THE BOTANICAL REGISTER: CONSISTING OF Coloured Figures oF EXOTIC PLANTS, CULTIVATED IN BRITISH GARDENS; HISTORY AND MODE OF TREATMENT. c THE DESIGNS BY Spvenham Edwards. AND OTHERS. voL. VII. [s^ —— "iret semper nee fronde eaduoh Carpitur. MISION] RO FAN A GARLEN. LONDON: PRINTED FOR JAMES RIDGWAY, PICCADILLY. - 1822. Printed by S. Gosnell, Little Queen Street, London, APPENDIX TO THE CATALOGUES OF BOOKS IN TUE PRECEDING SEVEN VOLUMES; OR, List of Books quoted in the Eighth Volume which have not been enumerated in the Lists given in the former Volumes. Banks ic. Kempf. Vide Icon. Kampf. supra cat. vol. 5. Barton comp. fl. philad. Will. P. C. Barton. Compendium Flore Phi- ladelphicz. Philadelphia, 1818. 2 voll. 8vo. Dict. sc. nat. Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles. Paris et Strasbourg, 1816 (vol. 1.)—1822 (vol. 25.) seqq. 8vo. Eng. bot. English Botany, by J. E. Smith; the figures by J. Sowerby. London, 1790, seqq. 8vo. Fischer hort. gorenk. F. Fischer. Catalogue du jardin des plantes de Go- renki prés Moscou, 1808. 12mo. Lunan hort. jam. Hortus jamaicensis. By John Lunan. Jamaica, 1814. 2 vol. 4to. Mikan delect. fl. et faun. bras. Delectus Flore et Faunæ Brasiliensis. Auc- tore J. C. Mikan. fasc. 1. 2. seqq. Vindobonz, 1820. Folio max. Nouv. Duham. Henri Louis Duhamel de Monceau. "Traité des arbres et arbustes qui se cultivent en pleine terre en France, 2%, edition, publiée par Michel. Paris, 1801-1816. 5 voll. seqq. Fol. Schousboe maroc. P. K. A. Schousboe's beobachtungen über das gewächsreich in Marokko. 1 Theil. Kopenhagen, 1801. 8vo. A9 2 iv EE Trag. ic. Imagines omnium herbarum quas Hieron. Bock in Herbario compr. Strasburgh, 1553, 1 vol. 4to. Wend. acac. Commentatio de Acaciis aphyllis. Autore Henrico Ludolpho Wendland. Hannovere, 1820. 4to. Wied-Neuwied’s trav. in bras. Travels in Brazil in the years 1815, 1816, 1817. By Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied. London, 1820. 4to. vol.1. fe ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO VOL. VII. Acacia diffusa ... Acacia longissima Actinotus Helianthi . Amaryllis aurea... Amaryllis revoluta. A. Amaryllis revoluta. B. . Angrecum maculatum,618; et in append. Aneilema sinica . Arbutus bybrida Ardisia paniculata .. . Argyreia cuneata .... Aristolochia labiosa ..... Arum Dracontinm Aspidistra Inrida . Athrixin capensi: Banksia emula . Begonia argyrostigma . Bidens procera ..... Brachysema undulatum .... Caladium odoratum .. Camellia japonica; o. involuta Campanula glomerata; B. dahurica . Canna iridiflora, £09; ef ta append. Cassinia spectabilis . Ceropegia africana . Chlidanthus fragrans, . m Chrysanthemum indicum ; ver. 14. + Clerodendron squamatum . . Clerodendron viscosum .... Costus afer; a. ...... Costus speciosus; B. Cyphia Phyteuma ........ Dichorysandra thyrsiflora .... Elæocarpus reticulata . Eugenia myrtifolia . Eulopbia guineensis Flemingia strobilifera . Geodorum dilatatum Globularia longifolia . Glycine sinensis. Gnidia pinifolia; B. Gymnoloma maculatum Hibiscus digitatus . 659. Hovea longifol Hypoxis stellipilis .. . Ipomeea Jalapa; B. rosea Ipomeea pendula Ixora cuneifolia Jacaranda mimosifolia . 681. Jasminum gracile ... . 606. Justicia Gendarussa, 635; et in append. hujus vol. Loasa tricolor ..,.........,,...,,.,667. Macradenia lutescens, 612; ef in append. hujus vol. Marica iridifolis ...........,,,.,,..646, Melastoma granulosa, 671; et in append. hujus vol, Melastoma heteromalla . Melastoma malabathrica Melia sempervirens . Neottia procera. Olea capensis. Osbeckia stellata Pæonia albiflora; ». Papaver bracteatum Passiflora albida . Passiflora pallida . Passiflora picturata . Polygala latifolia - Polygala ligularis Polygala myrtifolia . Polygala oppositifolia Psidium cattleianum . Psidium polycarpon . Psychotria elliptica . . Pyrus coronaria . . Raphiolepis salicifolia Rhexia viminea . . Salvia splendens . Spathelia simplex . Stenocbilus maculatus Thysanotus isantherus . Thysanotus junceus . .. Vanda teretifolia . Wedelia radiosa . . 663. 621. - 682. . 648. ERRATA. Vol. 1. fol. 49. page 2. j. 16. from bottom, for ** grece" read“ Grece," g Vol. 4. fol. 307. I. 6. from bottom, for “ was” read “ is.” Vol. 4. fol. 842. after line 7. insert JPOMOZA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 9.” Vol. 4. Vol. 6. Vol, 6. Vol. 7. Vol, 7. Vol. 7. fol. 342. I. 18. pro ** 331” lege“ 332.” fol, 508. 1. 19. from bottom, for ** now" read ** still.” fol. 609. last line of the first page, for ** the circumstance ” read “ it.” fol. 578, verso l. 18. for “ at base” read “ at the base.” fol. 586. l. 13. dele “ gracili” verbum penultimum linez ubi malè iteratum est. fol. 592. overleaf, 1. 9, for ** Canescens would have been selected ” read ** Canescens would not have been selected," Vol. 8. fol. 609. 1, 11. dele ** tab. 1. fig. 2.” fol. 610. 1. 7. for“ 68.” read “ 88.” fol. 618. J. 4. pro * MONOGYNIA" lege MONANDRIA” fol. 628. 1. 10. from bottom, fur et pulverous” read “ pulvereous." fol. 632, 1. 2. from bottom, for “ permanent” read “ prominent." fol. 634. after line 8, insert ACACIA, Supra vol. 2. fol. 98. fol. 641. 1,2, pro CaLapium odorum ” lege CaLapium odoratum,” fol. 667. p. 3. 1. 6. for ** many-seed” read “ many-seeded.” fol. 675. I. penultimä, pro “ immediata lege * immediate.” 600. ae Me. AS PE. €) 4 2 dr f TÉ Mar y 4 vA 4 25 Ze FF J Ducati Hy ledgway IJe Fa 006 JASMINUM gracile. Australian Jasinine. — DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. JASMINEE. Jussieu gen. 104. Div. II. Fructus baccatus. JASMINEÆ. Brown prod. 1. 520. JASMINUM. Supra vol. 1. E 1. Div. Folia simplicia. J. gracile, foliis ovatis nitidis, petioli articulo superiore vix triplo longiore, calycibus campanulatis: dentibus brevissimis. Brown prod. 1. 521. Jasminum gracile. .Andrews's reposit. 127. Konig in aun. of bot. 2. 358. Hort. Kew, ed. 2. 1. 16. Jasminum geniculatum. Venten. choix. 8. Arbor parva, tota glabra. Rami teretes, inferiores canescentes, superi- ores virescentes. Fol. opposita, petiolata, patentia, ovato-ciliptica, acumi- nata, integerrima, levissima, plana, enervia, immerse venosa: venis infe- rioribus extra medium margini parallelis; duas uncias longa. Petioli foliis quadruplo breviores, supra canaliculati, propé basin geniculo incrassato in- structi, infra quem teretes. Racemi terminales, compositi, ter vel quater trichotomi, expansi, longitudine foliorum. Pedunculi et communes et par- tiales filiformes. Cal. monophyllus, cyathiformis, levis, parvus, lineam unam longus, persistens, quinque- v. sex- raró septemdentatus, dentibus acutis minutis, subaequalibus. Cor. monopetala, hypocrateriformis, alba; (suave- olens, odore Jas MINI officinalis): "Tubus cylindraceus, angustus, semunci- alis, superne compressus: Limbus patens, planus, 5-6- vel rard 7 partitus: Laciniæ oblonge, acute, basi subimbricate. Fil. 2, brevissima, tubo supra medium inserta, erecta: Antherz erecta, oblonga, intra faucem recondita, à flavo virentes: Pollen luteum. Germ. superum, subrotundum, subdidy- mun: Stylus filiformis, erectus, tubo pauld longior, albus: Stigma bifidum: laciniis crassiusculis planis erectis virescentibus. Pericarpium (émmaturum J biloeulare: Semina solitaria. Solander MSS. apud mus. banks. (sub JAs- MINO lucido.) Native of New Holland and Norfolk Island. Intro- duced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1791, and now very common in our greenhouses, where it is seen in flower most part of the summer and autumn. l In a review of the “ Choix des Plantes” of Ventenat, by Mr. Koenig, in the Annals of Botany, we find the fol- lowing original and ingenious elucidation of the nature of the leaves of this genus: * Jasminum geniculatum. This is no other than the J. lucidum of the Banksian Herbarium, figured in the Bo- VOL. VIII. B tanist's Repository under the name of J. gracile. We find it observed here, that * the geniculated and elbowed petiole of this plant, not observed in any other species of Jasmine, was thought the most eligible character to derive the spe- cific name from: and again, that Forster has made men- tion of a species of Jasmine under the name of JASMINUM simplicifolium, which however cannot be the same with J. geniculatum, since that learned botanist could not have silently passed over a character which so essentially distin- guishes the latter species ; besides that the name of simpli- cifolium is applicable to several species of this genus” On these passages we have to remark, that Forster's species is certainly quite distinct from the one here described, but is equally furnished with geniculated petioles, although he has taken no notice of them. As to the name of simplici- folium, it may be observed, that at the time when Forster described his plant, it was the only Jasmine with simple leaves known to him, for J. Sambac was then referred to NycTANTHES. At present this name is certainly inappli- cable; but the same may be said of that given by Ventenat to the species here figured and described; for, though no mention is made of it by Willdenow, Vahl, or any other describer we know of, yet it is not less true that all the simple-leaved species of Jasmine have geniculated petioles, as every one may easily observe, even in dried specimens. In some species it is more striking than in others, such as in glaucum, simplicifolium, and four undescribed species in the Banksian Herbarium from Java and Africa. "The fact is, that the leaves of the Jasmines are simple only by abor- tion, and that the part of the leaf-stalk where the knee ap- pears is exactly the same place where nature intended two other leaves to issue. This is particularly obvious in Jas- MINUM auriculatum, in which some of the leaves are simple, and have stalks furnished with a naked articulation, while others are withont, but exhibit at the same place two oppo- site leaflets. In those species with simple leaves, in which the knee is not distinctly visible in a dry state, we may be easily convinced of its presence by breaking off a leaf, when it will be found that the separation takes place regularly in the middle, while the lower part of the petiole remains in connexion with the branch." 607 PSYCHOTRIA elliptica. Elhptical-leaved Psychotria. — — PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. RunrACEX. Jussieu gen. 196. Div. VII. Fructus mono- carpus biloeularis dispermus. Folia opposita; caulis frutescens aut arbo- reus. PSYCHOTRIA. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. tubulosa 5-fida. Stam. non exserta. Bacca parva coronata, subrotunda aut ovata, siccatione sulcata disperma, seminibus hinc planis indè convexis. Frutices aut repentes herbe ; Flores racemosi aut conferti terminales, in P. carthaginensi Jacq. interdüm 6-7-fidi 6-7-andri. Fructus extis ANTIRHEE, sed intús COFFEA. A separande species herbaceæ habitü dissimiles? Juss. I. c. 204. : P. elliptica, stipulis vaginosis oblato-ovatis, subfimbriato-erosulis deciduis ; foliis membranaceis nitidis ellipticis utrinque attenuatis, paniculis termi- Me erectis brachiato-trichotomis laxis thyrsiformibus, brevioribus oliis. Arbuseula? rami oppositi, novelli obscuré virentes subeompresso-teretes, glabri, albo minuto densé sparsi. Fol. decussato-opposita, distantia, mem- branacea, lanceolato-elliptica, nitida, sesuncialia v. longiora latitudine du- plo angustiori v. magis, acuminata, basi cuneata; nervi laterales plures al- terni distantes assurgentes subtüs prominentes et in axillá cum costá mediá eiliati nec non foveolam subrotundam in laminá impressam recondentes : petiolus multotiés brevior, compresso-teres solidus (subuncialis?). Stipulæ marcescentes, deciduæ, bifido-vaginose, oblato-ovatæ (mitreformes) pe- tiolo bis terve breviores, lobis oppositis brevibus obtusissimis apice subfim- briato-erosis modo retusis. Panicule thyrsiformes, solitarie, erecta, plu- vies trichotome, brachiato-patentes, laxiús multiflore, foliis breviores, pe- dunculis e£ communibus et partialibus obscurè virentibus albo atomoideo- sparsis robustis, propriis brevissimis obesis: bracteæ parve, acuminate, de- cidue. Cal. cum pedicello continuus, herbaceus, oblato-cyathiformis, co- rolle tubo pluriès brevior limbo pallido repando obsolete 5-dentato. Cor. chloroleuca, monopetala, parvula, hypocrateriformis; tubus membranaceus turbinatus pallidus limbo longior basi dilatatus rubido-emarcescens, barbá albá implexo-connivente clausus: limbus opaco-virescens, 5-partitus, «qualis, stellato-reflexus, laciniis acuminato-ovatis, subtüs convexioribus, margine superno apiceque crassioribus et intensiüs virentibus. Stam. ore tubi inserta, limbo subduplo breviora ; fil. erecta, robustiús filiformia, intüs pilosa, ceterum nuda; anth. introrso-adnate, fusce, lineari-oblonge, bilo- culares, obtuse, emarginate, filamento subequales. Stylus albus, stamina subequans, filiformis, strictus, glaber, stigma clavato-continuum, viridi, bi- lobo-partitum lobis obovate-oblongis obtusis erecto-conniventibus, altero sub- minore: germ. album superum calyci «quale depresso-orbiculatum exsulcum ad insertionem styli umbilicatum. * Psycnorria is a name altered by Linnzeus from the PsycHorRoPHuM of Browne, which alludes to the shady place of growth of most of the species. Yuxorgopov is an ancient name for an herb loving shade. ‘This extensive B 2 genus is chiefly West Indian, and consists of shrubby plants, with simple opposite leaves, sheathing intrafoliaceous membranous stipulas, and copious, small, whitish, panicled or corymbose, axillary or terminal flowers. They are ge- nerally smooth, growing in dry bushy hilly places. "Their qualities have not been much investigated, though the not very remote affinity of the genus to CıncHonA, and its nearer approach to Correa, might induce a supposition of their not being altogether unimportant. Only two species, the asiatica and herbacea, are mentioned in the Species Plan- tarum of Linnæus, but the discoveries of Aublet and Swartz have enriched the genus, so that 39 species occur in Willdenow (since augmented, chiefly by the discoveries of Ruiz and Pavon, to 62 in the Synopsis Plantarum of Per- soon).” Smith in Rees's cyclop. in loco. The plant before us seems to come near to citrifolia and glabrata; but still there are points in the samples and de- scriptions of both these that do not tally with the pre- sent: for instance, the leaves are called coriaceous in citrifolia, here they are membranaceous; in glabrata the leaves are termed ovate, here they are elliptical and equally tapered at both extremities. We have therefore separated our plant from them ; but still doubt whether we may not have missed it in some other of the published species of this numerous genus. The drawing was taken at the Nursery of Messrs. Col- vill in the King's Road, where the plant is kept in the hothouse and flowers in December. It is believed to be native of the Brazils, and to have been now first intro- duced. Young branches deep dark green thickly speckled with small white even dots. Leaves distantly and decussately opposite elliptical, tapered at both ends, 3-6 inches long or more, twice narrower, furnished underneath at the axils of the nerves and midrib with a small cavity con- cealed by a pubescence growing from midrib and nerve. Stipules oblately ovate, sheathing, cleft into two lobes (mi- treshaped), deciduous, much shorter than the petioles. Panicles thyrseform, repeatedly trichotomous, brachiate, loose. Corolla small, hypocrateriform, greenish white ; tube membranous, longer than the limb, bearded like the filaments on the inside, segments of the limb green and thickened at the edge and tip. Stigma 2-lobed, clavately continuous, green; lobes ovately oblong, one rather less than the other. db 1 DA J ER LÀ 3 72 TAS Is: ANS 608 HIBISCUS digitatus. Cavanilles s Hibiscus. — —— MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. . Nat. ord. MatvaAcEX. Jussieu gen. 271. Div. III. Stamina indefi- nita. Fructus simplex multilocularis. HIBISCUS. Supra vol. 1. fol. 29. H. digitatus, folis digitatis, laciniis 5 inzequalibus lanceolatis serratis, ca- lycibus monophyllis inermibus, floribus solitariis subsessilibus. Cavan. diss. 3. 151. t. 70. fig. 9. Hibiscus digitatus. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 825. Folia longè petiolata, petiolis aculeorum rudimentis exasperatis ; palmato- digitata, laciniis quinque inequalibus lanceolatis serratis; glabra, nervis quinque subtüs protuberantibus, atque ad basin principibus, glandulá. Sti- pulæ setaceæ, breves. Flores axillares, solitarii, subsessiles. Calyx exte- rior monophyllus, profundé partitus in septem lacinias latas, apice acutas ; interioris laciniz acuminate: ambo ciliati, inermes. Corolla cum genitali- bus deest in exemplari. Capsula globoso-acuminata, villosa, ejusdem feré magnitudine cum calyce interiore, quinquelocularis, quinquevalvis, locula- mentis polyspermis: semina glabra, reniformia. Abunde differt ab omnibus speciebus; calyce nempé exteriore, ab aculeatis; foliis verd, reliquis. Ca- van. loc. cit. We have relied upon Mr. Lambert, both in regard to the specific identity of this plant, as well as for a mate- rial part of the figure. The sample came from the col- lection at Boyton in the state shown by the annexed plate, except that the corolla was so far decayed as to be unfit to be drawn; and this part, as well as the outline of the lobed leaf, has been subsequently added from the plant growing at Boyton by a person employed by Mr. Lambert. In the sample we received all the leaves were entire, or with con- fluent lobes; but on other parts of the plant, we are in- formed, a great portion of them were three-lobed. The seed was collected at Rio Janeiro, and given to Mr. Lam- bert by M. Bonpland. The species was originally instituted by Cavanilles from the foliage and seed-vessel only, for his sample had no flower. It seems to be a very rare plant among our collectors, and we find no specimen of it either in the Banksian or the Lambertian Herbarium. It is annual, and requires to be kept in the hot- house. Said by Cavanilles to be much cultivated in the gardens of Rio Janeiro. The present is probably the first plant of it that has appeared in Europe; and it may be long before we see another, for we understand no seed was produced at Boyton. M. Haru. ue. Lu Ly E baute, E 70 Succadilly Manche. s DA. X Malla. — 609 CANNA iridiflora. Peruvian Canna. — MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. CANNE. Jussieu gen. 62; (SCITAMINEAS includens. ) CANNEE. Brown prod. 1. 307. in obs. III; (SCITAMINEAS distinguens. ) CANNA. Supra vol. 3. fol. 206. C. iridiflora, racemis nutantibus geminatis, floribus secundis cernuis tubæ- formibus: labello bifido. Canna iridiflora. Ruiz et Pavon fl. peruv. 1. 1. t. 1. fig. 2. Persoon syn, 1.1. Curtiss magaz. 1968. Culmi plures triulnares erecti (Ruiz et Pav. I. c.) teretes virides vaginati. Fol. laminá ovato-oblongä, longiüs acuminatá cuspide tortiusculo, subtüs laná decidua albicante; (in plantis sub celo nostro cultis lana obsoleta, aut tantum ad costam et internam petiolorum paginam conspicua). Spatha ter- minalis, monophylla, foliacea, cucullato-convoluta, erecta, sessilis, racemo plurimüm brevior. Racemus nutans, geminato-multiflorus, pendulo-secun- dus, nunc divisus, florum paribus distantibus: flores roseo-punicei (altero cujusque feré paris in exempl. nostro abortivo) pedicellis brevibus obesis: bractea exterior latior appressa brevior pari singulo communis, una v. et altera interior tenuissima elongata flori cuique propria: rachis communis viri- dis glabra subflexuosa pro sedibus florum alterne emarginata. Cal. 3-phyllus, subcoloratus, glaber, corollä pluriés brevior, erecto-connivens, persistens, fo- liolis lanceolatis inequalibus. Cor. tubata, cernua, recta, subregularis, 5- unicalis v. circa: tubus inferior pallescens, subtriuncialis, limbo exteriore longior; limbus exterior trifidus, æqualis, interiore $ brevior v. ultra, turbi- nato-connivens, laciniis erectis lineari-lanceolatis convoluto-concavis tubo pro longitudine gradatim variante adnatis ; limbus interior venoso-striatus, 4-fidus, turbinato-campanulatus, recurvato-patens, sesquiuncialis vel circitér, in tubo superiori sessilis, laciniis inequaliter inter se concretis, 3 spathulato-ovatis sub- «qualibus apice rotundatis preter unam inequilobo-retusam integris, 4%. (la- bello) subdifformi, d ceteris longiùs divisé, cuneato-oblongá, profunde? bifida. Fil. petaloideum, albido-rubens, angustiüs ligulatum, obtusum de supernè ad usque basin anthere spiraliter revolvendum ; anth. lutea, linearis. Stylus albicans, maculis striisque puniceis pictus, lingulatus, inequilateris, strictus, apice et latere altero stigmatoso pubescens atque curvior, ceterum nitidus. Germ. viridi-rubescens, cuneato-oblongum, obsolete 3-gonum muricibus callosis teretibus rectis obtusis densissime stipatis contectum, 3-loc., ovulis in locu- lamento singulo plurimis biseriatis globosis. A beautiful and singular species, much cultivated in the gardens of Perm, of which country it is probably a native. It is not, we believe, in any other European col- lection than that of Mr. Lambert at Boyton; where it was raised from seed found in a dried sample collected by Messrs. Ruiz and Pavon (according to Mr. Lambert) nearly thirty years before. Flowers about December in the hot- house. Stems round, upright, green, sheathed. Blade of the leaf ovately oblong, far taper-pointed, slightly twisted at the end, covered underneath with a whitish deciduous wool (in this climate nearly obsolete, appearing only about the midrib and the inner surface of the petiole). Spathe of one piece, terminal, leafy, convolutely cowled, upright, sessile, much shorter than the raceme. Raceme nodding, many-flowered, sometimes branched ; flowers in distant pairs (of which one in each pair was generally abortive in the present sample), crimson, hanging downwards in one rank ; pedicles short, thick; outer bracte close-pressed, the shortest, the broadest, common to one pair; partial ones from one to two, very slender and fine; common peduncle or rachis green, smooth, flexuose, notched alternately where the flowers stand. Calyx 3-leafletted, slightly coloured, smooth, se- veral times shorter than the corolla, uprightly convergent, permanent ; leaflets lanceolate, unequal. Corolla cernuous, trumpet-shaped, straight, nearly regular, five inches long or more: lower limb pale, about three inches deep, longer than the outer limb: outer limb trifid, equal, a third shorter than the inner or more, converging turbinately, segments growing to the tube in unequal degrees linearly lanceolate convolutely concave: inner limb veined in streaks, 4-cleft, turbinately campanulate, recurvedly spreading, an inch and half deep or thereabouts, springing from the upper tube, segments connected in unequal degrees, three spatulately ovate, rounded at the top, and excepting one, which is unequally retuse or slantingly notched, all entire ; the fourth (label) slightly different in form, furthest parted from the rest, cuneately oblong, deeply bifid. Fi- lament petal-shaped, whitish red, narrowly ligulate, ob- tuse, ultimately rolled up backwards from the top to the bottom of the anther, which is linear and yellow. Style whitish, marked with crimson dots and streaks, lingulate, inequilateral, stiff, at the stigmatose edge pu- bescent and more curved, every where else quite smooth. Germen green suffused with red, cuneately oblong, obso- letely 3-cornered, covered on the outside with a coat of densely crowded blunt straight pricklelike excrescences, 3-celled; ovules globular, many, in two rows in each cell. 2 by i rd 2 24174 / HO Ke "ae lily Ma uch. / 2 Pe . o: Matto ae 610 WEDELIA radiosa. Close-rayed Wedelia. —— SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA, Nat. ord. ComPosITE. Adanson fam. 2. 103. CORYMBIFERE. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. VI. HELIANTHER. Cassini in journ. de phys. 68; (an. 1819). 191. WEDELIA. Suprà vol. 7. fol. 543. W. radiosa, suffruticosa ? aspera; foliis ovato-lanceolatis; calyce herbaceo urceolato squarroso, foliolis oblongis subspathulato-ovatis, imis divari- catis: corollæ radio imbricato-contiguo, ligulis obovato-oblongis. Suffruticosa? aspera, erecta, 3-A-pedalis, opposito-ramosa, ramis fus- cescentibus, frequentibus, teretibus, hispidis, foliosis, patentibus, sep? tri- chotomo-terminatis. Fol. hispida, subcinereo-virentia, opaca, opposita, remota, lanceolato-ovata, subserrata, 5-uncialia v. longiora latitudine sub- biunciali, nervosa nervis 2 lateralibus principibus adscendentibus, basi breve cuneata: petiolus pluries brevior, hirsutè ciliatus. Pedunculi terminales, solitarii, erecti, uniflori, foliis longiores. Flores lutei, erecti, diametro sesquiunciali v. majore. Cal. foliaceus, hispidus, rigens, corolle disco bre- vior, urceolato-squarrosus, ordine plurali polyphyllus, gradatim. inferne versus patentior ; foliola oblonga, extima decussato-patentissima laminá ovata utrinque hispidá, ungue brevissimo v. nullo, media infernè erecta superne recurva, intima submembranosa erecta solo apice patula. Rapıus femi- neus, utrinque sulphureus, plurimus ( duodenus?) imbricato-contiguus, disco satis depressior: flosculi caduci, tubo recurvo, compresso, firmo, glabro, plurimüm breviore disco, lamina obovatá, oblongá, convexulá, biplicatá, emarginatá, prope tubum pilosiusculá ; stylus capillaris, tubo bis longior, stig- matibus canaliculato-capillaribus, glabris, replicatis, disco equalibus; germ. lineari-compressum, obsolete trigonum, villosum, pappus quater brevior v. ultra, membranaceus, 1-phyllus, compresso-cupulatus, oblongus, villosus, fim- briato-laciniatus lacinulis inequalibus plumosis: Discus hermaphr., pluri- mus, angustus, flavus; flosculi clavato-cylindracei, graciles, tubo tereti glabro opaco plurimüm longiore germine, fauce pauld ampliatá 5-goná, limbi laciniis flavis patulis brevibus acuminatis cum margine incrassato villoso intensius flavicante: fil. elastica; anthera nigricans, anguloso-striata, val- vulis 5 luteis ovato-acuminatis apiculata ; pollen vitellinum; stig“. flava, exserta, spiralitér revolvenda, lineari-canaliculata, dorso et margine cana- liculi villosa; germ. radii nisi obesius, subAgono-compressum angulis hir- sutioribus pappo sublongiore. Recept. planum, paleaceum: paleæ diaphane, convoluto-vaginantes cum carina elevata, appendice prefiza flava lanceoiato- ovatá erecta planá ecarinatá villosa. We have neither traced our plant in any published species, nor found any sample of it in either the Banksian or Lam- bertian Herbariums. The seed has been lately brought from the Brazils, and raised in the hothouse of the Nursery of VOL. VIII. C Messrs. Colvill, in the King’s Road ; where the plant flowers at ncarly all times of the year. Suffrutescent? from three to four feet high, rough, oppositely branched ; branches generally trichotomously di- vided at the end, round, leafy. Leaves hispid, lightly ci- nereous, opposite, distant, lanceolately ovate, obsoletely serrate, four or five inches long, about two broad, shortly cuneate at the base: petiole several times shorter than the leaf, roughly fringed. ^ Peduncles solitary, 1-flowered, terminal, upright, longer than the leaves. Flowers upright, yellow, something more than an inch and a half in dia- meter. Calyx herbaceous, hard, rough, shallower than the disk of the corolla, urceolately squarrose ; leaflets many, in several rows, spreading gradually wider as they descend, oblong; lowermost decussately extended with an ovate la- mina roughened on both sides and a nearly obsolete unguis; middlemost upright below, spreading above; wppermost in great part membranous, spreading only at the tip. Ray pistilliferous, palish yellow on both sides, of about 12 rays, unbricately contiguous, a good deal lower than the disk ; florets caducous, obovate, oblong, slightly convex, notched, slightly hairy near the tube; stigmas capillary, channelled, even with the disk ; germen linear, compressed, obsoletely 3-cornered, villous; pappus 4 times shorter or more, of one piece, compressedly cupped, oblong, villous, fimbriately jagged, jags unequal feathery. Disk staminiferous and pistillife- rous, deep yellow, narrow; florets many, clavately cylin- drical, slender; /ube smooth, opaque, much longer than the germen, faux diaphanous but little widened, 5-cornered, segments of the limb deep yellow, spreading, shallow, ta- pered, with a thickened villous deeper-coloured margin: fila- ments elastic ; anther nearly black, with five yellow ovately tapered valves at the top; pollen deep yellow ; stigmas deep yellow, protruded, rolled spirally backward, linear, chan- nelled, villous at the back and at the edges of the channel ; germen as in the ray, only thicker, somewhat 4-cornered, more copiously pubescent at the corners, and with a rather deeper pappus. Receptacle paleaceous, flat: paleæ diapha- nous, convolutely sheathing, prominently keeled, furnished at the top with a deep yellow lanceolately ovate flat up- right keelless villous appendage. 2 REF | ZEHN yam MPEG OL orb, y BIJE LE DU 611 AMARYLLIS aurea. . Golden Amaryllis. — HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Narcıssı. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germen inferum. AMARYLLIDEX. Brown prod. 1. 296, Sect. J. AMARYLLIS. Supra vol. 3. fol. 226. Div. IV. Bi-multiflore. Corolle tubus coronatus. Folia bifaria. Nobis in journ. of scien. and the arts. 2. 356. A. aurea, multiflora; corolla tubo brevi, corona brevissimá crenato-repanda sub summo filamento interrupta; limbo undulato, fauce subtüs ventricosá, genitalibus exsertis, stigmate rubicundo. Amaryllis aurea. L’Hérit. sert. angl. 14. Curtis's magaz. 409. Jacq. hort. scheenb. 1. 38. t. 73. Willd. sp. pl. 2.57. Redouté liliac. 61. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 227. Nobis in journ. of scien. and the arts. 2. 362. Amaryllis africana. Lamarck encyc. 1. 124. Lycoris aurea. Herbert append. 20; tab. (absque no.), fig. (absque no.); ubi pollen super stylum aspersum pro efflorescentiá aliquá venditatur. Bulbus subrotundus, integumentis fuligineo-fuscis. Fol. plura, lorata, glauca, canaliculata, acuminata, carinata, sesqui-bipedalia latitudine vix unciali. Scapus glauciusculus, bipedalis, teres, obsoletè anceps, strictus, crassitudine digiti vel eirca. Spatha arescens, floribus brevior, lanceolata, 3-10 flora, reflexa: pedunc. obesi, trigoni, virentes, unciá breviores, in- «quales, bracteis interstineti. Cor. flava, nutans, subtriuncialis, p liformis: tubus germine longior, subtrilinearis, viridi-flavescens, obtuse an- gulosus, rectus, intüs coronatus serlo extrastamineo brevissimo intensiús flavescente | nitido (sub lente vesiculoso-puncticulato) crenato-repando, sub filamento summo interrupto; limbus 6-partitus, subbilabiato-obliquus, infra in faucem anticè ventricosam tubo 3-4-plo longiorem laxiús connivens, supernè recurvus: lacinie lineari-lanceolate, undulate, acuminate, mucro - nate, subæquales, dorso secús medium costato-virentes, labii inferioris late- rales 2 paulo latiores divaricatiores obsoletiüs undulate, ab ima mediá ceteris porrectiore recedentes. Fil. exserta, declinato-assurgentia, inaequalia, flavo- pallentia, subulato-filiformia: anth. flave, lineari-oblonge, vibratiles, è minoribus; pollen granulosum, granulis oblongis. Stylus directione formá et colore filumentorum, robustior vero atque longior (4-uncialis v. ultra) supra glaber denud torquendus, apice rubicundus ; stigma (nunc in 3 secedens ) continuum villosum. Germ. viride globoso-ovatum rotundaté trigonum, locu- lamentis infernè biseriato-A-spermis, superné vacuis, angulo intimo obtusi- usculo lutescente ; ovula alba, opaca, obovata, pressione subdeformata, ime loculamenti parli affixa, subimbricato-adscendentia. Semina nobis ignota. In a species which has been long observed and has at- tracted a great deal of attention, we did not expect to find that so remarkable an appendage as the crown of the tube c 2 of the flower remained to be now noticed for the first time. In the detailed descriptions by Solander, Jacquin, and Ventenat, no mention is made of any crown. In an account of it given by ourselves, in a paper on the genus, in the * Journal of Science and the Arts," we have relied, as we there state, solely upon others, not having then had an op- portunity of dissecting a flower. In one of the two uncoloured plates in Mr. Herbert's Appendix, we find, under the title Lycoris aurea, a figure intended for the magnified stigma of the present species, but in fact representing a large portion of the upper half of the style as well as stigma, the whole beset with some sort of efflorescence, and termed in the annexed text stigma cir- cumfimbriatum. When, however, we recur to the plant itself, this part is found as smooth and as free from any efflorescence as in the rest of the genus AMARYLLIS ; and we are led to suspect that the loose-grained pollen which falls from the anthers is the reality of the phenomenon with which Mr. Herbert has fitted out his genus Lycoris. AMARYLLIS aurea and radiata have proved in general very shy of flowering in our hothouses; owing, according to Mr. Sweet, to their not being properly managed. Duly treated, they will be found to flower as freely as the rest of this natural tribe. In a future article we shall commu- nicate Mr. Sweet's directions for the managing of hothouse bulbs. Of the success of this treatment ample evidence may be obtained at any time in the hothouses under his care at Messrs. Colvill’s. Native of China. Introduced by Dr. Fothergill in 1777. Drawn at the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road, Chelsea. — — A. The crown of the tube: the six round marks indicating the points of insertion of the stamens. B. The tube of the corolla cut open on one side to show the crown. 612 MACRADENIA lutescens. Trinidad Macradenia. — — „ GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDEÆ. Jussieu gen. 61. Brown prod. 1. 309. Div. IV. Anthera terminalis mobilis decidua. Masse pollinis demüm cereaceæ, Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 205. MACRADENIA. Labellum sessile cucullato-concavum indivisum acu- minatum. Corolle petala distincta patula. Columna libera, lobis apicis conniventibus. Masse pollinis duæ, exsulez. Brown MSS. Macradenia lutescens. Brown MSS. Cor. sordidé lutea, intüs purpureo-fusco-marmorata. Labellum corollä brevius, ecalcaratum, album, intus.purpureo interrupte lineatum, obovatum, appendice lineari acuto reflexo. Columna longitudine fer? labelli, semiteres, suprà sensim latior lobis lateralibus apicis in cucullum antheram amplexantem conniventibus. Anthera é basi paulo gibbosiore intüsque biloculari producta in acumen lato-lineare concavum ipsá basi aliquoties longius processum subu- latum stigmatis, glandulam, ejusque appendicem involvens. Mass pollinis cuneiformes modice compresse, post migrationem apicibus suis acutis affixe disco apicis dilatati appendicis elongati proscolli. Brown MSS. An unobserved species, now first introduced by Mr. Griffin, who received the plant, represented in the annexed plate, from Trinidad. It flowered last December in the hothouse at South Lambeth, and was communicated to Mr. Brown, who has made it the foundation of the present ge- nus, to be placed next to Oncipium, from which it differs by a convolutely concave undivided taper-pointed label, a corolla with the petals all distinct, a column with the two top-lobes converging convolutely (not extended), and by two furrowless or unindented pollen-masses (furrowed or indented in Oncıpıum). A humble plant (about four or five inches high), with two or three upright lanceolate leaves rather longer than the 5-flowered stem. Flowers scentless, about an inch in diameter, subbilabiately stellate. Bulb green, oblong, ovate, above ground. So far we have taken from the drawing, having had no opportunity of seeing the plant; what fol- lows is from the Latin of Mr. Brown. Corolla dingy yel- low, marbled on the inside with brownish purple; petals distinct, spreading: /abel sessile, shorter than the petals, obovate, convolutely concave, entire, taper-pointed with a sharp linear reflex appendage, marked on the inside with broken purple lines. Column detached, nearly of the length of the label, semicylindrical, gradually widened upwards with the side lobes of the top converging into a hood that infolds the anther. Anther extending from a base which is rather more protuberant and 2-celled within, into a broadly linear concave point several times longer than the base itself and infolding the subulate process of the stigma, the gland, and its appendage. Pollen-masses two, furrowless, wedge- shaped, moderately compressed, after they leave the an- ther fixing themselves by their pointed tips to the disk of the widened summit of the elongated appendage of the proscollum (gland of the stigma). — — A and B are two views of the flower, slightly magnified. The two other outlines are two views of the column and its parts, very much magnified. 0/3 Er Mb b K pur, 170 Toral Aort 1.1822 p 615 OLEA capensis. Blunt-leaved Cape Olive. — — DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. JASMINEX. Jussieu gen. 105. Div. IT. Fructus baccatus. OLEINA. Brown prod. 1. 522. OLEA. Cor. monopetala (raró nulla), laciniis ovatis. Drupa baccata. Arbores, ramulis superne compressis. Folia opposita, simplicia integra v. serrata. Racemi sepiüs compositi. Brown prod. 1. 523. OBS. PuiLLYREAM ab OLEA diversam esse tantummodo texturá pu- taminis jamdudum statuit cel. Salisburius in prod. 13, minis rect? simul ad- jiciens LIGUSTRUM, quod ab illis fructü veré baccato longiüs recedit quàm CHIONANTHUS, figura laciniarum corollæ solüm distinguenda. Brown J. c. O. capensis, foliis ellipticis obtusis rigidis planis, floribus paniculatis. Willd. enum. 1. 13; (in notá ad calcem pag. ) Olea capensis. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1.11. Berg. cap. 1. Thunb. prod. 2. Olea capensis; «; coriacea. Hort. Kew. 1. 13. ed. 2. 1. 21. Willd. sp. pl. 1.45. Vahl enum. 1. 41; (exclusá undique varietate 8. undulatä, que species distincta. ) Ligustrum capense sempervirens, folio crasso subrotundo. Dill. elth. 193. t. 160. f. 194. Arbuscula est non multüm ramosa, caudice vir digitum minorem post 10-11 annos crasso, frequentibus nodis parvis, à ramulis abscedentibus for- matis, predito, recto, cortice subhirsuto, ex fusco nigricante, vestito, punc- tis lineisque cinereis distincto, sesquicubitalem, post tot annos, altitudinem (undé frutex potiüs quam arbor videtur) nou multum superans, in cujus ramis dodrantalibus et pedalibus folia conjugata, decussatim sibi respondentia, nascuntur, oblongo-rotunda, in extremitate subinde sinuata, plerümque vero sinú illo carente, densa et rigida, medio concava, nunc dilutiüs nunc satura- tiüs virentia, subtüs semper pallidiora, glabra venis levidensibus obliquis, in- ‚ferne minis, quàm superne, conspicuis exarata, è quorum alis et in ramorum fastigio Junio et Julio mensibus nascuntur flores racematim digesti, nunc ra- riores nunc adeo numerosi, ut ab eorum onere racemus pendeat, monopetali breves et vix tubulosi, in quatuor equalia segmenta divisi, duobus semper, LiGusTRI instar, staminibus, apice didymo croceo terminatis, donati, albi, odorem florum Ligustri vulgaris spirantes, Calyx parvus in quatuor lacinias exiguas dividitur. Dillen. loc. cit. Our plant belongs to the variety (=) coriacea of the Orea capensis of the Species Plantarum of Willdenow ; a variety which has been since separated by the same author, in his Enumeratio, from (8) undulata, as a'distinct species. Undulata has been figured and described in the Hortus Scheenbrunnensis of Jacquin. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Cultivated in this country at Eltham, by Dr. Sherard before 1730. Blossoms in the greenhouse in autumn and winter. A thinly-branched shrub, at ten or eleven years old (with us), scarcely a yard high; stem hardly of the thickness of the little finger, knottedly scarred by the shedding of the smaller branches; bark blackish brown marked with grey lines and dots; branches from nine inches to a foot in length. Leaves decussately opposite, roundedly oblong, some- times broadly retuse but generally without any sinus at the end, coriaceous, greyishly green, the green varying from lighter to darker, smooth, obsoletely veined. Flowers white, smelling like those of the common Privet, axillary and ter- minal, disposed in closer looser thyrsiform panicles. Calyx small, 4-toothed. Corolla of one piece, short, with scarcely any tube, equally 4-cleft. Anthers saffron-coloured. We have trusted to Dillenius for the above description. The fruit is a small oblong Olive, at no stage, we believe, applicable to the purposes of ceconomy, to which the Eu- ropean Olive is applied. The drawing was taken at the Nursery of Messrs. Col- vill, in the King's Road, Chelsea, where the plant is kept in the greenhouse. 6/4 Aid Ur ** HOVEA longifolia. Long-leaved Hovea. — aaa DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSE. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V. Corolla irregu- laris, papilionacea, Legumen uniloculare bivalve. HOVEA. Supra vol. 4. fol. 280. H. longifolia, foliis elongato-linearibus: subtüs venosis leguminibusque tomentosis. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed.2. 4. 275. Frutex erectus, rubigineo-villosus; rami sparsi, subverticillato-approxi- mati, simplices, teretes, foliosi. Fol. rigentia, laxius sparsa, interdum per paria vel fermé vel omninó opposita, decussato-divaricata modóve deflexa, petiolata, angusta, lineari-elongata, 2-3-uncialia? latitudine bilineari? cum acumine obtuso subtüs mucronato, reticulato-venosa, supra fusco-virentia glaberrima lined mediá depressá, margine deflexa, subtüs rufescenti-villasa cum costá prominente: petiolus brevis (lineam longus) teres tomentosus. Flores inodori, violaceo-albicantes, parvi (2 lineas longi), superné in ramis paniculati; panicule foliose elongate; racemuli compositi foliosi subtenso folio triplo breviores v. magis, floribus 2 pedicellatis supra basin pedunculi positis: pedicelli teretes patentes villosi, bracteà lineari breviore appressá subtensi, calyce parüm longiores. Cal. cinereus, tomentosus, bilabiato-cam- panulatus, intus glaber, medio feré tenis A-fidus, basi bracteolis 2 oppositis auriculatus, labio superiore recto lato retuso, inferiore trifido segmentis acu- minatis, lateralibus parallelis patulis, medio subulato deflexo. Vexilli lamina hu lade rat arrecto-reflexa, calyci subequilonga, emar- ginato-fissa, albicans radiis violaceis sensim evanescentibus picta, cum areolä luteo-virenti ad basin; unguis brevis cuneato-attenuatus canaliculatus, viri- dis: ale recte, porrecte, à latere superiore imbricato-conniventes, oblonga, obtuse, pallidiores, ungue. tenuissimo simplici: carina inclusa, duplo fere brevior, falcato-assurgens, ventricosa, attenuata, obtusa, supra intense vio- lacea. Fil. monadelphum, medio feré tenús 10-fidum, per dorsum fis- sum: anth. sordido-lutescentes, erecte, «equales, lineari-oblonge, polline grumoso. Germ. ovato-oblongum, villosum, viride, sessile: stylus rostrato- continuus, glaber, adscendens, setaceo-attenuatum: stigma apex obtusum sub- pruinosum. We are not aware of any published figure of this species. It was first observed by Mr. Brown in New South Wales, and introduced in 1805. The annexed drawing was made at the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road, where the plant flowers in the greenhouse about March. An upright reddishly furred shrub; branches scattered, nearing each other almost in whorls, simple, round, leafy. VOL. VIII. D Leaves stiffened, loosely scattered, sometimes in nearly or quite opposite pairs, divaricate or sometimes deflex, petioled, narrow, linearly elongated, 2-3 inches long? about 2 lines broad? with a bluntish end mucronate from beneath, net- tedly veined, above darkly green quite smooth with a sunk midrib, underneath reddishly furred, midrib prominent; pe- tiole about a line long, round, tomentose. Flowers scentless, whitish violet, small (about 2 lines long), in panicles at the upper part of the branches; panicles leafy, elongated, spike- lets compound, leafy, three times shorter than the leaf or more, with a pair of stalked-flowers placed just above the base of the general peduncle: pedicles round, spreading, villous, little longer than the calyx, subtended by a linear shorter close-pressed bracte. Calyx cinereous, tomentose, bilabiately campanulate, smooth on the inside, 4-cleft nearly to the middle, eared at the base by two opposite bracteoles, upper lip straight, broad, retuse, lower 3-cleft with taper-pointed segments, the two side ones of which spread parallelly, the middle one being deflex and subu- late. Lamina of the vexillum (standard) reniformly orbi- cular, upright and reflex, about as long as the calyx, emarginately cleft, whitish, marked with evanescent violet radii, with a small greenish yellow spot at the base, unguis short, cuneately tapered, channelled, green; wings straight, pointing forwards, mutually lapping at their upper sides, oblong, obtuse, paler; unguis very slender, simple: keel enclosed, nearly twice shorter, fal- cately assurgent, ventricose, taper-pointed, obtuse, deep violet at the end. Filament monadelphous, 10-cléft nearly to the middle, cleft all the way along the back: anthers of a dingy yellow, upright, even, linearly oblong; pollen gru- mous. Germen ovately oblong, villous, green, sessile: style beakedly continuous with the germen, smooth, ascending, finely tapered: stigma an obtuse frosted point. 615. AM 4 M 7 7 Sul Ly t Sed ; /, 2 ai 70 me = s > 7 CO Feicadtidl. c ger rer Of Apu A / 22 ES be 299 : BEAT PA SY MIT. À 615 AMARYLLIS revoluta. (B.) Broad-leaved variable Amaryllis. —— HEXANDRIA WONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. NARCISSI. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germen inferum. AMARYLLIDEÆ. Brown prod. 1. 296. Sect. J. AMARYLLIS. Supra vol. 3. fol. 226. Div. Bulbisperme: (an constanter? vix!). Folia multifaria. Nobis in journ. of science and the arts. 2. 367. A. revoluta, multiflora; foliis lorato-subulatis canaliculato-concavis, floribus pedunculatis erecto-recurvatis, infundibuliformibus : limbo cucullato-con- nivente suprà recurvo- vel revoluto-patente, obsoleté irregulari, subduplo longiore tubo. Nobis in journ. of science and the arts. 2. 367. Amaryllis revoluta. Z’Herit. sert. angl. 4. Hort. Kew. 1. 419. ed. 2. 2. 227. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 57. Bauer's sketches in Mus. Banks. Nobis in Curtiss magaz. 915, et 917 in notá; iterumque in eodem opere 1178 (cum tab. à plantá vegetiore desumptá.) Infra fol. 623. Amaryllis variabilis. Jacq. hort. schenb. 4. t. 428. Crinum revolutum. Herbert append. 23. (A.) gracilior; flores plures; folia angustiora. Infra fol. 623. (B.) robustior; flores plurimi; folia latiora. In loco presenti. Folia multifaria, plura ad duodena usque, lorato-attenuata, canalicu- lata, ecarinata, ecostata; exteriora in orbem recumbentia bipedalia v. ultra latitudine uni-triunciali: interiora erectiuscula gradatim angustiora, acutiüs canaliculata. Scapus viridis, cylindraceus, plus minüs compressus, foliis altior. Spatha multiflora, ovato-lanceolata, pedunculis longior. Flores suaveolentes, pedunculati, triunciales vel ultra. Cor. infundibuliformis, intüs albida, extüs secundùm medium laciniarum limbi rubicunda, ceterum albi- cans; tubus linearis cylindricus obsolete trigonus, virescens, plùs minis flexus vel etiam strictus, subduplo brevior limbo; limbus in faucem profundam tur- binatam connivens, inde recurvatim vel revolutim patens, obsolete irregu- laris, laciniis elliptico-lanceolatis, interioribus tribus sublatioribus. Fil. de- clinato-assurgentia, X vel circa breviora limbo, paulo inequalia. Stylus corollam denuó adequans: stigma parvum, triquetro-capitellatum, apertum. Germ. ellipticum, nitidum, exsulcum, etorosum; loculi singuli ovulis subtri- nis vel pluribus biseriato-annexis, obovato-globosis. Capsule semina (ex Jacquino) solitaria, loculorum cavitati conformia. A species distinguishable at once from AmaryLLis longi- olia in every variety we have seen, by the limb of the co- rolla being longer than the tube. "There are other differ- ences, but this is obvious and definite. Revoluta appears the most variable of its congeners ; and we have been induced from that circumstance to ex- 57 emplify it by the figures of two samples, which seem the extremes of its unadulterated variation. (B), the subject of the present article, is nearly, if not precisely, in the state in which the species has been shown by Mr. Syden- ham Edwards, in the 1178th article of Curtis's Botanical Magazine; a figure drawn from a sample in Mr. Wood- fords collection at Vauxhall, where the plant was ex- amined and described by ourselves. Mr. Herbert's asser- tions concerning that figure are wholly erroneous, as a reference to the subject itself will prove to any one who may take the trouble of turning to it. And we repeat, that if the plant Mr. Herbert says he was shown at Mr. Wood- ford's for the one drawn by Mr. Edwards was really Ama- RYLLIS longifolia, it certainly was not that which Mr. Edwards had drawn and we had described. Whether (A) is specifically different from (B) or not, is a point we do not take upon ourselves to decide; and can only say, that judging from the intermediate variations we have seen, throughout which the essential difference that distinguishes revoluta from longifolia has been constantly and unequivocally maintained, we believe them varieties of each other. The delightful fragrance that renders the species one of the most desirable plants for the hothouse, is constant to all the varieties we have noticed. Introduced from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Francis Masson in 1774; but still exceedingly rare in our collec- tions, where we do not remember to have seen a single plant for sale. The sample for the present drawing was sent to Messrs. Ridgway by Lord Mountnorris, from his collection at Areley Hall in Staffordshire. That of (A), which will be found in the next fasciculus, was sent by H. R. H. Prince Leopold of Cobourg, from the collection at Claremont. Flowers in the autumn in the hothouse. 616 CHRYSANTHEMUM indicum; var. 14. Pink Quilled Indian Chrysanthemum. nn tne SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA FRUSTRANE A. Nat. ord. COMPOSITE. Adanson fam. 2. 103. CORYMBIFERA. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. III. Receptaculum nudum. Semen nudum seu non papposum. Flores radiati. CHRYSANTHEMUM. Supra vol. 1. fol. 4. Chrysanthemum indicum. Character speciei cum synonymis supra vol. 1. fol. 4. videndus. Chrysanthemum indicum. Sabine in trans. hortic. soc. 4. 326—354. tables 12. 13. 14. Quilled pink Chrysanthemum. Id. loc. cit. 350. * Since the publication of the variety à (superbum) of this popular species (see back, vol. 6. fol. 455), many others have been added to our collections. The present is one of the latest importations from China, and, in regard to the blossom, certainly one of the finest; but then this is produced late in the season and rather sparingly, which may be considered as a drawback on the value of the plant." * Introduced by the Horticultural Society in August 1819, and flowered in their garden the following year. Mr. Sabine has noticed it in a paper published in the Trans- actions of the Horticultural Society, where he enume- rates and describes all the then known Chinese CHRYSANTHE- mums. The society, desirous that so fine a plant should be as speedily and generally distributed among the public as possible, have presented suckers and cuttings to the principal nurserymen in the neighbourhood of London, as well as to most of the collectors of curious plants within reach." „The drawing was taken from a sample exhibited at a meeting of the society in December last by Mr. Wells, and came from his garden at Redleaf, near Tunbridge." The present variety is remarkable for the incurved form of its florets, which shorten regularly and gradually towards the centre, forming a brilliantly pink full flower of about four inches in diameter." “ In a former article (455) the then imported varieties were enumerated, and were twelve in number ; ten more are now to be added, all of which have been procured from China by the Horticultural Society; two in 1819, the rest in 1820.” * 1. Purple. Curtiss magaz. 327. 2. Changeable white. Curtis’s magaz. 2042. 3. Quilled white. Above, fol. 4. 4. Superb white. Above, fol. 455. 5. Tasselled white. 6. Quilled yellow. 7. Sulphur yellow. 8. Golden yellow. Above, fol. 4. 9. Large lilac. 10. Rose or pink. 11. Buff or orange. 12. Spanish brown. 13. Quilled flamed yellow. Trans. hort. soc. 4. tab. 14. 14. Quilled pink. Zn the present article. 15. Early crimson. 16. Large quilled orange. 17. Expanded light purple. 18. Quilled light purple. 19. Curled lilac. 20. Superb clustered yellow. 21. Semidouble quilled pink. 22. Semidouble quilled white." Sabine MSS. N N à y ¿7 2 2 ZO De 617 FLEMINGIA strobilifera. Beech-leaved Flemingia. — DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. ia Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSÆ. Jussieu gen. 345 Div. V. Corolla irregularis papilionacea. Stamina decem diadelpha. Legumen uniloculare bivalve. Frutices aut herbe; folia simplicia aut ternata aut rariüs digitata; stipule nunc subnulle, nunc conspicue imo petiolo adnate aut ab eodem distincte. FLEMINGIA. Cal. 5-fidus. Vexillum striatum. Legumen sessile, ovale, turgidum, bivalve, dispermum. Semina spharica. Roxb. corom. 3. ined. in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 349. F. strobilifera, foliis simplicibus, spicis strobiliformibus: bracteis cucullatis foliaceis reticulatis. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 350. Zornia strobilifera. Persoon syn. 2. 319. Hedysarum strobiliferum. Linn. zeyl. 287. tab. 3. Burm. ind. 103. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1176. Roxb. corom. 3. (ined. ). Onobrychis indie orientalis, fagi foliis alternis, siliculis spicä longa dispositis. Raj. suppl. 234. Carpinus zeylanica siliquosa. Burm. zeyl. 54. Frutex majusculus, totus preter corollam superné globulis exeretis minutis (resinosis?) ex albo rufescentibus granulatus: caudex brevis: rami multi- plices, virgati, rubigineo-villosi, obsoleté et rotundaté angulosi. Fol. sub- deflexa, subovato-oblonga acumine brevi, basi cordata, villosa, nervis plurimis parallelis rectis lineata, reticulato-venosa, subrugosa, 3-5-uncialia latitudine + minore v. circa, interdüm obsolete repanda, nervis subtus hirsutioribus: pe- tioli adscendentes, folio pluriés breviores, villosi, stricti, subteretes suprà planiusculi, articulo flexili tumidiore hirsutiore utrinque terminati: stipule 2, libere, erecte, appresse, lineari-subulate, hirsute, caduce. Racemi compositi, axillares (breviores folio?), imbricato-foliosi, patentissimi, ex fasciculis alternis bracteá foliaceá separatim conclusis; rachis elastica teres villosa flexuosa ; bracteæ foliaceæ, membranacee, oblato-cordate v. reniformi- rotundate, conduplicate, reticulate, villose, persistentes petiolulo brevis- simo; fasciculi ex pedunculis subbinis erectis villosis teretibus 1-2-3-4-floris, squamulis nonnullis vagis acuminatis hirsutis inferne bracteatis. Flores chlo- roleuci, lineas duas paulo excedentes. Cal. membranaceus, viridi-pallens, hirsutus, ultra medium 5-divisus, subbilabiato-campanulatus, segmentis ad- scendentibus conformibus lineari-acuminatis qualibus cuspidatis nervo satu- raté virente carinatis, imo uno carinam subtendente: tubus brevissimus. Cor. vix longior calyce; vex. reniformi-oblatum, reflexum, venoso-striatum, emar- ginatum, imo disco radiis paucis rubris pictum, basi utrinque auriculato- lobulatum ; ungue ovato brevissimo: ale estriate, pallida, breviores, oblonge, obtuse, ab acie interiori collaterali-approximate, crure altero unguis tenuis- simo, altero obsoleto: carina alis supposita plurimümque longior pallidé vires- cens obtusa subventricosa ex petalis superne pro certo spatio unitis ceterum liberis. Fil. diadelpha: anthe. didyme, subrotunde, ochroleuce ; pollen albidum granulosum granulis spharicis. Germ. subpedicellatum, ellipticum, compressum, sericeo-hirsutum, dispermum, ovulis reniformibus; stylus pluries longior filiformis ( subfusiformis), assurgens; stigma. capitatum, pruinosum, pallens. A genus detached from HEDYSARUM by Dr. Roxburgh ; and principally distinguished by a sessile oval bloated two- seeded pod. The present species has been referred to it by Mr. Brown in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis ; though the Doctor continued it in Hepysarum. It forms à largish short-stemmed shrub, belonging to various parts of the East Indies. Introduced by Mr. Lambert in 1787, and is still cultivated in the collection at Boyton. The drawing was taken from a plant in the hothouse at the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road. Branches numerous, rodded, villous, and covered, like the rest of the plant, except the corolla, by minute re- sinous? granular globules, at first white, lastly red. Leaves somewhat deflex, subovately oblong with a short point, nerves parallel, straight, many, hairy underneath; base cordate, 3-5 inches long and about + narrower: petiole several times shorter than the leaf, villous, straight, as- cending, with a thickened flexile joint at each end: stipules caducous. Racemes compound; racemules enclosed in large leafy imbricated bractes. Flowers dull greenish dirty white, small. Corolla not much longer than the calyx: standard broad, reflex, streaked. Wings shorter than the vexillum, narrow. Keel longer than the wings, the two petals running into one towards the upper part of the under side. Stamens diadelphous. | Germen pedicled, elliptical, flattened, shaggy, two-seeded ; ovules kidney-shaped. Style several times longer, slender, from a thicker middle taper- ing towards each end. Sigma headed, pale. 618 ANGRAECUM maculatum. Spotted-leaved Angraecum. — GYNANDRIA MONOGYNTA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDEÆ. Jussieu gen. 61. Brown prod. I. 300. Div. IV. Anthera terminalis mobilis decidua. Masse pollinis demüm cereacer. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 205. ANGRÆCUM. (Aubert du Petit Thouars in nouv. bullet. de scien. par la soc. philom. 1. 618.) Flores supinati. Perianthium (cor. nob.) ir- regulare connivens. Laciniæ (petala nob.) subæquales, 3 superiores gale- ate. Labellum dependens, calcaratum, trilobum, lobis lateralibus minori- bus adscendentibus. Columna libera, aptera, elongata, glabra. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, semibilocularis, decidua. Masse pollinis 2, inte- gre. Stig. concavum, transversum. Herbe in truncis arborum parasitice. * folia plana. Lindley collect. 15. A. maculatum foliis lanceolatis maculatis planis integerrimis. Lind. loc. cit. Bulbi obscuro-virides, glauciusculi, ad collum pallidiores, squamis mar- cescentibus primúm vestiti. Fol. carnosa, plana, enervia, integerrima, ma- culis confluentibus inquinata. Scapus foliorum longitudine, teres, glaber, pallens, viridis, bracteis paucis scariosis. Racemus pauci quagua- versus. Flores parvi, resupinati, galeati. Laciniz (petala) subaquales; exteriores lineari-oblongæ, apice rotundate, inferioribus margine inferiore in lobo pallidiore dilatato; interiores pauld latiores, pallidè rosacee, margine unbricantes, super columnam fornicate. Labellum planum, oblongum, cal- caratum, 3-partitum, lobis lateralibus intús sangutneo-venosis, erectis; in- termedio emarginato; disco bilamellato, sanguineo, aze et apice flavidis. Columna labello dimidio brevior, anticè plana, sursúm dilatatá. Anth. ter- minalis, decidua, bilocularis loculis discretis, in apice aliquantisper exca- vato columna insidens. Masse pollinis 2, glandulá nulla. Stig. viscidum transversum excavatum. Ovar. (germ.) pedicellatum, contortum. Lind. I. c. Having missed the opportunity of inspecting the in- florescence of the present plant, we trust to the work above cited for its description. The species is there attributed to a genus formed by M. Aubert du Petit Thouars for the re- ception of a considerable orchideous group belonging to the islands that lie off the shores of. Southern Africa. The genus however is one with which we suspect the species be- fore us, a native of the Brazils, will not be found to com- bine so naturally as is requisite in a well-assorted group. The drawing was taken from a plant in the hothouse of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road, Chelsea. VOL. VIH. E Bulbs dark green, slightly glaucous, paler at the neck, shrouded at first by scales which wither away. Leaves fleshy, flat, without nerves, entire, marked with deeper spots that run into one another. Scape the length of the leaves, round, smooth, pale, green, furnished with a few scariose bractes. Raceme few-flowered, scattered. Flowers small, reversed, casqued, irregular. Petals nearly equal, converg- ing; outer linearly oblong, rounded at the end, the lower ones of which have their lower edge widened into a paler lobe; inner but little wider, pale pink, lapping at the edge, forming a vault over the column. Label dependent, flat, oblong, spurred, 3-parted, with smaller side-lobes veined with crimson and upright; the middle one notched at the end; disk bilamellated, crimson, reddish-yellow at the axis and top. Column detached, half the length of the label, smooth, flat in front, widened upwards. Anther terminal, lid-fashioned, half two-celled, with the cells dis- joined from each other, placed upon the slightly hollowed apex of the column, deciduous. Pollen-masses 2, entire. Stigma concave, transverse, viscid. Germen pedicled, twisted. — NOTE. s The following corrections should be made in the article MACRADENIA lutescens of the last fasciculus. Fol. 612. J. 9. pro “ Corolle petala" lege '* Petala.” J. 18. pro “ glandulam” lege “ proscollam." J. 20. pro “ proscolli" lege ** proscollæ.” 1, 27. dele the words “ a corolla with the petals all distinct." And last line overleaf for “ proscollum" read “ proscolla." — In the article CANNA iridiflora, fol. 609 of the preceding fasciculus, line 11. expunge the letters “ f. 1, fig. 2.” which were added by mistake in trans- cribing the synonym. 619 ARBUTUS hybrida. Mule Strawberry tree. — DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord, Ericex. Jussieu gen. 159. Div. I. Germen superum. ARBUTUS. Suprä vol. 2. fol. 113. A. hybrida, cortice deciduo, germine subdepili. Arbutus andrachnoides, foliis oblongis acutis serrulatis glabris pedunculis pubescentibus, calyce glabro. Link enum. hort. berol. alt. 1. 305, Valde affinis ARBUTO Andrachnei, at variis notis diversa. Cortex ut in illã secedit. Folia semper serrulata, multó magis acutata, nec obtusa. Pani- cula terminalis seu racemus compositus, pedunculis et pedicellis pilis brevibus versus extremitates densis, nec longis glandulosis. Calyx brevis glaber nec ciliatus. Corolla 4-5-linearis, alba. Link loc. cit. À very handsome shrub, and pretty common in the nurseries about London ; from whence it probably found its way to Berlin, where it has been taken for a dstinct species by Professor Link in the work we have cited. Our- selves, we have scarcely a doubt of its hybrid descent from AnBuTUs Unedo and ArBurus Andrachne; seeing the resem- blance to each so equally distributed throughout the whole plant; where we can find no one point which, in our appre- hension, is decidedly different from both of them, and consequently no specific distinction that holds good in regard to each. It is this equally proportioned resemblance of our plant to the two species we have mentioned, and the want of any single mark distinct from each of them, that induces in us the persuasion of its mule origin. The flowers and foliage are much handsomer than in either Unedo or Andrachne. It has the deciduous bark of the latter, and the nearly furless germen of the former; and there is no one mark but belongs to one or other of these species, or is compounded of one of each species; or in other words there is no specific difference in respect to those two species. The drawing was taken by Mr. Sydenham Edwards, at the Nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Co. in the King's Road, Fulham; where it flowers very early in the spring. The bloom is ornamental and smells like honey. E 2 OO AY ip s qose : Ma. » 2 E A 7 , Mart. 620 CAMPANULA glomerata; g dahurica. The clustered Bell-flower of Dauria. —— PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. CAMPANULACEE. Jussieu gen. 163. Div. I. Antherae dis- tinct. CAMPANULACEÆ. Brown prod. 1. 559. Sect. I. Corolla mo- nopetala regularis. Anthere libera. CAMPANULA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 56. Div. Foliis scabris. C. glomerata, caule angulato simplici glabriusculo, foliis scabris oblongo- lanceolatis cordatis sessilibus, capitulo glomerato. Willd. sp. pl. 1.903. Campanula glomerata. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1.235. Mill. diet. ed. 8. n. 7. ngl. bot. 90. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 349. : Campanula caule simplici, aspera, -foliis amplexicaulibus, floribus capitatis. Hall. helv. n. 685. Trachelium alpinum, floribus conglomeratis, foliis asarinæ rigidis et hirsutis. Herm. par. 235. t. 235. Rapunculus sylvaticus cæruleus, umbellatus. Trag. ic. 8. u. 2. et Barrel. ic. 5923. n. 111. (8) dahurica: flore speciosiore. Fischer; (ipso dictitante. ) Campanula cephalotes. Fischer; (ipso monente. ) Campanula speciosa. Hornem. hort. hafn. 2. 957; (in addend.). Romer et Schultes syst. veg. 5. 126. Link enum. hort. berol. alt. 1. 215; (nec Ramond, que est CAMPANULA longifolia. Lapeyr. flor. pyren. et Persoon syn. 1. 192; monente cel. Fischer ). Drawn at the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's * Road, where the seed from which the plant was raised had been obtained from the Berlin garden, but originally came from the Gorenki garden at Moscow. Dr. Fischer, who is at present on a visit to this country from Moscow, assures us, that our plant is his CampanuLa cephalotes, as well as the speciosa of the authors we have quoted; but that he has since convinced himself, by the inspection of numerous varieties of CaMPANULA glomerata, in various regions of Europe, that it ought not to be separated from that species, from which it differs only in the greater beauty of the flowers. We ourselves had intended to have published it by the title speciosa, under which it has already appeared, but we yield our opinion with implicit confidence to the authority of the able botanist we have mentioned, who besides has had much better opportunities of forming a correct judgment on the subject than we have had. The present variety is a hardy perennial and native of Dauria, a district of Siberia, not unfrequently confounded by the German botanists with Tauria (the Crimea). The variety (4) is found in our own country, as well as many other European countries. 621 IPOMCEA Jalapa; g rosea. Mexican or true Jalap. — — PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Nat. ord. CONVOLVULI. Jussieu gen. 132. Div. I. Stylus unicus. CONVOLVULACEZ. Brown prod. 1. 481. Sect. IJ. Germen unicum. IPOMCEA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 9. 1. Jalapa, pubescens; foliis cordatis integris lobatisque plicato-rugosis sub- tùs subtomentosis, pedunculis 1-3-floris, foliolis calycis ovalibus muticis, corollis campanulatis, seminibus prolixe lanuginosis, radice crassissimo. Pursh amer. sept. 1. 146. (x) macrorhiza: limbo floris albido; foliis szepiüs lobatis. Ipomea Jalapa. Nobis supra vol. 4. fol. 342; et ad calcem appendicis ejus- dem voluminis. Ipomea macrorhiza. Michauz bor.-amer. 1. 141. Convolvulus Jalapa. Desfont. in annales du museum d'hist. nat. 2. 126, tabb. 40, 41. Convolvulus macrorhizus. Elliot sket. 1.252. Nuttall gen. 1. 123. n. 13. (8) Jalapa: flore roseo; foliis sæpiùs integris. Convolvulus Jalapa. Linn. mant. 42. Ejusd. mat. med. 60. Hort. Kew. 1. 211. ed. 2. 1.332. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 860. Curtiss magaz. 1572. Convolvulus foliis variis, pedunculis unifloris, radice tuberosa. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 31. Bryonia mechoacanna nigricans. Bauh. pin. 298. Descr. Vide supra vol. 4. fol. 342. A comparison of our plant with the original sample from Kew garden, deposited in the Banksian Herbarium, leaves us no doubt as to the identity of the present variety with the CowvorvuLus Jalapa of the Hortus Kewensis; and this sample was known to the learned editors of that work to be the same with the plant brought by Dr. Hous- toun from Mexico, and communicated as the true Jalap to Miller, by whom it was cultivated in the Chelsea Physic Garden. The medicine consists of dried slices of the tuberous root reduced to powder; and is principally collected and pre- pared for exportation at Xalapa, a provincial town in Mexico, of the name of which “ Jalap” is a corruption. In regard to the Carolinian and Georgian plant published in the fourth volume of this work (fol. 342) as the variety (a) of this species, which it has been deemed on all hands to be; here we confess that we entertain some doubt of the specific identity of the two, and suspect that they may be truly distinct. At all events it is known by expe- riment that the root of œ does not contain any of the resin in which the active powers of the root of the true Jalap (8) reside; or at least that it contains it in so small a proportion, that it does not prevent its being used as an article of food. (See the last note in the Appendix to Volume IV of this Register.) In « the corolla is nearly white, and the leaves gene- rally lobed ; in £ the corolla is rose-coloured, and the leaves undivided. We have disposed the synonyms peculiar to each va- riety under their separate heads, so that « and 8 may be divided into species without confusion. It was introduced before 1733 by Dr. Houstoun; and lately by Mr. Lambert, who received the seed from Mexico. The drawing was taken last autumn from a plant which flowered in the stove at the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road. We refer to volume 4. fol. 342. of this work for the description and further account of the species; as well as to the note at the end of the Appendix of the same volume. Old roots of the Carolinian and Georgian plant () have been known to weigh frum 40 to 50 pounds. The flesh is white and insipid. It is possible that « and 6 may be naturally of one species; and that a variation produced solely by the dif- ference of soil and cultivation in the different abodes of the two, may be the cause of the formation of the greater or less proportion of the resin essential to the me- dicinal effects of their roots. That change of climate and soil do vary the qualities of plants is known to every one. (x) will grow very well out of doors if planted in a warm border against a wall: (8) requires to be kept constantly in the stove. 023 622 PSIDIUM cattleianum. Purple-fruited Guava. — ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Myrti (MYRTACER). Jussieu gen. 322. Div. I. Flores in foliorum axillis aut in pedunculis multifloris oppositi. Folia plerümque op- posita et punctata. PSIDIUM. Cal. 5-partitus. Peta. 5. Stama. per totam tubi calycis parietem inordinatim inserta. Germ. 3-loculare; loculis placenta septi- formi ad marginem fissá, utrinque inflexà, bipartitis. Ovula plurima, horizon- talia, margini placentz inserta. Stigma capitatum. Bacca calyce coronata, polysperma. Testa ossea. Embryo hippocrepicus; cotyledonibus quàm radicula multotiés brevioribus. Arbores (utriusque Indie, presertim inter Tropicos). Flores axillares. Fructus magni, edules. Lindley collect. 16. P. cattleianum, ramis teretibus, foliis obovatis petiolatis coriaceis glaberri- mis, floribus solitariis. Lindley loc. cit. Psidium cattleianum. Sabine in trans. hortic. soc. 4. 316. tab. 1. Arbuscula foliosa, ramosa, compacta. Rami teretes. Fol. opposita, petiolata, obovata, coriacea, glaberrima, atro-viridia; juniora venosa; adulta subavenia. Cal. æstivatione 5-dentatus, crassus, pyriformis; expansus in lacinias 5 lacerus; inter lacinias petala 5, citó decidua, vix unguiculata, gerens; et per superficiem integram usque ad germinis verticem staminifer. Stam*. estivatione inflexa. Anthe. oblonge, incumbentes, utrinque emar- ginate, loculis discretis. Germ. 3-loc.; loculis placenta dissepimenti instar, ad marginem bifurcá, utrinque reflexä, bipartitis. Ovula indefinita, disti- cha, ob placentam reflexam versus axin versa. Stylus filiformis. Stig. ca- pitatum. | Bacca subrotunda, Pyri minoris magnitudine, atro-purpurea, cor- tice tenui undique foveolis impressá, sepalis 5 conniventibus coronata ; intüs carne tenero, pallido, pulposo, acido-dulei repleta, placentæ vestigiis venis Jirmioribus ostensis. Hilum infra extremitatem angustiorem, per substan- tiam teste canaliculatum, funiculum elongatum arillo (?) adherentem promens. Embryotega pars teste cuneoliformis inter hilum et extremitatem proximam à testá é radicule regione facile separabilis. Testa ossea, fragilis. Membrana interior alba, pellucida, tenuissima. Chalaza fungosa, brunnea, in extre- mitate embryonis hilo proz?má. Embryo teres, hippocrepicus, in substantia teste. Radicula ferè totum corpus embryonis formans, extremitate inferiore embryotegä appressá ; Cotelydones 2, minime, hilo proxime, parte contorta exteriore minore. Lindley loc. cit. A small handsome tree; introduced from China about 1818 by Messrs. Barr and Brookes, of Balls Pond, New- ington. It flowers freely in the conservatory, and is said to produce two crops of fruit within the year. * As a species (we quote from Mr. Lindley) it stands * very distinct, having little more than generic affinity with VOL. VIII. F * any of the recorded species of Guava. The excellent * flavour of its fruit, which is very like that of strawber- * ries and cream, is far superior to either P. pyriferum, po- * miferum, or polycarpon." Mr. Sabine describes the fruit (the common size of which is seen in the annexed plate) as having a skin much of the consistence of that of a ripe fig, but thinner; the interior a soft fleshy pulp, reddish purple next the skin, but becoming paler towards the middle, and at the centre quite white. He adds, that it is juicy, of a consistence much like that of a strawberry, to which it bears some re- semblance in flavour; and though he does not think it equal in quality, it may however, he says, be liked by some people, being sweet with an agreeable acid. “ Tree small, leafy, branching, compact; branches round: leaves petioled, obovate, coriaceous, quite smooth, dark green; veins conspicuous in the young leaf, are nearly ob- solete in the old. lowers solitary, axillary. Calyx (before expansion) 5-toothed, thick, pearshaped; (after expansion) torn into 5 segments, beset with stamens over the whole interior surface to even with the top of the germen: petals 9, borne between the calycine segments, with scarcely any unguis, caducous. ‘Stamens (unexpanded) bent inwards: anthers oblong, balancing, notched at both ends, with de- tached cells. Germen 3-celled; cells two-parted, with a receptacle of the seed resembling a partition, and forked at the edge and reflexed at both sides: ovules indefinitely nu- merous, in twe rows, from the receptacle being reflexed turned towards the axis of the fruit. Style filiform. Stigma headed. Berry nearly round, the size of a small Pear, claret-coloured, with a thin finely pitted rind, crowned with the 5 permanent segments of the calyx, filled with a tender pale pulpy aigredoux flesh, in which the traces of the re- ceptacle are discoverable by the greater firmness of the veins." The well-known Guava Jelly is the produce of a species belonging to this genus, which is properly West Indian. The present figure was drawn from a plant in Mr. Cat- leys Conservatory at Barnet. , Hark de A PARTEN Pad by E Aueh 24 A Joa, May./- MERA 623 AMARYLLIS revoluta. A. Narrow-leaved variable Amaryllis. — HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Narcıssı. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germen inferum. . AMARYLLIDES. Brown prod. 1.296. Sect. I. AMARYLLIS. Supra vol. 3. fol. 226. Div. Bulbisperma: (am constanter? vix!). Folia multifaria. Nobis in Journ. of ‘scien. and the arts. 2. 367. Amaryllis revoluta. Vide suprà fol. 615. (A.) gracilior; flores plures; folia angustiora. y (B.) robustior; flores plurimi; folia latiora. Supra fol. 615. Descr. Vide supra fol. 615. An account of this species has been given under the article of the variety B, in the fasciculus of the preceding month (fol. 615), to which we now refer. The plant of the present drawing was given to H. R. H. Prince Leopold of Cobourg by Mr. Burchell, who obtained the bulb during his travels in Southern Africa. It flowered in the collection at Claremont, from whence we received the sample. Having given the enumerations of Brunsvisıa and STRUMARIA in the articles 192 and 440 of this work, we shall here subjoin those of STERNEBERGIA, CYBTANTHUS, AMARYLLIS, PANCRATIUM, and Crinum, all belonging to the same section of Mr. Brown's Amaryllideæ, of which a syn- opsis has been already offered in article 546. N.B. The abbreviation “ Nob. J. S. 4.” which occurs so repeatedly in the following enumerations, refers to three papers we contributed in the IJ and HI volumes of the “ Journal of Science and of the Arts, upon the genera AManyLLm, PaNcRATIUM, and Crinum, Where synonymies and descriptions of the different species are to be found. r 2 STERNEBERGLE, CYRTANTHI, ÁMARYLLIDIS, PANCRATI et Crını Enumerationes. — STERNEBERGIA. Supra fol. 546, in synop. gen. amar. colchiciflora. Kitaib. ed Waldst. ic. pl. rar. hung. 2. t. 157. Marsch. Bieb. taur. cauc. 1.261. Amaryllis colchicifiora. Nobis J. S. A. 2. 345. clusiana. Nobis. Amaryllis clusiana. Nobis J. S. A. 2. 346. Nar- cissus persicus. Cilus. hist, 1. 163. cum ic. . exigua. Nobis. Amaryllis exigua. Schousboe maroc. 1. 160. Nobis : J. S. A. 2. 316. citrina. Nobis. Amaryllis citrina. Flora grec. t. 311; (ined.) Nobis J. S. A. 2. 346. lutea. Nobis. Amaryllis lutea. Curtis's magaz. 290. Nobis J. S. A. 2, 346. CYRTANTHUS. Supra fol. 546, in synop. gen. amar. uniflorus. Nob. Supra fol. 168; (ab Amaryllide Pumilione distinctis- sima, uti patet non tantüm ex utriusque descriptione; sed etidm ex exemplaribus archetypis in Herb. Banks. vi- dendis ). angustifolius. Curtis’s magaz. 271. odorus. Nob. suprà fol. 503. collinus. Nob. suprà fol. 162. spiralis. Nob. supra fol. 167. Cyrtanthus ventricosus. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 49. C. angustifolius. Jacg. hort. schenb. f. 76; (quoad figuram scapi cum flore; at figura bulbi cum flore alió pertinet ). obliquus. Hort. Kew. 1. 414. ed. 2. 2. 222. — Jacg. hort. schemb. t. 75. Nobis in Curtiss magaz. 1198. Amaryllis Umbrella. DT Hérit. sert, angl. 15. AMARYLLIS. Supra fol. 546, in synop. gen. amar. Pe E A subuniflore. Corolla tubus nudus. Folia bifaria. Nob. chloroleuca. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 947; cum icone. d Pumilio. Hort. Kew. ed.2.2.223. Nob. J. S. A. 2.348; (exemplar archetypum in herb, Banks.) pudica. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 348; cum tab. (species fide Dom. Salis- bury pendens.) tubispatha. L'Hérit. sert. angl. 10. Nob. in Curtiss magaz. 1586; et in J. S. A. 2. 348. Atamasco. Curtis s magaz, 239. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 348. Div. II. Subuniflore. Corolle tubus coronatus. Folia bifaria. Nob. J. S. A. minima. Kunth nov. gen. et spec. 1. 221. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 350. nervosa. Kunth nov. gen. et spec. 1.221. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 350. tubiflora. - Z’Herit. sert. angl. 10. Nob. J. S. A. 2.351. Lilio-Nar- vissus croceus monanthos. Feuillée peruv. 3. 29. t. 20. flammea. Ruiz et Pav. fl. peruv. t. 286. fig. ö. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 851. peruviana. maculata. formosissima. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 851. lis aurea. Ruiz et Pav. fi. er. t. 286. po rel y Er : Jig. a; (i P Hérit, sert. angl. 10. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 352, Curtis s magaz. 47. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 352. Div. III. Bi-multiflora. Corolle tubus coronatus. Folia bifaria. Nob. J. S. A. aulica. psittacina. calyptrata, chilensis, equestris. miniata. Reginæ. advena, aurea. bicolor. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 353; et suprà fol. 444. Nob. suprà fol. 199. Nob. suprà fol. 164: et J. &. A. 2. 353. L'Hérit. sert. angl. 11: (amandato Feuillei synonimo ad flammeam.) Nob. J. S. A. 2. 354. Curtiss magaz. 305. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 354. (g.) major. Nob. suprà fol. 234. Ruiz et Pav. ff. per. 3.57. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 355. Curtiss magaz. 453. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 355. Nob. in Curtiss magaz. 1125. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 356. Curtis's magaz. 409. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 302; et suprà fol. 611. Ruiz et Pav. fl. per. 3.57. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 356. Dio. IV. Bi-multiflore. Corolle tubus nudus. Folia bifaria. Nob, J. S. A. solandriflora. reticulata. acuminata. crocata. fulgida. rutila. blanda. Belladonna, vittata. purpurea. coranica. Lindley collect. bot. t. 11. Curtiss magaz. 601. Nob. J. S. A. 2.357. (F.) striata. Nob. suprà fol. 352. Nob. supra fol. 534. Nob. suprà fol. 38. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 357. Nob. supra fol. 926. Amaryllis miniata, Curtis’s magaz. 1943; (non aliorum.) Nob. suprà fol. 23. Nob. J. S. A. 2.358. Nob. in Curtiss magaz. 1450. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 358. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 2. 54. Nob. in Curtiss magaz. 733. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 359. (g.) pallida. — Redouté liliac. 479. Curtis's magaz. 129. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 360. Hort. Kew. 1. 417. ed. 2. 2.224. Nob. in Curtis magaz. 1430. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 360. (B.) minor. Nob. suprà fol. 552. Nob. suprà fol. 139. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 361. Div. V. Bulbisperme (sepins?). Corolla radiato-partita; semiformis ( ?) Folia bifarie. Nob. J. S. A. curvifolia. sarniensis. radiata. undulata, humilis. flexuosa. laticoma. Jacq. hort. schanb. t. 64. Amaryllis humilis 8. Nob. in rtis’s magaz. 1089; (non veró quoad a.) Amaryllis corusca. Nob. in Curtiss magaz. 1430; in noté vers. fol. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 363. (a) flore coccineo. (8) flore miniato. (a). Curtiss magaz. 294. (B). Jacg. hort. schœnb. t. 66. (y). Amaryllis venusta. Nob. in Curtis's magaz. 1090. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 363. I Hérit. sert. angl. 16. Nob. suprà fol. 596. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 384. Curtis's magaz. 369. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 364. Jacq. hort. schenb. t. 69. Nob. in Curtis s magaz. 726. ob. 2. 365. ` 2 hort. schunb. t. 67. Nob. suprà fol. 172. Nob. . S. A. 2. 365. d Nob. supra fol, 497; et in append. ejusd. vol. Div. VI. Bulbisperma: (anne constanter? Viz!) Folia multifaria. Nob. J. S. A. australasica. longifolia. revoluta. zeylanica. ornata. gigantea. insignis. latifolia. moluccana. D americanum. erubescens. Commelini. defixum. ensifolium. amoenum. sumatranum. longifolium. cruentum. Nob. suprà fol. 426. (œ) minor. Nob. suprà fol. 646. (g) major. L'Hérit. sert. engl. 13. Nob. in Curtiss magaz. 661. (y) maxima. Nob. suprà fol. 303. L'Hérit. sert. angl. 4. Nob. in Curtiss magaz. 915 et 917 in noté; necnon 1178 cum tab. ab exemplari vegetiore desumpta. Nob. suprà 635, et in loco prasenti. Nob. J. S. A. 2.367. A. variabilis. Jacg. hort. schenb. t.428. L'Hérit. sert. angl. 13. Nob. J. S.A. 2. 367. Amaryllis omata. Nob. in Curtis's magaz. 1171. Hort. Kew. 1.418. ed. 2. 2.226. (a). Nob. in Curtis's magaz. 1253. (8) Nob. J. S. A. 2. 368. (y) Nob. J. S. A. 2. 368. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 2.226. Nob. J. S. A. 2. 368. Amaryl- lis ornata. (8). Nob. in Curtis's magaz. 923*. Nob. supra fol. 579. Amaryllis latifolia. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 114. Crinum latifolium. Roxburgh MSS. (non aliorum). P Hérit. sert. angl. 14. Nob. J. S. À. 2. 369. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 109; in obs. Crinum moluccanum. Rox- burgh MSS. Herbert in Curtiss magaz. 2292. CRINUM. Supra fol. 546, in synop. gen. amar. iv. I. Umbella sessilis v. subsessilis, Nob. J. S. A. LE Hérit. sert. angl. 8. Nob. in Curtiss magaz. 1034. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 104. Hort. Kew. 1.413. ed. 2. 2.221. Nob. in Curtis's magaz. 1932. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 104. Jacq. hort. schenb. t. 202. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 105. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 105. C. asiaticum. Roxb. MSS. Belutta- pola-taly. Rheede hort. malab. 11. t. 38. Roxburgh MSS. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 106. Roxburgh MSS. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 106. Roxburgh MSS. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 107. Roxburgh MSS. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 107. Nob. suprà fol. 171. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 108. angustifolium. Brown prod. nov. holl. 1.297. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 109. venosum. asiaticum. lorifolium. bracteatum. Brown prod. nov. Roll. 1.297. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 109. Div. II. Umbella pedunculata. Nob. J. S. A. L'Hérit. sert. angl. 8. Nob, in Curtis s magaz. 1073; (er- cluso synon. Rheedæi, Burm., et Milleri.) Nob. J. S. A. 3.110. C. toxicarium. Rozburgh MSS. C. america- num. Redouté liliac. 332, Roxburgh MSS. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 110. Jacq. hort. schœnb. t. 495. Nob. suprà fol. 179. Nob. J S. A. 3.112. Crinum brevifolium. Rozburgh MSS. Crinum asiaticum. Redouté liliac. 348; (non aliorum.) canaliculatum. Roxburgh MSS. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 112. pedunculatum. Brown prod, nov. holi. 1.297. Nob. J. S. A. 3.113; et suprà amabile, augustum. 1. fol. 52. Nob. in Curtis's magaz. 1605. tabò. A. B. Nob. J. S. A. 3.111. Crinum superbum. Rozburgh MSS. Roxburgh MSS. Nob, J. S, À, 3. 113. ^ PANCRATIUM. Supra fol. 640, in synop. gen. amar. Div. I. Flores petiolati v. subsessiles: limbus radiatus: corone eren sene staminifere. Nob. J. S. A. zeylanicum. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2.1. 417. Nob. J. S. A58. 317. Nob. suprà ol. 479. longiflorum., Rush MSS. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 317. verecundum. Hort. Kew. (ed. prior; in posteriore omissum.) 1. 412. Nob. J. S. A. 3.317. Nob. suprà fol. 413. maritimum. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 418. Nob. suprà fol. 161. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 318. carolinianum. Lian.sp. pl. ed.2. 1.418. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 319. tab. 3. fig. 4. canariense. Nob. supra fol. 174. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 320. illyricum. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 418. Nob. in Curtiss magaz. 718. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 320. parviflorum. Redouté liliac. 8. 471. Nob. J. S. A. 3, 321. amboinense. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1.419. Nob. in Curtis’s magaz. 1419. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 322, ringens. Ruiz et Pav. fl. per. t.283. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 328, Amaneaes. Nob. suprà fol. 600. A. B. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 323. calathinum. Redouté liliac. 353. Nob. suprà fol. 215. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 324. nutans. Nob. J. S. A. 3.324. P. celathinum, Nob. in Curtiss magaz. 1561; (non verö Redoutai. ) Div. II. Flores sessiles v. subsessiles. Limbus radiatus. Corona dentes sex . staminiferi. Nob. J. S. A. undulatum. Kunth nov. gen, et spec. I. 222. Nob. J. S. A. 8. 325 (excl. exempl. Herbarit Banksiani, speciei insequenti perti- nente ). guianense. Nob. suprà fol. 265. littorale. Jacq. hort. vind. 9. f. 75. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 326. P. disti- chum. Curtis’s magaz. 1879. Dryandri. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 326. P. littorale. 8. Nobis in Curtis's magaz. 825. Redouté liliac. 154. angustum. Nob. suprà fol. 221. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 327. rotatum. Nob. in Curtis's magaz. 827 et 1082. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 327. P. disciforme.. Redouté liliac. 155. mexicanum. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1.418. Nob. J. S. A. 3.328; tab. 3. ` .2. caribeum. Han. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1.418. Nob. in Curtis: magaz. 826 ; et in noté fol. vers. ejusd. operis 1467. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 228. P. speciosum. Redouté liliac. 156. P. declinatum. Redouté liliac. 414. patens. ‚Redoute liliac. 7. fol. 414 in noté. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 329. P. declinatum. Redouté liliac. 380. Uie amoœnum. Salisbury in trans. linn. soc. 2.71. 2.10. Nobis in Curtis's magaz. 1467. Nob. J. S. A. 8. 329. P. fragrans, Re- douté liliac. 413. ovatum. Nob. suprà fol. 43. Nob. J.S. A. 3. 330. DEMON speciosum. Salisbury in trans. linn. soc. 2. 73. t.12. Nob. in Curtis's magaz. 1453. Redouté tiliac. 412. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 331. biflorum. Roxburgh MSS. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 331. Div. III. Flores pedunculati v. subpedunculati colore mazim? ludentes: aut tubus in faucem ampliatus, aut limbus connivens: corona brevis latens. Nob. J. S. A. coccineum. Ruiz et Pav. fl. per. 1.285. Nob. J. S. A. 332. P. cro- ` ceum. té liliac. 187. aurantiacum. Kunth nov. gen. et spec. 1.223. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 332. flavum. Ruiz et Pav. fl. per. t. 284. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 333. recurvatum. Ruiz et Pav. fl. per. t. 285. fig. (a). Nob. J. S. A. 3. 333 latifolium. Ruiz et Pav. fl. per. t. 284. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 834. viridiflorum. Ruiz et Pav. fl. per. 3.55. Nob. J. S. A. 3. 335. variegatum. Ruiz et Pav. ff. per.3.55. Nob. J. S. A. 3.335. incarnatum. Kunth nov. gen. et spec. 1. 223. OBS. It is very probable that several of the Peruvian species, included (from want of samples to decide by) in the present genus, may be hereafter found of a nature to require separation into one or more distinct genera. Pancratium maximum. Forskäl fl. egypt. arab. 7. Nob. J. S. A. 336; as well as Pancratium humile. Cavan. ic. 3. 4. f. 207. fig. 2. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 42. Nob. loc. cit., are obscure and doubtful species, and scarcely to be adopted without further elucidation. Ar. Swerts Mode of treating bulbous Plants. * Mr. Herbert recommends light loam as the true soil * for bulbs ; I have found them succeed better in a mixture * of 4 white sand, with rather more than 4 light loam in * which the sward has rotted, and the rest peat; if the * loam is very light, the quantity of the peat may be dimi- * nished, and vice versa. The loam should not be sifted, * for the decayed turfy portion is a valuable part of the * compost, as independent of its nutritious qualities it “ helps to keep the whole light and open. All bulbs should ** be shallowly planted (when potted) in the smallest sized * pots that will hold them, and all offsets removed. As * the bulb grows in size it should be shifted into a larger * pot, care being always taken that the pot is well drained * by potsherds and finely broken tiles, in which the roots of ** all bulbs delight to run. The tropical and nearly tropical “ bulbs should at all times be kept in the hothouse, except * in the summer, when they may be placed on a hotbed * to accelerate their growth ; due attention being paid to * the watering of them freely while vegetating, and to “the keeping them dry when quiescent. All the tropical s ne are apt to rot in pure loam, especially when planted 113 leep.” LARA, del. uf Ly Y udgway IDO ee 2 ; May. / EI 624 GNIDIA pinifolia; g. ochroleuca. Cream-coloured Jir-leaved Gnidia. — "6 OCTANDRIA MUNOGYNIA. Nat. ord. THYMELER. Jussieu gen. 76. Brown prod. 1. 358. GNIDIA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 2. G. pinifolia, foliis sparsis, lineari-acerosis: floralibus extenuatis anguste anceolatis capitulo brevioribus; corollá extis villosa, corona: squamu- lis 4 hirsutis limbi lacinias decussantibus, — Suprà vol. 1. fol. 19. (a) flore niveo, coronæ squamulis limbi laciniis plurimdm minoribus. Gnidia pinifolia. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. I. 512. Berg. cap. 122. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 1. Thunb. prod. 76. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 424; (excl. Linn. suppl. eum sectione postremá adjecte note, atque Wendl. quoad locum citatum.) Andrews's reposit. 52. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2.412. Curtis's magaz. 2016. Gnidia radiata. Wendl. obs. 15. f. 2. f. 12. Rapunculas foliis nervosis linearibus, floribus argenteis non galeatis. Burm. afric. 112. f. 41. fig. 3. Valerianella :ethiopica frutescens, Rosmarini folio, fl. albo. Seba thes. 2. 32. 1.32. fig. 5. l (8) flore extis ochroleuco, limbi squamulis lacinias subequantibus, ` Gnidia radiata. Loddiges's bot. cab. n. (non vero planta Wendlandi). Desc. () suprà vol. I. fol. 19. videnda. . (€) Planta omni parti gracilior: folia letiüs virentia; floralia stellata: flores ochroleuci, limbi laciniæ lineari-ligulate, obtuse, quater breviores tubo; squamule harum subisometræ; tubus in articulo germen includente lucido-purpurascens: cætera excepto odore ut in (a). Raised from seed received from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Lee, of the Hammersmith Nursery, where the pre- Sent drawing was taken. Flowers in the greenhouse about February. It differs from (), published in the first volume of this work (fol. 19), in being slenderer in all its parts; in having a lighter and brighter coloured foliage, the floral leaves of which are much more widely and loosely extended below the flower-head, by the corolla not being simply white but cream- coloured on the outside, and purple at the short joint that contains the germen; and finally by the segments of the limb being narrow and ligulate, obtuse, and not much longer than the scales which form the crown. The flowers in (x) are very fragrant in the evening and night, but scentless vo“. VIL 6 by day; in (8) the smell is the same at all times, and seems to us to resemble that of grated rhubarb. Notwithstanding the difference we have expressed be- tween the two plants, we cannot persuade ourselves of a specific difference. We have arranged the synonyms, however, so that the two may be separated by those who judge otherwise.—(8) does not appear to have been in any of our Herbariums or gardens till it was raised by Mr. Lee. A description of the species will be found under Gnipıa pinifolia &. vol. i. fol. 19. of the present work. y, Han dal. € 2 eee — — — s TE 695 CYPHIA Phyteuma. Rampion-flowered Cyphia. — PENTANDBIA MONOGYNTA. Nat. ord. CAMPANULACER. Jussieu gen. 163. Div. J. Antheræ dis- tinctæ. A CAMPANULACE®. Brown prod. 1. 559. Sect. II. Corolla irregularis (nunc 5-petala). Antheræ sæpè connate. CYPHIA. Cal. turbinatus limbo 5-partito. Cor. 5-partitd, quasi 5- petala petalis basi latis conniventibus, apice patentibus. Pil. pilosa, basi (v. apice) coalita; anthere oblonge (distincte). Stigma truncatum pubes- cens, hinc cerpuum. Fructus * ** *. Radix tuberosa; caulis herbaceus simplex; folia digitata aut lobata ( v. indivisa); flores spicati terminales 1- bracteati, bracteá lobatá. Hac LoBELIA bulbosa Linn. Jussieu loc. cit. C. Phyteuma, foliis oblongis crenatis (ciliatis), scapo erecto. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 953. Lobelia Phyteuma. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2.1319. Thunb. prod. 39. Tuber oblongum, subovatum. Fol. radicalia, plurima, in rosam divari- cata, succulenta, firma, spathulato- v. obovato-oblonga, dentibus glandu- losis albis raris obsoletiús serrata, ciliata ceterum nuda, exteriora. humi essa, majora 2-3 uncialia latitudine 3 uncia v. circà, nervis crassiusculis subdiaphano-pallentibus subtüs varicosis. Scapus teres, virens, glaber, spi- thamæus, erectiusculus, crassitudine feré penne corvinæ, subaphyllus vel foliolis nonnullis vagis infernè stipatus. Racemus terminali-continuus, sim- plex, laxus, multiflorus, sparsus, bracteatus, infernà distantior : flores carnei, recurvo-patentes, 3 uncie longi; pedicelli a; erecti, flore breviores, teretes, subcolorati, robusti, bracteá equilongá lanceolutá subdentatá infra extüs rugato-gibbosá ad basim aliisque 2 oppositis minoribus in medio. Germ. inferum, virescens, turbinatum, anguloso-sulcatum, calyce brevius, glandulá annulari viridissimá coronatum, biloculare, 5 cal. con- tinuus, pentaphyllus, virens, corollá subtriplo brevior, foholis patentibus su- perne distantibus, lineari-acuminatis, glanduloso-subserratis nervo medio pal- lidiore, posticis 2 de basi ab invicem subdistantioribus. Cor. 5-petala, irregu- laris, semunciam excedens, imo calyci inserta; pet. lineari-ligulata, isometra, acuminata, convoluto-apiculata, medio tenüs in tubum cundum anticè angustissimè apertum posticè gibbosum intùs pilosum conniventia, indè in limbum pallidum purpureo-varium ringentem glabrum patentia ; labio supe- riore 3- lobis contiguis; inferiore bilobo lobis divaricatis. Stam. tubo «qualia, extüs hirsuta; fil. eodem plano ac petala inserta, lineari-atte- nyata, in cylindrum conniventia, ad punctum infra cuspidem ontheriferam in- ferne subnudam conferruminata, ceterum. ab invicem discreta: antheræ dis- tincte, lineari-oblonge, luteo-sordentes, introrsum adnatæ, biloculares in lon- gum dehiscentes, receptaculo posticè piloso; (æstivantes ) contiguo-conniventes, (post anthesin ) patentes: pollen è granulis sphæricis luteis grumosum, Sty- lus staminibus subæqualis, viridi-pallens, grosso-filiformis, glaber, subclava- tus, apice parúm inflexus v. obsoletè assurgens: stig. (æstivans) apex tumidi- usculus obtusus supine versüs in areolam obliquam villosam cum glandulá medi ` secernente truncatus; (post anthesin) glandula predicta in styli summi latus supinum promota videtur. 2 G Cypuia may be known from Losera by a 5-petalled corolla, hairy filaments, anthers detached from each other, tuberous root, and very different general habit. The genus was judiciously separated by Bergius, a botanist who has done much for the vegetable history of the Cape of Good Hope. The species at present known all belong to South Africa. Several, unlike the one before us, have divided leaves and twining stems. C. Phyteuma has been now first introduced by Messrs. Colvill, of the Chelsea Nursery, from the Cape of Good Hope. It flowered in their hothouse in February last, when the drawing was taken. We are not aware that the living plant was ever before in any collection in Eu- rope. Tuber oblong, subovate. Radical leaves many, spread- ing into a rose, rather fleshy, firm, spatulately or ob- ovately oblong, loosely and faintly serrate with a few white glandular toothlets, pubescently fringed but otherwise smooth, outer ones pressed flat to the ground, largest 2-3 inches long and about 3 of an inch broad ; nerves thickish, pale, varicose at the under surface. Scape round, green, smooth, a span high, nearly upright, with a few scattered leaflets near the bottom. Raceme simple, loosely many- flowered ; flowers pinkish, scattered, lower ones wider apart, recurvedly spreading, about 4 of an inch long: pe- dicles upright, close-pressed, shorter than the flower, round, robust, with one bracte at their base of the same length, lanceolate, somewhat toothed, gibbous and wrinkled below, and two smaller opposite ones about their middle. Germen inferior, green, turbinate, shorter than the calyx, bilocular, many-seeded, surmounted by a green glandular crown. Calyx continuous with the germen, 5-leafletted, green, nearly three times shorter than the corolla ; leaflets spread- ing, wide apart upwards, linear and taper-pointed, glan- dularly serrate, with a paler midrib, the two hinder ones rather wider apart from the whole way up. Corolla 5-pe- talled, irregular, inserted round the bottom of the calyx; petals of one length, ligulate, taper-pointed, convolute at the top, converging half way into a deep red tube nar- rowly opened down the front, gibbous at the back and hairy on the inside, from thence spreading into a paler purple spotted bilabiate smooth limb; upper lip 3-lobed,. convergent ; lower 2-lobed, divaricate. Stamens even with DAC "re DOE the tube, hairy on the outside, linear, tapered, converging cylindrically, inserted at the same point as the petals, co- hering at a spot a little below the anthers, elsewhere detach- ed. Style pale green, about even with the stamens, thick, filiform, smooth, slightly clavate and inflexed at the end: stigma (at first) a slightly enlarged obtuse inwardly truncate villous apex, with a secreting gland in the middle; (after- wards) the gland shows itself as an oblong prominence upon the upper side of the top part of the style. — NOTE. In the article ANGRECUM maculatum (fol. 618 in the fasciculus for the last month) we have omitted to add the following synonym of that species. Geodorum pictum. Link abbild. auserl. gew. bot. gart. zu berl. 1. 86. f. 14. With the genus GEODORUM, however, this species has far less to do than even with ANGRÆCUM. The plant was received in the Berlin garden from the collections of this country. Mr. Brown has lately found, on turn- ing over his Herbarium, a spontaneous sample of this species, which had been collected at Bahia in the Brazils; so that the native spot ís ascer- tained beyond a cavil. 0 2 A = — — — Oe — XA GA. A. A Mb EZ, CA by 2 , * “ rad A 17) P4 / C I HL Z: Ly 2 2 P N _— RAS ee erat 626 CEROPEGIA africana. Cape Ceropegia. — PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Nat. ord. AsCLEPIADRE. Brown in Wern. trans. edinb. 1.12. Id. prod. 1. 458; et à vol. 2, fol. 111. Div. I. ASCLEPIADER VERE. Masse pollinis 10, leves, per paria (diversis antheris pertinentia), affixze stigmatis corpusculis, sulco longitudinali bipartibilibus. Filamenta con- nata, extis sœpiùs appendiculata. CEROPEGIA. Asclepiadea. Cor. tubulosa, basi ventricosa, limbi laciniis ligularibus conniventibus: zstivatione valvata. Columna fructifi- cationis inclusa. Corona staminea 10-fida : laciniz 5 antheris distinctis op- sitze longiores cum 5 reliquis (indivisis bifidisve) alternantes. Masse pol- inis erectæ. Herb» glabra sapiüs volubiles, radice tuberosú. Umbelle interpetiolares, nunc pauciflore. Brown MSS. C. africana, pedunculis 2-3-floris, foliis ovato-lanceolatis carnosis, limbo corollæ barbato, coronæ laciniis longioribus aversis falcato-recurvis ; brevioribus indivisis. Brown MSS. Radix: tuber ratione herbe 3-6-uncialis magnum. Caulis simplex, sepiüs volubilis. Folia acuta, planiuscula, avenia, breve petiolata, divaricata apicibus subrecurvis, semuncialia. Spica rara è pedunculis alternis brevibus 2-3-floris, pedicellis brevibus minuto bracteolatis. Flores erecti, inferiore precociore. Cal. 5-partitus, laciniis lineari-subulatis modicè tibus basi ventricosá tubi corolla ferè ter brevioribus. Corolla: tubus è basi obovato- globosá obsolet? pentagoná viridi cylindraceus, fance infundibuliformi striata; limbi lacinie lineares intüs marginii pilis coloratis acutis bar- bata, erecta apicibus ee dd levit coherentibus: limbus inexpansus prismatico-pentagonus fauce pentagoná angulis extantibus cum laciniis limbi alternantibus. Columna fructificationis basi ventricosá tubi inclusa. Corona apici tubi staminei brevis inserta monophylla decemloba : Lobi quinque. cum staminibus alternantes abbreviati 5 obtusi basi saccati: rn Krieg quasi interiores antheris oppositi aliquotiós longiores margiue interiori = cato-canaliculato exteriori in aciem attenuato. Anthere distintte ovate loculis lateralibus longitudinaliter dehiscentibus appendice apicis carnoso brevi acuto stigmate incumbente. Massæ pollinis i supra basin affixe subglobose. Stigma muticum. Brown MSS. A very curious unrecorded species, now first introduced from the Cape of Good Hope. The masterly description is by Mr. Brown, who has so far modified the character of the genus with respect to that defined by himself in his il- lustration of the natural order, in the Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, as to fit it for the re- ception of the species before us; which he considers too naturally allied to the East Indian group he had originally allotted to CeroPEGIA to be separated. The drawing was taken in March last at the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road, Chelsea; where the plant flowered in the hothouse. No species of the genus has been before noticed in any of the catalogues of our gardens. Herbaceous. Root tuberous, large in proportion to the rest of the plant, which is scarcely more than from three to six inches high. Stem simple, generally twining. Leaves ovately lanceolate, fleshy, pointed, flattish, veinless, shortly stalked, outspread and slightly recurved at the ends, about half an inch long. Spike thinly set, composed of short al- ternate 2-3-flowered peduncles, divided into short pedicles ' with diminutive bractes. Flowers upright, the lowermost opening first. Calyx 5-parted; segments linearly subulate, moderately spreading, almost three times shorter than the urceolate part of the tube of the corolla. - Corolla: tube cylindrical, springing from a green obovately globular faintly five-cornered base; faux funnelform, scored; seg- ments of the limb linear, bearded on the inside and at the edges by coloured pointed hairs, upright, converging at the tips where they are slightly attached to each other: unexpanded limb a pentagonal prism; faux pentagonal with salient angles tbat are alternate with the segments of the limb. Column contained within the ventricose base of the tube. Crown of one piece, 10-lobed, inserted at the top of the short stamineous tube: the five löbes that alternate with the stamens are short, entire, obtuse, and pouched at the base; the other five opposite to the an- thers, and in some sort inner ones, are several times longer, placed edgewise from centre to circumference, bend outwards, are falcately recurved, with the inner margin truncately channelled, and the outer sharpened to an edge. Anthers apart, ovate with lateral cells which open longi- tudinally, tipped by a short pointed fleshy appendage that lies upon the stigma. Pollen-masses minute, subglobular, attached above their base. Stigma pointless. From the Latin of Mr. Brown. EUGENIA myrtifolia. Myrtle-leaved Eugenia. — ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. MYRTACE®. Jussieu gen. 322. Div. I. Flores in foliorum axillis aut in pedunculis multifloris oppositi. Folia plerumque opposita et punctata. s EUGENIA. Cal. 4-fidus. Petala 4. Stamina numerosa. Bacca pyriformis aut sphæricea, calycinis łaciniis patentibus coronata, unilocularis, monosperma, rariùs di-trisperma. Arbores aut frutices; pedunculi axillares aut terminales, uniflori aut trichotomè multiffori. Juss. loc. cit. 324. E. myrtifolia, foliis ellipticis, pedunculis trichotomis lateralibus terminali- busque, staminibus petalis multó longioribus, calycibus quadrifidis. Curtis's magaz. 2230. Frutex sempervirens, virgato-ramosus, erectus, lazè foliosus; rami oppositi decussato-ramulosi, rotundato-tetragoni cortice glabro fusco. Fol. opposita, punctata, coriacea, fusco-virentia, elliptico-lanceolata, 2-4 uncie longa, 1 uncie v. circa lata, glabra, suprà nitida: petiolus pluries brevior, ru- bidus, canaliculatus. Panicule corymbose, ramorum ramulorumque termi- nales, decussato-paucifloræ quandoque simplicitèr trichotomæ : flores cum pe- dicello articulati: pedunculus pedicellique filiformes glabri stricti: bracteæ caducæ. Flores albi. Stylus rubidus. A largish evergreen shrub, introduced from New Hol land subsequently to the appearance of the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis ; but already common in most of the greenhouses near London, where it flowers in the autumn. It has much the appearance of one of the. large-leaved sorts of Myrtle. The drawing was taken at the Nursery of Messrs. Col- vill, in the King's Road, Chelsea. The berry was examined by Mr. Brown, and the plant found to belong to the present genus, and not to Myrrus. VOL, VIII. H 628 ASPIDISTRA lurida. Dingy flowered Aspidistra. — OCTANDRIA (HEXANDRIA?) MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. ASPHODELEX. Brown prod. 1. 274, ASPIDISTRA. Cor. infera, 1-petala, 6-fida, æqualis. Anthere coroll tubo infernè adnate, bilocwlares, introrsàm | dehiscentes : len pulvereo-granulosum. Stylus clavato-stipitiformis exsulcus; stigma clypea- tum latum carnosum solidum. Germ. repleto-4-(3 ?)-loculare, loculis 1-sper- mis. Herba perennis, tropica? rhizomate multicipiti, scapo squamoso late- rali. Folia (estivatione convoluté subcoloratá) radicalia petiolata, gemma perdue szpiüs singulum, è vagina radicali convolute-imbricante, bi-trifoliá, coloratá. y Aspidistra lurida. olia erecto-patentia, membranacea, let virentia, 6-9-uncialia latitu- dine subbiunciali, petiolata; lamina elongato-lanceolata, acuminata, lineato- nervosa, margine subtili cartilagineo-scabra, intüs sechs medium canaliculata, eztüs carinata, infern? in petiolum linearem erectum rigi canaliculatum attenuata: vagina radicalis à foliolis 2-3 alternis convoluto-equitantibus acu- minatis rigidis lividè purpureis inæqualibus. Scapus lateralis, declinatus, rhizomatosus, assurgens, uniflorus, cum flore simul unciam viz excedens, bracteis ovatis sordidé rubentibus (summis corolle basi appressis) squamatus. Cor. iurido-purpurascens, firma, cupulato-campanulata, nutans, hinc humi accumbens, extüs levis, intàs rn: cum fundo ochroleuco purpureo punctato; tubus cupulatus: limbus 6-partitus tubo 3-plo brevior, laciniis oblato-ovatis acuminatis subequalibus patulis. STAMINA: antheræ 8 (6?) sessiles, tubo infern in eodem plano adnate, parallele, contiguæ, «quales, oblato-ovate?, mutice: pollen flavescens copiosum è granulis sphæricis pul- vureum. Pist. tubo equale ochroleucum: stylus clavato-stipitiformis, ger- minis isoperimetric? continuus triploque altior, teres, estriatus: stigma car- morum, crassum, latum, peltato-pileatum, orbiculatum, convexum, obsolet? 4-(32)-lobum, cicatriculá centrali levitèr 4-(3?) radiatá notatum, lineo- disque senis prominulis (pressione. suturarum corolle estivantis proveni- entibus?) oquidistantibus radiatum: germ. oblato-cylindricum, purpureo- punctatum, exsulcum, lave, farcté 4-(3?)-loculare, loculis monospermis: ovula subrotunda, imo loculo adnata? We do not know of any mention of this very curious plant, and believe it to be unrécorded. We are indebted to Mr. Brown for the suggestion of its affinity with Tu- PISTRA, a genus established some years ago by ourselves in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (No. 1655), and known to us only by a single sample. On recurring, however, to the description and. figure, it does not appear to us that the plant of this article can be dis included in the same H genus with that: the nature of their anthers seems too distinet, as well as the consistence of their corollas and shape of their pistillums. Having neglected to dissect the germen in TurisTRA, we can say nothing as to their agree- ment in respect to that organ. We have ranked Aspipisrra in the above natural order, not knowing any more suitable place for it; though it does not agree very exactly with the definition of the 4s- phodelee of Mr. Brown. Perhaps Tupisrra, ÁSPIDISTRA, and ORONTIUM japonicum (erroneously combined with aqua- ticum), may lay the foundation of a distinct natural order ; to which SANSEVIERA carnea seems also to approach. The drawing was made in the hothouse of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road, Chelsea, where the plant is presumed to be native of some tropical country ; but of the place whence or the time when introduced nothing seems known that can be relied upon, nor have we met with any sample in either the Banksian or Lambertian Herbariums. The pistillum reminds us of a Mushroom in miniature. The stamens are eight, and the cells of the germen four ; but an examination of other samples may very likely prove the more natural number of the former to be six, and of the latter three. "The six faintly raised plaitlike radii on the surface of the convex stigma are probably produced by the pressure of the seams of the divisions of the limb of the corolla in the bud state. The obsoletely 4-rayed cica- trix in the centre of the stigma seems to announce some duct that may correspond with the decided hollow of the same organ in our Tupistra squalidu. The anthers are con- cealed by the large umbrella-shaped stigma, which nearly. fills up the mouth of the urceolate tube of the corolla. The pollen is of a deep yellow, pulverous, considerable in quan- tity, the particles minute and globular. The flower, which reclines upon the ground, is of a dingy broken brownish purple on the outside and smooth, but of a uniform deep violet-purple and irregularly shagreened on the inside, ex- pt at the bottom, where it is yellowish with purple: spots and even. The uncoloured outline in the plate exhibits the tubular portion of the corolla opened longitudinally on one side, to show the pistillum and stamens in their natural positions. MES. ENS 629 CLERODENDRON viscosum. Clammy Clerodendron. — DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. VERBENACEE. Jussieu in ann. du mus. 7. 63. VERBENACEE. Cal. tubulosus, persistens. Cor. hypogyna, rel: tubulosa, limbo plerümque irregulari, decidua. Stam. sepids 4, didynama, rard æqualia, nunc 2. Germ. 2-4-loc., ovulis erectis, solitariis v. geminis. Stylus 1. Stig. 2-fidum v. indivisum. Pericarp. drupaceum v. baccatum, Albumen nullum vel parcum. Embryo erectus. Arbores v. Fru- tices, 5 Fol. 5 ids opposita, simplicia v. com- posita. lores opposité corymbosi, aut è spicati; nunc capitato-con- Ferti; raró axillares solitarii. Brown prod. 1. 510. ph CLERODENDRON. Supra vol. 5. fol. 406. C. viscosum, foliis cordatis, dentatis, corymbo terminali paniculato, calyci- bus viscosis laxis dimidio tubi corollz longioribus. Brown in Hort. Rev. ed. 2. 4. 63. Clerodendron viscosum. Venten. malmais. 25. Kenig in ann. of bot. 1. 388. Curtis's magaz. 1805. Peragu. Rheede mal. 2. 41. t.25; (synonymon à Linnao minis rect? Clero- dendro infortunato appositum. ) plurimúm breviora: pet. articulatus longitudinè ferè lamina. Paniculæ ter- minales, lariùs idee, o-ramose, tachide fescente di- visuris bi-trichotomis. Flores recti, pedicellati, candidi, basi 'ascentes, suaveolentes: bracteæ ite, sessiles atque articulate vel petiolulo insiden- tubus cylindraceus, angustus, striatus, Be suprà fissus, viridi-albi- cans, totus fer? calyce inclusus; limbi laciniæ 5, secunde, nel ps parüm conspicuis consperse ; media recta ovali-oblonga acuta, laterales per paria opposite, oblique, adscendentes, ovales, obtuse. Stamina summo tubo adnata, corollá duplo longiora: fil. cylindrica, acuta, primo declinata curvo semicirculari, ind? horizontalia et reflexa, glabra, corolle concolora : antheræ versatiles, ovales, compressa, biloba, antic? bisulce, saturate pur- purer. Germ. liberum, rotundatum, glabrum, virescens: stylus longitudine formé atque directione filamentorum: stigma bifidum lobulis brevibus acutis divergentibus. Bacca parüm succulenta, calyce tecta, globosa, subdepressa, lucida, cinerea, tetrapyrena: pyrena ime bacca annexa, erecta, hinc con- vera atque reticularia, illinc angulosa atque levia, monosperma: semen ovale, obtusum, fuscum. E descriptione gallica Ventenatii fer versum. Introduced from the East Indies in 1796 by Mr. Peter Good; and now frequent in the hothouses about London. The drawing was taken at the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road, Chelsea, where the plant is in flower for a great part of the year. An elaborate account of this species is given in the work we have quoted, by Mons. Ventenat ; who has determined, by a reference to the original sample in Burmann's Herba- rium, that it is not the plant quoted by Linnæus from that authors work as a synonym of CLERODENDRON infortuna- tum. It has since been likewise determined, by a reference a Hermann’s Herbarium in the Banksian 9 55 belong- ing to Mr. Brown, from whence the CLERODENDRON infor- tunatum of Linnæus was first adopted, that it is not that plant either, which is probably the same with Burmann's. Under these circumstances, Mr. Brown, in the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis, has omitted all reference to the Linnzan species, and retained only the synonym from Van Rheede, which seems clearly to belong to the plant before us, and consequently not to infortunatum, as formerly supposed. M. Ventenat, on the other hand, al- though he changed the name of the species, still re- served the Linnæan plant as a synonym to his viscosum, not having the opportunity, which the editor of tbe Hortus Kewensis had, of deciding whether the two were really distinct, or not. The leaves of the Linnæan plant are entire; of the one before us, serrate. The fragrance as well as elegance of the blossom makes the plant a desirable acquisition for every collection. A figure of one of its berries, which ripened at Messrs. Colvill’s, is added to the annexed plate. 630 PÆONIA albiflora; 1 H^hitleji Whitley's double white Chinese Peony. — POLYANDRIA DIGYNIA (v. potiès PENTAGYNIA). Nat. ord. RANUNCULACEE. Decand. syst. nat. 1.127. Div. II. Ra- nunculacez spuriæ, Nempè antheris intorsis donate. PONIA. Supra vol. ö. fol. 370. P. albiflora, herbacea, capsulis glabris, recurvatis, foliis biternatim sectis, segmentis glabris nitidis tripartitis, lobis ovato-lanceolatis. Decard. syst. nat. 1. 392. Peonia albiflora. Synonyma et descriptio suprà vol. 1. fol. 42. petenda. (n) Whitleji. Anderson in trans. linn. soc. 12. 259. Paonia albiflora flore pleno. Andrews's reposit. 612. * A supposed variety of Pzonia albiflora, and now al- most general in our collections. It was introduced from China in 1808 by Mr. Whitley, nurseryman, in the King's Road, Fulham; and was called by his name in the tract we have referred to by Mr. Anderson, in the Transactions of the Linnæan Society.” ** The figure in Andrews's Repository is but an indiffer- ent one, and the account which accompanies it incorrect, in so far as the plant is stated to have been raised in this country from seed; for in fact all the samples of it in our gardens are derived from one and the same imported stock." „The flower is usually larger than in the annexed figure by Mr. Sydenham Edwards; and is produced in June, two months before either.of the two double red-flowered va- rieties. The scent of the flower has some resemblance to that of the common Elder, but is not unpleasant." * A list of the varieties of this species has been given in the 485th article of this work (vol. 6)." Sabine MSS. The drawing was taken at the Nursery of Messrs. Whit- ley and Co. in the King's Road, Fulbam. Dr. Fischer has hinted to us his doubts whether the plants of the Crimea and China, which are now included in this species as mutual varieties, are really such. He him- self is inclined to deem them specifically distinct. But this point will probábly be decided by himself in some fu- ture publication. " / 00 A Ze X 631 JACARANDA mimosifolia. Mimosa-leaved Jacaranda. — DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. BiGNONIZ. Jussieu gen. 137. Sect. II. Fructus capsularis bivalvis. Caulis arboreus aut frutescens. BieNonracez. Cal. monophyllus, divisus v. integer, nunc spathaceus. Cor. monopetala, hypogyna, sæpids irregularis, 4-5-loba. File. 5, inæqualia, 4 plerùmque nunc 2 v. omnia antherifera, Ante. 2-loculares, loeulis insertione æqualibus. Germ. disco glanduloso cinctum, 2-loculare, v. pseudo-4-loculare, polyspermum. Stylus 1. Sipe bilamellosum. Caps. 2-yalvis, 2-loc., quandóque pseudo-4-locularis. issepimentun? parallelum v. contrarium, demüm liberum, ad commissuras cum valvulis seminiferum. Sema, transversa, foliaceo-compressa. Albumen 0. Embryo rectus, folia- ceus: Radiculá centrifuga. Arbores v. frutices, sep? volubiles v. scan- dentes. Folia opposita, (rarissimè alterna), composita, rarò simplicia, ex- stipulata. Jnflorescentia terminalis, subpaniculata. Brown prod. 1. 470. JACARANDA. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. basi tubulosa, fauce dilatata, limbo 5-lobo inæquali. Stam. 4 fertilia; filamentum 5tum sterile longids apice villosum (ut in CHELONE). Stigma bilamellatum. Caps. compressa orbicularis lignosa, margine in 2 valvas solubilis, dissepimento carnoso valvis orbicularibus opposito; semina margine membranacea. Arbores; folia opposita impari-bipinnata ; flores paniculati. Juss. loc. cit. 138. J. mimosifolia, foliis bipinnatis oblongis villosis; partialibus multijugis; pro- priis numerosis decursivis contiguis, trapezoidi-ovalibus oblongis mucro- natis: impari lanceolato longiore; paniculà amplà laxá decussato-ramosá, corollis sericeis. Don MSS. | Jacaranda caroliniana. Persoon syn. 2. 174? Bignonia cærulea. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2. 872? Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 11 Willd. sp. pl. 3.307. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 35? . Arbor guajaci latiore folio, bignoniz flore eæruleo, fructü duro in 2 partes disalliente, seminibus alatis imbricatim positis. Catesb. carol. 1. 42. cum tab. Arbor (caldario culta) suborgyalis gracilis erecta, cortice cinereo: in- Fern? cicatricibus nodosa: ramorum caulisque pars novella let? virens et guttis (resinosis?) erystallizatis sparsa. Folia decussato-opposita, paten- tissima, distantia, bipinnata, oblonga, villosa, *miculis erystallinis in- aqualissimis a, palmaria ad sesquipedalia; pinnæ opposite, lineari- oblonge, abrupte multi-(14-24-)juge, 2-3-unciales, approximate cum ra- chide communi eanaliculatá in marginem brevem erectam viridiorem utrinque attenuatá, pinnulæ parve, decursive, opposite v. subalterna, impari-multi- (10-28) juge, contiguæ, trapezoidi-ovales, oblonge, mucronate, 3-4-linea- res aut magis, peripheriä subdeflexæ, subtüs pallentes venisque reticulate, import terminali erectá longiore lanceolatá: rachis angustè alate. Pani- cula ampla, nuda, terminalis, multiflora, erecto-pyramidata, remota, decus- sato-ramosa, villosa, patentissima, rachide virente cum ramulis bi-trifidis paria dispositis pedicellisque compressiusculis: bractez minima, caduca, ores speciosi, nutantes, cerwlescentes, sericei. Cal. herbaceus, minimus, villosus, S-dentatus, Cor. oblongo-tubulosa, campanulato-biladigta, sesqui A VOL. VIII, H à Es Da 4&5 MEG coe reat à tact i ma uncié longior, pube minutá appressä densá extús vestita; tubus subarcuatus, eompressiusculus, basi tumidiusculus, in faucem Splo longiorem depresso- campanulatam subtus ventricosam plicisque nonnullis longitudinalibus stria- tam dilatatus ; limbus brevis, quinquelobus, sursüm obliquatus, lobis rotundatis intàs villosis; labii inferioris lacinie tripa margine subcrispate et eroso-re- pande, media ceteris porrectior ; superioris brevioris brevidsque fissi lacinia: bine refleza, medio infern? albe. Stam. 5: 4 fertilia ochroleuca, fauce duplo breviora, summo tubo inserta, ex utrinque per paria conniventia (pari infe- riore paulo breviore), filamenta inferné secun latus internum pilis flavo- capitatis (sterilis consimilibus) eristata: 1 sterile rectum, fauce exsertum, medio albo-barbatım, penicillo corolle concoleri terminatum, de infra medium deorsum attenuatum atque glabrum : anther (ob loculum inferiorem custratum) unilobe, lineari-oblonge, ockroleucæ; loculus cucullato-dehiscens, receptaculo fusco adnatus. Germen ovato-oblongum, acuminatum, Compres- sum, nudiusculum, 2-loculare, dissepimento contrario, utrinque placentifero: stylus glaber, partim persistens; stigma cuspis oblonga styli continua, compressa, acuta, bilamelloso-partita, styli concolor, extus levis, lobis re- plicatis. Don MSS. One of the finest shrubs that have been introduced iuto our hothouses, and now brought to flower for the first time in this country at the botanic garden of the Comtesse des Vandes, near Bayswater; an establishment superintended with great skill and intelligence by Mr. Mackay. Whether it is Catesby's species, the origin of the BIGNONIA cærulea of Linnæus, or not, is a point about which we have not been able to convince ourselves. A prototype, though somewhat dilapidated sample, of Catesby's plant is preserved in the Banksian Herbarium at Mr. Brown's; in that the leaf- lets of the foliage are considerably larger and wider apart than here; but then there is also in the same collection the leaf of a plant, raised, as said, by Miller at Chelsea, from seed of the species to which Catesby's plant belongs, and received indeed from that naturalist himself: now this leaf we cannot well distinguish from those of the present plant; so that it is not impossible but that the smallness of the leaflets and their closer order may bave arisen from thé culture of so large a shrub in the confinement of a gar- den-pot and inastove. Upon the whole, we are inclined to believe the two plants to be of one species. Catesbys plant is said to have been obtained from the Bahama islands: the present from the Brazils, and to have been introduced within these three years. But we know no good authority for the last statement. Two other species were observed by Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland, and published in their great work on the tropical plants of America by the names of acutifolia and obtusifolia. In the first the leaves are less numerously pin- nated than in the species before us; and the leaflets nar- rower and lanceolate; in the latter the corolla is smooth (without any kind of pubescence), and the leaves entirely pointless. In the natural order to which this genus belongs the anthers are generally strictly bilocular, consisting of two oblong cells parted perpendicularly through the axis of their receptacle from top to bottom into two linear lobes which diverge divaricately down to their base, where they remain equally fixed to the point of their filament. In the species before us, the lowermost of these lobes is abortive, its place being faintly demonstrated by an imperfect rudiment. Judging by the figures, the same deficiency seems to prevail in the species recorded by Messrs. Hum- boldt and Bonpland, though unnoticed in the accompany- ing description by those celebrated naturalists, who speak, on the contrary, of the anthers as bilocular. We can scarcely doubt that this circumstance will prove an avail- able distinction in the definition of the genus, though we have not taken upon ourselves to add it to the character proposed by M. de Jussieu, who has not noticed it. The technical difference relied upon to discriminate Bicnonia from Jacaranpa, exclusive of habit, is taken from the fruit, which in the first has a partition parallel with the valves, in the second one placed in the contrary direc- tion to them. Such samples of the species as are seen in our hot- houses have not exceeded six or seven feet in height, with a slender stem and a light ash-coloured bark. The foliage bears considerable resemblance to that of Mimosa and Acacia; it is finely furred and powdered, as well as the branches, with variously sized grains of a transparent crys- tallized secretion, some as fine as dust, others as big as a large pin's head. A coloured fragment of tbe leaf has been magnified in our plate, to show more distinctly the mode in which the decurrent leaflets are connected with their petiole. The uncoloured outline of an entire leaf, in the same plate, is one of the smaller ones of the plant of its natural size. Don MSS. 12 2 77 trag He 632 IPOMŒA pendula. Pendulous Ipomea. — PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. CONVOLVULI. Jussieu gen. 132. Div. I. Stylus unicus. CONVOLVULACEZ. Brown prod. 1. 481. Sect. I. Germen unicum. ' IPOM@A. Supra vol. 1. fol. 9. Div. Caulis volubilis. Folia lobata. I. pendula, glabra, foliis quinato-digitatis: foliolis lanceolatis mucronulatis margine integerrimis: extimis indivisis bifidisve, pedunculis 1-3-floris, calycis foliolis subæqualibus obtusis tubo corollæ ter brevioribus. Brown prod. 1. 486. Ipomœa pendula. Andrews's reposit. 613. Sweet hort. sub. lond. 35. Pedicelli, breves robusti, glabri. Cal. viridis, tubo corolle cum fauce simul sumpto 3-4-plo brevior ( subtrilinearis), ovato-connivens, intüs olivaceo- fuscescens scrobiculis albis varié confluentibus notatus, extüs ad basin glan- dulis (5?) atroviridibus oblongis longitudinalibus parallelis prominulis se- cernentibus munitus: foliola eqwilonga, ovata, acuta, interiora 2 latiora lateribus membranaceis. Cor. speciosa, magna, violaceo- ascens, hypo- crateriformis, glabra; limbus 5-angulari-rotatus, angulis promissè acumi- natis mucronatis; faux cylindracea, limbo parüm brevior (unciá longior ) diametro fer? penne olorine, extüs pallida intús intensè colorata ; tubus calyci «qualis. Stam. inequalia, inclusa; filamenta de basi pro brevi spatio vil. losa atque colore intensiore picta: antheræ oblonga, sagittatæ, erecte ; pollen albidum grumosum. Stylus levis: stigma divaricato-didymum, albidum, rugatum. Germen tefraspermum. Native of New Holland. Introduced, according to Sweet's Catalogue (Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis), in 1803; but had disappeared in our collections, until lately imported by Messrs. Colvill, of the King's Road, Chelsea, when it flowered in the hothouse during the spring. Itisa perennial climber, with a very showy violet-purple flower. The inside of the calyx is of a dark olive-green and pitted with small white variously confluent spots; and on the outside there are 5? oblong longitudinal slightly per- manent parallel dark green secretory glands. In the 621st article in the last fasciculus (IPoMcA Jalapa g. rosea) we omitted to add a further distinction between that supposed variety and « macrorhiza of the 342d article of the 4th volume of this Register; viz. that the tube is proportionably much shorter in 8. than in æ. Upon the whole we agree with Mr. Don in the opinion of the two being speciti- cally different. 633 CAMELLIA japonica: o: involuta. Lady Long's Camellia. — MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Nat. ord. AURANTIA. Jussieu gen. 262. Dir. III. Fructus sper- = capsularis. Folia non puhctata. Genera AURANTHS et Mes ja. . £ 2 z CAMELLIRÆ. Decand. tler. ed. 1. 214. THEACEE. Mirbel in nouv. bullet. 3. 382. CAMELLIA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 22. + Camellia japoniea. Vide suprà vol. 1. fol. 22. (o) flore j o roseg-punicante; petalis involutis, A new presumptive variety of CAMELLIA japonica; a spe- cies already known in our collections under so many beau- tiful appearances. The introduction of the present, we un- derstand, is due to Lady Long, the daughter of the late Lady Amelia Hume, whose attachment to her garden has enriched our collections with the fine variety of this spe- cies published in the second volume of this Register (112), as well as many of the rarest and most ornamental plants. Involuta is not only a very handsome flower, but cu- rious for the inflexion of the petals. It was supposed to be the same with à variety known through the medium of Chinese drawings, and named by our florists C. japonica: var. herangularis; which now is however admitted to be different, and nearer to the Red myrtle-leaved variety. The drawing was taken in the Conservatory at Sir Charles Long's, Bromley Hill, Kent. LIST OF VARIETIES. (a) Single red Camellia, Curtiss magaz. 42 (8) Semidouble red Camellia. Andrews's reposit. 559. (y) Double red Camellia. Ardrews's reposit. 199. (3) Middlemist's red Camellia. . () Myrtle-leaved red Camellia. Curtis's magaz. 1670, (9 Anemone-flowered, or Warrata'h Camellia. Curtis's magaz. 1884. (n) Peony-flowered Camellia. — Andrews's reposit. 660. fig. 1. (9) Double-striped Camellia. Andrews r. t. 91. () Blush (or Lady Amelia Hume's) Camellia. Supra vol. 2. fol. 112. (x) Buff Camellia. (a) Double white Camellia. Andrews’s reposit. 25. () Pompone Camellia. Supra vol. 1. fol. 22. . ©) Single white Camellia. Supra vol. 5. fol. 353. (o) y Long's Camellia. Supra. (x) Hexangular red Camellia. (p Red-stalked Camellia *. OBS. In our account of the single white variety of CAMELLIA japonica (vol. 5. fol. 353), we spoke of the plant ~as having been derived immediately from China; but now understand that it was raised from seed ripened in this country. . — * The finest plants we have seen of this variety are at Mr. Tate's Bo- tanic Garden in Sloane Street; where we were also shown a splendid variety of AZALEA pontica, called ** speciosissima," which has been just importe: from a continental nursery, aud is quite new. v 4 E AA + del. De m € 6 Pal by i A 034 ACACIA diffusa. Straggling-branched Acacia. — POLYGAMIA MONGECIA. Nat. ord, Lecuminosx. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. I. Corolla regularis. Legumen multiloculare, szpiis bivalve, dissepimentis transversis, M oculis monospermis. Stamina distincta. Arbores aut frutices ; folia abrupt? pin- nata.—MIMOSEz. Brown gen. rem. in flind. voy. 2. 551. Div. foliis simplicibus. A. diffusa, ramis procumbenti-diffusis glabris, foliis linearibus uninerviis acu- mine obliquo, spinulà marginis inferioris continua prefixis; stipulis mini- mis caducis: capitulis subgeminis, globosis. Frutex glaber, trunco brevi, ramis numerosis vimineis gracilibus recum- bentèr diffusis, angulosis, lazite foliosis. Folia sparsa, in glandulam decur- rentem articulato-sessilia, linearia cum plano perpendiculari, subuncialia latitudine sublineari, uninervia, acumine à latere interiore obliquatim acutata, spinulä marginis exterioris continuá prafiza. Stipule minute, subulate, in- nocuæ, erecta, caduce. Capitula lutea, axillaria, pedunculata subgemina (haud raro solitaria) magnitudine vix pisi mediocris, ramis superné race- matim circumposita: pedunculi folio guales, filiformes, stricti, erecti, glabri, lutescentes. Cal. minimus, corolle concolor. Petala 5, ovalia, stra- mineo-albicantia, filamentis plurimüm breviora. Legumen (maturum non vidimus) sesquiunciale eel magis, angustissimum, lineare, acutum. Said to be native of the newly discovered territory on the inland side of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales; and now first introduced by Messrs. Colvill, of the Chelsea Nursery, King’s Road. It has a lively showy appearance in flower, and proves a valuable addition to our green- houses. Quite smooth in every part: branches trailing, vimine- ous, numerous, slender, angular, leafy. Leaves loosely scattered, sessile by a one-jointed decurrent gland, linear with the flat side perpendicular, about an inch long, one- nerved, slantedly pointed, with a small prickle at the end of the lowermost edge. Stipules minute, subulate, upright, caducous. Flowerheads yellow, axillary, peduncled, ge- nerally in pairs though often solitary, the size of a small pea, disposed bunchwise round the upper part of the branches. Peduncles about even with the leaf, filiform, VOL. Vill. K straight, smooth, yellowish. Calyx minute, of the same colour as the corolla. Petals 5, oval, straw-coloured, nearly white, much shorter than the stamens. Pod (in the unripe state) an inch and half long, linear, very nar- row, pointed. 635 JUSTICIA Gendarussa. Wrillow-leaved Justicia. — DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. ACANTHI. Jussieu gen. 102. Div. IT. ACANTHACE®. Brown prod. 1. 472. JUSTICIA. Supra vol. 4. fol. 309. Div. Calyce simplici, corollis bilabiatis: labiis divisis. J. Gendarussa, fruticosa; corollis bilabiatis: labio superiore indiviso, fois lanceolatis, spicis terminalibus, floribus verticillatis, bracteis minutis, antheris binatis. Dryander MSS. in sched. banks. Justicia Gendarussa. Burm. ind. 10. Linn. suppl. 85. Vahl symb. 2. 14. Willd. sp. pl. V. 87. Vahl enum. 1. 134. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 3:. Roxb. ft. ind. 1. 129. : Rapunculus galeatus salicis glabro folio bisnagaricus, floribus aurantiis. Pluk. alm. 316. 1. 55. fig. 3; (mala.) Gendarussa sosa. Kumph. amb. 4. 70. f. 28; et 72. t 29. Vada Kodi. Rheede mal. 9. 79. t. 42. ee $ Frutex sesquipedalis (v. ultra), totus glaber. Nami teretes. Folia op- posita, (brevissimè) petiolata, lanceolata, acuta? ('obtusiuscula ) glabra, ine tegerrima, 2-uncialia. Petioli 3-lineares. Spice terminales, digitales (pal- mares us utrinque 2 v. 4: folium Nneare-lanceolatum utrinque sub singulo verticillo, unguiculare; superioribus minoribus, brevé petiolatum, longitudine Forum. Vall.) Flores verticillati. Bracteæ subulate, calyce breviores. Cal. S-partitus, persistens. Lacinie subulatæ, erecte, 2-lineares. Cor. monopetala, bilabiata. Tubus cylindraceus, ex albido virescens, semuncialis, Faux parca, intüs punctis fubris adspersa. Limbus bilabiatus. Labium "superius oblongum integrum, subadscendens, apice inflexum, tubo paulo brevius, album. Labium inferius obovatum, longitudine labii superioris, album, secundüm medium punctis rubris irroratum, ibique ruyosum, apice trifidum. Lacinim ovate, obtuse, parve. Nectarium reeolatum, crassi- usculum, margine integrum, basin germinis cingens, albidum, vix semiline- are. Fil. 2, subulata, tubo supernè adnata, ad latera Jancis divaricata, labiis corolle dimidio breviora, alba. Anthe. apite f lamenti dilatato insi- dentes, flave, bilobe (inferior aristata. Vahl): labi ovato-oblongi, ab in- vicem remoti. Germen superum, oblongum, coi bm. Sıylus filiformis, erectus, longitudine corolla «pice parum inflerua® Stigma obsolete bifidum. Dryander MSS. in sched. banks. We copy the following account of the species from the Flora Indica of Roxburgh: * A handsome shrub. I have never met with it wild, but in the gardens it is common, and grows readily from “slips and cuttings; it is in flower during the wet season * chiefly. Tam told it is a, a in the Malay Islands.” K 2. Stem scarcely any. Branches numerous, long, strag- “ gling, except when kept cut, they are then more erect. * Bark of the young parts generally dark purple, and very “ smooth; in some varieties green. Leaves opposite, short “ petioled, lanceolar, obtuse, frequently a little scolloped, * smooth, from three to six inches long, and from half an * inch to an inch broad, nerve and veins dark purple. * Spikes terminal, erect, whorled. Anthers double, the * lower ones with a spurlike projection pointing downwards “ and outwards." * Willdenow has spoiled the specific name. Linnæus “ wrote it Gandarussa, which is nearer to the true one, viz. € Gundharusa.” Roxb. loc. cit. Introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1800, from the East Indies. The drawing was taken at the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road; where the plant is cultivated in the hothouse and flowers early in the spring. It has never yet been figured in any popular publication, and is we believe a scarce plant. The description is by the late learned and excellent Mr. Dryander. — nn — M ee — F T Ae 2 — „ xl A , 29.0 , à PAU. AZ, S, try ©. At CPUC, A Troll Am A 2 AKT 9. E. LL IE 636 POLYGALA oppositifolia. Lilac-flowered Milk-wort. — DIADELPHIA OCTANDRIA. Nat. ord. PEDICULARES. (RHINANTHACRE, Decand Mor. ad. 2,247.) Jussien gen. 99. Div. I. Stamina non didynama, 2 aut plura. PorxdalxxE. Cal. 5-phyllus raró 5-fidus æstivatione imbri- cata: siepiús irregularis : foliolis 2 lateralibus interioribus majoribus quandèque loideis; — duobus anterioribus (respect spicte) tertio postico. etala 3-5, mediante tubo stamineo connexa, rard distincta. Stam. hypo- gyna, 8 (nunc 3-4 v. 5): filamentis infernè connatis in tubulum hinc a indè petala connectentem: Anthere simplices, basi insertæ, poro apicis de- hiscentes. Germ. 2-loc. (quandoque 1-3-loc.) ovulis solitariis pendulis : Stylus 1: Stigma sæpè bilabiatum. Pericarpium sæpids capsulare, 2-locu- lare, 2-valve valvis medio septigeris: nunc Drupe vel Samara 1-2-sperma. Semina pendula, umbilico (in capsularibus) strophiolato vel comoso. Em- in axi albuminis carnosi vix longioris, quandöque (preesertim in pericarpiis cleusis) deficientis. Herbe vel frutices, utplurimim glabri. Folia sim- plicia indivisa alterna exstipulata. Flores spieati sepiès terminales, Brown gen. rem. in Flind. voy. 2. 542. POLYGALA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 150. P. oppositifolia, floribus cristatis, caule fruticoso, foliis oppositis ovatis acu- tis. Lian. mant. 259; (affrmante exemplari spontaneo in Herb. Banks. cum prototypo in Herb. Linn. collato.) Polygala oppositifolia. Thunb. prod. 120. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 885. Desfont. in ann. du mus. 1. 130. . Kew. ed. 2. 4.344; (excluso synonymo Boten. magaz. 492. ad P. cordifoliam pertinente ). Frutex erectus, glaberrimus, divericato-ramoms, tamis strictis vérggtis laxé foliosis teretibus i subrubentibus, suprà dichotomis, racemo in furch dichotomiæ subsessili. Fol. decussato-opposita, internodiis subequalia, pa- tentissima, subsessilia, glaberrima, opacate, lato-ovata, acuta cum mucrone, basi subcordata, semunciam longa latitudine o minore. Racemi termi- nales, breves, corymbosi, decussato-pluri-(5-1?) Hori, patentes; axis glabra brevis; pedicelli oppositi filiformes patentissimi „ basi brac- veis tria is subrubentib iin i : icillatis cincti. Flores dilatids purpurascentes extus. cum aliquo virore tincti venisque sanguincis picti, rime longi. Cal. glaber, foliolis 3 minoribus ovato-oblongis obtusis subcoloratis concavis, I summo vexillo incumbente, 2 caring i tis; 2 majoribus lateralibus carine equalibus inequilateri-cordatis cum acumine brevi, intús intensiÿs coloratis, planis. Con. vex. dipetalem, breve, subdecolorum, petalis inæqualitèr 2-fidis, lobo interiore lato introrsum obliquato reflexo, exteriore angusto brevi subulato erecto: ale clandestine 2, foliolis: calycinis 4 inferioribus alternantes, parse, decolore, subulato- lineares, imo carine tubo inserte, modo tele cum eo accrelo-con v. sgpins libere erect ei et ae cingi ee rosea, perico. EN — multifido. Stamina et pistilkum PoLy- GALA ligularis fol. seq. 637. In the Banksian Herbarium in Mr. Brown's library we find a sample of our plant, which has been collated with the prototype of the species in the Linnæan Herbarium, and are thus enabled to identify it satisfactorily with the Pol - GALA oppositifolia of the Mantissa. The branches are quite smooth as well as the leaves, which are almost as broad as they are long and nearly of the length of the intervals. In the plant figured under the title of P. oppositifolia in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, and adopted in the last edition of Hortus Kewensis, the branches are villous as well as the leaves underneath, which last are also nearly twice as long as they are broad and considerably longer than the inter- vals; characters that prove it to belong rather to the PoLy- cata cordifolia of Willdenow. Slighter and less definite distinctions prevail throughout the two plants; for in- stance, in the colour of the corolla, which is paler in oppo- sitifolia, where the outer lobes of the two petals of the vexillum are also proportionately much longer and straighter than in cordifolia, in which these are nearly obsolete and point outwards, and the latent ale (see the next article, P. ligularis) much more conspicuous here than in cordifolia. In fine, the two plants have altogether a very different ge- neral appearance from each other. We find no published figure of our plant, which is far less common in our collections than cordifolia. 'The drawin was taken at the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road, Chelsea. The species is said to have been originally imported from the Cape of Good Hope, by the late Mr. Masson, in 1790. A very smooth upright straddling-branched shrub: branches rodded, straight, generally tinged with purple, round, loosishly leaved, dichotomous at the end with a sessile raceme in the fork of the dichotomy. Leaves decus- sately opposite, about the length of the intervals, wide, spread, nearly sessile, quite smooth, opaque, broadly ovate sharp with a separate point, slightly cordate at the base, about half an inch long and nearly as broad. Racemes terminal, short, corymbose, decussately several-(5-7 ?)- flowered, spreading, with a short smooth axis or rachis; pedicles opposite, filiform, wide spread, about equal to the flower, surrounded at the base by three small pinkish ovately oblong pointed bractes placed in a whorl so as to resemble a small calyx. Flowers pale purple, greenish + — S — * on the outside with deeply coloured veins, about half an inch long. Calyr smooth; smaller leaflets three, ovately oblong, obtuse, faintly aud partially coloured, concave, the uppermost one standing apart and inclining along the vex- illum, the lower two subtending the carina; larger ones lateral, as long as the carina, flat, inequilaterally cordate, obtuse with a small point, more deeply coloured at the inner surface. Verillum dipetaleus, short, nearly colour- less; petals unequally bifid, inner lobe broad slanted in- wards reflexed, outer short narrow subulate upright; latent ale (see following article, PoIVGALA ligularis) 2, alternate with the 4 lower leaflets of the calyx, small, colourless, sub- ulately linear, inserted at the base ofethe stamineous tube, upright, close-pressed and sometimes entirely grown to the tube: carina green below, deep rose-coloured above, with a white decompounded multifid crest or pencil. Stamens and pistil nearly as in PoLVdaIA ligularis of the following article (637). We shall now add the very instructive observations of Mr. Brown on the natural order to which the subject of this article belongs. * Pozycaeæ. The curious observation of Richard, that “ the arillus of the seed, whether general or partial, is never ** found in the Dicotyledonous orders with monopetalous ** flowers, seems to have determined Jussieu (in Annales du * mus. 14. 386. et segg.) and other French botanists to re- * move PoLvcaLa, remarkable for its caruncula umbilicalis, “ from Rhinanthacee with which they had placed it, and “ to consider it, along with some nearly related genera, as * forming a distinct polypetalous order. They appear to * me, however, not to have taken so correct a view of the “ structure of its Corolla as Adanson (Fam. des plantes 2. * 348.), who very justly observes, that both in this genus „and Securipaca, which he rightly associates with it, the * apparently monopetalous corolla is made up of three pe- “ tals, united by the means of the cohering filaments, the * external sutures remaining visible; but Adanson himself has not observed the minute rudiments of two additional “ petals in Securıpaca, the existence and position of which “ assist in explaining the nature of the irregularity in Pory- ' * GALA, where no such rudiments are found, but in which * the corolla is in every other respect very similar. À much “ nearer approach to regularity, however, takes place in an * unpublished genus, having five petals, which, though “ irregular, are of nearly equal size and similarly connected ** by the cohering filaments, likewise five in number. The “essential characters of the order Polygaleæ, to which “ KRAMERIA, MONNINA, SALOMONIA, and several unpublished ** genera, also belong, consist in the hypogynous insertion of * its corolla, which is always irregular, and frequently re- “duced to three petals, connected together by the co- “ hering filaments, whose antheræ are simple and bursting “ only at the top. Brown gen. rem. in Flind. voy. 2. 542. 037 POLYGALA ligularis. Strap-leaved Milk-wort. DI ADELPHIA OCTANDRIA. Nat. ord. PEDICULARES. (RHINANTHACEE. ez Decand. théor. ed. 2. 247.) Jussieu gen. 99. Div. I. Stamina non didynama duo aut plura. Porroner. Brown in gen. rem. flind. voy. 2. 542; et supra fol. 636. POLYGALA. Supra. vol. 2. fol. 150. Div. Cristate. s P. ligularis, ramis erectis dichotomis approximat? foliosis villosis, foliis sparsis lingulato-linearibus glabris; racemis umbellatis, pedicellis in axi brevissima. villosa altemis: lobo exteriore petalorum vexilli brevissimo, latere acuminis interiore introrsum obliquato. Fruticulus erectus, subsesguipedalis, ramis foliosis erectis villosis à teretibus. foliorum decursú interruptó angulosis. Folia wwmerosa, sparsa, patentia, ligulata acumine brevi obtusiusculo, glabra, uninervia, X uncie fert longa latitudine subsesquilineari, internodiis pluriès longiora. mi ter- minales, umbellato-contracti, erecti, alternatim. pluri-(6?-)-ffori; pedicelli ari brevissima alterne circumpositi, filiformes, villosi, erecti, flore foliisque obvallantibus breviores, singuli bracteolis 3 ovatis obtusis villosis erectis ver- ticillatis ad basin cincti, Flores speciosi, leté purpurei, nutantés, transverse unciales vel ultrà, semunciam v. ulirà longi. Cal. glaber, foliolis 3 minoribus ovatis concavis virentibus, 1 summo vexillo incumbente, 2 carine suppositis; 2 majoribus lateralibus coloratis, venosis, inequilateri-cordatis, obtusis, patentissimis, adscendentibus. Cor. vexillum dipetalum, parvum caring aliguotiós brevius, petala subovata, imbricato-approximata, albicantia cum venis purpureis, margine interiore villosa, apice bilobo-fina, lobo interiore obtuso reflexo, exteriore curto obliquè truncato cum angulo exteriore brevis- simo: ale 2 clandestine segmentis. calycinis lateralibus alternantes, ovate, albe, breves tubi filamentosi basi utrinque inserta, calyce profundiüs incluse : carina monopetala folliculari-falcata, infernè albicans, supra atro-purpurea, penicillo albido bipartito-multifida finem carine subsuperante cristata. Fil. preter Sapien flaccidam antheriferam purpurea: pollen grumoso-granulo- sum. Stylus glaber, albidus, subfusiformi-elongatus, vobustior, assurgens, stamina subsuperans, inthis sulco longitudinali exaratus: stigma stylum glo- chidato-terminans, glochide viridi, brevi, antic? rimá glabrá longitudinali incisá, apice cernuo glanduloso pruinoso albido secernente: germ. viride, disco Aypogyno cavo insertum, obcordato-oblongum, compressum, venosum, glabrum, stylo pluriès brevius, 2-loc. loculis parallelis monospermis. A Lately introduced by Messrs. Colvill, of the Chelsea Nursery, in the King's Road, from the Cape of Good Hope. Samples, collected by Mr. Masson in South Africa, bave been deposited in the Banksian Herbarium as varieties VOL, VIII. L of PorvGaLa myrtifolia, a far larger shrub with greatly wider obovately oblong round-topped leaves, racemes with a much longer axis or rachis, paler coloured flowers, a shorter stigma, and latent ale with villous points, or, when these ale are confluent for their whole length with the stamineous tube on which they stand (as is sometimes the case, and then their presence is marked merely by a promi- nencé with a corresponding contour), a villous spot where the point of the ale would have been had these been de- tached. We do not find that the latent ale, of which we have spoken, have been previously noticed in this genus by any one, but that its corolla has been always regarded as tripetalous. In three species from the Cape of Good Hope usine which we have examined, two latent petals, termed ale from their analogy to those of the flower of the pa- pilionaceous Leguminosæ, and which alternate on each side the corolla with the lower segments of the calyx, have certainly been present in a more or less perfect form; and always in such state as to require, in our opinion, the co- rolla to be considered as pentapetalous rather than tri- petalous. In the corolla of Porycara the papilionaceous type dif- fers from that of the Leguminose, in having a dipetalous vexillum and monopetalous carina, instead of a mono- petalous vexillum and dipetalous carina as there. On mentioning the above circumstance to Mr. Brown, he pointed out to us the observation on the genus SECURI- DACA, to be found in the extract from his work in the pre- ceding article. A P a VR 638 ARDISIA paniculata. Panicled Ardisia. — ud PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. MYRSINEE. Brown prod. 1. 532, ARDISIA. Supra vol. 7. fol. 633. A. paniculata, fruticosa; foliis cuneato-oblongis, subsessilibus, integris, glabris, reflexis: paniculis terminalibus, ovalibus, alternè decompositis. Roxburgh MSS; (ex anglico versum ). Frutex arboreus. Rami novelli crassi, subsucculenti, cortice levi late virenti. Folia ramulorum apicibus sparsè confertóque cireumposita, subses- silia, lanceolata vel cuneato-oblongata, obtusiuscula, integra, glabra, 6-14- uncialia latitudine 3-5-uncialia. Panicula terminales, amplissime, ovales, ex ramulis compositis patentibus teretibus glabris virentibs. Flores nume- rosi, grandiusculi, rosei. Bractem oblonga. Cal. limbo 5-fido segmentis late ovatis. Cor. subrotata, laciniis limbi ovatis. Fil. brevia, basi corolla inserta: antheræ sagittate in conum coadunate. Germen ovatum, unilocu- lare, ovulo solitario fundo loculi annexo. Stylus staminibus longior: stigma simplex. Roxburgh MSS; (ex anglico versum). Newly introduced from the East Indies, and now in flower at the Comtesse des Vandes's botanical garden, Bayswater, for the first time in this country. It requires to be cultivated in the hothouse. Said by Dr. Roxburgh to form a large shrub or small tree on its native hills of Chittagong, where it is conspi- cuous for the size of the reflexed foliage, and copious pa- nicles of lively pink blossom. Like most of the congeners, it continues covered for a great part of the year at once with both blossom and fruit. * Young shoots thick, somewhat succulent, with a * smooth clear green bark. Leaves crowded about the “ ends of the branchlets, subsessile, passing from a lanceo- „late to a cuneately oblong form, rather blunt, entire, “ smooth, from six to fourteen inches long and from three * to five broad. Panicles terminal, very large, oval, com- “ posed of numerous patent compound round smooth green * branches. Flowers very numerous, pretty large, pink. * Bractes oblong. Border of the calyx divided into five “ broad ovate segments. Corolla subrotate; segments ovate. L 2 “ Filaments short, inserted at the base of the corolla: “ anthers sagittate, united into a cone. Germen ovate, one- * celled, with one ovulum, which is attached to the bottom “of the cell. Style longer than the stamens: sfigma “simple.” Roxburgh MSS. On samples from India, in the Lambertian Herbarium, the leaves are as large as described in the above text; and the panicles, though loose, much fuller of blossom than in the present plant, which was a young one.—It is certainly, when in vigour and at its full growth, the finest species of the genus yet known. ERRATUM. In fol. 632 of the foregoing fasciculus, line 2 from the bottom, for “ slightly permanent” read “ slightly prominent.” Y ; FF 639 NEOTTIA procera. Nepal Neottia. — GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDER. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 1. 309. Div. II. Anthera stigmati parallela persistens, Masse pollinis vel farinaceæ vel à corpusculis angulatis, apicibus stigmati affixe. Brown in hort. kew. ed. 2. 5. 198. NEOTTIA. Supra vol. 7. fol. 602. N. procera, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis ; spiez axi villosá, labello ovato- acuminato erecto basi ventricoso apice recurvo, intùs inferne barbato, su- perné in palatum pruinosum sechs medium sulcatum intumescente. Neottia procera. Titulus quo hort. bot. calcutt. venit. Rhizoma pluriceps, crassiüs fibrosum. Scapi erecti, teretes, foliorum pe- tiolis vaginati, tripedales ultrdve, basi digitum vel circitér crassi. Fol. piw- rima, decrescentia, caulina, sparsa; lamina lanceolata, acuminata, subun- dulata, potentissima, 8-uncialis v. ultrà latitudine quater fer? minore, suprà inoso-micans nervis paucis conspicuioribus: petiolorum vagine mem- "nose, pallide, subtriunciales, nervis longitudinalibus lineate. Spica pereiflora, simplex, elongato-cylindrica, numerosa, laxids sparsa, erecta, patula, axi tereti villosá. Bracteæ virentes, germen arctè semi-involventes subsuperantesque, acuminate, extús villose. Flores chloroleuei, glabri, torsione germinis supinati, subdiaphani. Germ. sessile, virens, adscen- dens, cylindricum, X uncie longum. Cor. nutans, germine 3 brevior, cam- panulata, semiringens: petala 3 exteriora equilonga, oblongo-ovata, acuminata, extús infernè subvirentia, unum medium summum porrecto-fornicatum, duo inferne lateralia labello supposita, patentia, divergentia, plana, suprà recurva, intús albo-micantia; interiora 2 superne lateralia, tenerrima, albo-diaphana, latiora, apice rotundata, cum summo medio exteriore secundèm latus interius utrique. incumbente in galeam posticam fornicato-porrectam coherentia, à margine exteriore superné recurva. Labellum erectum, carmosum, petalis equilongum latitudine duplá, sessile, ovatum cum acumine brevi, integerrimum, columnam breviorem. à marginibus involutis comprehendens, infernè extüs ventricoso-convexum, à cavo interne respondente pilis robustis. glandulosis obtusis ab utrinque versüs medium conniventibus barbatum, superné breve re- curvatum cum disco interiore albido pruinoso leviter pulvinato sulcoque longi- tudinali intersecto. Columna aptera, erecta, libera, ovato-acuminata, brevis, labello longiori occultata, diuphano-albicans, posticè convexa, anticé con- cava: anthera reversa, opercularis, castaneo-fuscescens, apice postice „declivi columna inserta, stigmate parallela, persistens, convexa, altiùs à parte posticá didymo-fissá immersa, anticè dehiscens, bilocularis loculis contiguis et à septulo incompleto septi duplicati principalis parallelo secús medium interceptis. Masse pollinis 2, grosse granulose, ochroleuce, clavato-didyme, bilobo-partitæ, anticè proscollæ immediate annexe, peragente anthest situ reverse. Stigma anticum, ovato-acuminatum, concavum frontem fermé to- tum columne tenens, albicans; areola secernens inferior glandulosa glabra profundius cavata, in rostellum superius membranaceum acuminatum (post peractam anthesin ob elapsam proscollam bifidum J continuata. (N. antice vel postic? semper respecté floris expansi supinati intelligimus.) Samples of this species collected iu Nepal are deposited in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium; and seed of it has been recently sent from the botanic garden at Calcutta, by Dr. Wallich, under the present name. The drawing was made at the Nursery of Messrs. Col- vill, in the King's Road, Chelsea, where the plant is culti- vated in the hothouse, and flowers during the early part of the summer. Whether it is a genuine Neorria or not, we do not pre- tend to decide, never having critically inspected any one of the genus. According to the latest definition, the la- bellum should be beardless in Neorria, which is not the case here; but that may be a circumstance not essential to the group. Scapes several simple 2-3 feet high, sheathed by the petioles of the numerous spreading scattered lanceolate foliage. Spikes terminal, simple, cylindrically elongated, from 6 inches to a foot in length, with numerous small open-ranked greenish white inconspicuous flowers: axis round, villous. Germen about ¿ of an inch long, about 1 longer than the corolla, half inveloped by a rather longer greenish bracte, which is pointed and villous on the out- side. Label fleshy, nearly of the colour of the rest of the corolla but fading to a rusty white, of the same length as the other petals but much broader, sessile, upright, ovate, shortly pointed, entire, ventricose at the base where it is bearded within, top shortly recurved and bluntly pointed, palate frosted, slightly pulvinate, and intersected by a single furrow. XN eue, Fee — — — — m FF — ee ecco 640 CHLIDANTHUS fragrans. Perfumed Chlidanthus. — (Ó—— HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Narcisst. Jussieu gen. 52. Div. II. AMARYLLIDEX. Brown prod. 1. 296. Sect. I. Radix bul- bosa. Flores spathacei umbellati, rard solitarii. à CHLIDANTHUS. Cor. infundibularis subirregularis : laciniis ovali- bus patentibus. Stamina erecta, inclusa, tubi apice basibus subcomnatis inserta, inæqualia, brevioribus laciniis externis oppositis. Filamenta lon- giora subulata: breviora bidentata. Anthere innate. Germen 3-loculare polyspermum : ovulis compressis distichis. Stylus filiformis directione sta- minum. Stigma trilobum. Capsula subcartilaginea trivalvis. Semina mem- branacea marginata. — Herbe Chilenses, floribus luteis preeocibus, folis linearibus. Lindley collect. 34. Chlidanthus fragrans. Herbert append. 46. Lindley collect. 34. Clinanthus luteus. Herbert in eod. 40. Pancratium luteum. Pavon sub exemplari indigena in Herbario Lamberti- ano asservato. Folia linearia, graminea, lætè viridia, serotina (in planté à pictore mostro visé glauca et cum scapo simultancé provenientia). Scapus precoz, sesquipedalis, pauciflorus. Flores lutei, sessiles, subodori (in presenti plantá subpedunculati et incensam thurem jucundissime redolentes ) spathá inclusi 1-2- valvi, ovatä, ipsis dimidio breviore. Cor. infundibularis, subirregularis, tubo longo gracili sulcato: laciniis eo tripld brevioribus, patentibus, interioribus ovalibus, retusis, exterioribus ovatis, mucronatis. tamina recta, inclusa, inequelia, filamentis laciniis exterioribus oppositorum subulatis, integris, alternorum brevioribus bidentatis. Anihere oblongae, innate. Germen tri- gonum, 3-loculare, polyspermum, ovulis compressis, distichis. Stylus fili- formis, staminibus longior. Stigma trilobum. Capsula (quam comminutam tantüm vidimus) trivalvis, subcartilaginea. Semina brunnea, membrana- cea, marginata. Lindley collect. 34. Drawn at Mr. Brookes’s Nursery, Ball’s Pond. We did not see the plant, and have retained it under the present generic head, from a persuasion that the species will be found to combine with some of the imperfectly known Peruvian plants, provisionally attached to PANCRATIUM. The species appears to have served Mr. Herbert with the matter of two distinct genera; in neither of which, how- ever, can we perceive a single point to distinguish it from Amarvuus. In a character subsequently defined by Mr. Lindley, the filaments are described as slightly connected at the base, the three alternate shorter ones as bidentate, and the seeds as flat and membranously bordered. By the two first marks, if correctly expressed, it is distinguished from AmaryLuis, and by the latter from PaxcRATIux, to which last it plainly comes the nearest. What Mr. Lindley intends by antherœ innatee we own we cannot guess: possibly that circumstance may prove another available distinction. The plant drawn for our publication is said to have come from Chili; that which flowered in Lord Caernarvon's collec- tion at Highclere, from Buenos Ayres; and a native sample in Mr. Lamberts Herbarium was probably collected in Peru. The fragrance has been likened to that of Frankincense. Mr. Lindley speaks of the leaves as grasslike, of a bright green colour, and as coming after the departure of the in- florescence. Iu our sample the leaves were glaucous and simultaneous with the flowers ; nor were the flowers quite sessile as described by Mr. Lindley, but had short pe- duncles. Mr. Lindley does not seem to have seen the foliage. The scape is sometimes a foot and half high. If we should ever meet with a fresh plant, we shall notice the subject more fully in some future article of this Register. zu. EA Hille IL 2 bici CZ GR © Laquay 170 LG DIS us Zy mA w quet. AC hat 641 CALADIUM odorum. Apple-scented Caladium. — MONŒCIA POLYANDRIA. Nat. ord. AROIDEE. Jussien gen. 23. Div. I. Spadix spathá involutus. AROIDEX (includentes et Typhas et Aroideas Jussi.). Brown 1. 333. Sect. I. Flores diclines; Perianthio nulló. Aroi- dee vere. n RAR: CALADIUM. Spatha monophylla, cucullata, basi convoluta, Spadir ad apicem staminifer, mucrone quandòque nudo; medio glandnlosus; basi germinibus tectus. Antheræ peltatæ, sub peltá ad ambitum multilocularés. Glandule (stamina sterilia) obtusæ. Stigma umbilicatum. Bacca mono- sperma? Brown prod. 1. 336. : OBS. An omnes v. plures Baccd monosperma instructæ sint in posterum determinandum. Br. l c. C. odoratum, caudescens; foliis cordatis, basi bifidis, lobis rotundatis, po- dunculis axillaribus geminis, spadice spatham cymbiformem aquante cum apice staminifero unam-tertiam partem longitudinis suc occupante : baccis 1-4-spermis. Roxburgh MSS. ; (ex anglico versum.) Radix è fibris. crassis longè reptantibus, absque tamen bulbillis in indico, ceterum simillimo, frequentibus. Caudex simplex, rectus, cicatri- zatus, intra bienniwm altitudinem bipedalem (cum foliis simul orgyalem ) cum diametro brachii humani acquirens. Fol. caulina, petiolata, lamina ovato-cordatá pedes i -A longá 2-3 latá, glabratá, basi fissá, apice obtusá cum mucrone recurvo, lobis rotundatis repandis, costá nervisque crassis subtis varicosis; petiolus viridis, 2-3-pedalis, totus à dimidio inferiore vaginans, indè cylindricus glabratus. Pedunculi 1-Aori, per paria axillares, subte- retes, petiolo subbreviores, bracteis spathaceis distincti. Spatha erecta, glabra, pallidé virens, infernè crassa, ventricosa, convoluta, persistens, su- perè cymbiformis eum acumine brevi, caduca. Spadix spatie subequalis subcylindrica; apex staminiger & circitér totius longitudinis tenens, medium constrictum glandulis planis rhomboideis obsitum, basis conica germinibus tecta: antheræ numerosa, rhombiformes, ad ambitum 10-12-loculares, locu- lis apice fissurä externá dehiscentibus: germina numerosa, 4-locularia, ovulis 2-3 in loculo quoque, fundo affizis: stylus O: stig. subrotundum. „Bacc» numerose, magnitudine Cerasi minoris, pro seminum numero varié rotun- date, glabra, nitide, coccinea, uniloculares, omni septorum vestigio in- crescentibus seminibus obliterato: semina sepius 1-4, subrotunda, glabra; integumentum simplex, recens molle atque spongiosum: albumen semini con- forme: embryo simplex obconicus fine folioli exterioris plumukx obtuso juzta apicem seminis denudato. Roxburgh MSS. (ex anglico versum.) The diminished representation of the entire plant was done by Mr. Gowen, by whom the sample was communi- cated from which the rest of the drawing was taken of the VOL. VIII. M natural size. It has been introduced by Lord Caernarvon, and raised in his hothouse at Highclere, where it flowered in March last, for the first time in this country. We believe that it is not yet in any other collection. A stately species, and said by Dr. Roxburgh to be na- tive of Pegu, whence it was sent by Mr. Felix Carey to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it thrives and bears ripe fruit. The scent of the flowers is described as plea- sant; to us it resembled that of ripe apples. In two years the plant will acquire a szem of the thick- ness of a man's arm, and the height of two feet; with the leaves of six or eight feet. The blade of the leaf is from two to four feet long, and from two to three broad, has a smooth surface with broad thick nerves conspi- cuously varicose at the under side: the petiole is from two to three feet long, forming a sheath at the lower half, from thence a cylindrical shaft. The spathe decays and falls off in an early stage at the upper half, while the lower becomes the permanent envelope of the seed. "The berries are of a bright scarlet colour, and about the size of a small cherry. In Arum the spadix is naked at the upper part, stami- niferous at the middle, and germiniferous at the base; in CaLapium the upper part is covered by a close numerous spike of stamens and sometimes terminated by a naked point, the middle is glandular, and the base covered with germens. — . — 642 BRACHYSEMA undulatum. Wavy-leaved Brachysema. —— DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. LEGUMINOs;E. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. IV.—PAPILIONA: CEA. Brown in gen. rem. in flind. voy. 2. 552. BRACHYSEMA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 118. B. undulatum, foliis ellipticis undulatis mucronatis, vexillo oblongo, cordato, suprà convoluto, obtusato. Frutex erectus, flexuosus, alterne divaricatéque ramosus supernè ramique recurvato-flexiles, cortice è colore imo brunneo pube cand sericeá cinerascente. Fol. sparsa, laxa, secunda, erecta, ovata v. rotundo-ovata, undulata, re- panda, subtüs sericea, albo-nitentia, suprà glabra, opaco-virentia, reticulato- venulosa, mucronata, nunc basi subcordata, majora biuncialia v. ultrà latitudine subsesquiunciali: petioli breves, teretes, sericei: stipule 2, fusce, setaceæ, sericeæ, recurvate, petiolo longiores. Pedunculi azillares, teretes, sericei, subtriflori (flore ultimo sepé abortiente) laxi, folio aliquo- tiès longiores: bracteæ 3, parvule, subulate, calyci appresse plurimùmque breviores, una media brevior obtusior concava. lores penduli, lutescentes. Cal. membranaceus, melinus, fusco-puncticulatus, sericeus, corollá plus duplo brevior, oblato-campanulatus, bilabiato-fissus, basi posticè gibbosus; labium superius emarginatum dentibus 2 acutis, inferius trifidum segmentis ovato- acuminatis erectis subequalibus. Cor. $ uncie v. eirciter longa, oblonga, alis adductis: vexillum oblongo-cordatum, reflexum, cariná brevius; un- guis linearis, fornicatus, calycem æquans; lamina infernè orbiculato- dilatata, superné intensiüs colorata et ob latera inflexa angustato-con- cava, sæpè intus rubedine tincta: ale lineari-ligulate, parallele, à lateralibus interioribus conniventes, ab exterioribus carinam triplo la- tiorem imbricantes: carina oblonga, obtusissima, compresse ventricosa, por- recta, subtüs connata, suprà aperta, utrinque ad basin lobo rotundo de- pressiore extrorsüm flexo auriculata. Filam. alterne breviora, summum medium ad basin arcú alto fornicatum, reliqua basi gibboso-incrassata, exteriorum verd gibbositas crassior latiorque, 2 ad latera medii summi posita curvo imo postico secüs receptaculum commune appresse assurgen- tia: anthe. flaviuscule, parve, incumbentes, polline albido granuloso. Germ. ovato-oblongum, sericeo-hirsutum, stylo aliquotiés brevius, polysper- mum, disco glanduloso obliquo prominente insertum: stylus staminibus longior, continuus, albus, elongato-filiformis glaber assurgens acutus; stig. punctum pruinosum. Of this genus we know of only one other recorded spe- cies, and that is published in the second volume of this Register (fol. 118). The present was lately raised by Messrs. Colvill, of the Chelsea Nursery, from seed said to have been collected in the recently explored interior of New South M 2 Wales. It succeeds in the greenhouse, where it flowers about March and April. A shrub: stem upright, with divaricate branches bent and pendent at the upper part, as is the stem at the top; bark chestnut-brown with a fine whitish fur. Leaves loosely scattered, pointing in one direction, ovate or round- ovate, wavy, with a repand edge, silky and white under- neath, smooth and opaquely green above, finely and net- tedly veined, mucronate, sometimes slightly cordate or indented at the base, the larger ones about two inches long and one and a half broad: petioles short, round, silky: stipules 2, brown, setaceous, silky, recurved, longer than the petiole. Peduncles axillary, generally 3-flowered (the upper flower often miscarrying with us), several times longer than the leaf; bractes 3, small, subulate, pressed close to and much shorter than the calyx, the middle dif- ferent from the other two. Flowers pendulous, palish yel- low. Calyx membranous, thickly dotted with brown on a yellowish ground, silkily furred, more than twice as short as the corolla, oblately campanulate, bilabiately cloven, gibbous at the base at the back; upper lip notched with two pointed teeth, lower lip trifid with nearly equal ovately taper-pointed upright segments. Corolla about + of an inch long, oblong, with contracted alæ; vexillum oblongly cordate, reflex, shorter than the carina; unguis linear, arched, equal to the calyx; lamina orbicularly widened and expanded below, deeper coloured and by the bending of the sides narrowed and concave above, often tinged with red on the inside: alc linearly ligulate, converging by their inner edge, and overlapping the carina by their outer: carina three times broader than the alze, obtuse, rounded at the end, pointing forwards, compressedly ventricose, open at the upper side, of one piece at the under, eared on each side the base by a round depressed outwardly bent lobe. Filaments thickened at the base, the middle upper one deeply arched at the bottom part within the calyx : anthers small, incumbent, yellow; pollen granular, whitish. Ger- men ovately oblong, shaggy, several times shorter than the style, many-seeded, standing on a prominent glandular disk. Stigma an obsoletely pubescent point. 643 „„ Br ZB X D: ADA > 299 — me D Hark. ac. R- by © Page AY JO Pond Hug /. EZ. LX PET. A. 643 MELIA sempervirens. West Indian Bead-tree. — — DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. MELIACER. Jussieu gen. 263; et in mém. du mus. d’hist. nat. 3. 436. Div. II. Folia composita. MELIA. Cal. minimus 5-fidus. Petala 5 oblonga. Stamina 10, tubo cylindrico 10-dentato, dentibus antheras intùs adnatas obtegentibus. Stigma capitatum. Drupa globosa feta nuce 5-loculari 5-spermá. Frutices; folia impari-pinnata, aut bipinnata; flores paniculati axillares. Embryo seminis intra albumen carnosum tenue. Jussieu loc. cit. 265. M. sempervirens, foliis pinnatis foliolis rugosiusculis subseptenis. Swartz prod. 67. Melia sempervirens. Swartz obs. 171. Ejusd. flor. ind. occid. 2. 737. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 559. Smith in Rees’s cyclop. in loco. Melia Azedarach. f. sempervirens. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 550. Azedarach sempervirens et florens. Tournef. inst. 616. OBS. Ab Azedarach distincta est, nec pro varietate æstimari debet. Dif- fert enim ab illa, quod tota planta minor et sep floret biennis, quod foliola lete viridia, raro plusquàm 7, rugosiuscula, profundiüs et magis inequaliter serrata et acuminata, Swartz obs. 171; (manuscriptis b. Solandri in biblioth. banksianá repositis subducta.) MELIA Azedarach differt a sempervirente quod planta major, quod petioli prope basin teretiores, quod foliola plura, sepius 9 vel 11, longius petio- lata, saturate viridia, plana, nitida subtüs punctis minimis ferrugineis adspersa. Solander MSS. in biblioth. banks. à Tubus stamineus hypogynus, sanguineo-fuscescens, extus glaber, intüs pubescens, corolle equalis, erectus, breve decemfidus, lobulis trifidis, lacinulis subulatis media brevissimá introrsúm antheriferd: anthere meline, erecta, introrse, ab imo dorso inserte, oblonge, cuspidate, biloculares loculis lon- gitudinalitér dehiscentibus: pollen granuloswm, granulis sphericis. Germ. virens, glabrum ovatum esulcum, estriatum; stylus continuus, tubo stamineo «qualis, virens, glaber, tereti-elongatus, robustus; stigma apex obtusus iso- perimetrus subcoloratus pentacollis. Drawn at the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road, where the plant has flowered the second year from seed imported from the Calcutta Garden, into which, according to Dr. Roxburgh, it was introduced from the West Indies. The species was first distinguished from Mura Azeda- rach by Dr. Solander, as is proved by his manuscripts in Mr. Brown's library, where we have copied the above Latin observations, the first of which is adopted in the “ Obser- vationes” of Swartz, without notice of the real author. Sempervirens is a smaller plant than Azedarach, and often flowers the second year from. seed, as in the present instance; the leaflets of the foliage are of lighter green, seldom more than seven, somewhat wrinkled, with deeper and more irregular incisions, and a longer taper-pointed termination. Azedarach has leaves of a heavier green, with from nine to ten leaflets, which are even, shining, and ferruginously speckled underneath ; the petioles are also longer and more rounded at the base. It is known by the name of the * Bead-tree,” its yellow fruit, about the size of a cherry, containing a stone which is strung into Rosaries for the use of the Catholics, and is curiously adapted to the pur- pose by a natural perforation in the direction of its axis. This species has been thence denominated by the Spaniards the “ Tree of Paradise" (Arbol de Parayso). We have compared the present plant with native specimens from the West Indies in the Banksian and Lam- bertian Herbariums, and have no doubt of the specific identity of the two. Dr. Solander observes that sempervirens is an improper name, for, though the foliage is of longer endurance than in Azedarach, it is still deciduous, and not evergreen. Swartz says, in Jamaica the species varies interme- diately from a tree to a small bush. It is also native of the island of St. Vincent. — — — — OZ f / —ͤ —— 644 MELASTOMA heteromalla. New Brazil Melastoma. — — DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. MELASTOMACEE. Jussieu gen. 328. Div. I. Germen inferum. MELASTOMA. Supra vol. 5. fol. 363. Div. Folia septinervia. M. heteromalla, foliis cordato-ovalibus integerrimis petiolatis subtús floccu- loso-lanatis, petalis obcordatis, antheris basi arcuatis. Don MSS. Fruticosa, pubescens; caulis erectus suborgyalis, ramis supernè axilla- ribus, oppositis, brevibus, cumque caulis parte novellá obtuse 4-gonis. Fol. decussato-distantia, ovalia, apice rotundata, basi cordata, 4-T-uncialia latitudine 3-5-unciali, septinervia nervis suprà immersis infrà varicosis venas numerosas transversas approximatas parallelas utrinque emittentibus, supra setoso-sericea, subtus land flosculoso-dispertita simplici candicantia, inferiora deflexa: petioli 1-2-unciales, robusti, suprà planiusculi. Pa- nicula terminalis, decussato-distans, erecta; rami sericei dichotomi; ra- muli teretes adscendentes, imbricate alterneque multiflori ; flores violacei, speciosi, sesquiunciam diametro exsuperantes; pedicelli brevissimi, robusti, . ljlori; bractez membranacee, rubide, ovate, apice rotundate, appresse concave caduce extüs sericee, petiolis longiores. Cal. pedicelli continuus, extüs sericeus, tubo oblongo limbum æquante obsolete 5-gono cano-virente, limbo 5- rariüs 6-partito membranaceo, rotato, rubente caduco, segmentis oblongis obtusis intus glabris. Pet. 5, rariüs 6, explanata, obcordata, tenwissime ciliata, summo tubo calycis inserta. Stam. 10, rarids 12, declinato-assur- gentia, æqualia, corollá aliquoties breviora : fil. alba, limbo calycis equalia, conniventia, pilis paucis capitatis aspersa: anth. ochroleuce, rostratim elongate, filamenti subbrevioris apici acuto postice ad basin à juncturá flexili affixe, infernè curvo arcto erecto-assurgentes, conniventes, basi intüs pa- pilloso-glandulose, ventre transverse rugose, poro summo obliquo dehis- centes (estivantes ad fundum calycis usque introflexo-immersæ ). Germ. sericeum, oblongum, tubo calycis equale liberéque inclusum, truncatum : stylus albus, tereti-elongatus, glaber, suprà curvo brevi assurgens: stigma apex isoperimetrus obtusus pruinosus. Caps. baccata tubo calycis obtecta, ovata, 5- rariús 6-loc., loculorum singulorum medio à rimä oblonga quinquefariàm de- hiscens, septa membranacea medio valvarum inserta, axi capsule levius con- nexa, receptacula 5 interdüm 6 in singulis loculis singula, carnosa, loculis con- ormia, scrobiculato-punctata, imbricatèseminifera : sem. numerosa, reniformi- globosa, punctata; testa simplex crustacea fragilis; albumen 0, embryo ar- cuatus, semini conformis, albus ; cotyledones breves, crasse, subovales ; ra- dicula teres, vaga, cotyledonibus longior. Don MSS. A very handsome unrecorded species, introduced from the Brazils in 1819. Said to have first flowered in the Duke of Northumberland's garden at Sion House, and since in many collections about town. The drawing was taken at the garden of the Horticultural Society, Hammersmith, where the plant is cultivated in the stove. We have ranked the species under the present generic name, although we do not suppose it will be ultimately found to combine with the original MkrasroMa of Lin- neus, any more than many others which are placed there until the order is remodelled; a performance towards which, we understand, we may expect some valuable contributions in a future number of the ** Nova Genera et Species Plantarum" of M. Kunth. A tall shrub with a pubescent stem and branches, the latter of which come out at the upper part of the first, are short and obtusely quadrangular. Leaves petioled, cordately oval, from 4 to 7 inches long and from 3 to 5 broad, 7- nerved, furred at the upper surface with close-pressed bristly hairs, at the under by a dense tufted white wool. Panicles terminal, decussately branched, with imbricately many-flowered branchlets. Flowers violet purple, more than an inch and an half across. Bractes red, resembling the segments of the calyx. Limb of the calyx red, with ob- long obtuse caducous segments; tube of the length of the germen and not contracted at the top. Anthers cream- coloured, far shorter than the eorolla, converging and as- cending abruptly by a narrow flexure near the base, on the inside of which they are furnished with several small glan- dular papille. Fruit a 5-celled capsule. Don MSS. "E AA V. V 7 Fi (AT II- LTÉ 7; 2 MAIES] CEY A, Suaguray‘/ g E tli VE Hp Hig. T dia. 645 POLYGALA latifolia. Broad-leaved Cape- Milkwort. ——J-—-— " DIADELPHIA OCTANDRIA. Nat. ord. PEDICULAREs, Jussieu gen, 99. Div. J. Stamina non di- dynama, 2 aut plura. RHINANTHACE®. Decand. thtor. ed. 2. 247. POLYGALEÆ. Brown gen. rem. in Flind. voy. 2. 542; et suprà fol. 636. POLYGALA. Suprà vol. 2. fol. 150. Div. Cristate. P. latifolia fruticosa, ramis pubescentibus, foliis decussatis, subcoriaceis, glauciusculis, nervosis, rhombeo-ovatis, oblatis, suprà nudis, infra villo- ra racemis umbellatis; antheris barbá longa rará divaricatà ad asin. Fruticulus erectus ( sesquipedalis?); ramis erectis, teretibus, villoso-ca- nescentibus, foliosis, ( brevibus? ). Fol. decussato-opposita, cinereo-virentia, crassiuscula, oblata, rhomboidali-ovata, intervallis longiora, nervosa, mu- cronata, ciliata, subtüs villis raris adspersa, $ uncie longa vel magis, basi obsoletè cordata : petiolus hirsutior, brevissimus. Racemi terminales, pluri- flori, erecti, umbellato-contracti, axi pedicellis plurimim breviore bracteis obtectá : pedicelli stricti, glauci, pallidi, nudiusculi, flore duplo breviores, basi bracteolis 3 verticillatis ovato-oblongis cincti. Flores dilutiès purpu- rascentes $ uncie longi v. circitór. Cal. fere congenerum affinium. Vexil- lum dipetalum chloroleucum, suprà venis purpureis pictum, segmento incum- bente calycis X longius, petala collateralia à margine interiore villoso mutud imbricantia, biloba fissa, lobis sind lato obtuso interceptis, interiore reflexo obtuso, exteriore assurgente duplo longiore lineari-subulato acumine saturate purpureo. Ale clandestine nulle. Carina cymbata, compressa, latissima, in fern virens, supernè atropurpurascens acumine brevi: penicillus carneo- albicans, amplus, decompositus, inferne virens. Fil. alba: antherze Have, basi barbä rarä patentissima donate. Pist. Jere ligularis, oppositifoliæ, et myrtifoliæ, at glochis stigmatosa earum plurimüm latior. A curious unpublished species, lately introduced from the Cape of Good Hope by Messrs. Colvill, of the Chelsea Nursery, in the King’s Road, where the drawing was taken in May last. Cultivated in the greenhouse. It forms a small upright shrub, and flowers freely in the latter part of the spring. A foot and a half high? branches upright, round, vil- lous, grey, leafy, short. Leaves decussated, slightly glau- VOL. VIII. N cous, thickish, oblate, rhomboidally ovate, longer than the intervals, nerved, mucronate, fringed, thinly furred under- neath smooth above, two thirds of an inch long or more, obsoletely cordate or indented at the base: petiole shaggy, very short. Racemes (bunches) terminal, of several flowers, upright, umbellately contracted, axis much shorter than the pedicles and covered with bractes: pedicles straight and stiff, pale, nearly smooth, twice shorter than the flower, surrounded at the base by 3 small ovately oblong bractes in a whorl. Flowers pale purple, about two thirds of an inch long. Calyx as in other the nearer species. Vexillum of two petals greenish white, marked with purple veins above, about 1 longer than the superincumbent segment of the calyx, petals overlapping each other by the inner margin which is furred, bifid, lobes intercepted by a wide obtuse sinus, inner one reflex, obtuse, outer one pointing upwards, twice the longest, linearly subulate, of a deep purple at the top. Latent ale none. Carina boatshaped, compressed, very deep, green below, dark purple above with a short point: pencil pinkish white, compound, large, green at the bottom. Filaments white: anthers deep yellow, thinly bearded at the base by a few longish divaricate hairs, a circumstance that does not belong to any other species we have inspected. — * AL oh ti, al, S lee, (JO Porq Aug. 11022. X Hals Le. 646 MARICA iridifolia. Rough-edged Marica. — TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. ENSATÆ. Linn. ord. nat. VI. Nobis in ann. of bot.1. 919. IRIDES. Jussieu gen. 57. YRiDEX. Brown prod. 1. 302, MARICA. Supra vol. 3. fol. 229. Div. II. Stigmatibus subulatis distinctis. SISYRINCHIA. Species Ameri- canc tam tropice quam extratropice. Nob. suprà v. 3. f. 229. in spec, enum. M. iridifolia, foliis ensiformibus, margine scabris, culmo foliaceo-ancipiti brevioribus, ramis parallelis & vagina genu; spathis terminalibus; corollà extüs inferné germineque pubescentibus; filamento monadelpho infrà barbato; capsulà rotundä, nudiusculä. Marica iridifolia. Nobis suprà vol. 3. fol. 229 (altero verso in spec. enum.). Sisyrinchium iridifolium. Kunth nov. gen. et spec. 1. 260. Sisyrinchium laxum. Curtis’s magaz. 2312. Sisyrinchium. Pavon in exemplari australi-americano Herbarii Lambertiani, Perennis, radice ‚fibrosä. Folia radicalia plura collaterali-disticha, an- gustiùs ensiformia, margine scabra. Culmus sesquipedalis v. ultra, lineari- foliaceus, foliis altior, uniarticulatus, ramosus, ramis 2-pluribus intra articuli vaginam aggregatis. Spathæ terminales, multiflore, bivalves, lineari-lanceolate, compresse, valvis exterioribus 2 gramineis, naviculari- bus, interioribus ffores distinguentibus plurimüm brevioribus pellucido-mem- branaceis convolutis, flori cuique uno: pedunculi graciles flexiles, floridi spatham equantes, fructiferi longiùs exserti. Cor. ochroleuca, hexapetalo- partita, hypocrateriformis, purpureo-striata, limbo rotato, diametro un- cic, teneriore, involuto-emarcescente; laciniæ equilonge, cuneato-ligulate, plane, mucronate, exteriores 3 alterne, latiores, inferne extüs villosæ ; ur- ceolus limbo firmior diuturnior et 5 brevior, flavo et purpureo vittatus, ore intüs purpureo-stellatus, fundo flavescens. Stamina laciniis exterioribus op- posita, urceolo feré duplo breviora; fil”. monadelpha ; tubus stamineus aureo- ‚flavescens, ampullaceus, inferne pube densá capitatä barbatus, inde subglaber, ore tridendato patens dentibus antheriferis subulato-teretibus obsolete viren- tibus glabris: anth. incumbentes, extrorsum dehiscentes, flave, polline grumoso. Stigmata 3 subulata patentia apice convoluto-canaliculata erosula antheras alterne intercipientia, stylo filiformi viridi duplo breviora. Germen par- vulum obovato-globosum villosum. Capsula subglobosa membranacea, nudi- uscula ; loculis biseriato-polyspermis; sem. fusca, contactu angulosa. We had some hesitation in referring our plant to the present species, the germen being described by Mr. Kunth as smooth in ¿ridifolia, while here it is plainly furred, al- though the fur gradually disappears as the germen ad- vances in growth, and is obliterated, or nearly so, in the N2 ripe capsule; but seeing that the agreement between the two is in all other respects complete, we have thought it safest not to originate another species upon so slight (and perhaps uncertain) a difference. In the Lambertian Her- barium there is a sample collected in South America clearly belonging to the same species with our plant, and there the germen is furred. Drawn at the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road. Lately introduced from the Berlin Botanic Garden. Continues in successive bloom for three or four months together in the greenhouse. A fibrous-rooted perennial plant. Leaves narrowly en- siform, with rough edges. Stem a foot and a half high or more, linearly foliaceous, one-jointed ; branches (two? or more) rising parallelly from the sheath at the joint of the stem. Spathes terminal, lanceolate, compressed, many- flowered, outer valves herbaceous, inner membranous; pe- duncles of the flower even with the spathe, of the fruit much longer. Corolla hexapetaloidly parted, hypocrateriform, segments of one length, cuneately ligulate, flat, mucronate, 3 outer ones the broadest and villous below on the outside ; urceolus about one third shorter than the rotately expanded limb, which decays by rolling inwards long before the urceolate portion. Stamens nearly three times shorter than the urceolus of the corolla, monadelphous ; filamentous shaft tubular, bright yellow, densely bearded at the lower part, nearly naked at the upper, 3-toothed, teeth subulate, spreading, short, anther-bearing : anthers incumbent. Stig- mas 3, subulate, spreading, convolutely channelled and eroded at the top, alternating with the anthers, three times shorter than the green filiform style. Germen small, ob- ovate, hairy. Capsule round, nearly smooth, many-seeded. avr ¡ed 7 PR » = N NX NY + AMG 27 c ‘ 647 STENOCHILUS maculatus. Spotted-flowered Stenochilus. . — DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. MYOPORINÆ. Brown prod. 1. 514. STENOCHILUS. Supra vol. 7. fol. 572. S. maculatus caule ramisque sericeis erectis, foliis spathulato-v. ligulato- lanceolatis, flore plurimüm brevioribus, pedunculis flexuoso-declinatis ; staminibus pauló exsertis. Frutex erectus, ramosus: rami adscendentes, alterni, foliosi, villosiusculi. Fol. sparsa, opaca, firma, erectiuscula, internodiis plurimüm longiora, spa- thulato-lanceolata, acumine obtusulo, wninervia, avenia, pube brevissimá glandulosa obsolete canescentia, subciliata, subsessilia vel longiüs infernè ver- sus ad instar fer? petioli attenuata, exstipulata, $ unciæ ad sesquiunciam Fermé longa latitudine subbilineari. Flores nutantes, pedunculati, axillares, solitarii, pauci, inferne in ramulis sparsi, folia plurimùm exsuperantes ; pedunculi subelavato-filiformes, flexuoso-declinati, Folio subequales, flore du- plo breviores, glabri, ebracteati. Cal. corolla pluriès brevior, herbaceus, 5- partitus, campanulatus, segmentis erectis, ovato-cuspidatis, basi imbricatis, suprà distantibus. Cor. subsesquiuncialis, rubicunda (intus flavo-pallescens, purpureo-maculosa pilosaque pilis circa faucem densioribus), oblonga, clava- to-tubulosa, € fundo globoso-extumescente in faucem tubulosam constrictiorem compressiusculam limbo longiori inequaliter semiringenti terminatam conti- nuata; labium superius oblongum, rectum, lateribus reflexis, breve 4-fidum laciniis acutis, 2 intermediis ab invicem breviüs divisis, lateralibus retrorsim obliquatis ; labium inferius plurimum angustius, ligulatum, integrum planum, mucronatum, recurvatum, intus superne glabrum. Stam. obsoletè didynama : filam. ime fauci inserta, adscendentia, subexserta: antheræ posticè è summo margine vibrato-pensiles, reniformi-didyme, loculis à margine superiori con- nexis: pollen album, granulosum. Stylus albus, corolla «qualis, glaber, germen continuans, curvo lenissimo ascendens: stigma apex obtusus suturä pruinosá circa medium transversè bisectus. Germen viride, ovato-rostratum. An unpublished species, originally observed, we are told, on a late expedition beyond the colony in New South Wales. The flowers are handsomer and larger than in glaber, previously represented in this work (vol. 7. fol. 572). Drawn at the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road, where the plant is cultivated in the greenhouse. We have never heard of its being in any other collection in this country. An upright branching shrub; branches alternate, leafy, villous. Leaves scattered, substantial, nearly upright, opaque, much longer than the intervals, spatulately lanceo- late with a bluntish point, I-nerved, veinless, faintly gray owing to a very short glandular fur, slightly fringed, nearly sessile but far-tapered downwards in a way to appear as if petioled, from about 3 of an inch to an inch and an half long and about 2 lines broad. Flowers few, scattered about the lower part of the branches, nodding, much longer than the leaves, peduncled, axillary, solitary ; peduncles filiform, slightly clavate, flexuosely declining, about the length of the leaf, twice shorter than the flower, smooth, bracteless. Calyx several times sborter than the corolla, herbaceous, 5-parted, campanulate, with straight ovately cuspidate seg- ments, which are imbricate at the base but apart at the top. Corolla about an inch and an half long, red (purple spotted on a pale yellow ground and hairy on the inside), oblong, clavately tubular, from a globularly protuberant base pro- longed into a narrower somewhat compressed faux which is terminated by a longer unequally halfringent limb; upper lip of the limb oblong, straight, with the sides turned back, shallowly 4-cleft, segments pointed, two middle ones more shallowly parted from each other, side-ones slanting back- wards; lower lip much narrower, ligulate, entire, flat, mu- cronate, recurved, smooth above on the inside. Stamens very slightly didynamous : filaments inserted at the base of the faux, but little protruded: anthers pensile, veering, reni- formly didymous, cells connected along the upper rim, at the back of which the flexile point of the filament is in- serted: pollen white, granular. Style white, even with the corolla, slightly ascending: stigma a blunt rounded conti- nuous termination bisected transversely about the middle by a faintly downy seam. Germen green, ovate, amd beaked. — A IXORA cuneifolia. Dacta Ixora. —— TETBANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. RuBIACEX. Jussieu gen. 196. Div. VI. Fructus monocar- pus bilocularis dispermus. Stamina 4. Folia opposita; caulis plerümque frutescens. IXORA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 100. I. cuneifolia, fruticosa, foliis lató-cuneatis, lanceolatis, acuminatis; corym- bis terminalibus, pedunculo communi longo; florbus congestis; ca- lycis segmentis oblongis conicis. Roxburgh flor. ind. 1. 390; (ex angl. vers.) Caudex brevis. Rami oppositi, suberecti, teretes, cortice glabro fusco; novelli glabri virentes. Fol. opposita, brevé petiolata, lata, cuneata, lan- ceolata, recurva, integra, acuminata apice obtuso, levigata, firma, subbul- lato-rugata, 4-6-uncialia latitudine sesqui-biunciali. Stipulæ subulato-at- tenuate acute. Corymbi trichotomi ; ramuli fasciculis subsessilibus congestis terminati. Bractex (dilute carneæ) subulate, paria opposite, corymbi divisuris calycique arctè supposite ( minimae). Flores odorati, numerosissimi, candidi, extüs rubedine aliquá dilutissime suffusi. Cal. ad basin usque par- titus, segmentis longis, angustis, acutis (subcarneis, erectis, ‚glanduloso- denticulatis, bracteis pluriès latioribus). Corolla tubus cylindricus, gracil- limus, longitudine fer? 3 uncie; limbi laciniæ tubo bis breviores vel magis (ob revoluta latera mox post expansimem convexo-angustate). Antheræ lineari-anguste, basi profunde sagittate (lobulis subreflexis ). Stigmata linearia, altiüs à stylo extra tubum elevata. Germ. virens, ovato-globosum, biloculare, loculis monospermis, seminibus septo medio affixis. Bacca glo- boso-turbinatu, magnitudine Cerasi minoris, let rubens, glabra, bilocularis. Semina solitaria, rotunda, ovalia, à latere exteriore convexa, ab interiore serobiculo profundo impressa. Yntegumentum duplex ; exterius putamineum ; interius membranaceum, subvirescens. Albumen semini conforme. Embryo erectus, secundùm convexitatem seminis curvatus. Cotyledones reniformes. Radicula cylindrica, longitudine cotyledonum, infera. Roxburgh l. c.; (ex anglico versum.) Now first introduced by Messrs. Colvill, of the Chelsea Nursery, from the East Indies; where it grows, according to Dr. Roxburgh, in the country about Dacca; from whence seeds were sent by the late Colonel Peter Murray to the botanic garden at Calcutta, in which the plant suc- ceeds and ripens its fruit. “ Vahl's figure of Ixora parviflora (symb. bot. 3. t. 52.) is much like this plant; his description agrees, however, VOL. VIII. 0 better with what I have always considered to be his parvi- flora, and which is so labelled in Sir Joseph Banks’s Her- barium. They differ in the following respects: That Ixora parviflora is à tree, this a shrub; in that the leaves are linear-oblong with a cordate base, of a much firmer tex- ture, and more polished; in this they taper for two thirds of their length to the base (hence the specific name cunei- folia). In that the segments of the calyx are short and obtuse; in this long and acute. In that the berries are round and black; in this short-turbinate and red. The corymbs also differ somewhat. In both species the flowers are white, but in this much larger." Roxb. l. c. Requires to be cultivated in the hothouse. The blossom is delicately fragrant. The specific identity of our plant has been determined by collation with Dr. Roxburgh's samples in the Lam- bertian Herbarium. The name of the species does not seem very happily selected. * Trunk short, branches upright. Leaves short petioled, broad, cuneate, lanceolate, recurved, taper, obtuse-pointed, firm, polished, somewhat bullate; 4-6 inches long, 13-2 broad. Flowers very numerous, crowded, white, with a very slight tinge of red on the outside, fragrant. Berry round, turbinate, size of a small cherry, when ripe of a bright red." Roxb. l. c. 2 sur ut x Pf „ „ LA O, / 424299 é Gb " er, LAM oto, PUN by 34 Kee UG LAMM LIE deco Lf Yr ^b. A ACE LE . p X. 649 CLERODENDRON squamatum. Kempfer's scarlet Clerodendron. V ann; DIDYNAMIA A4NGIOSPERMI 4A. Nat. ord. VERBENACEE. Jussieu in ann. du mus. 7. 63. Brown prod. 1. 510 ; et supra fol. 629. CLERODENDRON. Supr vol. 5. fol. 406. C. squamatum, foliis cordatis denticulatis subtüs squamatis, paniculà termi- nali divaricatä, pedunculis calycibusque coloratis glabris, staminibus corolla totà longioribus. Brown in hort. kew. ed. 2. 4. 63. Clerodendron squamatum. Vahl symb. 2. 74. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 357. Volkameria Kempferi. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 385. Volkameria Kempferiana. Jacq. ie. rar. 3. f. 500. collect. 3.207. Banks ic. Kampf. t. 58. (Frutex). Radix ramosa, longa, princeps unciam diametro equans, foris fuscescens, intüs alba, fragilis, insipida atque inodora uti tota planta, "Truncus pollicem crassus, teres, erectus, 5-pedalis, cortice vestitus glabro et cinereo, modo simplicissimus, modo superné parüm ramosus. Truncus ju- nior ramique sunt virides, obtuse 4-goni, glabri, digitum minimum fere crassi. Fol. sunt opposita, petiolata, cordata, acuta, obsoletissimè denticulata ut Jere integerrima, venosa, utrinque villosula, patentissima; petiolo tereti, ca- lamum crasso, glabriusculo, anticè haud profunde sulcato, ‚semipedali et ultra; ipsa sine hoc folia majora pedalia. Panicula terminalis, semipedalis v. et pedalis, erecta, floribus numerosissimis ornata. Rachis media prin- ceps 4-gona, glabra. Pedunculi teretes, partiales primarii oppositi, paten- tissimi, glabri, plus minus 2 unciales et dein plerùmgue bis dichotomi; ulti- mis pedunculis racemosis; pedicellis propriis semuncialibus. Bracteæ ad omnes divisiones adsunt lineares et supernè revolutæ. Flores ung cum pedi- cellis, pedunculis communibus ultimis, bracteisque, toti sunt unicolores et saturatissimè coccineo-miniati (nec non foris pubescentes). Cal. 1-phyllus, profundè 5-partitus, campanulatus, coloratus, punctis albis elevatis glandu- losisque aspersus, persistens: laciniis ovatis, acuminatis, concavis, apice conniventibus, foris sulco longitudinali instructis intüs protuberante, tubo corolle duplo latioribus. Cor. 1-petala: tubus cylindricus, calyce duplo longior, erectus: limbus 5-partitus, subequalis, tubo paulo brevior ; laciniis lineari-oblongis, obtusulis, patentissimis, primo planis, dein obliquis, ad alterum latus reflexis, discedentibus maximé 2 superioribus. Fil. 4, fili- formia, (coccinea) petalo duplo longiora, ad latus corolle hians posita, suberecta aut reclinata, quorum 2 reliquis pauxillim longiora. Anth. fus- cescentes, oblonge, incumbentes. Germ. viride, superum, subrotundum, ob- soleté 4-sulcatum ; stylus s wx staminibus brevior (purpureus): stig. 2- fidum, patulum, acutum, laciniis subulatis aequalibus. Bacca nigrescens, subrotunda, mollis, ex structurá germinis parumper jam aucti 2-loc.; sed dein obsolescentibus loculamentis 1-loc. Nux ex naturd germinis in utroque loculamento solitaria, 2-loc. ; sed obsolescentibus reliquis, in fructú maturo semen unicum, basi concavum, superné convexum, rugosum. Jacq. coll. 3.207. Folia villis crassiusculis pubescentia, ciliis interpetiolaribus mu- nita, subtüs squamulis orbicularibus (pubescentiæ exenterata exuviis v, setu- o2 larum, pulpá per porum apicis evacuatá, collapsis cutibus) sparsa: petioli 9-unciales. Panicule decussato-divaricate. ntheræ profunde sagittate. Stigma cuspis continua bifida. Native of China and Japan. Introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1790. In the Lambertian Herbarium there are several spontaneous samples from Japan. Cultivated in the hothouse of the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill in the King’s Road, where the drawing was made. A straight simple or sometimes slightly branched shrub, about five feet high. Leaves cordate and pointed, the largest nearly a foot in length and almost as much in breadth, connected by an interpetiolary line of hair: petioles nearly nine inches long. Panicles deep scarlet throughout, from 6 inches to a foot long, upright, decussately spread- ing, loosely but numerously flowered. The under side of the whole foliage is generally found to be thickly studded underneath with small round shining flat-pressed scales, which we take to be the collapsed epi- dermides or skins of the glandular fur, the pulp or con- tents of the pile having been evacuated by a pore at the top of each hair; at least this is our view of the origin of these scales, the formation of which, we think, we have seen in progress. Jacquin has not noticed any scales in his plant, and perhaps they may in some instances be absent, or at least not have assumed that form in certain stages of the growth. It is an extremely ornamental plant. 7 a ij j \ | / f | 22 / f N 2 D MW LA 2 Tg]; 4 Ya“ y (LL : / > / ad TA dL AAA Lun A JTE 2 = 22 au. Gib by e. 72/2717 OF OO AAT, 8 x y" Een 650 GLYCINE sinensis. Chinese Glycine. — DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSE. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V. Cor. irregularis papilionacea. Legumen uniloculare bivalve. Frutices aut herbae ; folia sim- licia aut ternata aut rariús digitata; stipulae nunc subnulle, nunc conspicuæ imo petiolo adnate aut ab eodem distincta. — PAPILIONACEJE. Brown in append. to flind. voy. 2. 552. : GLYCINE. Supra vol. 3. fol. 261. Div. Apios? germine disco elevato inserto. G. sinensis, fruticosa, volubilis, foliis impari-pinnatis foliolis undenis ovato- lanceolatis sericeis: racemo terminali nutante laxo numeroso; bracteis caducis; germinis pedicello disco elevato aperto inserto. * Glycine sinensis. Curtis's magaz. t. 2083. Frutex volubilis. Fol. laxiús impari-pinnata, 9-uncialia ad pedalia vel circd, sericea, 5-juga ; foliola ovato-lanceolata, cuspidato-acuminata, breve petiolata, 2-3-uncialia, subundulata; petiolus communis villosus supra cana- liculatus, basi incrassatus, ramo ex articulo flexili annexus: stipule setaceæ, villose, patentes, caduce. Racemus ramulorum terminalis, nutans, nume- TOSUS, sparsus, (æstivans) amentaceo-coarctatus, totus bracteis virescentibus membranaceis tenuibus basi pedicelli florum singulorum appositis caducis extis hirsutis sepiüs integris interdum trifidis (ex tribus coadunatis ) imbricato- contectus; (expansus) pedalis v. ultra, laxus: flores violaceo-pallentes, nu- tantes, speciosi, inodori, $ unciæ v. circa longi: pedicelli flore parüm bre- viores rachisque virentia teretia villosa. Cal. corollä plurimum brevior, oblongo-campanulatus, subcoloratus, villosus, 4-fidus limbo aliquoties brevior, tubo erecto bilabiato; labio superiore ovato, emarginato-truncato, inferiore 3-fido segmentis acuminatis. Vexillum arrecté reflexum, orbiculatum, emar- ginatum plicá mediá longitudinali, basi cordatum: ale carinaque inter se conformes, porrecto-parallele, vexillo parum breviores saturatius colorata obtuse; carina dipetala petalis solutis, alarum parum angustioribus. Stam. diadelpha, scrobiculo secernente sub insertione filamenti simplicis: antheræ * alterné precociores, breves, ovate: pollen grumosum pallidum. Germ. pedi- cellatum, apici obliquo aperto disci viridissimi elevati glabri subconici mser- tum, subcompresso-lineare villosum, deorsàm attenuatum, polyspermum : stylus. subulato-continuus, glaber, assurgens, germine bis terve brevior: stigma apex depresso-capitatus. Drawn at the Hammersmith Nursery, where the plant is cultivated by Mr. Lee in the Conservatory, and flowers about March. Native of China ; from whence it is said to have been imported about five or six years ago by Captain Welbank. Gzycixe, like most of the older genera of this natural order, stands in great need of reform. A handsome free-flowering climbing shrub. Leaves unequally and loosely pinnate, from nine inches to a foot in length; /eaflets eleven, silky-furred, ovately lanceolate, taper-pointed and cuspidate, shortly petioled, 2-3 inches long, slightly undulate. Stipules setaceous, villous, spread- ing, caducous. Racemes at the ends of the branches, nod- ding, numerously and scatteredly flowered ; (before expan- sion) imbricately gathered into the form of an amentum (catkin), and entirely scaled over by largish green hairy membranous bractes, which fall off as soon as the flowers begin to show themselves; (after expansion) extending themselves to the length of a foot or more: flowers hand- some, palish violet-colour, scentless, and about 3 of an inch long. Calyx greatly shorter than the corolla, campanulate, oblong, somewhat coloured, bilabiate ; upper lip ovate, emarginately truncate, lower lip trifid, pointed. Vexillum orbicular; reflex, cordate at the base: ale and carina of one shape, pointing forwards, parallel, a little shorter than the vexillum and. deeper coloured, obtuse; the two petals of the carina separate and a little narrower than the ale. Stamens diadelphous, with a small secreting hollow below the insertion of the single filament. Anthers short, ovate ; alternate ones shedding their pollen before the rest. Ger- men pedicled, inserted at the open slanting summit of a deep green smooth conically projected disk, linear, some- what compressed, villous, many-seeded, tapered towards the base: style smooth subulate, 3 or 4 times shorter than the germen : stigma a round depressed knob. The outline in the annexed plate exhibits the raceme in its unexpanded state, before tbe casting of the bractes, ‚which cover it. 651 PYRUS coronaria. Sweet-flowered American Crab-tree. piiat — ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. RosACEX. Jussieu gen. 334. Div. I. Germen simplex, in- ferum, polystylum. Pomum calycino limbo umbilicatum, multiloculare, Arbores aut frutices. PoMACEX. PYRUS. Supra vol. 6. fol. 514. Div. I. Folia simplicia. P. coronaria, foliis cordatis inciso-serratis angulatis glabris, pedunculis co- rymbosis. Solander in Hort. Kew. 2. 176. Pyrus coronaria. Zinn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2. 687. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1019. Ejusd. arb. 265. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 209. Pursh amer. sept. 1.340. Nut- tall gen. 1. 307. — Curtis's magaz. 2009. Pyrus foliis serrato-angulosis. | Gron. virg. ed. 2. 77. f Malus coronaria. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 2. Michaux bor. amer. 1. 292. Ejusd. arb. 3. 65. t. 10. Malus sylvestris, floribus odoratis. Gron. virg. 55. Du Hamel arb. 1. A beautifully flowered Crab-tree, found wild in most of the forests of the United States of America; but princi- pally in the middle States, and more especially in the re- moter districts of Pensylvania and Virginia. Its ordinary height is from fifteen to eighteen feet, with a bole of from five to six inches in diameter. Insulated trees are sometimes found in old cultivated spots which measure from twenty- five to thirty feet in height, with a bole of from twelve to fifteen inches in diameter. The tree does not appear to have been any where the subject of horticultural experiment, either in view to better the quality of its fruit or to obtain new and useful va- rieties. Cool and moistish situations in a rich soil are those it prefers. The blossom, which is produced early in the spring, is delightfully fragrant, and, where the tree grows in masses, perfumes the surrounding country for miles with an odour said by some to resemble that of the violet, by others that of the raspberry. The crab or apple is small, yellowish-green, austere, with a strong disagreeable smell; is used in confectionary, and, where abundant, is sometimes made by the American farmers into tolerable cider. The young leaves have a bitter slightly aromatic taste, and would probably serve as a substitute for tea. Introduced by Mr. Robert Furber in 1724. The draw- ing of the flowering branch was taken in the nursery grounds of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road, Chelsea. We are chiefly indebted for the above account to * L'Histoire des Arbres Forestiers de l'Amérique Septen- trionale" of the younger Michavx. The figure of the fruit, which is rarely seen in this country, was done by Mr. Lindley, from a sample which ripened in a garden at Norwich. e Ae. Hp. . 1522. 7 Gl Ly e PA / eL y o AL Karl‘ AH 659. RAPHIOLEPIS salicifolia. Willow-leaved Raphiolepis. — ICOSANDRIA DIGYNIA. Nat. ord. RosACER. Jussieu gen. 334. Div. I. Germen simplex infe- rum, polystylum. Pomum calycino limbo umbilicatum, multiloculare. Arbores aut frutices. PoMAckE. RAPHIOLEPIS. Supra vol. 6. fol. 468. R. salicifolia, foliis elongeto-lanceolatis, panicul subcorymboso-fastigiante, pe dentes calycis æquantibus, staminibus coarctatis calyce aliquo- tiés brevioribus. Arbuscula, Rami teretes; juniores subrubentes, graciles. Folia ovali- elongata, uirinque attenuata, aqualitér serrata. Cal. virescens, dentibus subulatis corollam ibus. Racemus paniculatus, ramulis subcorym- boso-fastigiantibus. Flores albi; petala lanceolata. Stamina alba, brevia, €ongesto-fasciculata, erecta. “ Rapuiouepis has been established upon the Craræaus indica of Linnæus (see vol. 6. fol. 468 of this Register): * a name which seems to have been applied to several plants * sufficiently different from each other to be considered distinct species, and not agreeing among themselves in “ character more than the species of a natural genus are * expected to do. What the precise plant may have been “ which Linnæus intended by Crarzeus indica, it is not “ now perhaps very easy to determine. Loureiro, who first distinguished two species, ascribes to his CRATAGUS indica “ roundish petals, and to his Crarzeus rubra lanceolate “ petals. Of the former there are specimens in Sir Joseph “ Banks’s Herbarium, brought from Macao by Mr. Henry s Bradley ; but, we believe, not in the gardens of this “ country. The plant we have now before us (Mr. Lindley, “ whom we are quoting, speaks of his RarnioLrris rubra) “ we have little hesitation in considering the latter. At “ least, we are persuaded that Loureiro had either this plant * in view, or a nearly related species, which we shall pre- * sently have occasion to notice. Besides these, we believe “ there are several plants in the collections about London, ‘which will constitute as many distinct species. Among * them may certainly be included a shrub imported from VOL, Vill. P “ China by the Horticultural Society, and published provi- “ sionally as CraTEGUS indica in the Botanical Register, “ which differs in having spreading red stamens longer * than the calyx, and much longer leaves. In the same * collection we have also remarked a fourth species with * long willowlike leaves, which may be distinguished by “ the name of R. salicifolia” Lindley collect. 3. We must here protest against Mr. Lindley's ascribing to us the intention of giving the plant of the 468th article of this work provisionally for CrataGus indica of Linnæus; for we really believed the plant to be of that species at the time we published it, and do so still. Had we meant to have given it provisionally, we should bave said so ; we had no mental reservation. Our plant may not be the Cnaræcus indica of Loureiro, that being described with roundish petals; but we do not see any reason why Lou- reiro's plant should be the one intended by Linnæus, as Mr. Lindley supposes, rather than the one we ourselves have published for it, and disagree with Mr. Lindley in regard to the proposed adoption of the new specific name of pheostemon for it. It would be better to give a new name to Loureiro's plant. The drawing was taken at the garden of the Horticul- tural Society, where our sample flowered in the hothouse; and was supposed to have been imported from China. We had no opportunity of inspecting it, but believe it a good species, as well as indica and rubra. We are obliged to Mr. Lindley for the notice of our plant being his R. salicifolia. 653 PSIDIUM polycarpon. Guava of Trinidad. — — ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNId. Nat. ord. Myrti (MYRTACER). Jussieu gen. Div. I. Flores in fo- liorum axillis aut in pedunculis mültifloris oppositi. Folia plerimque oppo- sita et punctata. PSIDIUM. Supra fol. 622. P. polycarpon, foliis ovato-oblongis acutis suberenatis, suprà pubescentibus, subtüs rugosis scabris, pedunculis trifloris, ramis reclinatis, Lambert in trans. linn. soc. 11. 231. tab. 17. Frutex vir tripedalis, ramosus. Rami elongati, graciles, reclinati. Folia ovalia seu ovato-oblonga, breviüs petiolata ( cinereo-virentia, costato- nervosa nervis alternis distantibus subtus varicosis). Pedunculi axillares, solitarii, interdüm gemini, sericeo-tomentosi, apice dichotomi, triflori. Flos intermedius sessilis, laterales pedicellati. Poma subrotunda, congesta parva. Lambert loc. cit. “ This is a very small shrub, scarcely three feet high, * divided into a few straggling branches, the lower ones * lying on the ground, the upper bending towards it. The “ young twigs are round and hairy. The leaves have oppo- * site footstalks ; they are near five inches long and more * than two broad, of an oval-oblong form, with upward- * curved ribs; smooth, with scattered hairs above; rough “and hairy beneath. They cover the greater part of the * branch, each pair, an incb and an half distant. From “ the bottom of each comes out a short stalk, which sup- “ ports three flowers, and they turn into as many round “ yellow fruits, the size of a large Cherry, of a delicate taste, “ far superior to the common Guava. The numerous fruits, “ when full grown, form a continued cluster on the greater “ part of the branch, which is bended to the ground by the “ weight. * The species is indigenous to the grassy savannahs of * Trinidad; from whence plants were sent to St. Vincent's “in 1792.“ Lambert loc. cit. 7 2 The drawing was taken from a plant in the hothouse of Sir Abraham Hume, at Wormleybury, who was so kind as to send us a sample of the fruit, the scent of which seemed to us more agreeable than the taste. de M. Hard. del. CCCP Hd o — — 654 ACTINOTUS Helianthi. Helianthus-flowered Actinotus. — PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Nat. ord. UMBELLIFERE, Jussieu gen. 218. Sprengell in Romer et Schultes syst. veg. 6. xxix. Tribus J. FoRMx DESCISCENTES. Div. Um- belle capitatæ. ell loc. cit. xxx. ACTINOTUS. Flores plurimi, pedicellati, dense aggregati suprà re- an planum villosum involucro polyphylo cinctum, compressione polygami, hermaphroditis scilicet et masculis singulis calyx superus 5-par- titus persistens. Cor. 0. Hermaphroditorum stylus, stigmatum set late- rali. Semen unicum. Tabillard. nov. Roll. I. 67. i A. Helianthi, tomentosa, foliis decursivè pinnatis, involucro decem ad octodecim-radiato molli longissimo. Zabillard. nov. kol. I. 67. t. 92. Eriocalia major. Smith exot. bot. 2. 37. tab. 78. Ejusd. introd. to bot. 373. Id. in Rees's cyclop. in loco, Romer et Schultes syst. veg. 6. 339, dde pra helianthe. Poiret in Lamarck encye. 8. 338. ix ramosa, lignea. Caulis unicus, subbipedalis, erectus foliosus, feres, lanatus, parüm nisi supernè ramosus; pedunculi superni, longi, plùs minis numerosi, corymboso-fastigiantes. Folia alterna, petiolata, trifida, lobata, pinnatifida, dense lanata, insigniüs d parte proná albicantia. Stipulæ O. Flores terminales, ampli, speciosi. Smith loc. cit. (ex angl. vers.) Involucrum lentum, 8-18-radiatum, albidum pube molli curtá lanatum, florum capitulo pluriès longius, inequale; foliola lanceolata nervo medio principi, supernè utrinque maculá cano-virente plùs minis notata. Capitulum hemisphericum, congestum, hirsutum; pedunculi floribus fertilibus centri breviores, sterilibus ie longiores. Cal. herbaceus, intüs glaber, extús pilis pluriès articulatis atque ad articulos aliis brevioribus verticillatis hirsutus; segmenta — oblonga, obtusa, lenta. Stam. ezserta: fil. glabra erecto-divergentes, tenuia, supra gyro simplici flexa; anth. carneo-enascentes, fulvido-emori- entes, breves, ovales, to acuto filamenti à dorso affixa, biloculares lo- culis longitudinalitèr Aehiscentibus: pollen album, granulosum. Stylus calyci equalis, erectus, hirsutus, à basi ad medium compressà stipitiformis atque vi- rens, indè bicruri-divisus atque nigricans cruribus erecto-divergentibus lineari- bus utroque. à latere interno stigma setaceo-elongatum albidum glabrum I ler feré longius apice curvatum educente. Germ. obovato-oblongum hir- sutum, monospermum. A New Holland genus, differing, according to Mr. Brown, from all the rest of its order, in having a germen with a solitary ovulum. It ranks in the tribe “ Forme de- sciscentes (irregular coordinates)," thé first of the divisions of the Umbelliferæ, as remodelled by Professor Sprengell. Now first introduced by Messrs. Colvill, of the Chelsea Nursery, with whom it flowered in the greenhouse this summer. * The species appears to be annual, but on this head * we have no information. We are only informed of its “ growing near Port Jackson on a sandy soil, and blossom- “ ing in October." “The root is branching and woody. Stem solitary, * about two feet high, erect, leafy, round, woolly, but “ little branched except at the upper part, where the flower- “ stalks, more or less numerous, grow in a corymbose form. ** Leaves alternate, stalked, 3-cleft, lobed and pinnatifid ; “ their segments spreading, linear, entire, flat, a little di- “ lated upwards, and bluntish ; clothed with dense wool, “ whiter beneath. Stipulas none. Flowers terminal, large * and showy, all over white with a green or rufous tinge. “ Involucrum coloured, spreading, much longer than the “ umbel, consisting of 8 or 10 lanceolate, acute, entire * leaves, peculiarly soft and pliable, clothed on both sides ** with a dense velvetlike pubescence. Flowers very nume- * rous, forming a compact, hemispherical, hairy umbel, * those of the circumference abortive, having no germen. * Calyx a little elevated, ‘of 5 large, equal, ovate (linear- * oblong), concave, whitish (green) leaves, hairy exter- “ nally, and having the aspect of petals. Of real petals * we have found none. Stamens in all the flowers, 5 in * number, equal, awlshaped, white, with yellow roundish * anthers projecting a little beyond the calyx. Styles “ (stigmas) 2, capillary, longer than the stamens. Stig- “ mas simple. Germen obovate, compressed, densely cloth- ** ed with long white silky hairs. The wool and hairs under * the microscope appear to be compound, and more or less “ whorled. Ripe seeds we have not seen. No aromatic or rod flavour is perceptible in any part." Smith exot. t. 2. 37. * The genus bears the most striking analogy to the „European AsTRANTIA, from which it differs in its woolly, * not smooth, involucrum, but more essentially in having * no petals, and in its hairy, not muricated, fruit." Smith in Reess cyclop. sub ERIOCALIÁ. j — — 655 THYSANOTUS isantherus. Even-anthered Thysanotus. — HEXANDRIA (reriès TRIANDRIA) MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. AspuoDELEE. Brown prod, 1. 274. THYSANOTUS. Cor. 6-partita, patens, persistens; laciniis interi- oribus latioribus, limbo utrinque colorato, marginibus fimbriatis ciliis articu- latis. Stam. 6, (rard 3), ime corolla: inserta, vel a, declinata. Filamenta glabra, brevia. Anthere lineares emarginaturæ baseos insert, 3 interiores seepids elongate reclinatæ. Germen loculis dispermis. dus filiformis, declinatus. Stigma parvum. Capsula 3-loc., 3-valv., valvis medio septiferis. Semina bina, altero erecto, altero pendulo, strophiolata. Herbæ perennes. Radix fibrosa, v. à bulbis fasciculatis carnosis. Folia angusiè linearia, sepiüs canaliculata, quandóque filiformia, v. abbreviata. Flores terminales, umbellati, raró sparsi, pedicellis medio articulatis, Co- rolle laciniæ intús cerulee, extüs calycinæ. Anthere Ls loculorum valvulá exteriore productiore, exteriores quandóque albicantes, in triandris deficientes. Capsula corollá emarcidá tecta. Semina atra, margini interiori (sept in pedicelli speciem attenuate) strophiole albe cyathiformis vasculosa: inserta. Albumen densé carnosum. Embryo excentricus? Brown prod. 1. 282. OBS. Affinitate propids ARTHROPODIO, idedque ANTHERICO, quàm Asparagoideis. Brown l. c. Div. I. Hexandri. . . T. ésantherus, bulbis fasciculatis, foliis radicalibus canaliculatis caulem te- retem lzvem subsimplicem feré æquantibus, umbellis 4-5-floris, antheris æqualibus. Brown prod. 1. 283. * A rather numerous genus of perennial herbaceous * plants, natives of different parts of New Holland. The ** root is either fibrous, or consists of clustered fleshy bulbs. “ Stem generally branched and leafy. Leaves linear, nar- ** row, often channelled, sometimes threadsbaped, or short- * ened. Flowers terminal, umbellate; rarely scattered; * their stalks jointed in the middle. Corolla blue within ; * three at least of its segments green at the back. Anthers * purple; the outer ones sometimes whitish, which in the * triandrous species are wanting. Seeds black. The per- “ manent corolla and smooth filaments, principally distin- “ guish this genus from Mr. Brown's ARTHROPODIUM (Prod. “1, 276.), by which it is related to the Linnean ANTHERI- “cum. The learned author (Mr. Brown) whom we follow * defines twenty-one species, of which he seems doubtful VOL, VIII. 2 ** whether any one has (viz. in 1810) ever been introduced * into the English gardens, at least so as to bear flowers ; * for be thinks the figure in * Paradisus Londinensis' was “ done from a dried specimen. On this subject we have no * particular information. Several drawings of this genus “and its allies, made in New Holland, have passed under * our inspection, and display a degree of elegance which “ renders the plants highly desirable. * Of the twenty-one species, seventeen are hexandrous, “ four triandrous.” Smith in Rees's cyclop. in loc. The drawing was taken from a plant which flowered in the greenhouse of the Horticultural Society, by which it is now first introduced into this country. Native of the southern coast of New Holland and of Van Diemen’s island ; where the species was first observed by Mr. Ferdinand Bauer. Distinguished among its congeners, by a root of clus- tered bulbs, radical leaves about even with the round smooth generally branchless stem, 4-5-flowered umbels, and anthers of the same length. .We had no opportunity of examining the plant for de- scription, after it had been drawn. * , Mau dl. es „ | | ; XC, AE LL. O TULL SE —-— - — THYSANOTUS junceus. Rushy-stem' d Thysanotus. | — HEXANDRIA (rariits TRIANDRIA) MONOGYNTA, Nat. ord. ASPHODELEX. Brown prod, 1. 274. THYSANOTUS. Supra fol. 655. Div. Hexandri. T. junceus, radicibus fibrosis, caulibus ramosis diffusis teretibus striatis: ramulis subangulatis, foliis radicalibus abbreviatis caulinisque strictis patenti-erectis, umbellis paucifloris, antheris inequalibus. Brown prod. 1. 283. Chlamysporum juncifolium, Salish. Parad. londin. 103. Herba perennis cespitosa, radice fibrosá. Caules pedales v. ultrà suc- cessive plurimi, tereti-juncei, cinereo-virentes, obsoleté striati, Sastigianter ramosi, crassitudine feré penne corvinæ ; rami alterni distantes, ad basin foliolis binis oppositis subulatis stipati. Folia stricta, lineari-subulata, semiteretia, canaliculata, radicalia pauca, erecta, sesqui-bitncialia, caulina breviora, paucissima, inferne sita. Umbelle terminales, pluri- (5-6-) flora; pedun- culi successivi, flore breviores, teretes, juncturä infra medium articulati, ar- ticulo utroque diversé virente, bracteis ovato-acutis mucronatis margine seariosis articulo inferiore brevioribus appressis distincti. Cor. hexapetalo- partita, rotata, unciam diametro excedens, tota intús purpurá violaceá vivi- dissimé micans, basi brevè connivens: laciniæ equilonga, exteriores 3 al- terna pluriès angustiores lineares mucronate recurvo-patentes persistenter conniventes, extüs virentes, interiores ovales ciliis profundis dense arti- culatis concoloribus fimbriate, mucronate, costá mediä intüs saturatiès coloraté extüs virente atque minulá, convoluto-deliquescentes. Stam. 3 alterna interiora longiora declinata 5 feré corollá breviora, exteriora. 3 ad- scendentia; fil*. viridia hypogyna lia tereti-compressa robusta, antheris breviora glabra; antheræ purpureo-fusce, introrsæ biloculares basi subsagit- tato-mutice loculis receptaculo. pallid? colorato filamenti continuo extern? plano adnate, apice per rostellum duplex è lateribus involutis partis er- terne longioris valvarum formatum introrsüm dehiscentes; pars valvarum in- terna subbrevior atque saturatiüs colorata; interiores plus duplo longiores, subulato-lineares; exteriores lineari-oblonge, obtuse. Germ. viride glabrum ellipticum obsolete angulosum, loculis biseriato-polyspermis: stylus albus staminibus. interioribus equalis, filiformis, eurvalo-inclinatus, germine phi- riès longior: stig. punctum pruinosum inconspicuum. " Originally observed by Mr. Brown in New Holland, where it grows in the vicinity of Port Jackson. Nothing can exceed the brilliancy and beauty of the purple of the interior of the corolla of the blossom, which, though of Short duration in regard to individual flowers, continues to display itself abundantly for near two months together a2 upon a succession of flower-stems forming a constantly increasing tuft from the same root. Drawn at the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road, where the plants were raised from seed, and are cul- tivated in the greenhouse. A tufted-growing perennial herbaceous plant with a fibrous root. Stems rushy, ashen-green, obscurely streaked, subcorymbosely branched, a foot or more high and about as thick as a crow-quill; branches alternate, wide apart, guarded by two opposite leaflets at the base. Leaves stiff, linearly-subulate, semicylindric, channelled on the inside; radical ones few, upright, from an inch to two . inches long; stem ones still shorter, and fewer, situated on the lower part of the stem. Umbels terminal, several (5-6-) flowered; peduncles growing out in succession, shorter than the flower, round, jointed below the middle, each joint of a different green; bractes at the foot of each peduncle ovate pointed, mucronate, with scariose edges, shorter than the lower joint of the peduncle, close-pressed. ‚Corolla hexapetalously parted, rotate, more than an inch in diameter, shortly contracted at the bottom: segments of one length, 3 alternate exterior ones several times the nar- rowest linear mucronate recurvedly spreading, green on the outside, converging permanently over the fruit, inner ones oval with a deep fringe of close-jointed hairs of the same co- lour, and a midrib of deeper colour green and raised on the outside, these fade by rolling themselves up and in a manner melting away. Three alternate stamens; interior longer pointing downwards, about 4 shorter than the corolla, 3 outer pointing upwardst filaments equal, hypogynous, green, compressedly round, thickish, smooth, shorter than the anthers; anthers brownish purple, facing inwards, bilocu- lar, pointlessly subsagittate at the base, loculaments grown to the pale-coloured flat-backed receptacle which is conti- nuous with the filament, shedding the pollen inwards at the top by a double-beaked process formed by the involute sides of the inner and longer portion of the valves; inner part of the valves shorter and deeper coloured: inner anthers more than twice the length of the outer, linearly subulate. Style white, filiform, pointing downwards, curved, equal to the inner stamens, several times longer than the germen: stigma a continuous subpubescent point. 657 ELZEOCARPUS reticulata. Netted-leaved Eleocarpus. — POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. GUTTIFER&. Jussieu gen. 255. Div. III. Genera alternito- lia, hinc Guttiferis indè Aurantiis affinia. : ELÆOCARPEZ. Jussieu in ann. du mus. 11. 239. a ELÆOCARPUS. Cal. 4-5-patitus coriaceus æqualis, Petala 4-5, unguiculata, limbo fimbriata. Stam. 16-20, filamentis brevibus, antheris longis apice bifidis. Germ. disco impositum villoso inter stamina et petala prominulo; stylus 1; stigma 1. pa rotunda fœtà nuce osseá ru; (4-6-segmentosa et foraminulis undique eleganter pertusà ex Rumph.), Ar- bores; folia alterna; flores spicati axillares. Character ex Linn. An species 3-petala 8-andra ab ipso observata veré congener? An aux 1- a; an embryo absque albumine? An charactere similis DICERA Forst. hie in Linn. suppl. relata? Juss, l. c. 258. E. reticulata, foliis lanceolatis, serratis, retinervibus, nervis (sæpè) cum poro glanduloso axillari ad ortum: petalis laciniatis, glabris (rectiùs , foris villosis): valvulá alter orificii antheræ acuminatá, Smith in Rees's cyclop. in Loc.; (ex angl. vers.). Elæocarpus cyaneus. Aiton’s Epitome. 366; in add. Curtis's magaz. 1737. “ Gathered near Port Jackson, New South Wales, by Dr. White. Leaves about three (or four) inches long, on smooth somewhat glandular footstalks, (oblong) lanceolate, pointed, strongly serrated throughout, smooth, shining above, reticulated on both sides with innumerable veins, which have usually a small gland, or pore, at their origin on the back of the leaf. Clusters axillary, shorter than the leaves, of eight or ten white flowers, not half so large as those of ELæocarpus grandiflora (Smith in loc. cit.), with smooth stalks. Calyx in five or six smooth (externally vil- lous), linear lanceolate segments. Petals smooth (exter- nally villous), 3-cleft, scarcely half-way down, finely jag- ged. One valve of each anther terminates in a slender point, at length recurved, but much shorter than in E. grandiflora. Germen ovate, short, quite smooth, as well as the furrowed annular nectary beneath it, and_the whole style. Fruit globose, larger than a pea, blue. | Nut (stone) curiously tuberculated and wrinkled.” Smith in Reess cyclop. in loc. : In describing from a dried native sample, Sir James Smith has viewed the corolla as smooth, though in fact it is manifestly villous. The flowers are cernuous, about + of an inch long and bellshaped, and of a subscariose sub- stance that feels like paper, dry and stiff. They are smooth on the inside. The petals are cuneately oblong, of the same length as the segments of the calyx but much broader; the jags become finally twisted. The fleshy hypogynous ring is yellow. The anthers are scariose, roughly villous, and from cream-coloured fade to brown. Introduced in 1803. Drawn this summer at the Nur- sery of Messrs. Colvill, where it is cultivated in the green- house. Grows to a pretty large stout upright shrub. The figure of the fruit is done from a native sample ; it has sometimes, however, we believe, ripened in this country. — Y 658 PAPAVER bracteatum. Giant Poppy. — — POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. PAPAVERACER. Decand. syst. veg. 2. 67. PAPAVER. (Cal. 2-sepalus) sepala (foliola) concava, decidua. Pet. 4. Stam. indefinita. Germ. ovatum. Stylus O. Stigmata 4-20, ra- diantia, persistentia, sessilia super discum germini superimpositum. Caps. oblonga, obovata aut subglobosa, 1-locularis, è carpellis 4-20 in thalami productione membranaceá inclusis constans, sub stigmatum corona valvulis brevibus dehiscens. Placente ( receptacula) intervalvulares intüs in disse- pimenta incompleta product. Semina reniformia striatula. Herbe perennes aut annue, succo lacteo albo fete, sepiüs pilose. Radices simplices, fibrose. Caules teretes. Folia pinnatim lobata aut secta, lobis sepiús incisis, denti- bus sepé pilo terminatis. Pedunculi axillares, solitarii, uniflori, nudi, ante florescentiam apice inflexi. Alabastra (flores ante expansionem ) ideo cernua, ovata aut globosa, levia aut setis pilosa. Flores erecti, albi rubri flavi aut variegati, facile dupli et pleni, petalis tunc interdèm dentatis aut laceris. Decand. loc. cit. 69. Div. Capsulis glabris ( aut "o tantúm parce pilosis). | i P. bracteatum, petalis 5, capsulis glabris obovatis bracteis persistentibus involucratis, sepalis pilosis, caulibus unifloris scabris foliosis, foliis pin- nato-partitis hispidis, lobis oblongis serratis. Lindley collect. 23. tab. 23. Habitus et characteres ut plurimùm PAPAVERIS orientalis. Differt ta- men caule nunquam ramoso; foliis concavis, nec planis; floribus semper bracteatis; stigmatis radiis 16, nec 12, quod sepiús in PAPAVERE orientali occurrit; dentibus disci stigmatici pos nec reflexis; demùm flor escentiá precociore et aspectú viridiore. ariat floribus immaculatis et petalis 5; talis varietas quoad petala dilineatur. Lindley loc. cit. The drawing was taken at the Nursery of Messrs. Col- vill, in the King's Road; where the plant grows in the open border, and flowers constantly and abundantly during the summer, making the finest show of all the outdoors herbaceous plants. We missed the opportunity of describing it, and have trusted to Mr. Lindleys account for what we have to say concerning the history. The species differs most obviously from Papaver orien- tale, the closest congener, by the large involucral bractes that surround the base of the flower, which are always present and unaltered, by flowering a month sooner, by not being divided into branches, by having concave instead of flat leaves, 16 rays instead of 12 to the stigma, the teeth of the stigmatose disk spreading and not reflex, and lastly by the much greener exterior of the herbaceous part. Varies with 5 petals, as in the sample we have figured in our plate, instead of 4, and with a spotted and a plain- coloured flower. The calyx, according to Mr. Lindley, consists of three pieces, and is detached during the expansion of the flower, the pieces still holding together when fallen off. Sent from Moscow to the Physic Garden at Chelsea, by Dr. Fischer; and is probably native of some of the warmer Asiatic provinces of Russia. —— — NOTE. We saw this summer a plant of AMARYLLIS acuminata (see fol. 534 of the 7th volume of the present work) in the hothouse atthe Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, that had thrown up two scapes, on one of which was an umbel of eight flowers, on the other of six, all in perfect expansion at the same time, and forming in our view, both in point of colour and form, the finest bouquet we ever witnessed even in that splendid genus. Kon ai I HALL 659 ANEILEMA sinica. Chinese Aneilema. — TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Juncı. Jussieu gen. 43, Div, II. Germen unicum. Capsula trilocularis. Calyx et corolla. COMMELINEZ. Brown prod. 1. 268; et supra vol. 6. fol. 482; (in textú angliee vers.). ANEILEMA. Cal. tripartitus, persistens. Cor. tripetalo-partita (ca- lyce amplior), decidua. Stamina 6. Anthere 3 (v. 2-4) dissimiles, vix polliniferæ. Znvolucrum nullum. Herbe bi de v. erecta. Foliorum vagi- ne integra. Inflorescentia vaga, subpaniculata. Brown prod. 1. 270. OBS. Hujus generis sunt COMMELINA vaginata, nudiflora, spirata, medica, Vahl enum, An hic PoLLtA Thunb. que habitü et inflorescentiä similis? sed ex Thunbergio stamina sex æqualia et fructus baccatus: in hujus specimine vetusto (in coll. banks. viso) ab ipso Thunbergio misso, situm Embryonis haud determinare licuit. Brown loc. cit. 271. OOH v— — A. sinica, caule ramoso diffusc; foliis ligulatis, acuminatis; racemulis al- ternis subsenis superné in paniculà positis: staminibus tribus barbatis quorum uno castrato: sterilibus tribus nudis. . . Herba perennis; caule diffus ramoso, spithamao vel pedali, tereti, phis minis compresso, cinereo-virente, distantér articalato, pennam scriptoriam crassitie haud adæquante, densè lineato. Fol. cinereo-virentia, opaca, al- terna, in omni articulo unum, ligulato-elongata, acuminata, conduplicato-cara- liculata vel plana, descrescentia, vagin petiolari sapiüs inferné purpurascente, radicalia subpedalia latitudine fer? unciali: summa pauca semuncié vix lon- giora, vaginá profundiore conspicuidsque coloratá. Panicule terminales, composite: partiales supernè racimigeræ: racemuli dures ( seni), alterni, di- stantes, breves, patentes (3 uncie viz longiores) floribus plurimis cæruleis nutantibus altern? imbricatéque biseriatis secundis, singulis e bracted propriá membranaceá subcoloratá caducá convoluté successive prodeuntibus; race- muli axis de basi fer? florifera, glabra, teres, florum sedibus denticulata ; pedicelli filiformes flore breviores basi arti a fructiferi pauci stricti recti. Cal. herbaceo-membranosus, tripartitus, longitudine corolle, foliolis laté ovatis apice rotundatis. Cor. tripetala, tenerior, latior, cerulea, petalis ovato-rotundis, conniventer emarcescentibus. Stamina 6, corolle disco inserta, inclusa: fil. 3 alterna caerulea incurvescentia robustiora in- ferne pilis is concoloribus densé articulatis barbata, supernè nuda subu- lata, horum 2 fertilia, tertium castratum ; antheræ pollinifera, albe, oblonge,d medio dorso ad punctum summum filamenti vibratili-appense ; alia 3 breviora, alba, graciliora, nuda, subulata, erecta, rudimentis antherosis viz ilini- feris solidis trilobo-capitatis prafiza. Germ. albidum, subpellucidam, el- lipticum, 3-quetrum, glabrum, stylo pluriès brevius. Stylus albus, triquetro- setaceus, elongatus, suprà leni curvo ascendens; stig. punctum simplex prui- nosum. Caps. (nec ben? maturam vidimus) hordei grano minor, cartilaginea, VOL, VIII. R d Div. II. Filamenta aliqua v. omnia burbata. Br. levis, nitens, subcolorata, ovato-triquetra, velata, loculis l-spermis: sem. me- lino-pallentia, imo loculorum angulo affiza, elliptica, transversè rugulosa, dorso medio immerse embryonifera. ANEILEMA has an indeterminately panicled inflorescence without any general involucre; CoMMELINA, its nearest re- lative, has an inflorescence regularly disposed on a common peduncle furnished with a general involucre (sometimes folded, sometimes convolute); differences which are found to induce others less determinate in the general habit of the mutual species of the two groups, and which prove the proprie&y of their separation. The.plant of our figure was the produce of Chinese seed, imported by the Horticultural Society, in whose hot- house it flowered last summer for the first time in this country. There is a sample in the Banksian Herbarium at Mr. Brown's, which was collected by Sir George Staunton near Canton. The species is closely akin to ANEILEMA gigantea of New Holland, a sample of which was kindly sbown to us by Mr. Brown; but that is a tall plant, three feet high or more, with very narrow linear leaves, and the three bearded sta- mens have all perfect anthers. The present plant is not more than nine or ten inches high, has broadish ligulate leaves, and one of the three bearded stamens is without an anther, or at least has only the very imperfect rudiment of one. Could we have compared the living plants, other points of difference would most probably bave been ob- tained. LS (Gr Vi CALAIS LA LA , , s AMU A AA. er À Z CG / — 660 PASSIFLORA pallida. Plumier’s Passion-flower. — MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA, Nat. ord. PASSIFLORES. Jussieu in ann. du musée. 6. 102. PASSIFLORA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 13; et vol. 7. fol. 574. Div. Foliis indivisis. P. pallida, foliis ovatis integerrimis triplinerviis venosis, petiolis biglandu- losis, floribus apetalis, involucro null. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 606. reca pallida. Linn. aman. acad. 1. 218. fig. 2. Smith in Rees's eyclop. in loc. Clematis indica alia, flore minore pallido. Plum. amer. 74. 1.88. Frutex se longissim? extendens, caule parum ramoso glabro compresso tereti lurido-virente. Folia ovata nervis tribus principibus subtüs varicosis, uncias duas eum alterius dimidio longa v. ultra, latitudine sesquiunciali v. majore: stipulæ lineari-lanceolatæ, erecte, petiolum subæguantes. Pedunculi sapé gemini modo solitarii, folio plurimim breviores, lurido-virentes, duriusculi, patentes, interdum ebracteati vel nunc bracteolá minutá vagó acutá erectá muniti, suprà medium articulati crassioresque. Flores erecti, chloroleuco- pallentes, diametro * uncia vel majore: involucro nullo (nisi pro hoc antedicta bracteola sit): corolla nullá. Cal. 5-partitus, rotatus, urceolo brevissimo obso- leto extús fusco-purpurascente plano absque omni nodo aut protuberantiá : segmenta distantia, oblonga, obtusa, apice incurvulo. Corona biseriata, su- pernà viridi-flavescens inferne purpureo-fuscescens, numerosa, radiis exteri- oribus filiformibus obtusis recurvo-patentibus limbo ere duplo brevioribus, interioribus pluries brevioribus viridibus erectis capillaceis capitatis operculo vir equalibus: nectarium simpler, areolam columniferam obvallans, intüs album, operculo tectum membranaceo plicato margine villostusculd inclinaté. Columna calyce brevior: stipes albus, purpureo-maculatus, germini subæqua- lis: . ovale, i labrum, punctis minutis albis adspersum; rentes füliformi odavati arco Ln llente orbiculatá styli virentes filiformi-clavati, areolé stigmatosá erat a i profisi. Hoe subovata, atroviolacea: semina plurima, oblonga, scrobicu- lato-salebrosa, arillo vix succulento. A species founded by Linnzeus solely on the figure and description in the place we quote from the work of Plumier; he had no sample in his Herbarium. It comes near to Pas- SIFLORA minima (see vol. 2. fol. 144. of this Register) and to hirsuta; differing from both chiefly by the leaves not being divided into lobes. The flowers are somewhat larger in pallida; the fruit, according to Plumier, the same in all three; and consists of a small globular violet-coloured berry about the size of a Sloe. | R 2 Native of the island of St. Domingo, where the species was originally seen by Plumier, and from whence the seed came that produced the present plant at the Physic Garden, Chelsea. We find no traces of its having been introduced into Europe till now. Drawn at the Nursery ef Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road, where the plant was grown in the hothouse, and has attained the length of twenty feet or more and produced a few branches at the upper part, on which the flowers appeared late in the summer. These were succeeded by ripe fruit, one of which is represented in our plate. Pallida belongs to a division of the genus with pale greenish flowers without involucre or corolla. "The ar- rangement of the genus in sections assorted by the foliage proves inconveniently artificial, separating the nearest and üpproximating the most distant species. The sample marked PassirLoRA pallida, in the Banksian Herbarium, is certainly the same as PassırLora serrata, and has nothing to do with Plumiers plant. We have never found a sample of pallida in any Herbarium. In Plumier's figure the peduncles are solitary; in our plant they were generally in pairs. A. AC: atu. A e Am: xt 661 : ARGYREIA cuneata. Argyreia of the Mysore. — PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. CONVOLVULI. Jussieu gen. 132, Div. I. Stylus unicus. CONVOLVULACEA. Brown prod. 1. 481. t, J. Germen unicum. ARGYREIA. Loureiro cochin. 134. Cal. d- phyllus. Cor: campanu- ` lata infundibuliformisve. Germ. 2-4-loculare. Stig. 2-lobum. Bacca sicca vel succulenta, 1-4-loc. loculis 1-spermis. Embryo erectus, curvatus; coty- ledones corrugati. Plante (Indie, Chine, et Cochinchine) perennes, vo- Tubiles, validissime, longè latèque se extendentes, lactescentes; folia simpli- cia; inflorescentia axillaris. xburgh for. ind. ined. sub LETTSOMIA; (ex angl. vers.) Div. I. Corolla campanulata. R. A, cuneata, (fruticosa ramis volubilibus:) foliis cuneatis, emarginatis (v. suprà rotundatis mucronatis), subtüs sericeis: pedunculis trifloris, folio pluriès brevioribus. Roxburgh Hor. ind. ined. sub LETTSOMIA cuneatá ; (ex angl. vers.) Lettsomia cuneata. Roxb. 4. c. Convolvulus cuneatus. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 873. Ipomea atrosanguinea. Curtiss magaz. 2170. Frutex alt? latéque scandens, ramis sericeis. Folia alterna, distantia, cuneato-obovata, oblonga, mervis plurimis alternis adscendenter divaricatis costá mediá utrinque emissis parallele notata, subbiuncialia latitudine viz duplo minore, sublüs sericea, suprà glabra. Petioli sericei multotiés brevio- res (Y uncie vir equantes). Pedunculi axillares solitarii, triflori, folio triplo breviores, petiolo triplo longiores, teretes, sericei: pedicelli calyci «quales. Cal. sericeus, ovato-campanulatus, brevis (2-linearis), coriaceo- crassus, rigidus, foliolis 5 lat? ovatis equilongis imbricato-conniventibus. Cor. saturató purpurea, lactescens, cylindraceo-infundibuliformis, sesqui- vnciá param brevior, à dimidio superno 5-plicata ; tubus calyce equalis, fauce triplo angustior. multotièsque brevior; faux cylindraceo-elongata, nitida ; limbus opacus, campanulatus, fauce plurimüm brevior, breve recurvato-pa- tens, obsolete 5-lobus lobis rotundatis emarginatis. Stam. fauce profundo inclusa, inæqualia; fil. tubo adnata, subulato-filiformia, purpurascentia, basi incrassata brevéque barbata; anth. erecte, sagittate, albida, polline é globulis albis granuloso. Stylus albus, filiformis, stamini longiori equalis; stig. roseo-rubens, didymo-capitatum lobis divaricatis corrugato-pa; 2 Germ. albidum, angustó pyramidatum, cum stylo rostrato-continuum, fundo incrassato calycis immersum, disco crasso albo annulari cinctum, tetrasper- mum; ovula erecta, à basi impacta, oblong? conoidea. Dr. Roxburgh mentions this elegant twining shrub as having been introduced from the Mysore country into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, by General Martin, in 1792; and adds, that it has been successfully propagated and established there. The plant now drawn was grown from seed received by Dowager Lady De Clifford from the Mauritius; and flow- ered late this summer in the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road. ARGYREIA is distinguished from ConvoLvuLus and Iro- mea principally by an indehiscent seedvessel with one- seeded cells (termed by Dr. Roxburgh a berry, either dry or succulent). The genus consists of strong extensively growing perennial twiners, with simple leaves and an axillary inflorescence, abounding with milky juice. It was originally detached by Loureiro, whose denomination we have adopted; but afterwards more satisfactorily de- fined and considerably enlarged in the manuscripts of Dr. Roxburgh under the title Lerrsomia, a name preoccu- pied by a very distinct group of plants. All the species belong to the East Indies ; at least, all yet known. We cannot conceive a handsomer ornament for the hot- house; where the plant keeps up a long-enduring and abundant succession of its richly purple blossom, which expands early in the day, and fades before the evening. 062. y S ` Ne N x N PE 8 Navescente villoso, margine incrassato, GYMNOLOMA maculatum. : Motiled-branched Gymnoloma. —— SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA FRUSTRANEA. Nat. ord. CoMPOSITE. Adanson fam. 2. 103. CORYMBIFERÆ. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. VI. HELIANTHEA. Cassini in journ, de phys. 88 (an 1819). 101. . GYMNOLOMA. | Involucrum subhemisphæricum polyphyllum; foliolis circitèr 20, lax? imbricatis, sublanceolatis, membranaceis, acutis; exteri- oribus vix latioribus. — Keceptac. convexum aut subplanum paleaceum ; pa- leis linearibus aut lanceolatis, apice subulatis, subcarinatis scariosis, flosculo hermaphrodito brevioribus (vel longioribus), persistentibus. Flosculi disci crebri, tubulosi, hermaphroditi, centrales sxpiis steriles; radii 7-10, ligulati, neutri. FLoscuLI HERMAPHRODITI: Corolla tubo brevi; limbo infundi- buliformi-tubuloso, 5-nervio, 5-dentato; dentibus ovatis obtusis aut acutis, qualibus. Stamina familie. Anthere incluse aut exserte, basi nude, nigro-fuscescentes, processubus terminalibus parvis ovatis obtusiusculis dia- phanis. Germen lineare, apice marginato-fimbriatum, flosculorum centralium sæpiùs sterile, margine angusto, laciniato-fimbriato, demüm evanescente. Stylus capillaris. Stigma 2-partitum, exsertum ; laciniis linearibus, paten- tibus. Achenia (semina) obovata aut cuneata, compressiuscula, sub4gona, levia, apice subumbonata et calva. FLoscuLI NEUTHI: Corolla tubo brevi; ligulá elliptico-oblongà, apice 2 aut 8-loba, planà; patente, nervatá, basi cucullata. Germ. lineare, apice marginato-fimbriatum, sterile. Stylus et stig. O. Herbie oppositifolie, hispido-scabre. Fol. ovata, integra, crenato-den- tata, 3- aut triplinervia, Pedunculi subterminales et axillares, uniflori, soli- tarii, elongati. Flores flavi. A WEDELIA Jacq. et CHRYSANTHELLO Rich. quibus valdè affinis distinguitur floribus radii neutris nec non ab ilâ acheniis calvis. An WurPrA Neck.? Kunth nov. gen. et spec. 4. 217. G. maculata, aspera, erecta; ramis virgatis, 4-gonis, pictis; foliis oblongo- lanceolatis, subserratis; floribus erectis, terminalibus, 1-3; pedunculis folio plurimúm brevioribus; radio 8-floro. Herba suffruticosa, perennis, gracilis, 3-pedalis v. ultrà, ramosa, ramis pur- reo-marmoratis, 4-gonis, sulco levitèr depresso ad quemque faciem exaratis. 5 tata, facil? cum curvo reflectenda, lon- Fol. membranacea, utroque fine angusta; > Ja ele ee A rcu nsa giora triuncialia latitudine subsesquiunciali: i i ior, purpureo-pictus, Flores Havi, diametro infra uncialem, pedunculis pallidis subtrichotomo-trinis brevibus hirtis erectis. Cal. disco brevior, oblato-cam- panatus, hispidus, biseriatus, foliolis ovato-lanceolatis, supra recurvis et saturatiüs virentibus. RADIUS nener, m qid 5 licatis oblongis, obtusis, planis. ISCUS: flosculi diaphani in- a 5 brevissimo, fauce longá cuneato-cylindricá, limbo saturatiùs laciniis ovatis, recurvo-patentibus: anth. filamentis elasticis exserende, nigricantes, apice -valves valvulis ochro- leucis acuminatis, basi mutica obtuse ; pollen aurantiacum. Stigmata flava, exserta, replicata, linearia, ‘pilosa, intüs canaliculata: stylus robustulus. VOL. VILI. 8 Germ. lineare, pressione. 4-gonum, glabrum, margine villoso-fimbriato coro- matum. Palex opace, firme, persistentes, semiamplectentes, carinate, suprà villoso-scabre, flavescenies, abruptiùs cuspidate, acumine subulato recurvulo. Raised from seed from the Brazils, and, we believe, belonging to an unrecorded species. There are no samples of it in either the Banksian or Lambertian Herbarium. 'l'he plant flowered this summer iu the hothouse at the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road, Chelsea. The genus is distinguished from Wepeuta principally by the barren ray of the flower and the absence of a seederown or pappus. We have ventured to write the name Gymno- LOMA instead of GvMNoLoMIA, as more analogous to the derivation. This is the first species known to have been introduced into our gardens ; the few tbat are recorded be- long to South America. A slender upright suffrutescent rough-furred perennial, in our sample 3 or 4 feet high, remarkable for the square- cornered branches mottled with dark red. Leaves mem- branous, apt to curl backwards and become deflex, ob- longly lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, shallowly serrate, largest more than 3 inches long by 14 broad. Flowers yellow, terminal, 1-2 but more generally 3, and tricho- iomously disposed on short rough peduncles. Calyx broadly and shallowly campanulate, in two rows of ovately lanceolate leaflets recurved at the top where they are of a deeper green. Palew permanent, yellow, and abruptly cus- pidate. Germen linear, 4-cornered, edged at the top with à short villouslike fringe by way of pappus. ay 663 HYPOXIS stellipilis. Starry-furred Hypoxis. — HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Narcıssı. Jussieu gen. 54. Die. III. Genera Narcissis non omnind affinia. ASPHODELER. Brown prod. I. 274. Div. ad calcem ordinis. Genera inter Asphodeleas et Amaryllideas media. HYPOXIS. Supra vol. 2. fol. 159. H. stellipilis, rhizomate ovato; foliis radicalibus plurimis trifariám fascicu- latis triquetro-subulatis, à pilis brevibus stellatis na ere subtüs tomen- toso-candicantibus, canaliculo carindque acutis: umbellä pauci-(2) flor. Rhizoma bulbiforme, fuscum, bulbiceps. Fol. radicalia, plurima, tri- Saridm fasciculata latè subulata, subsemipedalia latitudine unciæ minore, erecto-divergentia, suprà atrovirentia, glabra, acute canaliculata, remote atque obsolete lineata, infra acute carinata tomento facile solubile 2 pilis brevibus stellatis implexé densatis candicantia; sept supera? undulata. Scapus foliis brevior, fulvido-canescens, pube duplici (penicillis longis cum Rocculis stellatis niveis brevibus commixtis) laxi 1 Pedunculi (bini), terminales, solidi, teretes, pilosi, flore longiores, ted pilosissimá lineari appressä ad basin. Cor. germinis continua, erecta, sut partie, eara sesquiunciali, persistens, intis aureo-flavescens, extis flavo-virescens et stellato- pilosa; lacinix equilonga, lateribus denwd reflexe, exteriores oblonge, mu- cronatæ, dorso apicis dense barbatæ, interiores latiores ovales obtusa: muticæ extús nudiuscule striá angustá pilosú per medium longitudinalitèr ductá. Stam, flava, corollá ferè duplo breviora, erecto-patentia, disco epigyno di- stantiüs inserta: fil. antheris bis terve breviora, conica, subulata, glabra: anth. mobiles, lineari-sagittate, introrse, posticd filamenti puncto appense. Stylus lutescens, columnaris, erectus, tereti-3-gomus, staminibus brevior ; stigmata 3 flava lineari-cenaliculata fimbriatula, a s dimidii ioris styli adnato-decurrentia. Germ. pedunculi solidi continuum, breve turbi- natum, hirsutum, corollé aliquotiès brevius; triloc. loculis supernè biseriato- polyspermis, inferné cassis: ovula globosa, angulo interiori annexa. An unpublished species, and one of which we have seen no Feier, in any Herbariam. Introduced last summer from the Cape of Good Hope by Messrs. Colvill, of the Chelsea Nursery. The drawing was taken from a plant cultivated in the greenhouse. The foli: Strikes us as having some resemblance to that of en species of the "Bromeliacex. It differs. in its own genus by the dense woolly snow-white fur (con- s2 sisting of short closely interwoven stellately compound hairs) that covers the back of the leaves. Rootstock bulbiform, with the bud at the top. Leaves radical, many, disposed in a 3-cornered fascicle, broad subulate, sharply channelled and keeled, about six inches long and less than an inch broad, of deep dark green at the upper side and smooth, tomentosely whitened under- neath, generally waved at the top. Stem shorter than the leaves, with a faint appearance of tawny yellow through the white of the pubescence, which consists of long pen- cilled hairs mixed with short starry snow-white cottony locks. Umbel of two peduncles, larger than the flowers. Corolla golden yellow within, stellately spreading, about an inch and half in diameter, permanent, compositely furred and of a yellowish green without; segments reflexed at the sides, outer ones oblong, mucronate, densely bearded at the back of the tip, inner ones broader oval obtuse pointless with a longitudinal hairy line on the outside. Style columnar, thick, obtusely 3-cornered, shorter than the stamens. Sig- mas 3, deep yellow, linearly channelled, grown to the corners of the upper half of the style. Germen continuous with the round solid peduncle, shortly turbinate, hirsute, several times shorter than the corolla, 3-celled: ovules many, in two rows fixed to the upper part of the inner corner of the cells, globular. We have always found the peduncles piped or hollow at the upper part in every species of this genus that we ex- amined except the present. à 664 RHEXIA viminea. Slender Brazil Rhexia. — OCTANDRIA (DECANDRIA) MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. MELASTOMÆ (MELASTOMACER). Jussieu gen. 328. Div. IT. RHEXIA. Supra vol. 4. fol. 323. R. viminea, foliis petiolatis, ovato-lanceolatis, 5-nervibus, utrinque appressè setosis, integerrimis, basi subcordatis, subtüs canescentibus ; panieulis terminalibus, laxiús multifloris: antheris filamento æqualibus, arcuato- inclinatis, basi postice didymo-extumescentibus. Don MSS. Frutex erectus, gracilis, suborgyalis, ramosus, pilis setaceis brevibus ap- pressis hispidus, ramis oppositis, supernis, tetragonis, simplicibus, ob alterum sep? abortientem alternos simulantibus. Fol. opposita, petiolata, acuta, 3-5- uncialia latitudine sesqui-biunciale, rariès majora, utri pilis decum- bentibus hispida, subtüs einerascentia, suprà virentia: petioli lamind pluries breviores, crassitudine feré penne corvinæ. Panicule terminales, laxis multiflora, decussato-divisa ; pedunculi patentes, bi-trichotomi, 4-goni, brac- teis 2 appressis lanceolatis caducis ad basin; pedicelli breves, sæpiùs uniflori, hirti, caduco-bibracteati. Cal. pedicelli continuus, herbaceus, hispidis, pe- talis $ circitèr brevior, tubo oblongo urceolato-cylindrico obsolet: 0 infra ventricosiore supra constricto, limbo I breviore stellato-patente subdeci- duo segmentis acuminatis.. Petala 5, violacea, euneato-obovata, uncialia, villis subtilibus ciliata, Stamina 10, corolle subequalia, lariès fasciculata: filamenta purpurea, alterne breviora, pilis minutis vagis capitatis parcitsimè conspersa, caterum nuda: antheræ violacea, arcuato-declinate, filamentis «quales, subulato-elongate, postic? à basi didymo-extumidá filamenti apici inserta, ventre intüs angusto transvers? rugato dorso pallescente. Germ. ovatum, profundius inclusum, è membranis intergerinie cum tubo calycis connezum bisque ferm? brevius, supernè sericeum. Stylus staminibus longior, Jiliformis, filamentis robustior, glaber, rubescens, suprà pallescens, curvo deni inelinato-assurgens: stigma aper idus, continuus obtusus preinosus. Caps. sicca, calyce vestita, 5-loc., 5-valv.: placente 5, anguste, subtrigone, arcuate in loculis centrales, à basi latá membranaceá azi centrali adnate, cæ- terum libere. Semina subreniformi-rotundata, crebra, pallid? fusca, punc- tata, umbilico magno concavo. Don MSS. Drawn last summer in the hothouse of the Botanic Garden of Comtesse des Vandes at Bayswater; where the plant has been now first introduced from tbe Brazils. We have referred it to Ruexza, though persuaded that, upon a due revision of the order, this genus will be re- stricted to the berbaceous portion of the group from North America. Samples of the present species, brought by Sir George Staunton from the Brazils, are preserved in the Banksian and Lambertian Herbariums. A tall slender shrub covered with a short bristly close- pressed fur: branches 4-cornered. Leaves ovately lanceo- late, petioled, entire, furred on both sides, 3-5 inches long, 1i-2 broad, green above, greyish underneath. Panicles terminal, loosely many-flowered, decussately branched. Flowers violet; petals cuneately obovate, about an inch long, finely and shortly ciliate. Stamens 10, the length of the petals: filaments purple, thinly sprinkled with very minute capitate hairs: anthers violet, declining and in- bowed, about equal to the filaments, subulately elongated. Germen enclosed within the tube of the calyx, and nearly as short again as that. Fruit a dry capsule. Don MSS. p =~, 065 | T p^ EAS JOD Marty Ser | MLL. > D 117 - L^ to S 2: ji - e Lo 4 Sage, / 7 O , Tal by J. Tapas 2— “B RI 665 COSTUS speciosus; g. angustifolius. Nepalese Costus. — MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. SCITAMINEE. Brown prod. 1. 305. COSTUS. Corolla limbus interior unilabiatus campanulatus, postic? partus. Anthera biloba, filamento longè infra apicem adnata. Caps. tri- valvis, trilocularis. Semina numerosa, arillata. Embryo simplex, et aliu- mine et vitello dotatus. Roxburgh flor. ind. 1. 1. 5T; (ex anglico versum, J OBS. Cosrus differt (ab HELLENIA) inflorescentié, Plast petaloi- deo ultra antheram intramarginalem longis latidsque producto, et potissi- mum structuré vagina, que: suprà folia insertionem ocreæ speciem efformat ; quá noté ab omnibus Scitamineis, primo aspectü vel absque fructificatione, distingui possit. Brown prod. 1. 308. C. speciosus, nectario (corolla limbo interiore) obsolet? trilobato undulato fimbriato, foliis subtüs sericeo-villosis. Roscoe in trans. linn. soc. B. 349. Costus speciosus. Smith in trans. linn. soc. 1. 249. Willd. sp. pl. 1.11. Roxburgh flor. ind. 1. 57. Costus arabicus. Jacg. ic. rar. 1. f. 1. Ejusd. coll. 1. 143. Amomum hirsutum. Lamarck encyc. 1.135. Tsiana speciosa, Gmel. syst. nat. 2. 9. Hellenia grandiflora. Netz ge fase. 6. 13. Banksea speciosa. Konig in Retz obs. fasc. 3. 75. Tsjana-Kua. Rheede mal. 11. 15. tab. B. Herba spiralis hirsuta. Rumph. amó. 6. 143, f. 64. fig. 1. (8) An angustioribus. i i 5 erba radice tuberosá perenni, caules sesqui- s teretes simplices foliorum vaginis vestitis promittente. Fol. laxtüs ambientia directione sub- spirali, patentissima, lanceolato-elongata, aristata, subtüs molli-villosa, hinc petiolo vaginoso in ocream longè fimbriato producto à stipite brevissimo in- serta. Spica sessili-terminalis, multiflora, ta azi subunciali robustá ovato- densata: bracteæ geminate, rubræ, cartilaginee ciliate mucronate germen subsemiinvolventes; una subinterior plurimün brevior. Germ. sessile obovato- triquetrum, ex albido rubrum, breve villosum, 3-loc., ovulis loculorum - spermorum angulo interiori annexis. Cal. cartilaginexs, ruber, nitens, ws, iqueter, subuncialis, germinis aliquotiès brevioris continuus, trifi- dus, segmentis tubo brevioribus is erectis. obtusis cum mucrone, subin- «qualibus, antico subdistantiore. . labiate-infundibuliformis: limbus exterior carneo-rubens, nitidus, sesquiuncialis, partitus, tubo interioris prop? basin spiralitèr insertus, laciniis ovali-oblongis lanceolatis imbricato- conniventibus: limbus interior anticus, albus, tener, tenuis, oblato-rotundatus, exteriore $ longior, convolutus, urilabiato-patens, postic? partitus fissurd im- bricato connivente, margine subtrilobus corrugatus denticulato-eroeus, intús secundum medium barbatum et inferno cum filamenti anteriore in tubu- 5 . te superná ded es Pata itum hui à e iberá arcuato-accumbens, gum, 'petaloideam, i e ease hirsutum: anth. oblonga, ochroleuca, } Funde intramarginalis. Stylus cum imá corolle tubi parte breve — que connatus, filiformis, antheram per intervallu:n loculorum transeuns et œquans, suprà compresse subclavatum: stigma continuum breve, transverse dilatatum, bilamellosum lamellis parallelis bilabiato-conniventibus ciliatis viscosis; lamella antica concaviuscula orá integrä rotundatá, postica lunulato- excita ex cornú utroque anticum exsuperans, d dorso convexa et ad basin den- tibus 2 (filamentorum rudimentis 2 per stylum ascensis?) collateralibus acutis brevioribus stylum anguloso-decurrentibus appendiculata. Costus, according to Mr. Brown, may be known at once from its coordinate genera by the structure of the pe- tiolar sheath, which is continued beyond the insertion of the leaf in the form of an ocrea (sheathlike bracte); and spe- cially from the closely kindred Hezcenras by the close- Spiked inflorescence, and petalshaped filament which is broader and longer tban the intramarginal anther. The subject of our drawing was sent us by Mr. Gowen, having flowered in Lord Caernarvon's hothouse at High- clere; where it had been grown from seed obtained from Dr. Wallich of the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, and in- scribed “ a new species of Costus from Nepal" We can discover no difference from the established speciosus, except the narrower foliage and fuller red of the bractes and calyx. The two may however be really distinct ; though we do not think it expedient to separate them without a comparison of the two in the fresh state. The stigma consists of two small shallowish transversely widened opposite lamina closing together like lips; ¿he Front one concave with a rounded entire border, the bück one convex with a border indented in the form of a crescent, the horns of which extend beyond the circumference of the front one; behind this at its base appear two short teethlike parallel upright pointed excrescences continued from their bases in a raised angle down the back of the style: these we take to be the rudiments of two filaments which have ascended the style in this way instead of keeping their station at the base, as is more usual in the order. The plant has been likewise raised by Messrs. Colvill, at Chelsea, from Nepal seed. — 1. Calyx. 2. Back of the filament attached to the lower part of the inner limb of the corolla. 3. Front of the filament with the anther. 4. ‘Style as inserted in the faux of the corolla. A. — BUAI . A 666 BEGONIA argyrostigma. Silver-spotted Begonia. — MON CIA POLYANDRIA, Nat. ord. Plante 3 sedis. Polypetala germine infero. Jussien gen. 436. " . BxzcoNiACEE. Bonpland nav. et malm. 151. P. i affines. Link. = "ee BEGONIA. Supra vol. 4. fol. 284. B. argyrostigma, caulescens, foliis semicordatis acuminatis crenulato-re- pandis glaberrimis suprà niveo maculatis, subtüs rubris. Link abbild. aus. gew. bot. gart. zu berl. 1. 23. tab. 10. Begonia argprostigmn. Fischer in hort. gorenk. Link enum. alt. hort. berol. Caulis erectus, ramosus, diffusus, 2-3 pedes altus, glaberrimus, annulis fuscis suprà petiolos vaginaceis. Folia alterna; petiolus pollicem. longus, teres; lamina semicordata, à petiolo ad apicem usque 5-6 pollices a, 2 pollices lata, acuta, margine subcartilagineo subcrenulato repando, glaber- Tima, carnosa, suprà maculis subrotundis varie magnitudinis ob defectum pigmenti viridis in conteztá celluloso albis, medio foveolas 2 pluresve areá viridi cinctas continentibus, subtús paginé totá rubrá. Pedunculi axillares, paniculam multifforam sustinentes. Bractex 2 opposite lanceolate albe in singulo pedicello, (caduca). Pedicellus supera? albus. Cor. tetrapetala, alba, inodora, petalis 2 oppositis majoribus. Filamenta multa, brevissima. Antheræ oblonge. Germen alatum. Link abbild. loc. cit. ) ale en dort e 88 : Said by Professor Link to be native of the Brazils, and to have been sent from the Gorenki Garden, at Moscow, to the Botanic Garden of Berlin, by Dr. Fischer. It has only lately been introduced into the collections of this country. Drawn at the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road, Chelsea, where it is grown in the hothouse. The somewhat unwieldy specific name has been sug- d gested to Dr. Fischer by the silvery spots of the foliage; a mark which we understand is not confined to this species of the genus. j It has been figured in the above quoted periodical work by Professor Link, from whom we borrow the following account : VOL. VIII. T * Stem upright, branched, straggling, 2-3 feet high, very smooth, with brown sheathing circles above the pe- tioles. Leaves alternate; petiole an inch long, cylindrical; blade semicordate, from the petiole to the tip 5-6 inches long, 2 inches broad, pointed, with somewhat cartilaginous slightly crenulated repand margin, very smooth, fleshy, at the upper surface marked with white roundish spots of various sizes produced by the disappearance of the green pigment in the cellular tissue, and containing two or more small pits in the middle of a green disk ; at the under surface wholly red. Peduncles axillary, sustaining a many-flowered panicle. Bractes 2 on each pedicle, opposite, lanceolate, white, (caducous:) Pedicle white at the upper part. Co- rolla of 4 petals, white, without scent, two opposite petals of the four the largest. Filaments many, very short. An- thers oblong. Germen winged ?” We had no opportunity of describing the flowers our- Selves. — 1. An antherbearing flower. 2. A pistilbearing flower. 3. Style and stigma. N S nOD EN eI CO, mm — — 0 667 LOASA tricolor. Chili Nettle-plant. —— POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA (rectième POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA » Nat. ord. me Jussieu gen. 317. Div. V. Genera Onagrariis nia. Loasex. Cal. 5-partitus. Petala 5 cum calyce alterna eo- demque plano inserta. Germen inferum. Stylus 1. Stigma 1 (3). Caps. unilocularis, polysperma placentis tribus parietalibus. + Herbe irte aut scabra. Folia alterna velopposita. Inflorescentia vaga. — Albuminis mequi- dem vestigium deteximus: semina verd hactenus nec nisi in fructu viz bene ma- turato visa? Jussieu in ann. du musée, 5. 21; (ex gallico versum.) LOASA. Cal. superus pilosus, limbo 5-fido persistente. Petala 5 majora patentia, unguiculata, apice concavo cucullata; squamule 5 interio- res, petalis alterne et minores, subtrilobæ lobo medio intimo longiore, in conum conniventes et basi intüs filamentis 2 sterilibus instructe, Stamina numerosa 5-fasciculata calyci inserta; fasciculi 15-17-andri squamulis alter- nantes et petalis oppositi; anthere erectæ et subrotundæ. Germ. semiinfe- rum: stylus 1: stigma 1 (3). Caps. infera semiinfera, oblonga, hirta, 1-loc., apice 3-valvis et calycinis laciniis cincta, polysperma; receptacula 3 semini- fera capsule parietibus affixa. Herbe, plereqwe piloso-prurientes more Urtice; folia alterna aut rariús opposita, simplicia, interdum pinnatifida ; flores in summis ramulis axillares et terminales. Genus MENTZELIE prozi- mum, habitü et germinis seminumque sitú quodammodd accedens Cucurbita- ceis sed polypetalum. Jussieu gen. 322. L. tricolor, urens, erecta; foliis oppositis, bipinnatifidis ambitd angulari cordato; calyce petalis equali; corone foliolo singulo extds caudiculis subtrinis linearibus diffuse prostratis ad imam baseos marginem appendi- culato: staminum fasciculis subdecandris. g . PM Herba annua?, pube duplici (aliá urente longiore validiore basi vesicu- dos, alid innocuá articulatá) hirsuta. Caulis herbacea, pedalis vel ultra, teres, distanter foliosus, suprà paniculatus, Folia opposita, divaricata; in- feriora petiolata, sw i-cordata, nervosa, bipinnato-incisa lobis lan- ceolato-oblongis dentato-incisis, pare imo divaricato ; superiora diminuta, sessilia, simplicitór incisa. Panicula distans, alterna, pedunculis azillari- ‘bus, unifloris, recurvo-patentibus, flore plurimüm „„ rigi- diusculis. Flores triplici diversi colore, 3 uncia pro) v. circiter, cerni, inodori, turbinato-reflexi, pilis urentibus conspersi. Cal. superus, herbaceus, germinis brevioris marginato-continuus, 5-partitus foliolis Imeari-lanceolatis radiato-reflexis, Petala 5, margini summa germinis inserta, foliolis caly- cinis vix brevioribus alternantia, tota reflexa, oblonga, recta, | kulato- cucullata, obtusa; unguis ligulatus, puniceus, lamind duplo brevior; lamina aureo-flavescens, oblonga, ventricoso-concava compressiuscula. Corona 5- phylla, rubro et albo versicolor, equalis, in conum triplo fer? corollá brevi- orem connivens; foliola cum petalis alterna et in plano eodem inserta, dura, ovata, ex latere utroque et villosd basi inflexa, apice trifida lobulis 2 = ralibus erectis, medio latiore revoluto, dorso tricostata atque planiuscula, T2 externe ad basin ligulis 2-3 angustis bicoloribus superné varié incisis appen- diculata. Stamina polyadelpha, triplo fer? corollä breviora: fasciculi fer- tiles 5 (8-10-andri?), pede petalorum inserti, primd intra petala usque reflexi, indé stylo accedentia, filamentis philyraceis linearibus bicoloribus, antheris subrotundis, erectis, à bast infixis, bilocularibus, sordide fulvescen- tibus: fasciculi steriles 5, diandri, singuli foliolis singulis corona: complexi, filamentis membranaceis, pallidis, subulatis, 1 basi dilatatis villosis- que (interdum incisis), antheris abortivis. ermen hispidissimum, inferum, turbinatum, vireus, calyce pluriés brevius, wniloc., polyspermum? ovula pla- centis tribus parietalibus prominentibus affiza. Stylus areola epigyne hir- tissimá insertus, erectus, subulatus, staminibus «qualis, albus, inferné villosus, in stigmata 3 subulata breviora reflexa supernè secedens. Nunc pars quinta floris supprimitur. Loasa was the name originally given to the genus by Adanson, as supposed, in compliment to some Spanish bo- tanist, but why it should have been altered to Loosa by Linnseus we are not told, and are inclined to believe the difference to be a misprint. Sir James Smith adopts the spelling in the works of Linnzus ; we have adhered to that of Adanson. The present is, we believe, an unrecorded species, though a sample gathered by Mr. Menzies at Valparaiso, and preserved in the Banksian Herbarium, is inscribed, with a quere, Loasa acanthifolia; a denomination that will be found, on investigation, to belong to a very distinct species from this. In fact, the subject of this article comes nearer to Loasa hispida (ambrosiæfolia of Jussieu) than to any we know of; but there the foliage is alternate, of another form, and less divided. E The drawing was taken from a plant raised by Mr. Grey Bennett, in his hothouse at Walton upon Thames, from seed from Valparaiso, and is the first of the genus known to have appeared in the gardens of this country. The group, as far as we are acquainted with it, belongs entirely to South America, and seems to abound principally in Chili and Peru. Some of the species are of great beauty with large brilliantly coloured flowers. Many of them, like the present, are covered with a stinging pubescence, and require to be handled with the same caution as our common ettle. , The genus was first appended by Jussieu to his Onagra- rie, but afterwards formed, along with MENTzELIA, into a separate order, by the title of Loaseæ. The order agrees an» with that of Onagrariæ by an inferior germen (incorporated with what by some is termed the tube of the calyx), a parted calyx, a corolla of several petals inserted at the outer rim of the top of the germen alternately with the leaflets of the calyx, by stamens inserted on the same level with the pe- tals, by a single style, and a many-seed capsular fruit; on the other hand the Loasec differ from the Onagrarie by the indefinite number of the stamens, by a fruit with one cell that opens at the upper part only by three shallow valves, and by the seed being borne on three vertical receptacles attached at equal distances along the inner wall of the capsule. We believe our plant will prove to be annual. The stem was rather more than a foot high. The pubescence which covers it is of two kinds, the one of longer stouter straight unjointed transparent pricklelike -hairs with a small bag or vesicle at the base containing the liquid for transfusion through the sting when in action, the other of pliant, softish, jointed hairs without any vesicle, and quite harmless. The stigma attributed to the genus has been always described as single, but in our plant the style was terminated by three recurvedly spreading subulate ones rather shorter than the column itself, and reaching a little beyond the stamens. Each of the five leaflets that compose the stamineous crown was furnished at the base, at equal distances on the out- side, with three narrowly ligulate diffusely spreading ap- pendages nearly as long as the leaflet itself. * Mr. Lambert has engravings which represent fifteen species of the genus, most of them unrecorded : they form a part of the plates intended for the forthcoming volume of the Flora Peruviaua. Twelve species have been repre- sented from the dried subject by engravings appended to a per on the order Loaseæ inserted by M. De Jussieu in the pa Annales du Musée. 668 ARUM Dracontium. Green Dragon. ; . — : MONŒCIA POLYANDRIA. Nat. ord. AROIDEE. Jussieu gen. 28. Div. I. Spadix spathá involutus, AROIDEX (includentes et Typhas et Aroidass Jussieuii), Brown prod. 1. 333. Sect. ji Flores diclines; Perianthio (Calyce) nullo. Aroider vera. ARUM. Supra vol. 6. fol. 450. Div. Acaulia, foliis compositis. A. Dracontium, acaule; foliis eit foliolis lanceolato-oblongis integer- m ee subulato spatha oblonga convoluta longiore. amer, sept. 2. . Arum Dracontium. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2.1368. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 9. Michaux bor. amer. 2. 188. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 478. Nuttall gen. 2. 222. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5.306. Barton comp. H. philad. 2. 181. Arum s. Arisarum virginianum, dracontii folio pene viridi longo acuminato. Pluk. alm. 52. f. 271. fig. 2. * Grows naturally in moist places in Virginia and New * England, but is very difficult to preserve long in a gar- “den. I received some roots of this from New England a * few years ago, which continued two years, but the soil “ being dry they decayed in summer. These should- have “a moist shady situation, otherwise they will not thrive. * The leaves of this sort are divided like those of the “ * Common Dragon’ (Arum Dracunculus), but are smaller, * and rarely grow more than nine inches high; the flowers * are like those of our common Arum or Cuckow-Pint * (Anum maculatum), but the pistil is longer than the * spathe. It flowers in June and the stalks decay in au- * tumn.” Mill. dict. ed. 7. n. 9. According to Dr. Barton it is found wild in the neigh- bourhood of Philadelphia, on the western border of the Schuylkill and on the Wissahickon; where it flowers in June and grows to the height of two feet. In other parts of the United States, it seldom exceeds the height of nine inches. Messrs. Pursh and Nuttall speak of the species as one to be found from Pensylvania and Virginia to Florida. The drawing was taken from a plant which flowered last summer in the greenhouse of the Horticultural Society. We believe it to be very rare in our collections ; though cultivated in the Chelsea Garden by Miller before 1750. We had no opportunity of examining the plant for de- scription. There is an Arum Dracontium, in Thunberg's Flora Ja- ponica ; but without any description. It can hardiy be of the same species with the present. — . MORE CURE CT RD" E FTT 669 POLYGALA myrtifolia. Myrtle-leaved Cape- Milkwort. — ` DIADELPHIA OCTANDRIA. Nat. ord. PEDICULARES. Jussieu gen. 99. Div. I. Stamina non didy- nama, 2 aut plura. POoLYGALEE. Brown gen. rem. in ind. voy. 2. 642; et suprà fol. 636. POLYGALA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 150. Div. Cristate. P. myrtifolia, floribus cristatis cariná lunulatà, caule fruticoso, foliis lævi- bus: (suprà obsolet? villosis) oblongis obtusis. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2. 988. Polygala myrtifolia. Mill. Diet. ed. 8.2.3. J. Miller illustr. Jacq. fragm. 1.18. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 884. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 244. Polygala arborea myrüfolia, floribus albis: intüs purpureis. Comm. hort. 1. 87. t. 46. Polygala frutescens, foliis oblongis glabris, flore purpureo. Burm. afr. 200. 8.73. . 1. \ Frog” pm 3-4 pedalis v. ultrà, trichotomo-ramosus ramis adscenden- tibus patentibus teretibus villosis laxids foliosis. Fol. sparsa opacato-viren- tia, intervallis bis terve longiora, obovato-oblonga, apice rotundata mutica, unciä breviora vel nunc longiora, suprà obsoletiüs villosa, subtüs adscendentèr nervosa. Racemi terminates, alternate pluriflori, corymboso-fastigiantes, villosi ; axis brevis, ‚flexuosa, virens; pedicelli villosi, flore plurimum breviores, singuli basi bracteolis 3 verticillatis ovatis glabris patentibus cincti. Flores. foris chloroleuci, intús letè purpurascenies, transversè unciales longitudine semunciali. Cal. glaber, virens, segmento summo suppostum vexillum sub- @quante, cordato-acuminato, infrà subcolorato atque subrotundo-patente, supra convoluto-attenuato, lateralibus majoribus , iniit vivid? purpu- reis, extüs virescentibus, apiculo brevi abrupto acutatis. Cor. Vexilli pe- tala amba brevia, villoso-ciliata, albicantia, purpureo-venosa, biloba lobo interiore lato obliquato reflexo apice rotundo, exteriore angusto subulato erec- tiusculo albo; ale clandestine albe supern? obsoleté villose, nunc omnino adnate (nec nisi ex prominentiá parüm conspicud in superficie tubi filamenti manifesta) vel nunc tantümmodo ad apicem villosum libere, cæ- terum cum tubo stamineo confuse; carina lata, compressa segmentis alefor- mibus calycis equalis, albida, apice atropurpurea, baseos marginibus lanato- ciliatis; penicellus albicans multifidus, carinæ apice subbrevior. Filamenta alba, fissurá tubi monadelphi lanatá; antheræ parvulæ, aurec-micantes, ur- nato-dehiscentes (ligularis suprà fol. 637. minores J. Stylus et stigma albi- cantia (stigmatis uncus ligularis latior breviorque ). * Native of the Cape of Good Hope, and one of the first plants of that country introduced into our greenhouses, where it blossoms most part of the year.—John Miller's VOL. vin. U figure exhibits, besides the diminutive cloven standard (vex- illum), a pair of equally diminutive lanceolate wings (ale) to the corolla. Possibly such may be found in other spe- cies." Smith in Rees's cyclop. in loco. Cultivated with us in 1707 by the Duchess of Beaufort. Drawn in the greenhouse of the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill in the King's Road. In a former article of this Register, in speaking of what we termed the latent ale (wings) observed in certain species of this genus, they are spoken of as of parts that had not been before noticed in PorveaLA by any other than ourselves, We were not then aware of the elabo- rate illustration of the species before us in the splendid folio of J. Miller, to which our attention has been since drawn by the passage we have quoted from Sir James Smith. On referring to this figure of J. Miller's, we find these latent wings (ale) distinctly and faithfully repre- sented, and believe that that artist is probably the first per- son who observed them. By every subsequent botanist we are acquainted with, they have been overlooked. The corolla is universally spoken of as tripetalous, except by Sir James Smith in the passage we have quoted in reference to Miller's figure and dissections. For the distinctions that separate myrtifolia from ligu- laris, its nearest relative, we shall refer to the article which treats of the latter species (fol. 637, in the present vo- lume). Myrtifolia forms a slender straggling-branched shrub of three or four feet in height, and is found very generally in our greenhouses, where it flowers for a great part of the summer, and is of easy cultivation. | Bway l 4 O Dacca. 743 D / " 5 A. An, au. 670 SPATHELIA simplex. Sumach-leaved Spathelia. Mountain Pride. — PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. Nat. ord. TEREBINTACER. Jussieu gen. 368. Div. II. Germen sim- plex. Fructus multilocularis, loculis quibusdam interdüm abortivis. . SPATHELIA. Cal. 5-partitus coloratus. Petala 6. Fil. brevia basi dilatata et villosa, anthere oblonge. Stylus 0. Stigmata 3. Caps. ob- longa, 3-gona (marginibus prominulis trialata ex Sloan.), 9-locularis 3- sperma seminibus triquetris. Arbuscula; folia (Sorbi) impari-pinnata, al- tern? multijuga, conferta, terminalia ; flores inter folia racemoso-paniculati terminales purpurei. Juss. gen. 371. Spathelia simplex. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1.386. Lamarck encyc. 7. 309. illustr. tab. 209. Gertn. sem. 1. 278. 4.58. fig. 3. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1496. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 171. Lunan hort. jam. 524. Spathe caudice simplici, fronde pinnatà comos4, racemo simplicissimo laxo terminali. Browne jam. 187. Aceri aut Paliuro affinis arbor caudice ramoso, foliis sorbi, floribus racemo- sis purpureis, fructü tribus membranulis alato. Sloane jam. 2. 28. f. 171. Arbor v. arbuscula caudice recto simplici cylindrico, infernà vestigiis protuberantibus foliorum notato, supern? comá densi terminato. Folia im- ari-pinnata, ovalia, petiolata, sparsa, SORBI aucuparie haud absimilia ; oliola subalterna, sessilia, glabra, lanceolata, erenata, basi rotundata, suprà obtusids acuminata, nervis rachideque supra villosis. Panicula è sind coma foliose terminalis, amplissima, rosea, decomposita, subpyramidata, erecta, laxiüs ramulosa, ebracteata, axi villosd opacè rubente, pedicellis brevibus teretibus. Cal. coloratus, glaber, 5-partitus, corollá 4 brevior conformisque, persistens, segmentis ellipticis. Cor. diametro semunciali: petala 5, obfusa, decidua. Stam. areolö hypogyná inserta, erecta, inclusa: fil. brevissima, alba, robusta, plana, hirsuta, tridentato-acuminata dente medio longiore antherifero: anth. fulvide, 9-loculares, introrse, pilose, à dorso infernd puncto summo filamenti appense, vibrato-incumbentes, oblonga, (estivantibus filamento triplo longioribus: erecto-conniventibus.) Pist. staminibus aequale: germ. virens, villosum, oblongum, ovale, triguetrum, utrinque angustatum, baseos glandulosæ eoncoloris tumidioris orbiculate continuum: stig". lobuli trini sessiles viridi-lutei pruinesi subglobosi patentes. | Drupa exsucca, ovata, triquetra (subuncialis), glabra, spadicea. Cor- tex membranaceo-fungorus, in alas rigidas fragiles ampliatus. Putamen 3-loculare lapideum, ovato-acuminatum, long setá rigidä pedunculatum, ro- tund? 3-gonum: angulis atque loculamentis appendice teretiusculd, supernd in mucronem prominente, intern? autem canaliculata atque resiné fluidá sea- tente, stipatis, Recept. O; semina. cum loculamentorum latere externo coluz- rentia. Semen in singulo loculamento unicum, teretiusculum utrinque acu- minatum; hinc ubi canalem resiniferum respicit, sulco leviter depressum in- scriptum, rubro-ferrugineum. Integumentum simplex coriaceum, è fibris transversalibus rigidis, cocculi bombycini ad instar contextum, et cum puta- mine, prope canales resiniferos, ita coherens, ut absque laceratione viz ab eo solvi possit. Albumen semini conforme, modicè crassum, carnosum, album. v2 Embr. longitudine albuminis, inversus, nivens. Cotyl. lincari-oblonge com- presse tenues. Radicula brevissima, supera. Gerin. 1.278. Pars tertia Fructis haud raro supprimitur. Drawn in the hothouse of the Nursery of Mr. Lee at Hammersmith, where the plant has now flowered (in the shape of a small shrub of two or three feet high) probably for the first time in Europe, although pretty common in our collections. It had not flowered at Kew (though intro- duced by Dr. William Wright as far back as 1778), when the last edition of the Catalogue of that garden was pub- lished. In Jamaica, its native place, it forms a principal orna- ment.of the mountain forests. In our hothouses it is to be seen in miniature. “ This tree rises by a single slender stem like the Palms, * and bears all its oval pinnate moderately ribbed leaves * disposed closely together about the top; the leaflets of * these are six or seven inches long and about two broad in * the middle. The branches grow from all sides at the top “in a spiral order, for about two feet in a tree 50 feet “high; they spread horizontally, the lowermost about five “ feet long, the other diminish in size as they approach the * summit. As the old ones drop they leave protuberant tri- * angular scars on the body of the tree, and which are * seen winding spirally about the stem wherever it is bare. “A tree which measured 50 feet in height was only 17 “inches in the circumference about four feet from the * ground, and the tree leaned considerably from the weight * of the pyramidal panicle of flowers, which issued from “ the summit close to the foliage and afforded a magnificent * sight; the lowermost branches of the panicle measured “ eight feet from the point of one to the point of the other * opposite; it was six feet high and thickly covered with “ beautiful bright purple flowers, about half an inch in di- * ameter when expanded. This fine garland, from the height of the tree on which it is borne, may be seen above * the tops of the forests at a great distance. The wood is * white soft and brittle, of no use in building. Browne * has called our tree the Maiden Plum, a name which be- “ longs to a very different plant, CowocLapra integrifolia.” Lunan loc. cit. TT ** Terebintaceæ (the order to which the subject of the article belongs) is so denominated by Jussieu from the genus for which he chooses to retain the old name of Terz- BINTHUS, but which is Pisracata of Linnæus (and includes the Pistachia Tree, the Turpentine Tree, and the Mastick Tree). Many of the plants of this order abound in an es- sential oil of the nature of turpentine, or something like it." * SPATHELIA, altered from Dr. Patrick Browne's name for the same plant, Srarnz, and alluding to the simple undivided stem, crowned with a tuft of luxuriant leaves, like the Palm-tribe." Smith in Rees's cyclop. in loco. "The genus consists at present of only one species. 671 MELASTOMA granulosa. Commerson’s Melastoma. — DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. MELASTOMACRE. Jussieu gen. 328, Brown bot. of Congo. 15. Div. I. Germen infor: S Congo MELASTOMA. Supra vol. 5. fol. 363. Div. Foliis 5-nervibus. M. granulosa, ramis marginato-tetragonis, foliis ovali-lanceolatis longids acuminatis, suprà appresse hispidis lucidis, subtüs pannoso-villosis ; pe- talis Obovato-oblongis acumine brevi abrupto, filamentis supernè longè laxéque lanatis. Don MSS. Melastoma granulosa. Lamarck encyc. 4. 44. Smith in Rees's cyclop, in loco. Persoon syn. 1. 476. Frutex 10-pedalis, appresso-hispidus, supra brachiato-ramosus ramis ad- scendentibus, alato-4-gonis, superni foliosis virentibus alis subundulatis. Fol. coriacea, decussato-opposita, divaricata, intervallis multotiès longiora, immerse 5-nervia (nervis 3 subtús varicosioribus), integra, utrinque atte- nuate, cuspidato-acuminata, 4-6-uncialia latitudine sesquiunciali v. majore, suprà saturate virentia lucida carunculis muriciformibus (in siccá albicanti- bus atque conspicuioribus) adnato-decumbentibus setulá brevi appressá termi- matis antrorsüm directis subsymmetricè strigosa, sublüs preter nervos vari- cosos strigillosos laná brevi molli densá pallescentia inque nercorum intervallis transversé numerose parallelèque venosa: petioli fleriles, folio multotiès bre- tiores, scabri, è ciliis intermediis per paria connexi. Paniculæ terminales, decussato-ramulosæ, ramuli trichotomi breves axisque purpurascentia 4-gona hispida: pedicellittubo calycis pluries breviores, bracteis 2 oppositis majoribus gemmaceis caducis cum enascente flore inclusi, teretes, sericei. Flores rubro- purpurei, speciosissimi, diametro ferm? triunciali. Cal. tubuloso-5-fidus, tubo cylindrico, pedicelli turbinato-continuo, limbo membranaceo, colorato, re- curvo-rotato, segmentis oblongo-acuminatis, tubo subequalibus, intüs glabris. Cor. concaviüs rotata, extús lucida, petalis obovato-oblongis acumine brevi apiculatis, obsoletè unguiculatis, subdistantibus, subtilitér ciliatis. Stam. 10, alternó longiora, 3 v. circa corollá breviora, fasciculata, filamentis declinato- assurgentibus, albidis, gracilibus, inferné nudis, supernè land longé lar rubré barbatis: antheræ purpurascentes, lineari-subulate, filamento sub- equales, curvo brevi ángusto adscendentes, loculis introrsis transvers? rugatis intensits coloratis, receptaculo eztrorso pallente basi bidentato. Stylus eru- bescens glaber, staminibus. sublongior, filamentis subrobustior ; stigma aper obtusus puberulus. Germ. albidum, tubo ealycino equale, apice sericeo-vil- lon. Fructum nec nisi imperfectum, vidimus. Don MSS. This fine shrub grows to the height of ten feet, and from its deep green shining foliage, numerous and long-succeed- ing bunches of large purple blossom, is said to form one of the most splendid ornaments of the tropical groves. Samples had been long since brought from the Brazils by M. Commerson, and upon these the species was founded in the Encyclopédie of the Chevalier de Lamarck. Other - samples from the same country were subsequently deposited in the Banksian and Lambertian Herbariums by Sir George Staunton. But the living plant has only now been intro- duced into our gardens, where it flowered for the first time in the hothouse of the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, King's Road, Chelsea. The specific name was suggested by the leaf in a dried state, when the upper side shows very distinctly its nu- merous taperingly oblong recumbently adherent whitish calli disposed in a somewhat symmetrical order; each ter- minated by a short detachedly close-pressed bristle; an ap- pearance not unaptly compared to that of the seed on the surface of the Strawberry; to which the term granulosa alludes. This seedy surface will be looked for in vain on the fresh leaf; for the callosities which cause it are then buried in the substance of the leaf, and come plainly into view only as that shrinks away in drying. This appearance is common to other species, as well as the one before us. The winged corners of the branches, the long woolly hairs of the upper portion of the filaments, and the pe- culiar red-purple colour of the corolla, distinguish this species conspicuously from all its compatriot congeners we haveseen. Don MSS. 672 MELASTOMA malabathrica. ‚Cinnamon-leaved Melastoma or Black-Strawberry- Tree. —— DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. MELASTOMACEX. Jussieu gen. 328. Div. I. Brown bot. of Congo. 15. Germen inferum. MELASTOMA. Supra vol. 5. fol. 363. Div. Foliis 5-nerviis. M. malabathrica, squamulato-scabra, foliis elliptico-lanceolatis hispidis 5- nerviis, utrinque viridibus, corymbis 3-pluri-floris (flore nunc abortü solita- rio): calyce squamuloso-sericeo : antheris basi sagittato-bidentatis, alter- norum majorum loculis receptaculo stipitatim elongato plurimüm brevi- oribus. Don MSS. Melastoma malabathrica. Linn. flor. zeyl. 171; (fide exemplaris archetypi Herbar. Hermann.) Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 559. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 7. Gertn. sem. 2. 203. f. 126. Lamarck encyc. 4. 36. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 592. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 46; ( excluso Botan. Magaz. 529.) Smith in Rees’s cyclop. in loco. Melastoma quinquenervia hirta major, capitulis sericeis villosis. Burm. zeyl. 155. t. 73; (benè.) Kadali. Rheede malab. 4. 87. t. 42. Fragrarius niger. Rumph. amb. 4. 137. t. 72. Frutex 2-3-pedalis, squamulis appressis minutis rigidis lanceolato-cuspi- datis denticulato-ciliatis primd margaritaceo-nitentibus indé spadiceo-opa- candis scaber, numerose ramosus ramis axillaribus decussato-oppositis, adscendentibus, sub4gonis, foliosis. Fol. opposita, elliptico-lanceolata, in- tegra, 5-nervia, opaciüs virentia, mucronulata, utrinque attenuata, setulis appressis aspera ciliataque ; nervi subtüs varicosi petiolusque squamulati : pet. olio multotiès brevior fimbriá strigosä intermedia per paria connexi. Co- rymbi terminales, subsessiles, 3-pluri-flori (nunc flore abortü solitario): flores Pallidè rosei, grandiusculi: pedicelli uniflori semunciales teretes squamulati, primo bracteis 2 gemmaceis caducis cum flore nascente simul inclusi, indè nudi. Cal. tubuloso-5-fidus squamulato-hispidus, sericeo-splendens ; tubo urceolato- cylindrico longiore limbo subpersistente, segmentis oblongo-acuminatis hirsu- tits apiculatis intús glabris squamulä lineari-subulatá breviore interstinctis. Petala latè obovata, integra, contigua, venosa. Stam. 10, alterne breviora ; fil. Zutescentia, ligulato-linearia, glabra; anth. lineari-oblonge, breve ro- strate, inferne arctato-flexe, basi sagittato-dentate: alterne majores, ro- ser, stipitate (ob loculos receptaculo in stipitem roseum cum basi flexá luteá producto plurimim breviores); cæteræ lutescentes, sessiles ( ob loculos receptaculo æquales J: Stylus rubescens, puncto stigmatoso obtuso viridi prut- noso terminatus. Germ. ovato-rotundum, fundo calycis reconditum, apice hirsutum. Caps. ovata, baccata, rimis 5 supernè dehiscens; placente azi adnate, carnose, in pulpam atrosanguineam loculos implentem resolvende : sem. parva, reniformi-globosa, numerosa. Don MSS. * MEgLasTOMA; a name composed by John Burmann, of uc, black, and coug, mouth; being synonymous with VOL. VIII. X the Portuguese appellation of one of the Ceylon species, Bocca preto, or Black Mouth, which arose from the effect of the fruit upon the mouth of those who eat it. Some of the West Indian species are known by the name of * Ame- rican Gooseberries. " Smith in Reess cyclop. in loc. SirJames Smith, in the above article, very justly doubted whether the plant given in Curtiss Botanical Magazine (529) for MELAsroMA malabathrica really belonged to that species; for a comparison with the prototype sample in the Hermanns’ Herbarium has proved it manifestly different. In the plant of the Magazine the leaves are ovately lan- ceolate, broader, longer, shining, 7-nerved, and less hispid; in our plant, the true malabathrica, they are elliptically lanceolate, 5-nerved, and opaque ; in ¢hat the branches are beset with longish cartilaginous spreading flexile bristles, in this with small hard brown lanceolately cuspidate ciliate close-pressed scales; in Zhat the larger calyx and longer peduncles are thickly beset with spreading cartilaginous flexile spinelike bristles; in ¿his the same are thickly scaled and have a silky or rather pearly gloss; besides by the first being much smaller and the latter much shorter; in that the flowers are likewise considerably larger and paler. In fact no two congeners can be more satisfactorily distinguishable. It appears that the true species was cultivated by Miller. The plant of the Botanical Magazine was introduced by Sir George Staunton in 1795, most probably from China. The subject of the present article was drawn by Mr. Syden- ham Edwards, at the Nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Co. in the King’s Road, Fulham, and had been raised from seed sent from the East Indies by Sir Evan Nepean, four or five years ago. It is a hothouse plant. There is another nearly allied species with a larger flower than that of either of those we have mentioned, of a still more recent intro- duction, viz. MELASTOMA sanguinea. M. aspera is likewise an East Indian species nearly akin to malabathrica, but with far smaller leaves and a panicled inflorescence : this has the curious scaly pubescence of the present species. Don MSS. 073 PASSIFLORA picturata. Newmann’s Passionflower. A MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. Nat. ord. PASSIFLOREÆ. Jussieu in ann. du musée. 6. 102. PASSIFLORA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 13; et vol. 7. fol. 574. Div. Foliis trilobis. - P. picturata, foliis discoloribus peltatis rotundato-trilobis, sinubus petiolis- que sub4glandulosis : stipulis involucrisque obtusè foliaceis : floribus so- litariis; calyce -eorollä coronáque reflexis, urceolo pluriès longioribus: columnä inclusà; operculo carnoso conico radiato-partito. Frutex volubilis. Fol. membranacea, discolora, peltata, subcordato-ro- tunda, 5-nervia, semitriloba lobis ovatis acutulis mucronulatis medio lon- giore erecto, callis exiguis subquaternis sub margine sinúum verruculata supra lurido-virentia, subtüs purpurascentia, diametro subtriuncialia: petioli subduplo breviores, filiformes, callis stipitatis subquaternis vagis u. per paria approximatis obsiti. Flores solitarii, diametro biuncialem excedente, ex- planato-reflexi; pedunculo rigente declinato-assurgente tereti viridi glabro. Involucr. 3-phyllum, flori approximatum et subæquale ; foliola herbacea, dis- colora, tenera, venosa, verticillata, elliptica, subinequalia, ambitu deflexa, apice rotundata, basi sape subcordata, obsolete petiolata. Cal. extüs glauco- virescens, intüs erubescens; urceolus limbo pluries brevior, 10-lineatus absque omni sulco vel protuberantiá, subtüs intrusus; limbus reflexus, segmentis li- neari-oblongis, supernè carinatis, rostro viridi compresse subulato carine continuo prefixis, intüs concaviusculis. Cor, roseo-pallescens, inflexione men- suráque calycis, tenerior, summo urceolo inserta, petala oblonga, plana, obtu- sissima, mutica. Corona violaceo et albo pulchré maculosa, reflexa, calyce duplo feré brevior, biseriato-radiata, radiis numerosis contiguis filiformibus obtusis; interioribus gracilioribus triploque fer brevioribus. Operculum ru- bro et melino varium, radiato-partitum, coroná duplo brevius, in conum erec- tum circa columne stipitem connivens, radiis corone crassioribus firmioribus sub4gone pressis, antice posticèque sulco levi exaratis, obtusis, basi concretis et ex margine interiore glandulosá salebrosá albicante septulo annulari stipitis incumbentibus. Nect. urceoli conformis sublutescens, septo carnoso crasso deflexo brevi concolori parietem infra operculum ambiente incomplete clausa. Columna inclusa glabra; stipes breviusculus, crassus pyramidatus infernè virens, supernè purpureo-punctatus, septulo prominulo operculi basi opposito annulatus: germ. ovatum glaucum opacum, stipite fer? duplo brevius: styli purpureo-maculati, ligulato-clavati, divaricati, germine duplo longiores, extús sulco exarati, disco stigmatoso pulvinato orbiculato prafixi. Fil. viren- tia, membranacea, lineari-ligulata: anth. luteo-virentes, oblongae, polline flavo granuloso. The drawing of this curious and ornamental plant was taken in the hothouse of Mr. Lee, of the Hammersmith Nursery, where it first flowered in September last. x 2 We do not trace it to any recorded species. It comes near to Passırrora reflexiflora of Cavanilles (‘Tacsonta. Persoon syn. 2. 222), and agrees with it minutely in habit, foliage, stipules, involucre, and disposition of the parts of the flower, but differs in having the wrceolus (tubular portion of the calyx) several times shorter than the limb, instead of one equal to that, and by a crown of filiform rays instead of a group of small glandular bodies. In several respects the plant approaches likewise to PASSIFLORA glauca (vol. I. fol. 88.) of our Register; but between them the differences are still more manifold. Native of the Brazils, where it was collected by Mr. Newmann and sent to Mr. Lees Nursery. Spontaneous samples have been deposited in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium ; in which there are others of Tacsonia reflexiflora, from Peru. We shall here observe, that although PassrrLona, from its extent, may require division into separate genera, yet we are persuaded that the characters selected for MURUCUJA and Tacsonia will ultimately be found such as do not unite either natural or even convenient groups. Picturata is remarkable for the colour of its foliage, its large foliaceous stipules, its small calli or glands under the edge of the sinuses of the divisions of the leaves, for its reflex calyx corolla and crown, for its conical thick-fleshed radiately parted operculum (lid of the nectary), as well as the short pyramidal shaft of the column. In the Enumeratio of Willdenow, vol. 2. p. 697, we find a species recorded as follows: , PassırLora caracasana, foliis cordatis trilobis, lobis ova- tis acuminatis, intermedio longiore, sinubus glandulosis, petiolis biglandulosis. Habitat ad Caracas. Jacq. A description as far as it goes that would suit either picturata or reflexiflora, except that there are but two glands attributed to the petioles. To take up a species in Poy, way is to give a riddle without a reference for the key O 1t. — —— aAA kikis MN MN X v^ 674 OSBECKIA stellata. Nepal Osbeckia. — OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. MELASTOMACEE. Jussieu gen. 328. Brown bot. of Congo. 15. Div. II. Germen inferum. OSBECKIA. Supra vol. 7. fol. 542. O. stellata, foliis lanceolato-oblongis acuminatis 5-nerviis ramisque hispidis, calyce urceolato oblongo muricibus radiato-setosis implexé hirsuto: sta- minibus adscendentibus, antheris flexuosis filamento longioribus. Don MSS. Osbeckia stellata. Hamilton in herb. Lambertiano. Frutex erectus, bipedalis v. ultra, setuloso-hispidus: rami 4-goni, oppo- siti rariüs alterni, superne rubentes. Fol. opposita, patentissima, 2-6-unci- alia latitudine triplo feré minore, virentia, hispida: petiolus rubescens, plu- riés brevior. Flores lilacino-rubentes, speciosi diametro subbiunciali, termi- nales v. rariüs axillares, solitarii geminative, sepé subglomerato-approximati, in pedicello brevi robusto 4-gono subsessiles. Cal. urceolato-oblongus, viridi- pallens, uncialis (estivans bracteis late ovatis membranaceis fuscis ciliatis caducis subtensus ), limbi decidui 4-partiti segmenta stellato-patentia, recta, lanceolato-linearia penicillis setosis laxiüs hirsuta, murice radiatá terminata, pluribusque similibus in sini quoque intercalaribus. Cor. 4-petala, patentis- sima, petalis obcordato-rotunda, ciliata, venosa. Stam. 8, equalia, inclusa, ar- cuato-assurgentia, laxiüs fasciculata, lutea, glabra: anth. filamento equales v. longiores, lineari-rostrate, sigmoideo-curvate, rostro longo terminate, à basi declivi subcordato-acuminatá filamento absque stipite intermedio affixe. Stylus sensi staminum contrario inclinatus, superné curvatus: stig. punctum terminale pruinosum, virens. Germ. calyce reconditum, subrotundo-ovatum, rostro setoso terminatum. Caps. sicca, 4-locularis, calyce vestita; recepta- cula 4, magne, axi mediá cui longitudinaliter adnata duplo breviora: sem. numerosa, scabra. Don MSS. A handsome-flowered species just introduced into our hothouses from the Botanic Garden at Calcutta. Native of Nepal, where it was observed by Dr. F. Hamilton in 1802, near Narainhetty. In Mr. Lambert's Herbarium we find numerous samples collected by Doctors Wallich and F. Ha- milton in the places of their spontaneous growth. Drawn at the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road, Chelsea ; where it is cultivated in the hothouse. An upright shrub two feet high or more, bristly furred : branches 4-cornered, opposite, seldom alternate, reddening at the upper part. Leaves opposite, wide-spread, lanceo- lately oblong, taper-pointed, 5-nerved, 2-6 inches long, about three times as narrow, green, hispid: petiole reddish, several times shorter. Flowers showy, light pink, about two inches in diameter, terminal, less frequently axillary, soli- tary or in pairs, not unfrequently closing together into a sort of head; pedicle very short, stout, 4-cornered. Calyx urceolate, oblong, faintly green, about an inch long, closely beset with short radiately bristled interwoven prickles, segments of the deciduous 4-parted limb stellately extended, lanceolately linear, less closely bristled and terminated by a single radiately bristled prickle, with several of the same in their intervals. Corolla 4-petalled, wide-spread ; petals roundedly obcordate, finely fringed, veined. Stamens 8, equal, shorter than the corolla, archedly ascending, loosely fasci- cled, yellow, smooth: anthers as long as the filaments or longer, linearly beaked, flexuosely curved, terminated by an elongated tapered beak, slanting and subcordately acuini- nate at the base where they are inserted upon the filament without any intervening shaft. Style inclining the contrary way to the stamens; curved at the upper part: stigma a green simple terminal subpubescent point. Germen sunk in the calyx, roundedly ovate, ending in a bristly tapered point. Capsule dry, 4-celled, enveloped by the calyx; re- ceptacles 4, twice shorter than the axis, to which they are lon- gitudinally attached ; seeds numerous, rough. Don MSS. LS d 675 GEODORUM dilatatum. Shovel-lip d Geodorum. — —— GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDER. Brown prod. 1. 309. Sect. V. Anthera termi- minalis, mobilis, operculiformis, decidua. Pollinis mass cereaceze, leves. Parasitice, pauce Terrestres. Brown |. c. 330. GEODORUM. Jackson in Andrews's reposit. 626. Labellum cucul- lato-ventricosum (nunc basi calcaratum), sessile, cum columná non articu- latum... Petala conformia subsecunda. Masse pollinis 2, posticè lobulo auctæ. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 207. Plante (Indie orientalis, Nove Hollandiæ) terrestres. OBS. Genus MALAXIDI proximum babitü, nec multúm absimile struc- turà column» florisque expansione. Br. prod. 1. 332; sub fine observa- tionis CYMBIDIO picto (nunc in GEODORUM transponendum) appense. G. dilatatum, scapo foliis breviore, spicà pendulà: floribus congestis, la- bello subcalearato; apice dilatato crenulato. Brown in Hort. Kw. ed.2. 5. 207. Limodorum recurvum. Roxburgh corom. 1. 33. t. 39. Swartz nov. act. ups. 6. 79. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 124. Terrestris, bulbo subrotundo, fibris crassis radicato. Fol. subtrina, 6- uncialia ad pedalia, erecta, lanceolata, latitudine 3-4-unciali, 5-nervia, basi vaginoso-complexa, laminá submembranaceá; scapus radicalis, extra foliaceus, erectus, virens, teres, cavus, glaber, 5-9-uncialis, foliis brevior, crassitie ferè penne seriptorie, foliis paucis (3?) vaginosis suprà in bracteas descrescentibus acuminatis instructus; superné reflexus. Racemus cernuus, multiflorus, imbricato-sparsus, subcapitato-abbreviatus: bracteæ lineari-lan- ceolate, germen equantes. Germ. sessile, rectum, viride, corollá brevius, rotundaté costatum. Cor. nutans, carneo-albicans, sublabiato-campanulata, semunciá vir longior: petala 5, concolora, in labium summum patulum im- bricato-convergentia, exteriora trina, sibi similia, cuneato-oblonga, dorso subcarinata, apiculo acuto: interiora bina duplo fermé latiora, sublongiora, pallidiora, teneriora, lineari-oblonga, plana, obtusata, dorso baseos carinato- gibbosa : labellum petalis exterioribus equilongum, roseo-pictum, rectum, la- tum, retusum, superne areolá interná luted calloso-incrassatá in disco promi- nulá notatum, infernè in ventrem oblique cavum convolutum, extüs supra ventrem scrobiculo utrinque impressum indeque carinatum, supra in laminam summam brevem patulam rotundato-retusam utrinque reflexam crenulatamque extensum; quoad axin spice interius. Columna libera, petalis 3-plo fer? brevior, ochroleuco-pallens, rectum, obovatum, cum brevi acumine, postice concaviusculum, anticè planiusculum curvulum: anth. operculiformis, oblato- rotunda, convexiuscula, lutea, acumini erecto columnæ postice inserta, decidua, extüs pruinosa (clinandrium cicatricibus binis puniceis sub siti loculorum pollinis conspicue notatum!). Stigma area cava secernens oblato- subrotunda columne concolora, anthere immediate subjectum, suprà margine prominulá cinctum. The plant from which the drawing has been made, flow- ered this summer in the hothouse of Dr. Hood, at South Lambeth. It is a very rare species in our collections; and has been no where represented except in the work on the Coromandel Plants, by Dr. Roxburgh; where it is spoken of as native of the moist vallies among the hills in India, and as growing on the ground, not on trees, like the great portion of this natural order in the tropical climates. Introduced into our gardens by Sir Joseph Banks in 1800, along with its congeners purpureum and citrinum, all natives of the same country. We observed two very singular crimson scars upon the bed of the pollen-masses, one under each of them, and evidently connected with the early stage of their produc- tion. Mr. Brown, to whom we showed them, thought them a remarkable appearance. GEODORUM was originally instituted by the late Mr. . Jackson, then librarian to Mr. Lambert; but has been subsequently remodelled by Mr. Brown. It comes near to Maraxis ; but the pollen-masses are there four; here two augmented by a lobe behind. 676 676 VANDA teretifolia. Cylindric-leaved Vanda. — — GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDER. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 1. 309. Div. IV. Anthera terminalis mobilis decidua. Masse pollinis demüm cereaceæ. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 205. VANDA. Supra vol. 6. fol. 506. V. teretifolia, perianthii (corolla) laciniis interioribus brevioribus. Lindley collect. 6. tab. 6. Epidendrum teretifolium. Link enum. hort. berol. 2. 372? Rami stricti, teretes, foliosi, radices pallidas tortuosas promentes. Folia teretia, biuncialia, internodiis 2-A-plo longiora, cum caule et vaginá articu- lata. Spica simplex, horizontalis, foliorum longitudine (vel plurimim lon- gior) 5- (v. laxius multi-) flora. Flores majusculi, ante anthesin cuneati, resupinati: lacinie oblonge, reflexæ, lurido-lutee, obtuse, dorso et tribus nervis intüs sanguineis; 2 interioribus brevioribus. Labellum album, ovatum, dependens, laciniis longius, cum processu villoso column elastic? articulatum, basi in calcare obtuso, sanguineo-lineato productum, versüs apicem utrinque unidentatum, dentibus erectis apice coloratis. Calcar dimidid inferiore 2: loculare, membraná transversá foraminibus duobus pertusá, pro receptione baseos corporis carnosi compressi triangularis, margine et apice bicorni pilo- sis, dorso interioris calcaris afixi. Columna laciniis multo brevior, lurido- lutea, parte anteriore villosá, planá, apice utrinque unidenticulatá, lineá pilosa ab utráque dente decurrente; anticé circa faucem stigmatis membrana quadratá erectá cartilagined. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, persistens, antice elongata, 2-locularis, loculis discretis. Masse pollinis 2, cerea, dure, integre ( postice lobato-circumscisse, Nob.), postice obscure foveate, pedicello affixæ apice falcato compresso; basi in membraná cartilagined trilaterali di. latato, que, ejus lateribus membranis faucis stigmatis applicatis, fit quoad stigma horizontalis. Stigma infundibulare, purpureum, viscidum: glandulä massarum. pollinis pedicello medio proximá. Ovarium (germen) perianthio ( corollá ) longius, contortum (rectum Nob.). Lindley loc. cit. Figured and described by Mr. Lindley in the publica- tion we have quoted. Native of China, and but lately introduced into our gardens, where it grows readily and blossoms in perfection. The annexed figure is from a sample we were favoured with by Sir Abraham Hume, from his hothouse at Worm- leybury. The flower is curious in the structure, as well as or- namental. The foliage is very different from that of the two species already published in our Register. The roots VOL. VIII. Y are produced from all parts of the stem or branches from between the leaves, and serve as aboveground stays or props, adhering where requisite to the smoothest surface by the same process that holds the misletoe to the oak and the sea-weed to the rock. According to the character of this division of the order, the anther should be deciduous ; but Mr. Lindley has cha- racterized it as permanent; and it is true, that in our hothouses we have never seen it spontaneously removed at any stage of the existence of the flower from the bud state to its decay. By a slight pressure, however, from the point of a needle it falls off entire, while the pollen-masses, by means of the remarkable process which supports them, start with considerable elasticity from their places; and we suspect that in the native country of the plant the anther is spontaneously deciduous, and not of the nature of that intended by Mr. Brown by a permanent anther. We do not mean to imply, by this remark, that such removal is in any way necessary for the due access of the pollen-masses to any portion of the pistil. In terming the pollen-masses entire (integræ), if Mr. Lindley means, that they are without division or incision, he is certainly mistaken, for each is scored or cut round into two unequal lobes or segments of its orb, and in that respect comes directly within the definition of the character attributed to the genus by Mr. Brown. . Mr. Lindley speaks of the germen being twisted ; to us it appeared straight, as in the Vanpa paniculata of this publication, to which it comes near in many respects. 677 PASSIFLORA albida. White long-stalked Passionflower. — MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. Nat. ord. PassırLoRE®. Jussieu in ann. du mus. 6. 102. PASSIFLORA. Supra vol. I. fol. 13; et vol. 7. fol. 574. Div. Foliis indivisis. P. albida, foliis subrotundo-cordatis petiolo bicalloso; floribus solitariis pe- dunculo robusto longo aliquoties brevioribus; involuero foliaceo ante anthesin caduco; calycis carinis undulato-alatis ; operculo radiato; co- lumná inclinatà; staminibus secundis. Frutex alte scandens: rami teretes, pallidé virentes, glabri, supernè flo- riferi. Fol. distantia, intervallis longiora, membranacea, luteo-virentia, subrotundo-cordata, mucronata sub-5-nervia, reticulato-venosa, supra nitida, subtriuncialia, transverse parüm angustiora: pet. folio ter feré brevior, sulco supra inscriptus, rubro crebré puncticulatus, medium versús bicallosus callis late virentibus subrotundis approximatis cum disco glanduloso lutescente in apice : stipulæ gemine, tenuiter foliaceæ, erecta, subdimidiato-cordate, acuminate, mucronate, basi oblique rotundata, venosæ, unciä breviores, nervo longitu- dinali eccentrico. Pedunculi axillares, solitarii, uniflori, 6-G-unciales v. ultrà, pallidè virides, robusti, teretes, rigidi, articulo inter florem et invo- lucrum medio. Involucrum ante anthesin caducum, foliaceum, florem asti- tantem includens, unciale v. ultrà; foliola 3 tenuia, pallidé viridia, elliptico- lanceolata utrinque attenuata, subverticillata, sessilia, erecta, nunc margine vage glandulosa v. sapt levia, cicatrices 3 conspicuas post casum lin- quentia. Flos albidus, distantér radiatus, diametro triunciali v. majore, inodorus. CAL. : urceolus pallidissimé virens oblato-eylindraceus, limbo mul- totiès (4-Siesve) brevior, exsulcus, ecostatus, estriatus, subtüs intrusus ; limbus cAloroleucus segmentis elongato-oblongis ( sesquiuncialibus latitudine trilineari) obtusis, concaviusculis, cariná subvirente undulato-alatá supernè profundiore aristato-rostratá. Cor. calyci equalis alba tenuior mutica. Co- rona corolle concolor, triplo fermé brevior, patens, radiis laxiüs biseriatis, exterioribus filiformibus, flexis, interioribus duplo brevioribus. crassioribus compressis. Operculum corone concolor, radiatum, radiis stipitem lazè ob- vallantibus, clavatis, suprà compressis. Nectarium septulo brevi crasso denticulato fundum circumambiente subbicameratum, areolá columniferá centrali elevatá suprà marginatá. Columna corolla suba qualis, curvatus, inclinatus, pallidissimé virens; stipes crassitudine penne cortina, germine duplo longior. Germ. opacum pallidissimum, ovali-oblongum, obsolete 3-go- num. Stam. irregularia, inequalia, seeunda : filamenta viridia, linearia, punctis rubris vage picta: anth. lineari-oblonge, polline flavo. — — —— — An unpublished Brasilian species, found wild by Messrs. Cunningham and Bowie, the King's collectors, in the vici- nity of Rio Janeiro. Introduced into Kew Gardens in 1816, 1 2 where it is cultivated in the hothouse and flowers late in the autumn. We were favoured with the sample for our drawing from the Kew Collection. The species is marked by several peculiarities that sepa- rate it widely from every other upon record except longipes, from which it is however distinguishable as follows: in longipes the leaves are ovately lanceolate and taper-pointed, the petioles have four stipitate calli or glands, the involucre keeps its place during the expansion of the flower, which, according to Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland, who ga- thered it on Mount Quindià in New Granada, is of a pale rose-colour. It is from the samples of those celebrated travellers that the species has been recorded and figured by M. de Jussieu in the Annales du Muséum. Whether the co- lumn of the fructification is there curved and inclined, and the stamens unequally divided and directed to one side, as in albida, are points that cannot be determined either by the figure or description. If not, the present species is, as far as our observation extends, an anomaly in the genus. Albida is an extensively growing shrub, with an apple-green foliage and greenish white scentless flowers, which open before sunrise, begin to fade about noon or earlier, are produced in the axils of the leaves of the upper part of the branches and stem, and measure about three inches over. "Their stalk is extraordinarily long and robust for the genus; and continues growing for a considerable time after the leafy involucre has dropped off. The oper- culum (lid of the nectary) is radiate and reaches rather above the base of the crown. 678 CASSINTA spectabilis. Weeping-flowered Cassinia. — SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA ÆQUALIS. Nat. ord. Composit. Adanson fam. 2. 103. CORYMBIFERE. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. V. Receptac. pa- leaceum. Semen nudum seu non papposum. Flores plerumque radiati, rard flosculosi, TARCHONANTHO, CALEÆ et ATHANASIE pappus brevis. CASSINIA. Involucrum imbricatum, scariosum, pauciflorum. Ne- ceptaculum: paleis distinctis, squamis intimis involucri subsimilibus. Flosculi tubulosi, vel omnes hermaphroditi vel paucissimi feminei angustiores in am- bità. Anthere (inclusæ) bisetz. Stigmata apice obtuso subtruncato his- pidulo. Pappus pilosus v. penicillatus, persistens. Frutices. Folia sparsa, sæpiès angustata, marginibus recurvis. — Inflorescentia terminalis, corymbosa rariüsve paniculata. — Involucra alba nunc cinerea rard aureu; squamis inti- mis sepiüs apice conniventibus nunc patulis et radium brevem obtusum efformantibus. Brown in trans. linn. soc. 12. 126. Div. Involucrum connivens. Sudiv. B. Herbacea. C. spectabilis, paniculä decomposità, foliis lanceolatis decurrentibus subter ramisque lanatis. Brown in trans. linn. soc. 12. 128. Calea spectabilis. Labillard. nov. holl. 2. 42. f. 186. Persoon synops. 2. 406. Poiret encyc. suppl. 2. 28. Cassınıa was founded by Mr. Brown on Carea lepto- phylla of Forster, native of New Zealand, Cara aculeata of Labillardjére, and several other species, native in New Holland and Van Diemen's Island. It is nearly related to Ozornamnus, from which it is to be distinguished chiefly by the palez of its receptacle. * I propose (we quote the words of Mr. Brown) to name the genus in honour of M. Henry Cassini, whose well-con- ducted investigation of Composite has already thrown much light on the structure and economy of the more important parts of fructification of this difficult class: and especially of those organs from which the distinguishing characters of Cassınıa are derived.” . “The genus, like Ozoruamnvs, admits of subdivision into two sections; and I have appended to it Carga spectabilis of Labillardière, a plant corresponding with it in character, but differing very much in habit from all the other species." Ten species are enumerated, nine of which are shrubby, the present, the only herbaceous one. Cassinia spectabilis is native of the southern coast of New Holland, where it was found by Mr. Brown among the trees and bushes near Memory Cove, Port Lincoln, &c. By M. Labillardière it was observed in Van Diemen's Island; from whence the seed from which the plant has been raised was imported by Mr. Colvill, with whom it has flowered for the first time in this country in the greenhouse of his Nursery in the King's Road. The Cassınıa aurea, described by Mr. Brown in the fifth volume of the second edition of the Hortus Kewensis, published in 1813, proving to be the same with ANGIANTHUS tomentosus of Wendland's “ Collectio Plantarum” (2. 32. tab. 48.) published in 1809; the title of Cassınıa had become extinct, till revived in the genus of the present article. ENTM NOTE. In the article MELAsTOMA granulosa (fol. 671) of the Fasciculus for last month, we have accidentally omitted the following synonym: Rhexia Fontainesii. Humb. et Bonpl. Rhezia. 93. tab. 36; (de sicco.) Tt appears that when this species was named in the above work in honour of M. Desfontaines, the authors were not apprized of its having been long before recorded and amply described in the excellent Encyclopédie of La- marck by the title under which we have published it; and their specific name must of course give way to priority: besides, the species is clearly no RHEXIA. s | | 679 CRINUM amabile: 8. augustum. Mauritius Crinum. — HEXANDRIA MONOGYNLA. Nat. ord. Nancıssı. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germen inferum: AMARYLLIDEE. Brown prod. 1. 296. Sect. I. Radix bul- bosa. Flores spathacei umbellati, rar solitarii. m CRINUM. Umbella spothá bivalvi longior, bracteis distinctá; Cor. tubuloso-sexfida : tubus strictus, germine pluriés longior: few nulla: Ambas sexpartitus, stellatus, subaqualis, regularis. Filamenta summo tubo in- serta, uno versü inclinata vel sexfaridm divergentia: antheræ lineares, incumbentér vibrate. Stylus inclinatus: stigma simplex vel obsolet? trina. Germ. 3-loculare, polyspermum, ovulis biseriatis. En . membranaceo-te- nuis vel coriaceo-crassa, sphærica, sæpiùs oblata, nunc abortú uni-bilocularis : semina numerosa, ‘horizontalia, margini interne septi utrinque annexa, cu- mulata, anguloso-compressa, submarginata, sæpissimè verd tuberoso-laxata, pauca vel et solitaria. Genus in AMARYLLIDEM transeuns ad istius species elongato-tubulosas cum foliis multifayiis, à quibus separatur sold regularitate limbi. Ham an- TO accedit ad istius multilorum. Balbus me more Porri elongatus cy- lindricus, formé fer? caudicis prominens, Fol. multifaria, lat? vel angust? lorata, canaliculata vel planiora. Flores candicanies, vel varié purpuras- centes, ampli. Nobis in journ. of science and the arts. 3. 103. Div. II. Umbella pedunculata, C. amabile, bulbo elongato, conico, extante, foliis numerosis lato-subulatis glauciusculis, margine levi, umbellá numerosá, tubo subbreviore limbo. Nobis in journ. of science and the arts. 3. 111. Crinum amabile. Dorn hort. cant. ed. 6.83. Nobis in Curtis's magaz. 1605. tabb. A. et B. Crinum superbum. Roxburgh flor. ind. ined. = . (8) augustum; planta dimidio ferè minor; stylo staminibus plurimüm bre- viore; (antheris luteis.) Herbert append. 47. Gowen in litt. Crinum augustum. Roxburgh flor. ind. ined. Nobis in journ. of science and the arts. 3. 113; (fide . Roxburgh.) In the Journal above quoted we had adopted C. au- tum as distinct from amabile, on the authority of Dr. Roxburgh (the latter plant only being at that time known to us by inspection), though in truth we could never trace any satisfactory mark of their distinction in the de- scriptions by the Doctor. Since then plants of both types have been obtained by Lord Caernarvon from the Botanic Garden of Calcutta, through the means of Dr. Wallich, for the express purpose of ascertaining by inspec- tion the real differences between the two. Each has flowered in the hothouse at Highelere, and the one before us is that said to represent augustum; as the one figured in Curtis's Magazine does amabile (superbum. Roxb.). Mr. Gowen, who was so kind as to forward the sample forthe drawing, says in his letter: * both species having now flowered at Highclere in perfection, I have had an oppor- tunity of noting their differences, which seem to consist principally in the stature of augustum not being half that of amabile, and in its style being shorter than the stamens, while in the other it is longer." To which may be added, as far as we can judge by the drawings, that the pollen is yellow in the one before us and dark purple in amabile. Upon the whole, taking it for granted that the two plants are the true types of the species intended, and that there is no mistake on this head, we are yet far from per- suaded that any marks we can see or that have been yet proposed are sufficient to determine their specific separation; and shall accordingly leave them under one head, with the proper name and synonymy allotted to each, that they may hereafter be more advisedly disposed of. The difference of their native places, if correctly stated by Roxburgh (whose description of each species is sub- joined), would be in our minds the strongest evidence of their specific difference that has yet been proposed. «Crinum amabile: Root consists of many fleshy remous fibres from “ the rounded base of the stem (bulb), for there is scarcely any appearance “of a bulb. Stem (bulb) short; in six or seven years old plants from 12 “ to 18 inches high, thick as a man's leg or more; invested by the withered „ sheaths of the leaves; from its base and lower part shoots spring in such “ abundance, as to render it very easy to be multiplied. _ Leaves scattered, “sheathing, lanceolate, straight and smooth; margins also smooth, points “ blunt; deeply concave at the upper side, held between the eye and the “light, beautifully streaked with numerous simple straight longitudinal “ fibres, and between these barred with transverse green lines; from 3 to 6 “ feet long, and from 3 to 6 inches across the middle where they are widest. ** Scapes trom the stem (bulb) immediately below the leaves, about 3 or 4 “ feet long, much compressed, particularly on the inside, and about as thick “ as a man's thumb. Umbels 20-30-flowered. Involuere of two large, long, “ cordate reflexed coloured exterior leaves (valves), with numerous filaments “ (bractes) mixed among the flowers. Flowers very large; pedicled, rose- „coloured, delightfully fragrant; tube obscurely 3-sided, about 5 or 6 inches “long, deeply coloured; segments of the limb equally disposed, linearly > lanceolate, revolute, as long or longer than the tube, deep rose-colour on “ the outside, pale pink within, tips alternately barbed. Germen inferior, oblong, 3-celled, with a few ovules in each cell, attached to a fleshy re- “ ceptacle, which appears to originate in the centre from the axis, but their “ real insertion is into the walls of the germen. Style declining, the length “ of the deeply coloured equably incurved slender filaments: stigma small, Ke po and obscurely 3-lobed. The ripe seed-vessel has not been yet “found; they have continued abortive in Bengal.—Native of the interior of „Sumatra, from whence it was sent by the late Dr. Charles Campbell to the “ Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it thrives and flowers and blossoms “ at various seasons of the year. It is the largest and by far the most beau- “ tiful species of CRINUM I have yet met with.” Roxburgh flor. ind. ined. “ CRINUM augustum: Bulb columnar, mostly above ground. Leaves * scattered, lanceolate, channelled, smooth-edged. Scapes lateral, the length “ of the leaves; umbels of 20-30-pedicled declining flowers.—The scapes “ are as thick as a child's wrist, above 3 feet high, and of dark reddish purple colour; the umbels have about 30 sweetly fragrant rosy flowers, on “pedicles from 1 to 2 inches long, and coloured like the scape. Tube of the corolla is 4-5 inches long, of a lighter purple; segments of the limb lan- “ ceolate, 6 inches long. Filaments and style purple, declined, with yellow “incumbent anthers. This is the only species known to me with any thing “ like a stem (see his preceding description of superbum!) and declining “ flowers; nor can E reconcile it to any one of the many species of CRINUM “or AMARYLLIS hitherto described in any work I have met with.—Intro- “ duced from the Mauritius into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it ** blossoms at various periods of the year, but most luxuriaptly during the “rains. A magnificent plant.” Roxburgh flor. ind. ined. VOL. VIH. z OFO 680 ACACIA longissima. Narrow long-leaved Acacia. — POLYGAMIA MONT CIA. Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSÆ. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. I. Corolla regularis. Legumen multiloculare, sæpiùs bivalve, dissepimentis transversis, loculis monospermis. Stamina distincta. Arbores aut frutices; folia abrupté pin- nata.-MIMOSEE, Brown gen. vem. in flind. voy. 2. 551. ACACIA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 98. Div. Foliis simplicibus. ( Aphylle.) A. longissima, inermis: spicis axillaribus pluribus (plerúmque) ramosis; petiolis (foliis) linearibus longissimis: calyce sinuato-quadridentato. Wendl. acac. 45. t. M. Acacia longissima. Link enum. hort. berol. 2. 443. Frutex decempedalis, glaber, cortice brunneo: ramis teretibus, erecto- patentibus, virgatis: ramulis superu? angulatis, subpubescentibus. — Petioli (folia) alterni, remotiusculi, erecto-patentes et patentes, exacté lineares, an- gustissimi, interdèm subfalcati, utrinque sensim. attenuati, apice mucrone parvo recurvato innocuo tnsiructi, uninervü, longitudinaliter venuloso-striati, submarginati, glabriusculi, 4-5-pollicares et ultrà, lineam lati, Stipulae: nulle. Flores laxé spicati, lutei, bracteolis ovatis minimis suffulti, remo- tiuseuli vel nonnulli glomerati. Spice ex axillis petiolorum (foliorum) plures, rariüs simplices plerümque ramosi, petiolo (folio) duplo triplove bre- viores, pedunculati, pedunculis subpubescentibus, basi bracteä lineari acuta concava instructis. Calyx brevissimus, subpubescens, monophyllus, sinuato- quadridentatus dentibus obtusis. Corolla glabra tetrapetala: petalis ovato- oblongis, acutis, reflexis. Stamina numerosa, corollá duplo longiora. Ger- men subrotundum, albo-tomentosum. Stylus stamina subequans; germinis apici insertus. Legumen non vidi. Wendland loc. cit. Introduced within these four or five years froin New Holland. Drawn at the Nursery of Mr. Lee, at Hammersmith, where it is cultivated in the greenhouse. We have taken the description from M. Wendland's work on the simple-leaved, or, as that author more criti- cally terms them leafless, Acacias, their apparent leaves being nothing more than dilated stalks, while the true leaves are only found on the seedling plant. See the ob- servations of Mr. Brown on Leguminose in the fifth volume of this Register, page 2 of the 36lst article, z which, by the bye, was meant to be added to the article that follows (362), having been placed where it now stands by a blunder. A spineless numerously branched shrub, acquiring the height of ten feet or more; in flower for a great part of the year, and when in full foliage, handsome. Remarkable for its long straight narrow leaf. The flowers are very small and of a pale yellow colour. Thirty-seven of the leafless section of the genus are already enumerated in Wendland's monograph. „ X. gd. q. $ £ , F * x Zt. N y) (GM ns > ^- i F 272 A} LZE DAL etat 5 : ty E Hd A 23 co» ti 681 ATHRIXIA capensis. Cape Athrixia. — SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Nat. ord. Compositm. Adanson fam. 2. 103. CORYMBIFERÆ. Jussieu gen. Div. IL? Composite labiatiflore. Decandolle in ann. du mus. 19. 59. ATHRIXIA. Flores radiati. Cal. oblongus polyphyllus subæqualis aristatus recurvo-squarrosus, foliolis angustis. Radius plurimus, ffosculis bilabiatis : labio interiore minimo integro. Pappus plumosus. Recept. al- veolatum. Stigmata disci apice subtruncata subpenicillata. Frutex. Folia sparsa, infernè adnata, integra. Athrixia capensis. Frutex debilis, erectiusculus (tripedalis v. ultrà), diffuse ramosus; rami elongati, foliis verticalitér semiadnatis tecti horumque lateribus liberis inter- rupte marginati. Folia sparsa, patentia, rigida, crassiuscula, ramo à dimidio inferiore adnata, linearia, subulato-acuminata, suprà profunde viridia, nuda, convexa cum sulco medio, ambiti scabra et deflexa, subtus tomento arachnoi- deo candicantia. Flores rubro-purpurei, radiati, terminales, sessiles, unciam diametro excedentes, granulis vagis resinosis ersi, digitis tractati odorem spirantes terebinthinam. Cal. oblongus, scariose aristate reflexèque squarro- sus, semunciä profundior, basi cuneatus; foliola numerosa, lineari-subulata, €quileta, inferiora arcté imbricata lanata virentia, superiora aristä scariosd fused recurvá ipsis longiore caudata. RADIUS femineus, bilabiatus, serie simplice plurimus, contiguus, extús glandulosé villosus; flosculi inequalis- simé bilabiati, labio exteriore lineari-ligulato dentato, vesper? arctè revol- vendo, mané iterum explicando, interiore angustissimo, nudo, recurvato, stigmatibus breviore; tubus limbo equalis viridis: germ. oblongum, viride, Pappo aliquotiès brevius; pappus albus plumosus serie simplici pluri- mus; stigmata capillacea, sanguinea, spiralitér replicate, glabra, longius- cula: Discus flavescens, hermaphroditus, plurimus, calyci equalis; flosc. elavato-cylindrici, faux tubo vix amplior, limbus flavus patens recurvus fauce aliquotiès brevior, intüs pruinatus: anth. elongata, flave, filamentis elasticis exserende, valvulis 5 pallidis apiculate, basi tenuissime bisetæ; polline gross? granuloso: germ. albicans, pilosum, basi spissits barbatum, caterum radii: stig*. Jlava, exserta, revoluta, superne pruinosa, apice truncato-subdilatato villoso. Recept. angustum, planiusculum, epaleaceum, alveolatum, alveolis brevibus membranaceis denticulatis. A rare and curious shrub, lately introduced from the Cape of Good Hope. We do not find a place for it in any genus of the several general systems. Whether it belongs to some one esta- blished in the tracts on the Composite by the ingenious M. Cassini, dispersed in various journals, or not, we are at present unable to say. We regret however to be con- strained to publish it under a new generic definition, as well on aceount of our very imperfect knowledge of the order to which it belongs, as because our means of deter- mining have been confined to an only and not very perfect flower. The semiflorets of the ray are bilabiate, having a small interior lip facing the large outer one which forms the ray of the flower; and of course the plant belongs to the lately established tribe of “ Composite labiatiflore." Concerning its more special affinities we have nothing to offer. Drawn at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, in thé King’s Road, Chelsea. Mr. Brown has native samples collected by Dr. Mackrel und Mr. Bowie. A weak leafy stragglingly branched shrub about three feet high. Leaves stiff, thickish, numerous, alternate, ad- hering to the branch (which they completely invest by their inner surface) for about half their length, their sides remain- ing free and reflex to the base, linear, taper-pointed, dark green above and rough along the reflex circumference, cottony and milk white underneath. Flowers terminal, solitary, rather more than an inch in diameter; ray reddish purple. Leaflets of the calyx imbricate, numerous, narrow, inner ones surmounted by a long recurved sphacelate brownish awn. Pappus (seedcrown) feathered. Receptacle alveolate. Any one that would reduce the scattered notices by. M. Cassini concerning Composite into a general view would render a great service to Botany. At. present we own we often do not know where to find them. 682 DICHORISANDRA thyrsiflora. Thyrseflowered Dichorisandra. — HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Juncı. Jussieu gen. 43. Div. II. Germen unicum. Capsula trilocularis. Calyx et corolla. COMMELINEZ. Brown prod. 1. 263; et supra vol. 6. fol. 482; (in textú anglice.) DICHORISANDRA. Cal. inferus, 3-phyllus: foliolis concavis colo- ratis; suptemo latiore. Petala infera, 3; infimo angustiore. Stama, basi et marginibus petalorum alternatim adnata: ile, brevissima, nuda; 3 inferiora reliquis parúm longiora: anthe. erectæ, ovate (à basi inserta); 3 superiores et inferiorum media contiguz; inferiorum laterales à reliquis separate, di- vergentes. Germ, 3-gono-ovatum: stylus filiformis, rectus: stigma 3-angu- bre. Caps. globoso-3-gona, 3-valv., 3-loe., polysperma. Planta 3-4-pe- dalis: caule simplici ; foliis elongato-lanceolatis, petiolis vaginantibus ; thyrso terminali, floribus profund? cyaneis ornato; plantam liliaceam referens, folia gramineis majoribus similia gerentem. Ad CAMPELIAM, Richard (Zan- NONIAM, Plumier.) proximè accedit, filamentis tamen brevissimis, antheris contiguis, et 2 separatis, divergentibus, satis distincta, Ass (bis) xapıs (se- puratim} oxi (vir). Mikan delect. fl. et faun. bras. fasc. 1. Dichorisandra thyrsifiora. Mikan loc. cit. Caulis é radice perenni plerümque solitarius, teres, 3-4 pedes altus, basi diametro pollicem vix non equante, herbaceus, medullá farctus, articulatus: articulis infimis longioribus, basi vaginis foliorum emarcidorum tectus, sursim foliosus, apice floriger, simplicissimus, aut ramum unum alterumve apicem versüs emittens, teretem, articulatum nodulis articulorum infimis remotioribus, basi. nudum, sursùm foliosum, apice florigerum. Fol. elongato-lanceolata, acuta, integerrima, facie dorsoque glaberrima, longitudinalitèr striata, nervo sübtüs elevato, basi purpurascentia; longitudine 10, latitudine 2, pollices @quantia (quibusdam multò brevioribus paul latioribus et ind? ovato-lanceo- latis); basi angustata, petiolis vaginantibus affiza. Vagina cylindracce, integre, caulem ramosque arci? cingentes, ad insertionem folii horizontaliter truncate, margine integerrimo, nudo, plerümque purpurascente; infima, tàm in caule quàm in ramis, longiores, sursum decrescentes. Flores in thyr- sum pyramidalem caulem vel etiàm ramos binos aut ternos terminantem con- gesti, completi, pedicellati, bracteis suffulti. Pedunculus communis angu- latus, viridis; pedicelli teretes, purpurascentes, apice reflexi, plerümque 3- flori; infimi longiores (8 circiter lineas longi), reliquis sursèm decrescentibus. Bracteæ lanceolato-lineares, acuminate, pedicellorum basi adjacentes, eosque longitudine superantes, virides; infime maxima, sursüm decrescentes. Cal. inferus, deciduus?, 3-phyllus: foliolis ovalibus obtusis longitudine æqualibus, exiüs cyaneis, intús albis, nonnunquam. ante floris expansionem rubicundis ; supremo latiore. Cor. infera, 3-petala: petala obtusa, integerrima, calyce majora, longitudine equalia, profund? cyanea, basi alba; 2 superioribus subrotundis, infimo angustiore obovato. Fil. subteretia, brevissima, basi pe talorum eorumque marginibus alternatim adnata; infima tribus reliquis parüm longiora: anthe. erecte, (oblonge) ovate, obtusiuscule, basi emarginato- bifida, biloeulares latere interiore sulco longitudinali, exteriore nervulo à basi ad apicem excurrente notate, Have, latere dehiscentes; 3 superiores in- feriorque media contigua, inferiorum laterales separate et, instar cornuum, divergentes. Germ. ovale, 3-gonum, glabrum, virescentér albidum: stylus vectus, filiformis, obsolete 3-queter, germine ferè duplo longior, illique basi concolor, apice purpurascens: stigma 3-lobum: lobulis orbiculatis, virescens. Caps. (maturam non vidimus) immatura: 3-gono-globosa, 3-valvis, 3-locu- laris, calycem superans, polysperma. Sem. plura. Mikan loc. cit. DicHorIsaNDRa is technically distinguished from Carto- nema (Brown prod. 271) by a deliquescent deciduous calyx smaller than the corolla and irregularly convergent sta- mens, as well as by many particulars in the habit; from Tuapescantıa by naked filaments, by the anthers being inserted at their base, and by the lengthened oblong form and contiguous parallel linear cells of the same, as well as by the want of an involucre and very different disposition of the inflorescence; the difference in habit of the two last is nof indeed great in regard to the rest of the plant. We were directed by Mr. Brown to the work which con- tains the description of this fine plant; and have to thank the same gentleman for pointing out to us tbe main distinc- tions from both its abovementioned coordinates. The sample for the drawing was kindly forwarded to us by Mr. Harrison, of Aigburgh, near Liverpool, along with a skilful and characteristic representation of the plant by a Lady of his family. It had been raised in the hothouse from seed from the Brazils, where, according to M. Mikan, the species is found wild at about thirty miles distance from Rio Janeiro. Now first introduced into our gardens. À perennial herbaceous caudescent plant, from three to four feet high, sometimes simple, sometimes 2-3-branched. A. —— ne — 683 COSTUS afer; a: glaber. Smooth Sierra Leong Costus. MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord, SCITAMINER. : Brown prod. 1. 905. COSTUS. Supra fol. 665. C. afer, foliis 5 elongatis, spicá turbinaté eoaretatä, bracteis her- 'Aceis muticis obtusis, calyce brevè tridentato dentibus berbaceis muti- cis; filamenti dorso glabro. i («) glaber. foliis utrinque viridibus ocreisque lzyibus. (£) pubescens, foliis utrinque viridibus subtüs vaginisque hirt? villosis ; vagi- narum Ocreá fimbriatä. Caules. pedales v. ultra, erecti, vaginati. Fol. laz2 sparsa, patentia, lanceolata, aristato-acuminata, utrinque viridia: petiolus brevis abusus vagina viridi infra ocream insertus. Spica terminalis, sessilis, iflora, arctissimè obovata, foliis in bracteas decrescentibus vallata: flores & itnatí : bracteæ virentes, mutice, obtuse, exteriores late, calyei equales Cal. mem- branaceus, infundibuliformis, semunciä longior, brevissimé trifidus lolmiis herbaceis oblatis acuminatis, muticis. Cor. candida, sesquiumcid altior ;. tubus communis brevissimus flavus cuneatus; limbus exterior tenuis, subeyna- lis, nitidus, interiore I v. eirchter brevior, laciniis elongato-0blongis, lineas 3 v. circitèr latis, parüm inaequalibus (2 anticis reflexis? ich erectá? ) limbus interior opacus, unilateralis, anticus, lato-cuneatus, uxilabiato-convolu- tus, infernè longior erectus, supernè brevior recurvus rugatusque, margine labri eroso-denticulatus, disco incrassatus aredque flavä villosá filamento respon- dente et sulco verticali bisectá notatus. Fil. petaloideum, album, utrinque glabrum, elongato-oblongum, brevè acuminatum, limbum exteriorem nS, basi flavescens et cum limbo interiore in tubulum brevem intüs flavo-barbatum concretum: anthera verticalis, adnata, infrà m acuminis filamenti intramarginalis, oblonga, albida: pollen ochroleucum. Stig. album, trans- versum, lunatum arcús superni cornubus deflexis, bilamellosum lamellis transvers? parallelis equalibus corformibus conniventibus ciliolatis, à tergo infernè convexum et gibbo erecto bidentato (dentibus staminum lateralium rudimentis?) onustum. — — An unpublished species, introduced last summer from Sierra Leone, by Mr. George Don, collector for the Hortiegltural Society. Plants of it flowered shortly after their arriva] in one of the hothouses in the new garden of the Society. Samples from the same country had been long ago deposited in the Banksian Herbarium, in Mr. Brown's Library, by the late Dr. Afzelius, as well as in Mr. Lam- bert's Herbarium. vor, VIII. AA The plant is smaller and the inflorescence less showy than in Costus speciosus, lately published in this volume. The corolla is white without any mixture of red, and the calyx and bractes-are uniformly green. Several plants were raised, of which some had the foli- age roughishly furred underneath, ciliate petioles, and a long soft fringe round the rim of the ocrea; others, among which was the subject of this article, a foliage quite smooth throughout. In all other respects the two were so com- pletely alike, that we do not believe in their difference as Species, and have consequently given them for mutual va- rieties. The native sample in Mr. Brown's Herbarium is of the smooth variety. Afer differs from speciosus, not only in general stature and colour of inflorescence, but more essentially by its obovately or turbinately contracted spike, obtuse unmucro- nated bractes, very shallowly trifid calyx with pointless herbaceous segments, and filament quite smooth at the back. The same remarkable protuberance (stamineous rudiment ?), slightly modified, which we described as oc- eupying the back of the base of the stigma or rather sum- mit of the style in speciosus, is found in the same position in ofer. | 684 BIDENS procera. Mr. Lambert's Bidens. — SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA FRUSTRANEA. Nat. ord. Comrosırz. Adanson fam. 2. 103. CORYMBIFERE. Jussieu gen. 177. Dio. VI. . SYNANTHEREEÆ. Cassini im dict. sc. nat. 10. 131, segg. Tribus IX. HELIANTHES. fd. loc. cit. 20. 360. Sect. IL. HELIANTHEX COREOPSIDEE. Germ. plerdmque 4-gonum transversè compressum; pap- pus, paleæ nonnulle crasse rigide plerümque triquetre, germini firmiter affixe. Id. loc. cit. 347; (ex gall. vers.) BIDENS. (CorBorsınag species complures. Auctorum.) Involucrum (calyx) polyphyllum: foliolis düplici serie dispositis; exterioribus sæpiès longioribus, difformibus et patentibus. Recept. planum, paleaceum. Fios- culi disci tubulosi, hermaphroditi; radii.ligulati, neutri, rariùs nulli. Ache- nia (semina) quadrangülari-compressa, bi-aut quinque-aristata: aristis per- sistentibus, retrorsöm hamosis. Herbe ramis foliisque“oppositis, integris, incisis aut varie partitis. . Flores terminales, solitarii aut corymbosi: radio sepissime flavo, rar albó. Kunth nov. gen. et sp. Pl. 4. 230. e B. procera, stricta, ramosa; foliis decursivè bi-tripinnatis, pinnulis linearibus acutis canaliculatis integris (nec serratis) flaccidis : florë radiato; calycis foliolis exterioribus linearibus obtusis pubescentibus; germinibus cuneir formibus transversé compressis, biaristatis. Don MSS. " Coreopsis „angustifolia. | Pavon sub exemplari spontaneo Herbarii Lam- tiani. Herba biennis, orgyalis v. ultrà: caules plures solidi, strictissimi, obtusè 4-goni, striati, glabri, diametro 2. - lineari, foliosi, suprà ramoté: yamis erectis oppositis teretiusculis. Folia numerosa, opposita, glabra, saturate virentia, 3-7-xncialia; summa decursivè pinnata, Wferioru bi- v. subtripine nata, pinnis oppositis, pinnulis angustis linearibus acutis oppositis subalter- _ nisve integris (non dentatis) flaccidis 1-nerviis subcarnosis. Flores aufei, terminales, erecti, corymbosi; pedunculis unifloris, striatis, filiformibus, pilosiusculis, Cal. duplex, utringue multiplex: interior fusco-membranaceus, foliolis appressis ovato-lanceolatis disco subequalibus: exterior herbacets, laziüs patens, foliolis linerribus obtusis subpilosis. Radius neuter, auretes, Rlosculis 5 ligula elliptich oblonga planá tridenticulatá: discus nigricans, hermaphroditus, numerösus, flosculis tubulosis ö ids. Auth. nigra valvis apicularibus luteis ovatis acutis; basi mutica: fil. lutea. Stigmata exserta, replicata, linearia, acuta, plana, pilosa: stylus basi bulbosus. Sem. ob- é cuneata, transverse compressa, ancipitia, marginibus scabra, aristis 2. longis equalibus glochidato-barbatis deciduis coronata. Pappus 0. Recept. planum ACCUM 7 ne atro-fuscescentes, liseari-lanceolate, acute, Ri- fide. Don MSS. + An unpublished biennial species, native of Mexico; lately raised from seed communicated by Don José Pavon ~ to Mr. Lambert. 442 Favoured as well by the unusual warmth of the summer as by the prolonged mildness of the autumn, the plant flow- ered last November in the borders of the garden at Boyton House, Wiltshire: in an ordinary season we suspect it would not have done so in the same situation. A finely divided deep green foliage disposed in pairs upon a branching stem of six or eight feet high terminated by corymbs of a numerous golden-coloured blossom, ren- der the plant one of the most desirable of the larger horti- cultural ornaments. Native samples, ticketted Corzopsis angustifolia, are deposited in the Lambertian Herbarium. "They came along with a valuable collection of Mexican plants lately received from M. Pavon. The awns of the seed being barbedly pubescent show the plant to be no Coreopsis, and bring it nearer to Bıpens, where we have placed it; though it differs in some degree from that genus also (according to Mr. Kunth's definition) in having flat cuneiform seed with deciduous (not perma- nent) awns. The fact however is, that the awns are not strictly permanent in Bivens, but fall off spontaneously on the seed coming to perfect maturity. The genus belongs to Helianthee-coreopsidee, the se- cond section of Helianthew, the ninth tribe of the order Synanthereo of the able and elaborate arrangement by M. Cassini. But why are the established appellations Syn- genesia and Composite to be laid aside for Synantherea ? Don MSS. "c ER ————————— D ̃ mA DM. Hank. del. 685 GLOBULARIA longifolia. Madeira Globularia. — TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. : Nat. ord. LYSIMACALE. Jussieu gen. 95. Div. III. Genera Lysima- chiis affinia. ~ GLOBULARIZ. Lam. et Decand. fi. . ed. 3. 3. 427. perg ville . 2 7 Fr. a, GLOBULARIA. - Cal. partialis tubulosus, persistens, 6-Sdus. Cor, hypogyna, tubulosa, lobis 5 inzqualibus. Stam. fundo corolla inserta. Germ. liberum, stylo stigmateque simplicibus. Semen solitarium, calyce ob- tectum: embryo rectus; radicula superior: albumen carnosum. j Flores in calyce communi polyphyllo super receptaëxlo paleacep aggre- gati. Passim ex Jussieuio, Lam. et Decand. | . G. longifolia, caule fraticoso, foliis omnibus lineari-lanceolatis integerrimis, capitulis axillaribus. Solander in Hort. Kew. I. 130, Globularia longifolia. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 539. Hort. New. ed. 2. 1. 222. Nouv. Duham. vol. ö. 198. tab. 40. ge Globularia salicina. Lamarck eneye. 2. 733. *: : Alypum Solandri quorundam. Lemarck in loc. eit. : Alypum sive Herba terribilis. Sloane jam. 1. 19. f. 5. fig. 3. rutex tripedalis ramosis: rami teretes, longi, virgati, simplices, inferne basibus petiolorum exasperatt, ` supernè vestitt. Follis crebris, sparsis, line- ari-lanceolatis, acutis, antegerrimis,. glabris, utrinque let? virentibus, vix triuncialibus, basi attenuatis in petiolos breves. Pedunculi azillares, solita- Tii, teretes, longitudine 8-lineares, terminati Florum capitulo globoso. Calyces pilosi. Corolle pallide cæruleæ: (Sloane calyces hirsutos uti semina essent proposuit.) Cal. communis polyphyllus: foliolis ovatis concavis, mar- gine villosis, persistentibus. Cal. proprius inferus, monophyllus, 5-partitus, laciniis equalibus, subulatis, erectis, et matgine et dorso ciliatis. Cor. uni- versalis equalis: propria monopetala, ligulata: ungue. longitudine. calycis: marginibus parüm involutis; lamina linearig, longitudine tubi, m trifida: laciniis æqualibus obtusiusculis. Fil. a, capillarta, corollá parüm longiora, longitudine «qualia, sed dua superné wungwi corolle inserta, dua inferius prop? basin. Anthæ. ovate, parse. Germ oblongum, acutum. Stylus fili- formis, simplex, longitudine staminum. Stigma bifidum. Pericarpium nul- lum. Cal. persistens semen includens. Sem. unicum, oblongum. Recept. commune, conicum, paleaceum. Paleæ longitudine calycis, lanceolate, su- perius ciliate. Solander MSS. GzoBuzaria has been separated by M. De Candolle into a sole order, its essential character proving incompatible with an arrangement in any of those divisions to which it approaches the nearest in general babit. The flowers are collected into a close head upon a chaffy receptacle within a general involucre of several pieces, as in Dipsaceæ; but differ on the other hand from those of that order by hav- ing a simple calyx and inferior corolla. From Primula- cec the order recedes further, by the fruit being a solitary seed enveloped in the calyx and by stamens that are alter- nate with the segments of the corolla; whilst the presence of a real corolla removes it by a yet wider separation from Plumbagineæ, Nyctaginee, and Proteaceæ. The description of the present species is from the mas- terly pen of the late Dr. Solander, and has been copied from the manuscript in Mr. Brown's library. It was upon GLOBULARIA Alypum that the older bota- nists had bestowed the name of “ Frutex terribilis," and our gardeners that of * Herb terrible," influenced by tbe exaggerated repute of its drastic quality. The name has devolved upon the present species merely as a congener. Sir Hans Sloane, who found the shrub in Madeira, de- scribes the wood as white and hard, with a large pith ; he however, as Dr. Solander remarks, mistook the fruit of the distinct flowers within the general involucre for a single fruit of a same flower. The shrub is said seldom to exceed three feet in height, and was found by Masson of that size growing wild among the rocks. un de into our greenhouses by Sir Joseph Banks in 5. Drawn at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, in the King's Road, Chelsea. 686 EULOPHIA guineensis. Sierra Leone Eulophia. — GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDEE. Jussieu gen. 61. Brown prod. 1. 300. Div. IV. Anthera terminalis mobilis decidua, Mass pollinis demüm cereacex. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed.2. 5.205. i EULOPHIA, Brown supra vol. 7. fol. 578; in textá anglicꝰ. Petala 5 distincta, conformia, adscendentia, patentia, Labellum basi calearatum ; lamina sessili cristatà trilobá, posticé indivisà. Masse pollinis.2, bilobe lobulo postico. E. guineensis, foliis lanceolatis: labelli caleare subulato adscendente lami- nam subæquante; laminz lobis lateralibus cum eolumná in faucem lineato-cristatam convolutis; terminali grandiore ovato-rotundato con- vex® explanato, disco erugato. Bulbus externus, viridis, oblongo-ovatus, è dilatatis foliorum basibus com- pactus. Fol. plura, radicalia, sparsa, letè virentia (non glauca), petio- lata; laminá lentá (non rigente), lanceolatá, nervosá, acuminatá, spitha- med v. magis latitudine biunciali v. circitór: petiolus multotiós angustior, aliquoties brevior, pallidus. Scapus imo bulbo ortus, solidus, teres, erec- fus, virens, infernè imbricate supern remote vaginatus, foliis altior ( sesqui- pose ). Vaginæ membranaceæ, purpureo-lineate, laminá lanceolatá erectä. pica stricta, multiflora, sparsa, laxa, simplex. Bractem herbaceo-pallen- tes, erectiuscule, lanceolate, nervose, germine subbreviores. Flores pul- chelli, subsesquiunciales, resupinati, nutantes, semiringentes, inodori. Germ. unciá sublongius, gracile, virens, adscendens, tortum, teretiusculum, obiter costatum, superne incrascescens rubro-fuscescens atque recurcum. Pet. ö, di- stincta, viridi-purpurea, lurida, lineari-oblonga, acuta, recta, conformia, intis convexiuscula, extús obsolet? nervosa, $ uncie longa, $n labium radiato- semiforme æquabile erectiusculum adscendentia, basi vivido purpurea, mar- gine pallentia undulata, 2 interiora latiora (latitudine subtrilineari): La- bellum deflexum, difforme, basi calcaratum; calcar rectó continuum, ad- scendens, laminá ilongum, subulatum, pallide virens, obtusum, suprà dilatatum dorso carinato-compresso, fine sursum flezo; lamina sessilis, pe- lalis viz brevioribus pluriés latior, oblonga, carneo-albicans, triloba, con- verula, infra iw faucem cristis pluribus lineaformibus, calloso-verrsieula- tis viridibus is parim elevatis symmetric? inscriptas woluta, supra explanata; lobi laterales abrupi2 truncati erosuli, cum lai s extenua- tis incumbentis columna involuto-conniventes et infernè comnati; medius magnus recto-continuus 5 ee en atus, intüs radiis pluribus purpureis i citra medium usque pergen- ibus ictus. otura deflexa, subalato-dilatata, lobis rd belli epale postic? convexa subvirescens et apice in marginem brevem bicrenatam extensa, antic? acclivi-obliquata plana nitida alba. Anthera chloroleuca, decidua, oblata, convexa, summam columnam operculans, secun- dùm latus posterius impage carnosá pruinosá brevi transverse dilataté trifidá (lobulis 2 extimis intra crenas marginis postica colamne immissis) munita, bilocularis septo (ob retractas teduplicatas valvas) deficiente, extrorsim de- hiscens: massæ pollinis 2, fave, cereaceæ, transverse collaterales, globose, compressa, bilobe (lobus minor posticus cavo centrali glutinoso incumbens), ligulá communi membranaceá albä transversè dilatatá processüs stigmatosi continué deciduá è puncto viscoso elastico baseos affize. Stigma anticum cavum transversum. chloroleucum, summa columna facie juxta antheram in- sculptum. For the ontline of the genus and enumeration of the species we refer to Mr. Brown's observations on LissocuiLus speciosus, vol. 7. fol. 578. of this work; where the name is written ** EuLoPHUs," and has been now altered in the ter- mination on the suggestion of its author. The recorded species are from the Cape of Good Hope and the East Indies; the unrecorded one before us from Sierra Leone, whence it was introduced last summer into the gar- den of the Horticultural Society by Mr. George Don, col- lector for that public-spirited, well-directed association. The crested character of the label is, perhaps, less con- spicuously marked in the present species, than in any men- tioned by Mr. Brown; and is moreover strictly confined to the funnelform portion of that petal, where it appears in the form of several green slightly raised even parallel callously tuberculated symmetrically disposed vertical lines, easily mistaken for as many varicose nerves. The lid of the anther is remarkable for a thickened: fleshy frosted three-lobed shallow border extended along the hinder edge; the two lateral divergent lobes of which are let into corresponding indentations in a raised margin at the back of the apex of the column. Upon the flower being fally expanded this lid falls off, and when viewed in the microscope is not unlike the empty upper shell of the dimi- nutive Crabs so frequent on our shores. __ The two uncoloured outlines in the plate are front and side views of the flower when deprived of the five upper petals, and are intended to show the relative positions of the column and label. -s ES 687 SALVIA. splendens. Lee's Scarlet Sage. — DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. LABIATE. Jutsien gen. 110. Brown prod. 1. 499. Sect. I. Stamina 2 fertilia; v. dum 4 fertilia, antheræ omnium dimidiatæ. SALVIA. Supra vol. 4. fol. 347. S. splendens, foliis petiolatis ovatis lanceolato-acuminatis serratis, basi sub- cuneatis integerrimis, subtüs glabris: corolla: tubo elongato subtilissimá lanuginoso, labii inferioris laciniis lateralibus reflexis; stigmatibus ex- sertis styloque glaberrimis. Herba perennis, inferne suffrutescens, erecta, caule ramoso tetragono bi- tripedali, ramisstriato-tetraquetris patulis virentibus. Folia membranacea, lenta, petiolo longiora, decussato-distantia, patentia v. divaricata, ovata, lanceolato-acuminata, serrata, basi cuneata integra, suprà setulis minutis (in sicco candicantibus, viz aliàs nisi oculo armato manifesta) vagis con- spersa, subtüs glabra prominenter nervosa, majora triuncialia cum latitudine biunciali: petioli graciles. Racemi terminales, oblongi, pyramidati, toti coccineo-fulgentes, sesunciales v. ultrà; verticilli divaricati 6-2-/fow; flores pedicellati, longitudinem biuncialem excedentes : bractex erecta, calyce con- colores et duplo fer? longiores, lanceolate, caudato-acuminate acuminis la- teribus reflexis, caduca, extds villose. Cal. coceineus, oblongus, ampliusculus, infundibuliformis, uncialis, angulato-plicatus angulis hirsutiüs ciliatis, suprà bilabiato- labium superius indivisum acuminatum, inferius 2-fidum lo- bulis acuminatis patulis: pedicelli hirsuti flore multotiès breviores. Cor. la- nugine brevissimd ubens, tubuloso-elongata, rectiuscula ; faux cylindrica labio superiore quatèr fei longior: labium superius rectum oblongum obtusum indi- visum; inferius, brevius, tripartitum, laciniis lateralibus oblongis obtusis reflexis, mediá admodam latiore subrotundá concavá rectá. Fil. glabra, alba. Stylus paulo exsertus, glaber; stigmatibus 2 filiformi-subulatis, replicafis, glabris. ` Introduced by Mr. Lee from the Brazils into the Ham- mersmith Nursery, where the plant flowers freely in the hot- house and for a long time in succession. Recently observed by Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neu- wied, and mentioned in his travels by the name we have adopted, but without description. There are native samples collected by Mr. Sello, in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium. The species comes near to the Mexican SaLvia tubifera, but there the flowers are upright and narrower, the leaves grey-furred underneath and smooth above, and the style VOL. VIH. BB * bearded at the top, circumstances which separate it suffi- ciently from the species before us. Herb suffrutescent perennial with a two or three feet high 4-cornered green-branched stem. Leaves thin and pliant, petioled, decussately wideset, ovate, lanceolately tapered, saw-toothed, cuneately tapered and entire at the base, smooth underneath, loosely beset at the upper side by ex- tremely short bristles which turn white in the dried plant, otherwise scarcely observable by the naked eye. Racemes terminal pyramidal, of a refulgent scarlet throughout, half a foot high. Whorls with from six to two flowers, shortly pedicled, divaricate: bractes of the same colour as the calyx and nearly twice longer, lanceolate, cuspidately tapered, re- flexed along the sides above, caducous, villous on the out- side. Calyx scarlet, oblong, funnelled, large, loose, about an inch deep, angularly plaited with deep-furred angles, two-lipped above; upper lip entire taper-pointed, lower bi- fid with pointed spreading lobes. Corolla about two inches long, tubularly elongated, scarlet, minutely villous on the outside, nearly straight ; throat (faux) cylindrical, nearly four times longer than the upper lip of the limb ; upper lip straight, oblong, blunt, undivided ; lower shorter, tripartite, lateral segments oblong blunt reflexed, middle one greatly wider roundish concave straight. Filaments smooth, white. Style shortly protruded, smooth throughout: stigmas two, filiformly subulate, recurvedly divergent, smooth. — lL. Hark. det 8 Belo Ly ", Jf ota hf {TC Mec CAM y el: . 2 — 688 BANKSIA «emula. Deep-sawed Banksia. — TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. PROTER. Jussieu gen. 79. Div. I. Semen nudum aut fructus monospermus. PROTEACEE. Brown in trans. linn. soc. 10. 40. Div. IT. Fructus dehiscens. B. Biloculuris, dissepiniento libero bifido. 1. Amentum paribus flosculorum tribracteatis. BANKSIA. Cor. quadripertita (rard 4-fida). Stamina apicibus con- cavis laciniarum immersa. mule hypogyue 4. Germ. biloculare, lo- culis monospermis. Folliculus ligneus: Dissepimento libero bifido. Amentum flosculorum paribus tribracteatis! Frutices v. Arbores viz excelse. Rami umbellati. olia sparsa, rard verticillata, integra, serrata v. pinnatifido- incisa, in eádem stirpe quandóque varia, in planté juvenili v. mutilatá sæpè serrata v. incisa, dus in adultá et illesá integerrima. Amenta solitaria, terminalia, raro lateralia, bracteolis nonnullis brevibus angustis subtensa, eylindracea, in quibusdam abbreviata. Bractee flosculorum persistentes; majores solitarie; minores geminate, collaterales, interiores, menti fruc- tiferi rachis ut plurimüm incrassata et cmn. folliculorum basibus conferrumi- mata. Semina nigra, apice cuneato-alata, nucleo in lacuná respondenti dis- sepimenti lignei semiimmerso. Brown prod. 1. 391. Div. I. Stylus corollá longior, hinc unguibus citids solutis ercuatim exsertus. Stigma laminis tardiüs dehiscentibus inclusum. Amentum floriferum cy- lindraceum, fructiferum folliculis transversis pluribus. BANKSIÆ VERE. Brown prod. 1. 381. B. emula, foliis lato-linearibus, elongatis, truncatis profunde serratis: sub- tis reticulatis glabriusculis, corollis sericeis, stigmate capitato exsulco nitido apice 4-gono styli duplo crassiore, caule fruticoso. Brown in trans. linn. soc. 10. 210. Banksia æmula. Brown prod. 1. 396. Sweet hort. suburb. lond. 23. Banksia serrata. — White's voy. 222. tab. tertia? Banksia serratifolia, Salisb. prod. 51? Banksia serreefolia. Knight et Safisb. prot. 112? A species not in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis; but mentioned in Sweet’s Catalogue as having been intro- duced as far back as 1778. It has now flowered in Mr. Wells's greenhouse at Redleaf, near Tunbridge, we believe for the first time in this country. Native of the neighbourhood of Port Jackson in New Holland; where it grows to a shrub of six feet high or more. BB? Comes near to Banksıa serrata, but differs by a shrubby instead of an arboreous stature, by a more deeply indent- ed foliage, silky furred corollas, and essentially by a capi- tate unfurrowed bright smooth stigma twice as big round as the fourcornered tip of the style. Serrata, besides being a tree, has a cylindrical furrowed stigma with a thickened slanted base, and a style pulvereously pubescent at the bot- tom. The flowerheads of the two differ considerably in colour: in @mula they are of a yellowish green, in serrata of a blueish grey. Thirty-one species have been distinguished by Mr. Brown, all of them either trees or shrubs of Australia, the former however of no considerable height. The genus is divided into two sections, of which our plant belongs to the first, consisting of the more genuine species; characterized by a style of greater length than the corolla, from one side of which it protrudes by an arch sprung between the claws (ungues) of the petals which open earlier than the blades (lamine); by a stigma enclosed within the subsequently opening blades of the petals; by a flowering catkin (amen- tum) of a subcylindrical form, and a fruiting one of several transversely disposed woody one-valved seedvessels (folli- culi). The section includes all but one species. — y. [DA th qu ý LA + ora a n L) Ly L Seedy UJ RR IE y TG Piccadilly Pala , Ide S, T V A Hals. 689 . ARISTOLOCHIA labiosa. , Maregrave's Birthwort. — — — GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA. Nat. ord, ARISTOLOCHLE. Jussie gem. 72; et in ann. du mus. G. 221. Cor. supera, Stamina definita. Germ. pluriloculare, loculis polyspermis, Stylus brevissimus, Stigma stellatim divisum. Capsula (sicca v.) baccata. Semina numerosa, Albumen densè carnosum. Embryo minutus indivisus, in regione umbilici, albumine inclusus. Brown prod. 1. 349, ARISTOLOCHIA. Cor. tubulosa, basi ventricosa, apice dilatata, in ligulam extensa. Anthere 6, subsessiles, sub stigmate. yfus subnullus. igma 6-partitum. Caps. 6-gona; 6-locularis, aulis erectus aut volubi- rx folia alterna; flores axillares; tubus quorundam scyphiformis incurvus. uss, I. c. 73. A. labiosa, caule volubili, foliis reniformibus subrotundis cordatis amplexi- ""eaulibus, corollis basi incurvå saccatá, medio bilabiatis, labio superiore explanato bilobo, inferiore (lanceolato) canaliculato. Link sub Arıs- TOLOCHIÁ ringente. Aristolochia ringens. Link abbild. auserl. gew. bot. gart. zu berl. 1. 86. f. 13; (nec tamen Vahl symb. 2. 94. f. 47; neve symb. 3. 99; neve Willd. sp. pl. 4.155. An Marcgr. brasil. 260; cum tab. (de planté siccatá, benè), Planta ob floris structuram singularem coloremque eximia. Canlis elom- gatus volubilis angulatus glaberrimus. Folia altern petiolo 2 pollices longo, lamina ab insertione petioli ad apicem 1 pollicem 2 li longa, 8 pollices Sere lata, obtusa integerrima venosa subtüs pallida glaberrima. Stipule so- ota 4 axillares, ei pedunculo Sore, à polline e lateque. lores axi , solitarii, wnifloro, 4 ices et ub longo. Cor. magna; basis saccata incurvata, rjr ond 5 lineas longa, quam Maregravius non malè cum pyloro ventricali humani comparat; pars antica 4 pollices longa, ad 8 lineas a basi bilabiata, labio superiori quasi pe- tiolato bilobo 1 pollicem 8 lineas longo ad 4 pollices feré lato, lobis rotundatis, labio inferiore 3 pollices 6 lineas longo canaliculato fers compresso-acuto, si explicetur 9 lineas lata; color totius corolle flavescens venis (maculis crebris) reis (ab externé translucentibus variatus ) reticulatis. Germen stigmate orbiculato appresso coronatum, antheris sex adnatis. Link loc. cit. ; ARISTOLOCHIA ringens of Vahl is a Jamaica plant, and according to every appearance, adopted and figured from a well-preserved samplé in Mr. Brown's Herbarium; in viewing which it is not easy to conceive how it has come to pass that the Brazil plant in Professor Link's work should have been considered by that intelligent botanist to be of the same species. In Vahl's species the larger lip of the corolla is oblong lanceolate entire and plain within, the smaller spatulate rounded above and entire; in M. Link's the larger lip is oblately round retusely bilobed and spotted within, the smaller lanceolate and taper-pointed. The figure we have quoted from Marcgrave's Natural History of the Brazils is from the dried subject, and an- swers satisfactorily to labiosa; but having been applied by others to ringens, instead of suggesting doubts on the score of identity, was whimsically censured for not resembling that which it was clearly not intended to resemble. The smaller lip in our plant, though a correct represent- ation of that of the subject it was drawn from, is much shorter than the same shown in the figure in Professor Link's publication; but we are notwithstanding convinced of the natural identity of the two plants in respect to species. We were liberally favoured by Mr. Aiton with the sample of this remarkable shrub from Kew gardens, where it has been introduced from the Brazils by Messrs. Cunningham and Bowie, the King's collectors. It forms a fine-looking climber for the hothouse trellis ; but the fresh flower exhales a most offensive stench, not un- like that of stale fish. The spots within the larger lip are the transparencies of those on the outside. The foliage is of a beautiful green. In variety of lurid hues and disgusting odours, the flowers of this genus have a curious analogy with those of STAPELIA. NOTES. Arctotis aspera. Vol. 1. fol. 34. Le style de plusieurs synantherées est irritable par le toucher: quelques arctotidées nous ont offert ce phénoméne, qui n'avoit été observé, je crois, que sur des carduinées et des centaureés. Cassini in dict. sc. nat. 10. 142, ( Paris, an. 1818.) The above notice of the irritability of the style of certain Arctotidec was published by M. Cassini, we believe, tor the first time in 1818; at all events we can find no allusion by him to such phenomenon in any publication previous to the year 1816. The fact had been however fully stated by ourselves in regard to two species of ARCTOTIS in the article we have quoted, in the year 1815. We think it right to say thus much, that we may not be sus- pected of borrowing information without due acknowledgment; not to accuse the ingenious writer of the above passage of having done so, Campanula coronata. Vol. 2. fol. 149, dd the following synonym: Campanula marsupifiora Fischer hort. gorenk. Link enum. hort. reg. berol. alt. 1. 215. Dr. Fischer assures us that the Siberian plant of Pallas and Gmelin, ad- Auced by us in the above article for a synonym, belongs in fact to another species. Campanula sarmatica. Vol. 3. fol. 237. dd the following synonym : Campanula gummifera. Link enum. kort. berol. alt. 1. 215. Camellia axillaris. Vol. 4. fol, 349. This plant was puis oy the name given by Dr. Roxburgh ; but has subsequently ripened its fruit in the hothouse at Mr. Colvill’s Nursery, and is found by that, not only to be no congener of Camellia, but to belong even to a different natural order, viz. Malvacee, and to be a species of an as yet un- named genus akin to Gordonia, and of which several others, all belongi g to the Indian islands, are known to Mr. Brown and Dr. Horsfield. The fruit is a woody oblong five-valved five-celled brown capsule about the size of a filbert with many upright seeds, membranously and cuneately winged at the top, in each cell. dychi: latum. Pol. 7. 526. . Bede 15 of this species have a very perceptible musky fragrance. NOTES. Amaryllis acuminata. Pol. 7. 584. A' bulb of this species threw up two scapes last summer at Mr. Col- vill’s, on one of which there were eight flowers expanded at the same time and on the other six, forming the most showy garland we ever saw even in this splendid genus. Canna iridiflora. Fol. 609. Page 1. l. 11. dele “ ¢. 1. fig. 2” There being only a description and uo figure of the species in the work quoted. Macradenia lutescens. Fol. 612. Make the following corrections in that article. Page 1. line 9. Pro‘ Corolle petala" lege “ petala." = line 18. Pro“ glandulam lege proscollam.” line 20. Pro “ proscolli” lege ** proscollæ.” —— line 27. Dele “ a corolla with petals all distinct; " And in the last line overleaf for “ proscollum" read “ proscolla." Angrecum maculatum. Fol. 618. age 1. 1.4. For * MONOGYNIA” read * MONANDRIA." Add the following synonym: Geodorum pictum. Link abbild. auser. gew. bot. gart. zu berl. 1. 35, t. 14. With GEODORUM the plant has still less connexion than with ANGRE- CUM, where itis also an anomaly. Native of Bahia in the Brazils. Acacia diffusa. Fol. 634. Since this species was published, the 2d volume of Link's Catalogue has been received, and in it we find the following, which may be the same with the above; but the account is too brief and vague for certain deci- sion, and the flowers are described as solitary, while in our plant they were generally in pairs. Acacia genistifolia; stipulis spinescentibus minutissimis, petiolis (foliis) linearibus, subulato-pungentibus; approximatis, pedunculis solitariis. Rami angulati glabri. Petioli (folia) 10 lin. longi, X lati, rigidiusculi. 1 4 lin. longe. Pedunculi axillares solitarii. Link enum. h. b. t. 2. 442, In the above article the reference to generic character has been omitted by mistake. Acacia. Suprd vol. 2. fol. 98. Clerodendron squamatum. Fol. 649. We have scarcely a doubt that CLERODENDRON infortunatum; Loureiro cochin. 387. belongs to the above species; instead of the Linnzan species for which it is given. Melastoma granulosa. Fol. 671. We have accidentally omitted the following synonym in the above ar- ticle. M. Bonpland was not aware that the species had been already. named and described in the Encyclopédie Botanique of Lamarck, Rhexia Fontainesii. Humb: et Bonpland. Rhexia. 93. t. 36, NOTES. Cblorophytum inornatum. When we published and named this plant in Curtis's Magazine (Nos. 1071 and 1223), there remained some uncertainty in regard to its native pe This was first stated to us to be the West Indies, afterwards Sierra ne, from whence it was said to have been introduced by Professor Afze- lius. The latter statement is confirmed by plants of the same species that flowered last summer in the garden of the Horticultural Society, and which had been sent from Sierra Leone by Mr. George Don. VOL. VIII. cc GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX THE PRESENT AND To PRECEDING VOLUMES. — N. The names in Italics are such as have been altered subsequently to their publication for others referred to in one or other of the Appendizes to the several volumes of this work. — — Volumen. Folium. Volumen. Folium. Abroma augusta. v. 6. .| Amaryllis rutila. v. 1 28. Acacia alata, v. 5... 396. | Amellus Lychnitis. v. 7. 586. Acacia decurrens; B. v. 5. «871. | Ammyrsine buxifolia, v. 7. 531, Acacia diffusa. v. 3. Acacia Houston. v. 2. . 98. Acacia longifolia. v. 5. . 862. Acacia longissima. v. 8. . . . 680. Acacia lophantha, v. 5... . 86. Achania mollis; a. v. 1. eee The Acrostichum alcicorne. v. 3. 262, 269. Actinotus Helianthi, v. 8. 654. Aerides paniculatus. v. 3. 220; et in ap- pend. vol. 6. Æsculus discolor. v. 4. . 810. Albuca fastigiata. v. — 877. Albuca filifolia. v. 7. 557. Albuca fugax. v. 4. . 311. +141. Alpinia calcarata., v. 2 Alpinia malaccensis. v. 4. 328; et in append. ejusd, vol, Amaryllis acuminata. v. 7. 534. Amaryllis aulica. v. 6. 444; et tab. in ap- pend. ejusd. vol. Amaryllis aurea. v. 8. Amaryllis australasica. v. 5. . Amaryllis calyptrata. v. 2. 164; ef in append. ejusd. vol, Amaryllis coranica. v. 2. L Amaryllis crocata. v. 1 . Amaryllis equestris; B. v. 8. 284. Amaryllis flexuosa. v. 2. 172. Amaryllis fulgida. .v. 3. Amaryllis hyacinthina, B. fol. 444 ad calcem fol. vers. Amaryllis insignis. v. 7. +. 579. Amaryilis laticoma. v. 8. 497 ; et in append. ejusd. vol. Amaryllis loi 546. lia; 4. v. 7. Amaryllis longifolia; y. v. 4. . 303. Amaryllis psittacina, v. 3. 199. Amaryilis purpurea; fl. v.7. . 552. Amaryllis radiata, Y. 7. ..... 596. maryliis reticnlata; B. v. 5. 352. Amaryllis revoluta. A. v. 8. 623. Amaryllis revoluta. B. v. 8 Amorpha fruticosa, v. 5. Amsonia latifolia. v. 2. . Anchusa italica. v. 6. Aneilema sinica. v. 8. Anemone palmata. v. Angelonia salicarimfolia. v. 5. 415; ef app. ejusd. vol. Angrecum maculatum, v. 6. 618; el in app. Antennaria contorta; mas. v. 7. Anthemis apiifolia. v. 7. Anthericum pomeridianum. v. Anthocercis littorea. v. 3. Arbutus Andrachne. v. 2. Arbutus hybrida. v. .. Arctotis acaulis, v. 2 Arctotis aspera. v. 1 Arctotis aureola. v. 1. Arctotis maculata. v. 2 Arctotis tricolor, v. 22. Ardisia lentiginosa. v. 7. Ardisia paniculata, v. 8. Argyreia cuneata. v. 8. Aristolochia labioss. v. B. Arum Dracontium. v. 8. « Arum orixense. v. 6. Arum tenuifolium. v. 6. Artabotrys odoratissimus. v. 5. Asclepias curassavica. v. 1. Asclepias incarnata, v. 3. Asclepias tuberosa; 4. v. 1. . 76. Aspidistra lurida. v. 8. . + 628, Astelma eximium. v. 7. 582; el in append. ejusd. vol. Aster Amellus. v. 4. 840. Aster grandiflerus. v. 4. 278. 88. sase 512 -43 . 81. + 250. — Aster Nove Anglie. v. 3. Astragalus caryecarpus. v. 2. 176; ef in ape pend. vol. 6. « 681, Athrixia capensis. v. 8. Azalea calendulacea; a. v. 2 Azalea nitida. v.5. - Azalea nudiflora; y. v.e cc2 GENERAL INDEX TO THE PRESENT AND PRECEDING VOLUMES, Volumen. Folium. Banksia emula. v. . 688. Barleria fava, In notis voluminis Ati. Barleria mitis. v. 3. 191; et in notis vol. 4. Beaufortia decussata. r. . 18. Begonia acuminata. v. 5. 864. Begonia nrgyrostigma. v. 38 666. Begonia humilis, v. 4 . 284, Begonia pauciflora. v. 6. 471; et append. ejusd, voluminis. Berberis sibirica. v. 6. Bidens procera. Bignonia grandife Bignoni& venusta. v. 8 Blandfordia nobilis. v. 4. . Borago orientalis. v. 4. Bossiæa cinerea. v. 4. — . . 487. . 684. 418. 249. 286. 288. ++ 306, Bouvardia triphylla. v. 2. 107. Bourardia versicolor. v. 3. . 245, Brachysema latifolium. v. 2 118. Brachysema undulatum. v. 8. 642. Bromelia nudicaulis. v. 3. — 203. Bromelia pallida. v. 4. 344. Brunsfelsia undulata. v. 3. * . 228. Brunsvigia Josephine; B. v. 3. . . 192, 193. Brunsvigia toxicaria. v. 7. . 567. Bryonia quinqueloba. v. 1. Burchellia capensis. v. 6. Cacalia bicolor. r. 2. Cacalin oralis. v. 2. Cactus Dillenii. v. 8. Cactus gibbosus. v. 2. Cactus repandus. v. 4. Cactus speciosissimus. v. 6 Cactus speciosus. v. 4. Caladium odorum. v. 3 Caldasia heterophylla, Calendula chrysanthemifolia. v. 1 Calendula graminifolia, v. 4. Calendula Tragus; B. v. 1. .... Callistachys lanceolata, v. 8. . Callistemon rigidum, v. 3. Calostemma luteum. v. 5. Calostemma purpureum. v. $, Calotis cuneifolia. v. 6. . Calotropis gigantea. v. 1. Calycanthus fertilis, v. 8. .. Calycanthus lavigatus, v. 6. . Calytrix glabra. v. 5. ,..,.,,......, 409, Camellia axillaris. v. 4. 849; et append. vol. 8. Camellia japonica; s. v. 2 112. Camellia japonica; A. v. 1. . Camellia japonica; e. involuta. v. 8. ... 633. Camellia japonica; f. albo simp. v. 5. . 853. Camellia Sasanqua. v, 1. Camellia Sasanqua; B, v. 7. . Campanula aurea; a.v, 1. Campanula coronata, v. 2. 149; et append, vol. 8. Campanula glomerata, B. dañurica. v. 8. 620. Campanula lactifora, v. 8. 241. Campanula lilifolia. v. 3. 236. Campanula pentagonia. v. 1.. cs... 56. Fampasula sarmatica. v. 3. 287; et append. vol. 8, Canna gigantea. v,8......,.,..,,.,006. Canas iridiflora, v. 8.609; et Append. ejusd. tel, Volumen. Canna Lamberti. v. 6 Canna patens. v. 7 Carica Papaya; fem. v. 66 Carthamus tinctorius, v. 2. Cassia ligustrina. v. 2. Cassia occidentalis. v. 1 Cassinia spectabilis. v. 8. Ceanothus azureus, v. 4. Celsia sublanata, y. 6, Cerbera fruticosa. v. 5. Ceropegia africana. v. 8. 626. Cheiranthus Cheiri; y. v. 8. 219; et in ap- pend, vol. 7. Cheiranthus scoparius, v. 7. fol. 551. (2.) pag. 4; et in append. ejusd. vol. Chelone barbata. v. 2. Chelone obliqua. v. 2. Chimonanthus fragrans ; B. v. 6. Chironia jasminoides. v. g. Chlidanthus fragrans. v. 8. . Chlorophytum inornatum. In append. vol. 8. Chrysanthemum indicum; e.3. v. J. Chrysanthemum indicum; 3. v. 6. Chrysanthemum indicum; var. 14. v. 8.616. Cistas purpureus, v. 5. 408, Cistus vaginatns. v. 3, 225, Citrus nobilis; f. v. 3. all. Citrus Aurantium; y. v. 4. 346. Clematis aristata. v. . 238. Clematis brachiata, r. 2 e 97 Clematis hedysarifolia. v.7. . . . 599. Clerodendron paniculatum, v. 5. 406. Clerodendron squamatum. v. 8. . 649. Clerodendron viscosum. v. 8. 629. Clitoria Plumieri, v. 4. 268. Colchicum arenarium; B. umbrosum. v. 7.541, Colchicum versicolor. v. 7. .. .. 571. Combretum purpureum. v. $. 429. Convolvulus chinensis. v. 4. + 822. Convolvulus elongatus. v. 6. + 498. Convolvulus involucratus, v. 4. . Convolvulus pannifolius. v.3. 222; el app. ej. vol. Convolvulus pentanthus. v. 6. Convolvulus siculus. v. 6. Convolvulus suffruticosus, v. 2.133; ef ap- pend. vol. 3. Coreopsis incisa. v. 1. Coris monspeliensis. v. 7. Correa alba. v. 6 Correa speciosa. v. 1. «+. Correa virens, v. 1. Costus afer; a. v. 8. Costus speciosus ; B. v. 8 Crassula versicolor. v. 4. Crinum amabile; B. augustum. v. 6. Crinum bracteatum. v. 3. Crinum cruentum. v. 2 Crinum pedunculatum, v. 1. . Crossandra ondulefolia. v. 1. Crotalaria incana. v. 5. Crotalaria purpurea. v. 2. Crotalaria retusa. v. 3. Crotalaria vitellina. v. 6. Cryptarrhena lanata. v. 2. Cryptostegia grandiftora. v. 5. . 1068. GENERAL INDEX TO THE PRESENT AND PRECEDING VOLUMES, Volumen, Folium. Cullumia ciliaris. v. 5. - 884. Cuphea procumbens. v.3. . . 182. Curculigo plicata. v. 4. 845. Cuscuta chilensis. v. 7. . 603. Cymbidium xiphiifolium. v. 7. - $99. Cynanchum pilosum. v. 8, . eos 111. Cyphia Phyteuma, v. 8. . . 625. Cyrtanthus collinus. v. 2, .168. Cyrtanthus odorus. v. 6. «508. Cyrtanthus spiralis. v. 2. 167. Cyrtanthus uniflorus. v. 2 . 168. Cytisus biflorus. v. 4. +308. Cytisus proliferus, v. 2. 121. Dahlia superfina; s. v. 1. ve. 55 Deiphinium cheilanthum. v. 6 473. Delphinium cuneatum. v. 4. ˖ 827. Delpbinium grandiflorum; B. v. 6. +472. Dendrobium cucallatum. v.7. + 548. Dianthus crenatus. v.3. 256; et in append. vol. 7. Dichorisandra thyrsiflora. v. 8. Digitalis ambigua. v. 3. Digitalis canariensis. v. 1 Digitalis lutea. v. 3. Digitalis orientalis. v. 7. lis parviflora. v. 3. Diosma ameena. v. 7. Diosma ciliata. v. 5. Diosma dioica; mas. Diosma hirta, v. 5. Diosma lanceolata. v. f. Diosma rubra. v. 7. . Diospyros Embryoptetis. v. 6. Dirca palustris, v. 4. Disa bracteata. v. 4. .., .824. Disa prasinata. v.3. . . 210. Donia glutinosa. v. 3. 187; et in append. ejusd. vol. Duranta Plumieri. v. .. Echinops paniculatus, v. 5 Echium candicans, v. 1. Echium fruticosum. v. 1. . Echium grandiflorum. v. 2. + Elæocarpus reticulata. v. 8. .682. . 64. + 48. «251. 554. 257. 553. . 366. . 502. 369. 476. «563. «499. -992. 244. . 856. . 44, . 86. 124. 657. Elichrysum proliferum. v. 1. . 21. Epidendrum fuscatum. v. 1. 67. Epidendrum nutans. v. 1. . 17. Epidendrum umbellatum, v. 1 +. 80. Epigæs repens. v. 2 Erica ardens. v. 2. Erica colorans. v. 7 Erica filamentosa. v. 1 Erica tumida. v. 1. Erigeron glaucum. v. 1. Erigeron Villarsii. v. 7. 3. Eriobotrya japonica. Jn appendice volumi- nis 6. Eriospermum pubescens. v. 7. Eryngium aquaticum. v. 5... Erysimum diffusum. v. 5. 388; et in append. vol. 7. Erythrina carnea. v. 5. Erythrina crista galli. v.4. . Euchilus obcordatus. v. 5. Eucrosia bicolor. v. 3. Eugenia myrtifolia, v.8. Volumen. Folium, Eulophia guineensis. v. 8. Euphorbia punicea. v. 8. . Euphorbia rigida. v. 4. Evolvulus latifolius. v. 5. 401. Flemingia strobilifera, v. 8. . 617. Fragaria indica. v. 1.. 61. Fumaria aurea, v. 1. 66; et in append. vol. 7. Fumaria eximia. v. I. 605 et in append, val. 7. Fumarig nobilis. v. 5. . 895. Galactia pendula, v. 4. Galanthus plicatus. v. 7. Galega orientalis, v. 4. Gardenia florida; e. v. 6. Gardenia radicans. v. 1. Gastrolobium bilobum, v. s. Gazania pavonia; v. I. 35; ef append. ejusd. vol, Genistn canariensis, v. 3. Geodorum dilatatum. v.8. Gesneris aggregata, v. 4. Gesneria bulbosa. v. 4. Gesneria prasinata, v. 5. Gladiolus edu! vol. 7. Globularia longifc Gloriosa superb „217. 675. 329. «848. » 428. .... 685, v1 sors 77. Gloxinia speciosa. v. 3, . 213. Glycine bituminosa. v.3. . 261. Glycine caribæn. v. 4. +276. Glycine comptoniana. v. 4. . . 998, Glycine sinensis, v. 8. . 650. Gnaphalium apiculatum. v. 3. +240, Gnaphalium congestum. v. 3. Gnidia oppositifolia. v. 1. Gnidia pinifolia; a. v. 1. . 19, Gnidia pinifolia; B. v. 8. P 694. Gompholobium grandiflorum. v. 6. » 484. Gonolobus diadematus. v. 3. 289. Goodyera discolor. v. 4. . 271. Gossypium barbadense, v. 1. . 84. Grevillen buxifolia, v. 6. ` 448. Griffinia hyacinthina. v. 6. in nord fol. vers, 444. Griffinia parviflora, w.6. 511; ef tab. in ap- pend. ejusd. vol. Grindelia glutinosa. In appendice voluminis 3. Grindelia inuloides. v. 3. 248. Grislea tomentosa. r. 1. . 80. Gymnoloma maculatum. v. 8, . + 662, Habenaria fimbriata. v. 5. . 405. Hæmanthus carneus. v. 6. . 509. Heemanthus coarctatus, v. 3. . 181. Hæmanthus pubescens. v. 5. „562. Hakea microcarpa. v. 475. Hedychium angustifolium. v. 2. 157; et in append. vol. 6. Hedychium elatum. v. 7 Hedysaram Intifolinm, v. 5. Helenium quadridentatum. v. 7. Helianthus atrorubens. v. 6 Helianthus linearis, v. 7. Helianthus pubescens. v. 7. Heliconia Bibai. v.5. 374; ef in noté pem- ultima append, ejusd. vol. Heliopsis canescens. v. 7. Hepatica americana. v. 5 «$586. «356, «598. + 508. GENERAL INDEX TO THE PRESENT AND PRECEDING VOLUMES. Volumen. Folium. Hibbertie dentata; a. v. 4. .982. Hibiscus digitatus, v. 8... 608. Hibiscus dirersifolius. v. 5. Hibiscus heterophyllus. v. 1. Hibisens mutabilis, v. 7. . Hibiscus pedunculatus, v. 3. Hibiscus pheenicens. v. 8g. Hibiscus Rosa malabarica. v.4. Hibiscus tiliaceus, v. g. Homalium racemosum. v. 6. Horea Celsi. v. 4. Horea linearis. v.6. . . 469. Hovea longifolia. v. 8. wee 614. Hovenia acerba. v.6. 501; " in append. vol. 7. Horenia dulcis. In append. vol. 7. Hyacinthus amethystinus, v.5.. Hydrolea spinosa. v. 7 Hydrophyllum canadense. v. 3. 242. Hydrophyllum virginicum. v. 4. 331. Hyoscyamus canariensis. v. 8. 180; e£ in appendice ejusdem volum. Hypericum zgypticum. v.8.........., 196. Hypoxis obtusa. v. 2. +159. Hypoxis stellipilis, v. 3. 668. Indigofera amoena. v. 4. - 800. Indigofera australis. v. 5. . 886. Indigofera filifolia. In appendicibus voll. 3 et 7. Inga purpurea. v. 2. 129. Inula glandulosa, v. 4. 334. Ipomea bona nox; B. purpurascens. v. 4. 290; et in appendice vol. 4. Ipomaa ceralea. v. 4. Ipomæs chryseides. v. 4. Ipomoea denticulata. v.4. . Ipomæa hederacea. v.1 fern 85, Ipomea Jalapa; a. v. 4. 842; et append, ejusd. voluminis. Ipomeea Jalapa; B. rosea. v. 8. 621. Ipomea insignis. v. 1. 75; et in append, vol. 7. Ipomœa maritima, v. 4. 319. Ipomœa muricata. In appendice voluminis 4, Ipomaa mutabilis, v. 1......,..,... 89. Ipomea obscura. v. 3. 239; et append. vol. 4. Ipomaa pandurata, v.7. .... Ipomoea paniculata, v. 1. . Ipomoea pendula. v. 8. Ipomea platensis. v. 4. Ipomea sagittifolia, v. 6 Ipomea sanguines. v. 1. Ipomoea setosa. v.4. Ipomea tuberculata. v. 1. volum, 4. Ipomoea Turpetbum. v. 4 . 79. Iris dichotoma, v. 3. 246; et in append. vol. 5. Iris arenaria, v. 7. 549. Iris maculata: cesia, v. 7. 580; ef append. ejusd. vol. Ixora Bandhuca. v. 66 . 513. Ixora blanda, v. 2. 100; et in append, vol. 6. Ixora cuneifolia. v. n. 648. er, v. 2. 154; et append. ejusd, Ixora roses. v. 7. ,..,...,.,..,..., $40. 398. 566. . 885. et in append, Volumen, Folium. Jacaranda mimosifolia, v. 8. Jasione perennis. v. 6. . 505. Jasminum angustifolium; B. laurifolium. v. 77. Jasminum auriculatum. v. 4. Jasminum azoricum. v. 1. Jasminum gracite. v. 8. Jasminum grandiflorum. v. 2. Jasminum hirsutum. v. I. 15; et in append. ejusd. vol. Jasminum humile. v. 55 350. Jasminum revolutum. v. 8. 178; ef in ap- pend. vol, 6. Jasminum Sambac. v. 1 ̃ le Jasminum undulatum. v.6. 436; ef in La pendice ejusd, vol. Justicia eustachiana. v. 4. . 09. Justicia Gendarussa. v. 8. 635; et in append. vol. ejusd. Kæmpferia pandurata. v. 2 .178. Kaulfussia amelloides, v.6, . Koelreuteria paniculata. v. 4. Lachenalia pallida ; a. v. 4. Lachenalia pallida; 8. v. 4 Lambertia formosa. v. 7. + Lebeckia contaminata, v. 2. 104; ct in ap- pendice voluminis 8. Leonotis nepetifolia. v. 4. .... Leucadendron corymbosum. v. 5. Leucojum tricophyllum ; æ. v. 7. 54 append. ejusd. vol. Liatris elegans. v. 2. Liatris pilosa. v. 7 Liatris scariosa. v. 7. Lilium carolinianum, v. 7. Lilium dauricum. v. 7. 594; in notd textus absque icone. Lilium longiflorum; fl. v. 7... 560. Lilium philadelphicum ; B. andinum, v. 7. 594. Lilium pumilum. v. 2 132. Limodorum falcatum. v.4. . Liparia hirsuta, v.1. Lissochilus speciosus, v. 7. 573; in textd malè $78. Loasa tricolor. v.8. . Lobelia fulgens. v. 2. Lobelia sipbilitica. v. 7. . Lobelia splendens, v. 1. Lomatia longifolia. v. 6. Lonicera dioica; f. v. Lonicera japonica. v. 1. Lonicera sempervirens; f. minor. v. 7. 556. Lonicera tatarica. v. 1 ees 81. Lupinus mexicanus. v.6. 457. Lychnis fulgens. v. 6. 478. Lycium afrum. v. 5. 864. Macradenia lutescens. v. 8. 612; ef in ap pend, voluminis. Magnolia cordata. v.4. ... Magnolia pyramidata. v.5. . Mabernia grandiflora. v. 3, Malachra fasciata. v. . Malpigbia coccifera. 9.7. . Malpighia fucata, v.3. . Malpigbia urens. v. 2 Malva calycina. v. 4. Malva capensis. v. 4, rss. 667. ..-325. sess 407. . 994. 467. . 568. +. 189. + 96. +297. » 295. GENERAL INDEX TO THE PRESENT AND PRECEDING YOLUMES. Polen, Folium. Malva fragrans. v. 4. 296. Malva grossularifolia; a: inodora. v. 7.561. Maranta zebrina. v. 5. Marica gladiata. v.8. Marica iridifolia. v. 8. Marsdenia suaveolens. v.6. . Melaleuca fulgens. v. 4. Melaleuca incana, v. 5. +....410. Melaleuca squames. v.6. ... . . 477. Melastoma granulosa. v. 8. 671; et append. voluminis ejusd. Melastoma heteromalla, v. 8. .. Melastoma levigata. v. 5. .. Melastoma malabathrica. v. 8. .. Melia sempervirens. v.8. » Melianthus major. v. 1. . Mesembryanthemam blandum. v. 7. Mesembryanthemum capitatum. v. 6. Mesembryanthemum elongatum, v.6.. 493. Mesembryanthemum maximum. v.6. .. 958. Mesembryanthemum tigrinum. v. 8. 260. Mespilus japonica. v. 5. 8653 el in append. voluminis 6. Mimosa sensitiva. v. 1 Mitella diphylla, v.2. ... Modecca lobata; mar v. 5 Monards punctata. Y. 1 Morea lurida. v. 4. 312; el app Murraya exotica, v. 5. . Muscari ciliatum. v. 5. Mussenda frondosa, v. 6 Narcissus montanas. v.2. . Neottia australis; B. v. 7 Neottia procera, v. 8. . Nerium odorum ; f£: Nyctanthes Arbor tris! Œnothera odorata. v. 2. Œnothers Romanzo Olea capensis. v. 8. . Opbiopogon spicatus. v. 7. . Ophrys Speculum. v. 5. Ophrys tenthredinifera. v. 3. Orchis longibracteata. v.5. . Orchis longicornu. v. 9. Orchis tephrosanthos; B. v. 5. Orchis variegata. v. 5 Ornithogalum fimbriatum. v. 7. Ornithogalum niveum. v. 8... Ornithogalum prasinum. v. 2. Ornithogalum revolutum. v. 4 Ornithogalum thyrsoides; e. v. 4. Ornithogalum thyrsoides; B. v. 4 Osbeckia chinensis. v. 7. Osbeckia stellata. v. 8. Osbeckia zeylanica. v. 7. Othonna abrotanifolia. v. 2. Otbonna cheirifolia. v. 4. . Oxalis lava. v. 2. Oxylobium arborescens. v. 5. Pachysandra procumbens. v. 1. Pæonia albiflora; B. v. 1 Pzonia albiflora; v. 8. Pæonis albiflora v. 6. Pæonis mollis, . Peonis Moutan; s, v. 5. Volumen. Folium. Pancratium Amancaes. v. 7. 600. Pancratium angustum. v. 3 Pancratium calathinum. v. 3. Pancratiam canariense. v. 2 Pancratium guianense. v. 4 Pancratium maritimum. v. 2 Pancratium oratum. v. 1. Pancratium verecundum. v. 66 Pancratium zeylanicum. v. 6. Papaver bracteatum, v. 8. Papaver floribundum. v. 2. Passiflora adiantifolia. v. 3. Passiflora albida. v. 8. Passiflora angustifolia, v. 3. Passiflora cerulea, v. 6 Passiflora filamentosa, fl. v. Passiflora fœtida. v. 4. Passiflora glauca, v. 1. Passiflora holoseficea, v. I. . À Passiflora incarnata; a. v.4. . 882. Passiflora incarnata; B. edulis, v. 9. 159; et in append, ejusd. vol. atque vol, 6. Passiflora laurifolia. v. 1. . Passiflora lunata. v. 7. + Passiflora lutea. v. 1. Passiflora maliformis, v.g. . Passiflora minima. v. 2 Passiflora Murucuja. v. 7. Passiflora pallida, v. 8. Passiflora peltata. v. 6. Passiflora perfolista. v. 1. Passiflora picturata. v. 9. . Passiflora quadrangularis. v. 1 Passiflora racemosa. v. 4. Passiflora rubra. v.2. . Passiflora tuberosa. v. 5 Passiflora Vespertilio, v. 7. Patersonis glabrata. v. 1. 51. Pavetta indica. v. ..,. „198. Pavonia spinifex. v. 4 +439. Pena squamosa. v. 2. 06. Pentapetes phanicen. v. 7 575. Pergularia odoratissima. v. 6. 412. Peucedanum aureum, v. 7. 559. Phaseolus Caracalla. v. 4. 841. Philadelphus grandiflorus. v. 7 570. Phlox suffruticosa. v. 1 . 68. Photinis arbutifolia. v. 6. Pinguicula lutea. v. 2. Pittosporom revolutum, v. 3. Pittosporam undulatum. v. 1 Piumbago capensis. v. 5. Plumeria acuminata, v. 2. Plumeria bicolor. v. 6. Plumeria tricolor. v. 6. Pogonia ophioglossoides. v. 2 Polemonium mexicanum. v. 6 Poliantbes tuberosa, v. 1. Polygala latifolia. v. 645. Polygala ligularis. v. 687. Polygala myrtifolia. v. 8. . . 669. Polygala oppositifolia. v. 8. - 636. Polygala speciosa. v. 9. Polygonum frutescens. v. 3. Primula minima. v. 7 GENERAL INDEX TO THE PRESENT AND PRECEDING VOLUMES. Folium, Volumen. Primula prenitens, v.7. ... Prostaathera lasianthos. v. 2 Protea acerosa. v. 5 Protea grandiflora; B. v. 7. Protea longifolia. v.1. . Protea neriifolia. v. 3 Protea pulchella, v. 1 Prunus japonica. v. I. 27; et in append. voluminis 6. Prunus prostrata. v. .... Psidium cattleianum. v. 8. Psidium polycarpon. v.8. . Psorales melilotoides. v. 6 Psoralea Onobrychis. v. Psoralea pednnculata. v. 3. Paychotria elliptica, v. 8. Pulmonaria paniculata; a. v. 2. ... Pultenga retusa. v. 5. Pyrethrum fœniculaceum. v. 4. Pyrus coronaria. v. 8. . Pyrus salicifolia. v. Quisqualis indica. v. 6. Raphiolepis indica. v. Raphiolepis salicifolia. Relhania pungens. v. 7. Reseda odorata; B. v. 3. Bhexia holosericea. v. 4. Rhexia viminea. v.8. . Rhododendron dauricum ; 8. Rhododendron hybridum, v. 3. Rhododendron punctatum; f. v. 1 Ribes aureum, r. 2 . 336. . 125, Ricotia egyptiaca. v. 1, 49 ; et append, vol. 7. Rosa alpina. v. 5. 424. Rosa Banksiæ. v. 5. . 397. Rosa centifolia; 8. (mucosa flore albo pleno). In appendice voluminis 6. Rosa ceotifolia; B. (mucosa flore simplici). In appendice voluminis 6. Rusa ferox. v. 5. 420. Rosa fraxinifolia. v. 6. 458. Rosa gallica; 4. v. 6 3 -448. Rosa kamschatica. v. 5. 419. Rosa lawranceana. v. 7. Rosa multiflora. v. Rosa parvifolia. v. Rosa provincialis; B. (mucosa flore albo pleno.) v.2. 102; et in appendice voli- minis 6. Rosa provincialis; B. (mucosa fore simplici.) v. 1. 53; et in appendice voluminis 6. Rosa rubrifolia. v. 5 Rosa sempervirens. v. Rosa spinosissima ; reversa. v. 5. Rosa sulphurea. v. 1. Royena pubescens. Rubus reflexus. s. Rubus parvifolius. v. 6. Rudbeckia triloba, v. 7. Ruellia paniculata. v. 7. Ruta pinnata. v.4. . Salvia amarissima, v. 4. Salvia ameoa, v. 6. . . 430. - 465. +451. Salvia hispanica. v.5. . +859. Salvia splendens. v. 8. . 687. Sanseviers xeylanios. v. 2. . 160. Folium. ^. 416. . 590. +... 142. +». 184, 462, 99. 278. Volumen. Satyrium cucullatum. v. 5. Sedum cæruleum. v. 6 Sedum ternatum, v. 2. Selago fasciculata. v. 8. Sellos glutinosa, v. 6 Sempervivum arboreum. v. 2. Sempervivum glutinosum. v. 4 Senecio speciosus. v. 1. 41. Sida grandifolia. v. 5. . 360. Silene pensylvanica, v. 3. 247; el append. ejusd. vol. Solanum amazonium. v. l. 71; et in appexd. val. 2. Solanum decurrens. v. 2. +0140, Solanum fontanesianum. Y. 2 177. Sparaxis grandiflora. v. 3. 258; et append. vol. 3. Spartium ferox, v. 5 368. Spathelia simplex. v. 8. . Spermadictyon suavcolens Spbenogyne pilifera, v. 7. Stenanthera pinifolia, v. S. Stenocarpus salignus. v. 6. ... Steoochilus glaber. v.7. ... Stenochilus maculatus. v. 8, Sterculia Balanghas. v. 3. ++ 185. Stevia Eupatoria. v. 2. 98 ; ef append. vol. 3. Strelitzia parviflora; juncea. v. 516. Stropbanthus dichotomus. 8. 469. Strumaria filifoli 440. Stylidium graminifoliam. v. 1. .. 90. Stylidium laricifolium. v. 7. 550. Styphelia longifolia. v. 1. 24. Tabernæmontana amygdalifolia. v.4. . . 338. Teedia lucida. v. ... . 209. Teedia pubescens. v. 8. oe 214. ‘Templetonia retusa. v. 5. 383. Thunbergia grandiflora. v. 6. 495. Thysanotus isantherus. v. 8 655. Thysanotus junceus. v. 8 656. Tillandsia xiphioides. v. 2 105. Tithonia tagetiflora. v. 7. 591. Tournefortia fruticosa. v. 6. 464. Trachelium cæruleum. v. 1 72. Tradescantia fuscata. v. 6 489. Trapa natans. v.3. 259; ef in append. ejusd, vol. Tritonia refracta, v. 2. 135; et append. vol. 3. T bifora. v.7. enn 885. Tulipa cornuta. v. 2. . Tulipa gesneriana. v. 5. Tulipa oculus solis. v. 3. Uropetalon glaucum., v. 2 Vaccinium amoenum. v. 5. Vaccinium fuscatum. v.4. - Valeriana Cornucopiæ. v. 2. 155. Vanda Koxburghü. v. . 506 Vanda paniculata. In append. vol. 6. Vanda teretifolia. v. 8. . ++ 676, Vella Psendo-Cytisus. v. 4 Velleja lyrata. v. 7 Verbascum formosum. v. 7 Verbena Aubletia, v. 4 sue 294 Vernonia sericea; B. v. 7 s.. 522, Vestia lycioides. v. 4. 299; et in appendice voluminis 5. Viburnum odoratissimum, v.6. ... 293. 551. 558. . 456. a GENERAL INDEX TO THE PRESENT AND PRECEDING VOLUMES. : Volumen. Folium. | Volumen. Folium. Viburnum rugosum. v.5. 376; ef in ap- | Webera corymbosa. v. 2. . 119. pendice voluminis 6. Wedelia hispida. v. 7. «548. .610. 6. . 378. +801. | Wedelia radiosa, v. 8. 54. Witsenia maura. v. 1. . . 890. Xylophylla falcata. v. 5 Vinca herbaces, v. 4 Viola altaica, v. 1 Viola pubescens; B. v. 5 References to Enumerations of Liliaceous Genera inserted in the several volumes of this work. AMARVLLIs. Vol. 8. fol. 6235 vers. Brunsvicia. Vol. 8. fol. 19%, 193; fol. ult. vers. CorncurcUM. Vel. 7. fol. 541: iterum (emendat) fol. vers. 571. Crinum. Pol. 8. fol. 623 ; pag. 4. CYRTANTHUS. Pol. 8. fol. 623. fol. vera. Eriosrermum. Vol. 7. fol. 578; (2.) Gıapiorus. Pol. 7; in appendice. Inis. Vol. 5; in appendice. Ixia, Wol.7; in appendice. Marica, Vol. 3. fol. 229; (2 vers.) Mora. Vol. 4; in appendice. 7 PANCRATIUM. Vol. 8. fol. 683. (2%. vers.) SrARAXIS. Vol. 3; in aj lice. SrERNEBERGIA. Pol. 8. fol. 628 ; vers, SrRUMARIA. Pol. 6. fol. 440 ; vers. Tarronta. Vol. 83 in appendice. URoPETALON. Vol. 2. fol. 156. vers. Synopsis generum sectionis prime AMARYLLIDEARUM. Vol. 7. fol. 546; pag. 3. Enumeratio Teibúum Ordinis Compositarum. Fol. 7. fol. 582; (in testů anglico,) END OF VOL. VII. vol. VIH. DD