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BOTANICAL REGISTER:

OR,

ORNAMENTAL FLOWER-GARDEN

AND SHRUBBERY: library

Wi:W YORK
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CONSISTING OF uAKOlfN

COLOURED FIGURES OF PLANTS AND SHRUBS,

CULTIVATED IN BRITISH GARDENS;

ACCOMPAKIED BY THEIK

l^fstorp, 33est i^ctSoU of ^watmtnt in OTuUtbation, propagation, $c^f.

CONTINUED

By JOHN LINDLEY, F.R.S. L.S. and G.S.

PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON,

&c. Sfc. &c.

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ALPHABETICAL INDEX

01

VOLUME IV. OF THE NEW SERIES,

VOL. XVII. OF THE WHOLE WORK.

Acacia leprosa 1441 |

Alstrumeria pulchella, var. pi/osrt . 1410 j

Aristolochia caudata 1453

Aristolocliia trilobata 1 399 I

Audibertia incana 1469 i

Azalea calendulacea, var. lepida . . 1402
Azalea calendulacea, var. Staple- I

toniana . . 1407 !

Azalea nudifloia, var. scintillans. . 14G1 |

Banksia quercifolia 1430 ,

Berberis aquifolium 1425

Berberis glumacea 142G

Bletia florida 1401

Brasavola nodosa 1465

Brownlowia elata 1 472

Calceolaria arachnoidea 1454

Calceolaria chiloensis 1476

Calceolaria, Mr. Young's 1448

Camellia japonica, var. imbricata . 1398

Caprifolium occidentale 1457

Cassia llerbertiana 1422

Cattleya guttata 1406

Cheirantlms mutabilis 1431

Crocus vernus, var. Icucorhyncus ■ 1416

Crocus vemus, var. /)R7as 1440

Cyrtanthus canieus 1462

Epidendrum odoratissimum .... 1415

Escallonia montevidensis 1467

Eulophia Mackaiana 1433

Galipea odoratissima 1420

GauUheria Sliallon 1411

Gladiolus psittacinus 1442

Glycine biloba 1418

Goinpholobium Knightianuni . . . . 1468

Gompholobium tomentosum .... 1474

Guetlarda speciosa 1393

Ilabrantiius Bagnoldi 1396

Ilabruntluis Phycelloides 1417

Ilemiclidia Baxter! 1455

Hibiscus Lindlei 1395

Hibiscus palustris 1463

Hovea purpurea 1423

Hovea lanceolata 1427

Iris bicolor 1404

Folium

Jasminuni Wallicluanuni 1409

Justicia carnea 1397

Kennedy a inophylla 1421

Lobelia, Low's purple 1445

Ledocarpum peduncular^ 1392

Lupinus Sabinianus 1435

Madia elegans 1458

Maxillaria tetragona 1 428

Michauxia la;vigata 1451

Mirbelia Baxter! 1434

CEnothera bifrons 1405

Ononis peduncularis 1447

Osbeckia nepalensis, var. albijloia. 1475

Pffionia albitiora, var. Pottsii .... 1436

Pxony, Semi-double tree 1456

Pereskia Bleo 1473

Perilomia ocymoides 1 394

Pimelea intermedia 1439

Potentilla niissourica 1412

Purshia trulentata 1446

Pyrus Bolhvylleriana 1437

Ranunculus creticus, var. iiincro-

phi/llits 1432

Rhaphiolepis rubra 1400

Rhododendron Alta-clercnse .... 1414

Rhododendron Carton's 1449

Ribes inebrians 1471

Rose Clare 1438

Rubus spectabilis 1424

Salvia foliosa 1 429

Sarcanthus guttatiis 1443

Scutellaria alpina 1460

Silene laciniata 1444

Sollya ht;terophylla 1466

Statice pui)erula 1450

Stemodia chilcnsis 1470

Stylidiuin fasciculatum 1459

Tradescantia undala 1403

Trifolium vosiculosum 1408

Tulijia Oculus solis, var. pticcox. . 1419

Turra-a pinnata 1413

I' lex genistoidts 1452

\'ernouia axillirioru 1464

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LEDOCARPUIM pcdunculaic

Long-stalked Ledocarpuni .

DECANDRIA PENTAGVXIA.

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BOTANICAL

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Nat. ord. 0\Ai.ir)T.\9, affinc.

LEDOCARPUM Mc^W — Calyx 5-phyllus, imbricatus, submqualis,
bracteis decern linciiribus iiivolucratus. Petala .3, palentia, obtusa, ;rf|ualia.
Stamina 10, hypot2:yna, aiqualia ; Jilamenta subulata ; anthercc oblongoe,
innatac. Ovarium subrotundum, .5-loculare, ovulis pluriniis disticliis. Stigma
5-lobum, sessile. Capsula vestita, 5-loc'ularis, polyspcrma, apice loculicido-
5-valvis. Semina minima, oomprcssa, marii:inata. Em})ryo incurvus, in axi

albiiminis carnosi, cotyledonibus linearibus, })lanis, suljiiivolutis. SiiftVntex

Chilcnsis, fobis alternis, oppositisvc, 3-partitis, exstipulatis, floiibus rnarfiiis,
solitariis, terminalibus.

L. peduncularc ; foliis scBpius alternis : laciniis linearibus pilosis, pedunculis

foliis niulto longioribus.

Suffrutex j-arnis strictis, gracilibus, denst foliosis. Folia scepius alterna,
nunc opposita, S-pai'tita, glauca, pubescentia, exstipulata. Flores termi-
nales, longc pedunculati, lutei, jEnotherce biennis colore et facie. Bractea:i
involucri lineares, aciitce, calyce pauVo breviores. Sepala subcequalia, oh-
longo-linearia, acuta, pallida lutco-viridla, nunc apice biloba. Stipnata
atropurpurea. Ovarium lanatum, album. Ovula subrotunda, foramine
(fig. 6 a) propc basin, apice nuclei exserto. Semina marginc mcmbranaceo
interrupto, nunc obli(]uc in latus decurrentc, kilo viinimo sublatcrali
(fig. 9-10 b). Embryo cylindricus, in axi albuminis carnosi, radicula ad
extremitatem acutiorem (fig. 10 a) seminis versa, cotyledonibus i-ersi/s hiluvt
recurvis, et dein latera/iter involutis (fig. 11).

This is one of the plants collected by the late .Mr.
M'llae for the Horticultural Society, during- his residence
in Chile, in 1825. Two individuals only were raised from
his seeds, one of which Howered in the Chiswick (iarden
last August. In a favourable summer, it would succeed
very well out of doors ; but it will, at all times, be neces-

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sary to keep it from frost in a greenhouse or very good pit
during winter ; and it would be better perhaps to consider
it altogether as a conservatory plant. It increases by
cuttings, but is apt to damp off: if kept in health, it is
very handsome.

The first account of the genus was given by the learned
M, Desfontaines, in the fourth volume of the Memoires dii
MiLscmn, in the year 1818. The specimens had been col-
lected in Chile by Dombey, and seem to have been not
only in an excellent state of preservation, but very com-
plete, the seeds having been figured, although neither
analysed nor described. The plant now published appears
to differ specifically in having its leaves almost constantly
alternate, with much shorter divisions, its stigmas longer
and narrower, and its flowers borne upon peduncles many
times longer than the leaves ; perhaps also in its sepals
being less acuminate. Generically, however, there is no
difference between them.

M. Decandolle assigns inflexed valves to the fruit ; but
this is clearly an inadvertency ; nor are they so described
by M. Desfontaines.

M. Decandolle refers the genus to Oxalideae, as M. Des-
fontaines originally suggested ; and, in fact, it agrees in
habit with some species of shrubby Oxalis, and also with
the order generally in its 3-lobed exstipulate leaves, 5-leaved
calyx, lOhypogynous stamens, 5-celled polyspermous cap-
sule, and albuminous seeds, having a succulent testa ; but
the want of acidity in the foliage, the non-articulation of
the lobes of the leaves with their petiole, the want of ungues
to the petals, the equal length of the stamens, and the
convolute character of the embryo, are points of more or
less importance, in which it disagrees with that order.
But if we compare it with Zygophylleae, or any of the
neighbouring orders, it will be found to differ still more
from them than from Oxalidese ; so that we think M.
Decandolle has taken the most judicious course in re-
ferring it to Oxalideae, — at least till some other plants
having a more direct aflBnity with it shall have been
discovered.

Mr. Brown was so obliging as to point out to us tlic
description and figure of M. Desfontaincs, and consequently
the station of the plant in M. Decandolle's Prodrumiis.

Desct'iptiofi of the Dissections.

1. A leaf. 2. The sepals, stamens, and ovarium, the petals having
been taken away. 3. A stamen. 4. An ovarium, with the stigmas.
5. A transverse section of the ovarium. G. An ovulum; a, the fora-
men; I), the stalk. 7. A capsule, the calyx and involucrum being
torn away, all more or less magnified. 8. Seeds, natural size. 9. A
seed very much magnified ; b, hilum ; a, point answering to the
foramen. 10. A longitudinal section of the same. 11. The embryo
separate, much magnified.

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GUETTARDA* speciosa.
Shewy Guettarda.

TETRANDRIA-ENNEANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Ci\chonace/e. {^Introduction to the natural system of
Botn7iy,p. '203. Ruiu.ace.i: Jussieu.)

GUETTARDA Jacq. — Calycis tubus ovatus aut globosus ; limbus
tubulosus persistens aut deciduus, truncatus aut irrcgulariter subcicntatus.
Corolla hypocrateiiniorplia tubo cylindrico, lobis4-9 ovali-ublongis. Anthcra;
4-9 ad faucem sessiles inclusa>. Stigrna c-apitatum, rarius bilobum. Drupa
subrotunda aut ovata ralycino tubo coronata, putaiuiue obtuse ungulate
4-9-loculari, loculis rectis aut curvatis nionospermis. Semina erccta tcretius-

cula. ArbusculcTc rt?<< Frutices Australl-Americaiice, rarius Indicce. Folia

ovata aut lanceolata rarius cordata. Stipul-oe hmceolatce, deciduce {in unicd
specie vaginantcs truncatfp). Pedunculi axillarcs Injidi, rarius bis hijidi,
Jloribus in dic/iotomid solitariis, seciis ramos unilateralibus scssilibus. ■ —
De Cand. prodr. 4. 455.

Sect. I. Cadamba.
Calycis limbus post antliesin deciduus. Drupce nucleus loculis gnomonice

curvatis. — D. C.
G. speciosa ; foliis ovatis obovatisve basi sa-pius subcordatis apice obtusis

subtiis pubescentibus, stipulis lanceolatis acuniinatis deciduis, cyniis

pcdunculatis vclutinis folio inulto brevioril)us, Horibus 4-9-moris, tVut'tu

depresso areola, superne notato. — D. C. I. c.
G. speciosa. Linn. sp. pi. 1408. Lam. illust. t. 154. f. 2. Roxb. fl.

ind. 2. 5-21.
Cadamba jasminiflora. Sonnerat voyage, 2. 128.
Jasminum hirsutum. Willd. sp. pi. I. 36, according to the Fl. lud.
Rava-Pou. Rhcedc Malab. 4. t. 47. 48.

Flores odoratissimi. Calyx superus, tomentosus, campanulatus, trun-
catus, rubido marginatus, incecjualiter sub-4^-dc7itatus. Discus 7nagnus, car-
nosus. Corolla hypocrateriformis, alba, tubo cylindraceo, tomentoso, incurvo,
basi glabra, limbo patente pubescente 1-partito : laciniis cequalibus oblongis,
obtusis, subcontortis. Stamina 7, scssilia, in fauce. Antherse tenues,
lincares, polline albido cohceroite. Ovarium 5-loculare, ovulis solitariis.
^ty\us yilifoimis, glaber. Stigma clavatum, obsolete pentagonum.

* Named after Stephen Guettard, a French Botanist, who lived in tic
middle of the last century.

Seeds, of this were sent from Madagascar to the Horti-
cultural Society, by Mr. John Forbes, in 1823. It proves
to be a tender stove plant, flowering in August and
September, and diffusing at that time a most delicious
fragrance, both at night, as authors state, and during the
whole day.

Not only a native of Madagascar, but also found in
various parts of India, where, however, it is usually culti-
vated in Gardens for the sake of its perfume. Dr. AYallich
remarks, that, of many hundreds of blossoms which he has
examined, not one has been hermaphrodite. Of the few
that we have seen, none were otherwise.

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PERILOMIA* ocynioidcs.
Basil- like Pei'iloinia .

DIDYNAMIA G YMNOSPERMIA.

Nat. ord. Labiat;e Jussieu. — (^Introduction to the natural system of
Botany, p. 239.)

PERILOMIA Kunth. — Calyx campanulatus, bilabiatus, ilorso gib-
bosus ; labiis ajqualibus, intet2;ris. Corolla tubo subcybiuhacco, subarcuato,
calycem multo superante ; limbo bilabiato, piano; labio superiore eniari^i-
nato ; inferiore trifido; lacinia intermedia majore. 5^awH/m (juatuor, didy-
nama. AnthcrcB biloculares, didyma; ; loculo altero staminum diiorum

aborlivo. Achcnia margine membranaceo-alata. Herbai oppositifoluc.

Flores axillares, subracemosi, bibracteati, coccinei. — Humb. et Kuntb nov.
gen. et sp. pi. 2. 326.

P. ocymoides ; foliis subrotundo-ovatis acutis, calycibus pubescentibus, fruc-

tibus laevibus. Kunth I. c.

Herba ramosa, erecta aut volubilis, suaveolens ; rajnis oppositis, quad-
rangularibus, laevibus, glabris ; angulis suhmcinbranaccis ; nodis pilosis ;
ramnlis hirtellis. Folia opposita, snbrotundo-ovata, acuta, grossc crcnata,
basi rotundata apiceque integerrima, reticulato-venosa, subtrinervia, nervis
venisque subtiis prominentibus, membranacea, supra glabra ct nigro-viridia,
subtus pallida inque nervis et venis pubescentia, 18-20 lineas longa, 16-20
tineas lata. Petioli subsemipollicares, canaliculati, pubcsccntcs. Flores
axillares, solitarii, oppositi, hrevissirnc pedunculati, in ramulis approximato-
racemosi. Pedunculi bibracteati; bracteis parvis, oppositis, linearibus,
pubescentibus. Calyx campanulatus, bilabiatus, violaceus, hirtus, dorso
gibbosus ; labiis ccqualibus, rotundatis, integris. CotoUa tubulosa, coccirua,
externe villosa, calyce triplo quadruplove longior ; limbo bilabiato; labio
superiore emarginato ; inferiore trifido ; lobis rotundatis, intermedio inajore.
Stamina prcBcedentis. Filamenta ovinia pubescentia. Anthers prorsiis
P. scutellarioidis ; loculo altero in staminibus duobus (superioribus ?) abor-
tive. Ovarium, Discus, Stylus, et Stigma cjusdem. Fructus : achcnia
f/uatuor, disco communi imposita, calyce persistente, aucto, clnuso, pubcsccutc
et violaceo tccta, hinc convexa, inde angulata, margine membranacea, lavia,
glabra, albida ; membrana lata, irregularitcr dcnticulata. Semen obovato-
lenticulare, basi acutiusculiun, la've. Endos])ermium nullum. Cotylednnes
camoscE, extcrnc convexce, interne plance. Radicula infcra, brevis, obtusa.
Plumula inconspicua. — Kunth 1. c.

* So named from i^egi, around, and /»,«««, a margin ; with reference to
the membranous border of the fruit.

This beautiful plant has been determined by Mr. Bentham
to be referrible to the species described in the Nova Genera
et Species of Messrs. Humboldt, Bonpland, and Kunth, by
tlie former of whom it was found in dry places near Alausi,
in Quito, at the height of between 7 and 8000 feet.

For its introduction into our Gardens we are indebted to
Mr. Cruckshanks, who discovered it in Peru, and presented
it to the Horticultural Society, in whose Garden at Chis-
wick it flowered abundantly in August and September last.

It is a half-shrubby plant, thriving well out of doors in
the summer, but, as far as we can at present judge, requiring
to be protected from frost in the winter. It is difficult for
colour to represent the brilliancy of its scarlet blossoms.

Hitherto it has only been increased by cuttings ; but it
is probable that in a warm summer it will produce seeds.

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1395

HIBISCUS* Lindlri.
Ml'. Lindley's Hibiscus.

MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA.

Kat. ord. Malvacex Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of
Botany, p. 33.)

HiBfSCUS.—Suprd, vol. \0. fol. 860.

H. Lindlei ; caule sufFruticoso, pctiolis pcdunculisque scabris ct aculcatis,
foliis subrotundo-cordalis palmatini 3-7-partitis : lobis lanceolatis acu-
minatis serratis, Horibus axillaribus solitariis, invohicelli tbliolis linearibus
hispidis apicc bilobis, corolla patentissima, capsula adpresse pilosa sericeii
demiini glabra. — Wallich plant. As. rar. \.p. 4. tab. 4.

This beautiful plant is a native of the Burma empire,
near Segain, and of a mountain in Ava called Taong Dong,
where it flowers and bears fruit in November. It has been
also found in Tavoy, on the coast of Tenasserim, according
to Dr. Wallich, by whom plants were brought alive to
England in 1828, and presented by the Honourable Court
of Directors to the Horticultural Society, in whose Garden
our drawing was taken in December last. It proves to be
a hardy stove plant, growing with much vigour, but not
flowering readily unless the young shoots are struck as
cuttings as soon as the blossoms appear, in which case it
flowers freely, and becomes an extremely ornamental plant,
esjieciallv in the winter months, during the whole of which
it flowers in abundance. It is too tender to flower out of
doors even in the summer.

* 'l/3i'<rx«« was the ancient Greek name of some Malvaceous plant. Nothing
appear?, to be known of its derivation. The fjraciUs hibiscus of Virtril was
piobably some other plant.

Dr. Wallich, in his splendid Illustrations of the Flora
of India, speaks thus of it : —

" This very handsome species I took at first to be only
a purple variety of Roxburgh's H. furcatus, which I have
likewise found on the banks of the Irawaddi : but having
had an opportunity, since my return from Ava, to compare
both plants in their growing state in the Honourable Com-
pany's Botanic Garden at Calcutta, I am able to propose
the following marks as sufficient to distinguish them speci-
fically : ■ — The leaves in our plant are not hairy as in Rox-
burgh's, but nearly smooth; the involucres do not enlarge
at the bifid apex, but are of a uniformly linear figure ; and
lastly, the flowers, instead of being yellow, as in that
species, are constantly of a deep purple colour. H. h'lfiir-
catus Cavan. diff"ers, according to a note in Dr. Roxburgh's
manuscript Flora Indica, made from the living plant, intro-
duced into the Garden from Trinidad, in being smoother
and void of the small tubercles, which render the other
shrubs peculiarly rough to the touch ; in having setaceous
stipules and rose-coloured flowers.

*' Like most of the members of the extensive genus to
which it belongs, it abounds in strong and woody fibres.
All its green parts have an agreeably acid taste."

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IIABRANTIIUS* Bagnoldi.

Captain BagnolcVs Habranthus.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Amaiiyllide;e R. Broiun. {Introduction to the natural
system, -p. 259.)

HABRANTHUS.— Supr^, vol. 16. fol. 1345.

H. Bagnoldi; bulbo magno, rotundo, nigro; foliis obtusis, pedalil)iis, glaucis,
vix i uncioe latis ; umbella 6-flora; pedunculis 2-3-uncialibus ; ger-
mine -^'g, tubo \, limbo lj\ uncisc longo, flavo, intiis rubro pallid^ et
minut6 media parte striate ; laciniarum exterarum summa, internarum
ima, angustiore ; filamentis exteris longioribus imo duobus breviorc, iii-
ternis brevioribus summo duobus longiore ; stylo f^ unciLO limbo breviorc
tilamcntis longiore, stigmate trilobo ; genitalibus flavescenlibus, anuulo
membranaceo timbriato munitis. — W. H.

A beautiful plant, collected in Chile by Capt. Bai^nold,
a gentleman to whom the Gardens of thi.s country are in-
debted for the introduction of many valuable .species. It
Howered in Mr. Tate's Nursery, in November last; and a
specimen of it having been sent to Mr. Herbert, we have
been favoured with the above character.

Like all the large black bulbs that come from Chile,
this is, under the management usually applied to them, a
shy flowerer ; and, if exposed to too high a temi)crature,
apt to dwindle gradually away. A south border, well
protected from frost, by a frame being placed over it, and
a little heat introduced into it occasionally in very severe
weather, is, we suspect, by far the best situation for bulbs
from such countries as Chile.

Mr. Herbert refers this species to Habranthus, notwith-

- Sec fol. 1345.

standing its great resemblance in habit to Phycella ; for
reasons that wc shall be able to explain more clearly when
we publish another most beautiful scarlet-flowered plant,
named by Mr. Herbert Ilabranthus Phycelloides.

Mr. Herbert requests us to add, on this occasion, that
*' the particles of pollen in the genus Habranthus are
smaller by more than one half than in the bulbs that form
the genus Hippiastrum ;" that is, the red-flowered Ama-
ryllises of tropical America.

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1397

JUSTiCIA* ciunca
Flesli-coloured Ju.sticift.

DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Acan riiACEX Ju<is. {Introdacdon to the jiafiircd xij.<:le))i of
Botany, p. '2'^'^.)

J U STIC I A. —Supra, vol. 4. fol. 309.

J. carnea; antherarum loculis parallelis, spicis terminalibus inibricatis niul-
tiHoris foliis brevioribus, bracteis niaximis, labio corolliii superiore lineari
emarginato : inferioie recurvo apioe obtuso trilobo, foHis ovato-laiiccolatis
acuminatis subcreiiatis longlssimo petiolatis.

Caubs quadrangular is, in caldario A-pedalia, erectus, ramosus, fruti-
cosus, atroviridis. FoHa ovato-lanccolata, acuminata, glahcrrima, suhcre-
nata, petiole nunc laynvKP longitudinc. Spica sessilis, tcrminalis, midtijiora,
densissimc inibricata, foliis brevior, 6 uiicias ad minimum longa. Bracteai
exteriores maximce, ohovatce, acuviinatce, pubescentcs. Corolla carnea,
2 imcias et dimidium longa, subpubescens, tubo recto, labio superiore sub-
lineari emarginato, infcriore oblongo, apice latiore obtuse trilobo recurvo.
Stamina labio superiore patdb breviora ; filamenta glabra, apice recurva ;
antherec oblongce, obtusfe, distantes, locidis parallelis.

A native of Rio Janeiro, whence a living: plant was
sent, in 1827, to the Horticultural Society, by the Right
Honourable Robert Gordon.

It requires a stove, where it flowers beautifully in
August and Scjitcmber. It demands no particular treat-
ment, and is readily increased by cuttings.

This is one of the handsomest stove plants we arc
acquainted with, combining great beauty of foliage with
very striking flowers, and a constant disposition to produce
them. .J. L.

• See fol. 1227.

of 3i inches in diameter, and extremely regular in their
formation, the petals being ranged one above another, and
gradually diminishing in size towards the centre, exactly in
the manner of the Double White. The colour is a fine
crimson red, and remarkably shewy. The outer petals are
nearly round, and are each upwards of an inch in diameter.
When the flower first begins to open, they are all cupped
or concave ; but, as it expands, they become quite flat,
and those at the extremity are a little recurved. The centre
petals are somewhat pointed, and rise u])right : they are
so thick that not a single stamen is to be observed. Some
of the petals in the middle, between the centre and circum-
ference of the flower, have a faint white stripe, extending
from the tip of the petal for about half its length down the
centre, but partially hidden by the other petals covering it:
this stripe, however, is permanent, but disappears when
the flower is fully expanded, or at least becomes slightly
coloured. The centre of the flower is cupped, and the
arrangement of the petals altogether is precisely the same
as in the flowers of the Double White."

Our drawing was made from a plant that flowered in
the possession of Mr. George Smith, Nurseryman, Islington.
It was at first thought difierent from the true imbricata ;
but there can be no reasonable doubt that the supposed
diff'erences were caused accidentally by some peculiarity
of cultivation.

One of the finest Camellias we know.

J. L.

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1399

ARISTOLOC 1 1 i A* trilobata.
Th rev. - lohed Birth wort.

GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Auistolocii1/E Juss. {Introduction to the natural sijatcui
of Botany, p. 72.)

ARISTOLOCHIA.Supu), vol. 8. fol. 689.

A. trilobata ; foliis trilobis, catile volnbili, coiollis cylindraccis infract is hasi

saccatis labio cordato cuspidate, cuspide filifornii corolla Uipio loiigiorc

torto. Willd. sp. pi. 4. 1.51.
A. folio hederaceo trifido, maximo tiore, radice rcpente. Plum. spec. 5.
A. scandens, foliis sublobatis obtusis, floribus amplissimis. Brown jam.

328. Barrcre hist, de la France aquinoct. 16.
A. trilobata, Linn. sp. pi. 1361. Swartz obs. 341. Jacrj. cclog. t. 26.
A. trifida. Lam. encrjcl. 2. 249.

Caulis fruticosus, volubilis, teres. Folia longt petiolata, cordata, tri-
loba, lohis oblong is, obtusis, subcequalibus ; stipuloc in una7n viagnam, cor-
datajn, subrotundam, foliaceam connatce. Flores solitarii, pedunculo cum
ovario petiolo brcvioribus, inagni, ochroleuci. Calycis tubus inflatus, cylin-
draceus, angulatus, basi calcaribus sex, brcvibus, obtusis, inarjualtbus, medio
infractus, bilabiatus, labio altero maximo, cordato, fusco-purpurco, bullato,
cuspide longissimo, torto, lineari.

A native of the West Indies, where it inhabits damp
forests, and is accounted an antidote to the bite of serpents.
In this country it is a hothouse climber, tirowini,^ with ureat
rapidity, and producing an abundance of its sin;^uhir Howers
at various periods of the year. We presume it will strike
readily either from layers or cuttings.

Our drawing was made from specimens communicated
last August by Mr. Greenshields, from the Garden of Richard
Benyon de Beauvoir, Esq.

* From rtg«5To?, excellent, and Xo^u6<;, relating to parturition ; so named
in consequence of its reputed virtues in ciiildbirlh, expressed iilso in the
English name Birthworl.

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Tlic filiform apex of the lip of this remarkable plant
appears to vary very much in length. In the specimen
that was drawn it exceeded 22 inches; but in the plant
represented by Jacquin in the work above referred to, it
did not exceed 5 or 0 mches. What the cause of such an
excessive elongation of the floral envelope may be, or for
what purpose it has been contrived, is a mystery that we
are not likely to dispel ; but it is worthy of remark, as
tending to confirm the opinion, that in nearly allied plants
similar peculiarities of structure may be always expected,
that this singularity exists not only in several other species
of the same genus, but also in a species of Asarum,* dis-
covered in North-west America by Mr. Douglas.

J. L.

* This very remarkable plant, which we call Asarum caudatum,
may be distinguished by the following character : —

A. caudatum ; foliis reniformi-subrotundis alt^ cordatis obtusis glanduloso-
pilosis, calyce tripartite : laciniis glandulosis caiidatis. — Hab. in pinetis
prope areem Vancouver, ora occidcntali American borealis.

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1400

RAPIIIOLEPIS^^ rubra.
Red Rdphinlephs.

ICOSANDRIA DIGYNIA.

Nat. ord. PoMACEit Juss. {Introduction to the natural ayslcin oj
Botany, p. 83.)

KAPHIOLEPIS.—Supu), vol. G. fol. 4G8.

R. rubra ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis serratis basi angustatis integris, jjctalis.

lanceolatis, stamiiiibus rectis calyce brevioribus.
R. rubra. Collect, hot. t. 3. Dc Cand. prodr. 2. p. 630.

An evergreen shrub, native of China, from which it is
very often imported. In the southern parts of England, or
even near London, upon a well-protected wall, it will bear
the rigour of our winters ; but it is better adapted to the
conservatory, in which it forms rather an ornamental bush.

Our drawing was made in the nursery of Mr. Tate, in
August last.

R. rubra is distinguished from the two other species
figured in this work, by the form of its leaves, and the short-
ness of its erect stamens : the true Cratasgus indica, with
roundish petals, is still a desideratum.

We may take this opportunity of remarking, that the
testa, described and figured in ColU'Ctam'a Butanica, does
not represent the natural state of that organ in Raphiolepis.
The seeds were destitute of nucleus, and the testa had
acquired a fungous appearance, which we erroneously suj)-
posed peculiar to the genus. But, from perfect fruit which

' From foiipiot, an awl, and Ai^r/?, a scale; in allusion to the subulate
l»racteue and stipuluu.

we have recently examined, we find that, if the nucleus is
present, the testa is only coriaceous, and a little thicker
than the endocarpium, which is remarkably membranous :
the character of a fungous testa, which has hitherto been
applied to the genus, therefore requires to be corrected.

J.L.

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1401

BLKTIA* florida.
Pallid Bletia.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRTA.

Nat. ord. Orciiide^e Juss. — {Introduction to the natural system of
Botany, p. 262.)

BLETIA Fl. Peruv. — Sepala palentia, a^niuilia. Pctula mine patentia,
iiuiif c'oiinivcntia, sepalis suba^qualia. Lahcllum cucullatum, cum columna
articulatum, nunc basi saccatum, trilobum, disco suepius lamellato v. tuber-
culato. Columna elongata, semitcres. Anthcra carnosa, 8-iocularis. Pol-

linia 8, sequalia, li'j^ulis 4 pulvereis cohaDientia. Hcrbai subterrestres,

foliis cnsiformibus plicatis, scapis raccmosis multijiuris, floribus scepius
ypcciosis.

V>. florida; sepalis ovali-lanccolatis obtiisiusciilis siibpatentibvis, petalis lati-
oribus obtusis su])ra coluninani Ibrnicatis, labelli disco costis <piinque
rectis indivisis: lobis laterabbus rolundatis abbreviatis, iiitermedio cu-
neato crispo lamellis tribus iindulatis apice abruptis, scapo simpUci radi-
cal!, foliis ensiforniibus.
Cymbidiuin floridum. Salisb. prodr. 9.
Gyas florida. Salisb. in act. soc, hort. 1. 261.
B. florida. R. Broivn in hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 206.
B. pallida. Loddif/cs bat. cab. t. 629.

Herba et pseudobulbi fere onminb B. verccundce. Scapus radicalis,
aphyllus, Sfjuamis varjinatus, bitripedalis, gracilis, nunquam {(piantum vidi)
rainosus. Racemus sub-\2-florus. Flores pallidc rosci. Sepala oblongo-
lanceolata, obtusa, septemvcnia, patida. Petala conformia, scdmulto laliora,
magis inembranacea, venis tantum quinque, quarum laterales venulas plurts
sub-ramosas versiis marginem promunt, supra columnam in fornicem du-
plicem s. galeam conniventia. Labellum pallidius, trilobum, oblongum,
lobis later alibu<i, rotundatis, abbreviatis, intermedio cuneato, truncato, crispo,
lateralibus 7mdtb longiore ; costis ynedii quinque luteis, rectis, quarum late-
rales viajores, nunc divisa', vix basin lobi mcdii attingunt, intermedia} ad
apictm labelli tendunt dimidid inferiore pariim elevatcc, recta, plana, supe-
rior e petaloidecp, crisptc, subtruncatce.

* Named after Don Luis Blct, a Spanish medical man, much attached
to Botany.

A native of Trinidad, whence it was introduced by the
late Mr. Salis])nry in the year 178G. It requires the heat
of a very good stove, and is cultivated in a mixture of peat,
sand, and loam.

It has been generally supposed that this is a species
distinct from B. florida, a plant which no cultivator has
been able, for many years, to satisfy himself that he pos-
sessed. For ourselves, we at one time were disposed to
believe that B. florida was either a slight variety of Bletia
verecunda, or absolutely the same plant ; a supposition to
which we were led by the account given of it in the last
edition of the Hortiis Keivcnsis. The diagnosis of it in
that work is made to depend upon the cuneate form of the
middle lobe of the labellum, its ridges being simple (not
branched), and its lateral segments broadest (not narrowest)
at the point; to which is added, as a character which it
possesses in common with B. verecunda, a somewhat
branched scape ; Limodorum purpureum of Redout^'s Li-
liactcs is quoted as a synonym ; and finally, the English
name is Purple Bletia. But this latter name is perfectly
applicable to B. verecunda ; the plant figured by Redoute
is unquestionably that species ; and the ridges of the label-
lum are often perfectly simple in the same ; so that of the
characters and synonyms of B. florida, nothing is left to
distinguish it except the form of the middle lobe of the
labellum, and a not very intelligible difference in that of
its lateral 'lobes. The character, however, in the Hortus
Kcweusis being very precisely worded, and the plant itself
not belonging to a tribe that is difficult of cultivation, and
therefore not likely to be lost, it appeared to us more pro-
bable that some inaccuracy should exist in the Hortus
Kewensis, than that the species should no longer be found
in any of the great collections near London. In renewing
the search for it, we have found nothing to which it is
probable that the name ought to be attached, except the
plant now represented, the B. pallida of Mr. Loddiges ;
and, after much consideration, we have come to the conclu-
sion, that, notwithstanding certain differences that exist
between this and the account in the Hortus Kewensis, they
are really the same species. It is true, that the scape of
B. pallida is, as far as we have ever seen, unbranched,
that the name purple is inapplicable to it, and that the

ridf^es of its lahellum arc sometimes divided ; hut then tlie
middle segment of its labellum is mncli as described in
B. florida; and if the expression " lobis lateralibus aj)ice
latioribus," is merely intended to indicate the rounded form
of the lateral lobes of that species, as contrasted with their
somewhat acute termination in B. verecunda, it becomes
difficult to resist tlie conclusion, that B. pallida is the same
as B. Horida, the apparent ditierences between them de-
pending upon an incautious citation of a synonym, and an
imperfect diagnosis, in the Hortus Kewensis.

Our drawing was made some years since at Mr. Colvill's;
and we think that at that time the ])ossibility of the plant
being Bletia florida was suggested by Mr. Sweet.

The generic character here given has been constructed
so as to exclude Spathoglottis of Jilume, and also I'haius
of Loureiro, or Pachyne of Salisbury, of which Bletia
Tankervilliae is the type.

J. L.

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1402

AZALEA* calendulacea ; var. lepida.

The Highclerc Blush Azalea.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Erice;f, Jussicu. (^Introduction to the natural sijstcvi nf
Botany,}). 182.)

AZALEA.—Siqm), vol. 2. fol. 120.

Garden Variety.

The present is a third variety of Azalea, raised at the
Earl of Caernarvon's by Mr. Gowen, in the manner stated
at fol. 13GG. It has an appearance ahnost intermediate
between A. calendulacea and nudiflora, from which it ori-
ginated, but partakes more of the character of the former
than of the latter. The clear delicate pink border of the
pure white segments of the corolla, and the bright yellow
blotch upon one of them, give this variety a peculiarly
neat appearance, wherefore Mr. Gowen calls it A. lepida.

* See fol. 1366.

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lUADICSCANTIA* uiulata.
Waved-leaved Spiderwort.

HEXANDRIA MONOC.YNIA.

Nat. ord. CoMMF.LiNK.T. R. Br. — {Introduction to the natural system
of Botany, p. 2.j5.)

TRADESCANTIA.—Supn), vol. 6. fol. 482.

T. undata ; erecta, caule linea longitudinali pilosa, foliis ovatis basi ang;iis-

tatis uiuluhitis supra pilosis, vaginis ciliatis, racemis tcrminalibus umbel-

latis, pedicellis calycibusque glanduloso-hirsutis.
T. undata. Willd. emnn. hart. herd. 347. Humh. ct Kunth nov. g. et sp.

pi. 3. 263. Rumcr et Schultes sijst. veg. 7. 1061.

Anriua? Caulis ercctus, ra7nosiis, tripcdalis, lined longitudinali pilosd a
basi vaginarum ortum diicente latcra alterna caulis {ut norma est) deciirrente.
Folia atroviridia, ciliata, suprcl puhesccntia, suhtiis impubia. Raccmi in
pedvnculo tcrminali insidentcs, partibus omnibus viridihus villosissimis, pilis
glandulosis. Petala violacea, sepalis concavis, sublinearibus, paulh longiora.

A native of various parts of the hotter regions of America,
fliimbohlt and Bonpland found it by the sides of moun-
tains in Cumana between Caripe and Santa Cruz; it has
also been observed near Chapulte})ec in Mexico by Kar-
winsky. The seeds from which the plant now represented
has been raised were gathered in .Mexico bv Mr. Graham,
and presented to the Horticultural Society.

Owing to the wetness of the summer of 1830, the species
did not flower till late in October, and consequently pro-
duced no seed ; but in more favourable seasons, it would
probably become a hardy ornamental autumn plant. It is
described by all writers as an annual ; and we are not able
to contradict the statement, the frost having destroyed it

* Named ill honour ol Mr. .John Tiadcscant. Gardcnt'i to Charles the
First.

soon after flowering ; but from its appearance we should
have supposed it to be rather biennial, or even perennial.

Chiefly distinguished from T. erecta by its flowers being
violet, not blue, and its calyxes and peduncles being shaggy,
with glandular articulated hairs.

J. L.

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1404

1RIS=^ bicolor.
Two - colou red Iris.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Ihide/'e 7mss. {Introduction to the natural system of Botany,
p. 237.)

IRIS.—Supu), vol. 3. fol. 246.

I. bicolor ; foliis equitantibus lineari-ensiformibus, scapo tereti apice ramoso,

spathis longis convolutisobtusis, sepalis subrotundo-ovatis imbcrbibus basi

niaculatis, petalis niinoribus oblongis undulatis patcntibus unicoluiibus.

Rhizoma brcvc, fusco-viride, apice subascendens. Folia pallidi viridia,

angusta, ensiformia, subglauca, bipcdalia, equitantia. Scapus crfc^ws, /cres,

mtdtiJioTus, apice dichotoinus. Bractea? communes breves, scarioscc, propriaj

convolut(P, cylindruin efformantcs Dianthi more. Flores speciosi, lutei. Se-

pala rhoinboidea, apiculata versiis basin maculd magna, rotunda, nigra, Intco

ocellatd notata, infra maculam sanguinco-guttata, iynberlna. Petala ob-

longa, patentia, subundulata, minora. Stigmata biloba, petaloidea, petalis

breviora. Antheroe stigmatibus occultata:.

Our drawing of this was taken in the Garden of the
Comte de Vandes at Bayswater, where it has been culti-
vated more than nine years. Mr. Campbell, the intelligent
gardener in this establishment, informs us that he found it
in the collection when he first assumed the management,
and is therefore unacquainted with its origin. He treats it
as a half-hardy ])lant, giving it a north aspect in tlic summer,
as the midday sun is too powerful for its beautiful blossoms.
It produces a tolerable succession of flowers for several
months.

We presume the plant will soon become more common,

* So called with reference to Iris, or the rainbow, the brilliant changeable
colours of which are imitated by the flowers of sonic of the species of this

as it readily increases by its creeping rhizomas, in tlie
manner of an Iris germanica. It would be a most lovely
object if grown in a bed several feet long, where its gay
colours could be seen in mass, and where new flowers
would be constantly succeeding the old ones.

J. L.

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(ENOTIIERA* bifroiis.
The Spotted Blush CEnothera.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Onagraui.t. /mss, (^Introduction to the natural srjstevi of
Botany, p. .5(1.)

(EN OTHER A. —Supra, vol. 2. fol. 147.

Garden Variety.

This very interesting variety was obtained in the Garden
of the Horticultural Society, by Mr. James Ewing, between
Q^. roseo-aiba and (E. Lindleyana. To the fine lull flower
of the former it adds the deep crimson spots of the latter ;
and in mode of growth is, as it were, intermediate between
the two, — less bushy than (E. roseo-alba, more erect than
QS. Lindleyana. A great number of slightly different varie-
ties was raised from the same parcel of seed ; but the best
of them was certainly that now figured. Whether its pecu-
liarities can be perpetuated by seed, remains to be seen;
our knowledge of it extending only to the first season of its
appearance. Like its parents, it is a hardy annual, growing
freely in common garden soil. Its beauty will probably
be increased if cultivated in poor gravelly earth, and is
likely to be diminished in proportion as the soil is rich.

* See fol. 1142.

II.

140()

CATTLEYA* 'nittata.
Spotted ( 'attletfd .

GYNANDRIA MONANDIU.t.

Nat. ord. Orciiiue.'e Juss. — {Introduction to the natural sijstcm uf
Botany, p. 2iV2.)

CATTLEYA.— Supra, vol. \\. fol. 953.

C guttata ; floribus carnosis, sepalis lineari-oblongis obtiisis, pctalis con-
tbrmibus paulo latioribus undulatis, labelli trilobi lol)is lateralibus ovatis
obtusis : intcrmedio cuncato obcordalo disco tuberculato, foliis concavis,
spatha obsoleui.

Caulis teres, squaviis meinhranaceis fuscis, arct^ appressis vestitus, nulla
viodo tuberosus, palmaris v. ultra, diphyllus. Folia carnosa, oblonr/a, con-
cava, patentia, apice oblique emarginata. Racenms spatha mdld, A-5-florus,
erecttis, rachi terete maculatu. Bracteoe brevissimce, acutce, scariosce. Flores
pallidc viridcs, sanguineo guttuti. Labelli lobi laterales albi, interviedius
purpureus, lineis disci purpurei tuberculatis.

This beautiful species was sent to the Horticultural So-
ciety from Brazil by the Right Honourable Robert Gordon,
along with other interesting plants. The spotting of the
flower is remarkably different from any thing that has yet
been seen in the same genus.

It may be interesting to cultivators to know that what
are called the stems of this genus, and indeed of many
other Orchideous plants, that is to say, the erect stalks
that bear the leaves, are analogous to tubers, and really
the branches of a rhizoma, or prostrate stem, which creeps
upon the surface of the ground, resembling a root, and that
consequently each of the leaf-bearing branches may be
safely cut otf with a portion of the rhizoma attached, for
the purpose of propagation. The gardener of Mr. Harrison,
of Liver[jool, has practised this method with great success.

J. L.

* See fol. 1172.
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1407

AZALEA* calendulacea ; var. Stapletoniiina.
Ladi/ Harriot Stapleton's H'iglidere Azalea.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Erice^ Jussicu. {Introduction to the natural system of
Botany, -p. 182.)

AZALEA.— Supr^i, vol. 2. fol. 120.

Garden Variety.

This, the fourth of the Highclere Azaleas, of which the
Earl of Caernarvon permitted us to take drawings in 1830,
is ])erha|)s the most beautiful that has been raised among
those hybrids in whicli the characters of A. calendulacea
preponderate. In muny of them the red or rosy tint is
more dashed with yellow or orange than in this, in which
the prevailing colour is a rich deep rose, with no more
yellow than is just sufficient to soften the general tint. It
has been named in compliment to the Lady Harriot Staple-
ton, daughter of the Earl of Caernarvon.

J. L.

* See fol. 1366.

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1408

TRTFOLIUM* vesiculosum.
Bladdery Trefoil.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat.ord. Leg UM i xos^f. /hss. {Introduction to the natural system of
Botany, p. 87.)

TRIFOLIUM.— Supra, vol. V^. fol. 1070.

Sect. 5. Vesicastrum.
Flores capitati densi ; labium infer ius calycis immuta.tum, supcrius
post anthcsin accrescens injiatuvi et fornicis viodo legumcn tcgcns. —
Nervi foliorum nuynerosi. — Seringe in De Caudolle prodr. '2. 20'2.

T. vcsiculosu?n ; raule erecto tirnio striato, foliolis lanceolatis acutis aii^ut^
serrulatis, stipulis angustis siibmenil)ranaceis long6 acuminatis, capitiilis
ovatis crassis longti pcdunculatis, calycibus scariosis inflatis, laciniis
subulatis acutissimis aiqualibus corolla multo brevioribus, leguminibus
2-spermis, seniinibus ovato-conipressis flavis. — De Cand. prodr. I. c.

T. vesiculosum, Savi Ji. pisan. 2. p. 1(35. Obs. trif. 84. Fl. franc. 6.
561. Lois. gall. 2. t. 15.

T. recurvum. Waldst. ct Kitaih.pl. rar. hung. 2. p. 179. t. 165.

T. ambiguum. Bieberst Ji. taur. cauc. 2. p. 208.

T. turgidum. lb. 2. 216. Suppl. p. 51 1.

There are few rare species of plants the geographical
range of which is much greater than this. It was originally
found in Corsica by M. Robert ; it has since been dis-
covered in Italy, near Pisa and Naples ; it is common in
the meadows of Tauria and Caucasus, and in fields on the
borders of the Volga, near its mouths ; and finally, it inhabits
a few places in Hungary.

We have carefully compared it with the cultivated
Pisan plant, in the Garden of the Horticultural Society,

* This name has obviously been suggested by the uniform ])roduction of
three leaflets from one point; whence also Trefoil in English, Trijlc in
French.

with wild specimens from Naples, and with others com-
municated by M. Delile. Mr. Bentham has also examined
it attentively by the side of genuine specimens of T. vesi-
culosum in his own Herbarium, and the result is that the
whole appear to be identical.

A hardy pretty perennial, flowering in July and August.
Its stems are procumbent, but rise at the ends about a foot
from the ground, or even higher.

J. L.

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1409

JASMINUM* Wallichianuni.
Dr. WdUicJiS Nipal Jusmine.

DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. JasminE/T, Jussieu. — {Introduction to the natural system of
Botany, p. 222.)

JASMINUM.—Suprd, vol. \.fol. 1.

J. Wallichianum ; foliis alternis pinnatis 3-4-jugis cum imparl, foliolis glabris
ovatis acutis imparl acumliiato, ramls angulatis, pedunculls axillaribus
terminalibusque trifloris corymbosis, calyce dcnticulato, corollie lol)is
5-6ve eequalibus rotnndatis tubo trli)15 brevioribus.
Frutcx scandens, atroviridis, ramis fiexuosis angulatis. Folia glaher-

rima, foliolis lateralibus circa uncialibus, impari fere biunciali. Flores

parvi, lutei.

A native of Nipal, seeds from which country havini^
been given to Mr. Tate by the Honourable and Reverend
William Herbert, grew and produced the plant from which
this drawing was taken.

It is nearly related to Jasminum revolutum, from which
it is known by its small-sized flowers, and by the nearly
uniform number and figure of its leaves and leaflets, par-
ticularly by the terminal leaflet being always much more
acuminated than the side ones. When dry it may readily
be mistaken for J. revolutum. It has been named in com-
pliment to Dr. Wallich. It is perfectly hardy, and must
be considered a "reat addition to our shrubberies.

J. L.

* Linnaeus tells us that the derivation of Jasmine is to be found in ««», a
violet, and oa-iA, perfume. But it appears from the writings of the Arabian
Botanists Mesne, Ebn Alva, and Abulfadli, that its vernacular Arabian
dcnomiuation is lasmyn or Ismyn.

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1410

ALSTROMERIA* pulcli(' 11a ; vnr. pilosa.
Red specMed-Jiowered Alsti'omeria ; hany vmnety.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Amaryllide* R. Brown. {Introduction to the natimtl
system of Botany, p. 259.)

ALSTRUMERIA.— Supra, vol. 9. fol. 731.

A. pulchella. Hooker's exot. flora, 64. Bot. mag. t. 2353.

cc. foliis pubescentibiis, sepalis denticulatis. Supra, vol. \2.fol. 1008.

/3. pilosa ; foliis ciliato-fimbriutis, sepalis serratis.

This lovely plant is so liable to vary, that we have
thought it right to publish a form in which it is strikingly
different from its appearance as represented at fol. 1008.
In the latter the leaves are so little pubescent as to appear
almost smooth, and the sepals so slightly denticulate as to
be little more than scabrous at the margin. In this, on
the contrary, the hairs of the leaves are remarkably long, and
the sepals deeply and distinctly serrated ; the lowers are
also larger, and more brightly coloured.

Our drawing was made from a plant in the Garden of
Lady Oakes, at Mitcham, where it flowered beautifully in
a pot last autumn.

Many of the species of Alstromeria are very apt to die
under the hands of cultivators : this is, however, one of the
most easily managed. It is nearly hardy, and would pro-
bably prove quite so if grown on a south border, covered in
winter by a wide sloping thatched roof, such as is now in
use, with great success, in the Garden of the Horticultural

• So named by Linnaeus, after Claudius Alstromer, a Swede, from whom
he received many plants.

Society. But the safest way to treat the species is to plant
them in light loamy soil, in a border within a glazed pit,
which is just heated enough to keep out frost in winter.
Here they will grow with great vigour, throwing up strong
suckers in all directions, and flowering beautifully : their
leaves will not, on the one hand, be parched by the dry-
ing cold winds of April, nor, on the other, scorched by
the sun at Midsummer. Thus protected, they will perform
all their natural functions as if in their native soil ; and an
abundance of food will be sent downwards into the roots,
which will thus be prepared, upon the return of the growing
season, to send up new shoots with the greatest vigour.

J. L.

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1411

GAUTIIERIA* Shallon.
The SliaUon Gautherift.

DECANDRIA MOXOC. YNIA.

Nat. ord. EuiCE.t Jussiru. {Introduction to the natural system of
Botany,]). 182.)

GAUTHERIA L. — Calyx 5-fidus, in fructu l)accatus. Corolla niono-
pctala, urceolata. Stamina 4-5 ; anthcrtp biconies. Capsula chartacea,
5-localaris, polysperma, intra calycem baccatum inclusa.

G. Shallon ; suberecta, foliis subcordato-ovatis acutis serratis marginibus
raniisque jnnioribus hispidis, racemis secundis, pedicello infra medium
bibracteato, coroUis viscoso-glandulosis. Hooker in hot. may. t. 2843.
Gaultheria Shallon. Purshjl. am. sept. 1. 284. Nutt. yen. 1. 263.

Frutex humilis, seinpervirens, stoloniferus, primum deciunbens, fnox
erectus, in hortis pedalis, in /era natura oryyalis, inter arbores in pinetis
quercetisqne crescens. Folia atroviridia, venosa. Flores racemosi, albi,
roseo siijfusi, inter folia absconditi. Fructus purpureo-lateritii, snccosi,
mucilaginosi, fatui.

For years this had been an object of great interest with
Botanists, as being likely to become an important addition
to our artificial Flora, if either seeds or living |)lants could
be procured, when it was received by the Horticultural
Society from Mr. Douglas, in 182G. A very large number
of seedlings was raised, and distributed among the public;
and it has proved a hardy handsome evergreen, running
along the surface of the ground, but with no disposition
to arrive at a stature exceeding that of a dwarf bush. Per-
lia])s when older it may acquire the state in which it is
found in North-west America.

* As this plant has been named after either one Gaulthier, the author
of an Introduction to Botany, pnblished in 17G0, or of Ganticr, a French
writer upon Natiual History, about the same period, it seems that the proper
orthography of the word will be as it is printed above.

In that country it inhal)its pine woods, growing beneath
the dense shadow of such places, and arriving at the stature
of a man. Its fruit is used as food by the Indians, who
pound it into a sort of cake, which we have tasted, but
which did not prove very palatable to an European. It
abounds in a mucilaginous insipid juice.

We should hope that this plant may one day become
useful as a covert for game. It is disposed to produce
seeds in England, and at any rate increases so readily from
layers and suckers, that it might easily be multiplied to
any extent.

J. L.

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1412

POTENTlLLA* miss^rica.
Missouri Cinqucfoil.

ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA.

Nat. ord. RosACEiE Jussieu. (Introduction to the natural system of
Botany, p. 81.)

POTENTlLLA.— Suprd, vol. \Q>. fol. 1379.

Sect. Foliis pinnatis.
P. missourica ; caule erecto stricto, foliis pinnatis sub-3-juiris supra incano-
sericcis subtus niveo-lanatis, tbliolis obloniris pinnatiHdis : laciniis lanceo-
lato-liuearibus acutis, stij)ulis foHaceis incisis, foliis supcrioribus siib-
integris, bracteis foliaceis, floribus corymbosis, caiycibus lanatis petalis
emarginatis lonirioribus.
P. missourica. " Hornemann."
P. arguta. Spreng. sp. pi. 2. 534. non Purshii.

Herbaperennis. Folia pinnata, 2-3-juga, radicalia, pinnatifida: laciniis
lineari-oblongis acutis subfulcatis, supra incana, subtus niveo-lanata. Caulis
crcctus, pedalis, incanus, subdichotomus, foliis ad dichotomias iuferiores suh-
simplicibus : stipulis laciniatis, ad superiores subintegris. Flores in axillis
dichotoviiarum solitarii, et in corynibis terminalibus. Calycis sericeo-lanati
lacinicE ovatce, acutcB, integrce. Petala parva, lutea, emarginata, calyce
minora.

This is no doubt one of the plants confounded with
P. arguta of Pursh, from which it is nevertheless extremely
different. For the knowledge that it is the P. missourica
of Hornemann, we are indebted to Professor Lehonann,
who pointed it out to us during his visit to England last
year.

It is nearly related to P. pectinata of Fischer, which is
wrongly referred to P. pennsylvanica, as a synonym, in
M. De Candolle's Prodromiis. From that species it is
known not only by its hoariness, but also by the nakedness

* Sue fol. 1379.

of its inflorescence, its minute petals, and its more deeply
pinnatifid leaflets.

A hardy perennial, native of North America. The
plant from which our drawing was taken grew in the
Garden of the Horticultural Society, where it had been
raised from seeds collected in Arctic America by Dr.
Richardson. It flowers from June to August.

J. L.

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1413

TURR/EA?* pinnata.
Pinnated TurrfRu.

MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Mf.liace* Juss. — (Introduction to the natural system of
Botany, p. 120.)

TURRjEA Linn. — Calyx 5-fidus. Petala 5, longissiina, li^ula'formia.
Stamina 10, tubo loiigissimo apice 10-fido, antheris ad loborum basin, aut
inter eos insertis. Stylus 1. Stigma crassiusculum. Capsw/a 5-looularis,
loculis dispermis, valvis medio septiferis. — De Cand. prodr. 1. 620.

T. foliis pinnatis, tubo staminum 10-dentatodentibusbifidis. Wallich plant .

asiat. rar. vol. 2. p. 21. t. 119.

Frutex {arbor ?). Rami cylindrici, cortice [/labro, pallida fuscescente.
Folia petiolata, valdc approximata, sparsa, undique patentia, impari-pin-
nata, 2-3-juga ; foliola opposita, patentia, brcvissi7ne petiolata, lanceolata,
attenuato-acuta, integerrima, eleganter tindulata, basi pariim cordata ct
incequalia, lobis rotundatis, altero breviore, rigida, subcarnosa, hand punc-
tata, utrinque secus tractus vasorum pilosula, suprd atroviridia, lucida,
subtiis costd nervisque alternis elevatis, leviter venulosa ; inferiora pollicaria,
exteriora sensim viajora, impar fere 3-pollicare. Petiolus communis teres,
pilosulus, basi pariim dilatatus, suprd sulcatus, sesquipollicaris, desinens in
rachin rectam, teretem, sulcatam ; partiales brevissimi, teretcs, pilosnli.
Stipulae nullcE. Peduuculi solilarii, axillares, teretes, pilosi, pollicarcs,
post expansioncm Jiorum decurvi, apice gerentes flores aliquot fasciculatos,
pedicellatos, pullide roscos, inodoros, suffnltos pcdiccllis brevibus, clavatis,
sulcatis. BracteoliE paucce, spars(e, lanceolatce, actitce. Calyx j^rofundl}
5-partitus, pilosus ; lacinia; foliacecp, ligulata, incequales, basi conniventes,
apice acutiusculd patulce. Corolla tubulosa, sesquipollicaris, limbo patentc.
Petala 5, plana, lanceolata, subinaqualia, obtusiuscula, patentia, subtiis
subsericea, basi angustatd desinentia in ungues longos, connatos in tubum
cylindricum, gracilem, sulcatum, limbum lequantem, calyce duplo lougiorem,
basi intiis auctum tubulu carnoso, brcvissimo, triincato, ovarium et basin
styli ambiente. Filament a 10, glabra, unita in tubum carnusurn, cylindricum,
unguibus corollce adnatum, supernc libcrum, ercctum, limbo breviorem, fauce
pariim dilatatum, \0-dentatum, dcntibus brevibus, subulatis, versiis apiccm
seorsiim dorso appendiculatis denticulo subulato, brevi, patente. Antlienv 10,

• Georgio a Turre, an Italian Botanist, visited Candin, and published a
Catalogue of the Garden at Padua in 1662. He was also the author of an
indifferent Jiistona Plantarum, in folio, in 1685.

VOL. XVII. E

inter denies stamineos, sessiles, hisce hrcviores, crectcB, ohlongce, 2-loculares,
pilosulce. Ovarium parvum, ovatum, tuhulo appcndiculari corolla: inclusum,
5-loculare? fi-spermum? ovulis erectis? Siylui^ Jilifor mis, longitudine Jila-
mentorum. Stiii;ma capitatum, carnosum, intra untheras latens. Fructus
hand visus. Wallich 1. c.

Columna staminum cylindracea, petalorumlongitudine, apice antheras 10
sessiles gerens, dentibus totidem stellatim patentibus interjectis. Antherse
oblopgce, connectivo lutco lucido carnoso piloso, loculis parvis in facie con-
nectivi sitis, longitudinaliier dehiscentibns. Discus cylindricus, conicus,
basin styli ambiens. Ovarium minimum, depressum, 5-loculare, loculis dis-
permis ; ovulis asccndeniibus, una stipra alterum.

" My acquaintance with this shrub is limited to some
living individuals in the Honourable Company's Botanic
Garden at Calcutta, which were sent from the mountains
near Silhet, by Francis de Silva, in 1825, and which blos-
somed soon afterwards in February and July. I have
never received any dried specimens of the plant, nor have
I seen the fruit ; I am unalDle, therefore, to determine the
genus with certainty. It seems to be nearly allied to
Trich'ilia. The leaves are neither dotted, nor have they
any aromatic smell ; the pinnse have sometimes a small
additional leaflet or appendix attached to or between their
bases."

Such is the account given of this plant by Dr. Wallich,
by whom it was brought to England in 1828, and presented
to the Horticultural Society, in whose Garden it flowered
in March 1830. It is a tender stove plant.

We quite agree with our learned friend in considering
this a doubtful species of Turreea. The curious disk or
series of barren stamens is especially deserving of atten-
tion ; but we know not how far its presence may be com-
mon among Meliacese, and the want of acquaintance with
the fruit renders us unwilling at present to create a new
genus. We leave the question unsettled the more willingly,
because we know it will be better determined by M. de
Cambessedes, who is now occupied with the reconstruction
of the order.

J. L.

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1414

RHODODENDRON* Alta-clerense.

The Highclere Rhododendron.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat.ord. EiiiCE/^ Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of Botany,
p. 182.)

RHODODENDRON.—Snpra, vol. I. fol. 37.

Garden Variety.

We have on several occasions lately presented our
readers with figures of hybrid Azaleas of great beauty
raised at Highclere, the seat of the Earl of Caernarvon.
Lovely as those were, their ornamental character is almost
as nothing compared with the subject of this account, in
which everything of beauty that a plant can possess seems
collected, fragrance alone being wanting. With a clear
transparent crimson colour, rendered still more bright by
a few distinct spots of a darker hue, are combined a fine
bold outline, a great breadth of surface, and the utmost
symmetry ; while the deep rich green of the magnificent
foliage forms a back-ground in the most perfect harmony
with the lively tints of the blossoms.

The history of the creation of this superb plant deserves
to be particularly described, as it not only shews how great
the power of man is over nature, but holds out to us a
prospect of the most gratifying kind in regard to the future
gayness of our Gardens.

Rhododendron arboreum is, as is well known, an Indian

* Well may this be called the Tree of Roses (p«Sov, a rose, and ^'i>\af, a
tree), if we picture to ourselves a plant, twenty or thirty feet high, covered
with blossoms of such lively colours as those represented in the accompanying
Rgure. Alta-Clera is the name of Highclere in Domesday Book, and in
ancient writinffs.

plant, bearing blossoms of an intense carmine, and having
a stature equal to that of a small tree, but not hardy enough
to live in the open air in this country, and also less beautiful
than might be anticipated from the rich colour of its
flowers, in consequence of the small size of its bunches.
Some years ago it occurred to Lord Caernarvon, that if a
hybrid variety could be obtained between this and some
one of the hardy American species, the result would be a
more robust constitution on the one hand, and a great bril-
liancy of colouring on the other; and also that if the pollen
of R. arboreum could be employed, the stature of the
hybrid would also be increased.

An opportunity of ascertaining the justness of these
expectations having occurred, the experiment was tried in
the manner detailed in the following letter from Mr. Gowen.
How completely Lord Caernarvon's anticipations were
realised, is shewn by the same account, and by the accom-
panying figure. To the hardiness of R. catawbiense is
added the arborescent habit and rich colours of R. arbo-
reum, while the contracted clusters of the latter are ex-
changed for the spreading bunches of the former.

" My dear Sir, " Highclere, May 13, 1831.

*' You desire to have the history of the lovely Rho-
dodendrons of which I sent you flowers a short time ago. They are
intermediate between the magnificent Rhododendron arboreum of
Nipal and a seedling Rhododendron from R. catawbiense, which had
been fertilised by the pollen of Rhododendron ponticum. From the
period of the introduction of Rhododendron arboreum into the
Highclere Garden by my friend Dr. Wallich, and more particularly
since its inability to withstand the rigour of this climate had been
ascertained, Lord Caernarvon became desirous of producing a cross
breed between it and the hardy species. We were not fortunate in
bringing Rhododendron arboreum into bloom so early as we wished.
Being on a visit at the Grange in the autumn of 1825, I observed a
specimen, which had been planted out in Mr. Baring's magnificent
Conservatory, with flower-buds upon it. Mrs. Barino; was so kind
as to place one of the umbels at my disposal when it should come to
flower. Three plants of hardy Rhododendrons were selected early in
the winter, and removed from out-borders into boxes in readiness;
and early in the spring of 1826, I received from the Gardener at the
Grange a fine umbel of the flowers of Rhododendron arboreum in a
tin case. Their pollen was used m fertilising the flowers of the hardy
species which, by previous concert, had been brought into contem-
poraneous bloom. The result was the production of a number of

capsules containing good seed, from which were raised above 1800
plants, which have been extensively distributed to Nurseries and
private Gardens both in En^^land and Scotland. The |)lants retained
by Lord Caernarvon shewed flower-buds in small quantity late last
autumn. Some of the most perfect were removed into j)ots early in
the present season from the shrubberies, and, being placed under
glass in a cool conservatory, have flowered. Upon their beauty I
need not dilate; you have seen specimens, and are in a condition to
form your own opinion. The plants are quite hardy, having never
been damaged in the slightest degree by the winters of this climate ;
but they are very excitable, shoot very early, and will therefore in
early springs be liable to be injured by late frosts. They make
extremely vigorous growth, and, judging from the analogy which 1
have observed to prevail in hybrid productions, I am inclined to believe
that they will attain to the height of 20 feet and upwards. Their
foliage is very ornamental.

" Believe me, my dear Sir,

" Very truly yours,

" J. R. GOWEN."

There are in the Gardens other Rhododendrons havinsr
a somewhat similar origin, one of which has been figured
lately by Mr. Sweet, under the name of R. Smithii ; but
they cannot be compared for beauty with the truly noble
R. Alta-clerense.

J. L.

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1415

EPTDl^DRUM* odoratissimuin.

Sweet-acoited Ejti(U'ndnini .

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Ouchidk/T. Jussieu. — (§ Epidcndrcoc ; Introduclion to the
natural system of Botany, p. 262.)

EPlbENDRUM.—Suprd, vol. \.fol.\l.

§ Foliis in pseudobolbos insidentibus.
E. foliis in pseudobolbos ovatos corrugatos binis cnsifonuibiis, ract'iiio siib-

siniplici loiii^iore, sepalis oblonfris petaliscjue cuncatis patentihus, lalu'lli

(erh liberi Irilobi lobis oblongis obtusis integris subsequalibus disco cal-

loso depresso.
Encyclia patens. Hooker in Bot. mag. t. 3013.
Macradenia hitescens. Bot. cab. iio7i Bot. rer/.

Pseiidobolbi ovati, corrugati, sulcati, atrovirides, mow induviati. Folia
lineari-ligulata, corincca, atroviridia, obtitsa, raccmo crecto, (cr7ninali,midti-
fioro brcviora. Flores odoratissimi, viridi-lutci, purpureo submaculati. Se-
pala ovata, acuta, patentia. Petala patentia, cuneato-obovata. Labelluin
scBjniis posticum, cum columna paralleluvi, basi adnatum, trilobum, /obis ob-
longis, conformibus, lateralibus, erectis, intcrmedio marginibus rvflcxis ; disco
albo, elcvato, carnoso. Columna scmiteres, apice antrorsii7n subauricidnta :
anthera bilocularis, cartiosa ; loculis se mibipar litis ; pollinia 4, gemiuata,
Jilis 4 replicatis.

This delightfully fragrant epii)hyte is a native of woods
near Rio Janeiro, whence it was introduced to our Gardens
a few years since. The plant from which our drawing
was taken had been received by the Horticultural Society
from the Right Hon. Robert Gordon, and flowered m the
Garden at Chiswick last summer. It is easily cultivated
in decayed moss and wood well drained, and placed in a
hot damp part of the stove.

This is certainly a genuine Epidendrum, iVom which it

* From e^ri, upon, aud JtyJ^o^, a tree ; llio branches of trees being the
usual habitations of such plants.

differs in nothing but the imperfect union of the labellum
with the cohunna ; a circumstance not common indeed,
but far from unknown, in that genus. We therefore cannot
assent to its being referred to Encyclia, which, although
very nearly related to Epidendrum, appears to have been
judiciously distinguished by Dr. Hooker on account of its
connivent sepals and petals, and its cucuUate labellum,
which has no adhesion with the columna.

It is scarcely to be doubted, that the Macradenia lu-
tescens of our friend Mr. Loddiges is also this plant, and
not the species figured under that name in the Botanical
Register. The latter belongs to the tribe called Vandeae.

J. L.

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1416

CROCUS * vernus ; var. leucorhyncus.
Pheasanfs Feather Crocus.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Iride^ Jussieu. (Introduction to the natural system of
Botany, p. 260.)

CROCUS Linn. — Spatha plerumque bivalvis, valvula interiore multo
angustiore. Calyx regularis, tripartitus, petaloideus, infundibularis, laciniis
dorso soepius penicillatis. Corolla paulo minor, 3-partita, conformis,
laciniis dorso saepii^s unicoloribus. Tubus longissimus basi subterraneus.

Stiyma profunde trifidum, laciniis convolutis. Herbse perenncs, cormosoB,

acaules. Folia lincaria, marginibus rejiexis. Flores speciosi, albi, lutei
V. purpurei.

Garden Variety.

There is scarcely a tribe of Garden flowers that
abounds more with beautiful varieties than the Spring
Crocuses, and especially the species to which the name
vernal has been exclusively applied. This comprehends all
those the throat of whose flower is bearded with short
hairs ; by which character a great number of extremely dis-
similar forms are brought together, difl'ering in the breadth
and form of the segments of the calyx and corolla, and in
the manner in which the latter are respectively coloured,
but agreeing in being all either white or purple, never
yellow. An account of them is given by Mr. Sabine, in
the Transactions of the Horticultural Society, from which
we extract what relates to the variety before us.

* The Saffron, xgoxaj of" the Greeks, was one of the first plants that
acquired a name in the earliest periods of the world. Solomon mentions it
as one of the sweet-smelling herbs that the garden of his bride was planted
with ; Homer speaks of it with the lotus and the fragrant hyacinth ; and
Virgil enumerates the rubcns crocus among the sweet flowers from which
his bees collected honey. The word is thought to have been derived from
K^cKn, yarn ; in allusion to the resemblance of its stigmas to threads spun
from wool.

*' The Pheasant's Feather Crocus was so called by-
Mr. Williams, of Turnham Green, who raised the variety.
It shews its head very early, but proceeds slowly to open-
ing, and is in blossom in the latter season, but not late ;
does not produce many flowers. Leaves not abundant, of
moderate breadth, and upright. The flowers are small
and short, and most conspicuous as they rise ; the top of
the tube is white ; the petals small and concave, the inner
ones shorter than the outer; the whole of the petals pale,
except the tops, which have a small purple spot, sur-
mounted with a patch of pure white, occupying the whole
top of the petals ; the inner petals are tipped with white,
but have not so much of the dark colour below, but only a
tinge of purple. The stigmas orange, and shorter than the
anthers."

The beauty of this is owing to the very pleasing contrast
that is formed between the pure white tips' and the clear
deep blue on which they repose.

Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul-
tural Society in March last.

J. L.

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1417

IIABRANTIIUS* Phycclloidcs.
Phycella-rikc Hahranth u.s.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Amaryllide^: R. Br. {Introduction to the natural system
of Botany, p. 2.'59.)

HABRANTHUS.— Supra, vol. \Q.fol. 1345.

H. Phycclloidcs; bulbo magno, rotundo, nigro; foliis obtusis, p;laucis,
1^ unciae latis ; scapo subpurpurascente, crasso, 8-unciali ; sputhii bi-
tblia, 2^-unciali, marcescente ; umbclla, sexflora, bracteatii ; pedunculis
3^-uncialibus ; germine viridi ; tubo -\\ unciae, viridi-luteo ; limbo '2i-
unciali, coccineo, basi lutescente ; laciniis externis latioribus, uncatis ;
stylo albo, filamentis longiore, apice rubescente, tubo 2^^ uncias longiore;
stigmate brcviter trilobo ; filamentis decurrcntilnis, albis, externis lougi-
oribus ima abbiwiata ; internis brevioribus summii elongata ; genitalibus
pauUum recurvatis, annulo membranaceo insertis. W. H.

" This fine species, which must be referred to the genus
Habranthus, appears to be the point by which it connects
itself with Phycella ; the generic distinctions between this
plant and Phycella ignea being very slender ; but it has
none of the peculiar features which remain to Phycella, as
it has been lastly defined. It only departs from the general
form of Habranthus in having the style and filaments less
curved, and the stigma less deeply cleft than usual ; but
the filaments are decidedly of four lengths, the lowest
being shorter than the two external laterals, and the upper
longer than the internal laterals. There is also a small
fourfold discrepancy in the breadth of the petals. The
filaments are decurrent in the tube, and their insertion is
screened by an annular bearded membrane, as in some
other species. Its broad glaucous leaves, the number and

* See fol. 1.345.

colour of the flowers, give it the appearance of a Phycella.
It flowered for the first time at Spoffbrth, in October, the
pot standing in the open air.

" It had been sent to Spoflbrth by R. Gowen, Esq.,
who received it from Chili. About twenty-five years ago
some bulbs of this species were brought to England by a
ship's steward, who said they were taken in to use as onions
in the South sea ; but having been kept in too high a tem-
perature at Spofi'orth, they dwindled and were lost. Bulbs,
apparently of this plant, have been just imported by Mr.
Tate from Chili.

*' The close affinity of this species to Phycella ignea
makes it apparent that, after a careful re-examination of
the several species, it will be necessary so to reform the
genus Habranthus, as to admit the Phycellse, or to throw
out the polyanthous Habranthi, which do not expand in
sunshine like the others, into the genus Phycella."

For the foregoing account of this fine plant we are
indebted to the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, by whom the
drawing was also communicated in the autumn of 1830.

J. L.

" a The germen and flower of the exact natural size, the petals
having been broken off" from the tube, to shew the interior."

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1418

GLYCINE* biloba.
Two-lobed Glycine.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Leguminos;f, Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of
Botany, p. 90.)

GLYCfNE.—Sujm), vol. 3. fol. 261.

G. biloba ; caule volubili piloso, foliolis ovatis mucronulatis pubescentibus,
raceniis axilUiribus nmltiHoris erectis foliis brevioribus, vexillo bilobo.
Caulis volubilis, viginti pedes et ultra tcndens, pilo^us. Folia ternata,
appressi- pilosa, stipulis subulatis ; foliolis ovatis v. rhombeo-ovatis, mu-
cronulatis, stipellatis, utrinque appressi pilosis. Racenii erecti, multiflori,
flexuosi, pilosi, foliis breviores. Calyx tubulosus, basi bracteolis dnabus
subulatis suffultus, appressi- pilosus, bilabiatus, labio superiorc emaryinato,
iiiferiore tridentato, dente intermedid majore. Corolla violacea ; vexillum
apice bilobum, marginibus rejiexis v. patentissimis, alis majus ; ala^ parallelce,
obtusoe, longi unguiculatce , basi hinc alti cordutce illinc auriculatce ; carina
obtusa, alis brevior. Stamina diadelpha. Ovarium lineare, pilosum, pedi-
cellatutn, polyspermu77i ; stylus rectus, glaber, basi turgescens ; stigma sub-
capitatum.

A native of Mexico, whence seeds were brought, in

1827, by Mr. George Akermann, who presented them to

Mr. Tate, in whose greenhouse our drawing was made in
November last.

Mr. Tate informs us, that it is a desirable conservatory
plant, attaining the height of 20 feet, and covered from
bottom to top with a profusion of flowers. It does not
succeed when planted out of doors. J. L-

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1419

TULIPA* Oculus sdlis ; va7\ praecox.
The Earhj Suns Eye Tulip.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. LiLiACE^ Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of
Botany, p. 279.)

TULIPA.—Suprd, vol. 2. fol. 127.

T. Oculus soils ; integumento bulbi intCis lanato, foliis 4 subciliatis caule
floreque g^laberrimis, labris conuiventibus stigmatum villoso-fimbriatis.
Ker supra, vol. 3. fol. 20 4.

Var. prsecox. Strangways, non Tenorii.

At tab. 204, and subsequently at tab. 1143 of this work,
two varieties of this beautiful species have been figured.
We are now enabled to add a third by favour of the Hon.
T. F. Strangways, who was so obliging as to communicate
the specimen, from which our drawing was made, on the
18th of March last.

Mr. Strangways himself collected the roots in the culti-
vated grounds belonging to Mr. Baring's villa, near Florence,
and he informs us that this is the earliest Tulip that blows
with him. Its roots are woolly, and it is grown in this
country in the open ground.

This must not be confounded with the plant of the
same name, described by Tenore, which Mr. Strangways
considers the Tulipa Raddii. J. L.

*■ In Persia, the land ol'Tulips, the nanv^ of the genus is thoulyban.
Hence its appellation with ns.

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1420

GALIPEA* odoratissima.
Sweet-seen ted GaUpea.

MONADELPIIIA PENTANDRIA.

Nat. ord. DiosME.T- R. Brown. {Introduction to the nntural system
of Botanij, p. 131.)

GALIPEA Aubl. — Cahjx brevis, cupulsofonnis seu turliinato-campanii-
latns, 5-dent;itiis seu .';-tidtis, stepiiis 5-g^onus. Pctala .'3, rarissinii!; 4, liypo-
gvna, linearia, suliiivjcqualia, apice patentia, villosa sen pubcscentia, inferius
coalita seu aclijhitinata, vel rarius conuivcntia in tubum s;rpiiis /)-p;orMini,
corollamque monopetalam canipanulatani reterentia. Stamina sa>pins 5,
raru G, 7, 8 s. 4,petalis pUis niiinisve adhuMcntia vel ad;jlutinata, quandoqiie
omnia feitilia, S8epiiis2-4 castrata : lilamenta sjEpiiiscompIanata biirl)ataquc :
anthei-ge lineares, 2-loculares, oblongoe, longitrorsiim interne deliiscenles.
Nectarium cupulfpforme, glabnim, ovaria ciiigens, Ovaria 5, rarissim^ 4,
3-o;ona, soepc^ gvnophoro brevissimo interposito basi hinc affixa, omnin6
libera vel angulo centrali phis niiuusve cohurentia, 1-locularia, 2-spcrma :
ovulum superius ascendens, inferius susj)ensiim, utrumque angulo interno
aflfixum. Slyli 5, raro plane distincti aut omnino coaliti, soppius basi liberi,
nioxque in unum coaliti. Stigmata 5, completa, vel rarius ununi ^-partitum.
Cocca 1-2, carteris abortivis, angulo centrab 2-valvia ; endocarpio crustareo,
separabili, itemque 2-valvi. Semen abortione unicum. Integumentum co-
riaceum ; umbilicus marginalis. Perispermum r\u\\\\m. Embryo corvaUis :
cotyledoncs magnae, coirugatcc, infra collum 2-auriculatoc, una exteriore
alterum involvente valde corrugatum ; radicular auriculis longitudine : radi-
cula brevis, teres, obtusa, in cotyiedonem interiorem niediimi incurva, cum
eadem involuta, umbilicumque attingens. {Fructum in G. heterophylla et

G. Fontanesiana, semen in G. Fontanesiana obscrvavi.) Fruiices vel

rariiis arbores. Folia exstipulatay alternu, punctato-pcllucida, rarissinid
pu7tctis glandidosis extcriorifjus conspersa, ternafa, rarius qnaternata scit qui-
nata, scepc simplicia, petiolo tunc infra apicem incrassato-geniculalo. Flores
axillares vel extra-axillarcs, rariinvc tcrinijtales, scepiiis raccmosi, rarissinid
corymhosi vel paniculuti. Pra>floratio quincnncinlis (Dec). Augiiste de
St. Hilaire, Histoire des plantes les plus rcmarquablcs du Bresil, p. 130.

G. odoratissima ; foliis obovatis utrinijue obtusis brev^ petiolatis, spicis bre-
vissimis axillaribus multifloris subsessilibus, staminibus quinque omnibus
fertibbus.

* Aiiblet, with whom this name originated, does not explain its
meaning.

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Frutex caule, in caldario, simplici, 2-pedali, pollicem crasso fusco. Folia
pedalia v. bipedalia, atroviridia, rjlaherrima, pellucido-puncfata (puncfis in
folio morhio nunc opacis nicjerrimis). Spicse 1 v. 11 unciales, densissim^
multijlorce, petiolis vix duplb longiores. Bractese subulatce, rigidcB. Calyx
tubulosus, apice 5-dentatus, dcntibus obtusis, incpqualibus, apice recurvis.
Petala 5, linearia, concava, apice patentia, ungvibus in tubum cylindraceum
calyce longiorcm co?inatis. Staminum urceoliis cylindricus, antheris 5, li-
neari-ovatis, bilocularibus, fertilibus, laciniis corollce alternis. Discus cylin-
draceus, carnosus, 5-dentatus, ovario longior. Ovarium 5-loculare. Stylus
unicus, urceolo staminum brevior. Stigma capitatum. Fructus quern vidi
constitit e cocco unico bivalvi monospermo chartaceo (fig;. \) ab endocarpio
cartilagineo joariter bivalvi (fig. 2) separabili, et coccis 4 minimis abortivis
ad basin (fig. 1, a). Semen solitarium, ascendens (fig. 3), hilo magna
suberoso endocarpio adhcerente (fig. 3, a, et fig. 4, a). Testa cartilaginea, c
regione hili dilatata, cava. Embryo curvus, quoad hilum transversus, exal-
biiminosus, radicula crassa, cylindraced, inferd, cotyledonibus corrugatis, com-
plicatis ; plumula conspicud.

This most fragrant plant was sent to the Horticultural
Society from Rio Janeiro by the late Sir Henry Chamber-
layne. It grows in the stove, the constant heat of which is
indispensable to it, to the height of about two feet, and is
covered nearly to the bottom with its broad, deep green
leaves : its stem has no disposition to divide into branches,
so that it has hitherto not been increased.

When in flower, the whole atmosphere of the hothouse
is perfumed as if with jasmines, and the period of blossoming
lasts some time. It thrives in a mixture of peat and loam,
in a pot plunged in a tanpit. The flowering season is
May.

J. L.

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1421

KENNEDYA* inophylla.
Close-headed Kennedya.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Leguminos.'e Jz^sy. — (^Introduction to the natural system of
Botani/, p. SfS.)

KENNEDYA.— Suprii, vol. 11. p. 944.

§ 2. Foliis 3-foliolatis, carind vexillo et alls hreviore. Do C.
K. inophylla ; foliolis 3 cuiieatis niucrouatis basi attemuitis siiprii pilosiiis-
oulis suhtiis sericeis, stipulis ovalis acutis, pcdunculis ibliis longioribus
flores 15-20 dens^ urabellato-capitatos apice gerentibus.
K. inophylla. Hort.

CauUs fruticosus, scaiidens. Folia in genere jnagna, 3-foliolata, foliolis
cu7icatis, basi attenuatis, apice mucronatis v. cuspidatis, supra atroviridibus,
pilosiusculis, infra sericeis, pallidioribus. Stipulae ovafcc, acutce, sericece ;
stipellee subulatce. Pedunculi rigidi, erecti, pilis nigris pared vestiti. Flores
15-20, in capitulo subumbellato dense congesti. Calyx pilis nigris appressis
dejisissimd tectus, bilabiatus, labio superiore biloho, inferiors tridentato.
Vexillum basi maculd pallidc viridi instructuvi, alis et carind longius.
Stamina diadelpha. Stigma capltutum.

This fine species appears to have been first raised from
New Holland seeds in the Royal Gardens at Kew. Mr.
Low, in whose Nursery our drawing was made, informs us
that it was received from Mr. Aiton, in exchange for other
New Holland plants, about five years ago, under the name
of Kennedya inophylla. The ])lant from which the figure
was taken had been struck from a cutting about ei,L,diteen
months previous; in July 1830 it was planted in a border
of sandy peat and loam, in a propagating house which
stands fronting the nortli ; and in April 1831 it had ac-
quired the height of four feet, and was covered with

* Named after Mr. Kennedy, late partner in the firm of Messrs. Lee and
Kennedy, Nurserymen, Hammersmith.

flowers. Mr. Low finds it the strongest grower of all the
Kennedyas.

Most nearly related to Kennedya coccinea, which differs
in being a more slender plant, with smaller leaves, and
heads with much fewer flowers in them (never more than
5 or 6), while. in K. inophylla the number varies from 15
to 20.

The deep pitch-black hairs with which the calyxes of
this species are clothed, give the inflorescence a remarkable
appearance, and form an excellent back-ground for the
lively red flowers to repose on.

J. L.

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1422

CASSIA* Herbertiana.
Mr. Herberfa Cassia.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. or d. Leo uminos.t. /j^fs. {Introduction to the natural system of
Botany, p. 86.)

CASSIA. — Supnl, vol. l.fol. 83.

C. Herbertiana ; foliolis sub-5-jugis lanceolatis suprii glabriusculis subti^s
petiolis ramulisqiie pubescentibus, glandulu parva sessili inter paria

supremis 2 exceptis, leguminibus

Frutex 8-9-pcdalis, erectus, apice 7-aniosus. Ramuli sxbangulati, pu-

bescentcs. Folia feri! semper quinquejttga, foliolis lanceolatis, mpialibus ;

stipulae minimcp, lincares, acuminatce ; petiolus pubcscens ; fjlandulcE inter

omnia paria, diiobus supremis exceptis, ?nijii7ncB,oblongcB, sessiles, lutesccntes.

Racemi axillarcs et terminales, subcorymbosi, foliis brcviores. Scpala obtu-

sissima. Petala sulphurea, ovata, obtusa. Staminum duo elongata, perfecta,

ccBtera subsessilia, effoeta.

A native of Barbadoes, whence seeds were received by
the Hon, and Rev. WilHani Herbert, by whom our speci-
mens were communicated in November last.

It requires the heat of a stove, where it forms a shrub
about 8 or 9 feet high. Like the rest of its genus, it will
no doubt strike freely from cuttings.

The pods of this species being unknown, it is uncertain
to what division of the genus it belongs. Most likely it
should be placed near C. crotalarioides, which is distin-
guished by its more compact habit, and by the elongated
form of the glands between the leaflets. These curious

* Seefol. 1310.

glands, the use or nature of which no one knows, grow in
this species from between every pair of leaflets except the
two uppermost ; but, by a mistake of our draughtsman,
they are represented as proceeding from between every

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1423

HOVE A* purpurea.
Purple Hovea.

MOiXADELPHIA, on UlADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Leg uMixos,?;. Trib. Loteoe De C. {Introduction to the
natural system of Botany, p. 86.)
HO VEA.—Suprd, vol. 4. p. 280.

H. purpurea ; foliis lineari-oblongis obtusis mucronulatis supra glabris subtus

tomentosis, pedicellis pitiolo brcvioribus geminis.
H. purpurea. Sweet's Flora anstralasica, no. 13.

Frutox ramosus, dumosus, ramis crassiusculis, teretibus v. leviter avgu-
latis, tomentosis. Folia lineuri-oblonga, obtusa, apice mucronulala v. cal-
losa, suprd atroviridia, glabra, infra dense nunc ferrugineo-tomentosa ; in
spontaneis vix reticulata. Stipuloe minimce, subulatcB, tomentosce. Flores
gemini, axillares, pedicellis petiolo brevioribus, tribracteatis ; bracteolis
ovatis, obtusis, appressis, ferrugineo-tomentosis : duabus superioribus calyci
fere (equalibus, inferiore ininore et magis remold. Calyx dense tomentosus,
labio superiore truncato emarginuto, inferiore tridentato. Fiorcs purpurci.
Vexillum erectiim, subrotundo-ovatum, emarginatum, basi macula pallidd
viridi. Stamina monadelpha.

A New Holland plant, recently introduced into our
Gardens. Our drawing was made in March last, at the
Nursery of Messrs. Low and Co. of Clapton, lately Messrs.
Mackay and Co.

It is a greenhouse shrub of much beauty, flowering:
freely, and having a neat, healthy foliage. In the summer
it will grow in the open air; but it must be removed back
into the greenhouse upon the approach of frost.

* Named in compliment to Mr. Anthony Pantaloon Hove, a Polish
gentleman, by whom many rare plants, from the east of Europe and west of
Asia, have been introduced to our Gardens.

It may be propagated by striking, under a bell-glass, in
pure white sand, young cuttings ; which are afterwards to
be shifted into a mixture of equal parts of peat and light
sandy loam.

J. L.

NOTE.

The Nursery of Mr. Mackay at Clapton, from which this plant was
obtained, is now under the direction of Mr, Hugh Low, who has been eight
years foreman in the establishment, and to whose careful management, the
success that has attended the raising the many important collections re-
ceived by Messrs, Mackay and Co, during that period, is very much to be
attributed. We rejoice to find that this valuable depot of New Holland
plants is to remain in such skilful hands.

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1424

IIUBUS* spectclbilis.
Sfiewy Bramble.

ICOSANDllIA POLVC.YNl.t.

Nat. ord. RosacE/T: Jussieu. — (Introduction to the natural system of
Botany, p. 81 .) ,

RUBUS.—Supra, vol. 6. fol. 461.

R. spectabilis ; caule crecto fruticoso subaculeato tereti, foliis ternatis tri-
lobisve, foliolis niembranaceis ovato-rlioniboideis nunc cordatis in;i(juabter
duplicato-SL-rratis subtus leviter pilosis viridibus, pedunculis axillaiibus
terniinahbus(jue solitariis pubescentibus, Horibus nutantil)us, calycibus
canipanulatis tonientosis subsetosis : laciniis ovatis, pctulis ovatis obtusis
venosis.

R. spectabilis. Purshji. amer.septentr. 1. p. 348. t. 16. De Cand. prodr.
2. 559.
Frutcx ei^ectus, 3-4 pedalis, nulla modo siirculosus. Folia hctc viridia ;

nunc tcrnata, foUolo inipari petiolato, scepc cordato, nunc triloba foliolis

confuentibus ; stipulce subulata. Floras, in cultis pauci, in spontaneis

copiosi, nutantes, petalis atro-roseis. Fructus

From the figure of this plant in Pursh's Flora of North
America, great expectations were entertained of it as an
ornamental plant; and when a few individuals were raised
from Mr. Douglas's seeds by the Horticultural Society, it
was supposed to be one of the most valuable species in
his collection. The ])lants, however, that have hitherto
flowered are by no means so beautiful as they were ex-
pected to be. Their petals, indeed, are of a rich deep
rose colour, and the foliage is of a bright fresh green ; but
the blossoms are produced too sparingly to cause any
striking effect. The accompanying drawing is a faithful
representation of the state of the plants that flowered in
tiie Garden of the Horticultural Society. We, however,

* Rubus is said by De Thcis to come from the Celtic rub, red.

feel confident that R. spectabilis will, as it grows older,
vindicate its claim to beauty ; for in the wild specimens
we find the leaves three or four times as large, and the
flowers produced in great profusion.

It grows freely either in common garden soil, or in
peat, and is very hardy, suffering only from the late frosts
of spring. It blossoms in April and May, and strikes
readily from cuttings under a hand-glass, treated like those
of China Roses.

Mr. Douglas found it commonly on the north-west
coast of America, from 40*^ to 52" N. latitude.

J. L.

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1425

BEllBERIS* Aquifolium.
Holly-leaved Berherrij.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYKIA.

Nat. ord. Berberide.e Juss. {Introduction to the natural system, of
Botany, p. 30.)

BERBERIS.—Supn), vol. 12. fol. 1176.

B. Aqtiifolium ; foliis 2-4-iugis cum impare, fbliolis ovato-lanceolatis re-

pando-deiitatis lucidis rcticulato-venosis, dentibus utrimiue 7-14 spiiiosis,

racemis fasciculatis cerruiis.
Beiberis Aquifolium. Pursh fi. amer. sept. 1. p. 219. t. 4. Nuttall gen.

of north am. pi. Hooker fi. boreal, amer. 1. 29. cxcluso synonymo

B. repentis.
? Berberis pinnata. Hooker I. c.
Berberis nervosa. Pursh I. c. quoad fiores.
Mahonia Aquifolium. De Cand. syst. 2. p. 18. Prodr. 1. 108.
Mahonia diversifolia. Siueet's British fiower-gardcn.

Frutex erectus, foliis valdi onustus. GemmoQ v. Alabastra squamis
membranaceis, deciduis. Folia pinnata, se7npervirentia, lucida, 2-4-juga,
cum impare ; foliola sessilia, oblonyo-ovata, v. ovato-lanccohita , spinoso-
dentata, rcpanda, dentibus 7 -\ 4 utrinque, venis reticulatim ordinatis ; pctiolo
continuo, hand 7iodis tuynidis articulatim divisis interrupto. Racemi tcr-
minales, multifiori, fasciculati, cernui. Fiores lutci. Sepala 6, patcntia,
quorum tria extcriora minora, dorso coccinea, extiis bracteolis tribus stipata.
Petala 6, apice bidentata, intus glandulosa.

A native of North-west America, where it was originally
discovered by Mr. Menzies, and more recently by INIr.
Douglas, who found it forming a bush five or six feet high,
in hilly woods, from the source of the river Columbia to its
confluence with the ocean.

In our Gardens it is a very ornamental evergreen,
already two feet high, and remarkable for the extremely

* Sec fol. 1176.

lucid surface of its leaves, which, when they first appear
in the spring, are of a delicate reddish cast, but become a
deep rich green towards the autumn.

It is perfectly hardy, requiring no protection even in
the most severe weather : it seems disposed to produce
fruit, in which case it will be easy to increase it; but
otherwise it will long continue a plant of much rarity,
because of the difficulty of making it strike from layers,
the only way in which cultivators succeed in propagating
either this or B. fascicularis. In the Horticultural Society's
Garden, where our drawing was made, it grows equally
well both in peat among American plants, and in commoQ
garden soil. The flowering season is March and April.

From B. Aquifolium, we distinguished, at fol. 1176, a
pinnated Berberry, sold in the Nurseries of North America,
by the name of B. repens. This very distinct species has
since been referred to the subject of the present article,
without being considered even as a variety. They are,
nevertheless, so diff'erent, that it may be doubted whether
any two species of the genus are more truly distinct.
B. repens is a dwarf, glaucous-leaved plant, creeping very
much at its roots, and therefore propagated easily : its
leaves have a surface destitute of all polish ; the outline
of its leaflets is roundish-oblong ; and there is nothing of
a repand character in its dentations, which are also much
less spiny.

B. Aquifolium is much more like B. fascicularis, a native
of California and Mexico ; but the latter is known by its
dull-green leaves, glaucous beneath, the leaflets of which
are always more than 4, smaller, and more taper-pointed.

As B. fascicularis is constitutionally so impatient of
cold as to require protection in our mildest winters, we
cannot help doubting whether the Nutka and other northern
specimens referred to that species in the Flora Boreali-
Americana, are not rather small-leaved states of B. Aqui-
folium, especially as the latter is known to grow in Nutka.
Had the specimens been named by any Botanist less
accurate and experienced than Dr. Hooker, we should
have felt persuaded that such was really the fact.

J. L.

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BERBERIS* gluiiiacea

Glumaceous Berberry.

IIEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat, ord. Berbeuide^e Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of
Botany, p. 30.)

BERBERIS.— Supra, vol. \2. fol. 1176.

B. glumacea ; foliis 3-8-jugis cum impare, jiigo inforiore ii pctioli basi lon<^6
distanto, foliulis obloiigo-lanccolutis ckntatis basi obliquis triplincrviis,
dentihus utrin([ue subseptem spinosis, nodis petiolorum tumidis, racemis
subgeminis elongatis e squamis f2;liimaceis indiiratis ortis.
Mahonia ghimacea. De Cand. syst. 2. p. 18. Prodr. 1. 109.
Berbcris glumacea. Sproig. syst. 2. 120. Rimer et Schultes, 10. p. 19.
Berberis nervosa. Purshji. amer. sept. 1. p. 219. t. .5, quoad folia. Dec.
syst. I. c. Prodr. I. c. Rumcr et Schultes I. c. Hooker Jl. bor. amer.
1. 29.

Fruticulus m hortis fcrt acaulis, ramis nullis, sempervirens. Gemmae
V. Alabastra squamis linear i-lanceolatis, rijidis, imbricatis. Folia pitviata,
in plantd juniore 3-ju(/a cum impare, in adullioribus G-S-jugn, pctiulo basi
dilatatOy nunc utrinque quasi stipulato, ad nodos tumido ; J'oliolis omnibus li
basi petioli remotis, oblongo-lanceolalis, planis, spinoso-dentatis, nitore nullo
i)i superjicie, glaucescentibus, sapius purpurea obscuro undique suffusiSy
triplinerviis basi valdc obliquis. Racemi solitarii, gemini, ternivc, elongati,
strictissimiy Jloribus luteis, qutim iri B. Aquifolio majoribus. Sepala 6, in
globum connivcntia, 3 exteriora minora, interiora valdc concara, extiis brac-
teolis tribus membranaceis scpulis exterioribus ceqiialibus stipata. Petala G,
ajnce bidentata, intus glandulosa.

This species was found by Mr. Douii^las in sliady pine
woods, " at the mouth of the river Columbia," where it
was seen in great abundance.

It grows very slowly in the Garden of the Horticultural
Society in peat borders among American plants, in the
shade of which it seems to delight. At present, the hard

• Seefol. 1176.

woody stems are perfectly simple, and not more than an
inch or two high ; and there is no trace of any offset by
which it can be increased. It is, however, setting its
fruit freely, so that it is likely to become a common plant.

It is very hardy, but it cannot bear that the extremity
of its stem should be removed. It seems as if it had no,
or very little, power of developing new axillary buds when
the terminal one is destroyed; so that if injured, it either
dies outright, or remains in a stunted state.

The leaves are remarkable for the deep purple they
acquire in the autumn. The flowering season is March
and April.

Berberis nervosa of Pursh is a spurious species, made up
of the leaves of B. glumacea and the flowers of B. Aqui-
folium, and therefore must be expunged from the genus.
This error was, we believe, first detected by Mr. Douglas,
from an inspection of Pursh's specimens in Mr. Lambert's
Herbarium ; and it was on this account that all the plants
distributed by the Horticultural Society have been named
B. glumacea.

J. L.

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1427

HOVEA* lanceolata ; var. linearis.
Linear-leaved lanceolate Hovea.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. LEGTMiNOs.t Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of
Botany, p. 86.)

HOVEA. — Suprc), vol. 4. fol. 280.

H. lanceolata ; I'oliis lanccolatis mucronatis subtiis pubesccntibus, floribus
axillaribus geminis, raniis vimincis. De Cand. prod. 2. 115.

H. lanceolata. Bot. mag. t. 1G24.

(i. linearis; foliis linearibus.

Frutex, ramis vimincis, gracilibus, pubesccntibus. Folia linearia, miicro-

nata, apice rejlexa, subtus leviter pubescentia, utrinque grossc reticulata.

Florcs axillares, gemini, brevissimc pedicellati, purpurei, alis atrioribus.

A native of New Holland, whence it was introduced
some years ago. It differs from the true Ilovea lanceolata
in the narrowness of its leaves, but is evidently a mere
variety.

Our drawing was made in the Nursery of Messrs. Low
and Co., of Clapton, in March last.

A slender greenhouse plant, readily increased by cut-
tings. The braucJics are covered with a very short brown
down. The leaves are linear, with a little down beneath, a
mucronate recurved point, and very coarse reticuhitions.
They/6»?r6'r.y grow in pairs, from the axilla; of the leaves, and
are a violet purple, witli darker-coloured wings.

* See fol. 1423.

VOL. XVII.

NOTE.

We are reminded by an advertisement upon the Wrapper of the present
Number of the Botanical Register, that the collection of plants formed by
the late Mr. Robert Barclay is about to be sold by auction on the 9th and
10th of August. While we lament, in common with all Botanists, that so
valuable and interesting an assemblage of rare plants should be dispersed,
we at the same time invite the attention of our readers to the circumstance,
and recommend them to avail themselves of an opportunity that seldom
occurs of increasing their collections. Mr. Barclay's hothouses are known
to be particularly rich in Madagascar, Isle of France, and Mexican plants :
many of his specimens are probably unique.

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1428

MAXILLAtllA* tctiai2;()iia.
Four-cornered AI axilla ria .

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. OucninE/F, Juss. § Vandea? Lindl. — {Introduction to the
natural system of Botany, p. 2(>2.)

MAXILLARIA.—Suprd, vol. ll.fol. 897.
\

M. tetragona ; pseudobulbis ovatis tetragonis, f(jliis oblongo-lanceolatis pli-
catis solitariis, floribus radicalibus solitariis pseudobulbis brovioribus,
sepalis oblongis obtusis patulis, petalis confoiinibus paulo niinoril)us,
labello canioso ventricoso trilobo erecto : lobis latcralibus parvis acutis
intermedio ovato extils convcxo, disci appendicu caniuso tabulari incum-
bente.

Pseudobulbi ovati, tetrarfoni, rinjosi, apice uvjri. Folia oblotigo-lanccolata ,
plicata, acuta, pctiolata. Flores odorem violce spii-antcs, virides, solitarii,
radicales, injlati, pseudobulbis breviores. Sepala subglobosa, concava, apice
recurva, acuta, carnosu, purpurea leviter tincta ; lateralia basi in cornu pro-
ducta, cum basi producta columncc connata, fundo atropurpureo. Petaia
acuta, sepalis paulo minora. Labelluni sepalis minus, ventricosum, caniosum,
utrinque basi cordatum, apice trilobum : lobis latcralibus brcvibus, acutis,
intermedio ovato, mucronato ; crtiis subviride mai-ginibus maculatis, intus
atropurpureum,fasciatum, subpidjesccns ; appendix disci magna, carnosa, trun-
cata, incrunbens. Colunina carnosa, cuneata. Anthera unilocularis, loculo
marginato, anticc mcndiranacea. Polliiiia 4, oblifjuc collateralia, iufpcjualia,
caudiculu lineari, glanduld obovatd, cuspidatd.

A native of Rio Janeiro, whence it was imported by
the Horticultural Society. Our drawing was made in the
Chiswick Garden in June 1830.

This species is rather a shy grower, and is by no means
remarkable for beauty; the latter quality is compensated
for by its fragrance, which resembles fresh violets. The

* So named in consequence of the resemblance between the column and
labelluni, and the jaws or maxillae of some animal.

structure of the labellum is hip^hly curious : u\ the niside
grows a large, fleshy, deep-purple body, which gradually
passes into the labellum at the lower margin ; but ante-
riorly it projects into a distinct lobe, rcsemblmg a shovel,

allied to the face of the labellum.

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1420

SALVIA* foliosa.
Leafy Meditutn Sage

UIANUKIA MONOr.YXIA.

Nat. Old. Lmuav.^ Jitssicu. {^Introduction to the natnrul system of
Botany, p. ^239.)

SALVIA. — Sapn), vol. l6.fol. 1356.

S. foliosa; caule herbaceo erecto pubescente ; foliis petiolatis, lato-ovatis
acutis basi subconlatis, racemis laxis, vcrticillastris paiicifloris, foliis
Horalibus bractea^fonuibus fusco-membranaceis dccidiiis, calycis labio
superiore inte;j:ro dontibusque labii inferioris acutis, corollne tubo subin-
cluso sub fauce inflate, labio superiore erecto integro, inferioris lobo medio
lato emarginato, 2:enitalibus exsertis, connectivis postice clavatis connatis
edentulis, stylo glabro subintcgro. — Benth. incd.

Caubs herbucens, ercctus, pedalis, sesqnipedalisve, valdc raviosiis, tetra-
(jonus, puhcscens, prcescrlim in faciei) us duabus oppositis, atate subylabratus.
I'olia nuvicrosa, \l-1 pollices lonija, latissimc ovata, acuta, grossc crcnatd,
basi rotundata vel cordata, meinbranacea, scepe bullata, juniora petioliijuc
ptdjcscentcs, demitm glabrata, subtiis pallidiora ; floralia bractemforniia,
sessilia, ovato-lanccolata, calyce subbreviora, acuta, meinbranacea, glabra,
fusccsccnda, dccidua. Verticillastri laxi, sccpitis sexjiori, in racemis ter-
77iinalibus 2-'>-pollicaribus dispositi, infcriorcs rcmoti. Calyces breviter
pedunculati, ovato-campanulati, post anthesin inflati, scepius colorati, striafi,
pubescentes, labio superiore integro, inferiore bilobo lobis omnibus erectis sub-
fpqualibus, lato-ovatis acutis. Corolla cceridea, extus glabra, tubo sub faucc
pariim injlata, dentes calycinas non svpcrante. Labium superius suberectum,
inferiori brevius, integrum, inferius patens, lobis rotundatis, nicdio latissimo
cmarginato. Genitalia exserta. Stamina sterilia rninutissima ; fertilium
connectiva postict clavata, edentula, ferv ad apiccm coimexa, anticc libera,
Jiliformia ; anthcris unilocularibus, oblong is, feri- ad basin adnatis. Stylus
g biberrimus ,filiformis , coloratus. lobo inferiore brevissimo subnullo. Acluiiia
tri(juctra, Icccia. — Benihani.

A native of Mexico, where seeds were collected by
Mr. Graham, the same gentleman to whom we are indebted

Sec fob 120j.

for Salvia fulgens, and several other valuable additions to
our collections.

It is a hardy annual plant, flowering in August and
September, and readily propagated by seeds.

Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul-
tural Society in September last. For the specific character
and description, we are indebted to Mr. Bentham.

J. L.

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1430

BANKSIA* (iiu'rcifolia.
Oak-Jed veil BanksKt.

TETRANDRIA MONOGl^NIA.

Nat. or d. PuoTEACEiE Juss- — {Introduction to the natural system i>J
Botany, p. 68.)

BANKSIA.—Supr^, vol. 8. fol. 688.

B. (jncrcifolia ; foliis oblongo-cuneatis subtruncatis glabiis scrrato-incisis
nuKTOiiatis, j)eriantliii laininis aristatis ! folliculis glabriusciilis. Brown
in Linn, trans. 10. p. 210. Prodr. 390. Romcr et Schultcs, 3. 443.

This shrub is a native of Lewin's Land, in New Holland,
whence it is said to have been introduced in 1805. It
appears to flower very rarely, as no figure has yet found its
way into our periodical 15otanical works. For the oppor-
tunity of making the present drawing, we are indebted to
Mr. Lee, of Hammersmitli, in whose conservatory it blos-
somed in April last.

The branches and leaves are entirely destitute of pubes-
cence : the latter are oblong, wedge-shaped, tapering
gradually to the base, with very regular toothings, each of
which is terminated by a bristle. The heads of flowers
are on short stalks, and about three inches in length. The
segments of the calyx are remarkably reflexed, and each
elongated into a slender, subulate, brown j)oint, which is
what Mr. Brown calls being aristate, covered with hairs of
the same nature as those upon the rest of the calyx, except
that they are shorter.

The follicles, which we have not seen, are said to be
nearly smooth. J. L.

* See fol. 1316.

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1431

CHEIRA^THUS* mutabilis.
Changeable Wall-flower.

TETR ADYNAMIA SILJQUOSA.

Nat.ord. Crucivf-u/k Juss. {Introduction to the natural srjstcvi oj
Botany, p. 14.)

CHEIRANTHUS. —Supra, vol. 3. fol. 219.

C. 7nutabilis ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis argut^ scrratis pubc ad-

pressa bipartitii subpubescentibus, caule frutescente ramoso. De Cand.

syst. vol. 2. p. 183.
«; C. mutabilis. L'Hcrit. stirp. nov. 1. p. 92. Bat. viag. t. 19.3. Willd.

sp. pi. .3. .517.
/3; C. longifolius. Voit. malm. t. 83, Pers. synops. 2. p. 201.
Hesperis longifolia. Poir. suppl. 3. 195.

Caulis fruticosus, crcctus, teres, yriseus, 2-3-pedalis. Rami patentes,
jnniores vix suhangulati. Folia sparsa, lineari-lanceolata, utrinque acuta,
tcjiuia, basi in petioUnn subattcnuata, argute hinc hide scrrata, 3 poll,
longa, 3 lin. lata, primd fronte glabra, vircntia, sub lente pube sparsd
stellatd instructa. Racemi multifiori. Pedicelli Jiliformes, erccti, 4 lin.
longi. Calyx subcompressus, 4 lin. longus. Flores versicolores, in var.
ct nascentes ochroleuci, in var. /3 nascentes albi, in utrdque adulti lilacino-
purpurascentcs. Petalorum ungues calyci (equales aut jjaulb longiores,
lamincp ovatce aut obovatce, patcntes, 4 lin. longae. Siliqucc erecice, juniorcs
cano-tomcntoscE, sessiles super torum ; sty\o Jiliformi et stigmate bilobo ter-
minatce. Pedicelli y?or«7» 2-3 lin. longi. — De Cand. 1. c.

A beautiful half-slirubby plant, .seldom .seen in our
Gardens, although far from being recently introduced. It
is a native of Teneriffe, where seeds were collected by
P. B. Webb, Esq., and sent to England to Mr. Young, of
Milford, near Godalming, by wliom a specimen in tlower
was sent to us in April last.

* Tlic Arabians callod sptcies of this goiuis kheiri, whence the word
Cheiranllios has been compounded by the addition of the Greek for flower.

The changeableness in colour of the petals is most
remarkable ; born pale lilac, they gradually alter to purple,
so that many tints are present at the same time upon one
raceme.

It requires the protection of a greenhouse in winter,
and may be propagated by cuttings of the young wood
struck in heat under a bell-glass.

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1432

RANUNCULUS* cnHicus ; var. niacropliyllus.
Large-leaved Candian C7'Oufoot.

POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Ranunculace.t. Jiiss. — {Introduction to the natural system
of Botany, p. 6.)

RANUNCULUS L. — Calyx 5-sepahis, sepalis basi non solutis deciduis.
Pctnla 5, rarius 10, inti'is basi squaniulu foveolave ncctaritera instriicta.
Stainuia uvariM\\w indefinita. Caryopsides ovaton, subcompressa), in mucro-
neiii aut cornu scmine vix longius desinentes, loeves striatoc aut tuberculatoe,
in capilulum globosuin cylitidraceumve dispositae. — De Cand. syst. 1. 231.

II. creticus ; foliis cauleque molliter subhirsutis, radicalibus petiolatis cor-
datis orbiculatis subincisis dentatis, caulinis sessilibus tripartitis, lobis
obloiigis obtusis apice subdentatis, caule ranioso inultifloro, calyce ap-
presso. De Cand. prodr. 1. 29.
II. creticus latifolius. Clus. hist. 1, p. I'i'd.f. 1.

R. creticus. Linn. sp. 115. Willd. sp. 2. 1313. De Cand. syst. 1. 264.
/3. macrophyllus ; foliis minus villosis, majoribus, profundiCis lobatis, dentibus

paulo rotundioribus. De Cand. I. c.
K macrophyllus. Desf.Jl. atl. \. 431.

Folia radicalia orbiculata, cordata, longe petiolata, lobata, subduplicato-
dentata, pilosa, prcesertim subtus ct in petiolo ubi pili patentes sunt. Caulis
ascendens, 2-pedalis, teres, pilosus. Folia caidina subsessilia, tripartita,
dcntata ; florulia tripartita, integerrima. Cn\y\ patens, sepalis acuminatis,
pilosis. Petala oblonga, basi attenuata^ obtusa, calyce triplo longiora.

This is well figured by Clusius, and a representation of
it is said, by M. Ue Candolle, to exist among Aubriet's
drawings in the Museum at Paris : that which we now
pubhsh is the first coloured figure.

• Some think, as these plants are called Ranunculus in L:itin, which is
evidently derived from rana, a frog, and also pxT^ux,iov in Creek, which
signiHes the same thing, that their name has been formed in consc^pu-nce
of their growing in moist or marshy places. But Smith remarks, that the
original /iuT^u^tov i.s Ranunculus asiuticus, which inhabits dry corn-tields :
hence ho infers that the name refers to the divisions in the leaves, which
resemble a frog's foot.

Introduced so long ago as the year 1G58, when it was
cultivated in tlie Botanic Garden at Oxford ; but it seems
to have been lost latterly. The specimen from which our
drawing was taken was obligingly communicated by Mr.
William Young, Nurseryman, Milford, near Godalming,
along with several other rare plants found in TenerifFe and
the neighbouring islands by P. B. Webb, Esq.

Requires the protection of a frame in winter, but grows
freely in the open air in the summer : the specimen we
examined flowered in the Greenhouse in April last. The
root is perennial. It is increased either by seeds or division
of its roots.

Ranunculus cortusaefolius and R. grandifolius of the
Rev. Mr. Lowe {Primit'ue Flora; et Faiince AladcrcE, p. 38)
are both distinguished by their great branching panicles.

J. L.

1433

EULOPHIA* INIackaiana.
Mr. Mackaifs Eulophia.

OYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidek Jussicu. ^ Vandece Lindley. (Tntrodicction to
the natural system of Botany, p. 262.)

E UL OPHIA . — Supra ,\<ol. l.fol. GS6.

K. Mnckniana ; foliis lorato-lanccolatis striatis apice rccurvis racomo ])rc-
vioribiis, bractois ovatis concavis ovario brevioribus, sejialis jK'talisqiie
obloii^o-lanccolatis aciitis niaciilatis undulatis, labelli lobo medio maxinio
obcordato versus basin callo transvcrso lunato, calcarc brcvissimo.

Zygopetalum Mackaii. Hooker in Bat. mag. t. 2748.

This most lovely species is, of all the Orchideous tribe,
one of the nio.st deserving cultivation; not only because of
the size and rich colours of its Howers, but also because it
succeeds well with ordinary care, and blossoms frequently.

We have not seen it thriving better than in the Garden
of the Horticultural Society, where it is grown in pots filled
with moss or rotten wood, and hung by wires from the
rafters of the stove.

It is readily increased by separating the pseudobulbs,
with a few roots attached to them.

A native of 15razil, whence it appears to have been
originally introduced by Mr. Mackay, of the Dublin Col-
lege Botanic Garden. Flowers in winter and spring.

The leaves are a foot and a half long, dee}) green, and
rather fleshy, arising from a very short hidden stem, which

* So named by Mr. Brown, iVom 6wAof/>o;, havinp,- a handsome crest ; in
alhision to the usual character of the labellum, bcariuij elevated lines or
ridses.

gradually swells, and becomes a green pseudobulb, of an
ovate or oblong figure. The scape is radical, and a foot
and a half or two feet high, sometimes bearing as many as
G or 8 flowers expanded at once. They are less perish-
able than those of many of the Orchis tribe; their sepals
and petals are greenish, spotted with irregular blotches of
brownish purple ; the labellum is a bright blue, deeply
stained with darker lines, and has at its base a remarkable
fleshy, elevated, lunate, transverse ridge.

Eulophia is readily known among the genera most
nearly allied to it, by its ascending sepals and crested cal-
carate labellum : the crest is seen under various forms,
sometimes as a few elevated lines, sometimes as a number
of thick ridges, or, as in the present case, in the form of a
thick transverse hump. The length of the spur is very
variable.

Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul-
tural Society in November 1828.

J. L.

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1434

MIRBELIA?* Baxtcii.
Baxter's MwbeUa.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Leouminos.t. Juss. Tribus SophorecB Dc Cand. — {Intrn-
ducdon to ilie natural system of Botany, p. 87.)
MIRBELIA.— Supra, vol. V2. fol. 1041.

M. ? Baxtcri ; tbliisoppositis stipulatis oblongis obtusis subcrenatis mucronu-
latis sessilibus subtiis leviter sericeis, racemis capitatis 4-5-floris ter-
minalibus, calyce reflexo.
Mirbelia Baxteri. Mackay's catalogue.

Frutex prostratus, subscaiidcns, ratnis Jiliformihus, subsericeis. Folia
opposita, sessilia, leviter crenata, mucronulata, suhtiis subsericea, vix re-
ticulata. Flores lutei, in capitulis pedunculatis, terminalibus, A-5-floris con-
gesti. Calyx patdo infra basi7i bibracteolatus, campanulatus, bilabiatus,
pilosus, labio superiore bijido, inferiore tripartito ; laciniis omnibus recurvis.
Petala vitellina ; vexillum duplb latius qudm longum, retusum, basi rubro-
maculatum ; alte subpatentes, vexillo hreviores ; carina ventricosa, obtusa.
Stamina 10, libera, incequalia, asccndcntia. Ovarium pedicellatum, albo-
villosiim, ovale, A-spermum ; stylus ascendens, glaber ; sUgma. simplex.

We on this occasion adopt the name by which this plant
is cultivated in the Nurseries, although there can be no
doubt that it belon2:s to some pfenus different from that in
which it is provisionally placed. Its legumes not having
been ripened in England, and the plant not being other-
wise known to us, we have been constrained to leave it
still unsettled.

It originally was sent us by Mr. Mackay, in June 1830,
with the information that it had been raised from New
Holland seeds received from JVIr. Baxter about five years

* So called in honour of the celebrated Mons. C. F. Brisscau-Mirbel,
one of the most distinirnishcd vegetable physiologists of our age, now director
of the .lardin du lloi at Paris.

VOL. XVII. H

previously, and that it was a plant of a very straggling
growth, well adapted to training against the trellis of a
greenhouse, in wliich situation it will produce its flowers
in very great abundance. Messrs. Low and Co. have
since stated to us, that it is a remarkably free grower,
running like Brachysema latifolia : it does not increase
well by cuttings, but layers succeed better. The plant is
always in flower except about three months in winter : it
commenced flowering last February, and had not been a
day without flowers till about a fortnight ago : at this time
fresh blossoms are again about to expand.

Our drawing was made in the Clapton Nursery.

J. L.

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1435

LUPINUS* Sabinianus.
Yellow Perennial Lupine.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Leovmin'osx Juss. § Papilionaceue Dc Cand. {Introduc-
tion to the natural system of Botany, p. 87.)
LUPINUS.— Suprd, vol. 13. fol. 1096.

L, Sabi7iianns ; herbaccus, racemis subverticillatis cylindraceis multifloris,
floribus cbracteatis, calycc villoso : labio superiore ovato acuto inf'eriore
cynibiformi revohito, alis rotundatis vexilli magnitudine, carina acuta,
foliolis 7-12 lanccolatis acuniinatis sericeis.
L. Sabinianus. Douglas in herb. Hort. Soc.

Perennis. Caules erecti, 3-pedales, subpuhescentes, parkm ramosi.
Folia radicalia olivacea, subpedalia ; stipulis minimis, adnatis, subulatis ;
foliolis niimero incertis, 9-12, utrinque prcecipuc s^ibtus sericeis; caulina
minora, foliolis pancioribxis . Racemi terminales, in spontaned 8-9 uncias
longi, densi, sed subverticillati. Rachis, bractece, pedicellique pubesccntes.
Bractea; citissime decidxice, subulatcE, floribus longiores. Flores lutei. Vexil-
lum subrotundum, subemarginatum. Alvc oblonga', obtuscp, paulb ventricosce,
vexilli magnitudine ; carina acuta, multh angustior, cequilonga, margine
superiore leviter ciliato. Stamina 5 longiora, carince fere a'qualia, antheris
rotundis ; 5 breviora, antheris linearibus.

A native of North-west America, where it was found by
Mr. Douglas at tlie junction of Lewis and Chirke's River
with the Colombia, growing on the subalpine range of
mountains.

It flowered this year, for the first time, in the Garden
of the Horticultural Society in May, and has since pro-
duced a few seeds. It is, however, a very dithcult plant to
manage; it does not grow readily in any soil or situation
that has yet been tried, and its racemes of flowers, however
beautiful, are by no means so handsome as in its native

Sccl'ol. 1198.

country, where they grow eight or nine inches long. Of
a considerable number of plants originally raised by Mr.
Munro, three only have survived, and they are not in good
health. It is, nevertheless, not a tender plant, death not
ensuing after hard frosts, or in consequence of exposure to
cold, but rather in the spring and summer, when it ought
to be in the full vigour of growth. It will scarcely bear
transplanting.

As the first perennial Lupine with yellow flowers, it is
an object of much interest : we trust it will not, by inter-
mixture in our Gardens with purple-flowered species, lose
those original and beautiful characters that have been con-
ferred upon it by nature ; or that at least some of it will
continue to be preserved in its native purity.

J. L.

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PiEONIA* albiflc5ra ; var. Pottsii.
Potts'a Chinese Pceomj.

POLYANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Nat. ord. R anuncl'lace.^ Jiiss. \ Poeoniacea; De Cand. — {Intro-
duction to the natural system of Botany, p. 6.)
P^ ONI A.— Supra, vol. 'l . fol. 42.

Garden Vauiety.

This splendid plant originated in China, from which
country it was brought in 1822, to the Horticultural So-
ciety, by the late Mr. John Potts, after whom Mr. Sabine,
then Secretary to the Society, named it.

It is by far the handsomest of the varieties of P. albi-
flora, and, indeed, of the whole genus. At present it is
extremely scarce ; but it multiplies as freely as the other
kinds, and will, no doubt, be soon more common. It
flowers rather before P. albiflora fragrans and Humei, and
later than P. albiflora Whitleii.

J. L.

* Named after the physician Paeon, who is said to have employed the
herb with success. Pliny's description is unusually intelligible, and leaves
no doubt that the plant of the ancients is the same as that of the moderns.

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1437

PYRUS* Bollwylleriana.
The BoUwijller Pear.

ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.

Nat. ord. PoMACE/E Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of
Botany, p. 83.)

P YR US. — Suprd, vol. 6. fol. 514.

P. Bollwylleriana ; foliis ovatis gross^ serratis subtfis gemmisque tomentosis,

corynihis multifloris. De Cand. prodr. 2. 634.
P. Pollwylleriana. /. Bauh. hist. \.p. 59. ic.
P. PoUveria. Liiin. mant. pi. 244. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 208. Spreng.

syst. veg. 2. 510.
P. irregularis. " Du Roi" sec. Sprengel.
P. Bollwylleriana. De Cand.Ji. Franc. 6. 530.

" This species differs from the common Pear in its
leaves being strongly toothed and downy underneath : in
the wild state it is readily known from the Pear, which is
glabrous, and has scarcely any denticulations in the leaves;
but among the numerous cultivated varieties there are
several intermediate between the two wild types, and pro-
bably hybrids created in our Gardens and Orchards.

" The Bollvvyller Pear-tree grows in the woods round
the town of that name in Alsace, where it was first noticed
by J. Bauhin."

Such are the remarks made upon this plant by the
learned M. De Candolle in his Ftorc Fnuicaisc. Tlie only
point in which we should differ from him is in attributing
the origin of some of our Garden varieties to the intermix-
ture of this and the common Pear. We, on the contrary,
consider this so distinct from the latter, that, if it were not

See fol. 1196.

for its fruit, we should have scarcely suspected the relation-
ship of the two : it has the habit, leaves, and inflorescence,
of P. Aria, rather than of P. communis ; but it is no doubt
abundantly distinct both from it and all other species.
That the cultivated Pear does now comprehend the traces
of more than one distinct species, as M. De Candolle has
elsewhere suggested, we believe; but P. sinaica, nivalis,
salvifolia, salicifolia, and their kindred, are more likely
than this species to have intermixed with the common
Pear.

A tree, with stout, erect branches, having the habit of
P. Aria, and growing to about the same size. The buds
are large and downy. Leaves on long stalks, deep green,
coarsely and rather unevenly serrated, downy beneath.
Corymbs of flowers very dense ; the calyj: covered with
dense wool ; the petals small and white. These are suc-
ceeded by a small number of little yellowish-orange tur-
binate pendulous fruit, which are austere and hard.

Of no value as a fruit, but common in Shrubberies as
an ornamental tree. The Nurserymen graft it upon the
Crabstock.

J. L.

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1438

ROSE Clare.

ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Rosace;e Jussietc. {Introduction to the nat^iral system of
Botany, p. 81.)

ROSA.^Suprd, vol. l.fol. 53.

Garden Variety.

This was sent from Italy by the gentleman whose name
it bears, with several other very beautiful Roses. Its exact
origin is not known to us. It has now for several years
been growing against a west wall in the Garden of the
Horticultural Society, but it does not appear likely to
exceed the stature of five or six feet.

The great beauty of the variety consists in its constant
flowering, and the deep rich crimson of its petals; besides
which, its foliage is of a rich deep green, evergreen, and
not more affected by cold than that of the common China
Rose. One would think it a hybrid between Rosa indica
and Rosa sempervirens, if either of those species possessed
the deep tint found in its flowers ; in that respect it agrees
with R. semperflorens, but there is nothing else in its habit
to indicate such a parentage. In its styles it conforms to
Rosa sempervirens, of which it ought perhaps to be con-
sidered a domesticated variety.

It strikes freely from cuttings. J. L.

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1439

PIMELEA* intermedia.
Intei'mediate Pimelea.

DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. TiiymeLjE* Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of
Botany, p. 75.)

PIMELEA.— Suprd, vol. \5.fol. 1268.

2 \. Folia opposita; capitulum terminale; folia fioralia rameis subsimilia.
P. intermedia ; tbliis utrinque glabris lanceolatis acutis : floralibus 2-4 ca|)i-

tulo multo brevioribus, calycibus sericeis : tubo cylindraceo incurvo,

raniis glabris.

Frutex, ramis teretibus, pallide viridibus, glabris. Folia parva, lanceo-
lata, utrinque acuta, sessilia, internodiis paulh longiora ; suprenia, cceteris
omninh similia, involucrum nunc diphyllum, nunc tetraphyllum, efformantia,
floribus breviora. Capitulum viultifiorum. Flores albidi, sericei, tubo
gracili incurvo, laciniis limbi oblongis, obtusis, iyitiis glabris.

A neat greenhouse shrub, native of King George's
Sound, in New Holland, where it was found, in 1824, by-
Mr. William Baxter. Our drawing was made in Mr.
Low's Nursery, at Clapton, in March last.

It is intermediate, as it were, between P. sylvestris and
P. humilis, differing from the former in its silky calyx with
a cylindrical tube, and from the latter in its acute leaves,
of which the floral ones are smooth inside.

It succeeds well in a mixture of light sandy loam and
peat, and increases readily by cuttings.

A shrub, with taper, pale green, smooth branches.
Leaves small, lanceolate, acute at each end, sessile, rather
longer than the internodia, the uppermost of the same form

• See fol. 1268.

as the others, and constituting an invoiucrum of two or four
leaves, shorter than the flowers. Head many-flowered.
Flowers whitish, silky, with a slender incurved tube ; the
segments of the limb oblong, obtuse, smooth withm.

J.L.

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1441

ACACIA* leprdsa.
lA'prous Acacia.

POLYGAMIA MONCECIA.

Nat.ord. LpdrMiNOs^, \ MimosecB De Cand. {Introduction to the
natural system of Botany, p. 87.)

ACACIA. — Suprd, vol. 2. fol. 98.

Sect. 1. foliis deformatis, nemp^ : foliolis ssepius proesertim in plantii

adultii abortivis, petiolis dilatatis filiformilius, in Phyllodia ncnipe mutatis.
§ 1 . Capitatir, floribus ncmpi in capitula globosa collcctis, capitulis in

pedunculo solitariis. De C.

A. leprosa ; stipulis subnullis, pliyllodiis lineari-lanceolatis leproso-punctatis
uninerviis basi attenuatis mucrone incurvo calloso terminatis glabris,
ramulis angulato-sulcatis, capitulis 2-3 axillaribus, pediculis capitulo
brevioribus cano-pubescentibus. De Cand. prodr. 2. 450.

A. dealbata. Horf. Angl.

A greenhouse shrub, native of New Holland, whence
it was introduced two or three years ago by Mr. Tate.
Our drawing was made from specimens communicated in
January last under the name of Acacia dealbata.

It forms rather a handsome very upright bush, and,
when we saw it, was covered with a profusion of pale-yellow
blossoms.

A. leprosa owes its gray powdery appearance, not to
the presence of hairs or scales on its surface, but to the
exudation of a brittle concrete matter, which is readily
removed by rubbing. A tendency to the formation of this
is visible in A. dodona-ifolia, and even in A. stricta, two
supposed species, to which A. leprosa approaches so nearly

See fol. 1317.

that it is highly probable they will all be hereafter con-
sidered varieties of the same.

Branches slender, erect, deeply furrowed. Plii/llodia
linear-lanceolate, falcate, tapering to the base, obtuse at
the point, which is formed by a short, brownish, recurved
mucro ; a minute gland is present just above the base ; the
central rib, and all the numerous lateral elevated veins, are
covered with minute patches of whitish matter exuded
through the cuticle, and giving the phyllodia a gray pow-
dery appearance. Peduncles axillary, simple, divaricating,
pubescent, 2 or 3 together, rather longer than, or about
the same length as, the pale-yellow heads of flowers.

J. L.

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1442

GLADIOLUS* psittacinus.
The Parrot Gladiole.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. IiiidE;T. Jussicu. (Litrodiiction to the natural sijstoa of
Botany, p. 260.)

GLADIOLUS. — Supri), vol. 2. fol. 169.

G. psittacinus ; foliis ensiformibus medio costatis obscure nervosis, floribus
campanulatis, sepalis late ovatis obtusis mucronulatis, petalis anterioribus
lineari-oblongis supremo obovato convexo.
G. psittacinus. Hooker i« hot. mag. t. 3032.

Caulis cum foliis 3-4-pedalis, basi purpureus, supernd Icet^ virens, erectus.
Folia ensifontiia, ucnminnta, equitantia, medio suhobliquc costato, costis
quibusdavi latcralibus obscurioribus. Spicae tcrminalcs, pedales, bractcis
spathaceis, purpurasccntibus, tubo fioris aequalibus. Sepala et petala lutca,
coccineo punctata, striolata ct marginata; genitalia petalo supremo appressa,
breviora.

We believe that the first introduction of this noble
Gladiole took place in 1829, when it was ojjtained from
the Prince of Salm Dyck, by Mr. Hitchin, of Norwich.
Mr. Richard Harrison had previously seen it in the Garden
at Leyden, where, however, it seems that different ideas
are entertained upon the subject of liberality from what we
are accustomed to meet with in most of the Gardens of
Great Britain.

Our drawing was made from a plant that blossomed
last July in the Nursery of Mr. Lee, of Hammersmith ;
almost immediately after which, we were favoured with
noble specimens by Mr. Miller, of Bristol, accompanied
by a beautiful drawing, executed with great skill by Miss
Mintron.

* The leaves of all the species being sito;c/-shaped, a word expressive
of that meaning is very appropriate.

VOL. XVII. I

We understand that the species grows very freely ni
the open border in the summer ; but it will no doubt suc-
ceed with more certainty in the conservatory, or m a pit
appro])riated to the cultivation of Cape Bulbs. It produces
great quantities of little offsets, by which it is propagated ;
so that it will soon be a common plant.

Some suspicions have been entertained of its being a
hybrid plant; while we have even heard of its being
pronounced the Gladiolus speciosus of Thunberg. With
regard to the first conjecture, we would only ask from
v/iiat known species can it be supposed that so very
remarkable a plant, unlike as it is to any known species,
could possibly have sprung ? The latter can scarcely have
been the notion of any Botanist. We cannot, however,
doubt that it is a wild "natural species.

Dr. Hooker, in figuring it, laments that he is unable
to convey any idea of the brilliancy of its colours. We
cannot hope to succeed where so distinguished a draughts-
man feels dissatisfied with his success. The colours are
indeed splendid beyond any thing that can be expressed,
except by the most elaborate miniature painting.

The leaves and stem, taken together, are between 3 and
4 feet high. The flowers have a ground of bright yellow,
covered with fine vermilion streaks, such as might be drawn
with the point of a needle, and these run together so much
at the edges as to form a margin of a deep even tint.

J. L.

1443

SARCANTHUS* guttatus.
Spotted^Jiowered Sarcaiithus.

• GYNANDRIA MONAXDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orciiide.t. Jass. % Vandece. — {Introduction to the natural
system, p. '262.) "

SARCANTHUS Lindl. — PoUinia 2, cereacca, postice sulcata v. lobata:
candiculd varia. Anthera bilocularis. Stigyna cxcavatum v. quadratum :
rostello vario. Columna soniiteres, inappendiculata. Labcllum suliintegrum
diftorme cum columna articulatum, calcaratum: calcare intils appendiculato.

Sepala patentia subaHjualia. Herbaj cpiphytce (Indian orientalis ct ChiiiiK)

caulescentcs ; radicihus caulinis tortuosis ; foVns distichis pla7ns v. tcretibus;
floribus vittatis v. fasciatis ; racemis foliis oppositis. — Collect, botanic.
t. 39. B.

S. guttatus ; tbliis loratis carinatis apice truncatis suba?qualibus, spicis cylin-
draceis pendulis dcnsiHoris foliis subitqualibus, sepalis lateralibus ovatis
obtusis petalis sepalocjue supremo dupio majoribus, labelli limbo ovato-
oblongo obtuso : calcare obtuso ovario breviore.
Aerides guttatum. Roxh. MSS.

Caulis pcdalis v. ultra, u ramis arI)oru?n depcndens, dense foliis v.
J'oliortun basibus vestitus. Folia pedalia v. longiora, carnosa, carinata,
lucida, apice truncata, sed subcequalia, subtnucronata. Spicoi cylindracece,
axillares, multiflorcr , foliis subccrjualcs, scapo brcvi squaviuloso. Bracteae
viininKP. Flores albi, violacco et rosco guttati, carnosi, cxpansione 6-7-
lincari. Labellum roseum, calcare albo. Columna semitcres, rostello ovato
acuta, stigmate lincari longitudinali. PoUinia 2, postice sulcata, caudiculd
lineari, elasticd, glandulu minutd.

Tliis species was long since transmitted to England
from India: in 1820 we saw, in Sir Joseph Banks's library,
a specimen in full flower that had been sent from the Royal
Garden at Kew ; but we have not heard of any European
Botanist, except Mr. Brown, having examined it, nor of any

* So named on account of the fleshiness of the flowers of all the species ;
from c-ug^l, flesh, and ^v.^o?, a flower.

of the noble collections in this country having been per-
mitted to participate in the possession of so beautiful a
plant. It is to be hoped that it is now before the public
under more favourable auspices : the Horticultural Society,
in M^hose Garden is the specimen from which the accom-
panying drawing was taken, will be eager to distribute it
as quickly as its slow growth and difficult propagation will
permit.

The plant in the Chiswick Garden was brought to
England by Dr. Wallich, and presented by the Hon. Court
of Directors of the East India Company. It is cultivated
in the stove, in a very hot damp atmosphere, in a pot full
of moss, suspended from the roof by a wire, and a little
overshadowed by climbing and other plants : it flowers in
April.

By the kind permission of Dr. Wallich, we are enabled
to give the following extract relating to the species, from
Dr. Roxburgh's MS. Flora Indica: —

'&'

" This lovely parasitical species was found growing on
trees in the vicinity of Dacca by the Hon. Charles Andrew,
who sent plants to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta : flower-
ing time the hot and rainy season. It has great resemblance
to the figures in Rheede's Hortus Mcdabaricus, quoted by
Willdenow for Aerides retusum and prsemorsum, but the
capsule difl^ers from both, and, I believe, the horn and
labellum also ; however, they are certainly very nearly
allied, and not inferior in beauty, while in flower, to any
in the whole tribe of Orchideaj."

" Root of several thick, fleshy, obtuse fibres, which issue
from the stem through the sheaths of the lower leaves,
and adhere to the tree, which gives support to the plant.
Stems perennial, creeping, invested in the sheaths of the
leaves. Leaves bifarious, imbricate, sheathing, recurvate,
linear, channelled, thick, firm, and smooth ; apex obliquely
prasmorse, from 6 to 12 inches long by one broad when laid
flat. Racemes axillary or lateral, solitary, drooping, longer
than the leaves. Flowers numerous, approximate, diverging,
pretty large ; colour a beautiful mixture of red and white
spotted. Bracts ovate-cordate, one-flowered, embracing
the insertion of the pedicel. Corol (calij.v Swartz) five-
petalled, upper three oblong, the middle one broader;

lower two semi-cordate. Lahcllton longer than the petals,
and more deeply coloured, ascending, concave, cuneiform,
with the apex slightly 3-lobed, behind protruded into a
large open obtuse bag or horn. Columuce of fructihcations
short; pollen masses 2, covered with a deciduous lid.
Capsule pedicelled, oblong, 3-sided; angles sharp; sides
with a broad tiat keel.'"

J. L.

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1444

SILENE* laciniata.
Cut-flowered ( Vitc//Jlt/.

DECANDRIA TlilGYNIA.

Nat. ord. CAUYoniYLLE.'E Jhss. % Silenca^ Dc C. {Introduction to
the nntnral system of Botanif, p. 157.)
SILENE.— Supn), vol.^3. fol. "lAl .

Sect. VII. Siplionomorpha Otth. Caulescentes. Flores paniculati,
i"ai"6 solitarii ; pedicelU oppositi breves. Calyx tubulatus.

§ 2. Florihus ercctis, calycibus longc clavatis. D. C.
S, laciniata; pubescens, caule erecto ramoso, tbliis niagnis lanceolatis acutis,

floribus niaxiniis teiminalibus subnutantibus, calycibus longis cylindrico-

ventricosis, petalis semi-4-fidis, appendicibus 2 ovatis, '^enitalibus in-

cliisis. — De Cand. prodr. 1. 383.
S. laciniata. Cavan. icon. 6. 44. t. 564.
Lvchnis piilchra. Schlecht. et Cha7niss. in Linncea, .5. 234.

Radix perennis. Caulis sesquipedalis, decumbens, pubescens. Folia
oblomjo-lanceolata, pallida viridia, pubescentia. Flores terminales, coccinei.
Genitalia in cultu exserta.

A native of Mexico, whence it was originally introduced
in 1823, when seeds of it were presented to the Horticul-
tural Society by the late Right Uon. George Canning. It
was soon, however, lost, and has been for the second time
])rocured by Mr. Graham, to whom we are so much indebted
for the introduction of some of the finest plants of the rich
mountain Flora of Mexico.

Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul-
tural Society in July 1830.

It is ditiicult to say what is the proper mode of treating

* Tliis word is probably derived from c-Uxov, saliva. De Theis deduces
it more directly from the drunken 2:od Silenus, whose name he supposes to
have a similar orifrin. — Smith in Recs.

this plant. It is not hardy enough to live in cold English
summers without protection ; and it does not thrive either
in a greenhouse or a frame. It is, however, when well
grown, a very handsome plant, and richly deserving of
careful cultivation.

Mr. Bentham has remarked to us, that this is no doubt
Lychnis pulchra of Schlechtendahl and Chamisso, found
by Deppe and Schiede at the foot of the mountain Orizaba,
where it is, however, a rare plant.

J. L.

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1445

Low's PURPLE LOBELIA.

SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA.

Nat. ord. Lobeliace,^. {Introduction to the natural system of Botany,
p. 187.)

LOBELIA. ^Suprc], vol. \. fol. 60.

Garden Variety,

Nothing certain is known of the origin of this plant.
We understand it originally made its appearance in Scot-
land, whence it was procured by Messrs. Low and Co. of
the Clapton Nursery.

We presume, however, there can be no doubt of its
being a hybrid production between L. siphilitica and either
L. fulgens, cardinalis, or splendcns.

To cultivators it is a plant of much importance. Its
very brilliant colours, hardiness, and facility of cultivation,
are all points of great merit.

It grows about two feet high, is perfectly hardy in the
summer, and flowers from May to October.

J. L.

NOTE.

In compliance witli the suggestion of a Botanical friend, upon whose
sound judgment we have great reliance, we have determined in future not to
attach Botanical names to the Garden varieties we may hereafter publish, as
an additional preventive to their finding their way into the compilations of
Botanists. We do not conceive that any inconvenience will res\dt from this
plan, which, on the contrary, will wo trust he an ample assurance to our
scientific friends, that, if we are seduced by the beauty of Garden varieties
to receive them into our pages, we have no intention of allowing them to
pass, even by mistake, if it can be prevented, into the records of legitimate
species.

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1440

PURSHIA* tridentcita.
Th ree-toot/ied Purshia.

ICOSANDRIA MONO.DIGYNIA.

Nat. or d. Rosace/^ Jtiss. § Spiroeacese De Cand. — {Introduction to
the natural system of Botany, p. 83.)

PURSHIA De Cand.— C«^. 5-fidus, lobisovatis obtusis. Pet. 5, orbi-
culata, et stam. circitcr 20 c calyce exserta. Carpella 1-2, ovato-oblonga,
in stylum breveni attenuala, pubcscentia, ovulo 1 basi inserto foeta, dcmiim

rima longitudinali dehiscentia. -Frutex i-amosissimus, gcmmis s(ftn7nosis,

foliis confcrtis cuncatis apicc grossc 2-3-dentatis supra villosis suhttis cano-
tomentosis, stipulis 0 aut minimis, floribus luteis. — Dc Cand. prodr. 2. 541.

P. tridentata. De Cand. in trans. Linn. soc. 12. p. 157. Prodr. 2. 541.

Hooker Ji. boreali americana.
Tigarca tridentata. Purshji. bar. am. 1. p. 33. t. 15.

Frutex, in hortis dumosus, 2-pedalis, ramis teretibus, brevibus, rigidis,
epidermidc divellicante. FoVm fasciculata, cuneata, glauca,apice tridentata,
c gemmis squamaceis erianpentia, supra pttbcscentia, subtiis canotomentosa ;
stipuloG minimce, scepius obsolctce. Flores soliiarii, in medio fasciculornm
terminales, foliis brcviores. Calyx infundibular is, tomentosus, ft-dentatus,
dentibus obtusis, patcntibus. Petala 5, linear i-obovata, pallidc luteo-viridia,
incurva. Stamina indefnita, equalia, seric simplici inserta in faucc. Car-
pella solitaria v. gemina, tomentosa, simplicissima, ovulis binis v. solitariis,
ascendentibus. Stylus terminalis, continuus. Stigma simplicissimum.

A native of the north-west coast of America, about the
river Columbia, where it was found by Lewis and Clarke's
party. Pursh subsequently described it from dried speci-
mens ; but referred it to a genus of a totally diti'crent
natural order from that to which it really belongs. M.
De CandoUe first pointed out the mistake, with his cus-

* Named by the learned M. De CandoUe alter Mr. Frederick Pursh, a
meritorious Prussian Botanist, who pubbshed a well-known Flora of North
America, in London, in 1814. He died some years since in America: his
Herbarium now forms part of the vast collection of his fiien<l and patron
Mr. Lambert.

tomary skill, in a valuable paper in the Transactions of the
Linnean Society.

It proves, now that it is cultivated, to be a hardy, in-
elegant bush, having a glaucous aspect, and dull, pale,
greenish-yellow flowers.

Mr. Douglas sent its seeds from North-west America ;
and it was raised in the Garden of the Horticultural
Society, where it flowered for the first time in April
1830.

Easily propagated by layers, and cultivated in the peat
earth of an American border.

J. L.

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1447

ONONIS* pedunculctris.

Long-stalked Rest Harrow.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Leouminosi. § Loteec De Cand. {Introduction to the
natural sijstcm of Botany, p. 86.)

ONONIS L. — Cahjx campanulatus, 5-fidus, laciniis linearibus. Vexil-
him niagnuni, striatum. Stamina nionadelpha, decimo inteidum suhlibcro.

Leffumen s-.vjjii'is tuigidum, sessile, oligospcrnium. Hcrb-oe ant sutiViitices.

Folia trifoliolata, interdum unifoliolata, rarius impari-pinnata. Flores
ex axillis orti, nunc pcdunculati, nunc sessiles, fiavi aut purpurasccntes,
rarius alhi. Pedicelli scqvj aristd, folii fioralis abortivi petiolo, donati. —
De Cand. prodr. 2. 158.

§ 1. EuoxoNis. Stipulae petiolo adnatae.
* 2, Foliis sifnplicibus aut trifoliolatis, Jiori/nis axillaribxis peduncu-

latis purpiirascentihus rarius albis. Natridium De Cand. I. c.
O. peduncularis ; herbacea, diffusa, glanduloso-pubescens, foliis obovatis

dontatis simplicibus, stipulis integerrimis petiolo brevioribus, pedunculis

longis uiiifluris aristatis arcuatis deniilm recurvis.

Herbacea, v. vix suffruticosa, diffusa. Rami virides, pubescentes, glandulis
aliquot inter pubem interjectis. Folia {an omnia ?) simplicia, obovata,
dentafa, pubescentia, patentissima v. recurva ; stipulaj adnatae, integerrimcB,
petiolo duplh breviores. Pedunculi foliis triplb lomjiores, graciles, mutici,
cjlnnduloso-pubcscentes, ante anthesin crecti, sub anthcsi cernui, Jioribus
delapsis recurvi. Sepala lineari-lanceolata, erecta. Petala albida, ynarcjine
rosea.

For this pretty new species of Ononis we are obliged
to Mr. William Young, who received the seeds from Mr.
Philip Barker Webb; in the Garden of which gentleman,
at Milford House, near Godalming, it flowered in April
last. The seeds had been collected by Mr. Webb, in
Teneriffe.

* From ov«?, an ass, and ounut, to delight ; implying that it is grateful
food to those animals.— .S/«j7/4 in Rccs.

It is a ])lant that requires protection in winter, but
would become a lively ornament of rock-work in the summer.
No doubt it is easily raised from cuttings, like plants of a
similar slightly shrubby habit.

We did not remark any trifoliate leaves upon the plant
sent by Mr. Young, and suspect that the character so
usual in the simple-leaved Ononises of having their lower
leaves trifoliate, is departed from in this species.

J. L.

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Mr. Youngs CALCEOLARIA.

DIANDHIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat.ord. ScuopiiUL.viiiNr.r, 7(iS5. {Introduction to the natural system,
p. 228.)

CALCEOLARIA. — Supra, vol. O.fol. 723.

Garden Variety.
Calceolaria Youngii of the Nurseries.

Of all the hybrid herbaceous plants that have up to
this time been raised, the subject of this Plate strikes us
as the most remarkable. We cannot give a better account
of it than in the words of Messrs. Young, of Epsom, in
whose Nursery the drawing was made last June.

" Cal. Youngii was raised last year from a plant of
Arachnoidea, impregnated with Corymbosa. It grows freely
in rich soil, and is increased by division of the roots.

" It requires an airy situation in the greenhouse through-
out the winter. Early in spring, care should be taken to
observe the progress of its growth, so as always to give it
ample pot-room, shifting it as soon as its roots reach the
outside, by which means much luxuriance of growth, and
an astonishing abundance of flower, are ensured : but the
greatest display of its beauty is to be obtained by planting
it (in rich soil) in the open border, in May, where it will
uninterruptedly increase in strength and splendour until
October."

J. L.

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1449

Carton's RHODODENDRON.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Euice;f. Jussicu. {Introduction to the natural system of
Botanii, -p. 182.)

RHODODENDRON.^ Supn), vol. l.fol. 37.

Garden Variety.

** Ninety-seven plants were raised in tlic llighclcrc
Garden, in the year 1825, from a specimen of Azalea
nudiBora, which had been purposely touched with pollen
of Rhododendron Catawbiense. They vary in hal)it, in the
size of the umbel, and in the deeper or fainter j)urple tint
of the corolla; but bear a family resemblance to each other,
and form very neat compact bushes. The foliage is ele-
gant, lucid, deep green, smooth ; and persistent in ordinary
winters. In seasons of more than usual severity it becomes
deciduous, the flowers in that case being fully expanded
before the leaves are much advanced in growth. The
leaves are about half the size of those of Rhododendron
Catawbiense, and, like them, are, in a considerable })ortion
of the specimens, convex, but are much thinner in texture.
When tliey first ap])ear, they are apt to be of a pale, sickly
hue, which soon gives |)lace to a healthy colour. The
male type predominates in all the specimens. Cuttings of
these intermediate varieties strike more readily than tliose
of either Azalea or Rhododendron."

At the request of our friend, J. R. Gowen, Esq., to
whom we are indebted for the above communication, we
have named this, the finest of the above set of hybrids,
in compliment to the Gardener of the Earl of Caernarvon,
Mr. James Carton, under whose personal care the numerous
showy varieties of the natural order Ericeas, which adorn
his Lordship's Garden, have been raised.

Our drawing was made, in the beginning of June last,
from specimens communicated by the Earl of Caernarvon.

J. L.

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1450

STATICE* pubcrula.
Doamy-lea ucd Stat ice.

PENTANDRIA. I'ENTAGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Plumbagine;e Juss. {Introduction to the natural si/stcm
of Botdiiy, p. 195.)

STATICE. — Calyx monni)hyllus, inferus, integer, j)licatus, campanu-
latus, V. infundibulifnrniis, limbo menibrauaceo apice dentato. Corolla
pIcmiiHiue .O-petala, suliiiulc mnnopclala. Filamenta tubo petalisve adhfB-
reiitia. Styli 5, raro 3 distincti. Capsula moiiosperma, evalvis, calyce
persistente, membranacea. Semen 1, albuminosum. — Panzer in R'Omcr. et
Schult. syst. veg. vol. 6. p. Ixix.

S.pubenda; caule paniculato rainoso pubescente, foliis radicali1)us lanceolatis

aciitis basi angustatis stellato-pnbescentibus.
S. puberula. P. B. Webb incd.

Folia radicalia, glauca, lanceolata, acuta, basi angustata, undique pilis
stellatis tecta. Scopus et rami paniculce pubescentes. Panicula pyra-
midatis, rainosissima, coarclatu, circiter pedalis, ramulis angulatis. Bracteae
scariosce, piloses. Bracteolaa 3, virides, pubescentes, qxiarxun infera squami-
formis ohlonga obtusa, proxima paulb major, cusjjidata, supreina convoluta,
duplh major, obtusa, apice violacea, calyce brevior. Calycis limbus viobiceus,
mcmbranaceus, dcntibus obtusis, brevibus, subcviarginatis, muticis, Curolhi
alba, calyce longior, laciniis cuneatis, emarginatis.

A Greenhouse herbaceous plant, native of the Isle of
Graciosa, one of the Canaries, wliere it was discovered by
P. B. Webb, Esq., in whose Garden at Milford House,
near Godalming, it flowered in May last.

The specimen was oblii^inp^ly communicated to us by
Mr. William Youn<x, Nurseryman, of the same ])lacc, by
whom it was raised from Mr. AWbh's seeds. We under-
stand that but one plant has been as yet obtained; so that

* Said to be derived from irrxrii^u, to stop ; in consequence of the medi-
cinal astringent properties that were attributed to it.

it is likely to remain very rare for some time to come.
This is much to be regretted, as the beauty of the flowers
is such as to render the species exceedingly desirable. The
white corollas are perishable, it is true ; but the brilliancy
of the inflorescence is chiefly owing to the rich violet of
the calyx, which retains its freshness for many weeks.

Apparently near St. furfuracea of La Gasca, but very

distinct.

J. L.

1451

MICHAUXIA* laevigata.
Smooth Michauxia.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Campanulace^e Juss. § Campanulerc Alph. De Cand.
{Introduction to the natural system of Botany, p. 183.)

MICHAUXIA L'Herit.— Catyx 8-(idus (v. lO-fidus), sinubiis appen-
dicibiis obtectis. Corolla 8-partita (v. 10-partita), rotata. Stamina 8
(v. 10), inter se \\ho\"\\ filamentis latissimis, meinhranaceis, basi approxi-
niatis ; anlheris flavis, apice leviter cuspidatis. Stylus pilis collectoribus 16
(v. 20) ordinibus dispositis tectus. Stigmata 8 (v. 10), filiformia. Ovarium
totum iuferum, 8- (v. 10-) locularc, loculamentis lobis calycinis oppositis.
Capsula nutans, 8- (v. 10-) valvis, basi del\iscens. Scmina indefinita, ovata,
f'errui^inea, receptaculis carnosis ad angulos intcrnos loculanientoium sitis

inserta. Herbae bicnncs, in Oriente hahitantcs, habitu Campanulis sinubus

calycis obtectis ct foliis lyratis proximce. — Alph. De Candolle, Monogr. des
Canipanulces, p. 211.

M. Icevujata ; caide leevi, foliis radicalibus indivisis, laciniis calycinis ap-

pendicibus brevioribus. D. Don MSS.
M. laevigata. Vent, hort. eels. p. et tab. 81. Alph. De Cand. I. c.
M. decandra. Fischer, sec. eel. Don.

Folia infcriora oblongo-lanceolata, sessilia, dentata, indivisa, piloso-
scabra. Caulis erectus, teres, l(Evis, pallidr viridis, internodiis ramulis
paniculcB lomjioribus. Bracteir ovata, denticulalcc, scabrce. Pedunculi
subtrijlori. Flores ccrnui, ochroleuci. Calyx 5-Jidus, laciniis ovatis, pa-
tentibus, appendicibus sinuum rejlexis ciliato-scabris brevioribus. Petala 10,
linear ia, patcntissima, costu dorsali scabru. Stamina \Q, circa slylum con-
nivcntia ; fiiamentis rigidis, basi dilatatis, marginatis, ciliatis, antheris
linearibus. Stylus antheris duplh longior, cylindraccus, inci'assatus, pilis
collectoribus densissi7ni: tectus, polline semper onustis. Stigmata 10, brevia,
radiata, glabra.

A native of Persia, where it was orifrinally found upon
Mount Albourg by the French travellers Olivier and
Bruguiere, according to the testimony of M. Ventenat.

• So called after Andre Michaux, a celebrated French Botanical tra-
veller in America and Africa. His History of American Oaks, and the
materials collected by him for tlie work published by the elder Richard, under
the name of Flora Boreali-Americana, are all that remain of him.

A very full account of the species is given in our friend
M. Alphonse De Candolle's admirable Monograph of the
true Campanulas. Ue appears, however, to have been only-
acquainted with it from the figure in Ventenat, and from a
dried specimen in the Herbarium of the same Botanist.

Our specimens were communicated in August last by
A. B. Lambert, Esq. ; and we are obliged to Mr. Don for
the following remarks upon the species, as well as for the
character given above.

" There cannot be a doubt as to the identity of this, Fischer's
Michauxia decandra, and the lavigata of Ventenat Jard. de Cels.
t. 81. As to the number of stamens, they are found to vary both in
iavigaia and campanuloides. The chief distinctions of lavigata are
the undivided radical leaves, the smooth stem, and the greater short-
ness of the calycine laciniae.

" Dr. Graham has described it in a recent Number of the Edin-
burgh New Philosophical Journal, and has rightly determined it to
be IcBvigata, although it does not appear he had campanuloides to
compare.

" I ought to observe, that the flowers of lavigata are more often
decandrous than octandrous, although M. Alphonse De Candolle
makes both uniformly 8-androus, which is incorrect, as is shewn by
Ventenat's description. The character derived from the petioles is
not constant, for they are even most dilated in lavigata, contrary to
M. Alphonse De Candolle's observation."

We presume this is a frame perennial. It is at present
exceedingly rare; but being in Mr. Lambert's liberal hands,
it will soon become more common, if it be practicable to
increase it.

J. L.

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1452

ULEX* genistoides.

Portuguese Furze.

DIADELPHIA, on MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat.ord. Leguminos.e Juss. § Papilionaceoo. {Introduction to the
natural sijstcr/i of Botany, p. 86.)

ULEX.—Cahjx bibractcolatus, bipartitiis, lahio altcro tii-, altcro 2-clcn-
tato. Stamina oniiiia convexa. Lajiancu ovali-oM()n;j:um, inagis minusve

compressuni, vix loiifriiis qiiam latum, ))hiri-ovulatiim, oli;;osperinuni.

Frutices Enropcci rainosissit/ii, ramulis fbliisryMe sjiincscentilms, (loriljus soli-
turiis luteis, leguminibus villosis. — De Cand. prndr. 2. 144, caract. jjaul.
viutat.

U. (jenistoidcs, erectus, ramulis rigidis decussatis, foliis squainiforniibus spi-
nesceutibus glabris, bracteis minutis appressis, calyce tomentoso, legu-
minibus compressis exsertis.
(J. genistoides. Brotcro fi. lusit. 2. p. 78.

Stauracanthus apliyllus. " Link in Schrad. ncu. joiirn. 2. p. 1. p. 52."
Dc Cand. prodr. 2. 144.

Frutex erectus, riyidus, spinescens, pallidc viridis, ramis decussatis,
glabris, v. pulicscentibus, pungentibus. Folia viinima, squamif ovinia, viu-
cronata. Flores axillares v. terminales, solitarii. Bractoai ininimce, sub-
rotunda, villoscE, inconspicuce. Calyx tomentosus, bivalvis, valvulis convexis:
superiore 3-, inferiore 2-dentato, dentibus valdc obscuris. Flores JIavi. Vexil-
lum et carina extiis tomentoscB. Alic angustce, patentissivicB, carincE cequales,
glabrcB. Stamina omnia conncxa, extra carinam asccndentia. Legumcn
oblongum, paulb longius qudvi latum, compressum, mucronatum, villosum,
calyce multh longius.

According to Mr. Loudon's Hortu.s Britannicus, this was
introduced in 1823. The first time we were so fortunate
as to meet with it was in August last, when a specimen
was sent us by Mr. Young, of Godalming, from the Garden
of P. B. Webb, Esq., where it had been raised from seeds
collected in Portugal by that gentleman.

* According to De Theis, the root of Ulex is the Celtic ec or ac, a point.
The French ajonc, formerly ac-jonc, is said to mean literally pointed-rush.

It is rather a pretty Greenhouse shrub, but will scarcely
succeed out of" doors except in summer, or in very mild
winters. It may, we presume, be increased either by
layers or cuttings.

Professor Link, and after him our learned friend De
Candolle, form of this plant a genus called Stauracanthus,
distinguished, as it would seem, by a bifid upper valve of the
calyx, and by a flatly-compressed exserted pod. The
first of these characters is wanting in the cultivated plant,
and also in wild specimens before us from Salzmann ;
hence we conclude, that it is either accidental or altogether
erroneous ; and the form of the pod taken alone would
hardly justify the separation from Ulex of a plant so
entirely accordant with it in its remarkable habit, and in
all other points. We therefore go back to the original
name of Brotero.

According to the latter author, it is found in sandy pine-
woods in Portugal. Our wild specimens above alluded to
are from the hills about Tangiers.

J. L.

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1453

ARISTOLOCIilV caudcita.
Livid-Jlowered Birthwoi't.

GYNANDRIA IIEXANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Artstolochi/t; Juss. (^Introduction to the natxiral system
of Botany, p. 72.)

ARISTOLOCHIA.—Suprd, vol, 8. fol. 689.

A. caudata ; caule volubili, foliis inferioril>us reniformibus triangularibus v.
Icviter trilobis, superioribus tripartitis: laciniis apice an^ustatis, calycibus
cylindraci'is infractis basi ventricosis sexcalcaratis, labio cordato cuspi-
date : lamina tubo multo breviore ; cuspide filiformi torto calyce mul-
toties longiore.

A. caudata. Booth.

Perennis. Stipulai connate, cor datce, ovat(B,amplexicaules,obtuscB. Petioli

foliis breviores. Flores fusco-lividi.

** This remarkable species of Aristolochia was raised
about three years ago in the Garden of Sir Charles Lemon,
Bart., M.P., at Carclew, Cornwall, from Brazilian seeds
received from Lieut. Wright, of His Majesty's packet Hope.

*' The plant is a creeping perennial, with numerous
branches, extending for several feet from the root, and
sometimes attaching themselves to other plants which grow
near them. They are round and wiry, furnished with
roundish-cordate, almost reniform, dark, glaucous, green
leaves, near the root ; becoming 3-lobed towards the ex-
tremity, and much reticulated beneath. The petiole is
round, from 2 to 3 inches long ; the stipules are sessile,
recurved, and somewhat pointed. Flowers axillary, soli-
tary, with the peduncle about 2 inches long, curved, and
furrowed. The flower itself is pitcher-shaped, of a yellowish
brown colour, deeply marked with prominent veins on the

* See fol. 1399.

outside : the upper lip is ficsliy, and similarly veined ; the
under side of it, as well as the narrow elongated part, is
of a very dark brown colour, tinged with yellow at the
point. From the bottom to the throat of the flower is about
2 inches : the length of the lip is nearly 18 inches.

" The plant grows freely in the stove, in light rich
loam, and is readily propagated by means of its creeping
roots. It flowered at Carclew on the 15th of June last:
the flowers only continue for a few days."

For this we are indebted to the kindness of Sir Charles
Lemon, who communicated specimens, along with the
above description and remarks, by Mr. William Beattie
Booth. It is similar in many respects to A. trilobata,
already flgured at fol. 1399 of this volume; but difl'ers in
its flowers being smaller, differently coloured, and with a
lip, the lamina of which is much shorter than the tube, and
also in the figure of the leaves, which have shorter petioles.

J. L.

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CALCEOLARIA* arachnoidea.
Cobweb Slipper-ivort.

DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. ScnoPiiuLARiXE* Juss. {Introduction to the natural system,
p. 228.)

CALCEOLARIA. — Supn), vol. 9.fol. 723.

C. arachnoidea ; caule herbaceo ramoso patulo foliisque lingulato-oblongis
subdentatis lanatis, pe<binculis terminalibus c^eniinatis clc)n2:atis dichoto-
mis, calycibus pedicellisciiie arachnoidcis. Hooker i7i hot. tnag.fol. 2874.

C. arachnoidea. Graham in Edinb. philosoph. journ. 1828, p. 572.

For a long time tlie only colours that were known to
exist in Calceolarias were yellow or orange. It was, there-
fore, not without surprise that we first saw specimens of
purple species in our Gardens. These were introduced by
those indefatigable investigators of the riches of South
America, Dr. Gillies and Mr. Cruckshanks, to whom we
are indebted for more beautiful novelties than to any other
private individuals.

The first that was raised, C. purpurea, is a plant so
impatient of cultivation that it still remains extremely
scarce ; but the subject of the present plate is not only a
common ornament of all choice Gardens, but has become
the parent of many very remarkable hybrid varieties.

Although a native of the province of Mendoza, this
proves one of the hardiest plants we have: it bore uninjured
the severe frost which on the Gth of May last killed some
of the most robust trees and shrubs we possess. It is
perennial, and increased freely by seeds, which are pro-
duced in great abundance.

* Seefol. 1214.

Dr. Hooker gives the following interesting account of
the locality in which it was found, and of the uses to which
it is applied, from the papers of Dr. Gillies.

" The Calceolaria described by Dr. Graham under the
name of C. arachnoidea, and to which I had assigned the
specific appellation of C. tinctoria, in consequence of its
utility in dying, I first found near the silver mines of
St. Pedro Nolasco, on the summit of the mountain so
called, near the junction of the river Maypu with the Rio
del Yeso and del Volcan. On a subsequent journey across
the Cordillera, further to the south, and opposite to San
Fernando, I also met with it in great abundance, growing
in all the most elevated valleys which I visited in the
vicinity of La Casa de las Damas. Here many people were
employed in digging up the roots, which they dry and
collect in bundles for sale, in Chili, where this plant is
in great use, under the name of Relhun, for dying woollen
cloths of a deep crimson colour. The alum-earth called
Poleura, and employed as a mordant in this process, is
obtained abundantly from a mountain in the neighbourhood.
It grows in hard gravelly soil, where the fibrous roots
penetrate in all directions ; a circumstance which renders
the collecting of this plant, to any considerable extent, a
work of time and labour. The C. arachnoidea flowers
about the end of March or beginning of April ; and at the
latter time the ripe seeds may also be procured.

** The elevation of the Casa de las Damas, in the neigh-
bourhood of which the Relhun abounds, may be estimated
from the height of the barometer, which stood at 22,956
inches ; heat of mercury 54° ; temperature of atmosphere
52°. This Relbun appears to be quite distinct from that
which is mentioned by Molina, Chili, vol. i. p. 115."

J. L.

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1455

HEMICLIDIA* Baxtcri.
Baxter's Hemiclidia.

TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. PnoTEACEiE Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of
Botamj, p. 68.)

HEMICLIDIA. — Pcrianthiura quadrifidum, regulare. Anthcrce laminis
concavis incluste. Siptamuhe hypogynre qualuor. Ovarium uiiiloculare,
bi-ovulatum. Pericardium subcrustaccum, undiiiue barbatum, hinc apice
dehisoens, ind6 rumpens. Semen unicum matiirescens, ventricosum, apterum.

Receptaculum comvmne planum. Involucrum imbricatum. Frutex {hahitu

omninh Dryandne) erectus, ra7nosissimns. YoWn. pinnati/ida, lobis mucronatis
pungentibus, super eglandulosa ; suhter reticulato-venosa, areolis lacunosis
land crispatd replctis, fundo glandu lifer is. Invohicra terminalia, solitaria,
foliis confertis interioribus nanis obvallata. — Brown suppl. prim, prodr.
p. 40.

H. Baxteri. R. Brown I. c.

A specimen of this rare plant was communicated to us
by Mr. Lowe, of the Clapton Nursery, in June last; it
having been raised from seeds sent home by Mr. William
Baxter. It is a very handsome evergreen shrub, native of
Lucky Bay, on the west coast of New Holland.

Having had no good opportunity of describing it, we
have had nothing to add to the account given of the plant
by Mr. Brown, who observes, that the genus is only dis-
tinguishable from Dryandra by its pericarpium being of a
somewhat crustaceous texture, and having no regular de-
hiscence beyond the summit ; by its ventricose wingless
seed ; and by its dissepiment, which is formed by the co-
hering testee of the ovula, being of a cobwebby, membranous

* The meaning of this word is not explained by its author. It seems to
have been formed from rtcKrv, half, and kMi'm, to shut up ; in reference to
the structure of the fruit, which is described as dehiscing only at the apex.

texture, not separating into two plates, winged at the base
with an abortive ovulum, and separate from the ripe seed.

It is necessary to observe, that, in the brief description
above quoted, the term gland is used in a peculiar sense by
the learned Botanist whose words are employed: it is
meant to express what other Botanists call stomata, about
the nature of which Mr. Brown entertains opinions at
variance with those generally received.

1456

The SEMI-DOUBLE TREE PyEONY*

POLYANDRIA TRI.PENTAGYNIA.

Nat. ord. RANUNCULACEy"E /wss. {Introductio7i to the natural system
of Botany, p. 6.)

PjEONIA. — Suprd, vol. \. fol. 42.

Garden Variety.

For an opportunity of figuring this beautiful variety of
the Tree Peeony we are indebted to the Earl of Mountnorris,
by whom it was raised from seed, and who supplied us
with specimens from his rich collection at Arley Hall in
May last.

It is thus spoken of in the Horticultural Transactions,
where it is described by Mr. Sabine under the name of
P. Moutan, carnea plena.

" The seedlings which I mentioned at the commence-
ment of this paper were raised in the Garden of the Earl
of Mountnorris, at Arley Hall, in Worcestershire ; the
seeds were from the Banksii, and were sown seven years
ago. In the year after they were sown, three plants
came up. One is a very distinct variety ; the two others
approach each other so nearly, that they will not perhaps
be considered sufHciently different to be separated, except
by very nice observers. As the flowers of those now to be
described are the first they have produced, it is probable
that they will very much improve in size hereafter. The
plant of Banksii, which j)roduced the capsules from which
the seeds were gathered, grew close to a Papaveracea;
and from the characters oi' the flowers of their produce,
1 am disposed to think that they are derived from the pol-
len of the latter. — Paoitia Aloutan ; Carnea Plena. I have
given this name to the first of the two plants, which I have

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VOL. XVII. L

stated are nearly similar to each other; the difference
between them principally consists in the ground colour of
the petals, which in this is of a delicate purplish pink.
The blossoms are large, very double, with a great resem-
blance in character and appearance to those of Banksii,
except that they are less, more compact, and that they
are without the central elongated petals which sometimes
in that variety appear to rise from amongst the germens.
I think, however, some disposition towards this is observ-
able in the specimens I have examined of the other variet5^
The petals in both are also generally smaller, and more
abundant than in the Banksii ; they also have a rich purple
rayed spot at the base of every petal : these spots are
exactly similar to those in the flower of Papaveracea,
except that they are smaller. From the fulness of the
blossom, these spots are not so strikingly observable as
in the Papaveracea. In the variety now under notice the
germens are numerous, and are at first covered with a
purple membrane, that subsequently bursts."

To this we have to add, that Mr. Sabine's expectations
of the flowers improving in beauty have been realised ; and
that this deserves to rank among the finest of the varieties
of the beautiful species to which it belongs.

In the Gardens, where it is at present extremely rare,
it is called " the double Papaveracea Pseony;" — a name
we are obliged to alter, because it is a variety of P. Moutan,
and not of P. papaveracea.

J. L.

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CAPRir<x')LlUM* occidentalc.
The North-ivest Honeysuckle.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nut. Old. C.\i>Kiioi.i.\cr..T. Juss. {Introduction to the natural sii stem
of Botany, p. 206.)

CAPRIFOLIUM. — Suprd, vol. \5.fol. 1232.

C. occidentale; umbellis subsessilibus, corollis ^-labris bilabiatis basi vciitn-
cosis, staminibus ooroll;v lonuMMKline stylo luiigioribus, fob'is uvalibus
petiolatis v, scssilibus glabris nlaI■^•inc ciliatis subtils glaucis : sununis
sessilibus connatis.
C, ciliosum. Douglas herb, nee Pnrshii.

CauVis fruticosus, voluhilis, gracilis. Folia glabra, leviter ciliata, subtHs
glauca, sccpiUs marginc lutescentia ; floralia connata, nunc fiorihus cequalia,
nunc breviora, inferiora exactc ovalia, scepiUs petiolata, nunc sessilia, basi
et apiceferi- (Bqualia. Floras in umbellis subsessilibus aggregati, aitrantiaci.
Corolla cyhndraceo-infundibularis, basi hinc ventricosa, ?iec saccata, ncc
cornu simulans, limbo bilabiato ; labio superiore 4-dcntato, infcriore lincari
obtuso, intcgro. Stamina liyyibo subcequalia, v. paulb longiora, stylo et
stigmate capitato longiora.

A native of the north-west coast of North America,
where it was found abundantly by Mr. David Douglas, in
the neighbourhood of Fort Vancouver.

It is a hardy, deciduous, twining shrub, with very orna-
mental orange-coloured flowers, but not good foliage ; that
is to say, the leaves have, when in greatest health, a grayish
appearance, and if at all sickly, which they are apt' to be,
acquire an unpleasing yellowish hue. It flowers abund-
antly in June, July, and August. In stature, and also in
the cultivation it requires, it resembles the common Honey-
suckle, but is more tender.

See fol. 1232.

In Mr. Douglas's Herbarium it is considered the same
as C. ciliosum, a plant described by Pursh, from specimens
found by Lewis and Clarke on the banks of the Koos-
koosky ; and we were formerly disposed to concur in this
opinion. But upon reconsidering Pursh's character of
C. ciliosum, to which he ascribes a hirsute tube of the co-
rolla, and the small technical differences that are sufficient
to distinguish the species of this genus, we have adopted
the conclusion that the plant now described is distinct ; it
has never any hairs upon its corolla. In the colour of its
flowers, it resembles C. Douglasii, a species discovered by
Mr. Douglas on the eastern side of America, and described
in the Horticultural Transactions. It also approaches
C. parviflorum, from which its shewy blossoms practically
distinguish it at first sight.

Drawn in the Garden of the Horticultural Society last
summer.

J. L.

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MADIA* rlegans

Ekirant Madia.

SYNGENESIA POLYGAMJA SUPERFLUA.

Nat.ord. CoM?osiT/T.. Fani. X. Helia ntiiE/i: Ca55. Trib. Mclam-
pode'.c D. Don. — {Introduction to the natural stj stem of Botany , p. 197.)

MADIA Molin. — Involucruvi duplici ordinc ])olypliyIhiin, suha-quale.
Receptaculum epaleatuni. Flosculi radii pliires (8-12), ligulati, foeininci ;
disci hermaphroditi, tubidosi, 5-dentati. Achcnia cunciforinia, coni|)resso-

pentagona, foliolis involucri obvoluta exterioribus cucullatis, apicc calva.

Herbas (Aniericante) annuce, cojjiosc ijlandulosce. Folia alterna, sessilia,
Integra. Ca[)itula tcrminulia, subpaniculata. Flosculi lutci : ligulis ple-
rumquc cuncatis, trijidis. — D. Don MSS.

M. clegans, rcceptaculo conico pilose, flosculis disci limbo barbatis, caule

diftuso. Don MSS.

Herba annua, viscosa, glandulis pedicellatis et pilis siinplicihus viollibus
copiosissimc prccdita, prcesertim in pcdunculis ct involucro. Caulis teres,
ramosissi7>ms, diffusus, cubitalis. Folia alterna, sessilia, linear i-lanceolata,
sccpius c latiori basi attenuata, siibacuminata, integcrrima, 3- v. 5-nervia,
subcanesccntia, jninctis minutis resi7iosis copiost- notata, 3-6-pollicaria ; su-
periora yninora. Flores panicidati, flavi, M. sativa tripl'o majorcs, odore
forti et ingrato, feri frtictus Mali. Podunculi elongati, Jiliformes, uniflori.
Involucrum herbaceum, subturbinatiim, duplici ordine dejinitt poli/phi/llum,
torulosum : foliolis circiter 24, lincari-oblongis, basi concavis, apice acunii-
7iatis, planis, conniventibus, dorso rotundis, elcvatis ; interioribiis paullo
brevioribus, mcnd)ranaceis. Receptaculum coniciua, cpalcalum, dense pi-
losum. Flosculi radii plures (10-12), ligulati, fceminei, foliolis involucri
exterioribus numero cerjuales, iisdenujuc seini-inclusi : lubo cylindraceo,
brevi, villoso : fauce fusco-purpurcu : ligulis cuneatis, trifdis, inultincruiis,
venosis, ncrvis 3 primariis validioribus ; disci hermaphroditi, infmdibuli-
formes: tubo cxtus pilosinsculo, fauce dilatatd, campamdatd, parum breviori:
limbo 5-dentato: dentibus ovatis, acutis, suprii pube copiosd barbatis. Fila-
menta comprcssa, glabra, siimvio apice articulata. Antherac nigricantes,
in tubum coalites, basi muticce, appendicuhi cordatd acuta coronatce. Stig-
mata hermaphroditis lanceolata, acuta, dense hispidula ; t'oemineis angustc

* Madi is, according to Mulina, the name of the original species of this
genus in Chile.

linearia, ohtusa, cotnprcssa, r/lahia, reairvata. Achcnia in radio tantilm
maturcsccntia, cunciformia, comprcsso-pcntar/ona, glabra, nigricantia, foliolis
involucri obvoluta exterioribus, umbilico emarginaturd unilaterali ! apice
calva : disco epi^yno nuiumo. — Don MSS.

** The present shewy species is distinguished from the
rest of its congeners by its elevated hairy receptacle, which
in the others is depressed and naked. The genus, founded
by Molina on a Chile plant, famous for the oil expressed
from its seeds, although consisting of but few species, has
a pretty extensive geographical range, being found in the
temperate regions in both hemispheres of the American
continent. It is nearly allied to Un.via and Siegesbeckia ;
but the former is essentially distinguished by its simple
involucrum, and the latter by its paleaceous receptacle.
The florets of the ray in Siegesbeckia are also most fre-
quently bilabiate, and those of the disk quadrifid, and
sometimes tetrandrous. This genus exhibits a striking
example of a fact, which I have elsewhere (Edinb. New-
Phil, Journ. Oct. 1831) shewn, namely, that the presence
of papillee on stigmata affords no evidence of their fertility ;
for here the florets of the disk with almost smooth stig-
mata uniformly perfect seeds ; while in JSIadia, where the
stigmata are thickly beset with bristly papillae, the florets
of the disk are generally sterile. This group, for which I
have preferred the name of MeUunpodecE, as being derived
from a genus affording a better type of it than either Milleria
QY Siegesbeckia, is characterised by a herbaceous involucrum,
composed of an almost definite number of nearly equal
leaves, by the florets of the disk rarely perfecting seeds,
and by the turbinate achenia being destitute of pappus or.
seed-crown, and furnished at the top by a very small
epigynous disk. It will contain, besides ]\IelainjJodiu77i
and the present genus, Centrospermum (hardly distinct from
the first), Jcegeria, TJnxia (from which ViUanova of Lagasca
is scarcely to be separated), Eriocoma, Polijmnia, Moutauoa,
Zaluzania, Siegesbeckia, Milleria, and Sclerocarpus, compre-
hending, in fact, the greater part of M. Cassini's Helianthecs-
Milleriees. This learned Botanist has referred Melam-
podium to his first group, or AHllhnces-vrais-regulihres, and
AJilleria and Uihvia to his second group, denominated
Milleriees-vrais-irri's:uUeres ; while Madia, VilUoiova, and

Sclcrocarpus, are referred by him to the first p:roiip, and
Siegcsbeclda, Jci'geria, and Zaluzama, to the second group
of his Sicgc.s/jccliiccs. His 0<iicni, which he has phiced in
this last," is identical with PoduHthiis of I.ai^asca, and
Eiuru'ui of Chamisso, arranged in the |)receding- sublaniily
of IlcHaiithccs-liudbccliiku, but wliich I am rather dis-
jiosed to refer to Spilauthac. All three genera have been
founded on the same species, namely, PudanlliiLs uvatifoliua
of Lagasca.

" The Madia mdlosa of Molina, and viscosa of Cava-
nilles, are clearly the same with Madia sativa, and not even
entitled to the rank of varieties. Molina has strangely
attributed to M. mtiva petiolate leaves, which being oc-
casionally narrowed at the base may have originated that
error, and also the confusion in which the species has
been hitherto involved in Botanical works."

For the foregoing valuable account of the genus Madia
we are indebted to Mr. Don, of whose extensive knowledge
of the very difficult Natural order to which it belongs, we
have been fortunate enough to be able to avail ourselves.

The species is a hardy annual, recently discovered on
the north-west coast of North America by Mr. Douglas,
from whom it was received by the Horticultural Society
last spring. In Mr. Douglas's desi)atch, it was spoken of
as a very handsome plant in the way of Coreopsis tinctoria ;
we do not, iiowever, find it by any means equal in beauty
to that favourite species. To be cultivated in perfection, it
should be sown about June, so as to come into flower after
the heat of summer is passed ; and even then a shady place
should be chosen for it ; for its flowers are so impatient of
exposure to light, that they are scarcely expanded, in
bright sunshine, before they contract again, and the rays
curl inwards, hiding the bright yellow and brown, on which
its beauty entirely depends. The plant grows 2 feet high,
flowers in about two months after being sown, and remains
in beauty about six weeks or two months. It ripens seeds
abundantly.

We have only seen it cultivated in rich Garden soil ;
probably it would be improved by being put into very
l)oor earth.

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STYLIDIUM* fasciculatum.
Fascicled Stylidium.

GYNANDRIA TETRANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Styi.idii..^ R. Br. {Introduction to the natural system of
Botany,]!. 189.)

STYLIDIUM. — Supu), vol. 1 . fol. 90.

S.fasciculatian; caule subramoso glabro, foliis linearibus, spicis pcduncu-
latis subracemosis : rachi glabra, capsula lauccolata : utrofjue loeulo
seminifero : supcriore (postico) demuin apcrto. — R. Br. prodr. .072.
Herba annua, spilhamaa, glabriuscula, caulihus 2-A-uncialibus, ccespi-
tosis, subrarnosis. Folia linearia, acuta, sub Icnte viinutissimi aspcrulu,
inferiora sparsa, superiora in verticillum mullipliccm aygrcyata. Spica
caulc longior, crecta, brcvitcr peduncrdata. Ovarium linear i-lanceulatum,
collo ylanduloso constricto, subfalcatum, bractcd lincari-subulatd duplo
longius, biloculare, loculo alfero angustisshno vacuo : altera ventricoso semi-
nifero. Calyx ct petala extus glandulosa.

Originally found by Mr. Brown on the south coast of
New Holland ; and recently raised, from seeds collected in
that country, by Mr. Knight, of the King's Road, Chelsea,
by favour of whom we have had an opportunity of pub-
lishing it. It formed part of a most valuable parcel of
seeds from the same country, which Mr. Knight obtained
by purchase from Mr. William Baxter.

It belongs to the same section of the genus as the
S. adnatum, figured at folio 1)14 of this work, from which
its glandular calyx and corolla at once distinguish it.
We refer it to the S. fasciculatum of Brown, although it
does not agree with the brief character assigned to thai
species, in having both its cells seminiferous. We can find

* Named by Sir James Smilii from 'rrvxi^icv, (he little column, " which
supports botli anthers and stigma."

no other difference ; and that now pointed out may pos-
sibly be either inconstant, which we suspect, or the effect
of cultivation, wliicli is not improbable.

A most interesting and beautiful Greenhouse annual,
like the rest of its genus, possessing the curious ])roperty of
having the column, or the sup))ort of anthers and sLigma,
endowed with an irritability of so active a kind, that we
scarcely know of any parallel in other plants. The slightest
touch of a pin on the outside of it, when curved, is suf-
ficient to make it leap to the opposite side of the flower,
and invert the whole of its highly curious apparatus of
propagation. It is said that the motion is designed for the
protection of those parts from insects ; an explanation
which, like many others applied to the peculiarities of the
Vegetable Kingdom, is perhaps more fanciful than true,
and which only serves to shew how little we are able to
comprehend of the mysteries of the vegetable world.

Our drawing was made in August.

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AZALEA* nuditlora ; var. scintillans.
Sparkling Azalea.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. EuiCE* Juss. {Introduction to the natural system o/Botamj,
p. 18'2.)

AZALEA.—Suprc), vol. 2. fol. 120.

Garden Variety.

" Tliis Azalea was raised at Hii^hclere in the same year
with those ah-eady figured in previous parts of this work,
and is a seedling from Azalea coccinea major, impregnated
by the pollen of Azalea pontica. The figure gives but an
madequate notion of its beauty, partly owing to tlie brilliant
efiect of the surface of the petals, which cannot be repre-
sented, and also in consequence of the beauty of the speci-
men having been impaired by the unprecedented frost of
last spring, which injured the whole inflorescence. When
in vigour, the umbel is double the size."

Our drawing was made from specimens obligingly com-
municated by the Earl of Caernarvon. We are indebted
to Mr. Gowen for the preceding notes about it.

J. L.

* See fol. 1366.

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CYRTANTHUS* caineus.
/• 'Icsh-coloured Cyrta n thus.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Amaryli.i ni:.i: R. Br. {Introduction to the natural system
of Boldnii, p. 2')9.)

C yji TA N TH US. — Supr^ , vol. 2 . fol. 162.

C. coTneus ; foliis hysteranthiis loratis glaucis obtusis bis spiralibus, floribus

ptndulis c'hwatis : liinljo tubo ter breviorc.

Biilbus ovalis, castancus, jnujui niagnitudlne, collo supraterranen. Folia
post scnpum, erecta, sesquipcdalia, lorata, obtusa, ylauca, marcjinc lutcs-
centia, bis spiralia. Sra[»us erectus, teres, (jlaucus, spiralitcr tortus, pedalis
V. ultra. Bracteoe exteriores ovato-lanccolatcc, acurninat(e, obtusce, apice
canaliculat(E, interiores subulatce pediccllorum longitudine. Umbella 7-8-
Jlora. Pedicelli ovariorum longitudine, tcrctcs, glauci. Flores carnei,
clavati, arcuati, penduli, 3 uncias longi, tubo crjlindraceo-infundilndiformi ;
limbus erectus, 6-partitus, tubo triplo brevior : laciniis exterioribus ovatis,
interioribus oblongis obtusis. Stamina 6, cequalia, limbo breviora, fauce
tubi inserta ; Jilamenta subulatn, basi membranacea, dilatata : mcvibrand
utrinque apice nuriculata. Stigma levitcr trilobum, papillosum; stylus
antheris oblongis, erectis, (equalis. 0\'\i\^ ijlurima, ab axi ascendentia.

A native of the Cape of Good Hope, whence a bulb was
brought to the Horticultural Society by Captain Stuart,
under the name of Cyrtanthus odorus, from which it is
totally distinct ; see fol. 503 of this work.

It approaches C. pallidus of the Botanical Magazine,
from which it differs in having glaucous, obtuse, spirally-
twisted, instead of straight, acute, green leaves, and also
in its much larger flowers. C. spiralis has smaller, more
scarlet flowers; and its leaves are both narrower, and much
more glaucous and twisted. C. obliquus is perhaps, of all

* So named from the figure of the flower ; kv^tV,, incurved, and ii-^ef, a
flower.

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HIBISCUS* palustris.
Marsh Hibiscus.

MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA.

Nat. ord. MvLVACE-f: Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of
Botany, p. 33.)

HIBISCUS. — Supr<), vol. 1 . fol. 29.

Sect. VI. Abf.lmosciius. Med. malv. p. 45.

Carpella polysperma. Semina glabra aut in dorso linea subvillosa.
Corollse expansse. Involucella foliolis 8-15 integris constantia. D. C.

§ 2. Caule inermi.
H. palustris ; foliis ovatis dcntatis suhlrilobis subtus cano-tomentosis, perli-

ccllis axillaribus a petiole liberis l-iloris supra medium articulatis. — De

Cand. prodr. 1. 4'30.
H. palustris. Linn. sp. pi. 976. Cav. diss. 3. p. 162. t. 65. f. 2. Willd.

sp. pi. 3. 808. But. mag. 882.

Caulis herbaccus, sesquipedalis v. 2-pedalis, dense tomentosus. Folia
ovata V. cordato-ovata, triloba, lobo intermedio majore, leviter dentata
iitrinrpte mollia siibtiis incana, petiolo limbi circiter longitudine. Flores
in fastiginm caulis congesti, maximi, rosei. Invoiucellum calyce brevius,
\0-phy Hum, foliolis moUihus linear i-subulatis. Calyx campanulatus, mollis,
5-fdus, laciniis oblongis acutis. Petala cuneata, apice undulata, indivisa.
Ovarium subrotundum, 5-loculare, polyspermum.

A perennial plant, native of the swamps of North
America, from Canada to Carolina, which it adorns with
its fine rosy blossoms. It was one of the first species
introduced from the New World ; and yet it is very rarely
cidtivated in this country, because it seldom or never
flowers in the open border, where, being quite hardy, it
is usually placed. This is, we believe, owing to the
general lowness of our isothermal temperature. Mr. Col-
vill, with whom it has now flowered, informs us, that

* The 'i'iit(rx.o; of Dioscorides was one of the South of Europe Malvaceous
plants ; but it is not certain which.

VOL. XV 11. M

not knowing of what country his plant was native, and
finding that in a Greenhouse it did not thrive, he put it in
a stove, when it at length unfolded its magnificent blossoms.

We suppose it is possible to increase it either by divi-
sion of its perennial root, or by cuttings, although its soft
annual stem is but ill adapted to the latter operation. Its
seeds may be procured abundantly from North America,
and are, in fact, often imported for sale along with other
American productions.

With our wild specimens from South Carolina, gathered
by the late Mr. Frazer, the Garden plant agrees suffi-
ciently. Cavanilles says his flowers in the Garden at
Madrid had a yellowish white colour; but Pursh, and all
other authors, describe them as purple or rosy red.

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A.vUlary-Jloiccred I enionia.

SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA .T.QUALIS.

Nat. ord. CoMrosiT;C Juss. Tribus VernoniccE Cassini. (Introduction
to the natural si/stem of Botany, p. 197.)
VERXOXlA.—Suprd, vol. 6.fol. 52-2.

axilliflora ; caulc fruticoso raninso, foliis ovatis acutis pilosis subtiis
toniontosis marp:ine undulatis, capitulis sessilibus subsolitariis axillaribus
foliis brevioribus, involucri foliolis membranaceis coloratis ex ovato
subellipticis apice obtusis niucronulatis v. ciliatis.
axilliflora, Lessing in Linncea, vol. 4. p. 297.

A beautiful little stove plant, flowering all the year
round, and propagated with the greatest facility from cut-
tings, which will blossom when only a few inches high.

jM. Lessing, who is the only Botanist that has described
this plant, had seen no wild specimens, and only conjec-
tured it to be a native of some part of Brazil. It aj^pears
to be very common about Bahia, for we have specimens out
of the Horticultural Society's Collections, gathered there
by Mr. George Don ; and recently we have received it

* " So named by Schrebcr, in memory of Mr. William Vernon, Fellow of
St. Peter's College, Cambridge, who, towards the end of the seventeenth
century, made a voyage to Maryland, in company with Dr. David Kreig, a
German physician, of which Botany was the principal object. Their Her-
barium, consisting, as is said, of several hundred new plants, came into the
possession of Sir Hans Sloanc, and contributed to enrich the Supplement, or
third volume of Ray's Historia Plantarum. A North American genus,
therefore, is peculiarly proper to commemorate Mr. Vernon ; whose merits
as an accurate and industrious English Botanist are, moreover, recorded by
Ray in the preface to his Synopsis, edit. 2d. ; and his name often occurs in
the Cryptogamic part of that work. We find no further mention of this
gentleman ; nor does he appear any where as an author." — Smith in Recs.

among specimens from the same country, gathered by
Salzmann, who found it on dry hills.

We remark that the learned Botanist to whom we have
just alluded, considers the whole of the plant which bears
flowers as a form of inflorescence analogous to the cyme.
But, in opposition to that opinion, we would venture to
observe, that it is never the propertij of injiorescences to pro-
pagate pla?its by cuttings, the leaf-buds of that part of a
plant being either converted into flower- buds, or altogether
dormant. This plant, on the contrary, could scarcely be
increased if it were not by its flowering branches, for it
often produces nothing else. We therefore prefer to con-
sider the capitula only as the inflorescence.

Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul-
tural Society last summer. The plant had been received
from the Royal Gardens of Berlin.

J. L.

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BRASAVOLA* nodosa.
K)iottji Brasfd'o/a.

(;VNANDKIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orciiide.t. Juss. Tribus Epidendrcce Lindl. {Introduction
to the natural systctn of Botany, p. 262.)

BRASA VOLA R. Br. — Scpala et pctala subooqualia, libera, acuminata.
Labellum cucullatuni, integrum, columnam involvcns. Columna mart^inata,
clavata, stigmate infundibulari, clinandrio posticc tridentato. Pollinia 8,
subanjualia, (juibusdam aliis parvis interjectis. Antkera 4-locularis, scptis

marginatis, loculis semibipartitis. Ilerba; caulcsccntes, epiphytes, apice

folium unicum alterumvc scmicylindraceuni, carnosum, supra sulcatum, apice
subulutum gcrentcs. Flores terminales, viagni, speciosi. — Gen. etsp. Orchid,
part 2. p. 114.

B. nodosa ; labello ovato acuminate intogerrimo, petalis sepalisque linearibus

acuminatis, dcntibus lateralibus clinandrii intcgris postica emarginata.
Kpidendrum curassavicum Orchidi affine. Herm. parad. 187. t. 187.
\ iscum delphinii Hore minus, etc. Sloajie jatn. 1. 251. t. \25.f. 1.
Epidendrum nodosum. Linn. sp. j}l. 1350. Jacq. Amer. 226. /. 140.

Suartz obs. 328.
Cymbidium nodosum. Swartz nov. act. ups. 6. 73. Willd. no. 24.
Brassavola nodosa. Lindl. gen. et sp. Orchid, part 2. p. 114.

Rhizoma repens inter muscos supra arbores, caules basi clavatos, sursitm
tcretes inonophyllos emittens, squamd mcmbranaced fused involutos. Folia
scmipedalia, solitaria, carnosa, subtiis convexa, siiprd canaliculata. Spicaj
2-A-florcE, foliis breviorcs, bracttis minutis, squamiformibus. Flores die
inodori, noctu odoratissimi, pallidi, lutco-virides. Sepala linearia, acu-
minata, extiis lavia, sanguinco punctata, patentissiina. Petala conformia,
patentissima, angustiora, impunctata. Labellum album, limbo ovato-sub-
rotundo, acuto, integerrimo, piano, ungue dimidio brcviore, arctc convolnio,
margins croso, intiis sanguinco guttata. Columna ungue labelli duplb
brevior, clinandrii dente postica cmarginatd, anticis integcrrimis. Anlhera
A-loculaiis, disscpimentis marginatis, loculis bipartitis. Pollinia 8, quater-
natim paululiim. minoribus, massulis 2-3 interjectis.

* Named after Antonio Musa Brasavolo, a noble Venetian, who was one
of the most enlightened Botanists of his day. A worthy [)upil of Loonicenus
and Manardus, he corrected the errors of Dioscorides and Pliny, in his
Examen omnium simplicium Medicamentorum, a work of much reputation iit
its day, published at Leyden in 1537.

This very rare epiphyte has long been known as a
native of trees in different parts of the West Indies. The
elder Jacquin discovered it in the small island of Barn, off
the coast of Carthagena, filling the woods at night with its
fragrance ; Sloane observed it in Jamaica ; and lastly, the
plants from which this figure was taken were received from
Mexico by Sir John Lubbock, Bart., and by him presented
to the Horticultural Society in 1828.

It requires a hot damp stove, where it grows freely
among moss and decayed vegetable matter. Its habits
are the same as those of Cattleya.

Drawn in the Garden of the Horticultural Society last
October.

At the time of publication of the second part of the
Genera and Species of Orchideous Plants, we had not seen
any specimen of this. We now improve its character from
the living plant.

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SOLLY A=^ heterophylla.
/ \i riou,s-lea ved Sulhfu .

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Pi TTosrouur. R. Br. {Introduction to the natural system
of Botany, p. 138.)

SOLLY A. — Calyx minimus, 5-partitus, lacinia altera diffurmi. Petala 5,
hypogyna, subiiiicqualia, campanulato-pateiilia. Stamina 5, hypogyna,
sepalis opposita ; antheris linearibiis, sagittatis, in conum conniventibus,
apice connatis, poris apicis dehiscentibus. Ovarium teres, biloculare, poly-
spernuim, cum stylo continiiimi ; stigma obscur^ bilobum. Pcricarpinm

fnsif'orine, charlacenm, sicciim, pnlyspermum. V\\xi\cc?> Australasicd' sub-

volnbiles, f'oliis siinplicihus, alternis, perainantibus, cxslipulatis, cymis oppo-
sitij'oliis, tloribus carulcis.

S. heterophylla ; tbliis ovato-lanceolalis inferioribus serratis superioiibus in-

tegerrimis, petiolis senatorum alatis.

Frntex volubilis, ramis castaneis, glabris. Folia alterna, atroviriilia,
exslipulata, subtits pallida venis salvis ; superiora ovato-lanceolata v. ovato-
oblongajjasi angustata, integcrrima, petiolis suprcmorum teretibus, inferinrnm
gradatim complanatis ; inferiora fere exacte ovata, suhbiserrala, petiolis
alatis. Cymi suhsex/lori, oppositifolii, nutantes, pedunculo capillari undo,
pedicellis bracteolatis. Calyx infcrus, mininms, deciduus, Spartitus, laciniis
membranaceo-marginatis, coloratis : quatuor oratis acuminatis, quinto oblongo
cuspidate, omnibus venis simplicibus, parallelis. Petala 5, hypogyna, utro-
ccerulca, (vstivatione imbricatd, oblonga, obtusa, faciebus duabus facillimd
separabilibus. Stamina 5, hypogyna, (vqualia, petalis breviora, sepalis opj)o-
sita ; filamcntis albis, subulatis, incur v is ; antheris linraribtis, subsagittatis,
innatis, in conum conniventibus, apice connatis, longitudinalitcr, sed prcreipuii
apice, quasi per poros, dehiscentibus. Ovarium cylindraccinn, gracilc, velu-
tiyium, in stylum teretem glabrum scnsim attenuatum, subsulcatum, 2-locu-
lare, placentis linearibus, utroquc loculo gemuus, lined elevatd sejunctis,
polyspcrmis ; sUi^m^ parvum, obscure bilobum.

* It is with mucli satisfaction that we name this very distinct and
beautiful t;enus after our higldy valued friend Richard Hoiisman Sui.ly,
Esq., F.Il.S., &c. &c., wliose general accpiaintance with science, and, as
far as Botany is concerned, with vegetable physiology and anatomy, are such
as to entitle him most fully to such a mark of respect.

A native of the south -western coast of New Holland,
and likely to prove a very tine Greenhouse climber.

Our drawing was taken by permission of Mr. Knight,
of the King's Road, from specimens that blossomed in his
Nursery in July last. Mr. Knight informs us, that it will
probably prove nearly hardy, as he has several plants on
an open wall, west aspect, which have grown most vigor-
ously; and, notwithstanding the severity of our November
frosts, are as green and healthy as they were in August.

This genus is near Billardiera, with which one species,
B. fusiformis ^Sol/t/a (Uigu.^ti/olia nob.) has actually been
united by Labillardiere. It is, however, essentially distin-
guished by its minute calyx ; by its campanulate or nearly
spreading petals, which do not form a tube ; by its linear
anthers cohering into a cone, connate at their apex, and
emitting their pollen by a sort of pores ; and finally, by
the fruit having a thin papery pericarpium, or being, as
M. Labillardiere ingeniously expresses it, a bacca sicca
chartiicai.

The petals readily separate into two lamellae, as if they
were composed of two plates grown face to face. This
may serve to shew how unimportant is a similar circum-
stance in Daphne, where it has been thought to be a proof
of a calyx and corolla having in that genus grown together
into a single floral envelope. We allude to this circum-
stance now, because we lately saw the idea revived some-
where ; otherwise we should have supposed it to have been
long since consigned to the list of exploded errors.

J. L.

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14(i7

ESCALLONIA* moutcvidriisis.
Mo)i tc V id CO Eficn llo n i(t .

V V. N T A M) 11 1 A MOXOC. YNIA.

Nat. ord. Escai.lonie* R. Br. {Introduction to the natural system
of Botany, p. 5.'L)

ESCALLONIA Linn. — Calycis tubus senjiglobosus, ovario adnatus,
limbus ^-dentatus .5-lobiisvc. Petala 5 cal. inserta. Stam. 5; antkcrai
ovattj-oblongtc. Stylus filiforinis porsistcns. Stigma peltatum, suico sub-
bil(<l)uni. Capsula baccata, calyciiiis lobis styloijue coionata, siibbilocuUiris,
basi poris irre^ularitcr ruinpens, disscpinieiito suptrnc incoinplcto et ibi

plai'L'iitifcro. Scmina nuincrosissima scrobiculata. Arbores fiiiticesije ex

Aiiicr. aust. ortie, sa'pe rcsinnsce. Folia sparsa, serrata, aut intcrjra. Flures
subterviinales, vurii} dispositi, bracteati, albi aut rosei. In speciebus duabus
(E. punctata ct rul)ra) urccolus adcst conicus, pervius, basi sty turn cimjens ?
An, ex hue causa, (joins aut sectio propria formanda ? sed habitus cum aliis
speciebus omnino conyruit. — De Cand. prodr. 4. 2.

IS., montevidensis : glabra, ramis erectis (tcretibus), foliis oblongis basi cu-
neatis siilnicutis s\ibtilitcr senalis subtiis resinoso-puiictatis, paniculis
terniiiialibus multifloris confertis bracteis foliaceis iiitcruiixtis, calycis
lobis acutis subdenticulatis, petalis obovato-obloiigis. — Dc Cand. I. c.

Escallonia floribuiida, /3. nioiitevidensis. Chamisso ct Schlecht. in Linncea,

\.p. r)4:i.

E. bifida. Link et Otto Ic. plant, hort. Bcrol. t. 23.

Frutex vidctur sat mugnus. Kmw'x junior cs Ireves, fcrit tcrctcs, cortice ^
griseo-fusccscente, ramuli hornolini pube minutissitnd, nonnisi Icnte bene
uugev.ti videndd, nee in siccis conspicua, sunt tecti. l-'olia consistoitia fcrd
foliorum Pyri communis, petiolata, magnitudine valdc varia, oblonga, basi
cuneata, obtusa, vinxima 3i poll, longa, poUicem lata, vsque ad pollicis
longitudinem desccndentia, 4-5 lin. tunc circiter lata, viargine tenuiter ser-
rulata, in basi uttenuata, verb intcgcrrima, serraturis glandu lifer is, utrinqne
glabra, supra nitenti-viridia, subtiis pallidiora, punctisfjue glandulosis inter
vcnarum ariastomoscs in parenchymatis areolis posilis notata. Petiolus brcvis,
supra canal iculat us. Flores in paniculam tliyrsoideam tcrminalcm, basi
foliosam, ccBteritm bracteatam compositi. Calycis dentium margines g tandulis

* So called by the younger Linnocus, at the recommendation of Mutis,
in honour of a learned Spaniard, named Escallon, the puj)il of Mutis in
Botany, niathemutics, and philosophy, and liis inseparable companion during
liis abode in New Spain. This gentleman discovered the original species
E. myrtilloides, as well as a vast number of new or rare plants besides, in his
various journeys through New Granada, most of which were by Mutis or
himself communicated to Liumcus ur his bou. — Jiccs' Cycl.

parvis suhserrato-()landulosi. Petala unguiculata, ohovato-cuneata, subspathu-
lata, limbo patcnti, supra basin biauriculata, auriculis brevissimis deorskm
versis, multinervia, nervis {in speciminibus siccis obscurioribus) ambitum
versus ramosis, lactea. Capsula calyce {minime baccato) persistente vestita,
stylo ipsa sesquilongiori terminata, bilocularis, dissepimento ex injlexis valvu-
larum marginibus orto ; placentae ducB, centrales, in quovis loculamento una.
Setnina numerosa, oblonga, utrinque acutiuscula, sulcis minutis longitudinali-
bus notata. — Linnsea, 1. 543.

According to Messrs. Chamisso and Schlechtendahl
this is a common plant near Montevideo and Rio Grande
do Sul, in the south of Brazil, where it was discovered by
Mr. Sellow. Mr. Don informs us that there are specimens
from this Botanist in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium. He also
states, " that it evidently comes near to Kuntli's E. flori-
bunda; but, independent of the widely different localities,
the latter is described as having angular branches, which,
together with the young leaves, are said to be viscid, and
the fruit not larger than a grain of pepper. The total
absence of glands or viscid matter from the young branches
and leaves, the more corymbose inflorescence, and the
longer calycine teeth, essentially distinguish it from
E. glamlulosa of the Flora Peruviana, which is otherwise
closely related to it.

** The plant at Boyton is now upwards of six feet
high, and promises to be much higher, with the air of
Arbutus Unedo, but the leaves are of a thinner texture.
The flowers are produced in large corymbose panicles, at
the extremities of almost every shoot; they are very fragrant,
the smell not unlike that of the common Hawthorn. The
plant appears to be almost hardy, blossoming freely in the
open air; and having seen specimens of nearly all the genus,
I consider this as the finest of them ; and, from the circum-
stances above mentioned, a great acquisition to the Gardens.

" The circumstance which has given rise to the name
o^ bifida, applied to the plant by Link and Otto, evidently
originates from the premature decay of the extremity of
the midrib, and appears to be accidental, as it is rarely
observed in the native samples."

Our drawing was made from specimens communicated
by Mr. Lambert in August last. We have also seen it
flowering abundantly against a south wall in the Garden of
the Horticultural Society, where it was preserved alive with
some difficulty by the aid of mats in winter.

Propagated by cuttings. J. L.

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1468

GOMPIIOLOniUM* Kiiightianum

j\Ir. K night' 6' Civnipltolobinin.

DECANDRIA MO NOG VXIA.

Nat. ord. Lfguminos.t. Juss. § Papilionacea3 (^Inlroduction to the
natural system of Botany, p. 87.)

GOMFHOLOBIUM.—Suprd, vol. 6. foL 484.

G. Knightianuyn ; foliis ternalis pinnatisque : foliolis subrotundis obovatis
ovalis linoaribuscjue mucronatis utrinque glabris, cymulis terminalibus
pedunculatis iolioium longitudine.

Fiuticiilus ercctus, ra7nis gracilibus, tcrctibus, cjlabris. YoWa polymorpha,
nunc ternata, nunc jiinnata, foliolis 2-5-jugis cum impure ; foliola in tcrnutis
subrotunda, v. obovata, v. ovata, in pinnatis lincaria ; stipuliu subulatce,
deciducE. Cymuloe terminales, foliorum longitudine, A-d-fiora. Bracteee
subulatce. Fiores parvi, carulei. Carina aZ6a, obtusissima, dipetala.

A pretty addition to our Greenhouses, obtained by
JNIr. Knight from the New Tlolhmd collections of Mr.
M'illiam liaxter. It is remarkable for the very variable
form of its leaflets, some of which are roundish, others
ovate, others linear, while the leaves themselves are both
ternate and pinnate ; the number of pairs in the latter case
varying from 2 to 5. There appears to be no regular order
in which these variations occur; some branches are wholly
pinnate, others are wholly ternate, and some have an
irregular mixture of both sorts of leaves.

It is a delicate plant, requiring a good airy situation in
winter.

Our drawing was made at Mr. Knight's Nursery in

August last.

^ J. L.

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AUDIBEIITIA* incana.
Hoary Audibertia.

DIANDRIA MONOCYNIA.

Nat. ord. L.MUAT^ Juss. Tribus Nepetcce Bciitham, supra, vol. 15.
fol. 1289. {Introduction to the natural system of Botany, p. 239.)

AUDIBERTIA. — Calyx ovatus, bilal)iatus, labio siiperiore siibintogro,
inferiore bifido, intiis fauce mida. CorolLe tubus exsertus; liinbus sub-
bilabiatus, labio supcriore l)iHdo, lobis patentibus ; inferiore trirtdo, lobis
lateralibus ovatis, patentibus, medio latissimo eniar^ijinato. Slaviina fer-
tilia 2, exserta. Anthcrtn dimidiatte, connect ivo elon^ato fililormi postic^
in filamcntum articulato. Stylus breviter subulato-bitidus. — Bcnth. MSS.

Audibertia incana. Bentham.
Salvia carnosa. Herb. Dourjlas.

Suffrutex humilis, rainis divaricatis, terctiuscuUs, canescentibtis. Folia
breviter petiolata, \-\\-pollicaria, obovato-cnneata, obtusa, inteyerrima, vel
rariiis hinc indc obtusi} dentata, basi lonye angustata, crassiuscula, subencrviu,
glabriuscula, incana, deminn pallide subviridia ; floralia sessilia, latiora,
pubescentia, suprcvia orbiculata, ciliata, bracteis vix majora. Racemi ter-
viinales, simpliccs. Verticillastri densi, globosi, multijlori, distincti, infe-
riores ultra pollicem distantes. Bractea- calycem cp(juantes, imbricatce, orbi-
culatce, vel obovatce, pubcscentes, ciliatce. Calyces subsessiles, pubcscentes,
labio superiore lato, rotundato, obtusissi/tio ; inferioris lobi oblongi, obtusi,
labio superiore breviores. Corolla pallid-} cccrulea. Tubus calyce duplb
longior, rectus, cequalis, intiis glaber, nudas. Limbus 5-Jidus, lobis 2 su-
premis divaricato-patcntibus, planis, injimo latissimo, concavo, emaryinato,
denticulato. Genitalia longc exserta, glaberrima. Staminum siiperiorum
rudimenta ntdla, Styli lobus superior brevissirnus. — Bentham.

" This plant was considered by Mr. Douglas as a species
of Salvia ; but it differs from that genus in habit, by the
form of the corolla, and by the anthers, of which the con-

* " I have dedicated this genus to my friend M. Audibert, of Tarascon,
proprietor of one of the most extensive Nurseries of France, who has intro-
duced and naturalised in that country many rare and valuable exotics." —
Bentham, supn\, fol. 1282.

nectiva are not produced below the point of insertion, but
merely articulated on the filament. It also bears some
affinity to Meriandra ; and has very much the habit, and
some of the characters, of Origanum. It certainly, how-
ever, constitutes a distinct genus, intermediate between
those three; and as the genus 1 had, in my notes on Labiatae
in a former Number of the Register, dedicated to my friend
M. Audibert, of Tarascon, proves, on a closer examination,
not to be distinguishable from Pulegium, a section of
Mentha, I am happy in having this opportunity of retain-
ing the name of that distinguished promoter of Botanical
and Horticultural science for so interesting a plant as the
present one."

For the foregoing account of this curious plant we are
indebted to Mr. Bentham. We have little to add, except
that it is quite hardy, grows readily in common Garden
soil, flowers from July to September; but is not propagated
readily by cuttings. It has not yet produced seeds.

Mr. Douglas found it on the plains of the Colombia,
near the Priest's Rapid, and on the clayey hills near the
Big Birch, in 1826.

It forms an inelegant plant, about a foot and a half

J. L.

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1470

STEMODIA* cliilcMisis.
( It (I hut Sfcntnf/id.

I)II)^■^•.\.MIA ixciosrEJiMi.i.

Nat. ord. ScRorii I' 1. \ HI N r.v. J«.ss. {Introductio7i to the natural system
of Botami, p. 2-28.)

STEMODI A L. — Calyx canipaniilatus, o-Hdus vel .O-partitus. Corolla
infimdihiililbrniis, tubo recto, limbo bihibiato, labiis patentibus, superiori
cinarixinato, iiif'eriori trifido, lobis omnibus planis, rotundalis. Stamina 4,
didyiiama, incUisa. Antherce per paria approximata;, liberop, locidis coii-
iiecfivo filiformi HIamento acbiato disjunctis. Stiymata dilatato-coniplanata.
Capsula bilocidaris, bivalvis, ulrimpie secundum dissepimentum sulcata,
valvulis locubcido-dehiscentibus integris, vel septicidc l)ifidis, vel septicido-
dchiscentibus et loculicidc bitidus. dissepimento dcmiim libero, placeutifero.
Bcntham MSS.

St. chilensis ; herbacea, perennis, erecta, viscosa, foliis oppositis verticillatisve
oblong^o-lanceolatis acutis serratis basi cordato-amplexicaulibus : racemo
terminali niultiHoro : Horibus axilliribus sessilibus, caiycibus quin(|iie-
partitis : laciniis lanceolato-subidatis, corollis calyce duplu longioribus :
labio inferiore supra <j,labro. Benih. MSS.

Herba perennis, rndicibus rrpentibus. Caules t hasi duro ])lurcs, erectly
siibsitnplices, auyulati, pubescentcs, I'iscosi, seniipedales pedalesve et ultra.
Folia scepiiis tcrnatim-verticillata, rarh opposita rcl (jiiatcrnatiin-verticillufa,
\-l}j-pollicaria, acuta, aryiite et profundi: serrata, hasi vix anyustafn et
auriculis rotundatis amplexicaidihus cordato-dilatata, ^itrinquc puLescentia
et viscosa, superiora gradafim minora, fioralia vix calyccm superuntia, lineari-
lanccolata, acutissima, suhintcyerrima. Flores sessiles, oppositi vel S(ppiiis
tematim-verticilluti, verticillis infenoribus remotis, supremis approximatis.
Calyces oblongo-campamdati, laciniis viscosis, basi lanccolatis, apice subitlatis,
capsula lonyioribus. Corolla purpurea, calyce vix duplb lonyior. Stylus
pcrsistcns, culycempatdh supcrnns. Capsula ouoitiea, acuta, ylubra, septicidi
bivalvis, valvulis devium bifdis. Dissepimentum e valvularum vwryinibus
iiifiexis, et ab Us solubilc, demitm liberum. Semina ininuta, ruyosa. — Benlh.

* Named by Linnaeus from (rrnuv*, a stamen, and S««, double; becatise he
thought each filament had two anthers, mistaking tlie two se|)arated lobes
for distinct anthers.

VOL. XVII

obloiigo-laiiceolatis basi angustatis amplexicaulibus : floralibus conformibus, floribus pedl-
cellatis axillaribiis opjiositis solitariis, calycibus quinquepartitis : laciniis lanceolatis, corollis

calyce dimidio longiorilnis Hab. in India Orieiitali : ad Tavoy, Wallich (v. s. sp. comm.

e Mus. Angl. Ind.)

Sect. 3. Dinmoste (Cliam. et Sclilecht. 1. c.) Calyx quinquepartitus. Capsulae valvae
septicido-dehisceiUes, loculicide bifidie — Species omnes Americana;.

18. St. marilima (Linn S\v. obs. 242.) — Ilab. in Jamaica et Ilispaniola.

19. St. verticillaris (Link enum. 2. 144 — Reich, ic. hot. exot. 2. 20. t. 149), annua,
erecta, viscosa, foliis oppositis verticillatisve lineari-lanceolatis acutis serratis basi angus-
tatis et cordato-amplexicaulibus, racemo terminal!, floribns in axilla solitariis subsessilibus,
calycibus (juinqtiepartitis: laciniis lanceolato-subnlatis, corollis calyce subduplo longioribus :

labio inf'eriore supra glabro Conoheii verticillaris, Spreng. nov. prov. 13 Hab. in

Brasilia tropica et extratro])ica, Sellow (v. s. cult, ex hort. Berol.)

20. St. hartsioides^ suffruticosa, erecta, viscoso-pubescens, foliis oppositis verticillatisve
lineari-lanceolatis basi vix amplexicaulibus : floralibus calyce longioribus, racemo terminal!,
floribns in axilla solitaribus breviter pedicellatis, calycibus quinquepartitis : laciniis lanceo-
lato-subulatis, corollis calyce ultra duplo longioribus : labio inferiori suprii hirsuto. — Hab.
in planitie Topetongo IMexicanorum, (l.J. Graham (v. s. sp. conim. a cl. Graham.) — Affinis
S. verlicillari, sed folia angiistiora uec basi amplexicaulia, flores pedicellati et corolla? intiis
hirsutw.

21. St. chilensis (supra).

22. St. palustris (St. Hil. pi. bras, et parag. 216.) — Hab. ad Rio Negro, Sellow.

23. St. f/ratiolcBfolia (St. Hil. 1. c. 217) — Hab. in BrasiUa.

24. St. durantifoUa (Sw. obs. 240). — Capraria durantifolia, Linn.

25. St. sujfriiticosa (Kunth nov. gen. et sp. 2. 357) Hab. in Regno Novo Granatensi,

Humboldt et Bonpland.

26. St. irifoliata (Reich, ic. hot. exot. 1. 3. t. 1) Hab. in Brasilia.

27. St. jorullensis (Kunth, 1. c. 2. 358) Hab. ad mont. JoruUo Novae Hispaniae,

Humboldt et Bonpland.

28. St. parvijiora (Ait. kew. ed. 2. v. 4. 52) St. arenaria. Kunth, 1. c. 2. 35?.

t. 175 Hab. ad flum. IMagdalenw, Humboldt et Bonpland; Ins. Stae. Catherinae, Cha'

misso ; in Brasilia meridionali, Sellout

29. St. hyptoidea (Cham, et Schlecht. Linnaea, 3. 8). — Hab. in Brasilia meridionali,
Sellotv.

30. St. stricta (Cham, et Schlecht, 1. c. 10). — Hab. in Brasilia tropica, SellowJ''' — C. B.

J. L.

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IIIHES* iiirbrians.

IntiKvicatuig Red Curnnif.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. Old. f JuossuLACE.t /)c Cand. (Introduction to the natural system
of Botany, p. 54.)

RIBES.—Suprd, vol. 2.fol. \25.

§ RlBKSIA.

*Calyce tubi cylindracco.

R. inebrians ; foliis subrotundis leviter 3-5-lobis inciso-dentatis basi trun-
catis litrinque glandulosis, petiolis piibescentibus, pediinculis 3-5-floris
pendulis, calycibus agp;regatis tubulosis glandulosis : laciniis recurvis.
Frutex l-S-pedalis, ramis erecio-patetitihus, inerntibus, castaneis,(jlabris,

V. paulh glandulosis. Folia odorem Ribis Jioridi spirantia, ylandulis re-

sinosis nitidis irrorata. Calyces albi, viridcscentcs, tuba 4 lineas longo.

Bracteae virides, oblongi, concavi, denticulati, ovario paulb longiores.

This was sent from New York, by Messrs. Floy of that
city, to the Horticultural Society, under the name of "The
Intoxicating Red Currant/' but without any account of its
quality. We presume its berries possess some narcotic
property, although such a circumstance has been hitherto
unheard of in the order ; and therefore in giving it a specific
name we have merely translated the American appellation.
The fruit has never been produced in this country.

It flowered for the first time in the Garden of the Horti-
cultural Society, at Chiswick, in April last, in an open
border, where it had been growing for three or four years
among bushes in the common soil of the place, and proved
to be a species hitherto undescribed.

As a plant of ornament its merits are not great, its
• Seefol. 1237.

leaves being small, and pale, and dying away at an early
period of the summer ; but to Botanists it is highly inter-
esting, not only as a distinctly marked new species of an
old and well-known genus, but also for the singular anomaly
it presents of a narcotic plant in the midst of an order, or
rather group of orders, all the species of which are emi-
nently wholesome.

Propagated readily by cuttings. J. L.

1472

BROWNUAVIA* data
Ijlftij liroicnhni-in.

POLVANDKIA MOXOC.YXI.i.

Nat. ord. Tii.iACC.t: Jusa. {Tntrodnction to the natural system of
Botanif, p. 40.')

BROWNLOWfA Roxh. — Calyx nioiiophylliis, cunipanulatus, limbo
3-5-paitito : lobis in restivationc valvaiis, quibiisdam sapius connatis.
Pctalu 5, demuni revohita, basi gvnophori hrevis turbinati iiiserta, uiigue
brcvi concavo. Discus millus. Stamina inclcHiiita, distiiicta, apice {;y-
nopliori inserta sub ovario ; anthcrcB 2-locularcs : loculis basi sejunctis.
Stamina strrilia 5, petaloidca, basi ovarii inserta, carptllis altcnia. Orariiim
.5-loi'uiare, ovidis utroque loculo binis, uno supra altcnnn appcnso. Stylus
subulatus. Stigtna simplex. Pericarjda (ex Roxb.) 1-5, 1-locularia,
2-valvia, monosperma. Radicula infera ; cotyledones planoe ; alhuvien 0.

• Arbor excelsa, toliis alteniis, sublobatis, cxstipulatis, pube stellat/i,

succo mucilagineo ; paniculis terminalibus.

B. elata. Roxburgh's plants of the coast of Coromandel, vol. 3. tab. 265.

Dr. Wallich has favoured us with the following account of this remark-
able plant : —

" This noble tree was sent by I^r. Riixbiirf,'li, in 1812, to Sir Abraliani Hume, after
whose lamented lady he had originally called it Ilnmea; a name that had been jireviously
a|>|)lied to a different ])lant by Sir James Kdward Smith. It blossomed in September
1!>:{1 in the stove at ^\'o^nlleybnrv, then measuring nine feet and a half in height, and
the stem ten inehes in cirrumference. The tree was in the most healthy and iKMUtiful
state, some of the lea\es measuring ten inches and a half in length by eight in breadth.
Thus another beautiful object has \tevn added to the list of noble species that llonrish in
the Garden of A\'ormleybury, where I had the gratification of seeing, only a few months
before, the finest specimen in Euro])e of Preonia papaveracea covered with more than two
thousand superb fiowers, and where the Vulan forms a large tree, perfuming the air in
its season with myriads of fragrant blossoms.

" In the Kotanic (Jardeii, Calcutta, where this magnificent tree has only blossome<l
of late vears, it forms, at all times, a beautiful spectacle, especially when covered with its
numerous grand panicles of yellow flowers.

"• It is indigenous in t'hittagong, where, according to Dr. Roxburgh, it grows to a
large size, particularly in the back part of that province; flowering in ."May, and ripening
its seed in October. Its vernacular name is Maws-jaul.

" In Ur. Koxburgh's figure, in the Plants of t tie Coast of Coromnndcl, the leaves are

" This majestic tree was dedicated by Dr. Roxburgh to the memon,' of the late liady
Brownlow, daughter of the Lady Anudia Hume, by whose premature decease Botany lost
one of its best and most powerful patronesses.

too small, and too entire. They are generally, especially when full grown, lobed, and of
the size of the i)rincii)al leaf in tlie accom])anying figure.

" The following is Dr. Roxburgh's description of this plant : —

" ' Trunk straight, and of great size ; that of full-grown trees in their native soil about
15 feet in circumference 4 feet at)(>ve the root. Branches numerous, spreading, forming a
very large, ovate, shady head. Bark of the trunk and large l)ranches a.sh-coloured, and
smooth ; of tlie young j)arts clotlied with a little lioary puliesrence. Leaves alternate,
petiolate, .'{.y-nerved, cordate; margins entire, one of the loi)es (into which the liase is
divided) generally larger than the other ; uj)per surface smooth, hoary underneatli ; from
4 to 12 inches long, and the lireadth from li to 8. Petiole swelled at each end, the rest
round, and a little hoary; al)out ^ or \ the length of the leaves. Panicles terminal,
large, ovate, very ramous, with the ramifications rather hoary. Flowers numerous, pedi-
celled, collected in little fascicles ; colour bright yellow ; not fragrant, lint pretty large, and
shewy. CV/(?/,c inferior, 1-leaved, cainjiaiuilate ; //(/»v/(';- 4- or .')-toothed, hoary on the out-
side, smooth within. Carol. : i)etals 5, in the bud contorted, when expanded obliquely
oblong, yellow, spreading. Nectary or abortive filaments 5, linear, shorter than the
stamina, and standing between them and the germ, opposite to its 5 grooves. Filaments
numerous, slender, shorter than the petals, most slightly, or rather scarce, united at the
base, and inserted roujid the apex of a short turbinate receptacle. Germ superior, and
elevated on the turbinate receptacle, considerably above the insertion of the calyx and corol,
very hairy, conspicuously and deeply 5-lol)e(l, o-celled, each cell containing two ovules,
attached f>y their middle to tlie inner angle of the cell. Style single, 5-furrowed, length
of the filaments. Sliyma sim])le. Capsules from I to 5 ; 2 or 3 most frequent, round,
oval, about an inch and a half in diameter, and one inch thick ; of a firm, fibrous, woody
texture; surface gray, or ash-coh)ured, and somewhat downy, 1 -celled, 2-valved. Seed 1,
rarely 2, conftwm to the capsule. Inteyninents 2 ; exterior light brown, and friable : in-
terior membranaceous. Albumen none. £ffiir?/o conform to the seed, erect. Cotyledons 2,
nearly equal, amygdaline. Plumula small, villous, 2-lobed. Radicle oblong, inferior."'

A stove plant, growing; freely in a mixture of peat and loam, and flower-
ing in September. We presume it is to be increased by ripened cuttings,
struck in sand under a hand-glass.

This genus is not taken up in the learned M. De CandoUe's Prodromus;
and in Bartling's valuable work on Natural Orders it is placed among the
genera the afhnity of which is uncertain. It appears from the foregoing
account to be undoubtedly Tiliaceous, and closely related to Christiana, as
far as can be judged from the little that is known of that genus. Its principal
points of difference from the most genuine forms of Tiliacesc, are the absence
of a disk round the base of the stamens, its distinct pericarpia, and its want
of albumen ; but the disk may be supposed to be connate with the gyno-
phorus, which is very much thickened at the base of the stamens ; the
distinct pericarpia are found in Christiana; and albumen can scarcely be con-
sidered an essential character of the order. Bytmeriaceae, the only other
plants with which Brownlowia can be compared, are chiefly difterent in their
monadelphous stamens ; but this character seems to be so important as to
destroy the affinity that would otherwise be indicated by the sterile petaloid
stamens of the genus before us.

J. L.

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1473

im:ui:skia* vAvo.

Rose-colou red 1 *rreskia.

ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Cactf-T. Jnss. {Introduction to the natural system of Botany,
p. 54.)

PERESh'IA.—Sepala plurima ovario adnata et super fructuin saopt:
persislentia, foliiformia. Corolla rotata, feiii Opiintice. Stamina numerosa,
petalis iniilto breviura. Stylus fililbrmis. Stigmata spiralitcr aggregata.

Bacca globosa ant ovata. Scniina in pulpa iiidulantia. Frutices ant

arbores ramis tcrctibus. Aculei ad axillam fuliorum solitarii, ant in caule
fascicnlati. Folia distincta, pl'inUy in online maxima. Florcs snhpani-
culati, solitarii, ramulos tcrminantes aut sublaterales. — Dc Cantl. prodr.
3. 474.

P. Bleo ; foliis oblongis acuminatis, aculeis axillaribus 5-6 fasciculatis, floiibus
ad apicem raniuloiuin 2-4 brevitor peduiiciilatis, petalis obovatis retusis.
De (,\ind. I. c.

P. Bleo. Humb. et Kiinth nov. gen. et sp. pi. p. 69.

A native of the hottest parts of America. Humboldt
found it on the banks of the Magdalena, near Badillas, in
New Granada, where it was called Bleo ; and JMr. Staples
sent it to Mr. Tate, in 1827, from the plains of Mexico.

It is a very handsome plant, and a free flowerer, pro-
ducing its blossoms in January and the succeeding months.
Our drawing was made in Mr. Tate's Nursery in January
1831.

Requires the heat of a dry stove, and the soil and
management usually applied to similar succulent plants,
except that it will bear more water than many.

J. L.

• Named in honour of Nicolas Fabrice Pcircskius, a gentleman of Aix,
in Provence, and contemporary of Tournefort. ^

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1474

(iOMPirOLOBIUM* tomentosuiii
Downy Gompholobhi ni .

DECANDRIA MONOGVXIA.

Nat. ord. LF.Gi'MiNOs.t Juis. \ Papilionacea). {Introduction to the
natural syston of Botany, p. 87.)

GOMPHOLOBIUM.Supru, vol. G.fol. 484.

G. tojncntosnm ; foliis impari-piniiatis 2-4-jiig:is, foliolis .subulato-linearibus
inucronatis supra gcabris, pediinculis subsolitariis. calycibiis hirsiitis legu-
niine brcvioribus, carina sericco-ciliata (?) — De ('and. prodr. 2. 106.
G. tomentosum. Labill. nov. Holl. \.p. lOG. t. 134. Brown in hort. Kctv.
3. p. 12.

Caules erecti, graciles, pallid^ viridcs, pilosi. Folia impnri-pinnata,
foliolis 2-5-jtigis, suhulato-linearibus , pidiescentihns , sccpe divaricatis,pctiolo
villoso, stipulis tentdsswiis, crectis, setaceis. Flores parvi, terminalcs, sessiles,
bi-ternati. Calyx atro-oliiaceo-brunneus, 5-partitiiS, subcpqualis, pnbescens.
Corolla vcxillo intus luteo, cxtus atro-olivncco ; alae lutcce ; carina lutea,
fjlaherrima. Legumen pisi 7najoris viagnitudinc, injlatum, caltjce ditplb
louyiiis.

A native of Van Dicman's Land, and of the south-west
coast of New Holland. In the latter country its seeds were
gathered by Mr. William Baxter, and formed part of the
valuable collection now in the possession of Mr. Knight.

A little Greenhouse plant, flowering as soon as fifteen
months' from seed, which it produces in abundance, and by
which it may be freely increased. Mr. Knight thinks it
probably short-lived. It is found to require a good elevated
shelf in the Greenhouse during winter; light soil, and not
to be overwatered.

Our drawinir was made in the Nursery of Mr. Knight,
in the King's Road, in August last.

* See lol. 1408.

M. De Candollc ascribes a silky, ciliated carina to the
flowers of his species : in our specimens it is perfectly
smooth.

Stems erect, slender, pale green, pilose. Leaves un-
equally pinnated ; the leaflets in from 2 to 5 pairs, subulate-
linear, downy, often very much divaricate ; the petiole
villous ; the stipules very slender, erect, bristle-shaped.
Floivef^s small, terminal, sessile, growing 2 or 3 together.
Caly.v deep olive brown, 5-parted, nearly equal, pubescent.
Corolla with the ve.villum yellow within, olive green with-
out ; the icings yellow ; the keel yellow, and quite smooth.
Pod the size of a large pea, inflated, twice as long as the
calyx.

J. L.

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1475

0S13ECKIA* ne])alrnsis ; /v/y. alhiH()ra.
WItite-Jlowered Nipal O^beckia.

OCTANDRTA MONOGVNIA.

Nat. ord. Melastomacl^e /«AS. {Introduction to the natural system
of Botam/, p. (M.)

OSBECKIA.— Supra, vol. l.fol. 542.

Sect. OSBKCKIAUIA.

Calyces 4-5-fidi, setis a basi palmatis per totmn tubum ornati ; ap-
pendices phiinosa) aut stcpiiis pectinata; ; lolii dL-muin cum appendicibus
docidui, ore calvcis truncato. — Species ornnes Asiaticcc, et forsan noiinuli.u
Africanoe h'lc adjunpjc-nda;. — De Cand. prodr. .3. 141.

O. yiepaletisis ; herbacea? (surtVuticosa), ramis subtetragonis setis brevibu3
adpressis asperis, foliis scssilibus oblongo-lanceolatis brevt; et appresse
pilosis 5-nerviis, floribus fasciculatis bracteatis, calycis squaniulis latia
palmato-ciliatis, lobis deciduis longitudine tubi obovati. — De Cand. I. c.
O. nepalensis. Hooker exot.fi. ^ 31. (floribus purpureis.)
O. speciosa. Don prodr.fi. nepal. p. 222.

A very pretty Greenhouse plant, native of Ni|)al, whence
seeds have been at various times sent to England by
Dr. Wallich. A purple-flowered variety was originally
raised in the Gardens of Glasgow and Edinburgh; and
iVom a specimen that flowered in the latter collection, in
June 1822, Dr. Hooker's figure, in the E.ivtic Flora, was
drawn.

That which is now published with white flowers was

* " Received its name from Linnaeus, in honour of his disciple Peter
Osbeck, a Swedish cier-^vmaii, who performed a voyajj:e to Cliina, as chaplain
to a Swedish East Indiaman, and publislied an account of his voyage, par-
ticularly of his observations in Natural History, which lias been translated
into German and English. — He contributed several papers on fishes, in-
sects, and various economical plants, to the Stockholm Transactions." — ■
Smith.

raised by Messrs. Whitley and Co., of Fulham, and flowered
with them for the first time in August last.

It grows freely in a mixture of peat, loam, and sand,

and may be increased without difficulty by cuttings. It
requires a srood Greenhouse or cool stove.

^ J. L.

147G

CALCEOLARIA* chiloc'nsis.
TIte Cliiloe Slipper -flower.

DIANDRIA MONOGYNIsi.

Nat. ord. SriiopiiULAiuNE.T, Jitss. {^Introduction to tlie natural system
of Botany, ]>. '2'2S.)

CALCEOLARIA.— Supra, vol. 9.fol. 793.

C. chiloensis ; caule glandiiluso-piloso, foliis caulinis oblongo-lanceolatis

iindulatis ar^riitc dentatis utrinque puboscentibus siipurioribus intcger-

rimis, cyinis niultiHoris, calvcibus bracteiscjue glanduloso-pilosis.

Caulis suberectus, InpcdaUs, teres, pubescens, pilis (julbnsilam (jlanduli-

geris interjectis. Folia obloncjo-lanceolata, in petiolum attenuata, iindulata,

acuta, argute et subirrcgulariter dentata, utrinque Icviter pubescentia ; supe-

riora ovata, acuminata, integerrima ; suprcma ovata. InHorescentia ojinosa,

multijiora, terminalis, et axillaris. Calyx tetrapkyllus, glanduloso-pilosus.

Corolla lutea, unicolor, labia inferiors ventricoso superiori appresso.

This fine new Calceolaria is a native of the Island of
Chiloe, on the south coast of Chile, where it was collected
by Mr. Anderson. It will probably become one of the
most valuable species in our Gardens, not only on account
of its intrinsic beauty, but because of its being more hardy
than others of the lialf-shrubby kind. A well-protected
frame will, no doubt, be all that it will require. A mixture
of peat, loam, and sand, will prove a proper soil for its
cultivation; and it may be increased, like others of its
kind, by cuttings.

Our drawing was made in My. Low's Nursery in August
last.

Stem somewhat upright, about 2 feet high, taper, downy,
with a few i^dand-bearing hairs scattered over it. JA'arcs

' See Ibl. 1-M4.

oblon^^-lanceolate, tapering into the stalk, wavy, acute,
finely and rather irregularly toothed, slightly downy on
both sides ; the upper ovate, acuminate, entn-e ; the upper-
most of all ovate. Inftorcscencc a many-flowered axi lary
or terminal cyme. Caly.v 4-leaved, covered with glandular
hairs. Corolla yellow, whole-coloured, the lower mflated
lip pressed close to the upper one.

GEM-KAl. ALl>IIABETlCAi. l.\J)E.\

VOLUMES I II III AM) l\. oi" THE NEW SERIES.

Folium

Acacia iilbi.la 131?

Acacia leprosji 1441

Acacia liinata l.'KW

Acacia iinciiiata I,1.T2

Acirna piiinatilida 1:?71

Adenotrichia ainplcxicaulis 1 J'Nl

Agave f;einiiiiflora 114")

Alstromcria pulrhclla, var. piloDa 14III

AmwryWli acuminala, \aT. longipedunciilata ... 11118

Amar>ilis coranica, var. jiallida 1219

Amaryllis intcrmcniia 114!)

Amelanchior saiiguinea 1171

AmyRdaliis communis, var. macrocarpa 1 Kid

Anemone vitifulia 1,385

Anomathcca cnienta 13G9

Anona laurifolia 1328

Antholyza a-lhiopica, var. minor 1 159

Argemone grandiflora 12C4

Argemonc ochroleuca 1343

Aristolochia caudata 1453

Aristolochia trilobata 1399

Astragalus succulentus 1324

Audibertia incana 14()9

Azalea cr ' ndulacea, var. xubciipren 1 ."XJG

Azalea < lulacea, var. lepida 14(t2

Azalea calcndulacea, var. StapMoniuim 1407

Azalea nuditlora, var. scintillans 1461

Azalea nuditlora, var. thymiflura 13C7

Azalea pontica, var. siuensin 1253

Banksia littoralis 13C3

Banksia (luercifolia 1430

Banksia undulata 131(;

Bauhinia cumancnsis • •» 1 1.33

Begonia villosa 1250

-is aquifolium 1425

-iisglumacea 142(5

Berberis rcpens 1170

Bignonia C'herere 1301

Billbergia pyramidalis, var. Wco/or 1181

Blackwellia ))aditlora 1308

Bletia tlorida 1401

Brasavola nodosa 14()5

Brodia-a grandiflora 11K3

Browallia grandiflora 1384

Brownlowia elata 1472

Urunsvigia ciliaris Il.'i3

Brunsvigia grandiflora 1335

Buddica hctcro))hylla 1259

Cactuo Ackermanni 1.331

Calandrinia grandiflora 1 194

L'alathea grantlifolia 1210

Calceolaria arachnoidca 1 4.'.4

Calceolaria .-uccndens I21."i

Calceolaria chilocnsijt 1470

Calceolaria diffusa 1374

Fittiiiin

Califolaria lloribiinda 1214

Calceolaria I lerlK-rtiana 1313

Calceolaria, Mr. \'oung'» 14-18

Cal<Kliortus macrocarpus 1 152

Camellia ja|Kmica, var. imhrimni l.'KNI

Camellia japonica, var. />Mm-ta/ri 12ti7

Canavalia bonaricnsjg W'.fj

Canna Achiras 1358

Canna discolor 1231

Canna lagunensis 1.31 1

Canna speciosa I27ti

Capparis acuminata 1.322

Caprifolium occidcntale \^^>^

Caprifolium longiUorum 12.32

Cassia biflora 1310

Cassia Herbertiana 1422

Castillcja coccinea 1 136

Cattleya crispa I172

Cattleya guttata 14iNJ

Chasmonia incisa 1244

Cheiranthus mutabilis 1431

Chelone nemorosa 1211

Chrysanthemum indicum 1287

Clematis chlorantha 12.34

Cleomc spcciosissima 1312

Clerodcndron hastatum l,"lt»7

Clintonia elegans 1241

Clivia nobilis 1 182

Collomia gr.-indiflora 1 174

(^ollomia hetcrophylla 1:H7

Collomia linearis 1 1C6

Combretum comosum Illl5

Conanthera campanulata 119,3

Conocephalus naucleiflorus 1203

Convolvulus farinosus 1323

Coreopsis Atkinsoniana l;i76

Coreopsis aurea 1228

Corrca pulchella .... 1224

Cotoncaster frigida 122't

Cotone.xster laxiflora 1.305

Cotonca.stcr microphylla, var. Uva Vrti 1187

Crassula turrita 1344

Cratii'gus cordata 1 151

Crata'gus heterophylla 1101

Crinum latifolium 12!I7

Crocus vcmus, var. lencorhi/ticiit 1410

Crocus vcrnns, var. pictus 1 440

Crotalaria verrucosa 1137

Cuphca Llavca l.'lUfi

Cyrtanthus carreus 1402

Cytisus multiflorus 1191

Daphne hybrida 1 1 77

Delphinium Menzicftii 1192

Dendrobium anccps 12.39

DcndrobUim chrysanthum 1299

oblong-lanceolate, tapering into the stalk wa^, acute,
finely and rather irregularly toothed, slightly downy on
both sides ; the upper ovate, acuminate, entu'e ; the upper-
most of all ovate. Inflorescence a many-flowered axi lary
or terminal cyme. Calijx^ 4-leaved, covered with glandular
hairs. Corolla yellow, whole-coloured, the lower mflated
lip pressed close to the upper one. ^

(iEM:i{AL ALPHABETICAL L\J)E\

\(>u.Mi> I II III \M) i\. ()i Till- m:\v series.

Folium

Acacia albiila 1317

Acacia leprosn I44I

Acacia lunata 1352

Acacia tincinata 1332

Aca?na piniutirula 1271

Adciiotrlf hia amplexicaulis I l!Ki

Agave gciniiiiflora 1 145

Alstromeria i>nlchclla, var. piloaa 141lt

Amar>'llis acuminata, var. /nrii^'peduncu/a/a •• HUB

Amarj'llis coranica, var. pallida 1219

Ainarj'llis inlcnncHlia 1 148

Amelanchicr sanguinea 1 171

Amygdalus communis, var. macrocarpa 1 l(»(t

Anemone vitifolia 1305

Anomatheca cruenta 13C9

Anona l.iurifolia 1328

.\ntholyza .Tlliiopica, var. minor 1 159

Argemone grandiflora 1264

Argemone ochroleuca 1343

Aristolochia caudata 1453

Aristolochia trilobata 1399

Astragalus succulcntus 1324

Audibertia incana 14C9

Azalea c ' ndulacea, var. mbcuprea l.TGC

Azalea i lulacea, var. lepida 1402

Azalea calendulacea, var. Stapletoniaiia 1407

Azalea nuilitlora, var. scintillans 1401

Azalea nudiflora, var. thyrnijlura 1307

Azalea pontica, var. sinensis 1253

Banksia littoralis 13C3

Banksia <|uerrirolia 1430

Banksia undulata 1310

Bauhinia cumanensis • •» 1 133

Begonia villosa 1252

-is aquifolium 1425

iisglumacea 1420

Berberis rci)ens 1 17O

Bignonia C'lierere l.lni

Billbergia pyramidalis, var. fcico/or 1181

Blackwellia padiHora 1308

Bletia Horida 1401

Brasavola nodosa 14(>5

Brodin-a grandiflora 1111.')

Browallia grandiflora 1384

BrownlowLi elala 1472

Brunsvigia ciliaris 1153

Brunsvigia grandiflora 1335

Buddlea hetcrophylla 1259

Cactus Ackermanni 1131

Calandrinia grjindiflora 1 194

Calathea grandifolia 1210

Calceolaria arachnoidca 14."i4

Calceolaria .Tsccndens 1215

Calceolaria rliiUxinsLs 1470

Calceolaria dilTusa 1374

Fuliiim

Calceolaria floriliunda 1214

Calceolaria I lerlK-rtiana I31.'t

Calceolaria, Mr. Young's 1448

Calochortus macrocarpus 1 152

Camellia japonica, var. imhrimln 1398

Camellia japonica, var. />«(irfa/« 12»i7

C.inavalia Ixmaricnsis 1 1911

Canna Achiras 135)J

Canna discolor 1231

Canna lagunensis 131 1

Canna speciosa 1 270

Cajiparis acuminata l.'I22

Caprifolium occidentale 1457

Caprifolium longiUorum 1 232

Cassia biflora 1310

Cassia Ilcibertiana 1422

Castillcja coccinea 1 I3«i

Cattleya crispa 1172

Cattleya guttata 14ii»J

Chasmonia incisa 1244

Cheiranthus mutabills 1431

Chelone nemorosa 1211

Chrysanthemum indicum 1287

Clematis chlorantha 1234

Cleome speciosissima 1312

Clerodcndron hastatum i;t07

Clintonia elcgans 1241

Olivia nobilis 1 182

Collomia grandiflora 1 174

(^ollomia hetcrophylla I.'M7

Collomia linearis 1 1(^0

Combretum comosum 1105

Conanthera campanulata 1 1!»,1

Conocephalus naucleiflorus 12i>3

Convolvulus farinosus 1.323

Coreopsis Atkinsoniana i:i7'>

Coreopsis aurea 1228

Correa pulchella 1224

Cotoncaster frigida 1229

Cotoneaster laxiflora 1303

Cotoncaster microphylla, var. Vva Ursi 1187

Crassula turrita 1.344

Crata-gus cordata 1151

Crata-gus hcterophylla HOI

l.'rinum latiroliuiii I2!(7

Crocus vcmus, var. Irucorhi/ncus 1410

Crocus vemns, var. pictus 1440

Crotalaria verrucosa 1 137

Cuphea Llavea l-'Mfi

Cyrtanthus carreus 1402

Cytisus nuiltiflorus 1191

Daphne hybrida 1177

Delphinium Menzicsii 1IU2

Dcndiobium anccps 12:19

Dcndroblum chrysanlhum 129Jt

GENERAL INDEX TO THE NE\V SERIES.

Folium

Dendrobium longicomu 1315

Dendrobium moniliforme 1314

Dendrobium secundum 1291

Digitalis laciniata 1201

Diosjiyrus Mabola 1139

Draocna surculosa • 1169

Drimia villosa 1346

Echeveria gibbiflora 1247

Eljragnus angustifolia ••• 115G

Epiden<lrum odoratissimum 1415

Eriophylluni Cii'pitosum 1167

Erythrina carnea 1327

Erythrina poianthes 1246

Escallonia montevidensis 1467

Eschscholtzia californica 1168

Eulophia ensata 1147

Eulophia Macliaiana 1433

Eutoca multiliora 1180

Fuchsia micropliylla 1269

Fuchsia thymifolia 1284

Gaillardia aristata 1186

Galipea odoratissima 1420

Gaultheria Shallon 1411

Genista procumbens 1150

Gesneria macrostachya 1202

Gesneria rutila 1158

Gesneria rutila, var. atrosanffuinea 1279

Geum chilense, var. grmuiijiorum • • 1348

Gilia capitata 1170

Gladiolus psi ttacinus 1442

Glycine biloba 1413

Gompholobium Knightianum 1468

Gompholobium tomentosum 1474

Grevillea concinna 1383

Grevillea punicea 131S

Guettarda speciosa 1393

Habranthus Anderson! 1345

Habranthus Bagnoldi • 1396

Habranthus Phycelloides 1417

Hamelia ventricosa 1195

Haylockia pusilla I37I

Hedycliium coccineum 1209

Helianthus lenticularis 1265

Heuchera micrantha 1302

Hibiscus Lindleii 1395

Hibiscus palustris • 1463

Hosackia bicolor 1257

Hosta cierulea 1204

Hovea purpurea 1423

Hovea lanceolata 142/

Ipomopsis elegans 1281

Iris bicolor 1404

Iris tenax 1218

Isopogon formosus 1288

Jasminum acuminatum 1296

Jasminum Wallichianum 1409

Justicia carnea 1397

Justicia guttata 1334

Justicia picta 1227

Justicia ([uadrangularis 1340

Justicia venusta isgo

Kajmpferia Roscoeana 12] 2

Kennedya inophylla 1421

Kennedya monophylla, var. longiracemosa 1336

Laclienalia pallida i^r,0

Lathyrus californicus II44

Lathyrus tingitanus ISag

Ledocarpiim pedunculare 1392

Lepccliinia spicata 1292

Leucocoryne odorata 1293

Linum mexicanum 1326

Linum sabiricum, var. Z/eiOfcfii 1163

Folium

Liparisalata I175

Lissanthe sapida 1275

Loasa ambrosiaefolia 1390

Lobelia longiflora 1200

Lobelia puqjurea » 1325

Lobelia, Low's purple 1445

Lonicera involucrata 1 179

Lophanthus anisatus 1282

Lophospernium erubescens 1381

Lowca berbcrifolia 1261

Lupinus arbustus 1230

Lupinus aridas 1242

Lupinus laxiflorus 1140

Lupinus lepidus 1 1 49

Lupinus littoralis • • • • 1 198

Lujiinus micranlhus 1251

Lupinus ornatus 1216

Lupinus plumosus 1217

Lupinus polyphyllus, var. alUfloruii 1377

Lu))inus Sabinianus 1435

Madia elegans 1458

Magnolia \'ulan, var. Soulangiana 1 164

Malva purjjurata 1362

Malva Munroana 1306

Mammillaria pulcra 1329

Maxillaria ciliaris 120C

Maxillaria tetragona 1428

Michauxia l.-cvigata 1451

Microstylis ophioglossoides 129<)

Mimulus propin(iuus 1330

Mirbelia Baxteri 1434

CEnothera bifrons 1405

Oenothera decumbens 1221

CEnothera pallida 1 142

Oenothera viminea 1220

Ononis peduncularis 1447

Ophrys aranifera, var. limbata 1197

Orchis papilionacea 1155

Osbeckia nepalensis, var. alUjlora 14/5

Oxalis tortuosa 1249

Pachypodium tuberosum 1321

Palaviarhonibifolia 1375

Pa?onia albiflora, var. Portsii 1436

Pa;onia hybrida 1208

Pasony, Semidouble tree 1456

Passiflora ligularis 1339

Pentstemon acuminatum 1285

Pentstemon attenuatum 1295

Pentstemon confertum 1260

Pentstemon deustum 1318

Pentstemon diffusum 1132

Pentstemon glandulosum 1262

Pentstemon glaucum 1286

Pentstemon pruinosum 1280

Pentstemon pulchellum 1138

Pentstemon Scouleri 1277

Pentstemon speciosum 1270

Pentstemon triphyllum 1245

Pentstemon venustum 1309

Pereskia Bleo 1473

Perilomia ocynnoides 1394

Persea gratissima 1258

Phlomis fioccosa 130O

Phlox speciosa 1351

Pholidota imbricata 1213

Phycella Herbertiana 1341

Pimelea humilis 1268

Pimelea intermedia 1439

Pleurothallis prolifera 1298

Plumeria Lambertiana 1378

Podolobium trilobatuin 1333

Polemonixim cairuleum, var. jriliferum 1303

GENERAL INDEX T(J THE NEW SERIES.

Fulium

Polemonium humilc I304

Polygala uppositifulta, var. major 1 146

I'ulyconum iiijucundum 125<l

Poleiitilla arguta I37l»

Putentilla Ilt>)iwoo«liana 13if7

Hotentilla iniiMmrica N12

Pothos scaiuU-ns 1337

Prat la begoni folia 1373

Prunu.s candicans 1135

Pninus (lasycar|>a 1243

Purehia trUlenlala 144G

Pyrus angiutifolia 120?

Pyrus Uollwyllcriaim 1437

Pyrus gramlifolia 1154

Pyrus sitieiiNis 1248

PyriH s|iuria lliKJ

Ranunrulus creticus, var. macrophyUu* 1432

Rccvesia thyrsoidea 123<)

Reiianthera ciKcinea 1131

Rliaphiolcpis rubra 14(K)

RhutliMlcndron Alta-rlcrcnse 1414

RluMl<Micii(lron arboreum, var. roteum I24<)

Rluxludcndron Cartons 1449

Ribes ccreuin 12<0

Ribes divai icatum 1.350

Ribcs inebrians 1471

Ribes punc(atuin 127d

R ibt's sanguiiicuni 1,34!)

RilK-s sctosuin 1237

Ribes tenuitlorum 1274

Rose Clare 1438

Ro«a inultiflora, var. platyptiylla 1372

Rosa Ruga 1389

Rubus nutkanus 13C8

Rubus spectabilis 1424

Ruellia Sabiniana 1238

Sagitlaria angustifolia 1141

Salvia foliosa 1429

Salvia fulgens 1356

Salvia Graham! 13/0

Salvia involurrata 12<i5

Sarranthus guttatus 1443

Srilla plunibca 1.355

Scottia angustifulia 1266

Scottia denuta 1233

FiJium

Scutellaria alpina |4«iii

Se<Jum Ccpa-a i:r»i

Senerio hiacinut 1.342

Sera|iias rnrdigera, var. longipetala 1 189

Silenc laciiuata U44

Sinningla vlllou 1 134

Siiyrinrhium grandlflorutn 1364

Sisyrinrhium odoratissiinuni 1283

Sollya hcterophylla 1466

Sophora vclutitm 1185

Sparaxis pendula 136«i

Spcmiadictyon azureum 12.35

Sphaccle caiiipanulata 1.TH2

Spira-a arIa;folla 13(i5

Spira-a chania-drifolla 1222

Stachys germanica, var. pube«cCTu 12H<l

Stachys Salvia? I22<j

Statire pubcrula 145<I

Stemodia chilcnsi^ I470

Stcrculia lanccolata I25«j

Stcrculia Tragacantha I.'IM

Strcptocarpus Rcxii 1173

Stylidium rasciculatum li.V.)

Tabema>montana dcnsillora 1 273

Tellima grandillora 117«

Teucrium orchideum 1255

Thermopsis faliacca ysji

Thryallis brachyitachys 1162

Tillandsia acaulis 1 1.'.7

Tillandsia rosea 1357

Tillandsia stricu 1338

Trachyniene c.x-rulea 1225

Tradcscantia undala 14fi3

Trifolium vesiculosum 14<»8

Tulipa Oculus soils, var. /Vrnca 1143

Tulipa Oculus solis, var. pr<ccox 1419

Tupistra nutans 1223

Turra-a pinnata 1413

Ulex gcnistoides 1452

Vaccinium ovatum 1.'154

Verbena Melindres 1 184

Vernonia axilllflora 14(i4

Viola pra-morsa 1254

Zephyranthes mcsochloa I3<il

Zinnea violacea, var. cmxinea 1294

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