CURTIS’S Botanical Magazine; OR, LOWER-GARDEN DISPLAYED: IN WHICH The most Ornamental Forrien Priants, cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented in their natural Colours. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, Their Names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according to the celebrated Linnazus; their Places of Growth, and Times of ‘Wieweting; : Together with the most approved Methods of Cutturer. A WORK Intended for the Use of such Lapres, GentLeMrn, and Garpeners, as wish to become scientifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate. By JOHN SIMS, M.D. Fettow oF Tue Roya AND Linnean Societies. — VOL. Lil. El _ Being the Eleventh of the sheet Series. The Frowers, which grace their native beds, — Awhile put forth their blushing heads, But, e’er the close of parting day, They wither, shrink, and die away: e But THEsE, which mimic skill hath made, Nor scorched by suns, nor killed by shade, Shall blush with less inconstant hue, Which arr at pleasure can renew. Lioyp. : London: gee Printed by Epwarp Covcuman, Throgmosiaaibtreet Published by SHER Woop, Gitzert, & Co. 20, T ahcenoster- Row, _ And Sold by the principal Booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland. M DCCC XXVI. ; : = am NV 2607 $ 8 ud. by lGurics Walworth, Foy, 1825. Dal WRerbart ( 2607 ) Z.EPHYRANTHES CANDIDA. PERUVIAN ZEPHYRANTHES, Class and Order. -‘Hexanpria Monoeynia. Generic Character.—Vide supra No. 2537. Specific Character and Synonym. ZEPHYRANTHES candida; foliis linearibus, crassis, glaberri- mis, canaliculatis, dorso rotnndatis, obtusis, viridibus, scapo plus duplo longioribus : scapo quadrunciali, de- clinato, viridi, unifloro ; spatha purpurascente, pedun- culo longiore, uno latere dehiscente, basi tubulosé ; corolla sub sole patentissim&; tubo ;-unciali, viridi; laciniis uncialibus, albis, basi viridi, gbka minutissimo aculeiformi prope basin munitis; filamentis erectis, distantibus, pallidé virescentibus, prope basin sinuosé flexis ; antheris 4-uncialibus, aureis, suberectis, con- niventibus ; stylo declinato, albo, stigmate trilobo lo- bis erectis ; seminibus planis, fuscis. Amaryiuis candida. Bot. Reg. als Ras, A: ee Our specimen flowered in a pot, out of doors, at Spofforth, in July, having passed the winter in the greenhouse. The plant is very hardy, and, planted out in front of the stove, preserved its foliage in the most healthy state through the winter, and flowered the first week in August. We received this species from Peru and Buenos Ayres, and also from the Hort. Soc. who imported it from Lima. It increases fast by offsets, and its erect leaves look like a bunch of rushes. he scape <—— towards the sun. Near the foot of each petal, above the point where the filament is inserted, is a minute spur-like excrescence. We had an opportunity of comparing its flower immediately with that of dtameprty | acai a and have no doubt of their-belonging to the same genus. — The anthers of Atamasco are attached at the same point a juite_as erect, though shorter.and Jess conspicuous, \'The Postale bf the iene aN laments in candida oo with that of the other species ; the lobes ofthe stigma are thicker and more erect, but the difference is scarcely so great as be- tween the stigmas, of AbErpaerbun, ieee. and equestre. The seeds are not fleshy as conjectured in the Botanical Register, but shelly and black like those of the whole ge- nus. In the shortness of the tube and the ronnded curve of the lowest part of the filaments it accords with tubispatha. The corolla of all-the speciés is disposed to expand in the sun; that of candida contracts again quickly in the shade. An attempt to impregnate: Z. Atamasco by the pollen of — an Habranthus was unsuccessful. i Since this article was prepared, Z. candida has ripened. : seed at Spofforth, out of doors, very similar to that of Z. — rosea, 6 uibe Pinvaper and of..a.more. glossy black than — those imported from Buenos Ayres, which did not vegetate. The flowers continued rising in suecession, out of doors, — throughout August, September, and the beginning of Octo- § ber.” On close inspection, a slight beard is observable in eee bi Z.. carinata, just: above the point where the filaments are “or ; + ow aga Eee oP 3 ti. = si ~@ Represents a petal with the ‘filament inserted ‘with; a bend! at7its base. b b two views of the filament and anther. .¢ the stigma and part-of the style. d the outline ofthe flower, the-spathe being pulled back to. shew the germen,/ and the scape straightened as if tied to a stick to shew that the flower declines’ from it as in the other species ; the seape assumed this posture at a later pe- riod. ¢ one of its seeds which accompanied the bulbs from Buenos Ayre" te steps i ' . en ig fo. et 2h ove Dacre, » eee ETE $5542 chat hg oote SE eet 2 amg +s ahs try. he ot oak} we oe 2; - +‘ hts BSet ci * a F oe | e 4 ik ii ; (33 . Tye +3 . t : m3 - ch bes : ss c ; as = S33 e4 f3i ’ . * ; : *y : Ree. A% at a rq 4 : r¢ hae S/ Sf = : i d : re Se 7625 as ae — *% ~ ae wie ag ts 5 sy C eX te Be 4 +S Shee CEeeh Te OA ‘itis hj , a a i Se ae : * Ree od = eS oe ae ee, ee eS a ei I 2608. B Asb.by, LS burtic, Walworth: Woul92s, ( 2608 ) GiapioLus Axatus 8. "WINGED CORNFLAG, Aucoa Bay VARIETY. Class and Order. TrianpriA Monoeynia. Generic Character.—Vide No. 569. Specific Character and Synonyms.—Vide supra 586. Guapiotvs alatus ; foliis duris, rigidis, densé costatis; scapo- spathis decurrentibus alato; corollz lacinia suprema concava apice interdum reflexo, lateralibus superiori- bus latissimis rhombeo-ovatis reflexis, inferioribus angustis glandulosis spatulatis porrectis, ima reflexa. («.) supra 586 ; lacinid supremé reflexd. (8.) Algoensis ; lacinié supremé concavé. (y.) minor. | (2.) Namaquensis. supra 592. W. H. The variety of the beautiful Graprioxus alatus, which forms the subject of this article, flowered at Spofforth, in July, having hei imported by Mr. Tare, of the Sloane Street Nursery, from Algoa Bay in S. Africa. G. alatus and namaquensis were separated on account of the former hav- ing the point of the upper petal reflex, while namaquensis has it concave, and the leaf margined with red. Our plant has the foliage of alatus, and the concave upper petal of namaquensis, by which the specific distinction appears to be removed. Each of the lower lateral petals is furnished with a long gland at the base ; these are visible in the figure of var. «, though not mentioned in the description, but we do not perceive them in the figure of namaquensis. G. alatus has seldom been seen in flower in this country. It was suggested above, p. 586, that it probably required more heat than the other species; we apprehend on the con- trary, that it requires free air, and to be shaded from scorch- _ . ing suns; being planted in sandy yellow earth, without peat. Many of the Ensate are destroyed by peat, which cankers and rots the bulbs. W.H. ont & NV 2609. W Harker t Del Pech by S Garter Walworth, Vou 1G ( 2609 ) Convotvutus Danuricus. Daurian . BINDWEED. Class and Order. © PentanpriA Monoeynia. Generic Character.—Vide supra 2151. Specific Character. Convo.vutus dahuricus, radice sarmentos4; caule volubili, tomentoso, herbaceo; foliis oblongo-cordatis, glabris, margine et nervis subtus tomentosis ; pedunculis ax- illaribus, unifloris, tomentosis, margine repando ; brac- teis binis laté ovatis; calycis foliolis lanceolatis, acutis, duobus exterioribus latioribus ; corolla roseo - pur- purea ; stylo filamentis longiore. Catysteci# species. R. Brown. W.H. Our specimen flowered in July, at Spofforth, where it was sent two or three years ago, by Mr. Coorrr, botanic gar- dener to Lorp Mitron, who raised it from seed, received, we believe, from Dr. Fiscuer. ‘To Mr. ‘Coorer, who isa most zealous and intelligent cultivator, we were indebted also for the introduction of Ipomeea Platensis, of which he gathered the seed on the banks of the Plata, where, though a twiner, it acquired, by intertwisting itself, the form and appearance of a bush, in a country where not a tree or a bush was to be seen. C. dahuricus belongs to the same division of the genus as C. sepium, having besides the five segments of the calyx, two broad calyx-like bractes, which cover the calyx. It differs from C. sepium in having the bractes proportionately broader and less acuminate, a smaller rose-coloured flower, downy stalk, petioles, and pe- duncles, the leaves downy on the margin and on the nerves. underneath, more oblong, not so taper at the point, nor so broad and auriculate at the shoulder. : s It is a hardy perennial plant, flowering in July, with creeping fleshy roots. These troublesome species may be ornamentally cultivated in small plots insulated in the turf, under which their roots will not spread. W.H. | Witerberi. Del . Bul by S bert; Walworth Wovia25. Watieioc ( 2610 ) WACHENDORFIA PANICULATA. 6. PANICLED WAcHENDORFIA, NAPLES YELLOW VARIETY. KEKKKEK KK EKEEREKEEEK Class and Order. Trianpria Monoeynta. Generic Character.—Vide supra 614. Specific Character and Synonyms.—Vide supra 616. Wacuenporria paniculata. (a.) flore aureo, supra 616. (G.) flore pallidé luteo. - The plant, from which our sketch was taken, flowered at Spofforth, in July, having been sent from the Cape of Good Hope, under the name of Wacuenvorria brevifolia. It accords, however, with paniculata in having smooth foliage, a downy flower-stem, and the laterals hed to the upper petal, differing from our plant No. 616, in the paler colour of the leaves and corolla. The two varieties of paniculata, and W. brevifolia supra p. 1166, flower v freely planted in peat; a narrow-leavyed variety of W. hirsuta, which we received some yearsagofrom W.Grirrin, — Esq. also flowers constantly, but we have had the old va- riety of W. hirsuta as well as W. graminea (of which last — the leaves are thick, hard, and not plicate, and the root not bulbous) fifteen years without obtaining a flower from either. W. thyrsiflora, of which the root is not bulbous, flowers rarely with us. In all the species the fibres” orange-coloured, on which account some pers: sons have lanted them in glass pots. We have another Wachendorfia om Algoa Bay, with hairy leaves, imported by Mr. Tare, of the Sloane Street Nursery, which has lately flowered at Spofforth, appearing to be a variety of brevifolia. W. H. N21. Chel ME. Cartic, Net f Prbuby 5 Lortis Walworth, Wev.28 29. Weddell Se. i : R6his CoH ULA PUNCTATA. DoTTED-FLOWERED oe CorNUTIA. Class and Order. DipyNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Generic Character. al. 4-dentatus. Corolla subringens. - Stam A, quorum duo sterilia. Drupa nuce 4-loculari. * ig Specific Character and Synonyms. Cornutia punctata; corymbis axillaribus trichotomis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p.322. _ Mise Cornutia punctata ; foliis ovatis subdentatis utrinque at- tenuatis glabriusculis, corymbis axillaribus trifidis. _.. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 1. p. 39.— ee ah ae pyramidata. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 45. non Hosta coerulea, Jacq. Hort. Schenb. 1. p. 60. t. 114. Poirét Encycl. Bot. Suppl. 3. p.60. | | Hosrana coerulea. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 143. - Sa Descr. Stem shrubby, erect, branched : branches square, with sharp, winged angles. Leaves opposite crosswise, ovate-acuminate, sinuate-dentate, soft-villous on the upper side, tomentose and netted-veined on the under. Flowers in axillary, trichotomous corymbs, blue. Pedicels very short. Calyx inferior, minute, obsoletely 4-toothed, pu- bescent. Corolla subbilabiate, pubescent : tube four times longer than calyx, incurved : limb irregular, 4-lobed: upper and lateral lobe entire, lower lobe largest, emarginate, with a round yellow spot at the base, but the dots on its sur- face are not seen unless magnified, and are white glands at the base of the hairs. Stamens four, equal, within | the * the tube, two of them barren: Anthers dark blue, just appearing at the edge of the faux. Germen globular. exsi , simple. ( Stigma:two-lobed. . The.two up- per divisions of the flowering stem, grew likewise from the axils of the leaves, which, having fallen off, are not repre- sented in the figure. Botanists seem to have! been’ very’ undecided whether Jacquin’s Hostashould be separated from Cornurta or not. We have adopted the negative opinion, although undoubt- edly, if full confidence could be given to the figures of the genus CornuTiA in PLumisr, it would not be possible to re- concile Hosta with it; but it is doubtful whether this author has described the fruit justly, and as to the bipartite style, there appears to be noauthority whatever, being only a from the figure (not the description) in PLumrer’s Genera, which may very likely have represented the barren filaments, mistaken by Burmann for a divided style. In the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis Jacguin’s plant is added to Cornutia pyramdata, but we must agree with WiLLpENow in considering them as distinct species. There being only two fertile stamens, Sprencen, in his new Systema Vegetabilium, places Cornuria in the class Diandria, but as it belongs to the natural order of Viticee, — we should be very unwilling to remoye it so far from its _ very nearly allied genus the Lanrana.. ., Native of the West Indies and tropical America. Cul- -tivated in the stove. Communicated y Messrs. Wait ey, — Brame, and Minne, of the Fulham Nursery, £ eg te ey . “se LE, aE Ate te NE mR hs cts een a ae ik SEP we Se Se eS = : ¢ Peeve hie sottetere 4Dfsis S5ty et (2612 -)~ Norracra ‘DIGITATA. Dierrate-ueaven Norrarnra. 4 : Jobe OH SEE eee Class and Order. Mowapezeuta Pouvanprra. if : Generic . Character. 7, Calyx simplex, 5-fidus. Capsule plurime, monosperma in verticillum aggregate. tae oh Specific Character and Synonym. Nurvra.ia digitata; foliis E Séoribus digitatis subpeltatis, laciniis linearibus subdivisis glabriusculis ; : -superiori- bus tripartitis simplicibusque. Nuttall in ti Flor. Americ. 2. p. (4. t. 62. . & CaLuirHok digitata. Nuttall Mss. sore i jf oa Descr. Root tuberous bsnl spe rennial. Stem erect, rounded, glaucous, three or four feet high, corymbosely divided ‘at Eig Peduncles very long, frequently growing two together, one-flowered, L wye~ a little below the base of he dis Calyx five-cleft, seg- ments lanceolate three-nerved. Corolla five-petaled : petals united at the base, patent, wedge-shaped, truncate and— crenate at the point, of adeep crimson colour. Stamens very many in a compact oval column: anthers globular, white. Styles about twelve, filiform, long after the expansion of the flower entirely concealed by the stamens. Germens about twelve, collected in a whorl round a ———- tacle. Ripe seeds not seen. ) i This plant, which appears to be ane ew genus of the natural order of Malvacee, haying the calyx of a Siva and the fruit of a Maxva, was discovered by Professor Nurratt, in the Arkansa territory, me — 2 aga from his si manuscript, | manuscript, in Barron’s Flora, where the name of Nut- TALLIA Was given to it in honour of its discoverer, one of the most learned botanists in America, to whose researches we are indebted for the knowledge of many of the rare vegeta- ble productions of North America. here is said to be another species of this genus in the Botanic Garden at Philadelphia. — | This fine hardy perennial was communicated by Rozerr Barciay, Esq. of Bury-Hill, in whose collection it was raised from seeds received from Mr. Nurratt. onetemmneentinstinn ccomeeinemnieien ail ——— cra Fig. 1. represents the pistillum with the surrounding parts removed. Fig. 2. the staminiferous column ; both somewhat magnified. The thread-like processes, in fig. 2. of which too many are represented, may perhaps be only elongated filaments, not stigmas, W263. Thvrbec Dal Buby. £ Govtis Walworth Moy 1925. Wek: eRe sind sith. sens | Navenna: Avra. Mirwrenidikkvenie vO .. Nauciea. Sra bbbbbiiiiiebibk Class and Order. PENTANDRIA Welescyaa. Generic Character. Cor. infundibuliformis. Caps. infera, bilocularis, pol : sperma. Recept —— globosum, pilosum. ! , <- wr * : aS Specific. \Chhbtor and Synonyms. — ‘9 Z e = Navuciea Adina; caule_ fruticoso Sicko. foliis oblongo- ellipticis, obtuse acuminatis, stipulis | acutis bifidis, Loge pedunculis solitariis axillaribus. it ha — Adina. Smith in Rees Cyclop. in leeaip Bot. Re: 95 Apina elobiflora. Perad tend 115. Sw et Hort. Suburb. die p. 23. ubi male globulariis associatur. eee Bide ee Dustn An upri shrub, wit opposite, on short petioles, s nc late, acuminate with an obtuse point, quite entire, with oblique, nearly varaltel veins stro if marked, on the under side. Stipules between the leaves, ‘generally deeply divided into two acute segments. Peduncles solitary, at _ first terminal, but by the shooting out of a young branch from the same part becoming afterwards wriliee Capitu- lum perfectly le bular, consisting of very numerous flowers _ eollected iseetiier. Calyx superior, 5-cleft : | linear, thickened at the point, g eens tube longer than the calyx ; lind ‘ contained within the tube. Germen oval, very ‘ual, ‘infe- rior: Style twice the length of the corolla: stigma nearly 3 — globular, transparent at th va shinir ing, Bee tince. Navcres — | Nauciea Adina belongs to the natural order of Rubiacee, and is very nearly allied to CepHaLantuus. Native of China, and is said to have sprung up sponta- neously, in mould imported from China, in the garden of thelate Right Honourable Cwarxes Grevitte, at Paddington. Our drawing was taken at the Apothecaries Botanic Gar- den at Chelsea, where we are assured by Mr. Anperson that it was raised from seeds imported from Mexico. Nei. = Tlvrbs. Del. Pub. by £ Ciartir Wabwarth Non d225, “(2614 Ory, ee Hise | Pere ENTIAL: / Gow 3 , p Amanantn. ~°GoMPHRENA PER rm fe PHRENA, or Gi L ge ‘7; ion: # ee Class and Didar: Clisnneel Mownoeynia. Generic Character. Perianthium 5-partitum.. Stam. 5, connata in tubulum subcylindraceum, ovario longiorem, apivibus distinctis, cum vel absque dentibus in ter jectis. Anthere uniloculares. Stylus 1. Stigmata 2. Utriculus monospermus, evalvis. Brown. aaah ke 7 on j at a Specific Character and Synonyms. GoMmPHRENA perennis ; caulibus ascendentibus nodosis foliis ovato-oblongis, deorsum angustatis, capitulis di-tri- phyllis termmalibus verticillatisque. Gompurena perennis; foliis lanceolatis, oo 455 rota a 2 roprio distinctis. — Lin. . p- 1321. Pe 2 Syn. 1. ® | ~ ase Syst. Veg. 5. p. a e, fl straminei: atis. Dill. Descr. Stems weak, rounded, hairy, with adpressed hairs pointing upwards, swelled and coloured red at the | joints. Leaves opposite, oblong-oval, gradually narrowed downward. Capitula of flowers terminal, and sometimes verticillate, with an involucrum, which, in our * plant, con- sisted of three, sessile, oval, muc C and ciliate leaflets. Calyx flesh-coloured, three cleft, with tk hree e unequi ral bractes_ closely embracing the base. Stamuniferous tube orange- _ coloured, very little —— than the calyx, five clef — a2 ee a eee, eS od nie revolute and divided at the point. Anthers oblong, one-celled, attached to the laciniz opposite the divisions of their points, Germen‘globular: style very short... Stigmas two, long, erect. Although our description does not entirely correspond with that of Ditientus, yet comparing our plant with his figure, we can hardly doubt of its belonging to the same Communicated by our lamented friend, the late Joun Watker, Esq. in July, 1823.. Having been raised from seeds collected in Brazil, and sent to us by Mr. Frepsricx Sexo, who has resided several years in that country, where he has been most industrious in collecting subjects of Natural History. : = oa cd _ . Fi 4 : = The outline figures represent, 1. One of the florets magnified, shewing the bractes, calyx, and staminiferous tube, 2. The staminiferous tube laid open to shew the Pistillum and Anthers. : a od : & = ~ a Pes a a a ee oo seit saat ‘( %615-) Carano ‘VERATRIFOLIA. Heiienore- - LEAvED CALANTHE. % ee se Lccitaisahsanaannnennl Class and Geder- Gnaddeans MonanpriA. Sect. IV. re terminalis mobilis decidua. Masse pollinis demum cereacee. mee in B hte Kew. A alt. Labellim iponteetas eka ‘platen sieigeheb pei, calearatum. Petala 5. distincta. Columna er con- uata. Masse pollinis 8, vel due ieee (a se Fos TRIPLICATUS. ph. h. “Amb. 6. ?. 5. ty 52. ¥ 2.. Ly CanantHE is a genus separated from Lrmoporum by > fe Rosert Brown, in the Botanical Register, under No. 573. fi For. the beautiful drawing, executed by Dr. Gexvaue, as wellas for the following description, of our present are which flowered in the Botanic Garden in Edinburg May, we are indebted to Dr. Rosert Granam, the eee cal Professor in that University. - Descr. Root of many strong, cylindrical, undivided fibres. : Leaves Leaves rising from the crown of the root, ovate-lanceolate, plicate, undulate,all the stronger ribs channelled above, pro- minent behind, tapering to a petiole, which isagain dilated at the base. Scapes several, erect, cylindrical, undivided. Bracteas alternate; acuminate, green; towards the bottom of the scape sheathing, higher up half-stem clasping, spreading, and half the length. of the germen. Spike ye right, crowded. Flowers each springing from the axil of a bractea, and snow-white, spreading nearly at right angles to the scape. Perianth three, outer segments lanceolate, each tipped with a green mucro ; two inner obovate-spathulate, with a white mucro. Lip longer than the corolla, 4-cleft, warted under the pollen mass, warts pointed, yellow, seg- ments spreading, the two lowest the longest, blunt, and diverging. Spur half as long as the germen, straight, cylindrical. Germen two inches long, very slightly fur- rowed, once twisted, so as to bring the spur below; in the bud it is above and crescent shaped. Pollen masses dry, in each cavity of the anther four spathulated lobes, two being longer than the others. The whole flower, but especially the germen and spur, are very slightly pubescent. The germen and every part of the flower is snow-white, except the tips of the outer segments of the perianth, which are bright green, the warts on the lip, which are yellow, and the pomt of insertion of the pollen masses, which is orange. The last is not seen till the anther case is re- moved. — " i Th Se Native of the East Indies. Requires to be kept in the stove, of which it is a great ornament, and continues a long time in blossom. , Tbswtei Ded, Pad By Kloet: Wadoror th Doe 1805. Woddelt fe. — ( 2616 ) Prantaco E RASILIENSIS. Brazin PLanrTain. aN 2. | Class and Order. 4 Terranpria Monoeynia. Generic Character. = ‘ i oe ar ie Cal. 4-fidus. Cor. 4-fida, limbo reflexo. | Stam. sima. Caps. 2-locularis, cireumscissa. th/f #4 ff Z FF Specific Character. / ij fi | Zé Prantaco brasiliensis ; su beaulescens, foliis lineari-lanceola-_ tis trinerviis integerrimis, scapis foliis bis longioribus, spicis cylindricis, stylo hirsuto. LL we - When we first received. this ple nt fi which was in October, 1823, we were inclined to consider it as the female ofa dicecious species, from the =. iia aes sud 3 re he i i ae Ae Co er species of Plantago. tire, much narrowed towards the base, and dilated again at the stem, which they embrace. The scapes are axillary, so- litary, rounded, clothed with white adpressed hairs. Spike of flowers cylindrical, compact, about three inches long. Raised from seeds sent to us from Brazil, by that inde- fatigable naturalist Mr. Frenericx SExxo. te a +s die %, ’ ee a ti = i. by I Me, = % a he ee ae ae ee | s. Chat WE lark, Det. Pasbs by, S Gsrtis Walworth De] 525, ( 2617 ) ViIRGILIA INTRUSA. SMALI-rLOWERED. VIRGILIA. » Rs . : V7. ie Se Si ie a a ; ide TAG } Class and Order. ae 54 R Decanpria Monoeynia. Generic Character. Cal. B-fidus. Cor. papilionacea, ‘tate longitudind sub- equalibus: vexillum lateribus non reflexis. » Stigma,im- berbe. Legumen compressun, oblongum, is ae Brown in Hort. Kew. 3. p. 4. : fi sf * Specific Character and Synonyms. Vireitia intrusa ; staminibus persistentibus, germinibus _ = glabris, calycis basi intrusa, foliolis ovalibus obtusis ie mucronulatis. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p.&. p53 Sopnora sylvatica. Burchell African Travels 2. p. 146. Descr. Stem shrubby. Leaves alternate, odd-pinnate : leaflets five or six pair with an odd one, obovate, retuse, smooth, on short.petioles, in our plant, seldom quite op- posite. Flowers papilionaceous, th ape in axillary, nod- ding racemes. Calyx cupshaped with five-cleft, subbilabi- ate border and intruded base. Vexillum obcordate, reflexed, plain : ale spreading horizontally, as long as the vexillum. Carina bill-hook- -shaped, joined at the point only. Stamens 10, with distinct filaments, persistent. Germen linear, com- pressed, thickened:at both marginas ovules many: style fili- orm. Stigma subcapitate. Mr. Burcuett, the celebrated African traveller, above quoted, describes this plant as a very fine tree, rivalling our. common Laburnum in beauty. elearn from him that it sometimes reaches the height of thirty feet, though i shrubs of it will produce flowers, and even in the deepest — shade of the forest. Native of the forests on the Bochberg, in South-Africa. Requires the protection of the greenhouse. Communicated in October last, by Messrs. Wuirtey, Brame, and Mite, who received it from Mr. Burcuett himself. : __ Mr. Wurrtey informs us that the plant from which the drawing was taken was in a weakly condition, otherwise the bunches of flowers would have been considerably larger. On the first sight of the drawing, Mr. Brown pronounced — our plant to be the Vireimia intrusa of the Hortus Kew- ensis; and on comparing it with the specimens in his _ Herbarium, we have no doubt that it belongs to that species. - Ls —_— The outline figures represent a front and back view of the Calyx, also the pesos soon after deflorescence, with the calyx and the persistent stamens remo’ : Prd. by 5. Gaortiv Walworth Dee 1425, Thcrla Dit , ( 2618 ) SOLANUM PLATANIFOLIUM. PLANE-TREE LEAVED NIGHTSHADE. ; Jie seokakakiok Class and Order. PrenranpriA Monoeynia. Generic Character. Cal. monophyllus, persistens, 5—10-fidus. Cor. 1-petala, rotata, 4, 5, 6- Goh ih * Seat A—6, oblonge, apice pori duobus dehiscentes. B cca 2—6-locularis. Specific Character. Soranum platanifolium; caule hirsuto sparsim aculeato : aculeis rectis, foliis quinquelobis : lobis inciso-dentatis acutis, pedunculis lateralibus aggregatis subunifloris mutantiias baccis vepaetin. 3 ; — eee sharp, greenish prickles. Leaves five- obed . lobes acute, i : eg cinié lanceolate, three-nery longer than the calyx, pale 1 Anthers five, — Gerr truncate. Berry argze, neal riegated with ai white. 4 in to yellow. . is plant has considerable affinit a OLANUM cam- pechiense, ee ne ee, eo | pechiense, and aculeatissimum of Jaceuin; but differs from both, especially in being so much less prickly. Native of the northern part of South America. Re- quires to be kept in a warm part of the stove in the winter, where, though it loses its leaves, they are immediately suc- ceeded by young ones. Communicated in flower, by Mrs. Waker, of Arno’s Grove, July 1824; and in fruit, in October, in the present year. sasunt a THM TREN Nee aE neee Wien ’ Aer eal ‘ samen’ lia - m “ih \ FAURE tess sig g FATTO Oban wrt on 4 mena a if 2 ber orth. Deed 22 Pub. by L Gortis.Wa 4M lurtis. Dal <4 qghiigh PONS > LORA FOETIDA, StinkinG. Passion- Pep Po? eae a FLOWER. a ee Class and Order. iwies - Monapetpuia’ Penranpria, Generic Character. Cal. 5-partitus, coloratus. Cor. 5-petala, calyci inserta. Nectarium corona filamentosa. Pepo pedicellata. Specific Character and Synonyms, : Passirtora fetida ; foliis trilobis folagrieqte) cordatis pi- losis, involucris multifido-capillaribus. Spe. Ple. 1359. ed. Willd. 3. p.619. Persoon . 2. p. 222. n. 43. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 153. ; . 321. Miss Laurence’s Passion-flower. Gisek. Ic. Fasc. 1. t. 20. ex Willd. Cav. Diss. t. 289. en Passirtora vesicaria, florum involucris triphyllis multifido- capillaribus. Brown Jam. 327. pe ee. Granapitta feetida. Gaertn. Sem. 1. p. 289. t. ae Bee. Fos Passronis albus reticulatus. Herm. Parad. Vi3. _ bs Descr. Stem herbaceous, climbing, rounded, very hairy, with straight, spreading hairs. Leaves alternate, petiolinede cordate, 3-lobed, sometimes quite entire, soft-pubescent on both sides ; scent, when rubbed, appeared to us to resemble that of Ballota nigra, with something aromatic conjoined : petioles nearly the length of the lamina, hairy, without ob- servable glands. Stipules many-cleft. Peduncles two, below the petiole, opposite, one fertile bearing a single flower, the other generally degen: ting into a tendril. Involucrum three-leaved, multipartite, moss-like. Calyx streaked with pale green. olla white, with a very slight purple tinge. Nectarium filiform, shorter than the — en ce ae - Germen stipitate, oval. § les three, permanent. Stigmas capitate. Fruit, instead of being pulpy as in most of the species of Passiflora, is dry inflated, with three parietal re- ceptacles, to which the seeds are attached, marked on the outside with three corresponding: lines. Native of the West Indies. Ci ences to be kept in the stove, where it will reach the height of several feet and bear a profusion of flowers in succession, but each only of a few hours’ duration. Flowers in July, August, and September. Our drawing was made in the last named month of the pre- sent year, froma fine plant both in flower and fruit, com- municated by Roper Barezar, Esq. from his magnificent collection at Bury-Hill. - wok 2 ‘PB Je , Fucusia ARBORESCENS. “Lavret-neaven a Focusra.. oe we wis grol'l of Jee pe dubai Class and Order. OcranpRia Monoeynia.., ., Generic Character. Cal. aati: col us, corollifer. 2igbp: A-petala. Bacca infera’ SEE : itn 2 Fucusta arborescens ; Sink ede ? Soliis ternis petiola- tis ovato-oblongis utringue angustatis integerrimis, laciniis calycinis tinal ch cast bee — paniculis termin = Sache: ul we Aigo: ap Jeet ng zo our y. of Bury-Hill; who kin ole pla n full flower, in October “a garde r. Davin Cameron, informed us had been Tecalelige: a greenhouse plant; but being placed out of doors in the summer, ha been suffered to root out of the pot into the ground where it stood. Whilst perhaps it flowered the better on this account, it was pro- tubily ¢ owing to the necessity of cutting off the protruded © roots, that "the flowers all dropt off before the drawing could be quite eee lee ana us of the o ity of mak- == ription of the parts of fructification. soaielea al of | owers were terminal, trichotomousl divided, va somewhat leafy. The calyx, corolla, an longer stamens were nearly equal in , the latter al- 4 shorter, all apesadiad; style the same gers : stigma capitate, four-lobed. - ‘The lower leaves were seven inches long, two and three quarters wide, smooth, netted- veined underneath, and turned red in the autumn. Of the nine species of Fucusia described and figured in the Flora Peruviana F. ovalis is the only one that has any resemblance to our plant, and in that, the peduncles are axillary, and the whole plant pubescent. Mr. Barcuay had his plant from the Sloane Street Nursery, where it was raised from seeds brought from Mexico, by Mr. Buxtock, ticketed Fucusta arborescens. Several persons have received seeds of the same, under this name from that country ; which makes it probable, that it has already, or will be so called in the Mexican publica- tions ; we have, therefore, adopted it, though with us we believe it has not yet reached a height Beat three or four feet, and is only ashrub. Mr. Tare informs us, that he has since raised many plants of it, from seeds sent him by R. P. Stapizs, Esq. to whose kind favours he is indebted for above two hundred new, or rare species from Mexico. Cultivated, at present, as a greenhouse shrub; but per- haps may he e found hardy enough to bear our winters without protection. i | . 42621, WAterd wh Del. Pub. dy J. Curtis Wadeorth, San 26, Weideli fs (ean! Hymenocatuis LiroraAuis 3. SEraA-sHore HYMENOCALLIS. NARROW-LEAVED VARIETY. ae he Se i i he a a Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeyni. Generic Character. - Scapus solidus, in seminando rigidé deflexus. | Germen trigonum. Tubus angulosé cylindricus, rectus. Lacinie sex, flaccide. Filamenta distautia, flaccida, membrana versus basin connexa. Anthere longe, a tertia parte pen- dulz, polline scabro. Stigma rotundatum, puberulum. Cap sula trivalvis, trilocularis, sepe immature disrupta. Semina oblonga, carnosa, viridia. Plante occidentales. W. H. Specific Character and Synonyms. | Hymenocatuis litoralis, bulbo oblongo-ovato, foliis lanceo- lato-loratis acutis, umbellé 6—21-flora, floribus suc- cessivis, tubo viridi, laciniis ae yan albis, coronz dimidio adberentibus, loculis 4—6-spermis. - fityme We a oe, fig. Jacq. Amer. 99. t. 179. f.94. Hort 1. t. 75. Hort. Kew. 1.412. Wilid. te ne: ichum. Supra 1879, quoad dom. Herbert plantam, non quoad figuram, (2.) acutifolia, tubo 34-unciali laciniis unciam corgi ae angustioribus. P. Mexicanum Bot. Reg. 940. — Pee e bis in App. p. 44. Pancratium disticha The Spofforth collection ‘is “indebted for this variety, which flowered in the greenhouse in July, to Sir A. Joun- sTonE, having meen Dronehy by Lord Napter from Mexico. The Hortic. Soc. and Mr. Cotvitt have each a. similar bulb from the same source. The genus HyYMENOCALLIS was eS 2. ee Ae ee ae the name, distmguishing fhe, ene which is confined to the W. hemisphere, by other features, viz. filaments flac- cid, divaricate, instead of rigid, conniving ; anthers long, pendulous from a point one-third of their length, instead of short, suberect; stigma .round.and ‘minutely fimbriated, emitting a viscous drop in sunshine ; seeds large, oblong, fleshy, green; forthe most part: prematurely bursting the capsule, instead: of black and shelly: » The name Pancra- trom being of the first antiquity m botany, must, assuredly, hu rectifying the genus, remain with the natives of the ok world, and P. maritimum is to be considered as the type of the genus. The pollen of Hymenocallis; viewed through a microscope, is rough, as if covered with dust. — as The species litoralis was heretofore distinguished by a tube longer than.the limb, yariety «.:being much so, 6. very little ; disticha had them of equal lengths ; the subject of this» article has! the tube an amch’ shorter than the limb! We-consider them all tobe Warieties of one species, distin- guished principally by: the: adliesion of the: petals to the outside of thecup. ‘The editor of the Bot. Reg. in the lastentmber, ovérlooking this most important feature in our faniostias mistaken it for Dryvanprr’s P. Mexicanum, re- ferving to Mr..Ker’s\ figure, in which, however, its petals aré free to their base. \P. Carolinianum, Bot. Reg. 927, is also erroneously figured: from the Burghclere conservatory, with a dark green leaf. We know that the plant there represented had a glaucous leaf, and was:the European P. maritimum. P. Carolinianum, Linn. is the many-flowered _Mexicanun Dryanp: the two-flowered variety of Hymeno- callis rotata. No true Pancratium has been’ found in the W hemisphere, bit Cdroliniandim has been long cultivated there. .The tube oftyia:does not acquire its fulllength in a _ low temperature, which accounts for the discrepancy in our fig. 1879, the plant having probably been brought out of the stove to be drawn. WW. H. | : | = represents the germen with one cell cut open, containing six erect ovules. Pub. ay S burtir. Walwarth-Jan, L8LE. ; Fa if a —- fs ‘si. A agen ivy Courses, cow peceivaya ON Brave : Senna. | Po ewstie Pees Pi wets FSIS > Class and Order. Diapetpur1a DecanpRIA. Generic Character. 3 — Cal. 5-dentatus. Vesillum Jeealteunty explanatum, ma- jus. Carina obtusa Stigma laterale, sub apice uncinato. Styli: postice longitudinaliter barbati. Legumen inflatum scariosum. Br. \ % Specific Character. Coxvrea nepalensis ; foliolig undenis subrotundo-ellipticis retusis, vexilli gibbis pa villeformibus, ogi subcoriaceis pubescentibusy ie we ene a whitish ted leaflets it spe upper margins the yah the length of the leaf, bearing few- ered, nodding x cemes. ” Flowers yellow. Calyx cup-shaped, five-toothed: teeth sharp, patent, the two upper ones smaller and more distant. Vexillum suborbicular, recurved, with the sides incurved, callosities nipple-shaped. Ale oblong, straight, clawed with an ear-shaped appendix. Carina united into one petal, subsemiorbicular. paces dia elphous 3. Ger- men pedicelled, oblong, villous. te longer than the | stamens, recurved, hooked at the i 3 id bearded along ba t. Legume oblong, channelled at the upper i ulated, eg Sah Seeds kidney-shaped, This This . shrub was raised from Nepal seeds, by Messrs. Wurrtey, Brame, and Mitne, of the Fulham Nur- sery.. It.has:stood out of doors through two winters, and appears to be quite hardy. It flowered with them for the first time in August and September 1825, and ripened a few pods in November. Jhucts Dt. — Pcbby i bantis Watrworth San détb N 2623 a eal alien ial ( 2623 ) ANTHERICUM SULPHUREUM. PALE-YELLOW ANTHERICUM. ce re 2 eee Class and Order: Hexanpria Moxoornta. | Generie Character. Cor. 5-petala, patens. Flam, filiformia. Caps. ovata. _ Sem. angulata. : i a8 Specific Character and Synonyms. AntHericum sulphureum; foliis lanceolato-linearibus cana- liculatis apice obtuso concayo, scapo racemoque sim- plicissimis, corollis patentissimis. Waldst. et Kitatb. Pl. rar. Hung. 1. p. 98. t. 95. Willd. Enum. p. 371. Antuericum sulfureum ; radice bulbosa ; foliis lineari- Janceolatis canaliculatis subglaucescentibus, simplici stricto elato, petalis oblongis obtusit Spreng. Syst. Veg. 2. p. 85. ee In our plant, as it grew in the Chelsea Botanical Garden, the scape acquired the length of two feet before it had done flowering. ‘The peduncles when in fruit became erect, and closely applied to the scape. Germen three-celled, with many ovules in each. Capsule obtusely three-cornered, three-celled, with but few perfect seeds in each cell. Native of Hungary, near the hot-baths of Hercules. Introduced by Mr. Anprrson, about the year 1822. Our drawing of the flower was taken in May, 1824, and that of the leaves added the following year. Thurtis Dd, P wa. by J, gee 4 beater, We Worth, Jun Ze Wash decd i “a 5%4 4 s ay ser i 7 3% ‘s4 «Stte, TD yiida ise ree fi bape te . Fala SiseeiNE aashs 5% * : 8 ei ey = = ef 2 : Evupnorets Groposa. Rovunpisit-sointed | | * Spusgtans!-iv0 botingam wo osie RISK eRR Class.and Order. | og Dopecanpria TRiGyniA. Rectius Monascia Monanpria. _ Generic Charact er. Cor. 4- s. 5-petala, calyci insidens. Cal. 1-phyllus, ven- tricosus. Capsula tricocca. « Specific Character and Synonym. Evurnorsia globosa ; inermis, articulata: articulis diversi- formibus tuberculatis, floribus terminalibus solitariis longius pedunculatis, petalis palmatis. : Dactytantues globosa; subarticulato-prolifera, articulis variantibus sepeque spheroideis. Haworth in Phil. Mag. v. 62. p. 382. . : Teves sag ‘3 Sore Fe mys os f ba nae ‘ = Bik Be eee ai For an opportunity of giving a figure of this singularly _whimsical growing plant we are indebted to Mr. Hoop, surgeon, who communicated it to our draughtsman in June last, from his rey extensive collection of succulent plants, at oe Lambeth. : Pe ‘ ince our engraving has repared for publication, we have found that its mode of : wth ws sashdoss to con- siderable variation. The very plant from which our draw- ing was taken had, six months after, put forth branches both from the lowermost and one of the upper joints, variously shaped and taking different directions; these did not at that time put on the peg-top-like form which all the joints | of of our plant had in June, of its, appearance at which time our figure is a faithful representation. : We find, also, that in another plant, which came into blos- som later, the flower was much larger, quite equalling in size our magnified out-line figure. The peduncle also was much longer and furnished towards the top with several small oval leaves. The segments of the petals were marked towards their base with several glandular cells, and appeared open at the point. It has considerable affinity with Evrnorsia anacantha (Bot. Mag. v. 51. n. 2520), which likewise belongs to Mr. Hawortn’s genus DactyLanTHEs. ~ Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Requires to be pro- tected from frost, and the same treatment as other succulent plants from the Cape. According to Mr. Haworrn, this — flowered in the royal garden at Kew, in October, lL Gertix Dol. Pub byt: GurtisWalworth, Jan.) 225. Wedded fc. fot se'9( Q6RBT IF : ve 3 ati et cd PuysaLis viscosa. CLAMMY-BERRIED Pag : by fis we gt pete —.. Winter-Cuerry. 2’, att} - 4 : . et Class and Order. PenranprrA Monoeynia. vs ae Generic Character... ois : Cor. rotata. ~ Stam. conniventia. Bacea intra calycem inflatum bilocularis. be Fis goREebos2 , Specific Character and Synonyms. Puysauts viscosa ; foliis geminis repandis obtusis subto- mentosis, caule herbaceo superne paniculato. Sp. Pl. 161. ed. Willden. 1. p. 1021. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1. p 394. Pers. Syn. 1. p. 2 cm Roem. et. Sch. Syst. Veg. 4. p. 672. _ Jacq. Hort. Vindob. 2. p. 64. ALKEKENGI Bonariensis repens, bacea turbinata viscosa. Dill. Hort. Hlth. p. 11. t.10. This species acquired the name of viscosa, not from the leaves being clammy, which they are not, but from the juice of the berry. We have little or no doubt but our — plant is the species figured and described by Dittentus, quoted above; but Jacguin’s plant differs in so many respects, that we hesitate to pronounce it a true synonym. Descr. Root creeping, sending up suckers from it all round the plant. Stem dichotomously branched: branches square, with sharp angles. Leaves petioled, ovate-acumi- ~ nate, with an obtuse point, quite entire, but with undulated margins ; base somewhat unequal, smoothish on the upper, and soft pubescent on the under surface, generally growing two together, on the flowering branches. Peduncles so- litary, one-flowered, inserted between the petioles, cernuous at at the point, equal to the petiole. Calyx bell-shaped, ten- angled, with an intruded base, and five-cleft border, pubes- cent, segments straight, acute, inflated after the flower falls. Corolla pale yellow, rotate-campanulate, witha five, or ob- _ soletely ten-toothed, spreading border, twice the length of the calyx, five-nerved, reticulate-veined on the outside, and marked in the centre with five large brown-greenish spots, below which the faux is closed with five villous tufts. Stamens only half the length of the corolla: anthers four- angled. Germen conical: style a little longer than the stamens: stigma subcapitate, green. This species has considerable affinity with Puysatis edulis (Supra No. 1068.) but differs in having a creeping root | an herbaceous stem ; leaves not at all cordate, and the spots ~ in the corolla being of a dull green, instead of a dark — purple. Raised from seeds received from Chili or Peru, by is Roszert Barctay, Esq. Bury Hill, and communicated in September 1825. br Ded. Pub by Llurtis Watworgh Jars Ube M2626 Weddell. 4. ASPHODELUS TENUIOR. SLENDER-LEAVED ASPHODEL, OR KING’s SPEAR. Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeynia. Generic Character. _Cor. 6-partita. Nectarium ex valvulis sex, germen tegentibus. Se ae + ieee Specific Character and Synonyms. Aspnope.us tenuior ; caule superne nudo, foliis subulato- triquetris striatis, racemo laxo, bracteis flore breviori- bus. Marsch. v. Bieb. Flor. Taur.-Cauc. 3. p. 268. Sprengel Syst. Veg. 2. p. 83. : Aspuopetus tenuior. Cat. Hort. Gorenki, ann. 1812. p. 9. This species has the greatest affinity with AspHopELus luteus (supra 773), from which it differs, in being alto- — smaller, with finer leaves, smaller, fewer, and paler owers ; but is more especially distinguished by the stalk being naked at the upper part for a considerable distance below the raceme of flowers, and the bractes being as short as, or shorter than the peduncle. | ; Mr. AnpvErson, the worthy curator of the Chelsea Botanic Garden, received this plant through Dr. Fiscuer, now of the Imperial Garden, at Petersburgh, who first recorded it in his catalogue of the late Counr Razoumorrsxy’s Garden, at Gorenki, near Moscow. Pie bt Le A hardy perennial. Native of Northern Caucasus where . a in the spring. Our drawing was taken in July, J lurtss Da Bib. by. SL bart. Wee beorth Jand 825. Med dell ie, ee ee ee ae ee ee ( 2627 ) GARDENIA FLORIDA, Var OVALIFOLIA. OvAL- LEAVED GARDENIA OR CAPE-JASMINE. Class and Order. — Penranpria Monoeynis. Generic Character. Bacca infera, bilocularis, polysperma. Anthere sessiles in fauce corolla. _ Stigma bilamellatum. ‘Specifie Character and Synonyms. Garpenia florida ; inermis, foliis ellipticis, corollis hypo- crdteriformibus, calycinis laciniis verticalibus lanceo- lato-subulatis. Hort. Kew. ed. I 1. p. 293. ed. alt. 1. p. 368. Willd. Sp. Pl.1. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. ecg 250, 3 an ee Mae og inermis, corollis obtusis, calyce angu- lato, foliis ovatis acutis:. Thunb. Garden. n. 2.—Flor. Japon p.108. — ~~ vm ee ee “e, Y bee ie acai Garventa florida ; inermis, foliis ovatis: utrinque acutis, stipulis obtusis, laciniis calycinis verticalibus, tubo recto. Lin. Suppl. p. 163. oro pleno, petalis coriaceis. Ehret JasMINUM ramo un Put. 015. Fe Jasminum foliis lanceolatis oppositis integerrimis calycibus acutis. Miller ic. p. 120. ¢. 180. Jasminum capense ; foliis lanceolatis oppositis integerrimis, floribus triandris. _ Miller Dict. ed. 8° in loco. . Garvenra florida is commonly known in th series by the name of the Cape Jasmine, and was first published by _Mr. Pamir Muuer, from a plant which flowered in Mr. Warner’s garden, at Woodford. It was brought from the Cape of Good Hope, by Captain Hutcuinson; but is probably, however, not a native of that country, but ac- Se 7 cording cording to the Hortus Kewensis, of Cochinchina, China, Japan, and the South-Sea Islands. _ Our present variety has been supposed to be a distinct species, and has been called Garpenta latifolia; but it appears to us that it cannot be the latifolia of Roxpuren’s Coromandel plants, but a mere variety of G. florida, with more oval leaves and somewhat smaller flowers. The name of Garpenta was first given to this genus which belongs to the natural order of Rubiacea, by Mr. Exus, in honour of Dr. Garpen, formerly an eminent physician and naturalist at Charles-Town, South Carolina. With us it is an inhabitant of the stove, and is held in great estimation, both for its beauty and the extraordinary iragrance of its flowers. : Communicated by Messrs, Wurttey, Brame, and Mixyg, in June, 1822. —— re ign ee tee ae RES gn i te a Ee bartisDel. Fudbby SOarbis Wabworth Jan 1526. Weddell. fe (2628) IpoMG:A SPLENDENS. SILKY-LEAVED Ipoma@a. Class tind Order. Pentanpria Monoeyntia. Generic Character. - Cor. inka apisormis fauce cylindiadea. Rae eapi- | ee (nune bilobum). Cape. —3-] : Specific Character and Synon nony? Ipoma@a splendens ; caule volubili fottise fats integerrimis, _ superne glabris subtus argenteo-sericeis: costis paral- lelis, pedunculis axillaribus umbelliferis, = Lerrsomra splogdens. Hortulanis. a Sasi & PHS = 2% Sa iromaan spleadoey | is neatly related to I. speciosa (supra No. 2446), but the flowers are much smaller and paler than in speciosa ; the leaves too are not nearly so large, and are ovate, very | ittle, or not at all cordate, the silkiness underneath more silvery, and ot tomentose ; the peduncles are shorter, and the umbels not leafy. This climber has een long known in our stoves by the name of Lerrsom1a splendens, and has been set some value upon, for the beautiful silve “sillkifiess of the leaves, but we have never heard of its having flowered i in this a before this autumn. Bie x For the opportunity of giv a drawing of this beau- tiful climber we are indebted to Mrs. -Marrvarr of Wimble- | don House, in whose splendid c« sllectic ni it flowered i in the back of the stove early i in Novem Hi: into’ flower earlier in the see _ blossoms would have been d _ be the case in its native co specimens sent by Dr. ] very extensive herbarium « Ksq. . 3 I burtis Det. (Pid bj hbertisWalerorthe Jun L826. Weddell Sv Nerentnges Paytuampnora. VENTRICOSE Pitcner Pant. 4 ; ‘ Class and.Order. | Diacia MonaDELPaia. | Generic Character. Mase. Cal. 4-partitus, patens, interne coloratus, Cor. nulla. Filam. columnare: Anthere 15—17, connate. Fem. Cal. et Cor. maris. Stigma peltatum, sessile. Caps. 4-locularis, polysperma. Specific Character and Synonyms. Nerentues Phyllamphora ; foliis petiolatis, ascidiis ventri- cosis, racemo simplici terminali.. Willd. Sp. Pl. 4. p. -874. Poirét. Encycl. Suppl. v. 4. p. 86 Nerenrues distillatoria. odd. Bot.Cab. 1017. Anetiam Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. v. 5. p- 420 ? Cantuarirera. Rumph. Amb. 5. p. 121. t. 59. f. 2. Puytiampnora mirabilis ; foliis canthariferis in petiolos de- | es spica simplici terminali. Louwr. Fl. Cochin. . p. TAA. There are probably several.undescribed species of this very curious genus, but our plant seems to agree so well with the description of Loureiro, that we have very little doubt of its belonging to the same species ; nor does it differ much from that of Rumpuius, which is quoted as a synonym by WILLDENow. = The great curiosity of this plant consists in the pitcher- formed appendices to the leaves, which are said to contain sweet, clear water, even in dry weather. According to some authors the water rises from the roots, and is secreted into the vessels before the lid of the pitcher has ever been opened, opened, and Rumpnivs observes that, in this state, these - curiously constructed vessels contain the most water, the quantity, of which diminishes after, the: lid: opens, though even then it fills again in the course of the night, and evaporates in the day ‘but after the lid is quite shrivelled, the water entirely disappears. Louretmo, however, has a — different opinion, and attributes.the presence of the liquid — to the reception and preservation of the night dews by the spontaneous opening and shutting of the lid; what is the real fact does not seem’to have been as yet positively ascer- _ tamed. In our plant, cultivated in the stove, the young pitchers, before thé lid-opened, were, Messrs. LoppicEs ob- serve, about one-third filled with a sourish tasted water ; but after the lids opened, the) water-entirely evaporated. Native of Cochinchina, Ceylon, and the Molucca Islands, _ growing in moist, mountainous districts, and both Lourzmo and Rumputvs remark, that it is very difficult to cultivate; the latter once succeeded, but the plant did not thrive well, — and produced much smaller pitchers. « , > Our Drawing was taken at Messrs. Loppiers and Sons, at Hackney, in July, 1825, from the female-plant; the male has probably not been as yet imported into this country. N2630. § i it iv 4 Fi i Pub by 5. Gortis, Walworth. Feb. JE26. Weddali, /: ( 2630 ) MELASTOMA VILLOSA. ViLLous MELASTOMA. KKK KKK KKK KKK KKEEEEEEE Class and Order. Decanpria Monoeynia. Generic Character. Cal. 5-fidus, campanulatus. Petala 5, calyci inserta. — Bacca 5-locularis, calyce obvoluta. ; Specific Character and Synonym. Me astoma villosa ; foliis ovatis acutis integerrimis villosis quinquenerviis; floribus terminalibus paucis invicem provenientibus. Metastoma villosa. Lod. Cab. 853. This is not the Metastoma villosa of Auster, which has been referred to the genus Ruexia. Every part of the plant is covered with short soft hairs. The branches are | square; the leaves generally five-nerved, but the upper pair, in our specimen, were only three-nerved ; the petals obovate, obtuse with a small soft mucro. Messrs. Loppices remark, that it usually produces four blossoms at the termi- nation of the branches, which are produced in succession, so that there is seldom more than one atatime. It flowers _ freely in the spring and summer months. The Metastoma villosa is a handsome evergreen shrub ; supposed to be a native of tropical South-America, and requires the protection of the stove. May be propagated by cuttings, which strike readily, and should be potted in loam and peat, as we are informed in the Botanical Cabinet, where only we have found any mention of this species. Our drawing was taken in June, 1822, at the late garden of Wm. Kenr, Esq. in Upper Clapton, an ardent cultivator _ of rare plants, who has since removed to the neighbourhood of Bath; in which retirement we believe he continues to indulge his taste for Botany. 5 * 2 ee: TF buaw tes Dod, Bud. by. 5, Gurtis, Walworth, feb.1626. — Weti dell. fc. ( 2631 ) SAXIFRAGA CUSCUTIFORMIS. DoppER-LIKE SAXIFRAGE. KEKE EERE EERE EEK Class and Order. Decanpria Dieynia. Generic Character. | Cal. 5-fidus, persistens. Petala 5. Caps. birostris, 1-locularis, polysperma. Specific Character and Synonym. Saxirraca cuscutiformis ; foliis suborbiculatis subpedatis crenato-sinuatis reticulatis, scapis subbifloris, stoloni- bus filiformibus. : Saxirraca cuscuteformis. Lodd. Cab. 186. A small herbaceous plant, with filiform creeping runners ofa red colour. Leaves suborbiculate, subpedate, fleshy, hairy, beautifully netted with white veins, especially on the upper surface. Scape about two-flowered, hairy. Pe- duncles long, erect, one-flowered. Calyx five-parted, per- sistent ; segments oval, obtuse, deep green, equal. Petals five, lanceolate, white, nearly of equal length, four times longer than calyx, much narrowed at the base. Stamens ten, three or four times shorter than the petals. Germen bilobed : Styles divaricate: Stigmas subcapitate. We do not find any mention made of this elegant little plant any where except in the Botanical Cabinet. It is very nearly related to Saxirraca sarmentosa, and in any arrangement of the genus ought to follow that species, though the styles are very divaricate. The petals being all lanceolate, and nearly equal in size, at once determines it to be a distinct species, and not a variety of sarmentosa. — Communicated by Messrs. Loppices and Sons, in May, 1825, who inform us, in their Cabinet, that it is a native of China, and may be cultivated in the greenhouse, in small — pots with loam. Its name was derived from the likeness of the slender runners to the stems of Cuscuta, or Dodder. 26%, satay Weddell:fes = Tlerks Dil, Pubbyt borhs, Walworth Feb.2826. 3 ~ (2682) CAMPANULA INFUNDIBULIFORMIS. FuNNEi- SHAPED BELL-FLOWER. | | Class and Order. PEnTANDRIA Monoeynia. Generic Character. Cor. campanulata, fundo clauso valvis staminiferis. Stigma trifidum. Caps. infera, poris lateralibus dehiscens. Specific Character and Synonym. CampanuLa infundibuliformis ; racemo terminali secundo, calyce simplici: foliolis reflexis, pedunculis subso- litariis nutantibus, corolla infundibuliformi semiquin- quefida : laciniis revolutis. Lg Campanuta lamiifolia ; foliis ovato-cordatis crenatis acumi- natis petiolatis scabris, caule simplici racemoso,pedun- culis simplicibus secundis reflexis, calycis sinubus sub- reflexis ciliatis. Hornem. Hort. Hafn. 202 ? Flowers violet-coloured, in a terminal raceme, partly looking one way, without leaves intermixed, except at th lower part. Peduncles generally solitary, one omered: nodding. Calyx adhering to the germen, angular: seg- ments linear, reflexed, sinuses not reflexed. olla fun- nel-shaped, cleft half way down, into five lanceolate, revolute lacinie. Style exserted: Stigma trifid. Capsule large, with onialiae ribs. Stem angular, erect, simple. Leaves lanceolate, unevenly serrate, sessile ; lower and radical ones cordate-ovate, grenate, roughish. This plant was raised at Chelsea, from seeds gathered in the Vienna garden, in 1817, under the name of CAMPANULA lamitfolia ; but it cannot be the lamiifolia of the Flora | Caucasica, : Caucasica, which appears to be our macrophylla (No. 1.912) the = Hortus Kewensis. Bos may, however, be Hoss plant ; or it ma ps be rapunculoides ty « of the Flora Gaksaaes Pot differs, fever from all of these in not having the sinuses of the calyx reflexed, as well as in the form of the leaves. 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LONG-TUBED SANSEVIERA. KKK IKKE EKER ERE Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeyrnia. Generic Character. Cor. infera, monopetala: tubo filiformi: limbo 6-par- tito, revoluto. Stam. limbo inserta. Bacca 1-sperma. Specific Character. Sanseviera longiflora ; spica thyrsiformi, tubo corolle - . bracteis multoties longiore, foliis lato-lanceolatis acu- minatis marginatis trinerviis. This undescribed ies of Sanseviera has a near affi- al with guineensis, but is at once distinguished from that and every other species with which we are acquainted, by the extraordinary length of the tube of the corolla. We were favoured with the plant from which our draw- ing was taken by Lady Banas, in July, 1825, from her yship’s seat at Spring Grove. | Pub by S Curtis. Walworth March 1626. WHerbert Di. i (2685) Crinum strictum. Uprient Crinum. 3 . : . Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeynia. Generic Character. Vide supra No. 2292 et No. 2463. _ Specific Character. Crinum strictum ; bulbo parvulo ovato ; foliis brevibus, obtusis, pallidé viridibus, suberectis ; scapo viridi, sub- tereti, erecto, foliis duplo feré longiore ; umbell44-flora, | bracteata ; spatha 22-unciali, marcescente ; germine sessili, oblongo, viridi; tubo pallidé virescente, 5-un- — ciali, suberecto ; laciniis albis, 34-uncialibus, 2.-un- cie latis ; eg filamentis longiore, laciniis unciam breviore ; sty mate minuto. This singular little Crinum was purchased at the Nu of Mr. Tare, in Sloane Street, having been just im 9 as Mr. Tate understood, from Ceylon; but we suspect that he misunderstood the person from whom he received it ; and we consider it very doubtful whether it came from the East or West. It was erroneously labelled “ Neottia species” by the person who sent it. It is remarkable for ihe. erectness of all its parts. It has some affinity to C. defixum on the one hand and to C. americanum on the other, but has less fragrance than either. It flowered at Spofforth in October. W.H. © N. B. The figure of the plant is diminished. =e ees Crinum submersum (supra No. 2463) has flowered several times, with flowers larger (having an expansion of nine inches) and a much more poet a o et filamentis rubris, basi alba; stig- ’ and distinct stripe, than it had when it flowered in the autumn after its impor- tation. Its pollen appears to be quite sterile. The mule C. scabro-erubescens, mentioned in that article, has also flowered since, and differed from C, submer- sum in nothing but a red tinge upon its scape and spathe, which belongs to the variety of erwbescens, from which it was raised, and rather brighter stripe on the petals. The difference between them was less than between that variety of erubescens, and the one that was found in company with submersum. We consider the fact of C. submersum being a natural mule between C. eru- bescens and scabrum, generated in the wilds of Brazil, to be indubitable. We scarcely entertain a doubt of C. amabile and augustum having been pro- duced in the same manner between zeylanicum, and two different columnar species. W.H. .' ena 0 Mea ray? t: N 2636 Bub by S Geter Wadworth March 182 6. Wiherbert Dd, Crinum nomics. Humsie Crinum. 7 Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeynta. Generic Character. Vide supra 2292 et No. 2463. Specific Character. Crinum humile; bulbo spherico viridi, foliis subacutis vi- ridibus, lacunosis, margine levi, depressis ; scapo 10- unciali, viridi, subrotundato ; spatha 24-unciali, mar- _ cescente ; floribus novem ante expansionem nutantibus ; ermine ovali, viridi, pedunculis feré isometris ; tubo 3 unciali, pallidissimé viridescente ; laciniis 2-unciali-_ bus, albis ; stylo purpureo, flaccido, limbo longiore ; | filamentis purpureis, sursum et retrorsum curvatis, divaricantibus, antheris et polline aureis. W.H. This small species of Crinum flowers freely in the stove at Spofforth, and increases by offsets. It was brought from the East, by Captain Craeie, to Mr. Mize of the Fulham Nursery, by whom the original bulb was sold to Mr. Cartriey, unto whose kindness we were indebted for an offset. It was mentioned in our appendix, p. 24, as being perhaps a tag of C. amenum, from which it appears to be sufficiently distinct. C. amaenum has smooth glossy leaves, and sessile flowers, and is a plant of difficult culture. C. humile thrives readily with us, has pedunculated flowers, and leaves deeply pitted on the surface, and thicker. We could not ascertain where the bulb was taken on board. _ It is certainly unknown at Calcutta. W. H. N. B. The figure of the plant is diminished. Nota ad Amaryllideanum Synopsis 2606.* Numero 5 ante verbum Oporanthus et 6 ante verbum Sternebergia nota in- terrogationis addita fuisse debuerat. Ex tertid sectione delendos esse nuper cognovimus, cim scapus sit in Oporantho solidus, ut in Sternebergid quoque putandus est. Ad calcem igitur prime sectionis ponendi sunt, nota inter- rogationis prefixa Seminibus nunquam -conspectis nescimus an prime sec- tioni conyeniant, an per se collocari debeant. De ceteris, quibus nota in- — terrogationis prefigitur, deest certitudo scapusne cavus sit an solidus. In Imhofié scapus solidus esse ex affinitate presumitur. Imhofiam, Clinanthum, Pyroleirion, speciminibus siccis cognovimus; Sternebergiam, Carpodeten, Leperizam, Liriopen, Urceolariam, Brayoam, ex aliorum tantiim descriptioni-. bus aut figuris. In genere Phycella nuperrimé definita (Bot. Reg. 928) scapi descriptio omittitur et semina membranacea esse conjectantur. Pedunculo secto scapi semper conformis certa fieri potuisset natura; neque genus ullum inter Amaryllideas scapo cayo et semine carnoso adhuc inventum est. Phy- cellam tertiz sectioni convenire vix dubitamus. W. H, § 1. 3. Grirrinia. lege, Germen declinatum, superne crassius. Tubs - eylindricus, declinatus. Lacinie reflex, inferiores, divaricate, ima porrecta, cetere sursumcurvate. Filamenta decurrentia, eum laciniis pariter in tubum coalescentia, apice recurvata; summum stylo aversum, cetera divaricaté por- recta. Anthere versatiles. Stylus porrectus, apice recurvatus, immature deyexus, Stigma simplex. Ovula parallelo-erecta, obovata, latere exteriore erosa, Semina oboyata, nitida, apice chalaz& fusca insignita, Pedunculi in “eiihtnenie eben, WIE: Se ng Se ; 4 Il. 2.. S1ENOMESSON. lege, Germen oblongo-trigonum, Tubus media latior H. parte constrictus eurvatus, summa latior rectus, W, ih . Weeks Pind. by f Gartis Waiwo rth March 1826 ( 2637 ) Hepycuium Carneum. FLEsH-coLorep GARLAND FLOWER. Class and Order. MonanpriA Monoeynia. | Generic Character. Vide supra No. 2378. Specific Character and Synonym. Heprcuium carneum ; caule 3—4-pedes alto, obscuré sub- rubescente, serius viridi ; foliis bifariis, ultra-pedalibus, tenuissimé acuminatis, 2-uncias latis ; spicaé sub-sex- unciali, bracteis diversifariis, ciliatis, viridibus, uni- floris, convolutis, externis tubo longioribus, internis plus duplo brevioribus ; laciniis exterioribus longiori- bus acutioribus, obscuré apicem versiis aurantiacis, interioribus colore pallidé lateritio apice obliquo sub- acuto, labelli lamina bifida lobis equalibus divergen- tibus exteriis rotundatis apice obliquo subacuto ; filamento saturatids colorato plus duplo labellum supe- rante, polline flavo, stylo antheram exuperante, stig- mate viridescente hispido ; calyce subtomentoso,, pal- lidissimé fulvo, tubo aliquantulum breviore ; germine - tomentoso pallidissimeé virescente. Hepycuium carneum. Dr. Carry, MS. This species of Hepycutum flowered in the greenhouse at Spofforth, where it was sent by Dr. Carey, from Calcutta. Its flowers are scentless. It is one of the species of which the stem, when decayed, separates itself readily from the tuber. All the species of Hepycurum may be considered in this country as greenhouse plants, requiring, in summer, a great deal of water and a little artificial heat, to promote their flowering. W. H. | Tierivia Herberti, supra No. 2599. _ Lege Cyrruua Herberti. We regret having been supposed (Bot. Reg. 949) to have committed Mr. Linpey as to the genus of this plant. When we altered the trivial name according to his suggestion, we certainly under- stood him to agree that it was a Tigridia. Since our article was published, we had doubted its being so; and, indeed, whether that genus could be at all supported, and had intended to reconsider it next season. Not having had at. the time a specimen of T. pavonia, we then referred to the representation of that plant in this work, where the anthers are placed opposite the stigmas, - _ and between their lobes. We’ think, that our plant must form a new genus with some other American species ; and we marvel that Mr. L. should say, “ there can be no doubt of its being a genuine species of Mora,” seeing it cannot fall under any of the definitions of that genus in this work, or the B. Reg.; and Mr. Ker expressly stated, B. Reg. 4. 312. and v. 4. App. that the Moras of Kunru alluded to would not be found to. belong to that generic group. No Morea or Iris (see Mr. Ker’s enumeration) has stigmas, or anthers like in form, or posture, to those of our plant. The whole genus Morea (with Iris, of which it is in truth but a section with bulbous roots) — have petaloeid stigmas bent downwards, and leaning over the anthers (with the exception of M. flexuosa, and perhaps a very few other Morzas, if really — such, with filiform convolute stigmas and uniform petals) the anthers of all being sloped. Mr. Linpizy’s statement, that Trerip1a is distinguished from Morza by its stamens united in a long column, and its bifid, slender, convo- lute stigmas is incorrect, witness the column of M. unguiculata, and the stigmas of flexuosa. We distinguish Cyreiza from Iris and Morea by erect stigmas, neither petaloeid nor filiform, and broad, erect anthers, not sloped, bearing the pollen on their edges; distinctions which are confirmed by the place of habitation, and the plicate leaves foreign to those genera. We sus- pect, that those which conform with fleauosa should be detached from Morea, _ or alone retain the name, remitting the rest to Iris. W.H. Ee rs . N63 { 3 be ‘ i : WHwk etek. Pub by. Lbeerbi> Walworth March. 1826. Wedd elble (2638 ) | CASSIA AVERSIFLORA. CONTRARY=FLOWERED . CAGRIA: Se Sie Si i a a as ss Class and Order. DecanpriA Monoeynta. — Generic Character. Vide supra No. 1829. Specific Character. Cassia _aversiflora ; foliis septemjugis obovatis, glandula -fulvé oblonga inter foliola inferiora, pedunculis bifloris axillaribus glabris, stipulis hispidis, coroll4 magna flava, laciniis tribus superioribus equalibus, dudébus inferioribus majoribus, extima porrect4, intima incur- vata, legumine falcato, antheris tribus majoribus ros- _ tratis longé apiculatis, filamentis tribus longioribus— Separatis, dudbus fertilibus una sterili, dudbus alteris — hag duabus sterilibus fundo persistenter connexis. = This beautiful Cassta was raised at Spofforth a few years — ago from Brazilian seed. It forms a tall slender shrub. | It flowered abundantly in the greenhouse throughout the Summer of 1825, and continued flowering in the stove where it was removed in the winter. One only plant havin n raised, it has not been yet ascertained whether it will » endure-the winter in the greenhouse. Some of the Brazi- _ lian plants even from the sea coast are very hardy, whilst others, which grow naturally by their side, are capriciously tender. We haye raised two Gesnerias from seed lodged amongst the moss adhering to parasites gathered near the Sea side, in the neighbourhood of Rio, of which one (G. bulbosa) is a hardy greenhouse plant, the other (we believe - prasinata) will not survive the winter there. The fe ia Cassia is very remarkable for the great similarity of the _ flowers of its countless species, and the singular diversity that is found in their organic structure. Of this species, the three longer filaments fall off detached when the flower withers ; two of the sterile filaments are grouped with two — _ of the others, and one sterile filament with the remaining two ; the groups continuing firmly connected by their bases after they have fallen from the plant. We have named the species, which is, perhaps, the most beautiful of the genus, from the singularmanner in which the pair of flowers appear to shrink from each other, by the incurvation of the petals’ that come in contact. W. H. Bub by J, Curtis, Walworth, March 1826. Hasrantuus Ancustus. Narrow HaBRANTHUS. | 3 SEPSIS aakabok Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeynia. 2, Generic Character. Vide supra No. 2597. Specific Character. Hasrantuvs angustus, bulbo nigro; foliis angustis obtusis; scapo 2-floro viridi, infra rubescente, precoce ; spatha carneé, 2%-unciali, uno latere fissi; pedunculis 13- uncialibus, rubescentibus; germine purpurascente 1- unciali ; laciniis saturaté roseis uncialibus, vix 3-un- cie latis, exterioribus apiculatis, interioribus obtusis ; tubo brevi, viridi, membrana clauso ; stylo stigmate et filamentis saturaté roseis fundo albescente; antheris et polline luteis; stylo filamentis longiore, limbo bre- viore. W. H. es This species of Hanrantuus was imported from Buenos Ayres. It comes near to H. bifidus, from which it is dis- tinguished by the narrowness of the leaves and petals, the colour of the filaments, germ, peduncle, and corolla, by a two-flowered less robust and redder scape, and more espe- cially by a flesh-coloured one-leaved spathe, split on one side nearly to the bottom. It flowered at Spofforth, in September. H. versicolor produces every autumn, at Spofforth, a, solitary, gracilifolius a two-flowered scape, - succeeded by a second scape, which is sometimes one- flowered. H. bifidus has flowered at Spofforth, as well as at Highclere, producing a four-flowered scape as in the native specimens. The flowers of H. bifidus though pro- - duced successively, continue for a time in perfection to-. gether, the later pair having shorter peduncles. The sone : - ‘ re} of H. bifidus and angustus are more erect and less flaccid than those of versicolor, gracilis, and another species which we call lorifolius. Those of bifidus, at Spofforth, are a | foot and a half Jong, and five sixteenths of an inch wide. The whole genus as well as Cuiipanruus appear to like eat. : The long bulb of H. angustus was spherical when im- ported twelve months before. | The dissections represent the lowest petal, and the style _ with the filaments and membrane ; the upper filament bemg less abbreviated than the lower laterals; the lowest less prolonged than the upper laterals. ZePHYRANTHES candida has endured the, severity of the winter in an exposed border (Fahrenheit below 15) with- out losing more than the ends of its leaves. W. H.— a Puck by S lurtis, Walworth March 1826 Weddell fe. - STENOMESSON CuRVIDENTATUM. CuRVE- TOOTHED STENOMESSON. KEEEEE EERE ERE REE EEE Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeynta. — Generic Character. Vide infra No.. 2641. Specific Character. _ Srenomesson curvidentatum ; foliis lanceolato - ovalibus, - compressis, subacutis, viridibus ; scapo tereti, 6-unci- ali, glauco, versts basin crassiore; spatha bifoli, semunciali, marcescente ; germine brevi, breviter pe- dunculato, glauco, loculis circiter 10-spermis; tubo sesquiunciali, inferne pallidé virescente curvato, su- perne aureo viridi-costato recto ; laciniis $-uncialibus, reflexis, obtusis, aureis ; stylo filamentis vix longiore, — corolla 3-unciz longiore ; filamentis stylo superincum- bentibus, alternis longioribus; antheris brevibus luteis ; corona aurea tubo semunciam longiore, dentibus inter- stamineis bifidis implexé incurvatis. W. H. This species flowered at Spofforth in October, 1825, having been imported from Peru by Mr. Tare, of the Sloane Street Nursery. It is a smaller species than flavum, and produces fewer flowers, but more conspicuous. _ It is distin- aes by its reflex petals, the much greater length of the laments, and the curiously incurved bifid teeth of the cup. The editor of the Bot. Reg. expressed an opinion, that the P. latifolium and recurvatum ot Ruiz and Pavon (our Car- PODETEs recurvatus and Lereriza latifolia) would fall under this genus. The two plants are only known to us by the figures and descriptions in the Flora Peruviana ; but, if those be correct, they cannot unite with the species which form form the genus Stenomesson, which includes P. coccinenni> Fl. Perwo. and P. rubrum of Ruiz and Pavon in Mr. Lam- BERT’s Herbarium ; neither can they rank under the defini- tion of Chrysophiala in the Bot. Reg. The tube of P. recurvatum 1s a slender curved cylinder or syphon ; that of P. latifolium is short, and not constricted, unless at the mouth, and its filaments are sinuously curved. Neither of the plants have the general aspect or character of the genus to which P. flavum belongs. The capsules of recurvatum, and the s of latifolium are very unlike those of Sreno- MEsson ; both produce their scape from the midst of several leaves, and not after their decay; the form and character of the leaves and bulbs are not less dissimilar ; the bulb of latifolium being constructed with scales. We are per- suaded, that the most inexperienced eye would not refer ' them to the same group ; and that whenever we obtain a more perfect knowledge of them, the difference will be found to be even greater than now appears. W. H. i = ST i ERRATUM. Hymenocauuis litoralis, No. 2621. In the fifth line from the end of the article, Carolinianum is printed by mistake for maritimum. We meant to say, that P. maritimum had been long cultivated in North and South America. Commas are also wanting after the words many-flowered and two-flowered in _the preceding sentence. W. H, 7 Waddell & Fut. by J Gertis Walworth Morch 1826. Werk ert Del ( 2641 +) STENOMESSON FLAvuM. SLENDER-TOOTHED STENOMESSON. SHIH eskkaleseokok Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeynia. o Generic Character. Scapus solidus. Germen oblongo-trigonum. Tubus media parte constrictus curvatus, summa latior rectus. Corona staminifera. Filamenta recta. Anthere versatiles. Stylus rectus, ante maturitatem devexus. Stigma dilata- tum. Capsula ovata, trigona, trisulca, trivalvis. Plante foliis lanceolato-ovalibus margine compressis, scapo precoce, filamentis alternis longioribus ; seminibus secundum Ruiz et Pavon curvatim obovatis fuscis. Ameri- cam meridivnalem incolunt. Specific Character and Synonyms. StenomeEsson flavum ; foliis lanceolato-ovalibus compressis, viridibus ; scapo tereti, pedali, glauco, versus basin crassiore ; spatha bifolia, unciali, marcescente ; pedun- culis rectis, semuncialibus, pallidé virentibus ; ger- mine viridi; tubo 14-unciali inferné pallidé virescente - curvato, superne aureo viridi-costato, recto ; laciniis aureis, semuncialibus, conniventibus, externis angusti- oribus acutioribus ; stylo pallidé aureo recto, ante maturitatem devexo, filamentis plus semuncia longiore ; filamentis coroll4 4-uncie# longioribus, alternis (inter- nis scilicet) ceteris vix longioribus; corond aurea tubo 3-uncie longiore, dentibus filiformibus imtersta- mineis irregularibus. | Pancratium flavum. Ruiz et Pavon Fl. Peruv. 2. 54. tab. 2. 84. Stenomgsson flavum. Nobis in Append. p. 40. Curysoruiata flava. Bot. Reg. 778. W.H. an ; ; € The genus StenomEsson was detached by us (Appendix, — p. 40,) from Pancratium, being named from, and distin- guished by, the constriction of the tube a little below the middle. The species here represented was figured, in 1824, — in the Botanical Register, of which the editor, without — cause, substituted for our name, which had been published E in 1821, that of Chrysophiala, founded upon the same con- striction of the tube. The name thus substituted for that which has the priority, is objectionable in itself, as it refers to the golden colour of this species, which does not prevail throughout the genus, of which two known species are red. When we first defined this genus from dried speci ‘mens and the figures of Ruiz and Pavon, we took the tube — to be straight. We find from the living specimens, that — it is more or less curved in the narrow part. Our figure is made from the same identical bulb, from which a drawing — where it flowered again in November, 1825. The leaf re- resented in our sketch was produced after its first flower- _ ing. In 1825 it bore two leaves, fairer, and more oval and flowered in the stove soon after their decay. The bul is too large in the figure in the Bot. Reg.; and one of th flowers, which the depression of the style shews to be not full blown, is erroneously given with reflex petals, perhaps in consequence of the flower having been pulled open examine it. The genus is distinguished by very mark features, besides that from which it receives its name; the lance-oval leaves with a compressed margin; the scape pro duced after their decay, the straightness of the filaments and of the utyles which last is bent downwards before i maturity, and the ovate capsule. This species is erroneous! figured by Ruiz and Pavon, with a four-leaved e: its ry is two-leaved, and not furnished even with bractes - N. B. This article was intended to have preceded No. 2640. Pub, by. S bots Wadwo rth. March, 1é26 | Witerbert Del. ( 2642 ) PrrcarrntA Aueirios. Waite Prrcarenis. Class and Order. : HEXANDRIA Monoeynia. : | Generic Character. Vide supra No. PAIL. . Specific Character. ~. Pircarrnia albiflos ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis integerrimis elaberrimis longé acuminatis {-unciz latis, caule sim-— plici, laciniis corolla revolutis albis, stylo filamentis corolla longiore, stigmate trifido albo. This elegant white Prrcarrnta was found amongst the matted roots of some parasites and rock plants, imported from the neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro, having been sent unheeded by the collector. It encreases by suckers, and flowers freely, Our specimen flowered at Spofforth, in Septémber, where other stems were also produced in November. It is cultivated in the stove, in peat, and re- quires but a small pot, as it grows naturally in moss and small patches of vegetable earth upon trees and rocks, Plants of this Pitcairnia may be seen at Mr. Tare’s Nur- sery. W.H. —————————— nn ERRATUM. No. 2578. In the specific character of Brunsvieia Josephine, for duplo longioribus, read longiore. j it. Wahverth, Apri l82e §: v #) Wad deli Sc ( 2643) CALADIUM GRANDIFOLIUM. LARGE- LEAVED CALADIUM, Class and Order. Monezcia PoLyANDRIA. Generic Character. Mase. Cal.o. Cor. 0. Anthere peltate, multiloculares, in spicam ad apices spadicis composite. Fem. Cal.o. Cor. 0. Germina ad basin spadicis in- serta. Styluso. Bacca ]-locularis, polysperma. Specific Character and Synonyms. Caxapium grandifolium; caulescens radicans, foliis cordato- sagittatis, spadice spatham cucullato-ovatum equante. Willd. Sp. Pl. 4. p.490. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 312. Arum grandifolium ; caulescens radicans, foliis cordato- hastatis, acutis petiolis teretibus. Jacg. Hort. Schoénb. 2. p. 34. t. 189. | The leaves of this plant are so large, that we could only give a very much diminished figure of one of them, which measured above two feet in length and fifteen inches across, supported on a footstalk a foot and a half long, rounded, and inserted into the edge of the wide nearly semicircular sinus of the Leaf, which is cordate-sagittate, or heart arrow shaped, with the hind lobes spreading and obtuse ; the point very slender and weak ; margin undulated but entire, of a deep shining green on the upper surface, and pale with large raised purple veins on the under. Spathe (which . is represented of the natural size) nearly sessile, ovate- acuminate, inflated and crimson at the base, contracted in the middle, and expanded at the upper part into a white, oval hood. Spadix nearly the length of the spathe, having — the female organs at the base, the male above, and towards the © the upper part, the anthers are so crowded together, that, at first sight, the spadix appears to be naked as in the genus AruM. A leaf of this plant set up in a jar of water remained in full vigour three or four weeks. Native of Caracas and Guiana. Communicated by Mr. | Anperson, Curator of the Apothecaries’ Botanic Garden at Chelsea, where our drawing was taken, in March, 1825. W. Da, Fub. by LburtisWa lworth Apri 11876 Weideiife- ethics , ( 2644 ) | COMMELINA DEFICIENS. | T'wo-PETALED COMMELINA. JSEHIERIS HIS HSSeaisokikeksborer Class and Order. : Trianpria (rectius Hexanpria) Monoeynaa. Generic Character... Vide supra No. 1431. Specific Character. Comme ina deficiens ; herba perennis, diffusé ramosa, sub- erecta, geniculis aliquando radicans; foliis ovato-lan- ceolatis basi ciliatis ; involucro cordato-acuminato ; calyce pellucido; laciniis corolla duabus magnis cceru- leis, tertia abortiente ; stylo declinato assurgenter cur- vato; e staminibus, tribus superioribus minoribus antheris sterilibus, duobus inferioribus antheris ovali- _ bus polliniferis, sexta in medio posité, erectiore, an- thera magné dissimili pollinifera. W.H. =... - This plant is a native of the neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro. It was raised in the stove at Spofforth together _ with several other plants, by carefully preserving and _ watering the fragments of parasitic plants, which had been imported from Rio Janeiro, but had perished on the pas- _ sage, and the moss and vegetable earth adhering to them. The seed which produced this Commelina was like that of AustraemeriA, Pelegrina flattened on one side. The plant, now a year old, being tied up, is above six feet high, pro- ducing a constant succession of brilliant blue flowers, at the end of its shoots, which, in a natural state, would trail, and take root at the joints. It does not appear ever to produce the third petal, which seems to be always deficient or abor- tive. In Mr. Brown’s generic character of Commelina (see above 1431) it is stated, that sometimes two, sometimes four of the anthers are dissimilar and sterile. In our plant : the the anthers are of three kinds; three sterile, lobed ; one fertile, larger, lobed ; two fertile, oval ; and the filaments vary in the same relation. It is easily increased by cut- tings, and plants raised from it may be seen at Mr. Tare’s Nursery, Sloane Street, Ohelsea. _ Commetina has usually been placed under Triandria Monogynia ; but the incongruity: of calling a plant trian- drous, which is stated in its generic character to have six stamens is apparent. W.H. The first outline figure represents the involucre, with a part cut off to shew the secondary pedicle of the effete flower curyed back, as is usual with this genus. a One of the two lower lateral anthers magnified, fertile. 6 The central lower anther, much largest, fertile. : e One of the three upper sterile anthers, of which the middle one is shortest. : ee ee Me Granam, the ingenious and sensible authoress of two enter- taining and instructive yalumes on South America, shewed us a drawing which she made, when residing in Brazil, of a species of Commenina very common " about Rio, which appears to be evidently the same as the one here represented. From her observations it appears, that a third white petal is sometimes very distinct ; and that, besides the upper flower with stamens, a female flower, bearing a pistillum only, was always situated lower down. * This plant,’ Mrs. Granam observes, “ makes a great proportion of the natural herbage of the country, and, when grazed down, forms a pretty thick sward, seldom flowering; but, whenever it gets the protection of a hedge or bush, it grows to four or five feet in length or more, and flowers abundantly all the year round. It is apt to throw out roots from the joints. The Indian name is Tarocrana” Editor, : WHetel Dea Lubby Sharks Walworth Ayn Lith Weddeli Se ( 2645 ) IPoMG@A BIGNONIOIDES. TRUMPET-FLOWER- | LIKE Ipomma. Class and Order. Pentanpria Monoeynia. Generic Character. Cal. 5-partitus, nudus. Cor. campanulata v. infundibu- * liformis, 5-plicata. Ovarium 2—3-loculare, loculis dis- permis. Stylus indivisus. Stigma capitatum, 2—3-lobum. Caps. 2—3-locularis. Brown. Specific Character. Ipomaia bignonioides ; radice tuberosa ; caule volubili her- bacea, foliis trilobis: lobis posticis basi rotundatis im- bricatis, pedunculis axillaribus nutantibus plurifloris petiolo brevioribus, foliolis calycinis ovatis subaqua- libus, corolla infundibuliformi limbo crispato. This species of Ipoma@a appears to us not to have been described : we have, therefore, given it the specific name of bignonioides, as recommended by our friend the Hon. and Rey. Witu1am Hersert, from whom we received the draw-' ing, and have been informed by him, “ that it is a native of Cayenne, has a perennial tuberous root, and herbaceous slender stalks, lctayiiis annually, which, in the early shoots are red, as are the young leaves. Its leaves, pro- rly three-lobed, are occasionally entire, or two-lobed. ts peduncles when in vigour bear several flowers.” Mr. Hersert informs us also, that “ the same species was at Mr. Brooxes’s Nursery at Ball’s Pond, where it was erro- neously called Ipomaa discolor, which is an annual plant.” Being from a tropical climate, it requires to be kept in | the stove. LV 2646. Lhrtis Lel ber ort} 93 £ Weddell fe Pub, by S, GartisWabw orth Aymnl 1925 Wead Sra ee ee UE. ( 2646) | Coroniuia 1eeRica. Iserian Coroniia. . Class and Order. DiapeLeHiA DecanprRiA. Generic Cheracter. Cal. 2-labiatus ; ;; dentibus superioribus connatis. Vex-— illum vix alis longius. Lomentum teres, articulatum, rec- tum. Specific Character and Synonyms. Coronitia iberica ; herbacea, floribus umbellatis, pedun- culis axillaribuys folio longioribus, foliolis novenis ob- tusissimis subemarginatis, stipulis orbiculatis dentato- ciliatis caducis. Coroninua tberica; herbacea, foliolis novenis obtusissimis sub-emarginatis, stipulis orbiculatis denticulatis. FV. Taur. Cauc. 2. p. 171. et 3. p. 479. Coronixta orientalis herbacea, flore magno luteo Tourne- fortii. Buxb. Cent. 2. p. 37. t. 40. f. 2. 3 * Descr. Stem herbaceous, branched, diffuse. Leaves odd-pinnate : leaflets mostly nine, sometimes eleven or thirteen, obovate, emarginate, pale on the under side ; lower ones frequently ciliate. Stipules suborbicular ; toothed, with the teeth terminated in a short bristle, deci- duous, larger in the young plant. Peduncle axillary, nearly twice the length of the leaf. Inflorescence a terminal, eight- flowered umbel without conspicuous bracte or involucre. Pedicels half the length of the calyx, nodding. Calyx bila- biate ;_upper-lip truncate, compressed, subemarginate : lower-lip three-toothed ; teeth sharp, all bearded at the point. Vexillwm suborbiculate, emarginate, recurved, yel- _low, streaked with red. _Al@ large, rounded, covering the hatchet-shaped carina, yellow without streaks. Germen : a linear ; linear; ovula several : Styles recurved, very little hairy ; Stigma sub-capitate, pubescent. This plant has a near affinity with Coroniiia glauca and walentina ; but differs, at first sight, in having an herbaceous stem, larger flowers streaked with red, and longer flower- stalks. | The seeds of this species were sent from Constantinople by Lady Liston to Messrs. Warrier, Brame, and Mityz, and flowered the first time in their Nursery, in August, 1819. - Our drawing was taken in June, 1822. N 2647, | Vaartir ld, Bi by {becrk’Walmorthdpe 21806. Weddell ie CineRARIA Discotor. Hoary Crneraria. SERRE SER oiok Class and Order. Syncenesia Potyeamia SUPERFLUA. Generic Character. Recept. nudum. Pappus simplex. Cal. simplex, poly- phyllus, equalis. Specific Character and Synonyms. ** Floribus radiatis. Civeraria discolor; fruticosa, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis subdenticulatis glabris subtus niveo-tomen- tosis, floribus corymbosis. Swarts Fl. Ind. oceid. 3. as Ejusdem Prodr. 114. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. * _Descr. Stem shrubby, branched, white-tomentose. Leaves alternate, petiotéd, oblong-lanceolate, acute: mar- gins undulate, subdenticulate, shining green on the upper surface and white-tomentose on the under, sometimes un- equal at the base, four or five incheslong. Inflorescence, a compound terminal corymb: the partial corymbs very compact. Calyx simple, of several leaflets, adhering from the base half way up. Radius five-flowered. Petals white, oval, three-nerved, emarginate. Disk yellowish, but the florets and stigmas are white, the anthers alone yellow. Pappus capillary. Receptacle small, apparently punctate. _ _ The stem of the original plant grew in the stove at Bury- Hill, five or six feet high, but did not flower ; cuttings from it confined in small pots came readily into blossom. Our drawing was taken last January, from a small plant com- municated by Rosert Barciay, Esq.; the description chiefly from a specimen brought us by his head pri r. A bisie ae in Mareh: In the latter, the leaves . wee more erect, aap thew eS less ee — etka a o Oc.2¢ VER ELE \\ NY vi WS ty Pab. by Sarks. Walworth. dpril ise E | | eee) Paonia SESSILIFLORA. SESSILE-FLOWERED | Prony. | Class and Order. ; PoryanpRiA Dieynia. Generic Character. Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Styli o. Capsule poly- sperme. Specific Character. Paonia sessiliflora ; foliis biternatis: foliolis ovato-oblon- gis obtusiusculis subtus villosis, floribus subsessilibus, carpellis conniventibus tomentosis. Descr. Stem herbaceous, branched, of low growth.. ' Leaves biternate: leaflets oblong-ovate, rugose-veined, villous underneath ; lateral ones generally two-lobed, ter- minal one three-lobed, in the upper leaves often all entire: floral leaves, at the base of the calyx, two, one generally trifid, the other simple. Flowers white, on very short foot- stalks. Calycine leaflets five, very concave, unequal. Petals eight, concave, with undulated margins. Stamens shorter than the germens: anthers finally recurved. Ger- mens three, connivent, very tomentose. Stigmas twisted. _ Amidst the number of varieties of Peony that have of late been cultivated, it is difficult to decide which are en- titled to be considered as real species. Mr. Sasing, from whom we expect soon to see a more accurate account of this plant, is of opinion, that it is a product of cultivation ; but we have not been able to ascertain to what species it is most referable; it seems in so many points to differ from all with which we are acquainted. Imported from the Continent, some years since, by Messrs. Wuittey, Brame, and Mine, of the Fulham Nursery. Native country unknown. Flowers in May. N 2649 Ab by Lert Walworth. Muy 1028 ~ Class and Order. ; ae hh ofas? - Parraxpnta Monocrn a ee Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. a vel eubrOtata: limbo 5- fido. Filamenta basi dilatata. ein ma 3—5-fidum. Caps. infera, 3—5-locularis, pori ong bus vel apice valvato dehiscens. oo Specific Character ‘and Synonyms. CAMPANULA speciosa ; caule angulato subsimplici hispido, foliis radicalibus ovato-cordatis petiolatis ; caulinis cordatis gee fi loribus ¢} ok aye, Hornem. Hort. toem. et. Sch Syst. Veg. 5. p. (126. ar Spreng. St Veep. Cianieid nem CaMPANULA aggregata ; ~ caule angulato glab liis cau- linis sessilibus | Sed: ari ot ; florali- bus cordatis, f axillaribus termina ue ses- silibus. Walle "Suppl. if” sg es The stem of the Charani speciosa is between one and two feet high, square, with two of the sides deeply grooved, covered with hairs pointing downwards e radical leaves have long footstalks: the cauline ones are sessile, and, as well as the bractes, rough | on both sides, espe- cially along the margins ; rugose, veined and. paler on the - underside. The segments of the calyx linear and erect, about one-third the length of the tube of the corolla. The stigma generally trifid, and germen three-celled ; but, from luxuriance, now and then quadrifid, having at the same time six ee and six ee to the corolla. i ee, ar a Ps APS Seale one According _ According to the great authority of Dr. Fiscuer, of the _ Imperial Garden at St. Petersburgh, there is reason to believe, that this splendid Campanuta is a variety of glome- rata ; and Professor Sprencet, in his new Systema Veg., considers as varieties of the same, not only the speciosa of Hornemann, but also betonicefolia of GiuiBERT ; elliptica of Kiramet ; foliosa of Tenore; aggregata of WittpENnow; niceensis of Rozmer and Scuutres; and Jfarinosa of Besser. That Campanuta glomerata is subject to great variation we have abundant proof in our own indigenous speci- mens ; for with us it occurs as a plant exceeding a foot in height, and bearing many flowers, and reduced to the pigmy state of an inch with a single terminal flower (the GenrTrana collina of the late Dr. Wirnerine). Sir James E. Surrn in speaking of C. glomerata observes, that in a cultivated state, the herbage becomes more luxuriant, and less hoary, the flowers paler, more numerous, but far less handsome. n our plant the intensity of the colour of the flowers is- MS much greater than in glomerata, and deep violet, not ue. eS eet Upon the whole we can but entertain great doubt of these plants being accidental variations from the same spe- cies, and are more inclined to consider them as a squad of nearly related species. : ‘A hardy perennial. Native of Siberia. Was first raised in this country, we believe, in Mr. JEnK1ns’s garden, Glou- cester Place, in the year 1818, from seeds given him by Mr, HuNnNEMAN, who received them from Dr. Fiscuer. Flowers in June. Our drawing was taken from a Specimen com- municated by Mr. Anprrson from the Chelsea Garden, in 1820. - Weddelt fv. Puch, by I. burtuc Walworth. May i926 Dei. Abberley. ( 2650) PIQUERIA TRINERVIA. 'THREE-NERVED PIQUERIA. Class and Order. SyneenesiA Poryeamia AQuA.is. Generic Character. Recept. nudum. Cal. tetraphyllus equalis, quadriflorus. Pappus nullus. Sem. pentagona. Specific Character and Synonyms. PiguEria trinervia; herbacea, caule ramisque bifariam ° pilosis, foliis lanceolatis serratis glabris, corymbis ra- mosissimis, foliolis involucri (calycis) mucronatis. Kunth Syn. Pl. Aiquinoct. 2. p. 439. : Pigueria trineryia. Cav. ic. 3. p. 19. ¢. 235. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. V7A8. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 397. Hort. Kew. ed. alt,4. p. 501. Encycl. Bot. Suppl. 4. p. 419. This plant belongs to the natural order of Composite, the Corymbifere of Jussrev, and appears to us, in habit at least, to be more nearly related to Eupatorrum than to any other genus; but the seeds are without pappus, and the calyx consists of four leaflets, equal in length. A biennial. Native of Mexico. Cultivated in the greenhouse. Introduced by the Marcuiongss or Burs, in 1798. Flowers from June to August. ae Our drawing was taken in 1819, from a plant communi- cated by Mr. Anperson, from the late Mr. Vere’s garden, at Kensington Gore. cy N 2652. Pub by S Ares Walworth. May 1226 Wedd di te i baw (Go@OBk 5: AcACIA QUADRANGULARIS. SQUARE-STALKED ; Acacia. | ‘< : ‘ a 23 Speirs Class and Order. PotyeamiA Monaecia. Generic Character. Hermarur. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida vel 5-petala. Stam. A—200. Pist.1. Legumen 2-valve. " Masc. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida seu 5-petala. Stam. 4—200. Specific. Character and Synonyms. : Acacia guadrangularis ; foliis quinquejugis: foliolis mul- tijugis linearibus acutis ciliatis, rachi foliorum pubes- cente, capitulis axillaribus longe pedunculatis. Link. ‘a Enum. 2. p. 445. i : CACIA quadrangularis ; inermis, ramis tetragonis, pinnis quinguejugis, foliolis linearibus iiiin ‘ciate Pinte rioribus et extimis subbrevioribus, petiolo pubescente eglanduloso, capitulis subternis pedunculatis axillari- bus. De Cand. Prodr. 2. p. * This plant has been communicated from the Paris gar- den, to several collections, both in England and elsewhere, under the name which we have adopted. Upon comparing it with Jacquin’s figure of portoricensis we did not at first doubt but that our plant was the same species; but in his description he expressly notices, that the branches and pe- duncles are rounded, which are here remarkably square. In both plants the branches and petioles are said to be pubescent, but in our’s, these parts, if at all, were very minutely so. Acacia quadrangularis, portoricensis, and : caracasana, caracasana, are very nearly related, and though the native country of the first is unknown, that of the two latter spe- cies will go far towards determining it. 1 tod The genus Acacta belongs to the natural order of Mi- moseeé a tribe of the large class of Leguminose. _ Our drawing was taken in the collection of the Count pE Vanpes, at Bayeswater, in November, 1821. Requires to be cultivated in the stove. = we fF burtss, Dal f Weddeji Sc Pick by S lurtis Weabworth. May 1826 : XYLOPHYLLA MONTANA.» MounTAIN 4g Srea-sipE LAUREL. £3 i % Class and. Order. Monazcra Monapecpaia. Generic Character. Masc. Cal. 6-partitus. Cor. 0. Nectarium Glandule 6, globose. é # Fem. Cal. et Neet. ut in mascula. Germ. superum. Styli 3. Stigm. 3-partita. Caps. 3-locularis. Sem. 2, in - singulis loculamentis. Specific Character and Synonyms. XYLOPHYLLA montana ; foliis lanceolatis, floribus aggre- gatis subsessilibus, ramis teretibus apice ancipitibus. PuyLiantaus montanus ; foliis subdistichis elliptico-lanceo- latis coriaceis inciso-crenatis floriferis, floribus subses- silibus, ramis teretibus apice ancipitibus. Swartz Fl. Ind. oc. 2. p. W177. Pers. Syn. p. 591. ! XYLOPHYLLA montana. Swartz Prodr. p. 28. We remarked long ago, that Xytopnyza could hardly be distinguished from Puy.ianruus by characters taken from the parts of fructification. Nevertheless, from its remark- able habit, we are inclined still to continue it as a distinct genus. Swartz, who, in his Prodromus, retained the name of XyLoruy11a, afterwards, in his Flora Indie Occidentalis, united it with Payttantaus ; in the Hortus Kewensis, how- ever, both genera are kept distinct. Native of Jamaica, growing, according to Swarrz, on the calcareous rocks, in the western part of the —_ Fe 7; With. us, it requires the heat of the stove, where it flowers in the winter and spring months. Our drawing was taken at thelover pE Vanpks’ garden; at aoaauesn in March, oe pee ae ee ee The outline figures represent a male flower, shewing the stamens and glands, and a female flower, both eraiitet. : i | Pubs by S burtic Wa lwarth May.1326, . Jhurtis. Del, (2653) CAMPANULA RvrHenica. © ~TAuRIAN B FLOWER. ¥f Heoeoleokokokobabeobesbeobeabestskabababaaeae Class and Order. , De =a in his Prodiaes, publish _ Systema, has enumerated eight varieties of Aconitum An- _ thora, adopted from ——— s Museum p plvoticams, : 5 | = of wor work which we have not seen ; we cannot, therefore, ascer- tain to which of them our plant should be referred. The difference chiefly consists in the greater or less pubescence, — some small difference in the shape of the galea, the broader or narrower segments of the leaves. Our plant was con- siderably more pubescent in every part than the one de- scribed and figured by Jacquin. ae This plant has been supposed to be an antidote to the poison of the Aconitum Napellus and the bite of venomous animals, and has been recommended in pestilential fevers ; it belongs, however, to a very suspicious genus, and Cuv- sius long ago dissuaded from its use. Vintars says, he has known it given for worms ; but observes, that it operates very violently both as an emetic and purgative. It is, therefore, notwithstanding its name of salutary, or whole- some, a very hazardous remedy, in the use of which we should at least recommend the greatest caution. a A hardy perennial. Native of the alps of the south of Europe. Flowers from June to August. Our drawing was made from a specimen communicated by N. H. Hop- son, Esq. of Chapel House, Bury St. Edmund’s. Pe N 2655. Weddell Shrtis Dal Fb. & SF beater Main orth May. 1828. ( 2655 ) Crocus LAGENZFLORUS ‘a. Pate Gourp- FLOWERED Crocus. KKK EK KKK KE KEKE EKEK ERE Class and Order. TrianpriA TRIGYNIA. Generic Character. _ Spatha plerumque 2-valvis: valvula interior multo angustior. Cor. infundibuliformis: Tubus longissimus, basi subterraneus ; limbus 6-partitus, regularis. Stigmata 3. Specific Character and Synonyms. Crocus lageneflorus ; bulbi tunicis vix striatis, foliis sub florescentiam parum exsertis, corolle laciniis ovalibus ; interioribus multo latioribus, antheris longissimis re- a stigmatibus angustis. Salish. Parad. Lond. («.) corolla pallide ochroleuca, lineis 3 viridi-ceruleis disco laciniarum exteriorum. Salisb. pea f lageneeflorus. y. Haworth in Hort. Soc. Tr.1. p. - Our drawing of this pretty Crocus was taken from a a communicated by Josern Sainz, . from the orticultural Society’s garden at Chiswick, in March, 1819, by whom the bulbs had been previously presented to the society. The colour of the tube and the streaks on the outer la- cinie have sometimes a greenish tinge. If this be only a variety of the common yellow Crocus, it ought to have been called mesiacus or luteus. But, as we cannot determine this question, we prefer giving it under the name we received it, as it may certainly be con- sidered as the representation of an authentic specimen of the variety y of Haworrn’s lageneflorus, which is variety « of Sauispury. : dd. Pub ty S hurts Walworth Mery. J82é N 2656. Week deltte ( 2656 )- CLroME CANDELABRUM. - CHANDELIER CLEOME. — She SS Sbsbbsisk aka Class and Order. 'Terrapynamia Sriiqvosa (Hexanpria Monoeynia zw - Persoon). “% caw A Generic Character. Cal. 4-phyllus. Petala 4. Stam. 4—A0. Siliqua uni- locularis, bivalvis, polysperma. Semina exalbuminosa. Specific Character. Cieome Candelabrum ; hexandra, inermis, pubescens ; sta- minibus apice stipitis insertis, foliis quinatis : foliolis lato-ovatis acuminatis, bracteis ternatis sessilibus, sili- quis scabris stipite longioribus. a. z - Descr. Stem erect, rounded, pubescent, somewhat branched towards the top. Leaves alternate, petioled : lea/- lets five, broad-ovate, acuminate, ciliate, hairy underneath, rough above, on very short thick pedicels. Bractes, or floral leaves, small, three-leaved. Peduncles spreading horizon- tally, hairy. Calyx, four-leaved ; leaflets lanceolate. Pe- tals 4, spathula-shaped, white, with a faint blush-coloured tinge, sessile, erect on claws longer than the calyx and equalling the limb. From the ceutre of the calyx is ex- tended horizontally a stipes or pedicel, which is longer than the peduncle, at the apex of which are inserted the six stamens and the oval germen. Capsule or siliqua an inch and half long, cylindrical, very rough, crowned with the flattened globular stigma. Seeds many, rough. The species referred to the genus Cizome are very nu- merous, but we cannot discover among those recorded by De Canpo tz, in his Systema Vegetabilium, any one that corresponds well with our plant, and have, therefore, been constrained constrained to consider it as.an undescribed species; we regret, however, that, before doing so, we had not an op-_ portunity of consulting higher authority. The remarkable horizontal growth of the peduncles, e with the stipes continued in the same direction, and ter-— minated by the germen and six stamens, with their orange- coloured anthers, giye it somewhat the appearance of a — chandelier, which suggested the name. Cieome belongs to the natural order of Capparidee, _ which Brown considers as belonging to the same natural class with Cruciferae. Our drawing was taken from a plant communicated by : Mr. Anperson, from the Apothecaries’ garden at Chelsea, — in July, 1824, cd (rts WadworzZ Furie lo 2g. Weedldaie Le (2657) = PITCAIRNIA FURFURACEA. Meany Prrcairnia. ; ~ Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeynia. Generic Character, — | Calyx 3-phyllus, semisuperus. Petala 3. Squama nec- tarifera ad basin petalorum. Stigmata 3, contorta. Ca sula 3-locularis. “Sem. sub alata. bs THEI ca 4 Specific Character and Synonyms. Pircarrnia furfuracea ; foliis lanceolato-loratis sparsim spinulosis subtus farinosis recurvis, laciniis corolle obtusis mucronulatis zqualibus. Prrcarrnia furfuracea ; foliis dentato-spinosis recurvatis supra nitidis glabris subtus farinosis albis. Willd. Enum. p. 346? certe tamen non Pourretia pyramidalis Flore Peruviane et Kunth Synopsis. - Prrcarenta intermedia. Hortulanis. Descr. Radical leaves narrow, strap-shaped, much elon- gated at the point, with margins here and there armed with small spines, especially towards the base, shining green on the upper surface, and covered with a white mealy substance on the under, a foot and a half or two feet long, recurved. Scape two feet high, clothed with a white, loose, woolly substance, which easily — off. _Bractes at the lower part of the scape leaf-like, diminishing upwards, till they are only equal to the short pedicels. Flowers rose- coloured, in a long terminal raceme, simple, or with two or three short 1—3-flowered branchlets at the lower part. Pedicels three times shorter than the calyx, which is not half the =~ of the Corolla, club-shaped, persistent after the flower falls off. Petals strap-shaped, obtuse, with a = small mucro, of equal length, furnished at the base with a — scale-like appendix. Stamens included: anthers linear. Germen, triangular, 3-celled, with many ovula. Style the length of the stamens : stigmas 3, twisted together. . rom WILLDENow’s description of Prrcarrnia furfuracea, in his Enumeration of the plants in the Berlin Garden, our present subject appears to be most probably the same spe- cies, but it is certainly not the Pourreria pyramidata of the Flora Peruviana, of which Kunra, in his Synopsis, makes WILLDENow’s Apy, eoa asynonym. It is doubt- less a true Prrcarnia, having the scalé-like appendix at the base of the petals ; but even if these were wanting, we could by no means consent to separate this plant from the genus to which we have referred it. aL The plant from which our drawing was taken was com- municated by Mr. Buaxz, in August, 1819, from the late Mr. Vere’s collection at Kensington Gore. It is a native _ of South America, Cultivated here in the stove. N 2658 REG Pel Puls. by. f Curtis Walworth June lAl6. t we (| 2658 -) Laurus Campnora. Campuor-Trer. 3 Class and Order. ENNnEANDRIA Monoeynia. Generic Character. Cal. o. Cor. calycina, 6-partita. Nectarium glandulis tribus bisetis germen cingentibus. Flam. interiora glan- dulifera. Drupa monosperma. Specific Character and Synonyms. Laurus Camphora ; foliis subtriplinerviis ovatis acumina- tis, paniculis tenuibus lateralibus. Lam. Encyel. 3. p.445. Pers. Syn. 1. p. 446. Laurus Camphora ; foliis (perennantibus) triplinerviis lanceolato-ovatis. Sp. Pl. 528. ed. Willd. 2. p. 478. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p.427. Jacq. Collect. 4. p. 221. t. 3. f.2. Thunb. Jap. p. 172. Laurus camphorifera. Kempf. Amen. 770. c. tabula. Campuora officinarum. Bauh. Pin. 500. Blackw. Herb. t. 347, in fructu. Arzor camphorifera japonica. Commel. Hort. 1. p. 185. £59: Persea Camfora ; foliis ovato-oblongis acuminatis tripli- nerviis, paniculis axillaribus multifloris folio breviori- bus. Spreng. Syst. Veg. 2. p. 268. Though the CampHor-TREE appears with us to be shy of flowering, not having flowered at Kew when the last cata- logue was published, yet Jacquin observes, that in the Imperial garden at Schoenbrunn, it bore a profusion of flowers every year. It isa native of Japan, where it grows into a stately tree, which Kamprer compares to the European Lime or Linden Tree. Every part of the tree, but more especially especially the root abounds with camphor, which the pea- santry prepare from it bya rude distillation. It is exported to the East Indies and to Europe, where it is refined by sublimation, and comes to our market in large cakes, freed — ' from all impurities. _Camphor is also procured from the same or some other kind of tree in Sumatra and Borneo. According to Tuunsere, the Camphor-tree varies with red, yellow, and dark purple berries. The natives make candles of a fatty substance procured from these berries by pressure. Our drawing was taken by Dr. Grevitte, from a plant that flowered in the Edinburgh Botanical garden, and com- municated to us by Professor GRAHAM. N2659 i bartis Ded mn Gb by J Barts. Wa Worth Jecne J B26. + * : ij “et Pse. Weddeli je es 2659 ain Asrrantuvs CooriNeigin ewer.” Cuinest # STAR-FLOWER. = | Class and Order. — Hepranpria Terracynia. Generic Character. Cal. 0. Cor, hypocrateriformis 14—20-fida. Sem. 1. superum, tubo corolle persistente cinctum. Specific Name and Synonyms. ASTRANTHUS cochinchinensis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 291. Spreng. Syst. Veg. 2. p. 169. Asrrantuus cochinchinensis ; foliis ovatis serratis, spicis axillaribus. Lour. Fl. Cochin. 1. p: 222... Ace ording to ae, the Avrnanres eachinid hi ais? isa te sized tree, with a few ascending branches ; os 2 leaves vate, te, woolly, petioled, alternate ; Flowers pale, ofa fi “consistence, in long, simple, axi 5 spikes, ) erly racemes. He observes ‘that ‘the stamens are more Aisually seven, sometimes six or eight, and that _ the ler of the corolla is divided into double the number iz, the alternate ones being always somewhat shorter, but radiated on the same plane. We had no | tunity of seeing the plant ourselves, but. according to. our figure, the stamens were ten in number; and 1 the limb. mas ; he corolla was divided into twenty radiating ie, d there were five styles. If this should be found to be | generally the case, this plant will be properly ‘placed under Decandria Pentagynia. oa That our plant is the real Asrrantaus of Louremo, we : are assured ie our friend Mr. Rosert Brown, - the age ees * of aid ag 4 s own specimen. | | s gtas a | Native we Ce i. = rs oS ee aa “ * tunmcambs. Ded. _ Pub. by S. by I. bartis Walworth June. 1826 Weddell Se ANDROMEDA BUXIFOLIA. BOX-LEAVED ANDROMEDA. ' Jerk Class and Order. Decanpria Monoeyntia. Generic Character. Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. ovata: ore 5-fido. Caps. 5-locu- laris: valvulis dissepimento contrariis. 3 pr Specific Character and Synonyms. ea ANDROMEDA buxi olta ; racemis terminalibus nudis, corollis globosis, foliis perennantibus cordato-ovatis integerri- mis mucronulatis. ANDROMEDA buxtfoha ; racemis secundis nudis, corollis sub- cylindricis, foliis cordato-ovatis integerrimis mucronu- __ latis. Smith Ic. ined. i: Willd. Se Pl. 2. sg 611. Anpromepa buxifolia. , : p. 159. bus sparsis, anbitntieh ‘ibus, terminali, cordato- vatis ex Lam. - “e s racemes, on short cernuous rounded segments, persistent, very yaork oloured. Corolla potas with the base flattened and somew ellucid : rder five-cleft, lacinie small, spreading, scarcely revolute. Stamens ten, included : ilqnens, lilated at the base, hairy, 7 A. a maerted _ Servatory. — inserted into the receptacle : anthers two-celled, not spur- ; if red, Germen globular, five-celled. Style longer than the — stamens / stigma 5-lobed. 9) > } We believe the AnDRoMEDA buxifolia has been heretofore ~ only known to botanists from the specimens collected by Commerson in the Isle of Bourbon ; from one of which Sir James E. Smita published the engraving above quoted. His drawing being made from a dried specimen, the form of the corolla is not correct, otherwise the figure is a good © representation of the plant. Our friend, Mr. Roszrr Barczay, imported it from the Mauritius, and it flowered in his most interesting collection in April. It was at first kept in the stove, but did better when removed into the lower temperature of the con- =g oe eet ma a A ¥ eg : a * P " ‘ : Hina ~ ee a 2 . : % = 4 on 3 . Ee ‘4 * a = 3 8% > * Se ae ‘ oe . es : : % a ie a me + * M2661. Waldeli te waclienmaiaa » a of ci Le LM LTT ( 2661 ) GREVILLEA LINEARIS. VaT. INCARNATA, FLESH-COLOURED LINEAR-LEAVED GREVILLEA. EREREREREREREREERERE Class and Order. Terranpria Monoeynia. Generic Character. Cor. irregularis. Anthere apicibus concavis, corolla im: merse. Glandula hypogyna, dimidiata. Folliculus supe- rus, unilocularis, dispermus. R. Br. . Specific Character and Synonyms. | Gaevittea linearis ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis acutis mucro- natis marginibus refractis, racemis abbreviatis erecti- usculis, stylis ne glaberrimis. Brown in Lin. Soc. Trans. 10. p. 170. Prodr. 376. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. 205. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. 3. p. 411. — me o> lineare. Bot. Repos. . Lodd. Cab. 50. Emsorurium linearefolium. Cav. Ic. 4. p. 59. t. 386. il. | Cae sericeum. y. Smith New Holl. 27. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 539. Lysanrue linariefolia. Knight and Salish. Prot. p. 118. Grevintea linearis is a delicate shrub, with spreading branches. Leaves scattered, linear, mucronate, when young, pubescent, adult ones naked, with the margins folded back. Flowers in terminal racemes, looking one way. Pedicels shorter than the flower, clothed wit ad- pressed hairs. Petals four, equal, all turned to one side, finally revolute, hairy on the inside at the lower part. Anthers immersed in the hollow at the point of the petals, before before the expansion of the flower, closely embracing the flat stigma. Germen superior, ovate, becoming stipitate after deflorescence. Style ascendent. There are two varieties of this species, one with white, the other with flesh-coloured flowers. This genus was named in honour of the late Right Honourable Cuartes Grevitte, who possessed a very ex- tensive collection of rare plants, at Paddington, always devoted to the promotion of science. Native of New-Holland, and one of the earliest. plants cultivated here from that country, being introduced by Sir Josrrn Banxs on his return from the celebrated voyage, in which Botany Bay was first discovered. Requires the pro- tection of the greenhouse, where it flowers in almost every season of the year. Our plant was communicated by Messrs. Loppiexs, in March, 1824 ;—being the last plant we received from Hackney during the life of our venerable friend, the late Mr. Conran Loppices, to whose memory we long ago dedicated the LoppiGEsiA oxalidifolia, No. 964 of this work. ‘ The outline Jigures represent,— ee : - 1. A flower before expansion, shewing the stigma embraced by the an- ers, 2. An expanded flower. N2662 é Weddeli Se ( 2662 ) Yucca evauca. Guaucous-LEAveD ADAM’s- NEEDLE. KEKE KEE KEK KEKE EEKKE Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeynia. Generic Character. Cor. campanulata, 6-fida. Filamenta clavata. Germen triquetrum stamina excedens. Caps. 3-locularis. Specific Character and Synonym. Yucca glauca; acaulis, foliis lanceolatis flaccidis glaucis integerrimis, laciniis corolla ovatis patentissimis. Yucca glauca. Noisette Jard. fruit? _ Deser. Leaves lanceolate, glaucous, less rigid than in other a Scape four or five feet high, with about twenty lateral branches, each bearing from ten to sixteen flowers, and the terminal spike has nearly thirty. The flowers are either solitary or in pairs, or now and then in threes. The corolla less ave than o most of the other ies: the lacinie# expanding very wide. | Native of Carolina, whats it was imported by Mr. Lyons, and sold to the Hon. Wiru1am Herzerr, in whose collection at Spofforth it proved quite hardy, having stood nine winters in 1823, in September of which year our draw- ing was taken. (2663 ) RBAMNUS LATIFOLIUS. BRoApD-LEAvED Azorian Ruamnis. | eR FE REE . Class and Order. ‘ a _ PEnranpris Monocynra. Generic Character jet _ Cal. tubulosus: Cor. squame stamina munientes, ca- lyci inserte. Bacca. Sa oe | ; si, fecal a a al we sf 333 < . Specific Character and Synonyms. ver Ruamnus latifolius ; inermis, floribus monogynis hermaph- roditis, calycibus villosis, foliis ellipticis integerrimis. L’ Herit. Sert. Angl. p..5. t. 8. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. , p..16. Persoon Syn. m8 Syst. Veg. 1. p. 768. Poir. Encl. peters gs Ruamnus latifolius was first described by L’Heritrer from a plant in the Kew Garden, where it was introduced in 1778, being a native of the mountains of St. Michael, one of the Azores. i. | It is nearly related to Ruamnus Frangula, but is easily distinguished at first sight by the large size of the leaves and spotted bark of the young branches; yet there is some difficulty in finding distinguishing characters. L’Heritier depended upon the yillosity of the calyx, which is smooth a. ee oy > \ in Frangula ; De Canvorte added the greater number of the lateral nerves or ribs; and Wittpenow, in his Enu- meration of the plants of the Berlin Garden, has made use of the roundness of the base of the leaves in his character, describing those of Frangula as acute at both ends ; but none of the above characters seem very exact, or not con- stant. In the berries we examined we found three seeds, and the stigma being described by Pomer as three-lobed, it may be the natural number ; and there being but two in Frangula, this character, if constant, would be a good specific distinction. The genus Ruamnus belongs to the Natural Order of Rhamnee, and is divided by De Cannot into several sections, to which he has given names. R. latifolius be- longs to his third section, the Frangule. Our friend, Mr. Rosert Brown, in his Observations on the plants collected in the expedition of Masor Dennam and Capran- Ciaprerton, has ingeniously proposed to add the names of the subgenera to the different species, a nomenclature, which, if generally adopted, would, in these large genera, be found to be of great advantage. Upon this plan, our plant would be designated Ruamnus (Frangula) latifolius ; the name thus at once denoting the species and section to which it belonged: This plant has been generally consi- dered as @ greenhouse shrub, but is sufficiently hardy to bear our winters in the open air, without protection. ‘The plant from which our drawing was taken grew in Mr. Jenxins’s Botanic Garden in the New Road to a large size, and we received specimens of the same species from the late Mr. Warxer, from a plant which had grown in an exposed situation in his garden at Southgate, for twelve years, and continued in vigour at that time. 1 ‘ bh by S burt.t. Wa busch tily 18Z6 Woatdrlilé e P ~ > os ir 3 he ‘ @iLE i ore 2) girs ot ot KENNEDIA cocerNes. MANy-rrowsnep _ Scaruet KenneDrAs 9) ro2d Be oe oe on oe oe Oe Class and Order. DiapetpHia Decanpria. Generic Character. Vexillum recurvum, a carina non reflexum. Legumen multiloculare, polyspermum. Semina strophiolata, Specific Character and Synonyms. KenNeEpIA coccinea ; caule volubili, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis folio ternato longioribus, floribus ecapitatis. Kennepia coccinea ; foliis ternatis : foliolis obovatis, flori- bus capitatis, leguminibus glabriusculis. Vent. Mal- _ mais, 105, excluso synonymo Curtisii. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 299. pes | vies Descr. + Stem climbing, slender, rou hish. Stipules _ opposite, small, hairy. Leaves ternate, alternate ; leaflets - obovate, mucronulate, roughish above, pubescent, and veined underneath: very young ones narrow-ovate and acute. Common petiole longer than the leaflets, gibbose at the bottom. Peduncles axillary, solitary, longer than the leaf, roughened by short black hairs. Flowers about eight, collected in an umbel-formed capitulum, on short cernuous pedicles. Calyx five-toothed, clothed with black hairs: teeth subulate. Corolla papilionaceous : vexillum round-obcordate, much larger than the ale, scarlet, with a green, marginated spot at the base. Ale connivent, pur- ple, longer than the carina. Stamens diadelphous +. Ger- men linear: style smooth : stigma capitate. In the early part of this work a species of this genus _. was published under the name of GryctnE coccinea, which M. Ventenat quoted as a synonym of this; but that isa very very different species, called: by Mr. Brown, in the Hortus Kewensis, Kennepia prostrata. This beautiful climber is a native of the South-West coast of New Holland, where it was discovered by Roser? Brown, Esq. Raised by Rosert Barcray, Esq. at Bury- Hill, in 1824, and communicated in flower in April of the present year. : J burtiy De i Weadeli Je Fb by S hrtir. Walword3, Jute. 1826. ( 2665 ) ASTRAGALUS ONOBRYCHIS U7. TENUIFOLIUS. Russ1AN NARROW-LEAVED ONOBRYCHIS. JES EI SEIS ERIS Class and Order. DiapEtpeHi1A DEcANDRIA. Generic Character. Legumen plerumque biloculare, gibbum. Semina bi- serialia. Specific Character and Synonyms. Astracatus Onobrychis ; caulescens diffusus, pedunculis spicatis, vexillo alis duplo longiore. Sp. Pl. 1070. Willd. 3. p. 1296. Hort. Kew. ed. alt.4.p. 369. Jacq. Ausir. 1. p. 25. ¢ 38. (g.) tenuifolius. Vide Fl. Taurico-Cauc. 3. p. 494.n. 1482. Astracatus tenuifolius ; caulescens erectus, spicis pedun- culatis, vexillo alis duplo longiore. Hort. Kew. ed. 3. p. 73. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 1270. Astracatus linearifolius: Persoon Syn. 2. p. 336. n. 26. Onosrycuis I™* Clus. Hist. 2. p. 238. Seeds of this plant were communicated to Mr. AnpERson, Curator of the Chelsea Garden, by Dr. Fiscuer, from the Gorenki Garden, whose authority we have for stating this to be the variety of Astracatus Onobrychis mentioned by Marscnatt v. Breserstern, in the third volume of his Flora Taurico-Caucasica, above quoted. : Native of Russia. A hardy perennial, flowers in June and July. | T hurtis, Del fb. by S. lurks. Walworth. July. 1826. Waddelt Se ( 2666 2 THYMUS NUMMULARIUS MARJORAM- LEAVED ‘THYME. EREKEKEEKEEEE EERE EEE KEE Class and Order. Dipynamia GYMNOSPERMIA. Generic Character. Calycis bilabiati faux villis clausa. Specific Character and Synonyms. Tuymus nummularius ; floribus laxe verticillato-capitatis, dentibus calycinis acutis subequalibus, corollis calyce bis longioribus. ? Turmus nummularius ; floribus laxe verticillato-capitatis, calycis limbo concolore, foliis subrotundo-ovatis pilo- sis ; inferioribus subcordatis, caulibus pilosis, sarmen- tis be ee ss longissimis. Bieb. Fl. Taur.-Cauc. 3. Tuymus orientalis majorane foliis. Tournef. Cor. p. 12 ? ex Bieb. - . This species is nearly related to Tuymus Serpyllum, but isa much larger plant, and like that, varies exceedingly in being more or less hairy. In our plant, the teeth of the calyx were for the most part purple coloured, which are described as green, except when in fruit. The corolla is nearly twice the length of the calyx. A hardy perennial. Flowers in July and August. Communicated by Mr. Anperson from the Chelsea Garden, who raised it from seeds received from Dr. Fiscuer. a y er 7 feb BY S turhs. Wadw rth, Judy. 1826 i Wedd ei1/¢ ( 2667 ) _ AZALEA INDICA var. y. CLUSTER-FLOWERED ' INDIAN AZALEA. KEKE EEE EEE ERE EEE ERE Class and Order. Pentanpria Mownoeynta. Generic Character. Cor. campanulata. Stamina receptaculo inserta. Caps. 5-locularis. Specific Character and Synonyms. Aza.Ea indica ; foliis ovato-oblongis acutis villosis, pedun- culis aggregatis (solitariisve) terminalibus calycibus- que pilosis, corolla campanulata. Spreng. Syst. Veg. 1. p. 628. Azaea indica. Bot. Mag. 1480, ubi synonyma petenda Bot. Reg. 811. ho | (8.) Bot. Mag. 2509. | (y.) floribus purpureis aggregatis. This variety of the much admired Azaxea indica is less hairy than either of those before published ; the flowers are larger and collected together at the extremities of the branches. The flowers are of a fine purple colour; the upper segment spotted in the manner of RuopopenprRon _ ponticum, and, like the first, has ten stamens. These cha- racters would unite it to RHopopEnpron, but, according to PFER, Some of the varieties have only five, and others _ tenstamens. This species seems indeed to bid defiance to _ all description ; for not only the flowers vary in colour and form, but the leaves of some of them are deciduous, some evergreen, some quite smooth, others hairy, as well as being very differently shaped-; some blossom in the spring, others m the autumn. The drawing of our present subject was taken at the garden belonging to the Horticultural Society, at Chiswick, - In May Jast. Fab by Shirts Walwarpa Fudy AB 28 Fbartes Del HELIANTHUS ATRORUBENS. Dark-purpLz- _ ..... EYED SuN-FLOWER...... Class and Order. SY 3s itis SynGENEsIA Potyeamia FrustraneA. 9 Generic Character. bea Receptaculum paleaceum, planum. Pappus diphyllus. Cal. imbricatus, subsquarrosus. © Specific Character and Synonyms. Heviantuus atrorubens ; foliis oppositis spathulatis cre- natis triplinerviis scabris, squamis calycinis erectis longitudine disci. Sp. Pl. 1279. ed. Willd. 3. p. 2245. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 476. n. 26. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 129. Heuiantuus atrorubens ; totus hispidus; caule superne nudiusculo laxe paniculato, foliis spathulatis ovatis crenatis triplinervibus scabris, squamis calycinis ovato- lanceolatis longitudine disci atropurpurei. Pursh FI. Amer. Sept.2. p. 570. Bot. Reg. 508? excluso sy- i Bot. Mag. Corona Souris minor, disco atrorubente. Dill. Eltham. 111. ¢. 94. | Corona Souts caroliniana parvis floribus, folio trinervi amplo aspero, pediculo alato. Martyn Cent. 20. In the forty-fifth volume of this work, No. 2020, we gave a figure and description of a Hetianruus which ap- peared to us to be an undescribed species, and to which we gave the name of diffusus. This has been since quoted as a synonym of He.ianruus atrorubens in the Botanical Register. e figure in that work, we suspect to be from the plant we have called diffusus, and the description ac- commodated to both species. We have here given a figure of ans believe to be the atrorubens of Linnaus; andif_ so, no two species of the genus can be more distinct in habit; _ our; present plant growing -erect, ,with few leaves; at: the a upper flowering part of the stem, and havin remarkably — straight, upright, and’ often-branched' peduncles; whereas _ our diffusus is a low, spreading, very much branched plant, with axillary, solitary-peduncles,-and:larger flowers ; the _ leaves too are very different in shape, the lower ones in _ atrorubens being contracted.towards the base, so as to _ resemble a winged footstalk, as it is described by Marryy, © and represented in. Ditxaytus’s, figure. . é. Native of Carolina, Virginia, and Upper Louisiana. — Flowers from September to October. Considered as a_ hardy perennial ; but, as Martyn observes, liable to be de- icaued. 3 by our severe winters. Communicated, by Mr. Hopson, from the Botanical Garden, at Bury St..Edmunds. feaertis Dol. Aib.by J turts, Valvorth Subp 1826. Waddell le ( 2669 )— HELIOTROPIUM CURASSAVICUM. GLaUcous Turnsote or Hetiotrope. 7 Class and Order. Pentanpria Monoeynia. Generic Character. Cor. hypocrateriformis, 5-fida, interjectis dentibus : fauce nuda. Specific Character and Synonyms. HEiorrorium curassavicum ; foliis lanceolato-linearibus glabris aveniis, spicis conjugatis. Sp. Pl. 188. ed. Willd. 1.p. 743. Persoon. Syn. 1. p.156.”.16. Hort. Kew. ed. alt.1. p. 285. Fl. Perv: 2. p.4.n.10. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. 4. p. 32. et 728. ee Heliotropium curassavicum ; caule herbaceo ; foliis sub- © . Oppositis angusto-lanceolatis obsolete venosis glabris glaucis, spicis conjugatis solitariisve. Hornem. Hort. Hafn. 1. p. 172. Lehm. Asper. p. 34. n. 13. Hetiorrorium curassavicum ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis glau- cis glabris obsolete venosis oppositis alternisve, spicis conjugatis compositisve. Walld. Enum. 175. Heriorropium indicum procumbens glaucophyllon, flori- bus albis. Pluk. Alm. 182. t. 36. f. 3. 7 Hexiorrorium americanum procumbens, facie Lini umbili- -cati. Herm. Parad. p. 183. cum. tab. Moris. Hist. 8. p. 452. Sect. 11. t. 31. f. 12. pessima. HeEtiorrorium maritimum minus, folio glauco, flore albo. Sloane Hist. 1. p. 213. t. 132. f. 3. Hexiorrorium curassavicum is a plant of little or no beauty, but there not existing any coloured figure of it, _ for any good one at all, we have thought it worth while < to to give a representation of it, It is a weak trailing plant, — easily distinguished from the other species of the genus by — its smooth glaucous leaves. _ . . Native of the West-Indies and tropical America. Cul- tivated in the stove; where it will sometimes abide a second ~ or third year, though generally annual, or at most biennial. Flowers from June to August. Our drawing was taken at the Horticultural Society’s Garden at Chiswick, where it was raised in 1823, from seeds brought from Jamaica by Mr. Grorce Don. bes = Poa: buerter Ded Bib by Silaurtis Wetkworth. Judy 1226. arene ree N2670. ( 2670 ) VALANTIA TAURICA. FRAGRANT VALANTIA.. Class and i : PoLyGAamIA (i fea. Generic | Character. Hermapurop. Cal.o. Cor. 4-partita. Stam. 4. Stylus bifidus. Sem. 1]. : ) Masc. Cal. 0. Cor. 3- s. 4-partita. Stam. 3. vel 4. _ Pistillum obsoletum. Specific Character and Synonyms. Vatantia taurica ; pedunculis multifloris folio brevioribus diphyllis pilosis, foliis quaternis obovato-oblongis reticulato-venosis hirtis margine carinaque hispido- ciliatis, caulibus decumbentibus ramosissimis hispidis, fructibus glabris. Bieb. Fl. Taur-Cauc. 2. p. 437. et 3. p. 640. en ~ ae is Vatantia taurica ; foliis quaternis hispidis ellipticis reticu- latis, pedunculis ramosis ciliatis bracteatis deflexis, — bracteis oblongis, fructibus hispidis. Willd. Sp. Pl. A. p- 951. 3 ff: Gauium tauricum. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. 3. p. 250. Rusia minor hispanica. Munt. Phyt. p. 339, cum. Icone ? repre Fe We were informed by our friend Dr. Fiscuer, when he ~ was in this country, that this plant is held in much estima- tion in the Crimea, on account of the fragrance of its flowers. We had no opportunity of ascertaining what _ Was the case in this re t in its cultivated state. Our drawing was taken in the Chelsea Garden in May, 1820, where it was raised from seeds sent by Dr. Fiscuzr. — Native of the dry chalky hills in Tauria. With us may — _ be considered as a hardy perennial. . N 2671 Wedd ld ol Bb by S urtis Walworth Aue lis. ee he Banxsta Almuta. Ruivau Bay«sta. seokeskeokeskeskeskebsbobeobcate stot kok sake 4 Class and Order. _ Terranpria Monoeynia. Generic Character. Cor, 1-petala. Stamina apicibus concavis corolle im- mersa. Sgquamule hypogyne 4. Folliculus ligneus, bilo- cularis : loculis l-spermis ; dissepimento libero, bifido. Amentum flosculorum paribus tribracteatis. Brown. Specific Character and Synonyms. eis, stigmate capitato exsulco nitido | Pe 2 i li duplo crassiore, caule fruticoso. . oe opie eer p. 4855 ia Banxsia serrata. White Voy. 222. tab. tertia? Banxsta serratifolia. Salisb. Prodr. 51? Banxsia serrefolia. Knight et Salisb. Prot. 112 ? Our drawing of this rare species of Banxsra, was taken» at the Counr pe Vannes garden, at Bayeswater, in January, | 1825. The gardener informed us he had the name from Mr. Brown, and it appears to correspond with the Cha- racter given in his Prodromus. _ Banksia emula has a near relation to serrata, but differs in the leaves being more deeply serrate, and especially in the size and form of the _ Stigma. Its flowering in the winter season may perha _ have ee: oh the colour to be greater, than it caigiee a have been, had the plant had the enjoyment of more sun. eS Our synonyms above quoted are entirely taken from 3s : Mr. Brown. | eee N2672. Pua By f Bartic. Wadwoth Aug i826 Wed edd Je. : (2672 ) : a ‘CORIFOLIA. Corts-LEAvep HispermTia. E @ ahaa Clase ‘2: Oeder Pouvanpria Priors, Gemttic Charactek. Cal. 5- phyllus, in fructu’ connivens. + Petal 5, decidua. Caps. 3—13, glomerate.. Ss Sey he Specific Characber. Hisserria corifolia; caule friticoso: ramis diffusis con- fertissimis, foliis WP des sessilibus, ovariis ternis glabris. ‘ , 4 f * a : Descr. Stem ibapby.Al deck ‘breehad ; branches diffuse, slender, flexile, red. Leaves linear, ee nat an inch long, alternate, matphie revolute. ‘Pé minal, solitary, « gt flowered, longer than the tare, th thick. si __ened towards the poi “tes a ht red, with a single leaf-like acte near the ca Calyx five leaved: leaflets oval, concave, villous, iised | _after _deflorescence - -con- nivent. Petals five, obovate, emarginate, yer like those _ of Cistus Helianthemum. Stamens from twelve to twenty, four times shorter than the petals, unequally united at the _ divaricate, incurved, green. . he flowers very much resemble tibet of the dwarf _ Cistus, and it has been considered as an undescribed species — - of that genus. From its three divaricate styles, and the resemblance of its foliage to that of Hypericum Coris, we _ Were at first inclined to consider it as a species of St. John’s _ Wort; but a short conversation with our friend Mr. Rosert Brown convinced us that it was a true Hipsertia, a genus as the Cisrus does in Europe. : nn = ; | ——-Hiwpertia base: Anthers oblong. Ovaries three, oval, smooth : styles se ‘ _ Which, in New Holland, seems to occupy the same station os Hisgertia cordifolia is an elegant little shrub, and when covered with its bright yellow blossoms, terminating its numerous. pensile branchlets, makes a very beautiful ap- pearance. ; This genus belongs to the Natural Order of Dilleniacee, and the present specics to De Canpotue’s second section, adopted from Mr. Rosrert Brown. — e were favoured with the plant from which our draw- ing was taken, by our friend Rosert Barcray, Esq. of Bury-Hill, who informs us, that he received it from Mrs, Marryatr of Wimbledon House. It was supposed to be _ from Nepal; but this is uncertain, and it seems more pro- bable that its native country is New Holland. Flowers in the greenhouse, in May and June. v “© / beer hes Mal wort, fg 1826 ( 2673 ) = CROCUS-FLOW- _ CoLcHICcUM CROCIFLORUM ERED Mescow a Class and Order, HExANDRIA Todituia. i. Generic Character. | Spatha.-Cor. 6-fida: seen radicato. Capsule 3, connexe, inflate. 3 ; Specific, Character. CoLcHicum crociflorum ; how pauciflora, laciniis corolle obtusissimis tubo vix bis brevioribus, foliis lanceolatis. This. Coxcarcum, hic ich appears to us to be an unde- scribed species, was rai d at the Botanical Garden belong- ing to the Apothecaries’ Company. It was one of a selec- tion of roots of the officinal Colchicum had at the Hall from three differen counties, from which Mr. AnpErson informs us, as many different species. were produced. The one from which our drawing was taken, was supposed to be collected in the neighbourhood of Hertford, but appears to us to be different from the autumnale figured in English Botany. ‘che flower resembles more that of Byzantinum, but the tube is much shorter : the foliage is very different, having four or five lanceolate leaves, of a darker colour, growing ae ong the stem, which they sheath at the base. Z , ee ; i ¢ ifs a Re. 4 eg FE Tea - sities i ae = _ Eo eo + x > Pid by f bvsrtas Wabworthe ding * 1226. N74, Spartium ASrNnensE. THREE-SEEDED Broom. eee ERE EEKEEE EEE EERE KEK Class and Order. Lot DiapeteHia DecanprRiA. Generic Character. Stigma longitudinale, supra villosum. | Filam. germitii _ adherentia. Cal. deorsum productus. : Specific Character and Synonyms. Spartium @inense ; inerme, ramis teretibus striatis pro- pendentibus, foliis linearibus sericeis (caducis), race- mis terminalibus, leguminibus subtetraspermis. Bivon. Stirp. rar. Sicil. man.2. Rafin. Chl. ethn. ex De Cand. Genista ethnensis ; erecta ramosissima, foliis paucis lineari- bus sericeis, racemis terminalibus, petalis glabriusculis longitudine subequalibus, leguminibus oblique ovatis compressis 2—3-spermis ; junioribus pubescentibus. De Cand. Prodr. 2. p. 150. n. 48. See _Spartium trispermum. Smith in Rees Cycl. n. 5. Descr. A small shrub with many alternate, rounded, streaked, glaucous, pensile branches, in the flowering State altogether without leaves. Flowers sweet scented, alternate, nearly sessile, or on very short peduncles, with- out bractes. Calyx five-toothed : teeth obtuse, scariose, Spreading. Vexillum nearly round, emarginate, reflexed : ale shorter by half than the vexillum, bowed. Carina equal to the alz, pubescent, united at the point. Stamens all connected. Style incurved. Stigma capitate. This shrub very much resembles the Spartrum junceum — or Spanish broom, but is much smaller in all its parts ; flowers not half the size, branches much more slender and. more glaucous. Spartium and Genista have been long ago united by : . J ussIEU ° Jussreu and Lamarck, but while De Canpoxte has kept — Spartium junceum distinct, we cannot well separate this — so nearly related species from the same genus, 4 The plant from which our drawing was taken, was com- municated in July, 1823, by P. B. Wess, Esq. late of ‘Milford House, Surry. It was raised from seeds given him by M. Brvona, who found it at the foot of Mount tna, near I] Milo, and has given a description of it in the work above quoted from Mr. Wess, but which we have not seen. Pisb by S Cartas. Walnarth Bug? Bb ets 9, 3 Cornus mascuta. Cornecian Cuerry. Class and Order. 7 Terranpria Monoeyntia. Generic Character. Involucrum 4-phyllum sepius. Petala supera,4. Drupa nuce 2-loculari. “Specific Character and Synonyms. * Cornus mascula; arborea, umbellis involucrum xquanti- bus. Lan. Sp. Pl. 171. Syst. Veg. 159. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 661. Persoon .1. p. 143. Mart. Mill. Dict. Hort. Kew. ed. alt-1. p.261. Blackw. Herb. t. 121. Schmidt Arb. 2. p. 7. t. 63. Sibth. Fl. Grec. t. 151. 7 Cornus mascula ; arborea, floribus umbellatis, foliis ovatis. Scop. Carn. ed. 2.1. p. 112. cum descriptione optima. Cornus mascula ; arborea, umbellis subaxillaribus, invo-— lucris coloratis umbellam subequantibus, foliis ob- — : longis acutis venosis scabris. Spreng. Syst. Veg. 1. | 2 Ole tO ee = es _ Cornus sylvestris mas. Bauh. Pin. 447. Lob. Ic. 2. 169. Cornus. Clus. Hist. 1. p. 12. f. 3. Dod. Pempt. 802. __ Descr. Stem shrubby or arborescent, six or eight feet high, but sometimes acquires a much greater altitude: _ branches reclined, covered with a grey bark. Leaves op- _ posite, ovate-acuminate, quite entire, dark green on the Upper, pubescent and paler on the under side, with paral- tel veins convergent towards the point. Involucre when, _ the fruit was ripe still persistent, 4-leaved ; leaflets oval, concave. Footstalks twice the length of the imvolucre. Drupe elliptical, obtuse at both ends, with an umbilicate apex: Pulp juicy, sweet; acidulous and astringent : Nut ovate-oblong with four white angles, very hard, bilocular. The flowers of this species come out early in the spring before the leaves appear, in small umbels of a yellow co- lour: but the chief beauty of the plant is when the fruit is. ripe. The fruit is eatable and sometimes made into a pre- serve. There is a variety mentioned with yellow fruit. Native of the hedges and woods in Austria and several other parts of Europe, and is quite hardy in our climate. Communicated by Oscoop Hansury Esq. from his gar- den at Tanner’s-End, in September, 1823. N26. Si a ya C14 Curtir Ded, i tbby Lbartes Wabworti. Aig P1226. Cassia AUSTRALIS. New-HoLtanb Cassia. DO Class and Order. Decanpria Monoeynia. Generic Character. Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala5. Anthere 3 supreme steriles; 3 infime rostrate. Legwmen. Specific Character. Cassia australis ; foliolis duodecim-jugis oblongis obtusis mucronulatis, glandula subulata inter utrumque par, sepalis petalisque obtusis subequalibus, pedunculis subquadrifloris. 3 Descr. Stem fruticose, erect, simple or very little branch- ed towards the top. Stipules two, at the base of the petioles, subulate, incurved. Leaves abrupt pinnate: rachis channelled: leaflets ten or twelve pair, oblong-elliptical, obtuse at both ends, emarginate, with a minute mucro, smooth, about an inch long when full grown. Glands erect, subulate, black at the point, one between each pair of the leaflets. Peduncles axillary, naked, shorter than the leaf, sometimes growing two together, sometimes single, . _ bearing generally four large golden-yellow flowers. Pe- _ dicels cernuous, with a small oval dbracte at the base of | each. Calycine leaflets round-oval, concave, nearly equal, but twe i vo a little the largest. Petals obovate, with a short _ Claw, nearly equal. Stamens ten: filaments very short and _ thick: anthers oblong, all connivent, brown ; the lower- _ Most one the longest. Germen stipitate, linear, and to- gether with the style curved into a semicircle: stigma simple. . 3 _ ‘This handsome Cassia was raised at Bury-Hill, from seeds received from Mr. Tetratr, early in 1824, with an observation, that he had just got them from New Holland. Mr. Barctay also raised the same species from a packet of New Holland seeds, given him by Mr. Stittweut of Dork- ing. It has been raised also from seeds received from New Zealand. _ eae | Has been hitherto cultivated in the greenhouse, where it blossoms in May and June, but has not as yet produced © seeds. I The outline figures show the calyx, stamens, and pistil, the petals being removed ; and a full-grown leaf. ann Dee eatin Pub by S Gurtig Waliterth Sq dblé EDDeb PATERSONIA GLAUCA. LoNG-scaPED PATERSONIA. JSR HHH HnSeiik Class and Order, Trianpria Monoeynta. Generic Character. Cor. hypocrateriformis, regularis: tubo gracili: limbo 6- partito, laciniis interioribus minutis. Filamenta connata. Stylus capillaris, apice sepissime tumido. Stigmata 3, lamineformia, indivisa. Capsula prismatica. Sem. nume- rosa. R. Brown. ; ait Specific Character and Synonyms. Patersonia glauca ; scapo filiformi foliis linearibus striatis longiore, spathis multifloris, laciniis corolla internis _ inconspicuis, stigmatibus patulis serrulatis. Parersonia glauca ; stigmate erecto, styli apice parum in- crassato inarticulato, this subtrifloris striatis sca- poque filiformi fere dimidio breviore glabris, foliis linearibus convexiusculis, marginibus carinaque ba- seos nudis. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 304. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. 1. p. 404. a | Patersonia glauca; scapo filiformi spathisque striatis, foliis linearibus compressis glaberrimis, stigmatibus erectis obtusis. Spreng. Syst. Veg. 1. p. 168. Genosinis fragilis. Labill. Noo. Holl. 1. p. 13. t. 9. ie Desc. Herb in every part smooth. Leaves linear, elon- gated at the point, striate, at the base broader, compressed and embracing one another distichwise. Scapes very slen- der, often nearly twice the length of the leaves, rounded and very little flattened. terminal, bearing many blue flowers in succession : Tube filiform and very brittle : Limb spreading : three outer lacinie oblong-oval, termi- nated with a small white point: three internal lacinie — erect, very minute, indeed nearly obsolete. Stamens three: filaments short, united: anthers oblong, nearly erect. 2 Style overtopping the anthers: Stigmas three, petal-formed, — spreading, flat, minutely serrate at the edge. Capsules several, included within the persistent, 2-valved spathe, and 4" = separately covered by thin membranaceous spathelets, — nearly an inch long, three-sided, three-celled, with two rows of oval smooth seeds in each cell, which are seen through ~ the sides of the capsule. This is evidently a different species from PartersoniA sericea (supra No. 1041.) nor does it, we are sorry to observe, entirely agree with the characters of glauca, as given in Brown’s Prodromus; yet we are not willing unnecessarily to consider it as a distinct species ; should it hereafter be thought so, the name of longiscapa may be applied to it. Parersonia belongs to Linnaus’s Natural Order of En- sate, the Iridee of Jussreu. Native of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Island. Raised by Rozserr Barctay, Esq. of Bury Hill. Flowers in the greenhouse, in May and June, and produces abundance of blossoms im succession. a aS ‘ = Rs Bibby S CurtisWalworth Sgn 1826. - = Wrideld- be: (2678 ) Dracopuytium cracite. SLENDER: DracopHyLtuM. Class and Order. : _. Pentanpria Monoeynia. _ Generic Character. Cal. bi- vel ebracteatus. Cor. tubulosa, limbo 5-partito, patenti, imberbi. Stamina epipetala v. hypogyna. ~Squa- mule 5, hypogyne. Capsula placentis ab apice columne centralis pendulis, solutis. R. Brown. Ww - Bole Specific Character and Synonyms. Dracopuytium gracile ; ramis floriferis Spica ovata multo- ties longioribus, foliis caulinis subulato-lanceolatis patulis recurvisve ; rameis appressis. Brown Prodr. — Nov. Holl. p. 556. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. 4. | p. 386. 3 _ Epacris gracilis. Poir. Encycl. Bot. Suppl. 2. p. 556. Descr. A low shrub, with straggling branches clothed with lanceolate, recurved leaves, sheathing the stem at their base, mucronulate and subpungent, collected at the _ extremities of the sterile branches into green globular heads. The peduncles, or flowering branches, are clothed - with closely adpressed, erect, sheathing leaves or bractes. Flowers white, collected in terminal, ovate, compact heads, crowned with green, subulate leaves, or bractes. Calyx two-bracted, sessile, green, five-leaved : leaflets lanceolate, acute, hairy on the outer side and striped on the inner, equal to the tube of the corolla. Corolla saucer-shaped : _ limb five-cleft : lacinie spreading, round obovate, with un- dulate margins : faux c osed: tube cylindrical. Anthers meluded, brown. Germen nearly globular, 5-torulose - "_ Style shorter by half than the tube, smooth : stigma capi- _ . tate 4 ee tate. The flowers are sweet-scented, especially in the evening. | , Dracopnyttum belongs to the Natural Order of Epa- CRIDEZ ; is nearly related to Epacris, and indeed, accord- ing to Brown, includes the genuine species of that genus, as established. by Forster, viz. longifolia and rosmarini- folia; but the plants recorded under Epacris have now taken so firm possession of that name, that the learned . author has chosen to adopt Lapittarpiere’s ; and, the more especially, as Forsrer’s plants are known to very few bo- tanists. Dracoruytium gracile is a native of the south coast of New Holland ; and was communicated to us by Rozerr Barctay, Esq. early in June, in the present year, having been raised in his garden, at Bury-Hill, that never-failing _ source of new and rare plants. It continues a long time in blossom, and though straggling in its growth, its fine heads of snow-white flowers oy RT appearance, N2679 Weddell Se ee DaviesiA ACICULARIS. NEEDLE-LEAVED DAVIESIA. Class aad Order. Drcanpnta, ‘Moxoernis, Ganarie Character. Cal. angulatus, ebracteatus. “Cor: begitiiianes: carina _ vexillo brevior. Germ. pedicellatum, dispermum. Stylus strictus. Stigma simplex. gumen compressum, angu- latum, elastice dehiscens. i he apo seminis postice ‘in- tegra. R. Brown. #, Specific Chora and Synonyms. - Daviesia acicularis ; foliis linearibus revolutis pungen-- tibus strictis denticulato-scabris, floribus axillaribus : solitariis. Smith in Lin. Soc. Tr. A. p. 255, Spren- Ff gel Syst. Veg. 2. p. 352. ~ Davissia acicularis ; foliis lined uy margine callosis sub- revolutis pungentib s strictis denticulato-scabris, flo- ribus axillaribus solitariis brevissime pedicellatis. Decand. Prodr. Syst. Nat. ve 2. p. LIA. 4. | a f4 A low, rigid, branched drab, hich bears a multitude _ of pretty flowers on very short peduncles, in the axils of _ the leaves, during the months of May and June. Native of New South Wales, Requires the protection of the greenhouse. Introdticed in 1804, by Grorce His- _ Bert, Esq. of Clapham, where our drawi _was taken. _ It is not recorded in the last edition of the Hortus Kew- ensis, and we doubt if it still exists in any collection in this . country. We believe no nee of it os been heretofore . . ee publiea. ae. N 2680. ED.D, LD. Let Fich by f. by S.Gertis, Wal; Walworth Orth Sa } Sep leth. =a Wa 7397 : dd |e. 3 rs - = “a s 7p aMe Es ' Sakae SFL 2h) Loa i “a vey ‘ ce $ “gee. < M3 ee oe ai ate FSR. yee Piec Eid. £2324 eG = BSE : PULMONARIA PANICULATA. «#. —BLUE-FLow- ERED, PANICLED LuNGwort. i re a es : ; - = Pentanpria Monoeynia. Generic Character. Cor. infundibuliformis, fauce pervia. Cal. prismatico- pentagonus. a jee! Specific Character and Synonyms. _ Putmonaria paniculata ; foliis caulinis ovatis acutis sca- : briusculis, floribus paniculatis cernuis, limbo corolle ~_campanulato. | Putmonaria paniculata ; calycibus abbreviatis quinque- partitis hispidis, foliis ovato-oblongis acuminatis pilo- siusculis. Hort. Kew. ed. I™ 1. p. 181. ed. alt. 1. p. ave we Sp. Pl. 1. p. 769. Pursh. Fl, Am. Sept. (a.) floribus ceruleis.§ ; (B.) floribus albis. , 3 a Litnosrermum paniculatum ; caule erecto glaberrimo, —_ 1ervosis: petgeculs acuminatis ; inferioribus cordato-ovatis longe petiolatis ; superioribus ovato- _ ~ lanceolatis ceasili hs, floribus annie, calycibus _ hispidis. Sprengel Syst. Veg.1.p. 547. Lehm. Asperif. — At first sight there appears to be a great similarity be- twixt Putmonaria paniculata and davurica(supran. 1743); ~ but a little attention shews them to be very distinct, not only in the difference of the foliage which in the former is larger, broader oval, and much more rough, but also in the form of the corolla, the tube in davurica being cylin- drical and occupying two-thirds of the corolla, which in our present plant is almost globular, and occupies but ge i ' : ; ai: third | vs ¥. = third of the whole, the upper part, or limb, being bell-sha- ped, not cup-shaped as in the former. The segments of the calyx are also longer and more acute. In our description of P. davurica, we remarked an approach in that species to Sympnyrum ; P. paniculata, in its habit, makes another ‘ approach to that genus, by having generally two leaves _ growing together at the base of the panicle. _ A hardy perennial. Native of Hudson’s Bay. Commu- nicated by Rosrert Barctar, Esq. from his collection at . -Hill, who received it several years ago from the late Mr. Lez, of Hammersmith. Originally introduced to the Kew Garden, by the late Dr. Soanper, in 1778. We be- lieve no figure of it has been before published. t t A # er ae NV 2681. Weddell Je Tt) Del I 5 r , - "94 ED Del Pub . by SLrurtes Wa /weorth Sen . 18276 7 ( 2681 ) FEeviLt&a PEDATA, Fem. FremMae Prpate FEvILL@A. sis esettetamanatenate iia Class and Order. Dracra Pevravonia, me ee as, Sa ae a Genera Ch Masc. Cal. B-fidus. Cor. 5-fida.” S Stam. 5. Net. filam. 5, conniventia. — a Fem. Cal. 5 fduer Sy 8 5. ; - Pomum durum, 3—5-locu- ~ tIare, ric 2063 a SLs gana Charice.” = Frum. pedata ; foliis pedatis a semini- bus reticulato-venosis an sig : : a some part of the The Fev L: i are . informed, it was disco- East-Coast of Africa, where, we ai vered by M. Bosir, and has’ 2eD : successfully cultivated at the Mauritius. Iti is said to ye spread over a large surface — of ground there, prodi a “much fine large fruit, contain- ing each about a hundred seeds, the kernels of which are sweet and good to eat. Cuartes Trtrair, Esq. superintendent of the Royal Garden at the Mauritius, a most zealous collector of sub- jects of natural history, especially of seeds, bulbs, and plants from Madagascar and the Kast-Coast ‘of Africa, to whom | the splendid collection at Bury-Hill is indebted for So many of its rarities, sent seeds of this plant to Mr. Barcuay, in June, 1825, from which our present subject Was raised and planted out in the” bout the latter end of October, and has aete so - sly, that the ardener inforiiily us, one | s shoots. ow fifty-six’ eet in length. In June a one year after the seed was : sown, it peedyal severa “but for want of the [mele male plant, the germens fell off soon after the decay of the flower. Feu, belongs to the Natural Order of Cucurbitacee, and is named in commemoration of Father Fruituiz, a celebrated astronomer and botanist. The Stem is angular, climbing, or, when unsupported, probably prostrate like a gourd. Leaves alternate, pedate, of five oblong-oval leaflets, with waved, and distantly toothed margins, point- ed at both ends: the hinder ones two-lobed. Tendrils axil- lary or lateral, divided, longer than the petiole. Peduncles axillary, solitary, one-flowered, recurved. Germen inferior, enlarged and torulose at the base, lessening upwards, ten- grooved, apparently three-celled, with numerous ovules, in two rows in each cell, Calyx superior, very small, five- toothed, brown-purple. Corolla campanulate: petals five, distinct, wedge-shaped, with fimbriate, pubescent margins. Style thick : Stigma five-lobed. Imported Seed nearly or- bicular, compressed, about the size of a Windsor-bean, a little broader from side to side, than from base to point, covered with a reticulate-veined coat. When rubbed, the plant gives out a nauseous scent. Our friend Sir James E. Surru, being fortunately ona visit at Bury-Hill, at the time this plant was in flower, de- termined it to be an undescribed species of Frurii, and st the name and character which we have adopted. — e following extract of his letter to Ropert BarctyYs Esq. concerning his investigation of the genus, will, we doubt not, be acceptable to our botanical readers. “J found myself immediately embarrassed by numerous mistakes of Linnzus and others, but these concern the ori- ginal species only. F. scandens Lin. Sp. Pl. 1457, to which Linnzus referred Tricnosantues, n. 1. of Browne's Jamaica, 354, as well as his own T’ricHosantuEs punctata, Sp. Pl. 1432, both different plants from it and from each other. He judged them one species, consisting of two varieties, by Burmann in Pxumier’s Icones, t. and\210; but afterwards, in the 10th edition of his Syst- Nature, v. 2. 1292, he ted them, by the names of éri- lobata and cordifolia, 1 obtained, by special favour at Paris, a leaf of each, gathered in South America, by Pxv- mizR himself. These are distinct from any thing ever see? eam his F. trilobata, as well that of the Banksia® Herbarium being Brownez’s Tricuosantugs, n. 1. above mentioned, and no Feuillza at all. Whether Prumser’s tab. 209 and 210 be distinct 2-74 ci cies I much doubt, and should rather reduce them to one, by the name of cordifolia, as marked by Linnavs, in his _copy of Browns, p. 374. the latter author considering them as one species. They are indubitably the type of the genus Fevuittaa (Nhandiroba of Piumier’s Genera, p. 20. t. 27, under which name, an intermediate three-lobed variety, less elongated at the base, like the upper leaf in Prumrer’s t. 210, is figured, in Piso and Marcerave’s Brasil, p. 46). See also Stoane’s Jamaica, v. 1. 200. n. 22.” « Feumiza pedata may be defined (as above), and if the varieties above mentioned are considered as one species, it may be thus distinguished. « Krvrima cordata ; foliis simplicibus, seminibus sube- rosis levibus. ; «« These characters are sufficient, unless the latter spe- cies should be divided, as in Syst. Nat. ed. 10.” N 2682. “the Sept 1bL6. WALL. by. S. Gorter. Walwor _(, 2682.) < Lupinus MUTABILIS. CHANGEABLE-FLOWERED. Lupin. , | ee a a Je HEHEHE eebtobotop aon Class and Order. _ Yis ae Decanpnia. ’ Generic Character. Cal. 2-labiatus. Anthere 5 oblonge ; 5 subrotunde. Legumen coriaceum, torulosum, compressum. Specific Character and Synonym. Lurinus mutabilis : fruticosus, foliolis septenis obovato- oblongis, floribus verticillatis; calycis appendiculati labio superiore emarginato ; inferiore integro, legu- minibus trispermis. Lupinus mutabilis ; fruticosus, erectus, ramosus: ramis patentibus glaucis glabris, foliis digitatis glaucescenti- _ bus: foliolis 7—9 spathulato-lanceolatis obtusiusculis - subtus subpubescentibus, calycibus subverticillatis inappendiculatis : labio superiore bifido ; inferiore carinato acuto integro. Sweet Br. Flower Garden, 130. eon = ae ge Descr. Stem fruticose, quite smooth, branched. Pe- duncles upright, long, rounded. Leaves digitate ; leaflets seven (sometimes nine), obovate-oblong, obtuse, mucronate. Flowers fragrant, verticillate, from three to five in a whorl ; pedicels inserted somewhat irregularly, so as to render the whorls sometimes imperfect : Calyx two-lipped: Upper lip emarginate : Lower-lip entire, acute: both nearly equal, applied closely to the Corolla, furnished at its base with two small, villous, reddish appendixes or bracteoles, which soon fall off. Vexillum nearly orbicular with reflexed sides, _ white more or less tinged with purple, base yellow. Ale broad, equal in length to the vexillum, concealing the boat- shaped acute Carina: Filaments, the upper half free, con- nected below. Germensmooth : stigma villous. i 3 eo ae slightly % és slightly pubescent, with short closely adpressed hairs, mar- _ gins undulated, between two and three inches long, and — above half an inch wide. Seeds mostly three; white, smooth, - riearly globular, small in proportion to the cavities in which they are contained. __ ; Mr. Davin Cameron, the head Gardener at Bury Hill, has not as yet succeeded in keeping it through the winter, in the open air, but is not without hopes that he may be more successful next year. | This elegant and fragrant species was raised from seeds received by Mr. Barcray from Begota, Columbia, and com- municated in flower, in August, 1825. The pod was added in July, 1826. May be propagated by cuttings as well as by seeds. . Saweiy Ded > “ tue EA BE by Sburles Malorar bh, Sem, 1826, Woddelife oS ee ee, ( 2683 ) HESPERIS GRANDIFLORA. LARGE-FLOWERED Dame’s- VIOLET. SS SS Class and Ora. ee SILiquosa. - Generic Character. Siliqua tetragona vel ancep Stigiis subsessile, lobis conniventibus. Cotyledones incumbentes, plane. Calyx clausus. Specific Character. Hesrenis grandiflora ; foliis radicalibus oblongo-ovatis obtusis ; caulinis lanceolatis, racemis multifloris con- gestis, pedicellis patentibus calyce longioribus. oe This beautiful undescribed species of Hesperis was communicated by our friend Aytmer Bourxe Lampert, Esq. seven or eight years ago, from his garden at Boyton ; but our memoranda having been mislaid, we are not now able to state its native Country or any further particulars. 3 3 3 = | see / be ‘he el, xt Crinum procerum. Tati Rangoon. |: Crinum. . " £3 sy} ' , ys : IRIS | satio. _ Class and Order. 3 _ ~ _Hexanpria Monoeynta. | a oe “es Be Se es ~~ Generic’ Character. pony tt _ Supra 2606*.—Vide 2292 et 2463. PE Specific Character and Synonyms. _ Crinum procerum ; bulbo erasso, breviter columnari ; foliis suberectis, quinquepedalibus, 6-uncias latis, margine levi; scapo viridi, sub-bipedali; spatha marcescente ; umbellaé 15—25-flora ; pedunculo et germine semun- ‘cialibus, viridibus ; tubo quinqueunciali, viridi; limbo sub-quinqueunciali, albo, extus pallidé rubro striato ; genitalibus rubris basi alba ; stylo filamentis breviore ; . stigmate ——— oe ep is 9 Crinum procerum. Dr. Carey Mss. Nobis in Appendice — : p. 22. et Supra Spec. Enum. 2231. W.H. — , ran: a This fine Crinum, amongst the first in magnitude, is a native of the Birman Empire, in the neighbourhood of _ Rangoon, from whence it was brought into cultivation by Dr. Carry, to whose kindness we are indebted for bulbs _ thereof, transmitted to the Spofforth collection from Cal- cutta. He informs us, that it thrives there freely, increasi in the same manner as C. pedunculatum and the Bengal - amenum, by the splitting of the main bulb into two equal. parts. It is remarkable for its thick short columnar stem, and its tall broad upright leaves. Its flowers are very like _ those of the mules between C. canaliculatum and capense. _ It is impatient of damp in confined air, and the bulbs first _ Sent were thus lost. ; We have been lately favoured with a bulb of Dr. Carey’s ggg C. verecundum, . C. verecundum, which is round, and about the size of ame- _ num. He states it to increase so slowly, that he possesses _ but one other bulb of it, probably the only other in culti- — vation. He has also sent us two spontaneous mule Crina, _ produced in his garden, one from Capense, the other from Canalifolium. The greater part of the known Crina being now collected in his garden, it must be expected that they will frequently intermix their pollen. T'o the 30 hybrid Crina, enumerated p. 2592 and append. p. 27, may be added some in the stove of Anruony Bacon, Esq. from sey- lanicum, apparently by erubescens, though his gardener, as we think, erroneously states them to be by amabile. C. zey- lanico-pedunculatum has flowered at Highclere, having in every respect the appearance of an inferior variety of ama- bile, with smaller and paler flowers, fully confirming our suspicion that amabile is a mule, between . costato, sulcato, viridi; laciniis 4-uncialibus, albis ; tribus externis viridi a iculatis, :-uncie latis; inter- _. nis obtusis, canaliculatioribus, angustioribus ; corona _. triunciali, extus alba, imtus viridi-costata et inferne _ Virente, lobis sex interstamineis, unciam latis, barbatis, erosis, reflexis ; filamentis albis, infra viridibus, de- Currentibus ; antheris brevibus, aureis, incumbentibus; Stylo declinato apice recurvato, limbo parum breviore,. _ apicem versus virescente ; stigmate rotundato, parvulo; _ capsula trigona, trisulca, trivalvi. Rigingt Pancrativm calathiforme. Redoute liliac. 353. Pancratium calathinum. Bot. Reg. 215, figuré pessimé. {smene calathina. Nobis in Append: p.46. W.H. _ _ The genusIsmenz is distinguished from Hymenocatus and _ Pancrarium by a curved tube, and round green seeds, and. from Hymenocallis by its short conniving filaments, of which bee Se which the upper three dip into the cup. The filaments of — Pancratium connive, and we have seen them dip in a broad- leaved variety of P. maritimum,; but those of Hymenocallis are lax and diffuse. The seeds of Pancratium are black and testaceous ; of Hymenocallis green, fleshy, and oblong. Seedlings of Hymenocallis come to maturity in a year or two, those of Ismene and Pancratium are very tedious and will not flower for many years. The figure of this plant in the Bot. Reg. is very inaccurate; the tube and the lobes of — the crown are improperly represented straight instead of curved. The curvature of its tube is, however, very decided, and forms an important generic feature. The species of Ismene are, 1. Amancaes; 2. calathina; 3. nutans ; which last is figured in this work, No. 1561, under the name of P. calathinum, which was afterwards corrected. It is also the P: narcissiflorum of Jacquin. We suspect the state- ment, that nutans came from Brazil, to be inaccurate. It was brought over from South Carolina by Fraser, under the name of P. fluitans. 1. Calathina comes from Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Chili. The genus Ismene requires complete rest and drought in the winter; it thrives in the greenhouse, if not started too early in the season, better than in the stove: The leaves of Ismene calathina are blunter than those of Amancaes. W. H. 7 a. The whole plant diminished. 6. a seed. ————————— HABRANTHUS ADVENA. . ' *OWe have flowered the Chilian A. advena, supra No. 1125, imported with _ Phycella ignea, and we are satisfied that it belongs to the genus Habranthus, - though it differs a little from the species of the Eastern coast. W.H. : Weddeld. 4. ter. Wzbwerth.bgtlbib. Pub. by S.0u W iferb art Dol ( 2686 Renee ‘ ts BROMELIA ZEBRINA. WHITE-BARRED ~ Brome 1a. , tek Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeynia. Generic Character. Vide supra, No. 2392. ~ Specific Character. Brome.ia zebrina; caudice brevi, durissimo, stolonifero, parasitico ; foliis tripedalibus, 3-uncias latis, canali- culatis, obtusis, dentato-spinosis, albo transversé temere striatis ; caule albo, farinoso, nutante; bracteis plu- ribus sexuncialibus, latis, pulcherrimé roseis ; floribus 15—30 pendentibus, sessilibus, laxé spicatis ; calyce albo, farmoso, 3-partito; laciniis :-uncie# longis, ob- tusis, basi tubulosé, glandulosa ; corolla viridi-lutea, 24-unciali, breviter revoluta, squamis sex laciniarum basi affixis; genitalibus fasciculatis, ceruleo-virescen- tibus ; stylo 24-unciali, staminibus longiore; stigmate lobis tribus 4-uncialibus ; filamentis tribus ceteris brevioribus, inter squamas altids insertis, aliis tribus longioribus inter corollz lacinias summo calycis tubo insidentibus ; antheris sub-3-uncialibus, filiformibus, viridescentibus, obliqué insidentibus ; germine sub-{- unciali, albo, farinoso, gibbosé costato, subtus conca- vo, dorso rotundato, lateribus gibbosis; ovulis nume- rosis, circiter triginta in loculis singulis. W. H. This beautiful parasite was cut with a portion of the wood from the stem of a great tree in the neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro. Its hard and knotty stumps adhere inse- parably to the trunk, at least they oe ae parted by a hammer and chisel. By. the posture of the leaves when ; OOF ee . imported imported, the plant seems to have grown upon the side of a nearly upright trunk. Another species with similar bractes and pendulous spike, but differing widely in other respects, accompanied it from the same quarter, but did not survive the voyage. Our plant flowered in the stove at Spofforth, in June, being planted in a small pot of peat on a warm flue. The growth of the inflorescence is singularly rapid. Twenty-four hours after its point had emerged from the leaves, it was in the state represented in our sketch. Our dissection shews the scales and insertion of the filaments. The scales of this genus have been inaccurately stated to alternate with the filaments. There is certainly a scale between each two; but the scales are in fact the bifid termi- nation of the lobes of the horny tube of the calyx, which adhere to the segments of the corolla. Three of the fila- ments are inserted between the pairs of scales into the lobes of the tube, three lower down between the lacinie and lobes which adhere to them into the mouth of the tube. The leaves of this species are most singularly barred at uncertain intervals with white. W. H. recon? ~ — 2 = m7 -~ ee = * a wing the inside of the tube of the calyx, the scales, and the insertion of the filaments. 6. the whole flower. a, Section N 268) Bib by S hats Watwart)y Oct-I3db- - PuyceLia IGNEA, var. a Puyceya, GLAUCOUS-LEAVED VARIETY. EEE Ee Class and Order. -‘Hexanpara Monoarama: Generic. Character. _ Scapus cavus. Germen nedasoule:. declinatum, ip oe num, triloculare. Tubus brevis, declinatus, arctus. Co-) _ rolla angusté campanulata, laciniis convoluté. imbricantibus. — Filamenta sammo tubo inserta, decurrentia, apice sursum curvata, internalongiora, majora. Stylus devexé porrectus. Stigma simplex apice fimbriato. Ovula biseriatim cumu-_ lata, complanata. Anthere breves, versatiles, ineumbentes: : Specific Character tind Synonyins -Paycerna ignea, bulbo oblongo: nigro ; foliis obtuss, ca- - naliculatis, pedalibus, semunciam latis ; scapo purpu- rascente ; spathd marcescente ; pedunculis _alibus ; germine viridi, loculis 26-spermi infra luted, supra saturaté coccinea; genital -. longioribus, supra. coloratis;. polline aure » torum exteriorum. basi: aculéis binis subulatis _ tubi positis munité. ' | : = (a) foliis viridibus. ae se Amaryiuis ignea Bot. Reg. 809. — seC 0h tm Puycetxa ignea, ib. 928. p. 2. a: Amarrtus cyrtanthoeides, ei | 2399 ? (8.). glance. z 3 Reveral rubs sell var. 8; the subject of this Sent to Spofforth by R. GowEN, Esq. who } from Valparaiso. Our specimen is from the nursery of Mr. Mackay, who has imported, mam St. The bulb from which the figure of var. a. “was Bot. Reg. is now in the Spofforth collection, ai having green leaves, rather more channelled ; are tipped with red when young, and we perceive no differ- ence in. the flowers. The bulbs require complete rest in winter. The filaments, which correspond with the outer petals, are furnished with two little awl-shaped processes, adhering to their base, at the mouth of the tube. They appear to us to be modifications of the membrane, like 7 the beard in Hippeastrum, and we think it very doubtful whether species will not be found in which they will be wanting, and we cannot agree with Mr. Linptey, who calls them six sterile additional filaments, and gives them a most important place as such, in the generic character. For the same reason, we did not mention in our appendix, the pro- cesses or modifications of the membrane in Lycoris aurea, and in genus Pyroleirion, because we could not rely upon them as generic features. Puycetta belongs to the division Hippeastriformes (see Amaryllidearum synopsis, supra 2606*) and will stand be- tween Zephyranthes and Clinanthus. In the Coll. Bot. Mr. Linptey quoted Clinanthus luteus, as a synonym to _ Chlidanthus fragrans, and the editor. of the Bot. Reg. fol- lowing him, accused us of having mm 2 two genera of one plant. Clinanthus luteus (Panc. lutewm, Pavon in Herb. Lambert.) is, however, quite distinct from Chlid. fragrans, in proof of which, we deposited our specimen of the latter, in Mr. Lameert’s herbarium, where the difference has been fully recognized. We may take this opportunity of obser- ving, that we were also unjustly accused (Bot. Reg. p. 611.) of having mistaken particles of pollen, for fimbriz on the stigma of Lycoris aurea. The representation in our ap- ~ pendix is, however, perfectly correct : we have re-examined the plant, and the fimbriz are visible even to the naked eye, looking like fine down. Amarytuts Cyrtanthoeides (supra 2399), is, undoubtedly, a Phycella; our specimen was evi- — dently in a sickly state, and we cannot now distinguish it — from ignea, var.a. W. H a, The flower with the laciniz stripped off. 5. section the inside of the tube and the bristles. c. the inside of one cell, d. particle of pollen magnified. _ é, one of the bristles magnified, no ways resembling a filament. N2688. a W Ae bert bei Pub by S lurtis, Walworth. Orb Iih. Weddelé & ( 2688 ) CRINUM CAPENSE, var. RIPARIA. | Carr Crinum, Buack River VARIETY. - - Class and Order. ~Hexanpria Monoeynia. eee Generic Character. Supra 2606*.—Vide 2292 et 2463. | Specific Character and Synonyms. Crinum capense, bulbo ovaté elongato ; foliis loratis, te- : nuissimé elongatis, canaliculatis, glaucis, margine scabris ; scapo 2—3-pedali; umbellé 2—17-flora : pedunculis 1—3-uncialibus ; tubo flaccidé curvato ; limbo augusté infundibuliformi tubo breviore ; stylo : filamentis longiore ; germine polyspermo. : Crinum capense, supra 2121.5. Nobis in App. p. 23. Crinum Bs Thunb. prod. 59. _Amaryvuiuts longifolia, supra 661. L’ Heritier Sert. Angl. -. 13. Hort. Kew. 1, 419. ed. 2. 2. 227. Jacq. ic. rar. 364, ejusd. coll. 4. 205. ejusd. fragm. 3. t. 2. fig. 1. Redouté liliac. 347. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 56. (excluso Linnzo cum synonymis suis Ammocharin faleatam in- telligente) Ker j. sc. and the A. 2. 366. Bot. Reg. — 546 F ; 4 7 “ -Amaryuurs bulbisperma. Burm. Prod. 9. -Amaryuuis capensis. Miller Dict. ed. 8. n. 12. (a.) rubro-suffusa. Supra 661. (B.) alba. _(y.) albescens, livido-striata. (@.) riparia, Bot. Reg. 546. Amaryuuss riparia. Burchell Catal. Mss. Crinum riparium, nobis in App. 23. — Oxs.—var. y. maxima cit. Bot. Reg. 546, ib. cum fig. 303. v. iflora, nobis in append. Crinum lomgifornm, proculdubio hybrida est inter C, capense et erubescens. W.H. “ Ss This beautiful plant was found by Mr. Burcuetz on the banks of the Nu-gariep, or Black-river, lat. 29° 30’ S. long. 24° 48 E. growing im situations similar to those occupied by the common yellow flag (Iris Pseudacorus), and frequently under water when the river rises above its usual level. We considered it at first to be distinct from C. Capense, the imported plant having fewer-seeded cells and a trifid stigma ; but in our specimen, a seedling raised from it, we find the obtuse dilated stigma, and we have seen a seedling from C. capense, «, in which the ovules were much less numerous than usual. C. capense has generally about thirty ovules in each cell, var. riparia not above four- teen. Riparia, if not a distinct species, is a permanent local variety, reproducing itself by seed. It is called minor in the Bot. Reg. from a weak specimen ; but our plant, though a seedling, flowering for the first time, has leaves near four inches wide, the scape near a yard high, and pe- duncles three times as long as there represented. It flow- ered in the open border at Spofforth in June, and again in July. 7 | aside longifolia (supra 661) is indubitably a Crinum, and interbreeds freely with the various individuals of that extensive genus, but with no other plant. The statement p. 661, that its seeds resemble those of A. vittata is quite unfounded ; they are similar to those of other Crina. The name longifolia was not intended for this plant by Linnzus, — and had been applied to an oriental Crinum by Dr. Rox- BURGH ; we therefore adopted Mizter’s name, Capense. It is very hardy ; we have seen the water frozen three inches thick for a fortnight, in a shallow pond, round the neck of the bulb, without materially injuring it. The mules which will be probably soon obtained, between this fine variety and pedunculatum, will much resemble amabile, and will flower in the open ground. W. H. | tub. by S. Gurtas. Walworth, Nov. 1826 ( 2689 ). POTENTILLA ATRO-SANGUINEA. DerEp BLOOD-COLOURED PoTENTILUA. SEH ik Clas aid Order: ; icouaieonts Pokebrina. | ( Nat. Of aARwablens: ) Cal. decemfidus, ‘segmentis alternis minoribus. Petala 5. Pericarpia receptaculo sicco affixa. : Specific Character and Synonyms. _ Porentitia atro-sanguinea ; caule erecto pubescente ra- moso, foliis.ternis petiolatis superne sessilibus foli- olis ellipticis profunde serratis subtus niveo-tomen- tosis, stipulis magnis ovatis, petalis obcordatis (atro- P sanguileis). = ee OTENTILLA atro-sanguinea. Lod. Bot. Cab. t.'786. Don, = ae Fl. Nepal. p. 232. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. Descr. Plant varying in height from one to two feet, erect, much branched above ; branches terete, pubes- cent, whitish. Leaves, all of them ternate; the leaflets all sessile, or only the terminal one shortly petiolate, ellip- tical, deeply serrated at the margin, the serratures often tipped with purple, bright green above and scarcely pubes- cent, white and tomentose beneath ; the lower leaves upon long footstalks, the upper ones gradually become sessile and smaller, passing into toothed bracteez. Flowers ter- minal, pedicellate. Calyx, with the segments ovate, the five outer inserted on the outside of the inner, alternating with them and remote from each other, patent, green ; the inner ones, as soon as the petals have fallen, close over the fruit and meet so as to form a cone; they are purplish i3 green green ; all are hairy. Petals longer than the calyx, obcor- date, large and showy, and of that brilliant deep bright blood-red colour which no pencil can imitate and no words describe. Stamens twenty, placed with great regularity, three at the base of each inner calycine segment, and one at the base of each petal: Filament purple: Anther black; pollen bright yellow. Germens fifteen to twenty, yellowish. Styles long, filiform, purple. This charming plant, which, in the brilliancy of its blossoms far exceeds those of P. nepalensis of the Exotic Flora, was noticed, under the description of that species, as existing in Mr. Lamegert’s Herbarium. About the same period, it was published by Mr. Loppiess, in his Botanical Cabinet, under the name here adopted. Our gardens are indebted for the seeds of this plant to the excellent Dr. Watticn. It should be protected in the winter under a common frame: but it blossoms freely in the summer months in the open air, and will, probably, eventually prove quite hardy in our climate :—and, cer- tainly, a more truly ornamental plant can scarcely be con- ceived. Like the P. nepalensis, this is also a native of Nepal, being found, as stated by Mr. Don, at Gosaingthan. a Fig. 1. Stamens. 2. A pistil,—magnified. WIE del = nee Pe by S. Curtis, Walworth, Nov"1826 ( 2690) GLOXINIA HIRSUTA, “Hay Guoxinia. KEEKEE adhe tal é Class and Order. * fs Z i Diorwawia AnorosrerMia. ae. $ 4 p See ened ae | Nat. “Ord. —Pepauines, 5% (i a Generic. Character, : ‘G Cal. sepbreas 5-phyllus. Cor. campantlata : timbo ob-— liquo. gies te 9 cum rudimento p tn imo ubo corolla os inserta. or laris. Ree biloba, 1s inserta. : Groxinta hirsuta ; foliis bo RRR Pe rugosis hispidis crenatis, we os aggregatis unifloris, corolla infundibu- liformi. GLOXINIA hirsuta. % Lit dl -m Bot. Reg... 1004. ra | : <3 Fithes 8 a e root, and lying g hori- Descr. Leaves, aco ing rt springing almost immediately from zontally upon the ground, : shortly petiolated, four to six inches Jong, ovato-rotundate, ru gose with the numerous -anastomosing veins, and, upon ‘the surface, as well as the margin, clothed with white, long, and rather rigid hairs, the margin itself coarsely crenated. Flowers springing in clus- ters from the root, three or four rising and expanding at the same time, each upon a scape of about two inches in length, which is hispid all round. Calyx inferior, tubular below, hispid, aiched. the lobes lanceolate, erecto-patent. Co- rolla between two and three inches long, infundibuliform, _ pale blue and pubescent externally, the limb spreading, _ five-lobed, the two upper lobes smaller, the three inferior ones large, all with dark veins: the interior of the tube is yellowish, with darker spots. Stamens four, didynamous, “tncluded ; filament curved ; anthers united in pairs, some- ‘ what what kidney-shaped, one-celled, white. Germen haif supe- rior, ovate, hairy, surrounded by five small glands, taper- ing upwards into the glabrous, filiform, white style, which ° is as long as the tube of the corolla. Stigma, dilated pel- tate, white. Communicated from the collection of Mrs. ARNOLD Harrison, at Aigburgh, near Liverpool, by Mr. Henry - Surruerp. It was introduced to our country from Brazil, by Witu1Am Harrison, Esq. of Rio. The plant has the habit of Gloxinia, but it has neither the same shaped corolla, nor the fifth barren filament of that genus. The form of the corolla, indeed, corresponds with that of the East Indian Cyrtandra of Dr. Jack, in the fourteenth volume of the Transactions of the Linnean Society, p. 25: but there, two of the stamens are always imperfect. Perhaps when we shall become acquainted with the fruit of this rare plant, it will be found to con- . stitute a genus different from any hitherto published. It requires the heat of the stove. Fig. 1. Corolla laid open and somewhat magnified. 2. Back view. 3. Front view of the Anthers. 4, Pistil, with the glands at the base—All more or less magnified, ee a ALN " vi i; ‘, aN) y { Wy > ( 2691 ) te yes CACTUS POLYANTHOS F'REE-FLOWERING ) Cacrus, 45 € Class and Order. f Icosanpria Monoeynia. — Ye ( Nat. Ord— Nopates. y . P ? Cal. e squamis numerosis, imbricatis, superus. Petala_ -mumerosa calyci inserta, interiora majora, basi coalita. Stigma multifidum. Baeca umbilicata, unilocularis, poly- sperma. Semina intra pulpam nidulantia. Div. Oruntiz. Specific Character and Synonyms. Cactus polyanthos; articulis obovatis spinis subtenuibus, majoribus subulato-setaceis (fuscescentibus) patulis, minoribus ciremnatis setaceis. ¢ \ _ Opuntia polyanthos. Haz. Syn. F . Suce. p: 100.6 Cacrus Opuntia polyanthos. De Cand. Plantes Grasses, t. 138. oe is = = NZ Cacrus Opuntia, y, polyanthos. Pers. Syn. Pl. v. 2. p. 23. _ Descr. Stems, in our plant, two to three feet high, _ proliferously branched : joints from two to four inches — long, obovate, compressed, dark green, with numerous clusters of spines of two kinds, the largest five to eight in - number and four or six lines long, subulato-setaceous, _ Standing out in a very patent manner, the smaller ones are _ Short, setaceous, and form a circle around the base of the _ larger ones.. The Flowers are rather large, showy, ter- Minal, in our specimens one or two on a joint, in De Can- _Dotte’s figures many are represented from the same joint. Calyx ; scales small; brownish, but gradually passing into he large sulphur-yellow petals of the corolla. Stamens fumerous, erect, shorter than the petals, united at pes i "ie along along with the base of the petals and calyx. Anthers oblong, yellow. _Germen large, obovate, fleshy, with scat- tered, distant, ciliated, fleshy scales. Style swollen and angular at the base, the rest columnar, scarcely reaching to the top of the stamens. Stigma of six, nearly erect, yellow segments or rays. A native probably of South America, and, we believe, an old inhabitant of our stoves, where it flowers in the month of July, more readily than most of the species of the genus. Professor De Canpoiie, who made it a variety of the old Cactus Opuntia, nevertheless considered that it ought, pro- bably, to rank as a species. With us, it is constant to all the marks described and figured by M. De Canpotte, except in having a considerable number of flowers crown- ing the stem; a circumstance perhaps attributable to the greater luxuriance of his plant. De Canpoxze observes that this specics and all its affi- nities possess a great degree of irritability in the stamens, if touched or shaken when the blossoms are in perfection. Fig. 1. Flower, with part of the Calyx and Corolla removed to shew the stamens and pistil. 2. Section of the germen.—Both magnified. NV? 2692. Lub. by S. durtis, Walworth. Nov. i826. 4 Ger?) - Cactus PHYLLANTHUS. SPLEENWORT-LEAVED \ Cacrus, * hr, Ada ata . yrds, Ses "age wptyt, FEE vos Ngee Class and Order. a IcosaNpRIA Monoeynia. an Ord —Cacrt. Div. Pavutaxri, » : : ” Genet? Character, \ % * : Cal. e squamis ‘numerosis imbricatis, pipers Petala numerosa calyci inserta, interiora majora, basi coalita. — Stigma multifidum. Bacca umbilicata, polysperma. Se- mina intra pulpam nidulantia. Frutices pingues, aphylli, sepius articulati, spinost vel fasciculatim pilost, raro nudi, compresst velangulatt. Flores | en PaEM, speciosi. - e: ramosis sinuato-serratis midis; 1 simo, limbo quali laciniis inde laneoslnti (alba . Cactus phyllanthus. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 670. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 946. Ait. Hort. ag ipsa lucie! £.t 180. De Cand. Pl. Grasses. t. 145. Eprpnyiium Phyllanthus. Haw. Syn. Succ. p. 197. Kjusd. Suppl. p. 84. “Sage plopendrii oa brachiato. Dill: Hort. Elth. ». 1. p. 73. t. 64. fA Paytiaxmats americana ‘sinuosis foliis, &e. Plukn. Phyt. Descr. Plan ye to three feet high, jointed and branched in a woliferous manner, leafless, and destitute of fascicles of hairs or spines; joints compressed, linear or lined eaigedtote; fleshy, the margins, deep! y sinuato- serrate, Secohiausiis WAC. serrate, the teeth, or serratures very large, obtuse; the centre having a thickened rib, which is somewhat woody. From the sinus of the upper serratures the flower appears, solitary, _ sessile: its base is a long cylindrical, greenish, fleshy tube, swollen below, where it forms the germen, and clothed with distant scattered small reddish scales, which, as well as the outer (eight or ten) greenish segments of the perianth are considered as the calyx. Petals forming the limb or extremity of the tube, and there spreading, linear- lanceolate, pure white, fragrant. Stamens very numerous, but inserted in a single series at the mouth of the tube, as long as the corolla, nearly erect. Germen inferior, fleshy, ovate ; style much longer than the tube, rose colour, termi- nated by the yellow spreading stigma of about thirteen rays. Cultivated in the British gardens, according to Hortus Kewensis, since the year 1710 ; yet its flowers are, I believe, © rarely produced, and the few figures that do exist of it in that state, give no idea of the delicacy and beauty of the blossom. D:xtentws’s plate has the flowers with a longer tube, indeed, but with the corolla infinitely smaller than in our plant: the same may be said of De Canpoxie’s representation in the Plantes Grasses. PuuxKener’s figure, indifferent as is its execution, gives a better idea of the Di of the flower than either of those now men- tioned. During the present summer (1826), owing probably to a long course of uninterruptedly fine and dry weather, we have had more species of Cactus flowering in the stoves of the Glasgow Botanic Garden than we ever remember to ° have seen before: and among them, in the month of July, the present species bore three blossoms, each opening 10 successive evenings, and with amazing quickness, at about eight o’clock in the evening, closing between three and — four in the morning, and yielding a most agreeable, but not very powerful, odour. The same flower never expands: a second time. ae Fig. 1. Anther. 2. Stigma,—magnified. MV? 26.93 3 —— Swat, Pub. by S. Gurtes , Walworth, Nov.18%6. WIA del CN ee LopeLiA corympBosa. Corympose ArricaNn Rc toms. | es Class and Order Pentanpria Monoernu. ( Nat. Ord.—Campanuta BBs Sect. II. Br.) Generic Character. ‘Sy Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. 1-petala, irregularis. Anther@e cohe- rentes. Capsula infera, 2- s. 3-locularis. a. Specific Character. Loge.ia corymbosa; glabra, caule debili angulato ramoso, foliis superioribus lineari-spathulatis inferioribus ro- tundatis in petiolum decurrentibus omnibus. inciso- serratis, floribus dense corymbosis, corollis unilabiatis subequaliter 5-lobis. ‘” eee dhe Descr. Stems six to eight inches long, weak, and hence subdecumbent, angular, so as to be almost winged ; gla- brous, as is all the rest of the plant. Leaves rather dis- tantly placed; the lowermost ones broadly ovate, almost orbicular, tapering below into a flattish footstalk of about its own length; the rest are more or less spathalate, more ~ linear upwards, all of them deeply inciso-serrate and mostly _ recurved. The flowers are very small, elegant;and termi- nate the branches in crowded corymbs of several flowers; each having a small linear toothed bractea at the base. Calyx, with its five lanceolate, subulate segments, scarcely half so long as the corolla. Corolla cleft to the base above, in such a manner, that all the five segments occupy the lower side of the flower, and spread in a digitated manner ; this gives a curious appearance to the corymb of flowers, which _ thus appears radiated: its colour is white, beautifully marked ‘a wae marked with transverse reddish purple blotches in the inside. Filaments and stamens united; the latter bluish urple. Germen small, green, inferior. Style curved a ittle downwards, entirely concealed by the tube of the — Stigma obtuse, encircled with a tuft or ray of airs. An elegant little greenhouse plant; native of the Cape of Good Hope ; flowering in the months of June and July; and introduced to this country by Professor Granam of Edinburgh, who received the seeds from Africa. The flowers are extremely elegant, pure white, richly dotted with purple ; and the corolla is strictly unilabiate. Fig. 1. Side view of a flower. 2. Upper view of ditto, 3. Pistil and calyx,—All, more or less, magnified. LV? 2694, ee Lub. by S$. Curtis. Walworth, Nov" 1826. | “(2694 ) BcKIA CAMPHORATA. FRAGRANT Barcxia. JE EHHH bbb Hebisek Class and Order. {cosanpria (Ocranpria Sm. Prentannr. Aliorum.) Moxocyra. ( Nat. Ord —Memees ) Generic Character, Germen inferum, turbinatum, | lobis cal r licinis iat emcees tibus coronatum. Petala 5, unguicul ata. , Seu 4- (vel 5-) locularis, polysperma. - dine 8, val) ib. (Folia opposita). Sie ies Fem 5 . Specific Character and Synonym. Back1a camphorata ; glaberrima, foliis quadrifariis laxe im- jr ec mlatin lanis natis imis brevissime peti tiolatis, floribus bits 15. a Bacxia camphorata, Brown Ms “ed ae, , set high in Yer: eg much _ branched ; branches opposite, slender, somewhat virgate, clothed with ale brownish bark. Leaves about one and a half or two lines long, plane, obovato-lanceolate, obtuse, tapering at the base into a very short footstalk, entire, and furnished with a thin membranous thee ; there is an indistinct central nerve, and the / covered with glandular dots, especially on the underside, which ield the unt smell :—these™ leaves are placed 8 rly quadrif manner, and are erecto-patent. _ Near the centre of the branches, and from the axils of the 7 aes the flowers are produced : these are upon rather short — ae footstalks, which are furnished with at inute “aes at the base and above the middle, where it is caducous ; solitary, or generally growing two together, rather small. Germen and calyx green, distinctly dotted: the former has five cells, each cell containing many ovules; the latter is formed of five rounded entire lobes. Petals nearly orbicular, white, shortly unguiculate. Stamens fifteen, three at the base of each segment of the calyx, incurved. Anthers reddish brown. Style about as long as the calyx. Stigma ca- pitate. A greenhouse plant; a native of New South Wales; for which the Glasgow Botanic Garden is indebted to the kindness of Mr. Arron, who sent it from the Royal Gar- dens at Kew, under the name which is here adopted. The number of the stamens in the flowers of this plant, (fif- teen), and these, as far as I can see, constant to each blossom, give this species as good a right to rank with PERMUM as with Bacx1a, which has been considered to have five or eight stamens; and I feel myself at a loss to define the generic character. Sir James Smrra has long ago observed, that,in every certain Lerrospermum the leaves are alternate ; and Mr. Brown remarks in his learned disser- tation on the Botany of Terra Australis, that ** he refers to Bacxia, Imericarta of Suir, and the opposite leaved Leprosrerma.” Thus constituting ‘‘ an extensive Austra- lian genus, having its maximum in the principal parallel, extending to the highest southern latitude, and hardly existing within the tropic : one species, however, has been found in New Caledonia, and that from which the genus was formed, is a native of China.” Bacxia camphorata* flowers in the month of J uly, and requires the same soil and treatment as the New Holland plants in general. sdaediotll - —— ee Fig. 1. Pair of flowers from the axil of a leaf. 2. Single flower. 3. Petal 4. Calyx and Germen. 5. Section of the Germen. 6. Two pairs of opposite leaves. 7. Single leaf—All, more or less, magnified. é enna * _* Asa species, it has considerable resemblance with the B. diosmifolia of Ronee in Linn. Trans. y. 8. p. 298. t. 13; but that plant is described as having eight stamens, and the lobes of the calyx serrated, as well as the” Lub. by §. Curtas, Walworth, Nov? 1826. ( 2695 ) ‘ igh Fe : | LEPTOSPERMUM FLAVESCENS. YELLOWISH Fig Soutu-Sea Myrtte. Se Se ee Class and Order. eS 5 2 icosanpria Monocynia. 4 Se = 5 —_ é t i Cal. 5-fidus, semi-superus.. - Petala ! , unguic minibus longiora. Stigma eapitatum. — cularis. Semina angulosa. = ey | ; et = LeprosPermum flavescens. Symi 3. p. 262. Willd. Sp. Pl. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 0.3. p. 181. Lerrospermum Thea. Willd. Sp. Pl Metareuca Thea. “ Schrad. Sert. : Descr. A middling-sized shrub, with many twiggy, an- gular branches, clothed with reddish-brown bark. aves numerous, scattered, from an inch to an inch and a half long, linear-lanceolate, rather obtuse at the extremity, but tipped with a short mucro, obscurely three-nerved, glabrous (as is all the rest of the plant) and dotted, espe- cially beneath. The flowers are large, numerous, upon short axillary leafy branches, solitary and sessile, having — some ovate brown scales or bractez at the base, which are | very deciduous. Calyx half inferior, punctated ; its five teeth roundish, white and submembranous, standing ce | . ae san Rte. capt ie and nearly erect. Petals roundish, waved, dotted, shortly unguiculate, pure white, turning yellowish, as Sir James _ Smiru remarks, when dry. Stamens about twenty, inclined . inwards. Anthers orange brown. Lower and inferior part of the Germen hemispherical, smooth, upper and superior part obscurely five-lobed ; Style rather thick, as long as the stamens; Stigma dilated, and five-lobed at the margin, umbilicated in the centre. Cells of the Germen five, each many seeded ; Ovules ‘linear, curved. . . Native of New Holland, whence, according to the Hor-— tus Kewensis, it was introduced inte Britain, by Sir Joszrn Banks ; in the year 1787. Seeds of the plant, from which our figure and description were taken, were brought to this country by our friend Dr. Mac Mittan, of Culross. We believe, however, that it is not unfrequent in gardens. Its flowering season is July, and it makes a very pretty appear- _ ance with its pure white flowers, nestled among the pale ~ green leaves. 3 : The habit of this plant is exceedingly like that of Fasri-_ cra levigata, and the flowers scarcely seem to differ in any _ particular, but in having only five cells to the Germen. Fig. 1. and 2. Flowers. 3. Calyx and pistil. 4. Petal. 5. Germen, _ cut through transversely to shew the cells. 6. Ovules, attached to their re- ceptacle. 7. Stamen. 8. Style and stigma. 9, Leaf.—All, more or less, magnified. ee Walworth, Nov Gartis, W: Lub. by $ | ( 2096) ol | WRIGHTIA COCCINEA. ScARLET Wricntia. _ 6 xe ae Ain Class and Order. Prenranpria Monoeynta. bee fa _ > ( Nat. Ord.—Arocynem. ) — 7 ga ~ Generic Character. Cor. hypocrateriformis. Faux coronata squamis decem (vel 5), divisis. Stam. exserta. Filamenta fauce inserta. Anthere sagittate, medio stigmati coherentes. Ovaria2, — coherentia. Stylus filiformis, apice dilatato. Stigma angustius. Squame 5—10, basi calycis extra corollam in- sertw. Molliculi distincti, v. coherentes, placentis adnatis. Br. in Wern. Trans. 0.1. p.73. eae : _ Specific Character and Synonyms. Meseje = : iy . / Bi ou Descr. In the stoves of our country this plant forms a small shrub, three or four feet high, with a few strag- gling branches, every where glabrous. The leaves are confined to the young, green, cylindrical shoots, oppo- Site, distant, ovato-lanceolate, much acuminated, entire, subcoriaceous, with a central rib, and a few lateral oblique nerves. lowers large, handsome, richly scented, like pine- apple, terminal, or frequently, apparently, axillary, from an innovation, single, or two together; each upon a short peduncle, which has a small bractea at its base. Calyx of five small, rounded, imbricating, erect lobes. Corolla thick, carnoso-coriaceous, deeply cleft into five patent, and even recurved, obovate, oblique, internally deep orange-red, externally externally green, segments. At the mouth are five large — fleshy three-lobed scales, united at their base, and adnate with the corolla. Stamens five, inserted into the tube. Fi- laments extremely short, thick. Anthers sagittate, united into a cone, cohering to the stigma above the middle, ex-— ternally pubescent. Germen ovate; Style filiform, expand- ing upwards, and terminating in a small bifid stigma, to which the anthers are attached. This rare plant was sent to the Glasgow Botanic Garden | in the year 1823, by our liberal friend Dr. Waxticn, under the name of Nerium coccineum, from the Calcutta Botanic Garden. To us it appears neither to have the habit, nor the essential generic characters of Nertum, but to agree much better with the Wrieutia of Mr. Brown. According to the Hortus Benghalensis, as quoted by Mr. Loppiess, it is a native of Sylhet, and was thence introduced to the Calcutta Botanic Garden, by R. K. Dick, Esq. in 1805. Hitherto we have kept it in a warm stove, where it flowers. during the months of June and July. The scent of the flowers is very powerful, and may not unaptly be compared to that of pine-apple ; or it, perhaps, more resembles a mix- ture of Madeira wine and strawberries. Each blossom - continues expanded for several days, and makes a beau- — tiful appearance. Fig. 1. Flower, from which the corolla has been cutaway. 2. Inside view of astamen. 3. Section of a calyx and lower part of the corolla, shewing the pistil—All, more or less, magnified, Swen SO Pub. by 5. Curtis, Walworty, Dec 1826. j ( 2697 )- - SoLaANuM SAPONACEUM. ‘Soap-BERRIED y leualenit os Class and ‘Order. PENTANDRIA Monoeynta. ( Nat. Ord.—Soranacez. ) Cal. monophyllus, persistens. Cor. monopetala, rotata. _Anthere oblonge, apice poris duobus dehiscentes. Bacca 2, 3, 4-locularis. | ee +9-& as a i * ’ Specific Character and Synonyms. 2 _So.anum saponaceum ; fruticosum aculeatum squamuloso- argenteum, foliis petiolatis lineari-oblongis integer- | | 4 rimis, pedunculis terminalibus uni- aut paucifloris. - Soxranum dealbatum. Lindl, Mss. re. AZ | Descr. A small, erect, branched shrub, so entirely co- ~ .vered with minute silvery scales as to give the whole plant a white or hoary appearance, the upper sides of the leaves alone being greener than the under ones. Stems and branches rounded, more or less aculeated, with the aculei _ from half a line to a line long, straight, orange yellow, gla- brous. Leaves rather distantly placed, from one to two, and even three inches long, upon a footstalk about half - an inch long, linear-oblong, quite entire, the petiole and underside of the midrib sometimes aculeated and sometimes _ Unarmed. ee ___ Flowers from the extremity of the branches, solitary, or _ I an imperfect raceme. Peduncle short. Calyx campa- nulate, 5-toothed. Corolla white, externally clothed with Silvery scales, deeply cut into five segments, which at length ecome revolute. Stamens five: Filaments sap : nthers Anthers long, linear, deep yellow, opening with two pores at the extremity. Pistil: Germen globose: Style rather longer than the stamens: Stigma obtuse. Berry orange- colour, glabrous, about the size of a large pea. Introduced to the Horticultural Society of London, by Mr. M‘Rag, from Chili, and to the Botanic Garden of Glas- gow, from Mendoza, by Dr. Gitties. Our dried specimens, in the Herbarium, are from this latter gentleman, gathered, in November 1820, near Rio Saladillo, and the remark is added, that “ it is the same species which is so common all over Mendoza, of which the unripe berries are used instead of soap, to wash woollens, and which are called Killo-Killo.” It is from this peculiar property, that we have taken the liberty of altering the MSS. name of Mr. Linpzey (S. deal- batum) to S. saponaceum. Our dried specimens prove most clearly how liable this plant is to vary in the number of its aculei; some. being almost destitute of them, whilst others have the stem, peti- ~si and underside of the mid-rib thickly clothed with them. Its nearest affinity is perhaps with the Sot. eleagnifolium of Cav.; but that has the lower leaves sinuated, the corolla much larger, its laciniz less deep, and its colour blue. In our stoves, where the plant has been hitherto culti- vated, it flowers in the month of October. - Fig. 1, Calyx. 2. Stamens. 3. Pistil—Magnified. |. Pub. by S. Curtis, Waiworth. Dec. 1826. ( 2698 ) GILIA CAPITATA. CLUSTER-FLOWERED GILIA. Je IH HSH iniieiseibdabet Class and Order. PenranpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Potemontacez. ) ao Ree Generic Character. Cal. subcampanulatus, 5-fidus. Cor. infundibuliformis, - quinquefida. Stamina fauci inserta. Stigma plerumque trifidum. Capsula 3-locularis, 3-valvis loculis mono-di- polysperma. es Specific Character. Gia capitata ; n. sp. glabra, foliis bipinnatifidis segmen- tis linearibus incisis, floribus sessilibus dense capitatis. ies. pe naammnconnae - _ ee ge Se E Descr. An annual herbaceous plant, from one to three feet high, every where glabrous, branched, branches slen- der. Leaves: those springing from the root the largest, bipinnatifid, four to five inches long, the segments linear- oblong, acute, entire or incised; the stem-leaves less — compound, the divisions longer and more straggling. _ Pedunceles rather long, flexuose, simple, rarely branched. _ Flowers in dense heads ; each sessile, small. “Calyx cam- _ panulate, green, five-toothed, the teeth acute. Corolla __ twice as long as the calyx, of a beautiful purplish blue, infundibuliform, cut about halfway down into five, linear- oblong, obtuse, nearly erect segments. Stamens ; each inserted in the axil of the segments, purple: Filaments. rather shorter than the segments of the corolla: Anthers broadly ovate, two celled: the cells opening laterally. Pistil: Germen globular: style nearly as long as the corolla: Stigma trifid or bifid, not unfrequently simple, | , ie a purple. ees | ae # purple. Capsule globular, obscurely three-lobed, three- celled, surrounded at the base by the persistent calyx, opening with three valves, which bear the septa in the middle. Seeds, one or two in each cell, attached to three upright central plates, covered by a mucus, oval, angular. mbryo, with its radicle downwards, surrounded by a fleshy albumen. | 7 I had lately (October, 1826) the pleasure of seeing this pretty plant, which has so much the habit of a Scabiosa or Jasione, blossoming, in great perfection, in pots, placed in the open air, at the garden of the Horticultural Society, _ at Chiswick ; where my friend Mr. Linptey pointed it out — to me as a species of Giuia, of which the seeds had been _ sent in the spring, by Mr. Davin Dove as, from the North-. West coast of America. In the Herbarium of Mr. Scouter, who accompanied the latter in his voyage to America, | find specimens two and three feet high, gathered in the same country: and that gentleman informs me, that he — and Mr. Dovexas found it plentifully in cultivated, and, especially, potatoe grounds, in the vicinity of Fort Van- couver, at the mouth of the Columbia. Upon comparing the specimens with the Gir laciniata, I quite agree with Mr. Linptey in considering it to belong to that genus ; differing only in the number of the seeds to each cell of the capsule, and in the stigma being some- times bifid, and sometimes entire. As a species, it differs in being glabrous, in its much smaller, sessile and crowded, — capitate flowers. The genus was established by Ruiz and Pavon, in their Gen. Pl. Fl. Per. et Chil. pag. 25, t.4; but Jussieu has. proposed uniting it, as well as Tromopsis of Micwavx, with Cantus, though the habit of the plants is widely different. In the true Giri2, perhaps, the stamens will be found to ~ be inserted in the axils of the segments of the corolla. | Fig. 1. Single flower. 2. Stamen, to shew its insertion. 3. Pistil- 4. Capsule. 5. Transverse section of ditto. 6. Capsule in the act of burst- ing. 7. Capsule with the valves laid open, shewing the receptacle and seeds. — 8. Seed cut open longitudinally, to shew the Embryo and Albumen.—All more or less magnified. me | 2699. N. 226 Curtis, Walworth. Dec. le Pub. by S. ( 2699 ee) gb tA lee + op “ew 4 - 3 HarrisoniA LONICEROIDES. HONEY-SUCKLE- Ss ae Ae fe vs ; y LIKE HLARRISONIA. Class and Order. ' wy | PenranprtA Dieynta. ( Nat. Ord.—Asciertapex. Div. Masse pollinis cereacee, erect. Antheré membrana terminate. ) : Generic Character. ies > ai oy : | Cor. urceolata 5-dentata fauce nuda. Coronastaminea =~ (5-phylla) foliolis dente carnosa. Follicula ? fae Harrisonta loniceroides. Ne » ee or we “ale ub about two to three feet high, erect, all its parts, giving out an abundant oS a , the limb a little spreading, . Crown of the stamens offive > han A earden. It was introduced of Egbu h: and, unable d genus of Asclepiadeous plants, lam ~ I am anxious to dedicate it to that lady, who has been the means of adorning our gardens with so many new plants, particularly from the territory of Brazil, and who has cul- tivated them with eminent success in her own collection. Fig. 1. Single flower. 2. Corolla laid open. 3. Tube of stamens, en- closing the pistils. 4. Single Stamen. 5. Interior view of the stamen, shewing the cells of the Anthers. 6. Pollen mass.—Magnified. Lub by §. Curtis. Walworth, Dec. 1b26 . WIH. ded. ( 2700 ) PoveNTILLA SPLENDENS. Saininc Nepau PorenTILLA. Se ee ee ee Class and Order. . IcosANDRIA Potyaynia. a : e i ( Nat. Ord.—Rosacez. ) aa jo ea _.- Generic Character. Cal. 10-fidus, laciniis alternis minoribus. Petala 5. eceptaculo sicco affixa. =~ ~ _ Pericarpia subspherica, recepta Specific Character and Synonyms. %, Porentitta splendens ; caule erecto piloso, foliis in rupte pinnatis foliolis ellipticis utrmque (subtus pre- cipue) sericeis-candicantibus argute serratis valde ner- vosis subplicatis, stipulis latis serratis, floribus sub- _ _corymbosis (flavis), petalis late-ovatis calyce vix longiortbutage ge SE PorentiLta spl . Wallich Mss. (not Ramond.) Don Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 230. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 582. | ome - Porentitta fulgens. Wall. in Herb. — a ; Porentit1a lineata. “ Trevir.”» Sprengel Syst. Plant. v. 2. p. 584. ao 2 . Faye Dezscr. Wild specimens of this plant have the stems from eight to ten inches high, and the leaves six to eight inches long. In a state of cultivation, they attain to twice that size. The stems are erect, clothed with a thick down mixed with long hairs. The leaves are composed of many (except the upper ones) interrupted, nearly elliptical leaflets, thickly covered on both sides with beautiful ad- pressed, silky hairs, almost a pure white beneath: the _ margins are closely and sharply serrated: the nerves placed close to each other, parallel, and so deep, as to an e : eallet leaflet almost a plicate appearance. The sézpules are very large, particularly the lower ones, silky, and serrated. The Flowers are subcorymbose, and sometimes so crowded, as almost to be capitate. The outer and smaller segments of: the calyx are almost equal in size to the inner ones, all silky and serrated. Petals yellow, broadly ovate, waved, scarcely longer than the calyx. Piuséils numerous: Ger- men oval : Style lateral, filiform. Anthers brown, pollen and filaments yellow. Sent by Dr. Waxuicn to our gardens from Nepal. It flourishes well in the open air, and bids fair to be as hardy as our Por. anserina. The foliage is, indeed, most beau- tiful ; being, at least when dry, almost white with silky pubescence : but the flowers are very insignificant, and few of them expand at the same time. The flowers appear in the latter end of summer and au- tumn. Our specimen was taken from the garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick ; but we believe the plant is now not uncommon in the collections of the curious. - Fig. 1. Single Flower deprived of the petals. 2. Petal. 3, Stamen. 4. Pistil—Magnified. cs WIE. del. Pub. bu S Curtis, Walworth. Dec. 1826. N. 2701. ~ Swan So | ( 2701 ) LOBELIA CEHRULEA. BLUE-FLOWERED LoBELIA. KEKE EEE EERE ERE EE EEK Claes and Order. PENTANDRIA Monoeynta. ( Nat. Ord.—Campanviaces. ‘Sect. II. Br. ) Generic Character. _ Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. 1-petala, irregularis. Anthere cohe- rentes. Caps. infer, bi- seu trilocularis. Specific Character. : Losetta caerulea; caule brevi basi decumbenti dense folioso, foliis lanceolatis dentato-pinnatifidis pubescentibus basi attenuatis, pedunculo terminali longissimo race- moso, corollz laciniis tubo longioribus, germine su- A oa sa a oes ° - be Bp oe i? ¢ Descr. Perennial: Stems short, decumbent at the base, thence erect and clothed with numerous crowded erecto- patent, or subsecund, lanceolate, rigid, pubescent leaves, attenuated at the base, dentato-pinnatifid at the margin, with, generally, three teeth or segments on each side, on minute ligulate segments, which are bent back over the eo © 5 & q Bag of the tube. Calyx altogether inferior, five-partite, the segments lanceolate, small, appressed to the base of the corolla. Stamens included within the tube of, the corolla. Anthers purple, connate, fringed at the top with white hairs. Germen ovate, green, superior. Style a little longer than the stamens : Stigma capitate, two lobed. This beautiful plant has many points in common with Lose.ia coronopifolia, especially in the leaves; but we think the flowers will afford sufficient marks of distinction. The L. coronopifolia is given in Num. 644 of this work, and seems to differ only from the true plant of Burmen, Afr. t. 38. f. 1. in having two flowers instead of one upon the stalk. Our plant has almost constantly four flowers upon the peduncle, and those, not only very different in colour from L. coronopifolia, but also having the segments of the corolla much larger, longer than the tube, and much more spreading. Our plant has the germen constantly superior, as, indeed, has the L. coronopifolia, not a trace of it being to be seen below the point of the insertion of the calyx. Mr. Brown has observed in his Prodromus, that some suffruticose African species have the capsule more than half superior. Native of Southern Africa : and cultivated in the green- house of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, as well as in that of Edinburgh. Fig. 1. Front view of a Flower. 2. Stamens, including the Style and Stigma. 3. Pistil, with the Calyx.—Magnified. ; N. 2702. Lub. by S. Curtis, Walworth, Dec.1826 . LoBELIA SENECIOIDES. BLUE PEDUNCULATED Lope tia. : Jeibbbebebieeebkdebk | Class and. Order. i eo : Generic Chardetbr fi " FF Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. 1-petala, irregularis. Anthere cohx- of Se aah we a Descr. Asmallannual, with slender, nearly erect, z -_ downy stems. Leaves distantly placed, three to four inches long, scarcely pubescent, linear lanceolate, patent or re- curved, decurrent at the base, pinnatifid, with the segments slender, patent, alternately smaller. Pedwneles ax ary, solitary, single-flowered, three to sia inches long: glabrous. Corolla between hypocrateriform and infundibu iform ; with the tube an inch and a half or two inches long, narrowed below, pale yellowish, curved, cleft only a little way on the upper side ; the limb cut into five nearly equal, lanceolate, spreading, purplish-blue segments, pale at the back, yellow at the very base within. Stamens five> Filaments coher- ing, and united with the tube of the corolla near its middle: Anthers protruded, deep purple, connate, slightly hairy, with a small ligulate appendage on the upper. side at the lect “e Pt _extremity Se *s Se extremity, the two lower ones terminating each in a bristle- shaped point ; but these are so closely united, that they may readily be mistaken for a single hair or bristle. Ger- men oblongo-obovate, inferior, ribbed, crowned with the five subulate, somewhat toothed segments of the calyx; almost entirely inferior. Style longer than the anthers, curved: Stigma capitate, two lobed. Young Capsule two- celled, with numerous, oblong ovules or young seeds at- tached to a central receptacle. The seeds of this graceful and curious species of Losrnia were gathered by Mr. Arran Cunnineuam, at Bathurst, New South Wales, and by him introduced into his Majesty’s | garden at Kew, with the name of Los. senecioides ; under which appellation we know that it has been, by Mr. Arron, | liberally distributed to other gardens. That name should, therefore, unquestionably be retained in preference to the» one given in the Botanical Register, by Mr. Lrnptey (t. 964). We shall rejoice to see the remarks upon the old genus Losetia, which our valued friend, under that article, promises to the public ; for scarcely any genus requires amore careful revision: and we know that Mr. Linney will do justice to the subject. With regard to the division of Logenia, which Mr. Brown calls Isoroma (the 5thdivi- sion, at p. 565 of Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. Cor. hypocrateri- — formis, tubo integro, limbo parum inequali. Anthere im- — berbes (2 inferiores mucronate). Flores racemosi.) and — which Mr. Linprey adopts for the genus of the present plant, it does not appear to accord so well with it as Mr. ~ Brown’s 4th Division,—“< Cor. subequalis, infundibuli- — formis, tubo apice fisso. Anth. imberbes (2 inferiores mu- _ cronate.) Pedunculi scapiformes, uniflori.’ Our native — specimens of Lozetia (lsoroma) hypocrateriformis, from — King George’s Sound, possess a much more regular and — = hypocrateriform corolla than the present individual. e possess also native specimens of our L. senecioides, — gathered by Mr. Fraser in fissures of granite rocks near — Bathurst, which differ in no respect from our cultivated — ones, but in being much smaller, more shrubby, and with — the peduncles shorter. e Fig 1. Flower. 2. Stamens, with the Style ‘and Stigma, 3. Capsule. ; 4. Section of ditto.— Magnified. estes = N. 2705. EY sworn orrir 7 é WLit. 2 ert: ssn Pub. by J. Curtis, Walworth, Dec. 1826 ( 2703”) TRICHOSANTHES TUBEROSA. TUBEROUS- ROOTED TRICHOSANTHES. SS ie So ee Class and Order. Monazcta T'RIANDRIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Cucursiracez. ) Generic Character. Masc. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 4-partita, ciliata vel divisa. Stam. 3. Sy 7 Fam. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. ut in mare. « Styl. trifidus. Pepo oblongus. — ‘El eee Aix 348 i ae «cal Specific Character and Synonyms. Tricnosantues twberosa ; foliis tripartitis laciniis inferiori- bus bipartitis, corolla segmentis bifidis laciniis lineari- _ bus bifidis, fructu oblongo, radice tuberosa. = TrichosantuEs tuberosa. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 661. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5: p. 341. Sm. in Rees Cycl. TricnosantuEs corniculata. Lam. Dict. v. 1. p. 191. _ Cerarosanturs tuberosa. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 3. p. 18. _ ‘Tricnosantues foliis palmatis integerrimis, florum petalis bicornibus. Plum. Ie. t. 2A. Descr. Root a large rounded tuber, producing from its summit the long flagelliform, slender, striated, glabrous, green, climbing, and scarcely branched stems. Leaves distantly placed upon petioles about an inch and a half long, formed of three deeply cut, linear-oblong, divaricat- ing lobes, acute at the points, the lower ones with a smaller, lateral, unidentate lobe at the base, glabrous above, slightly pubescent beneath, the margins entire. Tendrils long, — simple, from the side of the petiole. Peduncle Peduncle of the male flowers, two to three inches long, with a cluster of about five to six flowers at the extremity. Calyx an inch long, tubular, green, glandularly pubescent, a little swoln at the base and spreading at the top, where it has five subulate teeth. Corolla of one petal, white, the tube intimately united, and incorporated with the tube of the calyx ; the limb free, spreading, cut into five lon seg- ments, which are deeply bifid, the divisions linear, forked at the extremity. Anthers three, sessile, inserted within the mouth of the corolla ; their sides cohering by the late- ral cells. Pollen yellow. The female flowers and fruit I have not seen; but according to Pxrumter’s figure, the latter is oblong, about an inch and a half long, striated, four-celled. This plant does not, indeed, well accord with the generic character of Tricnosantues, as the corolla cannot be said to be fringed. There can be no doubt, I think, of its being the Tricnosanruss petalis bicornibus of Puumier, although, as Sir James Surrn remarks, the resemblance to horns was, probably, a deception. Native of the West Indies ; and flowers in the stove, in September. a a Fig. 1. Interior view of the Calyx, shewing the Stamens. 2, Stamen. 3. Base of the Calyx. 4, Segment of the Corolla,— Magnified. MLE del. Pub. by S. Curtis, Walworth, Dee. 1826. - (¢ 2704 +) PHYLICA SPICATA. SPIKE-FLOWERED PuyLica. | Class and Order. PenTanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Ruamnez. ) Generic Character. Cal. corollinus, 5-fidus. Anthere sub squamis fornicate. Stigma simplex. Capsula 3-cocca, calyce plerumque co- ronata, ’ Specific Character. Puytica spicata ; foliis sparsis linearibus margine revolutis subtus niveo-pubescentibus, floribus dense spicatis oblongo cylindraceis tri-bracteatis, bracteis ciliatis, perianthio extus sericeo-pubescente. Descr. A small slender shrub, with twiggy branches, which, while young, are greenish and pubescent. Leaves _ scattered, rather remote, all but the upper ones patent, or even reflexed, linear, somewhat acute, semicylindrical, _ above dark green and shining, the margins revolute, leav- _ ing, on the under-side, a narrow groove or furrow, which is _ white, with a short thick pubescence. Upper leaves erecto- patent, gradually ing into the bractee. Spike about __ two inches long, of numerous crowded quite sessile flowers, each of which is subtended by one large and two (lateral) - small leaf-like bractee, which are strongly ciliated with white hairs. Perianth small, white, of a rather thick and fleshy texture, clothed on the outside with a silky pubes- ‘cence, shortly infundibuliform ; the limb of five spreading _ Segments, marked in their inside with the impression of the _ concave scales which close the mouth of the perianth, and which in fact are the small petals of the corolla : aan ‘ them them the minute heart-shaped anthers are concealed, seat-— ed upon a very short filament. Germen obversely ovate, inferior : Style as long as the tube of the perianth, having its small acute stigma embraced by the anthers. ee A native of the Cape of Good Hope, whence our seeds were received which produced plants in the Glasgow — Botanic Garden ; flowering in the month of August, 1826. _ It appears to be very different from any hitherto de- — scribéd species of the genus, although approaching perhaps _ nearest to the common Pu. ericovdes. | Fig. 1. Flower, with its bractea. 2. Ditto, without the bractee, and — f shewing the situation of the seales or petals. 3. Flower laid open, to shew style and stamens, and more particularly the nature of the scales. 4. Upper — side of a leaf. 5. Lower ditto—All more or less magnified. Z INDEX, : “g In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the Fifty-Third Volume are Alphabetically arranged. Bf SPL. : 2651 Acacia quadrangularis. 2654 Aconitum Anthora. 2636 Amaryllidearum Synopsis, nota ad. 2660 Andromeda buxifolia. 2623 Anthericum sulphureum. 2626 Asphodelus tenuior. _ 2665 Astragalus Onobrychis, var. tenui- a folius. _ 2659 Astranthus cochinchinensis. 2667 Azalea indica, var. y. - 2671 Banksia emula. 2694 Beckia camphorata. 2686 Bromelia zebrina. 2691 Cactus polyanthos. 2692 phyllanthus. ' 2643 Caladium grandifolium, 2615 Calanthe veratrifolia. 2632 Campanula infundibuliformis. ~, 2653°> — ruthenica. 2649 — speciosa. _ 2638 Cassia-aversiflora. 3676 ——— anstratis. 2647 Cineraria discolor. 2656 Cleome Candelabrum, reread 26%3 Colchicum croeifiorami 2622 Colutea nepalensis. i _ 2644 Commelina deficiens. 2609 Convelvulus dahuricus. _ 2611 Cornutia punctata. 2675 Cornus mascula. _ 2646 Coronilla iberica. 2688 Crinum capense, var. riparia. : 2636 humile. 2684 —-—— procerum. 2635 strictum. 2655 Crocus lageneflorus. 2637 Cypella Herberti. (pag. 2.) 2679 Daviesia acicularis. 2678 Dracophyllum gracile. 2624 Euphorbia globosa. 2681 Feuillea pedata. 2620 Fuchsia arborea. 2627 Gardenia florida, var. ovalifolia. 2698 Gilia capitata. 2608 Gladiolus alatus, P, 2690 Gloxinia hirsuta. 2614 Gomphrena perennis. 2661 Grevillea linearis, var. incarnata. Habranthus advena. (pag. 2.) nK— angustus. 2699 Harrisonia Joniceroides. me fee fc Pi 2637 Hedychium carneum. 2668 Helianthus atrorubens. - 2669 Heliotropium curassavicum. 2683 Hesperis grandiflora. 2672 Hibbertia corifolia. 2621 Hymenocallis litoralis. 2645 Ipomea bignonioides. 2628 splendens. 2685 Ismene calathina. 2664 Kennedia coccinea. 2658 Laurus Camphora. 2695 Leptospermum flavescens. 2701 Lobelia cerulea. 2693 ——-— corymbosa. 2702 ———— senecioides. 2682 Lupinus mutabilis. 2630 Melastoma villosa. 2613 Nauclea Adina. 2629 Nepenthes Phyllamphora, 2612 Nuttallia digitata. 2619 Passiflora feetida. 2677 Patersonia glauca. 2687 BT ene pen ; “2 heb 2642 Pitcairnia albiflos. 2657 furfuracea. 2650 Piqueria trinervia. 2616 Plantago brasiliensis. © 2648 Pconia sessiliflura. 2689 Potentilla atro-sanguinea. 2700 splendens. 2680 Pulmonaria paniculata. 2663 Rhamnus latifolius. 2634 Sanseviera longiflora. | 2631 Saxifraga cuscutiformis. 2618 Solanum platanifoliam. 2697 ————— saponaceum. 2674 Spartium ztnense. 2640 Stenomesson curvidentatum. 2670 Valantia taurica. 2617 Virgilia intrusa. 2610 Wachendorfia paniculata, @. 2696 Wrightia coccinea. 2652 Xylophylla montana. 2662 Yucca glauca. 2607 Zephyranthes candida. LN DE X, | Gee In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the Fifty-Thirad Volume are Alphabetically arranged. ee i te Pl. Pl. 2651 Acacia, square-stalked. 2628 Ipomea, Silky-leaved. ’ 4 2662 Adam’s-Needle, Glaucous-leaved. 2660 Andromeda, Box-leaved. 2623 Anthericum, Pale-yellow. 2626 Asphodel, Slender-leaved. 2667 Azalea, Cluster-flowered Indian, 2694 Beckia, Fragrant. 2671 Banksia, Rival. 2632 Bell-flower, Funnel-shaped. 2649 Shewy. 2653 —— — Taurian. 2609 Bind-weed, Daurian. 2622 Bladder-Senna, Nepal. 2686 Bromelia, White-barred. 2674 Broom, Three-seeded. 2691 Cactus, Free-flowering. 2692 ——-— Spleenwort-leaved. 2643 Caladium, Large-leaved. 2615 Calanthe, Hellebore-leaved. 2658 Camphor-Tree. 2638 Cassia, Contrary-flowered. 2676 New-Holland. 2647 Cineraria, Hoary. 2 2656 Cleome, lier. tasacee 2644 Commelina, Two-petaled. 2608 Corn-flag, Winged: Algoa Bay var. 2611 Cornutia, Dotted-flowered. 2675 Cornelian-Cherry. 2646 Coronilla, Iberian. _ 2688 Crinum, Cape: Black-river arinac 2636 —-—— Humble. 2684 —~—— Tall Rangoon. 2635 —-—— Upright. 2655 Crocus, Pale Gourd-flowered 2683 Dame’s-Violet, Large-flowered. 2679 Daviesia, Needle-leaved. 2678 Dracophyllum, Slender. 2681 Feuillea, Female Pedate. 2620 Fuchsia, Laurel-leaved. 2627 Gardenia, or Cape Jasmine, Oval- leaved. 2637 Garland-Flower, Flesh-coloured. 2698 Gilia, Cluster-flowered. 2690 Gloxinia, Hairy. 2614 Gomphrena, Perennial. 2661 Grevillea, Flesh-coloured linear- | soe leaved. 2639 Habranthus, Narrow. _ - 2699 Harrisonia, Honey-suckle-like. 2672 Hibbertia, Coris-leaved. 2621 Hymenocallis, Sea-shore: narrow- leaved variety. | 2697 Solanum, Soap-berried. 26145 ———~ Trumpet-flower-like. 2685 Ismene, Basket-flowered. 2664 Kennedia, Many-flowered scarlet. 2701 Lobelia, Blue-flowered. 2702 —-——. Blue pedunculated. 2693 Corymbose African. 2680 Lungwort, Blue-flowered panicled. 2682 Lupiu, Changeable-flowered. 2673 Meadow-Saffron, Crocus-flowered. 2630 Melastoma, Villous. 2695 Myrtle, Yellowish South-Sea. 2613 Nauclea, Myrtle-leaved. 2618 Nightshade, Plane-tree-leaved. 2612 Nuttallia, Digitate-leaved. 2665 Onobrychis, Russian narrow-leaved, 2619 Passion-flower, Stinking. 2677 Patersonia, Long-scaped. 2648 Peony, sessile-flowered. 2687 Phycella, Fiery: glaucous-leaved va- riety. 2704 Phylica, Spike-flowered. 2633 Phytolacca, Tall. = 8 2657 Pitcairiia, Mealy. 2642 ——_—_——- White. 2650 Piqueria, Three-nerved. 2629 Pitcher-plant, Ventricose. 2616 Plantain, Brasilian. 2689 Potentilla, Deep blood-coloured. 2700 ——-—— Shining Nepal. s 2663 Rhamnus, Broad-leaved Azorian-— 2634 Sanseviera, Long-tubed. 2631 Saxifrage, Dodder-like. 2652 Seaside-Laurel, Mountain. - 2624 Spurge, Roundish-jointed. 2659 Star-flower, Chinese. 2668 Sun-flower, Dark-purple-eyed- 2640 Stenomesson, Curved-toothed. » 2641 ——_——-——- Slender-toothed. 2666 Thyme, Marjoram-leaved. 2703 Trichosanthes, Tuberous-rooted. | 2669 Turnsole, Glaucous-leaved. 2670 Valantia, Fragrant. 2617 Virgilia, Small-flowered. 2610 Wachendorfia Panicled : Naples yellow variety. 2625 Winter-Cherry, Clanurs-barviedd 2654 Wolf’s-bane, Wholesome. 2696 Wrightia, Scarlet. : 2607 Zephyranthes, Peruvian. _ *