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THEIR NAMES, CLASS, ORDER, GENERIC AND SPECIFIC CHARACTERS,

as ACCORDING TO THE SYSTEM OF LINN-EUS;

Their Places of Growth, Times of Flowering, and most approved
Methods of Culture.

“By SAMUEL CURTIS, F. L. S.
By Sm WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K. H.

LLD, F. R. A. and L. S. and Regius Professor of Botany in the
University of Glasgow.

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Forms, opens, and gives scent to ev'ry flower ;
Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads
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Cereus NAPOLEONIS. NaApoLeon’s CEREUS.

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Class and Order.

’ Icosanpria Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Cacrez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala numerosissima, imbricata, basi ovario adnata, in
tubum elongatum concreta, exteriora breviora calycinalia,
media longiora colorata, intima petaliformia. Stamina nu~ «
merosissima, cum tubo concreta. Stylus filiformis, apice —
multifidus. Bacca sepalorum reliquiis areolata, tuberculosa

galt, axi ligneo interne medullifero donati, angulis verticali-
bus spinarum fasciculos gerentibus regulariter suleati. An-
guli seu ale nunc plurime, nunc paucissime, rarius due
tantiim et tunc rami compresso-alati. Flores ampli é spi-
narum fasciculis aut crenis angulorum orti. DC.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

- Cereus Napoleonis; ramis diffusis repentibus triangularibus
rarissime articulatis repandis, tuberculis 4—5-spinosis,
spinis rigidis patentibus. .

Cereus triangularis, var. major. Salm-Dyck. Otto, Alge- =n
meine Gartenzeitung, 1833. :

Cacrus Napoleonis. Hort.

We received this plant at the Botanic Garden, Edin-
burgh, from Mr. M‘Kay, at Clapton, about ten years ago.
It has repeatedly formed buds, but no blossoms expanded —
till now (September, 1835). The flower opened in the morn-
ing, and closed towards the afternoon; it is very like that of
C. grandiflorus, and is slightly, not very agreeably, per-

_ fumed. The far greater length of its joints, their different

___ form, and the shape of the edges between the tubercles, ,
_ prevent me from considering it a variety of C. triangularis.

a Descr. —
a VOL. x. B :

‘Descr. Stem much branched ; branches diffused, root-
ing, very distantly jointed, light green, with three acute
angles, and concave sides; angles tubercled, with repand
intervals, about an inch and a half long, tubercles wjth four
or five rigid, stellate prickles (about four and a half lines
long) having tumid bases. Flower (eight inches long, and
when fully expanded six inches across) ascending; tube
(three inches long, ten lines broad) green, furrowed, inter-
vening ridges round, and having a few triangular sub-
appressed deep-red scales, gradually enlarging upwards,
and passing into the straw-coloured, lanceolato-linear, outer
segments of the perianth, the inner segments of which are
pure white, somewhat shorter, broader, spathulato-lanceo-

_ late and crenate at the apex. Stamens numerous, yellow,
declined, ascending at the apex, shorter than the perianth ;
anthers erect, small. Pistil sub-exserted ; stigma yellow,
multifid, segments subulate, spreading from their middle;
style stout, cylindrical, ascending. Germen incorporated

with the base of the tube of the perianth, one-celled,

Ovules numerous, fixed to a long seed-stalk. Graham.

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S. Curtis, Glazenweed, Fis-sex Jan® TBF E.

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PIMELEA HISPIDA. HtIsPpID-FLOWERED
PIMELEA.

Class and Order.

Dianpria Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—TuyrMeEzaz. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium infundibuliforme, limbo 4-fido, fauce esqua-
mata. Stamina duo fauci inserta, laciniis exterioribus op-
posita. Stylus lateralis. Stigma capitatum. Nusx corti-
cata, rard baccata.—Frutices. Folia opposita (raro al-
terna.) Flores capitati, terminales, foliis involucrantibus,
sepé dissimilibus, interdum connatis, rariis spicatt vel axil- —
lares, quandoque dioici. Perianthii tubus in plerisque medio
articulatus, articulo inferiore persistenti. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Pimetea hispida; involucris tetraphyllis : foliolis ovatis
margine simplici intis subsericeis capituli dimidio bre-
vioribus, perianthii tubo dimidio inferiore hispido, foliis
lanceolatis linearibusve. Br.

Pimetea hispida. Br. Prodr. p. 360. Spreng. Syst. Veg.
v. 1. p. 92.. Bot. Reg. t. 1578.

This is assuredly the handsomest of this very pretty Aus-
tralian Genus, whether we consider the beauty of its blos-
soms or the great quantity of them produced by a single
plant: of which one now before us, scarcely a foot high, is
loaded with upwards of forty heads of flowers. It requires
the usual treatment of those New Holland plants, which we

- derive from the Southern coast, where the present species

was discovered by Mr. Brown.
Descr. An erect shrub, with numerous, upright, slender,

glabrous branches. Leaves opposite, broadly lanceolate,
obtuse,

_ obtuse, yellow-green above, palet and of a glaucous hue
below. Peduncles terminal, solitary, in fact, a continua-
tion] of the branches, bearing a single, rather large head
of delicate, rose-coloured, hairy flowers ; surrounded by a
four-leaved involucre: its leaflets ovate, concave, often
tinged with red at the margin. Flowers sessile. Perianth
salver-shaped: its twbe much elongated, slender, clothed
_ below with very long, spreading hairs: limb of four spread-
ing, oblong segments, beset with long spreading hairs on
the under side. Filaments short, exserted. Anthers oblong,

a deep orange. Germen oblong, green, furrowed, with a tuft
_ of hairs at the base. :

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CoREOPSIS CORONATA. CROWNED CoREOPSIS.

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Class and Order.

SyYNGENESIA F'RUSTRANEA.
( Nat. Ord.—Composirs. )

Generic Character.

Receptaculum paleaceum. Semina compressa, emargi-
nata. Pappus bicornis. Calyx duplex uterque poly-
phyllus.

Specific Name and Character.

Coreopsis coronata; annua, caule erecto debili flexuoso

glabro, foliis spathulatis integris vel ternatim-pinna-
timve-sectis integerrimis flaccidis basi ciliatis, infimis
longé petiolatis, pedunculis elongatis, involucro inte-
riore piloso, radii corollis profundé quadrifidis coroua
macularum atro-sanguinea, achenio bi- tripaleaceo.

Seeds of this beautiful Corzopsis, gathered in Texas, were
received from Mr. Drummonp in the spring of 1835, and the
plants raised from them blossomed copiously in the summer
and autumn, those in the open air continuing to display their
handsome flowers, remarkable for the circle of brown spots
placed at a distance from the disk, till October, when they
were cut off by the frost. Those sheltered in a frame
continued much longer in perfection. Only one specimen,
exactly corresponding with this, is found in Mr. DruMMonp’s
Mexican Herbarium, from which it may be inferred that the
flowering season was passed when he discovered it.

Descr. Root annual, small, and subfusiform. Stem erect,
but weak and flexuose, a foot to a foot and a half or two
feet long. Leaves opposite, in remote pairs, spathulate,
tapering much at the base, undivided, or cut in a pinnated

- Manner into two, three, or tive segments, the ultimate lobe

or pinnule the largest, the lower ones into long scare
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the base ciliated: the rest quite glabrous and of a very
flaccid texture. Peduncles much elongated, sometimes
almost a foot long, each tipped with a large handsome deep
yellow flower, bearing a circle or crown of deep brown or.
blood-coloured spots at a distance from the disk. Corollas
of the ray neuter, large, cuneate, deeply four-fid, the two
middle segments the longest and often emarginate : those
of the disk (which is small,) infundibuliform. Anthers
black, the appendage deep-orange. Achenia compressed,
oblong-obovate, bearing two or three small lanceolate,
white, chaffy scales. JInvolucre double: outer of about
eight leaflets, which are linear, herbaceous, and glabrous ;

__ mner, about as long as the outer, oval, membranaceous,

clothed externally with white, succulent hairs. Receptacle

scaly ; scales linear-subulate, chafly, nearly as long as the
flower. 4

Fig. 1. Floret of the Ray. 2. Floret of the Disk, with a Scale of the Re-
eeptacle :—magnified.

Pub by. 5.Curtis, Hazenwood Esse, Jan¥ LISSE.

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VERONICA LABIATA. FRAGRANT WHITE-
FLOWERED SPEEDWELL.

SERS KKK EEE KEE EKER
Class and Order.

DianpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Scropuu ring. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 4-partitus, rard 3-partitus. Corolla subrotata.
Tubus calyce brevior. Limbus 4-partitus, inequalis, lobis
indivisis. Stamina 2 autherifera, sterilia nulla. Capsula
valvis medio septiferis, v. bipartibilis—Herbe vel frutices.
Folia opposita, quandoque verticillata vel alterna, sepe
dentata vel incisa. Inflorescentia varia. Calyces ebrac-
teatt. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

VERONICA labiata ; erecta, foliis lato-lanceolatis longe acu-
minatis sessijibus arguté ineequaliter serratis, racemis
axillaribus oppositis elongatis, corollis bilabiatis pa-
tentibus labio superiore indiviso, inferiore tripartito
lobo medio minore. |

Venoxice labiata. Br. Prodr. p. 434. Spreng. Syst. Veget.
v. 1. p. TA.

Veronica Derwentia. Andr. Rep. t. 531.

A very pretty species of VERONICA, with leaves much
acuminated at the extremity, and long axillary racemes of
fragrant white flowers. It is a native of the Southern
shores of New Holland and also of Van Diemen’s Land,
from which latter country it has been transmitted to the
Glasgow Botanic Garden, where it grows in the greenhouse,
by Ronatp Gunn, Esq.

Descr. Stem two feet high, simple, nearly glabrous,

under a lens are seen two opposite lines of hairs. Leaves
Opposite, three to four inches long, sessile, broadly lanceo-

late,

late, very much attenuated, glabrous, the margins sharply
and unequally serrated ; the colour full green above, paler
beneath, indistinctly nerved. Peduncles axillary, opposite,
longer than the leaves, bearing a raceme of rather large,
white, fragrant flowers. Bracteas subulate, about as long
as the pedicels. Calyx small, four-partite, segments lan-
ceolate, acute, two of them a little smaller. Corolla rotate,
formed of two spreading lips: the upper of one ovate seg-
ment; the lower of three of the same form, but of which
the middle one is the smallest. Stamens two: filaments

white: anthers purplish. Germen ovate, two-celled. Style

deautiful Speedwell ; judging, as we do, from t

= filiform, declined.

Fig.1. Flower. 2 Young Fruit with the Calyx :—magnified.

For the information of our readers, we take the opportunity of occ

pying a spare page, with brief descriptive characters of three unpub-
lished species of the Genus of our present subject, recently discovered
in New Zealand by Mr. Ricuarp Cunnincuam, ;

V. speciosa (R. Cunn. MSS.) ; glaberrima, racemis terminalibus bre-
vibus erectis confertifloris, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis pedicello di-
midio brevioribus, laciniis calycis ovatis acutiusculis tenuissimé
ciliatis dimidium tubi corolla subequantibus, foliis (oppositis)
planis obovatis coriaceis decurrentibus, apiculo calloso obtuso,

marginibus integerrimis incrassatis coloratis, caule fruticoso erec-
_ tiusculo v. diffuso.
Napuka ab Indigenis vulg6 vocatur.
Has. In Nove Zelandie insula septentrionali: in collibus arenosis
juxta estuarium fluvii Hokianga, ad oram occidentalem, ubi in
mense Decembri lauté floret. 1833. Rich, Cunningham.
_ Frutex spectabilis 3-6 pedalis, caulibus pluribus robustis adscenden-
tibus, et in loco natali valdé insignis. Folia 3-4 pollicaria.
Flores speciosi cyaneo-violacei, feré facie Lysimachie atropur-
puree, Stamina exserta pistillum equantia. Capsula biparti~
bilis, elliptica, acuminata, glabra, calyce duplo longior.
Oss. Of all the plants of New Zealand, with
either as attached to voyages of disc

ready fully established in our gardens—than this very remarkable and

have received, and from the description given
_ by its discoverer, Since the country around its locality, at the mouth

has

has, in our open borders; the elevated grounds, occupied by our
Veronica in its native-land, being greatly exposed to the prevalent
tempests of its weather-beaten coast, in nearly the same degree of
southern latitude (about 36°), in which, we believe, the Clianthus has
been lately found on the Eastern Coast.

V. lgustrifolia ; racemis pedunculatis terminalibus pubigeris folium
subeequantibus, bracteis oblongo-lanceolatis pedicello duplé bre-
vioribus, laciniis calycis ovato-lanceolatis acutiusculis longitudine
tubi corolle, foliis ovali-oblongis angusto-lanceolatisve obtusius-
culis integerrimis glabris, caule fruticoso,

Has. In Insula septentrionali Nove Zelandie: in collibus sylvosis —
umbrosisve ad ripas fluminis Kaua-Kaua, Bay of Islands. 1833.
Rich. Cunningham.

Frutex gracilis bipedalis. Folia opposita, ovalia, vel attenuato-lanceo-
lata, sessilia. Flores albidi, spicato-racemosi. Calyx persistens,
laciniis equalibus. Corolle dacinie acutiuscule.

Ozs. V. angustifolia, A. Richard (Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 187.), cui affinis
differt: spicis gracilibus pedunculatis axillaribus folio duplé et

ultra longioribus, laciniis calycinis obtusis tubo corolla duplo bre- 2

vioribus, foliis lineari-angustis acutis subtus glaucescentibus.

V. diosmifolia (R. Cunn. MSS.) ; corymbis axillaribus terminalibusve

multifloris, bracteis. ovatis pedicello duplé brevioribus, laciniis —
calycis ovalibus obtusis dimidium tubi corolle aquantibus, foliis —
decussatis petiolatis lanceolatis acutis integerrimis serrulatisve, —
serraturis simpliciter incisis remotis, supra concavis lavibus subtus-
discoloribus, caule fruticoso erecto. ioe

Has. In Nova Zelandia: in sylvis densis prope ortum fluminis
Wycaddy ; etiam circa cataractas preruptas rivi Keri-Ken, ad
sinum Bay of Islands dictum; alibique in insula septentrionali.
1834. Rich. Cunningham.

Ab Incolis Piriti dicitur,

Frutex gracilis virgatus 3-12 pedalis, cum habitu omnind Zrachy-
menes, Rami stricti, erecti, foliosi. Folia 9-lineas longa, avenia,
subtus carinata. Fores albi. Capsula elliptica, acuta, compressa,
bipartibilis, calyce ciliato triplé longior.

With the above enumerated species, specimens were received of
another, which appears identical with one originally discovered by
t. Brown, in Van Diemen’s Land: viz. oe
V. calycina (R. Br.) ; racemis lateralibus pedunculatis paucifloris

Strictis folio multoties longioribus, foliis laté ovatis subcordatis
rugosis ineequaliter serrato-crenatis petiolatis cauleque hirsutis,
calycibus pilosis ciliatis capsula longioribus. eee oS

_ Veronica calycina. Brown Prodr. Fl, Nov. Holl. 1. p. 435. Rom.
| et Schult. Syst. Veget. 1. p. 119. a

Has. In Nove Zelandie ins. sept.: ad ripas amnis Keri-Keri, inter

gramina. 1834. Rich. Cunningham. | ' oe
Caulis herbaceus elongatus (sepe 5-6 pedalis) in locis graminosis late
Tepens v. decumbens. Folia opposita grossé serrata, subtus dis-

colora, hispida. Calyx quadripartitus capsula longior, laciniis obo- :

Vatis obtusiusculis nervosis. Capsula rotundata, compressa, emar-
_ ginata s. obcordata polysperma, dissepimento contrario. A.C.

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TROXIMON GLAUCUM. GLAUCOUS-LEAVED
'TroxIMon.

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Class and Order.

SyNnGENESIA ASQUALIS.
( Nat. Ord.—Composir. )

Generic Character.

Involucrum duplex : ext. e foliolis laxé imbricatis ovato-
lanceolatis ; int. e foliolis 10—12 equalibus uniformibus
infra medium coadunatis. Receptaculum planum, leviter
foveolatum, subfimbriatum. Achenium oblongum, nunc in
rostrum attenuatum. Pappus pilosus seu scaber, pluri-
serialis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Troximon glaucum; foliis lanceolatis inferne attenuatis
glaucis integerrimis dentatisve, flore maximo flavo,
corolle fauce valdé pilosa.

(«.) seapo involucrique foliolis patentibus hirsuto-tomen-
tosis. Hook, Fl. Bor. Am. v. 1. p. 300.

TRoxImon elaucum. Nutt. in Frazer’s Cat. 1813. Pursh,
Fl. Am. v. 2. p. 505. Rich. in Frankl. \st Journ. ed.
2. App. p. 29. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 633.

— (B.) pa involucrique foliolis erectis glaberrimis. Hook.
o.

TRoximon glaucum. Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1667.

TRoximon cuspidatum ? Pursh, Fl. Am. v. 2. p. T42.

TRoximon marginatum ? Nutt. l. c.

So different is the appearance of this handsome plant
from that of Troximon glaucum of Dr. Sims in the Botan-
ical Magazine, that were I not possessed of native speci-
mens, exhibiting intermediate gradations, I should certainly

have published it as a new species. But, as the original
glaucum

glaucum of Mr. Nurratt has a pubescent involucre, we
must claim for that which is here represented, the right of
being considered the original type of the species, and, as we
have already done in the Flora Boreali-Americana, consi-
der Dr. Sims’s plant (which has a flower scarcely half so
large as this, a glabrous scape and involucre, of which the
outer scales of the latter are erect and imbricated ; also.
having narrower and quite entire leaves) as a variety.

Our plants, which are quite hardy, were raised from
seeds gathered by Mr. Drummonp in the prairies of the
Rocky Mountains, during Capt. Sir Jonn Frankuin’s Ex-
pedition. It flowers from June to August.

Descr. Whole plant abounding in milky juice. Root
somewhat fusiform, perennial, sending out runners, b
which the plant increases to a very great extent. Stem
none. Leaves numerous, from the crown of the root, six to
eight or ten inches long, and of a glaucous colour, thus
forming very conspicuous tufts, lanceolate, more or less™
downy, acute, tapering below into a broad footstalk, the
margin entire, or sometimes very distinctly but irregularly
toothed. Scapes longer than the leaves, thick, striated,
woolly, single-flowered. Flowers very large, of a bright
but not deep yellow. Involucre of numerous scales, of
which an inner series is composed of nearly equal, up-
right, linear-lanceolate scales, united at their base, the outer
of many lax, spreading, and broader scales, thickly clothed
with white, woolly hairs. Receptacle minutely pitted, the
margins of the pit obscurely fimbriated. Corollas ligulate :
the tube long, slender, about the mouth, or the outside,
very villous. Germen oblong, by no means rostrate: Pap-
pus white, rough. Anthers narrow, linear, orange.

Fig. 1. Floret : magnified.

Lub. by 3, Crrias, Olaxenwocd Fiser. fant I FE 36.

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GILIA TRICOLOR. 'THREE-COLOURED
GILIA.

Be oe es on Oe On a a OO es aN OR a
Class and Order.

Pentanpria Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—PotemoniAcez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx campanulatus, 5-fidus, margine et sinubus mem-
branaceis. Corolla infundibuliformis vel subcampanulatus,
limbo 5-partito, laciniis obovatis integris. Stamina ad
faucem vel vix intra tubum inserta. Anthere ovato-subro-
tunde, Capsule \oculi polyspermi.—Herbe foliis alternis
pinnatisectis, segmentis integris dissectisve, (vel oppositis
_ thie ae segmentis integris subulatis). Benth. in Bot.

eg.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Gis tricolor ; caule erecto glabro folioso, foliis bipinnati-
sectis, segmentis lineari-subulatis, corymbis 3—6-
floris virgato-paniculatis, corollis calyce subtriplo lon-
gioribus. Benth.

Guia tricolor. Benth. in Bot. Reg. fol. 1622 (in the text).
ae Trans. N.S. v. 1. t. 18. f. 3. Lindl. Bot. Reg.
t. 1704. |

The lamented Dovetas, during his excursions in Cali-
fornia, had the satisfaction of adding no less than twenty-
five new species to the hitherto comparatively very limited
Order of Potemontacem, besides those which have been
detected elsewhere on the Pacific side of America. All of
them are remarkable for gracefulness and beauty, and are
well suited to ornament our flower-borders, to which, indeed,

_ several have been introduced, through the medium of the

Horticultural Society, by the same indefatigable Naturalist.

An epitome of these, and a few others from the Nt
coas

coast of America, from Chili, and Peru, are given by Mr.
Benruam in the Botanical Register, where they are with
much skill and judgment, grouped into seven distinct and
Natural Genera. Of these Genera, the most numerous is
GiL1A, comprising fourteen species: and of these, the
present one is undoubtedly that which bears the palm for
beauty. ‘‘ Nothing can well be prettier,” observes Pro-
fessor Linney, “ than this is, when thickly filling a bed a_
few feet in length and breadth.” Thus cultivated in thick
tufts, it flourishes as well in the unfavourable climate of the
West of Scotland as in its native country, continuing for a
long time in perfection during the summer months.

Descr. Root annual. Whole plant slightly pubescent.
Stem erect, a foot to a foot and a half high, erect, branched
in a paniculated manner almost from the base. Leaves bi-
tripinnatifid, the lower ones petiolated, upper ones sessile,
the segments narrow, linear, subulate, somewhat fleshy,
and compressed. Flowers corymbose, almost capitate, six
to eight or ten at the extremity of the branches of the pan-
icle, extremely handsome. Pedicels short. Calyx of five,
deep, lanceolate, acute, erect segments, with the margins
scariose, not half so long as the corolla. Corolla infundi-
buliform: the tube yellow ; the faux very dark purple, the
limb spreading, of five broadly cordate segments, white, or
nearly so at the base, tinged with bluish-purple towards the
extremity. Filaments short, incurved, situated in the faux.
Anthers oval, pale blue. Style as long as the corolla.
Stigma trifid.

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Pub. by S$ Curhs,

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VESICARIA GRANDIFLORA. LARGE-FLOWERED
VESICARIA.

Class and Order.

TTETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA.
( Nat. Ord.—Crucirer2. )

Generic Character.

Silicula globosa, inflata, valvis hemisphericis. Semina
plurima (ultra 8) spits marginata. Petala integra. D C.

Specific Name and Character.

Vesicarta* grandiflora; annua, stellatim pubescens, cauli--
bus crectis flexuosis, foliis oblongis radicalibus sub-
lyrato-pinnatifidis petiolatis caulinis sinuato-dentatis
sessilibus, racemis elongatis multifloris, petalis rotun-
datis patentibus brevissime unguiculatis, siliculis sub-
stipitatis membranaceis globosis glaberrimis 4—6-sper-
mis stylo longioribus, stigmate capitato.

No less than three new species of Vestcarta were disco-

vered; by M. Berenpier in Texas of Mexico, all of which
are in my Herbarium, V. lasiocarpa, Hook. MSS., V. gra-

cilis, and the subject of the present plate. Of these, the

two last have been also found by Mr. Drummonn. . V. gra-
cilis is n. 13. of Mr. Drummonn’s third Texas Collection :
the present one (of which specimens are distributed in Mr.
Drummonp’s first Texas Collection) is further known to us
by seeds sent in the spring of last year, which produced
plants in the summer, exhibiting a profusion of blossom and

a brightness and size in the flower equalled by few plants of

this Nat. Order, and which render the species most highly
deserving

* From Vesica, a bladder ; on account of the bladdered fruit.

deserving of cultivation, whether in the flower-border or
on the shelves of a cool greenhouse. The almost sessile
spreading and concave petals give it an appearance very
unlike that of most cruciform flowers. The blossoms are
long-lived, and the same plant will yield a succession of
flowers from July to October.

Descr. Root annual, subfusiform. Stems one or several
from the same root, a foot or more high, erect, but flexuose
and weak, so that it is desirable to prop them with a stick
in cultivation ; clothed, as is the whole herbage, with short
stellated down, but much less so than most of the known
downy Vesicariz. Radical leaves oblong, or almost spa-
thulate, tapering below into a footstalk, pinnatifid and
somewhat lyrate, the lobes obtuse; cauline ones oblong,
sessile, subamplexicaul, more or less sinuato-dentate; all of
them paler and more downy beneath. Raceme, when fully
advanced, eight or ten inches and not unfrequently a foot
in length, bearing numerous large, bright-yellow flowers.
Pedicels, in fruit, nearly an inch long. Calyx of five
oblong-oval, hoary, spreading leaves. Corolla of five
rounded, spreading, concaye petals, scarcely unguiculate.
Stamens six, tetradynamous, yellow: Filaments subulate :
_ Anthers oblong. Pouch globose, membranous, glabrous,
situated on a very short stalk, and longer than the style.

Stigma capitate. Seeds generally about four or six in
number.

Fig. 1. Stamens and Pistil. 2. Petal. 3. Stamens. 4. Silicule:—mag-
nefied. 5. Root-leaf:—nat. size.

Se ia

Lich by S.Curts, Haxenwood EiserheBU 1936

( 3465 )

PENTSTEMON CoBpa@ma. COBAA-FLOWERED
PENTSTEMON.

| Class and Order.

DipynAmi1A ANGIOSPERMIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Scropuutarin2Z. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla bilabiata ventricosa. Rudi-
mentum filamenti quinti superne barbatum. Capsula bilo-
cularis.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Pentstemon Cobea; elatus puberulus, foliis oblongo-ovatis
denticulatis nitidis, panicula terminali foliosa, pedun- —
culis 3—5-floris, pedicellis bracteatis, corolla pubes-
cente (magna) tubo inflato, limbo bilabiato quinque-
lobo, lobis 2—3 rotundatis patentibus -intus lineatis,
appendice intus barbato, calycis pubescentis laciniis

_oblongo-lanceolatis erectis. ; :

Pentstemon Cobea. Nutt. Pl. of Arkansa, in Amer. Phil.

Journ. 1834, p. 182.

Handsome as is this species of Pentsremon, the native
specimens gave me reason to expect a more splendid plant
than that which is here represented, of which seeds and
well-dried specimens were sent to Europe by Mr. Drom-
monp in the spring of the past year (1835) from the interior

of Texas*, about St. Austin. But, unfortunately, sia, Sh

* The particulars respecting Mr. DRuMMOND’s journeys in rary
ately been

States of North America, and in Mexico, have ki oD ey
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blossoms till the period of the autumnal colds, and then do

= _ SIEBOLD’s residence in Japan ;—Mr. Watson on the Distribution of Trees

districts at Huanuco, with the mode of collecting it.

the lateness of the season, our plants did not produce their

not appear to have obtained either the size of those on wild
specimens, or the colour, as described by Mr. Novrratt,
who called it P. Cobga, on account of the magnitude and
a sort of general resemblance in its flowers to those of
Cospza scandens. Certain it is, that the flowers on some
of our dried specimens are nearly twice as large as those
here represented. It was first discovered by Mr. Norratn,
sy Nae in

which, we flatter ourselves, only needs.to be more known in order to meet
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_ view of recording such useful Botanical information, as is not suited to
_ the pages of the Magazine. In the seven numbers which have now ap-
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original communications prepared solely for the work, as being such, as
will, we are sure, be read with interest even by those who are not deeply
versed in Science :—Journal of an Ascent to the summit of Adam’s Peak,
Ceylon;—Account of Mr. Matuews’ Journeys in the Peruvian Andes ;—
Excursions in the neighbourhood of Quito, and towards the summit of -
_ Chimborazo, in 1830, by the late Colonel Hatt ;—Notice respecting Dr.

_ and Shrubs in Britain, and towards the Arctic Regions ;—the same gentle-
_ man’s Remarks on the Numerical Proportions of the Natural’ Orders of
British Plants at different elevations;—Drummond’s Letters from Texas
~ in Mexico;—Dr. Puttrrpr on the V egetation of Etna ;—Physical and Geo-
graphical Observations made in Colombia, by Professor W1LL1aM JAMESON
of Quito;—Dr. Péprie’s Picture of the Vegetation of Chili;—a Memoir
of the Life of the late Mr. WiixraM Jack, including many of the Letters
of that accomplished individual from Sumatra and the East Indies, &c.;
—M. Duriev’s Botanical Excursions in the Mountains of Asturias ;—
Dr. Péppia’s highly interesting account of the Uses of Coca, a Dru Aa
which is to the Peruvians what Opium is to the Inhabitants of the East; -
—the same gentleman’s Memoir of the Cinchona- (or Medicinal Bark-)
The above, together
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the Flora of the East Indies (by Messrs. WicHT and ARnotT,) of North
and South America, of Britain, &c., with M.

nd Sou emoirs communicated by various
distinguished Botanists, cannot fail to be acceptable to every man of science.

—A Memoir of the Life of the late Mr. David Dovctas, whose tragical
death in the Sandwich Islands: excited so much interest and such deep
sympathy throughout the whole Botanical world, accompanied by a Portrait,
(already prepared from an excellent original likeness in the possession of
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Lithographed fir the
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RMartin & 00.26, Long Acre.

im calcareous soil on the prairies of the Red River: and
I have one of his own original specimens now before me.

Descr. Root perennial. Stem two feet and more in
height, erect, stout, roundish, or very obtusely angular,
slightly downy, as is the whole plant. Leaves opposite,
the upper ones oblong, or even oblongo-cordate, and semi-
amplexicaul, the middle ones oblong, narrower at the base
but sessile; the root-leaves oval-spathulate, petiolate, all
of them somewhat glossy, denticulate at the margin. Pa-
nicle terminal, leafy. Peduncles opposite from the axils
of these leaves, bearing three to five large, downy flowers,
the short pedicels bracteated. Calyx cut into five deep,
erect, oblongo-lanceolate segments. Corolla with the tube
considerably inflated, pale, almost white tinged with pur-
ple, the limb of five spreading segments, within white,
slightly suffused with yellow and streaked with red. Fila-
ments (fertile) four, included, two didynamous, curved : the ©
anthers somewhat reniform. Fifth filament: elongated,
slightly clavate, furnished with long hairs internally at the
apex. Capsule conical-ovate, acuminate, splitting open
into two valves, whose margins are curved inwards. Se
chaffy, attached to a central receptacle.

_Fig. 1. Flower, from which the Corolla is cut away. 2, Capsule, nat,
size. 3%. Capsule. 4. Capsule burst open, magnified.

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'TTELEKIA SPECIOSA. LARGE-FLOWERED
TELEKIA.

KEK EEE KEE ERE EK EEK EK
Class and Order.

SyNGENESIA SUPERFLUA.
( Nat. Ord. —Composir2. )

Generic Character.

Radius uniserialis. Achenium lineare, elongatum, multi-_
costatum, exalatum, triquetro-obcompressum, conforme. |
Pappus coroniformis, denticulatus, subcartilagineus et
‘conformis. Corolla exalata, disco teres tuboque inferne—
sensim angustato.—Herbe procere in Europa media cres-
centes, foliis scabris, integris, alternis, infertoribus amplis
cordatis; involucris pluriserialibus, squarrosis, disco equa-
hibus, foliolis ellipticis seu linearibus ; lingulis radii angustis
v. oblongo-ellipticis. Less.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

TELEKIA * speciosa. a
Texexia speciosa. Baumg. Enum. Stirp. Transylv.—Les-
sing, Compos. p. 209. .
Motpapia suaveolens. Cass. in Dict. Sc. Nat. v. 32. p. 400. |
Burntuatmum speciosum. Schreb. Ic. et Descr. Dec. 1.
wu.11. t.6. ;
Burataatmoum cordifolium. Waldst. et Kit. Ic. et Descr. Pl.
Rar. Hung. v. 2. p. 117. t. 113. Spreng. Syst. Veget. —
v. 3. p. 605.
Inuta Caucasica. Pers. Syn. Pl. v. 2. p. 450.
Inuza macrophylla. Bied.

* Probably so named in compliment to some person with whose name
and merits I am unacquainted.

A fine stately plant, better suited, however, to a shrub-
bery than to the borders of a small garden, on account of
its great size and luxuriant foliage. Although introduced
into our gardens so long ago as the year 1739, when it was,
according to the Hortus Kewensis, cultivated by Mr. Puizip
Miter, it has never been figured in any publication of our
country. It is a native of woody places in the vallies of
the Bannatian and Croatian Mountains : and I also possess
specimens, through the kindness of Dr. Fiscner, which
were gathered at Guriel on the eastern shore of the Black
Sea, a province of Georgia. It is quite hardy, and bears
its copious blossoms in July and August.

Descr. Root perennial. Stems herbaceous, many from
the same root, erect, four to six feet high, simple, or pani-
cled only at the top with the flowers, stout, hairy, rounded,
obscurely furrowed. Flowers very large, often a foot in
length, alternate, the lower ones cordate and petiolate, the
upper gradually smaller, sessile and ovate, or even lanceo-
late, all of them more or less acuminated, coarsely serrated,
pubescenti-scabrous, dark green above, paler beneath, co-
piously and reticulatedly veined. Peduncles long, thick-
ened upwards, naked or bearing one or two small leaves.
Involucre of many spreading, oblongo-lanceolate scales, the
outer ones larger, leaf-like, and more or less reflexed. Re-
ceptacle chaffy, with numerous subulate scales. Florets of
the ray, undoubtedly not in a single, but in several (2—3)
series, very numerous: Corollas narrow-linear. Florets of
the centre tubular. Akenium (immature) oblong, crowned
with a minute, jagged cup.

r xe 1. Central Floret. 2. Part of a Floret of the Circumference : magni- |
ed.

3467.

Curtis. Clazenwougl Essex, Febt1 1836

Pub. by Ag

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CHOI)

Lupinus SUBCARNOSUS. FLESHY-LEAVED
LUPINE.

BO oR Oe A a sO as a
Class and Order.

DiapevpH1A Decanpria.
( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosz. )

Generic Character.

Calyx profunde bilabiatus. Corolla papilionacea, vexillo
lateribus reflexis, carina acuminata. Stamina monadelpha,
vagina integra, antheris 5 parvis subrotundioribus preco-
rioribus, 5 oblongis serioribus. Stylus filiformis. Stigma
terminale, subrotundum, barbatum. Zegumen coriaceum,
oblongum, compressum, oblique torulosum. Cotyledones
crasse, per germin, in folia converse. .

Specific Name and Character.

Lupinus subcarnosus ; herbaceus annuus, caule pubescenti-
sericeo, foliolis quinis obovato-lanceolatis subcarnosis
supra glaberrimis subtis (margineque precipue) seri-
ceis, stipulis elongato-subulatis, racemo pyramidali,
pedicellis alternis longitudine florum, calycibus sert-
ceis bibracteatis bilabiatis, labio superiore breviore
bifido inferiore lanceolato apice tridentato dente inter-
medio longiore, vexillo orbiculari intense ceruleo me-
dio macula alba plica longitudinali divisa.

An extremely beautiful, and, apparently, very distinct
species, of which specimens exist in my Herbarium, which
were collected at Bejar in Texas, by M. Brerenpier In
1828. It has been again gathered most abundantly by Mr.
Drummonp, between Brazoria and San Felipe, particularly
about the latter place. Seeds arrived in England from the
last mentioned Naturalist, and have produced their hand-

some flowers in July of the present year, 1835. .
Descr.

Descr. Root apparently annual. Stem eight to ten
inches to a foot high, simple or branched, downy. Leaves
upon long petioles, of five obovato-lanceolate, singularly
thick, and almost fleshy, retuse leaflets, those of the lower
leaves the shortest and broadest; all of them quite glabrous
on the upper surface, below slightly silky with scattered
hairs ; the margiy ciliated with white appressed silky hairs.
Stipules half to three-fourths of an inch long, subulate, ap-
pressed. Racemes terminal, pedunculated, pyramidal, com-
posed of many extremely richly-coloured flowers. Peduncle
downy, silky above. Pedicels about as long as the flowers,
silky. Calyx silky, purplish-green, two-lipped, bearing a
bractea ou each side near the middle. Standard bent back,
especially at the sides, orbicular, deep rich blue, with a
nearly quadrangular white or yellowish-white spot in the
centre, which appears to be divided in the middle by a
longitudinal fold: ale (combined by their lower margin,
and wholly concealing the carina) oval, deep blue: keel
white, much acuminated, purple-black at the tip. Legumes,
in my native specimens, an inch and a half in length, linear-
oblong, compressed, torulose from the four or five seeds
contained within, and silky.

Fig. 1. Inside view of the Vexillum. 2. Calyx with the Carina —mag-
nified.

( 3468 )

CoLtomiA CAVANILLESII. -CAVANILLES’
CoLLoMIA.

KKK KKK KEE KEK EK K KEKE
Class and Order.

Pentanpria Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.— Po temontAcem. )

Generic Character.

Calyx campanulatus 5-fidus vel sub 5-partitus, lobis lan- —
ceolatis linearibusve zequalibus integris. Corolla hypocra-
teriformis, tubo tenui exserto, limbo patente 5-partito,
laciniis oblongis integris. Stamina versus medium tubi
mserta. Anthere ovato-subrotundx. Capsule loculi 1—2- —
spermi.—Herbe, folia alterna, rarius inferiora opposita, in- —
tegra inciso-dentata vel rarius pinnatifida. Flores dense
capitati, bracteis late ovatis integerrimis suffulti. Benth.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cottomia Cavanillesii ; foliis lanceolato-linearibus supremis
ovato-lanceolatis integerrimis vel apice profunde 3—4-
dentatis, calyce semi-5-fido, laciniis lato-lanceolatis
obtusis, corollis calyce plus duplo longioribus, stami-
nibus inclusis, capsule loculis monospermis. Benth.

Cottomsa Cavanillesii. Hook. et Arn. Bot. of Beech. Voy.
©. 4. p. 37, 1831. |

Cotiomia coccinea. Lehm. Hort. Hamb. 1832. Benth. in
Bot. Reg. t. 1662.

Cottomia lateritia. Sw. Br. Fl. Gard. t. 206.

Putox linearis. Cav. Ic. v. 6. p. 17. t. 527. (uot Collomia

linearis, Nutt. )

It is singular that two authors, who have described this
plant, should both have overlooked the figure and descrip-

tion of it in Cavanittes. Nurratn mistook them for ee
o

of his North American Collomia, quoting it indeed doubt-
fully, but adopting the specific name; whereas the two
plants are totally distinct. It was introduced to our gar-
dens from Chili by Mr. Cumine, and is a very desirable
annual, flowering in Scotland in the latter part of the sum-
mer. Professor Linpiey observes, that if the seeds are
sown in March, in the open border, the blossoms will
appear in June; if again sown, shortly after that time, a
second crop of flowers may be had in September and Oc-
tober, seasons which suit it rather better than the dog-days.
In Chili it seems to be abundant. Cavanizxes found it at
‘Talcahuano ; Mr. Cumine at Valparaiso (n. 549 of his col-
lection), and in the Cordillera (n. 221); Mr. Brinees at
Los Ojos de Agua (n. 146), and in Valdivia (n. 611), and
the officers of Captain Bercuey’s Voyage at Conception.
Descr. Annual. Stem erect, a foot high, rounded, more
or less branched and hairy, as well as the foliage, especially
in the upper part of the plant. Leaves alternate, at the
base only opposite, linear-lanceolate, entire, or incised at
the extremity, those near the flowers broader at the base.
Flowers umbellato-capitate ; pedicels short. Calyx glandu-
_ loso-pilose, nearly half five-cleft. Corolla with a long,
harrow, deep-yellow tube, which is slightly downy, and
twice as long as the calyx ; limb of five spreading, narrow-
ovate segments; of a dull, but rather deep red on the
upper side, pale birch red at the back; eye yellow. Cap-

sule as long as the calyx, one-celled, three-valved ; valyes
obcordate.

Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified.

Fah by 8 Carts Charen werd Ears BB? 1.1836.

( 3469 )

PETROPHILA ACICULARIS. N&EDLE-LEAVED
PETROPHILA.

Class and Order.
TerranprRiA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Prorteacez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium quadrifidum, totum simul deciduum. Sgua-—
me nulle hypogyne. Stylus basi persistente. Stigma
fusiforme, apice attenuato. Strobilus ovatus. Nux lenti-

cularis, hine comosa vel Samara basi barbata.—Frutices _
rigidi. Folia glabra, varia, filiformia v. plana, indivisa,

lobata v. pinnatifida, quandoque in eodem frutice diversi-

formia. Amenta ovata, vel oblonga, terminalia et axillaria,

nunc aggregata. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Perropuita* acicularis ; foliis filiformibus supra obsolete
sulcatis, squamis strobili nervosis ovatis.

Perropuita acicularis. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 10.
p. 69. Ibid. Prodr. Fl. Now. Holland, p. 364. Roem. et
Schult. v. 3. p.338. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 459.

This plant was raised at the Botanic Garden of Edinburgh
from seed, having been communicated from King George’s
Sound, New Holland, by Col. Linpesay in 1830, under the
name of Perropuita filifolia, and specimens flowered in the
greenhouse both last year and this, in April.

Descr. Shrub erect ; branches erect, glabrous, yellowish-
green. Leaves (three to six inches long) filiform, obscurely

furrowed

* From mstpoc, a stone, or rock, and QsAeo, to love: from the species in-
habiting rocky or stony places,

furrowed on the upper side, glabrous, mucronate, bright
ereen, smaller and cartilaginous at the base. Capitulum
terminal, receptacle densely covered with short white wool.
Bracteas ovate, acute, the outer ones having a leaf-like
apex. Perianth silky, deciduous, four-parted, concave and
red internally in the apices of the segments. Anthers ob-
long, yellow, sessile in the apices of the perianth ; Pollen-
granules angular. Stigma articulate, the upper portion
hairy, about twice as long as the green, glabrous, angular,
turbinate lower portion. Style longer than the perianth,
capillary. Germen sessile, every where covered with long,
white, érect hairs, green, corticular, ovule solitary. Gra-

ham.

Fig. 1. Flower, with its Bractea. 2. Bractea. 3. Pistil: magnified.

Pub. by 8. Curtis Glavnwood, Essex#eb7 7, 1836

( 3470 )

PoTENTILLA ATRO-SANGUINEA; hybrida, RussELLIANA.
Mr. Russexr’s hybrid variety of the Deer ©
“Buioop-coLoureD CINQUEFOIL.

“desk seskeskesokesakolesbakeobeakeakeobeskeateskeakeakeobeak
Class and Order.

IcosANDRIA PoLyGyniA.
( Nat. Ord. —Rosace#. )

Generic Character.

Calyx decemfidus, segmentis alternis minoribus. Petala
5. Pericarpia receptaculo sicco affixa. :

Specific Character and Synonyms.

PorentILLA atro-sanguinea ; caule erecto pubescente ra-
moso, foliis ternis petiolatis superne sessilibus foliolis
ellipticis profunde serratis subtus niveo-tomentosis, sti-
pulis magnis ovatis, petalis obcordatis (atro-sangul-
neis. )

PorenTitta atro-sanguinea. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 786. Don,

. Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 232. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p.

579. Bot. Mag. t. 2689.

P Hybrida, Russelliana ; foliis subtus concoloribus, corollis
maximis intense sanguineéo-coccineis. Russell’s Po-

tentilla. Bot. Reg. t. 1496.— Tab. nostr. (3470).

Ba MM Si eB a Fe toate

Perhaps no plant, bearing the open air in our cli-
mate, produces flowers of a richer hue than the present,
which is an hybrid, said to have been first raised by Mr.
Russeut of Battersea, between P. atro-sanguinea and P.
Nepalensis ; but far exceeding in the size and beauty of its
blossoms either of its parents. It is perfectly hardy, brav-
ing the severest winters of our island with impunity and —
flowering during the summer and autumn.

a

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——

- ca) to are
) TriroLiuM REFLEXUM. Burrato Crover.

SEK KKK KKK EERE EERE EKER
Class and Order.

DrapELPHIA DECANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Lereuminos2. )

Generic Character.

Calyx tubulosus, persistens, eglandulosus, 5-fidus, laciniis
subulatis. Carina alis et vexillo brevior. Stamina diadel-
pha. Legumen parvum vix dehiscens, sepius ovatum 1—2-
spermum, calyce brevius et ab eo tectum rarius oblongum,
3—4-spermum calycem paululum superans.—Herbe. Sti-
pule petiolo adnate. Folia palmatim 5- aut rarissime 5-fo-
liolata. Flores capitati aut dense spicati, bracteati, purpuret,
albi aut ochroleuct. Petala in quibusdam omnia inferne basi
coaliia.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Trirotium reflexum ; adscendens, foliolis rhomboideo-ova-
libus denticulatis, capitulis globosis terminalibus, flo-
ribus defloratis reflexis, calycis tubi brevissimo dentibus
elongatis subulatis rectis corolla persistente brevioribus,
alis vexillo obovato brevioribus carina apiculata lon-
gioribus, legumine oblongo 3—4-spermo. ee

Trirotium reflexum. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1079. Mich. Am.
v.2.p.39. Pursh Fl. Am.v.2.p.477. Spreng. Syst.
Veget.v.3.p.205. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 201, (not
of Waldst. and Kit. nor of De Cand. I. c. p. 197.)

This handsome species of Trefoil, though long cultivated
in the Southern States of North America, and even as far
North as Kentucky, by the name of Buffalo-Clover, is very
little known to European Botanists, nor are we aware that
it has ever been raised in our gardens, though eminently
deserving a place in every collection, until Mr. Drummonp

, sent

sent seeds from Texas in the spring of 1835. Its flowers
are in perfection in the open border in June and July.
Descr. Stems herbaceous, decumbent, branched, six to
eight inches in length, more or less hirsute, sometimes, as
in our specimens, almost entirely glabrous. Leaflets ter-
nate, oval, approaching to rhomboidal, the lower ones obo-
vate, denticulate, especially in their upper half, frequently
spotted with brown and white ; petioles one to two inches
long. Stipules obliquely cordate, acuminate. Peduncles
terminal and lateral, two to three inches long. Heads large,
globose, many-flowered, very handsome. Pedicels short.
Calyx with a short cup-shaped tube and five upright, subu-
late teeth much shorter than the petals. Corolla persistent,
not withering. Vexillum broadly obovate, beautiful rose-
red, the claw scarcely forming a tube. Wings white, at
first straight, shorter than the vexillum, but longer than the
mucronated, white keel. After flowering, the wings spread
considerably and by slightly cohering with the sides of the
ale, they cause it to dilate and to have the appearance ofa
white bird with its wings expanded. Stamens diadelphous.
Germen linear. Style long. Legume oblong, stipitate,
three to four-seeded, terminated by the long persistent style.
Seeds greenish-brown, spotted. >

Fig. 1. Back view of a Flower. 2. Side view of ditto. 3. Keel. 4. Pistil.
5. Fruit :-—magnvfied.

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Pentstemon Murrayanus. Mr. Morray’s |
ScARLET PENTSTEMON.

Class and Order.

¥ Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Scropnutarina. )

Generic Character.

_ Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla tubulosa, subventricosa, bi-_
—- Jabiata. Filamentum 5 sterile. Capsula bilocularis, bival-—
___ Vis, dissepimento duplicato e marginibus valvarum inflexis
demum bipartibili. Semina nuda. ei

Specific Name and Character.

Pentstemon Murrayanus ; elatus glaberrimus glaucus, foliis
integerrimis oblongis inferioribus spathulatis superio-
ribus seu bracteatis connato-perfoliatis, floribus race-
mosis, corollis glaberrimis, tubo subcylindraceo longi- -
tudine staminum, filamento quinto nudo.

A native of San Felipe, in Texas: discovered by Mr.
Drummonp, in 1834, and by him sent to our gardens, where
it promises to be a very great acquisition, being remarkable
for its stately growth, its singularly glaucous and large
foliage, and for the number and size and rich colouring of
the flowers. 'The seeds arrived rather late in the spring of
1835, so that, in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, the autumn
advanced rapidly upon us before the blossoms were gene-
rally expanded. Under more favorable circumstances we
may judge of the beauty of the plant, from the fact that, on
_ one specimen, we counted eleven pairs of floral leaves, from
_ the axils of which sprang two to four flower buds: and in
one of the dried native specimens a single raceme had fifty-
six blossoms. It will probably prove quite a hardy, her-
baceous perennial. I am anxious it should bear the name

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of the skilful Curator of our Glasgow, Botanic Garden, who
has been the means of rearing so many of Mr. Drummonp’s
plants, and to whose undeviating kindness and friendship
that zealous Naturalist was greatly indebted for much of
the success that attended his exertions.

Descr. Root perennial. Stem three feet high, erect, .
simple, rounded, purplish below. Leaves remarkably glau-
cous, and all quite entire, large, opposite : the radical ones
six to seven inches long, spathulate, those of the lower part
of the stem oblong, gradually becoming shorter and broader
upwards and united at the base, till at length among the
flowers (where they may be considered bracteas) they are
remarkably connate, perfoliate, and cup-shaped, sensibly
diminishing towards the extremity, so that the upper part
of the stem forms a paniculated raceme, each pair of floral
leaves bearing two, generally four, and often six, large,
pedunculated, somewhat drooping, very handsome flowers.
Peduncle as long as the space between the leaves. Calyx
deeply cut into five, nearly equal, slightly-spreading, linear-
oblong segments. Corolla an inch and a half or more long, of
arich glossy scarlet especially at the base, slightly enlarged
upwards : limb two-lipped ; upper lip small, bifid ; lower
large, of three spreading, oval segments. The fifth abor-
tive filament deep red, curved at the extremity, which is
filiform and not at all bearded. Germen ovate, green,
seated upon a glandular disk, tapering into a deep red,
filiform style : Stigma obtuse.

Fig. 1. Flower from which a portion of the Corolla is cut away, to show
the Stamen, the fifth Filament, and the Styles magnified.

Lub. by S. Curtis, Glaxenwood: Essex:Marl 1836.

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LINARIA. CANADENSIS. AMERICAN TOAD-
Fax.

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Class and Order.

DipynaMiIA ANGIOSPERMIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Scropnurarine. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus persistens. Corolla personata, tubo in.
cornu producto: limbo bilabiato: lab. sup. erectum emar-
ginatum aut bifidum lateribus reflexis; if. palato eleva-
tum, trilobum. Stamina conniventia. Anthere ovales,
biloculares. Stylus filiformis. Stigma capitatum subbilo-
bum. Capsula bilocularis, apice dentibus pluribus dehis-
cens: dissepimento utrinque placentifero.. Semima com-
pressa, marginata, vel solida. Spr.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Linaria* Canadensis ; erecta glabra glauca, foliis lineari-
bus obtusis, floribus racemosis, labio inferiore maximo —
palato obsoleto, calcare subulato, stolonibus procum-
bentibus.

Lrnaria Canadensis. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 2. p. T97.

Antirruinum Canadense. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 861. Pursh,
Fl. Am. v. 2. p. 421. Elliott, Carol. v. 2. p. (13.

Many Botanists object to the use of the names of coun-
tries, as applied to the specific denomination of plants, on
the ground that they may be, and are frequently, found
in other localities besides that from which the species de-
rives its appellation: and such is eminently the case with

the

* From dinum, flax, which the leaves of this and many other of the
species considerably resemble.

the present individual, which, though called Canadensis,
is not only found in all the temperate and warm regions of
North America, but extends likewise through the greater
part, if not the whole, of South America,* both on the
Atlantic and Pacific sides; so that few phcenogamous
plants can boast so extended a range. If we exclude the
very dubious Linarra tenella, Pu. (not Cav.) this is the
only species indigenous to North America; and except
the Linaria glabrata of Humeoxpr, there seems to be no
other found in South America. The present species is
remarkable for the very large lower lip of the corolla and
the very slightly projecting palate: the faux, however, as
WILLDENow well observes, is not pervious, whence it dif-
fers from the Genus Anarruinum.
Although a plant known since the days of Linnaus, and
even Gronovius, it does not appear to have been intro-
duced to our gardens till the spring of last year, when
Mr. Drummonp sent seeds (as well as specimens) from
Texas, which produced flowering plants the ensuing sum-
mer. It is a hardy annual, and, on account of its compara-
tively large and delicate flowers, well worthy of being
perpetuated in our gardens.
Descr. Annual. Stems often several from the same:
- root, erect, a foot or more high, simple or branched, throw-
_Ing out several procumbent stolones or barren shoots at
the base, asin Linarta simplex, and especially L. Pelisseri-
anum. Leaves linear, alternate, and rather remote on the
flowering-stems, on the procumbent shoots crowded, often
ternate and quaternate, all of them perfectly glabrous,
entire, slightly glaucous. Racemes terminal, of several
handsome, large, and extremely delicate, pale purple fow-
ers, streaked with darker veins. Pedicels short. Calyx of
five deep, glabrous segments. Corolla with the lower lip
remarkably large and deflexed, cut into three truncated or
retuse lobes, the disk pale, slightly prominent, but present-
ing no manifest projection or palate, yet closing the faux.
Capsule globose, compressed, scarcely longer than the ca-
lyx, crowned with the short persistent style.

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* I have specimens from Lurin, in Peru, gathered by Mr. Marnews;

_ from Chili, by Mr. CrucksHanxks and Mr. CuminG; from Valdivia, by

Mr. Bripces; from Paraguay, by Mr. Barr; from Maldonado, by Dr.

GiLtigs ; and from Rio Grande do Sul, by Mr. Tweepre: whilst SELLOW

a detected it in other parts of South Brazil, according to CHaMrsso in
, Linnea, v. 2. p. 591.

Lub. by § Curtis, Glavenpood: £ ssa Mar] 1836 Swan Se.

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CoREOPSIS DIVERSIFOLIA. WVARIOUS-LEAVED
Coreopsis.

KEKE KEKE KEKE EER EERE EK
Class and Order.

SynGENESIA F'RUSTRANEA.
( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. )

Generic Character.

Receptaculum paleaceum. Achenia compressa, emargi-
nata. Pappus bicornis vel obsoletus. Involucrum duplex ;
utrumque polyphyllum.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Coreopsis * diversifolia ; annua, hirsuta vel glabra, ramosa,
foliis ternatis pinnatis etiam bipinnatis, foliolis rhom-
beo-rotundatis obovatis obtusis integerrimis, pedun-
culis elongatis glaberrimis unifloris, involucro utroque
monophyllo suboctopartito, radiis apice 4-fidis, ache-
niis ovalibus muticis subincurvis hince disco plano
margine incrassato.

Coreopsis auriculata; var. diversifolia. Elliott, Corol. v.

. 2. p. 437.

Sent from Texas by the late Mr. Drummonp, who was
much struck with its beauty, and who gathered it, not only
upon the coast at Brazosia, but in the interior of the coun-
try round San Felipe. Seeds which arrived in February of
the past year (1835) produced plants, which displayed their
large and bright orange-coloured flowers with a dark eye
in the open air, in the month of July. So that it promises
to be a hardy and most desirable annual. Its nearest

affinity,

* From xopss, a bug, and obi, a resemblance, from a fancied likeness in
the fruit to that insect.

affinity, as a species, is undoubtedly with C. auriculata,
with which Mr. Exuiorr appears, though doubtfully, to
have united it. It differs from that plant in its miich
smaller size, thinner, and usually more divided leaves, with
broader and blunter segments, in its much larger flowers,
and above all, the truly annual duration of the root.
Descr. Root annual. Stem a foot, or a foot and a half
high, branched, varying exceedingly in hairiness, sometimes
thickly clothed with rather long, spreading hairs, at other
times quite glabrous. Leaves generally glabrous, petio-
lated, extremely variable, sometimes obovato-spathulate,
and quite undivided, sometimes ternate, with the two late-
ral segments or leaflets smaller, at other times pinnatifid,
and not rarely even bipinnate, the leaflets obovate, or oval
and very obtuse, those of the lowermost leaves almost orbi-
cular. Peduncles terminal and axillary, long, slender, gla-
brous. Involucre double, small; both monophyllous and
about eight-partite ; the outer lax with linear, green seg-
ments : the inner with broadly-elliptic, brown, glossy, mem-
branaceous ones. Filorets of the ray eight, very large,
obovate, spreading, bright orange, with a dark brown spot
at the very base, neuter, cut at the extremity into five,
large, unequal teeth, the two middle ones the longest.
Germen compressed, abortive. Dise small; its florets dark
purple, black above, the anthers and styles and tips of the
anthers alone orange. Germen ovate, compressed, slightly
curved. Achenia oval, slightly curved, minutely dotted,
the inner face with a depressed disk. Receptacle chafty ;
the scales long, lanceolato-subulate, dark purple-brown,
pale below.

Fig. 1. Floret of the Ray. 2. Floret of the Disk 3. Scale of the Re-
ceptacle. 4. Achenia: magnified.

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Rosa CENTIFOLIA, muscosa; cristata.
Crestep var. of the Moss Rosr.

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Class and Order.

IcosANDRIA PoLnyeynia.
( Nat. Ord. —Rosace#. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus urceolatus carnosus, achenia plurima hir-
suta includens. Receptaculum villosum.

Specific Character and Spnonyms.

Rosa centifolia ; armis inequalibus majoribus falcatis, folio-
lis glanduloso-ciliatis, floribus cernuis, calycibus visco-
sis, fructu oblongo. Lindl.

Rosa centifolia. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 704. Lindl: Ros. p. 64.

(8.) muscosa; calycibus pedunculisque muscosis. Land.
L. oh

Rosa muscosa. Mill. Dict. n. 22. Sims, Bot: Mag. t. 69.

(«.) cristata. (Tab. nostr. 3475.) ‘

The Moss Rose of our gardens, having been by Professor —
Linb-ey, in his excellent work above quoted, satisfactorily,
as we think, referred to Rosa centifolia, we rank this plant
as a subvariety of that well-known favourite of our gardens,
and proceed to extract from Mr. Curtis’s letter the remarks
that accompanied the beautiful drawing, from the pencil
of Miss Apams, daughter of Capt. Apams, R. N. of Witham,
Kssex.

« This variety of the’Moss Rose, like many of the more
novel sorts, was obtained from France. Independently of
_ the curious mode in which the moss springs in tufts from
the edges of its calyx, giving to the early buds a most
remarkable appearance, this Rose, when fully ie ara is

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large, and of the loveliest hue, vying in beauty with any
Provins Rose. In luxuriant plants the leaf-stalks are
adorned with moss, and the foliage is very ample, rich, and
of a lively green colour. Amongst the Roses which I cul-
tivate here, to the number of more than a thousand dif-
ferent kinds, this variety promises, when more generally
known, to become the universal favorite. Its beauty and
rarity will, I hope, plead an excuse for departing from the
rule against figuring varieties in this work, the Moss Pro-
vins Rose having already found a place; but, to avoid
repetition, it may be desirable to state, for the information
of those who desire to possess the most eligible kinds
of Moss Rose, that, among the newer sorts now cultivated,
the White, the Scarlet or Tinwell, and the De Meaux, witha
White Perpetual Moss Rose, which grows in a clustering
manner, and resembles in habit the Quatre Saisons, are the
most generally approved varieties. These are well worthy
of a conspicuous place in every flower-garden, and their
vigor is generally increased by budding them on the stock
of the Dog Rose, whether it be desirable to keep them in a
dwarf state, or to rear them into standards.” S. C.

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EvpHorBIA BUPLEURIFOLIA. HArRe’s-Ear-
LEAVED SPURGE.

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Class and Order.

Monazcc1a Monanpria.
( Nat. Ord.—EvurHorsiaces. )

Generic Character.

Involucrum androgynum 4—5-fidum, extus appendiculis
glandulosis rotundatis v. bicornibus. Flores apetalis mas-
culi peripherici. Pedicelli incerti numeri, singuli cum sin-
vulis staminibus articulati. Anthere biloculares loculis
discretis, sursum dehiscentibus. Germen pedicellatum cen-
trale. Styli 3, bifidi. Caps. tricocea. Cocci bivalves.
Sem. albuminosa. Spr.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Evrnorsia bupleurifolia ; caule bulbiformi tuberculato-
areolato, foliis terminalibus fasciculatis lanceolatis in
petiolum attenuatis, pedunculis axillaribus monoce-
phalis, involueri universalis foliolis subrotundatis basi
coadunatis.

Evrnorsia bupleurifolia. Jacg. Hort. Schoenbr. v. 1. p. 55.
t. 106.- Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 787.

Among the many curious forms of this extensive and

‘varied Genus which exist in Southern Africa, the present is,

perhaps, the most remarkable, having a thick, succulent,
bulbiform stem, marked all over with the scars occasioned
by the falling away of the old leaves, giving a reticulated
appearance to the surface, the areole constituting tubercles,
which are umbilicated in the centre. The whole foliage
arises from the extremity of the stem. The Glasgow Bo-

tanic Garden is indebted for its first possession of this plant
to

to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it has been long cul-
tivated ; and very lately we have received living specimens
through the liberality of Baron von Lupwie, which, arriy-
ing in the month of April, quite destitute of leaves, soon
produced both foliage and flowers as here represented.
The whole plant abounds with milky juice.

Descr. Stem four to five inches high, and about three
broad, oval or obovate, brown, greenish above, marked all
over with the tuberculiform scars, arising from fallen leaves,
of which the interstices exhibit a reticulated appearance.
Leaves all terminal, clustered, erecto-patent, four to six
inches long, lanceolate obtuse, with a few oblique veins
from the costa, below tapering into a footstalk. From
within these leaves the peduncles arise, two to three inches
long, erect, bearing each only one capitulum or head o
flowers. Germen: Involucre of two roundish or obcordate
leaves, of a rather thick and coriaceous texture, united at
their bases, within which, and quite sessile, is the partial
mvolucre, cup-shaped, with five equal, nearly erect, round-
ed, minutely crenated, fleshy lobes, and alternating with
them are five smaller, somewhat membranaceous and fim bri-
ated ones. Staminiferous flowers numerous. The pistillife-
rous one had fallen away when this drawing and descrip-
tion were made. But Jaceurin describes the germen as

smooth, and the stigma trifid, with the segments obscurely
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Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynlia.
( Nat. Ord.—Boraeineg. )

Generic Character.

_ Calyx 5-partitus, fructiferus erectus v. nutans, inflatus.
Corolla infundibuliformis, fauce fornicibus erectis obtusis
clausa. Stamina tubo adnata, inclusa. Stylus stigmate
bilobo. Nuces turbinate, basi foveolate. Spr. fe

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ancuusa* versicolor; calycibus quinquefidis, fructiferis
maxime inflatis cernuis, corollis equalibus, foliis ob-
longis obtusiusculis floralibus latioribus, caulibus pros-
tratis, nucibus rugosis.

Ancuusa versicolor. Stev. Act. Mosq. p. 21. Roem. et
Sch. v. 4. p. 93.

Lycopsis rosea. Reich. Ic. Bot. t. 330. (excl. syn.)

An exceedingly pretty annual, which we are surprised
is not more known and more cultivated. The corollas are
large, for plants of this family, at first sight resembling
those of Convotvutus tricolor, and are remarkable for the
striking change of colour which they undergo, being almost
red in the state of the bud; then, when expanded, reddish
purple ; at length bright blue with a yellow eye, from which
diverge several delicate rays of a pale yellowish-white
colour. Reicuensacn and Sprencet have strangely con-

founded

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red dye, which was formerly used to stain the face.

founded it with the Ancnusa rosea of BresersTein, admira-
bly figured in the Cent. Plant. Ross. Merid. t. 43, but that
has much smaller, deep rose-coloured flowers, sharper teeth
to the calyx, and acuminated leaves. A. versicolor is an
inhabitant of the Caucasian Alps, about Chinalung and
Kasbek. In the Glasgow Botanic Garden it flowers in
July. ;

Descr. Root annual. Stem weak and decumbent,
branched, slightly angular, and moderately hispid. Leaves
slightly hispid, entire, the radical ones spathulate, those of
the stem oblong, the uppermost or floral leaves broader,
inclining to ovate, all rather obtuse at the extremity.
Racemes elongated, leafy. Flowers arising from the axil
of each leaf or bractea, on a very short stalk. Calyx
five-toothed, oblong, erect, at length singularly inflated and
deflexed, slightly five-angled. Corolla large, salver-shaped
rather than funnel-shaped : tube as long as the calyx : limb
five-lobed, spreading, at first deep rose-red, then purple, at
length blue with pale yellow rays. A little below the
mouth of the tube are five small, rounded scales, hairy
at the margin. Stamens with their filaments very short ;
the anthers oblong, dark coloured. Nuts (immature) five,
ovate, compressed, much wrinkled, fixed by their base.

Fig. 1. Section of the Calyx with young Fruit. 2, Corolla laid open.
3. Scale of the Corolla. 4. Stamen :—magnified.

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PereskiA BLEo. RosE-COLOURED
PERESKIA.

SKK RK KK EK EEE KEKE EK
Class and Order.

IcosanpRiA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Cacrea. )

Generic Character.

Sepala plurima ovario adnata et super fructum sepe per-
sistentia foliiformia. Corolla rotata fere Opuntia. Stamina
numerosa petalis multo breviora. Stylus filiformis. Steg-
mata spiraliter aggregata. Bacca globosa aut ovata. Se-
mina in pulpa nidulantia.—Frutices aué arbores, ramis
teretibus. Aculei ad axillam foliorum solitarit aut m caule
fasciculati. Folia distincta plana in ordine maxima, Flo-
res subpaniculati solitarti ramulos terminantes aut sublate-

rales. DC.

Specific Character and Synonyms. —

Pereskia * Bleo; foliis ellipticis acutis, aculeis axillaribus
fasciculatis, pedunculis in axillis supremis 3—5-floris,
petalis obovatis retusis demum reflexis. |

Peresx1s Bleo. Humb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. 2. 6. p. 69.
De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. #74. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t.
1473.

A very handsome stove plant, which few at the first sight
with its large, glossy, nerved leaves, and spreading and even
reflexed petals, would take for one of the Cactus family.

It appears to have been discovered on the banks of the
Magdalena,

* In honour of Nicotas Fasricius PEIRESKIUS, Counsellor in Par-
liament of Aix en Provence. “Son nom seul fait son éloge, dit TouRNE-
FoRT.”—Théis.

Magdalena, South America, by Humsoxprt, who retained,
for its specific name, the uncouth appellation given to it by
the natives of New Grenada. Mr. Tare introduced it to
the stoves of this country from Mexico, and to him the
Glasgow Botanic Garden owes the possession of it. With
us it flowers in May and June.

Descr. The specimen before us is scarcely a foot in
length; its stem rounded, fruticose, brownish-green, with
several tufts of deciduous spines, two to five in number,
from one-half to three-fourths of an inch long, imbedded
ina dense mass of hairs, or soft bristles. Leaves alternate,
four to six inches long, rather soft and fleshy, elliptical,
acute, tapering at the base into a very short footstalk ; and
bearing, in the axils which do not contain peduncles, similar
tufts of spines and hairs. The upper axils bear peduncles,
which are thick, rounded, and fleshy, about an inch or
more long, with from three to five handsome rose-coloured
flowers. Calyx fleshy, green, of several somewhat imbri-
cated teeth, with a small leafy appendage at the extremity,
the outer ones with a small dense tuft of hairs on each side
at the base ; petals ten, in two series; the outer smaller,
greenish on the back ; the inner larger and deeper coloured,
all obovate, more or less retuse, soon reflected. Filaments

numerous, inserted upon the calyx. Anthers yellow.

Style as long as the stamens. Stigma large, of five to six
erect rays.

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PERISTERIA PENDULA. PENDULOUS
Dove-FLowe_er.

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Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanprlia.
( Nat. Ord.—Orcnipez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium globosum. Sepala concava, subcarnosa,
basi connata, ita calyx submonophyllus. Petala confor-
mia paulo minora. Labellum carnosum, medio articulatum ;
dimidio superiore erecto apice reflexo, inferiore lobo utrin-
que dilatato. Columna basi petalorum adnata inferne pro-
ducta et labello continua, utrinque in alam vel lobum
producta. Anthera ecristata, bilocularis. Pollinia 2 pos-
tice fissa, glandula sessili nuda.—Herba terrestris, pseudo-
bulbosa. Folia plura, plicata. Scapus radicalis vaginatus,
pluriflorus. Flores speciosi, odoratt.

Specific Name and Character.

-Perristeria pendula ; scapo brevi paucifloro, columne alis
seu lobis parvis porrectis, labelli basi disco cristato
crasso, lobo superiore disco canaliculato ecristato.

This fine plant unquestionably belongs to the curious
Genus Peristeria, of which only one species (P. elata,
Bot. Mag. t. 3116,) was hitherto known, and that is a
native of Panama. The present one was imported with
many other rarities from Demerara, by Joun Attcarp, Esq.
in whose stove at Stratford Green it flowered in January of
the present year, and who kindly sent us the drawing here
engraved, from the pencil of V. Barrnotomew, Esq. Asso-
ciate of Painters in Water Colours.

Descr. Bulb oblong-ovate, grooved, partially sheathed
with membranaceous scales, and bearing at its summit three

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to four lanceolate, wavy, striated, somewhat membrana-
ceous leaves. From the base of this bulb descends a scape,
six to seven incheslong, clothed with membranaceous scales,
and bearing about five large, handsome, globose, fleshy, fra-
grant flowers of a pale, greenish-white without, within tinged
with blush, and sprinkled with purple dots. Sepals round-
ish, rather obtuse, very concave, united at the base, espe-
cially the two lower ones, under the lip: petals rather
smaller, but similar in form and texture. Lip of a very
remarkable shape, thick and fleshy, dingy white, spotted
with purple, jointed in the middle ; the lower portion with
a membranous, rounded lobe on each side, and its disk re-
markably cristate, having a thick, elevated projection : the
upper joint or lobe erect, ligulate, its disk deeply grooved,
the apex recurved. Column semiterete, standing forward,
with a horizontal lobe or wing on each side, singularly
dilated downwards below, and gradually passing into the
lip. Anther-case depressed. Pollen-masses obovate.

Fig 1. View of the base of a Flower, to show the combined Sepals. 2.
Front view of the Column and Lip, the floral coverings being cut away.
3. Side view of ditto. 4, Side view of the same, the upper lobe of the 4
(fig. 5.) being removed. 6. 7. Anther. 8 9. Pollen-masses.—Fig. 2 to
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Linum BerenpieEri. BERENDIER’S Y ELLOW-
FLOWERED F Lax.

Class and Order.

PenTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Linez. )

Generic Character.

_ Flores proportione partium quinaria. Sepala integra.
Styli rarissime 3, cum petalis staminibus sepalisque 5. . —

‘Specific Character and Synonym.

Linum Berendieri; annuum monogynum multicaule ra- —
mosum, caule angulato, foliis alternis linearibus rigi-
diusculis glabris mucronato-acuminatis: marginibus
levibus, floribus subcorymbosis, fructibus racemosis,
sepalis bracteisque lanceolato-acuminatis marginibus
serrulato-scabris, capsulis globosis acutis.

Linum Plotzii. Hook. MSS. in Herb. Tex.

An exceedingly beautiful and new species of Linum,
first known to me by means of specimens in a small
collection of plants gathered by M. Berenpier, (at first
erroneously supposed to be by M. Puorz,) in Texas.
These specimens were from “ Bejar,” where they were
found blossoming in March, 1828. By Mr. Drummonp it
was afterwards detected at Rio Brazos and San Felipe, in
the same country, and introduced to our gardens in 1835,
With us it has been kept in a cool frame, where it flowered
in August ; but there is reason to think it will prove a
hardy annual, and a most valuable acquisition to our
gardens. :

Descr. Root annual, sending up from its summit many
stems, which are more or less branched, especially pe

wards ;

wards; the branches angular. Leaves scattered, linear,
three-fourths of an inch to an inch in length, mucronate,
glabrous and quite entire at the margin, slightly glaucous.
The flowers are, at first, before expansion, corymbose,
afterwards the rachis is lengthened out, and in the state of
fruit there is an elongated raceme, the pedicels half an inch
long, pointing one way. Bracteas lanceolato-acuminate,
aristate, as well as the sepals, which, have three to five pro-
minent ribs, and are serrulate at the margin. Corolla large,
yellow, deeper and almost orange at the base. Petals
obovate, entire ; the claw at the very base hairy. Stamens
five. Anthers sagittate. Germen globose. Style longer
than the stamens, dividing at the extremity into five patent
branches, each tipped with a globose stigma. Capsule
globose, acute, five-celled, five-valved.

Fig. 1. Calyx, including the Stamens and Pistil. 2. Petal.

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CHATOGASTRA GRACILIS. SLENDER Cu2TO-
GASTRA.

Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—ME.astTomace&. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus turbinatus pilosus aut squamosus ; lobi 5
persistentes. Petala 5 obovata. Staminum filamenta glabra ;
Anthere 10 oblonge consimiles porose, connectivo basi
producto nunc in calcar simplex aut bifidum nune in tuber-
cula 2 obtusa interdum minima. Ovarium liberum, apice
setosum et spe denticulatum. Capsula 5-locularis, Semana -
cochleata. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cuzrocastra * gracilis; herbacea, erecta subsimplex
apice nuda, caule tereti-tetragono villoso, foliis sub-

sessilibus lanceolato-linearibus acutis integerrimis
3—5 nerviis villosis, pedicellis axillaribus I-floris et =
terminalibus ternis, calycis tubo ovato lobis lanceolatis

acuminatis subequal. a
Cumrocastra gracilis. De Cand. Prodr. 0. 3. p. 183, 7

Chamisso in Linnea, v. 9. p. 407. a
Ruexia gracilis. Humb. et Kunth, Rhex. t. 52.

An extremely beautiful Melastomaceous plant ; for dried
specimens of which we are indebted to several travellers in
Brazil, where the species appears to be common ; and for
the seeds, from which our living plants were raised in the

Glasgow

* From xairn, a bristle, and yaerns; so named, I apprehend, from the
copious bristles which crown the ovary. :

Glasgow Botanic Garden, to Mr. Tweenies, who collected
them at Rio Grande do Sul, in South Brazil. It requires
the heat of a stove, and blossomed with us in June. Cua-
Misso speaks of it as a very variable species, and is inclined
torefer to it the C. strigillosa, hieracioides, repanda (Martius,
Ospecxia, DC.), and even C. fraterna and hirsuta, DC.
Descr. Root perennial. Stem herbaceous, erect, nearly
simple, rounded, or obscurely four-sided, clothed with long,
spreading, rigid hairs. Leaves lanceolate, or oblongo-lan-
ceolate, patent, rather rigid, three-nerved, clothed on both
sides, and ciliated, with copious, harsh hairs, or bristles.
Upper part of the stem nearly bare of leaves, or the leaves
are reduced to small, oblong bracteas. Panicle subspicate.
Flowers large and handsome. Calyx ovato-turbinate,
bristly, with five acute, spreading segments. Petals five,
large, broadly obovate, approaching to cordate, spreading,
concave, rose-lilac, deeper at the base. Stamens ten,
declined, unequal. Filaments bright rose-red. Anthers
long, curved, attenuated upwards, yellow, opening by a
single pore ; the base with two rounded tubercles. Germen
oval, crowned with a silvery tuft of hairs or bristles. Style
about as long as the stamens, flexuose.

.

Fig. 1.2. Stamens. 3. Calyx laid open to show the Pistil :—magnified.

Pub, by S.Curtis,Glaxenwood Essex. Apr LISS¢é.

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CoopERIA CHLOROSOLEN.: GREEN-TUBED
CoopeERIA.

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Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—AMmARYLLIDEZ. )

Generic. Character.

Scapus cavus. Germen erectum. Perianthium tubo
erecto cylindrico ore ampliato, limbo albo regulari 14 un-
ciali sub sole patente. Filamenta decurrentia, subzqualia,
apice ad faucem tubi libera. Anthere subulato-lineares,
(dein lineares) erectz, non versatiles, a tertid parte inferiore
dorso affixee. Pollen difforme (quod in Sephyranthe acuté
ovale). Stigma crassum trilobum vix trifidum. Sema
complanata testa tenui nigra. W. H.

Specific Character.

Coorgrria chlorosolen ; scapo ultra-pedali viridi, infra rubes-
cente ; foliis sesquipedalibus, 1 unc. latis, canaliculatis,
tortilibus, acutis, viridibus ; germine sessili ; spatha 17
unciali tubata, apice fenestrato ; perianthii tubo Al
unciali viridi limbo 14 unciali albo, sepalis viridi-api-
culatis, extus viridi-lineatis; filamentis+ unciz liberis ;
stylo incluso semiunciam vel ultra tubo breviore. W.H.

This singular plant, the second species of the Genus that
has flowered in this country, was sent, as well as Coorrria
Drummondi from Texas by Drummonp. It flowered at
Spofforth in the greenhouse at the beginning of January,
and differs from Coorerta Drummondi, which had bloomed |
in the autumn at Wentworth House, in having a much —
larger limb, the tube green, and the sepals lined with green —

on the outside, the leaves longer and wider, the i
ree

free from the tube one-eighth instead of one-sixteenth, and
the style shorter than the tube. They both differ from the
Genus Zepnyrantues,.in having anthers subulate before
their inversion, erect, and not versatile, and in the deformity
of the pollen, which in Zernyranrues is acutely oval. The
remarkable long tube which distinguishes these two species,
is perhaps not essential to the Genus; and Zepuyranrues
candida (supra 2607) which refuses to breed with Zepuy-
ranTHES, differing from it, and agreeing with Cooperia in
the more important points, will probably be found to
belong to another section of this Genus. Cooperta Drum-
mond has the leaves twelve or thirteen inches long, about
one-twelfth wide ; the tube four inches and a half, red ; the
limb five-eighths, lined with red on the outside ; the fila-
ments free, one-sixteenth only; the style longer than the
tube, shorter than the anthers.

There is a third Coopsria amongst Drummonp’s bulbs,
which has not yet flowered ; and it is uncertain whether it
will prove different from C. chlorosolen or not, There is
also a Zepuyrantues, of which the flower is known by his
specimens, which it is proposed to call Texana.

Z. Texana, foliis viridibus, rectis, infra lineam latis, flore
pedunculato luteo, extus cupreo. :

The Genus Cooprreria is named, in compliment to Mr.
Coorrr, who has during a very long course of years had the
superintendence of the rich collection of plants which he has
brought together at Wentworth House, the seat of Earl
Firzwituiam, in Yorkshire.

The point of the perianth was not naked at the first ap-
pearance of the bud, as seems usual with ZeruyranvuHes : it
was yellowish before it acquired its full size, turning gra-
dually to clear white. W. H.

Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Style. 3. Pollen, magnified. 4, P tal and St ;
5. Back of a Sepal. gf etal and Stamen

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( 3483 )
RuopanTHe Mancuesit. Captain MANGLEs’
RuODANTHE.

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Class and Order.

SyNGENESIA ALQUALIs.
( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. )

Generic Character.

Capitulum multiflorum, homogamum. Pappus unise-
rialis, piliformis, plumosus, distinctus. Achenium erostre, —
lanatum. Receptaculum nudum. Lindl. *

Specific Name and Synonym.

Ruopantue* Manglesiv.
Ruopantue Manglesii. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1703.

A beautiful, hardy annual, drawn by Miss Marra Curtis,
at her father’s extensive nursery-grounds of Glazenwood,
where it bears its brilliant rose-coloured and yellow blos-
soms in the early summer months. In July, Professor
Linp-ey observes, it becomes shabby, and, by the begin-
ning of August, its seed is ripe, and its life departed. We
are indebted for its introduction to Captain Manexezs, R.N.,
who brought the seeds from the Swan River Colony, New
Holland, to the gardens of Roserr Manezes, Esq., Sun-
ning Hill. The genus seems very nearly related to Po-
potePis, of which one species is figured at t. 2904 of
this work. The involucre, however, is different, and the
pappus is plumose in our present plant.

Descr. Root annual. Stem (as is the whole plant)
glabrous, rounded, slightly glaucous, branched in a dicho-

tomous

* So named by Professor LINDLEY, from pode, a rose, and avbos, a flower,

in allusion to the colour of the flowers.

tomous manner, with a leaf at the setting on of the
branches. Branches wavy, slender, forming a sort of
panicle upwards ; peduncles single-flowered, more or less
drooping. Leaves oblong-obtuse, cordate, and amplex-
icaul at the base, dark green above, paler beneath. In-
volucre turbinate, much tapering at the base, formed
below of numerous laxly imbricated, purplish-grey, mem-
branaceous, ovato - lanceolate scales, gradually, as they
proceed upwards, larger and longer, and of a fair rose-
colour, toothed at the apex; the uppermost forming a
beautiful concave ray around the disk, which consists of
numerous yellow, tubular florets. Receptacle naked. Ache-
num very hairy. Hairs of the pappus feathery.

Bich by S.Curtis, Harenmood Buen. Apr LIS3E.

‘ae age . ( 3484 )

COREOPSIS SENIFOLIA. S1x-LEAVED Co-
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Class and Order.

SYNGENESIA F'RUSTRANEA.
( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. )

Generic Character.

Receptaculum paleaceum, Achenium compressum, emar-
ginatum. Pappus bicornis (quandoque obsoletus). Invo-
lucrum duplex, utrumque polyphyllum.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Coreopsis senifolia ; perennis, erecta, foliis oppositis sessi-
libus ad basin usque tripartitis laciniis lanceolatis
integerrimis rigidiusculis, floralibus plerumque indi-
visis, radii flosculis integerrimis.

Coreopsis senifolia. Mich. Am. v. 2. p.138. Willd. Sp.
Pl. v. 3. p. 2054. Pursh, Fl. Am. v. 2. p. 568. Ell.
Carol. v. 2. p. 433. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 614.

A native of Carolina and Georgia, and introduced to our
gardens by Mr. Joun Lyon, in 1812. Notwithstanding
that it is peculiar to the Southern States of North America,
where the summer heats are excessively great, it flourishes
well in the open air, with us, even in Scotland ; flowering
in the latter end of the sammer and autumn. _ It is readily
distinguished by its leaves being oppoaite. and each deeply
three-partite, the segments generally spreading ; so that it
appears as if there was, at every joint, a whorl of six leaves,
whence the specific name. The species is certainly very
variable in the breadth of the segments of its leaves, and
in the whole plant being more or less downy, or quite gla-
brous: hence, as it appears to me, Nurratt has lately

al constituted

constituted two species, C. stellata and C. senifolia; the
former being characterized by the broader leaves, and the
whole plant being glabrous; the latter, by the narrow
leaves and downy plant. Thus the specimen we have given
is destitute of hair, like C. stellata, but has the narrow leaves
of C. senifolia of this author. This species will probably
unite with the C. éripteris, L. to form Lessine’s Genus
of CurysosTemMA. :
Descr. Root perennial. Stem erect, straight, rigid,
angled, glabrous, as is the whole plant in our specimens ;
which, in other instances, is more or less downy : branched
upwards in asubtrichotomous manner, the flowering branches
forming a sort of corymb. Leaves opposite, deeply tri-
partite, somewhat rigid, the segments lanceolate, (some-
times: broadly so,) spreading, entire, acute, the uppermost
ones, among the flower-stalks, not unfrequently undivided.
Involucre glabrous : outer of about eight linear, nearly
erect, green leaves ; inner of about as many ovate, membra-
naceous, brownish ones. Radical florets about eight, spread -
ing, oval, full yellow, abortive ; those of the disk greenish -
yellow ; the fruit oblongo-cuneate, compressed, “slightly
winged at the margin, especially upwards. Pappus ob-
solete; in the perfectly ripe fruit constituting a small
bidentate membrane. os , ee

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Fig. 1. Floret of the Circumference. 2. Floret of the Disk :—magnified.

Pub, ly §. Carts, Glazenwd Fssex. Spr 118 26

Races

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( 3485)
NEMOPHILA INSIGNIS. SnHowy NEMOPHILA.
SHR kaboeocoolesios

Class and Order.

Penranpria Monoeynta.
( Nat. Ord.—Hypropuyttea. )

Generic Character.

Cal. inferus, persistens, 10-fidus ; laciniis alternis reflexis.

‘Cor. campanulata, 5-loba: lobis emarginatis. Nect. fove-

ole 10 ad marginem faucis. Stam.brevia. Anthere lunate.
Caps. unilocularis. Sem. unum supra alterum receptaculis
duobus parietalibus inserta. Sa ee '

Specific Character and Synonyms. a

Nemoruita* insignis ; foliis (superioribus) oppositis pinna-
tifidis basi in petiolum angustatis lobis integerrimis
1—2-dentatisve, calycis sinubus reflexis, corollis calyce
duplo longioribus, ovariis multi-ovulatis. Benth.

Nemopuira insignis. Benth. in Hort. Trans. v. 1. N.S. p.
479. Bot. Reg. t. 1703.

This, again, is one of the many highly ornamental plants
of California, for the discovery and introduction of which to
our gardens we are indebted to the exertions of the lamented
Douatas. The flowers are large, and of so bright a blue,
that no artificial colouring can do justice to them. It blos-
soms in July and August. é

Descr. Root annual. Stem procumbent, branched, slen-
der, hairy. Leaves alternate in the lower, and opposite in the
upper, part of the stem, petiolate, pinnatifid, hairy, the seg-
ments rather remote, oblong, one- to two-toothed. ee

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- woods ds or thickets.

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eles long, axillary, hairy, solitary, one-flowered. Calyx

hairy, of five ovate, nearly erect segments, and as many
smaller, lanceolate, reflexed ones, alternating with them.
Corolla rotato-campanulate, deeply divided into five obcor-
date lobes, of an intense blue within, paler externally: the
tube hairy within at the base. Stamens inserted at the base
of the tube, shorter than the limb: Anthers purple brown.
Germen broadly ovate, very hairy, inserted upon a five-
lobed, fleshy disk: Style as long as the stamens, bifid :
Stigmas small, capitate.

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ONCIDIUM CORNIGERUM. HorNEpD OncIDIUM.

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Class and Order.

GyYNANDRIA Monanpria.
( Nat. Ord. —Onrcuipes. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata: late-
ralibus nunc sub labello connatis. Petala conformia. La-
bellum maximum, ecalcaratum, cum columna continuum,
varie lobatum, basi tuberculatum vel cristatum. Columna
libera semiteres, apice utrinque alata. Anthera semibilo-
cularis, rostello nunc abbreviato, nunc elongato rostrato.
Pollinia 2, postice suleata ; caudicula plana; glandula ob-
longa.—Herbe epiphyte, nunc pseudo-bulbose. Folia co-
riacea. Scapi paniculati vaginali, rarius simplices. Flores
speciost, sepius maculati, rarius albi. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Oncipium cornigerum; pseudo-bulbis oblongis sulcatis mo-
nophylilis, foliis ovalibus acutis sessilibus striatis scapo
elongato paniculato multifloro brevioribus, sepalo
supremo petalisque obovatis concavis undulatis obtu-
sis, inferioribus minoribus angustioribus basi connatis,
labelli lobis lateralibus linearibus cornutis intermedio
obovato subrepando undulato, crista antice verrucosa
truncata postice lamella crenata transverse cornuta,
columna alis linearibus obtusis porrectis. Lzndl. (pauc.
verb. mut.)

Oncipium cornigerum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1542. Gen. et
Sp. Orchid. p. 199. re 34 ;

This plant, which, from our first knowledge of it, pro-
mised, by its very few-flowered scape and the small size of
those flowers, to be little deserving of attention on the

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score of beauty, now, as cultivated in the collection at
Wentworth, whence our fine specimen was kindly com-
municated in August of last year, 1835, must be allowed
to possess considerable beauty and gracefulness. Lord
Firzwitiram received the plant from the Hon. and Rev.
W. Herzert of Spofforth, who imported it from Brazil ;
and the scape here represented was produced by an offset
of the same year’s growth.

Descr. Bulbs, or pseudo-bulbs, about three inches long,
rounded, a little tapering upwards, furrowed, dark green ;
bearing, at the extremity, a solitary, oval-oblong, dark
green, striated, rather obtuse leaf. Scape from the base of
the bulb, fourteen to sixteen inches long, slender, bearing
a drooping, many-flowered panicle, or rather compound
raceme. Perianth yellow, spotted with red. Sepals and
__ petals obovate, concave, the two lower sepals the smallest :
the upper one forming a kind of hood over the column. The
lip may be called panduriform, with a horn-shaped lobe on
each side at the base : the apex rounded and broad, emar-
ginate, the disk below the apex with a sort of double crest,
of which the lowest projects into a horn on each side at
the base. Column short, with two projecting, elongated
lobes or wings. Lip hemispherical, truncated in front.
Pollen-masses pear-shaped, stalked. (i 26) OR aa

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Lip. 8. Column, 4. Apex of the Column, from
which the Anther is removed, showing the Pollen-masses : magnified.

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Class and Order.

SyYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA.
( Nat. Ord.—Composir2. )

Generic Character. *

Anthodium multipartitum apice maculatum basi subinvo-
lucratum seu bracteatum. Receptaculum nudum. Spreng.

: Specific Name and Character.

Senecio ampullaceus ; herbaceus, erectus, glaberrimus, stri-
atus, foliis oblongis obtusis carnosis inferne precipue
dentatis basi subcordatis semiamplexicaulibus, infimis
spathulatis, panicula corymbosa, involucris demum —
ampulliformibus nitidis, radiis paucis patentibus, ache-
niis cylindraceo-attenuatis sericeo-pubescentibus stri-
atis.

A handsome, showy species, but.too near perhaps, in the
appearance of its flowers, to some of our larger European -
Groundsels, to become a general favourite. Its leaves,
indeed, are very different from those of any species with
which I am acquainted, and peculiarly thick and fleshy ;—
nor do I find any described Senecto that will accord with it.
It is one of Mr. Drummonp’s discoveries in Texas, but he
probably did not meet with it in a good state of flower ; for
there are very few specimens in the herbarium, and those in
a most indifferent condition, and with their lower leaves
much more toothed than in the cultivated state. Nor do
these specimens, probably owing to pressure, exhibit the
remarkable contraction in the upper part of the involucre,
which is so striking in the recent individual, giving the old
flowers the form of the capsule of SpLacunum ampullaceum.

; | Descer.

Descr. Root annual? Stem one to two feet high, herba-
ceous, erect, glabrous, as is the whole plant, striated, green,
tinged with purple, branched upwards. Leaves three to four
or five inches long, remote, oblong, obtuse, or the upper
ones alone acute, semiamplexicaul at the base, of a thick
and fleshy substance, the margin entire, or more or less
toothed, particularly below the middle, the radical leaves
spathulate. Branches panicled above, the branchlets corym-
bose. Pedicels with subulate bracteas at the base. Flowers
rather large, handsome. Involucre cylindrical, of many
closely-placed, linear scales, sharp and discoloured at the
point, and with a few small scales or bracteas at the base.
Florets of the ray six to eight, rather large, spreading : those
of the disk twenty to thirty. Style and stamens considerably
exserted: segments of the stigma revolute. Achenia oblong,
attenuated upwards. Pappus copious, white.

Fig. 1. Floret of the Disc. 2. Floret of the Ray. 3. Achenium : mag-
nified,

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-CoLLInsIA BICOLOR. Two-coLouRED
CoLLInsIA.

Class and Order

DipynAmMiA ANGIOSPERMIA.
( Nat. Ord.—ScropuutaRin&. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-fidus, equalis. Corolla bilabiata, tubo supra
gibbo, limbo inequali; labio superiore erecto bifido im-

- feriore trifido. Stamina didynama. Capsula globosa, 4-

valvis, oligosperma.

_ Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cotuwsia * bicolor; foliis ovato-acuminatis serratis basi
subcordatis, nervis subparallelis, verticillis (infimis ex-
ceptis) aphyllis.

Coxuinsia bicolor. Benth. in Hort. Soc. Trans. N.S v. 1.
p. 480. Bot. Reg. t. 1734. .

A very handsome hardy annual ; detected in California by
the late Mr. Doveras, and by him introduced to the garden
of the Horticultural Society in 1833; whence it has been
liberally distributed to other collections. Our plants flow-
ered in August in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. —

Descr.. The stems are upright, but weak and flexuose,
slightly downy. Leaves opposite or ternate, sessile, ovate~
acuminated, glabrous, serrated, somewhat cordate at the

base, marked, with a few nerves which run nearly ponte
wit

* So named by Mr. NuTTaLL, in compliment to Mr. ZACCHEUS COLLINS,
a Botanist and Mineralogist of Philadelphia.

with the midrib. Flowers arranged in several whorls,
towards the extremities of the branches, large, and striking
from the contrast of colour between the upper and lower
lip: each whorl subtended by a pair of bracteas, which, in
the upper ones, are obsolete, Calyx campanulate, five-fid ;
the segments ovate-acuminate. Corolla with the tube white,
swollen on the upper side. Lower lip large, pendent, pur-
ple; upper lip erect, white.

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JABOROSA INTEGRIFOLIA, ENTIRE-LEAVED
| JABOROSA, :

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Class and Order.

PENTANDRIA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Sotaneaz. )

Generic ‘Character.

Calyx parvus, 5-fidus. Corolla tubulosa seu subcampa-
nulata. Anthere subsessilia intra faucem. Stigma clava-
tum 3—5-fidum. Bacca bi- (tri-, Commers.) locularis.

wy Specific Character and Synonyms.

Japorosa integrifolia ; acaulis, radice repente, foliis petio-
lis ovalibus subintegerrimis, corolla longe tubulosa
limbi laciniis valde acuminatis.

Japorosa integrifolia. Lam. Encyel. v.3.p. 189. Ilustr.
t. 114. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p.'700. Hook. Bot.
Misc. 2. 1. p. 348.

The Genus, which has derived its name from Jaborosa,
or Jaborohh, the Arabic name for the Manpracora, to
which our plant is allied, was founded upon the present and
another species, (J. runcinata,) by Jussieu, in the Genera
Plantarum, from specimens collected by Commerson, at
Buenos Ayres. These plants, I apprehend, however, were
little, if at all, known to Botanists till many years after ;
when the late Dr. Gizxres gathered them both in the same
country, and added a third, which we had the pleasure of
figuring and describing in the first volume of the Botanical
Miscellany, and which he found in the Andes of Mendoza.
_ The two original species have been again sent to us by Mr.
_ 'Tweepre from the Pampas of Buenos Ayres, accompanied
likewise by seeds, from which plants have been raised both
at the Liverpool and Glasgow Botanic Gardens, and which,

planted |

planted in the open border, and in a favorable situation,
prove perfectly hardy, flowermg in July and August.

Descr. Root, or rather subterraneous stem, much creep-
ing, rounded, about the thickness of a goose-quill, here and
there sending out fibrous radicles from the underside, and
leaves from the upper, which latter are solitary or two
together, erect, four to six inches long, oval, obtuse, ob-
scurely and distantly toothed, running down at the base
into a rounded, purplish petiole. The surface of the leaf is
distinctly marked with nerves, and is full green above,
paler below. Peduncle from the base of a leaf, or be-
tween two leaves, about as long as the petiole, rounded,
erect, bearing a solitary, upright flower. Calyx small, cup-
shaped, five-cleft. Corolla large, externally pale yellow
green, internally white. Tube long, rather thick, curved ;
limb of five lanceolate, much acuminate, spreading seg-
ments. Anthers five, oblong-ovate, acute, sessile, or rather
the filaments are combined with the tube of the corolla.
Germen small, ovato-globose. Style exserted, much longer
than the tube: Stigma clavate, three to five-cleft : the seg-
ments erect, green.

Fig. 1. Calyx and Pistil: 2. Stamen.

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Rosa MICROPHYLLA. SMALL-LEAVED
CHINESE Rose.

Class and Order.

3 Tcosanpria Po.tyeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Rosacez. )

Generic Character. —
Calycis tubus urceolatus carnosus, achenia plurima hir-
suta includens. Receptaculum villosum. : oo.

Specific. Character and Synonyms. 4

Rosa microphylla ; foliolis nitidis argute serratis, calyce
aculeis densissimis muricata, sepalis brevibus late ova-
tis apiculatis. Lindl. 4 :

Rosa microphylla. “ Roxb. Fl. Ind. ined.” Lindl. Ros.
Monogr. p.9. Bot Reg. t. 919.

Whether the single-flowered state of this plant is in
cultivation, I am ignorant. Certain it is, that the highly

double blossoms, so much admired by cultivators, cannot i

be exceeded in delicacy of form, shadow, and colour-—
ing by any species of this highly-prized Genus: and no
where, perhaps, is the present kind brought to so high a
degree of perfection as in Mr. Curtis’s extensive Nursery
at Glazenwood, near Coggeshall, Essex, where the accom-
panying figure was made. —

‘It is a native of China, and is stated to have blossomed

: for the first time in Mr. Cotvitte’s Nursery, about ten

years ago.

Weare indebted to Mr. Curtis for the following remarks,

cannot fail to be acceptable, to our Horticultural

Wale ;

_ friends. “‘ Rosa microphylla is hardy enough to bear our

_ mild winters without protection, but with very sharp frosts
it is liable to be destroyed in the open ground, a circum-

stance

stance owing to the tenderness of its roots: for when
budded on the dog-rose stock, it becomes much more hardy.

“* Those who are curious in Roses, should always have a
few potted plants of the present kind reserved in a pit ; lest
the severity of winter should destroy those in the open
border. It is well adapted for a standard-rose on a lawn,
since it flowers freely throughout the autumn, and has
besides a graceful, drooping kind of growth. I have, how-
ever, found it to succeed best when budded on the common
blush China Rose, and placed against a wall. In such
a situation it would seldom be injured, even by the hardest
of our winters. It strikes freely from cuttings.”

Pub. by S Curtis. Gaxenwoods Es sea: Aug I IE IE.

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LEPTOSIPHON ANDROSACEUS. ANDROSACE-
LIKE LEprosiPpHon.

Se Sie he he ee ee ss a
Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Po.emoniacez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx tubuloso-campanulatus, xqualis, semi- 5-lobus,
lobis lineari-subulatis, acutis, sinubus membranaceis. Co-
rolla infundibuliformis (hypocrateriformis) ; tubo longe ex-
serto tenuissimo ; limbo campanulato (patenti) 5-fido ; lobis
ovalibus obtusis integerrimis. Stamina fauce inserta: an-
there oblonge, basi sagittata. Capsule loculi polyspermi. —
—Herbe annue, basi glabra, apice pubescentes. Folia
sessilia, opposita, palmatisecta, segmentis linearibus vel subu-
latis. Flores dense corymboso-capitati, axi sublanato. Brac-
tee imbricate, foliis conformes, segmentis ciliato-hirsutis.
Bentham.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Leprostrnon * androsaceus ; foliis 5—7-fidis oblongo-linea-
ribus, corolla tubo limbo 2—3-plo longiore, stamini-
bus limbo corollz triplo longioribus. Benth.

Leprosipnon androsaceus. Bentham, in Bot. Reg. fol.
1622. Hort. Trans..N. S. v. 1. t. 18. f. 1.

A Genus of five species, established by our valued friend
Mr. Bentuam in the work above quoted, all of which are
remarkable for their graceful habit, slender foliage, and
exceedingly pretty flowers, and which make a very hand-

: some

* From aswrog, slender, and oor, a tube, in allusion to the slender tube
of the corollas. z .

5

some appearance when planted thickly in an open border.
It was remarked, however, by Mr. Bentuam, how much :
better this Genus and the nearly allied one Gurr succeeded
in our Glasgow Botanic Garden, than in the environs of
London ; doubtless owing to our cooler temperature and
moister climate. Professor Linptey indeed, observes of
this plant, in the noble gardens of the Horticultural Society, |
that, “ although it is perfectly hardy, yet it cannot bear our
summer heats, and only flourishes in the spring, and more
particularly in autumn, when the sun has lost its power,
and the nights are cool with heavy dews.”” It should there-
_ fore be sown either in the autumn, so as to flower early ; or
~ in June, in order that it may be ready for blossoming in |
September. In our Scottish climate, it has been in its
. © greatest beauty at the hottest season of the year (1835) the
latter end of July, expanding its varied blossoms, white
and various degrees of lilac, always with a black eye and
deep yellow anthers and stigmas, to the full blaze of '
the sun. . a
Descr. Root fibrous, annual. Stem eight inches to a ,
foot high, throwing out sparingly axillary, opposite branches
chiefly from near the base, which, as well as the stem itself,
are spreading below, then erect, purplish-green, downy.
Leaves opposite, hairy, deeply pinnatifid, or rather almost —
digitate, with from five to seven linear, acute, and almost —
cuspidate segments ; upper ones constituting bracteas to
the head of flowers: lowermost ones with only one or two
spreading segments at the base. Calyx tubular, with five
subulate, erect, equal, hairy teeth. Corolla salver-shaped ;
tube very long, slender, purplish: limb spreading, of five
ovate segments, the faux almost black, with a pale yellow- 2
ish circle round it. Filaments short, black, inserted just =~
within the faux. Anthers oval-oblong, orange-yellow.
Style exserted. Stigmas three-cleft.

Fig. 1. Flower: magnified.

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Lupinus Texensis. Texas. Lupine. |
Seeded

Class and Order. .

DiapetpuH1aA Decanpria.
( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosz. )

Generic Character.

Calyx profunde bilabiatus. Corolla papilionacea, vexillo
lateribus reflexis, carina acuminata. Stamina monadelpha,
vagina integra ; antheris 5 parvis subrotundioribus precoci-
oribus, 5 oblongis serioribus. Stylus filiformis. Stigma
terminale subrotundum barbatum. Legumen coriaceum
oblongum compressum, oblique torulosum. Cotyledones
crasse, per germin. in folia conversee.—Herbe aut Suffru-
tices. Stipule petiolo adnate. Folia sepius foliolis 5—9
digitatis constantia, rarius simplicia. Folia ante explic.
aut per somnum complicata. Pedunculi oppositifolii termi-
nales. Flores racemoso-spicati alterni, aut verticillati aut
sessiles. Bractea sub pedicellis. Bracteole 2 lateraliter
calyci adnate caduce aut nulle.

Specific Name and Character.

Lupinus Texensis ; herbaceus, annuus, caule pubescenti-
sericea, foliolis quinis lanceolatis acutiusculis supra
glaberrimis, subtus (margineque pracipue) sericeis,
stipulis subulatis, racemo pyramidali, pedicellis alter-
nis longitudine florum, calycibus sericeis bibracteatis
bilabiatis utrinque bractea parva, labio superiore bre-
viore bifido, inferiore acuminato integerrimo, vexillo
orbiculari intense ceruleo medio macula alba plica
longitudinali divisa.

Much and closely as this plant resembles the Lupinus
subcarnosus figured at tab. 3467, it nevertheless appears to
me to be really distinct. The habit is stouter, the leaves

are

are by no means fleshy, nor are their leaflets retuse, but
acute: the flowers are deeper coloured, and the ale or
wings of the corolla are more projecting. The lower lip
of the calyx I find to be always entire. Equally with the
L. subcarnosus; the L. Texensis is an inhabitant of Texas ;
but the former is found near the coast, the latter at San
Felipe in the Interior. Our present plant continues longer
in flower, its blossoms are larger, deeper coloured, and the
raceme is broader. The chief distinction is, however, cer-
tainly to be looked for in the foliage.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx: magnified.

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( 3493 )
POINSETTIA PULCHERRIMA. Snowy
PoINseETTIA. :
| of Class and Order.

Monazsta _Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Evuprnorsiacea. )

Generic Character.

Involucrum monophyllum, androgynum, basi 5-loculare,
extus appendiculatum, nectariferum. Flores pedicellati,
-nudi; masculi bifariam in singulis loculis, monandri; foemi-
nei solitarii, germen trilobum, ovulwm solitarium singulis

lobis.
Specific Name and Synonyms.
4 Pornserria* pulcherrima. Graham in Edin. New Phil.
. Journ. March, 1836.

Evpnorsia pulcherrima. Willd. Herb.!
| Evprnorsia Poinsettiana. Buist MSS.

By whom this truly splendid plant was communicated
D to WILLDENow’s Herbarium, I am not informed, but it was
again discovered by Mr. Pornserre in Mexico, and sent
by him to Charleston in 1828, and afterwards to Mr. Buist
: of Philadelphia, who has within a very few years brought
| together a choice collection of plants, equally creditable to
his enterprise, and promising, as a point from which will be
diffused a greater knowledge of the vegetation of North
America. From Mr. Buist it was brought by Mr. James
M‘Nag, to the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and to several
other establishments in this country, in November, 1834,
and from the information communicated by him it has since
been imported into other British collections from Mr. Buist’s
— It flowered twice with us last year, but too imper-
ectly to allow of its being figured. It subsequently flowered
with Dr. Nem, Canonmills, and again with us this month
(February, 1836). Nothing can be more ornamental in

the stove. The rose-like whorls of bractee which eo
nate

lip

* In compliment to Mr. PornsETTE, who rediscovered the plant, and
"gave occasion to its introduction in a living state into Europe.
VOL. X. G

nate the branches, have been seen on the large plants
cultivated at Philadelphia as much as twenty inches across,
and equal in colour to the finest tints of Hrerscus Rosa-
sinensis. The structure seems to me to constitute a new
generic type, though in several species of Evrpnorsta, as in
E. splendens, there are the rudiments of the remarkable septe
found in the involucre here. I have dedicated it, if not to
its original discoverer, at least to one who has first brought it
into cultivation, and into general notice among Botanists,
and from whose exertions many additions to the plants in
cultivation from Mexico are expected. The period of flow-
ering both at Philadelphia and here seems to be in winter,

or early in spring. I entirely agree with Sir W. J. Hooker |

that Eupvorsia cyathophora, Bot. Reg. t. 765, will be found
to be a member of the same Genus.

_. Descr. Shrué erect, ramous; branches round, yeung shoots bluntly
four-angled, green, glabrous, hollow. Leaves scattered, occasionally
opposite, spreading; petiolate, ovato-elliptical, subacute, sinuated, vein-
ed, soft and pubescent on both sides, bright green above, paler below.

- Petioles furrowed above. Bractee similar in shape to the leaves, but
aggregated at the extremities of the branches, and of splendid vermilion
colour, paler below. Cymes terminal, subtrifid, at length falling off at a
joint in the common foot-stalk. Jnvolucres on short, stout foot-stalks,
articulated at the base, green, ovato-orbicular, toothed, marked by five
sutures on the outside, with which alternate, on the inside, five faleate

rocesses, beginning with narrow extremities at the mouth of the invo-

ucre, and, adhering to this with their backs, they become gradually |

broader below, passing inwards, and attached to an elevation in. the
centre, they divide the lower part of the involucre into five distinct cells,
and supporting on their edges erect fimbrie, they divide the upper part

which are next each other in the

furrow along their outside. Pollen granules ellow, lenticula a
ea solitary, central, ona shorts ates pedicel, naked ; abieleahoul
pedveach lobe emarginate ; style awanting (1). Ovule solitary in each
Fs z These appearances I describe as I saw. them, but the female
ool were probably imperfect, none enlarged, projected beyond the
aie ao hor produced seed ; but after awhile, a small number of the.
ogee owers having been perfected, and protruded beyond the involucre,
be came yellow, and separated at the articulation near the base of
€ lootstalk, the bractez for some time remaining, and then the whole
cyme dropped at the articulation in the common peduncle. Graham.

Fj oS 5 20: 397° < :
ig. ma Tnvoluere. 2. The same a little more advanced. 3. Section of ditto showing the

4. Male Flower with its Scale. 5. Female Flower, abortive: magnified.

3494

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sain 3494)
PHYSOSTEGIA TRUNCATA. BLUNT-CALYXED
PHYSOSTEGIA.

Class and Order. |

Dipynam1A GyMNOSPERMIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Lasuara. )

Generic Character.

Calyx per anthesin tubuloso-campanulatus, post anthesin
inflato-campanulatus, obscure sub 10-venius, subequaliter
5-dentatus vel truncatus vix dentatus. Corolla tubo longe
exserto, intus exannulato, fauce inflata, limbo bilabiato,
labio superiore suberecto subconcavo integro vel marginato,
inferiore patente trifido, lobis rotundatis, medio majore
emarginato. Stamina 4, sub labio superiore adscendentia,
subdidynama, inferioribus eminentibus. Anthere approx-
imate, biloculares, loculis parallelis distinctis nudis. Stylus
apice subequaliter bifidus, lobis subulatis apice stigmati-
feris. Achenia sicca, levia. Benth. -

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Puysosrecia truncata ; annua, calyce bilabiato, labio supe-
riore latissime trilobo, inferiore bidentato segmentis
omnibus cuspidato-acuminatis.

Puysosteaia truncata. Benth. Lab. Gen. et Sp. p. 505.

7

My first knowledge of this plant was derived from very in-
different specimens in my Herbarium, gathered in Texas by
M. Bertanpier, the same as were described by Mr. Bentuam
in the admirable work just quoted. So conspicuous a
plant could not escape the researches of Mr. DrumMonp,
who, on visiting the same country in 1833 and 1834 found
it abundantly about San Felipe de Austin, and communi-
cated specimens and seeds to Europe. Our i were

rawn

drawn from plants which flowered in the open borders of
the Glasgow Botanic Garden.

Descr. Root decidedly annual. Stem erect, eight or
ten inches to a foot in height, branched in a brachiated
manner, acutely four-angled, glabrous. Leaves oblong,
or oblongo-lanceolate, serrated, glabrous. Flowers oppo-
site on the racemes, leafless, but each with an ovato-acu-
minate bractea at the base of the short slightly glandular
pedicel. Calyx gibbous and downy at the base, two-lipped ;
upper lip very broad, and cut into three rounded, spinuloso-
acuminated lobes ; the lower much smaller, ovate, with two
sharp teeth, the whole veiny and distinctly reticulated
when dry. Corolla more than twice as long as the calyx,
purple-rose-coloured, slightly downy ; the throat inflated.
Upper lip convex, entire; lower lip of three spreading,
nearly equal, rounded lobes, the middle part white, spotted
with purple. Filaments slightly woolly, rather distant,
Hel Anthers each of two rounded, almost black

obes.

Fig. 1. Back view of a Flower. 2. Front view of a Calyx.

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E\sCHSCHOLTZIA CROCEA. SarrRoN-coLovren
EscuscHoutzia. "sana
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Potyanpria TETRAGYNIA. |
( Nat. Ord.—Papaveracedz. )

Generic Character.

Receptaculum ampliatum, hypocrateriforme, limbo ex-
panso integro. Calyx mitreformis, caducus. Corolla 4-
petala, petalis unguibus fauci receptaculi insertis, stamini-
feris. Capsula siliqueformis, bivalvis ; Semina marginibus
valvarum affixa.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Escuscnourzis crocea; caule ramoso folioso, foliorum seg-
mentis linearibus, pedunculi cyatho infundibuliformi
limbo maximo dilatato, calyce longe acuminato.
Benth.

Escuscuoutzia crocea. Benth. in Hort. Soc. Trans. v. 1.
N. S. p. 406. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1677.

It has been remarked by several of my English friends,
that the many beautiful, hardy, herbaceous plants which
have been lately introduced to our gardens by the indefatig-
able Douetas, succeed better in the humid climate of Scot-
land, than in the vicinity of London ; they remain longer
in perfection, the flowers are frequently larger, aud the
colours brighter. The present individual is a striking in-
stance of the correctness of this remark : for beautiful as it
certainly is, in every situation, I have no where seen it dyed
with so brilliant a saffron hue as in the specimen here figur-
ed from the gardens of Hamilton Palace. Together with
the true E. crocea and Californica, there came from the

same

same garden a third kind, (see fig. 2,) which was raised from
seeds of the former species, but which produced flowers
exactly intermediate between the two: the colour of the
petals was neither so yellow as in E. Californica, nor so
much inclining to red as in E. erocea; and the limb of
the cup was much smaller than in the latter species, but
larger than in the former. Still, I agree with Mr. Bentuam
and Professor Linpiey, that our crocea is a truly distinct
species, (all the characters existing in the wild native speci-
mens equally as in the cultivated ones) and further, that
the variety just mentioned, though raised from seeds of
E. crocea, was derived from a plant whose flowers had
been fertilized by the pollen of E. Californica. As this last
mentioned species is fully described at t. 2887 of this work,
we deem any remarks on the present individual quite un-
necessary, further than to say, in the words of its first de-
scriber, that it is chiefly distinguished from that species “ by
the widely expanded limb of the curious appendage of the
peduncle beneath the insertion of the calyx, which is cha-
racteristic of the Genus, and by the long attenuated point

of the calyx ;’—which latter circumstance I do not find to
be the case in our specimens.

Fig. 1. Cup of the Calyx, including the Pistil, magnified. 2, Hybrid
var.

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( 3496 )-
GENTIANA QUINQUEFLORA. FIVE-FLOWERED
GENTIAN.

KERR EE EERE EE EEE

Class and Order.
Pentanpria DieGynta.

( Nat. Ord. —GeEntTIANEA. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 4—5-fida. Corolla subcampanulata, infundibuli-
formis vel hypocrateriformis, basi tubulosa, gland. nect.
destit. Styli sepe coherentes. Capsula 1-locularis, 2-valvula.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

GenTrIana quinqueflora; caule ramoso tetragono-alato ; flo-
ribus congestis terminalibus ; calycibus brevissimis,
acutis; corolla clavata, quinquefida, laciniis aristatis,
fauce nuda; foliis amplexicanlibus deltcideo-cordatis
3—5)-nerviis.

GenTIANA quinqueflora. Pers. Synops. Plant. 1. 285.
Schultes Syst. Veget. 6.150. lliott, Bot. of S. Caro-
lina et Georgia, v. 1. p. 341? Torrey, Fl. of Mid. et
North Sections of United States, p.288? Beck, Bot.
of North and Mid. States, 239 ?

GentiAna amarelloides. Pursh, Fl. Amer. Septent. v. 1. p.
186. Nuttall Genera, 1. 172.

This very pretty annual was raised at the Botanic Gar-
den, Edinburgh, from seeds sent without name by Mr.
Tuomas Cuurnsipe, Nurseryman, of New York ; and flow-
ered in the greenhouse in the end of October. It was seen
by Mr. James M‘Nap growing on the grassy banks of
streams among the Alleghany Mountains, and his native
specimens differ in no respect from those raised at the
garden, excepting in having smaller flowers. One which I
have from the collection of Mr. Beyricn, gathered on the
Peaks of Otter, has flowers as large as the garden specimens.

From the synonyms I have excluded GentiAna quinque-
folia of Flora Danica, because, in the plant figured there,
the leaves are ovate, the flowers axillary as well as terminal
and much smaller, and because the identity of an Iceland
and Virginian plant seems unlikely. I have likewise ex-

cluded

cluded the Genriana quinguefolia of the various works of
Linnaus, and the Gentiana quingueflora of WiLLDENow,
Lamarck, and SprenceL; because reference is by them
made to Flora Danica, and because the leaves are generally
described as ovate or oblong, and the stem simple. I have .
abstained from quoting Grentiana amarelloides of Micuaux,
because he describes his plant as smaller than G. ama-
rella, with oval leaves; small, lateral as well as terminal
flowers, of pale yellow colour ; and having the segments of
the limb lanceolate. In all these respects does our plant
differ. I have quoted with doubt Exuiorr, Torrey, and
Breck, on account of references they make, and because
some parts of their descriptions neither accord with native
nor cultivated specimens ; yet I think they must allude to
the plant now described. In the other writers quoted, the
references are, I think, sometimes mistaken, but the cha-
racters are corrected.

Descr. Root annual, dichotomously branched. Stem
(nine to twenty inches high) single, erect, square, winged,
branched ; branches decussating, spreading. Leaves stem-
clasping, deltoideo-cordate, glabrous on both sides, palest
below, three to five-nerved and obscurely reticulate, entire
in the margin, slightly crisped, nerves prominent below.
Flowers clustered at the extremity of the stem and branches,
generally from three to five together, pedicellate, or if
single in the axils of the leaves, it is only from the degene-
ration of the branches ; pedicels erect. Calyx small, green,
quinquefid, segments lanceolate, slightly spreading. Corolla
(before expansion of the limb ten lines long, three lines in
its greatest diameter in cultivated specimens, in native spe-
cimens often smaller) pale lilac: tube (seven lines and a
half long) clavate ; limb five-parted, segments ovate, aris-
tate ; throat naked. Stamens as long as the tube ; filaments
adhering to the corolla as far as their middle, to which point
they enlarge, and then gradually contract upwards, chan-
nelled on their inner surface, unconnected with each other :
anthers small, leaden coloured, bursting on their outer sur-
face; pollen pale, its granules nearly spherical. Pistil as
long as the stamens : Stigmas small, acute : Germen linear-
lanceolate, greenish-leaden-coloured. Graham.

(This is undoubtedly the G. quinqueflora of the American
Botanists, from whom I have received many specimens, and
from Dr. Snort, a beautiful drawing, which is that here re-

sera The dissections are from Dr. Granam’s speci-
mens.

Fig. 1, Flower. 2. The same laid open. 3. Calyx and Pistil.

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RopricvueziA Barkert. Mr. Barker’s
RopRiIGuEzia.

Class and Order.

GynanpriaA Monanpria.
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuwwez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium patens, subequale, sepalis 2 lateralibus
connatis labello suppositis. Labellum integrum, unguicu-
latum, basi cornutum, medio callosum; ungue cum co-
lumna parallelo. Columna teres, apice barbata. Anthera
unilocularis, carnosa. Clinandrium nudum, retrorsum de-
clive. Pollinia 2, postice excavata, caudicula elastica.—
Herbe epiphyte, subpseudobulbose. Folia coriacea, vel mem-
branacea, plicata. Spice secunde. Flores spicatt.

Specific Name and Character.

Roprieveza Barkeri ; bulbis ancipiti-compressis oblongis,
foliis lineari-lanceolatis enerviis levibus, perianthio
undulato, sepalo inferiori (e duobus formato) fere ad
medium bifido, segmentis patentibus, labello apice in-
tegro.

A Brazilian plant, imported from Brazil by Grorce
Barker, Esq. of Birmingham, and communicated to us in
full flower, January, 1836, by Mr. Cameron of the Bir-
mingham Botanic Garden. It is in many respects allied to
the Gomeza (Ropriguezia, Linpt.) recurva, of Bot. Mag.
t. 1748, and to the plant of the same name in Bot. Cab.
t. 660 (Ropricvezia planifolia, Linvt.) ; from the former
it differs in the smooth not striated and plaited leaves; and
from both, as well as from R. swaveolens, Linpt. (PLeuRo-

THALLIS foliosa, Hoox. Bot. Mag. t. 2746.), by the =
eep

deep division, and, consequently, long segments, which are
spreading, of the lower (combined) sepal. The whole
flower, too, is of an uniform pale green colour, nearly desti-
tute’of fragrance.

Descr. Bulb three to four inches in length, oblong,
compressed so as to be ancipitate, striated, having on each
side a small leaf with a long compressed sheathing base,
and below them three or four sheathing brown scales. A
pair of leaves also terminates the bulb, they are linear-lan-
ceolate, and except the costa, which is keeled at the back
and depressed in front, have no nerve or plica whatever.
Scapes two, one from the axil of the leaf on each side the
bulb, curved so as to have the long spike of flowers droop-
ing. Flowers numerous, directed to all sides, pale green.
Sepals and petals spreading, linear-oblong, much waved,
the two lateral sepals placed under the lip, combined for
rather more than half their length, so as to represent one
deeply cleft sepal. Lip ovato-oblong, at the base having
two, erect, thin plates, and on the disk near the middle two
prominent callous lines, where the lip becomes suddenly
and singularly reflexed. Column semiterete, marked with
a bright orange line round the stigma. Anther-case he-

imispherical, with a little point. Pollen-masses nearly
globose.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Lip: magnified.

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Fucusia piscotor. Port-FAmIneE Fucusta.

KKK KEK EK KEE EE EEEERERRE

Class and Order.

OcranpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—OnaGrarIE&. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus basi ovario adherens, superne productus
in tubum cylindraceum 4-lobum post anthesin articulatim
deciduum. Petala 4 summo tubo inserta lobis alterna,
rarius 0. Stamina 8. Ovarium glandula urceolata coro-
natum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma capitatum. Bacca ob-
longo- aut ovato-globosa, 4-locularis, 4-valvis, polysperma.
—Frutices. Folia se@pius opposita. Pedunculi axillares
1-flori, interdum ad apices ramorum racemost. Flores s@-
pius nutantes, rubri rarius albi, interdum 5-fidi 10-andri.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Fucusta discolor ; ramis brevibus densis compactis strictis,
foliis ternis longiuscule petiolatis ovato -lanceolatis
nitidis denticulatis subcomplicato-carinatis, floribus
folio multo longioribus, staminibus exsertis, stigmate
ovali.

Fucusta discolor. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1805.

Fucusra Lowei. Afort.

The difficulty of discriminating those different kinds of
Fuchsia, now so common in our gardens, of which F’. ma-
crostemma of the Flora Peruviana may be considered the
original type, has been felt by every one who has turned
his attention to the subject; and this difficulty has been
increased by cultivation and the skill of the horticulturist
in fertilizing one kind with the farina of another ; so that

what few characters were supposed to exist to entitle them
to

to rank as species, are, of necessity, obliterated. Closely
allied as the present is to that which goes under the name
of F. gracilis, (especially the 8. multiflora of Linpt., Bot.
Reg. t. 1053) it will, nevertheless, I think, be found dis-
tinct ; and possesses one strong claim to our attention,
imasmuch as it is a native of the most southern portion of the
world which has yet been visited by any Botanist, Port Fa-
mine in the Strait of Magelhaens, whence seeds were pro-
cured by Mr. Anperson, who accompanied Captain Kine in
his late voyage, for the purpose of surveying the southern
extremity of South America, Tierra del Fuego and the
Strait of Magelhaens: This able officer has given us, in
the Ist vol. of the Journal of the Royal Geographical
Society, the following interesting account of the vegetation
of that singular country, in which our Fuchsia is particu-
larly alluded to. “ At Port Famine, and in its neighbour-
hood, the Evergreen Beech (Facus betuloides) grows in
the greatest abundance and reaches a very large size.
Trees of this species, three feet in diameter, are abundant ;
of four feet there are many ; and there is one tree (perhaps
the very same noticed by Commodore Byron), which mea-
sures seven feet in diameter for seventeen feet above the
roots, and then divides into three large branches, each of
which is three feet through. Besides this, there are but
few other trees in the Strait that can be considered as
timber: such an appellation only belongs to two other
species of Beech and the Winter’s Bark. The last, which
is also an evergreen, may be found, mixed with the first, in
all parts of the Strait ; so that the country and hills, from
the height of two thousand feet above the sea to the very
verge of the high water mark, are covered with a perpetual
verdure which is remarkably striking, particularly in those
places where the glaciers descend into the sea; tlie sudden
contrast, in such cases, presenting to the view a scene as
agreeable as it seems to be anomalous. I have myself
seen vegetation thriving most luxuriantly, and large woody-
stemmed trees of Fucus1a and Veronica, in England con-
sidered and treated as tender plants, in full flower, within
a very short distance of the base of a mountain, covered
for two-thirds down with snow, and with the temperature
at 36°. The Fucusia, certainly, was rarely found but in
sheltered spots; but not so the Veronica, for the beaches
of the bays on the west side of St. John’s Island, at Port
San Antonio, are lined with trees of the latter, growing
even in the very wash of the sea. There is no part us the

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Strait more exposed to the wind than this, for it faces the
reach to the west of Cape Froward, down which the wind
constantly blows, and brings with it a suecession of rain,
sleet, or snow; and in the winter months, from April to
August, the ground is covered with a layer of snow from
six inches to two or three feet in depth. There must be,
therefore, some peculiar quality in the atmosphere of this
otherwise rigorous climate, which favours vegetation ; for,
if not, these comparatively delicate plants could not live
and flourish through the long and severe winters of this
region.”’

The author further remarks ; ‘© Whilst upon this sub-
ject, there are two facts which may be mentioned, as illus-
trative of the mildness of the climate, notwithstanding
the lowness of its temperature. One is the comparative
warmth of the sea near its surface, between which and the
air, I have in the month of June, the middle of the winter
season, observed a difference of 30°, upon which occasion
the sea was covered with a cloud of steam. The other is,
that parrots and humming-birds, generally the inhabitants
of warm regions, are very numerous in the southern and
western parts of the Strait; the former feeding upon the
seeds of the Winter’s Bark, while the latter have been seen
by us, chirping and sipping the sweets of the Fucus1a and
other flowers, after two or three days of constant rain,
snow, and sleet, during which the thermometer has been
at freezing point. We saw them also in the month of
May upon the wing, during a snow shower; and they are
found in all parts of the south-west and west coasts as far
as Valparaiso. I have since been informed that this species
is also an inhabitant of Peru; so that it has a range of
more than 41° of latitude, the southern limit being 533°
south.’’

It is possible that, like the humming-birds, the same
species of Fucusta may inhabit the valleys of the Chilian
Andes, as well as the almost antarctic regions of Port
Famine; and in such widely different latitudes it may put
on different appearances. As may be expected, F', discolor,
is the most hardy of its kind, growing in a short space of
time into a dense bush, and putting forth numerous shoots,
which are never injured by the winters even of Scotland.
Our plants were received from Mr. Lowe of Clapton, who
was the first to raise the species in this country.

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ONCIDIUM CRISPUM. CRISPED-FLOWERED
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; Class and Order.

GyNANDRIA MonanpriA.
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuweg, )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata : late-
ralibus nunc sub labello connatis. Petala conformia. La-
bellum maximum, ecalcaratum, cum columna continuum,
varie lobatum, basi tuberculatum vel cristatum. Coluwmna
libera, semiteres, apice utrinque alata. Anthera semibilo-
cularis, rostello nunc abbreviato, nunc elongato rostrato.
Pollinia 2, postice suleata, caudicula plana, glandula ob-
longa.—Herbe epiphyte, nunc pseudo-bulbose. Folia cori-
acea. Scapi paniculati vaginati, rarius simplices. Flores
speciosi, lutei, sepius maculati, raro albi. Landl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Oncipium crispum ; pseudobulbis oblongis sulcatis rugosis
diphyllis, foliis lanceolatis coriaceis acutis, scapo sim-
eS multifloro, sepalis recurvis undulatis obtusis,
ateralibus semiconnatis, petalis duplo majoribus ob-
longis undulatis unguiculatis, labelli lobis lateralibus
cornuformibus recurvis nanis intermedio maximo un-
guiculato subrotundo-cordato undulato, crista duplici
serie deltoidea dentata, columne alis rotundatis denti-
culatis carnosis. Lindl.

Onciwium crispum. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1854. Lindl. Gen.
et Sp. Orchid. p. 197.

A large-flowered and very handsome species of Oncip1um,
a native of the Organ Mountains in the neighbourhood of.

Rio, Brazil, and first made known by Mr. Loppiges in his

Botanical

Botanical Cabinet. We are indebted for a drawing and
specimen, to our often-mentioned contributor, Mrs. Hors-
FALL, of Everton, Liverpool, in whose rich collection it
flowered in the autumn of 1835.

Descr. Bulbs oblong-oval, rather compressed, deeply
furrowed, bearing two oblong-lanceolate, dark green, cori-
aceous, obscurely nerved leaves. Scape from the base of
the bulb, a foot or a foot and a half high, with a simple
raceme of large flowers at the extremity. Perianth spread-
ing. Sepals more or less reflexed, oblong, acute, atten-
uated below, the two lateral ones connate for some way up
from the base, all of them waved, of a greenish-brown
colour, spotted. Petals broadly obovate, obtuse, much
waved and crisped, of a rich brown colour, the claw
yellow, spotted with red above, beneath green. Lip much
contracted at the base, where it has a thick double crest,
yellow spotted with red, and bearing two small, yellow,
horn-shaped lobes, the central lobe very large, roundish-
cordate, much crisped, coloured like the petals. Column
yellow, marked and spotted with deep red, expanding
upwards into two deep serrated wings. Anther-case ovate,
acuminated, but truncated at the apex. Pollen-masses
oval, yellow, on a long and broad white caudicula, which
has an ovate brown gland at its base.

Fig. 1. Column. 2. Anther-case. 3. Pollen: magnified.

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( 3500 )

DrvyANDRA PTERIDIFOLIA. FERN-LEAVED
DRYANDRA.

SEK KKK KEKE ERE EEE EERE
Class and Order.

TerranpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Prorteacez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium quadripartitum vel quadrifidum. Stamina
apicibus concavis laciniarum immersa. Squamule hypo-

one 4. Ovarium uniloculare biovulatum. Ovula post
Eecndationem coherentia. Folliculus ligneus. Dissepi-
mentum ligneum semibifidum fractus maturi omnind simile.
Receptaculum commune planum, floribus indeterminatim
confertis ; paleis angustis, rard nullis. Involucrum com-
mune imbricatum.—F rutices plerumque humiles. Rami dum
adsint sparsi vel umbellati. Folia sparsa, pinnatifida v.
incisa, plante juvenilis conformia. nvolucra solitaria, ter-
minalia, raro lateralia, sessilia, foliis confertis, interioribus
guandoque nanis obvallata, hemispherica, bracteis adpressis,
in quibusdam apice appendiculatis. Stylus sepe perianthio
vix longior. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
( §. AprHraema. )

Dryanpra pleridifolia ; foliis pinnatifidis caule abbreviato
erectiusculo, vel propensé decumbente tomentoso lon-
gioribus : lobis elongato-linearibus acutis, s. oblongo-
linearibus obtusis mucronatis, margine revolutis, peri-
anthii laminis colorato-lanatis apice penicillatis, invo-
lucri squamis exterioribus lato-ovatis spadiceo-tomen-
tosis.

(.) lobis foliorum obsoleté nervosis basi dilatatis, caule

erectiusculo. (Tab. nostr. 3500.)
DRYANDRA

VOL. X. H

Dryanpra pteridifolia. Brown in Linn. trans. v. 10. p.
215. Bjusd. Prodr. v. 1. p. 399. Rom. et Schult.

| Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 447. ied atte

(8.) lobis foliorum manifesté trinervibus, basi simplici,
caule perquam humili, ramis floriferis prasertim pros-
tratis.

Dryanpra blechnifolia. Br. in Linn. trans, et Prodr.
necnon. Rém. et Schult. Syst. Veget. in locis citatis. —

When Mr. Brown published the first volume of his invaluable Pro-
dromus, the plant here figured, which was discovered by that very
eminent Botanist on rocky hills, at King George’s Sound, was regarded
by him, as possibly a distinct species from another named D. dlechni-
fola, of which specimens without fructification, and originally gathered
also on the shores of the Sound, by our highly respected and venerable
friend Mr. Menzirs, in his voyage with VANCOUVER, were preserved
in the Banksian Herbarium. “A subsequent examination however, of
: sgt eae specimens, has proved them to be but varieties of one spe-
cies, differing from each other chiefly in habit, and in some measure in
the figure of the lobes of the leaves, although in some native specimens
examined, there is manifestly a disposition to produce the two shapes of
leaves upon the same plant :

The present remarkable and variable subject was raised from seeds,
collected by the late very indefatigable botanic-voyager, Mr.W. Baxter,
during his first visit to the South-western shores of Australia, in 1823;
and the specimens transmitted us from Kew, by the liberality of Mr,
Arron, last spring, were taken from a plant, which we understand, is

ot only the first that has produced flowers in Britain, but is the only
example of the species at this time alive in Europe. It may here be
dded, that for its presence at all in our collections, as indeed for the

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introduction to England, of many others of the rarer and more beauteous
of Australian vegetables, cultivators of ornamental exotic plants are en-
tirely indebted to the disinterested liberality of F. Hencuman, Esq.
Descr. Our plant in cultivation exhibits the contour of a dwarf,
bushy shrub, with short, flexuose branches, clothed with a whitish wool.
Leaves exceedingly rigid, crowded, and pinnatifid ; Jobes alternate, for the
most part linear, an inch and ‘a half to two inches long, terminated by a
sharp, rigid mucro, the margins revolute, base dilated, covered on the
under side with a ferruginous tomentum and nerved, the nerves even-
tually obsolete ; upper paging of a very dark green and glossy. Flowers
in terminal heads, surrounded by coloured leaves, of a faint honey-scent.
Involucre closely imbricated, clothed with a very dense reddish-brown
tomentum, having the outer bractes elliptical, acuminate, very smooth
within, and the inner scales linear, covered with orange-coloured appress-
ed, rigid hairs, pencilled at the apex. Pertanth deeply divided into
four equal segments, invested with a pink-coloured, curled wool, barer
towards the base: /amina linear, much longer than the unguis, tipped
with a pencil-like tuft of soft, spreading hairs. Stamens four, inserted
in the long, concave extremities of the lamine. Anthers linear, —
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lated, bursting longitudinally. Style terete, obscurely sulcated, exserted,
longer than the perianth, very smooth, slightly subulate, thickened
towards the base. Stigma simple. Hypogynous glands four, oblong,
bilobed. i,

The eager avidity with which spirited, liberal-minded gentlemen in this
country, have, at various periods in the course of the last forty years, sought
to possess and maintain im their collections living examples of the many
Genera of PRoTEACEs#, affords an abundant proof of the great interest
they have excited, and of the high estimation in which plants of a family,
possessing forms no less extraordinary than numerous, whether indigenous
to the Cape of Good Hope, or to the arid shores of Australia, have been held.

At one period, within, doubtless the recollection of some of our readers,
not only the King’s gardens at Kew, and the rich Conservatories of GEoRGE
HIBBERT, Esq. at Clapham, but the gardens of other gentlemen, and espe-
cially the sale-collections of the more eminent nurserymen around London,
could boast of many choice specimens of Cape Proteaceous plants, which,
in the present day, are nowhere to be seen ; for having been urged by culture
to put forth their showy flowers, they immediately afterwards, in many in-
stances, exhibited, from some mistreatment, debility and sickness, and
eventually dying, have ever since been lost to Britain. Since an ignorance.
at the time, of the proper mode of managing the plants of this family, whether
natives of the Cape or of New Holland, doubtless led to the mortality that
prevailed at periods not many years subsequent to their having been raised
from the imported seeds, perhaps it may not be out of place in this work, to
give our readers the substance of a few practical observations offered us, on
the successful treatment of certain of the Order, as pursued at Kew by the
principal very able cultivator in that garden, Mr. Joun Situ, to whose
horticultural knowledge is superadded a critical botanical discrimination of
plants generally, and especially of that numerous and beautiful tribe, the
FILicgs, and to whose talents in these particulars, we are happy, in common
with other Botanists in Britain and on the continent, especially attached to
the study of Cryptogamic vegetation, to bear ample testimony. :

Adverting to the interesting pamphlet of Mr. Macnas, ‘the excellent
Bitbenistcadait of the Royal Botanic Garden at Edinburgh, on the propaga-
tion and culture of Cape Heaths, which appeared in 1831, Mr. Smita
observes, that he had pursued with success for some time antecedent to that
date, the same mode of treatment of PRoTEACE# under his care, that is re-
commended in that publication, with respect to the culture of Heaths, viz.
in regard to shifting the plants into fresh and larger pots; in the process of
which, it is very important to afford, by means of potsherds, or set of
half-baked pottery, a good drainage below, and especially to avoid deep pot-
ting, by placing the plant, with its ball of earth round the roots quite entire,
So as to be some two or three inches above the surface of the soil at the edge
of the pot, which will have the effect of carrying off any superabundant
moisture from the roots to the circumference, and thus prevent the chance of
water becoming stagnant round the base of the stem; by inattention to this
latter circumstance, many a BANKsra and Dryanpra in other collections
have been killed; whilst a steady regard to free drainage, to an abundant
circulation of air, and a low temperature, he has succeeded in preserving
many fine proteaceous plants longer than is generally effected in other gar-
dens in the neighbourhood of London.

‘« Even in the present day,” he observes, “ there may be some few
gardeners, who may object to the mode of potting certain plants here insisted
on, on the ground that, by being thus raised in their pots above the soil at
the edge, they have not a handsome look ; and this practice, now adopted and

recommended

recommended by Mr. MacnaB with regard to Cape Heaths, &c., had its
prejudice on his mind for years, for no other reason, as he himself tells us,
“than that I fancied the plant looked as if it were ill potted, and, to my
view, unsightly.” ‘‘ But we now see, how much other and more judicious
management, founded on physiological principles, has overcome the preju-
dices of former days, and the difficulties attendant on the culture of not
‘simply these, but the plants of other tribes :—witness our orchideous Epi-
Ss.

y The soil,” continues this intelligent cultivator, ‘“‘ which I use in the cul-
ture of most of the PRoTEACE#, is a good fresh loam, with which, if stiff,
I mix a portion of sand, so as not to admit of its being retentive of water.
In time, after being potted as already directed, the main roots next the stem
of the plant will become uncovered: this circumstance I regard as favour-
able to the health of the plant: there will be no danger of its dying suddenly,
as I have known many to do, that have been buried alive,—in other words,
been deeply potted !”

‘In the winter months, care should be taken not to saturate the earth with
water, nor wet the leaves or stem more, than can be avoided. In dry weather
however, during the summer season, water may be freely given to the plants
about sunset, and a very essential point to be observed is, that, when they
are placed out in the open air in groups, the sun’s rays should not be
allowed to fall directly on the sides of the pots, for if they are, all the feeding

les of the tender roots round the inner side of the pot, will assuredly
destroyed, and the life of the plant greatly endangered. Repeatedly have

I known a Banxsia to have been killed by the solar ray having been thus
allowed to act on the side of the pot, which six months’ afterwards retained
so much of a life-like look—being kept yet in its pot—as to appear to the
eye of a superficial observer, to te still alive, and in perfect vigour. The
lowest greenhouse-temperature that can judiciously be allowed, to prevent
the effects of frost, is sufficient for the generality of the family now in culti-
vation in Britain, and no artificial heat is required for their preservation,
excepting in severe frosty weather.” He adds, with reference to pruning,
that “as the rapid upright-growing species are, if left to themselves, shorter-
lived, than others naturally more robust, the free use of the knife is recom-
mended, and the growth of the plants checked, by keeping the luxuriant
shoots cut back. is remark is especially applicable to those beautiful
plants of the Order, with simple, straight, wand-like stems, such for example
as Banksia Brown and DryanpRa Serra, Br., the former of which
has been lost to several collections that could once have boasted of it, by its
having been suffered to shoot up into exuberant growth, far beyond what
the slender, tapering, thinly-fibred root could at all furnish sustenance.
By heading these down somewhat, and thus reducing the ascending axis,
or column of circulation, a more robust habit is induced, a growth of roots
in their pots takes place, lateral branches are thrown out, and the plants thus
treated at Kew, are now in the best possible health, with every indicative of
being fully established in that garden”,

To the above observations ofan intelligent and practical man, may be added
a few very brief remarks on the habits, economy, and indispensable treat-
‘ment, in cultivation, of a division of Australian PRoTEACE#, growing natu-
rally on the sea coasts, or upon barren tracts within the influence of the sea
air, in the tropical regions of that continent. The Genera hitherto observed
on the equinoctial shores of New Holland are GREVILLEA, HAKEA, PER-
SOONIA, STENocARPUS, and Banxsta, and these comprise a group collec-
tively of thirty-three species, of peculiar constitution entirely governed in
their growth, and general development, by the circumstances and modifica-
tions of the climate in which they exist. ;

_It is a well-known fact, that what constitutes the change of season

: intertropical

intertropical regions, is not any approach to the winter of count
the lemnnesoie Penien, Hn lon of tes BE te Reghey labbadel ae tenner
any material difference of atmospheric temperature at opposite periods of the
year, but (we are speaking of the climate of the sea coast) is due to that .
periodical, well-defined break-up, from great dedug tt to extreme humidity,
commonly called the dry and rainy seasons. With such perfect regula-
rity do these changes of season take place on the N. W. coast, that our frienc
Capt. P. Rina

tries within

N., who was employed, during nearly five years on its
survey, could look forward almost to the very day when the break-up of the
easterly monsoon, and with it the period of drought, would oblige him
perernperyy to stand off shore, and immediately to quit the oie “wis

uring the existence of that monsoon, which prevails between May and
October, when the wind blows steadily off shore, that portions of that survey
were annually conducted, and the Botanist of the voyage, although he landed
almost daily from the vessel to pursue his researches, ’twas oftentimes but to
behold vegetable life in a state of extreme langour, by the aridity of the
atmosphere, and its uniformly high fervid temperature. FO) IE
The GRAMINE4, and, indeed, herbaceous plants generally, had suffered
in the early part of the season : these were all burnt up, and the more woody
vegetables, the shrubs, arbuscule, and stunted timber trees bore the marked
evidences of participation in the general distress. None were detected in a
flowering state, whilst all were laden with their ripened fruits. The AcCAcrIAs,
of which every sandy beach and rocky islet furnished some species, bore
their clustered pods on branches, in many species incrusted with a
brittle concrete matter, that had exuded through the cuticle, which a

peared by thus covering the bark, the phyllodia, and buds, to suspend
a time, the operation of their respective functions, and thus lull vegeta
life into a state of quiescence. All nature wore an air of desolation, and the
vegetable world assumed an aspect unusually gray and gloomy. But it was
its season of rest—that period of repose which appears essential to vegetation
generally in tropical countries, to enable it upon the return of the rains, to
burst forth with a renovated strength into fresh life, and undergo with vigour
that sudden and prodigious development of leaves and flowers, which con-
stitutes the beauty and grandeur of the vegetables of warm countries.
During the surveys of Capt. K1nG just noticed, the seeds of no less than
twelve species of Proteaceous plants, (and chiefly of Mr, Brown’s last
section of the Genus GREVILLEA,) were received at Kew. Plants of each
were readily raised, which afterwards, with the treatment they received, grew
to the stature of large shrubs, and some eventually flowered, to the admira-
tion of all yisitors. But these goodly plants were not destined to long life in
the King’s gardens, for, inattentive to the conditions under which alone, those
lovelier forms of Australian vegetation exist on their native coasts, they were
urged immediately after flowering, into a new and unnatural vigorous growth.
In vain they looked for some short season of rest, by perhaps a dryer
warmth, with but the slightest possible watering afforded, to sustain life—a
treatment, to which their constitutions, inherited from their parents, ap-
peared so fully adapted. They found none; but debility resulting from
forced culture, was followed by extreme exhaustion, and death closed the
scene! But we have yet to discover, in our future endeavours to cultivate
the shrubby vegetables of the sands of the intertropical shores of that vast
country, by what mode of treatment, plants delighting in a high atmospheric
temperature, and subject to the extremes of drought and humidity at oppo-
site periods of the year, can possibly be cultivated in Britain. It is to be
hoped that our government may, ere long, be induced to re-establish settle-
ments on the northern coasts of New Holland, whence the seeds of those
beautiful plants, to which we have particularly referred, may be again
obtained, and other methods of culture tried, in which their native habits
should

should be more consulted, than they were, some few years since, when one
or two collections only, about London, could, for a short period, boast of pos-
oon ag cimens, We will just observe, that these are considerations
of vegetable life well worthy of the attention of the intelligent botanic gar-
dener : it should ever be his business to imitate nature in the care and treat-
ment of her vegetable subjects, by affording them, as far as practicable, the
soil, the temperature, and situation in which they flourish in their native re-

ions, when these can be ascertained ; and it should be no less the duty of
He botuntb traveller to communicate these and other circumstances, in re-
spect to the seasons of growth and cessation from it of plants of equinoctial
countries, in which he may have extended his labours, as all such will greatly
aid the skill of the intelligent cultivator.

Lub. by S. Curtis. Glasenwood., Essex. Sub 18.56.

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TRADESCANTIA Vireinica, fl. albo. Vir-
GINIAN SpipER- Wort, White-flowered var.

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Commetines. )

Generic Character.

Calyx et Corolla profunde tripartite. Filamenta plerum-
que villosa. Capsula 3-locularis. Spr.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Trapescantia Virginica; caule erecto subsimplici, foliis
oblongo-lanceolatis canaliculatis glabris, umbellis ter-
minalibus, floribus congestis.

Travescantia Virginica. Linn. Sp. Pl. p.411. Curt. Bot.
Mag. t. 105. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 16. Spreng.
Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 116. Schultes, Syst. Veget. v. 7.
p.1173. Mich. Am. v. 1. p. 195.

(3.) flore albo. Schultes, l. c. p. 1174.—(Tab. nostr. t.
3501.)

‘The purple-flowered and more usual state of the Virginian
Spiderwort is not uncommon in our gardens. Mr. Curtis
in his description of it, under our tab. 105, has alluded to
the white-flowered sort, which we have now the pleasure of
presenting: it is one of the numerous varieties which are
raised from seed, and may be continued by parting the
roots. Although the species was originally introduced from
Virginia, as its name implies, to our gardens, “ it bears the
severity of a British climate uninjured,” observes Mr. Cur-
gis, “ and being a beautiful as well as hardy perennial, is
found in almost every garden.” The white-flowered variety,
which is generally tinged with purple near the base of the
petals, is equally deserving a place in our collections, and
is quite as hardy as the purple.

EVR peas Reg Weal, Oneal ak

Fid. by S.Curtis. darenwood Essex July L836. Swan. 3?

¢ 3502 )

ACACIA PROMINENS. Conspicuous Acacia,
or Nepean Wattle. |

KKK KKK K KEKE KEK KKK
Class and Order.

Potyeamia Monaccta.
( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminos#. )

Generic Character.

Flores polygami. Cal. 4—5-dentatus. Pet. 4—5, nune
libera, nunc in corollam 4—5-fidam coalita. Stam. numero
varia 1O—200. Legumen continuum exsuccum bivalve.—
Frutices aut arbores, habitu et foliatione valde varie. Spine
stipulares sparse aut nulle. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Acacia prominens ; glabra, phyllodiis (sesquiuncialibus)
lineari-lanceolatis acutis patentibus retrorso- falcatis
rectisve uninervibus tenuissime ciliatis, mucrone sub-
uncinato terminatis, margine antico versiis basin uni-
glanduloso, glandula leviter elevata, racemis termina-

_Tibus axillaribusve 6—10-cephalis phyllodio pauld lon-
gioribus, capitulis (in racemo) solitariis geminisve
‘pedicello brevioribus, floribus quinquepartitis, petalis
ovato-oblongis subacuminatis, stylo staminibus parum
longiore. Allan Cunn. e

Acacia prominens. Allan Cunn. MSS. (1817.) G. Don’s
Syst. of Gard. v. 2. p. 406. n. 67.

A charming conservatory shrub, native of New South
Wales, where it inhabits barren forest-grounds, in the
immediate vicinity of the Nepean river ; and although it
may, in its native regions, be truly said to be, like Goxp-
suitn’s village thorn, ‘“ unprofitably gay,”—no one caring
to receive it into his garden, it nevertheless seldom fails,
even there, in the month of September, when decked with

Fe blossoms,

blossoms, to commend itself to the notice and admiration of
the passing, way-worn colonist, not less by the extreme rich-
ness and profusion of its golden flowers, than by the delicious
fragrance they diffuse around. It has been several years at
Kew, where it flowers annually in the months of spring ;
and our acknowledgments are due to Mr. Arron for the
opportunity now afforded us of publishing a figure of it.

Descr. A tall, slender shrub, often ten feet high, of
erect growth, numerously branched, the branches being
smooth, greenish, and slightly angular, Phyllodia copious
alternate for the most part, an inch and a half in length and
two and a half to three lines in breadth, spreading, linear-
lanceolate, acute, mucronated, mucro rather hooked, to-
wards the apex often retrosely falcate, with several slightly-
marked veins diverging from the midrib, on the upper edge
near the base is a rather prominent gland. Flowers golden-
yellow, very fragrant, formed in axillary and terminal ra-
cemes, each raceme having from six to ten heads, generally
longer than the phyllodia. Heads many-flowered, distinct,
solitary or in pairs. Pedicels patent, very smooth, longer
than the heads, having at the bases short, brown bractes.
_Calyx very short, five-parted. Petals five, ovate-oblong,
subacute, erect or slightly spreading. Stamens numerous,
shorter than the style. Stigma simple.

: Bs :

The following closely allied, but very distinct species, may be character-
‘ve cat ized as follows : :

A. fimbriata ; villosa, phyllodiis (sesquiuncialibus) linearibus obtusis
(cum mucronulo) erectis introrso-falcatis rectisve uninervibus, an-
gulisque ramorum densé ciliato-fimbriatis, mucronulo recto, margine
antico versus basin uniglanduloso, glandula subimmersa, racemis
axillaribus terminalibusve polycephalis phyllodio sapé duplo longi-
oribus, capitulis (in racemo) plerumque solitariis pedicellos eequan-
tibus, floribus quinquepartitis, petalis ovatis acutis, staminibus
stylum subzequantibus,

A. fimbriata. Allan Cunn. MSS. G. Don’s Syst. of Gard. v. 2. p.
406, n. 68.

Has. InN ova Cambria Australi: secus flumen Brisbane, Moreton

Bay, versus tropicum: pracipue ad margines petrosos aquaductuum in

sylvis apertis aridis. Florens mense Septembri, 1828, Allan. Cunn.

_ Arcté affinis A. prominenti, sed frutex humilior (vix orgyalis,) ramis

omnin6 villosis angulatis, angulis phyllodiisque fimbriatis. Phyllodia

angustiora recta vel interdum introrso-falcata, racemi etiam, flexuosi

graciliores: Capitula florum numerosiora et confertiork pedicellos vix
excedentes,

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PAssIFLORA KERMESINA. CrIMSON Passion-
3 FLOWER. i

SEK KEK KK KEKE KEKE KKKEE
Class and Order. |

MonapetreuiA PEentraNnpRiA.
( Nat. Ord.—Passirtore#. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 10-partitus, laciniis interioribus corollinis. Corona
radiata perigyna. Nectarium in fundo calycis. Tubus
staminifer stylum cingens. Stigmata 3 clavata. Pepo 1-lo-
cularis, placentatio parietalis. .

Specific Character and Synonym.

PassiFLora kermesina ; scandens glaberrima cirrhata, foliis
cordato-trilobis obtusis integerrimis subtus discolori-
bus, petiolo bi-triglanduloso, stipulis semicordatis
magnis, pedunculo unifloro nudo, calycis segmentis
uniformibus lineari-oblongis demum reflexis, corona
erectiuscula, columna elongata.

Passirtora kermesina. Hort. Berol. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t.
1633.

I regret to know nothing of the history of this ex-
tremely beautiful Passion-flower, further than that it was

received at the Glasgow Botanic Garden from that of ~~

Berlin, by favour of Mr. Orro, and under the name here
adopted. It is, probably, a native of Brazil. It requires
the heat of the stove, and bears numerous flowers during
the summer and autumnal months, which open towards
evening and close in the morning of the following day, not

again to expand. ‘ ee
Descr. Stems slender, branched, climbing to a consi-
derable height. Leaves petiolate, cordate, three-lobed,
glabrous (as is every part of the plant) : lobes nearly equals
. oval,

oval, obtuse, here and there glanduloso-dentate, green
above, purplish beneath. Petioles slender, bearing two or
three elongated, dark-purple glands: from the axil a sim-
ple tendril arises, and from each side, at the base, a large
semicordate, obtuse stzpule, of the same colour and texture
as the leaves. Calyx on both sides crimson-red, the seg-
ments ten, uniform, narrow-oblong, at first horizontal,
afterwards reflexed, whitish at their base; they are com-
bined below into a short tube, swollen at the base: at the
mouth of this tube is a filamentous crown of several series
of nearly erect, dark-purple filaments, the outer ones paler
at the extremity, within this is another and smaller circle
of white filaments, united for the greater part of their
length into a conical tube. Column much elongated.
Stigmas club-shaped.

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RoprRiGueziA PLANIFOLIA, EVvEN-LEAVED

He RopriGueEzia. 3
Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcHiweEa. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium patens, subequale, sepalis 2 lateralibus
connatis labello suppositis. Labellum integrum, unguicu-
latum, basi cornutum, medio callosum; ungue cum co-
lumna parallelo. Columna teres apice barbata. Anthera
unilocularis, carnosa. Clinandrium nudum, retrorsum de-
clive. Pollinia 2, postice excavata ; caudicula elastica.—
Herbe epiphyte, subpseudobulbose. Folia cortacea vel
membranacea, plicata. Spice secunde. Flores speciost.
Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ropricuezia planifolia; bulbis valde compressis ovato-
oblongis, foliis lanceolatis enerviis levibus, perianthio
undulato, sepalo inferiori (e duobus formato) apice
solummodo bifido, labello apice integro.

Roprievuezsa planifolia. Lindl. in Hort. Trans. v. 7. p. 67.
ejusd, Gen, et Sp. Orchid. p. 195. ,

Gomeza recurva. Lodd. Bot. Cab. (not Bot. Mag.) ¢. 660.

This deliciously fragrant plant, named Gomeza (Ropri-
gurziA, Linpt.) recurva by Mr. Loppiees, but distinguished
from that species by Professor Linptey on account of the
even (not striated) surface of its leaves, and the entire,
not emarginate, lip, has been kindly communicated to us
by Mr. Joun Camppett, of the Botanic Garden, Belfast, —
where it was imported from Brazil. It flowers in February.

Descr. Bulbs clustered, scarcely more than two inches
high, pale coloured, much compressed and sharp-edged,

bearing

bearing a pair of leaves at the extremity, which are lan-
ceolate, even on the surface, and more or less recurved.
Scape arising from the base of the bulb on one side, and
from within a leafy sheath, short, bearing rather a long,
drooping raceme of many fragrant greenish-yellow flowers,
more remarkable for their scent than their beauty. Sepals
oblong, waved, acute, the two lateral or lower ones com-
bined together for nearly their whole length, the extremities
straight, not in the least spreading. Lip broadly oblong,
yellow, crested at the base with two crenate white mem-
branes, and bearing two oblong tubercles near the middle,
where the lip is very suddenly and much reflexed, the apex
rather acute, entire. Colwmn nearly white, semicylindrical,
with a deep orange margin round the stigma. Anthers
hemispherical. Germen clavate, subtended by a white,
membranous, sheathing bractea, nearly as long as itself.

Fig. 1, Flower: magnified.

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CoREOPSIS FILIFOLIA. THREAD-LEAVED
CoREOPSIS.

Jobe
3 Class and Order.

SyYNGENESIA F'RUSTRANEA.
( Nat. Ord.—Composirez. )

Generic Character.

Receptaculum paleaceum. Achenia compressa, emargi-
nata. Pappus bicornis vel obsoletus. Involucrum duplex;
utrumque polyphyllum.

Specific Character.

Coreopsis filifolia ; glaberrima, caule erecto striato, foliis
oppositis pinnatifidis bipinnatifidisque foliolis lineari-
filiformibus subcarnosis supra canaliculatis, radii co-
rollis 8—9 obovatis luteis, disco purpureo-sanguineo.

Of all the narrow and divided-leaved species of Corzopsis,
this has unquestionably the narrowest foliage, and which, if
examined carefully, exhibits the most fleshy texture, the
under side semiterete, and presenting no appearance of a
nerve or costa, which indeed is only indicated on the upper —
side by the presence of a furrow. _ Its nearest ally is perhaps
the C. tenuzfolia ; but there, besides the difference in foliage,
the disk is described as being of the same colour as the ray,
and the florets of the ray are much narrower. Its seeds
were sent by Mr. Drummonp to this country from Texas,
in the spring of 1835, and the plants flowered in the open
air in August and September. The same species is distri-
buted to the friends of Mr. Drummonp’s Expedition, marked
“Texas, Lin 101,”

Descr. Annual. Stem erect, but slender, branched,
especially upwards, striated and glabrous, as is every part
of the plant. Leaves opposite, pinnatifid or bipinuatifid,

allies the

the segments very narrow-linear, almost filiform, entire,
somewhat fleshy, convex or nearly semicylindrical on the
under side, above marked with a furrow. Peduncles termi-
nal, slender, single-flowered. Flower rather large, hand-
some. Involucre almost globose: inner of six to eight
somewhat imbricated, ovate scales; outer of the same
number of linear-subulate, spreading ones, arising from the
base of the inner, and there forming one with them. Ray
of eight to nine, obovate, irregularly three to five-toothed,
spreading, orange-yellow corollas: their tube short: Ger-
men linear, abortive, destitute of pappus. Corolla of the
disk tubular, dark blood-coloured, glabrous. Anther-tube
black, exserted. Pollen yellow.

Pub.by S.Curtis,Glarenwood. Essex... Faby LIS 36.

- GAURA PARVIFLORA. SMALE-FLOWERED-
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Class and Order.

OcranpriaA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Onacrariz. )

Generic Character.

Calyx tubulosus 4-partitus, Petala 4. Nux angulata
l-sperma. Spreng.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Gaura parviflora ; pubescenti-mollis, foliis lato-lanceolatis
acuminatis remote-denticulatis, spica multiflora, peta-
lis (parvis) obovatis erectis, stamina stylumque equan-
tibus, fructibus oblongo-fusiformibus.

Gavra parviflora. Douglas, MSS. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am.

v. 1. p. 208.

This very distinct species of Gawra does not appear to
be noticed by any writer on North American plants, not-
withstanding that it has been found in two widely different
parts of that vast continent. The specimens here figured
were raised from seeds sent by Mr. Drummonp from Texas ;
and, on a careful examination, the plant proves to be iden-
tical, as to species, with the G. A at (Fl. Bor. Am.),
which Mr. Doveuas found on the banks of the Wallawalla
River, on the North-west Coast of America. As an orna-
mental plant it has, indeed, little to recommend it; but
when the flower is carefully examined, it will be found to
be possessed of no little beauty. The habit and inflo-
rescence are very similar to those of G. bennis, but
the flowers, independent of the great difference in size,
are widely different. In the latter, the calyx bursts on
one side, the segments continuing combined at their ex-

tremities,

tremities, the petals are all directed to one side upwards,
the stamens and style downwards, and both these latter,
especially the style, are longer than the petals; the four
lobes of the stigma are erect and close placed. In our
plant, the four segments of the calyx are separate and
reflexed, the petals are erect, the stamens and style equal
to them in length, the four lobes of the stigma spreading.
O. parviflora is quite hardy, flowering in August and
September.

Descr. Biennial. Stems two to four feet high, erect,
simple or branched, clothed with soft patent hairs. Leaves
broadly lanceolate, the lower ones ovato-lanceolate, all of
them sessile, acuminate, denticulate, more or less downy
with soft hairs, especially at the margin and on the midrib,
gradually becoming smaller and narrower upwards, till
they pass into the small subulate and ciliated bracteas of
the flowers. Spike elongated, many-flowered. Germen
fusiform, downy, sessile. Calyx-tube shorter than the ger-
men, equal in length to the four linear, free, reflexed
segments. Petals four, small, erect, deep rose-coloured,
obovate, slightly clawed, of the same length with the erect
stamens and style. Filaments rose-coloured, inserted below
the middle of the back of the oblong dark purple anthers :
Pollen yellow. Style red: stigma four-lobed, the lobes
ovate, spreading, white. Fruit fusiform, obscurely four-
angled, constituting an indehiscent nucumentaceous cap-
sule, four-celled, each cell containing one pendent, obovate
seed, attached to the inner angle of the cell by a rather
long seed-stalk : dissepiments thin, membranaceous.

Fig. 1. Flower, 2. Immature Fruit: magnified,

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CyRTOPODIUM PUNCTATUM. SpoTrep- —
FLOWERED CyRTOPODIUM.

Class and Order.

_GynanpriA Monanpria.
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuiwez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum, zquale, sepalis petalisque
liberis. Labellum unguiculatum, cum basi producta co- —
lumne continuum, tripartitum, explanatum, ecalcaratum. —
Columna semiteres. Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 2, pos-
tice biloba; caudicula lineari brevi, glandula ovata,—Plante
terrestres, fruticose. caulibus fusiformibus, carnosis ; folits
plicatis ; scapis radicalibus, vaginalis ; floribus speciosis. -
Lindl. .

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cyrrtoropium punctatum; bulbis elongatis, foliis lineari-
lanceolatis tenuiter acuminatis, scapo paniculato, brac-
teis magnis membranaceis, sepalis petalisque undulatis
acutis maculatis, labello stipitato, profunde trilobo,
lobis lateralibus obovato-cuneatis incurvis intermedio —
late obcordato margine granuloso, disco basi calloso. —

popes punctatum. Lindl. Gen. et. Sp. Orchid. p.
188. )

Ermenprum punctatum. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1348. Willd.

Sp. Pl.v. 4.p. 116. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 3. p. 736.

HeLiesorus ramosissimus cauliculis et floribus maculosis.

Plum. Sp. p.9.t. 187.

This superb plant, of which only a small portion is re-
presented on our plate, flowered in the Glasgow Botanic

Garden, in the spring of 1835. It was sent many years ago

from Brazil by Wm. Swainson, Esq., and has never till the
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VOL. X. I

period above mentioned shown any disposition to blossom.
Dr. Linpiey obliged us by naming it, or we should pro-
bably have had a difficulty in determining it; the figure
refered to in Piumier being in some respects, particularly
in the bulb and foliage, considerably at variance with our
specimen. It was originally discovered by Pxiumier, in
Hispaniola, and Professor Linpixy has specimens from the
same country, collected by Cuartes Macxenzir, Esq.
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs a foot and a half, or two feet long,
cylindrical, or slightly compressed, tapering at each ex-
tremity, clothed with pale brown, faintly-striated, acumina-
ted, sheathing scales, and crowned witha tuft of six to eight
long, linear-lanceolate, much acuminated leaves. Scape
arising from the base of the pseudo-bulb, erect, including
the panicle, nearly three feet high: spotted, as are the
branches, with purple. Bracteas oblong, lanceolate, ex-
ceedingly large, spreading, membranous, yellow, the upper
ones chiefly spotted. Flowers large, handsome. Petals and
sepals oblong, wavy, yellow, the latter chiefly spotted with
red-purple. Lip stipitate, jointed upon the decurrent base
of the column, deeply three-lobed, yellow, two lateral lobes
obovato-cuneate, incurved, with a broad red-purple margin ;
intermediate one broadly obcordate, the margin granulated
and dotted with purple, the disk at the base crested and dot-
ted with purple. Column semiterete, singularly produced,
at the base, between the two lower sepals, yellow-green.
Anther-case almost nectariform, ta ering at the back.
Pollen-masses two, oblongo-obovate, Ravin a deep furrow
at the back, attached to a white, ovate gland. Germen
long, slender, slightly clavate, spotted. pee

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Fig. 1. Column and Lip.

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Upper side of a Pollen- p olumn. 4. Anther-case. 3.

mass. 6. Underside of ditto —magnified.

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Class and Order.

ENNEANDRIA T'RIGYNIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Potyeonez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthum simplex, 6-partitum, persistens, laciniis al-
ternis minoribus. Achenium triquetram, perianthio majus,
marginibus membranaceo-marginatis. Stigmata verrucoso-

papillata.
Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ruaeum * Emodi; foliis rotundato-cordatis scabriusculis, pe-
tiolis lateraliter compressis pedunculisque sulcatis ver-
rucoso-scabris, racemis compositer elongatis strictis,
floribus minutis atro-sanguineis. .

Rueum Emodi. Wall. MSS. Cat. E. I. C. Mus. n. 1727.

Ruevm Australe. Don, Prodr. Nep.p. 75. Sweet, Br. Fl.
Gard. t. 269. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 4. (cur. post.)
7200. a :

The true officinal Rhubarb, long known in commerce,
as one of the most valuable of drugs, had been considered by
different writers and travellers, as the root of either Ruzum
undulatum, R. compactum, R. Rhaponticum, or in the opin-
ion of the majority of authors, of R. palmatum ; but it does
not appear that any one had ascertained the fact in the coun- |
try whence the Rhubarb had been imported, so that no de-—
pendance can be placed upon these statements. Indeed,
being a native of the vast range of the Thibetian and_
Himalaya mountains, it was scarcely possible that the plant _
itself could be known to Europeans, until that vast and
interesting region was visited by Dr. Watuicu and his
collectors. There, at Emodus, a mountainous district of
Gossam Than, by Dr. Watuicu, and about Kamoun by

* From Rha, the river so called, now the Volga ; because the true Rhu-
4arb was supposed to be derived from thence.

Rosert Buenxworrnu, the present plant was discovered,
and seeds of it sent by the former, in 1828, as the true
officinal Rhubarb of commerce, to Mr. Lampert, in
whose garden at Boyton House, Wiltshire, plants were
soon raised and distributed. For it proves perfectly
hardy, even in Scotland, where in comimon soil, it attains
a height of seven and eight feet and recommends itself,
independently of its commercial interest, by the large hand-
some foliage and deep blood-coloured flowers, which are
succeeded by conspicuous pendent seed-vessels of the
same colour as the blossoms. The root used to be sent
from China to Ormuz and Aleppo, thence by Alexandria
to Vienna, and hence it obtained the name of Turkey, or
Levant Rhubarb; now our vessels obtain it dried from
- Canton and Ormuz (in the Persian Gulf). But the best,
Mr. Don assures us, “ is what comes by way of Russia, as
reater care is taken in the selection ; and on its arrival at
Kiachta, within the Russian frontiers, the roots are all care-
fully examined and the damaged pieces destroyed. This
_ Asthefine rhubarb of the shops.” It is much to be regretted
however, that we have as yet no authentic particulars re-
+ ting the mode of collecting and preparing the roots by
natives.

Descr, Stems six to ten feet high, much branched and
‘Sulcated, very thick below, gradually attenuated upwards
into the large panicles, and there rough with minute warts
or excrescences: the colour is yellow-ereen, streaked with
red-brown, Leaves very large, but gradually smaller up-
wards, roundish-cordate, entire, somewhat wavy, slightly
rough upon the surface, and at the margin. Petioles thick,
angled and furrowed, rough, embracing the stem by
means of the large, bifid, sheathing membranous stipules.
P anicles, or rather compound racemes, terminal, very long,
_ the branches erect, virgate, rough. Pedicels solitary or clus-

tered, somewhat verticillate, short, spreading, in fruit, de-
flexed. Flowers very small, of a deep blood-red colour.
Pi ervanth of six spreading, ovate, deep segments, three alter-
_ hate ones smaller. Stamens nine, shorter than the perianth.
Filaments subulate, monadelphous at the base. Germen
ert triquetrous, often abortive. Styles three, spreading.
ugmas large, warty. Fruit pendent, dark blood-coloured,
shining, an achenium which is cordate, triangular, the angles
sharply winged, covered at the base with the persistent pe-
Tianth, of which the three smaller segments are iiphied to

—— winged angles. Seed ovato-triquetrous. >

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SISYRINCHIUM GRANDIFLORUM. DLARGE-
-FLOWERED Sisyvrincnium.

Class and Order.

Monapetpuia TRiaANDRIiA.

( Nat. Ord.—Irinea. )

Generic Character. 2
Spatha diphylla. Calyxo. Petala 6, subequalia, plana.
Filamenta connata. Stylus 1. Capsula trilocularis, mfera.

Specific Character and Synonym. ‘*

Sisyrincuium grandiflorum ; caule stricto compresso foliis
erectis vaginantibus longiore, spatha biflora pedun-
culos subequante, perianthio late campanulato, fila-
mentis longissimis subulatis basi contracta solummodo

connatis erectis demum patentibus. Lal

Sisyrincuium grandiflorum. Dougl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1364.

A most lovely and graceful plant, remarkable for the
large size and peculiarly bright purple colour of its flowers.
The very long filaments, broad at the base, below which
they are contracted and where alone they are combined,
seem to be at variance with the characters of other species
of Sisyrincuium, and may, perhaps, entitle the subject of
our plate to rank as a distinct Genus. It was discovered
by the late Mr. Dovetas, on low hills of the Columbia, from
the Great Falls to Oakanagan, in dry soils, flowering in
May ; and introduced to the gardens of the Horticultural
Society of London. Our wild specimens precisely accord
with those here figured, only they are rather smaller and
the flower is less drooping. It appears yet to be a rare
plant in collections, and though stated by Professor Linpiey
to be perfectly hardy, the shelter of a greenhouse is afforded
it at Glasgow, where it flowers in March.

Descr.

Descr. Roots truly fibrous, the fibres moderately slender,
branched. Stem six to eight or ten inches high, simple,
erect, compressed ; bearing, chiefly below, three or four
leaves, which are erect, sheathing and shorter than the
stem. Spatha terminal, of two unequal leaves, pale and
membranous at the margin, two-flowered, though I find one
flower only expanded at a time. Peduncle nearly as long
as the spatha, slender, curved, as if from the weight of the
flower, which thus droops. Perianth of six oblong slightly
concave, obtuse, bright purple, moderately spreading sepals,
faintly striated externally. Stamens three. Filaments erect,
about as long as the sepals, white, broad and purplish below,
quite distinet (except at the contracted base) eventually
spreading. Anthers oblong, yellow. Germen, inferior,
pyriform, obtusely trigonal. Style filiform, longer than the
stamens. Stigmas three.

Fig. 1. Pistil and Stamens. 2. Interior view of a Stamen magnified.

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Class and Order. 8

SYNGENESIA F'RUSTRANEA.
( Nat. Ord.—Composir2. )

Generic Character.

Achenium compressum, conforme, paleis magis minusve
deciduis, binis pluribusve minoribus coronatum.—Herbe
se@pe altissime, rarius frutices, Americe indigent, foliis op-

positis vel alternis integris (vel fissis) asperis ; capitulis

luteis solitariis et terminalibus vel corymbosis ; involucris
polyphyllis imbricatis, rachi plana. Less. esag

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Specific Character and Synonyms.

Heianruus decapetalus ; foliis oppositis (supremis brac-
teantibus exceptis) subrhombeo - ovatis acuminatis
Srosse serratis utrinque scabris supra basin tripliner-
vils, involucri foliolis lineari-acuminatis squarrosis
paleis integris radii corollis subdecem.

Hexianruus decapetalus. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1277. Pursh, Fl.
Am. 0. 2. p. 571. ~ Ell: Carol. 0. 2. p. 425. ae

(8.) frondosus ; involucri squamis elongatis foliosis.

- Hexrantruus frondosus. Lznn. and other authors.

.™

Few plants are less understood by Botanists, or more
ill defined in books, than the species of the Genus now
before us; especially those which are natives of North
America. And it is much to be regretted that Sir James
Smrra has not even noticed the Linnean species in Rees’
Cyclopedia, so that we are at a loss to distinguish accu-
rately those whose names are the most familiar to us. As
far as can be judged from description, the present is the
H. decapetalus of the Species Plantarum, where its affinity

with

with H. multiflorus, (Bot. Mag. t. 227,) from which it princi-

Ily*differs in the smaller flowers and much fewer rays, and
in the lower leaves not being cordate, is noticed. It is a
hardy perennial, an inhabitant of the northern and middle
States'of North America and of Canada, and blossoming in
the autumn."; By‘luxuriance the scales of the involuere are
enlarged and become leafy, and, as it appears to me, have
given rise to the Linnean H. frondosus.

Descr. Stem four to five feet high; much branched
upwards, and there principally scabrous. Leaves all op-
posite, (except the uppermost ones, which are smaller and
narrower and less distinctly serrated, and which as arising
from the flower-bearing stalks, may rather be considered
bracteas,) ovate, but tapering below so as to be some-
what rhomboidal, three-nerved above the base, acuminated,
coarsely and distantly serrated, scabrous on both sides, of
a rather lively green above, paler beneath, but scarcely

atall downy, the lower one petiolated. Flowers about two
inches across, slightly drooping. Scales of the involucre
numerous, squarrose, linear-acuminate, ciliated at the mar-
gin, especially below, where they are of a blackish colour,
sometimes, in 6, becoming leafy. Receptacle slightly conical,
chaffy : the scales linear, acute, usually quite entire, and
nearly as long as the florets of the disk. Florets of the ray
bright yellow, their germens abortive, destitute of pappus;
those of the disk, orange. Anthers purple-black : their
germens compressed, with two soft, subulate, opposite
scales, and sometimes, two or three other minute ones.

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Cauiiopsis TINCToRIA: var, atropurpurea.
- Dyeine Caxuiopsis; dark-flowered var. —

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Class and Order.

SYNGENESIA F’RUSTRANEA.
( Nat. Ord.—Composir. )

Generic Character.

Achenium obcompressum, omnino calvum, intus curva-
tum, apice truncatum, anguste bialatum, disco-epigyno mi-_
nuto, alis concoloribus, integerrimis. | Stylus disci ramis
truncatis apiceque solo penicillatis—Herbe Boreali-Amer-
icane, glabre, foliis magis minusve sectis ; capitulis geminis
v. corymbosis, radio luteo basi macula atropurpurea notato
v. roseo ; involucris biserialibus, serie interiori gamophylla.
Less.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Catuiopsis* tamctoria ; caule ramosissimo foliisque glaber-
rimis, radicalibus pinnatis foliolis spathulato-lanceo-
latis, caulinis bi-tripinnatifidis summisque 3- partitis
linearibus, pedunculis subcorymbosis, flosculis radii
inciso-dentatis. — mel 65

Cauuiopsis bicolor. “ Reichenb.”—Spreng. Syst. Veget. v.
3. p. 61.

ovms tinctoria. Nutt. Journ. Acad. Sc. Phil. 1821,
p. 114. Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2512. Bot. Reg. t. 846.
Sw. Brit. Fl. Gard. t.72. Bart.’ Fl. of N. Am. ». 2.
t. 45.

(6.) floribus atropurpureis, nune limbo fulvo circumdatis.
(Tab. nostr. 3511.)

i The

* From xaddos, beauty, and ox, an appearance ; I presume, from the
beautiful appearance of the blossoms.

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The ordinary state of this pretty plant is given at t. 2512,
where it will be seen that the flower is a bright and full
yellow colour, with a deep blackish-purple or blood-red
eye. Cultivation shows that these colours are liable to
vary, and has made us acquainted with a state of this plant
of great beauty and richness as concerns the flower. In
some specimens the whole of the ray is atro-sanguineous ; in
others there is a tawny narrow margin, forming, as it were,
a kind of limb around it. Mixed with the common yellow
sort in large patches, they add greatly to the charms of a
flower-garden.

Our specimen here figured was from the garden of Mr.
James Tarr, Merry Flats, and was one of the twelve best
species of hardy annuals which gained the prize at the

September Meeting (1835) of the Glasgow Hoticultural
Society.

Fig. 1. Floret from the Disk :—Magnified.

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'THUNBERGIA ALATA; (albiflora). Wiaunerp
Tuunsereia ; White-flowered var.

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Class and Order.

Divynami1a ANGIOSPERMIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Acanruacez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx duplex : ext, diphyllus ; int. subduodecim-den-
tatus. Capsula bilocularis rostrata.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Tuunsercia alata; pubescenti-sericea, foliis cordatis acutis
angulatis, petiolis alatis, caule volubili. |

(«.) Corolla lutea.

Tuunsereia alata. Bojer MSS.—Hook. Ex. Fl. p. 177.
Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2591.

(8.) Corolla alba. (Tab. nostr. 3512.)

Tuunsereia alata, is a plant discovered by Professor
Bogzr of the Mauritius in grassy places of Zanzibar and
Pemba, two small islands on the eastern coast of Africa, in
about the fifth or sixth degree of South latitude: and it was
by the late Mr. Trxrair sent to Mr. Barctay’s collection
at Bury Hill. Through his liberality, the buff-flowered
variety is become general in the stoves of our collections,
where it is greatly admired for its copious blossoms, marked
with a deep purple-brown eye in the centre. The variety
now figured, with a white limb to the corolla, forming a
still greater contrast with the dark stain in the centre, is,
we believe, much more uncommon, since we are only ac-
quainted with it from plants given to the Glasgow Botanic
Garden by the kindness of Mr. Lowe of the Clapton Nursery.
It flowers during the summer and autumn months, and re-
quires the same treatment as the buff-stained kind.

Descr.

Descr. Stems long, slender, twining, clothed, as well as
the leaves and calyx, with short, pale, silky pubescence.
Leaves opposite, cordate, or cordato-hastate, membranous,
acute, angled at the margin more or less, particularly near
the base, dark green above, paler beneath. Petioles about
as long as the leaves, singularly winged on each side; the
wings broader towards the upper extremity. Peduncles ax-
illary, solitary, opposite, longer than the petioles. Exte-
rior calyx of two large ovato-cordate, inflated, membrana-
ceous leaves: inner one small, cup-shaped, with several
irregular teeth or segments. Corolla large ; the tube longer
than the outer calyx, inflated upwards, black purple within,
paler without : Limb oblique, of five, nearly equal, somewhat
obcordate, spreading lobes, buff-coloured in «, white in our
var.8. Stamen wholly concealed within the tube: Anther
white, two-celled, ciliated. Germen ovato-globose. Style
white, filiform: Stigma of two unequal lips, the lower one ~
the broadest, and concave. ‘S

Fig. 1. Outer Calyx (or bracteas). 2. Stamen. 3, Calyx and Pistil :—

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DryANDRA TENUIFOLIA. SLENDER-LEAVED
DRYANDRA.

Class and Order.

TrerranpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Proteacez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium quadripartitum v. quadrifidum. Stamina
apicibus concavis laciniarum immersa. Squamule hypo-—

yne 4. Ovarium uniloculare, biovulatum. Ovula post
foecundationem coherentia. Folliculus ligneus: Disepi-
mentum ligneum semibifidum fructis maturi omnind simile.
Receptaculum commune planum, floribus indeterminatim:
confertis ; paleis angustis, rard nullis. Involucrum com-
mune imbricatum.—F rutices plerumque humiles. Rami dum
adsint sparsi vel umbellatt. Folia sparsa, pinnatifida v. in- —
cisa, plante juvenilis conformia. Involucra solitaria, termi-
nalia, raro lateralia, sessilia, foliis confertis, interioribus
quandoque nanis obvallata, hemispherica, bracteis adpressis
in quibusdam apice appendiculatis. Stylus sepé perianthio
vix longior. R. Br. 3

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Dryanpra tenuifolia ; foliis elongato-linearibus pinnatifidis

- subtruncatis subtis niveis basi attenuata integerrima —
petioliformi: lobis triangularibus decurrentibus divari-
catis margine recurvis, involucro longitudine florum :
bracteis tomentosis : exterioribus ovato-lanceolatis, pe-
rianthio stylum subequante: unguibus basi lanatis
supra cauleque glabris ; laminis subsericeis. Br. in
Linn. Trans. 10. p. 215. ejusd. Prodr. 1. p. 398. Rom.
et Schult. Syst. Veg. 3. p. 447.

A native of barren heaths on the shores of King George’s
Sound, where it forms rather a dense bush, flowering in the

month of January. In our conservatories, where, accord-
ing to Hortus Kewensis, it has been an inhabitant since the
year 1803, it usually puts forth its oval heads of flowers in
March ; and continuing its blossoms during the two suc-
ceeding months, is a most desirable plant for greenhouse
_ cultivation among other compatriots in our possession from
the sterile shores of South-western Australia—a locality, so
desert-like in aspect, yet so rich in the rarer and more
diversiformed species of the great and splendid family to
which our plant belongs. Beyond its remarkable habit,
and the density of its extremely attenuated foliage, it holds
out other recommendations to the care of the botanic culti-
vator ; namely, its freedom of growth, and the readiness
with which well-ripened cuttings take root. Our thanks
are again due to our liberal friend, Mr. Arron, for the spe-
cimen furnished us last spring, by which, the means of
publishing the first figure of so interesting a plant, has been
led us. i
Descr. A robust shrub, usually about three feet high,
very much branched ; branches smooth, densely clothed with
leaves, spreading, often pendent. Leaves very linear, six to
eight inches long, pinnatifid, truncated at the apex, smooth
and dark green on the upper side, clothed with a white
tomentum beneath, very attenuated and entire at the base:
lobes alternate, triangular, decurrent, spreading, apex acute
and uncinated, the margins recurved. Involucre terminal,
solitary, oval, formed of numerous, imbricated bractes : the
outer ones ovate, acute, inner oblong and bluntish, ciliated,
and clothed with a thin adpressed tomentum. Receptacle
chaffy. Flowers numerous, bright-brown, included within
the involucre. Perianth deeply divided into four parts ;
each segment very linear, thinly clothed with spreading,
white hairs towards the claws, which are themselves very
woolly, base, however, quite smooth. Lamina slightly
silky, Stamens four, inserted in the concave lamine. An-
thers linear, apiculated, shorter than the concavities in which
they repose. Style smooth, terete, enlarged somewhat at
the base, and angular, the length of the perianth. Stigma

simple. Hypogynous scales four, each lanceolate, and
attenuate.

_We know not that we can do better in occupying another
page, than by giving publleabon, "9.8 note furnished us
by Attan Counninenam, regarding another subject of the
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highly interesting Order of the plant here figured ; namely,
a sali of Piatt: of goolly oren stature, and.
moreover, the inhabitant of a country, in which the Genus
has never been supposed to exist. | f
It may be just premised, that as far as the Botany of the
Islands of New Zealand has been investigated, from the —
days of Sir Josern Banxs and Dr. Soranpver in the first —
voyage of our great circumnavigator, down to the present
period, Botanists have been made acquainted with but a
solitary example of the family Prorgaces, existing on those
Islands. In that individual, truly, the Order has there, a |
very noble representative, viz. Knicuria excelsa, a laree
tree, often to be seen from sixty to eighty feet in height, in —
the drier forests. This observation of the bare existence of
an Order on those Islands, so abundant in the neighbouring
continent of Australia, is the more remarkable, since in the
southern latitudes of this latter vast country, (in which is
included Van Diemen’s Land,) and in the same parallels in
South America, which also intersect New Zealand, Emporn-
rium as limited by Mr. Brown, and Lomartia of the same
very eminent botanist, furnish several species ; which, affect-
ing as they do cool regions, and rather humid localities,
might reasonably be expected to hold a standing also, on
the latter intermediate Islands. Neither the one Genus, nor
the other, have yet been discovered there, but a species of
Prrsoonia—a Genus hitherto limited in geographic range
to New Holland and Van Diemen’s Land, was observed at
Wangaroa, in 1826, and may be thus defined :—

P. Toru, foliis elongato-lanceolatis acutis basi attenuatis strictis sub-
falcatisve obsoleté trinervibus utrinque glabris nitidis, racemis axillaribus
lateralibusve multifloris, pedunculis perianthiisque tomento ferrugineo
tectis, ovariis glabris dispermis epedicellatis, caule arborescenti, cortice

.

levi.
: ; ‘.
Incolis Zoru audit, unde nomen triviale.

Has. In Nove Zelandiw insula septentrionali: prope sinum Bay of
Islands dictum ; et in montosis sylvaticis viciniA oppidulum Wangaroa,
(altitudine supra oceanum 1000 circiter pedum); nec non in sylva
primeva, (“Great Forest” dicta) versus flumen Hokianga ; alibique
inter pagulos Indicos Wytangy et Keri-Keri, in nemoribus.

Lecta cum fructibus immaturis mense Novembri, et verosimiliter in
mensibus Septembri, Octobrique, florens. 1826. Al, Cunn. 1833.
b. Rich. Cunningham.

Arbor sempervirens, viginti ad quadraginta pedes alta, potiis gracilis,
admodum venusta, et in habitu omnind aliquot specierum Acaciarum
aphyllarum ; trunco erecto ad basin diametro 6-uncias equante, cortice

levi,

levi, sursum ramosissimo. amuli patentes, glabri, rugosi, cinereo-
atri, lapsu foliorum cicatricibus prominentibus notati. Folia alterna,
versus apices ramulorum confertiora, elongata, coriacea, valdé glabra,
supra nitidissima, venosa, seepé sex uncias longa, et semunciam lata.
Racemi plerumque axillares, erecti, multiflori tomento rubiginoso tecti :
/ es (in specimine immaturi et nondum aperti) unibracteati. Ova-
rium glabrum, dispermum, sessile, v. epedicellatum. Glandule hypo-
4, brevissime. Stigma depresso-capitatum. Drupa baccata,
putamine biloculari.
_ Oss. Affinis P. articulato, et inter hanc et P. longifoliam fere media.
Folia longiora, angustiora quam in P. articulato, perianthiaque tomen-
_ tosa. Inflorescentia P. longifolie, a qua differt, foliis latioribus, ovariis-
que sessilibus. A. C.

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Pub.by S.Curtis. Glaxenwood Essex. Sepe1.1836

Myanruus BarBatus; var. labello albo. Brarper
Frywort; white-lipped var. Wine Stque

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Class and Order. acti

GynanpriA Monanpria.
( Nat. Ord.—OrcnweEa. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum. Sepala libera, equalia, late-
ralibus paululum adscendentibus. Petala conformia, an-
gustiora, sepalo supremo supposita. Labellum planum,
obovatum, tridentatum, sepalis brevius. Colwmna erecta,
teres basi bicirrhosa, postice ad cardinem anthere longe
producta. Anthere et pollinia Cataseti—Epiphyta, Cata-
seti omnino vegetatione.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Myantuus* barbatus ; labello in pilis succulentis barbefor-
mibus dissoluto basi supra unicorni. Lindl.

Myanruus barbatus. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1778.

(8.) labello albo. (Tab. nostr. 3514.)

The Genus Myanruus was founded by Professor Linney
(see Bot. Reg. t. 1721,) upon a plant which I had referred,
when I was ignorant of the Myanruus of Linptey, to Cara-
serum (CatasErum trifidum, Bot. Mag. t.3262,) from which
it appears to me only to differ in the spreading, three-lobed
lip. In his valuable “ Genera et Species Orchidearum,”
the learned author remarks that, “ Caraserum cristatum is
intermediate between this Genus and Caraserum.” The
present plant is, however, by the same Botanist, in the

Register,

* From pu, a fly, and aos, a flower. ‘ The flowers look when dried
very much like a pressed fly.”
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Register, referred to Myantuus, without any allusion to its
exceedingly close affinity with his Carasrrum cristatum, a
similarity so great, that I was at first disposed to consider
our plant with a white lip the same species, differing chiefly
in being furnished with a spur or tooth-like process at the
base of the lip. The two plants are indeed, I doubt not,
specifically distinct ; but they cannot be separated generi-
cally, and perhaps Professor Linney will agree with me in
thinking, that Myanruus should only form a section of
CaTasEtum.

Our kind friend, Mr. Atucarp, imported the plant here
figured, from Demerara ; and it blossomed in his collection
at Stratford Green, Essex, in the month of May, of the
present year (1836). The flowers, when the box was open-
ed which contained the specimen, yielded an odour very
similar to that of Juniper Berries.

Descr. Bulb ovate, sheathed with large, broad, striated
scales, which, in the upper part, bear several distichous
obovato-lanceolate, striated and somewhat plaited, mem-
branous leaves, tapering at the base. Scape arising from
the base of the bulb, in our specimen at once drooping,

ring a many-flowered raceme, green below, dark purple
above. Flowers spreading. Petals and sepals narrow-
oblong, grooved, dark green, spotted with dark purple
within, with paler spots on the outside. The upper sepal
and two petals meet together in a nearly erect position
above the column ; the two lateral sepals, at first patent,
become eventually singularly deflexed. Colwmn elongated,
semiterete, greenish-brown, with a long, acuminated point,
beneath which the anther is lodged : in front, one on each
side the stigma, are two deflexed sete. Lip deflexed, shorter
than the sepals, linear-oblong, with a short, pale greenish-
brown sack a little above the middle, fringed with numerous
long, upright, white, fleshy hairs; in the disk, at the base,
is a long, white, curved, fleshy, horn-like process. Anther-
case with a long, acuminated point. Pollen-masses as in
Cataserum. Germen clavate, dark purple.

Fig. 1. Column and Lip. 2. Anther-case. 3, and 4. Pollen-masses :
magnified.

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( 3515)

SARRACENIA RUBRA. Rep Sipe-SApDLE-
FLOWER. |

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Class and Order.

PotyanpriA Monoeynta.
( Nat. Ord.—Sarraceniez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx persistens pentaphyllus, involucratus; involucro
triphyllo. Petala 5, decidua. Stigma magnum peltatum,
5-angulare, persistens, stamina obtegens. Capsula 5-locu-
laris, 5-valvis, polyspermis, valvis medio septiferis. eS

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Sarracenia rubra ; foliis scapo brevioribus, tubo angusto
superne sensim dilatato venoso, appendice ovato-acu-
minata planiuscula erecta.

Sarracenia rubra. Walt. Carol. p.152. Ait. Hort. Kew.
og.2.0.3.9.291. Hook, Ex. Fl. v, lt. 18. (excl,
the Syn. of S. psittacina). Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 308.

This truly beautiful Sarracenta is, we believe, rarely seen
in this country, though the plant has, perhaps, been not
unfrequently imported ; for it is a species of difficult culti-
vation, and shy of flowering. Many roots were sent by Mr.
Drummonp from New Orleans, and from one of these, which
flowered in the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in
March, 1836, our figure and description are taken. The
species seems wholly confined to the southern United States.
The S. psittacina is totally different from this, and ve
little known to Botanists. Numerous plants of it have also
been received from Mr. Drummonp, collected in Louis-
iana; but I have not heard that it has flowered in any col-
lection.

Descr.

Descr. Leaves tufted, eight to ten inches and a foot in
length, somewhat ensiform, broader upwards, the back
dilated into a tube, very narrow for the greater part of the
length, gradually enlarged towards the oblique mouth,
which is terminated on the upper side by a nearly erect,
ovato-lanceolate, slightly concave, acuminated appendage.
Often the leaves are imperfect at the extremity, without
tube, and without appendage. Scape, in our plant, two feet
long, rounded, erect but wavy, curved at the apex so that
the fine large flower is drooping. Involucre of three ovate
leaves, pressed close to the flower. Calyx of five broadly
ovate leaves or sepals, curved downwards at the extremity,
the margins a little recurved, green, the base and sides
red. Petals five, broadly-obovate, the base spreading, the
rest suddenly decurved, flaccid, rich and deep red, greenish
at the base. Stamens numerous. Anthers two-celled, yellow,
each with a large opening at the extremity. Pistil: Ger-
men roundish-ovate, green. Style short, dilated into an
immense five-cleft, convex, membranous stigma, the seg-
ments bifid, with a spur within, bent down: so that the
whole covers the rest of the organs of fructification like a
spread umbrella: the stigmatic surface being undermost,
and slightly papillose.

—_—_——_—____

Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Pistil.

Pub, by 5. Curtis. Glanerewood Essex: SPFLISIE.

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( 3516 )

STREPTANTHUS HYACINTHOIDES. Hyacintn-
FLOWERED STREPTANTHUS.

KEKE EEE EEE EERE EEE EEE

Class and Order.

TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA.

( Nat. Ord.—Crucirer2. )

Generic Character.

Calycis foliola erecta, colorata, basi saccata. Filamenta

subulata. Anthere elongate, acuminate. Siligua longis-
sima compressa, utrinque linea dorsali subtetragona. Se- _
mina uniserialia, compressa, marginata, Cotyledones accum-—
bentes.—Herbe elate, annue. Folia glaucescentia. Flores —

purpurascentes.

Specific Name and Character:

Srreprantuus hyacinthoides; foliis oblongo-linearibus acu-
minatis, petalis linearibus limbo reflexo, filamentis duo-
bus coadunatis abortivis, floribus pendulis.

There are perhaps few persons who would at the first
sight of the inflorescence of this plant, in long racemes of
pendent deep purple flowers, and much protruded stamens,
suppose that it belonged to the Cruciferous family, but
rather to some kind of Hyacinth, or still more to the Genus
Uroreratum. Its real affinity is, however, soon detected,
and notwithstanding some striking peculiarities its identity
with the Genus Srrepranruus : of which all the species that

_ we yet know are confined to the southern part of North |

America. The present species is a native of ‘Texas, and
was discovered by the late Mr. Drummonp at San Felipe de
Austin. Seeds, as well as specimens, were sent to this coun-
try, and the plants from which our figure was taken flower-
ed in the greenhouse of the Glasgow Botanic Garden in

August

August of 1835. It will no doubt bear the open air ex-
ceedingly well.

Descr. Root annual. Stem two to three feet high, and,
as well as the whole plant, glabrous and glaucous, rounded,
branched in a somewhat paniculated manner, with the
branches erect. Leaves oblongo-linear, sessile and semi-
amplexicaul, acuminated, entire, or very obscurely toothed,
the upper ones gradually narrower. Racemes elongated,
bearing numerous flowers on short pedicels, green at first
in the bud, then drooping, and when the flowers are fully
expanded almost wholly deep bluish-purple. Calyx-leaves
_ovato-acuminate, coloured greenish only at the apex, sac-
cate at the base, two opposite ones less so than the other
two. Petals linear: the claw straight, the limb wavy,
slightly twisted and reflexed, pale at the apex. Stamens
six, much exserted. Filameuts subulate, purple, pale below:

of the two opposite pairs, one pair is short, combined into
one, forked at the apex, and bearing each an abortive,
linear anther : the two which are opposite to these are
distinct, and the longest’ of the six: the two solitary ones
Intermediate in length, and as well as the two longest ones,

ring large, subsagittate anthers, of a greenish-purple
colour with yellow pollen. Pistil shorter than the perfect
Stamens, linear. Style scarcely any, stigma obtuse. Pod
long, slender, linear, compressed, with a dorsal line on each
valve, but not tetragonous. Seeds compressed and mar-
gined, similar to those of 8. obtusifolius (Bot. Mag. t. 3317.)

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Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Sepal. 3. Petal. 4, Stamen and Pistil, 5, Pistil.
6. Pod (nat. size), 7. Seed.—All but fig. 6, magnified. =

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SrropiLantues Sapiniana. Mr. Sapine’s
STROBILANTHES. ae

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Class and Order.

Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA.
( Nat. Ord.—AcantHace. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla infundibuliformis. Anthere
erectz, loculis parallelis. Capsula in medio tetraspermaad —

basin bilocularis v. brevissimo tantum spatio a basi clausa,
‘tetragona. Retinacula in papillae formam contracta semina —

ferentia nec fulcentia. Semina parva scrobiculata. Nees.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

SrropiLantuEs Sabiniana: herbacea (v. suffrutex), foliis
ovatis acuminatis in petiolum attenuatis repando-sub-
crenatis glabris, opposito minore, summis cordatis
amplexicaulibus, spicis axillaribus terminalibusque
laxiusculis viscido-pubescentibus, bracteis orbiculatis
basi cuneiformibus. Nees. — ie

SrropitantHeEs Sabiniana. Nees ab Esenb. in Wall. Pl.
As. Rar. v. 3. p. 86. .

RvELLIA “tg gp Wall. Cat. n. 2338. Lindl. Bot. Reg.
t. 1238. .

Rueiia macrocarpa. Wall. Cat. n. 2348, ex parte. —-

(8.) argentea, Nees; spicis minoribus maxime pubescenti-

bus viscidisque, foliis minoribus.

Rue argentea. Wall. Cat. n. 2339.

A very beautiful stove plant, a native of Nepal, whence
it was introduced to our gardens by Dr. Watttcu, who
named it in compliment to Joszrn Sasine, Esq. to whom
Horticulture, no less than Natural History in general, is most

deeply

deeply indebted. Its flowering season with us is the latter
end of winter, when several of the numerous purple spikes
have a succession of flowers; two on each, never more,
being open at one time.
_ Descr. Stem two to three feet high, shrubby below,
~ much branched ; branches erect, glabrous, the younger ones
quadrangular. Leaves opposite, unequal, oval, much acu-
minated, oblique, obscurely crenato-serrate, tapering at the
base into a winged petiole ; often of a fine purple beneath,
nerves oblique, united by reticulated nervelets, slightly
prominent above, much so below. Spikes axillary and
terminal. Bracteas imbricated, in four rows, broadly ovate
or rounded, coloured, somewhat spreading, cuneate below,
clothed with glandular down. Calyx in five deep-coloured,
spathulate segments. Corolla funnel-shaped, the lower
a of the tube yellow and much curved, the rest bright
_ bluish-purple, vue and reticulated : the limb of five nearly
equal, rounded lobes. Filaments declined, hairy at the
base on one side; the two longer ones reaching a little

beyond the mouth, Style rather longer than the longest -

stamens.

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Class and Order. \ gs a
GYNANDRIA Wide corte: . , : * | i

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala patentia equalia. Petala nunc patentia, nunc

conniventia, sepalis equalia. Labellum cucullatum, cum -

columna articulatum, nunc basi saccatum, trilobum, disco’
sepius lamellato vel tuberculato. Columna elongata, semi-
teres. Anthera carnosa, 8-locularis. Pollinia 8 equalia,
caudiculis 4 pulvereis coherentibus.—Herbe subterrestres,
foliis ensiformibus plicatis, scapis racemosis multifloris, flo-
ribus sepius speciosis. Lindl.

Specific Name and. Character.

Buiet1A patula ; foliis radicalibus lanceolatis plicato-nervo-
sis, scapo elato subramoso, floribus patentissimis, eee
lis lanceolato-ellipticis basi attenuatis subaqualibus
patulis, labello cucullato, lobis lateralibus rotundatis,
medio emarginato transverse plicato, disco lamellis 6
subramosis fequelibus: oo

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This handsome species was received at the Botanic Gar-
den, Edinburgh, from Dr. Fiscuer, St. Petersburgh, in
1830, without specific name, but marked as a native of
Hayti. It has repeatedly since flowered finely in our stove,

Descr. Bulb round, at first, when it pushes up the scape,
very small, ane enlarging to the size of a small
second year green, shining, nearly smooth,

the withered bases of the leaves, marked
with three or four cireular bands, and furrowed at the apex
when these fall, persisting for some years, and becoming
gradually

gradually smaller without shrivelling much; young bulbs
are formed at the base, or near the apex of those of the
preceding year. Leaves arising from the apex of the bulb
after the flowers, lanceolate, plicato-nervose. Scape (above
three feet high) terminal, but from its appearing in the very
young state of the bulb, seeming to be lateral, the’ old bulb
only being conspicuous, purplish and spotted at the base,
with a few distant, sheathing scales, greener above, subra-
mous. Raceme (above twenty-flowered) gradually elon-
gating. Flowers large, very handsome, each springing
from the axil of a small, acute bractea, of a nearly uniform
reddish-lilac colour, only the base of the labellum and its
ridges being white. Sepals (an inch and a half long) lan-
ceolato-elliptical, nearly equal in size, the uppermost being
rather the narrowest, all attenuated at the base and spread-
ing. Lip much broader than the sepals, the lateral lobes

erect, rounded, the central broad-linear, notched, plaited —

_ transversely ; disk with six waved, somewhat branched
lamelle, those at the sides being the shortest, and passing
into diverging veins. Colwmn more than half as long as
the sepals, projecting into the centre of the flower, some-
what clavate, rounded on the upper, flat on the lower side,
with a single tooth on each edge at its middle, a small ter-
minal tooth, and two others on each edge immediately
below the apex, the lower being rounded and decurrent.
Anther-case rounded, notched at its apex, two-celled, each
cell divided longitudinally. Pollen-masses four, parallel,
each two-lobed, laid along a thin plate spread above the
stigmatic surface. Germen (an inch and a half long) twist-
ed, spreading at right angles to the rachis. Graham.

Lub by 8. Curtis Clacimwved Kissee Sept] [83

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( 3519 een

CoTONEASTER LAXIFLORA. LoOOSE-CLUSTERED
CoTONEASTER. :

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Class and Order.

IcosanpRIA DiGyNIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Rosacea. )

Generic Character.

Flores abortu polygami. Calyx turbinatus obtuse 5-den-
tatus. Petala brevia erecta. Stamina dentium calycis lon-
gitudine. Styli glabri staminibus _breviores. Carpella
93 parietalia calyce inclusa biovulata.—Frutices : foliis
simplicibus integerrimis subtus lanatis, corymbis lateralibus
patentibus bracteis subulatis deciduis, petalis parvis persis-
tentibus. DC.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Coronraster * laxiflora ; cymis elongatis dichotomis pendu-
lis nitidissimis sub lente pilosis, foliis oblongo-ovatis
supra glabris nitidis subtus incano-tomentosis deciduis.

Oa laxiflora. “ Jacq. fil. in. litt—Lindl. Bot. Reg.
7 . : oe

Like the Mespitus lobata, lately figured, the native coun-
try of this plant is not known to us. It was introduced to
our gardens through the Horticultural Society by means of
seeds, which were sent from Vienna by Professor Jacquin,
under the name here given. A species, indeed, nearly allied
to this, has recently been discovoured by Leprsour in the
Altai Mountains, and figured and described by that Author
under the name of C. multiflora, Bunez, but our specimens

of

* Named from Cotoneum (xvdwnor), Gr., the Quince.

*

of this plant have much thicker, broader, and rounder leaves,
with generally a deep notch at the extremity. The inflo-
rescence is extremely similar in the two. With us, the
flowering season is May, when the pendent, reddish blos-
soms, and the glossy leaves have at first the appearance of
some Vaccinium, rather than a CoTonEasTeEr.

Descr.. It forms an upright shrub, from four to five feet
high, clothed with brown and glossy bark, the young branches
only having a deciduous down. Leaves shortly petiolate,
elliptical, or nearly oblong, frequently approaching to ovate,
almost acute, entire, glabrous and shining above, pale and
hoary with down beneath, but by no means so much so as
in the more common species of our gardens. Cymes longer
than the leaves, the terminating short branches of the pre-
ceding (as is the case with the C. multiflora, described by
Lepesour) much divided in a dichotomous manner, grace-
fully pendulous. Peduncles and pedicels dark greenish-red,
with minute bracteas, glossy, yet when seen under a micro-
scope slightly hairy. Calyx glossy, glabrous, red, green
on the side less exposed to the light. Petals concave, in-
_ curved, delicately tinged with blush.

Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified.

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C 3520 )
BrGoNIA sANGUINEA. Buioop-Rep
Begonia.
Class and Order.
Monazcta Poxyanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Brcontacea. )

Generic Character.

Mase. Calyx 0. Corolla polypetala. Petala pleruin-
que 4, inequalia. Fam. Calyx o. Corolla petalis 4—9, _
plerumque inequalibus. Styli 3, bifidi. Capsula triquetra,
alata, trilocularis, polysperma. i

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Specific Character and synonyms,

Beconia sanguinea ; caule ramoso, foliis inequaliter cor-
datis acuminatis coriaceo-carnosis glaberrimis subtus
sanguineis, margine crenulato revoluto, germinis alis

__ tribus equalibus. -

Beconia sanguinea. Radd. in Sprengel, Syst. Veget. ». 2.
Pp. 625. Link et Otto, Icones Plant. Rarior. Hort. Reg.
Bot. Berol. p. 25. t. 13. ” 4% di

This plant, more remarkable for the colour and texture
of its leaves than elegant in its form, was raised at the
Botanic Garden of Berlin, from seed transmitted by M.
Setto, from Brazil, in 1823, and communicated to the
Botanic Garden in Edinburgh in 1832. It flowers in the
stove in April. : :

Descr. Stems several from the crown of the root, sub-
ligneous, red, with scattered oblong paler spots. Leaves
(four to six inches long, two and a half to three and a half
inches broad) subpeltate, unequally cordate, acuminate,
the apex soon withering, leathery-succulent, perfectly gla-
brous and shining on both sides, green above, blood-red be-

‘ ' low,

low, the edge crenulate and revolute all round, nerves about
ten, radiating, the larger branched, the smaller subsimple.
Petioles of Very unequal length, round, resembling the
stem. Stipules intra-foliaceous, large, ovate, acute, keeled,
marcescent. Peduncle (ten inches long) terminal, becom-
ing axillary, tapered, similar to the stem but without spots,
repeatedly dichotomous at the apex (primary branches
about one inch long, the others gradually shorter). Bracteas
lanceolato-elliptical at each subdivision. Flowers white,
rather small. Male flowers in the clefts of the cyme, or on
the inner side, where the ultimate branches are reduced to
two flowers (the outer being a female), or, occasionally,
solitary on the ultimate branches. Petals four, the two
outer subrotund, slightly crenate, the two inner linear-
elliptical, very narrow, entire. Stamens numerous ; /fila-
ments free, excepting at the base, where they are mono-
delphous ; anthers spathulate. Female flowers with five
subequal petals, expanding later than the earlier of the
males. Stigmas pale-rose coloured. Germen with three
subequal wings.

I was at some pains to ascertain the relative position of
the male and female flowers when only these two were
found at the extremity of the ultimate branch. It seems
to me that the normal form is the conversion of the last
dichotomous ramification of the cyme into the pedicels of
two female flowers, and that the male flower here, as else-
where, is placed in the cleft; the loss of the inner female
flower being an illustration of the opinion, that internal
parts, from pressure, more frequently abort than those
which are external. As the common support of these two
flowers generally turns half round on its axis, their true
position may not be obvious unless examined when they
are very young. Graham.

—_

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( 3521 )

FUCHSIA MACROSTEMA; var. recuryata.
LARGE-STAMENED Fucusia; recurved var.

KEKE KKEK EKER EKER EREEEEEEK
Class and Order.

OctanpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Onacraria. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus basi ovario adherens, superne productus in
tubum cylindraceum 4-lobum post anthesin articulatim de-
ciduum. Petala 4 summo tubo inserta lobis alterna, rarius
0. Stamina 8. Ovarium glandula urceolata coronatum.
Stylus filiformis. Stigma capitatum. Bacca oblongo- aut
ovato-globosa, 4-locularis, 4-valvis, polysperma.—Frutices.
Folia sepius opposita. Pedicelli axillares 1-flori interdum
ad apices ramorum racemosi. Flores sepius nutantes, rubri
rarius albi, interdum 5-fidi, octandri. D C.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Fucusia macrostema ; glabra, foliis oppositis ternisve petio-
latis ovatis acutis denticulatis, floribus axillaribus
solitariis, staminibus productis, stigmate 4-lobo, Don.

Fucusia macrostema. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. v. 3. p. 88.
t. 324. f. b.

Mr. Don includes the following Synonyms.

(Turco. Feuill. Per. 2. p. 64. t. 47.—F. discolor. Lindl.
Bot. Reg. t. 1805. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3498.

(8.) conica.—F’. conica. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1062.

(y.) globosa.—F’. globosa. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1556. Hook.
Bot. Mag. t. 3364.

(d.) gracilis—F. gracilis. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 847. et t.
1052.—F. decussata. Grah. Sims in Bot. Mag. t.
2507.)

(s.) recurvata; ramis pendentibus, floribus foliisque majori-
bus. (Tab. nostr. t. 3521.)

Of
VOL, X. L

Of all the Fucustas which we have yet seen in our Botanic
Gardens, this strikes us as the most handsome, whether we
consider the graceful mode of growth, the delicate green of
the large foliage, the deeply-coloured branches, or the size
and form of the flowers, and their exceedingly rich hues.
It was raised from seeds, probably of hybrid production, by
Mr. Niven, at the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, Dublin, and
sent to Mr. Murray at the Glasgow Botanic Garden, under
the name of F. recurvata.

I so entirely agree with Mr. Don in the view he takes of
the Fucusias above named, and considered by many Botan-
ists as species, that I have here followed that author in the
varieties and synonyms which he has referred to F. macro-
stema, adding to the list our present one, which indeed
accords better with the original figure of Ruiz and Pavon,
than with any of the other kinds.

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Pb by 8. Curtis Glarerreood Binex 0002 1886

(98522'5')

VACCINIUM VIRGATUM. PaLe GREENISH-
FLOWERED WHORTLEBERRY. ,

Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Vacciniez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 4—5-dentatus. Corolla urceolata seu campanu-
lata, limbo 4—5-fido reflexo. Anthere bicornes vel mutice.
Bacca 4—}-locularis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Vaccinium virgatum ; ramis floriferis plerumque aphyllis,
racemis subcorymbosis secundis nutantibus bracteatis,
corollis subcylindraceis, calycibus erectis, foliis obo-
vato-oblongis integerrimis utrinque acutis membrana-
ceis deciduis subtus pubescentibus, germine semi-
supero.

Vaccinium virgatum. Av. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. v. 2. p. 12.
Willd. Sp. Pl. v.2. p. 353. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 2.
p. 210. Andr. Bot, Rep. t. 181 ? (ramis floriferis folio-
sis).

V. virgatum, 8. var. Wats. Dendr. t. 34 (non 33.)

_ V. corymbosum. Linneus.

The excellent collection of American Whortle-berries
possessed by the Glasgow Botanic Garden has given me an
opportunity of studying their peculiarities, which few per-
haps have enjoyed to such an extent: yet, I confess myself
much at a loss to find characters to distinguish some of the
species, which, even to a common observer, appear suflici-
ently marked : and such is the case with the present indivi-
dual, which goes by the name of V. virgatum in our gar-
dens, and which, I have reason to believe, is the plant so

designated

designated by Arron. Mr. Arron’s plant, however, is now
almost universally referred to the V. corymbosum, an opin-
ion which I once entertained myself: yet a more accurate
examination has led me to a different conclusion. But
others must determine for themselves, and I will be content
with giving an accurate figure and description of the plant
in question.

Descr. A rather small bush, three to four feet high,
much branched ina straggling manner, clothed with smooth
brown bark, the younger branches green and downy. Leaves
an inch or an inch and a half long, obovato-oblong, entire,
acute at both extremities, nearly sessile, above glabrous and
shining, often tinged with brown, below paler and downy,
especially when seen under a magnifier. Racemes corym-
bose, on branches which are generally destitute of leaves,
each of several flowers, pointing one way and drooping.
Calyx-lobes nearly erect, tinged with rich brown. Corolla
cylindrical, generally a little broader at the base, the mouth
slightly contracted, with five reflexed teeth; the colour a
pale yellow green, on one side more or less tinged with red.

Stamens as in V.corymbosum. Germen partly superior.
Style included.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Pistil and Calyx :—magnified.

JIBS

Miss ddams ded” Pub by S Curtis Clazenwood Essex Oath 11850 Swan S¢

( 3523 )

SOLLYA HETEROPHYLLA. VARILOUS-LEAVED
SOLLVA.

BEEK KEKE EEK ERE EERE
Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Prrrospores. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5, patentia. Anthere conni-
ventes, loculis apice dehiscentibus. Stigma obscure bilo-
bum. Pericarpium biloculare, polyspermum, seminibus
substantia carnosa nidulantibus.—Frutex Australasicus
scandens. Pedunculi corymbosi, terminales vel laterales,
oppositifolit.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Sottya* heterophylla.

Sottya heterophylla. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1466. Don, Brit.
Fl. Gard. t. 232. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1975.

Bittarviera fusiformis. Labill. Nov. Holl. v. 1. ? «05:4,
90. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 345. Spreng. Syst.
Veget. v. 1. p. 792.

This charming plant, which has been ascertained by Mr.
Don, to be the Bittarpiera fusiformis of Lasittarpiere,
was discovered by the Botanist now mentioned in Van
Diemen’s Land : but our native specimens were gathered at
King George’s Sound, New Holland, by ALuen Cunnincuam,
Esq. and by Mr. Baxter. It is undoubtedly a great acqui-
sition to our gardens. We have seen it blossoming in the
open air, even in Scotland ; and, in very high perfection, he

the

* So named in compliment to Ricuarp Horsman So ity, Esq. author
of a work on the use of the Microscope, and ardently attached to the study
of Vegetable Physiology.

the extensive and well-kept nursery-grounds of Mr. Macxiz,
Norwich: yet Mr. Curtis, who cultivates it with remark-
able success at Glazenwood, where our drawing was made
by Miss Apams, observes, that it cannot be considered
a hardy plant, even when trained against a wall; that it is
with difficulty kept in a brick pit ; and that its proper situa-
tion, and where it comes to the highest perfection, is the
back wall or the trellis-work of a conservatory.

Some difference of opinion exists in regard to the con-
tinuance of Sotnya as a Genus, Mr. Don remarking that
the fruit is the same as that of Bitnarpiera, while Dr.
Linney observes that the seeds are imbedded in a fleshy
or pulpy substance, which circumstance, added to the inflo-
rescence being opposite to the leaves, to the “ short, some-
what campanulate corollas, short staments with the anthers
adhering im a cone round the style, and opening by two
pores at the points,’ would seem to constitute a distinct
Genus. Mr. Attan Cunninenam has described another
closely allied Genus, under the name of CuerranTHEra, (see
Bot. Reg. sub fol. 1719,) having a dry and leathery pericarp
and stamens, which bend to one side of the ovary, forming
themselves into a slightly curved line, like the fingers of the
hand. I possess another Australian plant, from the Swan
River, with blue, corymbose flowers, similar to those of
Sottya and Cuerrantuera ; but having the stamens distant,
the anthers curiously contorted, and opening by longitudi-
nal clefts *.

Descr. A twining shrub, three to four feet high. Leaves
oblong, glabrous, entire, or rarely sinuato-serrate, shortly
petiolate. Corymbs terminal, or axillary and opposite the
leaves, of several patent, nearly campanulate, bright blue
Jlowers. Calyx small, of five ovate acute segments. Petals
oval, obtuse. Stamens: Filaments five, short ; Anthers sub-
sagittate, connivent, opening at the extremity, bent for
some way down by a long pore or short fissure. Germen
oblong, tapering upwards, very silky: Style linear : Stigma
obscurely two-lobed.

* Tt may be thus characterized :—SprrantHera. Sepala 5, acuminata.
Petala 5, acuminatissima, patentia, vix unguiculata : Anthere libere, line-
ares, spiraliter contorte. Ovarium oblongum villosum, biloculare, intus
pulposum, Pericarpium 1—Frutices esi. ith ; folits oblongis. Flores
terminales, corymbosi, cerulei,

1. S. Fraseri, Hab. Swan River, N. Holl. Mr. Fraser.

Pub by S. Curtis, Glaxenwood. Lusex.0eP 11836. 3 Swan Se

( 3524 )

RoDRIGUEZIA SECUNDA. SIDE-FLOWERED
RopRIGUEZIA.

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Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria.
( Nat. Ord.—OrcuibEz. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium patens, subequale, sepalis 2 lateralibus con-
natis labello suppositis. Labellum integrum, unguiculatum,
basi cornutum medio callosum ; ungue cum columna paral-
lelo. Columna teres, apice barbata. Anthera unilocularis,
carnosa, Clinandrium nudum, retrorsum declive. Pollinia
2, postice excavata, caudicula elastica—Herbe epiphyte,
subpseudo-bulbose. Folia coriacea,v. membranacea, plicata.
Spice secunde. Flores speciost. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Roprievezia * secunda; pseudo-bulbis compressis ovalibus,
foliis lanceolatis apice emarginatis obliquis, spica cy-
lindracea foliis longiore recurva, sepalo supremo forni-_
cato, petalis ovatis obtusis, labello abrupte deflexo
disco calloso apice cuneato emarginato. Lindl.

Ropricuezia secunda. Humb. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Pl. v. 1.
t. 92. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 930.

Ropricguezis lanceolata. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 676 (non Ruiz
et Pav.)

PLEUROTHALLIs? coccinea. Hook. Ex. Fl. t. 129.

A very beautiful Orchideous plant, native of Trinidad,
also of the Province of Popayan near Carthagena, where
Humsotpr’s original specimen was found, and of Demerara,

whence

* So named by Ruiz and Pavon in compliment to EMANUEL Ropri-
SUEZ, a Spanish Botanist, and Apothecary to His most Christian Majesty.

whence plants have been lately brought by Capt. Bispnam,
with several other rarities, to the garden of my valued and
often-mentioned friend, C. A. Parker, Esq., Liverpool. In_
his stove this species has come to a much higher degree of
perfection than I have ever seen before. It there too varies
considerably in the length and breadth of the bulb, and in
its surface being more or less deeply wrinkled, inthe breadth
of the leaves, and in the deeper or paler hue of the flowers.
From the finest of them, drawn by Henry Sanppacu, Esq.
aided by specimens sent by Mr. Parxer, the accompanying
figure was made.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs, when fully formed, usually ellip-
tical, much compressed, with a prominent line on each face
and often wrinkled, bearing one or many leaves. Leaves
linear-oblong, lanceolate, thick, coriaceous, nerveless, more
or less keeled or complicate. Peduncles several on the
same plant, at first nearly erect, with the flower-buds com-
pletely distichous, so as to form a flattened spike, afterwards
curved or drooping. Bracteas lanceolate, membranous,
pale. Flowers sometimes twenty or more on a spike, con-
stantly unilateral, of a deep rose colour. Sepals and petals
erect. Upper sepal (as well as the petals) ovate, convex :
two lower sepals combined into one, deeply carinated under
the lip, gibbous at the base. Lip obovate-oblong, waved,
emarginate, with two small lobes near the base which runs
down into a kind of spur. Disk with a deeply furrowed
tubercle : the colour of the lip is deeper than the rest of the
flower, almost orange in the disk. Column rather short,
cylindrical, pure white. Anther-case hemispherical, fixed
to the back of the column. Pollen-masses two, pale co-
loured, fixed to a filiform stalk, which has, at its base, an
oblong gland. Germen clavate, red.

Fig. 1. Side view of a Flower, 2. Lip, slightly magnified.

( 3525).

SILPHIUM TEREBINTHACEUM. 'TEREBINTHINE
SILPHIUM. Ne Bick

KEKE KEK KR EEK EERE KEE
Class and re pets

SyncenesiA NeEcEsSARIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. )

Generic Character.

Receptaculum paleaceum. Pappus marginato-bicornis.
Involucrum squamosus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Sinpuium terebinthaceum ; foliis inferioribus amplis cordatis
profunde dentato-serratis longe petiolatis subtus mar-
gineque scabris, paniculis bracteatis.

Sitpuium terebinthaceum. Linn. Suppl. p. 383. Jacq.
Hort. Vind. v. 1. p. 16. t.43. Mich. Fl. Am. v. 2. p.
245. Pursh, Fl. Am. v. 2. p. 577. Ell. Carol. v. 2.
p. 463. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 629.

A very fine and handsome species of Sipu1um, to which
the specific name seems to be applied on account of a tere-
binthine gum, which exudes from the plant, as in the Sir-
poium gummiferum of Mr. Extiort, and probably in other
species of the Genus, during the hot summers which are
experienced in their native climates. But in our chilly
and damp country, no such exudation is observable: though
the sap yields a peculiar odour. It is a stately plant, re-
markable for the great size of its lower leaves ; and though
inhabiting the western mountains of Carolina and Georgia
and the prairies of St. Louis on the Missouri, it bears the
open air in England and even in Scotland, remarkably well:
flowering in the autumnal months.

Descr. Perennial. Stem herbaceous, four to six feet in
height, quite glabrous, striated, branched, erect ; lower leaves
ample, some of them a foot long, cordate, coriaceous, acute,

smooth

smooth above, beneath and at the margin beset with numer-
ous short bristles, each seated ona small white callous point.
Petiole very long, sometimes measuring a foot or a foot and
a half, below dilated into a sheathing base. The leaves
gradually become smaller and narrower and less stalked
upwards, and among the flower-stalks they pass into brac-
teas about an inch long, often spreading and with their
margins involute. Flowers paniculate, large, handsome,
yellow. Involucre globose, of several roundish, green,
closely imbricated, glabrous scales, innermost ones smaller
and longer. Corollas of the ray numerous, ligulate, entire
at the apex, each bearing a pistil. Segments of the style
long, filiform. Achenium obovate, flat, scarcely downy,
bearing a small blunt awn. Florets of the disk each sub-
tended by a blunt, linear-oblong scale. Corolla yellow.
Anthers protruded, dark brown. Style linear, filiform,
entire. Germen cylindrical, slightly downy, abortive.

Fig. 1. Florets of the Ray. 2. Discal or abortive Floret, with its accom-
panying Scale. 3. Achenium :—magnified.

Fub.by J. Curtis Gaxenwood Esser, Oct7 11836. Swan Je

: vince of Mexico, by Mr. Drummonp, who likewise introduc-

(859g 81) to
MonarDA ARISTATA. AWNED MoNakpa.

KEK EEE EEE EKER EE KE KEES
Class and Order.

Dranpria Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Lasiara. )

Generic Character.

Calyx cylindricus 15-nervis subequalis 5-dentatus, intus
fauce villosus. Corolla tubo longe exserto, fauce subinflata,
bilabiata, labiis subequalibus ; superiori erecto lineari in-
tegro, inferiori patente trifido. Stamina fertilia 2, ascenden-
tia, e labio superiori exserta. Anthere margine connexe,
biloculares, loculis divaricatis. Stylus apice subequaliter
bifidus. Achenia sicca levia. a

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Monarpa aristata; canescens, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis
basi angustatis, floralibus bracteisque exterioribus ses-
silibus subcoloratis apice longe subulato-aristatis, caly-
cibus striatis pubescentibus, fauce barbata, dentibus
subequalibus longe subulatis apice penicellatis, co-
rolle tubo dentes calycinos vix excedente. Benth.

Monarpa aristata. Nutt. in Herb. Hook.—Coll. towards a
Fil. of the Arkansas, p. 187, Benth. Lab. p. 318.

Monarpa citriodora. Cervant., ex Lag! Nov. Gen. et Sp. 2.

Apparently first detected in the Arkansa Territory by Mr.
Nurratt, from whom we long ago received specimens under
the above name, though it has only lately been published
in a valuable memoir by that author on the plants of the
Arkansas, givenin the American Philosophical Transactions.
My collection also contains specimens found by M. Brren-
pier, at Bejar and Rio de la Trinidad in Texas, and again
it has been gathered about San Felipe, in the same pro-

ed

ed it into our gardens in the early part of the spring of
the present year. It is quite hardy, flowering in July and
August, and is a desirable acquisition to our borders.

Descr. ‘ Perennial and annual,’”’ according to Mr. Nut-
tart. Stem a foot or more long, very obscurely four-sided,
downy. Leaves oblongo-lanceolate, remotely and acutely
serrated, narrower and ciliated and tapering into a footstalk
at the base, marked with several nerves which run almost
parallel with the midrib. Whorls several, closely crowded
in the axils of the upper pairs of leaves, and accompanied
by several broadly ovate, strongly aristate, downy bracteas,
forming a kind of involucre. Calyx downy, tubular, stria-
ted, the mouth closed with dense white hairs: teeth subu-
late, brown, nearly as long as the tube, bearing and termi-
nated by a little tuft of hairs. Corolla pale rose-coloured.
Upper lip arched, sharply keeled at the back, two-toothed
at the apex : lower one trifid, with the sides much reflexed,
the disk spotted with purple. Filaments of the stamens gla-
brous. Cells of the anther narrow, spreading.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx with the tuft of white hairs at the mouth :—
magnified.

Pub. by S. Curtis. Glasenwood Essex, Vet LIS 36

( 3527 )
Evrpnorsia Boveri. Mr. Bover’s Spurce.

KERR KEK ERK KE KEKEKREK
Class and Order. )

Monaesta Monanpria.
( Nat. Ord.—EupnorsiAceEg. )

Generic Character.

Involucrum androgynum, 4—5-fidum, extus appendiculis
glandulosis (petala vel nectaria aliorum) : peripherici pedi-
celli incerti numeri, singuli cum singulis staminibus articu-
lati. Germen pedicellatum, centrale : Stylz 3, bifidi. Cap-
sula 3-cocca. Spr.

Specific Character.

Evrnorsia Bojeri ; fruticosa spinosa, foliis numerosis coria-
ceis patentissimis obovato-oblongis retusis cum mu-
crone basi utrinque spina valida patente, pedunculis
axillaribus cymosis dichotomis, bracteis duabus semi-
orbiculatis coloratis basi unitis concavis involucrum in-
cludentibus, involucri glandulis 5 semiorbiculatis.

A most beautiful plant, and better meriting the name of
splendens than its near ally so called, which is represented at
t. 2902, and which was, equally with the present, introduced
from Madagascar to Mauritius and to Europe, through the
indefatigable exertions of Professor Boser. It seems to be
a plant of humbler growth than E. splendens ; it has fewer
spines, more coriaceous, more obovate and retuse leaves,
richer-coloured bracteas, and simple filaments. It flowers
in the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in the latter
end of winter, and in early spring; and more or less through
the greater part of the year.

Descr. Stem woody, obtusely and irregularly angular,
smooth, and of a pale gray colour. Leaves spreading, dark

‘green, coriaceous, on short petioles, obovato-oblong, retuse
with a mucro, quite entire. Each leaf is situated between
two

two spreading, strong spines. Peduncles axillary, dichoto-
mously divided, subcymose. Each involucre is subtended
by two semiorbicular, spreading, brick scarlet bracteas,
united at their bases, within which the involucre is lodged,
and sessile. This is cup-shaped, yellow-green, with five
short, red, incurved segments, alternating with the five
orange yellow, waxy, semiorbicular, spreading glands.
Male flowers several : Filaments simple ; Anthers dark pur-
ple, of two globose distinct cells. Pustil or female flower on
: oa pedicel: Styles three, nearly erect ; Stigmas two-
obed.

Fig. 1. Involucre (with one Bractea removed, ) and from which the Male
Flowers are protruded. 2. Section of the Inyolucre (one of the Bracteas
being removed) ; showing the Female Flower :—magnvfied.

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( 3528 )

_AmARYLLIS psiTTacina, hybrida. Hybrid

var. of the Parrot AMARYLLIS.

KREKEKKEEER ER EERE REE

Class and Order.

HexanpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—AmaryLupeE&. )

Generic Character.

Corolla 6-partita, regularis vel ringens, fauce nuda vel
squamis coronata. Stamina declinata vel recta. Capsula

trilocularis. Spr.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Amarytuis psittacina ; biflora subsemiringens, tubi mem-
brana brevissima bicolori denticulata, staminibus in-
clusis.

Amary.uis psittacina. Ker, Bot. Reg. t. 199. Lodd. Bot.
Cab. 1204. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 50.

Hysriva: 4-flora, perianthii laciniis angustioribus.

Amaryius psittacina-Johnsoni. Gowan in Hort. Soc.
Trans. v. 5. p. 361. (Tab. nostr. 3528.)

For this truly splendid Hybrid, the offspring, it is re-
ported, of AMARYLLIs Johnsoni (itself, I believe, a hybrid,)
fertilized by the pollen of A. psittacina, the Glasgow Botanic
Garden is indebted to the late Lord Carrnarvon. The
first notice we have of it is from Mr. Gowan, in the Horti-
cultural Transactions above quoted, where he observes :—

«It was given to Lord Carrnarvon by my friend, W.
Grirrin, Esq., who raised it in his hothouse at South Lam-
beth, previous to the year 1820. The knowledge of its
parentage led me to form great expectations of its beauty,
and to pay it particular attention. It has grown rapidly
here, and a few days ago produced two scapes, which have

just
VOL. X. M

just expanded their flowers. My expectations have been
fully realized, and I think it may fairly be pronounced the
most splendid individual of this splendid Genus. The co-
rolla of the hybrid Amarytuis psittacina-Johnsoni is nearly
an inch longer than that of A. psittacina: and expands
about an inch wider. The upper lacinia of the corolla of
A. psittacina assumes a horizontal position, in the hybrid it
is inclined upwards, and the lacinie are altogether more
regularly and widely expanded, so that the flower shows
itself to greater advantage. The faucial membrane of A.
psittacina is minutely denticulated : in the hybrid, it is con-
spicuously bearded. But the superior beauty of the sub-
ject of our present plate arises chiefly from its colours ; for
while in A. psittacina the crimson tint is confined almost
entirely to a small terminal portion of the petals, and a few
small streaks proceeding thence ; in the hybrid, the hue is
not only much richer, but occupies a considerably larger
space, being diffused over the whole margin of the laciniz,
besides a most delicate pencilling of the same fine colour,
which is streaked over the greater part of their surface with
an inimitable richness of effect, much enhanced by a cream-
coloured stripe, proceeding from the central green mass,
and prolonged to their tips. But it is so difficult to convey
in words an adequate idea of the complicated colouring of
the flowers, that I must refer you to an actual inspection of
it, and would only add, that the foliage differs materially,
as might be expected, from that of its parents: but ap-
proaches more nearly to the male than to the female parent :
the leaves being rather broader than those of A. psittacina.

Our plant produced four of its richly coloured blossoms
on one scape, in the month of April, 1836.

Lov Lis 36

AE's 36.

Pub. by 3: Curtis Glaxenwo.

( 3529 )

CONVALLARIA OPPOSITIFOLIA. OpposiTr-
LEAVED SoLomon’s SEAL.

ERK EK EE EE EERE KER EKER
Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynta.
( Nat. Ord.—Smmacinz. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium campanulatum, vel tubulosum, limbo 6-fido.
Stamina corolla breviora, filamenta tubo adnata ; anthere
lineares, recta. Stylus erectus. Bacca spherica, 3-locula-
ris, loculis dispermis ; seminibus sepe abortivis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Convatiaria* oppositifolia ; caule tereti, foliis oppositis
oblongis acuminatis nitidis breviter petiolatis, pedun-
culis axillaribus umbellatis 3—10-floris nutantibus,
perianthio tubuloso basi ventricoso.

Convaxtaria oppositifolia. Wall. in Asiat. Res. v. 13. p.
380. cum Icone. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 640. Hook. Ex.
Fl. v. 2. t. 125.

A very desirable greenhouse plant; for though it has
been now introduced from Nepal many years, by Dr.
Watticu, I am not aware that it has been found sufficiently
hardy to bear the open air of our fickle climate. It is of
graceful growth, the leaves are of a bright and glossy green ;
and the copious flowers, which continue for a long time in
the latter end of the winter months, are elegantly marked
with reddish lines.

Descr. Stem a foot to a foot and a half high, erect,
rounded, simple, green, tinged with red. Leaves copious,

three

* From convailis, a valley, in allusion to the place of growth of many of
the species.

three to five inches long, opposite, distichous, oblong, acu-
minate, striated, of a glossy green colour, the petiole short.
Flowers drooping at the back of the plant, copious, in axil-
lary, almost sessile umbels of from three to eight or ten
blossoms. Pedicels reddish, three-fourths of an inch long.
Perianth nearly an inch long, tubular, greenish - white,
marked with six lines of reddish dots: the twbe swollen
below, the throat contracted, the limb greenish, of six

reading segments. Stamens six, inserted near the middle
of the tube. Filaments white, curved. Anthers arrow-
shaped, yellow. Germen ovate, with three obtuse angles :
Style included : Stigma trifid, villous.

Fig. 1. Single Flower :—magnijfied.

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( 3530 )
RIBeEs sPECcIOSUM. Snowy GooskEBErRRY.

KEKE EK KEK EK KEEKEK EERE
Class and Order.

PENTANDRIA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—GnrossuLariEe. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-lobus, laciniis plus minusve coloratis. Petala 5,
parva, albida, lutea vel rubra. Stamina 5, rarissime 6,
filamentis liberis. Stylus 1, 2,3, 4-fidus. Bacca unilocu-
laris, receptaculis lateralibus. Semina arillata (an in om-
nibus ?) oblonga, compressa. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Riwes speciosum ; ramis setosis, aculeis stipularibus rigidis
tripartitis, foliis glabris trilobis incisis basi cuneatis,
racemis nutantibus 2—5-floris, calycibus tubulosis
basi dilatatis, staminibus (plerumque 4) longissime
exsertis.

Rizes speciosum. Pursh, Fl. Am. v. 2. Suppl. p. 731. De
Cand. Prodr. p. 478. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1557. Sw.
Br. Fl. Gard, t. 149. .

Rises stamineum. Sm. in Rees. Cycl. De Cand. Prodr.
v.3.p.477. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. v. 1. p. 229.

Rises fuchsioides. ‘“ Fl. Mex. ined. Berland Mem. Soc.
Phys. Genev. v. 3. t. 3.”

Rises triacantha. Menz. MSS. cum Icon. nitidiss.

This fine Rises, so remarkable for its leaves resembling
those of the White-Thorn, and its flowers those of a Fucusia,
was first discovered by the venerable Menzigs in California,
during the voyage of Capt. Vancouver, and his beautiful
drawing and description made on the spot, are now before
me. It was introduced to our gardens by Mr. Cotte, the
surgeon of H. M.S. Brossom, in 1829. Our drawing was

made

made by Mr. Wixu1am Curtis, at the extensive Nursery
Grounds of Glazenwood. In native specimens, the leaves
are smaller, and the racemes only two-flowered. In England
the plant seems to be perfectly hardy: in Scotland it re-
quires the protection of a wall, or the flowers will effectually,
in most years, be destroyed, by our fickle springs. Its
flowering season is April and May ; its growth is rapid and
vigorous during summer, and the plant is now becoming
common.

Descr. A shrub, three to five feet high, with sextose,
red-brown branches, and at the base of each cluster of leaves
a strong, three-forked spine. Leaves on short petioles,
small, three-lobed and irregularly cut into sharp lobes or
teeth ; the base cuneate. Racemes of from three to five
flowers. Bracteas ovate, acuminate, much shorter than the
piloso-glandular pedicels. Calyx deep scarlet, glandular,
tubular, swollen at the base; segments straight. Petals
included, red. Stamens twice or thrice as long as the
flower, straight, red. Anthers ovate. Germen small, glan-
dular. Style as long as the stamens: Stigma bifid.

Bub.by S. Curtis Glaxenwood Essex. Nove 11836.

( 3531 )
Auuium Cowant. Mr. Cowan’s Onion.

KEKE EERE EKER KERR EE
Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—AsPHoDELEZ. )

Generic Character.

Corolla 6-petala, patens. Filamenta vel xqualia peta-
lorum basi inserta, vel basi dilatata subconnata, vel 3-cus-
pidata. Capsula 3-locularis. Embryo excentricus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Axutium Cowani ; scapo nudo semitereti, foliis lineari-lance-
olatis longe attenuatis flaccidis, spatha monophylla,
umbella multiflora, sepalis ovatis obtusis (albis), fila-
mentis subulatis uniformibus.

Auuium Cowani. Lindl. Bot. Reg.t.'758. Hort. Soc. Trans.
v. 6. p. 98. Spreng. Syst. Veget..v.2. p. 36. Roem.
et Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 7. p. 1109.

A native of elevated situations in Peru, according to
Professor Linptey, whence bulbs were sent to the Horticul-
tural Society of London by James Cowan, Esq. To that
valuable Society, as well as to Joun Mac Lean, Esq. of
Lima, we owe the possession of the plant in the Glasgow
Botanic Garden, where it flowered in the stove in Septem-
ber, 1835.

Descr. The bulb I have not seen. Leaves all radical,
linear-lanceolate, flaccid, attenuated into a very long point,
keeled, in our plant much longer than the scape, the
young ones obscurely ciliated. Scape a foot or a foot and
a half high, semiterete, naked, bearing an wmbel of many
flowers. Spatha of a single, whitish membranous, pointed
leaf. Pedicels two inches or more long. Sepals white,
ovate, obtuse, concave, spreading. Filaments subulate,
equal: Anthers oblong, green. Germen globose, three-
lobed, lobes with a deep furrow. Style reaching about the
length of the stamens.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified.

Pub. by 3 Curtis. Glarenwoed Essex. Nov 11836.

ip Cn eS a na. et

( 3532 )

Beconia Fiscueri. Dr. Fiscuer’s
BEGONIA.

KEKE KKK KEE KEKE EE EEE
Class and Order.

Monaecia PoLyAnpDRIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Breon1Acez. )

Generic Character.

Mase. Calyx o. Corolla polypetala, petalis plerumque
4, inequalibus.

Fam. Calyxo. Corolla petalis 4—9, plerumque ine-
qualibus. Styli 3, bifidi. Capsula triquetra, alata, trilo-
cularis, polysperma.

Specific Character.

Beconta Fischeri; caulescens, foliis oblongis acutis inequa-
liter cordatis dentato-serratis utrinque glabris nitidis,
stipulis ovatis integerrimis, floribus masculis 4-petalis,
petalis exterioribus rotundatis concavis marginibus
plano-revolutis, floribus femineis 6 - petalis petalis
ovato-lanceolatis, alis germinis inequaliter rotundatis.

Brecon Fischeri. Otto, MSS.

This plant, which has small flowers, but exquisitely
beautiful foliage, was received at the Botanic Garden,
Edinburgh from Berlin, in 1835, and flowered in the stove
in February and March, 1836.

Descr. Stem erect, branched, fleshy, swollen at the
joints, red, shining. Leaves unequally cordate, acute, in-
distinctly sinuated, slightly undulate, unequally dentato-
serrate, glabrous on both sides, when young bright red
behind, paler at the veins, and pink above, with a peculiar
silvery lustre which continues on the old leaves, the colour
being then beautifully delicate yellowish green, and the
redness behind much less considerable; petioles nearly

round,

round, half as long as the leaves. Stipules large, ovate,
acute, entire. Peduncles axillary, twice as long as the pe-
tioles. Cyme twice or oftener forked ; branches divaricated.
Male flowers in the forks of the cyme, four-petalous, the
outer petals rounded, with a sinuosity on one side where the
pedicel is attached, hollow in the centre, with flattened,
slightly revolute edges, forming a perfect miniature of a
barber’s basin; inner petals obovato-cuneate, undulate.
Stamens united only at their insertion. Female flowers 6-
petalous, the petals ovato-lanceolate. Germen rather une-
qually winged, the wings unequally rounded. Graham.

mittens

Pub.by S. Curtis,
. Glavenwood: F ssex; Wel. 1836.

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( 3533)
VESICARIA GRACILIS. SLENDER-STEMMED
VESICARIA.
Class and Order.

TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA.
( Nat. Ord.—Crucirer2, )

Generic Character.

Silicula globosa, inflata, valvis hemisphericis. Semmina
plurima (ultra 8) sepius marginata. Petala integra. DC.

Specific Character.

Vesicarta gracilis ; annua multicaulis, caulibus filiformibus
rigidis scabriusculis, foliis lanceolatis integris vel sub-
angulatis inferioribus subspathulatis petiolatis omnibus
nudiusculis, racemis elongatis, petalis patentibus ob-
cordatis subsessilibus, siliculis globosis membranaceis
glaberrimis tetraspermis stylum equantibus.

A native of the same country with our V. grandiflora
(Tas. 3464), namely, Texas, and discovered at the same
time by Mr. Drummonp. It is less showy than the latter,
but a lively and graceful plant, and well adapted for orna-
menting rocks. It continues long in flower, during almost
the whole summer ; and the blossoms are succeeded by the
numerous, small, and exactly-globose seed vessels. Ano-
ther and very similar Vestcaria is in my Herbarium, from
Texas, gathered by M. Bertanpier, in which the leaves
and stems are rather thickly clothed with short, dense stel-
lated pubescence.

Descr. Root annual, sending from its upper extremity
several stems, which are slender, filiform, wiry, branch-
ed, minutely scabrous, more or less procumbent, from eight
to ten inches long. Leaves remote, and chiefly at the base
of the racemes: lanceolate, almost entirely glabrous, their

margin

margin quite entire or obscurely angled, narrow at the
base and subpetiolate ; the lowermost ones decidedly so
and spathulate. Racemes axillary and terminal, elongated.
Flowers remote, bright yellow. Pedicels scabrous, with
short, stellated hairs, considerably elongated after flower-
ing. Calyx of four linear-lanceolate, appressed, glabrous
leaves. Petals obcordate, scarcely clawed, very patent.
Germen elliptical, stipitate, shorter than the style: Stigma
capitate. When the fruit is ripe, the pedicels are almost
horizontal, curved upwards at the extremity, and bearing
the erect, exactly globose pedicellate szlicula, or pouch,
which is smooth and shining, membranous, and not larger
than hemp seed. The fully-ripe fruit does not readily
separate into valves Cells two, each containing about
four, depressed, dark brown seeds.

Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Stamens and Pistil. 3. Pistil. 4, Seed-vessel. 5.

ied from which one valve is removed, showing the four Seeds:—mag-
nified.

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( 3534.)
Eprpenprum mAcrocuiuwuM. LaArGE-LIPPED
EPIDENDRUM. |

Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria.
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipeg. )

Generic Character.

Sepala patentia, subequalia. Petala sepalis equalia vel
angustiora, rarius latiora, patentia vel reflexa. Labellum
cum marginibus columnz omnino vel parte connatum,
limbo integro vel diviso, disco sepius calloso, costato vel
tuberculato ; nunc in calcar productum ovario accretum et
cuniculum formans. Colwmna elongata; clinandrio mar-
ginato, sepe fimbriato. Anthera carnosa, 2—4-locularis.
Pollinia 4, caudiculis totidem replicatis annexa.—Herbe
(Americane) epiphyte, caule nunc apice vel bast pseudo-bul-
boso, nunc elongato apice folioso. Folia carnosa, rarissime
venis elevatis striata. Flores spicati, racemosi, corymbosi
vel paniculati terminales vel laterales. Lindl.

Specific Character.

Epipenprum macrochilum ; bulbis ovatis rugosis diphyllis,
foliis lineari-oblongis, coriaceis obtusiusculis, sepalis
petalisque oboyato-lanceolatis patentibus apicibus in-
curvis, labello libero trilobo lobis lateralibus ovatis
acutis columnam amplectantibus, intermedio maximo
obcordato disco calloso ecristato lateralibus reflexis,
columna aptera.

A charming Epiphyte, introduced from Mexico, by
Cuartes Horsraut, Esq., in whose fine collection at Ever-
ton it flowered in June, 1836, when a drawing and speci-
men of the handsome flowers were kindly communicated by

Mrs.

Mrs. Horsratt. In the general structure of the flower it
resembles my Encycria * patens (Bot. Mag. t. 3013.), that
is, it has, like that, the lip distinct from, not united with, the
column, and the two lateral lobes of the lip enfolding the
column. The two species are, however, totally distinct,
the flowers here being thrice the size of the other, and the
lip of a totally different form and colour.

Descr. Bulbs clustered, ovate, about the size of a
pigeon’s egg, the older ones wrinkled ; the younger ones
bearing two leaves at the extremity about six to eight
inches long, linear-oblong, rather obtuse, recurved, some-
what coriaceous. Scape arising from between the two
leaves, a span or more high, bearing a raceme of three to
four large, handsome inodorous flowers. Sepals and side-
petals uniform, spreading, obovato-lanceolate, or nearly
spathulate, singularly incurved at the extremity, as well
represented in Mrs. Horsraux’s drawing, of a greenish-
brown, paler on the outside, and pale green at the base.
Lip very large, of three lobes: the two side lobes, at the
very base, ovate, acute (the apices reflexed) completely en-
veloping the column, and even crossing each other on the
upper side of the column, the middle one is very large,
broadly ovate, or rather obcordate, having a deep notch at
the base, the sides bent back : this lip is pure white (chang-
ing to cream-colour in age), having a red purple spot at
the base, where there is a flattened fleshy disk, and another
near the middle. Column quite distinct from the lip, tri-
angular, compressed, wingless. Anthers deep yellow, large:

cells small, each containing two pollen-masses of a bright
orange colour.

* More correctly an EPIDENDRUM, as suggested by Professor LINDLEY,
and the E. odoratissimum of that author.

Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column. 3. Anther inverted. 4. Two of the Pollen-
masses :—magnified.

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BANKSIA OCCIDENTALIS. West-Coast
BANKSIA.

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Class and Order.

TretranpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Proreacez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium quadripartitum (raro 4-fidum). Stamina
apicibus concavis laciniarum immersa. Squamule hypo-
gyne 4. Ovarium biloculare, loculis monospermis. Frollc-
culus ligneus: dissepimento libero, bifido. Amentwm flos-
culorum paribus tribracteatis. Br.

Specific Name and Character.

Banxsta occidentalis ; foliis linearibus extra medium spinu-
loso-dentatis subtus aveniis, bracteis amenti apice gla-
bris, perianthiis marcescentibus, unguibus basi intus
barbatis, folliculis ventricosis tomentosis, apice com-
Dreeuacule nudo, caule fruticoso, ramulis glabris.

‘ a;

Banksia occidentalis. Brown, Linn. Soc. Trans. v. 10. p.
204. Ibid. Prodr. p. 392. Ibid. Hort. Kew. ed. 2.
v. 1. p. 215. Roem. et Schult. 6% Veget. v. 3. p. 438.
Sprengel, Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 484.

This handsome species flowered in the greenhouse of the
Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in September, 1835.

Descr. Shrub erect. Branches ascending, red, glabrous,
when young angled and having a few adpressed hairs.
Leaves (four inches long, two lines broad) verticillate,
linear, glabrous above, covered with white tomentum and
veinless below, revolute in the edge, beyond the middle
distinctly spinuloso-dentate, terminated with three mucros,

of

VOL X. x

of which that in the centre is the shortest. Inflorescence
terminal. Perianth dark red, but appearing leaden colour-
ed froma covering of adpressed hairs, glabrous at the apex.
Styles glabrous, reddish-purple, spreading horizontally,
about three times as long as the perianth, connivent in
double rows, and tipped with the yellow pollen. Graham.

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LIS 36.

Pub. by 5. Curtis, Glaxenwood Essex Dee.

( 3536)

BROUGHTONIA COCCINEA. CRIMSON-
FLOWERED BROUGHTONIA.

SKK KKK EERE EK EEK EEEEE
Class and Order.

GyYNANDRIA MonaANDRIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuinez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala angustia, patentia, lateralia basi obliqua, cum
labelli basi connata et decurrentia. Petala latiora. Label-
lum indivisum, adscendens, basi columnz adnatum, in cal-
care lineari mellifluo, ovario connato decurrens. Columna
brevis, crassa, apice dilatata. Anthera 4-locularis, septo-
rum marginibus membranaceis. Pollinia 4, caudiculis re-
plicatis—Herba epiphyta, pseudo-bulbosa ; foliis carnosis ;
scapo terminali multifloro. Lindl.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Brovueuronia sanguinea.

Brovenronia sanguinea. Br. in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. p.
217. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t.793. Spreng. Syst. Veget.
». 3. p. 734. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 118.

Denprozium sanguineum. Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. v. 4. p. 1529.

EpipenpDRUM sanguineum. Sw. Prodr. p. 124.

Viscum radice bulbosa minus, &c. Sloane, Jam. v. 1. p.
250. ¢. 121. f. 2.

Satyrium parasiticum ; foliis paucioribus; &c. Browne,
Jam. p. 324.

(8.) foliis longioribus, petalis angustioribus.

Broventonia sanguinea. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3076.

When the figure of Broveutonia sanguinea was given at
tab. 3076 of this work, from the pencil of Mrs. Horsratt, I
had not seen the usual state of the plant; but now that this

has blossomed in the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden,
I

I cannot but consider the former as a variety, having longer
leaves and narrower petals; with a colour, very inferior in
brilliancy, to that which we now represent, and which may
indeed be reckoned among the handsomest, and certainly
the most richly coloured of this splendid family. Their
blossoms also continue for a considerable length of time in
perfection. Though introduced to Kew from Jamaica since
1793, it appears to be yet a rare plant in our gardens. Its
blossoming season is May and June.

Descr. Bulbs or pseudo-bulbs clustered, roundish-ovate,
compressed, often richly stained with brown, and bearing,
from the apex, one or two leaves, which are linear-oblong,
three to four inches high, somewhat coriaceous. Peduncle
also arising from the same point, eight to ten inches or
more high, jointed and bracteated, and bearing a raceme of
six to nine flowers at the summit, which are of a very rich
crimson colour. Calyx of three equal, spreading, equi-
distant, lanceolate sepals. Petals spreading ; two lateral
ones broadly ovate, acute, slightly crisped ; lower one or
labellum rotundato-cordate, obscurely two-lobed, waved
and delicately crenate at the margin : the base beneath
running down into a very long, adnate spur upon the scar-
let germen, Column short, whitish. Anther-case small,
hemispherical : Pollen-masses, two compressed pairs, with
the caudicles folded down upon them.

Fig. 1. 1, Column, with the Germen and Spur. 2. Inner view of the
Anther, containing the Pollen :—magnified.

Pub by S. Curtis Glarennood Base. Dee I JE36 | Swan So-

( 3537 )

Matva Munroana. Mr. Monro’s Mattow.

KKK KKK KEKE EEE KEE EE
Class and Order.

MonopeEtpuHiA PoLyANDRIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Matvaces. )

Generic Character.

Calyx cinctus involucro triphyllo rarius 5—6-phyllo,
bracteolis oblongis setaceisve. Carpella capsularia plurima
in orbem disposita. De Cand.

Specific Name and Character.

Marva Munroana ; herbacea glaucescens, foliis cordatis ob-
© tusis 3—5-lobis lobis crenato-lobatis pubescentibus
pilis brevibus stellatis, stipulis subulatis deciduis, pe-
dicellis axillaribus solitariis vel binis 1-pauci-floris lon-
gitudine florum, involucri foliolis subulatis longitudine
calycis.
Matva Munroana. Douglas’ MSS.—Lindl. Bot. Reg. t.
1306.

A very pretty showy species, flowering in June in the
greenhouse. It seems to be hardy in England, but its
beauty suffers by exposure to the wet. Introduced by Mr.
Doveras from the barren plains of the Columbia, North-
West America. I was disposed at first to refer it to M.
miniata, which it considerably resembles in the size and
colour of its flowers: but I find, on a careful examination,
that the leaves are shorter and more obtuse, and the pedun-
cles are shorter and fewer-flowered. It blossoms during
the summer months.

Descr. Stems weak and trailing, if not artificially sup-
ported, rounded, glaucous, slightly downy. Leaves or
petioles about equal to the blade in length, alternate, distant,
cordate, very obtuse, glaucous, three to seven-lobed, and

those

those lobes again crenato-lobate, above, and below more
so, clothed with short, inconspicuous, stellated down. Siéz-
pules small, subulate, soon falling away. From the upper
leaves, in the axils, appear one or two pedicels rather more
than half an inch long, each bearing one or more flowers.
Calyx cup-shaped, quinquefid, hoary with stellated down.
Involucre of three subulate bracteas, about as long as the
calyx. The /fruzt I have not seen.

Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified.

Pub. by §. Gurts, larenwood Essex DeeT1 1836.

Swan Se.

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ORNITHOGALUM CONICUM. PURE-WHITE-
FLOWERED STAR OF BETHLEHEM, _

SKK KEKE KEK KEK EEE KEE
Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—AsPHopDELEz. )

Generic Character.

Corolla 6-petala, patens. Filamenta basi dilatata recep-
taculo inserta. Capsula trilocularis. Embryo axilis.—
Flores racemosi.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

ORNITHOGALUM conicum; racemo conico, filamentis subula-
tis, bracteis membranaceis (longitudine pedicellorum),
foliis lanceolatis planis ciliato-marginatis, sepalis (albis)
lanceolatis.

OrnitHoGaLum conicum. Jacq. Coll. v. 3. p. 232. Ic. Rar.
v. 2. t. 428. Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. v.77. p. 514.
Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 31.

We are indebted for our knowledge of this plant to Baron
Lupwic, who sent bulbs from the Cape of Good Hope
to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in 1835. Flowering spe-
cimens were produced in the greenhouse in the summer of
the same year. The flowers are large, handsome, pure
white, the sepals acuminate, spreading, but never curled
back as in O. revolutum, to which this plant, in other re-
spects, bears some affinity.

Descr. Leaves few and springing from the root, or from
the base of the scape, lanceolate, plane, acuminate, bright
but pale green, the margin white and delicately fringed ;
the lower part is sheathing. Scape a foot high, terminated
by a raceme of flowers, at first conical, afterwards more
elongated. Pedicels an inch Jong, erecto-patent, having

a

a large ovato-acuminate, membranous bractea, about its own
length. Sepals pure white, lanceolate, acuminate, spread-
ing. Filaments much shorter than the sepals, and, as well
as the anthers, yellow. Pistil (probably imperfect) yellow.

Fig. 1. Portion of the Leaf, to show the margin :—magnijied.

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Isopocon Baxtert. Mr. BAxter’s
Isopocon.

KKK EK KE EKER EEE EKER
Class and Order.

Trerranpria Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Prorteacez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium quadrifidum, tubo gracili, diutices persis-
tente. Squame nulle hypogyne. Stylus totus deciduus.
Stigma fusiforme vel cylindraceum. Nusx sessilis, ventri-
cosa, undique comosa.—Frutices rigidi. Folia glabra,
plana vel filiformia, divisa vel integerruma. Capitula termi-
nalia, raro axillaria. Flores modo densissime imbricati ;
strobilo globoso, modo fastigiato, receptaculo communi pla-
niusculo subinvolucrato, paleis deciduis, congestis. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Isopocon Baxteri; foliis dilatato-cuneiformibus, fruticis
adulti trifidis lobis incisis lacinia mucronatis, juve-
nilis indivisis apice dentato, capitulis aggregatis, re-
ceptaculo plano. Br.

Isopocon Baxteri. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. Suppl. v. 1.
p. 9. Grah. Descr. of Plants in Edin, Phil. Journ.

for Jan., 1836.

A handsome species, of which seeds were sent by Colonel
Lixpesay from New Holland to the Botanic Garden, Edin-
burgh in 1830. It was raised the following year, and flow-
ered in the greenhouse in March and April, 1835.

Descr. Shrub erect, the specimen described two feet
hich. Stem round. Bark brown, densely covered with
short, soft pubescence, mixed with longer hairs, on the
branches red. Leaves hard, stiff, with glands on both sur-

faces,

faces, having pubescence and hairs similar to those on the
stem, especially when young ; subglabrous when old ;
strongly marked on both sides with elevated veins, which
are generally trichotomously branched, once or twice trifid,
cuneate and once or twice twisted at the base, edges placed
vertically ; the segments terminated with long, pungent mu-
cros; the lower leaves undivided, rounded and toothed at
the apex, the teeth terminating in pungent mucros. Heads
of Flowers crowded at the termination of the stem) and
branches. Scales of the Involucre pubescent and hairy,
smaller inwards, acute, reflected, subdentate. Perianth
soft, rose-coloured, darkest at the tip, densely covered with
spreading, white hairs, tube very slender, segments of the
limb reflexed. Anthers linear, yellow. Pollen granules
roundish-triangular, shining, orange yellow. Style as long
as the perianth, fusiform at the apex, below it tumid, and
densely covered with yellow, reflected, crystalline pubes-
cence. Stigmatic surface terminal. Graham.

Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified.

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( 3540)

DrosERA FILIFORMIS. NARROW-LEAVED
SuN-DEW.

KKK EEE KEKE EEE KEE
: Class and Order.

PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Droseracez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala petalaque 5 inappendiculata. Stamina 5. Stylt
3—5, bipartiti—Herbe in uliginosis sphagnosis crescentes.
Folia cilzis glandulosis rubidis irritabilibus ornata, D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Drosera * filiformis ; scapis lateralibus, foliis lineari-fili-
formibus glanduloso-pilosis, dorso glabris canalicula-
tis, basi lanatis, staminibus 5, stylis 8 basi in paribus
coalitis.

Drosera filiformis. Rafinesque, in Need. Rep. 2.360. Ibid.
in Desv. Journ. de Bot. 1. 227. Pursh, Fl. Amer.
Sept. 1. 211. Nutt. Gen. 1. 142. Roem. et Schult.
Syst. Veget. 6.763. De Cand. Prodr. 1.1318. Tor-
rey, Fl. of North. and Mid. Sect. of the United States,
v. 1. p. 332. Spreng. Syst. Veget.v. 1. p.955. Beck,
Bot. of North and Mid. States, p. 42.

Drosera tenuifolia. Willd. Enumer. p. 340. Roem. et
Schult. 1.763. Bigelow, Plants of Boston. p. 124.

This remarkable species was found by Mr. James Mac-
NAB, in a swamp about ten miles above Tuckerton, New

Jersey, United States, and introduced by him into the
gardens

* From Jpooos, dew. A pellucid fluid exudes from the glands of the
foliage, whence the plant appears as if covered with dew.

gardens about Edinburgh in 1834. It flowered freely in
the stove at Dr. Neitx’s, also at Comely Bank Nursery, and
with us. I cannot hesitate to agree with those who consi-
der Drosera tenuifolia of Wittp., as synonymous with D.
filiformis of Rarinesque, which, being the earliest published
name I retain.

Descr. Primordial leaves deltoideo-subulate, glabrous ;
secondary leaves radical, linear, circinate, very woolly at
their base, channelled and glabrous behind, in front round-
ed and covered with spreading, greenish hairs, which sup-
port, on their summit, a red gland, and exude a viscid,
colourless juice. Scape lateral, with us always simple,
green, glabrous, about as long as the leaves. Spike race-
mose, unilateral. Pedicels, and five-cleft persisting calyx,
covered with green, glandular hairs. Corolla glabrous,
rose-coloured, more than twice as long as the calyx, mar-
cescent ; petals five, obovate, claws greenish. Stamens
five, scarcely longer than the calyx ; Pp pemnes colourless ;
anthers erect, oblong, yellow. Pollen- granules round,
yellow. Styles eight, spreading at their base in pairs,
above erect and clavate, colourless. Germen round, green ;
ovules numerous, oblong. Graham.

fub. by S. Garé, Glaxenwood Essex Decl 11836.

eG 3541 } )

VERBENA TWEEDIEANA. Mr. Tweepir’s —
; ScaARLET VERVAIN.

LEEK EEE EEE EEE EEE EERE

Class and Order.

DipvyNnAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.
( Nat. Ord.—VeERBENACER. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-fidus, dente unico subbreviore. Cor. limbus
irregulariter 5-lobus. Stam. inclusa. Uériculus 4-spermus,
cito rumpens, ut maturi fructus caryopses sistant. Spr.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Versena Tweedieana; pubescenti-hirsuta erecta suffruti-
cosa ramosa, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis mem-
branaceis grosse inaqualiter serratis basi cuneatis inte-
gerrimis in petiolum gracilem attenuatis, spica corym-
bosa, calycibus cylindraceis 5-costatis tubo corolla 4
brevioribus, limbo 5-lobo segmentis cuneatis emargi-
natis subequalibus.

VersBenA T'weedieana. Niven, in litt.

The accompanying drawing, together with excellent
dried specimens of this most lovely plant, were sent by the
kindness of Mr. Niven, the able and zealous curator of the
Glasnevin Botanic Garden, under the name here adopted.
The same has been raised by Mr. Murray at Glasgow, and
in both cases from seeds sent by Mr. Tweepie. Our native
specimens, corresponding with these, were collected by
Mr. Tweepie in boggy places at Laguna de la Molina in
the Banda Orientale, where, he says, what we can well
conceive, that the plant makes a most splendid appearance
with its large and brilliant heads of crimson flowers. We
have also the same species gathered at Rio Grande do Sul
by M. IsaBexwe.

It

It will be at once seen, that the species has much affinity
with V. chamedrifolia, Bot. Mag. t. 3333 (V. Melindres,
Git. in Bot. Reg. t. 1184): but it is a tall, upright-growing
plant, clothed with soft, downy hairs, of a much more deli-
cate texture, especially in the leaves, which are considerably
larger, more acuminate and serrated, more cuneate at the
base, and decidedly petioled. The flowers are larger, and
more inclining to rose-colour, (“ rich rosy crimson,”) in
greater number, and the raceme more capitate. The same
characters hold good in the native specimens in my Herba-
rium as in the cultivated ones.

Hitherto it has only been treated as a stove plant: but
it will in all probability be found to bear the open air as

well as V. chamedrifolia. It flowered with Mr. Niven in
September, 1836.

a &K

In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in’ the Tenth
_ Volume, of the New Sxates (or Sizty-third. of the Work) are

alphabetically arranged.

—

Pi.
3502 Acacia prominens.
3531 Allium Cowani.
3528 Amaryllis psittacina, var. hy-
brida.
3477. Anchusa versicolor.
3535 Banksia occidentalis.
3532 Begonia Fischeri.
8520 - sanguinea.
3518 Bletia patula.
3536 Broughtonia coccinea.
3511 Calliopsis tinctoria, var. atro-

urpurea.
3458 Pcreus Napoleonis.
3481 Chetogastra gracilis.
3488 Collinsia bicolor.
‘3468 Collomia Cavanillesii.
3529 Convallaria oppositifolia.
3482 Cooperia chlorosolen.
3460 Coreopsis coronata.
3474 diversifolia.
3505 ————— filifolia.
3484 —————- senifolia.
3519 Cotoneaster laxiflora.
3507 Cyrtopodium punctatum.

3540 Drosera filiformis.
3500 , pteridifolia.
3513 ——. tenuifolia.

3534 Epidendrum macrochilum.

3495 Eschscholtzia crocea.

3527 Euphorbia Bojeri.

3476 bupleurifolia.

8498 Fuchsia discolor.

3521 macrostema, var.
recurvata.

3506 Gaura parviflora.

3496 Gentiana quinqueflora.

3463 Gilia tricolor.

3510 Helianthus decapetalus.

3539 Isopogon Baxter.

3489 Jaborosa integrifolia.

8491 Leptosiphon androsaceus.

3473 Linaria Canadensis.

3480 Linum Berendieri.

3467 Lupinus subcarnosus.

3492 Texensis.

Fi.
3537 Malva Munroana.,.
3526 Monarda aristata, _

3514 Myanthus barbatus, var. la-
Joa bello albo,
emophila insignis.

3486 Outidtapn dean cat
3499 ————— crispum.
3538 Ornithogalum conicum.
3003 Passiflora kermesina.
3465 Pentstemon Cobea.
3472 —————— Murrayanus.
3478 Pereskia Bleo.

3479 Peristeria pendula.
3469 Petrophila acicularis.
3494 Physostegia truncata.
3459 Pimelea hispida,

3493 Poinsettia pulcherrima.
3470 Potentilla atro-sanguinea; hy-
brida, Russelliana.

3508 Rheum Emodi.

3483 Rhodanthe Manglesii.

3530 Ribes speciosum.

3497 Rodriguezia Barkeri.

3504. ———_——— planifolia.

3475 Rosa centifolia; muscosa,
cristata.

3490 microphylla.

3515 Sarracenia rubra.

8487 Senecio ampullaceus.

3525 Silphium terebinthaceum.

3509 Sisyrinchium grandiflorum.

3523 Sollya heterophylla,

3516 Streptanthus hyacinthoides.

8517 Strobilanthes Sabiniana.

3466 Telekia speciosa.

3512 Thunbergia alata (albiflora).

3501 Tradescantia Virginica, fl. alb.

3471 Trifolium reflexum,

3462 Troximon glaucum.

3522 Vaccinium virgatum.

3541 Verbena Tweedieana.

3461 Veronica labiata.

3033 Vesicaria gracilis.

3464 ———— grandiflora.

IN DE X,

In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the Tenth
Volume of the New Serizs (or Stzty-third of the Work) are

alphabetically arranged.
4. Fr
3502 Acacia, conspicuous or Ne- || 3526 Monarda, awned.
pean Wattle. 3485 Nemophila, showy.

3477 Alkanet, changeable-flowered.

3528 Amaryllis, hybrid var. of the
Parrot.

3535 Banksia, West-coast.

3520 Begonia, blood-red.

3532 Dr. Fischer’s.

3918 Bletia, spreading-flowered.

3536 Broughtonia, crimson-flow-

_ ered,

3511 Calliopsis, dyeing, dark-flow-
ered var.

3458 Cereus, Napoleon’s,

3481 Chetogastra, slender.

3470 Cinquefoil, Mr. Russell’s var.
of the deep blood-coloured.

3471 Clover, Buffalo.

3488 Collinsia, two-coloured.

3468 Collomia, Cavanilles’.

3482 Cooperia, green-tubed.

3460 Coreopsis, crowned.

————. six-leaved.
3505 _-—— thread-leaved.
3474. ——-—. various-leaved.
3519 Cotoneaster, loose-clustered.
3507 aon wiiaaag spotted-flow-
er

3479 Dove-flower, pendulous.
3500 Dryandra, Fern-leaved.

3513 —————. slender-leaved.
3534 Epidendrum, large-lipped.
3495 Eschscholtzia, saffron-coloured
3480 Flax, Berendier’s yellow-flow-

ered.
3514 Flywort, bearded, white-
lipped var.
3521 Fuchsia, large-stamened te-
curved var.
3498 Port-Famine.
3506 Gaura, small-flowered.
3496 Gentian, five-flowered.
3463 Gilia, three-coloured.
3530 Gooseberry, showy.
3487 Groundsel, flask-flowered
American.

3491 Leptosiphon, Androsace-like.
3467 Lupine, fleshy-leaved.

3492 Texas.

8537 Mallow, Mr. Munro’s.

3499 Oncidium, crisped-flowered.

3486 horned.

3531 Onion, Mr. Cowan’s.

3503 Passion-flower, crimson.

3465 Pentstemon, Cobe-flowered.

3472 Mr. Murray's
scarlet,

3478 Pereskia, Rose-coloured.

3469 Petrophila, needle-leaved.

3494 Physostegia, blunt-calyxed.

3459 Pimelea, hispid-flowered.

3493 Poinsettia, showy.

8483 -Rhodanthe, Capt. Mangles’.

3508 Rhubarb, officinal.

3504 Rodriguezia, even-leaved.

3497 ———_—_——— Mr. Barker’s.

3524 —= side-flowered.

8490 Rose, small-leaved Chinese.

3475 Moss, crested var. —

3515 Side-saddle-flower, red.

3525 Silphium, terebinthine.

3509 Sisyrinchium, large-flowered.

3523 Sollya, various-leaved.

3529 Solomon’s Seal, opposite-
leaved.

3461 Speedwell, fragrant white-
flowered.

3501 Spider-wort, Virginian, white-
flowered var.

3476 Spurge, Hare’s-ear-leaved.

3527 — Mr. Bojer’s.

3538 Star of Bethlehem, pure white-
flowered.

3516 Streptanthus, Hyacinth-flow-
ered.

3517 Strobilanthes, Mr. Sabine’s.

3540 Sun-dew, narrow-leaved,

3510 Sun-flower, ten-rayed.

3466 Telekia, large-flowered.

3512 Thunbergia, winged, white~
flowered var. ©

3473. Toad-flax, American.

3462 Troximon, glaucous-leaved.

3541 Vervain, scarlet, Mr. Tweedie’s

3464 Vesicaria, large-flowered. _

3533 ————— slender-stemmed.

3502 Wattle, Nepean, or conspicu-
ous Acacia. ”

3522 Whortleberry, pale greenish- —

flowered.

igen ie ete ee
GENERAL INDEX,

THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN THE FIRST TEN VOLUMES OF THE
NEW SERIES, RS

(Or from Vol, LIV. to LXIILI. inclusive, of the whole Work,)

OF THE

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.

—me@our
Vol.| No. Vol.| No.
_ 56 | 2879 | Aprontra mellifera. 59 | 3198 | Althzea rosea.
61 | 3358 | Acacia brevipes. 61 | 3313 | Alyxia daphnoides.
59 | 3174 cinerascens. 61 | 3312 |. ruscifolia.
60 | 3244 decipiens, var. premorsa || 61 | 3311 | Amaryllis aulica.
61 | 3337 elongata. 57 | 2983 var.
60 | 3279 graveolens. tala, glaucophylla.
61 | 3341 hastulata. 63 | 3528 | ————— psittacina, v. hybrida.
59 | 3203 intermedia. 62 | 3380 | Anagallis Monelli, var. Willmo-
56 | 2922 | —_—— lanigera. reana. ”
61 | 3346 | ———— lineata. 63 | 3477 | Anchusa versicolor.
54 | 2747. mucronata. 56 | 2936 | Andromeda hypnoides.
56 Oxycedrus. 60 | 3286 | ——————- salicifolia.
54 | 2754 penninervis. 59 | 3181 tetragona.
61 | 3366 plumosa. ~ 62 | 3376 | Anemone vitifolia.
62 | 3408 prensans. 56 | 2911 | Annona reticulata. _
63 | 3502 | ———— prominens. 56 | 2912 | Ibid. es
59 | 3195 | ——— ruscifolia. 58 | 3095 — squamosa.
62 | 3420 tristis. 57 | 3017 | Anthericum bulbosum.
61 | 3338 | ——— umbrosa. 58 | 3084 | ——————? plumosum.
62 | 3394 unduleefolia. 59 | 3129 | ——————_ semibarbatum.
60 | 3266 verniciflua, 57 | 2961 | Anthocercis viscosa.
58 | 3111 | Achras sapota. 60 | 3284 | Anthyllis Webbiana. |
58 | 3112 | Ibid. 58 | 3091 | Aphanochilus blandus.
59 | 3171 | Acrotiche ovalifolia. _|| 57 | 3021 | Arabis collini.
58 | 3046 | Adamia cyanea. - 60 | 3246 rosea.
55 | 2791 | Adansonia digitata. 61 | 3331 verna.
55 | 2792 | Ibid: » 58 | 3093 | Arbutus mucronata.
59 | 3186 | Anchmea Mertensi. 59 | 3177 pilosa.
63 | 3531 | Allium Cowani. _ 61 | 3320 tomentosa.
59 | 3192 | Alpinia magnifica. 58 | 3073 | Argemone grandiflora. —
58 | 3050 | Alstroemeria acutifolia. 58 | 3092 | Arracasia esculenta.
61 | 3350 | —————— aurea. 59 | 3142 | Arthrostemma nitida.
58 | 3105 Neillii. — 55 | 2869 | Artocarpus incisa.
61 | 3344 | ————— oculata. 55 | 2870 | Ibid.
55 | 2848 | ————— ovata. 55 | 2871 | Ibid.
58 | 3040 pallida. 55 | 2833 | Artocarpus integrifolia.
57 | 3033 | —-_————- psittacina. . 55 | 2834 | Thid.
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INDEX
Vol.

Arum campanulatum. 54

Asarum Canadense. 55

Asplenium Nidus. 55

Aster acuminatus. 55

fruticosus. 54

—— levigatus. 54

—— salsuginosus. 61

Astragalus alopecuroides. 61

procumbens. 61
—_—_———- vesicarius. 61
Azalea ledifolia. 61

ledifolia, var. 8, pheeni- || 62
cea. 58
Beckia frutescens. 55
saxicola. 57
Banksia integrifolia. 56
littoralis ? 60
marcescens. 60
——— media. -
occidentalis. 55
speciosa. 56

Baptisia perfoliata. 54

Barbacenia purpurea. 56

Barosma crenulata. 59

Beaufortia Dampieri. 63

Beaumontia grandiflora.

Begonia dipetala. 59
diversifolia. 54
Fischeri. 61

eraniifolia. 54

——— heracleifolia.

————. insignis. 54
longipes. 61
papillosa.
tet 54

_— — sanguinea. 62
semperflorens. | 60
undulata. 56

Bellis integrifolia. 56

Bidens striata. 54

Bignonia Colei. 54

grandifolia. 54
Telfairize. 54

Billbergia cruenta. 62

————— purpureo-rosea. 62

Blechnum lanceola. 61

——— longifolium. 60

Bletia acutipetala. 60

ily 55
hepherdii. 58
Woodfordii. 58

Blumenbachia insignis. 58

Bonatea speciosa. 58

Brachystelma crispum. 54

Brassavola sees 59

—_————— 54

tuberculata. 57

Brassia caudata. 62

Brodiza grandiflora. 63

Broughtonia coccinea. rf

Browallia grandiflora. 61

Buddlea Brasiliensis.

connata.

Madagascariensis.

Cactus alatus.
cochinellifer.

Thid.

Ceelogyne flaccida.
Caladium fragrantissimum.
———— grandifolium,
Calandrinia discolor.
grandiflora.
—————— speciosa.
Calceolaria angustiflora.
—————— arachnoidea.
bicolor.
connata.
crenatiflora.
integrifolia, var. y,
viscosissima.
plantaginea.
polifolia.
urea.
— thyrsifiors.
Calendula officinalis.
Calliopsis tinctoria, var. atro-
purpurea.
Calochilus campestris.
Calypso borealis.
Calythrix virgata.
Carneliia Japonica, fl. pity

reticulata.

Campanula macrantha, B. poly-

antha.
Prismatocarpus.

Candollea cuneiformis.
Canna glauca, y,. rubro-lutea.
Carica P uae:

arica a.
Tbid. _—
Ca:
Ibid.
Caryophyllus aromaticus.
bid.

ocar nuciferum.

Cassia glandulosa.
Catasetum purum.
tridentatum, var.
————— trifidum.
Cattleya Forbesii.
intermedia,
Centroclinium appressum.
a ee.
Sephaletins follicularis.
Thid.
Careee Bichersteini
rasus spherocarpa.
Ceratiola ericoides.
Cerbera Tanghin.

nm a
Royeni.
Ceropegia elegans.

INDEX. .

ia Wightii.
Peoiteen alaternoides.
bracteatum.
Cheetogastra gracilis.
———— lanceolata.
Chilodia scutellarioides.
Chrysophyllum Cainito.
monopyrenum.
Cineraria Tussilaginis
Clarkia pulchella.
Cleome dendroides.
gigantea.
Clerodendron emirnense.
hastatum.
nutans.
Clitoria? arborescens.
Coburgia fulva.
Coccoloba pubescens.
uvifera.
Cocculus palmatus.
Ibid.
Codizeum pictum.
Coleonema pulchrum.
Collinsia bicolor.
Collomia Cavanillesii.
—- g Siero a
eterophylla.
ad seit, pet
Columnea hirsuta.
Colvillea racemosa.
Ibid.
Combretum grandiflorum.
Commelina gracilis.
Conospermum ericifolium.
———_— taxifolium.
Conostylis aculeata.
Convallaria oppositifolia.
Cooperia chlorosolen.
Corchorus olitorius.
Coreopsis coronata.
——— diversifolia.

3505 | ————— filifolia.

senifolia.
Coryanthes maculata.
Corydalis bracteata.

longiflora.
Cotoneaster laxiflora.
Couroupita Guianensis.
Ibid.
Craspedia macrocephala.
Crategus coccinea.
Crepis macrorhiza.
Crescentia Cujete.
Crinum plicatum.
Crocus aureus.
—— minimus.
Crotalaria dichotoma.

————. ovalis.

striata.
—————- verrucosa. -
Croton castaneifolium.

hamia lanceolata.

Cryptophragmium venustum.

Ibid.
Cycas revoluta.
Ibid.
Cyminosma oblongifolia.
Cynara Cardunculus, var.
Cardunculus, 8. -
Cypripedium macranthon.
———_—_—— insigne.
—————— parviflorum.
Cyrtopodium punctatum.
Datura ceratocaula.
Daviesia virgata.
Deeringia celosioides..
Delima sarmentosa.
Dendrobium densiflorum.
zemulum.
speciosum.

Desmodium dubium.

————— nutans.
Dianthus Caryophyllus, var.
Dichorisandra oxypetala.
Didiscus czruleus.
Didymocarpus Rexii.
Dielytra Canadensis.
Dioscorea Cinnamomifolia.
Diplopappus incanus.
Dischidia Benghalensis.

‘Diuris maculata.

Dodonzea attenuata, mas.
Dombeya angulata.
Doronicum Caucasicum.
Dorstenia ceratosanthes.
tubicina.
Draba aurea.
Dracena Australis.
Dracophyllum secundum.
Drosera inata.

Dyckia rariflora.
Echinocactus Eyriesii.
—————- ittonis.
Elichrysum incanum.
Encyclia patens.
viridiflora.
Epacris cereeflora.
heteronema.
impressa.
—— nivalis.
onosmeeflora.
Epidendrum bicornutum.
————— conopseum.

m.
Harrisonie.
macrochilum.

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INDEX.

Vol.

Epidendrum ? stenopetalum. | 57
—————— variegatum. 60
Epimedium diphyllum. 54
Eranthemum strictum. 54
Erica recurvata. 62
Erigeron glabellum. 55
Eriocaulon decangulare. 60
Eriodendron anfractuosum, B. || 54
Caribeeum. 57
ostemon myoporoides. 55
Eriostemon salicifolium. 59
Erythrina poianthes. 55
velutina. 60
Erythrolzena conspicua. 59
Eseallonia rubra. 59
Eschscholtzia Californica. 59
—————— crocea. 59
Eucalyptus amygdalina. 62
Eugenia trinervia. 62
Eulophia streptopetala. 54
Euonymus echinata. 57
Euphorbia atro-purpurea. 56
amit LIOIBTE 61
bupleurifolia. 62

—————- corollata. 57
——-——~ splendens. 58
Eurycles Cunninghamii. 55
Eutoca Franklinii. 57
sericea. 63
Farsetia lunarioides. 54
Ficus acuminata. 61
—— comosa, 61
—— rubiginosa. 59
Franciscea Hopeana. 60-
Francoa appendiculata. 59
- sonchifolia. 59
Frankenia pauciflora. 56
Fritillaria leucantha. 59
————— minor. 57
Fuchsia discolor. 56
globosa. 58
macrostema, var. recur- || 55

vata. 54
Gaillardia aristata. 58
bicolor, var. Drum- || 62

mondii. 58
Gardenia florida, fl. simplici. 54
Gastrolobium retusum. 60
Gaultheria Shallon. 57
Gaura parviflora. 59
Geitonoplesium cymosum. 60
Gelonium fasciculatum. 54
Gentiana quinqueflora. 54
pickling albiflorum. 55
esnerla aggregata. 58
—————— bulbosa., . 57
————— verticillata. 61
Gilia achillezefolia. 61
—— gracilis. 61
—— inconspicua. 55
—— pungens. 61
—— tricolor. 56
Gilliesia graminea. 63

Gladiolus psittacinus.

Gloxinia speciosa, var. albiflora.
Gnaphalium modestum.

Gnidia tomentosa.

Goldfussia anisophylla.
Gomphrena globosa.

Gongora atro-purpurea.
speciosa.
viridi-purpurea.
Gonolobus niger.

Gratiola tetragona.

Grevillea acanthifolia-
arenaria.
Caleyi.
canescens.
robusta.

Habenaria cordata. .

— gigantea.
goodyeroides.
leptoceras.
longicauda.

—————— macroceras.
Hemanthus carneus.
Hakea ferruginea.
Hedychium acuminatum.
flavum.
Hedyotis campanuliflora.
Helenium autumnale.
Helianthus decapetalus-
——— pubescens.
————— speciosus. ...
Heliopsis levis.

Helleborus purpurascens. |
Heteropteris chrysophylla.
Hibbertia Cunninghamia.
Hibiscus Genevii.
liliiflorus,var.hybridus.
Manihot, £.
splendens.
Horkelia congesta.
Houstonia longifolia.
serpyllifolia.
Houttwynia eordata.
Hovea pannosa.
Hoya Pottsii.
Hunnemannia fumariefolia.
Hutchinsia stylosa.
Hydrastis Canadensis.
Ibid.
Hymenanthera dentata.
Hypericum hyssopifolium.
Iberis nana.
Tenoreana.
Imatophyllum Aitoni.
Indigofera atropurpurea.
————— sylvatica.
———— violacea.
Ipomea Horsfalliz.
rubro-cerulea.
Iris lutescens.
—— tenax.
—— iripetallas i591
Isopogon Baxteri. _

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Vol.| No.
sopogon: Loudoni. 60 | 3273
spathulatus, var. line- || 61 | 3362
"aris. 55 | 2839
Jaborosa integrifolia. 55 | 2793
Jambosa vulgaris. 634 3537
Janipha Manihot 54 | 2787
Jonesia Asoca. 59 | 3202
Justicia calycotricha. 60 | 3289
carnea. 62 | 3395
nodosa. 56 | 2927
——. quadrangularis. 55 | 2806
speciosa. 54 | 2729
ventricosa. 59 | 3154
Kentrophyllum arborescens. 59 | 3173
Lantana nivea, var. mutabilis. 54 | 2789
Selloviana. 56 | 2955
Lath decaphyllus. 59 | 3146
Ledebouria Hyacinthina. 60 | 3210
Leontice Altaica. 58 | 3090
Leptosiphon androsaceus, * 56 | 2907
Leptospermum scoparium, var. || 59 | 3205
grandiflorum. 59 | 3176
Leucopogon lanceolatus, 62 | 3442
————— Richei. 59 | 3128
| Libertia formosa. 62 | 3377
roa Nepalense, 8. gla- || 62 | 3378
61 | 3327
‘Livum: tenuifolium. 61 | 3336
Limnocharis Humboldtii. 58 | 3067
Linaria xquitriloba. 61 | 3353
Canadensis. 61 | 3363.
Linum Berendieri. || 59 | 3157
Liparis foliosa. 54 | 2771
Lissanthe sapida. 56 | 2933
| Loasa hispida. 63 | 3526
incana. 61 | 3310
Placei, var. B. 57 | 2958
Lobelia hypocrateriformis. 58 | 3122
Kraussii. 58 | 3059
mucronata. 57 | 3007
puberula. 8. 61 | 3351
robusta. 54 | 2705
Lockhartia elegans. 63 | 3514
Lodoicea Sechellarum.
Ibid. 59 | 3153
Ibid. 54 | 2756
Ibid. 54 | 2757
Ibid. 60 | 3222
Lonicera Chinensis. 63 | 3485
hirsuta. oo pa nas
hospermum scandens. y
ioe pe bq | 2790
pont microphyllus. 57 | 2956
— pinnatus.
Ludovia latifolia. 55 | 2798
Ibid. — 56 | 2919
Lupinus Cruckshankii. ~ 55 | 2837
incanus. 54 | 2785
littoralis. 61 | 3371
subcarnosus. 61 | 3370
Texensis. os pi
Lychnis Pyrenaica.
Lycopersicum Peruvianum. 60 | 3287

core ‘Azorica. —
alesherbia tincarifolle-
Malva angustifolia, ~~
Morenii.

- Munroana. |
obtusiloba.
Manettia cordifolia.

' Marsdenia flavescens.

Maxillaria Deppii.
———— Harrisonize.

ek epires ag

oamenmrmnati Si.
picta. .
placanthera.:
racemosa.
squalens.

——— tetragona.

Melaleuca Fraseri.

Melocactus communis.

Mentha verticillata.

Mentzelia hispida.

Menziesia empetrifolia.

Mespilus lobata.

Michauxia levigata.

Microtis parviflora.

media.

Milla uniflora.

Mimulus luteus, var. variegatus.

perfoliatus.

roseus.

var. Younganus,

Mimusops dissecta.

Mirbelia grandiflora. —

Mitella pentandra.

Monarda aristata.

fistulosa, flore maculato

menthzefolia.

Monnina obtusifolia. —

Monodora Myristica. ——

Moricandia arvensis. ©

Morinda jasminoides. _

Mutisia speciosa. ~

Myanthus barbatus, var. labello

albo.
Myrcia acris.
ree officinalis.
Ibid.

Myrsine capitellata.

Nemophila insignis.

Neottia aphylla.

calcarata.

diflora.
Neottia ? grandiflora, est Ulan-
tha diflora,

Nepenthes distillatoria, mas.

Nicotiana acuminata.

————- glauca.

——— noctiflora.

Nierembergia calycina.

————— filicaulis.

——_——— gracilis.

Nothocleena tenera.

Nuttallia Papaver.

INDEX
Vol.
Octomeria graminifolia. 60
serratifolia. 60
Ocymum montanum. 63
Q£nothera decumbens. 61 |
———. Drummondii. 60
Lindleyii. 60
sinuata. 59
speciosa. 59
————. viminea. 55
Oleo undulata. 59
Omalanthus populifolia. 58
Oncidium altissmmum. 60
———— bicornutum. 62
cornigerum. 60
crispum. 60
papilio. 54
pulchellum. 60
————— triquetrum. 57
Onopordum Arabicum. 56
Opuntia Brasiliensis. 56
cylindrica. 60
| Orchis tephrosanthos, var. den- || 56
sifolius. 63
Ornithidium album. 57
Ornithogalum conicum. 55
bosum. 55
——__—_———— fimbriatum. 59
Orobus canescens. 60
sessilifolius. 60
stipulaceus. 56
Osbeckia glomerata. 58
Oxalis bipunctata. 56
carnosa. 63
a a.
Oxylobium ellipticum. 5
-Palavia rbpinbifotia. Hi
croceum.
Peeonia albiflora, x. rosea. 57
officinalis, var. Anemo- || 55
niflora. 56
Russi. 60
Passiflora capsularis. 60
kermesina. 57
I is. 62
Penza imbricata. © 57
Pentstemon Cobzea. 59
gracilis. 62
Murrayanus.
ovatus. 55
procerus. 54
Richardsonii. 60
Peperomia clusizfolia. 60
Pereskia Bleo. 62
Peristeria elata. 59
—————- pendula. 62
Petrophila acicularis. 58
Phacelia congesta. 58
Phlox Drummondii. 62
Phormium tenax. 55
-Phrynium coloratum. 60
ae aaa albens. 54
Physostegia imbricata. 62
truncata. 57

Pimelea arenaria.
graciliflora.
hispida.
hypericina.
longiflora.
sylvestris.
Piper Betle.
nigrum.
Pitcairnia bracteata.
Pittosporum cornifolium.
Pladera decussata.
Plagianthus divaricatus.
sidoides.
Platylobium Murrayanum.
—————— obtusangulum.
Pleurothallis foliosa.
prolifera.
——_—_————. saurocephalus.
Plumbago rhomboidea.
Podolepis gracilis.
Pogostemon plectranthoides.
Poinciana regia.
Poinsettia pulcherrima.

Polemonium pulcherrimum.

Richardsoni.
Polygala paucifolia.
Polygonum adpressum.
Pomaderris Andromedefolia.
—————— betulina.
Pontederia azurea.
Portulaca ee oe

Potentilla etto-enrigraitios 5 i
brida, Russelliana.
gracilis.
nivea, var. macro-
Pale
crassinervia.
macrophylla.
microphylla.
Priestleya villosa.
Primula ameena.
mistassinica.
Palinuri.
usilla.
ibirica.
Sibirica; 8. integer-
verticillata.
Protea longiflora.
Psychotria daphnoides.
Pteris pedata.
Pterostylis acuminata.
—————. Banksii.
concinna.
curta.
Sele ae
Pultenza ——

ee me
Satine subumbellata.

rethrum uliginosum. |
Randia Bowieana.

rima.

INDEX
Vol.| No.
Ranunculus, millefoliatus. 63 | 3487
montanus. 55 | 2821
Renanthera coccinea. 62 | 3436
Ibid. 54 | 2759
Rheum Emodi. 54 | 2753
Rhipsalis Cassytha. 59 | 3150
——_——— fasciculata. 55 | 2857
—————. grandiflorus. 55 | 2863
: mesembryanthemoi- || 55 | 2858
des. 61 | 3342
Rhodanthe, Manglesii. 61 | 3354
Rhodochiton volubile. 63 | 3525
Rhododendron arboreum, var. || 61 | 3355
album. 54 | 2786
arboreum, var. || 63 | 3509
hybridum altaclerense. 59 | 3197
calendulaceum, || 57 | 2965
var. fulgidum. 55 | 2828
Caucasicum,
’ par. stramineum. 54 | 2708
Lapponicum. 54 | 2739
maximum, hy- || 62 | 3385
bridum. 63 | 3523
Ribes cereum. 62 | 3390
sanguineum. 57 | 2993
speci é 58 | 3042
Rodriguezia Barkeri. 61 | 3359
—————— planifolia. 56 | 2949
secunda. 56 | 2948
Rosa centifolia; muscosa, cris- || 56 | 2930
tata. 63 | 3516
-—— Kamtchatica. 61 | 3317
——— microphylla. 63 | 3517
sinica, 59 | 3136
Rubus Nutkanus. 59 | 3194
| Ruellia elegans. 62 | 3417
Rulingia corylifolia. 59 | 3188
Ruscus androgynus, a. 60 | 3224
Salpiglossis atro-purpurea. 60 | 3278
————— integrifolia. 59 | 3191
linearis. 63 | 3466
straminea, var. 54 | 2751
picta. 54 | 2752
Salvia involucrata. 57 | 3004
pseudo-coccinea. 59 | 3148
strictiflora. 63-| 3612
Santalum album. 55 | 2841
Saponaria glutinosa. 60 | 3275
Sarracenia rubra. a = aoe
Saxifraga leucanthe wee ‘
———— ligulata. | 61 | 3334
————— petrea. 56 | 2935
Sczevola Koenigii. 61 | 3291
Schelhammera undulata. 63 | 3501
Schinus Molle.
Schizanthus Grahamii. 54 | 2779
———_——. Hookeri. 54 | 2790
——___—— retusus. 63 | 3471
| Scilla esculenta, f. fl. albo. 58 | 3097
—— pumila. 60 | 3250
—— villosa.
Scorzonera mollis. 57 | 3002
Selago Gilli. 2765

Senecio ampullaceus.
Sida globiflora. _
ualis.

—— rosea.

sessiliflora.

Sieversia Peckii.

triflora.

Silene Virginica, —

Silphium perfoliatum.

terebinthaceum.

———— trifoliatum.

Sisyrinchium Chilense.
maculatum.

——————— pedunculatum.

Solanum Balbisii, var. pur-

purea,

coriaceum.
Quitense.
Tweedianum.
Soph heterophylla.

ora tomentosa, f.
Seleeale Lindleyi.
Sphenogyne crithmifolia.
Stanhopea eburnea.
Ibid.
Stanhopea insignis.
Stenochilus viscosus.
Streptanthus hyacinthoides.
——_—_——— obtusifolius.
Strobilanthes Sabiniana.
Stylidium scandens.

hirsutum.

Stypandra propinqua.
Symphytum Caucasicum.
Symplocarpus foetidus.
Syringa Josikea. >
Tecoma Stans.
Telekia speciosa.
Telfairia pedata. —

ee alata (albiflora).
Tillandsia psittacina.
setacea.
Torenia scabra.
Tournefortia heliotropioides.
Trachymene lanceolata.
Tradescantia crassula.
ETrade 808
irginica, flore
eg
Trifolium alpestre.
————. Olympicum.
reflexum.
Trillium discolor.
erectum, var. viridiflo-

rum.

arythrocn a
Trixis auriculata.

See

BAVLVS

INDEX
Vol.
Trochocarpa laurina. 56
Tropzolum majus, var. atrosan- |, 61
guineum. 63
pentaphyllum. 59
tricolorum. 58
Troximon glaucum. 57
Tulipa stellata.
Tupistra nutans. 63
Ulantha grandiflora, sub nom. | 56
Neottia? grandift. 63
Urena lobata. 63
Vaccinium albifiorum. 56
ceespitosum. 62
Canadense. 61
corymbosum. 61
myrtilloides. 62
Pennsylvanicum. 54
——— virgatum. 58
Vanda Roxburghi, var. unicolor. |, 54
ek are velutina. © 62
Veltheimia glauca, (var. floribus
rubescenti-purpureis). 55

Verbena bracteosa.

chamzedrifolia.

Verbena Tweedieana.

venosa.

Vernonia acutifolia.

Veronica Alpina, var. Worms-
kioldii.

labiata.
Vesicaria arctica.
————- gracilis.
— grandiflora.
Vicia argentea.
Wedelia? aurea.
Westringia cinerea.
Dampieri.
eremicola.
Witheringia montana.
Xanthochymus dulcis.

Zygopetalon Mackaii.

Mackaii, 8. crini-
tum.
— rostratum.

3 EEN G LS Brotrrmnhomias:
GENERAL INDEX,

TO

THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN THE FIRST TEN VOLUMES OF THE
NEW SERIES,

(Or from Vol. LIV. to LXULI. inclusive, of the whole Work,)

OF THE

BOTANICAL - MAGAZINE.

PH? OOO <e—
Vol.
Apsronta, Honey-smelling. | 55
Acacia, Butcher’s-broom leaved | 61
conspicuous, or Ne- | 57
pean Wattle.
downy stemmed. 63
feathery.
feather-nerved. 59
rey, fragrant. 56
little halberd-leaved. | 60
——— intermediate. | 62
—— mournful. | 58
—— mucronated. 59
——— narrow line-leaved. 57
——- paradoxical, var. 58
prickly-feathered. 59
shady. 61
—— short-pedicelled. 58
——— slender curve-leaved. 58
strong-scented. 59
varnished. 55
wave-leaved, variable. || 54
woolly-podded.
Acrotriche, oval-leaved. 57
Adamia, blue-berried.
A®ichmea, Mertens’. 54
Alkanet, changeable-flowered. 57
Alpinia, magnificent.
Alstreemeria, broad-leaved, 56
downy. j 60
eye-marked.
Iden-flowered. | 55
r. Neill’s. 59
pale-flowered. 54
parrot-flowered. 58
sharp-pointed- 58
leaved. 55
Alyxia, Butcher’s-broom leaved || 58
Daphne-like. 63

Amaranth, annual, globe.
Amaryllis, courtly.
———— glaucous-leaved,
- broad-petaled.
Hybrid, var. of the
Parrot.

Andromeda, four-sided.
————— H ypnum-like.
illow-leaved.
Anemone, Vine-leaved.
Anthericum, bearded-flowered. .
————— half-bearded.

Ginger.
Asphodel, Lancashire, bulbous-
rooted.
Aster, small-shrubby Cape.
Avens, mountain, yellow-flow-
ered.
Azalea, fragrant, Indian.
purple-flowered, fra-
t, Indian.
Beckia, shrubby, Chinese.
stone.
Banksia, entire-leaved.
handsome.
intermediate.
marcescent.
shore.
——_———. West-coast,

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INDEX.
No. Vol.
3121 | Baptisia, perfoliate. 62
2777 | Barbacenia, purple-flowered. 61
2996 | Basil, mountain.
3272 | Beaufortia, Dampier’s. 60
3213 | Beaumontia, large-flowered.
3520 | Begonia, blood-red. 63
3444 | ————— cow-parsnep-leaved.
3532 | ————— Dr. Fischer’s. 59
2920 free-flowering. 54
3387 Geranium-leaved. 61
2900 handsome-flowered. || 54
3225 | —_—_——— kidney-leaved. 54
3001 | ———— long flower-stalked. | 54
2846 | ————— papillose.
3962 particolored. 54
2849 two-petaled. 54
2966 various-leaved. 54
2723 | ————— wave-leaved.
3347 | Bell-flower, giant, large-flower- | 60
ed, many-blossomed, var. 55
2817 | Bignonia, General Cole’s. 60
2976 | ———— Mrs. Telfair’s. 62
2892 | Billbergia, blood-stained. 62
3304 | ———— Rose-purple. 61
3117 | Bitter-Vetch, canescent. 60
2796 | ——————_ sessile-leaved. 60
3240 | Blechnum, lance-shaped. 61
2818 |_—————__ long-leaved. 55
3319 | Bletia, deep purple-flowered. 60
8217 sharp-petaled. 58
3518 | ———— spreading-flowered.
att = Woodfordian. =
lumenbachia, ated.
2926 | Bonatea, mocha i 58
2939 | Botany-Bay Fig, rusty-leaved. || 54
3016 | Brachy: , waved-leaved. 62
3247 | Brake, pedate-leaved.
3453 | Bramble, Nutka. 63
3098 | Brassavola, elegant. 59
3229 fragrant. 57
2878 | ——————- tuberculated. i| 60
3451 | Brassia, long-tailed. __ | 61
2869 | Bread-Fruit Tree (a and 8). | 56
2870 | Ibid. 57
2871 | Ibid. 55
2877 | Brodiza, large-flowered. 63
3076 | Broughtonia, crimson-flowered. | 59
3536 | Ibid. || 54
3069 | Browallia, large-flowered.
3413 | Bucku, or crenulated Diosma. | 62
2713 | Buddlea, Brazilian. 60
2853 connate-leaved. 63
2824 Madagascar.
3155 | Bur-marigold, striated-flowered | 57
3029 | Butcher’s-broom, climbing.
3411 | Cactus, sweet-scented, spiny. | 57
= <a ing-stemmed. =
ogyne, drooping.
3059 sebdGeabsNivtinng, thanaidéa: 61
3430 | —+___ Tree. 58
Ue , or Indian Kale, large
leaved. 62
Calandrinia, large-flowered.

Calandrinia, showy-flowered.

—_———— two-coloured-
leaved.

Calceolaria, entire-leaved, very
viscid var.

Calliopsis, dyeing, dark-flower-
ed var.

Calochilus, field.

| Calypso, northern.
Calythrix, twiggy.

Camellia, Captain Rawes’s.
single white-flowered.
Campanula, an. -fruited,
Cape.
Candollea, cuneate.
Candy-tuft, serrate,fleshy-leaved
spathulate, fleshy-
leaved.

Cardoon, common.

unarmed variety.
Cargillia, southern.
Cassia, glandular-leaved.
Catasetum, spotless.
three-toothed var.
trifid-lipped.

Catchfly, Pyrenean.
Virgini

———— Virginian.
Cattleya, middle-size-flowered.
———— Mr. Forbes’.
Centroclinium, close-presse
scaled.

Ibid. -

Ceratiola, Heath-like.

Cereus, large-flowered, or night-
a
apoleon’s.

Van Royen’s.

Ceropegia, beautiful.

————. Dr. Wight’s.

Mr. Lush’s.

Cestrum, Alaternus-leaved.

bracteated.

Cheetogastra, lance-leaved.

Pig slender.

erry, Noyau.

Ghickweed, Tanziaa, mouse-
eared.

Chilodia, Scutellaria-like.

Cineraria, Colt’s-foot.

Cinquefoil, Mr. Russell’s var.
of the deep blood-coloured.

snowy, large-leaved

———— tall, upright.
Clarkia, beantifol.. ct

Cleome, gigantic.

tree-like.
—— drooping-flower-

var.

=

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<< Vol.| No. ‘
Clitoria, woody. 57 | 2999 Crowfoot; American, heart-
Clove Spice leaved. bec;
a ete Firat is | 3009 | —————. milfoil-leaved. —
ove-tree, , or Bay-berry 3208. Cryptophragmium, stately.
Myrtle. 54 | 2743 | Ciupsain gheaiaag ense Rams ie
Clover, Buffalo. 61 | 3335 Currant, red-flowered.
long-flowered. 57 3008 waxy...
narrow-leaved, round- 56 2911 | Custard-Apple, netted.
headed. 56 | 2912 | Ibid.
Coburgia, tawny. 58 | 3095 Custard-Apple, undulated,
Cochineal Fig, spineless. gar-apple, or Sweet-sop.
Ibid. 55 2826 Cycas, broad-leaved.
Codizeum, painted-leaved. 55 | 2827 | Ibid.
Coleonema, beautiful. 57 | 2963 | Cycas, narrow-leaved.
Cocoa-nut, double, or Seychel- || 57 | 2964 | Ibid.
les-Island. 61 | 3322 | Cyminosma, oblong-leaved.
Thid, 63 | 3507 | Cyrtopodium, spotted-flowered.
Ibid. 62 | 3455 | Daisy, American. :
Ibid. 59 | 3196 | Daviesia, twiggy.
Ibid. 54 | 2717 | Deeringia, Celosia-like.
Collinsia, two-coloured. 58 | 3058 | Delima, climbing.
Collomia, Cavanilles’. 58 | 3074 | Dendrobium, great.
———— large-flowered. 62 | 3418 many-flowered.
narrow-leaved. 56 | 2906 | ——_-————~ small-clustered.
————— small-flowered. 57 | 2960 | Desmodium, doubtful.
Columbo Plant. 55 2867 | —--—--- drooping-flowered
Ibid. 54 | 2721 | Dichorisandra, sharp-petaled.
Columnea, hairy. 55 | 2875 | Didiseus, blue-flowered.
Colvillea, splendid. 57 | 3005 | Didymocarpus, Cape.
Ibid. 57 | 3031 | Dielytra, Canadian.
Combretum, large-flowered. 62 | 3413 | Diosma, crenulated, or Bucku.
Comfrey, Caucasian. 62 3382 | Diplopappus, hoary.
Commelina, slender. 56 | 2916 | Dischidia, Bengal.
Conospermum, Heath-leaved. 59 | 3156 | Diuris, spotted.
Yew-leaved. 55 | 2860 | Dodonza, attenuated-leaved.
Conostylis, prickly. 56 | 2905 | Dombeya, angle-leaved.
Cooperia, green-tubed. 54 | 2760 | Dorstenia, cleft.
Coral-tree, or Erythrina, naked- || 55 2804 | ————— Peziza-flowered.
flowering. 58 | 3116 | Dove-flower, lofty. — is
Corchorus, bristly-leaved, or 63 | 3479 | ———————_ ees a
Jew’s Mallow. 55 2835 | Draczena, New Zealand, white-
Coreopsis, crowned. flowered. ie
—————~ six-leaved. 60 3264 | Dracophyllum, secund-flowered
thread-leaved. 63 | 3500 | Dryandra, Fern-leaved.
it i Varinns-leaved. — 58 | 3063 | ————— nerved-leaved.
Cornflag, splendid. 60 | 3236 | ————— sharp-pointed. |
Coryanthes, spotted-lipped. 63 | 3513 | ————— slender-leaved.
Corydalis, bracteated. | 62 | 3449 | Dyckia, few-flowered.
long-flowered. 58 | 3107 | Echinocactus, Mr. Otto’s.
Cotoneaster, loose-clustered. 57 | 2994 | Elecampane, autumnal.
Cotton-Thistle, Arabian. 56 2881 | Elichrysum, hoary-leaved.
Couroupita, Guiana, or Cannon- | 55 | 2831 | Encyclia, green-flowered.
ball tree. _ 57 | 3013 | ————— spreading-flowered.
Ibid. : 62 | 3407 | Epacris, foveolated.
’s-bill, white-flowered. 59 3168 Onosma-flowered.
Craspedia, large-headed 60 | 3253 snowy.
Crinum, plaited-leaved. 60 | 3257 varying-stemmed.
Crocus, golden. 60 3243 wax-flowered.
least, purple. 62 3410 Epidendrum, acute-petaled.
Crotalaria, dichotomous. 55 2844 | _—--- dingy -flowered.
oval-leaved, hairy. 60 3233 dwarf. 42.
striated-flowered. 62 | 3457 Florida.
warted. 63 | 3534 Pri sae
Croton, Chesnut-leaved. 60 | 3209 Mrs. Harrison’s.

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INDEX.
Vol.
Epidendrum, night-smelling. 62
———_—— pale-flowered. 57
two-horned. 56
Sia Ee Wesated : | 56
Epimedium, twin-leaved. | 63
Eranthemum, upright. 54
Erigeron, smoothish-leaved. 60
Eriostemon, cuspidate.
————-. Willow-leaved. 54
Erythrina, or Coral-tree, velvety.
Erythrolena, conspicuous. 54
Escallonia, red-flowered. 62
Eschscholtzia, Californian. 60
—————— Saffron-coloured. || 57
Eucalyptus, Almond-leaved. 54
Eugenia, three-nerved. 55
Eulophia, twisted-petaled. 63
Eurycles, small-flowered, or 55
Brisbane Lily. 59
Eutoca, Capt. Franklin’s. 59
thokaibage Precis d be 60
i 1 e, decumbent, || 60
- small-flowered. ‘ 63
large white-
flowered. 62
large pur- || 62
ple-flowered, twiggy. 59
Mr. Drum- || 56
mond’s. 57
scoll 54
leaved. ee 61
Everlasting Pea, ten-leafletted. || 62
Farsetia, Lunaria-like. 57
Fig, tufted or comose. 62
—s inted. . 4 =
or Platylobium, o 5
“tuse-leaved. ‘ 58
ax, Berendier’s yellow-flower-
ed. 55
—— New Zealand. 61
Flywort, bearded, white-lipped || 59
var. 60
Franciscea, short-flowered. 59
Francoa, appendiculated. 56
Sow-thistle-leaved.
Frankenia, few-flowered. 59
Fritillary, lesser, Altaic. 59
———— white-flowered.
Fuchsia, balloon-flowered. 57
large-stamened recury- || 59
ed var. 61
Port-Famine. 56
| Gaillardia, two-coloured, 58
Drummond’s var. 55
whole-coloured. 54
Gastrolobium, blunt-leaved. ~ 58
Gaultheria, Shallon. 62
Gaura, small-flowered. 58
| Geitonoplesium, cymose. 54
Gelonium, clustered-flowered,
Gentian, five-flowered. 60
Gesneria, bulbous-rooted. 59
———— cluster-flowered. 55°

No.

3440 | Gilia, Milfoil-Teaved.

2977 | —— sharp-leaved.

2924 slender.

2883 | —— small-flowered.

3463 | three-coloured.

2716 | Gilliesia, grassy-leaved.

3206 | Gloxinia, showy, white-flower-
| ed, var.

2710 Gnaphalium, squamose-flower-
ed, Cape.

2761 Gnidia, downy.

3404 Goldfussia, unequal-leaved.

3220 Gongora, dark-flowered.

2978 | greenish-purple.

2755 | ———— large yellow-flowered.

2799 | Gonolobus, black-flowered.

Gooseberry, showy.

Grevillea, Acanthus-leaved.

————— Sand.
Groundsel, flask-flowered
Pe penne 2
abenaria, gigantic.
—— Goodyére-like.
heart-leaved.
long-horned.
long-tailed.
slender-spurred.
Hemanthus, hairy, pink.
ea, rusty. :
Hawk’s-beard, large-rooted. —
Heath, drooping round-headed
Hedge-hyssop, four-sided.
Hedychium, sharp-leaved.
large yellow-flow-

Hedyotis, bell-flowered.

Heliopsis, smooth-leaved.

Hellebore, purplish.

Heteropteris, golden-leaved.

Hibbertia, Mr. Cunningham’s.

Hibiscus, Lily-flowered, Hybrid
var.

———— large purple-eyed.
palmated-leaved, var.

splendid.
Holyhock, common.
Honeysuckle, Chinese.
Horkelia, tufted-flowered.
Houstonia, long-leaved.
Thyme-leaved.
Houttuynia, cordate.
Hovea, rusty. eG
Hoya, Mr. Pott’s,
Hunnemannia, Fumitory-leaved
Hutchinsia, sweet-scented,

Hydrastis, American. es
Hymenanthera, tooth-leaved.
CTE handsome-flow-

INDEX.
; Vol.
Indian-cress, five-fingered. 60
—————— or Nasturtium, 59
greater, dark red var. 54
three-coloured. 60
| Indian Kale, large-leaved, or ~ | 57
Caladium. 57
Reed, glaucous-leaved, | 56
reddish-yellow-flowered var. || 55
Indigo, angular-stemmed. 56
Plant, purple. 56
Indigofera, blood-flowered. 63
Ipomea, Mrs. Horsfall’s. 60
reddish-blue. 58
Iris, pale-yellow.
three-petaled. 56
—— tough-threaded. 63
Isopogon, Mr. Baxter’s. 61
———— Mr. Loudon’s. || 54
spathulate-leaved, || 55
linear-leaved var. 63
Jaborosa, entire-leaved. 55
Jack Tree, or entire-leaved 59
Bread Fruit. 59
Ibid. 60
Jacob’s Ladder, bright-flowered | 61
Jasmine, Cape, single-flowered. | 62
Jonesia, fragrant. 56
Justicia, flesh-coloured. 59
Hop-flowered. 59
purple-flowered, East || 54
Indian. 56
square-stalked. 59
swoln-jointed. 55
yellow-flowered. 54
Kentrophyllum, arborescent. 62
Kidney-Vetch, Rose-coloured, || 60
or Lady’s Finger. 58
Lady’s Slipper, large-flowered.
Ibid. 59
Pas pnren Boeered. —~
Lantana, Mr. ow’s.
white-flowered ;
changeable var. 54
Lead-Wort, rhomboid-leaved.
Ledebouria, Hyacinth-like. 56
Leontice, Altaic. 57
Leopard’s-Bane, Caucasian.
Leptospermum, rigid-leaved, 59
large-flowered var. ; 62
Leptosiphon, Androsace-like. 62
Leucopogon, lanceolate. 60
———— Riche’s. 59
Libertia, beautiful. 1} 60
Lilac, German, deep-flowered. 55
Lily-slender-leaved. 61
Limnocharis, Humboldt’s. 59
Liparis, many-leaved. 56
a esculent. +H
Loasa, hoary.
hispid. 63
Mr. Place’s, var. 8. 61
Lobelia, blue, downy var.
Dominica. 57
salver-shaped. 58

No.

3207 | Lobelia, sharp-pointed.

3138 thithctsedek.

2715 Lockhartia, beautiful.

3273, Loose-strife, Azorian.

3037 5 ab citi climbing.
id.

Lotus, pinnate-leaved.

small-leaved.

Ludoyia, broad-leayed.

Ibid.

Lupine, fashysleared.
eninnics

ruvian.

sea-shore.

| Texas.

| Malesherbia, linear-leaved.

Mr. Munro’s.
narrow-leaved.
Manettia, heart-leaved. ~
Marigold, common.

Mastick-tree, Peruvian.
Maxillaria, Deppe’s.
———— dingy-flowered.
flat-anthered.
four-cornered.
Mr. Parker’s.
Mrs. Harrison’s.
inted.
Sy SE:

Medlar, cut-leaved.
Melaleuca, Mr. Fraser’s.

eap.
Mentzelia, hispid.

ered.

. leaved.

leaved.
Michauxia, smooth.
Microtis, middle-sized.
small-flowered.
Milk-vetch, bladdered.

Fox-tail.

————— procumbent.
Milk-wort, few-leaved.
Milla, single-flowered.
Mimusops, cut-flowered.
Mint, whorled. _
Mirbelia, large-flowered. |
Mitella, five-stamened.
Monarda, awned.

flowered.
2958 _—————. Mint-leaved.
3067 | Monkey-flower, perfoliate.

raceme-flowered.

%,

_Melon-Thistle, greater Turk

13

ary.
Mr. Cruckshanks’ Pe-

| Mallow, blunt-leaved, Chilian.
broad-lobed, vervain.

| Marsdenia, yellowish-flowered.

s-

Menziesia, Crow-berry-leaved.
Mexican-Poppy, large-flow-

Michaelmas Daisy, pointed-

Salt Plain.
smooth-

———— fistulose, spotted-

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INDEX.
-| No. | Vol.
3353 | Monkey-flower, Rose-coloured. | 62
3336 yellow Chilian | 63
var. |
3363 yellow Chilian, | 56
Mr. Young’s var. 56
3122 | Monnina, blunt-leaved. | 56
3007 | Moricandia, field. 56
3351 | Morinda, Jasmine-like. | 59
2705 | Mutisia, handsome, pinnate- | 59
leaved. | 63
3222 | Myrsine, cluster-flowered. | 63
3375 | Nasturtium, or Indian Cress, | 62
dark-red var. 62
3485 | Nemophila, showy. 57
2730 | Neottia, large-flowered. 59
2956 | Neottia? large-flowered, is Ulan- | 58
| tha, large-flowered. ~
2797 | Neottia leafless.
3403 spurred. 63
3371 | Nierembergia, large-flowered. 62
3108 | - slender. 54
3370 slender-stemmed | 63
Nightshade, Balbis’, purple- 61
owered variety. 60
3055 Nothoclena, thin-leaved. | 60
2756 Nutmeg Tree, aromatic. _ 60
2757 | Ibid. 60
3287 | Nuttallia, Poppy-like. 62
2764 | Octomeria, Grass-leaved.
2823 | —————_ serrated-_leaved. 59
2832 | Gnothera, large-flowered, four- | 55
; spotted. 55
3089 ein wavy-leaved, fragrant 59
ape. 58
2780 Guadenthce, Poplar-leaved. 62
3499 — crisped-flowered. 60
2773 elegant.
3486 | horned. 54
2990 tall-stemmed. | 57
3393 triquetrous-leaved. | 60
3109 | two-horned. | 56
3531 Onion, Mr. Cowan’s. || 63
3306 | Ornithidium, white. | 60
3426 Orchis, narrow-lipped military, 56
| _ crowded-flowered var. | 55
2937 | Orobus, large-stipuled. 59
2838 Osbeckia, cluster-flowered.
2830 | Oxalis, Rose-coloured. 60
2706 Ox-eye, large-flowered, Marsh. || 60
3249 Oxylobium, elliptic-leaved. «56
3431 Peony, crimson. 57
3175 common, var. of the |) 55
Anemone-flowered. 56
2888 Double- White Chinese, |) 57
ime with Rose-coloured flowers. || 61
3100 | Palavia, rhomb-leaved. 61
2898 | Papaw Tree. 60
2899 | Ibid. 57
2967 | Passion-flower, ample-leayed.
2868 = ——_—_——._angular-fruited. || 57
3503 ——— crimson.
3465 | Pentstemon, Cobe-flowered. 60

Pentstemon, Dr. Richardson’s.
+ Mr. Murray's scar-
let.
ovate-leaved.
slender.
tall.
Peperomia, clusia-leaved.
Pepper, Betel.

- black, or common.
Pereskia, Rose-coloured.
Petrophila, needle-leaved.
Phacelia, cluster-flowered.
Phlox, Mr. Drummond’s.
Phrynium, coloured-spiked.
Physianthus, whitish-leaved.
Physic-Nut, eatable-rooted, bit-

ter Cassada, Manioc, or Ta-
ploca. :
Physostegia, blunt-calyxed.
—————. imbricated.
Picotees, two varieties.
Pimelea, hispid-flowered.
Hypericum-leaved.
long-flowered.
Sand.
slender-flowered.
wood.
Pimpernel, Italian, Mr. Will-
more’s var. i
Pipe-wort, ten-angled.
Pitcairnia, sete
Pitcher-plant, male. Sn eee
Pladera, decussate.
Plagianthus, Sida-like.
——————. spreading.
Platylobium, or Flat-Pea, Mr.
Murray’s.
Pleurothallis, leafy, fragrant.
————_ Lizard-flowered.
—————— proliferous.
Podolepis, slender-stalked.
Poinsettia, showy.
Pogostemon, Plectranthus-like.
Poinciana, superb. :
Polemonium, Dr. Richardson’s.
Polygonum, berry-bearing, or
Macquarie-harbour Grape.
Pomaderris, Andromeda-leaved.
Birch-leaved.
Pontederia, large-flowered.
Poppy, orange-flowered.
Pothos, large-leaved.
small-leaved.
thick-ribbed.
Prickly-Pear, Brazilian.
round-stemmed.

i

Priestleya, villous.

Primrose, bird’s-eye, lesser,
American.
pale-flow-

——_—— bird’s-eye,
ered, American.

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INDEX
No. Vol.
3167 | Primrose Siberian. | 62
3445 | —————. Siberian, entire-leay- || 57
ed var. | 57
2842 whorled-flowered. | 54
2921 | Privet, Nepal, glabrous var. | 54
2720 Protea, long-flowered, cream- | 58
coloured. —~58
3228 | Psychotria, Daphne-like. | 58
3401 | Pterostylis, acuminated. '—~69
3172 | ————— large-leaved. |
3400 neat. | 59
3085 nodding-flowered | 57
3086 short-lipped. —~54
2859 | Pultenza, pedunculated. 55
3443 sharp heart-leaved. | 62
3254 | ————— subumbellate. | 59
2885 | Purslane, large-flowered. 55
3064 | ————— Dr. Gillies. 54
3409 | Randia, Mr. Bowie’s. 63
3022 | Ranunculus, yellow, mountain. | 55
2997 | Renanthera, scarlet. 55
2998 | Ibid. 61
3079 | Rhipsalis, cluster-branched.
3078 | ————— Fig-marigold-like. 61
2740 large-flowered. 63
3080 | ————— naked. 61
3483 | Rhodanthe, Capt. Mangles’. 54
3367 | Rhodochiton, twining. | 63
3422 | Rhododendron, Caucasian, bf
straw-coloured var. | 59
3439 flame-coloured, | 55
orange-red var. 56
3106 Lapland. 60
3454 | ————————. Laurel-leaved, 58
hybrid var. 55
3423 | —_—————— Tree, Highclere, | 54
hybrid var. 56
3290 Tree, white- 57
flowered var. 56
3508 | Rhubarb, officinal. , 55
3021 Rock Cress, hill. | 54
3246 Rose-coloured.
3504 eect even-leaved. 54
3497 Mr. Barker’s. 62
3524 side-flowered. 63
3356 | Rose Apple. .
2847 | —— Chinese, three-leaved. 63
3149 | —— Kamtschatka. 62
3475 | —— Moss, crested var. 54
3490 small-leaved Chinese. 54
3389 | Ruellia, neat blue-flowered. 55
3182 | Rulingia, nut-leaved.
3135 | Sage, a ro 55
2872 | —— 57
2864 | —— prc hairy-stalked.
2811 pa Hanis deep-purple-flow- | 63
3113 entire-leaved. : 67
3256 linear-leaved. 58
3365 straw-coloured, 61
_ |. painted var. 63
3235 | Sandal-wood.
3111 | Sapota, common or Bully-tree. | 54
3112 | Ibid. 58

oo fringe-leaved.
————. ox-eye-leaved.
———— stone:
Scevola, shrubby, East Indian.
Schelhammera, wave-leaved.
Schizanthus, PERE
—————_ blunt-petaled.
Pe aoe ms pir Graham’s.
ea-side Grape, downy, or great-
leaved, Loathesibcedt Tree.
—————_——— _ round-leaved.
Selago, Dr. Gill’s.
Sida, delicate, white-flowered.
globe-flowered.
oblique-leaved.
—— reddish globe-flowered.
sessile-flowered.
soft-leaved.
Side-saddle-flower, red. .
Sieversia, Mr. Peck’s.
————— three-flowered.
Silk-Cotton Tree, five-stamenetl,
Caribean var.
Silphium, perfoliated.
terebinthine.
——- whorl-leaved.
Sisyrinchium, Chilian.
large-flowered.
long-stalked.
—————— spotted-flowered.
Slipper-wort,. cobweb.
————_———. connate-leaved.
crenate-flowered.
narrow-flowered.
Plantain-leaved.
purple-flowered.
tufted.

Soap-wort, clammy.

Solanum,
downy.

coriaceous.

———— Mr. Tweedie’s.

Solomon’s Seal, opposite-
leaved.

Sollya, various-leaved.

Sophora, downy var.

Souari, or Butter-nut.

Ibid.

Sour-gourd, Ethiopian, or Mon-
key Bread.

Ibid.

Speedwell, alpine, Wormskiold’s

variety.
—————- fragrant white-flow-

ered. :
Sphacele, large-flowered.
Sphenogyne, Sampire-leaved. _
Spider-wort, hairy.

Virginian, white-

flowered var.
Spindle-wood, Spinous fruited.
Spleen-wort, bird’s-nest.

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* INDEX.
|Vol. |

Spurge, blood-flowered. 60

Hare’s-ear-leaved.
Mr. Bojer’s. ‘| 54
showy, red-flowered. i 61
white-flowered. | 63
Squill, dwarf. 57

esculent, or Camass;

white-flowered var. 54
hairy-leaved. 58

Stanhopea, ivory-lipped. 57

splendid.

Ibid.

Star-Apple, broad-leaved. 58

—————— Date-shaped, or 62

Damascene Plum.

Star of Bethlehem, hairy-leaved. || 57
Peruvian. 62.
pure white-

flowered. 56

Stenochilus, clammy. 58

St. John’s Wort, Hyssop-leaved. || 61

Stramonium, horn-stemmed. 63

Streptanthus, blunt-leaved. 59

————— Hyacinth-flow- 56

ered. 63

Strobilanthes, Mr. Sabine’s. 63

Stylidium, hairy. 56

—————— climbing. 57

Stypandra, slender, azure-flow- || 61

ered. 63

Sun-dew, forked-leaved.

———— narrow-leaved. 62

Sun-flower, [linois. 61

showy Mexican. 61

ten-rayed. 62

Symplocarpus, sin stinking, Skunk || 62
bag .

Tanghin, poison. 56

Tea, green.

Tecoma, Ash-leaved. 62

Telekia, large-flowered. 62

Telfairia, pedate. 62

Ibid. 62

Terminalia, broad, downy- 63

leaved.

Thunbergia, winged, white- 62

flowered var.

Tillandsia, gaudy-flowered. 62

——— _ setaceous-leaved. 54

Toad-flax, American.

————— small, fleshy-leaved. || 58

Tobacco, acuminated-leaved. 55

glaucous-leaved. 54
night-flowering. 58

Tomato, large-flowered. 55

Torenia, rough. ;

Tournefortia, Heliotrope-like. 57

Trachymene, lance-leaved. 54

Tradescantia, white-flowered. 62

Trillium, blood-stained.

——~ green-flowered. 55

No.

3250 | Trillium, upright;stalked, pale
green-flowered var.

2765 Trixis, auriculated.

| 3324 Trochocarpa, Cinnamon-leaved.

3462 Troximon, glaucous-leaved.

3011 | Trampet-flower, gigantic-

leaved.

2762 Tulip, stellated, East Indian.

. 8054 | Tupistra, drooping.

2956 Ulantha, large-flowered, under
the name Neottia? large—flow-
ered.

3043 | Urena, angular-leaved.

3416 Vanda, Dr. Roxburgh’s whole-
coloured var.

3014-| V Fen aie velvetty.

3456 | Veltheimia, glaucous-leaved,
(red-purple-flowered var.)
2910 | Verbena, bracteated..

3062 | Vernonia, sharp-leaved.

3333 | Vervain, scarlet-flowered.

3541 scarlet, Mr. Tweedie’s.
3127 strong-nerved.

2882 | Vesicaria, Arctic.

3464 | ———— large-flowered.

3533 | ————— slender-stemmed.
2946 | Vetch, silver-leaved.
3027 Viper’s-Grass, soft.

3331 | Wall-Cress, early-flowering.
3502 | Wattle, Nepean, or conspicuous
cacia.

3384 | Wedelia, golden.

3307 | Westringia, ash-coloured.

3308 | —-—————— Dampier’s.

3438 | —————— Desert.

3432 | Whitethorn, large-flowered _

American.
2934 | Whitlow-Grass, golden-flow-
ered.
3429 | Whortleberry, dwarf, tufted.
3446 | ————_ Canadian.
3447 | ——————— flask-flowered.
3433 | ————————- many-flowered.
3522 | ——_—————— pale greenish-
flowered.
3434 | ——_—————— small, willow-
leaved.
3428 | —_—_—_—_————- white-flowered.

2768 | Witheringia, Mountain, or St.
Lorenzo Potatoe.

3103 | Woodbine, hairy American.
2866 | Wood-sorrel, fleshy.

2781 | —_—————- two-spotted.

3088 | Xanthochymus, sweet-fruited.
2825 | Yam, or Dioscorea, Cinnamon-
leaved.

3019 | Yellow-root, Canadian.

2748 Zygopetalon, al Mackay’s.

3402 | ——————— Mr. Mackay’s
hairy-lipped var.
2819 | —_—_——_——— rostrate

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