CURTIS aR Boranica Macazine; FE ble Carden Dilplayed: IN WHICH The moft Ornamental Forzien Prants, cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-Houfe, and the Stove, are accurately reprefented in their natural Colours. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, Their Names, Clafs, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according to the celebrated Linnzus; their Places of Growth, and ‘Times of Flowering: TOGETHER WITH THE MOST APPROVED METHODS OF CULTURE, aes OW. O RX Intended for the Ufe of fuch Lapres, GentLeMe N, and GARDENERS, as with to become fcientifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate. gee By JOHN SIMS, M.D. Fertow or tHe Royat anv Linnean Societies, VOL. XLII. The Frowkrs, which grace their fi Awhile put forth their blufhing heads, ™— But, e’er the clofe of parting day, They wither, fhrink, and die away : But tHEse, which mimic {kill hath made, Nor fcorched by funs, nor killed by fhade, elites a} Shall bluth with lefs inconftant hue, Which art at pleafure can renew. Lrorp. ; Seaton _ eens =O NN RE LONDON: Printed by SrepHen Coucuman, T hrogmorton-Street. Publithed by SHERwoop, Neety, & Jones, 20, Paternofter-Row ; And Sold by the principal Bookfellers in Great-Britain and Ireland, MCC: 3 : : W772 O 2 Fad ih hs J Gort W, Mi Ye ltd al wre rth & AS ay Lire FSi P Janfi fore Jt [ 1726 CraT&Gus INDICA. Inp1an HawrTuorn. Clafs and Order. IcosANDRIA Monocynia. Generic Chara@er. Cal. 5-fidus. Petala 5. Bacca infera difperma. Specific Charaéer and Synonyms. CRAT AGUS indica ; foliis ovatis acuminatis ferratis femper- virentibus, racemis terminalibus, pedunculis calycibufque tomentofis, braéteis fubulatis. | CRATAGUS indica ; foliis lanceolatis ferratis, caule inermi, corymbis fquamofis. Sp. Pl. 683. Willd. 2. p- 1005. 4 Descr. Stem upright, fhrubby, with fmooth dark-brown bark, branched upwills : Leaves evergreen, ovate, acuminate, ferrate, narrowed downwards, petiolated : upper furface fhining and dark-green, lower pale and reticulated, Stipules two, fub- ulate, within the petiole, foon falling off. Flowers in terminal _ racemes, white. Braéfes fubulate, ere&t. Peduncles and lyxes tomentofe: the latter fuperior, campanulate, with long ereét fubulate teeth ; and, what is remarkable, after the flower fades, it eafily feparates from the crown of the germen. Petals five, oblong-ovate, acuminate, nerved. Filaments ere€t, inferted into the tube of the calyx, at firft white, changing to a bright red: Anthers yellow, didymous. The germen, which is {mall and nearly round, is covered with the fame kind of tomentum as that part of the calyx which feparates from it; but this does not turn red as on the calyx. We have not feen the fruit, but the germen is bilocular, and contains at leaft two ovula in each cell. Styles two, ereét, longer than the ftamens : ftigmas _ From the uncertainty in the number of the ftyles, and of the divifions of the fruit, Sir Jamzs Eowarp SmitHy, in his Flora Britannica, Britannica, has reduced the four Linnean genera of Cratacus, Sorsus, Mespitus, and Pyrus into two; omitting the two former names, and retaining only Mespitus and Prraus. The new edition of the Hortus Kewenfis retains the four genera; and, as without feeing the fruit, we fhould be ata lofs whether to arrange our plant under Mesprius or Pyrus, we think it fafeft to leave it as we find it. In habit, our plant has confiderable affinity with Pyrus Amelanchier and Bo- tryapium. Native of the Eaft-Indies and China. Requires the pro- te€tion of the greenhoufe. Our drawing was made from a plant communicated by Mr. R. Sweet, from the Stockwell Nurfery. We received it alfo from Mr. James Dickson, of Acre-Lane. Flowers in April, May, and June. CEES IN Se 7, Se - 49H Pub by fF Carter Wabworls, Mart 7LtE E1729 4 PsoRALEA APHYLLA. LEAFLESS PSORALEAs BENE ETE REE EEE EEE I ae a ae ae Cla/s and Order, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Generic Charaéfer. Cal. longitudine Leguminis. Stam. — Legumen mo- nofpermum, fubroftratum, evalve. Specific Charaier and Synonyms. PSORALEA apbylla; foliis ternatis fimplicibufque deciduis, ftipulis lanceolatis acutis flores verfus fubimbricatis per- fiftentibus. PSORALEA aphbylla ; foliis caulinis rameifque ternatis et fim- plicibus, ramulorum nullis, ftipulis fubimbricatis, Facq. _ Hort. Schoenb. 2. p. §1. t. 223. Willd, Sp. Ph, 8. P- 223. _ Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 375. PSORALEA aphylla ; foliis nullis, Aipulis ovatis {feffilibus ad- | preffis acutis. Amen. Acad, 6. PSORALEA apbylla ; foliis nullis, ftipulis mucronatis brevif- fimis verfus flores fubimbricatis. Mant. 450. GENISTA fpartium ceruleum Cap. Bon. Spei. Breyn, Cent, he BBs This fhrub, ‘ough named ‘apbyl or + leafle He is by no means without leaves ; ; but, when young, has both trifoliate and fimple leaves, which fall off, and are. feldom again renewed; what appear like fmall leaves upon the flowering branches, as repre- fented in our figure, are not confidered as fuch, but as //pules, or more properly, perhaps, as draétes. The flems of PsoraLEa aphylla are flender, and the extremities of the branches bend down with the weight of the flowers, ina graceful manner. A greenhoufe fhrub. Native of the Cape of Good-Hope. Flowers with us from May to July. Cultivated in the royal garden at Hampton-Court, fo long ago as 1690. Our drawing was taken from a fine fpecimen in the confery atory of Meffrs. Lez and Kennepy, early in May. M77 2¢. ae on oi ward 2 Lhd J re OTE é mise = [ 1725 | SALVIA AZUREA. AZURE-ELOWERED DAGBs oc: ARR eae Se aece aed deaeah aap ak see ae Cla/s and Order. Dianpria MonocyntA. Generic CharaGer. Cal. fubcampanulatus, 2-labiatus: labio fuperiore 3-dentato. Cor, ringens, Filamenta tran{verfe pedicello affixa. Specific Charager and Synonyms, SALVIA azurea; foliis lineari-lanceolatis inferioribus extror- fum ferratis cauleque glabris, calyce pubefcente breviffime trifido. Purjb Fl. Amer. Sept. 19. SALVIA axurea, Lam. in diar. Hif. Nat. 1. p. 469. Encyc.6. p. 625. Vabl Enum. 1. p.253. Hort. Kew. Epit. inter addenda, a SALVIA acuminatiffima. Venten. Hort. Celf. 50. t. 50. SALVIA anguflifoa. Michaux Flor. Bor.-Amer. 1. p. 1 5. SALVIA mexicana. Walt. Fl. Carol. p. 65. Descr. Stem quadrangular, fluted, with rounded angles. Leaves lanceolate, narrowed: at both extremities, diftantly and unequally fawed, minutely ciliated at the edge, dark green on the upper furface, pale on the under. Flowers in terminal whorled fpikes, whorls about fix-flowered, looking one way. Braées linear. Pedicles very fhort. Calyx ftriate, two-lipped : upper-lip minutely three-toothed :_under-lip bifid: teeth acute. Corolla large: tube the length of the calyx: upper-lip fhort, emarginate, pubefcent: under-lip three-lobed, dependent, fmooth: middle lobe very large, crenulate. Style bearded quite up to the bifid figma. A two-lobed anther at one end of the tranfverfe filament, and a blue fmooth gland at the = oe Native Native of Georgia and South-Carolina, and faid to be a great favourite as a greenhoufe plant in the Northern States, where it grows to the height of feven or eight feet, and bears a profufion of flowers. It is inferted among the addenda at the end of the Epitome of the Hortus Kewenfis, where it is faid to have been intro- duced in 1806, to be hardy, and to bloffom in July and Auguft. We received the {pecimen from which our drawing was made from Mr. Lamsert’s confervatory, at Boyton, in full flower, in November Jatt, len Waburorttt Mas 2 7PKE A Vonfom Se: [-4789: } CESTRUM FASTIGIATUM. HONEYSUCKLE CESTRUM. Be Se Sr oe a ee a : Clafs and Order. PENTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. Generic Charaéer. Cal. inferus, denticulatus. Cor. infundibuliformis. Stamina denticulo in medio, (edentulave). Bacca 1-locularis, polyfperma, Specific Character and Synonym. CESTRUM (/foftigiatum ; filamentis edentulis, pedunculis axil- laribus elongatis, floribus in capitulum aggregatis, corolle limbo revoluto. — : CESTRUM /afigiatum ; filamentis edentulis; floribus in pe- dunculis axillaribus et elongatis fuperne aggregatis. Facq. Hort. Schoenb. 3. p. 44. t. 330- ee Cestrum /faftigiatum differs from diurnum, chiefly in the great length of the peduncle, which is equal to, or fometimes longer than the leaf, and in the flowers being moftly colleéted into a capitulum, fomewhat in the manner of the Honeyfuckle. They are white and fweet-fcented both by night and day. The number of ftamens and of the laciniz of the corolla is very uncertain, varying from four to fix. According to Jacguin’s defcription, the berries are black, _ with a violet-coloured pulp, but his figure reprefents them ex- ternally blue. | We have feen fpecimens of this fpecies in the herbariums of Sir Josepn Banks and of Mr. Lampert ; and in both placed along with diurnum, from which it appears to us fufficiently diftine. | Native of the Weft-Indies. With us an inhabitant of the ftove. Our drawing was made from a flowering fpecimen com- municated by Mr. Grorce Graves, from Mrs, WiLson’s collection at Iflington, in November laft, AIO SN YY) o , Luh ber blurt Wel roel May: LIE LS any ore we E9756 29 AGERATUM CCELESTINUM. BLUE-FLOWERED AGERATUM. SET AE TEE SE GEE TE TE SE RE EE Re HE IEE Clafs and Order. SYNGENESIA Potycamia /EQUALIS, Generic Charader. Receptaculum nudum. Pappus paleis 5, fubariftatis, nunc coalitis obfoletifve. Ca/. oblongus, duplici foliolorum fubzqualium ferie. Cor. 4—5-fide. Specific Character. AGERATUM celefinum s hifpidulum, foliis ovato-acuminatis triplinerviis dentato-ferratis integerrimifque, pappo mono- . _ phyllo obtufe dentato. — According to the ufual generic charafter of Aczratum, the pappus of the feed fhould confift of four or five fubulate palez ; but in our plant the pappus is {mall and cup-like, with five obtufe, nearly obfolete teeth, the /imb of the corolla is five- cleft and rolled back: /igmas very long, club-fhaped, ereé. In habit, and in every other refpeét, it correfponds fo exafly with AGERaTuM, that we have thought it right to continue it with that genus, notwithftanding the remarkable difference of the pappus. This part, indeed, appears to be liable to vary in the different fpecies of this genus. In the Bankfian Herbarium we obferve there is one, in which the pale of the pappus are nearly obfolete, but not united as in this. The native country of this lively herbaceous perennial is unknown to us. It was firft obferved in a garden at Briftol, but its origin could not be learnt. Hitherto it has been pre- ferved through the winter in the greenhoufe ; but when planted out in the open ground, it feemed to thrive beft where it was not much expofed to the fun, | It Tt is a tall plant, rifing to the height of about four feet. Flowers fragrant, of that fpecies of {cent which refembles bitter almonds. We do not find that this plant has been before noticed by any author. : . Communicated by A, B. Lamzert, Efq. from his colle€ion at Boyton. N73 Tub. by 8. Curtis, Walworth May 22° i gt: 2 JASMINUM REVOLUTUM. CURLED-FLOWERED YELLOW JASMINE. ee ees Clafs and Order. DranpriA MonocyNniaAe Generic Chara@ers Cor. hypocrateriformis, 5—8-fida. Bacca dicocca. Semina folitaria arillata. Specific Charafer. JASMINUM revolutum ; foliis omnibus pinnatis, paniculis oppolitifoliis, laciniis corolla revolutis. Descr. Branches flexuofe, fomewhat angular. Leaves al- ternate, on long channelled footftalks, all pinnate, having two or three pair and an odd one of ovate leaflets, quite entire, acute, a little oblique, paler and veined underneath, the two upper pair clofe to the terminal leaflet, the lower pair diftant. owers panicled, yellow, very {weet-{cented, fubterminal, and oppofed to the leaf. Calyx cup-fhaped, with five or fix very {mall ere& fharp-pointed teeth. Tube of the *coralla grooved, fhorter than the dim, which is five or fix-cleft ; /acinie obovate, rolled back. Avthers large, tongue-fhaped, ereft-incumbent, i. €. affixed to the filament by the back, but ftill ftanding up- right. ; "For this hitherto undefcribed {pecies of Jafmine, which promifes to be a great acquifition to our gardens, we are be- holden to the lady of the Right Hon. Cxartes Lone, who obligingly fent us {pecimens from her garden, at Bromley-Hill, in Kent. The plant was imported from China, and bloomed the firft time in the {pring of 1814. At the prefent time (April) though only about a foot high, it has twelve bunches of very fragrant flowers. It has been hitherto kept in the confervatory, in a {mall pot of light earth and loam, NZS 2. Walworth Mavi 184s . Lub. by §. Curtis [1792 J BROMELIA PYRAMIDALIS. PyrRAMIDAL= FLOWERED BROMELIA. See eink daeaiaeebiee Clafs and Order. HEXANDRIA Monocyrnta. Generic Charaéter. as Cal. 3-fidus, fuperus. Petala 3. Squama ne€larifera ad bafin petali. DPericarpium 3-loculare, : : Specific Characfer and Synonyms. BROMELIA pyramidalis ; foliis lanceolatis acuminatis fpinofo- ; ciliatis, {capo infra flores nudos braéteato : braéteis lanceo- lato-ovatis integerrimis coloratis, = BROMELIA pyramidata aculeis nigris. Plum. Gen. 46. Ic. 62.? “ BROMELIA uudicaulis. Sp. Pl. 409.? Willd. 2. p. 9.? — $$ 25 ere Descr. Leaves all radical, lanceolate with a lengthened point, edged with fmall brown fpines, involute, and embracing one another at the bafe. A fimple /cape rifes from the bofom of the leaves, clothed below the flowers with large, concave, ovate- lanceolate, {pathe-like, entire, brafles, of a fine rofe-colour, which - turns brown with age. Above the braétes the flowers grow ina thyrfe-like fpike, naked (i. ¢. withodt any braétes intermixed). Germen inferior, nearly cylindrical, trilocular, with many ovula in each cell, affixed in two rows to a central receptacle. Style the length of the ftamens: fligma tripartite; the lacinia bright Violet, twifted together, fo as to refemble a fcrew-like capitate ftigma. Calyx tripartite ; fegments linear, connivent, ereét, Both it and the germen are covered with a white, mealy powder. Corolla three-petaled : petals eret, with linear claws longer than the calyx: Jimb fhort, ovate, acute, patent, the edges foon rolling inwards. The colour a fine {carlet, tinged on the infide with violet, more intenfe at the tips. Filaments fix, inferted into the bafe of the calyx, Anthers yellow, linear, incumbent. ae This This plant has great refemblance to the figure of Puumier, above quoted, from which Linnaus probably adopted his nudicaulis ; yet we dare not confider them as certainly the fame ; and, at all events, the name of xudicaulis is fo very inapplicable to a plant that has no ftalk, but a fcape only, and that too clothed at the inferior part with large braétes, that the original one of Prumrer feems every way preferable. In the Bankfian Mufeum, there is a drawing of a nearly-related {pecies, to which Linnvs’s name of zudicaulis is applied. ‘The flowers of this are much fmaller and white, and the leaves are truncated with a {mall acumen. In our fpecimen, the fcape did not rife fo as to elevate the flowers above the braétes, perhaps from a deficiency of heat: in one which flowered earlier, the fpike was more lax, and the flowers, after deflorefcence, became patent; calyx, corolla, and ftamens, perfiftent. | This plant, like fome others, both in this genus and in Tizrianpstra, holds a quantity of water in the bottom of the leaves ; which, it has been afferted, they are never found without, even in the hotteft weather, in a tropical country. Communicated by the lady of the Right Hon. Gzorce Rost, from Cuffnells, where it flowered two fucceffive years, in February and March. The mother plant was received from Rio de Janeiro fome years ago, and threw off feveral offsets before it flowered, which have been treated the fame as the pine apple, till of a good fize for flowering, when the pot was taken out of the bark and placed upon a fhelf in the flove. Li/j 4 Lf YY / TM J j lif Lub. by §. Curtis, Walworth May.12848, N1738. {8939 ) BEAUFORTIA DECUSSATA. SPLENDID _ BEAUFORTIA. 7 "Clalit and Order. Po LYADELPHIA.ICOSAN DRIA. Generic Charaéter. Staminium phalanges 5, petalis oppofite. Anthere bafi inferte : apice bifide : lobis deciduis! Cap/. 3-locularis, monofpermay connata et inclufa calycis tubo incraffato bafi adnato (ramo). Brown. als filamentis radianti ibus. B oie tn Bor 2p. 418 ; The Beavurortia decuffata, when covered with bloffoms, is a very fplendid fhrub. As in Metareuca, the flowers are produced a little below the divifions of the branches. They entirely furround the ftem, and are not confined to one fide, as in Catornamnus, No. 1506, Calyx inferior, top-fhaped, incurved : limb five-cleft : fegments awl-fhaped, the length of the petals. Corolla five-petaled, green: petals concave, rounded, fides overlapping one another, inferted into the margin of the tube of the calyx. Stamens polyadelphous. Filaments collefted into five bundies: the claws, or connetted parts, much longer than the corolla, the free parts divaricate or radiated, not half the length of the claws. But the principal chara€ter on which the genus is founded, is afforded by the anthers: thefe are not in- cumbent, as in MeLaeuca, but are inferted by the bafe, are two-lobed : /obes more or lefs divaricate at the point, and deci- duous. When fallen off, they appear like little extinguifhers, : difcharging difcharging the pollen from the lower end. The germen is hairy, very {mall ; fy/e long and twifted in different direétions ; figma acute. Above the germen and below the infertion of the fila- ments, is a confiderable cavity filled with honey, and clofed above by atufluck of white hairs, growing from the bafe of each bundle of filaments. Moft of the flowers appeared to be males, few of them having. any obfervable fiyle.. The flowers are axillary, and for the moft part grow in pairs; but only one of them occupies the centre of the leaf, the other being as it were fupernumerary and placed on one fide. Leaves ovate, rigid, acute, recurved, underneath pale, about five-nerved, dotted with tranflucent glands. Native of the fouth-weft coaft of New-Holland, where it was difcovered by Rosrrt Brown, Efg. Flowers with us in March, April, and May. Requires the prote€tion of a green- houfe. Propagated by cuttings, ; The name was given in honour of the Duchefs of Beaurort, an early encourager of the fcience of Botany. Her grace pof- feffed a flourifhing botanic garden at her feat, at Badminton, in Gloucefterfhire, in the time of Sir Hans Stoanxr, Bart. to the richnefs of which in rare exotics, the herbarium of that celebrated naturalift, ftill preferved in the Britifh Mufeum, bears frequent teftimony. Communicated by Mr, James Dicxson, Nurferyman, in Acre-Lane, Clapham-Common, and late gardener to Rozert THornToN, Efq. : : The fir figure foows the anther in its perfect? flate ; the fecond the Jame, with the lobes feparating and falling off ; the third the germen and flyle ; the fourth the tufuck of hairs at the bafe of ihe claw of the bundle of filaments, C 1734 J CaLEA LOBATA. YELLOW-FLOWERED CaLea, or HALBERD-WEED. SHE edeieieedeeiewiedee r Clafs and Order. SyNcGENESIA Potycamia AQUALIS. Generic Chara@er. Recepi. paleaceum. Pappus pilofus. Cal. imbricatus. Specific Chavafter and Synonyms. CALEA Jobata; corymbis congeftis, foliis alternis : fuperioribus ovato-lanceolatis, inferioribus dentato-haftatis finuato-fer- ratis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p.1795. Swartz Prod. 113. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 516. oS lobata. Sp. Pl. 1207. Hort. Cliff: 405. Mart. Mill. i: fe 2 ae CONYZA< arborefcens lutea folio trifido. Plum. Ic. 96. SANTOLINA ereéta fubhirfuta, foliis ferratis, haftatis f. fim- plicibus et utrinque porreftis, floribus comofis [ corymbofis? ]. Brown Fam. 315. VIRGA AUREA major, f. Doria folio finuato hirfuto. Sloane Jam. 125. Hift. 1. p. 260. t. 152. f. 4. HALBERT-WEED. Lunan Hort. Fam. The Careza Jobata is a native of Jamaica, and requires the heat of the ftove to bring it to perfeétion ; and being a large plant, and poffeffed of few attraétions, will feldom be’ thought de- ferving the room that it muft neceflarily occupy there. It is, however, a plant of confiderable intereft, having been found to afford a moft valuable remedy againft the fatal fevers of St. Nevis, as our friend Mr. Lampert, from whofe colleétion at Boyton it was communicated to us in November laft, was informed by James Toxin, Efg. who fent him the feed from which our plant was raifed. : “ Brown, in his Natural Hiftory of Jamaica, obferves, that * it is an excellent bitter, and was in his time much ufed in America, where a fpirituous infufion of the tops was generally kept in moft plantations, and often adminiftered as an alive warm ftomachic.” Lunan, in his Hortus Jamaicenfis, alfo fpeaks of it as a noble vulnerary, and fays that it ftops all fort of fluxes. Introduced by Dr. Witt1am Hovustoun, before 17335 and cultivated by Pattie Mizxer; but moft probably foon difappeared. y rant eee ata ee Rice irene rn wate) aN works « ati se eda s L Pub by it LETT. LFS, Pubbyr Pf Qurle Walworth Junmet ts [* ayay. 2 CARDAMINE ASARIFOLIA. KIDNEY-LEAVED LADIES-SMOCK. TEER EEE Oe RE SE Ea eae ae ee sete Clafs and Order. ' .TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. Generic Charafier. Siliqua linearis marginibus truncatis: valvis planis enervibus (elaftice fapius diffilientibus), diflepimento anguftioribus. Brown, in Hort. Kew. : PS A ce Specific Character and Synonyms. CARDAMINE afarifolia; foliis fimplicibus reniformibus. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 102. ee CARDAMINE afarifolia ; foliis fimplicibus fubcordatis. Sp. Pl. 913. Willd. 3. p. 482. Perfoon Syn. 2. p.195. Allioni Piedem. n. 948. Crantz Cruc. 128. CARDAMINE montana, Afari folio. Tournef. Inft. p. 225. NASTURTIUM montanum, afari folio. Bocc. Sicil. 5. ¢. 3. Herm. Parad, 203, cum Icone.* Raj. Hit. 816. NASTURTIUM alpinum, paluftre rotundifolium, radice fer- pente. Mori/. Hif. 2. p.224. This rare alpine plant was communicated by Mr. Sweet, late of the Stockwell nurfery. It is a native of the Italian Alps, and occurs plentifully in the rocky beds of the torrents at the foot of Mount Cenis. A hardy perennial, flowers in May, June, and July. Said in the former edition of Arron’s Hortus Kewenfis to have been introduced into this country in 1775, by AntHony Cuamier, Efg. but in the new edition, it is obferved to have been cultivated in 1710; being one of the plants recorded to have been delivered to the Royal Society from the garden be- longing to the Apothecaries Company at Chelfea. But it is the fate of moft alpine plants, to be foon loft, unlefs particular care be taken to preferve them. : ; : All the Carpamines poffefs an antifcorbutic quality ; and - this fpecies is faid by Attronr to be much uled in the cure of fcurvy, in the diftriéts where it abounds. _ As this grows naturally in wet places, it fhould, in the fummer time, have plenty of water; or the pot in which it is planted thould tly ftand in a pan of water. re” Le J ZANTHORHIZA APIIFOLIA. PARSLEY-LEAVED ZANTHORHIZA, OF YELLOW-ROOT. Sipe leet eae ie eee Cla/s and Order. PENTANDRIA PoLyGyYNIA. Generic Charaéer. Cal.o. Petala 5. Neéaria 5, pedicellata. Cap/. plurime, monofpermz. Specific Name and Synonyms. ZANTHORHIZA apifolia. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 199. DL Herit. Stirp. Nov. 79. t. 38. Perfoon Syn. 341. Michaux Fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 186. Pur/h Fl. Am. Sept. 222. XANTHORHIZA apitfolia. Mart. Mill. Did. XANTHORHIZA /implicifima. Marfball Arbuf. 168. The ZantTHoRH1z ; oe The Centaurea Rbapontica is remarkable for the fize of its flowers, which yield only to the artichoke, among plants of this order. It had once confiderable celebrity, as being fup- pofed to be the parent of the Rhubarb of the fhops, hore it does does not appear to be poffeffed of the fenfible qualities of that drug, By fome, though acknowledged to be different from the rhubarb, or Rha barbarum, it was fappofed to be the Rheum ponticum of Dioscoripes and Purny. But neither is this very pro- bable, nor is it worth while now to inquire about it: the plant producing the rhubarb of the fhops being at prefent well known, and of not uncommon occurrence in our gardens, There is a variety with narrower leaves, but in other refpeéts the plants feem to be the fame. Native of the Alps of Swit- zerland and of Italy. Except the figure of Doponzvs, re- printed and copied fo many times, it does not feem to have been ever before reprefented ; unlefs the figure above quoted from Corpus be intended for it, which is very dubious. It isa hardy perennial. Cultivated in 1640, by Parxinson. Our drawing was taken fome years ago from a {pecimen com- municated by Meffrs. Loppices and Sons, and we have been’ lately favoured with the fame from Joun Waker, Efq. Arno’s-Grove, E 1753) LONICERA SEMPERVIRENS (6.) MINOR. CAROLINA [TRUMPET HONEYSUCKLE. seer e ease eee ak skeet sea Clafs and Order, | PENTANDRIA MonocGyNIA. Generic Charaéer. Cor. 1-petala, irregularis. Bacca. poly{perma, bilocularis, infera. Specific Charaler and Synonyms. LONICERA /empervirens ; {picis fubnudis terminalibus, foliis oblongis: fummis connato-perfoliatis, corollis fubaquali- bus : tubo fuperne ventricofo, Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 983. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. 377: a. major; foliis fubrotundis. Hort, Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. 377+ Supra n, 781. BR. ‘inet ; foliis oblongis. Hort. Kew. 1.c. Heit. 1753. PERICLYMENUM floribus capitatis terminalibus, foliis lan- ceolatis oppofitis fubtus glaucis: fummis connato-perfoliatis fempervirentibus. Miller's Herbar. apud Banks. Both the varieties of the Trumpet Honeyfuckle were culti- vated at Chelfea, by Mr. Putrie Miter, who was doubtful whether they ought not rather to be confidered as diftinét fpecies. Our prefent plant is a native of Carolina, and is every way more delicate than the Virginian or larger fort ; but we cannot find any charaéters by which it can be marked as fpecifically different. The leaves are narrower, more glaucous underneath, and the flowers are flenderer and of a more delicate colour, inimitable by art, efpecially over a black engraving. This variety is too tender to bear the inclemency of our Winters, if they happen to be at all fevere ; and therefore, when treated as a hardy fhrub, it is generally foon loft. It is a good climber for the confervatory, and its beauty renders*it worthy of fuch a fituation. It has been fo long loft to our gardens, that when lately introduced by Melffrs. J. and J. T. Fraser, it was confidered as new. Flowers moft part of the fummer. Propagated by cuttings, or more certainly by layers. Communicated from Fraser's American Nurfery, Sloane-Square. "14.54 { 1754] PzONIA ANOMALA. JAGGED-LEAVED SIBERIAN Paony. MERE AE ETE EEE TEE TEE TE Ee IE Clafs and Order. PoLYANDRIA DiGyYNia. Generic Characer. Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala5. Styli o. Cap/. polyfperme, Specific Charatter and Synonyms. PALONIA anomala ; foliis biternatis: foliolis multipartitis nudis: laciniis lanceolatis, capfulis depreffis glabris. Waid. Sp. Pl.2. p. 1222. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 316. Bot. Kepof. 514- é. P,ONIA anomala ; calyce foliofo, capfulis glabris depreffis. Linn, Mant. 247. : PAEONIA fru@tibus quinque glabris patentibus. Giel. Sibir. 4. p. 184. t. 72. es PAEONIA Jaciniata ; foliis biternatis, foliolis acute laciniatis, ~ germinibus glabris. Pall. Ko. 2. p. 93. t. 85. Pzonta anomala has for the moft part five capfules, which are not upright, but fpreading. The root, in its native foil, is faid to grow very large, dividing into tuberous branches a foot long, yellow on the outfide and white within, fmelling like Florentine Iris. There are two varieties, the one having flowers of a pale, the other of a more intenfe purple colour. Native of Siberia, confequently confidered as a hardy perennial. Yet we have frequently obferved, that it perifhes in the winter. This is probably owing to the wetnefs, not to the cold of our climate; though many plants which, in their native foil, are covered with fnow, are liable to injury from the latter caufe; partly, perhaps, from the want of this natural defence, and partly from beginning to vegetate too —_ an and being then cut off by our {pring frofts. We do not know that it has yet been put in praétice; but we fhould recom- mend the roots to be taken up, as foon as the foliage is all decayed, and preferved in dry fand, proteéted from the froft, during the winter, planting them out early in the {pring. Introduced in 1788, by Joun Bett, Efg. Communicated by Meffrs. Cuanpier and Bucx1ncuan, from their Nurfery, at Vauxhall, Flowers in May and June. C.196 3 LASIOPETALUM PURPUREUM. PURPLE= FLOWERED LASIOPETALUM. SEE EE RE EE RE ER EEE Clafs and Order. PENTANDRIA MoNoGYNIA. Generic Charatter. Cal. rotatus, quinquefidus. Stamina bafi fquama munita. Anthere apice poris 2. Cap/ula fupera, 3-locularis, trivalvis : valvis medio feptiferis. Specific CharaGer and Synonym. LASIOPETALUM purpureum ; foliis ovalibus integerrimis. Hort. Kew. ed, alt. 2. p. 36. ge Bt Descr. A low fSru, decumbent unlefs fupported, covered in every part, not excepting the flowers, witha ftcllated pu- befcence. Leaves oblong-elliptical, quite entire, alternate. Stipule heart-fhaped, oblique, fometimes lobed, growing in pairs or fingly above the petiole. Thefe ftipules do not accompany all the leaves, and are fometimes diftant from the leaf. It often happens that the peduncle takes the place of one of the ftipules, fo that the leaf ftands in the middle with a ftipule on one fide and a peduncle on the other. Stamens two or three times longer than the leaf, about fix-flowered : flowers looking one way. Flowers have no corolla, but a purple-coloured calyx, fupported underneath by a ternate involucre or braée con~ fifting of three linear leaflets looking all one way. Stamens five, filaments very {hort ; anthers black, conniving at the points ; germen fuperior, three-cornered ; /fyle confiderably longer than ftamens ; /tigma fimple. The lively purple flowers without fcent remain very long expanded, and coming in fucceflion, this little greenhoufe fhrub — continues in bloffom nearly half the year. Native Native of New South-Wales. Difcovered by Roszrr Brown, Efq. Introduced in 1803, by Mr. Perer Goon. Thrives beft in a fandy peat, with a flight admixture of loam. ~ Communicated by Meffrs. Lopprezs and Sons, and by Meffts, Corvinie and Son. L 1756 J PHZONIA ALBIFLORA. WHITE-FLOWERED Pony. Jeiinleaeieibsiiesiek debit Cla/s and Order. POLYANDRIA DIGYNIA. Generic Character. - Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala5. Styli.o. Cap/. polyfperme. Specific Character and Synonyms. PEONIA aldifora ; foliis biternatis: foliolis ovato-lanceolatis integris nudis, capfulis recurvatis glabris. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2.p.1222. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 316. a P/EONIA albdiffora ; foliis ternatis: foliolis lobatis nitentibus germinibus ternis glabris. Pall. Ro. 2. p. go. ¢. 84. PONIA laéteo flore, foliis utrinque viridantibus. Amman. Ruth. 97 RE AO PHONIA flore albo fimplici. A. Nat. Curiof. v. 3. p. 355+ 8,20. ° /§ ‘ees ~ PAONIA fru@tibus tribus glabris. Gmel. Sid. 4. p. 184. PHONIA albiflora, Bot. Repof. 64. . 8. PALONIA edulis. Salifb. Parad. Lond. 78. as y- PAONIA albiflora, flore pleno. Bot. Repof. 612. © d. flore plenorubron The flowers of the Pzonra albiflora are fragrant, efpecially in the evening; the roots are faid to be eaten in foups in Siberia. ‘. i a Several varieties of this fpecies are cultivated in the gardens, differing from one another in the fize of the flowers and number, form, and colour of the petals; fome being flefh-coloured, fome pure white, fome jagged at the margin, and fome quite entire, The piftils, from which we hoped to derive more conftant chara€ters, charaéters, vary in colour, and in number from three to four. ~ In our plant, which had eight petals, both germens and ftigmas were quite white. Another variety, fent at the fame time, under the name of /afarica, had {maller flowers, calycine leaflets more fimple, and leaves lefs confluent, the four germens and ftigmas red. Ina third fpecimen, communicated by our friend, Joun Warxer, Ef. the flowers were larger; petals twelve, jagged at the edge ; germens three, greenifh red ; ftigmas flefh-coloured ; branches coloured at the point only. The double forts, of which there are white, flefh-coloured, and bright red_ varieties, all {weet-fcented, are much larger plants, and we are not certain that they are really of the fame fpecies. Our drawing was taken from a plant communicated by Mefirs. CuanpLeR and Buckxincuam, Nurferymen, at Vauxhall. Native of Siberia, beyond the lake Baical. Flowers in May and June. Introduced in 1784, by Chevalier Pautas. Propagated by cuttings of the root, Hardy, ema ” b. 4957. J i Daviesia LATIFOLIA. BROAD-LEAVED DAVIESIA. Te Re eae eee eae deck ak ale Decanprta Monocyntia,. Generic CharaZer. Cal. angulatus, ebrafteatus. Cor. papilionacea: carina vexillo brevior. Germen pedicellatum, difpermum. Sfylus ftri€tus. Stigma fimplex. Legumen compreflum, angulatum, elaftice de- hifcens, Stropbiola feminis poftice integra. Brown in Hort. Kew, = ee , Specific Character.and Synonyms. DAVIESIA Jatifolia ; ramis inermibus, foliis ellipticis ovali- bufve venofis bafi fubattenuatis, racemis axillaribus multi- floris. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 20. DAVIESIA latifolia, Bot. Repo/- 638, oes eZ Descr. A neat forub about two feet high. Branches few, ereét, long, angles obfolete when frefh, but when dry more evident. Leaves alternate, quite entire, oval, terminated with a fmall mucro, netted veined, two or three inches long, in width half as much. Flowers in axillary racemes, ufually folitary, now and then two together, with con€aye, reddifh, reflexed, perfiflent draées, longer than the pediclés. Calyx campanulate, with very fhort nearly equal bilabiately arranged : upper lip truncate. Vexzl/um orbiculate, ematginate: ale linear, nearly equal to the vexillum in length : carina very fhort, one-petaled. Filaments diftinét. Germen oblong, compreffed, with two ovula. Siyle forming a right angle with the germen: /ligma acute. The genus Davresra was firft eftablifhed by the Prefident of the Linnean Society, in the 4th volume of their Tranfaétions, in honour of the Reverend Hucu Davies, celebrated for his — knowledge of the Britifh Flora. | _ Native of Van Diemen’s Ifland, where it was detefted by Rosert Brown, Efq. and introduced to the Royal Gardens at Kew, in 1805. A hardy greenhoufe fhrub. Propagated by cuttings. ‘Thrives beft in a fandy peat foil, Communicated by Meflis, Loppiczs and Sons, iv’ 199) N° 1758 | [ 1758 J Erica HipBeRTIANA. HpsBert’s HeatHe TENE HE TEE HEE RE ER ae dea a ae tesiesete e Cla/s and Order. : oa Ocranpara Monmocrnta, Gone Charatter. Cal. 4-phyllus. Gor. perfiftens : Nib. Anthere ante anthefin per foramina 2 pte yr apes sagt 4—Blocularis, 4—8-valvis. PP Wx : ea Specific Charaiter and. Syma Il. Longiflore. F. bhabe choke Fridigiteria vel plura. Flores axillares, Bratiee due calyci Proxima, tertia remota. ERICA Hibbertiana ; germine cylindrico, corolla glabra glu- tinofa. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. Pp: 378 ERICA Hibtertia, sorts be as ‘ This is a very fine, ftout. growing Heats, which takes its name from Grorce Hissert, Efg. of Clapham-Common, once a zealous cultivator of rare plants from all quarters of the globe, efpecially from the Cape of Good-Hope, where this fpecies was difcovered by his colle€tor, Mr. James Niven, and introduced in 1800. The variety figured by Anprews has fix leaves in a whorl, and the corolla tipped with green. Flowers in the middle of fugamer. Drawn at Meffrs, Ler and Kennepy’s, [ 1759 ] DurANTA Extxisia. Prickty DurRANTA. WR Reese eae see te se se se ale ate se she Clafs and Order, DipyNAmria ANGIOSTPERMIA. ~ Generic Charaéler. Cal. 5-fidus, fuperus. Dyupa 4-fperma. Nux 2-locularis. ~ Specific Charaéfer and Synonyms. DURANTA Ellifia ; calycibus fru@tefcentibus ereAtis. Sp. Pl. 888. /Villd. 3. p. 380. Facq. Amer. 187. ¢.176. f. 77. Facq. Pié?. 92. t.179. Hort. Vindob. 3. p» 51. ¢%. 99. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 59. Swartz Os/. 247. _ ELLISIA frutefcens quandoque fpinofa, foliis ovatis utrinque acutis ad apicem ferratis, {picis alaribus. Brown Fam. 262. | = 2 jel. : “iy JASMINUM folio integro obtufo, flore czruleo racemofo, fruétu flavo. Sloane Cat. ¥am, 169. Hi. 2. p. 97. Three fpecies of Duranra are recorded in Wi1LLpENow’s edition of the Species Plantarum; but it is even doubtful whether all of them are not mere varieties of the fame, The branches in the fame fpecies are deferibed as being fometimes befet with thorns, but often not; -the leaves as fometimes quite entire, at other times fawed at the edge ; and Swarrz remarks, that the calycine laciniz of the fruit, Jacgurn’s mark of dif- tinction, are found to be both erect and twifted on the fame branch. In our plant, which agrees wi h Jac Ellifia, no fooner had the flower dropped, than the teeth of the calyx began to twift together. | ‘Two kinds, one with thorns and the other conftantly without, are however ftill cultivated in our colleGtions, and are probably the fame fpecies as defcribed by Puitre Mitxier. The leaves of the /mooth are larger and’ more coarfely ferrated and the branches more rounded than in the prickly Duranta. Native of South-America and the Weft-Indies, and treated with us as a ftove plant. Mrzier, by whom it was cultivated before the year 1739, remarks, however, that it does beft when expofed to the open air in mild weather, and fays he has pre- ferved it through the winter without artificial heat, Propagated by feeds; or by cuttings, which ftrike readily. Communicated by A. B. La MBERT, Efq. from his colle&tion at Boyton, where it was raifed from feeds received from Mexico. N* i954 9 iqbe / eS ie Y ede id [ 1760 ] MENTZELIA OLIGOSPERMA. FEW-SEEDED MENTZELIA. WER MERE EE RE EEE EE EE Cla/s and Order. Potyvanpria MonocGyNIA. Generic Charaéer. Cor. 5-petala. Cal. 5-phyllus. Cap/ infera, cylindrica, poly- {fperma. Specific Charatter and Synonym, MENTZELIA oligo/perma ; caule ramofo, pedunculis axillari- bus folitariis, petalis acuminatis, fru€tibus reflexis. MENTZELIA oligo/perma. Nutiall in Frafer's Catal. 4, iz — Descr. This plant is covered in every part, corolla ex- cepted, with ftiff hairs, armed their whole length with hooks, fo fmall as to be invifible to the naked eye. The effett of thefe is to make every part of the plant adhere to whatever comes in contaé&t with it, and its different parts to one another, when brought together by the wind or other caufe. Thefe hairs are fo tranfparent, that, when viewed through a lens, they appear as if made of glafs, and to the naked eye give the bark of the {tem and branches a filvery appearance. One of them, highly Magnified, is reprefented in the plate. Leaves alternate, ovate, unequally toothed: teeth mucronate, _ Flowers bright orange, axillary, folitary, on peduncles fhorter than the germen, which is inferior, Calycine lacime aw\-thaped, {preading. Corolla of five fpreading, oval, acuminate petals. Stamens about twelve, inferted at the bafe of the corolla. Cap- Jule cylindrical, fomewhat curved, one-celled, containing only two or three oblong angulated feeds. 7 Menrze ra oligo/perma is a perennial with a tuberous root, was found by Mr. Nurract on the borders of the Miffouri, in Upper Louifiana, growing among the rocks, and introduced by him in 1812. Communicated by our friend, A. B. Lamurry, Efq. from his ftove at Boyton. Flowers in May and June. { 1761 J METROSIDEROS SPECIOSA, SHEWY METROSIDEROS, TERT ae ese ce teak sek seals he sles ae Cla/s and Order. Icosanpria Monocyntia. Generic CharaZer. Cal. §-fidus, femifuperus. Petala 5. Stamina longiffima, exlerta, Stigma fimplex. Cap/. 3- vel 4-locularis, Specific Charaffer. METROSIDEROS /pecio/a ; foliis fparfis lanceolatis venofis glandulofo-mucronulatis, capfulis quadrilocularibus apice tomentofis, Descr. Stem fhrubby, with long flexile branches. Leaves fcattered, vertical, lanceolate, quite entire, rigid, veined, when young pubefcent, fmooth when adult, terminated with a red gland. Flowers very numerous, crowded together in a bottle- brufh form, a little below the extremity of the branch. Calyx §-toothed ; teeth obtufe, very hairy on the inner fide. Petals 5, © orbicular, green, inferted in the margin of the calyx. Stamens numerous, fifty and upwards : filaments very long, deep {carlet, diftin&t to the ‘bafe, inferted into a glandular ring furrounding the crown of the germen: anthers incumbent, oblong, finally lunular: Pollen yellow. Germen generally four-celled, now and then three-celled. Ovula very many, oblong, inferted intoa cen- tral receptacle. S¢y/e thicker than the filaments, about the fame length : Sigma capitate lobular. Capfule woody, edged with the perfiftent teeth of the calyx, and the hollow crown covered with a thick tomentum, in which the lines marking the number of cells ae vifible, This is a very fplendid flower from the rich colour of the filaments, though the quantity of yellow pollen conceals part of its brilliancy, It differs from Merrosiperos Janceolaig (citrina, (citrina, Bot. Mag.) in having longer leaves, much veined underneath, not fo fharp-pointed. In Janceolata the veins are hardly, or not at all vifible, and the leaves are covered with minute pellucid dots, and have a pungent mucro ; the capfules are three-celled. Our figure of the latter plant (vide No. 260) reprefents the flowers more diftant than they are ufually feen; in their more ordinary mode of growth, they are. crowded to- gether as in our prefent plant: in both, here and there a leaf occafionally appears from amonglt the flowers. Native of New South-Wales. Communicated laft May, by Meffis. Loppiczs and Sons, in whofe nurfery alone, out of Kew, we have as yet feen this very rare plant. It appears as if it would ripen its feed, by which, and by cuttings, it may eafily be propagated, Requires only to be proteéted from frolt. [ 1762 ] Rosa SEMPERFLORENS (y.) MINIMA. Miss LAwrence’s Rose. Clafs and Order. : IcosANDRIA PotyGyYNtIA. Generic Charaéter. Petala 5. Cal. urceolatus, 5-fidus, carnofus, collo coaréatus. Sem. plurima, hifpida, calycis interiori lateri affixa. Specific Charaéfer. ROSA /emperflorens ; fru€tibus oblongis pedunculifque hifpidis, caule, petiolifque aculeato-hifpidis, foliis fubternatis acu- leatis, Willd, Sp. Pl. 2. p. 1078. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 266. me a ROSA /emperflorens. Smith Exot. Bot. 2. p. 63. t. 91+ ROSA diverfifolia. Venten. Cel. 35. a @. ROSA /emperflorens ; caule aculeato, foliis fubternis, pedun- culis fubunifloris aculeato-hifpidis, calycis laciniis integris. Curtis's Bot. Mag. 284. ; y- frutex nana, fparfim aculeata, petalis acuminatis. Several varieties of the Rosa /emperflorens, differing in fize, colour, and fcent, have, within thefe few years, found their Way into the different colleétions about town, and have generally en reprefented as frefh importations from China ; we believe, however, that moft of them have been raifed from feed here. Every experienced cultivator knows, that the varieties to be obtained in this way are endlefs. | Our prefent fubjeét is the moft dwarfifh Rofe that has ever fallen under our notice, rarely producing any branches, fo large as Teprefented in our plate. We are inclined to confider it as a mere feminal variety, perhaps of hybrid origin; yet we cannot affert that it is not a diftin& fpecies. It is generally known among colleftors by the name of Miss Lawkence’s Rose. The plant from which our drawing was taken, was com- Municated by Mr. Hupson, of the war-office. Flowers moft a of the {pring, and has an agreeable, though not powerful cent, . M1768 [ 1763 ] BoRONIA PINNATA. HawTHORN-SCENTED BorRONIA. eee See e ss Clafs and Order. OcTanpria Monoeynia. Generic Charafer. Cal. 4-partitus. Petala 4. Anthere infra apicem filamentorum pedicellate. S¥y/us ex apice germinis breviflimus., Stigma ca- pitatum. Cap/. 4, coalite. Sem, arillata, Specific Character and Synonyms. BORONIA innata ; foliis impari-pinnatis integerrimis, pedun- culis axillaribus dichotomis, filamentis apice obtufis glan- dulofis, Smith's Traés, p. 290. Hort. Kew. ed, alt. 2. p. 349. Bot. Repo. 58. Venten. Malmaif. 38. The genus Boronia was firft eftablifhed by the Prefident of the Linnean Society, in a volume of Traéts relating to Natural Hiftory, publifhed in 1798: and dedicated to the memory of Francis Borone, a native of Milan, who, though of humble origin, had an a€tive mind, zealous in the acquirement of natural knowledge, in the purfuit of which he loft his life at an early age, by an accidental fall at Athens, during his attendance on the late Profeffor SrstHorp, after having accompanied Profeffor Arzzxius upon a botanical ex- pedition to Sierra-Leone. Linnvus has, in feveral inftances, named plants to the memory of young Botanifts, who unfor- tunately perifhed in the purfuit of knowledge ; honouring them with the title of martyrs to the fcience. Among thelfe, his worthy preceptor’ does not hefitate to reckon Borone, * whofe indefatigable zeal and fingular acutenefs,” the Prefident ob- ferves, * would foon have procured him other claims to the : honour honour of having a new genus named after him, had his pre. mature fate been poftponed.” Sir James Epwarp Smit has defcribed, in the above. mentioned work, three other fpecies of this genus, none of which appear to have been as yet introduced into this country, though one of them, the /errulata, feems to be a very ornamental plant, and is {aid to poflefs the fcent of the rofe. The Boronia pinnaia is a very elegant fhrub, which fpreads wide and grows about two feet high, being covered with a pro- fufion of fweet-fcented bloffoms during great part of the fpring and fummer, which remain long in beauty. Upon the whole, it appears to us to be one of the moft defirable plants that have been as yet introduced from New South-Wales. The honour of its introduétion is attributed to Mefirs. Lez and Kennepy, Communicated to us by Meffts, Loppices and Sons. NP 1764 [ 1764... ALLIUM SPHHROCEPHALON, . SMALL ROUND-HEADED GARLICK,. IE AEE TE EE ES dee eae eae ae Clafs and Order. Hexanpria Monocynia. : Generic Chara@ler. _ Gr. 6-partita, patens. Spatha multiflora, umbella congefta. Cap/. fupera. Specific Chara&er and Synonyms. - *** Folia caulina terelia. Unmbella capfulifera. ALLIUM /pherocephalon ; caule teretifolio umbellifero, foliis. femiteretibus, ftaminibus tricufpidatis corolla longioribus. Spec. Pl. 428. Sy. Veg. ed. Murray, p. 266. Willd. 2, p. 70. Pollich pal.1.p. 327. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 235. Allon Ft. Pedemont. ». 1873. Villars Dauph. 2. p. 255. Willich Obf. p. 16. n. 33. ALLIUM /pherocephalum. Lam. et Dec. Fl. Franc. 3. p. 228. Lam, Dif. 1. p. 66. fi ALLIUM radice gemella, foliis fiftulofis, capite {phzrico, ftaminibus alterne trifidis. Hall. Helv. n.1220: fynonymon _-vix dubium etfi a Linnzo exclufum. ALLIUM ftaminibus alterne trifidis, foliis fiftulofis, capite fuave rubente {pherico, non bulbifero, radice laterali. - Hall. All. ed. 1. po22. a. 8.—Opufeul. p.953. 2. 10. ALLIUM feu MOLY montanum quintum. Ciu/. Hi. 1. Pi 195 F129! é ALLIUM. {pherocephalum, bifolium, italicum, Baub, Hi. 2. ALLIUME. MOLY juncifolium, capite {phzrico,‘flore pur- pureo. Kudb. Elyf. 2. p. 160. cum icone. SCORODOPRASUM montanum juncifolium, capite rotundo dilute Janthino floribus: paucis. Mich. Nov. Gen. 25. 1. 2. ade 24. f 2 ? : 2 4 Fe ; SCORODOPRASUM campeftre juncifolium, capite rotundo, compaéto, floribus faturate et eleganter purpureis cum primis tribus petalis externe verrucofis. Mich, J. c. 25. . 4 ? exclufis fynonymis omnibus, “WwW e have found the fynonymy of this fpecies to be parti- Cularly puzzling, as is remarked by Havrex, who is himfelf ee very og 5 . very confufed in this refpett. ‘The difficulty arifes in part from its great affinity with de/cendeus (Bot. Mag. No. 251.) to which it mult be allowed to be too nearly allied, and of which probably it ought to rank as a variety only. Wurxticu, and latterly Hatter, both confider /pherocephalon and defcendens as the fame fpecies; and Vitiars feems inclined to this opinion. The hiftory of Hatter’s change of fentiments is not a little curious. In his monograph on Attium, he had made two fpecies of them (No. 8 and No. 9); which Linn aus, in his Flora Suecica, united. At this union, Hatier expreffes his furprize, in the fecond edition of his monograph on Autium, publifhed in his opufcula. Then Linn us, in the firft edition of his Species Plantarum, made two fpecies of them, and, as it appears that he had at that time no fpecimen of /pherocephalon in his herbarium, this was probably done in compliance with HALLER’s opinion; yet, in his Hiftoria Plantarum Helvetia, the latter author has thought fit to unite them himfelf ; remarking, that Linn#us, who was at firft right, had done wrong in fe- parating them. Finally, Linn us, in his Syftema Vegetabi- lium, orders Hatisr’s fynonym to be excluded altogether. Harter was probably induced to change his: opinion, and unite what he had_ before confidered as two diftin& {pecies into one, by the obfervations of Witticu, though he has not quoted this author. Wuxtzicu had met with Spharocephalon growing without culture in a garden, and fhewed the plant.to Haxter, who pronounced it to be No. 8 of his monograph on Allium (No. 10 in his opufcula). Removing this plant into his own garden, Wixticu obferves, that in the following year it became in every refpeét the fame as de/cendens ; Haiier’s Allium, No. 9s (No. 14 in the opufcula). This obfervation, could we be fure there was no error, which, however, might eafily happen in a genus fo imperfeétly underftood, would be decifive. But we are {till inclined to believe, that the greater length of the ftamens in /pherocephalon may keep them diftin@. Lamarck and Decanpboutrsz, in their Flore Francoife, make de/éendens a variety of our plant; as the former had before done in the Encyclopedie Methodique. | . Native of Italy, South of France, and Switzerland. Culti- vated by Mruier, in 1759, Flowers in July. Communicated by Mr, Hawortu. 1076 N14 7 65 { 1765 ] CRASSULA CENTAUROIDES. CENTAURY- FLOWERED CRASSULA. a Clafs and Order. PeENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Generic Chara&er. Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Squame 5 neCtarifere ad bafin ger- minis. Cap/. 5. * Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. CRASSULA centauroides ; caule herbaceo dichotomo, foliis fef- filibus oblongo-ovatis cordatis planis, pedunculis axillaribus unifloris. Hort. Kew. 1. p. 392.—ed. alt. 2. p. 194. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. 1555. Haworth Succul. 57. CRASSULA centauroides; caule herbaceo dichotomo, foliis - cordatis feffilibus, pedunculis unifloris. Sp. Pl. 404. Amen. Acad, 6. p. 85. (caule brachiato. Mantiff2 361.) Sy/i. Veg. ed. 14. p. 305. Reich. Sp. Pl. 1. 772. SEDOIDES africana annua centauroides. Herm. Parad. 169. Descr. Root annual or biennial. Stems proftrate, {mooth, of a pale red colour, pellucid on the furface, opake at the centre, branched : Jower branches going off at right angles, or brachiate : upper ones dichotomous. Leaves oppofite, ovate, flat, ftem-embracing, margin red, fomewhat denticulate, from a row of excavated dots on the under fide. Peduncles axillary, folitary, one-flowered, ere& at firft, but refle€&ted after the flowering is over. Calyx perfiftent, five-cleft: /egments acute. Corolla five-petalled, when firft expanded not unlike that of the leffer Centaury: pefals ovate-acuminate, bright crimfon at the point fhaded off to white at the bafe. Filaments green, inferted into the receptacle below the germen, not into the claws of the petals, with which they alternate. Anibers yellow. | Germens -Germens five, cohering: ffyles divaricate. No ne@ariferous {cales were obfervable. There is confiderable affinity between this {pecies and pellucida, and it is not improbable that they have been fometimes con- founded. But in the latter plant, as defcribed and figured by Dittenius, the leaves are much thicker, colle&ed into rofules, and do not ftand in diftant pairs, as in this. That our plant is the Crassuxa centauroides of the Hortus Kewenfis we are fure, having compared it with a {pecimen pre- ferved in {pirits of wine in’ the Bankfian Mufeum. We know of no figure exifting of this {pecies which, from the brilliancy and long duration of its flowers, fo well deferves a place in every collection of fucculent plants. It is confidered as an inhabitant of the dry ftove, but will do very well in the -greenhoufe, or even in the window of a light apartment. Native of the Cape of Good-Hope. Propagated by feeds, which, in favourable feafons, are freely produced. Flowers from May to July. Communicated by Meffrs, Loppicers and Sons. Nijt uy Sells bs | LaSIOPETALUM FERRUGINEUM. Rusty LasloreTALUM. 5, 5, 5, OR ASE A AR A SE ae ak ak a ae sh a ake ak ae Clafs and Order. PENTANDRIA MonocynlA. Generic Charaéfer. Cal, rotatus, 5-fidus. Stamina bafi fquama munita. Axthere apice poris duobus. Cap/. fupera 3-locularis, g-valvis: valvis medio feptiferis. Specific Character and Synonyms. LASIOPETALUM ferrugineum ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis ob- tufis finuatis integerrimifve. LASIOPETALUM (ferrugineum ; foliis linearibus integerrimis, Hort. Kew. ed. alt, 2. p. 36. LASIOPETALUM jerruginewm. — Bot. Repof. 208. Fenten, Malmaif. 59. : Descr. A low forud with fpreading Lranches, when young Covered with a rufty tomentum. Leaves alternate, on fhort petioles, reflexed, linear-lanceolate with a cordate bafe, more or lefs and unequally finuate, fmooth on the upper furface, and clothed, on the under, with a thick whitifh tomentum, inter- fperfed ‘with minutely fafciculated rufty hairs. The petioles, pedicles, and outer fide of the calyx are hifpid, with a fimilar pubefcence. The /ipules, which form a remarkable charaéter in moft of the fpecies, appear to be entirely wanting ‘in this. Calyx perfiftent, petal-like, greenifh within, fupported by a braéfe of three fubulate incurved leaves. By fome botanifts this part is confidered as the calyx, and what we have fo termed, as the corolla; whence the name of Lasroreratum, or WOOLLY-pETAL. NeéZaries 5, {cale-like, revolute, one at the bafe of each very fhort filament. Anthers large, of a deep sy | orange orange or bay colour; pores at the apex very fmall: pollen white. Germen woolly, three-grooved, obtufely three-cornered, three-celled: /yle fhort ; /zigma fimple, marcefcent. A hardy greenhoufe fhrub. Native of New South-Wales. Introduced in 1791, by Meffrs. Lez and Kennepy. Flowers moft part of the fummer. Propagated by cuttings. Thrives beft in a fandy peat foil, Communicated by Meffrs. Loppices and Sons. Vi 707 Lage BuURSARIA SPINOSA. THORNY BURSARIA. Te EE TEE eae eae a ae ae ak ase ak tea Clafs and Order. PENTANDRIA MonoGyYNIA, Generic Charaéfer. Petala 5, receptaculo inferta. Capf compreffa, 2-partibilis, 1-locularis, 2-fperma. ~ Specific Nume and Synonyms. BURSARIA /pinofa. Cavan. ic. 4. p. 30. t. 350 Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 36. ITEA /pinofa. Bot. Repof. 314. This pretty flowering fhrub, well defcribed by the late Profeffor CAVANILLES, is, in feveral refpeéts, nearly allied to Irea; but differs from that genus in having its petals and ftamens inferted into the receptacle below the germen, and a flattened obcordate capfule, which, when ripe, feparates into two parts, each of which is one-celled, two-valved, and con- tains two feeds. ee It takes its name from the form of the capfule, which fome- what refembles that of the Shepherd’s Purfe. A hardy greenhoufe fhrub. Native of New South-Wales. Flowers from Auguft to December. _ Propagated by cuttings. Loves a fandy peat foil with a flight admixture of loam. Introduced in 1793, by the Marchionefs of Rock1ncHan. Communicated by Meffrs. Loppices and Sons. In the Bankfian Herbarium, we find fpecimens from Van Diemen’s Ifland and Port Dalrymple, which have larger leaves and fruit, and one of them is without fpines, [ 1768 ] PAONIA EDULIS, var. SINENSIS. CHINESE EATABLE PEONY. SESE TE ERE ETE ET IR ea See Clafs and Order. PoLYANDRIA Dicynra. Generic Charaéier. Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Stylio. Cap/. 2—12, poly{perme. A} ‘pecific Charaéter and Synonym. PAONIA edulis ; foliis biternatis : foliolis ovato-lanceolatis integris bafi confluentibus nudis, capfulis recurvatis glabris. PAONIA albiflora. Bot. Mag. 2. 1756, cum fynonymis? The inconvenience of giving names to plants from the colour of the flowers, or other circumftances liable to vary, has often been pointed out ; and in this inftance the name of albiflora is fo perfe€tly abfurd, that we have felt a neceflity of avoiding it. We have therefore adopted that of edulis from Mr. SAuisBuRY, which we ought perhaps to have done fooner; but we were willing to deviate, as little as poffible, from the nomenclature ufed in the Hortus Kewenfis. In the prefent inftance, we the more readily depart from that authority, becaufe we cannot but entertain confiderable doubt, whether the Chinefe plants are really varieties of the Siberian. ee At firft appearance our plant may appear to be one of the varieties of Pxonra Moutan, but the herbaceous ftem, the fmaller number of capfules, tuberous roots, and different foliage, keep it altogether diftin& from that {pecies. Several varieties of this fpecies have been of late introduced from China, of which this with large crimfon bloffoms, ap- proaching to fcarlet, is the moft beautiful. All of them are more or lefs fweet-fcented. Our drawing was made from a fpecimen communicated by Sir Asranam HuME, from his very interefting colle&tion, at Wormley-Bury, Herts. This gentleman imported it from Canton, | [ 1769 J , IPOMGA SANGUINEA. . BLOOD-FLOWERED IPOMG@A. eR ee ete ek dei ek ee ee Clafs and Order. PenTANDRIA Monocynia. Generic Charaer. Cal. 5-partitus, nudus. Cor. campanulata v. infundibuliformis, 5-plicata. Germen 2—3-loculare, loculis difpermis. Sty/us indi- vifus. Stigma capitatum, 2—3-lobum. Cap/. 2—3-locularis. Brown. . Specific Charatter and Synonyms. IPOMCEA /anguinea ; corolle infundibuliformis tubo clavato : limbo involuto, ftaminibus declinatis, foliis haftato-trilobis : _ Jobis lateralibus poftice finuatis. IPOMCEA /anguinea ; pedunculis fuperne cymofo-trichotomis, folia cordato-triloba v. haftata fuperantibus; limbo oblato- ventricofo ; ftaminibus afcendentibus, longe exfertis. Ker in Bot..Regifi. 9. IPOMGSA /anguinea ; foliis cordatis trilobis, lobis Jateralibus pottice angulato-fublobatis, pedunculis trifloris, calycibus glabris. Vabl Symb. 3. p. 93. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 885. An omamental evergreen twining fhrub. Native of the Weft-Indies, and confequently with us an inhabitant of the ftove, where it will extend to a great length, producing abun- dance of fine fcarlet bloffoms, inclining to orange ; which are fingular in having their borders always rolled inwards, being, as far as we have obferved, at no time expanded. Vaut defcribed this fpecies from dried fpecimens fent from the Danifh ifland of Sainte Croix. He dire€ts it to be inferted in the fyftem between famnifolia and Pes tigridis ; but as both thefe fpecies have aggregate flowers, it cannot properly be in- es f cluded cluded in the fame divifion with them. We fhould place it imi- mediately after coccinea, to which it feems tous to be neareft allied, — It is not mentioned in the Hortus Kewenfis, nor does it appear that it has ever been feen in this country, before it was raifed by Madame la Comteffe de Vannes, in her garden at Bayes-Water, from feeds communicated by R. A. SatispuRy, Efq. who received them from the Weft-Indies. It bears flowers early in the fpring, which continue in fucceffion till the middle of fummer. It has not yet produced feeds, but we are informed by the gardener, that it is eafily propagated by cuttings, which ftrike freely. Our drawing was taken at the above-mentioned colleétion, near the end of June 1814, b% 1970 «} CrestTRUM Pargurt WILLOW-LEAVED CESTRUM. Clafs and Order. PEnTANDRIA Monocynta. Generic Charafler. Cor. infundibuliformis. Stamina denticulo in. medio, Bacca 1-locularis, polyfperma. Specific Character and Synonyms, CESTRUM Parqui; foliis lanceolatis, pedunculis inferioribus trifloris folio dimidio brevioribus, corollz laciniis lateraliter revolutis, CESTRUM Pargqui ; filamentis denticulatis nudifve, caule flo- rifero paniculato, ftipulis linearibus. L’Heriier Stirp. Nov. 1. p- 73. 4.36. Willd. Sp. Pl.1. 1055. Willd. Arb. 60. Enum, Hort. Berl. 1. p. 213. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 2. Mart. Mill. Did. a. 7. | | PARQUI. Feuill. Peruv. 3. p. 52. t. 32. f. 1. _ The fpecies of Cestrum have been hitherto very indifferently _ chara€terized ; in fa&t, a great addition having been made to the genus by Jacquin in his Hortus Schoenbrunnenfis, it was not — to be expeéted that charaéters framed only for a few {pecies, although they might ferve to diftinguifh fuch as were then known from one another, fhould apply to thofe fince difcovered. The tooth-like appendage to the filaments is, in this fpecies at leaft, too inconftant a charaéter to be ufeful. The laciniz of the corolla in our plant are obtufe; but as, foon after expanding, the fides are rolled back, efpecially towards the point, they appear in that ftate more acute than they really are. In Cestrum fajfligiatum, figured at No. 1729, the laciniz are rolled back from the apex towards the poe pe day which gives the flower a very different appearance. This charaéter appears to be conftant, and occurs alfo in divrnum, Cestrum Parqut is a native of Chili, in South-America, will live in the open air and produce flowers, and, in fome feafons, ripens its fruit; but in this fituation it is always killed down to the ground in the winter; and, if the weather prove fevere, the roots will perifh alfo. Jacquin’s C. fetidifimum is very like our plant, but has much broader leaves in proportion to their length, and grows to a fhrub feveral feet in height. Our plant, when bruifed, like- wife emits a naufeous fmell; and perhaps the only difference may arife from the other being kept conftantly in the ftove. Native of the mountains of Chili, where it was firft dif- covered by Father Fruit er, in 32° fouth latitude. Neither his figure nor defcription are fufficiently accurate to determine the identity of our plant with his; but fpecimens gathered at Valparaifo in the fame country, by Mr. AncurBatp MENZIES, and preferved in the Bankfian Herbarium, in every refpeét agree with our’s. Our drawing was taken early in June, fome years fince, in the garden of Lord Hottanp, at Kenfington. Propagated by cuttings or by feeds, Introduced in 1787, by Monf, Wiiiiams. | 5.) Saeed aes : 7 Hey ~ : as ¥ E — - INDEX. In which the Latin Names of the Plantscontained in the Forty-Second Volume are alphabetically arranged. Pi, 1745 Acacia decipiens, | 1750 difcolor. 1730 Ageratum celeftinum. 1764 Allium fphzrocephalum. 1749 Arnica montana. 1733 Beaufortia decuffata, 1763 Boronia pinnata, : 1732 Bromelia pyramidalis. 1767 Burfaria f{pinofa. 1734 Calea lobata, 1735 Cardamine afarifolia. 1752 Centaurea Rhapontica. 1729 Ceftrum faftigiatum 1770 ~ Parqui. 1746 Corrza fpeciofa. 1765 Craffula centauroides, 2726 Crategus indica. 1751 Cymbidium enfifolium, 1757 Daviefia latifolia. 1739 Dianthus leptopetalus, 1740 — virgineus, 1759 Duranta Ellifia. 1737 Elzocarpus cyaneus, 1758 Erica Hibbertiana. 1747 Euphorbia variegata. 1744 Halleria lucida. 1748 Gomefa recurva. 1738 Heynea trijuga. 1731 Jafminum revolutum, 1769 Ipomoea fanguinea, 1766 Lafiopetalum ferrugineum, purpureum. 1753 Lonicerafempervirens(@.) minor. 1760 Mentzelia oligofperma, 1755 1761 Metrofideros {peciofa, 1756 Pzonia albiflora, 1754 anomala, 1768 1727 Pforalea aphylla. 1743 Palmonaria Davurica, — 1762 Rofa femperflorens, eo 1728 Salvia azurea, 1742 Sefeli divaricatum. 1741 Zamia pygmea. 3736 Zanthoriza apiifolia. edulis var. finenfis. PROD DFDHDLOFEOHOPOL OF OFOHDE SHO FOF DESH OTOLSISISFOFOFOHSHOHOHOHO 9 YoduN GD Bok, * 9 In which the Englifh Names of the Plantscontained in the Forty-Second 4 Volume are alphabetically arranged, Pi. 1745 Acacia, paradoxical. 1750 two-coloured-leaved, 1730 Ageratum, blue-flowered, 1749 Arnica, mountain. 1733 Beaufortia, fplendid. 1763 Boronia, hawthorn-fcented. 1732 Bromelia, pyramidal-flowered. 1767 Burfaria, downy: 1734 Calea, yellow-flowered, or Halberd.weed. 1752 Centaury, Swifs. 1729 Ceftrum, Honeyfuckle, 1770 ————— willow:leaved. 1746 Correa, red:flowered. 1765 Craffula, centaury-flowered, 1751 Cymbidium, fword-leayed. 1757 Daviefia, broad-leaved. 1759 Duranta, prickly. 1737 Elzocarpus, blue-fruited. 1744 Fly-Honeyfuckle, African, 1764 Garlick, round-headed. 1748 Gomefa, recurved. 1734 Halberd-weed, wide Calea, 1726 Hawthorn, Indian, 1758 Heath, Hibbert’s. 1738 Heynea, walnut-like. 1753 Honeyfuckle, Carolina trampet. 1731 Jafmine, revolute-flowered. 1769 Ipomoea, bloody-flowered, __ 1735 Ladies-{mock, kidney-leaved. 1755 Lafiopetalum, purple-flowered. 1766 rufty. 1749 Leopard’s-bane, wide Arnica. 1743 Lungwort, Daurian. 1760 Mentzelia, few-feeded. 1761 Metrofideros, fhewy. 1768 Peony, pe mrp eoeicg, 1 ae ~itavi ° 43 Ls cig ae 1739 Pink, narrow-petalled. 1740 —— Mie 1760 Rofe, Mifs Lawrence’s, 1728 Sage, azure-flowered. 1740 Sefeli, fhining-leaved. 1747 Spurge, pye-bald. 1741 Zamia, leaft. 1736 Yellow-root, or Zanthoriza, parfley-leaved. 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