrupt and short, sometimes equably extended, all farther tapered towards the base, three or four inches long, an inch or an inch and half broad, above smooth and green; underneath, when full grown, grey and downy, wben young, tomentose and russet coloured, edge shallowly re- fiectent. Flowers palish yellow, terminal, in a simple nod- ding raceme, sometimes scarcely extending beyond an um- bel-like corymb; peduncle round russet-coloured subvis- cidly tomentose, from one to two inches long or more, — R———— o without flowers below; pedicles variously fastigiant; bractes nearly of the same nature as the leaflets of the calyx, re- curved at the top. Calyx pale green, patent, viscously villous without, a third shorter than the corolla; leaflets lanceolate, slightly unequal. Tube of the corolla three times longer than the laminas of the petals, pale, cylindric, slightly ventricose, with five sutures marking the cohesions of the ungues that constitute it; viscous within; laminas of the limd deeper yellow, smooth, oblong, obtuse, first patent, then revolute. Filaments white, the length of the tube: anthers of a dusky tawny colour, peering from the tube, sagittately oblong, appended by the back considerably above their base, fronting inwards, bursting along the sides: pollen yel- low. Germen oblong, shaggy, russet-coloured, bilocular, filled with resinous lymph: ovules numerous: style green, round, straight, twice as short as the germen: stigma capi- tate, rather flattened. A greenhouse plant, flowering from March to August. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs, Whitley, Brames, and Milne, King’s Road, Parson’s Green, Fulham. —Jdá— А аА flower dissected, showing the insertion of the stamens, ¿ The pistil. ) А Syd ( е Жерге; dl pM Gv 17 Ри hy РА рату с“ ona //0 ДІ F prt ДАУ) 187 DONIA glutinosa. Limy-leaved Donia. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLU4.: Nat. ord, Corzuinırenz. Jussieu gen, 177. А no ss iv. II. Receptaculum nudum. men papposam. Flores 'radiatig (in Tussilagine et Senecione partim flosculosi.) рр . t DONIA. Recept. nudum. Pappus setaceus, caducus. Calys imbri- catus, hemispheericus, Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5, 82. Е D. glutinosa, frutescens; foliis oblongo-obcunentis sessilibus serratis, сају« Cinis squamis linearibus егесін. Pursh amer. sept. 9. 559; (іп obs. ad Dontam squarrosam). Donia glutinosa. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5, 89, Doronicum glutinosum. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 2115. | Aster glutinosus. Cavan. ic. 2. 52. 1. 168. Desfontaines in ann. du mae séum, 2. 34. Suffrutex sempervirens erectus glabro-viscosus erectissime ramosus, bie Wripedalis caulis teres, pallidus; rami albidi, angulati, гі, unjflori, JSoliosi. Folia distantia, sparsa, erecto-patentia, обор a, mucronaton acuta, reticulato-venosa viscoso-porosa, margine serrulato-scabra, acut? dentata vel nunc dentibus nonnullis acutis tantummodö versüs apicem incisa, серіні, caulia, trinervi-decurrentia, lobulis 2 baseos ex eorum margine. interiori mg? infra rachidem folii adnatis ramo; floralia раса. subirina), subdifformia, ovato-v. oblongo-lanceolata. Flores lutei, terminales, subsessiles, solitariis Cal plurimo ordine polyphyllus, herbacens, squarroso-imbricatus, visto co- piloso obductus; foliola basi arci? appressa, lanceolato-linearia, estis convexi- 'uscala, inferiora mucronata angustiora recurvo-divaricata, su erectiora patula, suprema membranosa, albicantia, appresso. Radius uniseriatus, muliiflosculosus, duplo longior calyce, floaculis long? tubulosia, 'apice bidenti- culato-emarginatis, biplicatis; germ. turbinat вит quinerve, angulo- bum; pappus sessilis aristaceus, mos paucus, $ lis, incurvuluse stigmata linearia, exserta tubo, Discus flosculis Juteo-pallentibus, eegualibus ci, glabris, dentibus erectis acutis: anth. inclusce, polline flavo: stigmata 9 linearia tota exserta: germ. radii simile. Receptaculum planum, foveolas "tum, foveolarum marginibus dentato-scabratum, . А genus instituted by Mr. Brown, in the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis. character principally relied проп for technical distinction, is a bristly caducóus seed-crown ot pappus. The present species is native of Mexico, and was first introduced by Mr. Aylmer Bourke Lambert “in 1803. WE. have another (squarrosus) in our collections, which comes from the banks of the Missouri. А suffrutescent evergreen, 2-3 feet high, upright, smooth, viscous, with a round branching pale brown stem; branches remarkably upright and straight, white, angular, flexuose, leafy, one-flowered. Leaves far apart, scattered, upright, patent, obovately oblong, mucronately pointed, reticulately veined, porously viscid, serrulately roughed at the edge, and generally indented at the upper portion by several sharp pointed teeth, sometimes round the whole edge, stemclasp- ing, decurrent by three nerves, the two lobules at the base wing by the inner edge to the stem, considerably farther p than where the midrib is attached : floral ones about three, of a rather different form, ovate or oblong-lanceo- late. Flowers bright yellow, terminal, nearly sessile, so- Бегу. Calyx of numerous leaflets in several ranks, herba- ceous, 'squarrosely imbricated, suffused more copiously with viscous secretion than any other part of the plant; leaflets close at the base, lanceolately linear, externally a little convex, lower ones mucronate narrower spreading and ге- curved, upper upright slightly patent, innermost mem- branous, whitish, applied closely to the flower. Ray of one rank, with many florets, twice as long as the calyx; tube of the florets long, lamina or blade with a double plait, in- dented at the end with two minute teeth: germen turbinately oblong, five-nerved, angular: pappus sessile, awnlike, fea- thered, of few pieces, unequal, slightly incurved: stigmas 2, linear, protruded above the tube. Disk with very pale yellow florets, equal to the calyx, smooth, with small up- right pointed teeth: anthers enclosed; pollen yellow:. stig- ‘mas two, linear, extruded their whole length: germen like that of the ray. Receptacle flat, pitted, roughened over by the dentately extended margins ob the small excavations or pits in which the germens stand. The drawing was taken in February at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, King’s Road, Par- .son's Green, Fulham. Cultivated in the greenhouse, and is in flower most part of the year. Requires no particular attention in the culture of it. ` —— a А feret af the disk. 5 A floret of the тау. c The calyx dissected Serticaliy, showing the naked receptacle of the flower. 2, e ИРУ bs M ond it, ‚ МИ) UT а ж 272 I. / А Ри by Ж Уай ОН, ж SivcadMy . Gurt / 1017 Гле I u 188 PASSIFLORA angustifolin. Narrow-leaved Passionflower. MONADELPHIA PENTANDREA ` Nat, ord. . PAssmLommm. Jussieu jm аппадег ди musfum. 6, 10% PASSIFLORA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 15. . P. angustifolia, foliis inferioribus trilobis acumiñatis, superioribus indivisig lanceolatis, petiolis biglandulosis, floribus apetalis. Wild. ap. pl. $, 616. P. angustifolia. Swartz prod. 97. Fl. ind. occid. 2. 1133, Hort. Кеюгей. _ 2.4. 151. ` А + P. heterophylla. Hort, Kew. 3. 309. Jacg. hort. Schamb. 2. 28. t. 181. Miss Lawr. passionfl. ~ P. longifolia. Lamarck encyc. З. 89. Cavan. diss. 10. 446. 1. 270. Caules plures, fruticosi, teretes, glabri, graciles, 4-pedales et ultra, ra~ most, егіле suberasi et cineret, cirris simplicibus, longisgue. scandentes.: Folia ínfima ex subrotundo-ovata obtusa et тіс uncialia; dein unum aliudve dupl majus, acutum, et in unico aut in utroqug latere іп lobum excisum. ¡que sunt elongaté vel lineari-lanceolata, acuminata, indivisa, basi rotundata, longiora semipedalia et infern2 3 quartas partes uncie lata. — Ceterum omnia alterna, integerrima, peltata, saturat2 virentia, ad oras et ad nervum medium dorsalem per lentem villosula, ceterum glabra, adultiora ad neroum et venas in facie ex cinereo maculata. Petioli ad lentem villosuli, supra medium duabus. glandulis онай іні. Stipule subulate, parva. Pedunculi uniflori, орровйі, terifolii, filiformes, superne geniculati, semunciales. Fires’ rot, Calycis Fendi or foliola oblonga, obtusa, patentissima, ех viridi albida. Cor.O. Corona radiata, interior į (operculum) erecta, brevis purpurea; exterior patentissima, flavescens, Anth. flave. Germ, glabrum, Stig. flavescentia. Васса ovalis, semuncialis, ra, atrocerulea, pulpá dulci: sem. compressula, cinerea сит rugis is nigricantibus. Jacq. loc. cit. А A small inconspicuous flowered climber, which mingles itself among bushes in the island of Jamaica. Introduced into this country about 1773. Stem shrubby, about four feet high, slender, round, branching, smooth, ash-coloured, with а corky rind in the old wood. Lowermost leaves three-lobed, upper entire long-lanceolate, 3-6 inches long, about à of an inch broad, rounded or subcordate at the base, nerved, deep green; in- spected through a magnifier the edge and the underside of ‘the midrib are perceived to be slightly villous: petioles short obscurely villous, bearing two small glands beyond the middle: stipules 2, subulate, small. Peduncles axillary, twin, к VOL. Ik opposite, filiform, about half an inch long, jointed above the middle, flexile, one-flowered. Flowers small. Calyx greenish white, from patent to reflectent; segments ob- long, obtuse. Corollanone. Crown double, outer rank of rays yellow, longest, entirek ely patent: operculum or lid of the nectary violet-coloured. Anthers yellow. Germen smooth. Stigmas yellowish. Capsule oval, bout half an inch long, smooth, of a black-blue colour, with a sweet pulp: seeds somewhat flattened, grey, with raised black wrinkles. We had no opportunity of observing the flower after the draw- ing was made; and have trusted to the authors who have described it, for the above. The drawing was made from a plant which flowered in the hothouse at Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milnes, at Parson’s Green. --чә-- a An inner ray of the crown. ¿An outer ray of the same. с Тһе operculum or lid of the nectary. 4 The dissepiment or partition of the mectary. с A segment of the calyx. 189 MALPIGHIA fucata. "Houge-flowered stinging Barbadoes- Cherry. — DECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. Nat. ord. Marrronum. Jussieu реп. 252. Div. II. Germen simplex. Fructus monocarpus, MALPIGHIA. Supra vol. 9. fol. 96. "M. fucata, ramis glabris, foliis ellipticis nitidis subtàr decumbenti-hispidie super nudiusculis; floribus axillaribus umbellatim corymbosis : petalo summo submajore margine lacinulato. Arbuscula erecta, ramosa, glabra. Folia 4-uncialia ultrdve elliptica, ecuta, nitida, intense viridia, costato-nervosa, subtüs hispidata aculeis setifor- wiibus bicuspidatis fragilibus urentibus fulvis longitudinalibus à medio айт superficiei folii para ipprozimati, suprà iisdem obsolescentibus таги consita. Pedunculi (tripartiti?) corymboso-umbellati, axillares, oppositi brevissimi: pedicelli plurimi, uni-biunciales, uniflori, bracteatim. interslincti, robusti, teretes, suprà subclavati, paul altiüs basi geniculo bisquamuloso arti- - culati. Cal. parvulus segmentis 5 ovato-oblongis obtusis concavis, germini adaptatis, dorso carunculá didymä elevatá ellipticd poris 2' mediis еті pertusá onustis. Сог. irre; s, :rotato-explanata, carnosa, firma, albido. rosea: pet.. cockleari-spathulata, distantia, :3 superiora majora lacinulato- dentata, medio ceteris submajore hastáto-rotundo aique insignis inciso; 2 ima hastato-ovata, integra. Stam. longitudine unguium petalorum, infra medium monadelpha, suprà conniventia: anth. oblonga, | , ad basin filamento brevi subulato infixa, biloculares, introrsum dehiscentes, loculis collaterali- adnatis parti plane introverse aculi crassi oblongi рой carinali. Germ. niens, ovato-oblongum, totundaté trigonum; stylis йн filiformibus continuis pari. brevioribus, fine stigmatoso | usato. res clausi pentagono-globosi, sisdem clausis Клм latifoliæ non dissimiles, _' ` < We have not traced the present plant in any published species. It is throughout upon a far larger scale-than urens of the 96th article of this work. Said to have been re- ceived from Germany a few years back by Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, of the Parson's Green nursery, where the drawing was taken. Probably native of the West Indies; requires to be kept in the bark-bed of the stove, where it flowers for a long time in succes: on and at various Seasons. Mazricmia is separated from Banis.erta, which it re- sembles in flower and habit, by its unilocular three-stoned drupe, in which the stones or nuts are one-seeded; the fruit of the latter being three gne-seeded samaras or keys, E with a simple wing at the end of each, like those we see on the common Maple, : et Fucata forms an upright branching smooth shrub, not exceeding З or 4 feet in the specimens we have seen. Leaves hi inches long or more, elliptic, acute, bristled be- neath with decumbent brittle stinging double-pointed prickles fastened at the middle, as in other species of the . genus, above nearly free from this armature. Peduncles opposite, axillary, umbellately corymbose, ‚very short: pe- dicles many, an inch or two in length, one-flowered, by bractes, substantial, round, somewhat thickened to. wards the flower, with a "double-scaled knee or joint, a little above the base. Calyr small, green, segments ovate-oblong, obtuse, concave, fitted to the germen, each with a two- prominent elliptic twin caruncle nearly equal to itself at the back. Corolla irregular, rotate, fleshy, brittle, of a whitish pink colour: petals spatulate, distant, with a nar row unguis and broad lamina; three upper ones ja or unevenly indented, the middle of the three rather the largest hastately orbicular and more markedly cut at. the edge; two lowest hastately ovate, entire. Stamens the length of the ungues of the petals, monadelphous below the middle, distinct and conniyent above: anthers oblong yel- low, inserted by their base at the point of a short sub: filament, bursting inwards, the two cells growing to the flat introverted front of the thick oblong receptacle with 8 keeled back. Germen shining, ovate-oblong, rounded. trigonal, with three filiform scarcely shorter continyous, styles; each having a blunted point for stigma. The corolla, when closed, reminds us of that of the well-known Kasia lati folia i in the same state, —— а Тһе calyx when the corolla is removed. $ The stamens. с The рәш; 4 An unripe drupe with the three persistent styles. e A transverse section of the same, showing the three imperfect nute or stones. . | | | | \ Syl д Odu чм» del 7 , COM lilly ral. /. /d7 190 190 002 7*7 EUPHORBIA punicea. m Scarlet Spurge. : .. DODECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. . i fat. ord. Рорноввал. Jussieu gen. 385. Dig. I. Styli plures definiti, seepiüs tres. ] ' EUPHORBIA. Hermaphrodita. Cal. l-phyllus turbinatus, limbo 4-5 dentato, dentibus inflexis. — Petala 4-5, calyci alterné dentibus calycinis externe inserta, formå varia, crassiuscula, nunc glandulifotmié, nunc sim« plicia, nunc 2-3-fida aut rarids multifida. Stam. indefinita 12 aut plura, rariús pauciora; filamenta receptaculo inserta, medio articulata, diverso, tempore erumpentia; anther didyme. Istis fertilibus interjiciuntur alia sterilia paleacea aut squamosa, definita aut sepius indefinita, simplicia іш? sæpiùs ramosa vel fimbriata. Germen inter stamina centrale stipitatum $-gonum; styli 8. Capsula stipite reflexo extra. calycem nutans 3-cocca S-sperma. Plante lactescentes, herbacee aut fruticose, erecte aut тата repentes, aphylle aut sepids foliose. Jussieu gen. 985; (nonnullis variatis). E. punicea, umbella quinquefida; trifida, involucellis ovalibus acuminstis > coloratis, capsulis glabris foliis obovato-lanceolatis subtüs glaucis, , Swartz prodr. 76. — 7 ^ DE Euphorbia punicea, - Smartz ind. occid. 2. 878. Hort. Kew. 2. 148. ed. 9. 9. А 167, Smith ic, pict. 8. Jacq» іс. rar. 1. 484, coll, 2.179, Willd. sp, рі; “A favourite decoration of our hothouses. Introduced from Jamaita'in 1778, by Mr. Wallen. It is a smooth fleshy-wooded milky shrub, attaining sometimes the height of seven feet. In the present specimen Mr. Edwards ap- pears to have met throughout’ with only two leaflets to each scarlet partial involucre: the number varies to 3. | In place’ of the detailed description of the species, we have subjoined, from Mr. Brown's instructive treatise on the botany of Terra Australis, in the Appendix to Flinders's Voyage, an opinion of the structure of the flower, formed sub- sequently to that laid down by Linneeus, which still con- tinues the routinary precedent of the systematic catalogues. г. 6 The view I take of the structure of EvrHonBIA is, in * one important particular at least, different from those * given by Lamarck, Ventenat, Richard and De Candolle, € though possibly the same that Jussieu һай hinted at; во * briefly, however, and I may add obscurely, that if hig “Supposition be really analogous to what I shall presently * offer, he has not been so understood by those who. profess © to follow him in this respect.” « With all the authors above quoted I regard what Lin- * nus has called calyx and corolla in Есрноввіл, as an * involucrum, containing several staminiferous flowers ** which surround a single pistilliferous flower. By some of “ these authors the staminiferous flowers are described as “ monandrous (one-stamened), and in this respect, also, 1 “ agree with them; but the body which all of them describe “ as a jointed filament, 1 consider to be made up of two “ very distinct parts, the portion below the joint being the * footstalk of the flower, and that above it the proper * filament: but as the articulation itself is entirely naked, * it follows, that there is no perianthium; the filiform or * Jaciniated scales, which authors have considered as such, * being on this supposition analogous to bracteze; the pis- * tilliferous flower, in conformity with this supposition, has * also its pedunculus, on the dilated, and in a few cases & obscurely lobed, apex on which the sessile germen is “placed. If this be a correct view of the structure of “ EUPHORBIA, it may be expected that the true filament, or “ upper joint of what has commonly been called filament, * should, as in other plants, be produced subsequent to the ** distinct formation of the anthera, which consequently will “be found at first sessile on the lower joint or peduncle, “after that has attained nearly its full length; and accord- * ingly this proves to be the case in such species as І have * examined. Additional probability is given to this view by * the difference existing between the surfaces of the two * joints in some species. I consider it, however, as abso- * lutely proved by an unpublished genus of this order, hav- * ing an involucrum nearly similar to that of EUPHORBIA} * and like it, inclosing several fasciculi of monandrous < staminiferous flowers, surrounding a single pistilliferous * flower; but which, both at the joint of the supposed fila- * ment, and that by which the germen is connected with . “ its pedicellus, has an obvious perianth, regularly divided * into lobes.” - The drawing was made at Mr. Creswell's, of the Priory, Battersea, ——— с af The pedicled germen of Linnzus: the peduncied pistilliferous flower and sessile germen of Brown. 0 The barren filaments of L.: the bractes of В. c The stamens of L.: the monandrous peduncled flowers of В. е The calyx of L. 4 The corolla of L.; which two last are considered together as .- the involucre of the flower Бу Мг, B. | (ла EJ 0... 7 ТІП 411817 Jd к. (инал dol, ГЕ / ү d tag, { 0149. 191 __ВАВЉЕВЈА miis. oo. 2 Fellow thornless Barleria. B E —— DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. : “Natéord. Acanrnı. Jussieu gen. 102. Div. I. Stamina 4 didynams; ACANTHACEX. Brown prod. 1. 472. . BARLERIA. Cal. 4-partitus inequalis, laciniis 2 lateralibus is ribus, 2-bracteatus bracteis interdüm spiniformibus. Cor. infundiboli- formis, 5-fida, lacinià quintá profundiore. Stamina 2, ceteris multà bre- viora, Stigmata 2, rarids 1. Caps. sub4-gona, “dissepimento absque an- guibus dissiliente, loculis 1-2-spermis. Suffrutices aut herbe foliorum аге in quibusdam spinose, spinis solitariis aut geminatis ; flores axillares eut terminales, Jussieu gen. 103. Div, Inermes. В. mitis, inermis; foliis lanceolatis appresso-hirtis integerrimis; floribus А pggregato-terminslibus tubato-elongatis: bracteis angustissimis subulato- lineari us setoso-ciliatis. > nudis. Folia v Frutescens, erecta, ramosa ramis in nudis. Folia opposita, patentis- sima, ad ramorum apices conferta, делі nervosa nervis asco сан тиді subtüs varicosis atque pilis appressis setaceis densius consitis, 5-uncialia, зао dine sesquiunciali, deorsüm poen attenuata in brevem alque crassum petiolim, subter pallida reticulato-venosa pilis rarioribus. Flores plures, lutea, sume mis d ramis sessili. ati, laxi sesquiunciales. | Broctex $ opposite: calyéi a lem e angustissimà lineares y setis fulvis pow Hà ей peg ibi sed. pubescens dentibus. dhis, cona spicuioribus prafizis, nervoso-striatus, foliolis 2 majoribus lanceolato-ovatis aristalo-acuminatis dimidium corollæ æquantibus v. superantibus, 2 alternis parvulis lanceolato-linearibus. Cor. tubarformi-cylindrica, estis lanuginosa y tubus triplo longior limbo vel magis, diametro pennas scriptoriæ mediocris, recurvulus ; limbus subbilabiatus, subequalis, laciniis 4. supremis qualibus oblongis acutulis recurvo-patentibus, ima quiniä majore revolutá. . ad lineam parce barbatam tubum ad altitudinem germinis cingentem inserta; 2 longiora cum antheris majusculis tubo exsertis, flavis sagittato-oblongis, bilo- cularibus, polline (sub lente) 2 spherulis luteis granulosa ; 2 alia Jer? triplo Breviora, antheris effietis nullisve. Germ. disco brevi crasso cupulato insidena,, doato-acuminatum, viridiusculum nitidum, biloculare, | loculo singulo ovulis 2 lenticularibus foco: stylus albus, tenuis filiformis: stigma simples? A plant we have seen in. no collection except in that of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy of the Hammersmith nursery, where it first flowered in the tan-bed of the hothouse in February last. We have not been able to identify it with any published species. We are informed by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, that the plant was received by them from Paris. Probably native of the East Indies? ` An upright branching shrub, without spines; but of the size it may attain we are not yet entitled to speak; branches leafless downwards. Leaves about five inches long, one and a half broad, opposite, spreading, crowded towards the end of the branches, lanceolate, entire-edged, covered with a flat-pressed rough nap thickest on their upper sur- face, much farther tapered towards the short thick petiole than towards their point, pale and reticulately veined at the under surface, nerves ascendent varicose beneath, and thickly set with flat-pressed bristly hairs. Flowers yellow, | several, about an inch and а half long, of the circumference ef a middle-sized pen, loosely aggregate at the end of the branches. Bractes two, opposite, close, under the calyx, nearly of the length of that linear, slender, flatly hirsute, indented and bristly ciliated; bristles tawny. Calyx pubescent in the same manner as the bractes, except that the bristles which terminate the teeth at their edge are more conspicuous; nervedly streaked; two larger leaflets lanceolately ovate, pointed awned equal to about half the length of the corolla or rather more, two alternate small ones lanceolately linear. Corolla cylindric, trumpet-formed, downy on the outside; tube 3 times longer than the limb, slightly recurved; limb or. border slightly bilabiate, nearly equal, 4 upper segments: exactly equal, recurvedly spreading, oblong, rather pointed, the fifth lowest largest and revolute. Filaments inserted in the tube on a line with the top of the germen, where a thin bearded pubescence marks the position; two longer: protruding beyond the tube; anthers of a golden yellow, sa-' gittately oblong, bilocular; pollen of these (when slightly: magnified) granular, granules yellow globular; #00 тис shorter, with small effete anthers, concealed within the: tube. Germen placed in а shallow thick cupular disk, evately tapered, shining, bilocular, each cell ha Tenticular ovules: style filiform, white: stigma? —— ж А flower dissected vertically. wing two. | E r ! q / Me с mA ile / Poh by $ риму E Sena 170 Реса. May 1181) tJ уг” E D : р : 192, 193, - BRUNSVIGIA Josephine 0. angustifolia, ‘Narrow-leaved Brunswick-lily or Chandelier-flower. : 200 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Nancisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. If. Germen inferum. AMARYLLIDER, Brown prod. 206. Sect. I. Radix bulbosa. Flores spathacei umbellati, rarö solitarii. А BRUNSVIGIA. Umbella terminalis pluri-numerosißora, bracteis in- terstincta, spathá communi bivalvi longior. Cal. 0. Cor. tubuloso-6-fida v. hexapetalo-partita, irregularis v. regularis, subsqualis, hypocrateriformis v. infundibuliformis v. stellato-divaricata, raró pseudo-resupinata гісій in- trorsüm obliquato. Fil, disco medio v. tubo inserta, erecta v. declinata, inclusa, alterné longiora. - Stylus inclinatus:. stigma simplex v. obsoletà trina. | Cups, membranacea, зерё diaphana, turbinata v. obovata, alaté v. acuté lobato-trigona, pedunculi clavato-continua, 3-loc., 3-valv. valvis medio septigetis: loculamenta oligosperma, infern® arctata atque cassa: semina angulo interno affixa, modó oblonga cum testá nigrä, sepiüs tubes roso-laxata (non veró ad normam loculamenti) majuscula atque irregulari» rotundata v. parvula atque spherica. Bulbus tunicatus, integumentis membranoso-fibrosis multiplicibus corticatus y axis rhizomatosa sep? de basi estans radiculis crassis, interdüm tuberosis, Folia pauca-plurima, bifaria, brevia elliptica lata ad longa lorata atque angusta, rimüm tardiora scapo sæpiùs compresso ipsisque plurimüm be. wiore. Flore tenis AMARYLLIDI Мас, НжмАнтно indè accedit; fructó tenis ad MABSONIAM vergit. . Й io у E B. Josephine, foliis plurimis lorato-elongatis erecto-patentibus glaucis; | scapo duplo longiore тада umbellee!' córolla pseudo-resupinnts. Brunsvigia multiflora. Nob. іп Recens. liliac. utei in Journ. of Science and the Arts 1. 177. col. 2; malè quoad speciem. Amaryllis Josephine. Redouté liliac. 310, 371, 372. «) foliis coriaceo-firmis glaucissimis, А В) foliis duplo у. triplo angustioribus, viridi-glauciusculis, tenerioribus, Bulbus magnitudine ovi. gallopavonacei, integumentis fuscis, — Scapus strictus, teres, obsolet? et rotundata anceps, glaucus, sesquipedalis crassitudine digiti, Spatha multiflora, sphacelata, valvis ovato-lanceolatis aliguotiès bre- vioribus pedunculis. Umbella radtato-divaricata, strictissima, distans у pedunculi 6-9-unciales, crassi, recti, rotundatè trigoni, estriati, елшісі, glauci, supernè violaceo tincti, apice curvaturá lent 22 Flores inodori, coccineo-punicantes, infern? pauco flavo varii, duplo v. triplo breviores pedun- culis. dern. subobovato-oblongum, rotundaté trigonum, exsulcum, estriatum, viridi-purpurascens, glaucum, subsemunciale. Cor. horizontali-assurgens, re- supinatam simulans ob labium imum antrorsüm elevatum et summum retrorsum depressum und? rictus introrsüm obliquatur (quod non aliàs іп genere occurrit тігі іп multiflora;) infundibuliformis, S-uncialis magisve, стаза carnosa, rigida, pro 3 partibus fissa, ezternà lucens: tubus crassus trigonus germina aliguantuld longior at subisoperimeter, іп faucem curvaturá anticá ventricosiore ampliatus.: limbus unicolor revoluto-campanatus ; lacinim lanceolater, con- eavinscule, utrinque obsolet? involuta, 3 exterioret hamdto-apiculate г labium imum v, externum Jongius, distantius, recuroum, gssurgens, lacinid medi VOL, ЦЕ, Р omnium angustiore ex inflexis lateribus fasciculum stamineum cum styl@ com- plectente 3 Tobiam supremum v. internum ressius reflexum, laciniis sub- latioribus profeció inter se similibus. Stamina secits laciniam mediam labii imi, inclinata, teretía, robusta, punicea, + parte breviora corollá: anth. о ғаға, oblonge, profundé sanguinea, polline sulphureo. Stylus exsertus, arcuato-assurgens, teres, tristriatus, pariim crassior filamentis, ruber: stigma punctum obtusum obsolet? trigonum puberulum. Caps. pallida, reticu- lato-venosa, obovato-oblonga, lobis acutis parim: profundis ; semina tuberosa globosa, piso duplo minora. m Before we had seen Brunsviata Josephine in the plant, and judging solely from the figure in the Liliacées, we con- ceived it to be of the same species as the Brunsviaia multi- flora, most correctly represented in the 1619th article of Curtis's Botanical Magazine. But a view of the two plants themselves has convinced us that we had judged wrong ; they. agree, indeed, considerably in appearance, and exactly in the singular character of a counterfeit-resupinate corolla, the inflexion of the two lips of the limb being the reverse of that which is the usual one, while the general posture of the corolla is unchanged. The lower lip is here the ascendant and projecting one, while the upper is the depressed and recedent one-—an anomaly in the natural order beyond the two species, Giving too much weight to this remark- able feature, we had neglected other differences when we considered multiflora and Josephine as of the same species. The present drawing was taken at the never-failing source of curious and beautiful Liliacee, Mr. Griffin’s col- lection at South Lambeth: it had been very lately imported by that gentleman from the Cape of Good Hope, where it was collected in the district of Hantam. We һай some hesitation in believing our plant to be of the same species as Josephine; but Mr. Griffin is persuaded that the differ- ence between the two, which indeed consists principally in size, proceeds from his specimen being the produce of a bulb much younger than that from which the figure in Redouté's work was taken. In multiflora the leaves are about 4, short, obovately ob- long, very broad, bright green, and flatly recumbent on the ground; in our plant they are 9 or more, lorately elon- gated, slightly lanceolate, upright, recurvedly patent, and glaucous. There the scape is scarcely longer than the peduncles of the flowers; here twice the length of them. There, the peduncles are shorter and trigonal, with three | | | deep furrows; here, nearly round, furrowless, and much longer.in proportion to the flower. In multiflora the germen is turbinate and trigonal, with deep acutely prominent lobes ; in the present plant, oblong and nearly cylindrical. There, the corolla is wider, of a somewhat urceolate form, tubeless, and intersected from the apex of the gerinen by a deep constriction at the base; here, the corolla is narrowly funnel-form, with a conspicuous trigonal tube, which is га- ther longer than the germen, and has no remarkable con- striction at the junction with it: here, the style protrudes beyond the corolla; not so there. ‘They differ also in the colour of the flower. The capsule of multiflora is turbi- nate, broad ventricose, and depressed at the top, and from two to four inches long, with deep-winged lobes, divaricately veined, and nearly transparent; in the present plant the capsule is scarcely'an inch and a half long, obovately oblong, with shallow, but acutely cornered, lobes reticulately veined and opaque. Multiflora conveys to our fancy the idea of unsymmetrized bulkiness, the present plant that of sym- metry and lightness. The specific name of Josephine was a tribute of respect from the author of the Liliacées to the late repudiated Em- press of France, a munificent patroness of botany and horticulture, by whom the fine collection in the garden of La Malmaison was formed, and to whose fostering care we are indebted for more than one of the most splendid bota- nical works which have ever appeared. The bulb in the variety (а), figured in the Liliacées by M. Redouté, was larger than the egg of an ostrich; the leaves three feet or more in length, much firmer and broader than in (8), the present, and very blue; the umbel was above two feet and a half in diameter, and had 60 flowers; its stem as thick as a child's wrist. In (8), as it flowered at Mr. Griffin’s, the stem was about а foot and a half high, and about the thickness of a finger; leaves, about two feet long and an inch and a half broad, apple green, slightly glau- cous; umbel, few-flowered, as may be seen in the diminish- ed figure we have added ; corolla, about three inches deep. Messrs. Lee and Kennedy are in possession of an offset from the plant which flowered at La Malmaison. F2 BRUNSVIGLE SPECIES, multiflora, Hort. Kew. 2. 2. 230. Nob. in Curtis's mag, 1619. | Josephine. (в) Redouté liliac. 370, 871, 373. (В) in loco presenti. falcata. Nob. in Curtis's mag. 1443. AMARYLLIS. Hort. Kew. 1. с. 223, marginata. Hort, Кеш. 1. с, 230. Jacg. hort. schamb. 1, 94. t. 65. Radula, Hort. Kew. l.c. Jacq. l c. t, 68. striata. Hort. Kew.l,c. Jacg.l.c.t.70. А a toxicaria. Nob. suprà fol. 139 іп notá. Hæmantaus. Nob. in Curtis тад. 1217. Jacq. fragm. 36. n. 116. tab. 39. et tab. 41. fig. 1; aliisque. ciliaris. Nob. Hamantuus, Jacq. fragm. 36, n, 117, fab, 40. fig. 1. tab. 41. . fg- 2; aliisque, —— МОТЕ, Crinum bracteatum. à fol. 179. We have omitted in that article the subjoined synonym. Crinum asiaticum. Redouté liliac. 248 ; (nec. aliorum). The Crinum americanum 892 of the Liliacées is the true asiaticum. Both these corrections had escaped us in the review of Redouté's work in the Journal of Science and of the Arts, | | Jud ud: AER E ESTA 7 ЛАТ С Lara 1] 0 Seh), M E | 181/ y) П па ЊЕ, Фа НІ / peu 194 RHODODENDRON dauricum @. atrovirens. Siberian Rhododendron; with a purple flower. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. RHODODENDRA. Jussieu gen. 158. Div. I. Corolla mone petala. . e.t RHODODENDRON. Suprà vol. 1. fol. 87. В. dauricum, foliis glabris utrinque nudis, corollis rotatis. Linn. sp. pl. 1. 562, . Rhododendron dauricum. Pal. ross. 1. 47. f. 82. Andrems’s reposit. de Curtis's magaz. 636. Hort. Kew. 2. 66. ed. 2. 3. 49. :. Andromeda foliis ovatis utrinque punctatis. Gmel. sib. 4. 194. n. 10. Chameerhododendros folio glabro majusculo, amplo flore roseo. Amm. ruth. 181, n. 261. +, 27. n е (в) foliis hyeme fusco-purpurasentibus subdeciduis; flore roseo. (8) foliis atroviridibus immutato-sempervirentibus ; flore violaceo-rubro. Rhododendron dahuricum, В, Curtis's magaz. 1888, UE Frutex stoloniferus S-pedalis nunc duplus; caulis truncus. brevis crassus nodosus basi tuberiformis, cortice cinereo; rami teretes, stricto-virgati, mon flexuosi, decrescenter ramulosi, ramulis іп summilate egeris Soliatis, viridi-purpurascentibus, resinoso-punctatis, lanuginosis. olia aromatica, coriacea, ovali-oblonga, atrovirentia, emarginato-obtusa, uiringue p ГА suprà nitida, subtüs pallidiora resinoso-leprosa, brev? petiolata, Tipi v. нд longiora quam lata, lateribus sæpiùs revoluta. Flores ramulorum prioris anni terminales, nutantes subsolitarii, è gemma ieee анти juam pallid шу rotundo-ovate, parvule, obtuse resinoso-punciate: pedunculus brevior corolla, carnoso-corrugatus. Cal. disculus crassus тік dupl pedunculo cujus concolor et velut apex, obsolet? pentagonus. Cor. subbilabiato- rotata, basi breve tubuloso-arctata et extiis quinguan, А semiquinguefida lacintis rotundatis undulatis, 8. summis ‚бест: 5 2 mis minoribus, Fil. inequalia, longiora excedentia corollam, sanguinea, inate, inferna lamuginoso bartata : anth. subrotunde, nigricantes, apice gemino de- hiscentes. Stylus staminibus longior, eorum concolor, glaber,. filiformis, supra crassior: stig, punctum obtusum рат dilatatum atrosanguineum, sub- quinquelobulatum+ germ. conicum, obsoleià pentagonum, resinoso-leprosum. In considering the differences between the present plant and the one usually known in our collections as the RHODODENDRON dauricum, we do not find them of a nature to decide the specific separation of the plants; in other words, they are differences that do not appear to exceed the limits of the variation which daily experience proves to take place among the unadulterated offspring of a same parent-plant. ` . The leaves іп С are of a darker green than in а, and do not change to а brownish red, nor fall off entirely or in part previous to the expansion of the blossom, as they do in that. The corolla is here of a violet red or purple, not. of a pale rose colour as there. с, upon the whole, is a finer va- riety than 8, the common one. The species is distributed over a great part of Siberia, and has been observed to extend itself through the deserts of Mogol Tartary to China and Tibet. It grows very com- monly in the pine-forests; and in some parts in such рго- fusion, and-so densely, as to make whole tracts appear а .sheet of purple in April.and May, the period when it is in blossom. The leaves are sometimes used as a substitute for those of the Tea-tree. The new foliage is put on after the departure of thé bloom. мы А shrub, from three to six feet high; trunk, short knobbed thick, rounded at the root in the form of a tuber; bark, ash-coloured ; branches, straight upright round and wandlike, with gradually decrescent branchlets, elosely leaved at the summit, where they are downy and resinously dotted ; leaves, aromatic, leathery, ovally oblong, dark green, emarginately obtuse, thickly punctured on both sides, shining on the upper, paler on the other with furfuraceous dots, twice as broad as they are long or more, shortly petioled, often revolute at the sides. Flowers, at the ends of the last year’s branchlets, nodding, generally issu- ing singly from a green scaly bud; peduncle, shorter than the corolla, pustulous and wrinkled. Cal. a thick roundish obsoletely five-cornered fleshy button or knob, of the same golour as the peduncle, of which it looks like the summit dilated. Corolla subbilabiately rotate, shortly narrowed at the base, and externally five-cornered, half five-cleft, with rounded undulate segments, the upper ones forming the over- hanginglip; two lower nearer, smaller. Filaments unequal, longer ones reaching above the edge of the corolla, blood-co- loured, declined, bearded towards the base. .4nthers round- isb; black, opening by a double aperture at their summit. Style longer than the filaments, and of the same colour, smooth, filiform, thickening at the top; stigma an obtuse slightly dilated point, with five small indentations, of a black purple colour. 22 Our variety is supposed to have been introduced twenty years ago from Russia, by Mr. Thomas Bell. It is perfectly hardy; but requires to be planted in bog-earth. The draw» ing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brame, and Milne, at Parson’s Green, in the beginning of March. f à ЭР a пете на. pet ae. ЖАД. VL еб. del > ; 7 si th T SA Eo. by SE еее Emo са у May, /. /877. a ата» 40 195 RHODODENDRON: hybridum; bigener. . Mr. Herbert's Mule Rhododendron. —— ` DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. RHODODENDRA. Jussieu gen. 158. Div. 1. Corolla monos pétala. | | RHODODENDRON. Supra vol. 1. fol, 37. Rhododendron hybridum ; bigener. Pater. Rhododendron maximum. Ez Dom. Herbert: Mater. Azalea viscosa; var. glauca. Ex Dom. Herbert. Convenit cum patre, foliis coriaceis sempervirentibus, numero staminum,, rubedine et expansione limbi сотой ; cum matre foliorum glaucedine et horum majore in utrumque finem attenuatione, corolla tubo cylindracea-elongato ef albo; vicissimque ez utrinque quoad alía plura minoris nota. ТОҒ the existence of hybrid or mule productions from two plants of distinct species of the same genus, or even of different nearly allied genera, по one сап have to be те formed at this time of day. The present pretty shrub is ап instance of this kind, having been raised by Mr. Herbert, at Spofforth, near Wetherby, 'fronr seed ripened on the common. white glaucous-leaved AzaLE4; in the flower. of which the pollen or dust from the-anthers of Кнорорем- рвом maximum had been purposely. substituted for that of its. own flower. mE : Mr. Herbert, to whom we feel greatly obliged for this very curious specimen, and for the information relating ta it, says; “that the plant is now four years old, and forms a, * straight upright growing branching shrub, of about three * feet in height, and about the thickness of a finger near “ the root: that the young leaves on their first appearance © are pubescent, and of a lively pale green colour, and not * glaucous, but lose their pubescence, and acquire a re- * markably glaucous hue as they harden, especially in the, * autumn: the rind brown, and splitting like that of hazel- “wood: that the inflorescence on a warm sunny day dif- © fuses a considerable fragrance: that the plant from which * the drawing was made, had been flowered in the hot- * house, and is at present unique; only one seed having been “ produced in the capsule, from which the plant was ob- « tained; but that of course this may be hereafter multiplied “Әу layers.” The same gentleman is persuaded that by such intermix- ture new species may be created among vegetables, capable of continuing a distinct race by the natural descent of an unadulterated progeny, to an indefinite extent, and with- out reverting to the single form of either parent-plant. As far as we have an opinion on the subject, it tends to the reverse-of this position. We believe no truly hy- brid plant, under any circumstances, will continue an un- adulterated descent through seeds beyond a very limited number of degrees; and that the less complete productions of this kind, such as take place between remarkable varie- ties of one species, revert to the single likeness of either parent, or assume new appearances in endless vicissitudes. The present plant takes after the Ёнороремрном in its coriaceous evergreen foliage, the number of its stamens, the redness and expansion of the limb of the corolla; after the AzaLga in the blueness of the leaves, the tapering of these towards each end, in the cylindrical elongation and whiteness of the tube of the corolla; and interchangeably after both parents in various points of smaller note. It may be observed that although the plant is a mule of two species of different genera, and not of two species ef one genus, yet as these genera might have been easily kept in one, being such as are very closely allied in nature, for AzaLEA varies with five and ten stamens, in the same species; that the term “ bigeneric hybrid,” in this instance, is more formal than essential. | T d Cua PA del ғұ > 2 = 2: 4 4 y uh aculh SA Pil by Ridgway бе Se 172 сеен, Ж y / 1817 / 196 у HYPERICUM egypticum. | | Egyptian St. John’ s-wort. POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Nat. ord. HyrERICA. Jussieu gen, 954. ^, HYPERICUM. Cal. 5-partitus sequalis. Pet. 5. Stam. variè poly- adelpha. Styli 3 aut 5 aut rariùs 2; stigmata totidem. Caps. (bacca in Androsæmo) loculis et valvis totidem. Herbe aut frutices suffruticesves Caules cylindracei aut ancipites aut 4-goni; folia opposita sep? ‘punctato- pellucida ; flores ositi nonnunquàm cymosi, plerümque corymbosi pedun- culis sepe trichotomis 3-floris terminalibus aut et Deillaribus. um. o М А Dio, Trigyna, calycibus integerrimis. Н. г, ‚plicum floribus trigynis, nectariis petalorum lanceolatis, caulibus suffruticosis compressis. Linn. sp. рі. 2. 1108. Hypericum regypticum. . Linn. ameen. acad. 8. 323. tab. 8. fig. 8. Hort. Kew. 8. 105. ed. 2. 4. 429. Lamarck encyc. 4. 160. Willd. sp. pl. 3, 1467. ` . . - Fruticulus erectus subpedalis, à de basi brachiato-ramosissimus, flori- bundus ; rami teretes patuli, juniores. toti foliati ramulisque solitariis brevibus azillaribus: subsexfoliatis apice 'unifioris" uno terminali decussato-paniculati. Folia sessilia, decussata, patentia, coriaceo-crassa, glauco-pruinata, subbili~ nearia, ovato-elliptica, acuta, plana, avenia, non pellucido-punciata, inter- nodiis sublongiora. Flores parvuli, erecti, solitarii, terminales, lutei. Calyx inter bracteas foliaceas 2 oppositas ipsi duplo breviores sessilis, viridi-lutestens, sepius rubore tinctus, connivent, wqualis unguibus petalorum, persistens; fokola ovata, convexa, acutula. integerrima, duriuscula. Cor, campanulata, (баға, pellucido-lineata vix $ partem uncia: alta; pet. spathulato-oblonga, inferno іп tubum conniventia supernè recurvo-patentia, obtusa, sguámuld lineari-oblongá ob marginis attenuati inflectionem concaod uniuscujus ungui longitudinaliler intús adnatá. Staminum phalanges 3, erecta, tubo param longiores, pede tubuloso compresso pallido suprà in filamenta distincta ipsi breviora secedente : anth. subrotunde, flava, introverse. Pistillum pallidum, pedibus stamineis brevius, ovato-oblongum, trilobo-trigonum angulis rotunda- tis; styli 8 loborum totidem rostratim continui, brevissimi, replicati, stigma- tibus totidem papuloso-convezis parùm latioribus terminati. Corpuscula 8 intra calycem hypogyna subrotunda lutea lobos germinis basi intercipientia. Defloratá corolla arcte connivet calyz. In Willdenow's Species Plantarum, in the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis, and indeed in all the recent enu- merations of plants, this species has been deposited іп a section of the genus intended for those with serrately' and glandularly edged bractes and calyx, while it really belongs to that which comprises such species as have bractes and calyx with a glandless and entire edge: a mistake VOL. Ш, - в perplexing to those who endeavour to determine the plant in any of these works; and which has actually led to its having been very generally confounded by gardeners with canariense. A new genus has been carved from Hypericum, by the title of ELopra, that includes the present species; but seems to us one of those dismemberments of a well- characterized and consistent genus, which offer no equiva- lent for the disturbance of innovation. | The present plant is native of Egypt, and was introduced in 1787, by M. Thouin. It is a dwarf brachiately branched shrub, seldom exceeding a foot in height, reminding one, as Linnzeus observes, of an Arenarıa [Sandwort]. Branches spreading, round, younger ones leafy their whole length, decussately panicled, branchlets short axillary solitary, usu- ally minutely six-leaved with a single flower at the end of each. Leaves decussated, spreading, sessile, glaucous, frosted, thick and somewhat fleshy, about two lines long, ovately elliptic, flat, pointed, veinless, not transparently punctured as those of the genus commonly are, rather longer than the intervals between the pairs. Flowers small, yellow, upright. Calyx sessile between two opposite leaves of about half its own length; leaflets greenish yellow, usu- ally more or less stained with red, equal to the tubular portion of the corolla, connivent, persistent, ovate, convex, somewhat pointed, rigid, quite entire. Corolla campanu- late, transparently streaked, scarcely the third of an inch deep; petals spatulately oblong, converging by their un- gues into a tube; lamina spreading and recurved, obtuse; unguis with a small raised linear-oblong longitudinal con- cave scale growing to the inside of the lowermost part. Stamens polyadelphous, in three sets, upright, a little higher than the tube of the corolla, the lower portion of the fila- ments of each set compressedly tubular for more than half the length: anthers yellow, roundish, facing inwards. Pistil pale, shorter than the stamineous pipes, ovate-oblong, threelobed-trigonal, corners rounded; styles 3, extremely short, continuous, divergent, terminated by the ваше number of convex papillary slightly wider stigmas. Cor- puscles 3, roundish, yellow, surrounding the base of the germen in the furrows which part the lobes. When the со- rolla decays, the calyx closes over the germen. A hardy greenhouse plant, of easy culture and propa- gation. The drawing was made from a specimen in the collection of Mr. N. 8. Hodson, at South Lambeth. Flowers from March to June. —A—— а Calyx. ¿A detached petal. с The 3 sets of monadelphous stamens. The pistil and hypogynous glands. «2 hyd. Cordesman. del. 7” as ntl a. ; ESPA Ly E ш, ray € LOWL Ze Mor e * Жж Fs “27. / 197 CHIRONIA jasminoides. Limy jasmine-like Chironia. — PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Net. ord. Gentianz. Jussieu деп. 141. Div. II. Capsula simplex ` bilocularis. ` А GENTIANEA. Brown prod. 449. . CHIRONIA. Cal. 5-fidus aut ferà 5-partitus, persistens, Cor. hypo- _ упа, regularis, marcescens; fubus equalis calyci, limbus major 5-partitus aequalis. Stam. summo tubo inserta, antheris post deflorationem spiralitär contortis. Stylus declinatus; stigma capitatum., Flores axillares aut ter- minales. Species quedam suffrutescentes. Caps. interdàm subbaccata. Just gen. 142. С. jasminoides, foliis lanceolatis, caule tetragono. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1066. Chironia jasminoides. Lin. amen. acad. 6. 84. n. 5. Thunb. prod. 38. Id. in trans. linn. soc. Т. 251; (non tamón Lamarckii illustr. t. 108. f. 2. )„ Chironia jasminoides. 2. Herb. Banks. sub specim. spont. capensi. Suffrutex sempervirens, viscoso-nitens, totus uniformitér virens, elastico- rigens, subsesquipedalis, paniculato-ramosus ; rami sybtetragoni, erecti, fase tigiato-productt, ван internodiis utringue sulcatis, sulcorum plagis alterna (secundum foliorum decussationem ) mutatis, apice pedunculato-uniflori. Folia coriaceo-carnosula, crassiuscula, sessilia (2 opposita basibus non se tangentia ), decussata, decurrentia, erecto-patula, internodiis longiora v. interdüm оға, angustiùs oblonga, cuneato-lanceolata cum ucumine brevi, aucta vitreo ato» ти albis prusnata, dimidium vel ad summum 3 partes uncis longay sesqui- alteram-o. 2 lineas lata, plang cum costá medi subtüs prominuld, manducata amarissima. flores, pedencilati, анда er ре, solitarii, ‚[oreo-rubenten, sutrocoléntes, viscoso-lucidi, un ores: pedunculus vix flore, foliolis 2 oppositis basi bracteatus, esi calycem subcrascescens, айы келер. angulatus: Cal. herbaceus, crassus, oblongus, pentagonus; cequális tubo corolle, subsemi-5-fidus, segmentis carinato-lanceolatis, етесіз. Corolle tubus albidus, cylindricus, rectus, duplo feré brevior limbo, visco copioso obductus ; limbus rofatus, laciniis cuneato-lanceolatis acumine brevi. Stam. біз breviora. limbo, erecto-conniventia : fil. alba: anth. iis sublongiores, lutea, lineares, 4» sulcato-tetragone apice sub-4-fide, à basi infize, ereite, (nec vidimus, cone tortas; forte quia nondüm rit? defloratas)? Germ. virens, elongato-pyra- midatum, angustum, cequale tubo, utrinque suturá notatum: stylus conti nuus, albus, declinatus, teres, utrinque striatus quasi ez 2. unitis conflatus, duplo longior v. magis at parüm crassior filamentis, rigidus, viscidus : stigma apex obtusus crassiusculus. : A species long since upon resord; having been published .. by Linneeus, in the name of one of his disciples, from а spontaneous specimen іп the Herbarium. of the. learned Burmann. Yet it does not appear in the Hortus Kewensis ; nor is it known by any figure; the one under the name, in the Illustrations of Genera by the Chevalier De Lamarek, Е obviously representing a different species. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, but it does not seem to be known when or by whom introduced. The drawing was made from a plant in the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at Parson's Green; where it flowers in February and March in the greenhouse, requiring the same treatment as the Cape heaths. Like the generality of its tribe, the whole plant has a very bitter taste, which seems more intense in the viscid secretion, that glazes the exterior. A suffrutescent elastic evergreen, of a uniform green, about a foot and a half high, paniculately branched; branches subtetragonal, fastigiant, leafy, internodes with à furrow along each side, the furrows changing their fronts with the alternation of the foliage, terminally one flow- ered. Leaves sessile, firm, rather thick, those. of a pair. not touching at their bases, decussated, erectly spread- ing, sometimes shorter than the intervals, but in general longer, narrowishly oblong, cuneately lanceolate, with a short point, chagreened by white atomical points, easily distinguished when slightly magnified, from an inch to about one and a half in length, a line and a half or two lines broad, flat; midrib slightly prominent beneath. Flowers upright, pink, viscously glazed, rather more than an inch long, very sweet; peduncle scarcely longer than the flower, foliaceously bibracteate at the base, growing thicker to- wards the calyx, where it is angular and nerved. Calyx herbaceous, thick, oblong, pentagonal, equal to the tube of the corolla, 5-cleft for about half its length ; segments Janceolate, keeled, upright. Tube of the corolla white, straight, nearly twice as short as the limb, more copiously - smeared with limy secretion than any other part; limb ro- tate, segments cuneately lanceolate, short-pointed. Sta- mens upright, connivent, twice shorter than the limb ; fila- ments white ; anthers rather longer than these, linear, yel- low, tetragonal with 4 furrows, slightly 4-cleft, inserted at the base, upright, not observed by us to wind in spires, after parting with the pollen, as in the rest of the genus ; but we suspect that the deviation was caused by the cold- row of the season at Mou we saw the plant in bloom. Germen green, pyrami elongated, narrow, equal to the tube, bisulcate; style continuous, white, shelvin A .. geamed along both sides, as if it. was formed of two united, “Шау, rigid. — в Calyx. "3 Corolla dissected vertitally. с Pistil, — т. a Lyd. Стара weil tel. bb 24 "Р F Pedy way. 27 ити Jo ате Mayl 4/7. и E 198 PAVETTA indica, Indian Pavetta. —— TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Nat. ord. Rustacez. Jussieu gen. 208. Div. VI, Fructus mono» us bilocularis dispermus. Folia opposita; caulis plerumque frutescens, PAVETTA. Cal. superus minimus 4-dentatus, Cor. tubo gracili, limbo acuté 4-partito-patente. Anth. extra faucem subsessiles, (Васса bilocularis, Sem. solitaria, bullata : albumine cartilagineo. Gartn. sem. 14 116.1.25,£. 1.) Frutex; flores corymbosi aut conferti terminales. Juss, |. c. Р. indica, foliis oblongis utrinque acuminatis, umbellis terminalibus fasci- culatis, calyce brevi acuto. Linn. suppl. 121. . Pavetta indica. Linn, sp. pl. 1. 160. Willd. гр. pl. 1. 610. Hort. Kew. ed. 2.1.24. Сезіп. sem. 1. 116. t. 95. f. 1. Pavetta alba. Vahl symbol. 9. 11. Ixora paniculata. Lamarck encyc. 8. 944. illustr. 205. Pavetta. Rheede mal. 5. 19. tab. 10. . Frutex subtripedalis, erectus, ramosus; rami teretes virides. Folia pa- tentia, distanter decussata, obovato-lanceolata, 8-ипсіайа т. ultra, latitudine unciali v. sesquiunciali lougiàs in petiolum attenuata, obscuré virentia nitida, subtis pallidiora atque velutino-villosa, сит сома medid varicasá albicante г вірша 9 interpetiolares adpresse acumine sphacelato. Panicule axillares et terminales, multiflore, recta, brachiato composite, patentes, subcymosa, pedunculo virente, pedicellis propriis brevibus: bractem appresse membranose, subpilose, summee obsolescentes. Flores candidissimi erecti. Germ, eziguum, turbinato-rotundum viride sub. lente vitreá villosiusculum dispermum. ух minimus, margo concolor 4-dentatus parietis externo ints continuus. Сог. Aypocrateriformis, $ partes uncie longa; tubus clavato-filiformis, curvulus, Spe Jer? longior laciniis, intra faucem barbatus; limbi lac. recurvo-rotater, longa, obtusule, planiuscule, intàs basi villose cum lined villosd verticali per medium dorsum ductá, ad finem macula minimá viridi notate. Anth. viridiuscule, sagittato-lineares, ore tubi subsessiles, laciniis alternantes, dif- „Јихо-раіешіззіта, haud ти breviores limbo, deflorate cinerascentes torte, introversee ; loculis 2 angustissimis faciei interna receptaculi linearis extern convezi parallelo-adnatis. -Stylus exsertus capillaceus, erectus, uncialis, priùs quàm panditur corolla flezuosus; stigma subclavato-teres viride villosum, apice compresso-subdilatatum, margine suturatim dehiscens, ac si ex lamellulis 4 conferruminatis; sed non vidimus dividere. Gertner, by detecting the mistake of Linneeus, who had attributed а 4-seeded berry to Ixora, instead of one with only two seeds, has removed the supposed main dis- tinction between that genus and Paverra; but has not- withstanding kept the genera apart on other grounds, In the former he describes the cells of the fruit as lined by a particular membrane that parts them from the seed; the albumen as fleshy; and the rudiment of the future plant as more than half us long as the whole seed: іп Paverta the flesh of the berty as growing to the seed; the albumen as cartilaginous ; and the rudiment of the future plant as less than half the length of the seed. Тһе style seems, be- side, to be proportionately longer in Paverra than Ixora. The present species, of very general occurrence in the East Indies, was introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1790; but is yet extremely rare in our collections ; and we know of no published figure taken from one cultivated on this side the tropic. Our drawing was made from a specimen which blossomed in March, in the hothouse at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith. According to the author of the Hortus Malabaricus, tba whole shrub seldom exceeds 3 feet in its native place. Stem úpright, round, branched. Leaves spreading, distantly decus- sated, obversely oval, lanceolate, acuminate, farther tapered towards the petiole than towards the point, shining and smooth above, paler underneath, with a short close nap, nearly as fine as that оп a peach: stipules between the pe- tioles which they connect, close-pressed, sphacelately point- ed; panicles rameous, terminal, loosely many-flowered, subcymously fastigiant, brachiate; general peduncle green, partial ones subdivided into shortly pedicled corymbules : bractes single, close-pressed, membranous, more or less hairy, upper ones nearly obsolete. Flowers white. Germen , inferior, green, small, turbinately rounded, through a mag- nifier pubescent: calyx a shallow quadridenticulated rim continuous with the wall of the germen. Corolla hypocra- teriform, 3 of an inch long; tube subclavately filiform, slightly curved, bearded within the faux, nearly 3 times longer than the limb; segments recurvedly rotate oblong obtuse, villous at the foot within, and along a narrow cen- tral streak at the back, marked with a green spot at the ends. Anthers subsessile, long, sagittately linear, greenish while entire, inserted within the orifice of the tube, loosely reclined in the intervals of the segments; ash-coloured ‘aud twisted after they have parted with the sulphur-co- loured pollen. Style an inch long, filiform, upright, smooths : stigma its green slightly clubbed ‘villous continuation, com- pressed and rather broader at the summit, where it is marked by an open seam round the edge, as if of two - pieces conjoined by their inner surfaces. —— в Germen and calyx. $ Corolla dissected vertically. с Pisti}, 199 AMARYLLIS psittacina. Parrot Amaryllis. ——>— HEXANDRIA MONOGYNTIA. Nat. ord. Narcıssı. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germ. inferum. AMARYLLIDEJ. Brown prod. 296. Sect. I. Rad. bulbosa, Flores spathacei, umbellati, raro solitarii, AMARYLLIS. Supra vot. 1. fol, 23. Div. Bi-multiflore. Tubus coronatus. Folia bifaria, A. psittacina, biflora, subsemiringens; tubi membraná brevissimá bicolori denticulatä: staminibus inclusis. Bulbus zn collum productus. Folia 7, lorata, obtuso-acuminata, glau- ciuscula, unciam т. sesquiunciam transversa, erecto-divergentia. Scapus (2 successivi) bipedalis, cylindraceo-attenuatus, rotundaté anceps, basi crassi- tudine pollicis т. crassior, rubens. Spatha lanceolata, paulo longior pedun- culis, pallide rubescens. ^ Pedunculi teretes, stricti, virides, crassitudine penne gallinacee minoris, duplo breviores жеріме, Germen obscuro-virens, oblongum, rotundato-trigonum, semunciale т. circà. Сот. nutans, viridis, puniceo-picta, supra reticulato-venosa, turbinato-campanulata, 5-uncialis, ab ıpsä base sensim dilatescens, victi semihiulco semipedem transverso patens : lac. cuneato-ovales, lanceolate, ad membranam faucialem usque imbricato-cohe- rentes, ind? discrete: exteriores 3 alterne duplo latiores et aliquantüm longiores, brevitér acuminate mucronate non tamen cum hamo, margine superne undulate ; suprema (ex exterioribus ) depresso-porrecta, distanticr, 2 uncias lata; laterales 2 superiores (ex interioribus ) non multd unciá latiores, ob- longo-lanceolate, divaricato-dispanse, sursum subobliquantes ; laterales 2 іп- feriores (ex exterioribus) cum summá consentientes, imam wersús decurvo- obliquate ; ima (ex interioribus una) omnibus angustior, ligulato-lanceolata, acuminata, declivis. Corona faucialis pro spatio unius uncie à fundo di- stans, vix semilineam lata, viridi-punicea. | Fil. subequalia, parúm breviora imá laciniá, fasciculata, declinato-assurgentia, infra virentia, medio albicantia, supra rubentia; anth. obliquo-incumbentes, purpurez, polline ochroleuco, Stylus inclusus, paulo longior aut crasstor filamentis, Jiliformi-trigonus, рит“ сей: stig. ex 3 continuis coadunatis. Flores pulcherrimi, inodori, The present is the fifth unrecorded Amary.uis from the Brazils whieh has been published in this work out of the collection of Mr. Griffin. То have been the first to bring within the sphere of science and into culture an equal num- ber of plants, belonging to a same remote region, of a same genus, and all interesting, either on the score of curiosity or beauty, within little more than two years, has probably never before been the chance of any single collector in Europe. Тһе bulb was sent about 3 years ago by Mr. E, Woodford, VOL, HI, H from Rio Janeiro; and flowered іп Mr. Griffin’s hothouse at South-Lambeth in March last. Bulb round, with a leafy neck. Leaves from upright spreading, about 7, lorate, obtusely pointed, faintly glau- cous, an inch or an inch and a half broad. Scape (two in succession) about 2 feet high, cylindric, with 2 obsolete rounded corners, glaucous, purplish at the base. Spathe inclining to red, a little higher than the peduncles; these about half the length of the corolla, and about as thick as a small pen, round, straight. Germen oblong, obtusely 3-cornered, dark-green, about half an inch long. Corolla apple-green, bordered at the top with crimson, veined and partially streaked, nodding, turbinately campanulate, about 5 inches deep, widening gradually from the base itself, se- miringent; segments obyersely oval, lanceolate, cohering imbricately as far as the faucial membrane, thence detach- ed; 3 outermost alternate, rather longer, and as broad again as the others, upwards undulate, short-pointed ; ир- per middle one pointing forwards and depressed, farther apart, 2 inches broad; upper lateral ones but little more than an inch broad, longer pointed, slanting sligbtly up- wards; lower lateral ones similar to the upper middle one, but slanting at the top with a curve towards the lower middle one, which last is the narrowest of all, and points downwards. Faucial membrane about an inch above the base, scarcely half a line broad, green and erimson, finely denticulated. Filaments not so long as the limb, fascicu- late, deflectent, particoloured. Anthers obliquely incum- bent, dark purple; pollen cream-coloured. Style red, but little longer than the stamens. We did not perceive that the flowers, perhaps the most beautiful of this splendid genus, had any scent. 200 ANEMONE palmata. Cyclamen-leaved Anemone. ee — POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nat. ord. RANUNCULACER. Jussieu gen. 231. Div. I. Capss. 1-spermae non dehiscentes. ANEMONE. Cal. 0: hujus loco involucrum caulinum à flore distans, 2-3-phyllum. Pet. 5, aut plura. Anth. filamentis adnate. Germ. re- ceptaculo communi imposita; unicuique stylus unicus (persistens); stig. simplex. Capss. (seminiformia), in Anemone T. mutice, іп Pulsatillá Т. Janate aristate aristá plumosá. Fol. radicalia 1-2-pinnata v. digitata v. sim- риса lobata ; scapi 1-flori foliolis involucri simplicibus v. partitis. А. Hepaticz pet. 6 et involuc. flori proximum calyciforme 3-phyllum simplex. Scapi quarumdam intra involuc. umbellatim ramosi, ramis simplicibus т, iterüm partilis et involucratis, apice 1-Йоғіз. Juss. Div. IV. Anemonoides caule folioso seminibus ecaudatis. A. palmata, foliis cordatis 3-lobis, involucris 3-phyllis 3-fidis, corollis sub- 10-petalis. Vahl symb. 8. 73. Anemone palmata. Linn. sp. pl 1. 758. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 338. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1277. — Desfont. atl. 1. 432, Brotero lusit. 2. 961. Andrews’s reposit. 172. Anemone Jatifolia Clusii. Ger. emac. 376. f: 6. A. hortens. latif. simpl. flavo fl. I. Clus. hist. 249. cum іс. Rad. tuberosa, oblonga, verticalis. Fol. 5-plurave, radicalia, firmula, manducata acritér mordentia, petiolata, rotundo-cordata v. reniformi-rotunda, 3-loba, villosa, crenulata, 5-nervia, subtüs venosa et ѕерійѕ purpurascentia ; lobo antico тапете, lateralibus ipsis obsolete dobatis: petioli pilostusculi supra canaliculati et сит laminá cucullato-continut. Caulis palmaris, subhirsutus, purpureo-fuscescens, simplex \-florus, т. proliferus atque biflorus. — Invol, 3-phyllum, sessile, patens, ciliatum ; foliolis obversis 3-fidis, segmentis cunea- tis trisecto-laciniatis. Pedunc. villis fulvis sericeo-hirsutus, longus. Cor. ine expansa cernua, inde erecta, imbricato-radiata, 2 uncias transversa, intüs aurea: pet. 12 ordine duplici, subcuneato-oblonga, angusta acumine obtuso brevi: alterna exteriora (calycina ) sublongiora exiis sulphurea et pilis fer- rugineis sericea; interiora (corallacea) extus sulphurea nudiuscula. Stam, flava, 3-plo breviora corolla basi receptaculi fructús circumposita; anth. ob- longo-didyme, erecta. Pistilla recept. elevato carnoso cylindraceo congesto-in- sidentia: germ. ovuliformia compressa ovato-rostrata, pilosa: stylus setaceus glaber flavus: stig. punctum acutulum. Native of Portugal, and of the coast of Barbary, about Algiers. By Gerarde's Herbal we find that it was cultivated here in 1597 ; yet it is far from being one of common oc- currence in our collections. Although deemed hardy, it appears to succeed best when sheltered in the garden-pit during winter and spring. he drawing was made at the H nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy at Hammersmith, from amongst several that flowered in April, and which had been newly imported from Lisbon. Root tuberous, oblong, perpendicular. Leaves 5 or more, radical, substantial, biting when tasted, roundly cordate or sometimes approaching to reniformly orbicular, 3-lobed, villous, crenulate, 5-nerved, veined underneath, and usu- ally purple; middle lobe smallest, lateral ones themselves obsoletely lobed: petioles thinly pubescent, channelled above, cucullately continuous with the blade. Stem about a span high, roughly pubescent, brownish purple, simple and oneflowered, or proliferous and twoflowered. Involucre at the base of the peduncle, triple-leafletted, sessile, spread- ing, ciliate; leaflets obverse, threecleft, segments cuneate with three incisions. Peduncle long, villous, hairs silky ferruginous close-pressed. Corolla before expansion droop- ing, opening upright, imbricately radiate, two inches over, of a golden yellow on the inside: petals 12 in 2 ranks, subcuneately oblong, narrow, with a short broad point : al- ternate external ones (calycine) rather the longest, sulphur coloured at the back and silky, the hair ferruginous ; ?nter- nal ones (corollaceous) of the same colour at the back as the others, but thinly pubescent. Stamens 3 times shorter than the corolla inserted round the receptacle of the fruit. Pistils numerous, closely set upon а fleshy cylindrically elevated receptacle, which they conceal: germens with the appearance of ovules, compressed, ovate, beaked, pubescent; style setaceous, smooth, deep yellow; stigma a simple point. Capsules like so many naked seeds; one-celled, monosper- mous, remaining unopened. di У | үг у | | М IM | 201 EPIGÆA repens. Creeping Epigea, or Ground-laurel. фра DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Erıcz. Jussieu gen. 159. Div. І. Germen superum. Екісеж. Brown prod. 557. ЕРТС ФА. Cal. 5-partitus, caliculo 3-phyllo cinctus s. 3-bracteatus, Соғ, hypocrateriformis, basi tubulosa, limbo patente 5-partito. Stam. non exserta, imæ corolla inserta ; anth. oblonge. Stigma sub5-fidum. Caps. 5-loc., 5-valv., receptaculo 5-partito. Suffrutex repens sempervirens ; folia alterna ; flores bracteolati, dens? racemosi, axillares et terminales. Jus. 1. c. 161. E. repens, ramis petiolis nervoque hirsutissimis, foliis cordato-ovatis inte- gerrimis, corollis cylindricis. Pursh amer. sept. 1. 997. Epigza repens. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 565. Mill. dict. ed. 8. п. Hort. Kew. 2.71. ed. 2. 3. 55. Mich. bor.-amer. 1. 950. — Andrews's reposit. 102. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 615. Lam. illustr. 1. 367. fig. 1. Bigelow fl. bost, 101. Epigea. Lin. ат. ac. 3. 17. Стоп. virg. ed. 9. 67. Memecylum. Mitch. nov. pl. gen. ХИТ. in act. nat. curios. 8. 213; (nor Mich. nov. gen. ac male habet Willdenovius.) Arbutus foliis ovatis integris, petiolis laxis lóngitudine foliorum. Gron. virg. 49. Pyrolze affinis Virginiana repens fruticosa, foliis rigidis, scabritie exaspe- ratis, fl. pentapetaloide fistuloso. Pluk. alm. 309. t. 107. f. 1. Fruticulus repens sempervirens ferrugineo-villosus, caulis alterne ramosus ramique- teretes; fol. patentia, membranaceo-rigentia, cordato-elliptica т. ovata, obtusa cum mucronulo, villis rufis asperiuscula, immersé venosa, sub- tüs nitida, suprà viridi-rufa, modo biuncialia : ` petioli strictiusculi, hirsuti, teretes suprà canaliculati. Racemi axillares et terminales, —— Hori, raro 1-flori ; pedunculi pedicellique brevissimi, bracteis subherbaceis, naviculari-subulatis, hirsutis, ad florem terminalem binis atque cum calyculo decussantibus, ad ceteros singularibus. Calyculus bifolius ad basin pedicelli ter brevioris glabri, bracteá exceptus; foliolis oppositis ovato-lanceolatis, membrano-herbaceis, convexis, glaberrimis, cuspidatis, calycem partim. inclu- dentibus. Flores semunciales magisve, odorem amariusculum non ingratum spirantes. Cal. connivens, bast intrusus, foliolis calyculi similibus, subminori- bee, lanioribus. Cor. carneo-albicans: tubus cylindricus calyce limboque Jermé duplo longior, intús albo-lanatus : lac. limbi «equales, ol longo-ovate, glabra. Stam. tubo subemicantia: fil. corolla fundo inserta, basi pilosiuscula : anth. erecte adnate, dithece, lineares, introrsúm sublunulata indeque rimis 2 longis dehiscentes, dorso fusco-carinate: pollen grumosum, ochroleucum. Germ. albo-hirsutum, disco crasso virente 10-dentato insidens: stylus columel- lari-filiformis, equans stamina, virens, glaber : stig. 5-dentato-obtusum. A small trailing evergreen shrub found in the shade of forests from Canada to Carolina, and known in some parts of the United States by the name of “ Ground-laurel.” In- troduced into England by Мг, Peter Collinson, in 1736. Thrives best on а border of peat-earth іп а sheltered shady situation; where it flowers from May to July, or longer. Some of the corollas are frequently found to be sterile ; and, according to Michaux, it would appear that the species was dicecious, the flowers being sometimes barren through- out in individual plants. Stem recumbent, slender, round, branched, ferruginously villous. Leaves patent, hardish, membranous, elliptic with a cordate base, or ovate, obtuse with a small point, covered with a harsh russet pubescence, impressedly veined, shining beneath, russet-green above, sometimes nearly two inches long: petioles pubescent, channelled, firm. Racemes both axillary and terminal, crowdedly fewflowered, seldom one- flowered; peduncles and pedicles very short; bractes subulate, hirsute, two to the upper flower, and placed crosswise with the leaflets of the calycle or outer calyx, one to the other flowers. Calycle two-leaved within the bracte and at the base of the pedicle, leaflets opposite ovate lanceolate cuspi- date, smooth, membranous, inclosing the lower part of the calyx by their tops. Flowers about half an inch long, or rather more, diffusing a pleasant bitterish smell. Calyx connivent, dinted at the base; leaflets like those of the calycle, but rather smaller and flatter. Corolla white and flesh-coloured ; tube cylindrical, twice the length of the calyx and the limb, white-bearded within; segments equal, oblong-ovate, smooth. Stamens just peering from the tube. Filaments inserted in the bottom of the corolla, subpubes- cent at the base. Anthers upright, adnate, bilocular, linear, bent slightly inwards to the form of a crescent, and opening in that direction by a long double fissure, keeled and brown at the back: pollen grumous, cream-coloured. Germen covered with white shaggy pubescence, placed on а thick green tenfold indented disk: style a filiform shaft, equal to the stamens, green, smooth: stigma obtuse, quin- tuply indented. The drawing made from a plant sent in April by Messrs. Bassington and Hockley, Kingsland Nursery. аж а Bracte, calycle or under calyx, and calyx. 6 Corolla dissected verti- cally. с Pistil and hypogynous disk. 06,2 74. дәФа,батаға N £0 —À— 202 ORCHIS longicornu. Long-spurred Orchis. —— GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. Oncnmes. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 909. Div. I. Anthera adnata subterminalis persistens, Pollinis тама 8 Jobulis angulatis elasticé coherentibus; basi абхе. Brown in Hort. Kew. , 2. 5. 188. ORCHIS. Cor. ringens. Labellum basi subtüs calcaratum. Glandula (1-2) pedicellorum poliinis incluse cucullo unico. Br. loc. cit. O. longicornu, labello trilobo crenulato, lobis obtusis, medio breviore, petalis obtusis conniventibus, cornu ascendente compresso spathulato germen subequante. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 19. Orchis longicornu. Poiret voy. en barb. 2.247. Lamarck encyc. 4. 591. Desfont. atl. 2. 317. 1. 246. Rad. didymo-tuberose. Fol. immaculata, radicalia, plurifaria, basi ima bricato-compacta, indè patentia, 5-6, 3-uncialia, 3 partes unciæ lata, lanceo- Tata, micaceo-pruinosa, medio canaliculata, distantiàs lineata; caulina 4-5, vaginantia. Caulis scapiformis bis altior foliis, superné purpurascens, Flores lazi, patentes, 10 v. plures, violaceo-purpurei, cum germine simul sub- unciales, odore grato amaricante fragrantes, resupinato-ezplicantes. Bractes vaginantes, coloratez, lanceolata, breviores germine. Petala ordine duplici; 5 (ex resupinatione ) superiora galeato-conniventia, rosea, intüs pallentia, ob- "fusa, bis t breviora calcare; trium exteriorum lateralia obliguata, inagui- lateri-elliptica, nervis 5 viridantibus, carina eccentricá ; medium oblongum antrorsim fornicatum trinerve; interiora eatimis-accumbentia, angustiora, invicem approzimata. Labellum dimidio longius istis, oblatum, porrectum, disco pallescens punctis atropurpureis, 8-іобит lobis lateralibus obtcuro-colo- ratis externo margine denticulatis, intermedio admodiim minore sapiüs retuso s calcar 2 uncie longum, subeequule germini, assurgens, roseo-punicans, trans- „етед compressum, cuneato-elongalum, truncatum, erugatum, падне retu- sum. Germen fusco-purpureum, 3 partes uncia longum, pro fiore resupinando tortum, suprà posta Mass pollinis stipitato-clavate, indivisa, thecis 2 marginalibus cuculli erecti incluse, stipites septo incompleto perpendiculars intergerino albo duplicato distincti : pollen virens, graveolens. A species very recently introduced by Mr. William ` Swainson from the Botanic Garden at Palermo. Native of the coast of Barbary, and probably of Sicily. Found by Messrs. Poiret and Desfontaines in swamps near the sea. The latter has published an engraving of it in his celebrated Flora Atlantica, but from a dried specimen. It comes very close to our own common Meadow Orchis (Morio), but the leaves are more numerous, the flowers larger and brighter and very fragrant; the spur is longer in proportion, flat, and truncate; the two outside petals are not so green, the bractes are much shorter than the germen, and the side lobes of the labellum reflectent. There seem to be other differences; but not having a fresh plant of Morio at hand, we cannot rely with confidence on our view of them. . The drawing was made at the Chelsea Garden, where the' species of this tribe, generally reputed as scarcely to be reclaimed to culture, are treated by Mr. Anderson with as much success as those of any оШег vegetable fa- mily. Among many plants of this species which flowered at the same time, we perceived several varieties. The two we have represented in the plate seemed to be, however, the extremes of the variation; the detached flower being that which receded the farthest from Morio. Root of twin tubers. Leaves unspotted, radical ones 5-6, multifariously patent, scarcely 3 inches long, lanceo- late, chagreened with minute crystalline papille, flat, channelled down the middle, with distant lines; сан пе ones 4-5 sheathing. Stem twice as high as the leaves, purple upwards. Flowers 10 or more, in a loose spreading spike, violet-purple, very fragrant, about an inch long in- cluding the germen, when open resupinate. Bractes colour- ed, sheathing the much shorter germens. Upper lip of the open corolla pentapetalous, convergent, vaulted ; petals іп two ranks, all pale purple, obtuse, 2 or 3 times shorter than the spur, the lateral ones of the three outermost marked with five greenish nerves, elliptic with unequal sides, the middle one oblong pointing forward arched 3-nerved ; two innermost narrower, convergent, overlaid by the others. - Label half as long again as these, broader than long, point- ing forwards, paler along the middle, where it is spotted with dark purple; 3-lobed, side-lobes dark-purple rounded out- wards and denticulate, middlemost a great deal smaller, generally retuse: spur about 3 of an inch long, about equal to the germen, assurgent, rose-purple, horizontally com- ressed, cuneately linear, truncate, unwrinkled. Germen , brownish red, } of an inch long bent towards the top. Pollen- masses 2, clavate, pedicled, undivided, enclosed within the two marginal cists of the headpiece of the column formed by the filaments and style, separated above their glandular base by an incomplete upright white bilaminar partition. Md en NIME am E SEE = 0 7 Ami X —__ Јој ен е ee = Bie ee O > n “- 203 BROMELIA nudicaulis. . og Scarlet Bromelia. —.À—- HEXANDRIA AfONOGYNIA. Nat.ord. Вкомкілж. Jussieu реп. 49. Div. И. Germen inferum. BROMELIA. Cal. et Cor. tubulosi, Ше brevior (firmior) trifidus, Аас longior tripetalo-partita (tenerior) laciniis ungue appendiculatis. Sta- mina imo (Jussezo mal? summo) calyci inserta, aut glandule calycinee supra ermen productes (indè quasi epigyna?). Васса umbilicata polysperma. lante herbaceæ, quadam parasitic ; folia radicalia canaliculata, margini- bus sap? dentato-spinosis ; flores Bromelie Plum". т scapo vel caule lazè spicati aut paniculati, fructibus тік baccatis; flores Karate Plum". dens? corymbosi, corymbo radicali, baccis ovatis ; flores Ananasse Plum", dens apicati in scapo supra folioso, spicd maturescente strobiliformi carnosá squa- mosá eduli, è coadunatis concreta baccis, via loculosis et malè fecundis. Jus- sieu gen. 50. ' В. nudicaulis; caule simplici spathaceo-bracteato; spica. cylindraces, ebracteata, laxiüs imbricata. ` Bromelia nudicaulis. Linn. sp. pl. 1. 409. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 9. Bromelia pyramidalis, Curtis’s magaz. 1782 ` Bromelia pyramidata, aculeis nigris. Plum. nov. gen, 46. Ic. 81. tab. 62. Caudez nucleus brevis basi stoloniferus, Folia multifaria, infern se invicem convoluto-complectentia, indè divergentia, loräto-lanceolata cuspidata glabra basi purpurascentia margine dentato-spinosa' dentibus ustulato-nigrican- tibus, longiora 14-15-uncialia latitudine parúm infra triuncialem. | Caulis sim- pler, subsesquipedatis, strictus, crassitudine. digiti, subflecuosus, albo-farino- sus, tylindraceus, tectus bracteis erettis spathaceis sparsim imbricantibus semi- amplexicaulibus membranosis obsoleta is lanceolatis. 3-4-uncialibus, supe- rioribus latioribus confertioribus integerrimis spicam partim comprehendentibus. Spica terminalis, simpler, sparsa, cylindrica, Ambricato-m flora, erecta, semipedalis ultróve, (жа pedunculus copiosà Sarinosus albus strictus carnosus pro sedibus florum undique emarginatus, Flores erecti, sessiles, 2 uncias cum dimidio longi, coccinei apice violacei, inodori. Cal. corolla concolor fariná albâ opacatus, S-partitus, crassus, rigens, imbricato-tubulosus, in fundo nectariferus, ws quam duplo brevior corollá cui атсід adaptaturs segmentis «equalibus, oblongis, obtusulis. Cor. biuncialis, tripetaloidea, fundo calycis altern? cum segmentis imposita, tubuloso-convoluta, supra breve pa- tula; laciniee subpandurato-ligulate, acuminate, infra medium intra latera liris membranosis squamarum continuationibus) 9 ngitudinalibus filamenta intercipientibus sulcatæ. Squamæ 6 convexa cum filamentis alterne, mem- branose, imo calyci a parte concavá афте, margine lacinulatæ, sertulum æguabile eficientes. Stam. equalia, inclusa, erecta: fil. inserta basi calycis, alba, füiformia: anthere inter, versatiles, obligue incumbentes, lineari- dagillata, latere utrogue dehiscentes. Germ. album, ‚farinosum, hexagono- €ylindraceum, Splo brevius corollá, calyce parüm angustius г ovula numerosa angulis internis loculamentorum ordine congesto multiplici appacta, ovato- rostrata ; stylus albus, tristriato-filiformis, non excedens corollam, nequé cras- dior filamentis + stigmata 3, violacea, in unum spirale oblongum contorta, . VOL. IH, I The germen being here completely inferior, affords the technical distinction which separates the genus from its next coordinates, Тилљакрзта and Pitcarrnia, where that is either partly or else wholly superior. In Bromezia the ger- men ripens into a more or less fleshy succulent pericarp, which not opening by valves, falls within the definition of a berry. In the well-known species Ananas, it is a con- creted. cluster, .or rather spike of these berries (іп that instance supremely succulent and generally seedless), hori- zontally imbedded with the bractes in their common harder fleshed peduncle ог. stalk, the core of the mass, which compounds the Pine-Apple. In nudicaulis the berries aré thinner fleshed, scarcely succulent, do not coalesce, and are not esculent ; the bloom alone giving a value to the plant in the garden. Caudex a short stoloniferous axis. Leaves radical, growing much as in the common Pine-Apple plant, con- volutely folded and imbricated at the base, where they are stained on the inside with purple, divergent,. lorately lanceolate, cuspidate, smooth, spinously dentate with teeth of a burnt-black colour, outer ones largest, from 12 to 15 inches in length, and little more than three in breadth. Stem simple, . about а foot and a half high, upright, of about.the thickness of a finger, very slightly flexuose, covered with a white. mealy efflorescence, cylindrical, sheathed by large single upright scattered imbricating spathelike bractes of. a dull pink colour half stemclasping; membranous, lanceolate 3-4 inches long, upper ones broadest, closest, quite entire; and envelopping the lower part of the inflorescence... Spike terminal, simple, scattered, cylindrical, imbricately.many- flowered, upright, half a foot or more in length, bracteless: stalk or peduncle mealy white, fleshy, rigid, cut into niches to hold the flowers. Flowers upright, sessile, about two inches and a half long, scarlet, with a violet-blue stain at the end of the segments of the corolla, scentless. Calyx nearly. of the colour of the corolla, powdered with white meal, 3-parted, thick, hard, imbricately tubular,. twice shorter than the corolla, which it envelops closely, filled with a honeyed lymph in the bottom; segments equal, oblong; somewhat obtuse. Corolla two inches long, of three petal- like segments, placed alternately with those of the calyx at the base of that, tubularly convoluted, slightly spread above: segments. subpanduriformly ligulate, acuminate, below the OT middle within the sides divided longitudinally by two mem- branous ridges in the grooves between which the filaments are placed. Scales 6, convex, alternate with the filaments, membranous, affixed circularly to the lowest part of the іп- terior of the calyx by their concave side, jagged at the rim. Stamens equal, enclosed, upright: filaments inserted at the bottom of the calyx, white, filiform: anthers yellow, veer- ing, slantingly incumbent, linear-sagittate, opening on each side. Germen white, mealy, cylindrical, hexagonal, 3 times shorter than the corolla, of à circumference little less than that of the calyx: ovules numerous placed in crowded multiplied rows along the corners of the locula- ments, ovate, beaked: style white, filiform with three streaks, higher than stamens, but not overtopping the corolla, nor thicker than the filaments: stigmas 3, twined into an oblong spiral one, of a violet-blue colour. А native of the Brazils. Introduced about three or four years ago from Rio Janeiro by Mr. Rose; and culti- vated in his hothouse at Cuffnels in Hampshire. It re- quires to be kept in the bark-bed, where it flowers in March and April. Puts out numerous suckers, by which it is easily multiplied. Like the rest of its kindred, the leaves retain water in considerable quantity in the folds at their bases. Mr. Edwards was favoured with the specimen from which the drawing was made by the Duchess of Athol, on whose application to Mr. Rose he was supplied with one of the largest outer leaves, which illustrate the character attributed by Plumier to the spines at the margin, and which is not so perceptible in the inner ones. Differs from all its con- geners that we are acquainted with, in having an entirely bracteless inflorescence. — А diminished outline of the flower-stem below the spike. The flower opened vertically, on a vertical section of its germen. 77 204 TULIPA oculus-solis, Agen Tulip. — HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIA; (Nobis) MONOGYNIA; (айі). Nat. ord. Lita. Jussieu gen. 48. TULIPA. Flores solitarió terminales, ebracteati ; мере unicus. Cor, infera, hexapetalo-partita, regularis, subzequalis, decidua, Fil. immediatà hypogyna. Stylus O: stig. summi germinis cornua tria bilobo-dilatata re- plicata secundùm marginem inferiorem canaliculato-coherentia. Sem. nus шегова, plana, biseriato-cumulata; albumen cartilagineum; testa fusca. Bulbus acuminatus, base obliguá, integumento membrano-crustaceo, nucleo solido-carnoso : post maturatum fructum alios enizus Лиру eros, emoriens. Fol. 3-4, interiora caulina. Caulis herbaceus, teres, raris divisus. Fil. robusta, erecta, subulata, ex apice tenuissimo setaceo elastico inserta foramini ad basin antherarum : anth. lineares, perpendiculares, tremula. Caps. ovato- 3-gona, 3-loc., S-valv. : valvis medio septigeris ; dehiscentia suprà ab intror- sum. А confini MrLAwTHIO «руд distinguenda; пес differ nisi semi- nibus planis, stigmatibus crassioribus brevioribus, floribusque solitarid ter- minalibus, U : ` T. oculus-solis, integumento bulbi intús lanato, foliis 4 'subeiliatis, caule floreque glaberrimis, labris conniventibus stigmatum villoso-fimbriatis. - Tulipa oculus-solis. St. Amans in rec. soc. d'agr. d’agen. 1.75. Redouié iliac. 219. Гат. $ Decand. fl. franç. 3. 200. Tulipa agenensis. Red. liliac. 60 in texid. > Tulipa fiore rubro, Garid. prov. 475. T, bombycina fl, rubro. Park. parad. t. 51. f. 1. Folia glauciuscula, pilis tenerrimis ciliata, radicale ovato-lanceolatum, la- tum. Caulis uniflorus. Flos 2 majoribus, inodorus. Cor. rubra, campa- mulata infra rotunda, intüs oculo magno nigro-caruleo circulo aureo. cincto е Sundo descens; lacinim elliptice, exteriores longiores, ‘planiores, аситі- nate, extis pallidiores et ораса, apicibus patulis : interiores $ parte angusti- ores, concave, utrinque nifida, apice rotundate incuroule. Stam. _Suliginosa, subequalia germini: til. $ parte breviora antheris. Stig. parüm revoluta. Germ. obsolet? rubens. Tura and Мезлутниом stand in the nearest degree of affinity to each other; the latter genus being distinguished Chiefly by rouñd seeds, narrower stigmas, and a multi- plicate inflorescence. . The two genera, since pared from MzrANTHIUM, under the names of УУовмвел and OrNITHO- GLOSSUM, in our view, сап only serve as burlesques of re- finement. Linnseus had enumerated three species of Tulips. Their number now amounts to 10, after the reduction of breyniana to Metantutum. | Several species had been con- founded as mutual varieties in gesneriana. Our plant is a native of the South of France, Savoy, Piedmont, and other of the northern parts of Italy. It dif- fers from gesneriana in having the outer segments of the corolla flat and pointed, the inner shorter, narrower, and rounded, but especially in having stigmas less revolute, not widely channelled, and without the white corrugated car-. tilaginous border, so conspicuous in those of the other. The outer covering of the bulb is lined throughout with a woolly . pubescence. Stem undivided, one-flowered, and quite smooth. Leaves four, subglaucous, softly ciliated, radical one ovately lanceolate and very broad. Flower upright, scentless, about two inches deep. Corolla cam- panulate, broadly rounded at the base, red, with a large blueish-black eyelike orb, surrounded by a narrow gold- coloured circle at the bottom within, from whence it has obtained in Italy the title of Occhio di Sole, of which the present specific mame is intended as the version. Segments elliptic; outer largest, flattest and pointed, externally of a paler opaque red, internally shining, spreading at the points; inner about + narrower, “shining on both sides, concave, rounded at the ends. Stamens about equal to the germen; filaments nearly a third shorter than the anthers, into the perforated bases of which they are inserted by slender sé- taceous elastic points. Germen faintly red; stigmas slightly reflectent, finely ciliated at their margins. It comes the nearest of any species to gesneriana, the common ` den Tulip, a native of the borders of the Caspian Sea. The drawing was taken in April from a plant lately re- ceived from Paris, by Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Mine, of the Fulham nursery. The Томға biflora of Russian Tartary is at present wanting in our collections; but has been noticed and figured in some of the oldest botanical records in this country. We have seen spontaneous specimens of it in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium. Шымды 205 OPHRYS tenthredinifera. Saw-fly Ophrys. —— GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. оға. Окснгввж. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 309, Div. I. Anthera adnata subterminalis persistens. Pollinis masse д lobulis angulatis elasticé coherentibus ; basi affixe. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5.188. OPHRYS. Сог. subpatens. Labellum ecalcaratum, Glandula pol- linis cucullis distinctis incluse. 14.1. c. 195. ` O. tenthredinifera, caule folioso, labello villoso obovato bilobo sppendicué lato, petalis patentibus, 3 exterioribus oblongis obtusis, binis interiori bus brevissimis. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 64. : . Ophrys insectifera. var. A. rosea. Desfont. atl. 2. 320. Ophrys villosa. — Desfont. in ann. du Muséum 10. 225. t. 14. Orchis orientalis, fucum referens, flore parvo, villosissimo, scuto azureo: Tournef. cor. inst. 30. Vélins du Muséum. . Tuber didymum, indivisum. Folia subtàs lineata, radicalia-4-5, elliptico- Janceolata, subtriuncialia, latiora unciam „јете transversa; caulina angustà lanceolata vaginantia. Caulis fer? duplo altior. Spica даха 3-8: fora. Bractez pallido-carnec lineis viridibus, “envoluto-lenccolate, erecter,' germen semunciale ч viride tortum curvatum superantes. Cor. nutans, cruciato-ringens, subpatens rict subunciali ; pet. 5 lilacino-rosea, 3 exteriora distantia, isome- tray glabra, obtusa, nerco medio carinata, medium erectum ellipticum Jorkica- tum, lateralia ovato-elliptica patentissima horizontalia: 2 interiora istis alterna minima angulari-ovata ints tomentosa, summe columna: acclinía г labelluna dependens, amplum, subpandurato-obcordatum, bilobo-retusum acuminulo tere minali crasso rigido uncatim infracto, intús sericeum at gibbo medio hirsutiña ac st barbatum, viridi-luteum, convezam, margine depressum, pidum таста magnä pectoraliformi castaneá suprà includente alteram жант lyedram glabraiam cyaneam albo iridiatam ipsam continentem cum glandulä elevatá tho- raciforms rubro-fuscá splendenteque. Columna antic? fornicata, margine Pavo villoso ad utrumque latus anthera: ocello nigro notato. Cucallus anthera dithecus-rostrato-terminalis erectus virens compressus aduncus thecis 2 collate- ralibus antic? fenestratis, Pollinis masse flave erecta clavate, stipite longiore capitello. ` Many species in this genus recall forcibly the images of various insects, as flies, bees, spiders, &c.; of which we bave instances in the few indigenous ones of our own country. The present is a native of the Coast of Barbary, the Levant, and probably of Sicily, having been lately in- troduced from the botanic garden of Palermo, by Mr. William Swainson. In the Flora Atlantica it is included among the varieties of the insectifera of Linnæus, but now stands distinct, as well as the others of that promiscuously combined species. What has suggested to Willdenow the resemblance of its tlower to any of the Saw-flies, we cannot guess, as he does not appear to have seen either figure or specimen. The synonym from a later publication by Prof. Desfontaines we have added upon our own judg~ ment. Tubers twin, undivided. Lower leaves 4-5, elliptically lanceolate, about 3 inches long, upper 2-3 narrowly lan- ceolate, convolutely folded upright. Stem about twice their height. Spike loose, 3-8-flowered. Bractes of a faded pink- colour with green lines, upright, lanceolate, folding round the germens which they overtop. Corolla nodding, cruci- formly ringent, rather spreading, nearly an inch from top to bottom; petals 5, pink; exterior 3 of one length, stand- ing apart, smooth, obtuse, green-keeled, middle one of these upright elliptic vaulted, side ones horizontally ex- tended; interior 2 alternate, diminutive, tomentose at the inner surface, inclining over the column. Label broadly obcordate, contracted aboye the base, bilobedly retuse with a small intermediate fleshy rigid flat-pressed turned- up point; on the inner surface greenish yellow, covered with a velvet-like pubescence, marked with a large chestnut coloured stain, comprehending at the base a smaller smooth polyedrously scutiform one, edged with white and sur- mounted by а reddish brown fulgid glandular preminence, resembling the thorax of some species of insect. Anther in two distinct cells, terminal, upright, compressed, narrow, rostrate, crooked; cells adjacent, open in front; pollen- masses with a separate glandular base to each; not as in Orcuis with a glandular base common to both. Mr. Brown. observes, that both genera, as now defined, are wholly extratropical, and confined chiefly to Europe. Ба 206 CANNA gigantea. Tall Indian Reed. —M—— MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. - Nat. ord. CANNA. Jussieu gen. 62. Cannes. Brown prod. 307, in obs. III.; ubi à Sctramines distinguitur. CANNA. Anth. simplex, margini filamenti petalodis affixa. Stylus spathulatus adnatus tubo corolle: stig. lineare. Caps. 3-loc., 8-valv.: sem. plura. Гол. in asiat. research. 11. 322; (Calcutta edit.). Rad. tuberosa, repens. Caulis herbaceus petiolis vaginantibus tectus. Fol. alterna vaginantia, juniora convoluta, è nervo medio simplici emittentia utrinque nervos parallelos. Flores laz? spicatiterminales. Juss. C. gigantea, limbo interiore semicirculari-4-radiato reflexo-patente, lacinia ima dextrorsüm obliquata insequilobo-retusa; filamento longé ultra antheram producto recurvatoque. Canna gigantea. Redouté liliac. 981. Canna patens. Rosc. in trans. linn. soc. 8. 338? judicantes ет nuperiüs dictis ab eodem in vol. 10. p. 272 operis citati; at cert? non Canna in- dica 3. patens, edit. prioris Hort. Kew., C. patentis jure archetypum ; cujus specimen extat in Herb. Banks. . Rhizoma tuberoso-carnosum, bulbiceps, stoloniferum, Caules 9-4-pedales. Vagine radicales et petioli vaginosi cuticulä arachnoideá deciduá alba obducti. Fob majora laminá тойд 2-pedali, elliptico-v. ovato-lanceolatá, cuspidatá. Racemus spicatus, multiflorus, distans, floribus sepids geminis: pedunc. longiores germine, bracteä анай fused ad singulos. Germ. 3-gono-rotundum. Cal. semuncialis v. ultra, subcoloratus, farinosus, S-partitus, persistens, seg- mentis hinc distantioribus, 1 submajore. Cor. tubuloso-divisa, ultra tubum duplex, S-uncialis, miniato-coccinea, immaculata ; tubus communis brevis; limbus exterior sesquiuncialis, nitens, S-partitus, erecto-connivens regularis, laciniis linearibus lanceolatis striatulis involuto-concavis, миға anticá pro- Лой divisis > interior intensiüs coloratus, opacus, 4-partitus, 2 uncias cum dimidio altus, laciniis pro longitudine limbi exterioris imbricato-coherentibus nisi ай ventrem ubi 4%. hinc à prozimá sinistrá ad tubum communem sgue soluta est, omnibus in labium supernum obliquantibus, 8 similibus subægualibus Janceolato-spathulatis, 4%, inferiore subdifformi saturatins colorata, non ut plerümque oppositá filamento neve latere dextro longiüs à prosimá divisá ac ‘alice invicóm inter se. Vil. adnatum limbo interiori sub labio ad ejusdem divisuras usque, latius laciniis, antrorsúm inclinatum, ligulato-lanceolatum, obtusum. Stylus aurantiacus lineari-spathulatus à plano adnatus faciei lateris „sinistri filamenti, lucidus, crassiusculus, de paulo infra antheram solutus, mar- gine sinistro rectiore : stigma apex continuus luteus glandulosus puberulus sub- truncatus subaqualis anthere. lt has been the lot of several species of this genus to have been ranged in the various systems of vegetables, by ‚characters too vague or too scanty to ensure them from obscurity and uncertainty. Ву a passage in the observations VOL. ИТ, d . K . of Mr. Roscoe on the Scifaminec of Dr. Roxburgh, we аге induced «о believe that he has intended the present plant by Canna patens : if so, he has had in view quite another species from the Canna indica (5) patens of the first edition of the Hortus Kewensis, which was generally presumed to have been the type of his species. In that the fourth inner segment or nectary is described as revolute, of a yel- low colour, besprinkled with small red lines, and is besides different, both in form and position, from that of the present, as may be seen by the original specimen in the Banksian Herbarium. Gigantea is of much later introduction into our collections. Stems several, 3-4 feet high or more. Radical sheaths and sheathing petioles, skinned over by a white araneous deciduous film. Larger leaves sometimes two feet or more in length, elliptically or ovately lanceolate, cuspidate. Ra- ceme loosely spiked, flowers generally in pairs: peduncles longer than the germen, with a brown dry bracte to each. Calyx persistent, half an inch or more in depth, faintly co- loured, powdered, 3-parted, segments further separated at one side, one rather larger than the rest. Corolla tubular, cleft, double above the tube, 3 inches long or more, scarlet "without spots: common tube short, narrowly turbinate or obconic, filled with a honied lymph: outer limb an inch and half long, glossy, tripartite, erectly and regularly con- vergent, segments linearly lanceolate, streaked, involutely concave, front fissure deepest: interior limb more deeply coloured and opaque, 4-parted, 2 inches and a half deep, segments cohering imbricately for the length of the outer limb, except in front, where the fourth is disunited on one side from the next, over which it laps down to the common tube, all converging into an upper semicircular reflect- ent lip; 3 similar, nearly equal, ligulate, spatulate, lanceo- late, somewhat pointed ; the fourth and lowermost slanting away towards the next on its right, of a somewhat different form, deepest coloured, irregularly retuse, not placed oppo- Site to the filament, nor adnate to the base of that, nor .parted deeper on the right side from the rest, than they from each other, as is most usual in the genus. Filament revolute at the top: unther placed far below the apex of the filament. Flowers in February. А stove plant. When, whence, or by whom introduced, we have not yet learned. The draw- oov» ing was taken at Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne's Nursery, Parson's Green. — А diminished figure of the whole plant, Тһе stamen and pistil as they appear, after the removal of the outer limb, and the abscission of the 4 segments at the point where they divide; the lower fissure purposely di- lated, Тһе outer limb and tube. © The germen and calyx. x 2 d i i ~ Pub “by Ridgway & Sons, July 1,187. Syd Edwards del РОТЕ. fp $ 2 sc 14 Brownlow Jt Whu + 207 EUCROSIA bicolor. Particoloured Eucrosia. —— HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Nancisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. IT. AMARYLLIDEE. Brown prod. 296. Sect. I. EUCROSIA. Flores umbellati in scapo terminales; райда plurivalvis, brevior. Cor. supera, infundibuliformis, subringens, nutans: tubus brevis, obliquus, coronatus: limbus 6-partitus, anticé ventricosior. Fil. ori tubi inserta, declinata, exserta, monadelpha v. infra medium in cylindrum posticé sinú oblongo profundo interruptum submembranoso-connexa. Stylus staminibus zequalis, decurvatus: stig. apex plano-obtusatus, puberulus: germ. 3-loc., ovulis plurimis biseriatis in loculamentis singulis. : Bulbus tunicatus, ovatus. Fol. plura, multifaria, petiolata, laminá lane ceolatá, semipedali, latitudine 1-2-unciali, nitidá, tenerá, subtús pallidá, uni- costatá. Scapus strictus, teres, compressus, levis, penná ordinari gracilior, viridis, fistulosus. Spatha 4-flora, 4-valvis, arida, erecta, foliolis angustis acuminatis. Pedunculi virides, stricti, subsemiteretes, inaequales, longiores viz sesquiunciales. Germ. nitens, viride, ellipticum, trilobo-trigonum angulis obiusis. Cor. parüm superans unciam, miniata apicibus viridibus, persistens ; tubus viridissimus, órevior crassiorque germine, rotundaté ћехаропиз, nectari- Jerus, ore bullatus glandulis 6 plano-convezis subovatis singulatim à margine ` basium sub pedibus filamentorum (non altern2 cum iis) afkxis: limbi laciniae lanceolata, interiores planiores undulate, virore parciüs notate, exteriores firmiores acutigres subhamato-mucronate. Fil. alba, subduplo longiora limbo, supra patentia, denud de ventre deflorescentis corollee procidua ; posteriora 2 reliquis longis separata 3 anth. virentes, versatiles, lineari-oblon, v. Stylus albus, 3-quetro-filiformis, rigidior subcrassiorque filamentis, cylindro stamtneo vaginatus. Differt. AMARYLLIDE staminibus monadelphis, PANCRATIO ez tubo stamineo deflezo vix membranoso et per hiatum definitum ad latus posterius interrupto: utrisque ob corpuscula basibus flamentorum subtensa, substantiáque teneriore et molliore foliorum. : d 57 Eucrosia bicolor, ! А very curious unpublished plant, not strictly reducible to any established genus, and appearing to us of sufficient diversity in character and habit to found a new one. It differs from Амавумав in having monadelphous filaments, and from Pancratium by a deflectent nearly webless hollow stamineous cylinder, broken at the upper side by a deep oblong sinus; from both genera by six glandular corpuscles subtending the bases of the filaments, not alternating with them like the scales in some AMARYLLIDES, and by a ten- derer and softer foliage. We аге indebted to Messrs. Lee and Kennedy of the Hammersmith nursery for the specimen from which the drawing was made, by whom we are informed that it is na- tive of South America. Not very tender, but will thrive in a well secured garden-pit, where it flowers about the end of May. Some of the particoloured Peruvian PANCRATIUMS seem to be the nearest allied to it of any vegetables known to us. We had no opportunity of inspecting the bulb which produced the flower; the one represented is an offset from that. Leaves multifarious, petioled; blade lanceolate, about six inches long, 1-2 broad, apple-green, bright, tender, pale underneath, midrib keeled. Scape not so thick as a common pen, green, round, compressed, upright, fistular. Spathe 4-flowered, leafiets 4, narrow, acuminate, sphace- late. Peduncles of different lengths, longest about an inch and half high, straight, green. Germen green, bright, elliptic, trigonally lobed, corners obtuse, trilocular; ovules in two ranks, many in each loculament. Corolla scarcely exceeding an inch in length, salmon-coloured, with green points, superior, persistent, scentless, funnelform, subriu-: gent, nodding ; tube green, oblique, shorter than the germen, roundedly hexagonal, crowned at the orifice, by the sub- ovate plano-convex corpuscles above mentioned; limb 6- parted, subventricose, segments lanceolate, interior flatter and undulate, exterior firmer with slightly hooked points. Filaments white, declining, patent, nearly twice the length of the corolla, connected below the middle by very narrow membranes into a slender tube indented above for more than half its length by an open narrow break, as the flower closes previous to decay protruding through the front of the flower along with the style: anthers veering, linear-oblong, green. Style white the length of the filaments, but much firmer. Stigma obtuse, simple. —— а The corolla dissected vertically, to show the position of the six glan- dular corpuscles at the mouth of the tube. vt 208 PROTEA neriifolia. Oleander-leaved Protea. — TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Равотк®. Jussieu gen. 18. Div. Г. Semen nudum aut fruc- tus monospermus. А РЕОТЕАСЕЖ. Brown in trans. linn. soc. 10. 15, segg. Div. I. Fructus clausus. А. AÁNTHERA DISTINCTA: À corollá li . Flores hermaphroditi, raré polygami dioici, stigmate tune verticali. Anthere apicibus concavis corollee immerse. Germ. l-spermum. Nus subcrustacea у. батаға. Squamule v. glandule 4 hypogyne. Cor. irregularis, labiata, laciniis 3 (raró omnibus) cohzrentibus. Brown. PROTEA. Cor. bipartibilis, inzequalis, labii Jatioris laminis stamini- feris cohwrentibus. Stylus subulatus. Stig. angustius, cylindraceum. Nux undique barbata, stylo persistenti caudata. Recept. commune, paleis abbreviatis persistentibus, Jnvolucr. imbricatum, persistens. Frutices той proceriores et quandóque arborescentes, modo subacaules, Fol. integerrima. Capitula terminalia, rariüsve fateralia: receptaculo planiusculo, nunc con- vezo, scpissimà glabro, paleis фиаладфие connatis alveolato: invol. magno, €olorato, turbinato v. hemispherico: corolle labio latiore sep 9-9-aristato. Brown in trans. linn, soc. 10. 74. Р. neriifolia, foliis lineari-lingulatis levibus opacis margine subsimplicibus basi extüs ramisque tomentosis, involucri bracteis interioribus apice parüm latioribus dorso argenteo-sericeo margine nigro-barbato, calycis aristis laminas superantibus intùs pennatis, stylo pubescenti. Brows „ с. 81. Cardui generis elegantissimi cujusdam caput. Clus. erot. 38. fig. 15. Frutex tripedalis v. magis, robustus, superne axillis foliorum ramosus ; caulis ramique tomentosi. Fol. sessilia, ligulato-oblonga acumine brevi obtust- -usculo, quadriuncialia ultraque cum latitudine 3 partium uncie, basi nervo medio à supino tomentosa, Juniora utringue per totum nervum, ceterum villosiuscula, Capitula oblongo-turbinata subtriuncialia ; involucrum inferné squarrosum, bracteis exterioribus margine fitsco-sphacelatis, interioribus line- ari-spathulatis laminá erectá, extüs obsolete subrubentibus. | Corolla labium latius biaristatum, plumá aristarum superne subflavescente, inferné purpuras- cente; labium angustius uniaristatum extúsque plumosum. Anth. fusce, lineares. Stylus strictus, compressus, ochroleucus: stigma dciculare, pur- pureum, Excepting one species, found in Abyssinia by Mr. Bruce, „ће whole genus Pnorza, as far as it is now known, belongs to the Cape of Good Hope and the adjoining regions. Clu- sius, indeed, says, that the specimen described and figured by him, and cited by Mr. Brown to the present species, was, according to the account of the sailors, brought from Ма- dagascar. "Тһе whole natural order, with a few exceptions, and those considerably within the tropic, is stated by Mr. Brown to һе confined to the southern hemisphere, where it is very extensively diffused, not only in latitude and longi- tude, but also in elevation. | Of the present species, which grows at the bases of the mountains near Cape Town, we have found no figure from the living plant. It borders extremely close upon P. Lepi- docarpon, which is described as differing principally by the branches and leaves being free from pubescence, and the latter being roughish and shining, and also by the blade of the inner bractes of the involucre being not only beset by a long black-purple pubescence at the edge, but like- wise at the back. . Ап upright robust shrub, about 3 ог 4 feet in height, branching from the axils of the upper leaves: upper part of the stem and branches downy. Leaves opaque, ligulately oblong, scattered, sessile, patent, about 4 inches and a half long, 2 of an inch broad, downy underneath at the base, younger ones conspicuously so along the whole mid- rib on both sides, and slightly so over the other part. Flower-heads single, terminal, upright, turbinate, about 3 ‘inches deep; involucre pale, particoloured, squarrose down- -wards ; inner bractes linear-spatulate, faintly red without, «covered at the back with a close-pressed silky pubescence, the broader part straight and bearded by a black-purple pubescence round the edge. The feathery mass which pre- sents itself at the mouth of the involucre is formed by the ‘pubescence of the awns of the corollas, and is ofa light tawny yellow colour. Broader lip of the corolla two-awned, with awns feathered on the inside, and longer than the blade of -the lip. Style pubescent. Stigma acicular, purple. A greenhouse plant; thriving best in sandy bog-earth. "The drawing was made from a plant in the possession of Lord Stanley, which flowered in April last. —— а Broadest lip of the corolla. 5 The narrowest. с Stamens, as they “are situated in the blades of the two lips. d Bearded germen. e Style. J Stigma. 209 TEEDIA lucida. Glossy-leaved Teedia. —— DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. ScrormuLaria. Jussieu gen. 117. SCROPHULARINE, Brown prod. 433. TEEDIA. Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. hypocrateriformis, 5-fida, obtusa. Stylus brevissimus persistens. Васса 2-loc., polysperma. Rudolphi in Schrader’s journal. 2. 989. А Herbacea. Differt Carrarta, corollá non campanulaté laciniis acutis, sed hypocrateriformi laciniis obtusis; stylo brevissimo persistente, nec calycem superante deciduo. Васса, пес capsulá. 14. loc. cit. —_— __ ---A+ nn T. lucida, foliis glabris. Teedia lucida. Rudolphi in loc. си. Persoon syn. 2. 166. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 47. Capraria lucida. Hort. Kew. 2.353. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 394. Borckhausenia lucida, Roth cat. bot. 2, 56. А Biennis? graveolens. Caulis ramosus 4-gonus angulis decursü petiolo~ rum marginatis, internodiis brevioribus foliis, faciebus 2 oppositis alterna angustioribus. Folia opposita, remotiora, subbiuncialia, oblongo-ovata, аси- minata; petioli alati, semiamplezicaules, triplo breviores lamina vel magls. Panicule foliose decussate, pedunculis oppositis axillaribus tetragonis trifforis sublongioribus foliis, pedicellis 2 extimis rar subdivisis: bractem 2 lineari- attenuate арртезив opposite ad basin trichotomia ; 2 minores suboppositae decurrentes modögue "Nori force circa medium pedicellorum eztimorum, una paulo altits adnata alterá. Cal. herbaceus, 3 uncia: altus, segmentis subulatis erectis. Cor. rosea, decidua; tubus subrectus. purpurascens, paulo altior calyce, antic? prope basin intrusus, posticà gibbosior, intús radiis pictus 5 ver- ticalibus albis inggualibus preter 5tum brevissimum parallelis cum staminibus p faux pilosa ; limbus horizontalis, stellá purpureä juxla fuucem, laciniis ovatis obtusis, erqualibus, Fil. alt? inclusa tubo, brevissima : anth, didyme, ovato- subrotunda ; pollen ochroleucum. Pistillum tolum viride, brevius staminibus: stigma subpileatum, convexum, ellipticum, obliquum, transversa obsoletiits bifi- dum. Васса globosa, nigra, magnitudine pisi majoris, basi cinctum calyce. À genus of the same natural order as the common Fig- worts (Scropnutariz) of our own country, and partaking of the same disagreeable smell when rubbed or bruised. Тһе present species, the only published one, is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was introduced by Mr. Masson in 1774. Recorded in the Hortus Kewensis as a biennia] greenhouse plant, flowering from April to May. We are not aware that it has ever been figured in any other work. VOL. Ш. L Ап herbaceous branching species, іп the specimen wé saw, about two feet high. Stem and branches square- cornered, the corners, with a narrow green edge, formed by the rim of the wings of the decurrent petioles, intervals shorter thati the leaves. Leaves distantly decussated, about 2 itiches long, oblong-ovate, acuminate: petioles winged, halfstemclasping, three times shorter than the blade, or тоге: Panicles leafy, decussated ; peduncles oppositely ax- illary, squäre-cornered threeflowered, rather longer than the leaves, the two outer sometimes subdivided: bractes 2, linear tapered, close pressed, opposite, placed at the fork of the trichotomy; other two sinaller, nearly opposite, decurrent and sometimes flowerbearing, situated about the middle of each of the outer pedicles, one adhering а little higher up than the other. Calyx herbaceous, about а quarter of an inch deep, with subulate upright segments. , Corolla hypocrateriform, rose-coloured, deciduous; tube straightish, ptirple, dinted in front a little above the base, on the opposite side protuberant, marked on the inside with five unequal vertical pointed rays, 4 of which are parallel with the stamens; faux pubescent; limb horizontal flatly expanded 5-parted, with a deep purple star close to the ori- fice of the tube, segments ovate obtuse equal. Filaments deeply inclosed in the tube, very short: anthers twin, ovately roundish; pollen cream-coloured. Pistil wholly green, shorter than the stamens: stigma convex, elliptical, slanted, obsoletely and transversely bifid. Berry globular, black, about the size of a large реа ; seeds many, small. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- ley, Brames, and Milne, King’s Road, Parson’s Green. Easily propagated by seed, which it produces freely. —»—— а Calyx. 5 Corolla dissected vertically. е Pistil. ж4- 910 DISA prasinata, Mr. Griffin’s Disa, GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, Nat. ord. Oncminxzm. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 309. Div. I, Anthera adnata subterminalis persistens. Pollinis masse а lobulis angulatis elastic& cohzrentibus; basi affixe. Brown in Hort. Kew. са. 2. 5. 188, DISA. Cor. ringens: galea basi unicalcarata v. saccata, petala in: teriora columne accreta. Labellum ecalcaratum. Idem loc. cit, Div. Calcare longiore, . D. prasinata, galea obtusa; calcare oblongo dorso subcarinato-convexe, ventre concaviusculo appresso germini sublongiori, labello lineari acuti- usculo, spica laxa, bracteis floribus subbrevioribus. Caulis sesquipedalis, crassitudine реплер mediocris, totus foliosus, erectus, virens. Fol. amplexicaulia, lancealatim ligulata, erectiuscula, sparsa, dis. tantia, intervallis longiora, lætè virentia, decrescentia, cariná crassiore, in- ‚ferne rubentia presertim inferiora, longiora sub9uncialia, latitudine 3 partium uncie. Spica lazè subcylindracea, 6-uncialis v. ишта, Bractes convoluto- lanceolate, erecta, cuspidatg, margine baseos membranaceo, apiculo rubra. Flores inodori, cum germine simul unciales, Cor, viridans, resupinata, rin; gens, patentissima: galea lata, cuneato-obovata, erecto-fornicata, parüm brevior calcare, intits saturatè rosea, rubedine virorem extern perlucente у calcar virens compressiusculum : pet, lateralia 2 inferiora (uti galea, ex- teriora ) lineari-oblonga, obtusula, depresso margine conveza, labellum versis obliquata, retroflexa, modó ut ex apicibus pone germen contingant, chloroleuca bast intits maculis et punctis roseis: labellum istis equilongum, duplo angus- tius, viride, deflecum, levigatum, sensim versùs apicem incrascescens, cone ®ехит: pet. lateralia 2 superiora (uti labellum, interiora) crassiuscula, viridia, galed inclusa, erecta, à plano opposita, basi lata, indè abruptiùs angustata, lanceolata, obliquato-obtusa, emarginata, ultra basin punticulis irrorata, Anthera per summam columnam supinata ; cuculli paries erecta, 4 parte galee prozimá incompleta, latere utroque replicato-auriculata atque cum petalis 2 intimis commissa: pollinis massze clavate, luteg, ex vesiculis varie pressis loricatim dispositis. Stigma obligue prominens trans pedem columnæ supra basin Jabelli. A genus confined to the Cape of Good Hope and the adjoining regions. Twenty-eigbt species have been enu- merated by Willdenow. Two only appear to have found their way into the collections of this country, before the present unrecorded one, lately introduced by Mr, Griffin, with whom it flowered this spring. It comes near to both rufescens and bracteata; but is at once distinguished from the first, by an oblong spur mich is shorter than the ger- L 4 men; from the latter by a spike, in which the bractes are shorter than the flowers; from both by a narrow linear sub- acuminate label. We did not inspect the root; but learned from Mr. Griffin, that it was a round undivided tuber. Stem about a foot and half high, with the thickness of a common pen, upright, green, leafy quite to the spike. Leaves stemelasp- ing, lanceolately ligulate, scattered, almost upright, stand- ing pretty far asunder, but much longer than the intervals, grass-green, decrescent upwards, keeled by a thickish mid- rib, red at the lower part, especially those nearest the root, longer ones about 9 inches in length, and about ¿ of an inch broad. Spike many-flowered, subcylindrically but loosely elongated. Bractes convolute, lanceolate, pointed, upright, somewhat shorter than the flowers, having near the base a colourless membranous margin, at their end а red point. · Flowers without smell, including the germen about an inch long. Corolla greenish, resupinate, ringent, spreading: galea broad, obovate, upright, arched, but little shorter than its spur, a deep rose-colour on the inside, which colour shines through the green of the outside, spur slightly com- pressed green: tico lateral petals of the lower lip (like the galea, exterior) linearly oblong, greenish white, some- what blunt, depressed at the margin, convex, slanting towards the labellum, sometimes bent so far back as for their points to meet behind the germen, stained and dotted at their bases with purple: labellum of the same length as these but twice as narrow, green, dependent in front of the germen, linear, polished, thickening towards the end and convex: two upper lateral petals interior (as is the labellum, with which they agree in colour and substance) placed within the arch of the galea, and but little shortcr than that, upright, standing broadways in relation to each other, with their inner edge towards the galea, very broad at the base, and from thence abruptly tapered, lanceolate, with a slantedly blunt point, emarginate, dotted above the base. Anther veversed over the summit of the column; its outer wall upright, incomplete at the end towards the galea, eared on each side, ears reversely folded, and let into a hollow at the base of the two inner petals. — а An outline of the corolla, with the galea forced back, 5 Anther. 211 CITRUS nobilis. £. minor. Dwarf Mandarin Orange- Tree. — -- POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Nat. ord. AURANTIA. Jussieu gen. 259. Div. II. Fructus polysper- mus baccatus. Folia punctata. — Aurantia vera, у CITRUS. Си. 5-fidus parvus. Pet. 5, basi lata, inserta circà discum hypogynum, patentia. Stam. eidem disco imposita: anth. circitér 20, filamentis connatis in varia corpora, in cylindrum dispositis basi appressis. Stig. globosum. Васса cortice carnoso vesiculis (glandulis miliaribus oleum fragrantissimum fundentibus Garin.) innumeris papuloso, multilocularis, loculis 9-18, membraná propria distinctis, intüs cellulosis pulposis & 1-2- spermis: sem. cartilaginea angulo interiori affixa. Arbores aut frutices sem- pervirentes ; fol. petiolo sep? marginato ; spine in pluribus axillares solitarie ; peduncoli axillares aut terminales, 1-o. ти рога. Embryo rectus assurgens, » C. Aurantii vulgaris semine triplex distinctus nullá membraná interposita. uss. С. nobilis, petiolis sublinearibus, fructú depresso. Hort, Kew. ed. 2. 4. 490. Citrus nobilis. Lour. cochinch. 2. 466. Acrumen nobile chinense. Galles. citr. 175. {=} major. Andrews’s reposit. 608. (8) minor. Supra. . . Arbor mediocris, ramis ascendentibus. Folia lanceolata, integerrima, sparsa, mitida, obscuro-viridia, graveolentia 3 petiolis linearibus. Flos albus, 5-petalus, odoratus; pedunculis multjfloris terminalibus. Васса compresso- rotunda, subnovemlocularis, intàs et foris rubra, cortice crasso. succaso, dulci, eduli, tuberculoso-inequali. — Sinensi vulgari duplo major est, diametro 5 pollices equante. Citrorum omnium gratissima. Loureiro de varietate (a) majore: loc, cit, , An entirely distinct species from the common China- Orange (Crrrus durantium). In the large variety (a) the fruit is deemed the most valuable of the genus, and called the Mandarin-Orange in virtue of its superiority. Both the large and small varieties were introduced by Sir Abraham Hume, by whom Mr. Edwards was favoured with the specimen from which the drawing has been made. Native of Cochinchina; cultivated at Canton. The fruit of the large sort sometimes measures five inches in diameter, and has a rind of deep saffron-colour. In 4urantium the petiole of the leaf is edged by broad wings and of an obcordate form; in nobilis it is linear with an extremely narrow straight edging; in the former the fruit is nearly spherical, in the Н latter considerably depressed, so as to be of greater breadth than depth. The plant not having been yet cultivated in any of those countries from which we are supplied with oranges, the fruit has not found a place among the articles of commerce in this country, But we see no reason why it should not in course of time; it is produced as freely as that of the others in the conservatory at Wormleybury. We have heard that the tree does well at the Cape of Good Hope. The dwarf variety we suspect can scarcely be con- sidered of any consequence but as an ornamental shrub, —— a The calyx. b Stamens, с Pistil and hypogynous pedestal, I | ee 212 ANTHOCERCIS littorea. Fellow Anthocercis. —A DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. Sotanem. Jussieu gen. 124. Ѕоглхеж, Brown prod. 443. Sect. II. Corolla non pli. Cata, regularis. Stam. didynama. Embryo levitér arcuatus, Pericarpium capsulare у, baccatum. ANTHOCERCIS. Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. campanulata, tubo basi coe arctatá, staminiferá; limbo 5-partito, quali. Siam. inclusa, cum rudi- mento quinti. Stig. capitato-emarginatum. Caps. 2-loc., 2-valv., valvarum marginibus inflexis, placente parallela insertis. Sem: reticulata. Frutices Blabriusculi. Fol. alterna, petiolo basive аНетийй cum ramo articulata, crassa, nunc glanduloso-punctata, Flores axillares, subsolitarii, pedunculo minut? bracteato, ad articulum sepiüs solubili. Cor. alba v. flava, speciosa, tubo intàs striato, limbo guandóque 6-8-partito. Brown 1. c. 448. A. littorea, foliis obovatis impunctatis margine levibus utrinque ramulisque glaberrimis, corolle laciniis tubo longioribus, capsula oblonga calycem bis superante. Brown іл Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 4. 53. Anthocercis littorea, Табаға. nov. holl. 2. 19. t. 158. ‚ Brown prod. 448, Frutex orgyalis, ramulis erectis subangulatis. Folia integerrima aut den- tata. Flores axillares terminalesque solitarii aut in racemis paucifloris, pedun- culo communi breviori pedicellis suprà eundem articulatis ad summum incras- satis, nonnunguàm ejusdem pedunculi communis apice congestis umbellam simulantibus, singulis sub basi stipatis bracteis 3-4, squamulisque caducis acutis, Cal. semiófidas, erectus, laciniis acútis. Cor. sulphurea, tubo intús Purpureo-lineato, wiz duplo longiore calyce, limbo patente, laciniis lanceolatis, «qualibus, tubo longioribus. Stam, tubo inclusa, basin wersüs inserta; fil. infra latiusculis villosis: anth. 2-loc., ovatis. Germ. superum: stylus teres : stig. subcapitatum. Caps, ovato-oblonga, suprà attenuata; sem. plurima reniformia, scrobiculata, centrali affixa veceptaculo, adnato utrinque valvula- rum marginibus introflexis, planis, cum eodem dissepimentum constituentibus, Labillardiére loc. cit. eS eo An extremely rare plant in our collections, which we have been enabled to publish from a specimen that flowered in the hothouse at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith, in May last. А native of Lewin's Land, on the south-west coast of New Holland, whence it was first introduced by Mr. Р. Good in 1803. The representation of this species in M. Labillarditre’s work is from a dried subject. It is mentioned as a shrub, growing to the height of five or six feet, with upright some- what cornered smooth branches. Leaves loosely scattered, thick, not punctured, spathulately obovate, tapered into а kind of petiole, connected by a joint with the branch, finely chagreened, according to Labillardiére sometimes dentate ; in the specimen we saw none exceeded an inch in length. Flowers axillary, chiefly solitary, pedicles mounted by a joint upon thicker peduncles; bractes small, deciduous. Calyx green, half-fivecleft, tube narrow, pentangular, seg- ments patent, subulate, shorter than the tube and faux of the corolla. Corolla palish yellow, monopetalous, funnel- formly radiate: tube very short: faux broadly cupular, va- riegated by close brown vertical stripes within: (іт) sinuately sixparted, stellate, twice the length of the faux, segments linear-lanceolate, convex, margin revolute. Fila- ments much shorter than the faux, villous at the base, ru- diment of the fifth villous: anthers yellow, round, didymous. Style longer than stamens, white, inclined, filiform, con- tinuous with the pyramidal germen; stigma ‘capitate, slant- ing, villous, transversely bifid with unequal lobes. Although Mr. Brown has assorted this genus to the Solanee, he does not appear to think that tribe its final destination. ——— а Calyx. 5 Corolla dissected vertically. с Pistil. 913 GLOXINIA speciosa. Rough-leaved Brasil Gloxinia. — DIDYNAMIA 4NGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. CAMPANULACEE? Jussieu gen. 165. GLOXINIA. Cal. superus, 5-phyllus. Cor. campanulata limbo ob- liquo. Filamenta cum rudimento quinti receptaculo inserta. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 229. G. speciosa, foliis cano-hirsutis ellipticis oblongisve crenatis, pedunculis erectis longioribus flore; segmentis calycis angulari-acuminatis pubes- centibus. Gloxinia speciosa. Loddige’s botan. cabinet. n. 28. Herbacea, perennis? Caulis totus foliosus, brevis? erectus. Folia oppo- айа subovato-v. subrotundo-elliptica v. oblonga, majora 8-uncialia et ultra latitudine sesunciali et ultra, obtuse subacuminata, nervosa nervis crassis suc» culentis subtàs varicosissimis, тойд infra subpurpurascentia, infima patentis- sima humi appressa (anne semper? ) : petioli crassi, patentissimi, supra canali- стан. Flores numerosi, speciost, violacei, solitario vel per trinos azillis superiorum diminutorum foliorum racemoso-digesti г pedunculi teretes, crassi, erecti, pilosi. Germ. breve, turbinatum, pubescens, Cal. erectus, germinis continuus, 5-partitus, segmento summo in plano cum pedunculo arrecto, sub» majore, distartiore, reliquis recurvo-patentibus. Cor. refracta, nutans, ses- quiuncialis, elongato-campanulata, obligue bilabiata, in dorso planior cum sulco "medio elevato pilosiusculo, cæterùm glabra, subtüs superné ventricosa pallidague 5 tubus brevis gibbosus, bast obversus segmento postico galyois faux maxima, intits areolá albä рісі lineis punctisque atropurpureis ; limbus brevis 5-partitus, labia superiore бодо reflexo, inferiore trilobo porrectiore : lobi in universum "rotundati, transversim latiores, Glandule epigyne 6 dentiformes, breves luteola, cum filamentis alterna, stylum basi cingentes. Fil. imo tuba inserta, subequalia, alba, glabra, basi bulbosa; rudimentum quinti pon? stylum y nonnunguam provenit sextum completum ante stylum und cum cateris con- nivens: anth. ochroleuca in unam cernuam coadunate, didymoesubglobose, loculorum receptaculo reniformi crasso subdiaphano. Stylus albus, ascendens, uncialis, fistulosus, basi ДЕНА caterúm glaber: stigma hians, ore trans- verse latiore, intús pruinoso. Guoxinia differs from Martynia in having a superior instead of an inferior calyx, and was first separated from the latter genus by the learned and sagacious L'Heritier. It differs from Gesnerta in not having a tubular corolla. The present species makes the second now on record. It is very ornamental, and continues in blossom for a month or more together. Lately introduced from the Brasils. The drawing was taken from a plant which flowered this sum- mer in the hothouse at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith. VOL. Ш. M A perennial? herbaceous plant. Stem short? upright, leafy all the way пр. Leaves opposite, subovately or broadly elliptic or else oblong, crenate, hirsute, greyish green, the larger ones 8 inches or more in length, 6 or more across, obtusely and shortly pointed, succulently nerved, often purple underneath where the nerves are very prominent, lowermost lying flat on the ground: petioles thick, out- spread. Flowers many, in an upright leafy terminal raceme, violet-coloured, solitary, or by threes in the axils of the upper diminished leaves: peduncles upright, round, thick, pubescent, longer than the flower. Germen short, turbi- nate, pubescent. Calyx upright, continuous with the ger- men, five-parted, segments angularly acuminate, upper one in a line with the peduncle, rather the largest, distant, the rest patent and recurved. Corolla refracted, horizontally nodding, long-campanulate, about an inch and a half deep, slantingly bilabiate, flattened at_the back with a pubescent middle ridge, otherwise smooth, ventricose and pale be- neath; tube very short, gibbous, with the base facing the upright segment of the calyx; faux constituting by far the larger portion of the corolla, white on the lower part of the inside and spotted with purple; limb 5-parted, short; upper lip two-lobed reflectent, lower 3-lobed projecting: all the lobes rounded, and broader than long. Epigynous glands or corpuscles 6, shaped like teeth, small, yellowish, alter- nate with the filaments, surrounding the base of the style. Filaments inserted at the base of the tube, nearly equal, white, smooth, bulbous: the rudiment of the fifth is placed behind the style: we saw in one flower a sixth perfect stamen in front of the style: anthers cream-coloured, united, cernuous, nearly globular, didymous, with a kidney-shaped semitransparent thick fieshy receptacle. Style white, as- cendent, an inch long, tubular, bearded at the base: stigma hiant, broadest crossways, frosted within. — Á—— а Тһе stamens, with the rudiment of the fifth and two of igynous glands. ё The pistil. ! and two of the epigyno 214 TEEDIA pubescens. Hairy Teedia, — DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord, SCROPHULARIA. Jussieu gen. 117. бспорновлвіхж, Brown prod. 433. TEEDIA. Supra fol. 209. T. pubescens, foliis utrinque pubescentibus. Burchell MSS. Radix Белиз? ramosa. Planta bipedalis 1044 pubescentiä (ad lentem glandulosá) molli, pingui (Hyoscvamı) vestita, diffusa. Odor teter (minis tamen quàm in Т. lucida). Rami pauci ascendentes tetragoni farcti; inter- nodia foliis breviora. Folia opposita, ovato-lanceolata acuta horizontalitór patentia, attenuata in petiolos semiamplezicaules decurrentes, ramos? venosa, subrugosa, serrulata : Ногаћа sessilia. Pedunculi universales axilares tri- Hori patentes: partiales 2 laterales basi bracteá parva sessili ovato-lanceolatá suffulti, et gerentes in medio bracteas 2 parvas oppositas ; intermedius brevior nudus. Flores inodori majores T. lucidw. Cal. ad basin usque 5.fidus, cam- panulatus : lacinie oblongo-lanceolate tubum corolla equantes. Cor. extis pubescens hy ocrateriformis regularis albo-rosea, maculis 5 atropurpureis in Sauce hirsuta decurrentibus : Yaciniæ rotundate patentes : tubus subincurvus, basi parte proná (о. sub staminibus longioribus) gibbus, intàs atro-purpureus, Stam. in medio tubi sita, Fil. brevissima, Anth. ovate pallid? flava. Pis- tillum staminibus brevius. Germ. globoso-depressum, ad basin à parte superiore nectario inconspicuo semiannulatum : stylus brevissimus: stigma capitatum, obliquum, Васса (capsula baccata non dehiscens) globosa semipollicaris glaberrima nigro-purpurea bilocularis; sem. in receptaculo parietal inserta, numerosa nigra ovalia scrobiculata. Burchell MSS. Ап unpublished species, found by Mr. Burchell on rocky mountains in the district of Lange Kloof and in Auteniqua Land, at the Cape of Good Hope. Тһе drawing was taken from a plant which flowered in the greenhouse belonging to that gentleman, at Fulham. It may be distinguished at first sight from TeeoıA lucida by the pubescence and larger flower. We are obliged to Mr. Burchell for the above description. Biennial? About two feet high, furred with a soft unc- tuous pubescence, like that which belongs to the Henbanes (Hyoscyam1); the rank herbaceous smell peculiar to the tribe is here weaker than in lucida. Branches few, ascendent, 4-cornered, with sharp corners, solid; intervals shorter than the leaves. Leaves opposite, ovately lanceolate, pointed, spreading horizontally, tapered below into half- M stemclasping decurrent petioles, branchingly veined, slightly wrinkled, serrulate: floral ones sessile. Peduncles axillary, 3-flowered, spreading: pedicles, two lateral ones furnished at the base with a small ovately lanceolate bracte and with two other small opposite ones placed about their middle; middle one shorter and bracteless. Flowers larger than in lucida, without smell. Calyx campanulate five-parted : segments oblong-lanceolate equalling the tube of the corolla, Corolla pubescent on the outside, hypocrateriform regular palely rose-coloured, with 5 deep purple spots that extend themselves down the faux, which is hirsute: segments rounded, spreading: tube bent slightly inwards, gibbous at the part below the two longest stamens, Stamens inserted about the middle of the tube. Filaments exceedingly short. Anthers ovate, pale yellow. Pistil shorter than the sta- mens. Germen globular and depressed, half encircled at the base of the upper portion by an inconspicuous segment of a ring: style very short: stigma capitate, slanting. Berry globular, smoath, blackish purple, bilocular: seeds inserted into a receptacle fixed to the inner wall of cells, humerous, oval, black, scored. — а Calyx. 5 Corolla dissected vertically. с Pistil. 915 PANCRATIUM calathinum. Chalice-crowned Sea- Daffodil. — HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Narcıssı. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. Germen inferum. AMARYLLIDEE. Brown prod. 296. Sect. 1. PANCRATIUM. Supra vol. 1. fol. 43. Div. Corona incisuris staminiferis. P. calathinum, 1-plurifiorum; spatha herbacea; limbo erectiusculo turbi- nato-campanulato parúm breviore tubo obtusé triquetro stricto; corona maxima cyathiformi haud multúm breviore limbo, sexiés excisa: foliis acutis. Pancratium calathiforme. Redouté liliac. 358. Pancratium narcissiflorum. Jacq. fragm. 86. n. 970. 1. 198. Folia subsena, infra longè fistuloso-vaginantia, suprà lorato-lanceolata acuminata plana, breviora scapo, 1-2 uncias lata. Scapus sesqui-bipedalis, ancen + Spatha equalis tubo, lanceolata, obtusa, erecta. Flores sessiles, in- JSundibuliformes, candidi, fragrantissimi. Tubus triuncialis v. ultra, virens.: limbus albus, supern? recurvus, д corond penitàs ad basin discretus ; lacinijs angustis, lineari-lanceolatis, carinatis, inferne involuto-canaliculatis. Corona alba, campanulato-cylindrica, transverse sublatior, sexiós excisa incisuris staminiferis, lobis intermediis rotundatis eroso-dentatis medio fissis: intüs radiis senis viridibus staminum continuis notata, Stamina ægualia lobis corone, 3 superiora introfracta, 3 inferiora inflezo-conniventia ; filam, subua lata, alba; antherz polline vitellino flavicantes. Capsula bulbisperma. This fine species has not found a place either in Will- denow's Species Plantarum, or in the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis. Jacquin says that it has migrated to the gardens of Vienna from those of England. Yet we have neither met with it, nor heard of its being in any other col- lection in this country, but that of Mr. Griffin at South Lambeth; where the specimen from which the drawing was made flowered in the tan-pit of the hothouse in May last. In the same collection we were also enabled to assure our- selves of the specific distinction between the present and the one we had published as a variety of it in the 1561st article of Curtis's Magazine, and which we have since detached by the title of nutans, in a paper on this genus in the third volume of the Journal of Science and of the Arts. Both plants are native of the Brasils, Leaves about six, shorter than the scape, fistular and sheathing below, where they have the appearance of a stem of some length, above bifariously patent, lorately lanceolate, pointed, flat, from one to two inches broad. Scape ancipital, from a foot and a half to two feet high. Spathe with one or several flowers, herbaceous, lanceolate, rounded at the points, upright, equal to the tube. Flowers sessile, funnelform, white, extremely fragrant : tube obtusely triquetral, straight, З inches or more in length, green: limb wholly white, nearly upright, turbinately campanulate, but little shorter than the tube, recurved at the top, entirely detached from the crown, segments narrow, linearly lanceolate, keeled, involutely channelled below. Crown white, cyathiform, large, somewbat wider across, nearly as long as the limb, cut above into six lobes, incisures staminiferous lobes rounded erosely denticulate, shallowly cleft in the centre; on the inside, marked with six green rays descending from the base of the filaments. Stamens equal to the lobes of the crown, three upper ones infracted and pointing down the inside of the crown towards the bottom, 3 lower con- nivent and inflectent; filaments white, subulate; anthers with deep yellow pollen. Capsule bulbispermous. “Ҡул У 916 CALLISTACHYS lanceolata. Spear-leaved Callistachys. —— DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Lecumtnosm, Jussieu gen. 345. Div. IV. Corolla irregu- laris papilionacea. Legumen bivalve. ^ Arbores aut frutices ; folia simplicia aut ternata aut impari-pinnata. CALLISTACHYS. Cal. bilabiatus. Cor. vexillo erecto; alis èt carinis demissis. Stam. disco inserta. Stylus incurvus. Stig. simplex, acutum. Legum. stipitatum, lignosum, apice dehiscens, antè maturitatem multiloculare! polyspermum. Frutices Australasia. Fol. simplicia, sub- verticillata, mucronulata. — Stipuke intrafoliaceæ, membranaceæ. - Flores тасетові, terminales, bracteati. Ventenat тат. 115, C. lanceolata, foliis lanceolatis, acutis. Ventenat loc. cit. Callistachya lanceolata. Smith in trans. linn. soc. 9. 266, Caulis erectus, teres, ramosus, foliatus, sericeo-pubescens, tripedalia а ultra, subproliferus ramis subverticillato-approximatis patentibus. Folia sub- verticillatim bina trina v. quaterna, patentissima, brev& petiolata, stipulata, lanceolata, pluriós angustiora quàm hus, sericea, nervosa, reticulato-venostt, subtis albidiora quàm suprà, mucrone præfiza; petioli brevissimi, basi arti- culati, decurrentes : stipule gemin®, intra basin petioli inserta, eoque parüm longiores, recurvate, lineari-lanceolatz, membranacez, nigricantes, eztüs serice@, perstantes. Racemi ramorum terminales, simplices, solitarii, erecti, ovnto-oblongi, conferti, longiores foliis, bracteati; pedunculus infra breve nudus. Flores “aureo-flavicantes, magnitudine Соготет arborescentis: pedicelli flore breviores, sericei. Bracteæ lanceolate, acute, membranose sericee, nigricantes, concave, una nd basin pedicelli alie supra, caduce. Cal. equalis, sericeus, longitudine dimidii corolle, acutus, labio infimo tri- fido patente. Cor. petala brev& unguiculata; vexillum erectum, suborbicula- tum, emarginatum, basi rubro-maculatum: ale deffeze, ‚ equales vexillo, cuneiformes, includentes carinam; carina obtusa, brevior alis, petalis utroque (Әле liberis medio coherentibus. Stamina receptaculo corolla inserta, сағілд inclusa. Germ. pedicellatum, inflatum, hirsutissimum. Sem. 6-8, reniformia, atra. A rare and handsome greenhouse shrub, introduced since the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis, we believe from the collections in France. First imported into Europe by Captain Baudin, the chief of the late French expedition of discovery to New Holland. Caruistachys was instituted by M. Ventenat, who had included in it the бомрноговгим ellipticum of Labillardiére, which Mr. Brown has removed to Охуговшм. Another species was also incorporated in the genus by Sir James Smith in the Linnean transactions, under the specific name of cuneifolia, and this Mr. Brown knows decidedly to be no congener of the present species. But in the concluding part of the Prodromus of the Flora of New Holland, other species, not at present published, will appear. The prin- cipal distinction of CaLLisracHYs from Охутовтом consists in the seed-vessel of the first being divided into several one seeded cells while young, the partitions of which are obli- terated in the ripe pod. No species of it has been recorded іп any general System of Vegetables. Stem 3-5 feet high, leafy, pubescent, branching, the branches approaching nearly to a whorl, as in a proliferous plant. Leaves nearly opposite or in whorls of 2, 3, or 4, spreading, shortly petioled, lanceolate, several times narrower than long, silky, nerved, reticulately veined, whiter under- neath, mucronately pointed: petioles jointed at the base, de- current: stipules two to each leaf, longer than petioles, linear- lanceolate, blackish, silky on the outside, spreading, re- curved, persistent. Racemes terminal, simple, solitary, upright, ovately oblong, crowded, longer than the leaves. Flowers of a golden yellow, about the size of those of the Bladder-Senna; pedicles shorter than the flowers, silky. Bractes lanceolate, sharp-pointed, membranous, silky, nearly black, one placed at the base of the pedicle, the others upon it near the top, caducous. Calyz silky, equal, half as long as the corolla, pointed, with a trifid spreading lower lip. Petals of the corolla shortly unguiculate; vezr- illum or standard, nearly orbicular upright, emarginate, stained at the base with red: alce or wings, deflectent equal to the vexillum, inclosing the carina or keel, which is shorter and obtuse. Germen pedicled, inflated covered with thick shaggy silklike pubescence. Seeds 6-8, black as jet. The drawing was taken from a plant which flowered in June last, in the nursery of Messrs. Colvilles, in the King’s Road, Chelsea. —— а Calyx. b Vexillum. с One of the ale or wings. 4 Carina ог Keel. e The stamens. f The pistil. еч 917 GENISTA canariensis, Canary Genista or Cytisus. —- DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Nat. ord. Lecuminosm. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V. Corolla irregu- laris papilionacea, Legumen 1-loc., Z-valv. Frutices aut herbe ; Jolia simplicia aut ternata aut rariüs digitata; stipulæ nunc subnullæ, nunc cone spicuæ imo petiolo adnate aut ab eodem distincte. GENISTA. Cal. bilabiatus $: dentibus binis superioribus brevissimis, У ит oblongum, a pistillo staminibusque deorsúm reflexum, Willd. sp. рі. 3. 936. Div. Inermes. С. canariensis, foliis ternatis oblongis subtüs pubescentibus pilis patulis, pedunculis multifloris terminalibus, ramis angulatis. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 936. Genista canariensis. Linn. sp. pl. 2. 997. Hort. Kew. 3. 13. ed. 2. 4. 258. Schulte obs. bot. 145. Cytisus І, Clus. hist. 1. 94. Frutex nunc orgyalis, villoso-canescens, ramosus, foliosus, ramis striato- angulosis. Folia numerosa, undique sparsa, ternata, foliolis X иное longis oblongo-obovatis, mucronatis, firmulis, utrinque willosis. Flores lutei, fra- grantes, in ramis paniculatim digesti ; ‚ pedunculi albidi, villosi, filiformes, graciles, angulares, plures, axillares, infra flores diminuto-foliatt, racemo subcorymboso plurifloro terminati; pedicelli breviores calyce, bracteolis 2 linearibus. hirsutis stipati. Cal. parvus, albo-villosus, tubulosus, bilabiato- issus, labium superius bifidum lobulis subulatis distantibus, inferius por- rectum trifidum lobulis linearibus, Corollæ vexillum reffezum, oblongum ; ale lineares, angusie, vexillum carinamque aquantes ;_ carina pallida, villosa, dipelala, porrecta, petalis lineari-oblongis suólatioribus alis, apice ^ rotundatis, superne versús obliquatis, basi supra ungues gibbosis. Stam, monadelpha. Stylus setaceus, supern2 ascendens, glaber: stigma obtusum, compressum : germen lineare, virens, sericeum. А species native of Spain and of the Canaries, and a long standing inhabitant of our greenhouses. The present plant corresponds with that which has been delineated by Clusius as the Spanish one; the specimen from the Canaries, deposited by Mr. Masson in the Banksian Herbarium, has a larger foliage and blossom, and a ferruginous pubescence, but agrees in all other respects. The species comes very close to the hardier Montpellier Cytisus (Genista candicans) so frequent in our shrubberies, and which becomes in dry sandy soils spontaneous. It is seldom permitted to attain the full Size, but is renewed frequently, the young plants being more compact and sightly, as well as better suited to the green- VOL. ит, N house, where it must be kept in the winter. Known to have been cultivated here іп 1656. A tall upright shrub, when left to its full growth. Branches and foliage furred by a white villous nap, the former striately cornered and upright. Leaves numerous, scattered on all sides, ternate; leaflets about + of an inch long, obovately oblong, mucronate, rather firm, furred on both sides. Flowers fragrant, yellow, in several, or even many racemes, forming a panicle or corymb at the ends of the branches: peduncles axillary, upright, filiform, white, cornered, leafy below the flower, their leaves smaller than those on the branches and occasionally simple; pedicles shorter than the calyx, with two furred linear bractelets near to the flower. Calyx small, furred, tubular, bilabiate; upper lip bifid, segments subulate, wide apart; lower lip trifid, segments linear contiguous. Vexillum of the corolla oblong, reflectent; ale equal in length to that as well as the carina, linear, narrow: carina furred, paler, 2-petalled, pointing forwards, petals linearly oblong, a little broader than in the alæ, rounded at the point and slanting upwards, gibbous at the base above the unguis. Stamens monadel- phous. Style setaceous, ascendent above, smooth: stigma an obtuse point: germen linear, silky, green. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Col- villes, in the King’s Road, Chelsea. — a The calyx. 6 The vexillum. c One of the ale. d The caring: e The Btamens. / The pistil ч 218 STENANTHERA pinifolia, Fir-leaved Stenanthera. — PENTANDRIA MONOGYNTA. Nat, ord. Eracrinez. Brown prodr. 535. Sect. I. Germinis loculi monospermi. Pericarpium clausum, raro capsulare (?) STENANTHERA. Cal. 5-partitus, multibracteatus, persistens, Cor. hypogyna monopetala, tubulosa, tubo calyce duplo longiore, ventricoso,- intüs absque fasciculis villorum; limbo 5-diviso, brevi, patenti, semibare bato. РИ, laciniis alterna, epipetala, inclusa, carnosa, antheris latiora; anth. simplices, receptaculo unico pollinifero, septum completum, rard marginatum constituente; indivise, longitudinalitér dehiscentes: pollen subglobosum parüm angulatum, Germ. sessile, 5-loc. Stylus 1, Stig. 1. Drupa subexsucca, putamine osseo, solido: sem. albuminosa: embryo teres, rectus, axilis, dimidio albumine longior. Frutex erectus, Fol. alterna, confertissima, acerosa. Flores azillares, erecti, tubo coccinea, limbo flavo-virescenti. Discus hypogynus cyathiformis, integer, Brown prod. 538. Stenanthera pinifolia. Brown loc. cit. Bi-tripedalis subprolifero-ramosus, rigidus. Folia undique sparsa, rigida, subulata, supra hirtiuscula conveza margine revoluto, infra canescentia, mus стопе sphacelato pungente prafiza. ores racemosé aggregati, Bractem scariose, pallide, colyoem imbricatim cingentes, exteriores brevissime, ine teriores texturd calycis parümque breviores lanceolato-acuminate. Cal. dimidio brevior corolla, convoluto-connivens, cuspidatus. Cor. subuncialis intis pilis albis subappressis laxitis pubescens, pilis јижа infra apices nudos laciniarum in barbam deusatis ; limbus erectus pro $ corolla fissus, laciniis lanceolato-ague бита supern? patulis. Fil. alba, plana, lineari-oblonga, duplo breviora limba cujus basi inserta, Anth. oblonga, posti? ab apice appense, breviores fila» mentis. Stylus capillaris, viridis, erectus, glaber, aqualis tubo : stigma capia tellatum, ystulatum : germ. globosum, viride, glabrum, This rare and elegant shrub is indigenous in the neigh- bourhood of Port Jackson, New South Wales, It has not been noticed by any botanist, except by Mr. Brown, in the work above cited. We met with it at Messrs. Col. villes nursery, in the King's Road, Chelsea, where the drawing was taken in last June, Cultivated іп the green · house. The genus belongs to the first of the two sections of Epacridew , that which comprehends the genera more nearly allied to Sryraeuıa, as distinguished from those nearer to Ерасвів, the type of the other section. А simple or one geiled anther separates the members of this order at first N 2 sight from those of the ErıcEz, where the anther is bilo- cular, and of which not more than one or two species have been discovered within the limits of the regions where those Of the present abound. Speaking of the Epacrideo, Mr. Brown says, “ that the “ abundance of this family in Terra Australis constitutes “one of the peculiarifies of its vegetation. About 140 “ species have been already observed, the greater part of “which are found in the principal parallel; the other, * however, continues numerous at the south end of Van “ Diemen’s Island, where several genera appear that have “ not been met with in the other parts; within the tropic “very few species have been observed, and none with ** capsular fruit.” “ Epacridew," he continues, © with the exception of two “ species found in the Sandwich Islands, are confined to ** the Southern hemisphere; several species have been ob- * served in New Zealand, a few in the Society Islands, and * even in the Moluccas: the only species with capsular * fruit found within the tropic, is Ивасорнутддум verticil- “ latum, observed by Labillardiere, in New Caledonia; and * the only plant of the family known to exist іп America, “is an unpublished genus also with capsular fruit, found by * Sir Joseph Banks in Terra del Fuego." Тһе present is yet ап only species of its genus, from 1 to 3 feet high, upright, subproliferous or with ascendent branches placed almost in a whorl. Leaves scattered in all directions, densely crowded, acerose, hard, roughly pubescent above and convex, at the margin revolute, grey underneath, tipped by a sharp sphacelate prickle. Bractes many, fitted to the calyx, scariose, imbricant, pale, outer very short, inner of the same texture as the calyx and nearly as long, lanceolate, pointed. Calyx 5-parted, persistent, half the length of the corolla, connivent, cuspidated. Corolla scar- let below, green above, hypogynous, of one piece, tubular, about an inch long, slightly ventricose, thinly furred on the inside; hair white, flat-pressed, thickened into tufts just below the naked upper part of the five segments: limb 5-parted about $ of the length of the corolla, upright, yel- low and green, segments lanceolate pointed, spreading above. Filaments inserted at the base of the limb, alternate with the segments, enclosed, flat, white, linearly oblong, ж broader than the anthers. Anthers with a single pollini- ferous receptacle constituting a complete (and sometimes, although rarely, bordered) partition of the interior of the anther, not divided at either end, opening longitudinally, suspended from the back at the top and facing inwards. Hypogynous basement glandular, cupped, entire. Germen g lobular, sessile, smooth, 5-celled: style green, capillary, smooth, equal to the tube: stigma capitate, of a burnt-brown colour. гире (or Stone-fruit) nearly dry, the shell of the nut or stone solid, and exceedingly hard: seeds with an albumen. — а The calyx with the bractes. à The corolla dissected vertically. c The pisti 919 CHEIRANTHUS Cheiri. y. Chameleon. Chameleon Wall-flower. — TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. Nat. ord. Crucırenz. Jussieu gen. 997. Dio. I. Fructus siliquosus, stylus nullus. CHEIRANTHUS. Siliqua compressa v. anceps. Cotyledones ac- cumbentes. Cal. clausus, foliolis oppositis basi saccatis. та stylo insidens, bilobum, lobis patentibus v. capitatum. Brown іп Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 118. C. Cheivi, foliis lanceolatis integerrimis: pube (dum adsit) bipartita ap- pressa, siliquis linearibus ; stigmatis lobis recurvis. Brown, loc. cit. Cheiranthus Cheiri. Linn. sp. pl.2. 924. Hort. Kew.2. 895. Willd. sp. ph 8. 516, «) flore simplici. 8) flore pleno. y) flore versicolore. Та our judgment the present plant is derived from the common Wall-flower ; possibly a hybridous production be- tween that and some nearly kindred species? Its leaves are somewhat longer and greyer than usual in the common garden sort; the pouches at the base of the two opposite leaflets of the calyx deeper, and the stigma rather broader and shorter; but with the exception of the curious transitions in the hue of the corolla, always yellow at first, we can see no difference in habit or ceconomy between the two. We are told, that besides the colours displayed in the annexed figure, а deep copper-colour was among the changes ex- hibited by some individuals raised from the same parcel of seed as the present. The specimen from which the drawing has been made, was the produce of seed received from Moscow by Mr. Lambert, by whom it was kindly sent to Mr. Edwards, from Boyton House, in Wiltshire. Perfectly hardy, and requires no more attention in the treatment than the common sort, but is an infinitely gayer ornament to the garden. It is clearly not the CHE1RANTHUS versicolor of the Flora taurico-caucasica of М. Marschal von Bieberstein. If we have judged wrong in respect to its origin, and ex- perience shall prove it to be distinct from Cheiri, the name we have adopted to denote the variation may serve for a specific title. --- а The calyx. $ The stamens. с The pistil. == о)» - = ES - - a: > з 177277 д Z к Y ж 920 AERIDES paniculatum. Sir Joseph Banks's Aerides. —— GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. Овснтеж. Jussieu деп. 64. Brown prod. 309. Div. II. Anthera terminalis mobilis decidua. Masse pollinis demum сегеасеве, Brown Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 5. 205. AERIDES. Labellum calcaratum у. saccatum, insertum apice pro» cessús unguiformis, cujus lateribus petala antica exteriorum adnata. Masse pollinis 2 posticé biloba, processü communi stigmatis medio айх, Brown oc. cit. 212. А. paniculatum, caule paniculato; calcare recto prependente germini vix longiori, lobo terminali labelli difformi-trilobulato: foliis insequali- retusis. Planta parasitica herbacea perennis: caudex rhizomatosus ramoso-radi- catus, compressus, erectus, totus foliosus; fibre intervallis foliorum laterales, vermiculari-elongate, teretes, crassa, tortuosez, nodoso-rugate, larves, cinerea, Körillis nude, apice virentes, Folia plurima, alterna, disticha, atentissima, firma, crassiuscula, lineari-lorata, canaliculata, subsesuncialia, Іш viridia, inaqqualiter retusa lobo altero productiore. Caulis aphyllus, inter folia lateralis, ascendens, purpureo-fusco varius, teres, laevis, rigidus, sesqui- pedalis, subgeniculato-flecuosus, articulis bracteá brevi sterili cylindricá va- ginatus, paniculatus spiculis paucis multifloris alternè distantibus patentissimis, terminali arrecto-continua. Flores flavi, rubro-fusco picti, inodori, erecti, nec resupinati, sessiles, bracteis singularibus ovato-acuminatis luteis appressis germini eoque tér quatérve brevioribus. Germ. curvo-ascendens, G-striato-teres, uteo-viridans, & uncie longum. Сог. bilabiata, semiringens, rigidiuscula г pet. 5 semicirculari-patula, e@quilonga, y breviora germine ; summum medium (ex exterioribus unum) distantius, obovato-oblongum, subfornicatum ; lateralia Superiora 2 (ex interioribus ) angustiora, lineari-oblonga, obtusa ; inferiora 2 (ex exterioribus ) duplo latiora, ab imis lateribus connata cum ungue labelli, ovali-oblonga, acutu suprà maculá airo-sanguineá picta, sursüm. iguantia ; Jabellum porrectum, rigidum, carnosum, calcaralum, sublüs intrusum, ab ungue connezum cum columná, $-lobum palato medio canaliculate albo pubes- cente, lobis 2 lateralibus inflexis erectis dentiformibus puuiceis, terminali cal- carigero ochroleuco trilobulato lobulo medio rostellato-capitato lateralibus subu- latis alato-divergentibus (simul subsimulantibus volucrem) ; calcar pallidum oblongo-conicum subdidymo-inflatiusoulum, obtusum, germini viz longiori præ- pendens, in longum «equaliter hicameratum. Аше anthesin labellum ioum super columnam reversum est. Columna ablonga, erecta, subcylindracea, virens, infra punicea, parüm brevior petalis, foramine medio antico orificio oblongo marginato excavata, apice bidentata f rudimentis flamentorum ғ). Anthera terminalis, mobilis conceptaculo operculiformi subdidymo convexo intüs biloculari: polinis masse sessiles, collaterali-gemine, hemispherice, vitelline, durissima, homogenee, transverse bilobordtssecter, ет Ране plana didymo-contingentes, рөзісе glandule зара! е is ара. Stigma ex р 2 verlicalibus dentiformibus parallelis diaphano: ntibus justa infra antheram et supra cavitatem columna prominentibus, VOL. Ш. о A parasitic genus, instituted by Loureiro in his aécount of the plants of Cochinchina, and named in reference to the faculty its species possess of growing when suspended, so as to be cut off from all sustenance but that derived imme- diately from the atmosphere. Plants of other genera of this tribe, and even some of a differeiit tribe (see En 105 of this work), are endowed with a like fäcülty ; in none however can such insulation be considered as the state of existence which suits them best, but merely as one that they are enabled to endure, as a Carp is known to do that of being suspeiided out of water in а damp cellar. Тһе most suc- cessful mode of treating plants of this nature in these climates, has been devised by Sir Joseph Banks, to whom we are obliged for the opportunity of representing the pre: sent specimen, which flowered in the hothouse of his gardert at Smallberry-Green, and had been introduced by himself. Тһе method he pursues, is, to place the plants separately in light cylitidrical wicker baskets or cages of suitable widths, of which the frame-work is of long slender twigs wattled together at the bottom and shallowly round the side, the upper portion being left open that thé plant may extend its growth in any direction through the intervals, and yet be kept steady in its station, the ends of the twigs having beeri tied together by the twine that suspends the whole to the woodwork of the stove, a thin layer of vegetable mould is strewed on the floor of the basket, on which the rootstock is placed, and then covered lightly over with a sufficiency of moss to shade it, and preserve a dite degree of moisture; water being occasionally supplied. The diminished outline jn the corner of the annexed plate is intended to exemplify he appearance of our plant under that treatment. The present is dn unpublished species, and native of China. We do not believe that any of the genus has been figured from a plant which has flowered in Europe till now. It is closely allied to the Chinese portion of Сум- BIDIUM, in which the label, however, has not a spurlike pouch as here. Aermes paniculatum is an herbaceous perennial; the caudexlike rootstock leafy from top to bottom, compressed, upright, branchingly radicant, rooés lateral in the intervals of the foliage, round, thick, tortuous, knottedly wrinkled, smooth, of a colour resembling that of the silkworm, green at the points. Leaves many, alternate, in two ranks, ~“ spreading, firm, rather thick, linearly lorate, channelled, about six inches long, bright green, unequally retuse, the lobe of one side being higher*than the other. Stem leaf- less, lateral between the leaves, ascendent, mottled with dark-purple, round, smooth, rigid, about a foot and half high, flexuose and slightly kneed, sheathed at the joints by A short cylindrical sterile bracte, panicled; spikelets few, many-flowered, alternate, distant, wide spread, the end one upright and continuous. Flowers deep yellow, marked with brownish red, without scent, upright, not reversed or resupinate, sessile; bractes one to each flower, ovately acuminate yellow, placed against the germen, which is 3 or 4 times higher, Germen upright with a curve, round and sixstreaked, yellowish green, } of an inch long, Corolla bilabiate, semiringent, stifish; petals 5, spreading in a semicirele, of one length, a third shorter than the germen; the upper middle one somewhat aloof from the rest, obo- vately oblong, and slightly vaulted ; two upper lateral ones narrower, linearly oblong, obtuse: two lower ones twice broader, grown to the unguis of the label by the lower part of each side, rather pointed, marked with a red stain above, slanting upwards; fabel outstretched, stiff, fleshy, spurred, dinted underneath, connected by its unguis with the column, 3-lobed with a white channelled furred palate or boss in the middle, the two side lobes turned up, toothshaped, crimson, end one spurbearing yellowish white trifid, the central lobule capitate and beaked, the two side ones subulate and out. spread, the three composing an image that may be fancied to resemble a bird in miniature; spur pale-coloured oblong, conical, slightly inflated and didymously divided by а shallow furrow, hanging before the germen which it nearly equals, vertically two-chambered within. The whole label is reversed over the column before the flower opens, Column oblong, upright, nearly cylindrical, green, crimson below, but little shorter than the petals, having a central cavity in front, with an oblong bordered orifice, bidentate at the apex (the teeth being probably the rudiments of two fila- ments?) Anther terminal, moveable, with a convex lid. shaped bilocular receptacle: pollen-masses two sessile, very hard, homogeneous, hemispherical, transversely bi- sected, smooth, deep yellow, placed sideways to each other by the plane part, inserted at the forked gland of the stigma, Stigma of two vertical parallel teethlike, pale, 0% diaphanous laminz, jutting forwards just below the anther and above the cavity of the column. —A a The back of the entire anther. 0 The pollen-masses removed from their receptacle. #41 Y Zub ЫЛ, Жартау & Sons Sep? z147. ЧИ Syd Edwards del. Paani Of. 14 Browndzw ЈЕ White Sc he 921 PANCRATIUM angustum. Mr. Grifin’s Sea- Daffodil. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. оға. Narcisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germ. inferum, AMARYLLIDEX. Brown prod. 296. бесі. І. PANCRATIUM. Flores scaposi, umbellati, bracteato-distincti, rard solitarii; spatha 2-plurivalvis. Cor. supera, erecta v. ex medio nutans, nunc pendulo-cernua; tubuloso-sexfida, limbo stellato, rariüs connivente. Fil. in ore tubi, membraná coroniformi raró irregulari inferné varié con- nexa, indé patentia v. conniventia v. introfracta, interdüm declinata; raris- simé discreta et basi breve alata; vix unquàm exserta: anth. versatiles. Stylus inclinatus, rariüs brevior corollà: stig. simplex v. 3 brevia. Caps. membranosa, 3-loc., 3-valv. valvis medio septiferis: sem. plurima, biseriata, v. in singulo loculo collaterali-gemina, v. solitaria et loculamento con- formia, v. taberoso-laxata. Bulbus tunicatus. Fol. bifaria v. nunc subplurifaria, august? lorata ad elliptico-lanceolata, interdàm petiolata, тағд cum lamina transverse latiore. Differt Crıno filamentis aut monadelphis aut basi breve alatis H ab AMARYL- LIDIBUS cum tubo coronato ex eo quöd іп iis corona à filamentis undique dis- Juncta sit; à proximo Narcisso quod ibi filamenta coroná inclusa atque infra os tubi inserta sint. Seminum testa in loculamentis polyspermis nigricans. Nob. in Јошт, scien, & arts. 8. 316, Div. II. Floribus sessilibus v. subsessilibus : limbo radiato: dentibus senis corona staminiferis. BEN P. angustum, pluriflorum ; foliis loratis longè acuminatis lucidis ; tubo го- tundate trigono estriato ; laciniis isto sublongioribus divaricatis, à corona triplo breviore angusté infundibuliformi omniné discretis. Nod. in Journ. scien. $ arts. 3. 327. . . . Folia 1212 virentia, plurima, bifariam divaricata, sesquipedalia v. ultra, sesquiunciam tata, Scapus 2-pedalis, glaucus, anceps. Spatha arida, acuta. Flores 5, aibi, sessiles, fragrantes т exiensum subquinguunciales г tubus virens, 4 parte v. circa brevior laciniis externis : limbus radiatus, recurvus, laciniis angustis, linearibus, extimis sublongioribus. Corona limbo magis triplo brevior, spatiis interstamineis lobato-elevatis lobis acuminatis didentatis v. bifidis, erectis. ЕЙ. erectiuscula, virentia, duplo longiora coroná, $ parte v. circà breviora limbo: anth. luteg, 4 partes ипсі longe. Stylus virens, corolla brevior. Germ. glaucum г й menta disperma, ovulis erectis oblongis «Йгіз imo angulo loculamentorum. Nob. in loc. cit. An unpublished species, of the native country and in- troduction of which we have no information, but the de- gree of its impatience of cold proves it a tropical plant; probably from South America? Differs from caribeum by a narrowly lorate foliage; from littorale and Dryandri by a tube, which is rather shorter than the limb, and in ge- neral appearance, ‘The drawing was made from a specimen which flowered in Mr. Griffiu's collection at South Lam- beth. Leaves many, bright grecn, lorate, tapered into a long point, a foot and half or more in length, scarcely an inch and half broad, Scape about two feet high, ancipital, glau- cous, Spathe sphacelate, pointed. Flowers several (about 5) sessile, fragrant, white, nearly 5 inches long when ex- tended: tube triangular with rounded corners, streakless, about i shorter than the segments: limb radiate, ге- curved, divaricate; segments narrow, linear, outer ones rather the longest. Crown. more than three times shorter than the limb, narrowly funnelform, entirely sepa+ rated from the segments, bearing the stamens on six of its pointed lobules, the intermediate ones.of which are acutely bidentate or bifid, upright. Filaments nearly straight, green, twice the length of the crown, about + shorter than the limb: anthers yellow, about 3 of an inch long. Style green, shorter than the flower, Germen glaucous: locula- ments two-seeded, ovules upright oblong fixed in the corner of the bottom о! the cells, Syd Edwards del. 100770. с» 27 “446 & 8 & = ~ wh P S Бу R Zub “by Ridgway de S 222 CONVOLVULUS pannifolius. Cloth-leaved Bindweed. ——— PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Cowvorvunr Jussieu gen. 182. ConvoLvuLacem. Brown prod. 481. CONVOLVULUS. Suprà vol, 2. fol. 133. Div. Caule volubili. С. pannifolius, foliis cordato-hastatis hirsutis, pedunculis subtrifloria, bracteis linearibus à calyce remotis. Dryander in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 328. Convolvulus pannifolius Salisb. parad. 20, Frutex volubilis, orgyalem v. duplo majorem acquirens altitudinem, caulis badio-fuscus rami teretes hirsuti. Folia oblongo-cordata prolixias v. abrupt acuminata, villositatem aridam subasperam densam albam pellucentia, majora 4-5-uncialia v. circa latitudine 2-3 unciarum, subtis reticulato-rugosa cum nervis plurimis lateralibus varicosis pallidis + petioli hirsuti aliquotiés breviores laminá. Pedunculi solitarii, axillares, longiores folio, filiformes, duriusculis hirsuti, divaricati cymoso-3-20-flori ; pedicellis triplo brevioribus bibracteatis, bracteis 2 ad divisuras primarias foliaceis subequantibus pedicellos, ceteris minimis subulatis. Cal, hirsutus, deorsim tubuloso-convolutus, supra сат- panulato-rotatus, pluriàs brevior corollá, foliolis rhombeo-lanceolatis, acumi- лаз. Сог. turbinato-rotata, obsolete guinguangalaris diametro _subsesqui- inciali, violaceo-purpurascens at dilute, disco et tabo albicans, radiis guin йе Plicatis saturatiüs coloratis subtüs hirsutis stellata; tubus conicus, calyce brevior. Fil. tubo exserta, equalia, fasciculata, pro parte majore glanduloso- pilosa, alba: anth. ochroleuce, lineari-sagiltatee, extrorsum dehiscentes. ist. equale staminibus, Germ. album, pyramidatum, glabrum, disco carnoso cupulato ¡Antescente insitum ; stylus albas; stig. 2 linearia divaricata qualia stylo, vel longiora apice pubescentia, A twining greenhouse shrub, extending itself to the length of 15 or 20 feet in various directions, and well suited to the conservatory. Іп strong plants the flowers amount to twenty in a single buncb, when they make a fine appearance. It was first noticed by Mr. Salisbury in the work we have cited; the leaves have the appearance and feel of woollen cloth, as implied by the well-adapted specific name. Тһе place from which it originally comes has not been ascer- tained; but is suspected to be some of the Canary Islands. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milnes, King’s Road, Fulham. Stem reddish-brown ; branches round, with a shaggy nap. Leaves oblong cordate, sometimes far acuminate, some- times shortly and abruptly so, with a dense dry hardish pubescence on both sides, the largest are about 5 inches long, and from 2 to 3 broad; reticulately veined and wrinkled underneath, with many pale varicose nerves: petioles shaggy, several times shorter than the blade. Pe- duncles solitary, axillary, longer than the leaf, filiform, and rather hard, roughly pubescent, divaricate, divided up- wards into cymes of from 3 to 20 flowers; pedicles 3 times shorter than these, bibracteate, the two bractes at the primary divisions leaflike and nearly equal to the pedicles, the others sinall and subulate. Calyx roughly pubescent, tubularly convolute below, above campanulately rotate, several times shorter than the corolla, leaflets rhomboidally lanceolate, pointed. Corolla turbinately rotate, slightly 5-cornered, about an inch and half over, of a pale violet- purple colour, white in the disk and tube, marked with five deeper stellate folds, which are roughly pubescent at their under side; tube conical, shorter than the calyx. Fila- ments rising above the tube, equal, fascicled, white, and for the greater part beset with glandular hairs: anthers cream-coloured, linearly sagittate, opening outwards. Ger- men white, pyramidal, smooth in our specimen (not pubes- cent, as it is described and figured in the Paradisus Lon- dinensis), placed on a fleshy cupular yellow basement. Style white: stigmas 2, linear, divaricate, equal to or longer than the style, pubescent at their points. —Ф— a Тһе lower part of the corolla dissected, so as to show the insertion of the stamens. 5 The pistil. ; "2 fe Ao оға. : em White se 14 Browndow ЈЕ Syd. Edwards E. Pub 2 by Ridoway Ф Sons Sep” 2,1827. P 923 PSORALEA pedunculata, Flat-headed Psoralea. — DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. Lecumtnosm. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. Г. Corolla irregu- laris papilionacea, Legumen 1-loc. bivalve. PSORALEA. Cal. turbinatus 5-fidus, punctis callosis aspersus. Pet. venosa; carina 2-petala. Leg. compressum, calyci persistenti mquale lspermum. Herbe aut frutices; fol. ternata v. rarits simplicia v. impari- pinnata ; stipulee à petiolo distincte ; flores spicati v. glomerati, axillares aut terminales. Juss, 1, с. 355. Р. pedunculata, foliis ternatis subtús sericeis, pedunculis axillaribus bis térve superantibus folia, capitulis depressis involucratis, involucri foliolis zequantibus calyces. Frutex erectus, ramosus 3-реда v. ultra ; rami teretes striati subsericeo- pilosi, Fol. sparsa, distantia, patentia, foliolis obovato-oblongis v. lanceolato- ovalibus, mucronatis, suprà pilosiusculis subnitidé at obscuré viridibus, sube tùs sericeis albicantibus, à nervis lateralibus plurimis parallelis proximis costatis, margine depresso; terminali majore modi sesquiunciali, v. 3-plo longiore petiolo villoso unisulcato: stipulæ geming, «quales petiolo, erecta, appresse ramo, lanceolato-lineares, елійе dens? pubescentes. Pedunculi soli- tarii, in summis foliis axillares, striato-teretes, erecti, pilosiusculi, superna nigricantes, basi stipati btacteis 2 oppositis stipulis inclusis, nigro-pilosis. Capitulum depresso-hemispharicum, multi (14-20) florum, involucratum foliolis membranasis avato-lanceolatis intüs plabris extús nigro-pilosis eeguantibus calyces, Втасіезе triplices, similes foliolis involucri at plurimum angustiores. Cal. pro flore magnus, albo-virescens, nigro-hirsutus, segmentis 4 supe- rioribus acuminatis egualibus, imo 59. duplo feré longiore, wiz breviore corollá, lanceoluto-cuspidato, secundùm, carinam ascendente, Cor. $ unde circitdr longa ; pet. long? unguiculata, isometra, inferne pallescentia, supern2 violacea, tola venuloso-striata ; vexillum obcordato-rotundum reflezum plied media profundá, ungue arcuato-gil о: ale et carina compresso-conniventes vesilain Linie assu gentes, alarum laminis oblongis obtusis supra violaceis ; carina his equalis, inclusa, unguibus longissimis, laminis ovalis a е cohe- rentibus sanguineo-violaceis. Fil. diadelpha, uno libero sterili, pro longitudine caring recta, ind? cum angulo recto ascendentia : anth. ochroleuca, parve. Germ. breve, compressum : stylus longus capillaris glaber albus prope stigma angulo recta assurgens, ad genu crassior ғ stigma acwtum pu lum, erectum, viridans, A plant we are unable to refer to any species recorded in the works known to us; and, as we are informed by Messrs. Whitley and Co. in whose greenhouse, in the King’s Road, Fulham, the drawing was taken, raised by them from seed received from the Cape of Good Hope. It comes nearer to the P. bituminosa of the south of Europe than any other, but is abundantly distinct from it, as well as from the VOL, Ш, P bituminosa В of Bergius, a Cape plant, quoted by Willdenow among the synonyms of the European species, although described as having terminal flowers, which in the European plant are axillary. | А branching upright shrub, іп the specimen we saw, the only one probably in the country, about 3 feet high; branches round, striate, softly pubescent. Leaves scat- tered, distant, patent, leaflets obovately oblong or lanceo- lately oval, mucronate, thinly pubescent, dark green, and somewhat glossy at the upper side, silky and whitish at the under, with several closish lateral riblike nerves, depressed at the margin, terminal one the largest and sometimes an inch and half long, three times as long as the villous one- furrowed petiole, or more: stipules double, equal to the petiole, upright, pressed to the branch, lanceolately linear, densely pubescent outwards. Peduncles several, solitary, axillary in the uppermost leaves, striately round, upright, slightly haired, blackish above, furnished at the base with opposite bractes enclosed within the stipules апа black- furred. Flower-head depressedly hemispherical, many- flowered, with an involucre of membranous ovately lanceo- late externally black-furred leaflets, which are even with the tips of the calyces. Bractes threefold, leaflets quite distinct, and like those of the general involucre, but much narrower. Calyx large in proportion to the flower, pale green, black-furred ; 4 upper segments acuminate, equal, the lowermost fifth almost twice the length of these, and nearly equal to the corolla, lanceolate, long-pointed, aud stretching along the keel of the corolla. Corolla about 3 of an inch in length; petals of one length, long unguiculated, pale below, violet-blue above, veined and streaked throughout; vexillum rounded, obcordate, reflectent, with a deep plait along the middle, ungues vaulted: wings and keel compres- sedly connivent, bent towards the vexillum, the blades of the wings oblong, obtuse, violet above; keel enclosed, with very long ungues, blades ovate cohering at the ends, wheré they are of a deep purple violet. Filaments in two bodies, one of which is a single sterile one, the others. straight as far as the length of the keel, thence turned up at a right angle: anthers pale yellow, small. Germen compressed, short: style long, capillary, smooth, white, bent upwards near the stigma at a right angle, thickened at the bend: stigma pointed, pubescent, upright, green, e —— a Calyx. b Vexilum. c Ale. d Carina. eStamens. f Pistil 224 | White sc. L4.Brownlow Јат. Sy ¿Edwards del, Lub hy Яш? way & Sons, дер 1. 2627. 224 MAHERNIA grandiflora, Large-flowered Mahernia, —— PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. Тиласељ. Jussieu gen. 289. Div. I. Stamina basi aut Өшпіпд monadelpha, definita. Tiliaceæ dubia. MAHERNIA. Cal. 5-dentatus. Pet. 5. Nectaria 5, basi connata, obcordata, filamentis supposita. Caps. 5-locularis, Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1565. M. grandiflora, caule erecto, foliis lanceolato-obcuneatis serrato-dentatis ; paniculis divaricatis calyceque viscosis. Burchell MSS. Hermannia grandiflora. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 141; (fide Herbarit Bank» siani, ubi specimen Horto Kewensi floridum ). . No. 9392. Burchell; Catalogus Herbarii Africani nondim edit. Hermannia, Paters. it. 60 сит icone раса. Fruticulus in. patrid natali subbipedalis ramosus pulcherrimus floribundus, ramificatione patente. Tota herba, potissimüm in partibus novissimis, conspersa glandulis stipitatis viscosis, uon nist lente conspicuis, Fol. alterna, patentia, subcollapsa, lanceolato-obcuneata, stellatim pubescentia, attenuata in petiolum, superiore parte serrato-dentata, Stipule geming, ovato-lanceolate, erecta, integerrime | (rarissima. \-dentate), pedunculo breviores. Flores paniculat$ cernui, unciam vel infrà lati, odorem inter PHILADELPHI coronari ей Jasmint officinalis medium spirantes, Panicule ramorum primo terminales, demüm elongatione ramorum azillares evadentes, viscose, divaricate, dichotome, ramulis primariis aliguando tribus. Pedunculi mediocres, teretes, bracteolis 2 stipularum instar suffulti. Cal. campanulatus, ultra medium 5 fidus, laciniis lanceolatis acutis erectis. Cor. mazima in genere, calyce triplo longior, utrine que (miniato-) coccinea, sinistrorsüm (а iguando dextrorsüm ) contorta, ine Sundibuliformis : pet. elongato-obovata, ` H pollicis lon, а, apice rotundata, unguium lateribus tubuloso-involutis, Jaminis patentibus ‹ lemüm reflexis. Stam, petalis opposita, calyce multd breviora, medium styli attingentia; fil. dis- creta, pedicello germinis inserta; partes inferiores (nectaria Linn.) elon, aloe obcordatæ humeris hirsutis, superiores (filamenta Linn.) subulate. Anth. sagittate, extús setulis asperse, apicibus conniventibus bifidis biseliferis. Pist. longitudine calycis. Germ. (lente visum) pubescens, obovatum, B-gonum, abrupt? et brevissimè pedicellatum. Styl. 1, teres, germine paula longior, glaber, abruptè insertus, apice obtuso. Stig. obsoletum. Caps. obovata, E pollicis longa 5-sulcata 5-partibilis : loc. intus pubescentia ¿uba брата (sectione germinis 10-sperma). Sem. valvularum marginibus interioribus ine serta, semicordata, nigricantia, glaberrima. Burchell 58. “ This very elegant plant was found by me іп the month = of October 1812, in great profusion decorating one parti- “ cular part of the vast sandy plains northward of the town “of Litakuun, a country till then untrodden by any Euro- “ pean foot. * These plains, uninhabitable to man from want of Р €i a water, extend for many days journeys. Their monoto- “ nous scenery is occasionally varied by groves of Acacta “ Giraffe, whose thin foliage, unable to protect these burn- ing sands from the rays of the sun, serves only as food * for the Cameleopard and Elephant. Various plants, “however, in their seasons adorn the ground, and ainongst * them this beautiful little Манева, by its profusion and * continued succession of scented flowers of the finest * scarlet, will not fail to arrest the attention of any tra- “ veller, however insensible he may be to the pleasures to * be derived from the study and contemplation of nature. * If the genera Hermannia and Manernta are to be * kept distinct, this plant must take its station with the * latter, and their only diagnoses will be the difference of ** form in their filaments." The above notice and description were communicated to us by Mr. Burchell, by whom this plant was brought home, on his late return from his travels in the interior of the Саре of Good Поре. The drawing was taken from а specimen that flowered in the greenhouse at Messrs. Col- villes, in the King's Road, who have the only plants of it now in this country. It had been previously introduced from another part of the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Masson, in 1791; but had been long since lost again. This beautiful plant seldom exceeds two feet; the branches are spreading, and abound with a bloom by far the largest of the genus. Leaves patent, cuneately lan- ceolate, stellately pubescent, tapered into a petiole below, serrately toothed above. Stipules in pairs, ovately lanceo- late, shorter than the peduncles. Flowers panicled, cer- nuous, somewhat less than an inch іп diameter, like those of an Oxazis, sweet-scented: panicles terminal, dichotomous, divaricate, sometimes with З principal divisions. — Pedicles round, having two small bractes like the stipules. Calyx campanulate, cleft to below the middle, segments lanceolate, acute. Corolla contorted to the left, but sometimes in the contrary direction, funnelformly rotate: petals oblong-obo- vate, rounded at the top. Filaments distinct, inserted on the stand of the germen, the lower portions (nectaries of Linneeus) oblong-obcordate, the upper (Шаш of Linn.) subulate. ES — _ а The calyx. 6 The stamens. c A single stamen magnified. d The. pistil, e A petal. Dn 1 са dee) Y қ Ш Mm > > AAD ( » ANAIS N v жы) Шы с ЈУН a 5 CISTUS vaginatus. Oblong-leaved Cistus. — POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord, Cisti. Jussieu gen. 294. CISTUS. Cor. 5-petala. Cal. 5-phyllus: foliolis duobus minoribus, Capsula. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 303. AS Div. Exstipulati fruticosi. С. vaginatus, arborescens, і exstipulatus, foliis oblongis pilosis subtüs re- ticulato-rugosis, petiolis basi coalitis vaginantibus sulcatis. Hort. Kew. 2. 292. Cistus vaginatus. Jacq. hort. scheenbr. 3. 17.1. 282. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1183. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 304. Cistus symphitifolius. Lamarck encyc. 2. 15. Frutex 4-pedatis v. ultra, caulis erectus, teres, ramosus, cortice glabro ct lacero. Folia opposita, oblonga, utringue angustata, acuta, ad lentem obso- letiüs-cren data, utrinque et ad oras pilosa, viscosula, subtüs rugosa et pallida virentia, facie venosa, 9-% uncias longa, cum petiolis vir semuncialibus, pilosis, suprà canaliculatis et basi in vaginam longiusculam (striatam) pilosam glutinosam magisque quàm ipsa folia ladanum spirantem concretis. Stipule 0. edunculi in summis foliis axillares 1-flori, et preterea terminalis. alius ramosus, erecti, crassi, villosi, aliquot. uncias longi. Calycis 5-phylli ә оз et persistentis foliola 2 exteriora ovata acuta parva; 3 interiora. subrotundo- acuminata, ampla, valdé concava. Pet. magna, rosea, sepe rugosula, paten- tissima. Caps. ovata, subpentagona, glabro, 5-valvis: semina numerosissima. Jacq. loc. cit. Jussieu has maintained Tourneforte's division of this very natural group into Cistus and HELIANTHEMUM chiefly upon the ground of the difference іш the number of the valves in the capsules of each, and in the substance and extent of the septa or partitions of the same. But in the way he has characterized the two genera, our plant would not find a place in either; to the first he gives an equal calyx, to the last a 3-valved capsule. In our view the group is one of those, which, although numerous, are most ad- vantageously kept under one generic denomination. By dispersing such under new appellations, one use of a gene- ric name, viz. the bringing a well-assorted series of distinct species into our idea by a single word, is nearly defeated to spare a few terms in the definition of the technical Character. The present species, perhaps the most ornamental of the genus, is native of Teneriffe, and in the Hortus Kewensis said to have been introduced by Mr. Masson in 1779; but in Lamarck’s Encyclopedia it is mentioned as having been received at the Paris Botanic Garden from our celebrated countryman, Sherard, a fact which would make it a plant of 40 or 50 years older introduction into this country than is stated in the Hortus Kewensis. A shrub about 4 or 5 feet high; stem branching upright, round, with a reddish ash-coloured bark, branches furred. Leaves opposite, oblong, tapered at both ends, acute, furred, reticulately veined, wrinkled and paler underneath like those of Sage, slightly viscid, 3-4 inches long, having a balsamic smell: petioles united below, so as to form a striated sheath round the branches, of half an inch in length or more; floral leaves with a winged or dilated petiole having little or no sheathing at the base. Flowers rose-coloured at the ends of the branches loosely panicled ; peduncles 1-2-flowered, generally with a bracte under the division, lowermost axillary; pedicles jointed below, when two, one longer than the other. Calyx pubescent, persistent, white and silky within, two outer segments several times smaller. Petals cuneately obcor- date, large, wrinkled, spreading. Germen roundly ovate, pointed, with five raised silky pubescent angles. Style higher than the stamens, flexuose, white, thickish. Stigma pileately or flattishly headed, granulately roughened, obso- letely 5-lobed. A hardy greenhouse plant. Flowers about May and June. Propagated by seeds, layers, or cuttings. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, King's Road, Parson’s Green, Fulham. 72,1817. y n'7 > ~ Lub Я by Rado way & Sons, Sep awards del. JL 226 AMARYLLIS fulgida, Stripe-tubed Amaryllis, — Á9-— HEXANDRIA MONOGYNTA. Nat. ord. Narcisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. И. Germen inferum. AMARYLLIDEA. Brown prod. 296. Sect. I. AMARYLLIS. Spatha terminalis, bivalvis rariús indivisa, Flores 1-multi, umbeliati, bracteis distincti. Cor. erecta ad subcernuam, infundi- buliformis ad hexapetalodi-rotatam ; limbo altiore fauce, sepé irregulari, Fil. glanduloso disco v. summo tubo infra faucem inserta, erecto-divergentia ad fasciculato-declinata, profundiüs inclusa ad subexserta, Anth. introrsim verse, versatiles, зерё vibrate. Germ. inferum; locul. collaterali-2sperma ad cumulato-polysperma. Stylus inclinatus, curvatus. Stig. 3, replicata, v. l subifidum depressum у, apertum. Caps. oblata, 3 loba lobis rotundatis, 3-loc., 3-valv., valvis medio septigeris. Sem. 2 seriata, globosa ad foliaceo- complanata, raró subariliatim immersa funiculo crasso fungoso, modd bulboso-laxata, rariüs solitaria : albumine carnoso: embryone recto. Bulbus concentric? tunicatus. Fol. 1 ad plurima, bifaria ad multifaria, linearia ad petiolata cum laminá oblonga, scapi isocrona v. tardiora. Os tubi sæpè sertulo brevi membranoso fimbriatim squamatim v. aliter fisso v. integer- rimo атс extra basin filamentorum cinctum. Non тиййт valet limbi ins flexio; cum sæpè sold directione corolle pendat ; umbelle enim vidende in peripheria nutante irregulariflore, in centro erectiore regulariflore. Nobis in Journ, of science and the arts, 2. 344. Div. V. Bimultiflore. Tubus nudus. Folia bifaria. A. fulgida, 2-pluriflora; foiiis oblongo-lanceolatis non glaucis: coroll& mutante rictú obliquo, lacinia summa reflexa latitudine dupla lateralium proximarum ; tubo aliquotiés (quatér?) longiore germine. . Folia proportione plante brevia. — Scapus teres, glaucus, _ Flores 2-4, inodori: pedunculis erectis subsesquiuncialibus. Cor. 5-uncialis v. ultra, miniato-micans venoso-striata cum stellá fauciali chloroleucá : tubus subun- cialis, obtusa trigonus, extús lineolis.punctisque vis interruptis varius, ні guoguè тада at ibi parciùs, ore nudo: faux contractiùs turbinata, infra subventricosa : limbus patens, recurvus, obliguatus; lacinia summa media ovali-lanceolata, tota reflexa, sesquiunciam lata; laterales випише 2 mediam versüs subascendentes, ex und quintä circa breviores, duploque v миға an- gustiores; laterales infime 2 summa media subequales, imam mediam wersús decurvatee, margine superiore curviores: ima media oblonga equalis latera» libus superioribus. ЕП. dilut? miniata, declinato-assurgentía, inaqualia, longiora 4 ferà breviora limbo, Germ. viridans, subturbinatum 3-gonum q ovulis albis numerosis in singulo loculo cumulatis. The present is the sixth unpublished species of Амл- RYLLIS which this work owes to Mr. Griffin. The nearest of its kind are crocata, rutila, equestris, and Regina; but іп the first the tube of the corolla is scarcely equal to the germen, іп the second scarcely as long again, while іп fulgida it is several times longer; in the two next the tube is crowned, in this naked, and its foliage is much shorter than in any of the others. There are several less promi- nently distinctive features that mark each relatively, and which a comparison of the detailed descriptions will show. The plant had previously flowered in the hothouse of Mr. Herbert's collection at Spofforth, and an umbel of 4 rather larger flowers was produced on it. The bulbs were pur- chased at Mr. Williams's nursery, Turnham Green; and are said to be from the Brasils. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, a third shorter than the scape, 2 inches broad. Scape round, not glaucous. Flowers 2-4, without scent, peduncles upright, about an inch and half long or more. Corolla more than 5 inches long, and some- times more than 6 from side to side of the margin of the aperture, of a bright glittering salmon-colour, veiny with a large greenish white fancial star: tube about an inch long, variegated on the outside with numerous small broken orange-coloured or tawny stripes and dots, and likewise in the inside, but less thickly so, orifice smooth or not crowned: faux contractedly turbinate, somewhat protuberant be- neath; limb recurvedly patent, slantingly ringent; blade of the upper middle segment ovally lanceolate, wholly re- flectent, about an inch and half wide; of the two upper Jateral ones slightly ascending towards the middle one, nearly a fifth shorter, and twiee as narrow; of the two lower lateral ones equal to the upper middle one, slightly declining towards the lower middle one, with a greater curve at the upper margin than the lower; of the lower- most one oblong and equal to those of the upper lateral ones. Filaments faintly vermilion-coloured, declined and assurgent, unequal, the longest about i shorter than the limb. Ger- men green, subturbinate; with numerous white flat closely piled ovula in each loculament, i | Z ag Iyd Edwards, del. | | Pub Фу hide way Ё Sons, Oct11&7. Mate 524 BrawrdowSt. + 227 RESEDA odorata. 0. suffrutescens. Tree-Mignonette. ———— DODECANDRIA TRIGYNTA. . Nat. ord. CAPPARIDES, Jussieu gen. 242, Div. I. Genera Cappa» ridibus affinia. RESEDA, Саі. 4-6-partitus. Pet. hypogyna, 4-6 аш plura, irregu- laria, nunc omnia trifida, nunc quedam indivisa, supremo ad basin glan- dulosa gibbo et пећ его. Stam. hypogyna, filamentis brevibus, antheris erectis. Germ. subsessile; styli 3-5, aut 0; stig. 9-5. Caps. angulata 1-loc. polysperma, receptaculis seminiferis 3-5-angularibus; sem, numerosa гепі- formia; emóryo incurvus absque albumine. Herbe; folia alterna basi 2-glandulosa, indivisa in Luteolà Tourn. et in Sesamoide Tourn., partita in Reseda Tourn. ; flores spicati terminales ; capsula Resedz oblonga prismatica apice retusa, Luteole: brevior ртојипа а divisa et quasi 3 rostris, Sesamoidis 5-partita patens, quasi stellatim 5-capsularis. Numerus partium varius, con- stans hiatus capsule el glandula petali supremi. Genus à Capparidibus dis- отеран petalorum et stigmatum numero, cæterùm affine pracipu? embryone. Juss, R. odorata, foliis integris trilobisque, calycibus florem squantibus. Linn. 3p. pl. 1. 646. Reseda odorata. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n.6. Hort. Kew. 2. 133. ed. 2. 8. 155. Curtis's magaz. 99. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 881. Desfont, atl. 1. 376. Lamarck encyc. 6. 162. . ar R. foliis integris trilobisque, floribus tetragynis. Mill. ic. tab. 217. (8) suffrutescens, "This well-known annual is here presented in the state of a suffrutescent perennial; a form it has been made to assume by appropriate treatment. The species is native of Egypt, and was also found wild by Professor Desfontaines, in the sands near Mascar, on the coast of Barbary. Stated in the Hortus Kewensis to have been first cultivated by Miller in 1752; but, by a MS. note in Sir Joseph Banks's library, we find the seed was sent in 1742 by Lord Bateman, front the Royal Garden at Paris, to Mr. Richard Bateman, at Old Windsor, Professor Desfontaines marks it as annual in his Flora Atlantica; se that it does not seem to be longer lived in its proper climate than here, where advancing winter infallibly destroys it in the open ground. The plant we һауе figured was brought by Lady Whit- shed from Liége, and given by her to Sir Joseph Banks, under whose observation none had ever fallen in this shape. VOL. Ш. Q Well aware of its specific origin, he was desirous of learn- . ing the history of its metamorphose. On referring by letter to M. l'Abbé L'Arbaleste of Liége, from whom Lady Whitshed had obtained the plant, the earlicst opportunity was embraced of informing him, that the **Tree-Mignonette" was no novelty in the continental gardens; where it was produced at will by the following treatment: “The plant that it is desired to render a. shrub, is placed in а garden- pot, a stick of about 2 feet long inserted by the side, to which it is tied up as it advanees in height, the leaves being occasionally stripped from the lower part, that а stem may be formed to the height required; the plant in the mean time is kept in some place where it can be protected from the effects of frost, by which means it is made to last for two or three years. Ав soon as the seed-vessels begin to ripen they are cut off, and a fresh suit of blossom soon makes its appearance." Sir Joseph has since met with the detail of a similar process recommended for the same pur- pose in “Le Bon Jardinier,” the Gardener's calendar of France; where the plant is known only by the name of * Réséda," that of Mignonette never being applied to it there. Nor have we been able to satisfy ourselves whence it has obtained that appellation with us. The following is a translation of the Chevalier La- marck's description of the species. Stems partly recumbent partly ascendent, streaked, smooth, tender, green, scarcely angular, sometimes thinly beset with small white hairs, leafy ; leaves either simple or divided into 2 or 3 lobes, tender, green, and smooth on both sides, obtuse at tbeir summit and cuneately tapered towards their petiole. Flowers pedicled, alternate, greenish white; bractes small pointed membranous, two thirds at least shorter than the pedicles. Calyx persistent, of the same length as the corolla, divided into six lincar segments. Corolla generally of 6 petals or more, two of which form the upper part of the corolla, these are unguieulate and lightly fringed at their lower part, where they are arched so as to converge over the edge of an orbicular laminar pubescent gland, which forms the basement on which the germen is placed; lateral and lower ones very narrow. -Anthers brick red. Capsules oblong, full of small knobs, terminated by 3 small points. —9— i a The calyx. ¿A petal. с The anthers, as inserted on the round glandular basement of the germen, d Germen and its basement, - iil 228 BRUNSFELSIA undulata. F¥aved-flowered Brunsfelsia, —,9—— DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. М Nat. ord. боһАмкж. Jussicu gen. 124. Div. ПІ. Genera Solaneis amnia. . , BRUNSFELSIA. Cal. campanulatus 5-dentatus brevis. Cor. magna infundibuliformis, tubo longissimo, limbo plano 5-lobo subæguali. Siam. 5-tum sterile : anth. reniformes. Stylus 1; stig. capitatum. Bacca Ceraso major, 1-loc. ez Linn. (an potiüs 2-loc.? polysperma receptaculo seminifero carnoso magno, Arbuscula; folia alterna; flores solitarii axillares aut plures terminales. Juss. loc. cit. 127. B. undulata, foliis lanceolato-ovatis utringue attenuatis, petiolis brevissimis, corollis tubo curvo, limbo undulato. Swartz prod. 60. Brunsfelsia undulata. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 269. Swartz fi. ind. occid. 2. 1035. Andrews's reposit. 167. Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 4. 22. . Arbuscula 20-pedalis, trunco debili (ағд; rami subreclinati. Sw. Folia sparsa, oblongo-lanceolata, obovata v. longiüs deorsim quàm sursüm айе- пиша, patentia, glabra, brevà petiolata, 3-G-uncialia. Flores 2-8, sulphurei, suaveolentes, terminales, erecti, breve crassàque peduneulati ; pedunc. eguales v, breviores, calyce lanuginosi. Cal. & uncie longus, herbaceus, cylindricus, obsoleté pentagonus, lanuginosus, breve 5-fidus, inzqualis, lobulis rotundatis, erectis, arcté conniventibus, uno minore. Cor. hypocrateriformis ; tubus спта 3 uncias longus, teres, chloroleucus, lanuginosus, parüm curvatus, penná core vind crassior, orificio angusto antheris 2 obturato; limbus 3-4-plo brevior tubo, subbilabiatus, rotatus, antrorsim obliquatus, disco medio lanuginosus, pro à partibus fissus, laciniis subcordato-rotundatis undulatis subaqua- libus, supremá emarginata. Fil. alba, inclusa tubo cui supernè inserta at 4-plo breviora, erecta, ità basi flexa ut pariete tubi distent; 2 bres viora: anth. verticali-bilobæ oblonge, Iuteole. Stylus «equalis tubo, fili- Jormis, sursim subcrassior, latere utroque, suturá notatus quasi ex binis соп- Ferruminatis confectus: stig. capitatum, antrorsum obliquatum, suturá trans. versá prominulá striarum styli utrorsüm continud > germ. ochroleucum, ovato- pyramidatum, glabrum, longitudine репе calycis. Found by Swartz in thiekets, on the mountains of the southern part of Jamaica, where it is said to form a tall shrub of nearly 20 feet in height, but with а feeble stem. Introduced about 1780, aecording to the authority of the Banksian Herbarium. Received from Barbadoes by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy in 1784. It must be kept con- stantly in the tan-bed of the hothouse, | and will flower freely about June. Propagated by cuttings. We have never met with any specimens more than 4 or 5 feet in height. The bloom is handsome and very sweet. Q2 In Brunsreisia americana the leaves are shorter and broader than here, the peduncles twice the length of the calyx, here scarcely equal to it; the calyx is patent and not cornered, here connivent and pentagonal; the tube of the corolla is about 2 inches long, here 3; the limb more de- cidedly bilabiate and quite even, here undulate. The flowers of americana have a much stronger scent, but less fra- grance than those of undulata. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Col- villes, in the King's Road, Chelsea. Leaves scattered, oblong-lanceolate, obovate or tapered downwards farther than they are upwards, patent, smooth, shortly petioled, 3-6 inches long. Flowers 2-3, terminal, sulphur-coloured, upright; peduncles thick equal to or shorter than the calyx, covered with a short nap or down. Calyx about the third of an inch long, herbaceous, cylin- drical, obtusely pentagonal, downy, shallowly 5-cleft, unequal, lobules rounded, upright, connivent, one smaller than the rest. Corolla hypocrateriform; tube above 3 inches long, of a greenish sulphur-colonr, round, downy, slightly curved, thicker than a crow-quill, with a narrow orifice nearly closed by the anthers of the two longest stamens; limb 3-4 times shallower than the tube, subbila- biate, rotate, slanting forwards, downy at the inner disk, cleft for about 3 of its depth, segments subcordately round, waved, nearly equal, uppermost one emarginate or notched. Filaments white, enclosed within the tube, in the upper por- tion of which they are inserted, 4 times shorter than that, bent at the base and projecting from the wall of the tube; two shorter: anthers vertically two-lobed, and long in the same direction, yellowish. Style equal to the tube, filiform, slightly thickened upwards, seamed on each side and ap- pearing as if formed of two united: stigma capitate slanting forwards, with a transverse seam, which is connected each way with the seams of the style: germen whitish green, ovate, tapered, smooth, nearly the length of the calyx. | 229 White sc.14 Brownlow ЈЕ. Syd Edw args, del . Pub 4 by Ridgway k Sons, 022" 1.1817. ON __ ee Ms YO 229 MARICA gladiata. Hairy-stalked Marica, —— TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Exsara, Linn. Ord. nat. VI. Nobis in Ann. of Bot. 1. 19. Irınes. Jussieu gen. 57. Irıner. Brown prod. 302. MARICA. Spatha communis bivalvis partiales simplices 1-floras inclu- dens, rariüs ex plurifloris composita; valve equitantes, exterior major верё- que foliaceo-producta. Cor. supera hexapetalo-partita, rotata, nunc infrá brevé urceolata; laciniis subrqualibus conformibus, v. inequalibus alternis difformibus. Stylus brevis, 3-queter: stig. 3, angusté petaliformia bilabiata Coadunata, v. subulata distincta. Stam. istis alterna; Jil. omninó mo- nadelpha ad omninó distincta: anth. erectz, coadunatorum stigmatum angulos equitantes, distinctorum lateribus interserte. Caps. globosa ай columnarem, rotundaté trigona, 3-loc., 3-valv. valvis septigeris: sem. 2-seriata; margini interne septi utrinque annexa, globosa, oblonga, modó pressione angulosa: testa fusca, punctis scabrata; alb. corneum. Radix fibrosa perennis, in plicati foliis tunicato-bulbosa. Fol. collaterali- disticha, ensiformia, interdüm plicata, raró convoluto-fistulosa. Scapus anceps, v. foliaceus, v. teres. Spathe solitaria terminales, raris numerose in spicam distincte, Сог. decidua, involuto-emarcescens. Caps, арісе vestigio corolle marginato-umbonata. Nunc ubi ps à valvä inferiori spathe continuatur, flores quasi laterales. In Irine et Monz applicantur stamina ейи inter- angularibus stigmatum w, іміз bipartitis tnterseruntur, verbo, illic -орра- nuntur hic in МАВІСА alternantur stigmatibus. In ARISTEA corolla per» sistens denuoque in spiram contorta, stylus longus, sapiüs inclinatus, stigma v. simplex hians v. triplex lobis dilatatis, germen prismaticum ovulis sepius uniseriatis. Div. Spatha communi composita, Bobartie. Australi- Africana. М. gladiata, foliis lineari-ensiformibus striatis hinc convexiusculis, scapo ancipiti, pedunculis villoso-canescentibus. Morea gladiata, Thunb. mor. п. 8. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 241. Vahl enum. 2. 155. Ixia gladiata. Linn. suppl. 93. . ul А Herba perennis, radice fibrosa. Folia plura, collaterali-disticha, basi equitantia, lineari-ensiformia, erectiuscula, angusta, striata,. subglauca, pe- dalia v. plurimam longiora. Scapus anceps, compressus, linearis, aphyllus, enodis, striatus, hinc ex acie curvo-inclinatus, equalis foliis v longior, rigi- diusculus. Spatha communis terminalis, bivalvis, composita, rigens, equitans, luriflora, valvis lanceolatis, complicatis, exteriore scapi continué, nuncque йа Tonge ultra flores productá ut compareant ізі quasi sin laterali scapi exserti essent, modo interiorem. disergentem parum exsuperante: partiales subtrine plurivalves 1-2-flore. Pedunculi equales spathis partialibus, villoso-albicantes, robusti, subancipites, recti, fructiferi productiores. Germ. viride, leve, nitens, aliquotiós brevius corollá, oblongum, obtus? trigonum, estriatum, easulcum, polyspermum. Cor. imbricato-stellata, lutea, medio disco punctis rubris parc? ¿rrorata, 2 uncias transversa, subequalis; laciniis ovali-lanceolatis lined tenuissimá per medium ductá, exterioribus dorso fulvescentibus v. fuscescenti- bus, interioribus viz latioribus ellipticis obtusioribus striä brevi fuscá imo medii dorsi. Stam. subduplo breviora corollä, erecto-patula ; fil. disco incras- sato infixa, omnind distincta, crassiuscula, compressa, ancipitia, subulata, ‚firma, plüs duplo breviora antheris, luteola: anth. erecta, subconniventes, sagittalo-lincares, fissurá baseos infira, rigide, y uncie circa longe ; pollen subgrumosum vitellino-flavum. Stylus plis duplo brevior filamentis, Tolustus, triqueter, deorsúm angustatus: stig. 3-plo v. ultrá longiora stylo, divaricata, compresso-subulata, albida, stricta, latere interiore vimá brevi pubescente ter- minata. у A species, іп as far as we сап discover, now first intro- duced from the Cape of Good Hope by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, of the Hammersmith nursery, where the drawing was made in July. We have never met with it in any Herbarium except in that of Mr. Burchell. It seems to have entirely escaped the late Mr. Masson during his long and extensive search at the Cape in quest of plants. Ina tract on the Ensate, published some years ago in the Annals of Botany, we had purposely omitted this species, along with 3 other closely kindred ones, in the enumeration of that genus; and the inspection of the present plant satisfies us that we were right inso doing. These species are branches of the type of Marica and not of that of Mona. In Monza and Irıs the stamens are opposite to the space ‘between the stigmas, when these are petalshaped, or in- serted between the segments into which these are cleft, when not petalshaped. But in Marica the stamens are opposite to the angles formed by the connivent edges of the stigmas, when these are petalshaped, or are iuserted between them when they are not petalshaped ; in short, the stamens are alternate with the stigmas іп Marita, but op- posite to them in Мокжа and Inm. Differences that are accompanied by others in the habit of the respective plants. We do not know how it has happened, but there are certain species of the Exsarz, with showy bloom and of curious structure, common in the neighbourhood of the town at the Cape of Good Hope, which do not appear ever to have been introduced into any European garden, or at least not to have flowered there; such as Marica spathacea, one so abundant in its native land as frequently to embar- rass the way of the traveller by its long tough entangled foliage; ANTHOLYZA lucidor, Sparaxıs pendula, Monza plu- „тата, and others. Baniawa ringens, the most curious and splendid flower of the tribe at the Cape, does not appear in the works of Jacquin, so rich in the Ensatee of those regions, nor һауе we ever heard of its being in any garden, although enumerated in the Kew Catalogue. The present species is a fibrons-rooted evergreen peren- nial. Leaves edgewisely-distich, linearly ensiform, narrow, slightly glaucous, a foot or much more in length, slightly convex at one of the sides. Scape ancipital, flat, linear, leafless, without joint or knot, streaked, inclined edgeways, equal to or longer than the leaves, stiffish as the whole plant is, except the flower. General spathe terminal, bi- valved, compound, equitant, several-flowered, valves lan- ceolate and folded, the outer one appearing like a continu- ation of the scape, and is sometimes carried on a con- siderable Iength beyond the flowers, when these appear like lateral ones; but it is also often not much longer than the inner divergent one: partial spathes about 3, several-valved, with 1 or 2 flowers. Peduncles even with the partial spathes, villous, white, somewhat robust. Germen green, smooth, several times shorter than the corolla, oblong, obsoletely three-cornered, unfurrowed, many-seeded : corolla imbri- cately stellate, yellow, thinly sprinkled with purple dots round the centte, about two inches over, nearly equal; seg- ments ovally lanceolate, exterior ones of a reddish brown at the back, interior one scarcely broader but more bluntly pointed with a short brown streak at the lower part of the middle of the back. Stamens about twice shorter than the corolla, upright; filaments fixed in the thicker centre, quite separate, thickish, ancipitally compressed, subulate, firm, yellowish, inore than twice shorter than the anthers: an- thers uprightly connivent, sagittately linear, inserted at the notch ia the base, stiff, + of an inch long; pollen deep yel- low or orange. Style more than twice shorter than the filaments, robust, triquetral, tapered downwards: stigmas three times longer than the style or more, divaricate, com- pressedly subulate, whitish, straight, stiff, with a short pubescent fissure at the end of the inner edge. We had an opportunity of inspecting a considerable number of the native specimens of this species in Mr. Burchell’s Herbarium. MARICA SPECIES. I. Stigmatibus petaliformibus coadunatis. Maricæ у. Cipure. Australi- Americane. Northiana. nobis in Curt. Magaz. 654. martinicensis, nobis in annals of bot. 1. 245. Iris, Curt. Magaz. 416. aludosa. Curt. Magaz. 646. umilis. nobis. Сіронд. Kunth nov. gen. et spec. 1. 257. graminea. nobis. CIPURA. Kunth nov. gen. et spec. 1. 257. II. Stigmatibus subulatis distinctis. — SisvRiNCHIA. Australi-et Boreali- Americana. plicata. nobis іп Curt. Magaz. 655. palmifolia. nobis. Stsyrincutum. Linn. mant. 192; (excl. syn.) striata, nobis in Curt. Magaz. 701. Bermudiana. nobis. SisYRINCHIUM iridioides. Curt. Марал. 94. anceps. nobis. SISYRINCHIUM gramineum. Curt. Марал. 464. cathartica, nobis. Bermudiana Narcisso-Leucoji flore, vulgó Thekel- Thekel. Feuillée peruv. 3. 9. t. 4. mucronata. nobis. SisvRINCHIUM. Pursh amer-sept. 1. 31. convoluta. nobis. SisvrincH. Willd. hort. berol. 91. tenuifolia. nobis. Элзувамсн, Id, l c. 92. bogotensis. nobis. SisvRINCH. Kunth nov. gen. et sp. 259. pusilla. nobis, StsvRiNCH. Ја. 1. c. tinctoria, nobis, SisYRINCH. 14.2. c. 260. iridifolia. nobis. бівүніксн, 14.1. с. californica. nobis in Curt. Magaz. 982. ШІ. Spatha composita, stigmatibus subulatis distinctis, Bobartie. Australi- Africana. gladiata. nobis in loco presenti. aphylla. nobis, Мовжа. Thunb. mor. n. 9.1. 2. filiformis. nobis, Mona. Id. 0. с. n. 11. t. 1. spathacea. nobis, Мокжа. Id. l с. n. 11. t. 1. BosanztA indica Linn. zeyl, п, 41, tHe lborn W "hice sc 14 Browndon ART oa 230 HIBISCUS pheniceus. | Small purple-flowered Hibiscus. — . MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 7, „Nat. ord. Marvaceæ. Jussieu gen, 271. Div. ИТ. Stamina indè- finita. Fructus simplex multilocularis. HIBISCUS. Supra vol. 1. fol. 29. H. pheeniceus, foliis ovatis acuminatis, serratis, inferioribus subcordatis tri- cuspidatis, pedunculis articulatis, seminibus lanatis. Willd. sp. pl. S. 813. . Hibiscus pheeniceus. Lian. suppl. 910. Jacq. hort. vindob. 3. 11. t. 14. Cavan. diss. З. 157. t. 67. f. 2. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 225. ` Frutex ex radice ramosá caulem promit erectum teretem lignosum, calami ей majore crassitie, leucophazum, juniorem virentem, glabrum, à 3 ad 6 pedes „altum, lentum, tandèm ex longitudine debilem : rami virgati, teretes, virides, viz notabili asperitate donantur. (Jacq. 1. c.) Fol. sparsa, distantia, ovato- “acuminata, obscurà virentia hirtiuscula, longiora subsesquiuncialia, crenato- “serrata, (modó inequalitér magis minüsve versus inferiora. triloba jaca) petioli subunciales, villosi, prop? laminam cum genü crassiore flexi. Pedunculi „axillares, solitarii, 1-flori, sublongiores foliis, pilis raris hispidiusculi, patuli, "teretes, biunciales v. ultra, stricti, supra medium at longè infra florem nudo- articulati, indeque crassiores. Cal. exterior 9-phyllus, radiato-patens, equalis "änteriori, obscurà virens, asperiusculus, foliolis angustissimis, lineari-subu- latis: interior pallidior, membranaceus, ultra medium 5-fidus, campanulatus, villoso-ciliolatus, segmentis lanceolatis cuspidatis S-nerviis. Cor. punicea, exe planato-patens, sesquiunciam transversa, exsuperans calycem ; pet. oblongo- -cuneata, apice rotunda v. subretusa, basi in tubum obtegentem germen connata. Germ. tectum, ovatum, pallidà virens, villosum. Tubus stamineus, declina» tus, corolla concolor, pen? de basi ramuloso-antheriferus: amh. rotunda, -әйеШіпа vel aurantiaca. Styli 5, punicei, filiformes, «equales. corolla, tane dem reflectendi ut stigmata admoveantur antheris pro polline ezcipiendo г stig. capitata, Phæniceus and hirtus are now generally included in the same species as varieties. We have however omitted the synonymy of the latter, as we have not had an opportunity of comparing the two in the living plant. Jacquin tells us that he brought the seed of the specimen he treats of, in the place we have cited, from South America, without saying that it was indigenous of that country. By every one else the species is spoken of as a native of the Fast Indies. Requires to be kept in the stove, where it will produce а succession of bloom nearly the summer through. Ішіго- duced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1796. VOL, HI. в Stem woody, round, upright, as thick as or thicker than а common sized pen, the young part green, from three to six feet high, bending as it lengthens; branches wandlike, round, green, very slightly roughened. Leaves scattered, distant, ovately acuminate, dark green, roughishly pu- bescent on both sides, serrate, longer ones about an inch and half long, lower ones sometimes more or less three- lobed: petioles about an inch long, villous, bent near the blade, thickened at the knee. Peduncles axillary, one- flowered, solitary, as long or rather longer than the leaves, thinly and hardisbly pubescent, upright, slightly spreading, straight, round, 2 inches long or more, with a joint above the middle, yet much below the flower, and from thence upwards thickened. Outer calyx 9-leafletted, radiately spreading, equal to the inner one, dark green, roughish, leaflets very narrow, linearly subulate: inner one paler, membranous, cleft to below the middle, campanulate, vil- lously edged, segments lanceolate, pointed, 3-nerved. Co- rolla crimson, fiatly expanded, about 14 inch over, longer than the calyx; petals oblong, cuneate, rounded or subre- tuse, connate. at the base into a tube which encloses the germen. Germen covered, ovate, pale green, villous. Stamineous tube inclined, of the colour of the corolla, shortly branched and antherbearing nearly from the very base: anthers round, orange-coloured. Styles 5, filiform, equal to the petals, bending back, that their stigmas may be placed in contact with the anthers: stigmas capitate. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- ley, Brames, and Milne, King’s Road, Fulham. ж E {5и Whiz ded 231 HIBISCUS pedunculatus. Long-stalked Cape Hibiscus. — MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Nat. ord. MaLvaceæ. Jussieu gen. 271. Div. III. Stamina inde» Anita. Fructus simplex multilocularis. HIBISCUS. Supra vol. 1. fol. 29. Н. pedunculatus, foliis 5-S-Jobisve, obtusis crenatis hirsutis, peduneulis axil- laribus foliis duplo longioribus, corolla campanulata. Willd. sp. pl. 3, 827. * Hibiscus pedunculatus. Zinn. suppl. 809. Thunb. prod. 118. Cavan. diss. 9. 163. t. 66. f. 2. Frutex bipedalis, erectus, ramis teretibus viridibus hirtits villosis. Folia alterna, distantia, obscuré viridia, ex pilis subcompositis hirsuta, subcordato- rotunda, triloba (inferiora quingueloba Thunb.), dentata, sesquiunciam plig minis lata, firmula, supra immerse subtús elevaté nervosa; lobi distantes, apice rotundati, medius longior, cuneato-oblongus, brevé subacuminatus vel nunc retusus: petioli breviores laminá, stricti, patentes, filiformes : stipulae subulate, exiguee, sphacelate, caduca. Pedunculi superne in ramis axillares, solitarii, filiformes, stricti, triunciales, erecti, paulo infra calycem articulate aique geniculato-flexi. Cal. duplex: exterior virens, 8-9-phyllus, parüm brevior interiori, campanulatus, foliolis linearibus angustis acutis hirto-udllosis carinatis : interior subsemi5-fidus, parúm ezcedens tertiam partem uncia, lidior, pilis penicellatis v. stellatis pubescens, segmentis lanceolatis carinatas uninerotis. “Cor. rosea, nutans, obconico-campanulata, pauls пута 2 unciase longa, extús villosiuscula еі neroosa, subinequalis oblique patula, laciniis obovato-v. cuneato-oblongis, apice obliquato-rotundis, subretusis cum тистот о, und infmá majore. Tubus stamineus pallid? roseus, E brevior corolld, sue ern versis interrupt? staminiferus ; fil. vaga, dissita, зар? binata, brevia 2 anth, subrotunde ; pollen 2 spherulis incarnatis granulosum. Styli 5, tubum stamineum superantes, rosei: stig. globosa, pilosa, ра? rosea, Introduced subsequently to the publication of the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis, and not represented by any figure from the living plant. А native of the Cape of Good Hope, where it was observed by Thunberg growing in the woods at a place called Galgebosche. It forms a very ornamental greenhouse-plant, and blossoms freely about July. Тһе beauty of its large rose-coloured flowers is greatly enhanced by the dusky green of the foliage. Ап upright shrub, in the specimen we saw little more than 2 feet high, with round green roughly furred branches. Leaves alternate, distant, dark green, hirsute, subcor- dately round, 3-lobed, toothed, an inch and half (more or R less) across, firm, nerved, (һе пегуев sunk at the upper side, prominent at the under, lobes standing rather widely asunder, rounded at the points, the middle the longest and cuneately oblong, sometimes shortly acuminated, sometimes retuse with a small middle point,-pubescence subcompound: petioles shorter than the blade, patent, stiff, filiform: sti- pules very small, subulate, sphacelate, caducous. Peduncles axillary in the upper part of the branches, solitary, filiform, upright, straight, about 3 inches long, jointed a little be- low the calyx and bent forwards. Calyx double: outer one green, 8-9-leaved, but little shorter than the inner, cam- panulate, leaflets narrow, linear, sharp-pointed rough- furred, keeled: inner about halfway-fivecleft, little more , than the third of an inch deep, paler, beset with pencilled or stellate hairs, segments lanceolate with an exteriorly prominent midrib. Corolla rose-coloured, nodding, obceni- cally campanulate, nearly two inches deep, slanted at the orifice, somewhat unequal, villous and nerved on the outside, segments obovately or cuneately oblong, slantingly round at the top, somewhat retuse with a small point, lowermost one the largest of all. Stamineous tube pale rose-colour, about 3 shorter than the corolla, interruptedly staminiferous up- wards, filaments irregularly placed and rather wide apart, „often in pairs, short: anthers roundish, pollen consisting. of small flesh-coloured globules. Styles fine, longer than the stamineous tube, rose-coloured: stigmas capitate hairy pale-rose-colour. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- ley, Brames, and Milne, King’s Road, Fulham. ` 932 | HIBISCUS tiliaceus. Lime-tree-leaved Hibiscus. t — | MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. m Nat. ord, Matvaces. Jussieu gen. 271. Div. III. Stamina inde- finita. Fructus simplex multilocularis. А HIBISCUS. Supra vol. 1. fol. 29. H. tiliaceus foliis subrotundo-cordatis acuminatis crenatis, caule arboreo, calyce exteriore 10-dentato. Willd. sp. рі. 3. 810. Hibiscus tiliaceus. Linn. sp. pl. 2. 976. Cavan. diss. 8. 151. t. 55. f. 1. Hort. Kew. 2. 454, ed. 2. 4. 225. Loureir. cochinch. 218. Hibiscus tiliefolius. Sadish. paradis. 94. е Malva arborea maritima, folio subrotundo minore acuminato subtis can. dido, cortice in funes ductili. Sloan. jam. 1. 215. 1, 134. f: de Althea maritima arborescens diffusa, foliis orbiculato-cordatis crenatis өші tús cinereis, Browne jam. 284. : 7 Novella. Rumph. amb. 2. 218. t. 73, Pariti s. Tali pariti. Rheede mal. 1.59. t. 30. EN Alcea indica sinarum, flore luteo malvaceo. Pluk. amalth. t. 855. 45. . Кента indica, tilie folio. Tourn. inst. 100. ` Frutex biorgyalis v. ultra, erectus, ramosus, trunco crassissimo. · Fol. des erescentía, supra obsoletiüs pubescentia virertia, subtàs tomentoso-albigantia, Varicoso-nervosu, rimá glandulosá longitudinali basi nervi. principis incisa г, petioli о озі breviores lamind: өбіршіз 2, magna, ovate v. parabolice, obtuse, erecta, Pedunculi superné in ramis axillares, solitarii, "стави, longitudine .fer® calycis. interioris, teretes, curvati, pube „brevi densá гес; Cal. exterior interioris basin arcté cingens, pluriàs brevior, -9-10-partitus, JSoliolis ovato-acuminatis, omnino ас pedunculus pubescens... Cal. interior 4 parte uncie altus, campanulatus, ultra medium 5:fidus, segmentis ablongo-lanceolatis, - villosis, subSnerviis, acumine obtusulo. Cor, сатра nulato-rotata, 4 uncias transversa, nervoso-striata, flava fundo intus puniceo, externo hirtiñs villosa; pet. basi breve connexa, spathulato-rotunda, ungue Breviore cuneato-angustato, laminá oblique orbiculata cum latere uno majore, Tubus stamineus flavescens fermé diplo brevior corolla, ad usque ultra те: dium integer, indè in filamenta brevia ramulos? fissus 2 anth. reniformes, pal. lida. Stig. 5, oblonga, cylindrica, atro-sanguinea, erecto-patentia, mollis muricata, A common shrub throughout the East Indies, growing in almost every soil and situation, but thriving most on the sea-shore. Described as sometimes acquiring а stem of 20 feet in height, and of a greater circumference than a man can encircle with his arms. The smaller kinds of cordage are made from its bark. It is also said to be indigenous of the West Indies; and Mr. Salisbury thinks that the elatus of Swartz is a variety of it. Cultivated by Miller in 1731. Тһе seed that produced the plant from which the drawing was made, was sent from India by Lady Gwyllim to Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, of the Fulham nursery. A branching arborescent shrub. Leaves decrescent up- wards, roundly cordate, acuminate, more or less crenated, obsoletely pubescent at the upper side and green, on the under tomentose whitish and varicosely nerved, the prin- cipal nerve having a longitudinal linear glandularly edged incision at its base: petioles villous shorter than the blade: stipules large, sometimes nearly ovate sometimes para- bolical round pointed, villous, upright, caducous. Pe- duncles on the upper parts of the branches, axillary, solitary, thick, scarcely longer than the interior calyx, round, curved, with a short close plush-like pubescence. External calyx enveloping closely the base of the internal one, several times shorter than that, 9-10-parted, leaflets ovately acuminate, covered with precisely the same kind of pubescence as the peduncle and of the same colour. Internal calyx about 3 of an inch deep, campanulate, five- cleft to below the middle, segments oblong, lanceolate, villous, generally 3-nerved, obtusely pointed. Corolla campanulately rotate about 4 inches across, nervedly streaked, deep yellow, with a large dark crimson spot on the inside at the bottom, externally roughishly villous: petals shortly connected at their bases, spatulately round, unguis cuneately narrowed, shorter than the obliquely rounded unequal-sided lamina. Stamineous tube yellow, nearly twice shorter than the corolla, entire or naked nearly to the middle, then beset by or divided into short and some- times branching filaments: anthers reniform, pale. Stig- mas 9, oblong, cylindrical, deep crimson, upright, spread- ing, softly muricated, 233 233 PASSIFLORA adiantifolia. Norfolk Island Passionflower. —e—— — MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. Nat. ord. PASSIFLORE®. Jussieu in Annales du Muséum. 6. 102. PASSIFLORA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 13. A adiantifolia, foliis basi rotundato-truncatis, levitér 3-5-lobis, lobis obtusis, petiolis eglandulosis, petalis calyce brevioribus. Willd. enum. 698; (sub P. Adiantum). Passiflora adiantifolia. Miss Lawr. passionfl. Passiflora glabra. Wendland collect. 1. 55. tab. 17. Passiflora Adiantum. Willd. enum. 698. Passiflora aurantia. Andrews’s reposit. 295. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 153; (поп tamen Forsteri, Cavanillesti, aut Willdenovii ). Frutex alte scandens, caule glabro ramoso ; ramis gracilibus subanguloso- striatis viridantibus. Folia alterna, transversé latiora, rotundaté S-loba v. sepe ob lobos iterüm incisos 5- v. pluries lobata, trinervia subtüs tenuts:imé reticulata et sep? nodulis glandulosis vapis notata, basi rotundata, juniora subrhombea ; petiolus fer? duplo brevior, eglandulosus flexus г stipulae minute subulate caduce. Сїттї axillares spirales longissimt. | Pedunculi solitarii, axillares, 1-flori, longitudine feré petioli at plurimüm crassiores, duriuscult, flexi, tereies, glabri, parúm supra medium articulati, bracteis 8 sparsis mini- mis subulatis rubidis caducis stipati. Flores sesquiunciam profundi, patentes, inodori, primo ochroleuct, inde lateritio-rubentes. Calyx crassiusculus, in- ‚Ferne breve urceolatus, toroso-angulatus ; segmenta angustiis oblongata, elevato-carinata, margine reflexo, apice obtuso breve in ео. Core. pet. sum- mo tubo calycis inposita, segmentis calycinis & parte т. circa breviora, fera duplo angustiora, lanceolato-oblonga, tenuia, obtusa, tenera, patentia. Corona duplex, duplo brevior corollá, «qualis; exterior erecto-radiata, basi corollæ Inserta, radiis setaceis rigidis obtusis numerosis luteo-viridantibus interior adstantibus : interior (о. operculum) ovato-tubulosa, plicato-rugosa, eroso- dentata, viridis, 3-plo brevior columná : nectarium in Sundo calycis, septo nullo divisum, luteo-virens. Columne stipes equalis. calycı, rotundate tri- queter, viridis, 3-plo vel ultra longior filamentis, strictus: fil. Jiliformia, viridia, «qualia stylis, divergentia: anth. verticali-appense, vibratiles virides, sagittato-lineares, breviores filamentis. Germ. oblongum, ovale, viride, glabrum, obsolet? trigonum: styli filiformes, virides, patentes: stig. oblique capitata, viridia, Referred to the aurantia of Forster in the late edi- tion of the Hortus Kewensis. But that species 15 native of New Caledonia, and has two distinct and prominent glands on the upper part of the petioles, conspicuous xis n the dried specimen deposited Бу. Forster in the Er; per Herbarium. Тһе present is native of Norfolk Island, an has no glands on the petioles. The leaves in aurantia have a much longer middle lobe, and the side ones are never divided or deeply indented. We have therefore no hesitation іп separating them. Mr. Brown informs us that there are two other species in New Holland, closely akin to these, with flowers of the same colour. Adiantifolia is a tall climbing greenhouse plant, with a smooth branching stem ; branches somewhat angular, green. Leaves alternate, of a lively green, smooth, broader than long, 3-lobed, and when the side Jobes are indented with the appearance of being 5 or more lobed, 3-nerved, not un- ‘frequently with several scattered glandular nodules on their under surface, reticulately veined, rounded at the base, lobes obtuse: petiole about twice as short as the blade, bent, glandless. Stipules minute, subulate. Tendrils axillary, long, spiral. Peduncles solitary, axillary, one-flowered, about the length of the petioles but much thicker, round, bent, smooth, jointed a little above the middle, furnished with three very small subulate, distantly placed bractes. Flowers about an inch and half deep, scentless, patent, at first of a whitish buff colour, then turning to a kind of brick-red. Calyx thickish, shallowly cupped below, angu- larly-torose; segments narrowishly oblong, deeply keeled, with a reflectent margin, and short blunt inbent point. Petals of the corolla inserted at the rim of the tube of the calyx, about one third shorter than that and nearly twice as narrow, lanceolately oblong, thin, tender, obtuse, patent. Crown double, twice shorter than the corolla, equal; outer one of upright numerous bristleshaped blunt pointed one- ranked yellowish green rays, which stand close to the inner crown; inner crown or operculum ovately tubular, plaitedly wrinkled, erosely dentate, green, 3 times shorter than the column : nectary in the shallow cavity at the bottom of the calyx, without any partition. Shaft of the column equal to the calyx, green, upright: filaments green filiform, equal to the styles; anthers sagittately linear green. Germen oblong, smooth, green: styles filiform, green: stigmas ob- liquely capitate, green. Introduced in 1792 by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, of the Hammersmith nursery. t The drawing was taken at Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne’s, in the King’s Road, Parson’s Green, in July. — u 234 AMARYLLIS equestris. 8. major. Large Star-flowered Amaryllis. —— Ó— HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. оға. Narcisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germen inferum. AMARYLLIDEz. Brown prod. 296. Sect. І. AMARYLLIS. Supra fol. 226. Div. IV. Bi-multiflore. Tubus coronatus. Folia bifaria. А. equestris, (tubo fimbriato) 2-3-flora, pedicellis spatha erecta brevioribus, tubo filiformi horizontali, limbo obliqué patulo, sursüm curvo. Hort. Kew, 1. 417. (a) minor. Amaryllis equestris. Jacq. hort. schenb. 1. 33. t. 63. Curtis’s magaz. 305. Willd. sp. pl. 253. Redouté liliac. 89. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 224, Nobis tn Journ. of scien. and the arts. 2. 354. Amaryllis dubia. Linn. aman. acad. 8. 254. Lilium americanum puniceo flore Belladonna dictum. Herm. parad. 194. t. 194. Lilium rubicundum. Merian surinam. t. 22. (2) major. In loco presenti. (7) plena. In hortis sub nomine Amaryllidis pulcherrima 2 Folia subquaterna, lanceolato-lorata, едиайа vel breviora scapo, unciam ad sesquiunciam lata. Scapus 1-2-pedalis, glaucus, teres, fistulosus. Spatha lanceolata, erecta, equalis pedunculis. Pedunculi stricti, teretes, maximum triunciales. Flores inodori, miniati, striati, 3-5-unciales о. ultra. Tubus ]-sesquiuncialis, calamum crassus v. duplo crassior, deflexus: faux patens, stella chloroleucá notata. Limbus deflexus concolor, rictú oblique divaricato. Stamina fasciculata, declinata. Іп В majore barba densior Їопрійз inserpit Sauce quàm in а minore. The smaller variety of this species has been long known in our collections, and represented in various works, as is shown by the synonymy. — But the present we do not find any where noticed. Mr. Griffin, who contributed the speci- men from which the drawing was made, takes it to be the parent of the double Амлвушав, which was imported a few years since by Messrs. Frasers, and well known among gardeners by the appellation of pulcherrima. Its bulbs were received by Mr. Griffin, a short time ago, from Guadaloupe. Тһе main difference between it and the other variety seems to consist in this being more than twice the size of that, and in having a pubescence at the orifice of the tube of much greater breadth, VOL. Ш. Р We should scarcely have thought it necessary to observe, that the specific name had been suggested by a fancied resemblance in the front appearance of the corolla to a star of some of the orders of knighthood; had we not known that a very different version of the same has been given in another place. Leaves about four, lanceolately lorate, equal to or rather shorter than the scape, from one inch to an inch and half broad. Scape from one to two feet high, columnar, glau- cous, hollow. райе lanceolate, upright, equal to the peduncles. Peduncles upright, round, about З inches long. Flowers without scent, of various shades of vermilion, some- times inclining to a pink, sometimes to an orange hue, especially in the smaller sort. Tube deflectent, from an inch to an inch and half long, of the thickness of a common pen, or of twice that thickness; faux spreading, marked with a large whitish six-pointed star. Limb deflectent, obliquely anes upper lip reflectent. Stamens fasciculate, de- clined. Both varieties require to be kept in the hothouse, where they flower freely. Wire sc L4Brownlow JABoDborn рТ 935 ORNITHOGALUM niveum. Snowy Star-of- Bethlehem. —— HEXANDRIA MONOGYNTA. Nat. ord. Aspuopett, Jussieu gen. 53. Div. IV. Flores spicati. Radix bulbosa. Corolla sexpartita, basi staminifera. ORNITHOGALUM. Supra vol. 2. fol. 158. O. niveum; racemo paucifloro, petalis lanceolatis, foliis filiformibus cana» lieulatis, filamentis subulatis. Solander іп Hort. Kew. 1. 440. Ornithogalum niveum. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 115. Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 9, 957. Ornithogalum graminifolium. Thunb. prod. 61? №. 3367, Burchell catal. herb. afric. ined. Bulbus tunicatus, oblato-sphcericus, levis, virescens, diametro viz 4 pare tium ипсие. Fol. radicalia, раиса (subquaterna) filiformi-attenuata, cana- liculata, tenaciüs graminea, nec carnosa, erecto-recurva, тойд duplo longiora scapo, obscuré viridia, 2-8-uncialia, supernà viz setá crassiora, basi тете branaceo-dilatata. Scapus (тойд plures ) erectus, strictiusculus, 1-9-uncialis. Flores erecto-racemosi, 2-10, inodori, albi, viz adequantes $ partes uncie per transversum. Bracteæ membranose, lato-ovatee cum cariná fuscá, abrupt? se- faceo-cuspidate, а ppress@ pedicello paulo longiori. Pedicelli erecti, filiformes, subbreviores corolla Cor. intits nivea, patentissima, sezpartita з lacinise lanceo- lato-oblonga, 8 exteriores sublatiores concaviores dorso carinate cum maculä viridi oblon; d, interiores plane dorso parciüs vel mon omnind virescentes, Fil. alba, plane, corolla X vel ultra breviora, erecto-patentia, alterna lanceo- lata sublongiora, 3 subulata subsesquiangustiora + anth. Лазе, oblonge, breves, primo erecte, ind? incumbentes. erm. viride, oblongum, irisulco-3- gonum angulis rotundatis: stylus subbrevior germine, albus, strictus, S-queter, erectus : stig. apex concolor triqueter, puberulus, non crassior stylo. “ This species was found growing on the rocks in Zwart- “ water Poort, and in similar situations in other parts of “ the colony of the Cape of Good Hope. The cultivated * plant greatly exceeds іп size the wild one, which is re- “ markable for being one of the smallest of the natural * order. The bulbs produce an abundance of offsets, and “seem to prefer being partly out of ground, as in their “ natural state they are always exposed to the air, and they © exist for a great part of the year without any other nou- “ rishment than the moisture contained in their diminutive “ bulbs." We are obliged to Mr. Burchell for the preceding notice concerning our present subject; the drawing of which was s2 Li taken from а specimen that flowered in his collection at Fulbam, in August last, and had been brought from the Cape by himself. The species was introduced by Mr. Masson in 1774, and some of the specimens, which flowered at Kew, are preserved in the Banksian Herbarium. The plant however has been long since lost in the gardens. It comes near to Or- NITHOGALUM tenellum ; which is a much larger species, with a black-covered bulb, linear leaves shorter than the scape, pedicles much longer than the flowers, subulate filaments of one size, cream-coloured anthers, and germen pale below and yellow above. Bulb in niveum oblately spherical, about the size of a Bullace-plum, smooth, greenish above. Leaves about 4, filiform, tapered, channelled, dark green, of a grassy and rather tough consistence (not tender and fleshy as more usual in the genus), upright, recurved, sometimes twice the length of the scape, not much thicker near the top than a bristle, membranously dilated at the base. Scape (some- times several) stiffish, 1-3 inches high. Flowers 2-10, in а loose upright raceme, scentless, white, scarcely 3 of an inch across. Bractes membranous, broadly ovate, with a brown keel, terminated by an abrupt bristieshaped point, pressed against the pedicles, which surmount them but little. Pedicles upright, filiform, rather shorter than the corolla. Corolla clear white within, flatly outspread, sixparted; seg- ments lanceolately oblong, three outer ones rather the broadest, more concave, keeled at the back, which has a green oblong mark, inner ones flat, slightly or not at all marked with green at the back. Filaments white, flat, about + shorter than the corolla, upright, spreading, alter- nate ones lanceolate, and rather the longest, the three others subulate, and nearly once and a half narrower. Anthers deep yellow, short. Germen green, oblong, roundly tri- gonal, 3-furrowed: style rather shorter than the germen, white, triangular: stigma а triangular point of the same colour and not thicker. (OU 936 CAMPANULA lilifolia, Lily -leaved Bell-flower. — PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. CAMPANULACER. Jussieu gen. 163. Div. I. Anthere distinctee, : CAMPANULACEX, Brown prod. 559. Sect. I. Corolla mo- nopetala, regularis, Anthere libere, . CAMPANULA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 56. Div. Foliis levioribus. C. lilifolia, foliis lanceolatis; caulinis acuté serratis, floribus paniculatis nutantibus, Linn. sp. pl. 1. 233. Campanula lilifolia, Hort Kew. 1. 221. ed. 2. 1. 347. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 899. Jacq. hort, scheenb. 3.46. t. 335. Smith prod. fl. grac. 1. 138. Wald. et Kitaib. hung. 3. 274. t. 247. Baumgarten en. stirp. transylv. 1. 148. Campanula foliis radicalibus ex cordato-ovatis, caulinis lanceolatis, верё serratis floribus nutantibus. Gmel, sib. 3. 1. 26. Herba perennis? Caules sesqui-bipedales v. ultra, inferne foliati, teretes, glabri, striato-angulosi, erecti, supernà paniculati. Fol. radicalia (sub exortü caulium abeuntia) petiolata, cordata, v. subrotunda, petiolo sub- marginato ; caulina undique sparsa, numerosa, patentia, supernà ' versús sensim majora, ovato-lanceolata, brevé petiolata е. sessilia, р Jirmula, serrata dentibus glanduld parv prefisis, versús basin integra, immersè nervosa, glabra, reticulato-venosa, 3-uncialia v. longiora, latitudine unciali v. majore, subtús pallentia, summa longius attenuata, Panicula terminalis infern? com- posita, subpyramidata, pedalis, secunda, numerosa, laza, patula, ‘erecta + flores suaveolentissimi, albo-cærulescentes, nutantes: ramuli v. pedunculi axillares, pauciflori, filiformes, nervoso-striati, nudi: pedicelli subcolorati, subbreviores flore, fele recurvi, bracteá oblongo-lanceolatá glanduloso- dentatá basi et 2 aliis supernis minutis edentatis stipati, Cal. germine con- tinuus, glaber, stellatus, foliolis lanceolatis. glanduloso-subserratis, glandulä atro-purpureä profizis. Cor. cupulato-v. nunc cyathodi-campanulata, obsoleta pentagona, 3 uncia profunda, limbi laciniis latè ovatis acuminatis patulis margine réflezo. Stam. $ breviora corollá: il. alba, lanceolato-ca illaria, infra membranoso-dilatata willis hirsutis densis marginata intüs glabra in tubum conniventia, suprà retorto-patentia nuda: anth, erecte, lineares, sul- phurea. Germ. turbinatum, glabrum, toroso-3-lobum, costato-nervosum coronatum tubulo elevato nectarifero epigyno ochroleuco carnoso lavi cylin- drico truncato subdentato pluriès breviore basibus dilatatis flamentorum quibue inclusum: stylus & longior corollá, clavato-fliformis, infra glaber albicans supra pubescens caerulescens: stig. 3 lobiformia, replicata, recurva, obtusa, ántús albicantia. A species found on mountains in Siberia, the island of Crete, Hungary, and Transylvania. Introduced in 1784 by М. Thouin. Although a handsome, extremely sweet scented, and to all appearance hardy plant, rarely met. with in our gardens. We аге not aware, however, of any difficulty in its culture. The corolla is observed to vary froin a broad campanulate form to one of narrower dimensions. In flower during a great part of the summer. Perennial? Stems from a foot and half to two feet high and more, leafy downwards, round, smooth, angularly streaked, upright, panicled upwards. Radical leaves (which - are not present after the stem has appeared) petioled, cor- date, or nearly round, with a marginated petiole; cauline ones scattered in every direction, numerous, spreading, upper ones gradually larger, ovately lanceolate, shortly petioled or sessile, rather substantial, serrated, the teeth having a small gland at the point, entire towards the base, depressedly nerved, smooth, reticulately veined, 3 inches long or more, one or more broad, pale underneath, the uppermost the longest pointed. Panicle terminal, pyra- midal, compounded at the lower part, about a foot long, facing one way, loose, numerous, upright, slightly spread- ing; flowers whitish blue, nodding; peduncles or branchlets axillary, few-flowered, filiform, nervedly streaked, naked: pedicles somewhat coloured, rather shorter than the flower, flexile, recurved, beset at the base by an oblong-lanceolate glandularly toothed bracte, and higher up by two other very small ones, which are not toothed. Calyx continuous wit the germen, smooth, radiate, leaflets lanceolate glandularly subserrated, and pointed by a black red gland. Corolla cupularly and broadly, or cyathiformly and more narrowly campanulate, obsoletely pentagonal ¿ of an inch deep; seg- ments of the limb broadly ovate, acuminate, slightly spread- ing, reflectent at the margin. Stamens a third shorter than the corolla: filaments white, partly lanceolate, partly filiform, membranously dilated below, edged with a thick shaggy pu- bescence, smooth on the inside, converging into the form of a tube, at the upper part coiled back, spreading naked: anthers upright, linear, sulphur-coloured. Germen turbi- nate, smooth, torosely 3-lobed, ribbed, crowned by a small eylindric epigynous upright cream-coloured fleshy smooth tube which is several times shorter than the wide parts of the filaments that enclose it: style $ longer than the co- rolla, clavately filiform, smooth and white at the lower part, blue and villous above: stigmas lobe-formed, spread- ing, recurved, obtuse, whitish inwards. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- ley, Brames, and Milne, King's Road, Fulham. 987 CAMPANULA sarmatica. Marschall s Bell-flower. —— PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. CAMPANULACEZ. Jussieu gen. 163. Div. Г. Anthere distinctee. CAMPANULACE/E, Brown prod. 559. Sect. I. Cor. 1-petala, regularis, Anth, libere. | CAMPANULA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 56. Div. Capsulis ovatis : calycibus 10-fidis : segmentis alternis reflexis. Marsch, Bieb. taur. cauc. 1. 153. C. sarmatica, capsulis obtectis, foliis tomentosis: inferioribus cordato-lan- ceolatis petiolatis, superioribus oblongis sessilibus, floribus cernuis, ger- minibus lanatis. 14. loc. cit. n. 382 ; sub C. betonicifolià. Campanula betonicifolia. Id. loc. cit.; (nomen jampridem in, Prodroma Flora Grece айй specie occupatum ). Herba perennis tola willoso-cinerascens, lactescens. Caulis 1-9-pedalis, striato-teres, inter flores subflecuosus. Flores long? spars2gue racemosiy nu- tantes, cerulei, distantes; pedunculi axillares, solitarii, S-unciales ad feré obsoletos, striato-tereles, ascendentes, strictiusculi, \-flori, bracteati foliolis 2 imis majoribus oppositis folium axille decussantibus aliisque sparsis decrescentibus, supremo contiguo calyci. Folia radicalia petiolata, sub» hastato-lanceolata, gross crenato-dentata, subcrispa, subrugosa, nervosa: caulina superiora semiamplexicaulia, sparsa, ой ongo-lanceolata, crispula, nervosa, reticulato-venosa, serrato-dentata dentibus glandulá exiguá prafizis. Cal. campanulatus, patens, ter brevior corollä, foliolis 5 angustins sagitlatis willosis, erectis, nervo medio carinatis, angulo cujusque sinús secundùm germen in breve et deflexum cornu v. calcareolum rubid2 et sub-penicillatim apiculatum producto. Сог. oblongo-campanulata,: sesquiunciá рай brevior, nervosa, extús pubescens; limbus patens recurvus, $ v. circa brevior tubo; laciniis oblongo-ovatis, acutis, 3-nerviis. Stam. qualia calyci; fil. rigida, infra obovato-dilatata, fornicata margine villoso, іп umbonem depressam connie ventia, suprà brevé setacea: anth. echroleuce, demüm in gyros retorquender. Germ. oblatum brevè turbinatum, | albo-lanatum, 3-gonum, 3-loc. ovulis numerosis compressis : stylus equalis tubo corolla, crasstusculus, teres, albus, apice ceerulescens, erectus: stig. З patula. subulata, intüs luteo-virentia, A common ‘species in the rocky subalpine regions of Caucasus, where it was observed by M. Marschall, au- thor of the excellent Flora Taurico-caucasica, or account of the plants of Caucasian Tartary. We have changed the original specific name, it having been already applied to another species in the Prodromus of the Flora Greeca, a publication which preceded by two years that of M. Mar- schall, The drawing was made from a very recently imported plant which flowered in the open ground at Messrs. Whitley and Сога, of the Fulham nursery, in July last. It is said to be perfectly hardy. An herbaceous milky hoarily villous perennial plant. Stem 1-2 feet high, oftener simple than branched, round, streaked, slightly flexuose between the flowers. Radical leaves petioled, subhastately lanceolate, coarsely sub-cre- nately toothed, slightly curled at the edge, slightly wrinkled, nerved; upper cauline ones scattered, half-stemclasping, oblong, lanceolate, serrately toothed with teeth headed by a small gland, somewhat curled at the edge, nerved, reti- culately veined. Flowers blue, nodding, disposed іп a long scattered wideset raceme; peduncles axillary, solitary, one-flowered, from 3 inches long to nearly none, round, streaked, rather stiff, ascendent, leafletted, two leaflets at the base largest and decussating the one at the axil, the rest smaller scattered distant, one close to the calyx. Calyx campanulate, spreading, 3 times shorter than the corolla; leaflets narrow, sagittate, villous, upright, with a middle keel-like nerve, the corner of each of the sinuses juts downwards along the sides of the germen like a short spur, and is headed by a small red thinly pencilled gland. Corolla oblong-campanulate, little less than an inch and half deep, externally pubescent and nerved, limb spreading, recurved, about $ shorter than the tubular portion, seg- ments oblong, ovate, sharp, 3-nerved. Stamens the length of the calyx; filaments rigid, vaulted below, obovately di- lated, villous at the margins, converging into a depressed oblate boss, each surmounted by a short setaceous antheri- ferous pedicle: anthers cream-coloured, ultimately coiling backwards. Germen woolly, white, oblate, shortly tur- binate, 3-cornered, 3-celled ; ovules numerous flat: style equal to the tubular portion of the corolla, upright, thickish, round, white and blue: stigmas slightly spreading, subulate, greenish yellow inwards. Mr. Marschall queries if this is not of the same species as Campanuta violefolia of Lamarck; we have compared the description of that with our plant, and believe the two to be distinct. 938 CLEMATIS aristata. Бетіпа. Fertile-lowered awned-anthered Vi rgin's- Bower. —— POLYANDRIA POLYGY NIT. Nat. ord. RASUNCULACER. Jussieu gen. 231. Div, Г, Capsule mo- пөзрегпке, non debiscentes, CLEMATIS. Supra vol. 9. fol. 97. Div. Scandentes. С. aristeta, dioica; foliis ternatis, foliolis oblongo-cordatis v. ovatis, acumi- natis, mucronato-serratis, pedunculis subitloris, corolla 4-petala, came panulata, erecta, antheris aristatis. Mas. antheris polliniteris. Кам. antheris tnanibus. Frutex sarmentosus, ramosus, scandens ope foliorum cirrhoso-prehensilium. Folia longè petiolata, subtas pilosiuscula el varicoso-nervosa, foliolis firmi, crassiusculis, denticulis remotiusculis mucroniformibus, cırterum integerrimis, terminali majore sesqui-biunciali, latitudine unciali : petioli duriuscull, верба volubiles, phsiusculi, suprà canaliculati, partiales breviores. foliolis. Florea albicantes, axillarcs et terminales, subguinato-corymbosi, егесі, und cum pedunculis. breviores foliis; pedunculi communes oppositi, robusti, brevis- simi, 3-5-divisi v. mod? plurtés, bracteis 2 oprostis incaribus dentissimia pilosis; partiales longi filiformes hirsutis оов longiores corollá, brarteolis 2 appositis patentibus. hirsutis infra medium stipati. Сог. +-petala, modd subina qualis, supernd recurvo-patens, estús ochroleuca villosa : . linearis oblonga, acumine obtuso, ad masimum Y wnciee longa, lineas 2 v. circa lata. Fil. (in fan. saltém ) ordine simplici pistillorum fasciculo cui aqualia circum- posita; ochroleuca; anth. adnate, «Шеге. Pist. y breviora. cordlä, conferta, lani implexä invicém continentia г germ. parvulum + stylus setaceus, longus, danatus : stig. continuum, angustum, subulatum, luteolum. An unrecorded New Holland plant. Introduced most probably since the publication of the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis. The species is dicecions, having fertile pistils with sterile stamens on one plant, and sterile pistils with fertile stamens on another. The name has been adopted from the Banksian Herbarium, and was suggested to Mr. Brown by the sinall intermediate point which extends itself beyond the loculaments or body of the anthers. A high-climbing evergreen shrub, mounting by means of preheusile leaves, that serve for claspers or tendrils. Leaves \ong-petioied, thinly beset with hairs beneath, and varicosely veined; leaflets oblongly cordate or ovate, pointed firm, somewhat fleshy, with small pointed and rather VOL. Hl. T wideset teeth at the edge, otherwise entire, the terminal one the largest, and from about an inch and half to about two: inches long, about one broad: petioles wiry, often twining, thinly furred, channelled above, partial ones shorter than the leaflets. Flowers white, axillary and terminal, in corymbs of about five, upright, together with their pe- duncles shorter than the leaves; common peduncles opposite, thick, very short, 3 or 5 times divided, and sometimes oftener, with two opposite wide-spreading linear furred bractes ; partial ones long, filiform, somewhat roughly furred, longer than the corolla, furnished below their middle with two small opposite patent hirsute bractes. Corolla 4-petal- led, campanulate, upright, sometimes slightly unequal, upwards recurvedly spreading, on the outside cream-co- lourcd and villous: petals linearly oblong, bluntly pointed, at most about three fourths of an inch long, about 2 lines broad. Filaments (in the fertile plant at least) surrounding the fascicle of the pistils in a single rank, cream-coloured : anthers adnate, pollenless or sterile. Pistils about one third shorter than the corolla, close, interlocked by en- tangled wool: germens small: styles bristleshaped, long, woolly: stigmas continuous, slender, subulate, yellowish. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham, where it was cultivated in the greenhouse. QY ú “ду Pido wi 2, 239 ІРОМФА obscura. Huiry-stemmed East Indian Ipomea, — PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat, ord. Сокуогуџтл. Jussieu gen. 182. Div. I. Stylus unicus. CONVOLVULACEZ. Brown prod. 481, бесі. I. Germen ша» cum. ІРОМ А. барға vol. 1. fol. 9. Div. Caule volubili. Y. obscura, foliis cordatis indivisis, caule subpubescente, pedunculis incras- satis unifloris, calycibus glabris. Linn. sp. pl. 1. 220; (sub ConvoL= VULo obscuro). Convolvulus obscurus. Lin. l, с. Vahl symb. 3. 27. Hort. Kew. 1. 909. ed. 2. 1. 330. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 852. Convolvulus Йоге minore lacteo, fundo atrorubente. Dill. elth. 98. 1. 83. + 95. "oa annua volubilis. Caulis teres, rubescens, villosus. Folia lato- cordata, integra, subtüs et margine subpubescentia, uncialia v. ferà 3-plo longiora: petioli teretes, villusi, longiores laminá. Pedunculi azillares, longiores petiolis, scepiàs uniflori, modó 3-flori, villosi, bracteolis 2 obsoletis ad articulum stipatis, ind? clavato-incrassati, nudiusculi. Cal. pluriós brevior corollá, 5-partitus, crassus, rigidus, cylindraceo-campanulatus, tritus gravem JSundens odorem, foliolis ovato-oblongis, obtusis. Corolla Agpoeratertformis, tota glabra, lactea, plicis 5 ochroleucis, fauce purpurcá; tubus purpureus, equalis calyci, ampliatus іп faucem cylindricam triplo latiorem а longiorem cum fundo purpureo; limbus explanatus, subpentagonus, quiuquiós emargina- tus. Stam. inclusa fauce cujus basi inserta, albicantia ; 5), subulata, dea glanduloso-pilosa, 9 breviora: anth. ovate, erect, achroleuce. tylus «qualis fauci, albidus; stig. granuloso-copitatum, pallidum; sem, grandius- сива, fusca, villosa, pauca. A tender annual, native of the East Indies; cul- tivated in Sherard's celebrated garden at Eltham, in 1732. lt is one which very commonly makes its appearance in the parcels of seeds that are occasionally received from India, and is probably general in the country. Stem twining, round, reddish, furred. Leaves broadly cordate, entire, slightly pubescent underneath and at the edge, from an inch to near three inches long; petioles round, villous, longer than the blade. Peduncles axillary, longer than the petioles, more generally one-flowered, some- times three-flowered, villous, furnished with two nearly ob- solete bractelets at the Joint, from whence they are clavately T2 thickened and nearly smooth. Calyx several times shorter than the corolla, five-parted, thick, rigid, cylindrically campanulate, when bruised emitting a strong scent re- sembling that of some of the firs, leaflets ovately oblong obtuse. Corolla hypocrateriform, entirely smooth, white, with five cream-coloured plaits, and a purple eye; tube purple, equal to the calyx, enlarged into a three times longer and wider faux, which is purple at the bottom; limb flatly extended, slightly pentagonal, five-notched. Stamens enclosed within the faux, at the base of which they are inserted, white; filaments subulate, glandularly furred below, two shorter than the rest; anthers ovate, up- right, cream-coloured. Style even with the faux whitish: stigma capitate, granular, pale. Seeds largish, brown, villous, few. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- ley, Вгатев, апа Milne, Fulham, to whom the seed has been lately sent from the botanic garden at Calcutta, by Sir Evan Nepean. de del E Publ by Rizaway & Sons Nov 2,2817. 240 h L] Wiz se Brownlow StHolborn. irs ———M— 240 GNAPHALIUM apiculatum. New Holland Everlastino. v йы SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Nat. ord. CorYMBIFERE. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. I. Receptaculum nudum. Semen papposum. Flores flosculosi. | GNAPHALIUM. Recept. nudum. Pappus pilosus s. plumosus. Cal. imbricatus, squamis marginalibus rotundatis, scariosis, coloratis. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1849. Suffrutices aut herbe ; folia alterna sæpè canescentia ; flores sep? termi- nales, glomerati, aut corymbosi ; calyx persistens. Species una dioica insigni exceptione. Juss. l. c. 179. Div. Herbacea Chrysocoma. С. apiculatum, herbaceum, folis subspathulatis tomentosis apice nudis membranaceis subulatisve, floribus paniculatis, squamis calycinis ciliatis. Labillard. nov. hall. 2. 43. t. 188. Gnaphalium apiculatum. Persoon syn. 2. 418. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 15. Herba tota gossypino-lanata, cana ; caulis erectus simplex о. paniculato- ramosus, sesqui-bipedalis v. ultra. Fol. sparsa, distantia, erecta, semiam- plexicaulia, spathulato-oblonga, aliquotiés longiora quàm lata, sensim in bracteas decrescentia, longiora fere 4-uncialia, abrupt? et late acuminata, apiculo subulato fulvescente glabro prefixa, nervo medio simplici. Flores aurei, plures, erecti, subcorymboso-fastigiantes, breviores pedunculis. Cal, hemisphericus г squame flave, lanceolato-lineares, ordine plurimo imbricatt, ungue tereti viridi villoso petioliformi, laminá scariosá lineari-lanceolatá, sæpè maculis sanguineis vage notatá, latere utroque suprà unguem pro brevi spatio (апа longá implexá munitá indeque invicém cum proximis continente, ultra lanam sericeo-ciliatá, superne nudå, nervo medio dorsali; squamarum intimarum ungues membranoso-marginali et laminis eroso-dentatis longiores. Discus planiusculus, amplus, aureus, subbrevior calyci: floseuli numero- sissimi, infundibuliformes, aurei, glabri : tubus filiformis, viridiusculus, 3-plo longior limbo: limbus aureo-micans campanulatus laciniis acutis recurvo- patentibus. Germ, 2-v. 3-plo-brevius flosculo, gracile: pappus ex radus pluribus (7-8?) plumosis, qualibus disco. Recept. nudum, punctatum. — А greenhouse perennial, native of Van Diemen's Island; introduced in 1804 by Colonel William Paterson. Now become very general in our collections, and deserves to be so, as it is of easy culture, brilliantly coloured, and in bloom for several months together. GwaprHaLIUM is distinguishable from Ericurysum and XERANTHEMUM, by having a rayless calyx. Stem and foliage covered over by a white cottony fleece, through which the green shines but faintly. Stem upright, simple or branched like a panicle, from about a foot and half to about 2 feet high. Leaves scattered, wide apart, upright, halfstemclasping, spatulately oblong, several times narrower than long, gradually diminishing into bractes, the longest about 4 inches, with an abrupt broadish point апа a brownish yellow subulate smooth tip; middle nerve unbranched. Flowers several, of a bright golden- yellow, upright, nearly corymbose, shorter than the pe- duncles. Calyx hemispherical; leaflets deep yellow, and often marked with some loosely scattered crimson spots, imbricant in several rows, lanceolately linear, unguiculate, the unguis round, green, villous, and resembling a petiole, lamina or blade scariose linearly lanceolate, furnished above the unguis for a little way on each side with long entangled wool, by means of which they hold together reciprocally with tbose the nearest to them ; from where the wool ends they have a silky fringe, and beyond that are smooth: the ungues of the inmost have a membranous edging, and are longer than their short erosely indented blades. Disk flat, broad, yellow, rather lower than the calyx: florets very numerous, funnelform, yellow, smooth: tube filiform, greenish, 3 times longer than the limb: limb of a glittering golden-colour, campanulate, segments spreading, recurved, pointed. Germen twice or thrice shorter than the florets, slender: pappus or aigrette of several feathery rays (7-82), Masi are equal to the disk. Receptacle naked, punc- tured. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- ley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham. 241 CAMPANULA lactiflora. Grey panicled Bell-flower. — PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. CAMPANULACER. Jussieu gen. 163. Div, I. CAMPANULACEE. Brown prod. 559. Sect. I. Corolla mo- nopetala regularis, Antherae liberae. Div. Capsulis ovatis, calycibus quinquefidis. С. ¿actiflora, foliis lanceolatis biserratis cauleque ramoso hispidis, floribus paniculatis, calycibus hispidis; segmentis dilatatis serratis. Marsch, Bieb. taur. cauc. 1. 153. Campanula lactiflora. Poiret suppl. encyc. de Lamarck 2. 63. Caulis 2-4-pedalis, teres, viridis, anguloso-striatus, subflexuosus, his- pidiùs pubescens, nervis decurpo-setulosis. Folia sessilia oblonga, lata, lanceo- lata, acuminata, decrescentia usque ad minima, nervosa, inequalitér serrate dentibus glanduloso-apiculatis, "sparsa, distantia, subtüs varicoso-nervosa, margine nervisque setoso-pilosa. Flores folioso-paniculati; pedunculi axil- lares et terminales, solitarii, numerosi, trichotoma-cymosi, anguloso-striati, hispidi, erecto-patentes, decrescentes, ron ; pedicelli nisi trichotomice medius bracteis diminuto-foliaceis. Cal. virens, patens, «qualis tubo vel parti non fisse сотой ; foliola даних ovato-lanceolata, cuspidata, herbacea, tenuia, nervosa, germinis continua, ad nervos setaceo-pilosa, serrata, denti- bus glandulá rubidá prefixis. Cor. lato-campanulata, ceerulzo-albicans, vix unciam profunda, patens, intús inferne villosa; tubus duplo brevior limbo ; limbi lacini; nervose, elliptice, acutule, acumine brevi. Germ. virens, breve turbinatum angulis trinervtis, triloc. loculamentis polyspermis ; discus epigynus planiusculus torulosus. Stylus brevis, crassus, teres, glaber : stig. 3, pallentia, longiora stylo, incrassato-laminosa, ovali-oblonga, infra turbi- nato-conniventia, suprà revoluto-reflexa. Fil. brevia, erecta, distantia, e base brevissimá dilatatá subulata, medio replicanda: anth. lutea, erecta, primo conniventes, demisso polline divaricatissime divergentes, A species recently introduced by Mr. Knight, nursery- man in the King's Road, Chelsea, Found оп Mount Cau- casus by Mr. Marschal, and recorded in his account of the plants of Caucasian Tartary. From what appears in the specific phrase, it is not impossible it may also be the Campanuta betonicifolia of the prodromus of the Flora Grieca, of which the description and figure are yet to appear. We do not recollect any species in the genus, that has the leaflets of the calyx so broad in proportion to the rest of the flower. Tolerably hardy, but requires а rich soil to make it grow in perfection, when it produces an abundance of bloom, and for a long time in succession, VOL. III, ы Stem 2-4 feet high or more, round, green, angularly striated, slightly flexuose, roughishly pubescent, with small decurved bristles along the nerves. Leaves sessile, scattered, wideset, broad, oblong, lanceolate, long-pointed, gradually decreasing to very small ones, nerved, unevenly serrate, with glandularly headed teeth, varicosely nerved beneath, setaceously pubescent at the margin and along the nerves. Flowers in a leafy panicle; peduncles axillary and terminal, solitary, numerous, trichotomously cymose, angularly striate, hispid, uprightly spread, decrescent, generally 7-flowered ; pedicles, except the middle one of each trichotomy, with small leafy bractes. Calyx green, patent, equal to the tube of the corolla; leaflets ovately lanceolate, pointed, herbaceous, thin, nerved, continuous with the germen, setaceously pubescent at the nerves, serrate, a small red gland heading every tooth. Corolla broadly campanulate, blueish white, or grey, rather less than an inch in depth, patent, villous on the inside below; tube twice as short as the limb; segments of the limb elliptic, nerved, somewhat pointed, point short. | Germen green, short, turbinate, angles 3-nerved, trilocular, loculaments with many ovules: epigynous disk or basement almost level, marked with a circle of obsoletely prominent nodules. Style short thick, columnar, smooth; stigmas 3, pale-coloured, longer than the style, thickly laminar, ovally oblong, turbinately con- flectent below, revolutely reflectent above. Filaments short, upright, wideset, subulately tapered from a very shallowly dilated base, reflectent at the middle: anthers yellow, up- right, at first converging, ultimately diverging to behind the back of the filaments. EEE m de 949 HYDROPHYLLUM canadense. Canadian Water-leaf. —— PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. BORAGINEÆ. Jussieu gen. 128. Div. II. Fructus uni aut bicapsularis. HypnornyrtLEX. Brown. MSS. Oss. Distincti (à Boragineis nemp?) ordinis initia constituunt genera capsularia Нхрворнуглтом, РНАСЕТЛА et ELLISIA, ob albumen copiosum cartilagineum, et folia composita о. alte lobata. Brown prod. 492. HYDROPHYLLUM. Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. campanulata 5-fida, intüs sulcata striis 5 melliferis marginatis, staminum filamenta amplexantibus. Stam. exserta, antheris oblongis incumbentibus. Stig. bifidum. Caps. globosa 1-loc. 1-sperma, seminibus 9 abortivis. Негр; fol. palmata aut semipinnata ; flores corymbosi corymbis pedunculatis terminalibus aut subop- positifoliis. Juss. l. с. 199. H. canadense, hirsutum ; foliis lobato-angulosis, fasciculis florum confertis. Pursh amer. sept. 1. 134. Hydrophyllum canadense. Linn. sp. pl. 1. 908. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 815. Hort. Kew. 1. 197. ed. 2. 1. 313. Lamarck illustr. 1. 426. t. 97. fig. 2. Michaux bor. amer. 1. 133. Herba perennis. Caulis subspithameus, teres, subangulosus, hirsutus rubro-fuscescens, distanter foliosus. Folia alterna, longè petiolata, subreni- Jormi-rotunda, septemloba transverse latiora, lobis acutis acutè dentatis vix ad ultrà tertiam partem lamine divisis, suprà hirsuta subtùs glabra, siná lato ad basin. Flores cymoso-paniculati, cymis axillaribus et terminalibus multifloris longioribus foliis. Cal. herbaceus, 5-partitus, turbinato-campanulatus, duplo v. ultrà brevior corollá, foliolis subulatis. Cor. albicans, oblongo-campanulata, non 5 partem uncia profunda, 5-fida e tubus fer? duplo longior limbo, 5-gonus nervis 5 cum angulis alternis, intus sulcis 5 melliferis lamella prominulá utrinque marginatis descendentibus de juxtà infra medium cujusque limbi lacini@ ad imum tubi ; limbus erecto-patens, equalis, laciniis ovato-rotundatis. Fil. imo tubo inserta, alba, setiformia, erecta, duplo feré longiora corolla, medio pilosa: anth. fusce, sagittato-oblonge, breves, obtuse, incumbentes. Germ. superum, conicum, parvum, "virens, obtusum, apice hirsutum, inferné supra basin annulo crasso glanduloso obsoleté toruloso cinctum: stylus glaber, albus, setaceus, cequalis staminibus : stig. breve, bifidum, obtusum. Нуркворнуг ом, Pace, and Елалата, ranked by Jus- sieu in the Boraginew, are proposed by Mr. Brown as the foundation of a separate order, by the name above quoted. They аге distinguishable from their former co-ordinates, by a capsular fruit, a copious cartilaginous albumen, and a compound or else deeply lobed foliage. The present species grows on wet rocks and shady v 2 mountains from Canada to Pensylvania ; and was cultivated at the Chelsea Garden in 1759 by Miller. No figure of it has been ever published from the living plant. Root perennial. Stem about 8 or 9 inches high, round, slightly angular, rough, reddish brown, distantly leaved. Leaves alternate, long petioled, subreniformly round, broader than long, 7-lobed, rough above, smooth and shining below, a broad sinus at the base, lobes sharp-poiuted and sharply toothed, scarcely divided beyond one third of the blade; not very unlike those of the Maple tree. Panicle of terminal and axillary inany-flowered cymes longer than the leaves. Calyx herbaceous, 5-parted, turbinately canipanulate, twice as short as the corolla or more, leaflets subulate. (оғ. whitish, oblong-campanulate, not 5 of an inch deep, five- cleft: tube nearly twice as short as the limb, pentagonal with five nerves alternating with the augles, and five melli- ferous grooves within having a prominent laminar edge along each side taking their rise from just below the middle of every lamina of the limb, and continuing down to the bottom of the corolla; limb uprightly spread, equal, seg- ments ovately rounded. Filaments white, inserted at the base of the tube, bristleshaped, upright, nearly twice the length of the corolla, pubescent at the middle: «nthers brown, sagittately oblong, short, obtuse, incumbent. Ger- men superior, conical, small, green, obtuse, rough at the apex, just above the base engirdled by a thick glandular faintly nodular ring: style smooth, white bristle-shaped, equal to the stamens: stigma short, bifid, obtuse. The drawing was made from a plant received from Mr. IIodson, South Lambeth. ee 243 Syd Edwards del. White sel4 Brownlow SeHolkorn. Lub пару & Sons Deez, 2827. 243 GNAPHALIUM congestum. Lamarck’ s Everlasting. u SYNGENESIA POLYGAMI4 SUPERFLUA. | Nat. ord. CoRYMBIFERE. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. 1. Receptaculum nudum. Semen papposum. Flores flosculosi. GNAPHALIUM. Supra fol. 240. дым, Div. Fruticosa Argyrocoma. G. congestum, fruticosum, foliis lineari-lanceolatis, superné rugoso-scabris, subtüs tomentosis, corymbo glomerato simplici. Lamarck encyc. 2. 792, Gnaphalium congestum. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1852. Gnaphalium tricostatum. Thunb. prod. 157. Frutex nunc 3-pedalis, nudiusculus, ramosus : rami teretes, laná araneosá albicantes. Fol. sparsa, semiamplexicaulia, patentissima, remotiuscula at plu- rimum longiora intervallis, uncialia о. ultra, lineari-lanceolata, angusta, cus» pidata, suprà obscuré viridia, rugosa, immerse 3-nervia, convexa margine deflexo, sublüs land densá araneosá candicantia. Flores terminales, nume- rosi, vix piso majores, paniculato-cymosi, pedunculo communi longo albo- lanato subaphyllo ò. distantissime folioso. Cal. albo-purpureus, scariosus $ foliolis ungue viridi extús lanato, laminá utrinque glabra nitentes exterioribus ovato-oblongis, obtusis, interioribus angustioribus, ungue longo, laminá parvá omnind albá, dorso lanatá : aliis paucis in disco vage irrepentibus et flos- culis ad instar palearum se commiscentibus, modoque omnino lanceolatis. Flosculi discoidei cylindracei, flavi, subquinquedentati. Germ. glabrum, 3-plo brevius flosculo, peripheria flexum, centri rectum: pappus plumosus, multiradiatus, albus, @quans vel subsuperans flosculos : stig. non exserta. Pollen aureo-micans, grumosum, orificium flosculi cumulans. Recept. mem- branoso-denticulatum. оф Though we do not find this plant in either edition of е Hortus Kewensis, it is proved by a specimen in the Bank- sian Herbarium to have flowered at Kew in 1793; апа had been most probably introduced by Mr. Masson, from the Cape of Good Hope, where it is indigenous. The specific name has been suggested either by a dried sample, where the inflorescence has been compressed in preserving it, or from one that had been gathered in an early stage, for, ina later, the flowers are by no means disposed in a manner to answer to the epithet congestus (crowded). А branching and rather naked shrub, in the plants we have seen not exceeding three feet: branches round, arane- ously woolled, white. Leaves scattered in every direction, halfstemclasping, outspread, rather wideset but longer than the intervals, linearly lanceolate, narrow, cuspidate, an inch or more in length, dark green above, wrinkled, de- pressedly 3-nerved and convex with a deflectent margin; underneath araneously woolled and white. Flowers many, terminal, cymosely panicled, scarcely bigger than a pea; common peduncle long and nearly leafless or with very wide- set scattered leaves. Calyx white and purple, scariose, leaflets with a green externally woolled unguis, and a shin- ing blade or lamina, which is smooth on both sides; outer ones ovately oblong, obtuse; inner narrower, with an elon- gated unguis and a shorter lamina, woolly at the back and entirely white: straggling ones sometimes intrude among the florets, like palec or chaffy bractes, and аге now and then completely lanceolate. Florets yellow, cylindrical, shallowly five-toothed. Germen rough, 3 times shorter than the florets, straight in the centre of the flower, curved in its periphery: plume or pappus feathery, of many rays, white, equal to or rather longer than the florets: stigmas unprotruded. Pollen grumous, of a glittering gold-colour, accumulated at the orifice of the floret. Receptacle mem- branously denticulated. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- ley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham, where the plant was kept in the greenhouse, and is found to be of easy culture, requiring however to be planted in peat-mould and guarded from too much moisture, but above all from the effects of fog. The finest plants we have seen are in the Comtesse de Vande's botanical garden at Bayswater. А 22 4 “а Fdwards del. y White sc dA Brownlons Holbo PT. 944 DURANTA Plumieri. Smooth Duranta. —— DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. Viricxs, Jussieu gen. 106. Div. II. Flores spicati, in spicis alterni. VERBENACER. Jussieu іп annal. du mus. 7. 63. Brown prod. 510. DURANTA. Cal. truncatus, sub5-fidus. Cor. tubo subcurvo, limbo 5-fido subequali. Stam. non exserta. Stig. 1. Васса 4 nucibus 2-locu- laribus 2-spermis, calyce suprà coarctato et persistente omninó tecta, certà non infera. Frutices ramis 4-gonis; flores ha spicati axillares aut termi- males. Quibusdam spine axilares. Juss. 1. c. 109. D. Plumieri, calycibus fructescentibus contortis, Linn. sp. pl. 2. 380. Duranta Plumieri. Jacg. amer. 186. t. 176. f. 76. Jacq. coll. suppl. 119. іс. rar. 3.1. 508. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 380. Hort. Kew. 2. 363. ed. 2. 4. 59. Arbuscula orgyalis ad biorgyalem, татоза ; rami longi, еге rotun= daté 4-goni, villosi, cinerei, “ Fol. opposita, subrhombeo-elliptica, acuta, integra v. subintegra, тойд suprà medium obtuse et inegualitér serrata, dis- tantia, sesgui-biuncialia, obsoleté subvillosa praesertim à parte proná, petiolum versús attenuata: petiolus brevis, villosus. Flores paniculato-racemosi з тасетий opposito-azillares terminalesque, pluri-multiflori, reclinati; pedicelli ‚fliformes, strictiusculi, per paria approximati, breviores flore, bracteä villosá subulatá: par imum racemuli terminalis sæpè in foliis binis axillare. Cal. inferus, inbulosus, persistens, lanuginosus, 5-angulosus, 5-dentatus, dentibus acutis, brevibus, erectis, адиа биз, $ parte brevior tubo corolla, facie in- terangulari dorsali ceteris planiore sublatioreque. Cor. lilacino-v. subceruleo- pallescens, bilabiato-hypocrateriformis, extús lanuginosus: tubus de calyce curvatus, diametro angusto, dorso subplanior, intus pilis capitatis viscosus orificio transverse sublatiore : limbus semunciam transversus, obliquus, ultra medium 5-fidus, lacinie isometre, obtusissime, levits eroso-crenulate, labii summi tres concolores patentissima, harum © laterales divaricate elliptica- obovate, media sublatior subtruncata ; labii imi due erecto-patentes conver» entes fer? duplo angustiores obovato-oblonge, utraque lined saturatà violaced пати влади per medium ductä. Stam. inclusa tubo: fil. sub base curvatura tubi inserta, brevia, 2 longiora, in laco quinti rudimentum landuloso-capi- tatum: anth. conniventes, ochroleuce, complanato-didyma. Germ. glabrum, subrotundum, calyce omnino liberum г stylus virens, subbrovior calyce, su- perne flexus, per Tentem visus striatus : stig. viride, obliquà capitatum, verru- culosum, The present is clearly the same species as the Durants Plumieri of Jacquin, and consequently that of the Hortus Kewensis, where his figure is quoted. We should think it also Plunier's plant, but this fact being less evident, we have omitted the synonym. The plant with very green branches and long lanceolate deeply, closely, and sharply serrated leaves, generally taken іп the gardens for Plumieri, ін, in our opinion, quite distinct from Jacquin’s and Plu- mier's species; but may be the inermis of Miller, included by Willdenow in the synonymy of Plumieri. A shrub or small tree, from 6 to 15 feet high: branches long, flexile, obtusely quadrangular, ash-coloured, villous. Leaves opposite, subrhomboidiy elliptic, acute, entire or nearly so, or obtusely and unequally serrated above the middle, (in the most entire indeed the edge is uneven and shows some vestige of indentation), wideset, from about an inch and half to two inches or more in length, obsoletely villous especially underneath, tapered towards the petiole: petiole short, villous. Flowers in panicled racemes; ra- cemelets oppositely axillary and terminal, from several- to many-flowered, reclining; pedicles filiform, stiffish, scat- tered, but generally somewhat paired, shorter than the flower, with a villous subulate bracte : the lower two of the terminal racemelets have generally two leaves for bractes at their base. Calyx inferior, tubular, persistent, downy, pentagona!, evenly 5-taothed, short, pointed, upright, about one third shorter than the tube of the corolla, the space be- tween the two angles at the back broader and flatter than that between the others, Corolla of a pale blueish lilac- colour, bilabiately hypocrateriform, downy on the outside: tube bent from the top of the calyx, narrow, flatter at the back, covered on the inside with viscidly headed hairs, orifice transversely broader: Zimb half an inch over, slanted, five- cleft to below the middle, segments of one length, rounded at the end, and slightly eraded, the three of the upper lip of one colour, outspread, two side ones divaricate, elliptically obovate, middlemost rather broader and somewhat truncate: the two of the lower lip upright and spreading, contiguous, nearly twice narrower, obovately oblong, marked along the middle ћу a deep violet-coloured line. ` Stamens inclosed in the tube; filaments inserted at about the base of the curve of the tube, short, two longer, in the place of a fifth a glan- dularly capitate rudiment: anthers connivent, cream-co- loured, flatly didymous. Germen smooth, roundish, en- tirely free from the calyx: sfyle green, rather shorter than the calyx, bent, when seen through a magnifying glass, striated: stigma green, slantingly headed warty. The drawing was made at Messrs. Whitley's and Co,’s, ~ 945 BOUVARDIA versicolor. Drumpet-fiowered Bouvardia, —— TETRANDRIA MONOGYNI4, Nat. ord. Rusiaceæ. Jussieu gen. 196. BOUVARDIA. Supra vol. 2. ful. 107. В. versicolor, foliis oppositis, corolla clavato-tubulosa: tubo intüs glabro. „Fruticulus duriks lignosus erectus ramosus cortice pallido: rami oppositi v. solitarió laterales, erecto-patentes, teretes, lanuginosi, interdàm rubentes, Fol. opposita, distantia, patentissima, firma, duriuscula, oblongo-w. ovato- lanceolata, 3-plo longiora quàm lata v. magis, lanuginosa, ciliolato-serrata, longà attenuata petiolum versüs brevé attenuata, supra scabriuscula, majora subbiuncialia 3 petioli stipulaceo-connati, sape rubentes, mulloties breviores laminis: stipule gemine, subulate, appresse. Pedunculi ramorum termi- males, solitarii, viz duplo longiores petiolis, 3-v. pluri-flori atque semel trichotomi, bibracteati, bracteis subulatis v. nunc diminuto-foliaceis; pedicellig brevioribus calyce. Flores nutantes, flavo-coccinei parüm excedentes unciam, inodorí, Cal. brevis, 4-partitus, villosiusculus, patens, germinis continuus; foliolis lanceolato-subulatis, sinubus latis distinctis. Cor. tubata, nuda, ob» tus? 4-gona, vel зер? demtá unicá quartá parte numeri 3-gona: tubus longis. simus, inferno versüs attenuatus, intüs omnind glaber; limbus multotis brevior, 4-partitus, patentissimus; laciniis ovato-attenuatis, equalibus, firmis, duriusculis, recurvis. Stam. alterna laciniis, tubo (cut filamenta omninà adnata ) «qualia: anth. ore tubi sessiles, fusca, lineari-oblonga, erecta, introversa, à medio dorso affize. Germ, breve, oblatum, lanuginosum, bilo- culare, dispermum; stylus capillaris, brevior tubo: stig. 2, alba, lineari- lobiformia, erecta, subconniventia. We do not trace our plant in any published species, and have ranked it іп Вогулвша with some hesitation. The technical character of that genus expresses a calyx with a tooth between each of the 4 segments, and a polyspermous bilocular germen; in this there were no intervening calycine teeth, and though the germen seemed bilocular it did not appear to be polyspermous; but our view of it was transient, and we may have mistaken the receptacle of the ovula for a single ovulum, and missed the true ones; for we thought the loculaments monospermous. Тһе leaves are here by pairs, instead of by threes as in triphylla. The drawing was made from a plant at Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne's nursery at Fulham, where we were informed that it had been received from a collection at Ghent, under the name of Нооѕтоміал alba, without any VOL. Ш. x tlue to its indigenous origin, It is treated as a preenhouse plant, and is in flower for a considerable time in succession. An upright shrub with a hardish wooded stem, covered with a light brown bark and branched; branches opposite or solitary, upright, patent, round, downy, sometimes red- dish. Leaves opposite, wideset, widespread, firm, hardish, oblongly or ovately lanceolate, 3 times broader than long or more, downy, minutely and ciliately serrate, far tapered, towards the petiole very shortly so, slightly roughened at the upper surface, larger ones about two inches long; petioles joined by the intervening stipules, often red, many times shorter than the blade: stipules double, subulate, pressed flatly to the stem. Peduncles terminal, solitary, scarcely twice the length of the petioles, 3- or sometimes many-ilowered and once trichotomous, furnished with two subulate or sometimes foliaceous bractes; pedicles shorter than the calyx. Flowers nodding, turning from deep yellow to deep red, scarcely exceeding ап inch in length, without scent, not unfrequently with one of each of their four component parts suppressed. Calyx short, 4-parted, slightly villous, spreading, continuous with the outer covering of the germen; leaflets lanceolately subu- late, separated by broad sinuses. Corolla trumpet-shaped, not pubescent, obtusely 4-cornered: tube very long, ta- pered downwards, smooth throughout the interior: limb many times shorter, 4-parted, widespread, segments ovately tapered, equal, firm, stiffish, recurved. Stamens alter- nate with the segments, even with the tube to which they are wholly adnate: anthers sessile at the orifice of the tube, brown, linearly oblong, upright, fronting inwards, fixed at the middle of their backs. Germen oblate, downy, 2-locular, 2-seeded? style capillary, shorter than the tube: stigmas 2, white, linearly lobeshaped, upright, sub- connivent, _ Oss. Lebeckia contaminata, v. 2. fol, 104, of this work, is certainly the specics of the Banksian Herbarium and of the Hortus Kewensis; we are however convinced that it is not that of either Linnzus or Thunberg; but the Indigofera filifolia of the latter. We shall explain further in the Appendix to this volume. 246 IRIS dichotoma. Afternoon Iris, or Seissor-plant. —9-— TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Ensata, Linn. ord. nat. VI. Nobis in Ann. of Bot. Y, 319. Тагреѕ. Jussieu gen. 57. Пиреж. Brown prod. 302. IRIS. Spatha communis bivalvis, 1-pluriflora, conduplicata, alias simo plices unifloras includens. Cor. supera tubulosa 6-fida tubo interdüm pleno Y. hexapetalo-partita, ampla, involuto-emarcescens, raró ad ungues sa contorquens; Jacinie equales ad perinzquales, swpiüs biformes alternas inter se similes; ¿nteriores spits егесі, quandóque superné reflexe, rard expansione exteriorum; exteriores lamina constantér reflexà, ungue sepiús intüs barbato v. in longum carunculato, Stylus triqueter. Stiga petaiiformia, erectiuscula, bilabiata, fornicata labio interiore 2-partito, exteriore brevi diploioideo membranoso. Stam. basi laciniarum exteriorum inserta, faciebus interangularibus stigmatum opposita: anth. егесіне, line- ares, extrorsum verse, Caps. coriacea v. chartacea, oblonga v. columnaris, obtusé acutéve 3-gona, rariús 6-gona, 3-loc,, loculamentis polyspermis, 3-valv. valvis septigeris. Sem. horizontalia, septi margini interno utrinque annexa, globosa v. pressione varié deformata, glabra v. punctato-scabra $ albumen durum, Негіме perennes: radix rhizoma repens divisum, raró tuberiforme bul. biceps, interdum bulbus laziüs tunicatus, пипдидт (ac constanter in prozimd МовжА) bulbo-tuber. Folia ensiformia, collaterali-disticha, modo canaliculata сі transvers? bifaria, тағд tetraquetra, Caulis subnullus subterraneus simples ad tripedalem ramosum, Div. Rodice crassá, solidá, horizontali. I. dichotoma, bi-4 flora, caule gracili, foliis amplexicauli-equitantibus lanceo- latis plurimüm altiore, floribus pomeridianis longè pedunculatis ad basin usque partitis laciniis intimis bilobis; labio exteriore stigmatum intis villoso. Iris dichotoma, Pall. it. 3.713. t. A. f.2. Lin. suppl. 97. Thunb. Ir. n. 13. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 250. Hort. Kew. 1.70. ed. 2. 1. 120. Vahl enum 2. 136. Iris dichotoma latifolia variegata procerior. Amm. ruth. 103. sn Folia infern? caulina, subseptena, semipedalia т. ultra, saturate viridantia, infra unciam lata, collaterali-disticha, Caulis sesqui-bipedalis, teres, cone generum gracilior, PARDANTHI chinensis similis, dici hotomus cum. azilld acutá, ramis sepius elongatis subisometris nudis simplicissimis, Joliolo ad basin. Flores ngato-pedunculati, congenerum minimi, violaceo-purpurei, inodori, post meridiem se expandentes, fugaces, ad limbum involutim emarcese centes, ad ungues contorlim. Car, 6-petalo-partita, sub-v. отпіпд imberbis, rofunda: Тас. cuneato-oblonga unguibus erecto-patentibus, ext, З 14 uncie ` - - Die refiezá duplo fer& breviore ungue albo et violaceo variegato; int. 3 arim altiores exteriorum ungue, lamind brevissimá bilobo-fissá dentibus inter lobos. Stig. labium interius lobis, contiguis lanceolalo-cuspidatis margine revos lutis, exterius exiguis dentiformibus recurvatis intüs villosis. erm. row tundaté 3-gonum semunciale diametro penne corvina, y 2 The rarest species of its genus іп our collections, and marked by more than one striking anomaly. Its foliage and stem partake considerably of the habit of those in Par- paNTHUS chinensis, or China-Ixia, though they differ in verdure; the stem is proportionably the slenderest in the genus; the flowers the smallest, never expand until after mid-day, and collapse before night by a twofold inflexion, rolling inwards at the limb or upper portion, and twisting spirally together at the ungues or lower. The laminz of the inner segments are two-lobed, and the lobes of the outer lip of the stigmas villous at the upper surface. We did not perceive pubescence of any kind on the ungues of the outer segments, though these are said by Pallas to ех-. hibit a few fine scarcely perceptible villi. Native of Dauria, where it is called Cheitschi (Scis- sors) ia the Mogol dialect, from the form of the fork pro- duced by the two branches; the lower of which however is not always elongated to the length of the other, and then the appellation does not apply. Stated to have been intro- duced by Mr. John Bell in 1784, but we suspect that the plant from which the drawing was made is the only опе now in this country. This had been raised from seed received from the Berlin garden, under the name of Іні pomeridiana, by Messrs. Whitley and Co. of the Fulham nursery, where it flowered in August last; and was found to do very well in the open ground on a warm sheltered border. Rootstock horizontal. Leaves about 7, equitant, clasping the lower part of the stem, lanceolate, 6 inches or more in length, scarcely one broad. Stem 1i to 2 feet high or higher, round, slender, generally dichotomous; branches Jong and generally equal, leafless, simple, with a small leaf at their base. Flowers with long peduncles, of a violet- purplish colour, scentless, of short duration. Corolla six- parted to the base, entirely or nearly beardless, 1 inch and 4 deep: segments cuneately oblong; ungues from upright, spreading; the lamina of the 3 outer nearly twice shorter than the white and purple figured ungues: 3 inner but little longer than the ungues of the outer ones, with a very short lamina divided into two lobes with intermediate teeth. The lobes of the inner lip of the stigmas lanceolate con- tiguous at the inner edges and rolled back at the outer; the outer lip bifid, lobes villous on the inside. 247 SILENE pengylvanica. American Wild-pink. — DECANDRIA 7RIGYNIA. Nat. ord. CARYOPHYLLER. Jussieu gen. 299. “Dio. V. Calyx tubu- losus. Stamina alterna hypogyna, alterna sepiüs epipetala. Styli 2 aut 3 aut 5. SILENE. Cal. tubuloso-ventricosus 5-dentatus. Рег. 5 unguiculata, ad faucem 2-dentata, suprà. sepé bifida. Caps. 3-loc. apice 5-fariàm dehiscens. Pedunculi uni- aut multiflori, axillares aut terminales aut ex dichotomiä caulis. Species quadam basi suffrutescentes, una muscoides cæspi- fosa. Juss, loc. cit. 302, Div. Petala ad faucem coronala. Floribus ex dichotomiä caulis. S. pensylvanica, viscido-pubescens; foliis cuneatis, caulinis lanceolatis, cauliculis in summitate paucifloris, petalis obtusissimis levitér emargi- natis subcrenatis. Michaux bor-amer. 1. 272. Silene ensylvanica, Pursh amer. sept. 1. 316; (exclusá S. virginicá Wild. 7 Persoon syn. 1. 498. Bigelow flor. boston. 110. Silene incarnata. Loddiges’s bolan. cabin. t. 41. Silene caroliniana. Walt. car. 244; (tantummodd quoad varietatem cum petalis utringue carneis ; suspicamur enim speciem ad minimum in duas se- parandam fore ). MEN Humilis, subquadriuncialis. Folia mferiora lanceolato-cuneata biuncialia 9% magis, angusta, elongata, inferne versüs canaliculata et petiolatim alte- nuata, firmula, vilis asperiusculis marginata; superiora breviora lineari- lanceolata, opposita atque basi subvaginoso-connata, hirsutis villosa. Caulis fsæpiùs plures) villosus, asperiusculus strictus, superné trichotomo-cymosus, pluriflorus, pedunculo intermedio trichotomiarum .unifforo. Flores Superiores subfasciculato-approximati, pedunculis viscoso-villosis connatim bibracteatis. Cal. subuncialis cylindricus, pro genere angustus, rubro-viridans, viscido-pu- bescens, sulcatus sulcis 10 herbaceis prominentibus сит totidem depressis meme branosis roseis diaphanis alternis. Cor. rosea; pet. unguibus equantibus сайусет et pro longitudine stipitis germinis cum eo іп cylindrum conferruminatis laminä oblongo-cuneatd, breviore calyce, erenato-truncatä, lamellulis 2 denti- Jormibus concoloribus brevibus ad basin. Stam. alterna corolla unguibus in- serta, alterna summo stipiti germinis, exsuperantia calycem. Styli 3, exserti, recurvati, apice subrosei. Germ. oblongum, 3-plo brevius stipite. The Sirene virginica of Linnzus, and the SILENE Cates- bæi of Walter, have been adopted by Willdenow as distinct species, and placed in different sections of the genus, though һе has quoted Pluknet's plant as a synonym to both: and in fact they are one and the same species, in as far as Pluknet's and Catesby’s plant is included as a variety in caroliniana, Mr. Pursh cites Willdenow's virginica to Michaux's pensyl- татса, the former being that of Linnxus, the latter the ene now represented and very distinct from the other, In the Banksian Herbarium, virginica is exemplified by three plants of distinct species, the one the true Linnean ‘species taken up fram Gronovius, the ather the present, and the third a plant that we believe is included as a variety by Walter in his SıLans caroliniana, along with the Linnean virginica and the.present pensylvanica. Our plant is not published in the Hortus Kewensis. The drawing was made from one that flowered in the nursery of Messrs. Frasers, in Sloane Square, and had been imported this year from America, together with the best chosen and largest collection of plants of that country, which has ever reached England. An assemblage collected at various points from Canada to New Orleans, and has employed г. Fraser nearly two years in putting together. А dwarf plant, about 3 or 4 inches high. Lower leaves cuneately lanceolate, narrowly elongated, channelled at the lower part and tapered like a petiole, rather firm, fringed with a roughish nap: upper short, linearly lanceolate, op- posite and connate into a short sheath, shaggily villous. Stem (oftenest several) roughishly villous, stiff, at the upper part trichotomously сушове, several-fowered, the central peduncle of every trichotomy one-flowered. Upper flowers gathered into a sort of fascicle; peduncles viscously villous, with small connately double bractes. Calyx about an inch long, cylindrical, narrow for this genus, dull red and green, viscously pubescent, fluted, with ten raised green lines. Corolla pink: petals with ungues equal to the calyx, and cylindrically concrete with the pedestal of the germen: lamina cuneately oblong, shorter than the calyx, crenulately truncate, with two small short tooth-shaped scales at the base of the same colour. Alternate sfamens inserted on the unguis of the petals, the others at the top of the pedestal of the germen, all protruding above the calyx. Styles 3, above the calyx, recurved, pink at the top. Germen ob- long, 3 times shorter than its pedestal, Native of Pensylvania. Hardy, E A ЕЕЕЕЕЕЕЦЦ A ALA PUE ый шеш! = Puh thy gy y Ё LUO. OY ға. ‚ду & ot . 248 ` GRINDELIA inuloides. Willdenow's Grindelia. — SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Nat. ord. Corymerren®. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. II. Recepte nu- dum. Sem. papposum. Flores radiati. GRINDELIA. Supra fol. 187 sub Donia, nomine cum GRINDELIA рта evulgatá commutando. С. inuloides, foliis subpandurato-oblongis superné serratis cauleque pubes- centibus: pappo simplicissimo levi. Grindelia inuloides. Willd. in Mag. d. gesell. naturf. fr. zu Berlin. 1807. 261, Ejusd. enum. 894. Aster spathularis, Broussonnet ined. Caulis erectus, sesqui-bipedalis, ramosissimus (basi suffruticosus. W.) e rami subteretes, hirsuti, foliosi, ramulosi, ramulis sparsis distantibus sub- corymbosis patentibus foliosis, Fol. sparsa, distantia, erecto-patentia, sube sentiamplezicaulia, scabriuscula, lanuginosa, ad nervos hirsutiora, reticulato- venosa, majora brevé acuminata, acuta, basi cordata, subtriuncialia, latitudine 3 uncie, pallido-virentia; minora pandurato-lanceolata. Flores solitarii, ter- minales, bue edunculati o. subsessiles, flavissimi, sesquiunciam v. magis Sransversi. Cal. herbaceus, squarrosus, foliolis lineari-lanceolatis, infra ap- pressis, suprà recurvo-recedentibus, exterioribus brevioribus, interioribus «qualibus disco, subviscidis, glabris, ciliato-serrulatis. Corollule fem. radii plurima, uniseriate, ligulato-lanceolate, revoluto-emarcescentes ; tubo gracili viridante 2-3-plo longiore germine : stig. 2 tenuia vitellina : germ. oblon, um, glabrum, subangulosum: pappus ex setá uná т. duobus caducis lævibus, haud «qualibus disco: corollulæ disci clavato-cylindricæ, flava, glabra, 4plo longiores germine, limbo pluris breviore fauce laciniis acutulis erectis, Pollen avum. Stylus elasticus vi propriá se extendens ilerimque retrahens, non tamen à іасій ad motum spontaneum excitandus ac іп ARCTOTIDIS, luteus ut stigmata, quee linearia villosa patentia exserta, Corollule peripharia disci basi rubro fusco појаве. Кесеріас. Joveolatum, dentato-scabratum, con- vezum. The style of the pistils of the disk in this plaut, though these are fertile, appears to be elastic, and endowed with the faculty we have ascribed to that of the barren pistils in Anc- TOTIS, viz. of raising and lowering the stigma by alternate ex- tension and contraction; but it does not seem in this instance combined with the irritability evinced in the former, by вроп- taneous motion responsive to the excitement of the touch, and which may in fact be confined to the style of those pistils, which are destined for mere auxiliaries in the func- tions of the stamens, but are ineffective iu their proper ca- pacity. The drawing was made from a specimen kindly sent us by Mr. Lambert from Boyton House, his seat in Wiltshire, and had been raised from seed received from Mexico, where the species was first observed by Messrs. Humboldt and Bon- pland. It may be considered as a hardy greenhouse plant. We have been guided, in regard to the name of the genus, by the following passage in Mr. Brown’s learned and instructive tract on the natural order to which the plant belongs, published in the Linnean Transactions. * GniNDELIA, described by Willdenow in the Transac- “ tions of the Natural History Society of Berlin for 1807, * and subsequently in his Enumeratio Plantarum Horti = Berolinensis, flowered in Kew Gardens for the first time * in 1815, when I bad an opportunity of examining it, and “ of determining its very near affinity with Donia, a genus “ proposed in the 2d edition of the Hortus Kewensis, and “ adopted by Mr. Pursh in bis Flora of North America: the “ principal distinction between these two genera consisting “in a difference of the number of radii of the pappus, ** which in Grinpeuia is described by Willdenow as of two * rays, and according to my observations has more fre- ** quently one only. But as even in рома the number of “rays, though indefinite, is variable, and the structure of ** the pappus is very nearly similar in both genera, which in * all other respects agree, it may be perhaps expedient to * unite them under the name of GRINDELIA, Which was first * in order of publication.” Stem from one and a half to two feet high, suffrutescent at the lower part. Leaves scattered, distant, halfstemclasp- ing, larger about 3 inches long and $ of an inch broad, paudurately oblong, somewhat roughened, villous and more shaggily so along the nerves, nettedly veined, shortly pointed, cordate at the base. Flowers yellow, solitary, terminal, with short or nearly obsolete peduncles. Calyx herbaceous, squarrose; leaflets linearly lanceolate, interior ones subviscid, smooth, ciliately serrate. Florets of the ray rolling back as they fade; tube slender, greenish, 2 or 3 times shorter than the germen, which is oblong, smooth, and rather angular: pappus of one or two smooth caducous bristles: florets of the disk clavately cylindrical, yellow; smooth, 4 times as long as the germen; limb several times shorter than the faux, with sharpish upright segments. Re- ceptacle pitted, membranously toothed, convex. 949 | BIGNONIA venusta. Welted Trumpet-flower. —— DIDYNAMIA 4NGIOSPERMLA. Nat. ord. Вісмоміж. Jussieu gen. 187. Sect. II. Fructus capsularis bivalvis, Caulis arboreus aut frutescens. Bicwontacez. Brown prod. 471. BIGNONIA. Cal. 5-fidus, cyathiformis. Cor. fauce campanulata, 5-fida, subtüs ventricosa, Siliqua 2-locularis. Sem. membranaceo-alata, Willd. sp. pl. 3. 289. Arbores aut frutices; folia opposita, nunc impari-pinnata aut ternata, mune conjugata petiolo diphyllo inter foliola sæpè cirrhoso ; flores paniculati. uss. 1. с. Div. Foliis conjugatis. B. venusta, scandens; foliis glabris, inferioribus ternatis ecirrhosis, superi- oribus conjugatis- cirrhosis, foliolis oblongo-ovatis acuminatis basi in- «quilateri-obliquis, petiolis intüs villosis; calyce brevi cylindrico-rotato адчаі denticulis 5 teretibus villosis invicém distantibus, pedunculis corymboso-plurifioris. . . Frutex aktè фиддце scandens, ramosus, badio-corticatus. Folia opposita, inferiora ternata absque cirrhis, superiora conjugata cum cirrhis; foliola glabra, nitida, saturatà viridia, oblongocovata acumine gee obtuso, utringue glandulis minutis. immers? et lazids punctata, distantiàs nervosa, шыда latitudine 2 unciarum cum dimidio w. circiter, basi inzquilatera, Juniora margine apiceque subpubescentia: petioli infüs canaliculati, canaliculo villoso-ciliati, ceterum glabri, partiales breviores communi subunciali, Cirrhi duriusculi, spirales, simplices, v. superna trichotomi, herbacei, алй! рейо- lorum partialium hinc inserti. Flores terminales ( axillaresque? ) corymbosi, 4-6-pluresve, vividissimà miniati ; pedunculus communis brevis crassus suba glaber, pedicelli altiores petiolo communi, teretes, Jirmuli, curvuli, erectius- culi, paulo supra basin bracteolis 2 minimis oppositis singulá rudimentum diminutum Joris abortivi fovente. Cal. inferus, infra cylindricus, suprà rotato-campanulatus, viridiusculus, sublanuginosus, altitudine trilineari v. circiter, margine villosus, mucronulis 5 villosis distantér dentatus. Cor. typo- &yna, subSuncialis, clavato-elongata, cylindrico-campanulata, ‚ед labra aique nilida: tubus angustus, cylindricus, subuncialis, rectus, intàs pilosus: faux de tubo sesquibreviore paulatim ampliata, oblonga, dorso compresso- declivis, gibbosa, ventre cum tubo rechüs continua planior distentiorque, intús rugulosa infráque subpilosa: limbus 5-partitus, ringens, duplo Sere brevior fauce, laciniis subequalibus, oblongis, 4 lineas v. circà latis, obtusulis Cum brevi acumine, intàs superno versüs lanuginosis, lined аа tomentosá margine interno circumscriptis; labii summi 2 erecto-recurvulis contiguis in- тісетдие duplo breviús quàm à proximis lateralibus parlitis, subangustioribus " labii imi 3 patentioribus invicem distantioribus, mediá а collateralibus pro- Jundiüs divisá. Stam. ascendentia, longiora 2 medium limbum attingentia: fil. ime fauci inserta, 2 longiora labio imo, 2 breviora labio summo opposita, glabra, rubida, quintum rudimentum breve setaceum sterile: anth. шее, icruri-duplicatee, loculis linearibus, apice ad insertionem cum filamento а re- ecptaculo minimo connexis. Germ. virens, teres, papilloso-scabratum, primd VOL. IN. Y vir crassius stylo continuo, duplo altius calyce, disco proprio viridi duriäs carnoso parte angustiori calycis conformi et recondito insidens: stylus eguans stamina, albus, filiformis: stigma foliaceum, bipartitum, pallidum, lamellis membranosis tenuibus ellipticis cum brevi acumine à pagind interiore oppositis. Of this genus, eminent for the beauty of its blossom, about 60 species have been recorded, all trees or shrubs and many of them climbers. The majority belong to tro- pical regions; Virginia and Japan are we believe the farthest points to which any recede from the equator. Only one species has been discovered in New Holland, and one at the Cape of Good Hope; the bulk is indigenous in South America. The subject of this article has been re- cently received from the Brasils by Lady Liverpool, and flowered this autumn in the hothouse at Combe Wood, the residence of Lord Liverpool. Ав far as we can trace, the species has not been noticed in any publication. On the score of ornament there cannot be a more desirable acqui- sition for our collections. It grows naturally in the neigh- bourhood of Rio Janeiro, and the gardener who raised it from seed, thinks that it will be fonnd to be as hardy as the tommon Blue Passionflower, which comes from the same country, and is known to every one. It spreads itself on all sides, and continues to produce large bunches of flowers for a long time in succession from the ends of the branebes. A climbing shrub, with a reddish brown bark, dividing into numerous branches. Leaves opposite, lower ones ternate and without tendrils, upper ones conjugate or pinnate, with one pair of leaflets, and furnished with ten- drils; leaflets smooth, deep green, oblong-ovate with a blunt extended point, loosely dotted on both sides with minute glands, which are sunk in the surface, distantly nerved, about 4 inches long and 2: broad, unequally sided and slanting at the base, the younger ones slightly pubes- cent at the margin and summit: petioles channelled on the inside, the channel being villously edged, smooth as to the rest, partial ones shorter than the general one which is about an inch long. Tendrils or claspers hardish, spiral, simple or trichotomous at the top, herbaceous, inserted at the base of the fork of the partial petioles. Flowers terminal, 4-6-or more in corymbs, of a vivid orange-vermilion colour; com- mon peduncle short, thick, and nearly smooth, pedicles. higher than the common petiole, round, firm, upright, slightly curved, furnished a little above the base with two small bracfes each guarding the small rudiment of an abortive flower. Calyx inferior, cylindrical at the under part, rotately campanulate at the upper, greenish, some- what downy, about 3 lines deep, villous at the margin, and toothed with five small wideset villous dagger-points. Corolla hypogynous, about 3 inches long, clavately elon- gated, cylindrically campanulate, smooth and shining on the outside: Zube narrow, cylindric, about an inch long, straight, with hairs on the inside: faux gradually enlarged from the tube and about half as long again as that, oblong, gibbous and compressedly attenuated at the back, at the front forming nearly a straight line with the tube, flat- ter and more distended, wrinkled on the iaside with a few hairs: limb 5-parted, ringent, nearly twice shorter than the faux; segments nearly equal, oblong, about 4 lines broad, bluntish with a short point, surrounded at the inner margin by a white tomentose narrow welt, downy towards the top on the inside, the two of the upper lip upright, slightly recurved, contiguous, and scarcely by half so far parted from each other as they are from their two immediate side-ones, rather narrower than the rest; the three of the lower lip more spreading, set at wider distances from one another, and the middle one deeper parted from the side-ones than any of the rest are among themselves. Stamens ascending, the two longer ones reach- ing to about the middle of the limb: filaments inserted at the base of the faux, the two longer ones being placed ор- posite to the lower lip, and the two shorter ones to the upper, smooth, reddish, the fifth a short bristle-shaped antherless rudiment: anthers yellow, oblong, didymous, of two linear cells which are connected at the top by a very sinall receptacle, in which the filament is inserted. Germen green, round, papulously roughened or chagreened, at first scarcely thicker than the style with which it is con- tinuous, twice as high as the calyx, resting upon a green basement of a hardish fleshy substance, of the same form as the lower portion of the calyx in which it is concealed: style equal to the stamens, white, filiform: stigma of two membranous thin elliptic whitish laminz with a short point, and placed opposite to each other broadways. We have seen plants of this species, derived from the Present stock, both at Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and y 2 Milne's, of the Fulham nursery ; and at Messrs. Colville's nursery, King's Road, Chelsea. —— a The calyx and pistil. 5 The lower portion of the corolla dissected te show the insertion of the stamens. ем ви — Балым 950 ASCLEPIAS incarnata. Rose-coloured Swallow-wort, or Water Silkweed. —9—— PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Nat, ord, АРОСТМЕЖ. Jussieu gen. 148. Div. II. Germen duplex. Fructus bifollicularis, Semina papposa. ASCLEPIADER. Brown asclep.19. Div. I. AscLErIADE® VERA. ASCLEPIAS. Supra vol. 1. fol. 76. А. incarnata, caule erecto superné ramoso tomentoso, foliis lanceolatis utrinque subtomentoso-lanuginosis, umbellis pluribus origine geminis, corniculis appendicum exsertis. Pursh amer. sept. 1. 181. - Asclepias incarnata. Zinn. ep pl. 1.914. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 9. Hort. Kew. 1. 307. ed. 2. 2. 82. Jacq. hort. vindob. 2. 49. t. 107. Willd. sp. pl. 1.1267. Mich. bor. amer. 1. 115. А. caule erecto ramoso annuo, foliis lanceolatis, umbellis terminalibus erectis plurimis. Gron. virg. edit. 1. 27. Apocynum minus rectum canadense. Corn. canad. 9. t. 93. Barrel. ic. 79. (8) pulchra. Pursh L c. Asclepias pulchra. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1267. Bigelow flor. bost. 63. erbacea, perennis. Caulis erectus, purpureo-virescens, foliosus, superna epposito-ramosus, lanuginosus (о. tomentosus ех P.) sulcompresso-cylindri- cus, obscuré angulatus v. striatus, inferne glaber, nitens, crassitudine. digiti. Folia opposita, distantia, oblonga, lanceolata, semipedalia latitudine plus guàm sesquiunciali, subtàs varicoso-nervosa, subrugato-venosa, sublanuginosa, nube conspicuiore ad nervos eb venas inque junioribus, basi subovata v. sube sordatas tiolis viz & uncie longioribus, canaliculatis, basi tomentosis, ceterúm lanuginosis. Flores cau is ramorumque terminales, Sra rantes, carneo-purpurascentes: umbelle plurima pluriàs, at uno versi dichotome, congesto-fastigiantes inferiores foliis 2, superiores bracteis 2 interposita, Pe. dunculi communes subrubentes, longiores pedicellis, lanuginosi, subbiunciales ad brevissimos, robusti. Involuctum parvum, purpureum, triplo brevius ісейіз, radiatum, modo retroflerum, lanuginosum, foliolis angustissimis subulatis, Umbelle multiradiate, subcapitato-conveze, pedicellis fine ez- tumido carnoso pedunculi communis undigue insertis, 3-plo circitér longioribus corolla, lanuginosis, ebracteatis, teretibus, sursüm attenuatis. Cal. extis lanu- ginosus, rubido-virens, reflexus, plùs duplo brevior corollá, segmentis ovato- acuminatis v. lanceolatis. Cor. glabra, reflexa, laciniis lanceolato-oblongis, acutis: corona staminea carneo-pallescens remot? à plano corolla infra me- dium columns pro $ longitudinis sue striato-teretis et paulo incluse imposita ; foliola cucullata ovato-oblonga orificio obliquo retuso, cornicula alba gracilia super stigma conniventia exserentia, A hardy species, according to the Hortus Kewensis cul- tivated with us before 1710. It had been divided into two by Willdenow, which have been justly united again by other botanists; the chief difference between the plants соп- sisting in the degree of pubescence, wbich is proved to de- pend upon circumstances not controlled by the nature of the species. Native of North America; where it is very common in swamps and on the banks of rivers. Flowers in July and August. An herbaceous perennial plant. Stem upright, purplish green, downy or tomentose, leafy oppositely branched, cy- Jindrical and slightly compressed, obscurely fluted or angu- Jar, smooth and shining below, and about the thickness of the finger. Leaves opposite, distant, oblong, lanceolate, about half a foot long and more than an inch and half broad, varicosely nerved beneath and somewhat wrinkled, downy, with the pubescence more conspicuous at the nerves and veins, subovate or subcordate at the base; petioles short. Flowers terminating both stem and branches, of a purplish ficsh colour, with a fragrance that seems to have some resemblance to that of the Peruvian Heliotrope: umbels numerous, repeatedly dichotomous, crowdedly fasti- giant, lower ones placed between two leaves, upper be- tween two bractes. Common peduncles reddish, longer than the pedicles, downy, from about two inches long to very short, thickisb. Jnvolucre small, purple, 3 times shorter than the pedicles of the rays, radiate, sometimes reflectent, downy; leaflets very narrow, subulate. Umbels many- rayed, nearly as convex as capitula; pedicles inserted round ‚about the enlarged fleshy head of the peduncle, about three times as long as the segments of the corolla, downy, round, and tapered upwards. Calyx externally downy, reddish green, reflectent, more than twice shorter than the corolla, with ovately acuminate or lanceolate segments. Corolla smooth reflectent, segments lanceolately oblong acute: stamineous crown of a pale flesh colour, placed at about two thirds below the top of the column, which in the space between that and the plane of the corolla is round and fluted: the cucullated leaflets ovately oblong, with a slant- ing retuse orifice, putting out from their bottom small white slender horns that converge over the stigma. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- ley, Brames, and Milne, Fulham. —— а А leaflet of the stamineous crown. b Shows the pollen-masses #р- pended to the stigma. — x 251 DIGITALIS lutea. Small yellow Fox-glove. —— DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, Nat. ord. Scrornuranız. Jussieu gen. 117. Div. 1. SCROPHULARINE. Brown prod. 438. бегі. II. DIGITALIS. Supra vol. 1. fol. 48. D. lutea, foliolis calycinis lanceolatis, corollis acutiusculis labio superiore bifido; inferiore intús barbato, foliis glabris, Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 99. Digitalis lutea, Linn. sp. pl. 2. 867. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 3. Hort. Kew. 2. 345. Jacq. hort. vindob. 2. 47.1. 105. Willd. sp. рі. 3.285. Baum- garten en. stirp. transylo. 2. 212. Digitalis parviflora, Alion. pedem. 1. 70. n. 257. Lamarck & Decand. fl. _Jrang. 3. 597; (nec aliorum.) Digitalis foliis calycinis lanceolatis, galea bifida, floribus immaculatis. Hall. helo, 332. Digitalis lutea, minore flore. Riv. monop. t. 105. Digitalis lutea parva. Lob. ic. 578. 52. Digitalis minor lutea sive pallida. Park. par. 382. 7. Herba perennis. Caulis teres, simplex, bipedalis v. ultra, partim. angu- losus, inferne confertiüs foliosus, Fol. sessilia, decurrentia, numerosa, undique sparsa, erectiuscula, 5-uncialia v. multó magis, lanceolata, infra unciam lata, serrata, glabra, nervosa nervis ascendentibus, decrescentia. acemus termi- nalis spicatus, primd nutans, non densus, 10-uncialis у. circà, secundus. Bractez .foliacece, lanceolate, cuspidate, villosiuscule presertim ad mara ginem, breviores „Лоте, decrescentes. Pedicelli subequales calycibus T. aliquantüm breviores, Cal. herbaceus, subbilabiatus, vix triplo brevior corolla, segmentis lanceolatis, subinaqualibus, margine villosis, 3 summis minoribus medio parüm breviore. Сог. lutea, lanuginosa, infundibuliformis, $ uncias longa; tubus «equalis catyci. ; faux subtüs ventricosa; limbi laciniss acutule, intás villose; labii superioris brevis ceteris, invicém divise, erectis recur- vate, conniventes; labii inferioris recurvo-patentes, divaricate, basi puncto gemino atropurpureo pice, ima media elo т. ultra latior lateralibus suis, ovato-acuminata recurvo-porrecta $ntàs pilis longis erectis barbata. Stam. inclusa: fil. chloroleuca, glabra, anth. lutem, didyme, loculis. oblongis. Germ. oblongo-pyramidatum, viride, villosum; stylus rastrato-continuus, vile dostusculus ; stigma punctum bifidum, v. tandèm transverse bifdo-dehiscens. A hardy perennial plant, native of the south of France, Italy, and Transylvania, where it is found on stony moun- tainous places in the shade. Cultivated in this_country by Parkinson before 1629. In the Flore Française above cited, we find the name of Zutea, by which the species has been generally known from the time of Linneus till now, not only changed to one which is less pertinent, but to one by which another species of the same genus has been long since universally known. Stem two feet high or more, round, simple, partly angular, thickly leaved below. Leaves sessile, decurrent, numerous, scattered all round, 5 inches long or much longer, lanceolate, less than an "inch broad, decreasing to very small, smooth, serrate, nerved, nerves ascendent. Raceme terminal, spiked, at first nodding, not very close, from 6 to 10 inches long, the flowers inclining one way. Bractes leafy, lanceolate, sharp-pointed, slightly villous especially at the edge, shorter than the flowers, decres- cent. Pedicles nearly as long as the calyx or considerably shorter. Calyx herbaceous, subbilabiate, scarcely 3 times shorter than “the corolla; segments lanceolate, somewhat unequal, villous at the edge, 3 upper ones smaller, the middle one being a little ‘shorter than the two on each side. Corolla yellow, downy, funnelform, two thirds of aa inch long; tube equal to the calyx; faux protuberant un- derneath; segments ој the limb rather pointed, villous on the inside; those of the upper lip more shallowly divided from each other than any of the rest, erectly recurved, con- nivent; of the lower lip spreadingly recurved, divaricate, 2 side ones marked with a double red spot at their bases, the middle one 3 times wider than these or more, ovately pointed, jutting forwards, and recurved, bearded with long upright hair. Stamens enclosed: filaments greenish white, smooth: anthers yellow, didymous, with oblong cells. Germen oblong, pyramidal, green, villous; style coutinu- ous, slightly villous; stigma a transversely "bifid point, sometimes opening. The drawing was taken at Mr. Knight’s nursery in the King’s Road, Chelsea. Dr. Roth has quoted a figure from Lobel to his Dict- TALIS media, which seems to us no other than the repetition of the one he cites from the same author to lutea, but in a seeding state. — 3 а Calyx and pistil. b Corolla dissected to show the insertions of the stamens. . е 7 {| \\ есес, | VIER дуа» ded =| | | 252 GONOLOBUS diadematus. Gorgetted Gonolobus ------ *PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Nat. ord. Arocynem. Jussieu gen. 143. Div. II. ASCLEPIADEE. Brown asclep. 19. Div. I, AscLEPIADEX VERE. Masse pollinis 10, leves, рег paria, (diversis antheris pertinentia,) alixæ stigmatis corpusculis, sulco longitudinali, bipartibilibus. Fil. con- nata, extüs sepiüs appendiculata. Id. 1. с. 21. GONOLOBUS. Masse Pollinis leves, 10, transverse. Cor. subro- tata. Sem. comosa, Brown in Hort, Kew. ed. 9. 9. 82. Suffrutices volubiles. Fol. opposita, latiuscula. Umbell@ interpetiolares. America presertim inter tropicos indigene. С. diadematus, hirsutus ; foliis oblongis, ellipticis, lanceolatis, basi arctato- cordatis sing clauso, corolle laciniis ovato-rotundatis: coronà faucem intüs de basi circumstipante. Frutex volubilis biorgyalis v. ultra, caule inferno suberoso¿fisso, ramis teretibus pilis articulatis asperiusculis fulvis hirsutis. Fol. distantia, mem- branacea, acuminata, hirsutits pilosa, nervosa, sublàs reticulato-venosa, 2-4-uncialia magisve: pet. erassiusculi, flexi, bis terve breviores lamina: cilia interpetiolaria parüm conspicua, Umbelle capitato-contracte, 3-5-flore, foliolis lanceolatis involucrate; pedunc. communi robusto breviore petiolo, pedicellis ¿revioribus v. subequalibus calyci, hirsutis, distinctis bracteis an- gustis. Flores luteo-virentes diametro subunciali. Cal. equalis „ис, сат» anulatus, villosus, viridans, foliolis 5 ovato-lanceolatis, Cor. coriacea, urceo- Tuto-rolata, glabra, venis lineisque obscurioribus, intis opaca, extàs lucida р limbus explanatus, ultra medium. 5:fidus, laciniis oblusissimis; faux brevis urceolata ; corona staminea faucis fando. adnata, purpureo-rubens, glabra, subemicans, è laminis subquadrato-scutellatis invicem contiguis, parieti Jaucis accumbentibus, margine summo subtridentato-repandis, compagem stamineam (qué clam basi derivantur} liber? circumstantibus. Stig. albicans, depres- sum. Anth. quas non nisi visit fugitivo inspeximus, д dignose generis ali- quantam deficctunt habentque formam gigartoideam, neque ола apertè staminibus innata est: unde forte rectus пош generis species? Habita verd ceterisque signis convenit cum GONOLOBO ; nec aliorsüm propinguiäs accedere nobis videtur. ———————————————— An unrecorded species, which we have ranked in the present genus chiefly from habit or general likeness ; for it has not precisely the transverse anthers, which constitute t feature of GoworoBus, as now defined. Mr. Brown, who has so advantageously remodelled the natural order to which this genus belongs, seems inclined to think that the character should be extended to admit the present species, along with some others which he has not had an 2 a prominen VOL, Ш. opportunity of finally determining, rather than that а separate generic group should be founded on them. Be- sides the expressed difference, however, the anthers vary in form from those of all the described species of Сохого- Bus, and the stamineous crown, instead of growing dis- tinctly upon the filaments, is grown to the bottom of the faux, while its connexion with the filaments can only be traced by attentive dissection. | The drawing was made from a specimen kindly sent us by Sir Abraham Hume, from his hothouse at Wormley- bury. The species was introduced some few years ago from Mexico, by Mr. Lambert, who raised it at Boyton House from seed. A twining shrub, 15 feet high or higher; stem corky and furrowed at the lower part; branches round, with a tawny fur; hairs articulated. Leaves distant, membranous, roughishly furred, elliptically oblong, lanceolately acumi- nate, contractedly cordate at the base, the lobes meeting together, from 2 to 3 inches long, and from an inch and a half to two inches broad, nettedly veined underneath: pe- tioles thickish, bent, 2 or 3 times shorter than the blade; interpetiolar fringe but slightly distinguished from the ge- neral pubescence. Umbels in our specimen 3-5-flowered, capitately contracted, with an involucre or ruffle of lanceo- Jate leaflets: common peduncle thick, shorter than the pe- tioles, pedicles about the length of the calyx, separated by narrow bractes. Flowers greenish yellow, about an inch in diameter. Calyx equal to the faux, campanulate, villous, of five ovately lanceolate leaflets. Corolla coriaceous, urceo Jately rotate with darker veins, smooth, opaque on the inside, shining without; limb fiatly extended, five-parted to below the middle, segments rounded: faux short, urceo- lately tubular: stamineous crown light purple, grown to the bottom of the faux, of five squarish scutiform contiguous laminz which ascend without adhesion along the wall of the faux to a little above its orifice, and are repand at the upper margin with a very faint triple indentation. Sta- mineous column equal to the crown. Stigma depressed, whitish. а The calyx. 5 Corolla, с Stamineous crown detached from the faux. d One pair of the pollen-masses, as they appear when suspended from the proper appendicle of the stigma. 3 253 CROTALARIA retusa. Wedge-leaved East India Crotalaria, —— DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ard, Lreauminosa. Jussieu дел. 345. Div. Г. Cor. irregularis papilionacea. Legumen 1-loculare 2-valve. + CROTALARIA. Suprà vol. 2. fol. 128. C. retusa, foliis simplicibus oblongis cuneiformibus retusis, racemo termi- nali. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 976. Crotalaria retusa. Linn. sp. pl. 2. 1004. Mill, dict. ed. 8. n. 7. Vahl symb. 1.53. Hort. Kew. 8. 18. ed. 2. 4. 979. Garin. вет, 2. 316. 1. 148. о. 2, Tandale-cotti. Rheede mal. 9. 45. 1. 25. Caulis sesquipedalis ultráque, teres, lanuginosus, vivens, striatus, rarins ramosus, larè foliatus. Fol. undigue sparsa, plurimüm longiora intervallis, cuneato-oblonga, è mucrone recurvato retusa simulantia, subis sericeo-albi- cantia, supra subglabra, pilis nonnullis presertim ad nervum conspersa: petiolus decurrens, brevissimus, crassus, subtüs lanuginosus, basi dilatatus з stipule 2 minute, subulate, hirsuta, сайиса, viz oculo nudo percipiende, Racemus terminalis, pluriflorus, lazus, erectus, pedunc. breviores calyce, robusti appresse subvillosi, bracteà ovato-subulatá, rigidä, refractá, extús hirsuto-sericeá ad basin, aliisque 2 opposito-lateralibus minutis linearibus hir- sutis patentissimis supra basin. al. bilabiato-campanulatus, subvillosus, segmentis 2 summis distantibus, imis 8 prozimioribus. Vex. triplo longius calyce, luteum, oblato-orbiculatum, subretusum, unciam latum, extüs plicá elevatá subvillosá per medium dorsi, erecto-reflexum, cariná distans, glabrum, dorso fusco-venosum, et aliguä suffusum rubedine, basi intüs. dentibus binis anticis, ungue brevi fornicato tomentoso; ale concolores, breviores, porrecte, arctè complectentes carinam, suprà convoluto-imbricantes, _cuneato-obovale, late: car. pallida, clausa, ventricosa ventre trans alas prominente, acuminata acumine abruptiks arrecto obliguato, subtüs lineá lanceolată tomentosá, supra ad basin marginibus erectis profund? alata. — Fil. ad medium usque. mona- delpha cum fissurá dorsali, alterna та v. estensa antheris parvis sub globoso-didymis осуйѕ demittentibus pollen, alterna breviora primo flaccida v. detensa antheris pluries longioribus lineari-attenuatis seriús demittentibus pol- len. Germ. complanatum, ensiforme, glabrum, polyspermum: stylus filifor- mis, erectus, hirsutus: stig. glandula brevis apici truncato. styli prefixa, oblique acuminata, pruinosa, pallida. Legum. oblongum, inflatum, cylin- dricum, mucronatum, polyspermum, horizontale; sem. (ez Gerin.) 15-ad 20, 3-ропо renifürmia, uncinulato-rostellata. An annual species, native of the East ladies, Culti- vated at Chelsea by Miller, in 1731; the seeds having been sent him from Holland by Boerhaave. Stem herbaceous, toughly fibrous, a foot and half high or more, green, fluted, oftener unbranched than branched, 22 loosely leaved. Leaves scattered irregularly round the stem, much longer than the intervals, cuneately oblong, owing to the small point at the end being bent back appear- ing retuse, silky underneath, nearly smooth above, having only a few hairs, and those chiefly on the principal nerve: peticle decurrent, thick, very short, downy underneath, widened at the base: stipules 2, minute, subulate, shaggy, caducous. Raceme terminal, severalflowered, loose, up- right; peduncles shorter than the calyx, robust, with a flat-pressed fur, an ovately subulate stiff reflex externally shaggy bracte at the base, and two other oppositely lateral very small linear shaggy widespread ones above the base. Calyx bilabiately campanulate, slightly villous, with the two upper segments wide apart, the three lower near - together. Vexrillum or standard three times longer than the calyx, yellow, oblately orbicular, slightly emarginate, an inch broad, reflexly erected, standing wide of the keel, smooth, with a deep slightly villous ‘plait along the middle of the back, where it is marked with brown veins and in some degree red, two small teeth are placed within the front of the base and point forwards; unguis short, vaulted, tomentose; ale or wings plain yellow, shorter, pointing di- rectly forwards, embracing the keel, lapping over each other convolutely above, broad, cuneately obovate; carina or keel pale, ventricose, close, protuberant beyond the wings, acuminate with an abruptly raised once twisted point, marked along its under side by a lanceolate line of down, at the upper deeply winged by the folding together of the lips of the fissure. Filaments monadelphous to the middle, five alternate ones firm and extended, with small roundish anthers, which part the first with their pollen; the five others shorter with several times Jonger and linearly ta- pered anthers, at first unstrung and flaccid, but becoming firm and extended when their anthers part with the pollen, which they do much later than those of the others. Germen ensiform, flattened, smooth: style filiform, upright, shaggy: stigma a short gland upon the truncated apex of the style, pointed slantingly, pale, frosted. Pod oblong, inflated, cylindrical, with a longish dagger-point, horizontal. Seeds 15-20, triangularly kidney-shaped, with a small prominent hooked beak at one end. — а Calyx. 5 Vexillum or standard. с Ale or wings. d Two petals forms ing the Carina or Keel. e Stamens. ‚РЬШ, . ADE by do way & Sons, Jan.ı.2du 9 ; —^1 954 POLYGONUM frutescens. Shrubhy Polygonum. —— OCTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. Nat. ord. Ротусомеж. Jussieu gen. 82, Brown prod. 419. POLYGONUM. (Cal. 0.) Cor. profundé 5-fida, (nunc 4-fida,) semi-calycina. Stam. 4-9. Stylus 2-3-partitus. Stigmata totidem, capi- tata. Nux corolla {guandoque baccatá) tecta. Emöryo unilateralis. Негро, raris Frutices. Folia alterna, basi vaginantia, aut vagine intra foliacee adnata, juniora subtús revoluta. Brown prod. 419. Div. Atraphaxoides, caule frutescente. P. frutescens, caule fruticoso, foliis lanceolatis utrinque attenuatis, ochres lanceolata internodiis breviore, petalis binis exterioribus minoribus re- exis. Wild. sp. pl. 2. 440. Polygonum frutescens, Linn. sp. pl. 1. 516. Hort. Kew. 2. 99. ed. 9. 2. 416. Gaertn. зет. 2. 182. #. 119. f. 5. Polygonum fruticosum, floribus pentapetalis, octandris, trigynis, 2 exter- nis petalis reflexis, ramis in extremo inermibus. Gmel. sib. 3. 60. t. 12. Jig. 2. Atraphaxis inermis foliis planis, . Hort. cliff: 138. Lapathum orientale, frutex humilis, flore pulchro. Tournef. cor. 38. Amm. in comment, petropol. 14. 400. tab. 13. . Lapathum dauricum montanum, fruticans, ramis lató sparsis. Amm. ruth. 227. Frutex pedalis ad sesquicubitalem, omnind de basi ramosus, ramis пите- rosis, virgatis, levibus, pallidis, teretibus. Folia spathulato-lanceolata, pruinosa, in petiolum altenuata, mucronato-acuta, obsoleté nervosa, subun- cialia, aliquotiós angustiora quàm lata, margine repanda v. obsolete sube dentata: petioli breves: ochrem subulato-biacuminate. Flores roseo-pal- dentes, trini, aggregati, axillares, fasciculi in racemum longum, foliosum remotiusculum digestis bracteæ plures breves, pedicellorum bases cingentes, Jurfurose ; pedicelli rubri, glabri, tenues, nudi, bis-ter-v. ultra breviores foliis vix longiores corollá, floriferi erectiusculi, fructiferi dependentes. Cor. erecta, 5-partita, basi extls breve turbinata: lac. disco et venis sanguinea, ambitü albicantes; 9 exteriores duplo minores magisve, deflezee, ovato- rotunda, profund? concave, medio dorsi virentes; interiores 3 subrolunde, undulata, persistentes, sole in capsulam triquelram rubicundiorem pro semine Sovendo arct? conniventes. Fil. 8, disco corolle inserta, subinaqualia, firma, lanceolato-subulata, glabra, basi carnosa atque sanguinco-rubra, longiora paulo breviora corolla. Anth. parva, lutee, subrotundo-didyme, primo in- cumbentes, ind? erecta, introverse. Germ. rubrum, ovali-prismaticum, luci- dum, brevius filamentis: stylus subnullus sanguineus; stigmata lobi 3, crassi, subrotundi, pallidè rosei, pruinosi, uno versi _inclinantes. . Sem. nudum castaneum, formå germinis, nitens, acutum, está crustaceo-cortaceá. The present is a hardy shrub, and belongs to a species which forms one of а section of the genus that comprises the common Buckwheat. It is a native of Siberia, and, if Tournefort’s plant is really the same, of the Levant. Intro- duced by Monsieur Richard in 1770; but is not often met with in our collections, where it requires to be cultivated in the same soil and situation as Кнорорехркохв and AzA- Leas. Some have asserted that this and ATRAPHAXIS spinosa are the same plant, and that one becomes the other; but it should appear by the two being still every where recorded separately, that this is an assertion which at least requires confirmation. From a foot to a yard and half high, stem branching from the bottom upwards, branches numerous, virgate or rodlike, smooth, pale, round. Leaves spatulately lanceo- late, frosted, tapered towards the petiole, pointed, faintly veined, about an inch long, several times longer than broad, repand at the edge or faintly indented: petioles short; ochrea or stipular sheath subulately two-pointed. Flowers pale rose-coloured, axillary by threes, the threes disposed in a long wideset leafy raceme: bractes several, chaffy, placed at the bases of the pedicles: pedicles smooth, red, slender, 2 or 3 times shorter than the leaves or more, scarcely longer than the corolla, while bearing the flower upright, dependent when they bear the fruit. Corolla up- right, 5-parted, shortly turbinate at the base: segments crimson at the disk and veins, whitish at the circumference; two outer ones twice the smallest or more, deflectent, ovately orbicular, deeply concave, green in the disk of the back ; three inner ones nearly round, undulated at the edge, per- sistent, finally closing together so as to form a kind of 3- cornered capsule for the keep of the seed. Filaments 8, inserted in the disk of the corolla, somewhat unequal, firm, lanceolately subulate, smooth, fleshy and deep crimson at the base, the longer ones but little shorter than the corolla: anthers small, yellow, roundly didymous, first incumbent, afterwards upright, facing inwards. Germen red, oval, prismatic, shining, shorter than the filaments: style scarcely any, crimson: stigmas 3 thick roundish pale rose-coloured frosted lobes, inclining one way. Seed naked, chestnut- coloured, of the same shape as the germen, shining, sharp- pointed, with a suberustaccous leathery coat. The drawing was taken in August last at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, Fulham. a ISS Š i ADS 5 AN We AL er? 955 CACTUS Dillenii. The Eltham Indian-Fig. ——9— ICOSANDRIA J/ONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Cacti. Jussieu gen. 310. Div. II. Petala et stamina in- definita. CACTUS. Supra vol. 2. fol. 137. Div. Opuntia, compresse articulis proliferis. C. Dillenii, erectus; articulis frugiferis obovato-subrotundis, glaucis, spi- narum validarum flavicantium fasciculis divaricatis et penicillo setoso» piloso baseos pluriés longioribus; germine penicillis nonnullis vagis in summitate, breviore corollá: stigmate sexlobo. Tuna major, spinis validis flavicantibus flore sulphureo. Әй еп, elth. 398. t. 296. fig. 832. Frutex pinguis, compressus, articulato-ramosus, 4-6-pedalis v. ultra, erectus, glaucus, Flores pauci іп margine superiore articulorum terminalium, ` sulphuret, concolores, diametro subquadriunciali. Stylus albus. Тһе upper articulations of the stem of this plant differ from those in Tuna, by being nearly as broad as long, and of an oblately cuneate or rather oblately obovate form; the flower is of one colour, not red on the outside, as there, and eonsiderably larger; the germen has setaceous pencils or small tufts only at the upper part of the germen, and not scattered over the whole. It flowered in the celebrated garden at Eltham before 1732, and was represented by Dillenius, in his Hortus Elthamensis, but the figure has not been applied by Linnæus to any species. We see no reason for supposing it a variety of Tuna. Calling a plant a variety may serve to shuffle off the task of expressing near distinctions, but when said without the proof of experience or analogy, and in the face of difference, should have little weight. It is indeed a safe assertion, for he who makes it can never be shown to be in the wrong; a danger to which the opposite assertion may be subject to the end of time. But then a species that stands reputed as the variety of another, is а whole race falsified on the records of science; and, as varieties are ever less anxiously attended to than species, a race exposed to the chance of being entirely over- looked. КК А The drawing was made from а plant in the collection of Mr. Vere, at Kensington Gore. It was about four feet high, and had never been known to flower before. We believe it to be one that has been very seldom seen in bloom in this country, if ever, since the time of Dillenius. It is not figured in Monsieur Decandolle’s work on Succulent Plants. The flower was entirely decayed before we could find an opportunity of inspecting it for description. The following version of the character of Cacrus Opun- tia (in which Tuna, and many other apparently distinct species, have been included as varieties of each other) froin Monsieur Decandolle's work may serve as an outline of the more general characteristics of the species of the division of the genus to which our plant belongs. Stem flattened, jointed, joints sometimes ovate, some- times oval, sometimes oblong, obtuse, lower ones ash- coloured, somewhat woody, nearly cylindrical, and scarcely separated at the junctures, upper ones herbaceous, fleshy, beset with tubercles disposed in a quincuncial order; from every tubercle are produced short pencils of thick hair or bristles, and fascicles of long thorns, which are either setaceous or subulate, white or yellow, hard, sharp-pointed, and prove abortive in various proportions. Leaves issuing out at the tubercles below the thorns, one to each tubercle, shaped like those of the Stone-crop, caducous, small, round, pointed, green or slightly purpled. Flowers from the upper edge of the terminal joints, solitary or many together, large, yellow, sessile. Calyx growing on the crown of the ger- men, divided into many leaflets at the top: leaflets flat, ovately round, resembling the outer petals and scarcely distinct from them. Petals of the corolla longer than the calycine leaflets, standing upon the calyx or the margin of the germen, for we may express it which way we will, in several ranks, cuneate, obtuse, sometimes emarginate, the middle nerve terminating in a short mucro or dagger-point. Stamens numerous, inserted at the same point as the petals, in several rows. Filaments filiform, upright, long: anthers inserted at the base, oval, yellow, bilocular: pollen yellow. Germen inferior or connate with the calyx, turbinate, green on the outside, beset with pencilled thorny turbercles like the stem. Style white, upright, thicker above the base, tapered at the top, generally hollow, cylindrical: stigmas 8-9- (in the present species 6-)rayed, thick, viscous, obtuse. Berry (something like a fig, whence the English name of “ Indian-fig”) fleshy, ovoid, large, purple, one-celled, with an ovate polyspermous loculament: seeds numerous, small, affixed round about to the wall of the loculament, brown, reniform or kidney-shaped. Se en —— === p 7*7 + 256 DIANTHUS crenatus. Long-cupped Cape Pink. ——— DECANDRIA DIGYNIA. Nat. ord. CARYOPHYLLEE, Jussieu gen. 299. Div. V. Cal. tubu- losus. Stam. alterna hypogyna, alterna sæpiùs epipetala. Styli 2 aut 3 aut 5. DIANTHUS. Cal. tubulosus 5-dentatus, basi squamis 4 aut pluribus cruciatim imbricatis cinctus. Pet. 5 unguiculata, limbo вере dentato. Styli 2 sepé recurvi. Caps. cylindrica 1-Joc. apice dehiscens. . Flores ter- minales, aggregati aut solitarii pluresve distincli. Species quedam suffrules- sentes. Juss. |. c. 802. Div. Flores solitarii plures in eodem caule. D. crenatus, floribus solitariis, squamis calycinis senis lanceolatis, corollis crenatis. Thunb. prod. 81. Dianthus crenatus. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 677. Rhizoma horizontale lignosum, punctis diversis caules exserens, teres. Folia inferiora quaternatim subverticillata decussataque, erecto-patentia, ine Ferne subimbricato-approximata, linearia, acuminata, angustissima, subtetra- gono-canaliculata, subbiuncialia, margine scabriusculo-pubescentia, mucronata, rigidiuscula; caulina brevia, subulata, opposita, subvaginoso-perfoliata, par lad quodque genu. Caules subpedales, compresso-teretes, solitarii, graciles, erecti, longà articulati, articulo supremo «quali foliis supremis, ramulis sim- licibus, unifloris, solitariis, in vaginá brevt genuum hinc azillaribus. Flores егесі, biunciales, albicantes, rubore obsolete suffusi, concolores, absque omni maculá, vesper? odori. Squamz calycine per paria зеле, striate, ovato- lanceolate, mucronato-cuspidate, Aplo v. circa breviores calyce, par imum angustius, sphacelatum, paulum remotius, Cal. sesquiuncialis, striatus, cylin- dricus, tubo penne corvina duplo v. triplo latior, dentibus lanceolatis, erectis, margine sphacelatis. Pet. glabra, 2-uncialia : ungues subersuperantes caly - sem, cuncato-lineares, angusti, intis lined carnosá concolori elevatá planius- culä discum. medium in ‘longum transeunte: lamine cuneato-obovate cum acumine brevi lato, laciniato-crenate, at breve, incisurá mediä profundiore, Anth. exserte, oblonga, ochroleuce. Germ. breve stipitatum, 3-plo brevius calyce, oblongum, cylindricum, albidum: styli. palpiformes, continuo-stigmatosi, exserti ad ultra medium limbi, intàs superné canaliculati, pubescentes, apice inflexi v. etiam intorti, ochroleuci. The type of this genus, so familiar in Europe, has а footing by different species in all the quarters of the globe. In America, however, only three species have been ob- served, two of which are held to be the same with two that belong equally to Europe. At-the Cape of Good Hope four indigenous species have been found; of these only albens had been introduced into our collections before the present, VOL. LT. AA which differs from that by having a calyx an inch and a half long instead of half an inch long, six calycine scales instead of four, petals that are more deeply and numerously іп- dented, and all of one colour instead of being tinged with violet on both sides at the top. It was raised from seed lately imported by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, of the Ham- mersmith nursery, where the drawing was made last No- vember. Rootstock woody, horizontal, round, sending up several flower-stems from different points. Lower leaves subver- ticillated by fours and decussated, uprightly spread, al- most imbricant at the lower part, linear, acuminate, very narrow, channelled so as to have something of the ap- pearance of being four-cornered, about two inches long, roughishly pubescent at the edges, stiffish, mucronate: stem ones short, subulate, opposite, and connected by a short perfoliate sheath, one pair at each joint. Stems soli- tary, about a foot high, round, compressed, slender, as- cendent, with longish internodes, the upper one of which is about the length of the uppermost pair of leaves; branches solitary, one from an axil of each pair of the upper leaves, one-flowered. Flowers upright, two inches long, whitish with a very faint suffusion of red, self-coloured, smelling sweet in the evening. Сёусте scales 6, in pairs, fluted, ovally lanceolate, with a long sharp subulate point, about 4 times shorter than the calyx, lower pair narrowest, врһа- celate, and rather more distant than the two upper. Calyx twice or thrice the diameter of the tube of a crow-quill, cylindrical, fluted, an inch and half long, teeth lanceolate upright sphacelate at the edge. Petals smooth, 2 inches long: ungues rather higher than the calyx, cuneately linear, narrow, with a fleshy flattish linear ridge running dowu their middle on the inside: lamina cuneately obovate with а broadly tapered point, shallowly and somewhat crenately Jagged, the middle fissure deeper than the rest. Anthers above the calyx, oblong, cream-coloured. Germen stand- ing on a shaft three times shorter than the calyx, oblong, cylindrical, whitish: styles something like the feelers (palpi) of an insect, continuous with the stigmas, which reach to near the top of the limb, and аге channelled and pubescent on the inside, sometimes twisted spirally, cream-coloured. 957 DIGITALIS parviflora. Small-flowered Fox-glove. — DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, Net. ord, SCROPHULARIÆ. Jussieu gen. 117. SCROPHULARINA. Brown prod. 433, DIGITALIS. Supra vol. 1. fol. 48. D. parviflora, foliolis calycinis oblongis obtusis marginibus rachique lanatis, corollis obtusis: lakio superiore integro; inferioris lobo medio intús villoso lateralibus pauló majore, foliis omnibus integerrimis adultis mar- Eine lanatis. Brown in Hori. Kew. ed. 9. 4. 29. Digitalis parviflora. Јас. hort. vindob. 1. 6. t. 17. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 284. Digitalis ferruginea; (y) ; floribus sessilibus densé spicatis, calycibus margine tomentosis, Lamarck епсус. 2. 280. Caulis simplex, à decursú foliorum angulosus, villosus v. sublanatus, strictus, cavus. Fol, undigue sparsa, erecliuscula, sessilia, lineari-lanceolata, lucida, nervosa nervis ascendentibus margineque lanatis, semipedalia ішіш- dine 3 partium uncia. Racemus spicatus, sesquipedalis, erectus, infernà „foliosus, cylindricus, undique sparsus, confertus, JSotiis floralibus à longiori- le bus flore descrescentibus in bracteas eodem breviores. Flores horizantali- autantes, longitudine ұ partis uncie, diametro pauló majore penne corving : pedicelli crassi, lanati, 3-plo breviores calyce. . Cal. erbaceus, S-plo Sere brevior corollá, bilabiato-campanulatus, segmentis oblongis, „obtusis, lanato- ciliatis, ceterum glabris, summo medio plurimàm minore, 2 imis paulo ampli- eribus 2 supernis prozimis. Сог. ferruginea, obsolete infundibuliformis, extús glanduloso-villosa, tubo curvato compresso subequante faucem parüm extumescentem, limbi laciniis obtusis: labium superius breve subintegrum v. emninà bifidum lobis subequantibus 2 laterales labii inferioris, lobo imo latiore duploque longiore rotundato lanoso-ciliato intús venis fuscis reticulato. Stam. longiora subzqualia corolla, 2 breviora fauce inclusa; fil. adnata tubo, glan- ‚duloso-pilosa, infrà purpurascentia; anth. ие, verticali-bilobe, іпсит- dentes, subgnomonico-fleza. | Germ. ovato-oblongum, subtrigonum, aquale calyci, pilis тіпшіз capitatis pubescens: stylus bast purpurascens, indè sub- vescens, curvulus, longitudine feré germinis : stig. punctum acutum tandem transverse hiulcum. Caps. ovato-pyramidata, stylo persistente mucronate. ies with the smallest flowers of any of the Fox- gloves thot are known to us. It was first observed by the уепсғаМе Jacquin, in the Botanic garden at Vienna, but whence it came there, or where indigenous, has ‚not been yet discovered. It is a tolerably hardy perennia ‚plant, which grows in any sheltered part of the garden, and was introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1798. angularly fluted by the decurrent bases of Stem simple, aad the foliage, villous or rather woolly, upright, hollow. Leaves scattered all round, nearly upright, sessile, linearly lanceolate, shining, nerved, nerves ascendent and as well as the edge of the leaf woolly, half a foot long or more, about 2 of an inch broad. Касете spiked, a foot and half long, upright, leafy downwards, cylindrical, closely strown, the floral leaves diminishing from longer than the flowers to bractes shorter than these. Flowers horizontally nodding, about a third of an inch long, not much wider than the tube of a crow-quill: pedicles thick, woolly, three times shorter than the calyx. Calyx herbaceous, almost three times shorter than the corolla, bilabiately campanulate; segments oblong, obtuse, woolly at the edge, as to the rest smooth, the middle upper one a good deal the smallest, the two lowermost but little larger than the two upper side ones. Corolla rust-coloured, faintly funnelformed, on the outside glandularly villous, tube curved, compressed, aboat equal to the slightly widened faux or throat, segments of the limb obtuse: upper lip short, either nearly entire or completely bifid, with lobes about equal to the two sides of the dower Пр, the lowermost lobe of all broader than the rest and twice as long, rounded, with a woolly edging, marked on the inside by brown netted veins, Longer stamens about even with the corolla, two shorter ones confined within the throat; filaments grown to the tube, beset with glandular hairs, purplish below; anthers yellow, vertically two-lobed, incumbent or balancing, bent bierurally. Germen ovately oblong, somewhat trigonal, even with the calyx, beset with short headed hairs: style purplish at the base, yellowish beyond, somewhat bent. nearly of the length of the germen: stigma a sharpened point sometimes splitting transversely. ^ Capsule ovately. pyramidal, pointed by the persistent style. The drawing of this plant was taken at Mr. Knight’s nursery, King’s Road, Chelsea, in September. / A 2/2 C -- 958 SPARAXIS grandiflora; y. Liliago, Redoute’ в Sparaxis. —— | TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Ехзлтж., Lin. Ord. nat, РТ. Nobis in ann. lot. 1. 219, Irınes. Jussieu gen. 57. Татре, Brown prod. 302. SPARAXIS. Inf. spicata, disticha, alterna, scorsim bivalvi-spa- thacea, valvis amplis diaphano-membranosis arístato-laceris. Cor. supera, infundibuliformis, 6-fida: tubus brevis angustus abiuns in faucem turbina- fam: limbus 6-partitus, amplus, subeequalis, connivens v. stellatus, rariüs bilabiatus et ineequalis. Stam. tubo imposita, inclusa, inclinata, nunc ascen- dentia, raró erecto-fasciculata: anth. lineares, à dorso аррепза, Stylus gracilis, inclusus, directione staminum: stig. 3, linearia, complicato-cana- Кошава trifariám replicata, Caps. membranosa, oblonga, rotundaté 3-gona, 3-loc., 3-valv. valvis medio septigeris: sem. biscriata, numerosa, globosa v. pressione deformata, magnitudine (ега Sinapeos. Bulbo-tuber ovatum integumentis membranoso-fibrosis multiplicibus. westi- tum, пипс unum super alterum moniliformi-catenatum. Fol. ensata, cols laterali-disticha, caulina axillis sep? bulbifera. Caulis simplex v. paniculato- yamosissimus, S-uncialis ad orgyalem. Flos solitarius ad eosdem numerosos. 8. grandiflora, regularis; tubo equali spathte, limbo tubo unà cum fauce triplo longiore, laciniis cuneato-oblongis: staminibus uno versü incli- natis subparallelo-divergentibus lenissimé assurgentibus. | ` Sparaxis grandiflora. Nobis in ann. bot. 1. 225, $ Curtis's magaz. 779. | Hort. Кеш, ed. 2. 1. 85. . Ixia grandiflora. De la Roche pl. nov. п. 11. Houtt. nat. hist. Y7. t. 77. fig. 3. Salisb. prod. 37. 26, Nobis in Curtis's magaz. 541. Redouté liliac. 189 & 362. Ixia Liliago. — Redouté liliac, 109. Ixia aristata. Hort. Kew. 1.57. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 203. Vah enum. 2. 71. п. 46. Andrews's reposit. 87; (non verö Thunbergii pro quá à plerisque mal habebatur ). Қ Ixia bulbifera; 8. kolosericea. Vahl enum. 2.72; (tantummodó quoad kancce solam varietatem. ) Ixia bulbifera; (а.) flore purpureo. Thunb. Іт. 16. 17. Ixia holosericea, “Jacq. hort. schenb. 1. tab. 17. . Ixia uniflora. Lin. mant. 27. et Herb. Lin. Jacq. coll. 4.181. ic. rar. 2. ё. 983. Ixia fimbriata. Lamarck encyc. 3. 339. illustr. 1. 411. Ixia foliis gladiatis glabris, cule unifloro. Mill. ic. 158. t. 237. f: 3. | Sisyrinchium athiopicum majus. Commel. hort. 1. 83. tab. 42. «) flore intús saturaté purpureo. . . id flore intús favescente, basi limbi maculis purpureis 6 subrotundis. flore intàs albicante radiis senis purpureis. — . ” Antheris ochroleucis. Stigmatibus semuncialibus. Браће albo-dia- phane, Sparaxıs is distinguishable at first sight among its co- ordinate genera by the sub-transparent membranous lace- rated spathes of the inflorescence, besides the. accordance of habit. This may seem an unimportant feature, but marks like this are not to be slighted in the composition of generic groups, especially in a tribe of plants of such simple confi- guration as that of the Ensate, where they are found to de- termine in the general habit of the species changes as real as are consequent upon the apparently more important ones in tribes where the plants are of greater complexity of configur- ation. The value of a mark is to be estimated on the one hand by the degree of general likeness consequent upon its presence throughout the species of a group, and on the other by the degree of general difference consequent on its absence in the species of the confining ones. In the Елзайт very strange and conspicuous disparities in the proportions and inflections of the corolla and floral organs, are frequently found to be followed by no difference in the general habit of the species greater in degree than that which must always exist even between the nearest members of a genus. While a-very obscure and inconspicuous mark of some other kind is often found to determine peculiarities in the general habit of a greater or less portion of species; and which peculia- rities are also seen to disappear by phases that answer to and keep pace with others, through which the disappearance of this mark takes place at the confines of the group. Grandiflora is native of the Cape of Good Hope, and was cultivated at the Chelsca Garden by Miller, in 1738. Тһе drawing was taken this spring іп the same garden. Bulb-tuber about the size of a Filbert, with pale fibro- membranous integuments. Leaves 5-8, collaterally distich, ensiform, equitant, finely striated, shorter than the stem, generally bulbiferous in the axils. Flowers 1-5 or more, distantly spiked, upright, two inches in depth, parti- coloured, sometimes almost entirely of deep violet purple, at others white or yellow and variously marked with purple, without scent. Spathe whitish, subdiaphanous, equal to the tube. Corolla regular, funnelform, outspread, limb about 4 times as long as the faux and tube taken together, stel- lately expanded, segments cuneately oblong. Stamens twice shorter than the limb, inclining one way and diver- gent: anthers long, linear, eream-coloured. Stigmas spread- ing, white, half an inch long, linear, foldingly channelled and pubescent on the inner side. Pub bu Rido ( by dow dl X Sons Fed nes 259 TRAPA natans. European WVater-caltrops. TETRANDRIA MONOGYN/A, Nat. ord. Hyprocuanipes. Jussieu реп. 67. Oxacranta, Lamarck et Decaud. fl. franç. 4. 418. TRAPA. Vid. Append. hujus vol. in loco, Т. natans, nucibus quadricornibus, spinis patentibus. Lin. suppl. 198. Trapa natans, Lina. sp. pl. 1. 175. Gaertn. sem. 1. 197. 1. 26. f 5. Allion. pedem. n. 872. Ұры. siles, n. 246, Hort. Kew. 1. 164. са. 2. 1. 267. Lamarck encyc. З. 669. illustr. t. 75. Villars dauph. 9. 840. Lam. et Decand. fl. frang. 4. 418. Schkuhr handb. 1. 85. t. 25. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 681; (excl. Rheede mal.) Prod. flor. grec. 1. 10%. Trapa foliis natantibus, petiolis ventricosis. Hall. helo. n. 527. Tribulus aquaticus. Cam. epit. 715. Bauh. pin. 194. Ger. emac. 84. Rhizoma natans, nodis promens radices compositas è radiculis numerosis retaceo-capillaribus in axem. communem pyramidatim connatis; caudex con- Jerte foliosus, foliis super aquam in МЕГАН multiradiatam dispansis, longd petiolatis, laminà rhombeá superno subrotundá dentatá dentibus bimu- cronatis, diametro sesquiunciali, vividé virentia, infra pubescente ; petiolis Зеро longioribus lamind, hirsutiusculis, adultis supern? extumescentibus in utrem oblongum medullá cellulosá repletum cujus ope natat planta. Flores plurimi, parvi, submcrsi; pedunculi breviores peliolis, subi irsuti, patentes, ascendentes, fructiferi plurimüm longiores crassioresque Soriferis. Cal. semi- superus, viridis, rigidus, foliolis ovato-acumiaatis, (“ primum conniventi- “bus deinde patulis, 2 paulo inferioribus. Pet. alba, pellucida, venosa, inciso- “ emarginata, æqualia, brevissimis unguibus purpureis infra nectarium nata. ** Nect. membrana in stelle modum plicata persistens angulis octo, primùm * subluteum, deindè album, posted viride. Fil. alba, plana: anth. didyma, “ magne. Stylus basi viridis: stig. cavum rotundum rubrum perforatum. ** Florescentia intra calycem conniventem clausum absolvitur?” АН. 1. с.) A remarkable annual water-plant, belonging to а genus, which although abundantly and very generally dispersed over Europe to the south of this country, is so by the means of one species only. ‘This has been naturalized in ponds пеш: Paris, yet here, where it is said to have been introduced by Dr. Solander in 1781, every attempt to bring it to seed in the open air bas failed. ‘The specimen was sent us by Мг. Lambert, who ripened the seed, by raising the plant in water in his hothouse at Boyton. - Та its native region it affects rivers with muddy bottoms, ponds, lakes, and ditches round towns. Тре genus has been named from a fancied likeness of the radiately thorned fruit, to the instrument called Caltrops, formerly used as a defence against cavalry. Trara is a Linnean elision of Calcitrapa, which last means the same as Caltrops; so does Tribulus, the classic appellation of the plant. The fruit or nut is of a turbinate shape, one-seeded, ripens under water, resembles in its nature the Chestnut, and is eaten like that at the dessert, cither roasted or boiled. Тһе outermost covering, a somewhat fleshy opaque membrane, is readily stripped off, when the fruit, generally about an inch in diameter, shows itself with the same sort of shining brown coriaceous testa or kernel-coat, which belongs to the Chestnut. The kernel is sometimes made into flour, which serves for porridge, and even for bread in several European countries, especially Carinthia. At Venice the fruit is sold by the name of the Jesuit’s Nuts. The Germans call it the Water-nut. The French Meere. Children eat it raw. The Chinese are said to cultivate another species (bicornis) in their undrained water-lands, as a substitute for bread-corn. Rootstock of various lengths according to the depth of the water, furnished at the joints with distinct tufts of roots; each tuft consisting of an axis, surrounded by numerous horizontal capillary radicles, gradually shortening from bot- tom to top, and forming a pyramidal plume. These have been generally looked upon as the water-leaves, but we do not see why. Caudex continuous, surrounded by а close alternately disposed pedicled foliage, displaying a bright green star at the surface of the water; leaves about an inch and half broad, rhomboidal, thickish aud nerved, bimu- cronately toothed, subpubescent at the nerves underneath: petiole 2-3 times longer, distending just below the blade into an oblong intumescence, something like a small anglev's float, filled with cellular pith, and acting as a buoy. Flowers small, white, submerged, pellucid: peduncles soli- tary, 1-flowered, axillary,’ enlarging as the fruit grows. Allioni ascribes to the flower a membranous persistent nec- tary, plaited in the form of a star, which no one else seems to have observed. The anthers part with the pollen under water before the calyx opens. The thorns on the fruit are formed by the extension and induration of the 4 segments of the calyx. The kernel-coat never opens spontaneously, and the seed germinates through a small aperture at the top previously closed by a thin membrane and converging villi. се т« 960 MESEMBRYANTHEMUM tigrinum. Tiger-chap Fig- Marygold. —— ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. Fıcomer. Jussieu gen. 315. Div. IT. Germen inferum. MESEMBRYANTHEMUM. Cal. superus 5-fidus persistens, Pet. numerosa serie multiplici, linearia basi levitér connata. Styli 5, rarids 4 aut 10. Caps. carnosa umbilicata umbilico radiis notato, multilocularis loculis numero stylorum. Sufrutices aut herbae; folia opposita aut rarids alterna, incrassata, formá plurimüm varia; flores solitarii, axillares aut extrà azillares аш sapiüs terminales; fructus interdüm ficiformis. Juss. 1. c. 817. Div, II. Subacaulia, caulibus nullis vel brevissimis, radice perenni. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 8. 213. M. tigrinum acaule, foliis glaucescentibus albo-maculatis rarids tubercu- latis: marginibus profundé ciliatis. Haworth misc. nat. 81. Mesembryanthemum tigrinum. Haworth mesemb. 164. Ejusd. succ. 216. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1029. Thompson's bot. displ. 9. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 8. 218. Plantula acaulis, pinguissima, perennis. Folia radicalia, suboctona?, decussato-congesta, patentia, cymbiformi-ovata, glauca, pruinosa, maculis parvis albis irregularibus picta, subuncialia, latitudine 3 uncia, crassitudine Jere $ uncia, sublüs convexa, superna versus pror cymbuli ad instar attenu- ata, suprà plana, summis lateribus extern sub dentibus à sulcis vel canaliculis obsoletioribus transvers? rugata, interno margine dentato-ciliata dentibus albis cartilagineis setaceo-aristatis, aristis tenuilate ferà үш serici ad lentem villosis, ипо тета introrsüm inclinantibus. Flos centralis, sessilis, magnus, luteus, froceo-emarcescens, non nisi post meridiem expandens, — Of the 211 species of this genus enumerated by Мг. На- worth, all are indigenous of the Cape of Good Hope, except about five orsix. Only one species has a station in Europe, and that at an extreme part, viz. the shores of Naples. Two or three belong to the Levant, one of which is the well- known Ice-Plant, found near Athens. Not a single Ame- rican species has been observed. The name of Fig-Mary- gold, by which these plants are known in our gardens, has been suggested by a twofold resemblance, on one hand by that of the fruit to the form of a fig, and on the other by that of the flower to the common Marygold, like which it shuts itself up in cloudy weather. The genus forms the principal group in the gardener's tribe of succulent plants. The present diminutive species was introduced in 1790 voL. IH. вз ftom the Cape of Good Hope, and is one of those whose flowers do not expand till after midday. A perennial stemless plant. Leaves fleshy and very thick, radical, about 8, closely decussated, spreading, ovate, cymbiform or shaped like a boat, glaucous, elegantly marked with small white irregular spots, in our specimen about an inch long, two thirds of one broad and about one third of one thick, convex underneath, narrowing towards the ‘end like the head of a boat, fiat above, high up the sides ‘faintly and transversely grooved below the base of the teeth, beset at the inside of the edge with a single row of white cartilaginous long-awned slender teeth, inclining towards the base of the leaf; the awns, nearly as fine as the thread of a silkworm, are villous when viewed through a magnifying ‘glass. Flower central, sessile, large in proportion to the plant, yellow, becoming saffron-coloured as it goes off. All these plants belong to the dry stove; and their treat- -ment is too familiar to every one to require notice in this place. . The drawing was made in September, at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Co. Fulham. 961 GLYCINE bituminosa. Clammy Glycine. —— DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Nat. ord. Ткопмтнозљ. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V. Cor. irregularis papilionacea. Legumen uniloculare bivalve. Frutices аш herbe; Ша simplicia aut ternata аш rarids digitata; stipule nunc subuulle, nunc con» греси imo petiolo adnate aut ab eodem distincte. GLYCINE. Cal. bilabiatus. Corolle carina apice vexillum reflectens. Willd. sp. pl. 1058. ` ` ! G. bituminosa, foliis ternatis, floribus racemosis, leguminibus tumidis vil- _ losis. Linn. sp. pl. 2. 1024. . - Glycine bituminosa, Thunb. prod, 191. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 106£: Нот. Kew. 8. 34. ed. 9. 4.298. | Do. . Phaseolus africanus hirsutus bituminosus, siliquis bullatis, flore, favo. Herm. lugdb. 492. 1. 493; (fig. naturali vald minor). | | Frutex volubilis, viscoso-hirsutus pilis basi bulbosis, orgyalis v. ultra, rap mis anguloso-striatis, tandèm fuscescentibus v. _Silvescentibus, distanter foliosis, Folia ternata, hirsuta, v. modà ex lapsorum pilorum relictis bulbis glandulosor ballulata, vetustiora fusco-virentia; foliola ovata, infra unciam longa, acuta, 3-nervia, subrugosa, medium subrhomboidale v. obs 2 S-lobum, айс 2 ingr quilatera lobo interiore obliterate, břevissimè petiolata: pet. communis longior v. subbrevior foliolis, inarticslatus, striato-angulosus г “stipule óvato-lánceo. late. Racemi azillares, solitarii, егесі, laziüs pluriflori, longiores Foliis, pubescentes, Flores lutei, $ unciæ longi, elliptico-oblongi, obtusissimi,, pedi- cellis brevioribus calyce, ebracteatis. Cal. kirsutus, citra medium 4, viridis, fusco-nölatus; tubo compresso; segmentis lineari-subulatis, intermedio imorum majore, Vex. ascendens, elliptico-obcordatum, parüm lor ‘caring, dorso violaceo-venosum, plicá media carinutum, lateribus Ахад өтіл бая ice bi : uali tudo г a col posticà bidentatd; ungue сипеаіо eg E аре ay suis mpi dorsum cari en 0 4 urimüm minores carinä, oblonge, й - ? pl falcata, recurvo-ascendens, obtusa, compressa, pallide contingentes: "car. lato:fa ecuri f ` ice-atro-violt talis 2 imo margine coharentibus summo sy pnus жарнақ diadelphe, 5 supra тейде distincta, Тари aculo assurgentia: anth. ovata; Breves, „Гита ; pollèn Фар is h зата grumoso-granalatión, non pulvereum, Get. serlceo-hirsutum, 4ріо revius stylo v. magis: stylus virens, inferne villosus, supern?-assurgenae stig. caps- tatum, glandulosum, papillosum. Legum. hirsutum, inflatum, gum, subbiunciale, seminibus pluribus... Bulbilli pilorum iaphani.. Native of the Cape of Good Hope; introduced by Mr. Masson in 1774; but had been long previously en tivat in Holland. Hermann found it growing at the side о the Table Mountain to the height of three yards. "i requires o be kept in the greenhouse; flowers from Apr ptem- ber, and seeds freely. — - вв? A twining shrub, furred over by а roughish viscous nap, the hairs of which stand upon minute transparent globular bulbs, often seen to remain where the hair that surmounted them has fallen away, giving to the leaf or other part where this happens, the appearance of being glandularly fretted instead of furred; branches angularly fluted, distantly leaved older ones becoming tawny or ' dusky. Leaves ternate, furred, according to Hermann with a bituminous smell, older ones dusky green, leaflets ovate, less than an inch long, pointed, 3-nerved, slightly wrinkled, the middle one subrhomboidal or faintly 3-lobed, lateral ones unequally sided, the inner side narrowest, very shortly petioled: common petiole sometimes longer, some- times rather shorter than the leaflets, not jointed, flutedly angular: stipules ovately lanceolate. Racemes axillary, soli- tary, upright, with several widishly set flowers, longer than the leaves, pubescent. Flowers yellow, two thirds of an inch long, elliptically oblong, round-pointed; pedicles shorter than the calyx, bracteless. Calyx shaggily furred, cleft to below the middle, green, stained with brown; tube com- pressed; segments linearly subulate, the middle of the three lower ones largest. Vexillum or standard ascendent, ellip- tically-obcordate, very little longer than the keel, marked at the back with purple veins and keeled, deflectent at the sides; blade with two teeth at the bottom of the back; unguis cuneate, equal to the tube of the calyx: ale or wings deep yellow, of one colour, much smaller than the keel, oblong, touching by their tops over the back of the keel: carina or keel broadly falcate, recurved ascendent, obtuse, compressed, pale yellow or sulphur-coloured, tinged at the top with dark violet-purple, its two petals cohering at the lower margins, open at the upper, where the fissure is bordered with deep yellow. Filaments diadelphous, shortly separated above, bending upwards with an acute angle: anthers ovate, short, tawny ; pollen of small polished globules, grumously granular, not pulverulent. Germen furred, with a longish silky close pressed pubescence, 4 times shorter than the style or more: style green, villous downwards, bent upwards at the other end: stigma capitate or headed, glandolar, papulous. Pod shaggily furred, inflated or dis- tended as if blown out, about two inches long; seeds several. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- Jey and Co. Fulham. | ——- а Calyx. —, 2 mn ns 2 отит E HE СОҒУДА, AS Я vet 444 tes Lee ӨР Фа dpt bd = a NO A ACASO des Wat PRE 262 268 ACROSTICHUM alcicorne. Elk’s horn Acrostichum. ——- CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES. Nat. ord. Fitices. Jussieu gen. 14. Brown prod.145. Div. I. Ст. RATE. _(Polypodiaceee.) Capsule uniloculares, annulo articulato, elastico, longitudinali (plerümque. incompleto) instruciar; transversim irregularitér rumpentes. Brown loc. cit, , ,ACROSTICHUM. Sori amorphi, seu Capsule per tofam paginam inferiorem frondis (interdüm diverse) l. ad ejus partem pale, Involu- Gum aullum (nisi. equamule у. sete in quibusdam capsulis interstinctee). TOWN і. Co A. alcicorne, frondibus dichotomis nervosis apicem versüs fructificantibus: sterilibus circumdantibus subrotundis lobatis indivisisve basi suberoso- A incrassatis. Brown prod. 145. crostichum alcicorne. Swartz gen. 5 spec. fil. 19. Ejusd. syn. fil. 196. Willd. sp. pl. 5.111. Hort. ‘Kew. ed. 2. 5 Eso. ка Acrostichum Stemmaria. Beauvois fl. d’Oware & Benin. 2. tab. 2. Acrostichum bifurcatum, Cav. рға. 1801. n. 587. Neuroplatyceros zthiopicus nervosis foliis cornu cervinum referentibus, Pluk, amalth, 2. 429. f: 2. Schkurh crypt. 1. 1. 2 Filix structure singularis. — Frondes primordiales steriles, sessiles, pla- niuscule, horizontales, spithamez et ultra, sep reniformes, margine rotun- dato s. interdim varió вао, glaberrima centro subfungoso pulvinato, mol- liuscule, versús margines membranacee, réticulato-venose. Radices et radi- cule subtàs congeste, longer, tomentoso-ferruginee. Frondes fructificantes 2 centro priorum substipitate s. versus radicem valdé atienuate, sensim dilatate palmateque, plane стей interdüm 2 pedales, dichotomee laciniis ineequalibus digitiformibus obtusis, nervos@ nervis dichotomis elevatis prope basin in sti- pilem crassum terctem concurrentibus: supra glabra virides, sublüs incano- tomentosa, subinde glabra. Juniores omninö nato-molles, tomento ez villis stellatis congestis. Fructificationes versús apices frondium dorsum laciniarum ad partem v. totum tegentes. Capsule minutissime, ferrugineo-rufe, annulis nitentibus, in lineis confertissimis quasi congesta. Cum Acrosticuo biformi, quod Osmunpa coronaria Mullert, in quibusdam convenit; attamen et ab Шо et ab omnibus aliis hucüsque notis cert? diversum етй. Swartz Syn. fil. 196. The doctrine of Linnzus did not admit of the existence of any species of vegetable destitute of either stamen or pistil; upon the presence of these he founded his so justly celebrated system, an unrivalled effort of ingenuity in this department of natural history, and the key without which few would have passed the threshold of that of higher preten- sions. Ав however іп a very large proportion of the vege- table creation, these floral organs, if really present, are so in a form too clandestine to have yet allowed of demonstra- tion, he was reduced to assume their existence under опе shape or other, by analogy drawn from the portion of vege- tation where tbeir presence was incontrovertible; these he has concentred in one great class, designated by the title of Cryptogamia, divided into natural orders or such as are characterized from general structure. It is since his time that the term plienogamous has been devised, and only very lately that it has come into familiar use to express. that portion of vegetation’: where the floral organs are plain and obvious, as opposed to the cryptogamous portion, where these are not so. Of still fresher date is the term aga- mous, suggested by the latest investigations, as applicable to a group that has hitherto ranked in Cryptogamia, in whose species not only no traces of stamen and pistil are detected, but in regard to which the presumption appears to be stronger (at least in the opinion of those who have pro- posed the distinction) that there are none belonging to them; of this nature are Mushrooms, Liverworts, &e. &c. The subject of this article holds its place in the crypto- gamous division, and іп the order Filices (or Fern-tribe), comprising the largest vegetables of this nature that exist, some of them in the tropical regions being trees of 24 feet high, rivaling the Palms in stateliness of port. It comes under the section Gyrate (including those species whose nascent frond is-rolled something іп the way of a crosier or a sheep crook); and the subdivision Polypodiacee, charac- terized by one-celled capsules, girded by a jointed elastic longitudinal and usually incomplete ring or hoop, which opens by bursting transversely. Its generic station is in Асвозтсном, distinguished by sori (patches or groups of capsules) of which the contour is of no determinate shape, or in other words Бу capsules that beset a part or the whole of the under side of the fronds, which last are sometimes of two kinds; and by not being furnished with any sort of involucre (except where, as is sometimes the case, small scales or bristles mingle themselves among the capsules). The species is native of the coast of Guinea, Java, and New Holland; at least botanists have not yet distinguished be- tween the plants peculiar to either of those mutually distant countries. The drawing was made from the New Holland plant, introduced by Mr. Caley in 1808, with which we were kindly furnished by Mr. Aiton, by whom it is con- sidered as belonging to the greenhouse. In its native ге- gions it grows on trees of dertain kinds and rocks. “Мі. Brown found it constantly on the former on the southern coast of New Holland, and as constantly on the latter at the northern coast of that country. The following is the version of the excellent description which: has been given of the species by Dr. Swartz. : А Fern of singular structure. Lower or primordiate fronds barren, nearly flat, horizontal, a span ог. more in breadth, frequently reniform or kidney-shaped, rounded or variously lobed at the edge, quite smooth, pul- vinate or padded in the centre, softish, membranously at- tenuated towards the edges, nettedly veined. Roots and radicles crowded together in a tuft underneath, long, of a tusty colour and covered with a cottony nap. Fertile or Sruitbearing fronds rising from the centre of the others somewhat stalked and very much tapered towards the root, gradually widened and palmate or handshaped, flat, upright, sometimes two feet high, dichotomous or divided into pairs of unequal fingershaped obtuse segments; nerved, the nerves dichotomous prominent conjoining near the base in a round thick stipe or stem peculiar to the plants of this order: smooth on the upper side and green, on the under cottony and grey, though sometimes smooth. Young ones tender and entirely covered with a cottony nap, the nap consistin of close stellately compounded villi. The mass of fructi cations or inflorescence and seed is situated towards the top of the fronds, and covers either a part or the whole of the backs of the lobes or segments. Capsules extremely minute, of a rusty or cinnamon-coloured brown with shining rings or hoops, and crowded together in close lines or files. We saw very fine plants of this extraordinary species in the hothouse at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, at Hammersmith, on which the barren frond was nearly five inches in diameter, and grew flat upon the surface of the mould to which it was fixed by the fibrous radication from the under surface, and appeared much of the same nature as the broad flat brown fronds we see in some of our own Lichens or Liverworts. It was of a pale yellow green, very unlike that of the fertile fronds, entirely smooth, repand and shallowly lobed at the circumference. The fertile fronds in these specimens were not fructescent. Perhaps it is the nature of the barren ones to decay before these become fruitbearers? The upright figure іп plate (262) shows the upper por- tion of the fertile fructescent frond frontwise, of the na- tural size; the crossed figure the back of the same, covered Әу sori or groups of fructifications. The figure in plate (263) shows the whole plant in the state it was when the drawing was made, diminished. On one side are a young barren frond and a young fertile frond; both covered with a whitish woolly pubescence. GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUMES I. П. AND Ш. Folumen. Acacta Houstoni. т, 2.. Achania mollis, a. v. 1. . Acrostichum alcicorne. у. 3. Aerides panicalatum. v. 3. .. Alpinia calcarata. v. 2.. Amaryllis calyptrata. v. 2. . Amaryllis coranien. v. 8... Amary'lis crocata, Amaryllis equestris. В. v. 3. .... Amaryllis flexuosa, v. 2, . Amaryllis falgida. v. 3. Amaryllis hyacinthina, y. 2. . Amaryllis psittacina. v. 3. . Amaryllis rutila. v. L. . Amsonia latifolia. v. 2. Anemone palmata, v. 3. . Anthocercis littorea, v. 3. . Arbutus Andrachne. у. 2. . Arctotis acaulis. v. 9. . Arctotis aspera. v. l. .. Arctotis aureola. v. 1. . Arctotis maculata. v. 2. Arctotis tricolor. v. 9. Asclepias curassavica. v. 1. Asclepias incarnata. a. Asclepias tuberosa, a, т, 1. Aster Nove Anglie, v, 3. Astragalus caryocarpus. v,2. . Azalea calendulacea, а. v. 2. ... Azalea nudillora, y. v. 2. . Barleria mitis. v. 3. Beaufortia decussata. Bignonia venusta. v. 3. +262, 263. ... 220. a Pre 191. 2. 18. 249. Bouvardia triphylla, v. 2. 107. Bouvardia versicolor. v. 3. .. 245. Brachysema latifolium, v. 2. . 118. Bromelia nudicaulis, v. 3. ... 203. Brunsfelsia undulata, v. 3. . . «228. Brunsvigia Josephine. 2. v. 3. .. 192, 193. Bryonia quinqueloba, v. 1. ... 8%. Cacalia bicolor. v. 2. 110. Cacalia ovali: 101. Cactus Dillenii. v. 3. » 255. Cactus gibbosus. Y. 2. 137. Caldasia heterophylla. v. 2. . эз. Calendula chrysanthemifolia, v. 1. 40. Calendula Tragus, В. v. 1... 23. Callistachys lanceolata. v. 3. ,. 216. Calotropis gigantea. у. 1. $8. Camellia japonica. 1. V. 2. .. 11%. Camellia japonica. м. Y- l- 22. Camellia Sasangua. v. 1. 12. Campanula aurea, а. У. 1. ... 57. Campannla coronata. V. 2 149. Campannls lactiflora. v. 3. . 241. Campanula litifolia. v. 3. .- . 236. VOL. It, Volumen, Folium. Campanala pentagonia. v. 1. ........ 56, Campanula sarmatica. 8. Canna gigantea. v. 3. Carthamus tinctorius. v. 2. Cassia ligustrina. v. 2. . Cassia occidentalis. y. 1. Cheiranthus Cheiri, у. У. 3. Chelone barbata, v. 2. Chelone obliqua. v. 2. Chironia jasminoides. v. 3. Chrysanthemum indicum, Cistus vaginatus. v. 3. Citrus nobilis. В. v. 3.. Clematis aristata. v. 3. . Clematis brachiata. v. 2. . Convolvulus pannifolius. v. 3. . Convolvulus suffruticosus. v. 2. . Coreopsis incisa, v. 1.. Correa speciosa, v. 1 Correa virens, v. 1 Crinum bracteatum. v. 8. Criaum cruentum. v. 8. 2... Crinum pedunculatum. v. 1. Crossandra undulefolia. v. 1. . Crotataria purpurea. v. 2. Crotalaria retusa. v. 3. Cryptarrhena lumata. v. 2 Cuphea procumbens. v. 3. Cynanchum pilosum. v. 2. Cyrtantbus collinus. v. 2. Cyrtanthus spiralis. Cyrtanthus uniflorus. Cytisus proliferas. v. 2. . Dahlia supertlua. e. v. Dianthus crenatus, Digitalis ambigua. v. 1. . Digitalis canariensis. v Digitalis lutea. v. 3. Digitalis parviflora. v. 3. Disa prasinata. v. 3. .. Donia giutinosa. У. 3. 187; et im notis append. ejusd. vol. Duranta Plumieri. v. 3. . Echium candicans. v. 1, Echium fruticosum. v. t Echium grandiflorum, v. Elichrysum proliferam. Epidendrum fuecatum. v. 1. -+ Epidendrum nutans. v. 1. , Epidendrum umbellatum. Ерірға repens, v. 8. .. Erica ardens. 7.2. - Erica filamentosa. Erica tumida. v. 1. Erigeron glaucum. v. 1. Eucrosia bicolor. v. 3. . GENERAL INDEX ТО VOLS. I. IT. AND ИЕ. Volumen, Euphorbia punicea. v. 3. . Fragaria indica. v. 1. Fumaria aurea. у. 1, Fumaria eximia, v. 1 Gardenia radicans. v. 1. Gazania pavonia. v. 1. . Genista canariensis. Y. 3. Gladiolus edulis. v. 2. . Gloriosa superba. Y. 1........ Gloxinia speciosa. У. 3. * Glycine bituminosa. v. 3. .. Guaphalium apiculatum. v. 3. . Gnaphalium congestum. v. 3. . Gnidia oppositifolia. v. 1 Gnidia pinifolia. v. 1. Gonolobus disdematus. v. 3. Gossypium barbadense, v. 1.. Grindelia glutinosa, Zr notis append, "hujus vol. Grindelia inuloides, v. 3. Grislea tomentosa. v. 1. . Hemanthus coarctatus. у, Hibiscus heterophyllus, v, 1. ... Hibiscus pedunculatus. v. 3. Hibiscus pheeniceus. v. 3. Hibiscus tiliaceus. v. 3. . Hydrophyllum canadense. v. 3. Hyoscyamus canariensis. v. 3. . Hypericum egypticum. Hypoxis obtusa, v. 9. Indigufera filifoha, Jae notis appena, vol. 3, Inga purpurea, v. 2.. э. 1, Трошева hederacea., v. 1..... Ipomea insignis. v. 1. Ipomoza mutabilis, v. 1.. Ipomaa obscura. v. 3. . Jpomea paniculata. v. 1. Ipomea sanguinea. v. 1. Ipomea tuberculata. v. 1. Tris dichotoma, v. 3. Ixora blanda. v. 2. .. Íxora grandiflora. v. 2...... Jasminum azoricum. v. 1. „ Jasminum grandiflorum. v. 2. Jasminum hirsutum, v. 1. . Jasminum Sambac, v. 1, Jasminum revolutum, v. 3. . Kempferia pandurata. y, 2. . Lebeckia contaminata, v. 2, 104; €t ¿y поба append. vol. 3. Lilium pumilum. v. 9. Liparia hirsuta. v, 1. Lobelia fulgens. v. 9. Lobelia splendens. v. 1. . Lonicera фока, В. т... Lonicera japonica, v. 1. .. Lonicera tatarica, v. 1 Mabernia grandiflora. v. 8. . Malpighia fucata, v. 3. . Malpighia urens. v. 4. Marica gladiata, v. 3. Melaleuca fulgens. v. 2. Melianthus major. v. 1. .. Mesembrianthemum tigrinum. v. 3. Mimosa sensitiva. vot... Mitela diphylla, v. 2. .. Folumen. Monarda punctata. v, 1. ............87. Narcissus montanus, v. 2. 2.0... 123. Nerium odorum, В. v. 1. ... 74. (Enothera odorata. v. 2, ..147. Ophrys tenthredinifera. v. 3.........205. Orchis longicornu. v. 3. ... 202. Ornithogalum niveum. Y. 3. ... 235. Ornithogalum prasinum. у. 2. +»...-- 158. Othouna abrotanifolia, v. 2 ...108. Oxalis flava. т. 2. . 117. sandra procumbens. +. 1. 33. Paonia albiflora, B. v. 1. ..... 42. Pancratium angustum. v. 3, ........421. Pancratium calathinum. 3. 915. Pancratium canariense. v. 2, 174. Pancratium maritimum, V. 2. 161. Pancratium ovatum. v. 1. .. 43. Papaver floribundum, v. 2... 134. Passiflora adiantifol у. 3. . 283. Passiflora angustifolia, v. 3.. Passiflora glauca, v. 1. o... Passiflora holosericea, v. 1 Passiflora incarnata, В. v. 2... Passifiora laurifolia, v. Y. .. Passiflora lutea, v. 1. Passitiora maliformis. v. 9. Passiflora minima, v. 2. . Passiflora perfoliata. v. 1. Passitlora quadrangularis. v. 1 Passiflora rubra, v. 9. ... 95. Patersonia glabrata, v. Lo... 51. Pavetta indien, v. З. . 198. Репаса squamosa. Phlox suffruticusa. Pinguicula inter, ¥.2. ..... Pittosporum revolutum. v. 3. . Pittosporum undulatum. v. 1. Plumeria acuminata, v. 2. Pogonia ophioglossoides. v.2. . Polianthes tuberosa. v. t. Polygala speciosa, v. 9. Polygonum frutescens, Protea pulchella. v. 1. . Prunus japonica. v. 1. . Prunus prostrata. v. 2 Psoralea pedunculata. v. 3. .... Pulmonaria panicula v. 8, Reseda odorata. B. v. 3. . Rhododendron dauricum. 8. v. 3. Rhododendron hybridum. у. 3, ...... 195. Rhododendron punctatum. В. v. 1. ... 37. Ribes aureum. v. 2. ... 4125. Ricotia egyptiaca. A ho. .. 49. osa provincialis. В. (nuscosa A. albo pl) 4-..2-...... ..104. Rosa provincialis. B. (muscosa A. simpl.) Ұ.1.24...................... 53. Rosa sulphurea, v. 1...2 Sanseviera zgylanica, v. 2. Sedum ternatum., v.2. . Selago fasciculata. v. 3. - Sempervivum arboreum. v. 2, Senecio speciosus, v. 1. ... .. 41. | Sdene pensylvanica. v. 2. ..........%47. Folium. GENERAL INDEX TO VOLS. f. II. AND HI. Volumen, Folium. Volumen. Solanum amazonium. v. 1, + 71. | Tillandsia xiphioides, v. 8... Solanum decurrens. v. 2... + 140. || Trachelium caeruleum, v. t, Solanum fontanesianum. v. 2, ....... 177. || Trapa natans. v. 3. Spacaxis grandiflora. v. +258. | Tritonia refracta, v, 2. Stenanthera pinifolia, v. 3. .218. || Tulipa cornuta. v. 2. .... Sterculia Balanghas. v. 3. . .185. | Tulipa oculus solis. v. 8. . Stevia Eupatoria, 7.9. ... . 93. | Uropetalon glaucum. v. 3. Stylidium graminifolium. Y, 1........ 90. | Valeriana Соглисорне, Styphelia longifolia. v. 1 Viola altaica, v. 1, Teedia lucida. v. 3. Wehera corymbosa. v. 2. , Teedia pubescens. v. 3. . Witsenia maura. v. las ee ce? NOTES. TRITONLE species. Vol. 2. fol. 135. rochensis. nobis in Curt. тарал, tab. 1508. longiflora. nobis in Curt, magaz. 1275, vers. fol. (a) Ixia longiflora. loc. cit. Қа 256. (8. y.) tab. 1592. pallida. nob. in Curt. mag. 1275, vers. fol. Ixia longiflora (a) Willd. sp. pl. 1.208. Gladiolus. Jacq. ic. rar. а 262. 5 (0) "p capensis. nob. in Curt. mag. tab. 618. (8.) tab. 1581. viridis. nob. in Curt. mag. tab. 1278. crispa. nob. loc. cit. tab. 678. pectinata. nob. loc. cit. 1275, vers. fol. Ixia. Vahl enum. 2. 62. striata, nob. loc. cit. Gladiolus. Jacg. ic. rar. 2. tab. 260. lineata. nob. loc. cit. Gladiolus. Curt. loc. cit. tab. 487. securigera. nob. (ос. cit. Gladiolus. Curt. loc. cit. tab, 313. flava. nob. loc. cit. Gladiolus. Vahl enum. 2, 110. refracta. nob. loc, cit. et hic suprà tab. 195. squalida. nob. іп Curt. magaz. tab. 581. fenestrata. nob. loc. cit. tab. 704. crocata. nob. in Curt, mag. 1275, vers, fol. Ixia. Curt. loc. cit. tab. 184. purpurea. nob. loc. cit. Ixia, Vahl enum. 9. 76. Anne precedente distincia ? deusta. nob. loc. cit. tab. 622. miniata. поб. loc. cit. tab. 609. SPARAXIDIS species. Vol. 8, fol. 258, pendula. nob. in Curt. magaz: 1482, vers. fol. in под. Ixia. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 204. | anemoniflora. nob. in loc. cit. 779, vers. fol. Ixia. Jacg. ic. rar. 2. tab. 273; non Redoutei. fragrans. nob. loc. cit. Ixia. Jacq. loc. cit. tab. 274. tricolor. nob. loc. cit. Ixia. Curt. in loc. cit. tab. 381. (В. y. 2) Sparaxis. nob. loc. cit. tab. 1482. galeata, nob. loc. cit. Gladiolus, Jacg. ic. rar. 2. tab. 258. bicolor. nod. loc. cit. Ixia. nob. loc. cit. tab. 548. grandiflora, nob. loc. cit. tab. 779, ей suprà fol. 258. bulbifera. nod. loc.cit. Ixia. под. loc. cit. tab. 545. fimbriata. nod. loc. cit. Ixia. Lamarck encyc. 3. 337. lacera. nob. in Annals of Botany. 1. 227; de specimine in Herb. Banks. assumia, . Овв. We are far from confident that the two last species are really dis- tinct from grandiflora and bulbifera. We have some doubts whether the GraproLus Xanthospilus of Redouté (liliac. 124) belongs to Trıronta or to Sparaxis. The living plant could alone decide the point, and we have never met-with that. We are at present inclined to deem it rather a TRITONIA than a Sraraxıs, in which last we had placed it in a Review of Redouté's work in the Journal of Sciences and the Arts. In the living plant the difference of habit in the two genera is at once perceived, and though real, requires intelligence as well as hand to express it by the pencil. Stevia Eupatoria. Vol. 2. fol. 93. А А The following synonym belongs to this species. Stevia purpurea. Jacq. fragm. 80. tab. 172. fig. 2. Lebeckia contaminata. Vol. 2. fol. 104. . А The pre-eminence of ће Banksian Herbarium has not been established so much by its extent or the number of celebrated ones incorporated with it, as through the matchless skill and talents of those who have super» NOTES. intended the determination of the specimens, and assisted in collating the whole with the Herbarium of Linneus. To which we may add the having been passed in review by most of the eminent botanists of the day, by whom it has been resorted to from all parts, as tbe touchstone for the essay of the synonymy of their intended works, and who bave attested their presence by various suggestions and corrections on its leaves. Among the unobserved errors in it, however, the considering the plant of the above article as (һе LEBECKIA contaminata of Thunberg and SPARTIUM contaminatum of Linneus, is certainly one; and we were misled by it, though not without the fault of remissness in ourselves. The Linnean species has yellow flowers and monadelphous stamens, that is, the tenth stamen is not detached from (һе other nine; while іп the plant of the above article these are clearly diadelphous, and the flowers of a purple colour. The mistake evidently arose from the too great weight given to a primá facie likeness in regard to a very peculiar habit common to both the species, as well as to the curious purple stains, which in our plant are however scattered over the whole petiole, while in that of Linnaeus there is only one to each petiole, and that at the base. Nor can our plant be the one intended by Thunberg, where the flowers are described as umbellate, a feature which separates it likewise from that of Linnzus, of which it has been heedlessly made the synonym. We have no reason to think that the species of either Linnzus or Thunberg have been introduced into our col- Jections. The LEBECKIA contaminata of the Hortus Kewensis is proved to be the same species as that of the above article by its introducer’s sample in the Banksian Herbarium, but not the one intended by either of the original observers, being іп fact the InniGorEera filifolia of Thunberg, The article should be amended as follows ; INDIGOFERA filifolia. Spotted stalked Indigo. INDIGOFERA. Cal. patens 5-dentatus. Carina calcare subulato utrinque notata. Legum. oblongum lineare subcylindricum polyspermum ; rectum aut incurvum. Frutices aut Herbe; folia interdàm ternata, raro simplicia, plerümque impari-pinnata ; foliola іп quibusdam articulata. et basi aristata more Phaseoli ; stipule à petiolo distinctæ; pedunculi axillares 1-2- flori aut spits spicato mui ori. Legum. ovatum breve 2-spermum in I. en- meaphyllà. Species plurima tinctorie. Jussieu gen. 359. 1. Жи, foliis simplicibus filiformibus, floribus racemosis. Thunb. prod. 32. Indigofera filifolia. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1220. Lebeckia contaminata, Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 261; (non verd aliorum J. Spartium contaminatum. Hort. Kew. 8. 10; (non verd Linnei). The rest of the article should remain as it is; the synanymy and names being altered as here. We should observe, that when the plant is young, it is far less glaucous than when old, and has always а few smooth shining pinnate leaves here and there, and the racemes are more closely and nu- merously flowered. As the plant advances in age, the foliage is reduced wholly to bare petioles, the shrub grows long and straggling, and very glaucous, and the racemes fewer flowered, as we see them in the figure of this work, We have met with various specimens of it at Messrs. Lee and Kennedy's, at Messrs. Whitley and Co.'s, at Mr. Knight's, and at Mr. Burchell's, all lately raised from Cape seeds. А в A NOTES, Convolvulus suffruticosus, Vol. 2, fol. 139; and Convolvulus pannifolius, fol. 222, of this volume. Mr. Herbert, who has given peculiar attention to the hybrid intermix- tures as well as seminal variations of species, writes to us, that he is con- vinced that the latter of the above two plants is purely a seminal variety of Convouvutus canariensis; aud that he suspects the first to be another variety of the same. Upon this head we can take no responsibility to oure selves ; we have recorded them as distinct because they really differed, and we found them so recorded in books of the first authority. But experience is the certain test of variety and species; and if pannifolius has been raised from the seeds of the true canariensis, there is an end of the question, We are highly obliged to Mr. Herbert for the communication, as well as much other valuable assistance, Hyoscyamus canariensis. Vol. 3. fol. 180. Since the publication of the above article, we have had an opportunity of inspecting the corolla, and of making the subjoined addition to the de- scription. . Cal. semuncialis turbinatus. Cor. subexcedens unciam, erecta, angust2 infundibuliformis, elongata, extis viscoso-pilosa, nervoso-striata, venoso- reticulata: tubus multoties longior limbo, luridus: limbus rotato-campanu- latus, bilabiato-obliguus, lobis tribus summis oblato-rotundis, imis duplo angustioribus ab іптісбт profundiàs divisis, Fil. subinegualia, paulo breviora Hore, inferné alba, pilosiuscula, superne violacea: anth. ovale, didyne, erecta, ochroleuce, introrsúm verse. Stylus violaceo-purpurascens, filiformis, glaber: stig. bilobo-subpilcatum, lobis brevibus rotundatis, veplicatis, puberulis, purpureis. Donia glutinosa. Fol. 187. For the reasons why the generic title of Похга should be exchanged for that of GRINDELIA, see the 248th article in this volume. Іп the above, for Doxta read GRINDELIA. Silene pensylvanica, Supra fol. 247. on The English text of that article, which begins, * The SıLexe virginica of Linnaeus and the Sieve Catesbei of Walter, have been adopted by Willdenow as distinct species,” &c.; should have stood as follows: * The SILESE virginica of Linnaeus and the SiLENE caroliniana of Walter, have been adopted by Willdenow (the latter under the title of Sitrene Catesb@i) as distinct species, &c. Trapa natans. Fol. 950. | . . Тһе generic character omitted in its place in the above article, is added here. | TRAPA. Cal. superus, 4-partitus, laciniis acutis. Cor. 4-petala. Stylus 1; stigma emarginatum. Caps. nuciformis, 1-зрегта, 4-gona, 9-4- dentibus calycinis persistentibus recurvis in spinam induratis atmata: semen tuberosum. ` Herbe aquis innatantes, caule simplici submerso ; folia caulina submersa radiciformia, verticillata, multifido-capillaria : foralia emerse al- terna, petiolo, ne demittantur, ventricoso-cavo ; flores solitarii axillares, E superiore capsule germinantis poro plumula exurgit, semini indiviso continua, lateribus suprà radicans. An indè semen l-lobum, et affinitas cum Naiadibus: an potis bilobum cum staminibus perigynis et corollá intra calycem 4-fidum 4-petalá, ind2que Onagris adscribendum genus? Jussieu gen. 68. Descriptions of Dissections omitted in their Places. Heemanthus coarctatus. Fol. 181. .a A detached flower of the umbel, Barleria mitis. Fol. 191. . а The calyx. б A flower dissected vertically. с The рьш. Brunsvigia Josephine. B. Foll. 192, 193. а А dehiscent capsule. 0 A tuberous seed. Rhododendron hybridum. Fol. 195. a А stamen. Orchis longicornu. Fol. 202. а The label and column of fructification detached from the flower. Ophrys tenthredinifera. Fol. 205. a The column of fructification, with a fragment of the label. Amaryllis fulgida. Fol. 226. a The lower portion of the flower dissected vertically. Brunsfelsia undulata. Fol. 228. а A part of the tube of the corolla dissected to show the insertion of the stamens. 0 А portion of the style. c The germen. Clematis aristata, Fol. 238. а The stamens with the group of pistils in the centre. 0 The group of pistils. Ipomea obscura, Fol. 239. а The pistil. Gnaphalium apiculatum. Fol. 240. a A detached floret. 5 The same. с The calyx and receptacle freed from the florets dissected vertically. Campanula lactiflora. Fol. 241. а The disk of the germen with the surrounding stamens attached and the style and stigmas in the centre. Нудгорђу ит cunadense. Fol. 242. а The calyx. 0 The corolla dissected vertically. c The pistil. Duranta Plumieri. Fol. 244. a The calyx. % The corolla dissected vertically. с The pistil. Bouvardia versicolor. Fol. 245. a The calyx. % The corolla dissected vertically. с The calyx and pistil. There should have been only 4 segments to the calyx, not 5. Iris dichotoma. Fol. 246. a The style, stigmas, and stamens, Silene pensylvanica. Fol. 247. a A detached petal. 5 The stamens and pistil, the latter upon its basement or pedicle. Grindelia inuloides. Fol. 248. a A floret of the ray. 0 А floret of the disk. c The calyx and re- ceptacle freed of the florets and dissected transversely. ERRATA. VOL. 1. Fol, 148, 1.16 à calce pag. Post verbum nutans” dele 1, Fol. 174, 1. 24. Pro ** duplá limbi” lege “4 dupla tubi," VOL. ш. Fol. 180, 1. 17 à calce pag, Pro “2” lege “3”. THE END oF vor. Ilr, 8. Gosnell, Printer, Little Queen Street, London,