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Boranica Macazine;
FE ble Carden Dilplayed:
IN WHICH
The moft Ornamental Forzien Prants, cultivated in the
Open Ground, the Green-Houfe, and the Stove, are
accurately reprefented in their natural Colours.
TO WHICH ARE ADDED,
Their Names, Clafs, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according
to the celebrated Linnzus; their Places of Growth,
and ‘Times of Flowering:
TOGETHER WITH
THE MOST APPROVED METHODS OF CULTURE,
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CraT&Gus INDICA. Inp1an HawrTuorn.
Clafs and Order.
IcosANDRIA Monocynia.
Generic Chara@er.
Cal. 5-fidus. Petala 5. Bacca infera difperma.
Specific Charaéer and Synonyms.
CRAT AGUS indica ; foliis ovatis acuminatis ferratis femper-
virentibus, racemis terminalibus, pedunculis calycibufque
tomentofis, braéteis fubulatis. |
CRATAGUS indica ; foliis lanceolatis ferratis, caule inermi,
corymbis fquamofis. Sp. Pl. 683. Willd. 2. p- 1005.
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Descr. Stem upright, fhrubby, with fmooth dark-brown
bark, branched upwills : Leaves evergreen, ovate, acuminate,
ferrate, narrowed downwards, petiolated : upper furface fhining
and dark-green, lower pale and reticulated, Stipules two, fub-
ulate, within the petiole, foon falling off. Flowers in terminal _
racemes, white. Braéfes fubulate, ere&t. Peduncles and lyxes
tomentofe: the latter fuperior, campanulate, with long ereét
fubulate teeth ; and, what is remarkable, after the flower fades,
it eafily feparates from the crown of the germen. Petals five,
oblong-ovate, acuminate, nerved. Filaments ere€t, inferted into
the tube of the calyx, at firft white, changing to a bright red:
Anthers yellow, didymous. The germen, which is {mall and
nearly round, is covered with the fame kind of tomentum as
that part of the calyx which feparates from it; but this does not
turn red as on the calyx. We have not feen the fruit, but the
germen is bilocular, and contains at leaft two ovula in each
cell. Styles two, ereét, longer than the ftamens : ftigmas
_ From the uncertainty in the number of the ftyles, and of the
divifions of the fruit, Sir Jamzs Eowarp SmitHy, in his Flora
Britannica,
Britannica, has reduced the four Linnean genera of Cratacus,
Sorsus, Mespitus, and Pyrus into two; omitting the
two former names, and retaining only Mespitus and Prraus.
The new edition of the Hortus Kewenfis retains the four
genera; and, as without feeing the fruit, we fhould be ata
lofs whether to arrange our plant under Mesprius or Pyrus,
we think it fafeft to leave it as we find it. In habit, our
plant has confiderable affinity with Pyrus Amelanchier and Bo-
tryapium.
Native of the Eaft-Indies and China. Requires the pro-
te€tion of the greenhoufe. Our drawing was made from a
plant communicated by Mr. R. Sweet, from the Stockwell
Nurfery. We received it alfo from Mr. James Dickson, of
Acre-Lane. Flowers in April, May, and June.
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PsoRALEA APHYLLA. LEAFLESS PSORALEAs
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Cla/s and Order,
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.
Generic Charaéfer.
Cal. longitudine Leguminis. Stam. — Legumen mo-
nofpermum, fubroftratum, evalve.
Specific Charaier and Synonyms.
PSORALEA apbylla; foliis ternatis fimplicibufque deciduis,
ftipulis lanceolatis acutis flores verfus fubimbricatis per-
fiftentibus.
PSORALEA aphbylla ; foliis caulinis rameifque ternatis et fim-
plicibus, ramulorum nullis, ftipulis fubimbricatis, Facq.
_ Hort. Schoenb. 2. p. §1. t. 223. Willd, Sp. Ph, 8. P- 223.
_ Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 375.
PSORALEA aphylla ; foliis nullis, Aipulis ovatis {feffilibus ad- |
preffis acutis. Amen. Acad, 6.
PSORALEA apbylla ; foliis nullis, ftipulis mucronatis brevif-
fimis verfus flores fubimbricatis. Mant. 450.
GENISTA fpartium ceruleum Cap. Bon. Spei. Breyn, Cent,
he BBs
This fhrub, ‘ough named ‘apbyl or + leafle He is by no means
without leaves ; ; but, when young, has both trifoliate and fimple
leaves, which fall off, and are. feldom again renewed; what
appear like fmall leaves upon the flowering branches, as repre-
fented in our figure, are not confidered as fuch, but as //pules,
or more properly, perhaps, as draétes. The flems of PsoraLEa
aphylla are flender, and the extremities of the branches bend
down with the weight of the flowers, ina graceful manner.
A greenhoufe fhrub. Native of the Cape of Good-Hope.
Flowers with us from May to July. Cultivated in the royal
garden at Hampton-Court, fo long ago as 1690. Our drawing
was taken from a fine fpecimen in the confery atory of Meffrs.
Lez and Kennepy, early in May.
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SALVIA AZUREA. AZURE-ELOWERED
DAGBs oc:
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Cla/s and Order.
Dianpria MonocyntA.
Generic CharaGer.
Cal. fubcampanulatus, 2-labiatus: labio fuperiore 3-dentato.
Cor, ringens, Filamenta tran{verfe pedicello affixa.
Specific Charager and Synonyms,
SALVIA azurea; foliis lineari-lanceolatis inferioribus extror-
fum ferratis cauleque glabris, calyce pubefcente breviffime
trifido. Purjb Fl. Amer. Sept. 19.
SALVIA axurea, Lam. in diar. Hif. Nat. 1. p. 469. Encyc.6.
p. 625. Vabl Enum. 1. p.253. Hort. Kew. Epit. inter
addenda, a
SALVIA acuminatiffima. Venten. Hort. Celf. 50. t. 50.
SALVIA anguflifoa. Michaux Flor. Bor.-Amer. 1. p. 1 5.
SALVIA mexicana. Walt. Fl. Carol. p. 65.
Descr. Stem quadrangular, fluted, with rounded angles.
Leaves lanceolate, narrowed: at both extremities, diftantly and
unequally fawed, minutely ciliated at the edge, dark green on
the upper furface, pale on the under. Flowers in terminal
whorled fpikes, whorls about fix-flowered, looking one way.
Braées linear. Pedicles very fhort. Calyx ftriate, two-lipped :
upper-lip minutely three-toothed :_under-lip bifid: teeth acute.
Corolla large: tube the length of the calyx: upper-lip fhort,
emarginate, pubefcent: under-lip three-lobed, dependent,
fmooth: middle lobe very large, crenulate. Style bearded
quite up to the bifid figma. A two-lobed anther at one end of
the tranfverfe filament, and a blue fmooth gland at the =
oe Native
Native of Georgia and South-Carolina, and faid to be a
great favourite as a greenhoufe plant in the Northern States,
where it grows to the height of feven or eight feet, and bears a
profufion of flowers.
It is inferted among the addenda at the end of the Epitome
of the Hortus Kewenfis, where it is faid to have been intro-
duced in 1806, to be hardy, and to bloffom in July and
Auguft.
We received the {pecimen from which our drawing was
made from Mr. Lamsert’s confervatory, at Boyton, in full
flower, in November Jatt,
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CESTRUM FASTIGIATUM. HONEYSUCKLE
CESTRUM.
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: Clafs and Order.
PENTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA.
Generic Charaéer.
Cal. inferus, denticulatus. Cor. infundibuliformis. Stamina
denticulo in medio, (edentulave). Bacca 1-locularis, polyfperma,
Specific Character and Synonym.
CESTRUM (/foftigiatum ; filamentis edentulis, pedunculis axil-
laribus elongatis, floribus in capitulum aggregatis, corolle
limbo revoluto. — :
CESTRUM /afigiatum ; filamentis edentulis; floribus in pe-
dunculis axillaribus et elongatis fuperne aggregatis. Facq.
Hort. Schoenb. 3. p. 44. t. 330- ee
Cestrum /faftigiatum differs from diurnum, chiefly in the
great length of the peduncle, which is equal to, or fometimes
longer than the leaf, and in the flowers being moftly colleéted
into a capitulum, fomewhat in the manner of the Honeyfuckle.
They are white and fweet-fcented both by night and day. The
number of ftamens and of the laciniz of the corolla is very
uncertain, varying from four to fix.
According to Jacguin’s defcription, the berries are black, _
with a violet-coloured pulp, but his figure reprefents them ex-
ternally blue. |
We have feen fpecimens of this fpecies in the herbariums of
Sir Josepn Banks and of Mr. Lampert ; and in both placed
along with diurnum, from which it appears to us fufficiently
diftine. |
Native of the Weft-Indies. With us an inhabitant of the
ftove. Our drawing was made from a flowering fpecimen com-
municated by Mr. Grorce Graves, from Mrs, WiLson’s
collection at Iflington, in November laft,
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AGERATUM CCELESTINUM. BLUE-FLOWERED
AGERATUM.
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Clafs and Order.
SYNGENESIA Potycamia /EQUALIS,
Generic Charader.
Receptaculum nudum. Pappus paleis 5, fubariftatis, nunc coalitis
obfoletifve. Ca/. oblongus, duplici foliolorum fubzqualium ferie.
Cor. 4—5-fide.
Specific Character.
AGERATUM celefinum s hifpidulum, foliis ovato-acuminatis
triplinerviis dentato-ferratis integerrimifque, pappo mono- .
_ phyllo obtufe dentato. —
According to the ufual generic charafter of Aczratum, the
pappus of the feed fhould confift of four or five fubulate palez ;
but in our plant the pappus is {mall and cup-like, with five
obtufe, nearly obfolete teeth, the /imb of the corolla is five-
cleft and rolled back: /igmas very long, club-fhaped, ereé.
In habit, and in every other refpeét, it correfponds fo exafly
with AGERaTuM, that we have thought it right to continue it
with that genus, notwithftanding the remarkable difference of
the pappus. This part, indeed, appears to be liable to vary in
the different fpecies of this genus. In the Bankfian Herbarium
we obferve there is one, in which the pale of the pappus are
nearly obfolete, but not united as in this.
The native country of this lively herbaceous perennial is
unknown to us. It was firft obferved in a garden at Briftol,
but its origin could not be learnt. Hitherto it has been pre-
ferved through the winter in the greenhoufe ; but when planted
out in the open ground, it feemed to thrive beft where it was
not much expofed to the fun,
| It
Tt is a tall plant, rifing to the height of about four feet.
Flowers fragrant, of that fpecies of {cent which refembles bitter
almonds. We do not find that this plant has been before
noticed by any author. : .
Communicated by A, B. Lamzert, Efq. from his colle€ion
at Boyton.
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JASMINUM REVOLUTUM. CURLED-FLOWERED
YELLOW JASMINE.
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Clafs and Order.
DranpriA MonocyNniaAe
Generic Chara@ers
Cor. hypocrateriformis, 5—8-fida. Bacca dicocca. Semina
folitaria arillata.
Specific Charafer.
JASMINUM revolutum ; foliis omnibus pinnatis, paniculis
oppolitifoliis, laciniis corolla revolutis.
Descr. Branches flexuofe, fomewhat angular. Leaves al-
ternate, on long channelled footftalks, all pinnate, having two
or three pair and an odd one of ovate leaflets, quite entire,
acute, a little oblique, paler and veined underneath, the two
upper pair clofe to the terminal leaflet, the lower pair diftant.
owers panicled, yellow, very {weet-{cented, fubterminal, and
oppofed to the leaf. Calyx cup-fhaped, with five or fix very
{mall ere& fharp-pointed teeth. Tube of the *coralla grooved,
fhorter than the dim, which is five or fix-cleft ; /acinie obovate,
rolled back. Avthers large, tongue-fhaped, ereft-incumbent,
i. €. affixed to the filament by the back, but ftill ftanding up-
right. ;
"For this hitherto undefcribed {pecies of Jafmine, which
promifes to be a great acquifition to our gardens, we are be-
holden to the lady of the Right Hon. Cxartes Lone, who
obligingly fent us {pecimens from her garden, at Bromley-Hill,
in Kent. The plant was imported from China, and bloomed
the firft time in the {pring of 1814. At the prefent time (April)
though only about a foot high, it has twelve bunches of very
fragrant flowers. It has been hitherto kept in the confervatory,
in a {mall pot of light earth and loam,
NZS 2.
Walworth Mavi 184s .
Lub. by §. Curtis
[1792 J
BROMELIA PYRAMIDALIS. PyrRAMIDAL=
FLOWERED BROMELIA.
See eink daeaiaeebiee
Clafs and Order.
HEXANDRIA Monocyrnta.
Generic Charaéter. as
Cal. 3-fidus, fuperus. Petala 3. Squama ne€larifera ad bafin
petali. DPericarpium 3-loculare, : :
Specific Characfer and Synonyms.
BROMELIA pyramidalis ; foliis lanceolatis acuminatis fpinofo-
; ciliatis, {capo infra flores nudos braéteato : braéteis lanceo-
lato-ovatis integerrimis coloratis, =
BROMELIA pyramidata aculeis nigris. Plum. Gen. 46. Ic. 62.?
“
BROMELIA uudicaulis. Sp. Pl. 409.? Willd. 2. p. 9.?
— $$ 25 ere
Descr. Leaves all radical, lanceolate with a lengthened
point, edged with fmall brown fpines, involute, and embracing
one another at the bafe. A fimple /cape rifes from the bofom
of the leaves, clothed below the flowers with large, concave, ovate-
lanceolate, {pathe-like, entire, brafles, of a fine rofe-colour, which
- turns brown with age. Above the braétes the flowers grow ina
thyrfe-like fpike, naked (i. ¢. withodt any braétes intermixed).
Germen inferior, nearly cylindrical, trilocular, with many ovula
in each cell, affixed in two rows to a central receptacle. Style
the length of the ftamens: fligma tripartite; the lacinia bright
Violet, twifted together, fo as to refemble a fcrew-like capitate
ftigma. Calyx tripartite ; fegments linear, connivent, ereét,
Both it and the germen are covered with a white, mealy powder.
Corolla three-petaled : petals eret, with linear claws longer than
the calyx: Jimb fhort, ovate, acute, patent, the edges foon
rolling inwards. The colour a fine {carlet, tinged on the infide
with violet, more intenfe at the tips. Filaments fix, inferted into
the bafe of the calyx, Anthers yellow, linear, incumbent. ae
This
This plant has great refemblance to the figure of Puumier,
above quoted, from which Linnaus probably adopted his
nudicaulis ; yet we dare not confider them as certainly the fame ;
and, at all events, the name of xudicaulis is fo very inapplicable
to a plant that has no ftalk, but a fcape only, and that too
clothed at the inferior part with large braétes, that the original
one of Prumrer feems every way preferable. In the Bankfian
Mufeum, there is a drawing of a nearly-related {pecies, to which
Linnvs’s name of zudicaulis is applied. ‘The flowers of this
are much fmaller and white, and the leaves are truncated with
a {mall acumen.
In our fpecimen, the fcape did not rife fo as to elevate the
flowers above the braétes, perhaps from a deficiency of heat: in
one which flowered earlier, the fpike was more lax, and the
flowers, after deflorefcence, became patent; calyx, corolla,
and ftamens, perfiftent. |
This plant, like fome others, both in this genus and in
Tizrianpstra, holds a quantity of water in the bottom of the
leaves ; which, it has been afferted, they are never found
without, even in the hotteft weather, in a tropical country.
Communicated by the lady of the Right Hon. Gzorce Rost,
from Cuffnells, where it flowered two fucceffive years, in February
and March. The mother plant was received from Rio de Janeiro
fome years ago, and threw off feveral offsets before it flowered,
which have been treated the fame as the pine apple, till of a good
fize for flowering, when the pot was taken out of the bark and
placed upon a fhelf in the flove.
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BEAUFORTIA DECUSSATA. SPLENDID
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"Clalit and Order.
Po LYADELPHIA.ICOSAN DRIA.
Generic Charaéter.
Staminium phalanges 5, petalis oppofite. Anthere bafi inferte :
apice bifide : lobis deciduis! Cap/. 3-locularis, monofpermay
connata et inclufa calycis tubo incraffato bafi adnato (ramo).
Brown. als
filamentis radianti ibus. B oie tn Bor
2p. 418 ;
The Beavurortia decuffata, when covered with bloffoms, is
a very fplendid fhrub. As in Metareuca, the flowers are
produced a little below the divifions of the branches. They
entirely furround the ftem, and are not confined to one fide, as
in Catornamnus, No. 1506, Calyx inferior, top-fhaped,
incurved : limb five-cleft : fegments awl-fhaped, the length of
the petals. Corolla five-petaled, green: petals concave, rounded,
fides overlapping one another, inferted into the margin of the
tube of the calyx. Stamens polyadelphous. Filaments collefted
into five bundies: the claws, or connetted parts, much longer
than the corolla, the free parts divaricate or radiated, not half the
length of the claws. But the principal chara€ter on which the
genus is founded, is afforded by the anthers: thefe are not in-
cumbent, as in MeLaeuca, but are inferted by the bafe, are
two-lobed : /obes more or lefs divaricate at the point, and deci-
duous. When fallen off, they appear like little extinguifhers,
: difcharging
difcharging the pollen from the lower end. The germen is hairy,
very {mall ; fy/e long and twifted in different direétions ; figma
acute. Above the germen and below the infertion of the fila-
ments, is a confiderable cavity filled with honey, and clofed
above by atufluck of white hairs, growing from the bafe of
each bundle of filaments. Moft of the flowers appeared to be
males, few of them having. any obfervable fiyle.. The flowers
are axillary, and for the moft part grow in pairs; but only one
of them occupies the centre of the leaf, the other being as it
were fupernumerary and placed on one fide. Leaves ovate,
rigid, acute, recurved, underneath pale, about five-nerved,
dotted with tranflucent glands.
Native of the fouth-weft coaft of New-Holland, where it was
difcovered by Rosrrt Brown, Efg. Flowers with us in
March, April, and May. Requires the prote€tion of a green-
houfe. Propagated by cuttings, ;
The name was given in honour of the Duchefs of Beaurort,
an early encourager of the fcience of Botany. Her grace pof-
feffed a flourifhing botanic garden at her feat, at Badminton, in
Gloucefterfhire, in the time of Sir Hans Stoanxr, Bart. to
the richnefs of which in rare exotics, the herbarium of that
celebrated naturalift, ftill preferved in the Britifh Mufeum, bears
frequent teftimony.
Communicated by Mr, James Dicxson, Nurferyman, in
Acre-Lane, Clapham-Common, and late gardener to Rozert
THornToN, Efq. : :
The fir figure foows the anther in its perfect? flate ; the fecond the
Jame, with the lobes feparating and falling off ; the third the germen
and flyle ; the fourth the tufuck of hairs at the bafe of ihe claw of the
bundle of filaments,
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CaLEA LOBATA. YELLOW-FLOWERED
CaLea, or HALBERD-WEED.
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r Clafs and Order.
SyNcGENESIA Potycamia AQUALIS.
Generic Chara@er.
Recepi. paleaceum. Pappus pilofus. Cal. imbricatus.
Specific Chavafter and Synonyms.
CALEA Jobata; corymbis congeftis, foliis alternis : fuperioribus
ovato-lanceolatis, inferioribus dentato-haftatis finuato-fer-
ratis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p.1795. Swartz Prod. 113. Hort.
Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 516.
oS lobata. Sp. Pl. 1207. Hort. Cliff: 405. Mart. Mill.
i: fe 2 ae
CONYZA< arborefcens lutea folio trifido. Plum. Ic. 96.
SANTOLINA ereéta fubhirfuta, foliis ferratis, haftatis f. fim-
plicibus et utrinque porreftis, floribus comofis [ corymbofis? ].
Brown Fam. 315.
VIRGA AUREA major, f. Doria folio finuato hirfuto. Sloane
Jam. 125. Hift. 1. p. 260. t. 152. f. 4.
HALBERT-WEED. Lunan Hort. Fam.
The Careza Jobata is a native of Jamaica, and requires the heat
of the ftove to bring it to perfeétion ; and being a large plant,
and poffeffed of few attraétions, will feldom be’ thought de-
ferving the room that it muft neceflarily occupy there. It is,
however, a plant of confiderable intereft, having been found to
afford a moft valuable remedy againft the fatal fevers of St. Nevis,
as our friend Mr. Lampert, from whofe colleétion at Boyton
it was communicated to us in November laft, was informed by
James Toxin, Efg. who fent him the feed from which our
plant was raifed. :
“ Brown, in his Natural Hiftory of Jamaica, obferves, that
* it is an excellent bitter, and was in his time much ufed in
America, where a fpirituous infufion of the tops was generally
kept in moft plantations, and often adminiftered as an alive warm
ftomachic.” Lunan, in his Hortus Jamaicenfis, alfo fpeaks of
it as a noble vulnerary, and fays that it ftops all fort of fluxes.
Introduced by Dr. Witt1am Hovustoun, before 17335
and cultivated by Pattie Mizxer; but moft probably foon
difappeared.
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Clafs and Order.
' .TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA.
Generic Charafier.
Siliqua linearis marginibus truncatis: valvis planis enervibus
(elaftice fapius diffilientibus), diflepimento anguftioribus. Brown,
in Hort. Kew. : PS A ce
Specific Character and Synonyms.
CARDAMINE afarifolia; foliis fimplicibus reniformibus. Hort.
Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 102. ee
CARDAMINE afarifolia ; foliis fimplicibus fubcordatis. Sp.
Pl. 913. Willd. 3. p. 482. Perfoon Syn. 2. p.195. Allioni
Piedem. n. 948. Crantz Cruc. 128.
CARDAMINE montana, Afari folio. Tournef. Inft. p. 225.
NASTURTIUM montanum, afari folio. Bocc. Sicil. 5. ¢. 3.
Herm. Parad, 203, cum Icone.* Raj. Hit. 816.
NASTURTIUM alpinum, paluftre rotundifolium, radice fer-
pente. Mori/. Hif. 2. p.224.
This rare alpine plant was communicated by Mr. Sweet,
late of the Stockwell nurfery. It is a native of the Italian Alps,
and occurs plentifully in the rocky beds of the torrents at the
foot of Mount Cenis.
A hardy perennial, flowers in May, June, and July. Said
in the former edition of Arron’s Hortus Kewenfis to have
been introduced into this country in 1775, by AntHony
Cuamier, Efg. but in the new edition, it is obferved to have
been cultivated in 1710; being one of the plants recorded to
have been delivered to the Royal Society from the garden be-
longing to the Apothecaries Company at Chelfea. But it is the
fate of moft alpine plants, to be foon loft, unlefs particular care
be taken to preferve them. : ; :
All the Carpamines poffefs an antifcorbutic quality ; and -
this fpecies is faid by Attronr to be much uled in the cure of
fcurvy, in the diftriéts where it abounds.
_ As this grows naturally in wet places, it fhould, in the fummer
time, have plenty of water; or the pot in which it is planted
thould tly ftand in a pan of water. re”
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ZANTHORHIZA APIIFOLIA. PARSLEY-LEAVED
ZANTHORHIZA, OF YELLOW-ROOT.
Sipe leet eae ie eee
Cla/s and Order.
PENTANDRIA PoLyGyYNIA.
Generic Charaéer.
Cal.o. Petala 5. Neéaria 5, pedicellata. Cap/. plurime,
monofpermz.
Specific Name and Synonyms.
ZANTHORHIZA apifolia. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 199.
DL Herit. Stirp. Nov. 79. t. 38. Perfoon Syn. 341. Michaux
Fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 186. Pur/h Fl. Am. Sept. 222.
XANTHORHIZA apitfolia. Mart. Mill. Did.
XANTHORHIZA /implicifima. Marfball Arbuf. 168.
The ZantTHoRH1z<A, Of which only one fpecies is known, is
an elegant little fhrub; native of Carolina and Georgia; and
confequently, though confidered as hardy, is liable to be killed
by fevere froft. As it takes up but little room, it may be ad-
mitted into the confervatory, where it appears to more advantage,
being liable to be overlooked among fhrubs of larger ftature.
Its yellow root, from which it takes its name, has been fup-
pofed to offer a ufeful dye; but we do not find that it has
hitherto been applied to ufe. Indeed, produéts affording “a
yellow colour are fo common, that, unlefs it fhould be afcer-
tained to poffefs fome fuperior advantages, it will moft probably
continue to be overlooked.
The flowers of this plant, though not fhewy, are curious ;
the xeffarium confifting of five pedicled double glands, inferted
between the laciniz of the corolla; and which might be taken
for fo many didymous anthers. Juss1zv, who feldom admits
of Linnaus’s neélaria, confiders thefe parts as the petals,
and what we have, with moft others, denominated corolla, he
calls calyx. And in the fame way Jussieu interprets man
other genera, belonging to the family of ranunculacee, to which
order ZANTHORHIZA is referred.
Firft difcovered by Joun Bartram in Georgia. Intro-
duced into this country about the year 1766, by Joun Busn,
Efg. Flowers in February, March, and April. Communicated
by Mr. Georce Graves.
Fig. 1, two of the ne&taries, magnified, fhewing their pofition with &
to the petal, Fig. 2, germens, natural fize, Fig, fen of wr a
magnified, Fig, 4, a neQtarium, magnified.
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ELAOCARPUS CYANEUS. BLUE-FRUITED
ELAZOCARPUS,
Jedi ibid iia
Cla/s and Order.
PoLtyANDRIA Monocynia.
Generic Charafer.
Cal. 5-phyllus. Cor. 5-petala, lacera. Axthera apice bivalvi.
Drupa nucleo crifpo.
. Specific Chara&er and Synonym,
EL/ZOCARPUS cyaneus ; foliis fparfis lanceolatis ferratis re-
ticulato-venofis, racemis confertifloris.
ELAZOCARPUS cyaneus. Hort. Kew. Epit. inter addenda.
Fine flowering fpecimens of this beautiful fhrub, in a living
ftate, were tranfmitted to our draughtfman from Fonthill, by
Mr. Mixing, laft fummer. But as we had no opportunity of
feeing them, except in a dried ftate in the Herbariums of Sir
Joseru Banks and Mr. Lamsert, we can only obferve, that
the leaves are much narrower, more reticulated, and more acutely
fawed, than in /erraius ; in which they are rather crenate than
ferrate, in thofe {pecimens which we have feen. The flowers too
are not nearly fo diftant on the racemes. The fruit of this fpecies
Is globular, the fize of a {mall floe, and, as the name denotes,
blue; but we have not heard that any has been as yet produced
In this country.
Native of New-Holland. Flowers from June to Augutft,
Introduced in 1803. Requires the protettion of a greenhoule,
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HeYNEA TRIJUGA. WALNUT-LIKE
. HEYNEA.
ER REE RE EE Te RE ER
: Clafs and Orden
DecANDRIA Monocynta.
Generic Charaéter.
‘Cal. 5-dentatus. Petala 5. Neétarium cylindricum, fauce
antheriferum. Germ. biloculare, loculis difpermis, ovulorum
infertio interior. Cap/: fupera, 1-locularis, 2-valvis, 1-{perma.
Sem, arillata. Embryo inverfus, perifpermo deftitutus. Roxs.
Specific CharaGer.
HEYNEA irijuga; foliis impari-pinnatis trijugis, paniculis
axillaribus longius pedunculatis. Roxd. Plant. Corom. inedit.
lhe
This fine tree is a native of Napaul, from whence the feeds
were fent by Dr. Bucwanan to the botanic garden at Calcutta.
Dr. Roxgurcn remarks, that in feven years, a tree raifed from _
feed was fifteen feet high, with much the habit of the walnut. —
Its time of flowering at Calcutta was in March, and the fruit
ripened in O€ober. a ‘3s
Our drawing was made at the Comptefle Dz Vanpr's
fuperb colle&ion at Bayes-Water, where it flowered, near the
window of the ftove, in September 1814. :
Heynea belongs to Jussieu’s natural order of Melia ;
and was named by Dr. Roxgsurcu in honour of our friend,
Dr. Heyne, who has for many years paid great attention to the
natural hiftory of India; whither he has lately returned, in the
Company’s fervice. From his talents and induftry we may
expect much ufeful information. :
How much the fcience of Botany is indebted to Dr.
Roxauren, the fplendid work on the Plants of the Coaft of
: Coromandel,
Coromandel, publifhed under the care of Sir Josepu Banks,
Bart. by the Eaft-India Company, from drawings and defcrip-
tions prefented by him, bear ample teftimony.
Dr. Roxsurcu has been long engaged upon a more ex-
tenfive work on the plants of India; in order to attend to the
publication of which, he returned home laft year, but in fo
infirm a ftate of health, that death has unhappily prevented the
accomplifhment of his wifhes. We truft, however, that the
public will not be long deprived of the benefit of his labours ;
as we underftand his work is left in a flate nearly ready for the
prefs,
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DIANTHUS LEPTOPETALUS. NaRRow-
PETALLED PINK,
TERE ee EER ae ah aes ak ae see a
Cla/s and Order.
Decanpria Dicynia.
Generic Charaéter.
Gal. cylindricus, 1-phyllus, bafi fquamis 4. Petala 5, un-
guiculata.. Cap/. cylindrica, 1-locularis,
Specific Character and Synonyms.
** Flores folitarii, plures in eodem caule.
DIANTHUS Jeptopetalus ; {quamis calycinis ovatis fubariftatis
breviffimis, petalis lanceolatis lateribus revolutis fubinte-
gerrimis, foliis fubulatis {cabriufculis.
DIANTHUS Lepiopetalus ; floribus folitariis, {quamis calycinis
ovatis acutis breviffimis, caule paucifloro, foliis fubulatis,
petalis lanceolatis integerrimis. Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol.
468.
DIANTHUS pomeridianus. Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. 1. p. 329.
Descr. Stem ftraight, two feet high or more, bearing only
two or three flowers. Leaves fubulate, channelled, rough at
the margin: lower ones longer than the fpaces between the
upper ones fhorter. Calycine fcales ovate, acuminate,
with a fhort arifta or mucro, membranaceous: inner pair
broadeft, four times fhorter than the calyx. Calyx narrowed
upwards, minutely ftriate the whole length, covered with a
powdery pubefcence, five-toothed. Petals nearly an inch long, —
lanceolate, rolled back and fomewhat twifted, pointed, very
lightly crenulate at the extremity, but not fo evidently as
in our figure, white above, tinged with.a yellowifh green un-
derneath, Stamens, in our plant, fhorter than germen, anthers
imperfeét, Germen half an inch long, club-fhaped : /yles boa
| igmas
fligmas \ong, ere€t, fpirally twifted, not revolute, villous. The
flowers are very fweet-fcented in the morning.
We have little doubt but that this is the /eptopetalus defcribed
by Wittpenow, (in his Enumeration of the Plants of the
Berlin Garden,) who obferves, that it differs from pomeridianus,
which has the calycine fcales broader ; the tube of the calyx
evidently ftriate at the upper part only ; a {tem bearing four or
_ five flowers, which in our plant has only two or three ;_ petals
emarginate, not pointed as in this; and, laftly, leaves much
broader. |
The figure of Drantuus pomeridianus in the Paradifus
Londinenfis, though in fome refpetts different, we fufpeét be-
longs to our prefent plant. Perhaps it is the male of the fame
{pecies of which ours is the female ; for that has no appearance
of ftigma, as ours had no perfeét ftamens. ;
Native of Mount Caucafus. Flowers in July: Communi-
cated by Meffrs. Loppices and Sons, who raifed it from
feeds which they received from Vienna.
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DIANTHUS VIRGINEUS. VIRGIN PINK,
Clafs and Order.
DeEcanprRiIA Dieynia.
Generic Charafler.
Cal. cylindricus, monophyllus : bafi fquamis 4.° Petals 5,
_ unguiculata. Cap/. cylindrica, 1-locularis. ;
Specific Charaéler and Synonyms,
** Flores folitarit, plures in eodem caule.
DIANTHUS virgineus ; floribus folitariis, caulibus paucifloris,
{quamis calycinis breviffimis obtufiffimis binis, petalis
crenatis. Smith in Linn. Tranf. 2. p. 302. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2.
p- 630. . il
DIANTHUS virgineus ; caule fubunifloro, corollis, crenatis,
fquamis calycinis breviffimis, foliis fubulatis. Sp. P/. 590.
Facq. Aufir. 5. p. 34. Tab. Append. 15. al
DIANTHUS rupefiris ; floribus folitariis, fquamis calycinis
obtufiffimis binis, petalis crenatis. Linn. Suppl.240.
CARYOPHYLLUS fylveftris repens multiflorus. Baub. Pin.
209. %s
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Descr. Root creeping. Radical leaves in tufts, linear, rigid,
fubpungent, channelled on the upper furface and keeled on the
lower : cauline leaves fimilar but wider, embracing the ftem,
€re€t near the bale, {preading upwar ; about five pair below
the firft branches. Svem, in cultivation, from one to two feet
high. Bra&es or calycine feales two, ovate, adpreffed to the
calyx, very obtufe, four times fhorter than the Calyx, which is —
nearly cylindrical, a little pointed, five-toothed. Pefals five,
fometimes fix, broad-wedge-{haped, toothed at the end, but quite
€ntire at the fides, naked. Szamens included : /tigmas long ex-
ferted, rerolie. 5. =
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We received this fpecies from Meilrs. Loppices and Sons,
in June 1814, who informed us that they raifed it from feeds
fent from Vienna, under the name of Diantius Sjlvefiris.
It appears to us to be evidently the virgineus, as defcribed by
Sir James E. Smitx, in the Tranfattions of the Linnean
Society, and figured by Jacquin, in his Flora Auftriaca.
But the {pecies of this genus vary extremely, according to the
foil and fituation. In our plant, we have always found the
calycine fcales to be only two; but it is very probable, that in
a ftony poor foil, when the peduncles are lefs lengthened, the
braétes (of which, in the cultivated plants, there are one or
two pair diftant from the calyx) may become clofely applied ;
and thus the number of fcales may be increafed to four, or even
to fix.
In Witipznow’s defcription of Diantuus wirgineus, the —
calycine fcales are defcribed in one part as acute, and imme-
diately afterwards as orbiculate.
A hardy perennial, more likely to be injured by wet than by
cold. 5
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ZAMIA PYGMAZA. LEAST ZAMIA.
BEE ETE ETE ETE EME Re ae eae slegle
Clafs and Order.
Dica@cia PoLyANDRIA.
Generic Charaéter.
Masc. Amentum ftrobiliforme. Cal. {quama obovata. Cor. o.
Anthere globofe, rima dehifcentes, in {quama feffiles,
Fem. Ament. ftrobiliforme. Ca/. {quame peltata, Cr. o.
Germina 2. Stylio. Bacce 2, 1-{perme.
Specific Character.
ZAMIA pygmea ; glaberrima, foliolis fubdecemjugis ovatis ob-
liquis imbricatis apice ferrulatis, ftipite tereti, amento ovato
nutante. 7 ; fi
Descr. Male plant. Fronds abruptly pinnate, about a fpan
~ long, on rounded footftalks : /eaflets not entirely oppofite, ovate,
with the upper margin ftraighter and ferrulate about one-third
down from the point: lower more curved and ferrulate half
way, thence to the bafe quite entire, fhining, attached to the
rachis by a cartilaginous articulation, about ten pair, fo clofe
together as fomewhat to overlap one another: rachis double
grooved on the upper, rounded on the under fide. Amentum
ovate, on a fhort thick peduncle turned to one fide: fcales
obfoletely hexagonal, bearing a number of globular white
anthers on the under and lower fides, fome of which, when the
flower is perfett, appear at the crevices between the fcales. The
female plant we have not feen. if
Linnaus, in his Fragments of Natural Orders, inferted
both Zamra and Cycas with the Palme ; but, in his Sy{tem,
he arranged them with the Filices ; in which family they were
retained by Jussreu. Psrsoon and Brown make a diftin&
order of them, under the name of Cycadee.
Communicated by Meflrs. Loppices and Sons, flowering
early in May. An imported plant; native of the bok Aecggs
The propagation of Pats in general is very difficult. Some
{pecies of Zamia and Cycas may indeed be increafed by divifion; -
but of forty-two fpecies of Palms, including cycadee, under cul-
tivation, at the prefent time, in the ftoves of Mefirs. Loppicxs
and Sons, not more than nine can be propagated in this Way ;
the reft muft all be raifed from feeds, which fhould be fown as
foon as gathered, or imported alive from the tropical climes of
which they are natives. We are alfo informed by Mr. Grorce
Loppices, that the whole family likes a fandy light foil, which
will not retain the water, but fuffer it to drain off freely : and
that their heads fhould be kept in a warm humid atmofphere.
But every attempt to keep up the heat of the ftove to a ftated
_ degree, +he confiders as abfurd, as even the hotteft climates vary
extremely; and their ftoves at Hackney not unfrequently have
a temperature of 120° and as low as 60°, in the fame day ; and
this change is fo far from injuring their inhabitants, that thefe
are manifeftly benefited thereby.
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SESELI DIVARICATUM. SHINING SESELI
Clafs and Order.
PENTANDRIA Diecynra.
Generic Charafter.
Umbelle globofe. Involucrum nullum, vel foliolo uno alteroves
Fraus ovatus ftriatus.
Specific Charaéler and Synonyms.
SESELI divaricatum ; caule ramofiffimo divaricato, foliis bi-
pinnatifidis: laciniis lanceolatis incifis, involucris nullis :
involucellis linearibus. Purfo Flor. Am. Sept. 732. Suppl. -
SESELI /ucidum, Frafer’s Catal, 181 3.
Had we not feen a fpecimen of this plant, marked by
Mr. Pursa himfelf, in Mr. Lamsert’s Herbarium; the ob-
fervation of this Botanift, that it “refembles Szsext tortuofum
very much,” would have led us to doubt if it could poffibly be
his drvaricatum, as it appears to us to refemble nothing lefs than
tortuofum. In thet mall plants that we have feen cultivated in
pots, the ftem is notmuch branched, nor are the few branches
very divaricate. = a
We fhould have preferred the name of lucidum, under which
it was offered to fale in Mr. FRaAseEr’s Catalogue, and which
we imagine was given it by Mr. Nuttaxt, by whom it was
firft introduced into this country.
The flowers have a fweet fcent, refembling that of the Starch
Hyacinth. Y |
Perhaps a hardy Perennial. Native of Upper Louifiana.
Communicated by Meffis, J. and J, Fraser, of Sloane-
Square, ig
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PULMONARIA DAVURICA. DAURIAN
LuNG-worT.
TERETE TE Sai ae ae teak seat sk ale ale ak se se
Clafs and Order.
PENTANDRIA MonoceyYNia.
Generic Charaéter.
Cor. infundibuliformis, fauce pervia, Cul, prifmatico-penta-
gonus,
Specific Charatter,
PULMONARIA davwurica ; foliis radicalibus ovatis petiolatis
{cabris, caulinis lineari-lanceolatis glabriufculis, limbo co-
rollz cyathiformi.
Descr. Root perennial or biennial. Stem angular, with
rough angles, from a fpan to a foot high, ereét, branched to-
wards the top. Radical leaves ovate, on long footftalks, rough,
with two or three nerves going from each fide the midrib to-
wards the point: Cauline leaves narrow-lanceolate, quite entire,
fcarcely rough, and fometimes quite f{mooth, Flowers in nodding
racemes, pale red, changing to bright blue. Peduncles hairy ;
pedicles about the length of the calyx. Calyx five-cleft, hairy,
three or four times fhorter than the tube of the corolla, which is
cylindrical, fomewhat flattened into four fides : /imd erett, cup-
thaped. Neéary five hairy glands, firft yellow, then changing
to orange colour, in the faux of the corolla, but leaving it
pervious. Stamens on very fhort filaments inferted into the tube :
Anthers oblong, incumbent, within the tube. Style filiform,
longer than the corolla: Stigma capitate, {mall.
The glands in the faux of the corolla, and the exferted ftyle,
approximate this fpecies to the genus Symphytum.
Raifed from feeds fent from the Gorenki garden to Mr.
Lamsert, by Dr. Fiscuzr. Specimens of the fame fpecies
are preferved in Pautas’s Herbarium, now in the poffeffion of
Mr. Lamsert, with the name which we have adopted in the
Profeffor’s own hand-writing ; though it appears from a fpeci-
men, fent by him to Sir Joszp# Banxs, that he once thought
it might be the fame with anguflifolia, having that name, with a
' Rote of interrogation, written to it.
Flowers in May, Hardy. Propagated by feeds,
N17 44.
[ 1744 ]
HALLERIA LucIDA. AFRICAN FLY-
HoNEYSUCKLE.
eae ae sea ae RE EEE TE EE
Clafs and Order.
DripyNAMia ANGIOSPERMIA.
Generic Charaéter.
« Cal. 3- f. 5-phyllus. Cor, 4-fida. Bacca fupera, bilocularis,
poly{perma, a
Specific Charaéer and Synonyms.
HALLERIA Jucida; foliis ovatis acuminatis ferratis, corollis
bilabiatis, calyce triphyllo, ftaminibus exfertis. /illd, Sp.
Pl. 3. p. 310. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 37-
HALLERIA Jucida; foliis ovatis, corollis bilabiatis, calyce
triphyllo. Thunb. Nov. A&. Up/. 6. p. 39-
HALLERIA. Hort. Clif. 323. Fabric. Hort. Helm/. 389. ?
HALLERIA Uucida. Sp. Pl. 872. Mart. Mill. Did.
LONICERA foliis lucidis acuminatis dentatis fru€tu_ rotundo.
Burm, Afric. 244. t. 89. f. 2.
Descr. Stem fhrubby, four or five feet high, trichotomoufly
branched. Leaves oppofite, petiolated, dependent, oval-
acuminate, ferrate, fhining, netted-veined, veins depreffed on
the upper furface, pale underneath. Flowers of a dull blood-
colour, growing on the naked ftems below the leaves, on aggre-
gated, fubverticillate nodding peduncles. Calyx perfiltent, of
one leaflet irregularly divided into three or four obtufe lobes.
Corolla irregular, tube an inch long, fomewhat curved, funnel-
fhaped: limb bilabiate: the upper lobe emarginate, lateral
ones very obtufe, lower /ip very fhort, preffed in underneath.
Stamens four, equal-exferted : anthers incumbent. Befides the
four perfe€t ftamens, there is the rudiment of a fifth filament —
half the length of the tube, fterile. Germen {uperior, a
conical,
conical, bilocular: S¢y/e afcendant, longer than the ftamens :
Stigma acute.
We have not feen the ripe fruit; according to Fasaicrus
it is a foft fucculent brown-black berry, crowned with the dried
remains of the calyx; but it is very doubtful whether he
defcribes the fame plant, though his account of the corolla
correfponds well enough. .The germen in our plant is evi-
dently fuperior, and could not therefore be crowned with the
calyx, unlefs it increafes at the bafe only and elevates the calyx
in its progrefs. ae
The rudiment of the fifth filament, and the equal, exferted
ftamens approximate this plant to the genus Lonicera, asa
fpecies of which Burmann confidered it.
_ Communicated by Joun Watxer, Efg. of Arno’s-Grove,
Southgate ; flowering at the beginning of May. A greenhoufe
fhrub ; propagated by cuttings. Cultivated by Purrip Mruuer,
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ACACIA DECIPIENS. PARADOXICAL
ACACIA.
DE a
Clafs and Order.
PoLYGAMIA MoncctA.
Generic Charaéer.
HrMapurop. ~ Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida, feu 5-petala. -
Stam. 4—100. Piff. x. Legum. 2-valve,
Masc. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida, {. 5-petala. Stam. 4—~:
100. ,
Specific Charaier and Synonyms, —
ACACIA. decipiens ; foliis triangularibus paffimque trapezoideis :
angulo exteriore fpinofo; interiore glandulifero, ftipulis
fetaceis caducis, ramulis glabris, capitulis folitariis 7—10-
floris. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 463.
MIMOSA decipiens ; foliis triangulari-cuneiformibus fparfis,
Kénig in Ann. of Bot. 1. p. 366. — ;
ADIANTHUM fruncatum ; fronde fimplici, pinnis alternis
trianguldri fublunulatis angulofis fpinulofis. Burm. Fl. Ind.
p. 235. 2. 66. f. 4- Lt ae
ADIANTHUM indicum, foliis irregulariter triangulis ex Java.
D. Kleinboff, ex Burmann, es
ADIANTHUM ‘¢runcatum ; frondibus decompofitis, foliolis
pinnatis : pinnis alternis cuneatis fubfalcatis truncatis jnte-
gerrimis, Linn, Sy. Veg. ed. 13. P» 790+ Reich, Sp. Pl. 4+
P- 432. Sek 7
This curious fhrub has been particularly defcribed in the
Annals of Botany, as above quoted, by our friend CHARLES
Konic, Efq. by whom its fpecific name was firft given, which
ferves to commemorate a remarkable circumftance in its hiftory.
The firft notice taken of this plant was by Profeffor N. L.
Burmann, who received it from a Mr. Krexnnorr, as an
ADIANTHUM,
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ApIANTHUM,under which name he publifhed itin his Flora Indica.
From the Profeflor it was adopted by Linn us, and inferted
in the thirteenth edition of his Syftema Vegetabilium, by
Murray. - The diftovery of the real genus of this plant was
made by the late Jonas Drvanper, Efg. who identified
Burmann’s plant with a fpecimen brought from the fouth-weft
coaft of New-Holland, by Mr, Men Z1ES, and afcertained it to
be a true Mrmosay belonging to the divifion, fince feparated
by Wittpenow, under the name of Acacia. This plant
is a native of the fouth-weft coaft of New-Holland, not of
North-America, as at firff ftated in the Annals of Botany, but
corrected in the errata. Whether Mr. Kurinnorr really
colleéted his {pecimen in Java, as appears from BurmMann’s
account, is uncertain,
Communicated to us by Journ Watxer, Efq. from his
highly .interefting colleétion, ‘at Arno’s-Grove. Introduced to
the Kew-Garden in 1803, by Mr. Peter Goop. F lowers:
from March to June. Propagated by cuttings.
L. 1746. J
CorRRA SPECIOSA, RED-FLOWERED
aah CorR&aA.
TOME eRb ie eile |
, \Glafs and Orders.
Octanpria Monocynia.
CORREA /peciofa ; foliis ovalibus p
fubtus ferrugineis, floribus erettis, calycibus edentulis.
fp. fo oe es.
~CORRAA rubra. Smith Exot. Bot. v. 2. p. 26. fine icone.
eer
_ The whole plant, not excepting the corolla, is covered with
a ftellated pubefcence, thicker and frequently ferrugineous on
the underfide of the leaf. The ‘tube of the corolla has four
lines, which may be fuppofed to mark out the adhefion of the
four petals, but which we have not found to be feparable
Without tearing. The leaves in different {pecimens vary from
elliptical, to oblong-cordate ; the apparent finuofities of the
Margin arife from this part being unequally rolled back, rather
n from any real incifure or denticulation.
As Sir James E. Smiru had given the diftinguifhing cha-
raters of this fpecies, when defcribing Corraa virens in the
Exotic. Botany, and had called it rubra, this appropriate name
Ought to have been retained; when the three known’ fpecies
would have all derived their appellations from the colour of
cir flowers, alba, virens, and rubra; but as the nurferymen’s
favourite name of /pecio/a feems now to be generally adopted,
we
we have rather fallen in with it, than run the rifk of making
any confufion, though, by fo doing, we give up both the right
of priority and the preferable name.
The genus was firft eftablifhed by Sir James E. Smirn, in
honour of that excellent’ Portuguefe Botanift, Mr. Joszru
Correa DE SERRA.
Native of New South-Wales. Firft difcovered by Sir
Joszpx Banxs and Dr. Soranper. Introduced in 1804.
Propagated by cuttings. Requires to be proteéted from froft ;
but ought to have a free circulation of air. Thrives beft in
a mixture of light loam and peat-mould. Flowers in March,
_— and May. Communicated by Meffrs. Loppices and
ONS, i
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EUPHORBIA VARIEGATA. PYE-BALLED
SPURGE.
SRR dee dese eee ae sk ae ak a eae
Cla/s and Order.
DopecaANDRIA TRIGYNIA®
Guin Charaffer. :
Grr. 4- 5-petala, calyei infidens, Cal. a-phyllus ventricofus.
Cap/. tricocca. ; in? aa
Specific CharaGer.
EUPHORBIA variegata ; (herbacea dichotoma) foliis ovalibus
integerrimis undulatis glabris, pedunculis axillaribus uni-
floris, petalis orbiculatis, capfulis labris, caule hirto.
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All the parts of this hitherto unnoticed plant are fmooth,
except the ftem, which is hairy. <A few of the lower leaves
are plain, but as foon as the flowers begin, though they pre-
ferve the fame form, take on an appearance of brattes, the
margins being furrounded with a band, which, like the petals,
is perfe&tly white, and becomes broader and broader towards
the extremity of the branch, till the uppermoft leaves are all
white except a narrow line along the midrib. The ftyles are
united half-way up, then become bifid and revolute with obtufe
ftigmas. The filaments alfo are bifid. yee
This fpecies approaches to nudiffora, but differs effentially in
having folitary flowers ; befides that, the petals and every part
of the fruétification are larger, while the plant itfelf is much
~ {maller.
It is an annual; propagated by feeds only. Native of Upper —
Louifiana. Introduced by Mr. Nutra.
Our drawing was taken laft September, at Meffis, Lrz and
Kennepy’s, Hammerfmith, :
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GomESA RECURVA. Recurvep Gomesas:
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| Clafs and Order.
GyNAnDRIA MonANDRIA.
Div. IV. Anthera terminalis mobilis decidua: Maffe pollinis
demum cereacez. . HERDS io VtmamGO
Generic Chara@er.
Labellum ecalcaratum indivifum, bicriftatum, feffile, cum bafi
columne aptere libere continuum. Pe/ala 2 antica exteriorum
connata, labello fuppofita. Maj pollinis 2, hinc fulco obliquo
biloba, apice connexe proceffu communi ftigmatis. Bkows Mf,
«Specific Name.
GOMESA recurva. Brown Mf.
Descr. Stem-bulb ovate, compreffed with fharp margins.
Leaves \anceolate, widening upwards, in our f{pecimen three
from the crown of the bulb; from the bafe of which iffue two
others enfolding, in their broad compreffed petioles, both the
lower part of the fcape and of the bulb. Scape, one on each,
fide, about nine inches long, rounded, recurved. Braé#es, one
at the bafe of each flower, ovate, concave, membranaceous.
Germen inferior, club-fhaped, terminating in a very fhort
peduncle. Corolla ringent; three /uperior petals more or lefs ereét,
concave, with undulated edges, obtufe, moftly connivent up-
ward: the two Jewer ones united into one, nearly the whole
length, dependent, appearing like a fecond lip to the flower, fome-
what longer than the others ; the two ribs fhew this to be really
two petals united. The true /ip or /abellum (neftary of Linn aus)
is fhorter than the Jower petal, oval, with a double ridge on
each fide towards the bafe, united with the column which
has no appendices or lateral filaments, Anther a hood-fhaped
moveable lid. Pollen maffes two, round-oval, {mooth bodies
obliquely fulcated on the under fide, connetted by an elaftic
: | pellucid
pellucid pedicle terminating on the edge of the fligma. Stigma a
circular depreflion, juft below the anther. Flowers {weet-
{cented, greenifh yellow. 7 |
This curious plant has never, we believe, been before
defcribed. We are indebted to our friend, Rozert Brown,
Efq. for generic chara€ter and name, given to it in honour of
Bernarpinus Antonius Gomes, Phyfician to the Portu-
guefe fleet, and author of Botamico-Medical Ob/ervations on the
Plants of Brazil, a very refpeélable work, written in the Latin
and Portuguefe languages. ;
Native of the Brazils. Communicated by Mr. Witt1am
ANDERSON, curator of the Botanic Garden belonging to the
et of Apothecaries, at Chelfea, the latter-end of May
[ 1749 J
-ARNICA MONTANA. Mountain ARNICA,
or LEOPARD’S-BANE,
Clafs and Order.
SYNGENESIA PoLyGAMIA SUPERFLUAs
Generic Charager.
Recept. nudum. Pappus fimplex. Cal. foliolis zequalibus,
Corollule radii fepius filamentis 5 abfque anthers.
Specific CharaGer and Synonyms.
ARNICA montana ; foliis ovatis integris: caulinis geminis op-
pofitis. Sp. Pl, 1245. Willd. 3. p. 2106. Hort. Kew. ed.
alt. 5. p.83. Mart. Mill. Ditt. Flor. Dan. t. 63. Svenfe
Bot. 186. Gaertn. Frug?. 2. p. 451. t.173. f2 1. Alliont
Pedem. 743. Scop. Carmol. n, 1086. Leers Herb. 1.
651. Krock. Sile/. n. 1420. Villars Dauph. 3. p. 207. Blackw,
Germ. t. 595. Woodv. Medical Botany, 1. p.10. cum tt.
Stokes Bot. Mat, Med. 4. p.228. Herb. Artific. Cent, 10.
Dec. 9. t. 9. Lam. et Decand. Flore Franz. 4. p. 175. Pollich
Pal.n.809.
ARNICA. Collin Obf. vol. 1. cum Icone,
ARNICA foliis conjugatis ovatis integerrimis, all. Hit, n. go.
DORONICUM oppojitifolium. Lam. Did. 2. p. 312+
DORONICUM Anuftriacum quartum. Clu/. Pan. 522. ;
DORONICUM «5. germanicum et 6. pannonicum, Clu/. Hi/.
2. p. 18. 3
DORONICUM Plantaginis folio alterum. Bawh. Pin. 185.
CALTHA alpina. Tavern. 336. ed. Germ. p. 714.
ALISMA. Maith. Diol. 934. ¢jufdem Compend, 606. Baub,
Hift. 3. pars 1. p. 20. Hort. Eyft. Hipp. 14. t. 8. f 2.
PTARMICA montana. Dalech. Lugd. 1169. ed. Gall. 2. p. 68.
DAMASONIUM f, Alifma Matthioli, Dalech, 1057. ede
Gallic. 1. 924. oe =
CHRYSANTHEMUM latifolium. Dod, 263. Ger. Emac, 7A2.
For, the clafs it belongs to, the Arnrca montana is a thewy
plant; but the prejudices we imbibe in the nurfery againft the
Dandelion, otherwife a plant of confiderable beauty, have an
influence upon our feelings with refpe& to the whole of the
fyngenefiz, or at leaft of thofe that have yellow flowers: on
this account, they are favourites with few. Many of them,
however, poffefs very a€tive medicinal powers ; amongft which,
this is one of the moft eminent ; though it has never been re-
ceived into the London Difpenfatory. In the countries where it
grows {pontaneoufly, it has been feldom overlooked, and its
iternutatory qualities have moftly acquired for it the name of
Mountain Snuff.
Dr. Coutn, of Vienna, publifhed fuch extravagant encomiums
on the virtues of this plant, that, as has happened in many other
inftances, if they had the effeét of acquiring for it a temporary
celebrity, finally occafioned its total negle&t. It is evident, how-
ever, from the teftimony of writers both prior and pofterior to
Dr. Coiin’s publication, as well as from its very aétive fenfible
qualities, that it poffeffes very valuable properties, and, where it
can be obtained in perfe&ion, may be fuccefsfully had recourfe
to, as a remedy for many difeafes,
For a fhort account of the medicinal virtues of the ARNICA,
Dr. Woopvitue’s Medical Botany may be confulted; and for
a reference to all the writers on the fubje&t, Dr. Sroxes’s
Botanical Materia Medica.
A hardy perennial, loving a fhady and moift fituation. Cul-
tivated by Puirip Mitrer, in 1731. Flowers in July and
Auguft. Communicated by Mr. Satisgury, from his Botanic
Garden in Sloane-Street. :
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ACACIA DISCOLOR. Two-coLouRED-
LEAVED ACACIA.
Jee bpbebt need
Clafs and Order.
. PotycAMia Monaccia,.
Generic Charaéter.
Hermapu. Cal. 3-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida vel 5-petala, Stam.
4—100. Pil. 1. Legumen 2-valve. . :
Masc. Cal, 5-dentatus. Cor, 5-fida vel 5-petala. Stam. 4—
100. ;
Specific Charaéter and Synonyms,
ACACIA difcolor ; inermis, foliis bipinnatis: partialibus quin-
quejugis : propriis fub decemjugis fubtus difcoloribus,
{picis globofis pedunculatis racemofis terminalibus et axil-
laribus. Willd, Sp. Pl. 4. p. 1068. Hort, Kew. ed. alt. 5.
p. 467. :
MIMOSA dyfcolor, Bot. Repof. 235. sd
A handfome /brué with dark green fmooth /eaves, underneath
More or lefs white, fometimes reddifh brown. The young
hes are angular, clothed with a thick fhort pubefcence.
Flowers in globular heads, about twelve in a head, on racemes :
pedicles alternate, diftant, growing nearly in right lines from the
common peduncle, which is clothed with alternate, fmall, acute,
{ealy braGes. Calyx five-cleft. Petals five, whitifh. Stamens
very many, in little brufh-like tufts. Germen oblong-ovate.
Style generally longer than the ftamens.
Native of New South-Wales. Flowers in all feafons. Pro-
| duced in 1788, by the Right Hon,
_ Pagated by cuttings. Intros
a cag Joseru Banks, Bart,
E 17ge 4.
CyYMBIDIUM ENSIFOLIUM. SWORD-LEAVED
CyYMBIDIUM.
Clafs and Order.
GyNANDRIA MoNnaANDRIA.
Generic Charaéfer.
Labellum ecalcaratum, concavum, cum bafi (fimplici nec
produéta) columne articulatum. Pefala patentia, diftinéta,
Maffe pollinis 2, poftice bilobe. Brown zm Hort. Kew.
Specific Charatter and Synonyms.
CYMBIDIUM enfffolium ; foliis radicalibus enfiformibus ner-
vofis, {capo tereti paucifloro, labello ovato fubrecurvato
maculato. Swartz Nov. AG. Upf. 6. p. 77. Willd. Sp. Pl.
4. p. 110. : =
EPIDENDRUM enfifolium. Spec. Plant. 1352. Smith Spicileg.
p. 22.1%. 24. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 213+ Bot. Rep. 344-
Thunb. Icon. Dec. 1. t. 8.
EPIDENDRUM fuenfe. Redouté Liliac. 1136
-LIMODORUM enfatum. Thunb. Fap. 29. Banks Ic. Kempf.
_t. 3. optima. Mao .
RAN vulgo et litteratis. Kempf. Amen. 863.
ee
The Cymstpium enffolium is a very valuable ftove plant,
being more eafily preferved and propagated, by parting its roots, —
— moft of this natural order, and poffeffing the advantage of
eing exceedingly fragrant. _ :
It has confident affinity with Cymarp1uM fuenfe (No. 888);
but is fpecifically diftin& from that fpecies. Monf. Repoute
figured our plant, but has erroneoufly given It the name of
Native of China and Japan. Flowers the latter end of the
fummer. Cultivated before 1780, by the late Dr. JOHN
Fotuerciii.
L-1752.J
CENTAUREA RuapontTica. Swiss
CENTAURY.
Clafs and Order.
SyNGENESIA PoLYGAMIA FRUSTRANEA,
_ Generic Charaéier.
Recept. fetolum. Pappusimplex. Cor. radii infundibuliformes,
longiores, irregulares. — i
Specific Charaéfer and Synonyms.
CENTAUREA Rbapontica; calycibus {cariofis: fquamis ovatis
laceris, foliis ovato-oblongis denticulatis fubtus tomentofis.
Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 2305- Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 153+
CENTAUREA Rbapontica ; calycibus {cariofis, foliis ovato-
oblongis denticulatis integris petiolatis: fubtus tomentofis.
' Sp. Pl. 1294. Hort. Cliff. 421. Villars Daupb. 3. p. 44-
RHAPONTICUM. Hall. Enum. p. 687. 1. 1.
CYNARA foliis petiolatis lanceolatis ad _pediculum emargina-
tis. Hall. Emend. 2. n. 64.
CENTAURIUM foliis petiolatis lanceolatis ad pediculum
emarginatis. Hall. Hit. n. 160.
CENTAURIUM majus folio Helenii incano. Tourn, Inf. 449.
CENTAURIUM majus. Cord. Hift. lid. 4. ¢. 59-
RHAPONTICUM folio Helenii incano. Bauh. Pin. 117.
RHA five Rhei, ut exiftimatur. Icon. Dod. Pempt. 389.
RHA capitatum Centauri majoris facie, Enulz folio. Tob.
Obf, 153.—adverf. 118. Ic, 228. -
RHAPONTICUM alterum anguttifolium, Lod. Ic, 228. Park,
| Theat. 157> ; oe
The Centaurea Rbapontica is remarkable for the fize of its
flowers, which yield only to the artichoke, among plants of
this order. It had once confiderable celebrity, as being fup-
pofed to be the parent of the Rhubarb of the fhops, hore it
does
does not appear to be poffeffed of the fenfible qualities of that drug,
By fome, though acknowledged to be different from the rhubarb,
or Rha barbarum, it was fappofed to be the Rheum ponticum
of Dioscoripes and Purny. But neither is this very pro-
bable, nor is it worth while now to inquire about it: the
plant producing the rhubarb of the fhops being at prefent well
known, and of not uncommon occurrence in our gardens,
There is a variety with narrower leaves, but in other refpeéts
the plants feem to be the fame. Native of the Alps of Swit-
zerland and of Italy. Except the figure of Doponzvs, re-
printed and copied fo many times, it does not feem to have
been ever before reprefented ; unlefs the figure above quoted
from Corpus be intended for it, which is very dubious.
It isa hardy perennial. Cultivated in 1640, by Parxinson.
Our drawing was taken fome years ago from a {pecimen com-
municated by Meffrs. Loppices and Sons, and we have been’
lately favoured with the fame from Joun Waker, Efq.
Arno’s-Grove,
E 1753)
LONICERA SEMPERVIRENS (6.) MINOR.
CAROLINA [TRUMPET HONEYSUCKLE.
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Clafs and Order, |
PENTANDRIA MonocGyNIA.
Generic Charaéer.
Cor. 1-petala, irregularis. Bacca. poly{perma, bilocularis,
infera.
Specific Charaler and Synonyms.
LONICERA /empervirens ; {picis fubnudis terminalibus, foliis
oblongis: fummis connato-perfoliatis, corollis fubaquali-
bus : tubo fuperne ventricofo, Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 983. Hort.
Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. 377:
a. major; foliis fubrotundis. Hort, Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. 377+ Supra
n, 781.
BR. ‘inet ; foliis oblongis. Hort. Kew. 1.c. Heit. 1753.
PERICLYMENUM floribus capitatis terminalibus, foliis lan-
ceolatis oppofitis fubtus glaucis: fummis connato-perfoliatis
fempervirentibus. Miller's Herbar. apud Banks.
Both the varieties of the Trumpet Honeyfuckle were culti-
vated at Chelfea, by Mr. Putrie Miter, who was doubtful
whether they ought not rather to be confidered as diftinét fpecies.
Our prefent plant is a native of Carolina, and is every way
more delicate than the Virginian or larger fort ; but we cannot
find any charaéters by which it can be marked as fpecifically
different. The leaves are narrower, more glaucous underneath,
and the flowers are flenderer and of a more delicate colour,
inimitable by art, efpecially over a black engraving.
This variety is too tender to bear the inclemency of our
Winters, if they happen to be at all fevere ; and therefore, when
treated as a hardy fhrub, it is generally foon loft. It is a good
climber for the confervatory, and its beauty renders*it worthy
of fuch a fituation. It has been fo long loft to our gardens, that
when lately introduced by Melffrs. J. and J. T. Fraser, it was
confidered as new.
Flowers moft part of the fummer. Propagated by cuttings,
or more certainly by layers. Communicated from Fraser's
American Nurfery, Sloane-Square.
"14.54
{ 1754]
PzONIA ANOMALA. JAGGED-LEAVED
SIBERIAN Paony.
MERE AE ETE EEE TEE TEE TE Ee IE
Clafs and Order.
PoLYANDRIA DiGyYNia.
Generic Characer.
Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala5. Styli o. Cap/. polyfperme,
Specific Charatter and Synonyms.
PALONIA anomala ; foliis biternatis: foliolis multipartitis
nudis: laciniis lanceolatis, capfulis depreffis glabris. Waid.
Sp. Pl.2. p. 1222. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 316. Bot.
Kepof. 514- é.
P,ONIA anomala ; calyce foliofo, capfulis glabris depreffis.
Linn, Mant. 247. :
PAEONIA fru@tibus quinque glabris patentibus. Giel. Sibir.
4. p. 184. t. 72. es
PAEONIA Jaciniata ; foliis biternatis, foliolis acute laciniatis,
~ germinibus glabris. Pall. Ko. 2. p. 93. t. 85.
Pzonta anomala has for the moft part five capfules, which
are not upright, but fpreading. The root, in its native foil,
is faid to grow very large, dividing into tuberous branches a
foot long, yellow on the outfide and white within, fmelling
like Florentine Iris. There are two varieties, the one having
flowers of a pale, the other of a more intenfe purple colour.
Native of Siberia, confequently confidered as a hardy
perennial. Yet we have frequently obferved, that it perifhes
in the winter. This is probably owing to the wetnefs, not to
the cold of our climate; though many plants which, in their
native foil, are covered with fnow, are liable to injury from the
latter caufe; partly, perhaps, from the want of this natural
defence, and partly from beginning to vegetate too —_
an
and being then cut off by our {pring frofts. We do not know
that it has yet been put in praétice; but we fhould recom-
mend the roots to be taken up, as foon as the foliage is all
decayed, and preferved in dry fand, proteéted from the froft,
during the winter, planting them out early in the {pring.
Introduced in 1788, by Joun Bett, Efg. Communicated
by Meffrs. Cuanpier and Bucx1ncuan, from their Nurfery,
at Vauxhall, Flowers in May and June.
C.196 3
LASIOPETALUM PURPUREUM. PURPLE=
FLOWERED LASIOPETALUM.
SEE EE RE EE RE ER EEE
Clafs and Order.
PENTANDRIA MoNoGYNIA.
Generic Charatter.
Cal. rotatus, quinquefidus. Stamina bafi fquama munita.
Anthere apice poris 2. Cap/ula fupera, 3-locularis, trivalvis :
valvis medio feptiferis.
Specific CharaGer and Synonym.
LASIOPETALUM purpureum ; foliis ovalibus integerrimis.
Hort. Kew. ed, alt. 2. p. 36. ge Bt
Descr. A low fSru, decumbent unlefs fupported, covered
in every part, not excepting the flowers, witha ftcllated pu-
befcence. Leaves oblong-elliptical, quite entire, alternate.
Stipule heart-fhaped, oblique, fometimes lobed, growing in pairs
or fingly above the petiole. Thefe ftipules do not accompany
all the leaves, and are fometimes diftant from the leaf. It
often happens that the peduncle takes the place of one of the
ftipules, fo that the leaf ftands in the middle with a ftipule on
one fide and a peduncle on the other. Stamens two or three
times longer than the leaf, about fix-flowered : flowers looking
one way. Flowers have no corolla, but a purple-coloured
calyx, fupported underneath by a ternate involucre or braée con~
fifting of three linear leaflets looking all one way. Stamens five,
filaments very {hort ; anthers black, conniving at the points ;
germen fuperior, three-cornered ; /fyle confiderably longer than
ftamens ; /tigma fimple.
The lively purple flowers without fcent remain very long
expanded, and coming in fucceflion, this little greenhoufe fhrub —
continues in bloffom nearly half the year.
Native
Native of New South-Wales. Difcovered by Roszrr
Brown, Efq. Introduced in 1803, by Mr. Perer Goon.
Thrives beft in a fandy peat, with a flight admixture of loam.
~ Communicated by Meffrs. Lopprezs and Sons, and by
Meffts, Corvinie and Son.
L 1756 J
PHZONIA ALBIFLORA. WHITE-FLOWERED
Pony.
Jeiinleaeieibsiiesiek debit
Cla/s and Order.
POLYANDRIA DIGYNIA.
Generic Character. -
Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala5. Styli.o. Cap/. polyfperme.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
PEONIA aldifora ; foliis biternatis: foliolis ovato-lanceolatis
integris nudis, capfulis recurvatis glabris. Willd. Sp. Pl.
2.p.1222. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 316.
a P/EONIA albdiffora ; foliis ternatis: foliolis lobatis nitentibus
germinibus ternis glabris. Pall. Ro. 2. p. go. ¢. 84.
PONIA laéteo flore, foliis utrinque viridantibus. Amman.
Ruth. 97 RE AO
PHONIA flore albo fimplici. A. Nat. Curiof. v. 3. p. 355+
8,20. ° /§ ‘ees ~
PAONIA fru@tibus tribus glabris. Gmel. Sid. 4. p. 184.
PHONIA albiflora, Bot. Repof. 64. .
8. PALONIA edulis. Salifb. Parad. Lond. 78. as
y- PAONIA albiflora, flore pleno. Bot. Repof. 612. ©
d. flore plenorubron
The flowers of the Pzonra albiflora are fragrant, efpecially
in the evening; the roots are faid to be eaten in foups in
Siberia. ‘. i a
Several varieties of this fpecies are cultivated in the gardens,
differing from one another in the fize of the flowers and number,
form, and colour of the petals; fome being flefh-coloured,
fome pure white, fome jagged at the margin, and fome quite
entire, The piftils, from which we hoped to derive more conftant
chara€ters,
charaéters, vary in colour, and in number from three to four. ~
In our plant, which had eight petals, both germens and ftigmas
were quite white. Another variety, fent at the fame time, under
the name of /afarica, had {maller flowers, calycine leaflets more
fimple, and leaves lefs confluent, the four germens and ftigmas
red. Ina third fpecimen, communicated by our friend, Joun
Warxer, Ef. the flowers were larger; petals twelve, jagged
at the edge ; germens three, greenifh red ; ftigmas flefh-coloured ;
branches coloured at the point only. The double forts, of
which there are white, flefh-coloured, and bright red_ varieties,
all {weet-fcented, are much larger plants, and we are not certain
that they are really of the fame fpecies.
Our drawing was taken from a plant communicated by
Mefirs. CuanpLeR and Buckxincuam, Nurferymen, at
Vauxhall. Native of Siberia, beyond the lake Baical. Flowers
in May and June. Introduced in 1784, by Chevalier Pautas.
Propagated by cuttings of the root, Hardy,
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b. 4957. J i
Daviesia LATIFOLIA. BROAD-LEAVED
DAVIESIA.
Te Re eae eee eae deck ak ale
Decanprta Monocyntia,.
Generic CharaZer.
Cal. angulatus, ebrafteatus. Cor. papilionacea: carina vexillo
brevior. Germen pedicellatum, difpermum. Sfylus ftri€tus.
Stigma fimplex. Legumen compreflum, angulatum, elaftice de-
hifcens, Stropbiola feminis poftice integra. Brown in Hort.
Kew, = ee ,
Specific Character.and Synonyms.
DAVIESIA Jatifolia ; ramis inermibus, foliis ellipticis ovali-
bufve venofis bafi fubattenuatis, racemis axillaribus multi-
floris. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 20.
DAVIESIA latifolia, Bot. Repo/- 638,
oes eZ
Descr. A neat forub about two feet high. Branches few,
ereét, long, angles obfolete when frefh, but when dry more
evident. Leaves alternate, quite entire, oval, terminated with
a fmall mucro, netted veined, two or three inches long, in
width half as much. Flowers in axillary racemes, ufually folitary,
now and then two together, with con€aye, reddifh, reflexed,
perfiflent draées, longer than the pediclés. Calyx campanulate,
with very fhort nearly equal bilabiately arranged : upper
lip truncate. Vexzl/um orbiculate, ematginate: ale linear, nearly
equal to the vexillum in length : carina very fhort, one-petaled.
Filaments diftinét. Germen oblong, compreffed, with two ovula.
Siyle forming a right angle with the germen: /ligma acute.
The genus Davresra was firft eftablifhed by the Prefident
of the Linnean Society, in the 4th volume of their Tranfaétions,
in honour of the Reverend Hucu Davies, celebrated for his —
knowledge of the Britifh Flora. |
_ Native of Van Diemen’s Ifland, where it was detefted by
Rosert Brown, Efq. and introduced to the Royal Gardens
at Kew, in 1805. A hardy greenhoufe fhrub. Propagated by
cuttings. ‘Thrives beft in a fandy peat foil, Communicated by
Meflis, Loppiczs and Sons,
iv’
199)
N° 1758
| [ 1758 J
Erica HipBeRTIANA. HpsBert’s HeatHe
TENE HE TEE HEE RE ER ae dea a ae tesiesete e
Cla/s and Order.
: oa
Ocranpara Monmocrnta,
Gone Charatter.
Cal. 4-phyllus. Gor. perfiftens : Nib. Anthere ante
anthefin per foramina 2 pte yr apes sagt 4—Blocularis,
4—8-valvis. PP Wx : ea
Specific Charaiter and. Syma
Il. Longiflore. F. bhabe choke Fridigiteria vel plura.
Flores axillares, Bratiee due calyci Proxima, tertia remota.
ERICA Hibbertiana ; germine cylindrico, corolla glabra glu-
tinofa. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. Pp: 378
ERICA Hibtertia, sorts be as ‘
This is a very fine, ftout. growing Heats, which takes its
name from Grorce Hissert, Efg. of Clapham-Common,
once a zealous cultivator of rare plants from all quarters of the
globe, efpecially from the Cape of Good-Hope, where this
fpecies was difcovered by his colle€tor, Mr. James Niven,
and introduced in 1800.
The variety figured by Anprews has fix leaves in a whorl,
and the corolla tipped with green.
Flowers in the middle of fugamer. Drawn at Meffrs, Ler
and Kennepy’s,
[ 1759 ]
DurANTA Extxisia. Prickty DurRANTA.
WR Reese eae see te se se se ale ate se she
Clafs and Order,
DipyNAmria ANGIOSTPERMIA.
~ Generic Charaéler.
Cal. 5-fidus, fuperus. Dyupa 4-fperma. Nux 2-locularis.
~ Specific Charaéfer and Synonyms.
DURANTA Ellifia ; calycibus fru@tefcentibus ereAtis. Sp. Pl.
888. /Villd. 3. p. 380. Facq. Amer. 187. ¢.176. f. 77.
Facq. Pié?. 92. t.179. Hort. Vindob. 3. p» 51. ¢%. 99. Hort.
Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 59. Swartz Os/. 247. _
ELLISIA frutefcens quandoque fpinofa, foliis ovatis utrinque
acutis ad apicem ferratis, {picis alaribus. Brown Fam. 262.
| = 2 jel. : “iy
JASMINUM folio integro obtufo, flore czruleo racemofo,
fruétu flavo. Sloane Cat. ¥am, 169. Hi. 2. p. 97.
Three fpecies of Duranra are recorded in Wi1LLpENow’s
edition of the Species Plantarum; but it is even doubtful
whether all of them are not mere varieties of the fame, The
branches in the fame fpecies are deferibed as being fometimes
befet with thorns, but often not; -the leaves as fometimes quite
entire, at other times fawed at the edge ; and Swarrz remarks,
that the calycine laciniz of the fruit, Jacgurn’s mark of dif-
tinction, are found to be both erect and twifted on the fame
branch. In our plant, which agrees wi h Jac
Ellifia, no fooner had the flower dropped, than the teeth of the
calyx began to twift together. |
‘Two kinds, one with thorns and the other conftantly without,
are however ftill cultivated in our colleGtions, and are probably
the fame fpecies as defcribed by Puitre Mitxier. The leaves
of the /mooth are larger and’ more coarfely ferrated and the
branches more rounded than in the prickly Duranta.
Native of South-America and the Weft-Indies, and treated
with us as a ftove plant. Mrzier, by whom it was cultivated
before the year 1739, remarks, however, that it does beft when
expofed to the open air in mild weather, and fays he has pre-
ferved it through the winter without artificial heat, Propagated
by feeds; or by cuttings, which ftrike readily.
Communicated by A. B. La MBERT, Efq. from his colle&tion
at Boyton, where it was raifed from feeds received from Mexico.
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[ 1760 ]
MENTZELIA OLIGOSPERMA. FEW-SEEDED
MENTZELIA.
WER MERE EE RE EEE EE EE
Cla/s and Order.
Potyvanpria MonocGyNIA.
Generic Charaéer.
Cor. 5-petala. Cal. 5-phyllus. Cap/ infera, cylindrica, poly-
{fperma.
Specific Charatter and Synonym,
MENTZELIA oligo/perma ; caule ramofo, pedunculis axillari-
bus folitariis, petalis acuminatis, fru€tibus reflexis.
MENTZELIA oligo/perma. Nutiall in Frafer's Catal.
4,
iz
—
Descr. This plant is covered in every part, corolla ex-
cepted, with ftiff hairs, armed their whole length with hooks, fo
fmall as to be invifible to the naked eye. The effett of thefe
is to make every part of the plant adhere to whatever comes in
contaé&t with it, and its different parts to one another, when
brought together by the wind or other caufe. Thefe hairs are
fo tranfparent, that, when viewed through a lens, they appear
as if made of glafs, and to the naked eye give the bark of the
{tem and branches a filvery appearance. One of them, highly
Magnified, is reprefented in the plate.
Leaves alternate, ovate, unequally toothed: teeth mucronate,
_ Flowers bright orange, axillary, folitary, on peduncles fhorter
than the germen, which is inferior, Calycine lacime aw\-thaped,
{preading. Corolla of five fpreading, oval, acuminate petals.
Stamens about twelve, inferted at the bafe of the corolla. Cap-
Jule cylindrical, fomewhat curved, one-celled, containing only
two or three oblong angulated feeds. 7
Menrze ra oligo/perma is a perennial with a tuberous root,
was found by Mr. Nurract on the borders of the Miffouri, in
Upper Louifiana, growing among the rocks, and introduced by
him in 1812. Communicated by our friend, A. B. Lamurry,
Efq. from his ftove at Boyton. Flowers in May and June.
{ 1761 J
METROSIDEROS SPECIOSA, SHEWY
METROSIDEROS,
TERT ae ese ce teak sek seals he sles ae
Cla/s and Order.
Icosanpria Monocyntia.
Generic CharaZer.
Cal. §-fidus, femifuperus. Petala 5. Stamina longiffima,
exlerta, Stigma fimplex. Cap/. 3- vel 4-locularis,
Specific Charaffer.
METROSIDEROS /pecio/a ; foliis fparfis lanceolatis venofis
glandulofo-mucronulatis, capfulis quadrilocularibus apice
tomentofis,
Descr. Stem fhrubby, with long flexile branches. Leaves
fcattered, vertical, lanceolate, quite entire, rigid, veined, when
young pubefcent, fmooth when adult, terminated with a red
gland. Flowers very numerous, crowded together in a bottle-
brufh form, a little below the extremity of the branch. Calyx
§-toothed ; teeth obtufe, very hairy on the inner fide. Petals 5, ©
orbicular, green, inferted in the margin of the calyx. Stamens
numerous, fifty and upwards : filaments very long, deep {carlet,
diftin&t to the ‘bafe, inferted into a glandular ring furrounding
the crown of the germen: anthers incumbent, oblong, finally
lunular: Pollen yellow. Germen generally four-celled, now and
then three-celled. Ovula very many, oblong, inferted intoa cen-
tral receptacle. S¢y/e thicker than the filaments, about the fame
length : Sigma capitate lobular. Capfule woody, edged with the
perfiftent teeth of the calyx, and the hollow crown covered with
a thick tomentum, in which the lines marking the number of cells
ae vifible,
This is a very fplendid flower from the rich colour of the
filaments, though the quantity of yellow pollen conceals part of
its brilliancy, It differs from Merrosiperos Janceolaig
(citrina,
(citrina, Bot. Mag.) in having longer leaves, much veined
underneath, not fo fharp-pointed. In Janceolata the veins are
hardly, or not at all vifible, and the leaves are covered with
minute pellucid dots, and have a pungent mucro ; the capfules
are three-celled. Our figure of the latter plant (vide No. 260)
reprefents the flowers more diftant than they are ufually feen;
in their more ordinary mode of growth, they are. crowded to-
gether as in our prefent plant: in both, here and there a leaf
occafionally appears from amonglt the flowers.
Native of New South-Wales. Communicated laft May, by
Meffis. Loppiczs and Sons, in whofe nurfery alone, out of
Kew, we have as yet feen this very rare plant. It appears as if
it would ripen its feed, by which, and by cuttings, it may eafily
be propagated, Requires only to be proteéted from frolt.
[ 1762 ]
Rosa SEMPERFLORENS (y.) MINIMA.
Miss LAwrence’s Rose.
Clafs and Order. :
IcosANDRIA PotyGyYNtIA.
Generic Charaéter.
Petala 5. Cal. urceolatus, 5-fidus, carnofus, collo coaréatus.
Sem. plurima, hifpida, calycis interiori lateri affixa.
Specific Charaéfer.
ROSA /emperflorens ; fru€tibus oblongis pedunculifque hifpidis,
caule, petiolifque aculeato-hifpidis, foliis fubternatis acu-
leatis, Willd, Sp. Pl. 2. p. 1078. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3.
p. 266. me
a ROSA /emperflorens. Smith Exot. Bot. 2. p. 63. t. 91+
ROSA diverfifolia. Venten. Cel. 35. a
@. ROSA /emperflorens ; caule aculeato, foliis fubternis, pedun-
culis fubunifloris aculeato-hifpidis, calycis laciniis integris.
Curtis's Bot. Mag. 284. ;
y- frutex nana, fparfim aculeata, petalis acuminatis.
Several varieties of the Rosa /emperflorens, differing in fize,
colour, and fcent, have, within thefe few years, found their
Way into the different colleétions about town, and have generally
en reprefented as frefh importations from China ; we believe,
however, that moft of them have been raifed from feed here.
Every experienced cultivator knows, that the varieties to be
obtained in this way are endlefs. |
Our prefent fubjeét is the moft dwarfifh Rofe that has ever fallen
under our notice, rarely producing any branches, fo large as
Teprefented in our plate. We are inclined to confider it as a
mere feminal variety, perhaps of hybrid origin; yet we cannot
affert that it is not a diftin& fpecies. It is generally known
among colleftors by the name of Miss Lawkence’s Rose.
The plant from which our drawing was taken, was com-
Municated by Mr. Hupson, of the war-office. Flowers moft
a of the {pring, and has an agreeable, though not powerful
cent, .
M1768
[ 1763 ]
BoRONIA PINNATA. HawTHORN-SCENTED
BorRONIA.
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Clafs and Order.
OcTanpria Monoeynia.
Generic Charafer.
Cal. 4-partitus. Petala 4. Anthere infra apicem filamentorum
pedicellate. S¥y/us ex apice germinis breviflimus., Stigma ca-
pitatum. Cap/. 4, coalite. Sem, arillata,
Specific Character and Synonyms.
BORONIA innata ; foliis impari-pinnatis integerrimis, pedun-
culis axillaribus dichotomis, filamentis apice obtufis glan-
dulofis, Smith's Traés, p. 290. Hort. Kew. ed, alt. 2. p.
349. Bot. Repo. 58. Venten. Malmaif. 38.
The genus Boronia was firft eftablifhed by the Prefident
of the Linnean Society, in a volume of Traéts relating to
Natural Hiftory, publifhed in 1798: and dedicated to the
memory of Francis Borone, a native of Milan, who,
though of humble origin, had an a€tive mind, zealous in the
acquirement of natural knowledge, in the purfuit of which he
loft his life at an early age, by an accidental fall at Athens,
during his attendance on the late Profeffor SrstHorp, after
having accompanied Profeffor Arzzxius upon a botanical ex-
pedition to Sierra-Leone. Linnvus has, in feveral inftances,
named plants to the memory of young Botanifts, who unfor-
tunately perifhed in the purfuit of knowledge ; honouring them
with the title of martyrs to the fcience. Among thelfe, his
worthy preceptor’ does not hefitate to reckon Borone, * whofe
indefatigable zeal and fingular acutenefs,” the Prefident ob-
ferves, * would foon have procured him other claims to the
: honour
honour of having a new genus named after him, had his pre.
mature fate been poftponed.”
Sir James Epwarp Smit has defcribed, in the above.
mentioned work, three other fpecies of this genus, none of which
appear to have been as yet introduced into this country, though
one of them, the /errulata, feems to be a very ornamental plant,
and is {aid to poflefs the fcent of the rofe.
The Boronia pinnaia is a very elegant fhrub, which fpreads
wide and grows about two feet high, being covered with a pro-
fufion of fweet-fcented bloffoms during great part of the fpring
and fummer, which remain long in beauty. Upon the whole,
it appears to us to be one of the moft defirable plants that have
been as yet introduced from New South-Wales. The honour
of its introduétion is attributed to Mefirs. Lez and Kennepy,
Communicated to us by Meffts, Loppices and Sons.
NP 1764
[ 1764...
ALLIUM SPHHROCEPHALON, . SMALL
ROUND-HEADED GARLICK,.
IE AEE TE EE ES dee eae eae ae
Clafs and Order.
Hexanpria Monocynia.
: Generic Chara@ler.
_ Gr. 6-partita, patens. Spatha multiflora, umbella congefta.
Cap/. fupera.
Specific Chara&er and Synonyms.
- *** Folia caulina terelia. Unmbella capfulifera.
ALLIUM /pherocephalon ; caule teretifolio umbellifero, foliis.
femiteretibus, ftaminibus tricufpidatis corolla longioribus.
Spec. Pl. 428. Sy. Veg. ed. Murray, p. 266. Willd. 2,
p. 70. Pollich pal.1.p. 327. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 235.
Allon Ft. Pedemont. ». 1873. Villars Dauph. 2. p. 255.
Willich Obf. p. 16. n. 33.
ALLIUM /pherocephalum. Lam. et Dec. Fl. Franc. 3. p. 228.
Lam, Dif. 1. p. 66. fi
ALLIUM radice gemella, foliis fiftulofis, capite {phzrico,
ftaminibus alterne trifidis. Hall. Helv. n.1220: fynonymon
_-vix dubium etfi a Linnzo exclufum.
ALLIUM ftaminibus alterne trifidis, foliis fiftulofis, capite
fuave rubente {pherico, non bulbifero, radice laterali.
- Hall. All. ed. 1. po22. a. 8.—Opufeul. p.953. 2. 10.
ALLIUM feu MOLY montanum quintum. Ciu/. Hi. 1.
Pi 195 F129! é
ALLIUM. {pherocephalum, bifolium, italicum, Baub, Hi. 2.
ALLIUME. MOLY juncifolium, capite {phzrico,‘flore pur-
pureo. Kudb. Elyf. 2. p. 160. cum icone.
SCORODOPRASUM montanum juncifolium, capite rotundo
dilute Janthino floribus: paucis. Mich. Nov. Gen. 25. 1. 2.
ade 24. f 2 ? : 2 4 Fe ;
SCORODOPRASUM campeftre juncifolium, capite rotundo,
compaéto, floribus faturate et eleganter purpureis cum
primis tribus petalis externe verrucofis. Mich, J. c. 25. . 4 ?
exclufis fynonymis omnibus,
“WwW e have found the fynonymy of this fpecies to be parti-
Cularly puzzling, as is remarked by Havrex, who is himfelf
ee very
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5
.
very confufed in this refpett. ‘The difficulty arifes in part from
its great affinity with de/cendeus (Bot. Mag. No. 251.) to which it
mult be allowed to be too nearly allied, and of which probably
it ought to rank as a variety only. Wurxticu, and latterly
Hatter, both confider /pherocephalon and defcendens as the fame
fpecies; and Vitiars feems inclined to this opinion.
The hiftory of Hatter’s change of fentiments is not a little
curious. In his monograph on Attium, he had made two
fpecies of them (No. 8 and No. 9); which Linn aus, in his
Flora Suecica, united. At this union, Hatier expreffes his
furprize, in the fecond edition of his monograph on Autium,
publifhed in his opufcula. Then Linn us, in the firft edition
of his Species Plantarum, made two fpecies of them, and, as it
appears that he had at that time no fpecimen of /pherocephalon in
his herbarium, this was probably done in compliance with
HALLER’s opinion; yet, in his Hiftoria Plantarum Helvetia,
the latter author has thought fit to unite them himfelf ; remarking,
that Linn#us, who was at firft right, had done wrong in fe-
parating them. Finally, Linn us, in his Syftema Vegetabi-
lium, orders Hatisr’s fynonym to be excluded altogether.
Harter was probably induced to change his: opinion, and
unite what he had_ before confidered as two diftin& {pecies into
one, by the obfervations of Witticu, though he has not
quoted this author. Wuxtzicu had met with Spharocephalon
growing without culture in a garden, and fhewed the plant.to
Haxter, who pronounced it to be No. 8 of his monograph on
Allium (No. 10 in his opufcula). Removing this plant into his own
garden, Wixticu obferves, that in the following year it became
in every refpeét the fame as de/cendens ; Haiier’s Allium, No. 9s
(No. 14 in the opufcula). This obfervation, could we be fure
there was no error, which, however, might eafily happen in a
genus fo imperfeétly underftood, would be decifive. But we
are {till inclined to believe, that the greater length of the
ftamens in /pherocephalon may keep them diftin@. Lamarck
and Decanpboutrsz, in their Flore Francoife, make de/éendens a
variety of our plant; as the former had before done in the
Encyclopedie Methodique. | .
Native of Italy, South of France, and Switzerland. Culti-
vated by Mruier, in 1759, Flowers in July. Communicated
by Mr, Hawortu. 1076
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7 65
{ 1765 ]
CRASSULA CENTAUROIDES. CENTAURY-
FLOWERED CRASSULA.
a
Clafs and Order.
PeENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.
Generic Chara&er.
Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Squame 5 neCtarifere ad bafin ger-
minis. Cap/. 5. *
Specific Charaéter and Synonyms.
CRASSULA centauroides ; caule herbaceo dichotomo, foliis fef-
filibus oblongo-ovatis cordatis planis, pedunculis axillaribus
unifloris. Hort. Kew. 1. p. 392.—ed. alt. 2. p. 194. Willd.
Sp. Pl. 1. 1555. Haworth Succul. 57.
CRASSULA centauroides; caule herbaceo dichotomo, foliis -
cordatis feffilibus, pedunculis unifloris. Sp. Pl. 404. Amen.
Acad, 6. p. 85. (caule brachiato. Mantiff2 361.) Sy/i. Veg.
ed. 14. p. 305. Reich. Sp. Pl. 1. 772.
SEDOIDES africana annua centauroides. Herm. Parad. 169.
Descr. Root annual or biennial. Stems proftrate, {mooth,
of a pale red colour, pellucid on the furface, opake at the
centre, branched : Jower branches going off at right angles, or
brachiate : upper ones dichotomous. Leaves oppofite, ovate,
flat, ftem-embracing, margin red, fomewhat denticulate, from a
row of excavated dots on the under fide. Peduncles axillary,
folitary, one-flowered, ere& at firft, but refle€&ted after the
flowering is over. Calyx perfiftent, five-cleft: /egments acute.
Corolla five-petalled, when firft expanded not unlike that
of the leffer Centaury: pefals ovate-acuminate, bright crimfon
at the point fhaded off to white at the bafe. Filaments green,
inferted into the receptacle below the germen, not into the
claws of the petals, with which they alternate. Anibers yellow.
| Germens
-Germens five, cohering: ffyles divaricate. No ne@ariferous
{cales were obfervable.
There is confiderable affinity between this {pecies and pellucida,
and it is not improbable that they have been fometimes con-
founded. But in the latter plant, as defcribed and figured by
Dittenius, the leaves are much thicker, colle&ed into
rofules, and do not ftand in diftant pairs, as in this.
That our plant is the Crassuxa centauroides of the Hortus
Kewenfis we are fure, having compared it with a {pecimen pre-
ferved in {pirits of wine in’ the Bankfian Mufeum.
We know of no figure exifting of this {pecies which, from
the brilliancy and long duration of its flowers, fo well deferves
a place in every collection of fucculent plants. It is confidered
as an inhabitant of the dry ftove, but will do very well in the
-greenhoufe, or even in the window of a light apartment.
Native of the Cape of Good-Hope. Propagated by feeds,
which, in favourable feafons, are freely produced. Flowers from
May to July. Communicated by Meffrs, Loppicers and Sons.
Nijt uy
Sells bs |
LaSIOPETALUM FERRUGINEUM. Rusty
LasloreTALUM.
5, 5, 5,
OR ASE A AR A SE ae ak ak a ae sh a ake ak ae
Clafs and Order.
PENTANDRIA MonocynlA.
Generic Charaéfer.
Cal, rotatus, 5-fidus. Stamina bafi fquama munita. Axthere
apice poris duobus. Cap/. fupera 3-locularis, g-valvis: valvis
medio feptiferis.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
LASIOPETALUM ferrugineum ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis ob-
tufis finuatis integerrimifve.
LASIOPETALUM (ferrugineum ; foliis linearibus integerrimis,
Hort. Kew. ed. alt, 2. p. 36.
LASIOPETALUM jerruginewm. — Bot. Repof. 208. Fenten,
Malmaif. 59. :
Descr. A low forud with fpreading Lranches, when young
Covered with a rufty tomentum. Leaves alternate, on fhort
petioles, reflexed, linear-lanceolate with a cordate bafe, more
or lefs and unequally finuate, fmooth on the upper furface, and
clothed, on the under, with a thick whitifh tomentum, inter-
fperfed ‘with minutely fafciculated rufty hairs. The petioles,
pedicles, and outer fide of the calyx are hifpid, with a
fimilar pubefcence. The /ipules, which form a remarkable
charaéter in moft of the fpecies, appear to be entirely wanting
‘in this. Calyx perfiftent, petal-like, greenifh within, fupported
by a braéfe of three fubulate incurved leaves. By fome botanifts
this part is confidered as the calyx, and what we have fo termed,
as the corolla; whence the name of Lasroreratum, or
WOOLLY-pETAL. NeéZaries 5, {cale-like, revolute, one at the
bafe of each very fhort filament. Anthers large, of a deep
sy | orange
orange or bay colour; pores at the apex very fmall: pollen
white. Germen woolly, three-grooved, obtufely three-cornered,
three-celled: /yle fhort ; /zigma fimple, marcefcent.
A hardy greenhoufe fhrub. Native of New South-Wales.
Introduced in 1791, by Meffrs. Lez and Kennepy. Flowers
moft part of the fummer. Propagated by cuttings. Thrives
beft in a fandy peat foil, Communicated by Meffrs. Loppices
and Sons.
Vi 707
Lage
BuURSARIA SPINOSA. THORNY BURSARIA.
Te EE TEE eae eae a ae ae ak ase ak tea
Clafs and Order.
PENTANDRIA MonoGyYNIA,
Generic Charaéfer.
Petala 5, receptaculo inferta. Capf compreffa, 2-partibilis,
1-locularis, 2-fperma.
~ Specific Nume and Synonyms.
BURSARIA /pinofa. Cavan. ic. 4. p. 30. t. 350 Hort. Kew.
ed. alt. 2. p. 36.
ITEA /pinofa. Bot. Repof. 314.
This pretty flowering fhrub, well defcribed by the late
Profeffor CAVANILLES, is, in feveral refpeéts, nearly allied to
Irea; but differs from that genus in having its petals and
ftamens inferted into the receptacle below the germen, and a
flattened obcordate capfule, which, when ripe, feparates into
two parts, each of which is one-celled, two-valved, and con-
tains two feeds. ee
It takes its name from the form of the capfule, which fome-
what refembles that of the Shepherd’s Purfe.
A hardy greenhoufe fhrub. Native of New South-Wales.
Flowers from Auguft to December. _ Propagated by cuttings.
Loves a fandy peat foil with a flight admixture of loam.
Introduced in 1793, by the Marchionefs of Rock1ncHan.
Communicated by Meffrs. Loppices and Sons.
In the Bankfian Herbarium, we find fpecimens from Van
Diemen’s Ifland and Port Dalrymple, which have larger leaves
and fruit, and one of them is without fpines,
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PAONIA EDULIS, var. SINENSIS.
CHINESE EATABLE PEONY.
SESE TE ERE ETE ET IR ea See
Clafs and Order.
PoLYANDRIA Dicynra.
Generic Charaéier.
Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Stylio. Cap/. 2—12, poly{perme.
A} ‘pecific Charaéter and Synonym.
PAONIA edulis ; foliis biternatis : foliolis ovato-lanceolatis
integris bafi confluentibus nudis, capfulis recurvatis glabris.
PAONIA albiflora. Bot. Mag. 2. 1756, cum fynonymis?
The inconvenience of giving names to plants from the colour
of the flowers, or other circumftances liable to vary, has often
been pointed out ; and in this inftance the name of albiflora is
fo perfe€tly abfurd, that we have felt a neceflity of avoiding it.
We have therefore adopted that of edulis from Mr. SAuisBuRY,
which we ought perhaps to have done fooner; but we were
willing to deviate, as little as poffible, from the nomenclature
ufed in the Hortus Kewenfis. In the prefent inftance, we
the more readily depart from that authority, becaufe we cannot
but entertain confiderable doubt, whether the Chinefe plants are
really varieties of the Siberian. ee
At firft appearance our plant may appear to be one of the
varieties of Pxonra Moutan, but the herbaceous ftem, the
fmaller number of capfules, tuberous roots, and different foliage,
keep it altogether diftin& from that {pecies.
Several varieties of this fpecies have been of late introduced
from China, of which this with large crimfon bloffoms, ap-
proaching to fcarlet, is the moft beautiful. All of them are more
or lefs fweet-fcented. Our drawing was made from a fpecimen
communicated by Sir Asranam HuME, from his very interefting
colle&tion, at Wormley-Bury, Herts. This gentleman imported
it from Canton, |
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IPOMGA SANGUINEA. . BLOOD-FLOWERED
IPOMG@A.
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Clafs and Order.
PenTANDRIA Monocynia.
Generic Charaer.
Cal. 5-partitus, nudus. Cor. campanulata v. infundibuliformis,
5-plicata. Germen 2—3-loculare, loculis difpermis. Sty/us indi-
vifus. Stigma capitatum, 2—3-lobum. Cap/. 2—3-locularis.
Brown. .
Specific Charatter and Synonyms.
IPOMCEA /anguinea ; corolle infundibuliformis tubo clavato :
limbo involuto, ftaminibus declinatis, foliis haftato-trilobis :
_ Jobis lateralibus poftice finuatis.
IPOMCEA /anguinea ; pedunculis fuperne cymofo-trichotomis,
folia cordato-triloba v. haftata fuperantibus; limbo oblato-
ventricofo ; ftaminibus afcendentibus, longe exfertis. Ker
in Bot..Regifi. 9.
IPOMGSA /anguinea ; foliis cordatis trilobis, lobis Jateralibus
pottice angulato-fublobatis, pedunculis trifloris, calycibus
glabris. Vabl Symb. 3. p. 93. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 885.
An omamental evergreen twining fhrub. Native of the
Weft-Indies, and confequently with us an inhabitant of the
ftove, where it will extend to a great length, producing abun-
dance of fine fcarlet bloffoms, inclining to orange ; which are
fingular in having their borders always rolled inwards, being, as
far as we have obferved, at no time expanded.
Vaut defcribed this fpecies from dried fpecimens fent from
the Danifh ifland of Sainte Croix. He dire€ts it to be inferted
in the fyftem between famnifolia and Pes tigridis ; but as both
thefe fpecies have aggregate flowers, it cannot properly be in-
es f cluded
cluded in the fame divifion with them. We fhould place it imi-
mediately after coccinea, to which it feems tous to be neareft
allied, —
It is not mentioned in the Hortus Kewenfis, nor does it
appear that it has ever been feen in this country, before it was
raifed by Madame la Comteffe de Vannes, in her garden at
Bayes-Water, from feeds communicated by R. A. SatispuRy,
Efq. who received them from the Weft-Indies.
It bears flowers early in the fpring, which continue in
fucceffion till the middle of fummer. It has not yet produced
feeds, but we are informed by the gardener, that it is eafily
propagated by cuttings, which ftrike freely.
Our drawing was taken at the above-mentioned colleétion,
near the end of June 1814,
b% 1970 «}
CrestTRUM Pargurt WILLOW-LEAVED
CESTRUM.
Clafs and Order.
PEnTANDRIA Monocynta.
Generic Charafler.
Cor. infundibuliformis. Stamina denticulo in. medio, Bacca
1-locularis, polyfperma.
Specific Character and Synonyms,
CESTRUM Parqui; foliis lanceolatis, pedunculis inferioribus
trifloris folio dimidio brevioribus, corollz laciniis lateraliter
revolutis,
CESTRUM Pargqui ; filamentis denticulatis nudifve, caule flo-
rifero paniculato, ftipulis linearibus. L’Heriier Stirp. Nov. 1.
p- 73. 4.36. Willd. Sp. Pl.1. 1055. Willd. Arb. 60. Enum,
Hort. Berl. 1. p. 213. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 2. Mart.
Mill. Did. a. 7. | |
PARQUI. Feuill. Peruv. 3. p. 52. t. 32. f. 1.
_ The fpecies of Cestrum have been hitherto very indifferently _
chara€terized ; in fa&t, a great addition having been made to the
genus by Jacquin in his Hortus Schoenbrunnenfis, it was not —
to be expeéted that charaéters framed only for a few {pecies,
although they might ferve to diftinguifh fuch as were then known
from one another, fhould apply to thofe fince difcovered. The
tooth-like appendage to the filaments is, in this fpecies at leaft,
too inconftant a charaéter to be ufeful.
The laciniz of the corolla in our plant are obtufe; but as,
foon after expanding, the fides are rolled back, efpecially
towards the point, they appear in that ftate more acute than
they really are. In Cestrum fajfligiatum, figured at No. 1729,
the laciniz are rolled back from the apex towards the poe
pe day
which gives the flower a very different appearance. This
charaéter appears to be conftant, and occurs alfo in divrnum,
Cestrum Parqut is a native of Chili, in South-America, will
live in the open air and produce flowers, and, in fome feafons,
ripens its fruit; but in this fituation it is always killed down to
the ground in the winter; and, if the weather prove fevere, the
roots will perifh alfo.
Jacquin’s C. fetidifimum is very like our plant, but has much
broader leaves in proportion to their length, and grows to a
fhrub feveral feet in height. Our plant, when bruifed, like-
wife emits a naufeous fmell; and perhaps the only difference
may arife from the other being kept conftantly in the ftove.
Native of the mountains of Chili, where it was firft dif-
covered by Father Fruit er, in 32° fouth latitude. Neither
his figure nor defcription are fufficiently accurate to determine
the identity of our plant with his; but fpecimens gathered at
Valparaifo in the fame country, by Mr. AncurBatp MENZIES,
and preferved in the Bankfian Herbarium, in every refpeét
agree with our’s.
Our drawing was taken early in June, fome years fince, in
the garden of Lord Hottanp, at Kenfington. Propagated by
cuttings or by feeds, Introduced in 1787, by Monf, Wiiiiams.
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INDEX.
In which the Latin Names of the
Plantscontained in the Forty-Second
Volume are alphabetically arranged.
Pi,
1745 Acacia decipiens, |
1750 difcolor.
1730 Ageratum celeftinum.
1764 Allium fphzrocephalum.
1749 Arnica montana.
1733 Beaufortia decuffata,
1763 Boronia pinnata, :
1732 Bromelia pyramidalis.
1767 Burfaria f{pinofa.
1734 Calea lobata,
1735 Cardamine afarifolia.
1752 Centaurea Rhapontica.
1729 Ceftrum faftigiatum
1770 ~ Parqui.
1746 Corrza fpeciofa.
1765 Craffula centauroides,
2726 Crategus indica.
1751 Cymbidium enfifolium,
1757 Daviefia latifolia.
1739 Dianthus leptopetalus,
1740 — virgineus,
1759 Duranta Ellifia.
1737 Elzocarpus cyaneus,
1758 Erica Hibbertiana.
1747 Euphorbia variegata.
1744 Halleria lucida.
1748 Gomefa recurva.
1738 Heynea trijuga.
1731 Jafminum revolutum,
1769 Ipomoea fanguinea,
1766 Lafiopetalum ferrugineum,
purpureum.
1753 Lonicerafempervirens(@.) minor.
1760 Mentzelia oligofperma,
1755
1761 Metrofideros {peciofa,
1756 Pzonia albiflora,
1754 anomala,
1768
1727 Pforalea aphylla.
1743 Palmonaria Davurica, —
1762 Rofa femperflorens, eo
1728 Salvia azurea,
1742 Sefeli divaricatum.
1741 Zamia pygmea.
3736 Zanthoriza apiifolia.
edulis var. finenfis.
PROD DFDHDLOFEOHOPOL OF OFOHDE SHO FOF DESH OTOLSISISFOFOFOHSHOHOHOHO
9 YoduN GD Bok,
*
9 In which the Englifh Names of the
Plantscontained in the Forty-Second
4 Volume are alphabetically arranged,
Pi.
1745 Acacia, paradoxical.
1750 two-coloured-leaved,
1730 Ageratum, blue-flowered,
1749 Arnica, mountain.
1733 Beaufortia, fplendid.
1763 Boronia, hawthorn-fcented.
1732 Bromelia, pyramidal-flowered.
1767 Burfaria, downy:
1734 Calea, yellow-flowered, or
Halberd.weed.
1752 Centaury, Swifs.
1729 Ceftrum, Honeyfuckle,
1770 ————— willow:leaved.
1746 Correa, red:flowered.
1765 Craffula, centaury-flowered,
1751 Cymbidium, fword-leayed.
1757 Daviefia, broad-leaved.
1759 Duranta, prickly.
1737 Elzocarpus, blue-fruited.
1744 Fly-Honeyfuckle, African,
1764 Garlick, round-headed.
1748 Gomefa, recurved.
1734 Halberd-weed, wide Calea,
1726 Hawthorn, Indian,
1758 Heath, Hibbert’s.
1738 Heynea, walnut-like.
1753 Honeyfuckle, Carolina trampet.
1731 Jafmine, revolute-flowered.
1769 Ipomoea, bloody-flowered, __
1735 Ladies-{mock, kidney-leaved.
1755 Lafiopetalum, purple-flowered.
1766 rufty.
1749 Leopard’s-bane, wide Arnica.
1743 Lungwort, Daurian.
1760 Mentzelia, few-feeded.
1761 Metrofideros, fhewy.
1768 Peony, pe mrp eoeicg,
1 ae ~itavi °
43 Ls cig ae
1739 Pink, narrow-petalled.
1740 —— Mie
1760 Rofe, Mifs Lawrence’s,
1728 Sage, azure-flowered.
1740 Sefeli, fhining-leaved.
1747 Spurge, pye-bald.
1741 Zamia, leaft.
1736 Yellow-root, or Zanthoriza,
parfley-leaved.
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