————— ee, ae GLI | sche | a 26 2, FIGURES, WITH BRIEF DESCRIPTIVE CHARACTERS AND REMARKS, OF : ; NEW OR RARE PLANTS, SELECTED FROM THE AUTHOR'S HERBARIUM. By SIR WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K.H., L.D., F.R.A VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY M ER OF THE IMP. ACAD, NAT. CUR., ETC., ETC TC. HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, OF THE Sree MEDICAL ND CHIRURGICAL SOC. OF LONDON, ETC., ETC., DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS, KEW. Ts VOL. V. NEW SERIES, UU OR VOL. IX. OF THE ENTIRE WORK. Mo. nee Garden, 97 LONDON : REEVE & CO., HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1852. INDEX TO THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN VOL. V. (NEW SERIES), (OR VOL. IX. OF THE ENTIRE WORK ;) ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THEIR NATURAL ORDERS. RANUNCULACES. Thalictram Dalzellii, Hook . . 868 Anemone Falconeri, Thoms. . . . 899 MAGNOLIACEE, Drimys piperita, Hook. fil. . 896 NYMPH HACER, Barclaya longifolia, Wail. . 809-10 CAPPARIDEZ, Cadaba heterotricha, Stocks 839 CRUCIFERA. Cardamine radicata, Hook. fil. 882 Farsetia linearis, 808 Hutchinsia Tasmanic, Wook. 848 —— Tibeti nel : ee Cochlearia fla . + 806 di aichiviatinn ag Hook. 821-2 MALVACES, Hibiscus Seindicus, Stocks . 802 TEREBINTHACES, . 842 Glycycarpus racemosa, Dalz. . TAB. LEGUMINOS. Crotalaria erassipes, Hook. . 830 —— Cunninghamii, Br. - >, oblongifolia, Hook. 830 xote ROSACEZ. Neurada procumbens, Zinn. . . . 840 Hesperomeles heterophylla, Hook. . 846 ONAGRARIES, Epilobinm melanocaulon, Hook. . . 813 macropus, Hook. . 812 SALICARIES, Ameletia floribunda, Wight . 826 MYRTACEZ. Leptospermum recurvum, Hook. sper 893 Eucalyptus pla ii Hoo 849 —— pop a, Hook. "879 Balaustion ect poe i poe’ . 852 BEGONIACE. Begonia verticillata, Hook. . 8ll UMBELLIFER. Actinotus leucocephalus, Benth. . . 847 INDEX. B. TAB. Pozopsis cordifolia, Hook. . . . . 859 ‘ reson Apium filiforme, A. pore B. trifi- Se. beer Hook. . 898 ; Hook: $19 + lens, Hook. fil. 898 Riches a scoparia, ares hk fil. 50 pssst Dracophyllum Milligani, Hoot. fil 845 Porteria bractescens, Hook. . 864 LOGANIACE. segura Mitreola oldenlandioides, Walt. 827 Olearia? grandiflora, Hook, . . . 862 — paniculata, Wall. 828 ? pannosa, Hook. 862 note Logania campanulata, Br. . 832 “sa aaseaat aa. #: Gray 54 : osperma mondii, 4. ry 855 gr igloo ere tay sia A. Gra, 856 Aganosma Concanensis, Hook. . 841 CAMPANULACER. ASCLEPIADES. Wahlenbergia albomarginata, Hook. 818 co Jacquemontiana, Dene. . 838 Mastostigma varians, Stocks 863 ai Ceropegia attenuata, Hook. ~ 867 Forstera bellidifolia, Hook. - 851 — Sarcostemma brachystigma, Wight . 861 GESNERIACE, GENTIANES, a neglecta, Hook. . 874 Gentiana detonsa, Fives, var. y. 857 os glabra, Hook. 873 CYRTANDRACES. RUBIACER. Agalmyla tuberculata, Hook. fil. . . 897 Randia speciosa, Hook. . . 824 eons LORANTHACE®. _ _Myrsine myrtoides, Hook. . 877 Loranthus longifolius, Hook. . . 880 —— Myrtillus, Hook, . $25 CAPRIFOLIACES. ACANTHACEX, nicera Loureiri, Bl. . _ 806 Barleria Hochstetteri, sia 803 diversifolia, Wall. < 807. Nomaphils pinnstifide, Da Se Neuracanthus sueusaan: Dalz. . 835 VACCINIEX, “ene : Hook. ji jae SCROPHULARINES. accinium coriaceum, Hook. fil, . ' op ae rere aiga urticefolia, Lehm. 875 —— buxifolium, Hook. fil. 891 : fi Veronica Bi i, Hook. 814 ERICACE. sear Lontt, Hour. At ok OROBANCHACES. Rhododendron Lowii, Hook. fil. . . 88: et et Svein Tow 884 Christisonia Stocksii, Hook. 836 —— rugodsum, Low . 885 BORAGINEA. —— acuminatum, Hook. fil . 886 . P : Sericosto Re ee, isieilen, Ea $87 costoma pauciflorum, Stocks 04 ——buxifolium, Low . 890 BHRETIACEZ. _ Diplycosia ciliolata, Hook. fil. 894 Rhabdia viminea, Wall. - » SO INDEX. Vv SOLANACES. ie Puneeria coagulans, Stocks. . . . 801 : JASMINE. Jasminum lineare, Br. . . . . . 831 THYMELACES. Pimelea physodes, Hi tte Ga aee Drapetes ericoides, tees fit. 895 PLUMBAGINES. Statice Stocksii, Boiss. . : 837 NEPENTHACES. Nepenthes villosa, Hook. fil. . 888 SALICACES. Populus trichocarpa, Zorr. et Gr. . 878 CUPULIFERE. Fagus cliffortioides, Hook. fil. . 816B —— Solandri, Hook. fil. 816.4 — Gunnii, Hook. fil. . . . . 881 TAXACES. Phyllocladus hypophylla, Hook. fil. . 889 Dacrydium laxifolium, Hook. fil. . . 815 TAB. Bischoffia trifoliata (fam.), Hook. . 844 LILIACE. Fritillaria Roylei, Hook. 860 Lloydia longiseapa, Hook. 834 Chrysobactron Hookeri, Col. 817 SMILACINES. Polygonatum graminifolium, Hook. . 833 MELANTHACE2. Hewardia Tasmanica, Hook. . 858 HEMODORACES. Heemodorum Pe a Hook. 866 Conostylis vaginata, End. . 853 FILICES, Gymnogramme aureo-nitens, Hook, 820 Anemia pipers Hoo. = * . 876 Agari us Broomeianus us, BRE 870-1 B —— verrucarius, 869 Scares 869 ieee, pais 870-1 4 seglarron montosus, Berk. 8724 H erk. 872 B INDEX TO THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN VOL. V. (NEW SERIES), (OR VOL. IX. OF THE ENTIRE WORK 35) ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY, TAB. TAB. Actinotus leucocephalus, Benth, 847 pee neglecta, Hook. . 874 Agalm: a dsipeapmiae eee fil. . 897 rotalaria Coming Br. 829 Aganosm . $41 ipes, . $30 ee aay Pecuieiinen: —— oblongifolia, re . . 830 2ote er . . 869 Decry dium laxifolium, Hook. fil. . . $15 oe tipieats, Hook. fil... . 870-1 B imorpholepis italia A. Gray. 856 —— (Pleurotus) verrucarius, Berk. 869 C Diot a ondii, 4. Gray . 855 . — _— 82 Diplycosia ciliolata, Hoo Ac oe ia trichorhiz . . .» 876 Dracophyllum Milligani, Hook. - 845, _.. ae Tice. Pe 0, Drapetes ericoides, Hoo. . 895 Apium filiforme, 4. Rich.; 8. trifi- Drimys piperita, Hook. fil. 896 om Hook. . : 819 Epilobium macropus, Hook 812 Balaus pule! iain Hook . . 852 — melanocanlon, . 813 pei longifolia, Wall. 809-810 Eucalyptus platypus, Hook . 849 Barleria Hochstetteri, Nees . , . 803 —— populifolia, Hook. ; . $79 ia verticillat 811 Fagus cliffortioides, Hook. fil. . 816 B Bischoffia trifoliata (fam.), Hook. . 844 ——Gnunnii, Hook. fil. . . . - 881 odensis, 87 Solandri, us - 816 A Cadaba heterotricha, Stocks 83 Farsctia linearis, D. . 808 Cardamine radi jil 882 aoa ere ok. oa Centrosolenia glabra, Hook 73 ei, Hoo . 860 Ceropegia attenuata, Hook. 867 Gea 6 ‘Groot pacts Christisonia ook, 836 var. ¥. . 857 Chrysobactron Hooke. Gatento bi woes ers _ Dale zell . $42 Cochlearia flava, Buc. 80. Gymn eo-nitens, Hook. . 820 Conostylis vaginata, End?. 853 Hemodorum distichopliylioas Hook. 866 : TAB. Se atari heterophylla, Hook. . 846 wardia nica, Hook... .8 58 Hibiseus am a fe 802 Hutchinsia ? haauix Hook, . . 848 Tibetica, Thoms. . 90 Hypocrea grossa, Berk: 872 B Jasminum lineare, 831 ar Saag owe 838 fi aa akin ak fil. . 898 — suaveolens, Hook. fil. . . sub 898 eagews Lehm,. . . 875 Lloydia longiscapa, Hoo. : . 834 Logania (§ Stomandra) ck . 832 Br. Lonicera (Xylosteon) diversifolia, W all, 807 806 —— (Xylosteon) SS Loranthus longifolius, : _ 880 Mastos' — i J. 2 ae . 863 Mitre: . 869 B “Mitreola ol Siew “Wal Bee —— paniculata, Wa 828 Myrsine Myrtillus, Hook 825 —— myrtoides, Hook. 877 N osa, Hook. fil. . . 888 Neuracanthus paichitaaes Dalz. - 835 Neurada procumbens, Zinn. . . . 840 Nomaphila pncaskibds. Dalzeli . . 848 Olearia? grandiflora, ica BOB INDEX. Olearia? pannosa, Hoo . $62 pe — inet “os kh. fil. . 889 -hysorh — Hook. 821-22 65 Polygonatum graminifolium, Hook. 833 Populus trichocarpa, Torr. e¢ Sac 878 Porteria bractescens, Hoo . 864 Pozopsis cordifolia, : ee Puneeria coagulans, Stocks <. so eee Randia speciosa, Hook. - . . « 824 Rhabdia viminea, Wadd. h ea, 823 ee senate: Hook. tft 886 Low 890 he Low . 887 Lowii, Hook. fil. . 883 —— rugosum, Low . 885 verticillatum, Low 884 Richea scoparia, Hoo 850 —— epi Wight . $61 Seyph viscosa, 4. Gray . . 854 Sericostoma pairs, Stocks ‘ Statice Stocksii, Bozss. . Neate eB A intact: Berk. 872 A ctrum Dalzellii, Hook. . 868 Tomer buxifolium, Hook. fil. 891 —— coriaceum, ape teens 892 Veronica Bidwilli, Hook. . . . - 814 Wahlenbergia ees Hook. 818 Pl. 804. & Nichols, imp- Witch del ot beh Pl. 807. Stocksiane. N. O. Solanacez. TAB. DCCCL. PuNEERIA COAGULANS, Stocks. Puneeria, Stocks (Solanez), nov. gen.—HMores abortu dioici. alye 5-fidus, demum increscens, fructum arefe_cingens. The plant grows 1-3 feet high, and is readily recognized by its peculiar ash-grey hue. Found from the level of the sea to 3,000 feet, Griffith found it at Landi-Khana, in the Khyber Pass (2,488 feet), and at Sera in the Punjab. (Griff. Journal, p. 499 ; “ Physaloides of Lundy Khana.”) Stocks. _ Male branch. F. Female branch. Fig. 1. Male flower. ° f.2. Do. corolla laid open. 7 3. Female flower. 7. 4. Do. corolla laid open. f. 5. Stigma. / 6. Transverse, and jf. 7, vertical section of fruit :—all but 6 and 7, magnified. LL. B02. & Nichols img Hitch del ot ith . Stocksiane. N. O. Solanacez. TAB. DCCCIL. Hizsiscus Scrnpicus, Stocks. Suffrutex tortuosa humilis ramosissima a gn pube stellata incana, foliis parvis cuneatis sessilibus apice crenato-serratis, stipulis subulatis, pedunculis s solibaria breviosimis, involucelli foliolis 7-8 lanceolato-subulatis calycis 5-fidi dimidium equan- tibus, petalorum unguibus spiraliter tortis, columna staminea inflata, antheris solummodo liberis, ~ longitudine staminum, capsula globosa 5-loculari, seminibus Has. Hills of Scinde, Dr. Stocks (n. 480). “ Suffrutex Scindica depressa, ramis abruptis subspinosis, ramulis pube stellata tomentosa lepidotis. Fo/ia omnia cuneata, parva, lepidotim stellato-pilosa. Involuceldum 6-8-phyllum. Calyx 5-fidus, laciniis basi coheerentibus. Corolle petala in tubum dextrorsum vel sinistrorsum tortum cum columna staminea connata, limbi segmentis tubo brevioribus. Co/wmna staminea apice libera, antheras plurimas in globum confertas exserens. Ovarium 5-loculare. Ovula loculis 2. Stydus terminalis apice exserto, 5-fidus. Stigmata capitellata, papillosa. Capsula 5- locularis, 5-valvis. Semina in loculis 1-2; ¢esta crustacea, pilis gossypinis lanuginosa.” J. Z.. Our valued friend Dr. Stocks considers that this singular plant will form a genus distinct from Hibiscus. The extensive ge so called, needs an entire revision; if this be separated, (S. Fischer, Coll. n. 92, from Arabia, and ken We Coll. n. 428, a, from Muscat), ‘Hibiscus, sp. (Aucher-Eloy, Coll. n. 855, from Sinai), and one from Senegambia (Heudelot, Coll. n. 535)—— all in Herb. Hook. The present species differs from all those in its cuneate leaves.” —- Pes Leaf and stipules. 2. Involucel and flower. /. 3. a. f.4, Corolla laid open. fd. Capsule (naé. size). f: 6. Seal —all but f. 5 more or less magnified. fi. S03. Reeve &Michols, imp- Stocksiane. N. O. Acanthacez. TAB. DCCCIII. BaRLERIA Hocusterrert, Nees. Fruticosa, ramis ee apice trichotomis, ramu- lis trifidis trifloris v. unifloris bibracteatis, foliis ovalibus tusis submucronatis stvigillosis, bracteolis ryan ined rimis, calycis laciniis majoribus ovalibus acutis equalibus in- tegerrimis glanduloso-pubescentibus, corolle tubo medioeri « Nees in Kotschy, Tt. Nub. n.159 et 109 (119 Hook.) in Hook. Herb.” —Nees in De Cand. Prodr. v.11. p. 231. fe Ie. Pl. Ind. Or. v. 4. t.1528. B. diandra, Hochst. et Steud. Herb. Aig. Ar. Un. Itin. n. 919. Has. ‘Arabia Felix, 8. Fischer, n. 114 (Herb. Hook.). Cordofan, Kotschy, in Herb. Hook. n. 119. Hills in Scinde, 2. 501, “ Suffruticosa, diandra, an iaitne ich Joliis lanceolato- oblongis obtusis, pi/is simplicibus adpressis pubeque capitata erecta instructis, pagina inferiore lineolata ; petiolo brevi; pe- duncuto axillari supra medium bibracteolato, bracteis forif eris, 3-floro vel sepissime vacuis 1-floro ; calycis laciniis intus gla- bris, extus pilis capitatis molliter pubescentibus, majoribus cor- dato-ovatis ineequalibus, superiore acuto, inferiore breviore et angustiore 2-costato bifido, sdbariontbis lineari-lanceolatis acu- minatis; ovario Spee nte ; ; capsule pubescentis rostrate disperme seminibus sericei __ A stunted-looking plant, on 1 rocky ground spreading Flowers open at 10 a.m. Corolla one inch long, fennel aheha: tube dirty-yellow; limb faint lilac, with the throat marked by reddish spots extending to the base of all the segments except the anterior one, which is separated somewhat from the rest by — extending deeper down, stands more erect, is rather shorter, e stamens and style adpressed to it. Rarely there are six segments to the limb of the corolla, in which case one of the staminodia (of which there are two lateral and one very much smaller and posterior) develops an anther. J. Z. 8. Fig. 1. Portion of a plant :—nat. size. f. 2. Diagram of the arrangement of the parts of the flower. / 3. Corolla laid open. f.4. Pistil. £5. Transverse section of an ovary. 7. 6. Flower- bud; calyx-segment removed. . 7. Calyx enclosing the capsule. Jed, 9. Capsules :-—magnified. Pl. 04, Reeve & Nichols imp- Fitch del et ith . Stocksiane. N, O. Boraginee. TAB. DCCCIV. SERICOSTOMA PAUCIFLORUM, Stocks. Gen. Car. Szrtcostoma, Stocks (Boraginee), nov. gen.—Calyx 5-partitus, sepalis basi subconnatis, duobus majoribus eestiva- tione externis. Corol/a infundibuli-rotata, tubo sepalis breviore, limbi segmentis estivatione imbricatis, anthesi planis, fauce lata pilis sericeis centrum versus radiantibus obstructa. Sta- mina ad sinus corolle inserta: filamenta brevia; anthere ver- satiles, demum exserte. Ovarium eoareee 4, parttum, = a stylo distinctis. Stigma capitatum, subbilobum. Nuces (uno vel duobus abortivis), ventre angulari liberee , dorso con- vexo-granulate, apice acuminate, tee product, stipite laterali affixee, stylo longiores, calyce clauso breviores. Semen erectum, radicula minima supera, cotyledonibus obovatis crassis.— Suffrutex Seindica. Caulis basi decumbens, ligneus. Ramuli herbacei, alee adpressis. Folia stricte sessilia, lineari-lanceo- lata. Racemi breves, oppositifolit, subscorpioidei, 2—-5-flori, bractea ‘Srsidieits floribus breviter pedicellatis uno remoto. Corolla alba, tenuissime membranacea, extus glabra, fauce jilis tenuissimis crispo-sericeis dense obsita, limbi segmentis 4asi pilo- sissimis apice lacero-dentatis. Stocks. Sericostoma pauciflorum. J. #. Stocks, in Wight Ic. Plant. Ind. Or. t..13 Has. Hills of Scinde. Dr. J. E. Stocks (n. 473). this curious genus the faux of the corolla is completely closed by is meeting of the five dense silky masses, which sug- gested to Dr. Stocks the generic name. M. Planchon considers that Lithospermum Kotschyi, Boiss., is sheen © a congener of this, although the nucules in that are quite smoo Fig. 1. Side view of corolla. 7.2. View of the mouth of do. j- 3: Aoestin laid open, 7.4. Pistil. 7.5. Fruit. 7 6. Seed:— magnified. Ft. SO 54 ee Pitth del et lith. anil a Reeve&Nichols,imp Thomsoniane. N. O. Cruciferx. TAB. DCCCV. CocHLEARIA FLAVA, Buch. Annua glaberrima paniculatim ramosa, ramis omnibus racemiferis, foliis lanceolatis superne dilatatis pinnatifidis, laciniis sinuato- incisis, racemis elongatis multifloris, petalis calyce duplo brevi- oribus, siliculis globosis membranaceis, seminibus numerosis reniformi-globosis rugoso-punctatis, podospermis filiformibus s. elongati Cochlearia flava, Buck. Hort. Bengal. p.48. Royle, Ft. Himal. p. 72.—Alyssum cochlearioides, Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. p.322.— Cochlearia alyssoides, De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 172.——Camelina Caisir, Wall. Cat. n. 802. Has. North-west provinces of India: Hurdwar, &c., Buchanan, Royle; near Kurnaul, Feb. 1843, Moradabad, March 1834, Dr. Thos. Thomson. Radix annua, fusiformis. Cau/is spithamens ad pedalem et ses- quipedalem, erectus, ramosus, vamis omnibus racemiferis. Folia omnia pinnatifida, glaberrima: inferiora seu radicalia s patentes. Fores parvi, ochroleuci. Sepala ovato-rotundata, concava, membranacea, glaberrima. Peta/a sepalis duplo brevi- ora, oblongo-obovata. Staminum filamenta subsequalia, filiformi- subulata, simplicia; anthere oblonge. Ovarium globosum, elaberrimum, s¢y/o perbrevi terminatum. Stigma obtusum. Silicula globose, sesquilineam longe, membranacee, glabra ; valvis hemisphericis. Dissepimentum fenestratum. Semina numerosa, ultra 20 in singulo loculo, reniformi-globosa, punc- tis elevatis rugosa, funiculis longissimis filiformibus. A dubious Cochlearia, bordering on Vesicaria. wing is made from the collection of Dr. Thomas Thomson, lately re- turned from his scientific mission to Western Himalaya and Thibet, whence, after joining Dr. Hooker in Eastern Himalaya, he is at this moment returned to Europe with his valuable col- lections, upon which it is to be hoped his well-known talents will be employed for the advantage of the scientific world. ig. 1. Flower. 7. 2. Petal. /. 3. Capsule. f- 4. Capsule _ with one valve separated. 7. 5. Seed with its podosperm :— magnified. Ll. 806. jOsnrss re SS ay A 4 SRY y p Reeve & Nichols, Fitch, del et Lith. Lobbiane. N. O. Caprifoliaceze. TAB. DCCCVI. Lonicera (Xylosteon) Lourert, Bi. Scandens, tota fusco-pubescens pilosa, foliis elliptico-ovatis brevi- petiolatis breviter acuminatissimis basi subcordatis utrinque reticulatis, pedunculis bifloris axillaribus solitariis terminalibus - dense capitatis, calycis limbo profunde 5-partito, laciniis late subulatis erectis. Lonicera Loureiri, Blume, Bijdr. p. 653. De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 334, Lonicera Xylosteum, Lour. Fl. Cochin. v. 1. p. 186? Var. 8. major ; foliis majoribus longioribus fere glabris, floribus majoribu Hap. Pcie Chin: Loureiro. Java, on Mounts Gede and Tjerimai, Blume, Thomas Lobé (along with var. 8). This plant is (at least in our var. a) everywhere more or less pu- bescenti-villous, with brownish hairs, even the calyx and corolla, which latter appears, judging from the dried specimens, to be of a yellow or golden colour. The leaves are, moreover, closely and finely reticulated, on the upper side with sunken, and beneath with prominent, veins. Calyx-limb deeply 5-lobed, lobes erect, ovato-lanceolate Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified. fi? —— —— NA) Gy Wallichiane. N. O. Caprifoliaceze. TAB. DCCCVII. Loniowra (Xylosteon) piverstrotia, Walt. Vix volubilis, foliis ovatis acutis subacuminatisve subtus pre- cipue villosis, pedunculis petiolo brevioribus, calycis limbo campanulato acute 5-dentato, corolla bilabiata extus pubescente basi hine gibboso, ovario villoso. Lonicera diversifolia, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 2. p. 169. Wall. Cat.n.477. De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 334. Var. 8. Royleana; foliis ovalibus, pedunculis petioli longitudine. De Cand. Prodr.p. 334. L. Royleana, Wall. Cat. n. 478. Has. North-western India: Mountains of Gurwal, Wallich; Nynee Thal, Dr. Thomas Thomson. 8. Kamaon and Sirmore, Wallich. Our specimens from Dr. Thomson have the leaves broader and larger and more downy than those from Dr. Wallich, but not more different than is to be expected in a plant named “ diversifolia” from the variable character of the leaves. Professor De Candolle justly compares it to the European Xy/osteum, but it belongs to a different subsection, having the berries distinct. I do not see that L. Royleana deserves even to be considered a variety. All my specimens give the idea of an erect, not a scandent, shrub. Fig. 1. Flower and bractea :—magnified. Thomsoniane. N. O. Cruciferee. TAB. DCCOCVITI. FARSETIA LINEARIS, Dene. Tota pilis adpressis cana patenti-ramosa parce foliosa, ramis stric- tis rigidis subspinescentibus, foliis anguste linearibus, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis ungues petalorum equantibus, petalorum laminis obovatis, filamentis edentulis, siliqua erecta brevi-pedun- culata oblongo-lineari (6 lineas longa) ineequaliter strangulata stylo lineam longo terminata, seminibus subuniserialibus 10-15 compressis lato-marginatis. Farsetia linearis, Boiss. P?. Orient. in Annales des Sc. Nat. 2nd ser. t.17.9.150. Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 1.p. 139. Has. Muscat, Aucher-Eloy, Herbier d’ Orient (n. 4069). Near Lodianah, Seik country, Dr. Thos. Thomson (n. 8). , A rigid, subspinescent, very hoary plant. Our drawing is made from Dr. Thomson’s specimens, which precisely accord with Au- cher-Eloy’s authentic ones in my Herbarium, and are so named by Decaisne. Habit of F. Ayyptiaca,* as the author just mentioned well observes, but the smaller flowers, short peduncles, and above all the very narrow pods will at once distinguish it- Decaisne further notices its affinity with his F. Zongisiliqua, from Arabia, de- scribed, from very imperfect specimens, in the fourth volume of the ‘Annales’ above quoted, p. 69, when he speaks of the pods as 2 inches long and 11 lines broad. This latter plant is probably the same as Matthiola stylosa, Hochst. et Steud., found at Dschedda, W. Schimper, Herb. Arab. Un. Itin. p. 860, and of S. Fischer, Herb. Arab. n. 4; on one of my specimens of which, with entirely the habit of F. Jinearis, is a pod nearly 2 inches long. Another ied plant is what our valued correspondent Dr. Stocks has sent us from Scinde (Beluchistan) as “‘ Arabis heliophila?”’ more her- baceous, however, not at all spinescent, and with pods 23 inches long: this Capt. Munro recognizes as Cheiranthus Farsetia, Herb. Ham. in Wall. Cat. 4801, Farsetia Hamiltoniana, Royle, and Arabis incanescens, Munro’s ‘ Plants of Agra.’ Fig. 1. Flower. 7, 2. Petal. 7. 3. Stamens and pistil. /- 4. . Ripe pod. f. 5. Seed :—magunified. * F. Zgyptiaca has been detected in Affghanistan by Mr. Griffith. Pl. 809 - 810. Fitch del et ith . Lobhiane. N. O. Nymphacavez. ¢ TAB. DCCCIX., DCCCX. Barciaya Lonerroura, Vall. Gen. Cuar. Calyx 4-5-lobus, tubo elongato inferne cum ovario adnato. Corolla 4—5-petala, petalis oblongis ineequalibus, in- ferne cum tubo calycis a Stamina subquinqueserialia, perianthii tbo inserta, in singula serie subdecem, serierum 2 superiorum sterilia, ate fertilia. Anthere fere sessiles, oblonge, biloculares, loculis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Ovarium inferum, oblongum, 10-loculare, pluriovulatum. Stylus conicus, brevissimus. Stigma depresso-umbilicatum, obscure radiatum, margine 10-laciniatum ; laciniis subulatis, erecto-conniventibus. Bacca carnosa, globosa, matura calyce non coronata. Semina globosa, setis carnosis undique tecta.— Herba (annua?) aquatica Burmanica, acaulis. Radix fibrosa. Folia ere — officinalis, membranacea, tong petiolata, pennivenia. Scapi folio breviores, simplices, uniflori. Flos involucratus. hvac persistentis 5-phylli foliola oblongo-lan- _ ad basin floris verticillata, concava, patentia, uninervia, embranac acea, extus 2 eg apicem mucronata. Barclaya pare Wall Barclaya longifolia, Wall. in Linn. Trans. v. 15. p. 443. ¢. 18. Walp. Repert. v. 1. p. ee Has. Burman Empire, near Rangoon in Pegu, Dr. Waillich, a 1526, Mergui, "Griffiths (in Herb. nostr.). Moulmein, plant by its discoverer, given in eae volume 0 actions’ above quoted. We are disposed to conailer ta real calyx to be pee (no less than the corolla), as in the genus just mentioned, — the ~ exterior and inferior leaflets will be considered as an involucre, as in Hepatica among Ranuncu- lacea, and Podopibytiun in Prdophellasen. Fig. 1. Flower, the perianth laid open, most of the involucral leaves removed. 2. aa erse section of an immature fruit. . Tnmature seed serine Lobbiane. | N. O. Begomiacez. TAB. DCCCXI. Brconra veRTICILLATA, Hook. minalibus folio longioribus gracillimis dichotomo-paniculatis, ca elongata oblique ovata. Has. Moulmein, Thos. Lobb (n. 382). to eight or ten longer than the lobate, scarcely inequilateral, glabrous, or with very scattered succulent minute hairs. Pe rather large, oblong anthers. Stigmas bifid, the segments some- what twisted. Capsule triquetrous; two angles with very m- distinct wings, approximate, the third running out into a large, ovate wing, pointing a little upwards. ; : I can nowhere find any description of Begonia at all correspond- ing with this, which was detected by Mr. Thomas Lobb, while collecting for Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter. Fig. 1. Male, and /. 2, female flower :—magnified. Bidwitliane. N. O. Onagrariew. TAB. DCCCXILI. Epinopium Macropus, Hoof. Glaberrimum, caule repente ramoso, ramis ad axillas radicantibus, foliis oppositis petiolatis ovato-ellipticis acutiusculis obsolete sinuato-dentatis, pedunculis axillaribus fructiferis valde elon- gatis, petalis (albis) profunde bifidis, stigmate clavato integro. Has. Running water, on sand: mountains, Wairau, near Nelson, southern island, New Zealand, Mr. Bidwill (n. 20). A much-creeping and very radicant plant, varying from a few inches to a foot in length. Not one of Allan Cunningham’s brief descriptions of species tallies with this, whose nearest affi- nity is perhaps with Z. alpinum (itself, indeed, a very variable and widely dispersed plant) :—but this is larger in all its parts, the leaves much broader, more decidedly petiolate, the stems and branches more rooting, flowers more numerous, not drooping in bud, and the most remarkable feature is the great elongation of the peduncle after flowering, sometimes to four inches in length. Fig. 1. Flower. =f. 2. Petal. f 3. Stigma :—magnified. Pl. 8748. CAG SE | Pp, LS = = Ve “a Jleeve& Nichols imp. Pitch del et Lith. Bidwilliane, N. O, Onagrariez. TAB, . DCCCXITI. Epitoptum MELANOcAULON, Hook. Basi fruticosum fasciculatim ramosum, ramis elongatis erectis tetra- quetris nigris angulis precipue cano-puberulis, foliis oppositis approximatis numerosis subimbricatis superioribus alternis lanceolatis acutis sessilibus glaberrimis subramosis grosse den- tatis costatis enervosis costis subtus nigricantibus, floribus ex axillis supremis, ovariis (capsulisque) linearibus triquetris glabris subsessilibus, petalis bifidis, stigmate globoso-clavato integro. Has. New Zealand; growing in dense tufts: sands in the bed of the Wairau, southern island, Mr. Bidwill. About Lake Taupo, south of the northern island, Rev. W. Colenso. A well-marked species of a most troublesome genus. Mr. Colenso calls it a red-leaved species ; when dry the leaves are reddish-brown, with a black costa on the underside: they appear, also, to be succulent when fresh, and they are very strongly toothed. The stem and branches are wiry, invariably black, slightly hoary, especially at the angles. Mowers small. Pedun- cles much shorter than the leaves, indeed scarcely any. Petals rose-colour. Fig. 1. Flower. f.2. Petal. f. 3. Stigma :—magnijied. Ft 84%, $$$ es yy ry US USS \, Reeve & Nichols, imp Kitch del st ith. Bidwithane. N. O. Scrophularinez. TAB. DCCCXIV. Veronica Browitu, Hook. Suffruticosa repens ramosissima glabra, ramis bifariam pubes- centibus, foliis approximatis parvis rotundatis coriaceis 3—5- crenato-lobatis rarius integerrimis in petiolum brevem atten- uatis, pedunculis axillaribus elongatis, floribus racemosis, pedi- cellis flores cequantibus fructiferis elongatis, calycis segmentis ovato-lanceolatis, bracteis parvis linearibus, capsulisque (parvis) obcordato-ellipticis didymis pedicello multo brevioribus stylo persistente terminatis. Has. Bed of the River Wairau, New Zealand, about 2,250 feet above the level of the sea, Mr. Bidwitt (nm. 15). . Quite a new Veronica, from a country eminently rich in species of the genus. Its nearest affinity is 7. nivea, Hook. fil., supra, t. 640; but that has much larger and much crenated leaves, pro- cuinbont, but not creeping stems, short peduncles, and those pe- duncles, bracteas, and the calyces densely glanduloso-hirsute. The flowers of V. Bidwilli are described by its discoverer as white, streaked with pinkish-lilac lines. Fig. 1. Flower. f. 2. Fruit :—magnified. Pl 8135. W = SS Sa Reeve & Nichols, imp- Fitch dsl et Lith . Bidwilliane. N. O. Coniferze. TAB. DCCCXYV. Dacrypium Laxiroitum, Hook. fil. Humile fruticosum, ramis prostratis laxe ramosis gracilibus, foliis undique insertis sparsis laxe patentibus linearibus obtusis co- riaceis supra canaliculatis supremis imbricatis ovatis brevioribus dorso carinatis, fructibus terminalibus solitariis erectis. Dacrydium laxifolium. Hook. fil. in Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 4. p. 143 (note). Has. New Zealand, near the summit of Tongariro, northern island, Mr. Bidwiil (nm. 5 and 133); Colenso (un. 60). Dr. Hooker, when describing this plant in the ‘ London Journal of Botany,’ above quoted, from Mr. Bidwill’s specimens, although expressing an opinion that it might possibly prove an alpine form of some known species, yet was more inclined to consider it truly distinct and new; and this view seems to be confirmed by Mr. Co- lenso having since communicated specimens which are quite un- altered from that described. The species seems wholly confined to the mountain Tongariro, where it forms a lax procumbent small shrub, not much unlike Hmpetrum nigrum. Fig.1. Lower leaves. f.2. Upper do. /. 3. Fruit. f 4. Section of a fruit. . 5. Section of a seed :-—magnified. LP? 816. GW: PN a a: Fitch dél et lith . Colensoane. _ N. O. Cupuliferze. TAB. DCCCXVI. A. : Facus Sotanpri, Hook. fil. (v. Tab. 639.) The present figure (A), as well as the following (B), is given for the sake of representing the fruit, which was unknown to us when we gave our representation of the male plant at Tab. 639 of this work. Mr. Colenso has sent us fruiting specimens from the banks of the Makaroro, Port Nicholson, &. The cupule consists of from seven to nine ovate, acute, unequal, downy scales, united by their bases, which enclose two or three triquetrous, downy nuts, the angles wing Fig. 1. Fruiting branch :—wnatural size. f. 2. Ripe fruit. /. 3. Cupule; the nuts beg removed. / 3, 4. Back and front view of nuts :—magnijied. B. Facus ciirrortiomes, Hook. fil. (v. Tab. 673.) The fruit of this, also sent by Mr. Colenso, differs but little from that of F. Solandri; it is more oblong, and the scales -are more acute. The nuts are rather irregularly ovate than cordate, triquetrous, less winged. . Fig. 1. Fruiting branch :—aatural size. f. 2. Fruit. f. 3. Cupule, f. 4, 5. Front and back view of a fruit :—magnified, Fitch del et Lith. ‘Reeve & Nichols amy Bidwilliane. N. O. Liliacez. TAB. DCCCXVILI. CHRYSOBACTRON Hooker, Colenso. Foliis lineari-ligulatis acuminatis, racemis laxifloris, ovario ob- ) apsula basi in stipitem attenuata. Chrysobactron Hookeri, Col. in litt. ew Zealand. In great abundance in the richer parts of the alluvial plain of the upper part of the Wairau, Mr. Bidwill, n. 83. Sides of watercourses, country between Ruahine Range and Taupo, plentiful, Rev. W. Colenso, n. 982 and 2. 1850. My first acquaintance with this. plant was through my valued friend Mr. Bidwill, who sent it as a new Chrysobactron, Hook. fil., but without flowers, as here represented, and with the fol- lowing remarks :— Roo¢ with very large fleshy fibres; 4u/é very introduce the flowers into the plate. “ Another prize,” exclaims . Colenso in his letter, “which I believe to be a new Chryso- _ bactron'! and therefore venture to name it C. Hooker, in honour of my good friend and your dear son. I could not procure any good specimens, as all—everywhere—had been scorched up with fires, extending many miles. I have it, however, flourishing in my garden.”—Whether in fruit or im flower the species shows itself to be very distinct from C. Aossiz.*—At this moment (June 20, 1851) plants of C. Hookeri, sent by Mr. Colenso, are owering in the Royal Gardens, and a coloured figure in that state will be given in the Botanical Magazine. Fig. 1. Fruit, with (as is often the case) the persistent perianth and filaments of the stamens. 2. Transverse section of do. 8. Seed. f. 4. Transverse section of do. 5. Embryo :— magnified. * The latter may be thus defined :-—C. Rossii, Hook, fil.; foliis regent racemis densifloris, ovario basi latiore sessili, fructu conico-ovato. Had. Aue Island, J. .D. Hooker. ft. 878. Reeve & Nichols imp. Fitch del et lith. Bidwilliane. N. O. Campanulaceze. TAB. DCCCXVIIL. WAHLENBERGIA ALBOMARGINATA, JZoo/. Annua, radice 1-3-cipite, foliis radicalibus rosulatis spathulatis in petiolum planum ciliatum longe attenuatis superne plerum- que hirsutis integerrimis v. crenato-serratis margine incras- sato albo, scapo solitario (spithamzo) inferne subunibracteato tereti unifloro, flore erecto, calycis tubo turbinato 10-striato lobis subulato-lanceolatis squilongis, corolla campanulata caly- cem triplo superante, capsula calycis lobis coronata oblongo- — turbinata nitida 3-loculari apice 3-valvi, valvis minutis. Has. Mountains at the head of the Wairau valley, near Nelson, elev. 2,000 to 5,000 feet, New Zealand; flower blue. Mr. Bidwill. No species like this has anywhere been described: a very nearly allied one, however, will be published by Dr. Hooker in his forthcoming Flora of New Zealand, but having angular scapes almost invariably and entirely leafless, with the radical leaves everywhere quite glabrous, scarcely, if at all, thickened at the margin, and the margin never white. Fig. 1. Flowering, and f. 2 fruiting specimen :—aat. size. f. 3. Leaf :—magnified. Se Bidwitliane. N. O. Umbellifere. TAB. DCCCXIX. ApruM FILIFORME, 4. Rich.; 8. trifidum, Hook. Parvum omnino prostratum, radice fusiformi, caulibus filiformi- bus, foliis ternatim vel radicalibus preecipue quinato- (et tune pinnatim) -sectis sublonge petiolatis, pinnis rotundato-cuneatis trifidis seepius incisis, umbellis lateralibus paucifloris, fructu rbiculari compresso, mericarpiis 5-costatis, costis latiusculis semiteretibus elevatis levibus. . foliolorum lobis seepissime incisis. Petroselinum filiforme. 4. Rich. Voy. de U Astrolabe, Bot. v.1. p. 278. All. Cunn. Fl. Nov. Zel. in Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 2. p. 212. Raoul, Choia de Pl. de la Nowv. Zél. p. 46. | 8. caulibus minus gracilibus, foliolorum lobis integerrimis. Tas. Nostr. 819 aR TR. : Has. Near Nelson, New Zealand, Mr, Bidwili (n.94 A). This will undoubtedly rank near to the Australian Petrosedinum prostratum, De Cand., which La Billardiére had more correctly placed with Apiwm. Indeed Dr. Hooker, in his ‘ Flora Antarctica, has united the latter plant with the Apiwm graveolens, into which it does seem to pass by insensible gradations. It is possible, indeed, that Petros. jiliforme may prove a link to umite our - present plant with 4. prostratum : in other words, that our plant now figured may be an extreme variety of A. graveolens. The root is fusiform. The umbels are on short peduncles, not sessile as described by A. Richard, nor are they so in what we take to i Zealand in various localities (his . 89, 230, 2047 for example) by Mr. Colenso. At our Vol. IV. Tab. 305 we have figured a remarkable form of Petroselinum (Apium) prostratum, with unusually long and narrow segments to the leaves. Fig. 1. Flower. f. 2. Petal. /. 3. Fruit. jf. 4. Transverse section of do. :—magnified. Li S20. mr | Catia ay ie ss Mg WF I » y cn! £e Wit, 3 ‘. ZOO a 4 Fitch del et Lith . Reeve & Nichols imp Lobbiane. N. O. Filices. TAB. DCOCCXX. GYMNOGRAMME AUREO-NITENS, Look, Scandens ? tota aureo-sericea tomentosa nitens bipinnata flexuosa, pinnis sublonge petiolatis deltoideo-lancéolatis apice pinnati- fidis, pinnulis alternis crasso-coriaceis sessilibus oblongo-del- toideis obtusissimis profunde pinnatifidis apice integris, lobis rotundatis obtusis crenato-dentatis, soris seepe furcatis, rachibus crassis. Has. Andes of Peru, Mr. Wm. Lobb. A very remarkable and beautiful Fern, in some respects ac- cording with Kunze’s description of G. ferruginea, in Linnea, v. 9. p. 34, but that species is said to have the “ frond pinnato- pinnatifid, pinnatifid at the apex,” characters which accord with the pinne or primary divisions of this species, but by no means portraying the character of our present plant; and “ laciniis subtus ferrugineo-tomentosis,” while our species is everywhere and uniformly clothed with the same aureo-nitent silky tomentum. The fructifications are only visible on removing the tomentum, when the forked nerves will be found to bear the sori, which are simple or more frequently forked. ‘ig. 1. Lower lobe of a pinnule seen from the underside, the woolly covering having been removed :—maguijied. Pl. 821-822. Fitch del et ith, Stocksiana. N. O. Crueiferee: § Isatidez. TAB. DCCCXXI., DCOCCXXII. Puysornyncuus Braunvicus, Hook. Gen. CHar. Puysoruyncuvs, Hook. Sepala erecta, basi sub- — Petala longe unguiculata, laminis ellipticis. S¢a- crasse vost 3 loculis in rostro continuis, et ibi semini- tro magno ovato-acuminato persistente) ampulleformis, oe coriaceus, inferne bivalvis, valvis oppositis minutissimis de- ciduis: loculis inferioribus obsoletis vacuis, superioribus (in rostro) singulo dispermo. Semina subtriangulari-globosa, punctulata. Cotyledones plano-hemispherice, conduplicate ; radicula oblique accumbente.—Planta Scindica, biennis, bi-tri- mi elingati, yay divaricatissimi. Physorhynchus Brahuicus Has. Brahuic ar of Scinde, Dr, J. E. Stocks. Affghanistan, Griffith (a. 1 This highly @ curious plant was sent with many excellent re- marks by Dr. Stocks, as a genus “distinct from Didesmus,” to winch its fruit seems at first sight to be allied. Dr. Planchon has in my Herbarium pointed out its real affinity with Fortuynia, Shuttlew., wanting, however, the remarkable wings to the fruit. The structure of the fruit here is, indeed, very remarkable; the greater proportion being occupied by what Dr. Stocks, I think justly, considers a beak. ‘The young ovary (f.5.) has usuall y our seeds and on each side of the Aiaucpiinents two chambers” (pseudo-loculi) “one above the other, separated by a slight con- striction. The lower ones are the true carpellary cavities, the upper are hollowed out of the rostrum. The latter generally have all 4 ovules in them, one often hanging down into the carpellary reef (apparently never ripening there). This lower portion of the fruit does not increase in size-like the beak, as the seeds ss ae to maturity ; but forms a short stipes to the flask-shaped beak, still more diminished in size when the valves fall away (f.6, 7, 8,9). The lower leaves are thick and fleshy, and when eaten = the garden cabbage are really excellent.” Stocks Fig. 1. Flower. f.2. Petal. £3. Stamens and pistil. 7 4. Pistil. - 5. Section of pistil. J. 6. Ripe fruit. £7. Vertical section of immature fruit. 7 8. Transverse section of do. f. 9, A valve from the ripe fruit. f. 10. Vertical ‘section of ripe fruit. J. 11. Seed. f. 12. Embryo cha Lt. Oa Dalzelliane. | N. O. Ehretiace. TAB. DCCCXXIIL. Ruaspra viminea, Vail. Foliis glabris oblongo-cuneatis basi in petiolum perbrevem attenu- atis, floribus pancis in ramos parvos proprios terminalibus. Rhabdia viminea, Dalze//, MSS. in Herb. Nostr. -Ehretia viminea, Wail. Cat.n.906. De Cand. Prodr. p. 509.* Khretia cuneata, Wight, Ic. Plant. Ind. Or. v. 4. ¢. 1385. Has. East Indies; Attran, a river of Martaban, Dr. Wadllich. b ri Frutex twumilis, facie Lycit, 1-2-pedalis et ultra, valde ramosa, ramis seepe elongatis vimineis, cortice fusco tectis. olia co- corymbosi, ad apicem ramorum brevium propriorum. Calyx 5-sepalus, sepalis lanceolatis pubescentibus corolle duplo bre- vioribus. Corolla subrotata, tubo brevi, limbo patente 5-lobo, lobis ovalibus, ore nudo. Staminum filamenta corolle versus edium affixa, exserta, nuda. Anthere ovate, introrse. Ovarium. ovato-subglobosum, biloculare, 4-ovulatum. Stylus filiformis, omnino simplex. Stigma obscure bilobum. Fructus: bacea subsicca 4-pyrena. Semina suspensa, albuminosa. Lmbryonis radicula sapera. : Se My valued correspondent N. A. Dalzell, Esq., has, in my opinion, Fig. 1. Flower. (f. 2. The same more expanded. /- 3. Corolla laid open. 4. Pistil. 5. Transverse section of ovary. f 6. Fruit. £8. Seed. 9. Embryo :—maguified. * De Candolle considers this a doubtful Fhretia, and constitutes for it a section (Xeroderma) which in fact corresponds with Von Martius’s Rhabdia. Lt, 824. Fitch. del et lith.. Reeve & Nichols, imp. Lobbiane. N. O. Rubiacee. TAB. DOCCXXIV. Ranpia speciosa, //ook. Fruticosa glaberrima, foliis petiolatis coriaceis ellipticis obovatisve obtuse apiculatis nitidis (junioribus vernicosis) pinnatim venosis venis patentibus approximatis subtus prominentibus trans- versim copiose venulosis, floribus terminalibus solitariis sessili- bus, calyce cylindraceo-campanulato ore truncato, corolle (inter maximas) tubo elongato cylindraceo gracili limbi 8-partiti lobis ovato-oblongis obliquis patentissimis, staminibus 8, stigmate clavato-capitato sulcato. Has. Singapore, Zhomas Lobb (n. 483). It is a pity this fine plant has not yet been introduced to our stoves. I have seen only the specimens which have been sent home by Mr. Lobb to Mr. Veitch, and this species I can no- where find described. It would seem to exude a good deal of resinous matter, especially the young branches. The flower is peculiarly large, not only long in the tube, but full four inches in the diameter of the limb. This limb is divided to the base into eight lobes (and there are as many stamens). The calyx is large, and between campanulate and cylindrical, quite entire at the mouth. The very base only is united to the ovary. G. enneandra of Dr. Wight, Ic. Pl. Ind. Or, v.2.t.574, has a flower some- what resembling this, but the tube is shorter, the limb has nine segments and stamens, the calyx is toothed, and the foliage is widely different and nearly sessile. Lobhiane. N. O. Myrsinaceee. TAB, DOCCXXV. Myrsine Myrritius, Hook. Ramis puberulis, foliis bifariis brevissime petiolatis ovatis acutis obsoletissime serratis coriaceo-membranaceis subtus punctatis, umbellis axillaribus folio duplo brevioribus, floribus puberulis dioicis lineatim nigro-punctatis, corolla rotata, staminibus Jon- gitudine laciniarum. Has. Lucon, Thomas Lobb (n. 478). A small shrub with slender straggling branches and dark brown obscurely pubescent bark. Leaves bifarious, a good deal resembling those of Vaccinium Myrtillus, dotted beneath when seen under a lens. Flowers very small, apparently dioicous: ours having only an abortive pistil. Calyx 4-lobed, downy : lobes acute, with black oblong dots or glands. Corolla with black oblong streaks. Filaments inserted at a little distance from the base of each lobe of the corolla. Anthers large for the size of the flower, ovate. Ovary globose. Style a little longer than the ovary: stigma 4-cleft—Its nearest affinity is with Wallich’s M. bifaria: but the two are very different. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same more expanded. /. 3. Abor- tive pistil :—magnijied. Fitch del et lith. ‘Reeve & Nichsls imp. Dalzelliane. N. O. Salicariez. TAB. DOCCXXVI. AMELETIA FLORIBUNDA, Wight. Annua erecta glaberrima superne ramosa, foliis alternis lineari- us superioribus precipue basi cordato-semiamplexicaulibus, — unculis grac S in ramos terminalibus, racemis spicatis racteatis subrotundato-ovalibus, bracteolis fere longitudine calycis, floribus monoicis, petalis (roseis) calycis tubum equan- tibus, staminibus longe exserti Ameletia floribunda, Wight, Ilustr. Ind. Bot. p- 206 (excl. re- —— to the figure). nia floribunda, Wight, Madras Journ. of Science, v. 6. ‘ ‘34. ¢ ¢. 20. Has. A rare plant on hills (apparently in watery places), Maha- rane Bombay, Ni immo, Dalzell. described it as a new genus, Nimmonia, but afterwards properly referred it to Ameletia, unquestionably its proper place: and it is nearly allied to A. tenuis, but that has opposite branches, op- ro cordate leaves, long tapering spikes, and small (apparently white) flowers, the petals scarcely longer than the teeth of the calyx—as shown in Dr. Wight’s Icones Plant. Ind. Or. t. 257 B. 23 describing the four species of Ame/etia in the ‘ Illustrations of Indian Botany,’ the figures, by some mistake of the printer, are transposed or incorrectly quoted. Under A. Indica (vol. i. a 206) should have been quoted “Icon. Pl. Ind. Or. tab. 257 A.” Under A. ¢enuis, “tab. 258” should be “tab. 257 B.” Under A. floribunda, the reference to Ic. Plant. should be ae omitted, or this species is neither red nor described | ere. Under A. a7 ; SET) ei Say Fitch del et th. Reeve & Nichols imp. a ga Gardneriane. N. O. Loganiacee. TAB. DCOCCXX VIII. Mirrgoia pantcuLata, Wall. ~Caule subquadrangulo glabro, ramis scabro-pilosiusculis, foliis ovali-oblongis acuminatis in petiolum angustatis margine ner- visque scabro-pilosis, bracteis lobisque calycis lanceolatis mar- gine dorsoque tenuiter pilosiusculis, corollz laciniis lanceolatis elongatis, capsula lunata lobis inflexis, seminibus elongato- compressis. A. De Cand. M. paniculata, Wall. Cat. n. 4349 (not . 1826), fide A. De Cand. in Prodr.v. 9. p.9. G. Don, Gard. Dict. v. 4. p. 171 (excl. Syn. M. oldentandioides). Has. Prome, Ava, and Tong-Dong, in the Birman Empire, Wailich. In a Mandiocca plantation, near Arroyas, Goyaz, Brazil, Gardner (n. 3897). I do not possess any oriental specimen of this plant: but Alph. De Candolle, who has in his herbarium specimens of that and of Gardner’s Brazilian plant, has not the smallest hesitation in considering them the same. “ Exemplum,” he adds, “ ra- rissimum speciei in Asia et —— simul crescentis, sed diver- sitatem minimam frustra quesivi.” The very panicled inflores- cence and the decidedly inflexed and almost connivent lobes of the fruit readily distinguish this species. Fig.1. Flower. (7. 2. Flower laid open. 7.3, Capsule. f. 4. Capsule laid open. £5. Seed :—magnijied. PL. B29. Reeve £Mishols,imp- bth Cunninghamiane. N. O. Leguminose. TAB. DCCCXXIX. CroraLarta Cunninenamu, Br. Frutex erectus, foliis unifoliolatis ovalibus mucronulatis utrinque ramulis calycibusque pube sericea ferruginea velutinis, petiolis infra apicem geniculatis, stipulis subulatis, floribus (magnis) nunc axillaribus solitariis plerumque terminalibus racemosis, pedicellis infra medium Ellcaetadiatis petalis lineatis, vexillo carina elongata stricta breviore, leguminibus teretibus sericeo- tomentosis rostratis. Crotalaria Cunninghamii, Br. in Bot. App. to Sturt’s Exped. into Central Australa, p Kennedia re see al All. Cunn. in Herb. Nost Haz. North-west coast of Australia (barren Ad of Goodenough Bay, S.E. of Cygnet Bay, A//. Cunningham), Bynoe (in Stoke’s . of the Beagle). many respects this accords with x el s description of Coot. Sturtu, 1 Sturt’s Exped. pl. ¢ 0 (I may say entirely with the specific character) ; but the hates oa flowers are larger and the carina is always shorter than the vexillum. That dis- ished botanist then in his “Obs.” notices a very nearly mentosis, ctiolis af apice curvatis, pedu axillaribus unifloris.” e have specimens from em locality per ett on both these oc- casions, and our figure is made from those of Mr. Cunningham : there can be little doubt, ‘Dieashoae, that the plant Petes pace: is Mr. Brown’s C. Cunninghamii : but although some of our s mens do show axillary and single-flowered | pedals, others have truly terminal racemose flowers, cont partially leafy; so that the differences between this and C. Sturti are Gataea to the trifling ones just mentioned. The species is remarkable for the large size of the flowers, the short ale, and the very lengthened and straight acumen to the carina. All the petals are ‘striated with dark lines. Lt, &30 Bynoeane. N. O. Leguminose. TAB. DCCCXXX. CroraLaria crassipes, Hoof. Glabra, ramis herbaceis alato-angulatis, foliis unifoliolatis ob- longis mucronulatis inferne attenuatis, petiolis apice genicula- tis stipuliferis basi utrinque alato-decurrentibus, bracteis subu- latis, racemis terminalibus axillaribusque elongatis multifloris, pedunculo incrassato, bracteis parvis subulatis, calyce late cam- panulato profunde 5-fido laciniis lato-subulatis, carina vexillum rotundatum obtusum equante. Has. North-west coast of Australia, Bynoe (Voyage of the — Beagle). A most distinct and well-marked species. Mr. Bentham ob- serves to me of this and the one given in our preceding plate (Tab. 829), that “they have the leaf articulated at the top of the petiole and thus unifoliolate, like my Brazilian C. unifoliolata, whilst the great mass of simple-leaved Crotalaria have the leaf sessile or narrowed into a very short petiole without articulation.” Another -of this kind I find in Mr. Bynoe’s collection defined below.* =e. cits doe ramis suffruticosis striatis peeceetes, — som a longis obtusis inferne — attenuatis, petiolis i glabris subtus dense ceo-velutinis, stipulis pect "jedi cidiuts axillaribusque s echnsieaseatio multifloris, bracteis parvis ae caly- cibus campanulatis sericeis 5-fidis laciniis subulato- triquetris, carina v rotundum obtusum oO wm m. , he Ce column, rohiais the Jower corona of & Fruit (here exhibited) very rare.” Fig. 1. Underside, and f. 2. Upper side of a flower. fi. 3. Eat deere gnified. LU. GSS. \ Stocksiane. : N. O. Capparideze. TAB. DCCCXXXIX. CapDABA HETEROTRICHA, Stocks. plerumq tis g pubescentibus pilis stellatis nunc glanduloso-pilosis, petalis 4 Cadaba be Be ty Stocks, MS. as. Among rocks towards Cape Monze, Scinde; called Joorg by the natives. Dr. J. HL. Stocks. Near the Arabian, C. glandulosa of Forskal, and C. rotundifolia; especially the latter, but the leaves of rotundifolia are larger and more rotundate with a broader almost truncated base, and the whole plant is destitute of pulverulent down: C. glandulosa has much smaller leaves with an apiculated apex, quite obsolete vena- tion, clothed, as well as the branches, with glandular hairs.—Dr. Stocks observes that this is a small tree, 12-20 feet high. The the whole epidermis. Mixed with these stellated hairs are p celled ones forked like a Medusa’s head at their summit. These last give a farinaceous look to the young shoots. Together with these there are always present glandular-capitate hairs generally are much enlarged and present in great numbers; and then, instead of a grey frosted look and smooth feel, we have the young Fig. 1. Flower. 7.2. Anther. 7.3. Apex of the nectary. f.4. Ovary :—magnified. 7.5. Leaf of the downy var. :—nat. size. Lt S40. , = = 3 bas ve Reeve & Nichols imp. Stocksiane. N.O. Rosaces-Neuradex. TAB. DCCCXL. NEURADA PROCUMBENS, Linn. Neurada procumbens, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 631. Forsk. Fl. Aig. Arab. Lam. Ill. t. 393. Desf. Fl. Atlant. v.1. p. 368. De just within them, alternating with the larger calyx-lobes. Stamens 10, epigynous, inserted between the petals and styles: filaments short, from a broad base, subulate ; anthers ovate, 2-celled. length much elongated, and resembling a cluster of spines in the centre of the fruit. tube of the calyx, 10-celled, with the cells opening at the top. Seeds solitary in each cell, attached to the central axis, slightly ascending, then curved d cotyledons nearly oblong and curved.—Onar figure was made from a drawing sent by Dr. Stocks. Fig. 1. Flower. jf. 2. Flower cut through vertically. /. 3. 4. Fruit. f- Transverse section of the ovary. /. 4. Fruit, 5. Fruit cut through vertically, showing the elongated persistent styles. 7. 6. Embryo. Ys f q- a Reeve &Michols imp. Fitch del et hth. Dalzelliane. N. O. Apocynacee. TAB. DCCCXLI. AGANOSMA CONCANENSIS. Volubilis glabra, ramis teretibus, foliis late elliptico-ovatis bre- vissime acuminatis basi cordatis membranaceis remote pen- ninerviis subtus pallidioribus transversim venosis, pedunculis axillaribus folio brevioribus, cymis compositis densis, sepalis triquetro-acuminatis, corolle hypocrateriformis tubo brevi vix calycem superante, limbi quinquepartiti laciniis oblongis obtusis patentibus, ore intus ciliato, staminibus exsertis, glandulis hy- pogynis 5 magnis triquetris obtusis. Has. In the South Concan, Bombay, rare. N. A. Dalzell, Esq. Sent, with many other rarities, from Concan, Bombay, by my valued correspondent, Mr. Dalzell. It is considered by that gentleman a new plant, and, as far as I can find, justly so. It would have ranked with Zchites, before the genera of Apocynacee had been remodelled by Don and Alphonse De Candolle ; yet it does not harmonize well with any genus in the ‘ Prodromus.’ I have provisionally placed it in Aganosma, but I am not sure that the stigma corresponds with that genus, and the hypogynous glands are 5, and distinct. The flowers, judging from the dried state, are green, tinged with purple. Though I have spoken of the plant as glabrous, yet the petioles are obscurely ciliated, and the pedicels are, when magnified, seen to be slightly downy. Fig. 1. Flower. f. 2. Pistil and intracalycinal glands :—mag- nified Pt 84 2. Se Reeve & Nichols imp. Fitch. del et Lith Daizelliane. N. O. Terebinthacee. TAB, DOCCXLII. Giycycarpus racemosa, Dalzell. Gen. Cuar. Glycycarpus, Da/z., nov. gen.—Flores polygamo-dioici. Calyx quadripartitus, persistens ; lacintis ovatis, obtusis. Co- inserta, cum petalis alterna iisque breviora. Fi/amenta libera. Anthera introrse, biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. In floribus masculis ovarii rudimentum nullum; in flore fertili ovarium unicum, liberum, sessile, uniloculare : ‘ovelom unicum, —— S =) “ ® SS SS wa os = © a D zg 5 MD “ & oe 3S & ° 5 a = oe . 7 ma mn ° =] ® a) supera, transverse oblonga, depressa, carne. parca, de dulci, esculenta ; putamine crustaceo, monospermo. onis exal- buminosi a dega crassee, profunde plano-convexee.—Ardor ndica parva ; foliis alternis, petiolatis, simplicibus, oblongis, penninerviis, integerrimis ; petiolo nudo; floribus racemosis, parvis. Dalz. Glycycarpus Senor Daizeli, Bot. of West. Ind. in Hook. Kew Gard. Mise. v Has. Rare in the ‘Seuthern Concan. Fi. Feb.; fr. ripe in April. Dailzell. “The tree,” observes Mr. Dalzell (I. c.), ‘on which this genus is founded, agrees in many points with the Holigarna racemosa ; but unless we suppose some unaccountable errors to exist in Rox- burgh’s description of that tree, it must be very different, the superior fruit being a sufficient mark of distinction.” We may add, too, that besides the union of the calyx with the ovary, the fruit of Holigarna i is said to be the size of a large olive. Fig. 1. Male flower. f- 2. ip oa disc from its centre. f. 3. Fruiting raceme (nat. size). f. 4. Fruit. /. 5. verse section of the same. 7. 6. Embryo: -—all but f% ‘magnified. PL, 8432. Reeve & Nichsls imp. Dalzelliane. N. O. Acanthacez. TAB. DCCCXLIIL. NoMapaILa PINNATIFIDA, Dadlzell. Tota hirsuta glanduloso-pubescenteque, foliis petiolatis lanceo- latis profunde pinnatifidis, floribus in foliorum axillis oppositis solitariis sessilibus, bracteis oblongis integris, calycis laciniis linearibus obtusis, corollz labio inferiore disco bullato. Nomaphila pinnatifida, Dalzell, Bot. of West. Ind. in Hook. Kew Gard. Mise. v. 3. p. 38. Has. Near running streams of the Southern Concan, at the foot of the Ghauts, Bombay, V. 4. Dalzell, Esq. “ Caulis obtuse tetragonus, ad nodos tumidus. Folia lineari- lanceolata, 3 poll. longa, 14 poll. lata, pinnatisecta, segmentis 6-8-jugis lineari-oblongis obtusis serrulatis. Bractee florales oblonge, foliacee, ciliate, glandulosze, calycem equantes. Calyx 2-23 lin. longus. Corolle (5 lin.) palatum bullatum. Sty/us puberulus. Stigma laterale.—Herba tenera, 1-2-pedalis.” Dalzell. Four species of this genus are described by Dr. Nees von Esenbeck, in De Candolle’s ‘ Prodromus :’ no figure exists of any. Three are from Southern India and the islands, the fourth from Senegambia. Mr. Dalzell now adds a fifth, and very distinct species, from Bombay. Fig. 1. Flower and bracteas. f- 2. Pistil :—magnified. Pl. 844 Reeve & Nichols imp. Fitch, del et ith. Dalzelliane. N. O. Euphorbiacez. TAB. DCCCXLIV. BIscHOFFIA TRIFOLIATA, (fwm.) Folios ovatis acuminatis magis minusve serratis vel crenatis basi obtusis, racemis fomineis simplicibus compositisque, floribus glabris, fructibus globosis magnitudine pisi majoris. Bischoffia Javanica, Blume, Bydr. p. 1168 Bischoffia Reeperiana, Dene. in Taste PL Ind. Or. p. 152. ee Reeperianus, Wight et Arn. in Edinb. New Phit. our. 4. p. 298. Wight, Cat. n. 941. Andrachne trifoliata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 3. p. 728. Wall. Cat. a. 195 Seite apetala, Roxb. in Wall. Cat. Bischoffia oblongifolia, Dene. in Jaci “PL. Ind. Or. p. 158. Bischof Speer Dene. in Jacquem. Pil. Ind. Or. p. 153. 1174. 9g, Herb. Seyladisens trifoliatus, Bennett, in Horsfield’s Plant. Javan. Rar. v1. Has. Pieoughout. India, and the Indian Archipelago. oxburgh, who first took up this plant under the name of Andrachne trifoliata, observes that it is a native of all parts of India. We can perceive no specific distinction oe in our specimens fro om Java, sent by De bse from t ippine sent no pelt but the somewhat larger fruit; and it is more imited to one ‘species. The trifoliolate vats es, combined with the arborescent character (its trunks in Java are used for masts and spars of vessels), are uncommon in this natural meek and Blume was led to place the genus in Zerebinthacee. In Bombay, whence our specimens figured are derived, the tree has the rive name of Bake, and grows in the ae, lat. 16°, elev. 2000 feet above the level of the sea. Fig. 1. Female flower. f. 2. Section of gt de 3. on of fruit, where two cells prove abortive. f. 4 Zz = Ver tical section of ditto. f 6. eure removed wey ne albumen :-— magnified. PU. 845. Reeve & Nichols , imp- Gunniane. N. O. Epacridez. TAB. DCCCXLYV. Dracopnyttum Miniieant, Hook. Subacaulis, foliis coriaceis rigidis e lata concava basi subulatis canaliculatis falcato-secundis spicam superantibus apicibus (siccitate seepe spirilater tortis) marginibus asperulis, pedun- culo scapiformi pubescente, spicis terminalibus compositis, spicularum bracteis basi latissima membranacea inferioribus elongato-foliaceis, corolla tubo late cylindraceo sepala lato- lanceolata equante, staminibus vix exsertis liberis, stylo in- cluso, squamulis hypogynis lato-obcordatis. Has. Mount Sorell, Macquarrie Harbour, Mr. Milligan. (R. Gunn, Esq., n. 2051.) Till the discovery of this very fine species of Dracophylium by Mr. Milligan, in 1846, the genus was supposed not to exist in Tasmania, and Dr. Hooker (Fl. Antarctica, vol. i. p. 48) describes the genus Richea as its representative. Our Herbarum is in- debted to Ronald Gunn, Esq., not only for a magnificent new species of Richea (L. squamosa, Hook. fil.), but for the present very distinct Dracophyllum. The specimens sent of the present plant, of which our figure is a fair sample, are said to be the full size, but these probably grow in tufts, from a short caudex. Fig. 1. Stamen. f. 2. Pistil and hypogynous scales. (f. 3. Flower :—magnified. LL E46. Fitch, del et Lith . Reeve Nichols, imp . Jamesoniane. N. O. Rosacee. TAS: DCOCOXLVL HeEsPEROMELES HETEROPHYLLA, Hook. Fruticosa nunc humillima rarius spinosa glaberrima vel corymbis ramulis costaque parce tomentosis, foliis ovalibus subovatisve acutis v. obtusis crenato-serratis subtus pallidis copiose reticu- latim venosis, corymbis terminalibus paucifloris, calycis basi bibracteati segmentis calycinis subulatis longitudine petalorum, bracteis linearibus tubum calycis eequantibus, ae basi villosis. as ao heterophylla, Ruiz et Pav. Fi. ined. t Eriobotrya (?) ee Lindt. Linn. Wess v. meet dew Eros fae . B. K. Nov. Gen. Am. v. 6. > “Be. ye neice ‘cbtusifolia, De Cand. ae v. 2. p. 632. Crateegus obtusifolia, Pers. S yn. v. 2. p. 37. Hesperomeles obtusifolia, Dad in "Bot. Reg. sub fol. 1956. Benth. Pl. Hartweg. p. 129. n. 732. B. a fruticulus ag Moers foliis multoties minoribus, H n f Peru (Ruiz et Pav.), Andes of Popayan; elev. between 6 nd 7,000 feet. Andes of Loxa, Hartweg (n. 732). San Carlos, Mathews (n. 1445). New Grenada, Linden (z. 1426). Sierra Nevada de Santa Martha, Purdie. I- tinian Andes, from 7,000-12,000 feet, at which latter eleva- tion it becomes our var. Dr. Lindley has probably correctly separated from Briobotrya cer- tain South American Pomacee, and constituted of them the genus Hesperomeles. The fruit, however, was unknown to him. Among my copious specimens T find ripe fruit on two species, and it is exactly as in Mespi/us, “Pomum turbinatum (seu globosum) apertum, ee endocarpio osseo :” the five osseous endocarps are indeed quite exposed to view, and are accurately figured so in both the species to which I allude, viz., Mespilus lanuginosa and M. heterophylla, by Ruiz and Pavon. It thus becomes a question how far they are rightly separated from that genus. The habit of the two plants now mentioned are distinct from Mespilus, but rather on account of their usually humble growth and coriaceous persistent leaves, than from any other character. Mespilus stipulosa, H.B.K., which I have from Loxa, may perhaps unite the two. Hesperomeles (Mespilus) /anuginosa, R. et P. Fl. ined. t. 425 a., I possess, with leaves as large as Osteomeles latifolia, H. B. K. Lc. t. B54 (H. cordata, Zind/.), and other specimens with leaves as small, an rusty-coloured beneath, as Osteomedes Ai ee of Humbo dt, and oblonga of Lindley ; all of which may, I think, be fairly recorded inches long; while, from great elevations, I have specimens like the variety here figured, with leaves less than half the size now represented. nije a Jameson describes the fruit (about the size of a pea) as esc Fig. 1, 2. His ae aides side of leaves. /. 3. Flower, with bracts. (7. 4. Ovary and styles. £5. Section of ovary :— magnified. Lt 47. Reeve & Nichols, imp. Bitch del et lith. Drummondiane. N. O. Umbelliferz. TAB. DCCCXLVILI. AcTINOTUS LEUCOCEPHALUS, Benth. Annuus pubescenti-pilosus dichotome ramosus, foliis palmatim 3—5-sectis segmentis integerrimis 3—5-fidisve, laciniis lineari- bus involucro floribusque pilis longis niveis sericeo-nitentibus densissime obsitis, calycis limbo cupuliformi, corollis penta- petalis. Actinotus leucocephalus, Benth. in Hugel Enum. Pl. Nov. Holt. p. 56. Bunge, in Lehm. Plant. Preiss. p. 292. 8. foliorum segmentis latioribus (Tas. Nosrr. 847). Has. Swan River settlement. Hugel, Drummond (n. 28). Preiss (w. 2056).—s. Interior of the same country, Drummond. By Mr. Drummond the more usual form of this plant, 1-2 feet and more high, slender, with very long peduncles and narrow segments to the leaves, the densely silky umbels becoming tawny when dry,—was sent home from the Guildford Plains, interior of Swan River settlement. The present individual was detected far in the interior of the country, and is the only specimen that was preserved. Mr. Drummond was disposed to consider it a distinct species ; but I am satisfied it is a mere variety, with shorter and stouter stems, broader leaves, if possible more silky umbels, and the silkiness retaining its white hue when dry. The ovaries and young fruit, as well as the pedicels, are most copiously silky, so as to conceal entirely the ridges. Fig. 1. Male flower. /. 2. Perfect flower. 7. 3. The same, with the calyx and petals and stamens removed :—magnified. LL. 848. OF) Fitch del et lith. ae er Gunniane. N. O. Crucifere. TAB. DCCCXLVIII. Hurtcninsta? Tasmanica, Hook. Annua digitalis subsimplex glabra vel hirsutula, foliis radicalibus spathulatis in petiolum attenuatis caulinis oblongis sagittato- semiamplexicaulibus omnibus subintegerrimis, floribus co- rymbosis, fructu elongato racemoso, pedicellis apice incrassatis demum elongatis patentibus, petalis spathulatis sublonge ungui- culatis sepalis hirsutis duplo longioribus, ovario ovali seu obo- vato compresso, stylo crassiusculo, loculis 4-spermis. Has. About Arthur’s Lake, western mountains of Van Diemen’s Land, R. Gunn, Esq. (m. 2041). I place this provisionally only in Hutchinsia. Except in the more distinct style, the fruit has a good deal of resemblance to that of Hutchinsia (now, by E. Meyer and Reichenbach, referred to Capsella) procumbens. I possess no perfect fruit. The thick- ening of the pedicel just below the calyx is very remarkable in this plant.—* A very small and insignificant annual,” Mr. R. Gunn observes, “ being barely visible, except that it happened to be in flower (Nov. 1848) when few other plants were blossoming in the elevated region about Arthur’s Lake.” Fig. 1. Flower. jf. 2. Petal. f 3. Stamen and pistil. f. 4. Capsule. f. 5. Dissepiment and seeds :—magnified. if MAAK Lt 84.9. Fitch del ec Lith Drummondiane. N, O. Myrtacez. TAB. DCCCXLIX. Evcaryprus piatypus, Hook. Glaberrima, ramis teretibus, foliis alternis obcordatis crasso-cori- aceis rigidis nitidis impunctatis subsinuatis in petiolum brevem subtortum attenuatis, pedunculo axillari longitudine folioram an- cipiti-compresso latissimo lignoso-coriaceo apice 3—5-floro, oper- culo cylindraceo conico elongato-obtuso, calyce turbinato, sta- minibus numerosis sulphureis calyce longioribus. Has. South-western Australia, near King George’s Sound, Drum- mond (x. 183). A very remarkable species of Lucalyptus, easily distinguished in this extensive and difficult genus. Luc. Preissiana, Schauer, has a similar broad and ancipitate peduncle, but that is placed in the division Oppositifoliz, and has the leaves opposite or sub- alternate, elliptical, oblong or subparabolic, pellucido-punctate, the base rounded, and the petiole as long as the peduncle,—characters much at variance with our plant. Gunniane. N. O. Epacridez. TAB. DCCCL. RicuEs scoparia, Hook. fil. Caule brevi lignoso apice fastigiatim ramoso, foliis sesquiuncialibus erectis rigidis strictis e lata semiamplexicauli basi subulato- pungentibus leviter canaliculatis marginibus carinaque (apicem versus) asperulis, spica terminali dense composita folia vix superante bracteata, bracteis lineari-acuminatis longitudine fere floris, sepalis late ovatis, corolla ovali, ore brevissime 5-dentato — clauso. Richea scoparia, Hook. fil. in Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 6. p. 273. Has. Mount Wellington and Valentine’s Peak, Van Diemen’s Land, Lawrence, Backhouse, R. Gunn. Mount Sorell, Mac- quarrie Harbour, 2. Gunn (n. 2049). This is undoubtedly a Richea of Brown, according to the struc- ture of the corolla, which is closed at the mouth, and separates transversely from its base before the fruit ripens. It is, as Dr. Hooker observes (/. c.), very different from any other known species. Fig. 1. Stamens, pistil, and hypogynous glands. 2. Flower and bracts :—magnified. Ft. FSF . Fitch, del et Lith. Reeve & Nichols , imp . Gunniane. N. O. Stylideze. TAB. DCCCLI. ForsteRA BELLIDIFOLIA, Hook. Glabra, caule perbrevi radicante, foliis rosulatis spathulatis ob- tusis subcoriaceis marginatis, scapo digitali filiformi unifloro nudo vel ante apicem bi-tribracteato, bracteis lnearibus, flore inclinato, calycis tubo globoso glabro, limbi lobis lineari-ob- longis, corolle limbi subregularis lobis oblongis obtusis paten- tibus sinubus squama erosa auctis. Has. Mount Sorell, Macquarrie Harbour, Van Diemen’s Land, R. Gunn, Esq. This appears to be a very curious little plant, of which unfor- tunately our specimen only afforded one, not very perfect, flower ; and some apology is due for its representation in such a state. If we see correctly, the corolla is nearly regular, with five spread- ing, oblong, obtuse segments, and alternating with them, in the sinuses, is a fimbriated or erose scale. The stigma also appears to be two-lipped. Our main object in offering so incomplete a figure, is to direct attention to the plant and its locality: and we are not without hopes that we shall soon be able to give a more complete analysis of it. If, as we suspect, a Vorstera, it is the first that has been detected in Australia. Fig. 1. Flowering, and f. 2. fruiting specimen :—xaturad size. f.3. Upper extremity of scape with a flower. # 4. Upper portion of the column with stamens, and what appeared to be a two-lipped style :—magnified. ot 4 * : id ff a 4. ” ie rc’ & ~ it * (Mit PREPS % j Af ie Aire PUL~ L2.852 ‘ \\ LJ bs \ K ! ae) NY }/ Vi, Wi, Wy us 4 MOR NS a ne x ‘A Y TN IK BN. ‘g eS a ay Yi UY a ye NI ; WK NW Fitch del et Lith. | Baws Biihoks ) Sap: Drummondiane. N. O. Myrtacee. TAB. DCCCLII. BaLavustion* puLcHerrmmum, Hook. Grn. Cuar. Balaustion, Hook. (Myrtacew, Leptospermex). Ca- lycis colorati tubus amplus, urceolatus, ima basi solu ovario adherens, reliquus liber ; limbus 5-partitus, lobis late ovatis submembranaceis patentibus. Petala 5, ovali-orbicu- laria, calycem paulo ee tet intense coccinea. Stamina numerosa, petalorum longitudinis, ad oram calycis inserta serie simplici; jilamenta subulata; anthera dorso inserta, connec- tivo oblongo, bilocularis, loculis parallelis rima longitudinali dehiscentibus. Ovarium parvum, in fundo alg cis cum ejus basi adherens, turbinatum, iMloitiee 3 loculis sub- pile oy ovulis in duas linea een Stylus stamina superan filiformis. Stigma paulo um.—Frutex Awmilis dustrelaa meridionali-occidentalis. Caulis basi crassus, tortuosus; rami copiosi, fasciculati, densi, graciles, stricti, ‘gpithamai e pa a cortice pallido, pelliculo albo laxo tecti. Folia sita et in axillas fasciculata, in ramulos brevissima, linedria, acute triquetra, punctato-glandulosa ; petiolo brevissimo fusco in ramum articulato. Flores copiosi, pro —— planta magni, speciosi, colore et fere forma unice nanze glanduloso- punetati, gee versus apicem ramorum siti. Padus culi dre- vissimi, folio breviores, e ramulis axillaribus orti, infra calycem bi —_ — bracteis ovatis membranacets coloratis calycis bast appre Paieustion pulcherrimu Has. South-western Eailia, abe between the Swan River and King George’s Sound, Drum Cert one of the most lovely of sieats, with flowers three- fourths of an inch long, we a: and both in shape and colour very much resembling those of the dwarf Pomegranate. The nearest affinity of the eta: is + with Hypocalymna, Endi., of one species of which, H. oe it is said “ floribus copiosis « is has as much the superiority over that, as ¢Aaf has over the ations groupe in general of NEA Petals, even when dry, of the most brilliant scarlet. Fig. 1. wer. f. 2. Calyx, including the pistil. f. 3, Stamens. ey 5. Pistil, the free portion of the calyx being Joa JF. 6. Transverse section of the ovary :—magnifie * BaAdavorioy is the name given to the wild flowers of the Pomegranate. Diose. ~ Fitch Gel et Lith. Drummondiane. N. O. Heemodoracez. TAB. DOCCLITT. ConosTyLis vagrnata, Lndl. Foliis tereti-filiformibus levissimis scapo indiviso dense lanato vaginis membranaceis tecto longioribus, perigonio extus tomen- toso basi hispido intus glabro, laciniis acutis tubo brevioribus, staminibus uniserratis. Lnd/. Conostylis vaginata, Endl. in Plant. Preiss. v. 2. p. 23. Has. South-western Australia; between Manypeak and Cape Riche, Plantagant district, Preiss (w. 13883). Swan River district, Drummond (n. 444). Twenty-eight species of Conosty/is are enumerated in the ‘Plante Preissiane,’ or Plants of Western an uth-western Fig. 1. Perianth. 7. 2. The same laid open. s, 3. Branched or plumose hair. f. 4. Stamen :—magnijied. Pi. 8E4- — Ba) MEY are Fitch del et ith. Drummondiane. N. O. Composite. TAB. DCCCLIV. ScyPHocoronis viscosa, A. Gray. Gen. Cuan. Se pie A. Gray, nov. gen. — Capitulum 8—12-florum homed um ; florian. omnibus hermaphroditis tubulosis, Site pier sterili. Involucrum uniseriale, 5. hyllum ; squamis linearibus, herbaceis, carinato-concavis, flores cequantibus. Receptaculum parvum, epaleaceum. Corolla tubo gracili, limbo cyathiformi, 5-lobo. Authere breves, basi bre- viter caudate. Styli rami apice subdilatati, extus hirtelli, acutiusculi. Achenia linearia, cylindrica, glabriuscula, callo basilari maximo inserta, pappo cyathiformi, continuo, per- sistente, coriaceo, integriusculo coronata.—Herba pusilla annua, viscoso-pubescens ; caulibus sesquiuncialibus, diffusis, a, nocephalis ; es subspathulato-linearibus, oppositis et alternis, Corolla flavida, tubo cum margine repando pappi corone, glan- dulis pilivellais consperso. Scyphocoronis viscosa, 4. ie a im = a Mise. ined. B. South-western Australia, Fig. 1. Capitulum. f. 2. Floret. a 8. Portion of the corolla laid o —. Jf. 4. Stamen :—magnified. PL. 83S. Reeve & Nichols imp. Fitch del etlith. Drummondiane. N. O. Composite (§ Melampodinew). TAB. DCCCLYV. DiorosrerMA Drummonpu, 4. Gray. Gun. Cuar. Drorosprrma, 4. Gray, nov. gen. —Capitulum pauci- florum, heterogamum ; floribus radii 3-4, foemineis, vix ligulatis, disci ti totidem, tubulosis, abortu masculis. Involucrum oie. uniseriale, e squamis 5-6 consimilibus, ovato-oblongis, conca- viusculis, membranaceo-herbaceis, margine anguste scarioso ciliato-fimbriolatis, per anthesin flores equantibus. Recepta- culum parvum, planum, epaleaceum. Corolla fi. = tubo ongis divaricatis glabris ; fl. m superne incrassatus, apice ase inequaliter obus, lbis wibatots hispidis. Ovarium fl. mase. Heat exovulatum ; fl. foem. achzenio simile sed multoties minus. Achenia ‘che ohuactwen 2-8-plo superantia, ab eo prorsus discreta, obovato-subtrigona, apice bicornia, nempe explanata, obcompressa, alata; ala suberosa, crassa, arcte invo- luta (ut achenium subtrigonum ventre profunde sulcatum apparet), ad apicem late truncatum in auriculas hirsutas pre- longas arrecto-patentes producta. Pappusnullus. Cotyledones obcompresso-planez, leviter incurvee.—Herba pusilla e radice annua, reign birtabali: caulibus gracilibus, di iffusis, ra mosis ; foliis integerrimis, infimis obovatis oppositis, superiort bus snboltereie spathulatis vel sublinearibus ; capitulis minimis, ad apicem ramorum solitariis paucisve agg? eats, A. Gray Diotosperma Drummondii, 4. Gray, in Kew Gard. Mise. i nol Has. Te paar Australia, Drummond. (Received in 1850.) 1. Capitulum of florets. //. 2. ee of fruits. f. 3. Hair fone an auricle of the achenium. J: 4, 5, Achznia. f. 6. Corolla and style of female flower. 7. 7. Transverse 4 of an achee- nium. 7. 8. Seed. £9. Embryo. 710. Male floret. f. 11. . Corolla laid open of a male Soret i—magnified. LL. 856. —— x SX Fitch del et ith Reeve & Michels imp. eae Drummondiane. N. O. Composite. TAB. DCCCLVI. DiMoRPHOLEPIS AUSTRALIS, 4. Gray. Gen. Cuan. DiworpHoteris ausrratis, 4. Gray, nov. gen.— Capitulum multifloram, heterogamum ; floribus omnibus tubu- “ee ucis fcemineis marginalibus corolla tenuiore squaliter disco equilongum, biforme: exterius peice e squamis scariosis ovato-lanceolatis marginibus dense setigero -fimbriatis, intimis breviter stipitatis; interius uniseriale, e squamis incras- sato-cartilagineis lanceolatis sessilibus, marginibus subciliatis, apice tenui fimbriato-laceris. Anther@ basi bicaudate. Styli rami apice truncati. Achenia anguste oblonga, erostria, sub- compressa, glabra. Pappus fl. fem. minutus, setuloso-coronifor- mis, fl. hermaph. e padeis 3 (raro 1-2) ener ei barbellato- a ior summo apice acutissimis nudis corollam equantibus. a pumila annua, lace weigg panto villosa, mox Sarda: caulibus 1-3-uncialibus, mono- oligocephalis, nune prolifero-ramosis ; foliis peavted alternis, summis capitulum sessile bracteantibus. Involucri exterioris sguame albide ; flores Dinorphalepis australis, 4. Gray, in Kew Gard. nap a ined. Has. South-western Australia, Drummond. Also in the interior of Eastern oe at Bathurst Plains, Fraser ; en Nangers Captain M*‘A Stem erect or T devconad vposailge Heads from 2 to 3 lines long. Corolla slender, the ampliate summit minutely 4-toothed in the perfect, and 3-toothed in the female flowers ; in the latter more slender, but otherwise similar, and destitute of stamens. Achenia somewhat narrowed at the apex, apahige: the slender nerves ‘minutely serrulate, scabrous under a lens, otherwise gla- brous, or nearly so. Drummond’s specimen is much condensed, the stems barely an inch high. That from Captain M‘Arthur is erect, proliferously branched, and about three inches high, with a foliose-bracteate head sessile in each fork of the stem. ‘The genus is evidently allied to Panetia, Cass., and Chrysodiscus, Breet, but different from both in the two kinds of involucre an pappus: the latter in the hermaphrodite flowers consists of narrow palez raise than sete. 4. Gray. . 1. Capitulum. f 2. Outer scale of ditto. #3. Inner scale and female floret. J. 4, Stamen. jf. 5. Inner floret, per- fect. 7. 6. Palea of perfect floret :—zsz, gn ified. FP. 851. SN MRE tay Reeve & Nichols ra Fiteh del ith. Munroane. : N. O. Gentianee. TAB. DCCCLVII. GENTIANA (§ Crossopetalum) petonsa, Fries; var. y. Caule erectiusculo, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis linearibusque margine scabriusculis, imis rosulatis spathulatis, pedunculis unifloris subsolitariis, calycis 4—5-fidi lobis pleramque inzequalibus ovatis lanceolatisque corolla tubum campanulatum subsequantibus, coroll czerules lobis oblongis obtusis basi ciliatis superne cre- natis erecto-patentibus tubo subbrevioribus, ovario elliptico breviter stipitato, stigmatibus distinctis stylo impositis, semini- bus squamuloso-aculeolatis. Gentiana detonsa, Mries.—Griseb. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 9. p. 101. (cum synon.) 8. barbata, Fries.—Griseb. 1. c. (cum synon.) y. paludosa ; foliis latioribus obtusioribus, calycis tubo 4-angulato- alato, lobis latis acutis, lobis corollinis brevi-barbatis.—G. palu- dosa, Munro, MS. Has. Marshes at Kisung, Thibet, Captain Munro (n. 2852). The locality of this plant, so distant from the otherwise widely- spread known stations, together with the distinguishing characters above given, induced me at first to consider this Gentian distinct from the G. detonsa of Fries, itself very near, and often confounded with, the G. ciliata, L. The tube of the calyx is clearly winged at the angles, Fig. 1. Corolla laid open :—natural size. Lt. 556. Reeve & Nichols, imp. Cunniane, N. O. Melanthacez. TAB. DCCCLVIII. Hewarpta Tasmanica, /fook, Gen. Cuan. Hawarpia, Hook., nov. gen.—Perianthium 6-phyl- lum, corollatum;_ stellato- a sepalis magnis acuminatis. Stamina 3, libera, basi sepalorum exteriorum inserta; ji/amenta lato- subulata, brevia ; anthere filamentis longiores, oblonge, basi ifidee affixee, posticee. varium pyramidatum, obtuse trique- trum, 3-loculare, loculis duplici serie polyspermis. S¢y/us ovario brevior Stigmata 3, crassa, recurvata, stylo paulo breviora. Frue- US . erba Tas smanica, acandis. Folia xumerosa, ensifor- nea, arida, rigida, disticha, longe equitantia, vaginis sin aus nitidissimis. Scapus /oliis longior, erectus, fleeuosus, bracteatus ; bracteis oe hake longe vaginantibus, suprema spa- thacea floi rifera. atha 1-2-flora. Flores speciosi, siccitate atro-purpurei, triandri. Uabitus Iridis vel Sisyrinchii. Hewardia Tasmanica, Hook. Has. Heathy plains, Macquarrie Harbour, Van Diemen’s Land, R unn, If, as we have endeavoured to show (Species Soruroar” li. p. 7), the genus Hewardia of Mr. Smith is no on really sound principles, but should merge, as was already suggested by Kunze, into Adiantum, we are sure that the many friends of that gen- tleman will glad! see so remarkable a plant as the present dedi- ee to him, one which we think none will hesitate in pronouncing ood a plant, too, of Australia, a country so much ex- wines = his dearest friend, Mr. Allan Cunningham, whose travels, as well as those of Leichar dt, Mr. Heward has so well narrated.* Our plant here figured has so entirely the habit of an Irideous — plant, that we are not ashamed to say that, till we observed the superior ovary, we had considered it a Sisyrinckium with free sta- mens, or a Libertia. It appears to be very rare, confined to one, and that a very little frequented district, of Van Diemen’s Land. Of the Melanthacee, it is perhaps most allied to Pleea, especially in habit and spathaceous scape ; but there the anthers are introrse, In the reduced number of stamens and large showy flowers, it is very distinct from any genus. It was detected in 1842, ‘when Mr. Gunn accompanied Sir John Franklin on an overland tour to Macquarrie Harbour,—an excursion so dangerous that it cost the life of two of the party, and threatened the lives of all. Fig. 1. Pistil :—magnified. - Mr. Heward’s valuable ear 4 of the Life of Allan Cunningham, Esq., tee of Bawy, vol, iv. p. 2 Ll. BIG O12 oth am Y Y a eS 7) NG New ¢. ON An ccileictibahy elgg U eitndt: i d "YH acta U. petit Reeve & Nichols imp. Gunniane. : N. O. Umbelliferae. TAB. DCCCLIX. Pozopsis corpiroLia, Hook. Guy. Cuar. Pozorsts, Hook. (Umbell. § Mulinex).—Dioica. asc, Calycis margo integer, tubus parvus cyathiformis. Pe- tala patentia, obovata, unguiculata, integra, eequa alia. Stamina 5 ; filamenta petalis duplo breviora, patenti-i incurva; authere subglobose. Ovarium nanum, abortivum, calycis tubo adna- ; m atentia, obovato-spathulata, integra, aqualia. Styli 2, bre- viusculi, subdivaricati, Stylopodia incrassata. Stamina nulla. Fructus oblongo-ovalis, tetragonus, commissura valde con- tracta (utroque latere profunde canaliculata). Mericarpia / dorso compressa (hine fructus quasi parallele biscutatus), jugis / vittisque (sub jugis) 5, quorum 2 ad commissuram sitis.—Herba dese endens, crassiuscula, fibrosa. Folia omnia radicalia, cordata, firma, glabra, crenata, longe p —— Scapus solitarius, omnino aphyllus, folia superans, defen villosus. Umbella simpler, solitaria, densa, hemispherico-capi- tata. Involucri foliola subdecem, linegtia. membranacea, um- bella breviora. Pedicelli dreviusculi, filiformes, glabri. aged rae men’s tai d, R. Gun qe An exceedingly sieetty “and very distinct Umbelliferous plant, with very mach the habit of Pozoa of the Chilian Andes, and o which the fruit is not much at variance with that genus: but the dicecious flowers in our plant, and the many-leaved, not entire Sivalinthe, will readily distinguish it. The specimens, when ” at least, assume a rich brown hue, and the hairs of the cles and pa are ferruginous and very coarse. The blade of the leaf is pe very pale, and with prominent nerves bene aCe Fig. i. — plant. f. 2. Female plant i 4 size. F-3. Male flower. f. 4. Female dowes. J. 5. Fruit. f6. Transverse section of the fruit :—magnified. j ad f Oe Rintasm is COA oe ca ae Oy L850. Fitch del et lith. Reeve & Nichols, imp. : Munroane. N. O. Liliacee. TAB. DCCCLX. Fritmtraria Royret, Hook. Caule basi longe nudo sursum folioso uni-bi-trifloro, foliis infimis oppositis superioribus verticillatis 4—5-nisve lanceolatis attenua- tis (non cirrosis), flore nutante tessellato, sepalis basi non gib- osis. Fritillaria verticillata, Wall. Cat. n. 5079. Royle, Ill. Himal. Bot. p. 887, t. 92. f. 2. (non alior.) F. cirrosa, Don, Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 51? Has. Himalaya Mountains, of Siciicn n, Gurwhal, Simore, and of the Punjab; elev. 9-12,000 feet, "Dr. WV alc, Dr. Royle, Captain Munro, Major Madden, Dr. . Thoms Dr. Royle has well figured this plant, and aaa , in allusion to it, “ A species of this genus, sent by Mr. Moorcroft from near Ludak, and found by Mr. Inglis on the Berendo Pass, is common in the Himalayas at elevations of from 9,000 to 11,000 feet, as on Choor, Kedarhanta, and in Komaon, where the mountains are covered with snow for half the e year. This has been described by ae Don under the name of F. cirrosa, but is referred by Sprengel Dr. Wallich, and figured in the present work, tab. 92. f. 2, * the name of F. verticd/ata, Willd., a plant of Siberia and the Altai Mountains. But it is doubtful whether all included under this name belong to the same species.”—TI think it may be safely asserted that Dr. Royle’s plant, and Dr. Thomson’s and Captain Maunro’s, which have no cirrhi, are quite distinct from Willd. now’s I, verticillata, well figured under that name by Ledebour (Ie. Plant. Rar, Alt. vol. i. p. 3. t. 2), and by Dr. Graham in the ee & 3, under the name of /. deucantha. at has cirrhose leaves, white flowers, not tessellated, and the sepals have a — bly deep nectary forming a gibbosity at the base on the ide. Fig. 1. Pistil:—wnatural size. PL. BEF. Vey os aS — i RIE pe oF. ‘i yy EES, Om re Eeaneaa manos eas Fitch del et Lth ; Reeve & Nichols, ump Stocksiane. N. O. Asclepiadee. TAB. DCCCI.XI. SARCOSTEMMA BRACHYsTIOMA, Wight. Aphyllum, ramis teretibus crassis, umbellis terminalibus laterali- usque, pedicellis calyceque glabris, corolle laciniis ovatis obtusiusculis glabris, corona staminea exteriore 10-crenata interiore foliolis ovatis dorso-gibbosis gynostegium squanti- us, stigmate mutico. Sarcostemma brachystigma, W7 2 et Arn. Contrib.to Bot. of India, Pr. 59. Jacquem. pode nd t. p. 107. ¢.113. Decaisne in .8.p becca of beth Walk MSS. ( Ia rosie Asclepias acida, Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 2. p a. . me Coromandel, Wight and Arnott. Scinde, Dr. Stocks. Roxburgh is silent in regard to any precise locality of this plant, observing, that it is a “native of hedges, forests, &c., but by no means common.” Drs. Wight and Arnott give Coroman- del as the habitat. Decaisne, in Jacquemont, observes “ locus 2 panied by a drawing, from which our figure is made) from Scinde. We have not seen living plants, but ae who have done so speak of it as a climber, though our specimens scarcely indicate that. The stems are as thick as a swan’s quill, succulent, terete, jointed at the setting on of the branches, everywhere glabrous, ea: of five gibbous connivent folioles, which come to a point. Fruit, which does not seem to be known to any author, consists of two horizontally spreading, cylindrical, slightly acuminated follicles. Fig. 1. Flower. f. 2. Underside of ditto. /. 3. The double corona. /. 4. Corona cut through vertically. 5. Pollen-masses, J. 6. Follicles :—natural size. f. 7. Seed :—all but f. 6 more or less magnified. PL.8E2, Reeve & Nichols, imp Fitch del et ith . Duttoniane. N. O. Composite. TAB. DCCCLXII. OLEARIA? GRANDIFLORA, Hook:. Ramis foliisque subtus sericeo-tomentosis nitidis, foliis petiolatis ellipticis acutis coriaceis anguste ineequaliter dentatis ereoore: supra glabris, capitulo magno solitario in ramulo elongato paucifolio satin, involucri turbinati squamis Snead olatis appressis sericeis inferioribus submucronatis, radii ligulis oblongis latis albis. Has. Adelaide, South Australia, Charles Dutton, Esq. The ig sl eHitny ee the labours of Cas- sini, Lessing, Nees, an andolle, are far from being satisfac- torily divided into genera. oo ‘pivenit plant, which I believe is quite new, might, as far as we can judge of characters from a single flower which I a m unwilling to destroy, have equal claims to rank with Seiya as with Olearia: in habit, in the large terminal solitary flowers, it agrees with neither.* The leaves are large strongly toothed, pale green above, with depressed reticnilated veins ; beneath, beautifully silky and glossy with soft tomentum, and havi ving thin prominent reticulated veins. The only specimen I possess sends out, as it were, a lateral elongated branch, with few distant and small leaves, bearing a large capitulum, with con- ies broad white rays. The receptacle I have not been able to examine. The achenia are oblong- etsy slightly hairy. The. a eee has the outer hairs short, the rest as long as the tubular portion of the coroll (both of ‘the a and of the cir- cumference) ; the longer hairs or sete scabrou: . Floret from the disc. 7. 2. Floret from the circum- feaorte Sf. 3. Inner seta :—magnijied. Our um possesses another plant which het PY ag with the present, and ne may, provision be thus named and distinguish fom pannosa; foliis brevissime petiolatis elliptico- sola coriaceis acutiusculis is acs pat dense ferrugineo-pannosis, pe — paucis subterminalibus a hylis ferrigino-Suipentoaie superne incrassatis monocephalis, capitulo magno, involucri polyphylli _—— lanceolatis acuminatis Sahel tomentosis, radii corollis latis purpure Has. Near the ace ive, South Australia, Mr. Whitaker. Fit ch Gel et lith . Reeve Ss Stocksiana. RD. Asclepiadeze. TAB. DCCCLXIILI. Mastostiema vARiANs, J. Z. Stocks. Gun. Cuar. ee hie Stocks, nov. gen.—Calyzx 5-partitus. Corolla rotata, 5-partita. Corona staminea petaloidea, cyathi- formis, alte 5-lobata, gynostegium su eequans.