CURTIS’S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE; OR Flower Garden Displayed: . {n which the most Ornamental Fore1en Puants cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented and coloured. To which are added, THEIR NAMES, CLASS, ORDER, GENERIC AND SPECIFIC CHARACTERS, ACCORDING TO THE SYSTEM OF LINNAUS; Their Places of Growth, Times of Flowering, and most approved Methods of Culture. CONDUCTED By SAMUEL CURTIS, F. L. S. THE DESCRIPTIONS _By WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, L. L. D. F.R. A. and L. 8. and Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. VOL. Il. OF THE NEW SERIES; Or Vol. xv. of the whole Work. MISSOURL BOTANICAL What Nature, alas! has denied, GARDEN. ‘ To the delicate growth of our isle, Art has, in a measure, supplied ; And Winter is decked with a snt#le. Cowper. 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Evnrop1an Sovur- Gourp, or Monkiey Brean. | MowapELrata ‘Potyanpria. i Ord.—Bomsacez. Br. ) dy he i ¢ _ Generic Character. , Jae witiplck? iMeciauns Stylus longissimus. Stigmata pos 08e hi eae 10-locularis, pulpa farinacea, poly- ae e Nane — Synonyms gitate, quinate, ve s elliptical, scarcely acumi- ical,downy. Flowers axillary, vo 4—6 inches long, 33 two linear-lanceolate bracteas 3 withi , having five principal tubular vessels: Calyx very large, , externally green and pubes- cent, within pale and silky, cut into five, large, revolute segments segments: its substance thick,: and somewhat coriaceous. Corolla of five spreading, at length deflexed, white, round- | ish,. waved, faintly-striated petals. Tube of the stamens long, ‘thick, united to the base of the petals, terminated by very numerous, ‘spreading, afterwards recurved /fila- ments, cag. bearing a one-celled anther, of a reddish-brown colour astil : Ge ” , silky, ta ering upwards into a very long, pes tyle, which is, m age, bent down. at an jous manner, and ter- minated by a sti, reading, pubescent rays. Fruit, a large , downy cap- sule, tip ith the base of the ly it is divided longitudinally int eight to ten or or more ceils, but in a dry state, the partitions seem to be only formed by tough, strin | is filled with a pulpy substance, which, whe , becomes medullose, aud in this thes “hese are kidney- , brown dots, filled mt in by. ‘the. wh cotyledons are foliaceous, radicle. a nd singularly con sANSONTA digitata, ‘THIoPIAN Sour Gourp, Mon- | aD, Or Baozas, is a native of Senegal, It is said ‘found in reypr nd Abyssinia, and is be- ed in many of thé warmer parts of the world. Ba? There seems to be no oy seer on that. it is the largest known d around the inferior tree ; the diameter of the trunk phos nae says, being some- times no less than,thirty feet. ut 2 5 gomiige | duced into Britain} according | e Hortt so. long ago as they Ww Sx j yet, as: may be a tree i is not likely, ino stoves, to arrive at th e, When its flowers and fruit may i tru, that representations spirits, by Mr Guitpine, from St. Vin é may be - rally acceptable. to the Botanical world, eco ADANSON, his visit to Senegal, tas Aven a fall inal interesting account of this tree, and, certainly, not the least striking circumstances respecting it are, its amas crea size, and its great age, whence it has been called “ Arbre de mille Ans,” and whence too, Humgoupr has been led to speak of it as, “ the oldest organic monument of our planet.” Vis trunk, indeed, Sreat as is its diameter; has a height by no means WIE. del? * Pub, by 5 Curtis, Walworth, Tan. LIEER. means. proportionable to its breadth. Apanson calculates as follows: That a tree of 1 year old is 1 In. or 13 In. diameter, 5 In. in height. Til s:es,0 alt Samick i foot .. xs«ee« ane ee eas oot an RE. sas wih ciel re 3000 «css ee PAOD 4 kine tee AS EE | ER eS 5150 e@eeee iF ocaleivws Cited dias Usleus Ae The roots, again, are of a most extraordinary length, having numerousramifications. In a tree, whose trunk was only ten or twelve feet high, with a trunk seventy-seven feet in circumference, Apanson has determined the main branch, or tap-root, to be one hundred and ten feet long. A figure of the whole tree may be seen in a beautiful vig- nette, at p. 141, of Lord Macarrney’s Embassy to China, drawn from a fine specimen in St. Jago, one of the Cape de Verd islands. The foliage there, indeed, is not so abun- dant as to conceal the vast proportion of the trunk, but it often happens, that the leaves are so numerous, and the branches spread out, drooping at the extremities, to such a degree, that the trunk is almost entirely concealed, and the whole forms a nearly hemispherical mass of verdure, from one hundred and forty to one hundred and fifty feet in diameter, and sixty or seventy feet high. | The wood is pale coloured, light, and soft, so that, in Abyssinia, the wild bees perforate it, for the purpose of lodging their honey in the holes, which honey is reckoned the best in the country. I know not that the wood itself is applied to any particular purpose, but the Negroes on the eastern coast of Africa employ the trunks in a certain state to a very extraordinary purpose. The tree is subject to a riicular disease, owing to the attack of a species of Fores: which vegetates in the woody part, and which, without changing its colour or appearance, destroys life, and renders the part so attacked, as soft as the pith of trees in general. Such trunks are then hollowed into chambers, and within them are suspended the dead bodies of those who are refused the honor of burial. There they become muminies, perfectly dry and well preserved, without any further preparation or embalmment, and are known by the name of guiriots. ‘Vein 3 This ey like all of the neighbouring order of Matvacez, is emollient and mucilaginous in all its parts. The leaves dried and reduced to powder constitute lalo, a favourite artiele with the natives, and which they mix daily with their food, for the purpose of diminishing the excessive perspiration to which: they are subject in those: climates, and even the Europeans: find it serviceable in cases of diarrhea, fevers, and-other maladies. The fruit is, perhaps, the most useful part of the tree. Its pulp is lightly -acid and agreeable, and frequently eaten ; while the juice is expressed from it, mixed with ‘sugar, and constitutes a drink which is valued as a specific in putrid and: pestilential fevers. Owing to these circum- stances, the fruit forms an article of commerce*. The Mandingos convey it to the eastern and more southern districts of Africa; and through the medium of the Arabs, it reaches Morocco and even Egypt. If the fruit be de- cayed or injured, it is burned: the leys are boiled with rancid oil of palm, and the negroes use it instead of soap. The flowers are large and handsome, and on their first expansion, as given at t. 2791, have a very different appear- ance to what they put on in a more advanced stage, as seen at t. 2792. There is a solitary tree planted in the island of St. Vincent, from which Mr. Guirpine gathered the flowers and fruit he has so obligingly sent to me, and which are ea oer abundantly, though the plant has not attained a eight of more than thirty feet. These flowers and fruit, Mr. Guiipine observes, are both pendent: => —=— * In Bowpicn’s account of Banjole, it is mentioned that this fruit possesses an agreeably acid flavour, and, being very abundant, it forms a principal article of food among the natives, who season many of their dishes with it, especially a kind of gruel made of corn, and called Rody. Mr. Bownicu further ob- Tas. 2791. Fig. 1 Flower and Leaf. 2. Calyx and Pistil. 3. Capsule. 4. Section of ditto. 5. Seed. 6. Embryo.—Natural size. Tan. 2792. Fig. 1. Flower, drawn from a more advanced specimen. 2. Portion of the Tube of the Stamens. 3. Stamen. 4, Section of the pedun- ele.—Natural size, a eres. Waly Orth. Sant, JAGR Lue. by. Sf; RID. lel ¢ (2793 ) Matva Morentl. Broap-Lospep VERVAIN ae Specific Characked and sean é Marva Morenii ; hirsuto-scabra, -foliis inferioribus quin- quelobo-cordatis inciso-cre natis superioribus quinque- _ partitis incisis crenatisq t (pesuancy iia | terminalibus ) corym Veron . 1816. e "Sprengel Syst. g Tenore Prodr. FL Neap. Suppl. 1. p. 62. t. 64. Fl 1. Nesp v. 2. si - Mave Ala B. Morenit. De 3 sae se ie v. 1p. = | ones 5-parti shaped, laciniated, an Veuberounte “aa of a darkish-green colour paler benea Stipules linear-lanceolate, hairy. ae in ( ys are accom aed les, corymbose panied by a pair of small : eee, P. shorter than the flower. Calyx quinque- — bo with the outer leaflets linear. Petals elongato-cordate, with rather a deep sinus at the extremity, pale pinkish- 2 surple, striated. Column of filaments and Sather pale i a ae a little shorter than the eee: . Whether Whether or not this handsome plant may be a variety of Matva Alcea must “ left for “Glace observation. Hi appearance is ve different in the ow Garden, where it is cultivated ra seeds sent by Dr. Fiscuer of Got- tingen. It flowers in July. : It is a native of Italy, particularly about Naples, where likewise the Marva Alcea grows, from which Professor Trnore, who has seen them both abundantly in a wild state, considers it to be quite distinct. : Fig. L : Root-leaf.—Natural size. ie a ae! eS ee « C28. Ae CS. WabworkinJan 2 /. fnb, Sy S . , hispid, with a few bra petioles : : the extremity, of whi h one oe , almost omits flowe of the lower are female, the rest male. Male flowers with a calyx of five, deep, ovate segments or leaflets, green. Corolla of five, oblong, waved petals. Stamens 10, five upper and five lower, all united with the base of a colum- nar, abortive, subtrigonous pistil. Filaments spreading, nearly horizontally: Anthers roundish, pale yellow, with a reddish gland of union between the lobes. Female flower with five, upright, oblong, and acute leaflets, and three outer and smaller ones. Corolla of five, small, erect petals. Pistil oblongo-rotundate, with a sessile, white, many-rayed stigma, clothed with numerous soft bristles. Fruit three- lobed, hispid. Seeds of this Croron were sent by Mr. Locxuarr from Trinidad to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where they pro- duced flowering plants in August, 1827. Pxrumier’s figure above referred to is so ill executed, that I cannot quote it as a certain synonym to this plant; but the descriptions of other authors sufficiently accord with it. Probably the C. palustre of Linnzus is searcely specifically distinct. It has nothing to recommend it as a plant worthy of cultivation, except, indeed, in the gardens of the curious. 2 = Fig. 1. Male Flower. 2. Front view of a Stamen. 3. Back view of ditto. 4. Female Flower. 5. Calyx and Corolla of ditto spread out, from which the Pistil, at fig. 6, has been removed. 7. Young Fr 8. Soft hair or bristle LB. by S Curtzs, Walworti, WTB delet | dl " € 2795.) | \ Overpium ihe ses Bor E one — Nei Papen i ~ Toba ff ges ten § antica ee inate Ara i ' be, media wie, y Broce thee. Pi * « tic eS cdma stigma i. Tey . hemi. £6 tai tacit une atis. Lindl.\ 2 Oxcipium Papilio. Ee in = pene lg sean with ot m nsoutary oF bra verse roe ie lotehs, longer mches long, deep yellow, — three-lobed, two lateral lobes forming a cordate base to the lip, and dotted with reddish-brown, having a three-lobed, whitish crest, spotted with red, the middle lobe two-toothed at the base ; terminal lobe cordate, its sides involute, its margins waved; a broad irregular band of red-brown runs along just within the margin. Column short, yellow, fringed at the upper margins with glandular soft spines, of which the upper one on each side is the longest, lower _ down bearing two, yellow, fleshy wings, obscurely fringed with glands at the extremity. Anther-case helmet-shaped, two-celled. Pollen Masses two-lobed at the back, placed at the point of a thin, ovate, membranous, white pedicel, whose margins are revolute, and which has a large brown gland at the base. Germen small, lineari-clavate, striated. From the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, to which the plants were liberally communicated by the late Baron De Scuacx, from Trinidad. The species blossomed in 1826, and again in June, 1827. It is among the most sin- gular and most beautiful of the extensive parasitic family with which our hothouses are now so abundantly stored ; and is well named Oncip1um Papilio by Mr. Linn ey. Fig. 1. Column and part of the Lip. 2. Front view of the Column, from which the Anther-case is removed, 3. Anther-case. 4. Pollen Mass. 5. 2796. ab. 60 3. Curtis, Walworth, Jan2 1823. Swan st. ‘ - | 2798 Ononus SESSILIFOLIUS. Srssiue-Leavep Brigade , iTTER-VETCH. ( Nat Ord —“Lnevurxos, 7 plain 4 Generic Cre eee ad io i zs a - \ eet te brevio- Ononvs sessilifolius. ‘canlibus ealetar ciiatis, foliis binis ternatisve. lineari subulatis mucronatis, lac angusto-semisagittatis petit smulto longigeiba niis calycinis subeequalibus. Orosvs sessilifolius. “Smith FI. fee n. 692, Sm. Prod. Fl. Grece v. 2. P. 64.” ee ‘PT Jp 0.2 p. 380. ; Se Orosus | digitatus. Bich, ni be : Sprengel Sy 7 Oropus Pym ah nd - (fide Biebersteinii J a | Oxonvs orientalis ; - angustis te ze In centibus. Tourn Cor, p.26. NONE \ A ee Sake Several - stone Selecety a ‘oot in height, erect, striated,. slightly = bescent, ‘as seen under a micro- scope, at the base, arise from the + same root. Leaves distant, composed of two or three leaflets placed at the an exceedingly short footstalk, linear-subulate, with about five strie, mateely pubescent, slightly grooved on the up- per per surface; whether the leaflets be two or three, they are always accompanied by another very minute, abortive leaflet. Stipules semisagittate, narrow, thrice as long as . the petiole. Peduncles almost twice as long as the leaves, terminating in a raceme of a few large, drooping flowers. Calyx green, glabrous, obtuse at the base, five-nerved, the teeth nearly equal in length. Vezxillum deep purple, redder towards the base. Ale purple at the extremity. Carina © with an acuminated point, greenish. Stamens: nine united and one free. Pistil: Germen linear, slightly pubescent : Style bent at an angle, plain and broader upwards, very pubescent on the underside beneath the stigma. This plant is a native of woods in the mountainous parts of Tauria, according to MarsHatyt Breserstein, as well as of Greece, about Athens, and near Messina, where it was discovered by Dr. Srsruorr. The flowers are very beau- tiful, and produced, in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, early in July, in the open air. | Sprencex quotes the Orogus ensifolins of La Perroust’s nae eee under this species: but Mr. Benrnam, in his valuable “ Catalogue des Plantes Indigénes des Pyre- nées, &c.” refers the O. ensifolius, «, of La Peyrouse to the O. canescens of Linnzus, and the variety @ of the same author to the O. albus of Linnaus. a —— Fig. 1. Carina. 2. Ale. 3. Carina of the Flower. 4. Pistil. 5. Base of a Leaf, with Stipules.—More or less magnified, N ce) tn N Pub.bp §. Curtis, Walworti, Jam. 1 1622 4 ¢ 2797 — Nrorria APHYLLA. ‘ _Liraress Neort. ‘ iid ‘ j Class and Orier. i ah ai Et Grwaynit Moxixonta. ee eS cette eg - & Cae *< Generic Character. ye Cor. Fingens: petalis exterioribus anticis labello imberbi suppositis; inferioribus conniventibus. Columna aptera. Pollen —— Br. ‘| : Specific md Descr. hehe altogether none. ‘Scape ten inches toa foot high, terete, glabrous below, pubescent with glands above: clothed at the base with rather closely-placed, above more distant, sheathing, large, m membranaceous, brownish- green scales, gradually passing into the linear-lanceolate, pubescent | bractee. lax, of few flowers, almost en- tirely, as is the whole scape, ‘of a | — colour, standing out horizontally, an inch long. The r petals, or segments of the perianth, linear- ‘nearly s t, the two lower ones embracing the lip, and running down below it into a rather short, obtuse spur. The two upper and inner ones glabrous, of the same she Deas the outer, and applied to the uppermost Lip about as long as the petals, linear-oblong, glabrous, ecurved, its base uniting with the two lower exterior petals. Column of fructification as in N. speciosa and — At tab. 226 of my Exotic Flora, I have given a figure of A : i ix @ cei Gv ee? af ot a a Neortia which I have called N. plantaginea, which differs from N. orchioides, principally, in having only a single leaf, instead of many leaves, and that one oblongo-lanceolate, to each scape. The present individual, which we have re-— ceived both from Mr. Locxuart of Trinidad, and the Rev. Mr. Guizprne of St. Vincent, and have cultivated for seve- ral years, bears nearly the same relation to N. plantaginea as that does to N. orchiotdes. It is, however, in all the specimens that I have seen, both dried, and in a state of cultivation, entirely destitute of leaves, and the whole plant is of a singularly lurid reddish-green colour. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Column of Fructification. 3. Pollen Masses. 4. Extremity of the Lip—Magnified. = . Pub. oy SO Cremtis, Walworth Lahl/& PP. wya Pitcner : re 3 x " “ome On—Anirowoenes) ) mer our Bets ; tus, patens, i interne aca Cor. | ; aie | 15—17, con- eltatum sessile. Nevenrstes distillatoria ; regen suru icoso subramoso cir- rhis scandente, foliis sparsis oblongo-lanceolatis peti- olatis aveniis decurrentibus, ascidi s nine gre oe racemis oppositifoliis pro pe ae xs ramorum subsim- plicibus Ghahian: Barb é NEPENTHES distillatoria. Lin Bip; Pl edi 2.93 2p. 1354 ? ~~ Willd. Sp. Plo». ?° Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. ~ 5. p. 420, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1017. NEPENTHES Phsliamphors. Lie 4. p. 458. ee, aig Pete # B g oo me, - sone, veg ae pate og betes sit os ; Dusce. ca Descr. Stem eight feet high, round, below slender and somewhat woody ; above, twice as thick, and more herba- ceous, branching.’ Buds small, and placed above the axils of the leaves, many of them abortive. Leaves entire, chan- nelled, undulated, glabrous, scattered, one to one and a half foot long, exclusive of the cirrhus but including the petiole, along which they are broadly decurrent, and which is about three inches long, semiamplexicaul, and decur- rent half-way to the next leaf below, veinless, or veins only obscurely seen, and not prominent on either side till dry, after which, several slender veins and nerves are observed, nearly parallel to the middle rib, and reticulated with transverse veins: middle rib strong, prominent behind, drawn out into a cirrhus from ten to twelve inches long, flattened on its upper side, and convolute in the middle, enabling the plant to climb, from this point somewhat thickened and turned down, having at its extremity an erect pitcher, which is wedge-shaped behind when young, afterwards in its lower half obscurely conical, above this contracted a little, and nearly cylindrical, its mouth oblique, with a rounded, regularly and transversely wrinkled edge, and a round lid, connected by its posterior margin to the highest portion of the oblique mouth, where alone the wrinkled edge of the pitcher is interrupted: The outer edge of this border is revolute after the lid rises, but before this it is erect, and passes within the sides of the lid, which at that time are folded down. Diameter of the lid from back to front two inches, transversely it is two and a quarter mches. Two prominent and curved ribs (between which, and also between them and the edges, the lid, otherwise flat, is somewhat depressed) run on its upper surface from the base towards its anterior edge, and from the point of their union at the base, is projected a small awl-shaped spur, and along the back of the pitcher a nerve, which be- comes less prominent towards the extremity of the cirrhus. Along the front of the pitcher are two prominent. ribs, ex- tended from the edges of the flattened surface of the cirrhus: these are more: prominent than the nerve on the back, and more or less completely flatten the pitcher on its ante- rior surface, which is the heel of the wedge in its young state. Lid at first closed, afterwards raised to about a right angle with the oblique opening of the pitcher, and never again closed... Before the opening of the lid, rather more than a drachm of limpid fluid was formed within each of the largest pitchers on our Specimen. This had a subacid taste A taste, which increased after the rising of the lid, when the fluid slowly evaporated. My friend Dr. Turner perceived it to emit, while boiling, an odour like baked apples, from containing a trace of vegetable matter, and he found it to yield minutes crystals of superoxalate of potash, on being slowly evaporated to dryness. The pitcher whose contents Dr. Turner analysed was a large one; it had not opened ; and the whole fluid weighed only sixty-six grains. The upper part of the pitcher decays first; and the line at which this is observed, is often quite defined. Our largest pitchers measure six inches and a half from the highest part of the oblique mouth to the lowest part of the curvature at their base ; the greatest. circumference four and a half inches, Flowers dicecious. Perfume offensive, resembling in kind, though less in degree, that of the Liztrum pomponium, Raceme solitary, opposite to a leaf near the extremity of the branch ; its extremity nodding, till the flowers expand in succession, when it is elongated, and becomes erect. Pe- duncle round, about two feet and a half long, of which about eleven inches at the base is without flowers ; pedicels round, half to three quarters of an inch long, clustered irregularly, and pet page bifid, supporting two flowers, having a small subulate bractea on the lower side near the base, and sometimes the appearance of an abortive one opposite and nearer the flower. . Calyx four-parted, spread- ing or slightly divaricated ; segments blunt, coriaceous, containing honey, green within when first opened, after- wards red in the middle ; two opposite segments slightly overlap the two others in the bud. Anthers numerous, collected into a capitulum: on the top of a hollow club- shaped. pedicel, formed by the united filaments ; pollen an abundant yellow powder. The middle rib of the leaf, the cirrhus, the whole outside of the pitcher when young, but its ribs chiefly when old, the pon aap every part of the calyx which needs in the bud, and a narrow triangular space extending upwards from the axil of the leaf to the bud, which it includes, are covered with a rusty pubescence; every other part of the plant. is smooth. The whole is green except the lower part of the stem, which is brown; but the leaves, at first darkest above, become yellow in fading, and there is a tendency in them, and in almost every other part of the plant, to become red, parti- cularly in the lid, and especially its under side, which uni- formly acquires a deep red somewhat mottled colour, though at first it is quite green. | ? | ie , is This plant is certainly the same species as the female imen figured from the collection of Messrs Loppiegs, in Botanical Cabinet, t. 1017, under the name of N. distzlla- toria, and in Bot. Mag. t. 2629, under the name of N. Phyl- lamphora. What Lixnzus meant by his Nv distillatoria does not certainly appear, for he refers to the CanTHARIFERA of Rumpatvs’s Herbarium Amboinense, v. 5. t. 59. f. 2. and to the Panpura Seylanica of Burmann’s 'TuxEsAurus Zeylanicus, t. 17.—figures of plants which differ altogether from each other, as the first, at least, does from the subject of the present article. If any conclusion could be drawn from the bad figures of Piuxenerius and Grimm, to which reference is also made by Lannaus, 1 should believe that these also differ from the present species. The inflores- cence in PiuKenetivus is copied exactly from Grimm, and is certainly in great part imaginary; the rest of the figure — to be modified from his having seen a dried leaf and pitcher, which, however, are much more reticulated than with us. Our plant differs from the description of Payt- LAMPHORA of Loureiro in the stem being branched, the leaves veinless and scattered, the inflorescence a lateral raceme, in which the pedicels are frequently bifid, support- ing two flowers, and in the anthers being more numerous. In Lovremo’s plant, the stem is described as simple, the leaves lineato-veined and opposite, the inflorescence a ter- minal, perfectly simple spike. Our plant, however, has only produced two branches besides the leading shoot ; and this tendency may possibly have been given by its top having been injured several months ago. ‘The universality of the buds in the axils of the leaves, however, makes me believe in the branching being natural. Near the extre- mity of each of the three shoots a raceme is produced. Our plant farther differs from Louremo’s description, in the lid never closing after it once opens; but the power of alter- nate opening and closing, even in his plant, was, probably imaginary, as his statement of the pitchers receiving the night-dews certainly is. The fluid which they contain is undoubtedly a secretion, but for what purpose does not appear. It is stated to have nearly filled one-third of the pitcher in Messrs. Loppiexs’ plant; but with us it never much exceeded a drachm, even in the largest pitchers, oe Se Mag pire five drachms. The out- Sure in Bot. _& is ve ood; but the detached pitcher is much too Corirkebad Mi ie upper half, and the lid is not nearly so flat as it always is ier : has zat een * been fully opened. The site of the two large nerves is occupied by prominent ciliated wings, and the base is bent exactly in the opposite direction from that which it takes in the outline figure, and in ‘the specimen which I have described. We have two plants which scarcely yet exceed the size of seedlings, in which these wings, strongly cili- ated, are present ; and, as in the detached pitcher, t. 2629, their pitchers are so bent at the base that the cirrhus ° between the wings. It is probable, therefore, that these appearances are peculiar to plants which have not yet advanced to maturity. The youngest pitcher on the large plant has the same relative situation to its cirrhus that the oldest has, and the same absence of wings. In Rumpntus’s figure, the position of the pitchers is always, as in the de- tached pitcher of the Magazine, t. 2629. The imperfect figure given by Ammannus of his Banpura Singalensium in Miscell. Curios. Ann. Prim. Decur. 2. t. 13. seems to ap- proach nearly to the present species. ~ | The N. distillatoria of Linnazus is quoted by Lamarck under N. indica, and, notwithstanding some difference in the description, I believe this (N. indica) to be our species, though reference is made from it to Pruxenerius, AMMAN- nus, Burmann, and Rumputus, to the last indeed with doubt. Where a change of name has become necessary, it is an evil which must be endured, but as no necessity appears to exist here, I retain that by which our plant was universally known, at least in this country. | Our specimen has been constantly kept in the stove, and now produces a very striking effect, by supporting itself on the adjoining plants, and hanging from them its pitchers. It gives off suckers, but not freely, a circumstance remark- ed in the female plant by Mr. Loppices. Mr. Macnas has succeeded in propagating two plants in this way. Granam. For the above synonyms and description I am entirely indebted to Dr. Granam, who obligingly sent me a noble specimen of the male plant of this most rare and singular vegetable production, from the Edinburgh Botanic Garden in the month of August. This species of NepenrHes ap- pears to have been introduced into this country, according to Hortus Kewensis, in the year 1789: but it was vie? shortly after wholly lost to the country, till the neo e lent Dr. Canny of Serampore sent to Mr. Cooper, who so ably conducts the gardens at Wentworth House, and to the Messrs. Sueruerps of Liverpool, a ge of seed gathered on the Circar mountains to the North East of Bengal *, and from the liberality of these two cultivators, I believe, have originated all the plants that are now living in the country. The seed vessels Mr. Cooper describes as occupying a por- tion of the flower-stalk nearly twelve inches in length, as being an inch and a half long, and very like those of the genus CEnoTHERA, particularly Gbienmis or muricata. Mr. Lrnpzy has given me a specimen of our N. distilla- toria, gathered at Sia from J. Harrison, Esq. I have a drawing of the same species which that gentleman found in the Seychelles Islands : so that the plant has probably a yery extensive geographical range in India. It is to be hoped, that the other equally wonderful species of this enus, of which I possess three in my Herbarium, from Dr. ALLICH, and a fourth, a native of Madagascar, gathered by Mr. Bogen, will, ere long, be introduced into our stoves: none can be more truly worthy of cultivation. * Dr. Granam, in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, ex vena an idea, that the seeds were received from Ceylon. Mr. Coorgn's “shliging communication at the moment of going to press, enables me to correct this Fig. 1. A Flower-bud. 2. Flower. 3. Column of Stamens. 4. Pollen, magnified. 5. Part of an Ascidium, with the lid closed. 6, Part of another shewing a back view of a raised lid.—Natural size. A a ! i FAX @e7P* LRO. BY Sf Curéze, Kalworth, Feb. LLEZ8. ‘ o* Gono.ogus. Niger. » Bia cg iy “( Nat. On—Arcamnes. Be) ty ik Asclepiadea. subrotata. _ Sem. com ~ Gonoonvs niger. Br. Asclep. in Wern Roem. et Sch Syst. Veget v. 6. p. 61. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 846. 1 ees en Cavan. Ie. 2. p. AD. t. 159.” dale . Px 1. p. 1255. rel a long as the ot a Wenn; ; but the lower elevated into a marginal ring, within which is situated the large six-lobed inferior corona (fig. 2.). Pistils two: Ger- men roundish compressed in the inside, tapering into the shortish styles, and terminating in the upper, pentagonal, deep purple, flat corona; at the margin of which are five brown, pendent scales, white at their upper edge: these © are the anther-cases; each has two cells, and two linear, waxy pollen masses, united in pairs by a small connecting point, which is placed between the scales, in the axil, or sinus. Raised from seeds sent from Mexico to the Rev. J. T. Honrtey of Kimbolton, a gentleman, whose collection of living plants promises to rank among the most valuable in the kingdom for rare and beautiful individuals. The seed- vessels, Mr. Hunttey remarks, were larger than an apple : but in the stove, where the plant is cultivated, and where it bears its numerous singularly-coloured blossoms in the month of October, these flowers fall away without produc- ing fructification. Fig. 1. Single Flower, before the Segments of the Corolla are reflected. 2. Lower Corona, with the point of attachment in the centre of the upper pentagonal Corona, seen at f.3. 4. Pair of Pollen Masses. 5. Pistils. 6. Section of the Germen, to shew the situation of the Ovules.—Magnified. aiworth, Fee. LLS2E. - Lab bp 8. Cartas Ka KET Edel? C 2800 ) - Potemonwm Ricuarpsont. Dr. Ricu- - ARDSON’S Potemontum. Generic Character. Cal. ioceg lubes 5-fidus. Cin mabesanpeaanlatn, Fila- menta bagi peiisiate. Siierpated 3. te tlic poly. an igulato erecto, : Saw a ~ getour a) alow. about, as th k-as. branched at the apex, deseending tendi ing to bind it together, very much re Stone rect, herbaceous, gr sen, Pp ue ranches axillary, chiefly fre ie lower. . stem and the crown of t t, ascending,as well as the stem, angular, and having’a slightly prominent line along each flat side. . Leaves pinnate, with an odd leaflet, com- mon footstalk. channelled, from the leaflets being narrowly decurrent, and forming)a border on each side, pinne very numerous on the root4leaves (ten to twelve pairs), fewer on the stem-leaves, quite entire, a very few shewing a tendency * to become lobed, sessile, rotundato-ovate, mucronulate, oblique, pubescent below, naked above, somewhat fleshy, middle-rib channelled, veins obscure ; root-leaves depressed and spreading, star-like, | on. the ‘ground, at least when the - plant. plant is young. Flowers in terminal corymbs, buds nod- ding, when fully expanded fronting outwards, large; pedi- cels round. Calyx persisting, ovate as well as the stem, branches and pedicels villous, and slightly viscid, five-cleft, segments ovate, pointed, spreading a little while the corolla is fully expanded. Corolla slightly marcescent, but soon — after, falling ; perfume faint, but disagreeable ; tubular, tube nearly as long as the calyx, yellow, and somewhat plaited in its upper half, colourless below; limb of five, broad, — obovate, spreading segments, minutely crenated, pale pur- ple marked with deeper veins, darker at its base, where, on | the outside, it is very slightly pubescent. Stamens five, included ; filaments connivent, slender, flattened, awl- shaped, contracted at the base, inserted into the apices of small, connivent, hairy valves, which arise within the throat of the corolla, siete with the segments of the limb ; anthers sagittate, curved inwards, large, white; pollen white. Germen small, ovate ; style filiform, equal in length to the filaments ; stigma in most of the flowers four-cleft, revolute, pubescent. Seeds gathered by Dr. Richarpson in 1825, from plants growing in d sandy soil, on Great Bear Lake, in 66 egrees North latitude, and received from him in this prom ~ oa =e — flowered in a cold frame at e Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, in the beginning of Oetiiber, 1827. : rhs te net rama I have a double reason for dedicating this species to our excellent and indefatigable countryman. It is the first which has flowered among the plants raised from seeds re- ceived from him last year, and while I was in the act of writing the description, I received information of his having © arrived in Edinburgh from the last successful survey of the shores of the Arctic Sea. Granam. _ 1 forbear saying any thing further respecting this beau- tiful and interestin laut a present, except that it comes very near to the P. humile of Pattas; that Mr. Menzies found it during his celebrated voyage with Capt. Van- COUVER, upon the North-west coast of America ; and, that I believe my var. nana of P. ceruleum*, gathered by Capt. Sazine in Spitzbergen, isgnot distinct. There are nume- — Specimens in Dr. Ricnarpson’s and Mr. Drummonp’s collections, whieh will at a future time enable me to offer . some remarks upon the species. ese : * In Linnean Transactions, Vol. XIV. p. 371. | = Fig. ¥. Corolla, 2, Stamen, 3, Pistil. 4. Stigma, with four Rays.—Magnifed: W. Ti del? Lub. bV S. Curtis, WaluorihBeb L782R. al 7 - a 5 marked with rings, whid : 2 - % a ya Pomios. rz sae = Humb. onpl. Nov. Gen. ~~ v. 1. Poros erating | Jae. Coll. 0. 4. p. Draconrium cordatum Aubl. Gaion. v. 2. p. 837. "i &c. Plum. Am. p. Aas Pah Draconrium 2 za PL Am Burm. Bl. $8, : M z +: 7 ‘ : aga Fe ra * 4 $.; 36. * # ? F ; =. '

Pook A plant of easy cultivation in the stove, being a native © of the trunks of trees in the West India Islands, and of the warmer parts of South America, flowering with us during a greater part of the year. The fruit I believe to be of very rare occurrence. A noble specimen has been communicated to me, from the Liverpool Botanic Garden, by the Messrs. Surpuerps, of which a portion is introduced into the accompanying plate, of the natural size; the acre of the entire meas being, of necessity greatly re- —— Fig. A. Plant reduced to one quarter of its natural size. 1. Flower. 2. Scale of the Perianth, with a young Stamen, 3. Fully-formed Stamen. 4. Pistil. 5. Portion of the Fruit, natural size. 6. Berry. 7. Section of ditto. 7. Section of a Berry. 8. Seed. eo Ses ae 2802 Wh Edel ® <2b. b9 S. Curkis, Walworth, Feb 2099 "tam Ted ra Pi! . i ve punnY Cnixese Pi 4 w tibus — brevispedieclian i aribus § _ capsulis triloculanibus, a ~~ iY, Back Peete ie piasireds — Smith in Linn. cool 10 Frand.0. B94 Be 0.2. p. AA. a: n. Pl. 7 28h, Spren e Tagg eS a PL. 3 jag pas ° B&cxia Chinensis. Garin. a 157. t. 31. Bacxia. ' _ Osb. et. B89 e SEE wo - ; Descr. A small twig. iggy laden, with bein bark, having very much the habit of a Drosma, frequently branched : the younger branches dotted glands, as, indeed, is the whole plant. Leaves linear-acerose, sharp, tapering into a very short footstalk, having an obscure midrib, opposite. Flowers small, solitary, axillary, each upon a stalk about as long as the flower. Calyx of five mem- branous, pale, almost white, roundish lobes. Corolla of five Spreading, roundish, very shortly clawed, white, waved petals. Stamens ten, inserted at the base of the calyx, be- tween the — in _. Germen si aaomapseat 2 0 ae three-celled, each cell having a fleshy receptacle in the inner angle, and many seeds attached to it. Styles short: stigma capitate. | Sir James Smrru, in the Memoir above referred to, in the Transactions of the Linnean Society, has rightly referred this Genus to the Order of Myrtr. It has all the character of it: the leaves and stem and calyx, and even the outside of the petals abound in glandular dots, which in this, and probably all the other species yield a fragrant and aromatic scent. | Bacxia frutescens is the only species which we are ac- uainted with that inhabits China. It was discovered ~ BECK during his journey, and is the species upon whic the Genus was founded. PR gehen Loo not find eight, but constantly ten stamens. Perhaps the number of the divisions of the floral coverings may vary to four, and then we might t eight stamens. New Holland Bacx1a virgata, as I have observed at p. 2694, of the former series of this work, has fifteen stamens. — Sent to the tome. Botanic Garden, together with a eg number of other Botanical rarities from China, in 827, by Dr. Livinestone. It is kept in the greenhouse, and produces its little delicate and snow-white flowers in the month of December. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Upper part of the Germen and Calyx. 3. Lower of the Germen, to shew the Cells and Seeds. 4, Se adh duaee oc on a 4 ‘aw was ‘ a ~ 2 Swat 4ud. by S. Carte sWalworth, Feb L898 Y Label? Banksia marcescens ; fol s lai truncatis extra medium dentato-serratis : basi acutius- cula, -Tamis weetccey calyeibus_persistentibus fol — Cnet nl | Drscr._ : A shrub from four to six feet ot high i in our collec- ultimate and younger branches 3 ntti f Leaves scattered, wo to three inches long, erecto- , rigic |, oblong, cuneate at the base, petiolate ; petiole f “4 inch long; truncate at the extremity, the upper half deeply dentato-serrate, the lower half entire ; the upper side deep green, the under white, with numerous green, minute reticulations : the midrib is prominent on the = side, and in the younger leaves only, downy. Amentum terminal, large, cylindrical, of exceedingly numerous flow- ers, placed im pairs, each pair subtended by three closely- placed bractea, two inner and one outer one, clothed with long, silky, fulvous hairs, the middle one having a conical, naked point. Perianth or Calyx glabrous, greenish yellow, with the tabe slender, filiform, the upper half separating into four segments, spathulate and concave at the extremity, and, in the hollow, bearing, each, ‘a-solitary anther. Style scarcely longer than the perianth, filiform, yellow. Stigma simple. The seeds of this fine species of Banxsta were received from Mr. Fraser, and, according to Mr. Brown, it is an in- habitant of Lewin’s Land, near the shore, in the Southern oa of New Holland. Introduced into England by Mr. EnziEs, its discoverer, in 1794, 1 have no opportunity of comparing the plant with the figure quoted by Mr. Brown, im Anprews’s Repository, nor am I quite sure of its bemg the true B. marcescens. The leaves are not decidedly ¢u- neate, and they are reticulated with white, downy areol#. In some respects it approaches the B. oblongifolia, but that is described by Mr. Brown as having sericeous calyces. The B. marcescens flowers in the greenhouse in the month of April, and our drawing was ifintle from the Glasgow Botanic Garden. _ | j Listas. Bit 6es SRivdiw JS Cit ars — 23 iy ; : nee fe 7D ei Lab oy SF Corn Bad, Wott, Feb. 7 TaR3. ona ( 2804 ). DorsTENIA ena. Pexiza-rLownan Se cass x DorsTenta sabloies: invitee (abaicune| ‘polis ae ae longis denticulatis, scapis radicalibus, culiformibus margine squamoso-crenatis. — SE ae Dorstenta tubicina. Ruiz et Pavon Fl. Per. v. 1. p. 65. . 202. f. 6. ging cca oas cd gal Spreng: st. See ep Fg a a ae ra ; "nn ami aint Sawn” Dave. Root large, “in proportion to the size of the plant, woody, subfusiform, descending, truncated or pre- a few simple, or branchi the summit of the root scapes. whole plant) slightly pubescent, cordato-oblong, denticu- late at the margin, reticulato-venose, petiolated, petiole about as long as > leaf. Scapes about equal in length with _ the petioles, terminated by a peziza, or wine glass-shaped receptacle, whose margin is incurved and crenated with granulated scales. Flowers numerous, of the male there eee? Sana ee ee ot ee purple, — at the ae or ' mouth, and apparently imperfectly — imperfectly two lipped. Filaments much protruded, white, the base, or that part within the tubercle, much dilated. Anthers purplish, two lobed. _Pistils : Germen entirely im- mersed in the fleshy substance of the receptacle, ovate, having a lateral style which is protruded through a perfora- tion in a tubercle on the surface of the receptacle, its upper part purple. . Stigmas bifid, purple. This rare and curious species of Dorsrenta seems to _ have been hitherto only known, by the figure and description of Ruiz and Pavon, as of Peruvian origin. It is now ascertained to be a native of Trinidad, whence, by the favor of his Excellency, Sir Raten Wooprorp, plants were sent | fants difler fo where they flowered in ig acquired their full boa years being aoative: it fskebout be cheingedaiesdn Sot leaf. The fragrance of the root, has induced the inhabitants of Peru, to employ it in the room of Dorstenra Contrayerva. Pub. br S&S Curtis. Val worth. Marth tlELZ8, wr TT Fr? © 2805) CALCEOLARIA PLANTAGINEA. PLatnTAin- ge appresso ovate acuminato bifido. ee Carceotaria pla nt taginea. Smith Plant. Ie. £. 2. Vahi Enum. v. 1. ae fe (ese. Syn. Joret. scapiflora. R. et P.) Spreng. Syst. ret. v. 1. p. 43 CALCEOLARIA biflora. Lam. Enc _ Descr. From the summit of the root spring several tufts of leaves, but almost wholly destitute of stem ; the lar, of them four to five inches Jon g including the petiole), and lying on ne ound, the s aller snore erect, all of them shomboid (in the wildis a im on ndeed, 0 ne abelliform), the u only deeply serrated, the lower gradually ‘tapering into’ a br ‘ “a and la ole: the mid- rth sends out lateral a nd parallel stre ng nerves, which again give out smaller. and ‘more spreading ones; all of which are more prominent beneath: the upper-side dark green, scarcely pubescent ; the under side paler, and, as well as the margin, distinctly downy, with hairs that are Short, sometimes branched, sometimes jointed, and some- mr + times times continuous. Scapes éight and ten inches to a foot high, pubescent, having the flowers in loose, umbellate panicles at the extremity, of from two to four, and some- times, as in one of my wild imens, of eight flowers ; the peduncles ternate. Calyx 4-partite, the segments ovato- cordate, spreading, externally glanduloso-pubescent and reddish. Corolla large, horizontally inclined, nearly hemi- spherical, yellow, the under and flat side beautifully dotted with red: upper lip very small, closed, ovate, bifid, ex- ternally minutely pubescent ; at the base within are two transverse brown bands. Stamens meeting together in front of the style, short : Anthers oblong, yellow. Germen nearly spherical, surrounded by a green gland, pubescent; Style rather short ; Stigma capitate, yellow. Seeds of this plant were sent by Mr. Crurcxsuanxs from near the Guardia, Chili, to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in 1826, and they blossomed in the stove in August, 1827. Dried specimens were likewise sent by the same friend from the same country, as well as by Dr. Gittres, who detected it growing gee on the sides of a small rivulet which arises a little below the Casa de la Combre, on descending from the top of the Cordillera, on the Chiliside, flowering in March. This gentleman had named it in his MSS. C. an- dicola, an appellation I should willingly have retained had not Sir James Smiru already figured and described the plant in his Icones Plantarum, under the name here adopt- ed. That plant, however, as well as LamArcx’s C. biflora, which appears to be the same, are natives of the Straights of Magellan, and herice the species seems to have an exten- sive geographical range. Vann considers the JoveLLana scapiflora of Ruiz and Pavon to be synonymous with this, but that has a flower of a totally different structure. aia Fig. 1. Flower soon from tlie ‘undabtde? ; i Salleweir ize. 2. Front view of a Flower, with the Lower Lip forced down, 3. Pistil—-Magnified. oe * PAR see e : “i a, Sw aAee 4 a2e/. L2b.bY.S. Cartis.Walwaré> Mar 7 1828 | | Maxntaria PALLIDIFLORA. Pate- Ba : @ ‘Flowmnmp Maxutanra, vo anthium patens, esupinatum. Labellum cum pro- umnguiform a % column 2 articulatum, trilobum.. Fo ola re erie a basibus cum processu columne connata connata, glandulosa (vel 2, pedice dulosa). Herbe parasitice cr, x Maxirraria pallidi ee | lato-lanceolato ti nervi striatoque, : bracteis wens is, petalis erectis subequi ‘acuminate, with five principz Scure striz, subcoriaceous. bulbs, and proceeding from ‘ Mad der, whitish, having having several linear, subulate, pale, membranaceous brac- tex, similar to those which accompany the flowers, which are few, at the extremity of the scape, drooping. Perianth of five deep divisions or petals, very pale yellowish green, each lanceolate, rather obtuse, united at the base below into an obtuse, brown, spur-like process. Lip about equal in length with the petals, almost white, oblong, having two obscure tubercles at the base, the margin thin, waved, the extremity a little recurved. Column white, Anther-case operculiform, hemispherical. Pollen Masses four, two small and two large, yellow, waxy, attached toa whitish gland. Received at the Glasgow Botanic Garden from the island of St. Vincent, by favour of the Rev. Lanspown Guixpine, and cultivated in the same way as other parasitical Or- CHIDE# in the stove, where it flowers in September. It has much affinity with the Denprosium squalens of Mr. Linp- Ley, in Bot. Reg. t. 732; but, besides the different form of the bulbs.and colour of the flowers, that plant is said to have the pollen masses two in number, with a furrow on one side, whence Mr. Linptey has subsequently constituted of it the Genus Xytosium (Bot. Reg. t. 897.) Fig. 1. Front view of a Flower. 2, and 3, Front and back view of the Pollen Masses.— Magnified, OLA de?* LUD by S. Curtis, NalvorthMarcht 7898 OL _Acantaus« 71 LLEA. moeyna; ‘Airnidlaa’ Polti: ermaus Semina sired demas evittea acanthifolia » foliis pinnatis elabris, lobis sub- 0: act & _racemis ee las —- sis, Pe atytis gi t is ~~ Cunn. Gnevintea aca thifolia. Cunningham in Field’s N. 8. Wales; p>328>cum Ie. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1153. ceous at lengtli> dis coloured, : after sl c sile. Germen stip secreting abundat r nce of ~Caeg Style euryed, quite whooth, and shining pink: Stigma flattened, yé aight vo the top of the style, green on 1 bursting from the calyx it ca its centre a round and prominent mass of the dark-coloured lien. The specimen above described has flowered in April, and will continue to produce flowers during May, at Comley Bank, near Edinburgh, # the greenhouse of Mr. Cunnine- HAM, Whose very extensive Solfention has within these few months been distinguished by exhibiting in flower, for the first time in this country, several of the greatest ornaments of our gardens. Among them may be reckoned Dory- ANTHES excelsa, RuopopENDRON arboreum, and the subject of the present article. This was procured by Mr. Cun- nincHAM from Mr. Lee of Hammersmith, by whom it was raised in 1824, from New Holland seeds. Granam MSS. This interesting species of GreviLiEA was discovered by the King’s collector, Mr. Azzan CunninenaAm, on peaty bogs on the Blue Mountains, and banks of Cox’s river, durmg Mr. Oxxey’s first expedition into the interior in 1817, and introduced to this country through the medium of the Royal Gardens at Kew. = Fig: 1. Flower.—Magnified. - YA dol? Lub by £ Carey WalworlieMarcnZ JP BR 2808. C SONG si 2) - ry. __Lorus MICROPRYELUS. a LL=LEAVED fap a WRC Am Ron OPTUS. : aes toe: : Be ~ Cal. tubulosus, 5 5-fidun,ala-venilhgiian oe rostrata. Legumen cylindraceum vel compress stylus rectus ; stigma oculo nudo nae we " ett i ann oe airy and reddish, ¢ coll , nto a ei head, upon Ion; five, nearly « side a small te crn t obliquely the ale is, as it were, he a united and one free. Pisti : . Germen linear, pubescent ; Style glabrouss Stigma capi- tate and glandular. Legumes short, cylindrical, —- . by the straight, acute style; /thtee-seeded, the seeds lodged in as many cells, sential, dotted. Embryo compressed : Cotyledons plano-convex ;_radicle curved. ES A graceful but small plant, and as far as my investi- tions have enabled me-to détermine, quite a new species. Broleseor Hornemann sent the seeds, which were gathered by his Danish Majesty’s collector .at the Cape of Good ope. We have cultivated it in the greenhouse, where it flowers in July. S Sie ae Ly etdsi ts/ willis} S6iiay a i as te eae & es eS —~ — ss » BOGS Na 2 ee Fo whe 5 Fig. 1. Flower seen from the underside, 2. Side view of a Flower. 3. The Carina. 4. Stamens and Pistil! 5, Pistil: 6. Fructiferous Peduncle, natural size—7. Single Legume. 8. The same laid open. 9. Seed. 10. Embryo. 11. Leaf, with its Stipules.—All but fig. 6. more or less magnified. + 9 ke Oe 3 a=) oe 3 : > . * er ot “ pi pert ¢ ‘ . Fags & % stores, Top reece Porc files RiieO> 3S MISOR iN r fa Be “ae r é . CS ) geese Strerivie eprireee re e ‘tS = uric take AF) fesse eee FU SA OL Oto VY SiSS 5 BHIDOT Siw . z te y x ‘* Wit Rdect Puke by SL. Curtis, Vizdwarth, March. 7128 oe Cal. 9-phyllus. Cor. ce Caps. tetragona, 4-loculs Specific Penza imbricata ; foliis ecussatis, floribus te mainalib us, brac ais paucis nudis coloratis sagittatis fai minori ous, Jaciniis corolle ob- tusis medio plicatia NY § G Ry” Penza imbricata. Gra aM . mS. a a Vand cracked, branches four-sided. Leaves ses- loured, alternating wi same plane. Corsila ¥ rose © inflated. at its base, ‘ mae a nS Segments of the corolla, an fattached ‘6 the throat : ments subulate, coloured : anthers large, cordate, as ong as the filaments: pollen yéllow. Germen four-lobed, four celled, pointed : terminal, four sided : stigma capi- tate, four Aspe lle Raised from of Good Hope seeds, kindly communi- cated to.the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh by W. T. Arron, Esq. Granam — —— — — . Flower cut open'to shew the § Stamens and the Pistil. 3. and 4. Back and Front view of the Anther. 5. Section of the Germen.— Swan <. Curtis. Nalworti: March LIP PE. Pad. by WF L.del? wg oe ‘lowe olitary, on short icles, Wien eins Som eppontc the leaves, and _— ve, have, in their middle, three subulate bractee. Calyx of five se green, concave, oblong, acuminate, spreading leaves. etals obovato-oblong, yellow, waved. These flowers are succeeded by erect, pod-shaped, somewhat angular, acumi- nated capsules, varying in length from one to three inches, five-celled, five-valved. Each valve has two rows of ovate brown seeds. ; eg This plant is said to grow spontaneously in Asia, Africa, and America; and was introduced into our gardens, accord- ing to Parxrnson, in 1640. Seeds were sent to the Glasgow Botanic Garden by Cuartes Texrair, Esq. from the Mau- ritius, and from them the plant was raised from which our figure and description were taken. It possesses little beauty to recommend its continued cultivation ; but it isa plant with which we may wish to have some acquaintance, since, as its name a or it has been extensively cultivated in Eypt, Syria, and other parts of the East, as a pot herb. In Egypt, Forsxat tells us, it is abundantly planted in gardens, and is called Melokych by the Arabs. Oxivizr says the Egyptians eat the leaves during the whole summer in ragouts, or simply boiled, drained, and seasoned with olive oil ; and, in India, it is equally employed as an article of food. It is besides said to possess slight medicinal qua- lities ; to be emollient, a sweetener, and a. pectoral. It flowers in the stovein July. cy mec ia . é ( 28 ) : \y J SALPIGLossis ATRO-PURPUREA, oD Cal. 5-partitus, Bet io af ; limbo 5-lobo. Filam. 4 tum aisechinf Saat apice dila- ba Fo quarter to an’ i cal, often nearly el tica! ‘or ova tical, Roath nd folded back from the middle rib, iunaiiesl: ents generally blunt and entire Ciel ctlintc sharp, and | occasionally toothed on their sid es, decurrent along the , and on the flowerin, _ Flowers on loose, ter- minal poate ' Pedicels opposite to, or alternate with the , stout, slightly curved up , as well as the stem _and branches cylindrical. Calyx persisting, oblongo-ovate, five-cleft, segments acute, five-angled, a "Gor deep green, mad he intervening spaces ess and rugose. Corolla large, i in- aa * serted into the receptacle, veined, rich deep purple within, more lurid on the outside, funnel-shaped, tube cylindrical, twice the length of the calyx. ; throat much inflated, a little more on its lower side, and half as long again as the tube ; limb spreading, five-cleft, segments obcordate, the largest above, the two smallest below. Stamens four, didynamous, with the slender. rudiment of a fourth between the two longer, inserted into the orifice of the tube of the corolla ; filaments slightly flattened, purple towards the anthers, stamens inserted higher in: garden of Mr. Nes, Cannon Mills sent by Dr. Gruuies.. Both the species hav: in the stove of the Royal Botanic Garden, _ September, and will conti _ seeds having been sent 1 sHANKS, in 1826. Both: by Ruiz and Pavon, this respect. —GraHAM, Swenre Se CO'aSES! yor 2 baa ARUM CAMPANULATUM. Campa r , Arum. 1 Cass and 1 Onder, | -Moxceora ‘Mowanoars. ¢ Nat. Ord —Anomen. Pe : sa | Generic Character: ft oe Spatha mnonophylia® Poncallata. Apis “ nudus, inferne fomineniy medi o stamineus. : + from the leaf, and is very largeandshowy. From the top of the tuber arises a short, green, spotted stem, or peduncle, having. numerous, stc¢culeut. radicles, thrown, out from its very base, and two unequal, lanceolate, membranaceous sheaths or bracteas. This’ short sfem bears a very large subcampanulate purplish spathe, of a somewhat coriaceous texture, much waved ‘at.the margin, greyish, spotted with white on the outside, within whitish towards the middle, and reddish-purple at the very. base. . Spadix ten inches to a foot high ; its lower half (that part covered with pistils) cylindrical, above (where the stamens are placed) much dilated, and at the top expanding into a large, waved, deep-purple, granulated head. Pistil: Germens numerous, somewhat spherical, purple: Style cylindrical, purple: Stigma capitate, waved; yellowish. Anthers sessile, ‘< numerous, oblong, obtuse : each four-celled, opening wi pores'at the extremity. © © (90 8 Ainge | The first I knew of this extraordinary plant was throu; the medium of my friend Dr. Srrane, who obligingly brought me from. M. Spanoeue, from Java, a. noble speci- men of it in spirits. About the same time, a living plant was sent from’ Madagascar by Mr.:'Tet¥am to Ropert Barciay, Esq. at Bury Hill;-in whose superb: collection, and under the skilful management of his gardener, it soon prodiced its flowers: and; from @ drawing kindly sentto me by that gentleman,:aided by my specimens'preserved in spirits, the accompanying figures were taken: -\ Although the: plant ‘had: beea long réprésented and:de- _ scribed by Rumpnius, Ruzepe, and Commexin;| yet no systematic botanist. seems ‘to: have noticed / it; «mtil: Dr. introduced it into the. Hortus Benghalensis,ut- — der the name which I have here retained. Wé dre! there toldithat its Sanskrit name is: Kunda, and»its: Hindoostani- ~ Muncha-kunda: that it is not.wncommon on the Continent of India, as well as in the Archi o: and that in the ‘Northern ¢ Sy ity GulVatad aod alved as the POU ne Fa us, and as the Yams in the West Indies. The roots often weigh from four to eight ormore pounds each, Com- paid aig it from Ceylon, and cultivated it at Amster- — dam, but never saw it produce its flower. . RomPxivs Tacs ed to consider the flower of this to belong to his real ‘dasa 5. t. 113. £1. Both he and Rugepe speak of the root being employed nedicinally by the ative 9. ng, 1; Leaf about one quarter the natural size. 2. Flowering Plaat ditto 4. Anthers. 5. Section of ditto.— Magnified. Curtis. Walworth Avrit £ 2028. rad ‘i. Pub. by Pirearrnta bra _ °°“ “tus bracteis ca yp hs ical ycis, etal (excl. Syn. P. si arRntA latifolia : lower flowers, and there very short. Calyx half superior, of three, erect or slightly twisted, lanceolate, reddish leaflets. Petals three, curved, nearly regular, convolute, red ; at the base of each furnished with a large, white, crenated scale. Stamens shorter than the petals: filaments white: anthers linear-oblong, yellow. Pistil : Germen half-inferior, the superior three-lobed, tapering upwards into a filiform, white style. Stigmas three, shortly fineur, twisted. Cap- sule tri-angular, or forming a double three-sided pyramid, = base os seme with ae fleshy base = eb e upper part cov e persistent, withered flowers, three-celled. Seeds on scrobiform. This is assuredly the same plant as Repovutr’s P. latifolia, which is the P. bracteata, «2, of Hortus Kewensis. But I cannot agree with the author of that valuable work in con- sidering the P. sulfwrea of Anprews to belong to the same species. Independent of the colour of the flowers; they are much larger and the petals, as represented both in the Bot. Repository and in the Bot. Register, are very different in shape from those of our plant: nor do the bracteas ap- pear to be so large in proportion to the flower. __ The spike of flowers in our specimen is young : a spike of seed-vessels now before us is thrice the length off the flowering plant. Communicated by Messrs. SHEPHERDS, from the Liverpool Botanic Garden, in January, 1828; to which valuable establishment the seeds were sent in 1825, by Mr. Exuiorr, Staff-Surgeon, from the island of St. Vin- cent. We have fine dried specimens from the same island, gathered by the Rev. L. Gurtpine. es. ns ———————————————— Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal. 3. Stamen. 4. Pistil. 5. Capsule. 6. Section of ditto. 7. Seed—All more or less magnified. . 244 AMY. OD oh Cartas Walworth An~27g98 Bet Lycorrrstcum E rotata, 5—6-loba. esky ra udi- “Cat 5—6-p Cor. conice, me naliter dehi Lycopersicum perut foliis inzeque -_ptipulatis,. “y folio slightly petiolate, more or less remote, with or without smaller ones between them, all of them pubescenti-tomen- tose, and often hoary. The pubescence is mixed with glands, which cause the plant to be somewhat clammy, and which yield a rather powerful odour. At the base of the etioles are small rounded stipules, one on each side. eduncle lateral (not axillary), bearing four to six corym- boso-racemose flowers, which are drooping. Peduncles and pedicels bracteated with bracteas resembling the stipules. Calyx not one third the size of the corolla, of five, lance- olate, spreading se its, two, or four of the segments often cohering in pairs, the margin and back pubescenti-hirsute. Corolla large, rotate, deep yellow, the segments reflected, waved, and margined, acuminate. Stamens five, united into a firm tube, and terminating in a hollow, horn-like process: anthers opening by two longitudinal clefts inwards, the whole resembling the stamens of the plants of the Class Syncenesia, only that here the short filaments as well as the stamens firmly cohere.° Pistil roundish, pubescent. Style longer than the stamens, filiform, hairy below, gla- brous above; Stigma globose. Raised in the Glasgow Botanic Garden from seeds sent by Mr. Cruicxsuangs from Valparaiso. It produced its blos- soms in the stove in November. Ruiz and Pavon tell us, that it is found in the provinces of Lima and Chancay, and Frvitiée observes, that it grows in the clefts of rocks on the shores of the sea. The fruit which we possess in the Herbarium is spherical, orange-red, about the size of a pea, and pubescent. In the dialect of the country the plant is called Tomatte cimaron, or Wild Golden Apple. Indeed, Sir JAMEs Smirx (see Ress’s Cyclop. article Sozanum Lyeopersicum) does not feel satisfied that it is distinct from the common Love Apple, or Tomato; but had he seen — living specimens of the two, he would, I think; have felt satislied of their being specifically different. Rozmer and Scuutres quote with a mark of doubt Jacgurn’s figure in the Icones Rariores, because Linnzus describes the leaves as being not interruptedly pinnate: but both kinds of leaves are often found on the same plant. a : “= — 3 ; Mageincd me *- Staminal Tube Inid open. 3. Calyx and Pistil— Swan fe: ed: eo age CLL: NAEV CI HLAWES LP M2 I. tert pyr 2? | sae ee ; seg) . mig . : Pevintkian 5-partitum. ‘Tecaenlau ti 5, CS a: ob im i faceum ovario longiorem, apicibus sque dentibus i interjectis. Anthere ee mmr E dritaic Ai pub Heenti-pilosayh Aste b boas S - oblongis basi stieniidtis, capitulis terminalibus : 4 osis diphyllis, bracteis dbus majoribus pias iO daria oO. b Eee ‘ lob OS . Lin ? A flexed. Heads of Flowers at first Ming thos ofthe common Tre, white. Bractee three to each flower : the outer one small, roundish, acuminate, membranous, scariose, greenish, tipped with purple : two inner ones three or four times as large, resembling the calycine valves of a grass, and in like manner including the flower, purple, carinated, carina winged and serrated. Perianth of five, lanceolate, mem- branaceous, scarcely coloured segments, enveloped within and without almost to the point with a delicate woolly sub- stance. Tube of the stamens rather longer than the peri- anth, cylindrical, membranous, reticulated, white, termi- nated by five bifid teeth, within which, between the notch, in each tooth, a sessile, linear, one-celled, yellow anther is inserted. Pistil shorter than the tube of the stamens, globose, ‘Gack into a short style, which has two «linear stigmas. sule or Utricule containing a single, reniform, brown, pedicellated, compressed seed. Introduced into Britain from the East Indies so long ago as the year 1714, and extensively cultivated as a favourite ornamental plant in the gardens of the rich, and in. the windows of the poor cottagers ; yet so far neglected by the Botanist, that it has not been honoured with a figure im any British publication that has come within my observation, The structure and colour and texture of the flowers when accurately examined are highly beautiful, but, like those of the Class Syneenesia, require nicety and care in the dis- section and analysis. The generic name is altered from Gromphena (ypage, to paint) which Puiny applied to the Three-Coloured, or Painted Amaranth, a t naturally allied to this. Both floral coverings of that 2 liarly = and imperishable nature as to have me ited the name of Everlasting, and hence they are considered in many countries as the emblems of friendship. In the East Indies the common Globde-flower is formed into garlands to ornament the hair, and to adorn instruments of music at the festivals : and in the South of E , for the tis now cultivated in almost every part of the al decorated with it in the winter. As a tender annual, the GompHrEeNA sa requires to be raised in a hot-bed, and planted out during the summer. ~ Fig. 1. Front view of a Flower, with its three Bra 2. Back view of ditto. 3. Flower. 4. Portion of the Staminal Tube. 5, Pistl 6. Uti cule. 7, Seed.—All more or less magnified. ha py ? | 2516. want Luh Ev Sf VS. Cirits, We S. Nalworthderel.. LL8 23 CA Ca Curtis del? “a! ove Mowe) sonal Goto Justicia CALYCOTRICHA, ‘¥muow. ALO WABED, hn stam Cal, ye featus. | Co - tabinia’ “anthigte 3 SE ibus. | ‘aps. -ovalis, 2-locu- biloculares, loculi laris, ose dep et tinacula seminum ase Se 4" 5 , dence calyoneian ulis parallel: *-terminali pineatv -ealyce 5-partito. Bass seecs ngissimis, corolla labio inferiore tripartito revolut superiore recto apice recurvato emarginato visi | ~~ cordato-oblongis repandis glabriuseuli : x Calin J USTICIA cealycotricha. Link.” » Spreng. % get. vol. IV. part 2. p.18. : 4 Fe Jusricta calytricha. pe i J USTICIA flavicoma. a z 7 aa Fs ' ’ 5 ‘ \ . Descr. —— two rp ed feet high, =a inde, “green, htly turned near the joints. 2 upon es from one to four cls" ong, ‘diedate, dato-ovate, or even approaching to lanceolate, waved and. * scarcely serrated, to the nak eye appearing , but when seen under the mi exhibiting numerous short, clavate hairs, more abundant on the nerves ial, yell Panicle terminal, close. Flowers large, beau- ow. Calyx deeply five - partite, the segments ; 3, sometimes glabrous, often clothed with a minute pubescence, pubescence, similar to that of the leaves. Corolla two to three inches long, quite glabrous, the tube angular: the upper lip)straight, narrow, the apex recurved, emarginate, the lower-lip tri-partite, revolute. Stamens exserted. ] Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. : Lp. | : ' Spreng. Syst Veget. v. 1. a7 oe] i a. lV eae ewe ing stems. Leave. rotundato-ovate, de arent: on nearly flat petioles, which are longer than the leay nted or. blunt, a few : es, pol hairs on the surface, chiefly at t deep green above, pale below, Peduncles terminal, four-sided, upright, bent nearly horizontally wer, free from bracteas. Calyx tetraphyllous, leaflets lanceolate, or lineari-lanceolate, more or less spreading, green. ~ Co- rolla hypocrateriform, tube equal in length to the calyx, contracted below the insertion of the stamens, and above this point pubescent without. Limb spreading, four-parted, segments oval, approaching to obovate, acute, white, with an obcordate yellow stain at the base of each segment of the estitute of prominent veins. about three inches long, the limb, and these being confluent, surround the faux with a yellow margin. Faux four-sided. Stamens. nearly sessile, inserted into the tube of the corolla, at about one third of its height. Anthers lear, oblong, yellow. Ger- men inferior, quadrangular, bilocular: Style very slender : Stigma bifid, large, exserted. This plant flowered in June 1827, in the nursery grounds of Mr. Cunninenam, Cowley Bank, near Edinburgh, at the same time with the Potyeata paucilora. Both were brought from North America by Mr, Buazr, and the subject of the present article was found by him, on the tops of the mountains of New Hampshire, surrounded by abundance _ of Menziesia cerulea and AnpromepA hypnoides. Granam. Fig. 1. Front view, and 2. side view of a Flower. 3. Faux of the Corolla shewing the insertion of the Stamens. 4, Pistil. 5, Leaf.—All more or less magnified. | ; 2823. WIZ del? £20. BPS Curtin Wizilwo ?27t, dhay ZZP9E ewes” , Monaxpna. ( Nat. Ord —ORCHIDER. ) Generic Character. Labellum articulatum, cur ‘ren A, iformi, cujus lateribus petala antica Q nata. Masse a pollinis 8. Br. ’ OcToOMERIA $e , foliis lineari-lanceo- latis divtichia : serratis, racemo ter- minali paucifloros Descr. Parasitic, Ste: even inches high, erect, two edged, a little waved, cloth 5d with many distichous, linear-lanceolate le, striate d, ‘i re orl less carinated, rather rigid leaves, she athinn ag gat t se & the s apex denticulato- serrate. Race ne c ered ring small brac- teas at the . ot long sheathing bases. Pr , ily spreading, lan- iat 7 “the ey zag’ on wniveeith ong, short ith a ickened, n semicylindrical, ‘oO la , each di- totwo. Poll Masses eight, Mind of union very indistinct. the pollen in each anther was established by Mr. pecies, the Denpro- A se@ond species is described “ Figured at Tab, 2764 of this work. described by Mr. Don, as:a native of Nepal; and now a third species, the subject of the present plate, has been detected: in: the’ Organ mountains, near Rio Janeiro, by Wituiiam Harrison, Esq., and by him introduced to the col- lection of his sister, Mrs: Arnorp Harrison, of Aigburgh, near Liverpool, where it flowered in November, 1827, and by whom it was kindly communicated to me. The habit of the plant is, indeed, considerably different from that of the species already figured in this work, but in the struc- ture of the flower, and in the essential. generic characters, they are the same. — Fig. 1. Front view of a Flower....22 Side viewsof the Labellum. 3. View of the upper side of ditto. 4. Inside view of the Anther-case. 5. Pollen Masses.—All more or less magnified. b 7 7. Pad. op f Curtis Walworlle. Mapa WAR aAsl?® tee Sia PAs es, Cal. 4-fidus. Cor. ie 3 c aps. bilc Listy: dissepimen- tum e marginibus yalvarum., . ice ma paleacea, — ; Bs Speci ake Chan ~ lanceolatis aaah ie . ferrugineo ani bo tome 1€ _ pedicellis 3- forts, SF Buppiea SRE crs i: 3 _ Diet: t. 69, Ver 8p ae el y: rub, having a cot- Descr. A twiggy a ¥ . Leaves opposite, re- tony and obtusely four-sided stet SS mote, oe quite entire, dark g , ‘on the ‘upper surface, andwrinkled umerous reticulated , below cottony, whi e, or inclined to rusty : : the same otha ; substance cloathes the petioles, which are an inch or more long, and the peduncles and the pedicels. ' ‘The flowers are numerous, and placed in an erect compoui raceme ; the pedicels ‘an inch long, spreading, a ring three, or in the k ar L of the : stem, sometimes fi e and __ having a sw oval, four-too cescent, eas rath spreading, the margin ay no J downy, within quite glabrous, and of a bright reddish © orange colour. Stamens four, inserted just within the mouth, at the sinus of the segments. Filaments very short. Anthers oblong. Pistil: Germen rounded, downy : Style filiform, as long as the tube and reaching to the stamens : Stigma clavate. This is a very desirable inmate of the stove, and may pro- bably be found sufficiently hardy to bear the greenhouse. The stem and underside of the leaves, clothed with a dense white or rust-coloured tomentum, form a singular contrast with the dark green of the upper surface of the leaves, and with the rich orange colour of the flowers, which yield a - powerful honey-like smell. It is a native of Madagascar, and appears to have been first gathered there by Sonnerat, who gave it the name of Vigne de Malgache. Seeds have been sent to this country, by Dr. Watticn, from the Botanic Garden at Calcutta ; and we had the pleasure of seeing it flower, and the oppor- tunity of figuring it at the Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh, and Kew, and Glasgow, almost at the same time, namely in the autumn of 1827. In the expansion of the flowers, the lowermost open first, and of the three on each pedicel, the middle one, according to Dr. Granam’s observations. a - Fig. 1. Pedicel with its three Flowers. 2. Calyx with the Pistil. 3. nied removed from near the summit of the Tube of the Corolla—Mag- ny ° c ‘ Pub. By: Charice, Wale orth Mal ld 2b, Prqgioitsl 2825° ) an » » Diosconea “CINNAMOMIFoxrA, 7 Sriouagios: LEAVED Diosconra, or Yam. | SERRE | 4, _ Class and Order. HEXANDRIA eG Spr. /(Drceora Hiexanonia. i L4nn.) wn ( Nat. Ord.—Droscorez. ) — & Generic Character. — +4 . » LA Flores dioici. Pertanthdas simplex, 6- itum. C - sula trilocularis. Semina alata. Sor part * %, 7. Specific Character. ke aX 3 ‘s Drsediens cinnamomifolia ; cau Benet striato 5 pelingae nae pubescenti-hirtis, foliis | ngis acutis triner- Viis coriaceo-subearnosis, Feces Simp vel com- positis. / Duscr. Root a fobudigh, ill-shapen_ wile as Are as the human head. Stem twining, branched, striated, and pubescenti-hirsute, hairs brownish: whole plant destitute of prickles. Leaves alternate, pete dim o ongo-acumi- nate, quite entire, of a_ re between coriaceous and fleshy, shining, having | ree distinct nerves or ribs, which are prominent on the under side, where the leaf is of a paler green, and where, near the base, are some dark dots or lands: the margin itself, when held between the e 8 and the light, is seen to have a thin pellucid margin. Petioles ey three-fourths of an inch, to an As long, — like the . Racemes ways solitary, ax- _ illary, . on reartns ; pedicels branched, — each with a lanceolate Pabion. Perianth eee , deeply six-partite, the segmen ts spreading, oblong, yello Stamens six, opposite to the divisions of the ] perianth. o The Jemale flowers I have not seen. | oe ! : Detected - io de Janeiro, by Winn ced to the valuable ana, 4B 2E. < Kalworth, Jiitt DLE. op SS. Eur ees. Lue. WAH del? ( 2826 2827..). Cycas CIRCINALIS. BRrOAD-LEAVED CYCAS. Lo ABR SRSdsbsisisebeleleoaeoak Class and Order. ~ Diacia Poryanpria. r § (Nat. Ord.—Cycanex. Pers. Br. Rich. ) Generic Character. Fil. dioici. Mase. ameniacel 5 > amentum crassissimum, in, utroque margine eer ane nf eg erecti. ae Poi: a tereti ; _foliis coronantibus, pin- Specific Chniacior and Synonyms. , Cycas. Catinglia < foliorum pimnis lineari-lanceolatis planis petiolis aculeatis spadicibus foemineis paucifloris acn- minatis j ciso-s prrati, fructibus ovato-globosis gla- bus. Hae Sx 2 Crcas circinelis.. Linn, Sp. Pl. p. 1658. Burm. Fl. Ind. p. 240. (excl. syn. Breynii, Sebe, et Kempferi.) Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 844. Pers. Syn. Pl. v. 2. p.631. Lam. Encyl. v. 2. p. 231. (* excl. Sebe Syn. Sup. Il, A25. in observatione.”) Ait. Hort. Kew, ed. 2.0. 5. p. A09. Hamilton in Linn. Trans. v.15. p. 81. Hamilton in mment. on the. igen gos Pp 19. Annales du Mus. ist 25, 26 2 4 “Graham nn of Rare Plants in Cycas a * incl from the extremity, pinnated, with linear-lanceolate, nearly Cycas frondibus pinnatis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis, stipitibus spinosis. Linn. Fl. Zeyl. p. 393. (“« excl., nisi Ratt, sy- nonymis omnibus.” ) Toppa panna. Rheede Hort. Malab. v. 3. p. 9. t. 13—21. Ouvs calappoides e Celebe vel ex insulis Ulasseriensibus. Herb. Amb. v. 1. p. 87, 89. t. 22, 23. Pata Indica; caudice in annulos protuberante distincto. Rati Hist. 1360. = Descr. Mate Prant. Trunk, when attaining its full hte from fifteen to twenty feet high ; in the individual — om which our drawing was taken, and to which I shall confine my description, between four and five feet, and half a foot in diameter, of an equal thickness throughout, marked with the scars whence the old leaves have fallen, but scarcely annulated ; between which scars, the trunk is shaggy with the old, and jagged downy scales or stipules, which accompany the base of the leaves, and which are yet in a perfect state at the top of the stem: these are cordate and turgid at their base, and very much acumi- nated. From amongst them, and at the very top of the stem, is a crown of most beautiful foliage. The spread of the leaves is twelve feet, each six and eight feet long, uding the petiole; for three quarters of the len i. orizontal, plane, subflexuoso-falcate pinne, from twelve urteen inches long, dark green on the upper side, paler beneath, quite glabrous, having a strong, pale mid- rib running through the centre. Rachis unarmed. Petiole swollen at the base, clothed with ferruginous, evanescent down, and unarmed ; upwards glabrous; and spinous at the margin, from abortive pinne. The young leaves have a fo beautiful appearance, being of a delicate pale green, and having the pinne singularly involute, like the young fronds of a Fern. . From among the crown of the leaves, at the top of the trunk, and — if not entirely sessile, is the male amen- tum produced. ‘This is between four and five inches long, ovate. Scales large, loosely imbricated, ferruginously downy ; the lower half tapering, inserted horizontally, the upper half takes a curvature upwards and tapers into an erect, sharpened, and long point. Upon these scales, on the under side of the lower half, the numerous Anthers are crowded ° 2827. ferereaeee ees es = == ‘ 2 ¥6%, ‘Eps of? dared aoe ‘ai i WTR ale Pub. by S Curtis, Walwortc June 21696. pire? crowded together, sometimes alia’ sometimes two, three, or four together, i in which latter case the opening of each anther, which is one celled, is interiorly. othe. consistence of ery: a Pigs mes ‘onan within them a pale yellow po ich, 1 ve seen it in it perfect is roundish, angular, and pellucid. | oe The Finite nape ich I hade not seen, accordin to Ricuarp, throws up ikepise from the extremity of the trunk, among the leaves, a cluster of numerous spadices, (tab. 2827, f. 1.) a foot long, somewhat imbricated, clothed with a reddish down, of a ‘thick coriaceous texture, the ex- tremity lanceolate, acuminate, and serrated, tapering below. Beneath the rn gah the margin is broadly sinuato- _ dentate, and within eac projection, or tooth-like process, is, pointing upwards, a cavity, in which is almost half immersed the solitary female flower. The same author, Ricnarp, takes the following view of the structure of each flower. It is subglobose, about the size of a pea, and resembles a naked pistil, slightly depressed at th - there having a small, c ndrical, combing ee Ta 2827, flower, ¢ i i ically; th, mapa drical mouth. or li taceous portion of the caly KX; da% substance filling the internal cavity of fl hering to’ ‘the half-immersed germen superior and free part of the germen. and amongst them Mr. Brown, seem rather consider the female flower as a monosperm nus pistil, no proper floral envelope. Of the female fructificati have only seen the perfect, "deed and of that but a sing] thee cimen, W which’ I have tee figured. Jn it I perceive not to militate against its bemg ricatithts of any floral envel hence I shall adopt the terms simpl mig plied to a considering the whole as a Dri abo the size of thal of 4 w . roundish-oval, labrous, reddish- orange, aving a small perfor rai at the top, f.3. The outer pulpy pees is about half a line thick, which sur- * Not é slihitd hefhces acca, I may refer to the Section of the female flower, tab. 2827, f. 2, which will ually serve to illustrate Ricnarp's ideas of the fruit. The germen, f. ¢, being with him of course the fruit; his Nucleus still immersed in the fungous substance, f.d. All without that (his calyx) equally accompanies the fruit as ‘the flower. ‘This fungous substance, however, did not exist in my fruit. } rounds rounds the. corneous or subosseous thinner ,coat. ;Imme-. diately within that, and free from adhesion with it, is a beautiful membranaceous lining, of a rich brown. colour, marked with longitudinal veins, as seen when held up be- tween the eye and the light. A portion is represented at tab, 2827, f.5. a. It immediately surrounds (but has no con- nection with it, except at the very point) the almond, or oval, carnose, yellowish-white albumen, having a depression at the top conducting to the embryo, which is imbedded ina cylindrical cavity in the upper half of the albumen, attached by its radicle to the upper extremity of the cavity by means of a flat, white, membranaceous filament, which 1s curiously. folded, and so ign mene as to occupy a very small space in the top of the cell, but which may, without rupturing it, be drawn out to the length of an inch and a half, or two. inches. Cotyledons two, straight, cylindrical, flattened in the inside, one a little longer than the other, and closely applied ; but easily separated, and thin at the base. _F. 7. is seen lodged in a cavity of the two cotyledons, the plumule of two lobes, in this instance. Radicle conical, tapering into the curious filamentous stalk above mentioned, Of the four species of Cycas, now enumerated as being cultivated in our gardens, only one has hitherto been re- corded as having flowered with us; namely, the Cycas revoluta, of which a description and a splendid figure has been given by Sir James Situ, in the sixth volume of the Transactions of the Linnzan Society of London. _ It was, therefore, with no small pleasure that 1 was invited, by my excellent friend Dr. Granam, to visit the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, in the month of May, 1827, for the purpdse of seeing the Cycas circinalis, which had thrown up from among its noble crown of leaves, a perfect Male Amentum. From that plant my figure and description have been taken ; and in order to render its history more complete, I have copied a female spadix from Ricuarp’s inestimable work on the Conirer#, together with a female flower; and to them I have added an analysis of a ripe fruit, which was sent to me from St. Helena, by the kindness of his Excellency General Warker. The species has beer cultivated. in our stoves for upwards of a century ; the Sloanean MSS. in the British Museum, as quoted in Hortus Kewensis, stating it to have been introduced in 1700, by the Earl of Clarendon ; and it is, assuredly, one of the most orna- mental of all plants, but requiring a great deal of space for the display of its leaves. Its native country is the eat 7 Indies Indies, especially the Molucca Isles, where the fruit is eatet, and where a substance is said to be taken from the stem, resembling the Sago produced bythe trunks of many Palms But this is probably a mistake; at any rate, it is by no means from this tree, as some have supposed, nor from an species of Crcas, that the Sago of the Shops.is produced, but from a species of Sagus*, a true Palm, though from what parti- cular species; or whether any one: exclusively, does’ not appear to be yet ascertained, Im the’ gardens and plan- tations. towards the,sea-coast of the Southern provinces of Malabar, according to: Dr. (Bucuanan) Haminton’s Travels. in'the Mysore, vol. 2. p. 469, the Cycas circinalis, called Indu by ‘the natives (Toppa panna’ of the Hortus Mala- baricus) is very common ; but it:grows spontaneously from the:nuts that accidentally fall. The nuts are collected ; and having been dried for a month in the sun, are beaten in a mortar, and the kernels formed into a flour, which the natives eat and call Indum Podi.. It is reckoned supe- rior to the flour obtained from the stem of the Ermmpanna + The Date Palm, which in all probability afforded the Palm leaves that were strewed on the to welcome our Saviour's entrance at Jerusalem. . ‘This plant is cultivated at the Isles d’Hytres, San Remo, Nice, Genoa, &c. and more especially at Bordighiera, a small place of the Sardinian States, in the territory of Genoa, where it constitutes a very important article of commerce, in the exportation of the leaves. They are sold in the spring, fur Palm Sunday, and in the autumn, for the Passover of the Jews. Several vessels quit’ Bordighiera with this singular freight, and some go so far as Holland, where great quantities of the Palm leaves are bought by the J 2 us, adorn their temples on festival days with the leaves of the Crcas circinalis, because they do not soon fade ; and on this account the Portuguese call them Palma de’ Igreria or Armatoria das Igrerias. At Rouen, on Palm Sunday, I have seen the leaves of the same plant carried in procession, and which had been procured from the Botanic Garden there. The natural family to which this plant should belong has engaged the attention of various Botanists ; it has even been questioned in which of the three great classes of the vegetable kingdom, the Monocotyledones, the Dicoty- ledones, or the Acotyledones, it should be placed. Linnaus ranked it among the Palms, but at the same time, justly observed “‘Foliatio circinalis more Filicum peragitur ;” Jus- seu and Venrenart, along with the Ferns; Jacguin, in an artificial system, considered it to belong to the Class Diacza, and Order Potyanpria; Smits looked upon it, along with Zamia, as constituting an intermediate Order between the Patmz and the Fruices. In Persoon’s Synopsis, the Natural Order Cycapez is established; and the place of it suggested, corresponding with the ideas just mentioned of Sir James Smiru. Our learned countryman, Mr. Brown, in his inestimable Prodromus Flore Nove Hollandiz, bas placed the Order the last of the Monocotyledones, immedi- ately before the Dicotyledones; calling the embryo, indeed, pseudo-dicotyledoneus. 'The true structure of this E is now completely ascertained by the labours of Du Pert Tuovars, and the late admirable Ricuarn; and this latter has determined it to have the closest affinity with the Dicotyledonous plants; and amongst them, with the Cont- FERZ, near which he consequently places the Order. Here, however, it must be acknowledged that the natural habit and aspect of the vegetation, are sacrificed to minute differences in the fructification. In the structure of the stem, in the mode of growth, in the situation and appear- ance of the leaves, the Cycas has the closest affinity with the Palms, and is in these particulars as far removed as can be from the Pines. On the peculiar structure of the flowers, especially the female ones, of Cycas, Ricuarp, has written fully in the Mémoires sur les Coniféres et les Cycadées ; and Mr. Brown, in the Botanical Appendix to the “ Narrative of a Survey of the Coast of Australia,” p. 554. To them I must refer my _ readers for valuable information on that head. Those dis- quisitions are too long to be here introduced, and too 1m- portant portant to be injured by curtailment. They are slightly noticed in the above description of the female flower. I may here point out some differences which will besfound to exist between the figures in the splendid work of M. Ricuarp, and those here given. There, at tab. 24, the stems, as in Rueepe’s figures, are very strongly annulated; more so, as Dr. Hamirron remarks regarding the latter, than he ever observed on the growing plant; and which have, probably, that gentleman thinks, prevented Dr. Roxguren from quoting them in his Hortus Benghalensis. The male amentum too, at fig. A., is more pedunculated than in our plant, and the scales of it far more closely imbri- cated. Again, their scales, represented of the natural size, at tab. 25, are more elongated at the base, and very much less so at the extremity. At tab. 26. fig. D. the true fruit of Ricuarp, (f. 5.) which corresponds with what I call the seed, is represented, as more than half immersed in a fun- gous substance. This I did not find to exist in the only individual I examined, but which was in a state of great perfection. Immediately within the subosseous covering, was the brown membranous integument enveloping the albumen: the albumen, (nucleus of Ricnarp), fig. D, E, is far broader at the base than in my specimen, and the embryo, occupies a much greater portion of it. This embryo, too, f. F, G, has the cotyledons united for the greater part of the length ; whereas, I found them, though closely applied, unquestionably divided for their whole — length, and easily separated without causing the slightest — rupture, as far as the plumule, which, in rf vases was formed of two lobes; in Ricuarp’s figure H, f. 2, of one. Tan. 2826. 1. Cycas circinalis, Male Flowering Plant, reduced to about ,'; of the Size of the Plant of the Edinburgh Botanic Garden. 2. Male Amen- tum.— Natural size. 3. Upper Side of a Scale of the Male Amentum. 4. Under Side of Ditto.—Natural size. 5, 6, 7. Anther. 8. Pollen.—Mag- nified. 9. Small Pinna from a Leaf—Natural size. Tap. 2827. 1. Female Spadix (copied from Ricuarp). 2. Single Female Flower.—Magnisied ; also copied from Ricuarp. The letters are referred to in the description above given of that part. 3. Fruit.—Natural size. 4. Partial Section of Ditto, the Pulpy Coat being removed from the upper part. 5. Section of the Albumen, showing the Insertion of the Embryo, a portion of the membranous covering above described remaining at a. 6. Embryo, with its filamentous Stalk drawn out. 7. Portion of the Embryo; one Lobe of the Cotyledons, 8, being removed to shew the Plumule,—Mag- nified. ree. LLE2E. Tp Walworth 7h LU tie WF Dial © ead * ane ay sa Niece. és $5 speek rie ( Na t. Ord. —Soumtcns. ) : 4 J C 2828 ) Souanior’ Banorsirs ¢ var. PURPUREA. — ine Bia Class were ‘One. Wee “psy Km Sy : oe. 4 - Peminoiors Monoorsas, l ce persighinines ie monope eré oblonge, apice poris duobus de cen Seo a Mag iad} yi srmit alib 29,6 3.fD. Room At _ (florum) cymosis lateralibus te ) floribus albis. = = a Soxianum Balbisii. Dunat sale: et Schultes Syst. Veget. v. Po Veget.v. 1. p. 687. Bot. Mag. t. 2668. Soranum decurrens. Balb. = et Descr. Soranum sis ectheifoliu the Eney a: et eee Soranvm inflatum. Hornem. | re ay n. 0. 1. p. Zak, ca ; So.anum viscosum. Lage jp. p. 10. n. 145, Soranum brancefolium. :. Bs 14. t. iE ma © ‘Dean. Shoipold Mir dina Tp Three feet idehana branched ; stem, leaves, ped cle, “and calyx palbeseenti~ hirsute, glandular, and armed with numerous, deep o coloured aculei, from one or two lines, to three- fourths of a an inch long. Leaves on long petioles, narrow, ovate in _ their circumscription, deeply pinnatifid, the segments sinu- ato-lobate: their aculei arise from the mid- rib and prin- cipal cipal nerves. Racemes cauline, four to six inches long, bear- ing very large flowers, which are subcymose, and which, in fruit, are much elongated. Calyx 5-fid, small, afterwards becoming, as well as its aculei, vastly enlarged, and persist- ing with the fruit... Corolla rotate, beautiful bluish purple. Stamens five, equal, free; anthers yellow. Germen globu- lar: style short, stigma capitate. Fruit globose, as large as a cherry, yellow-brown, orange when ripe, surrounded by the enlarged and somewhat inflated calyx: two-celled, with three fleshy tite ee in each cell, to which are at- tached numerous reniform, margined seeds. This highly beautiful variety of Sotanum Balbisiz, has been raised from Brazilian seeds, by Roserr Barcray, Esq. at Bury Hill, where the accompanying drawing was made in November of last year. The fruit is no less singular than the flowers are shewy, for it is large, and covered with the enlarged calyx, and its richly-coloured aculei: so that the plant is highly deserving a place in every stove. I may observe, that there is, in Mr. Barctay’s collection, also raised from Brazilian seeds, a third variety of this species, ome pale blue flowers, and shorter and paler coloured aculel. Fig. 1. Stamens. Magnified. 2. Fruit, with its rsistent, and enlarged Calyx.—Natural size. a * ie : Lub. by F. Curtis ! - Miadwor?h, Jit LLbGG © 2829. Swedes? al = GP), FRANCISCEA Hores Nae Snonr-FLowsnep Ss Cal-porsis stens, inthstus, can mia bos, 5 DS ie : dentibus equalibus. Cong .hypocrateriformis ; limbus 5 he! sy otundatis, repandis, rea incum bentib Dis pice in nflat oincurvato. Stylus cr n D _ Capsula ovata, bilo- i - d ahd. eolatis glaberri- _ mis, fi floribus (pler erum a) ie \ramis brevibus fo- ~ Tiosis tet ibus, | srolig X ca re campanulato . g specimens, s0- . y two toaeioess }, NO one, or Reis yer thule, vith with. the tube, limb of five: ,» the mouth yello bare the lower margin. Stamens four, didynamous ; filaments, subulate, purple, decurrent : Anthers transverse, one celled, glabrous, upon a thickened. apex of the filament. Pistil : Germen ovate, two celled, situated within a fleshy ring ; cells having many seeds attached to a rounded, central re- ceptacle: Style filiform, thickened, compressed ; the epi- dermis corrugated, especially upwards: Stigma (not bifid) gaping; with a green, viscid, fungous substance at the mouth for retaining the pollen.” Lendley MSS. Seven species of this genus have been figured, and de- scribed by Dr. Pout, in his splendid “ Plantarum Brasilie Icones et Descriptiones hactenus inedite ;’’ which genus, that author has dedicated to the Emperor of Austria, Francis the First. Yet, of those seven species, not one can be said so entirely to accord with the present, as to enable me to satisfy myself, that it is there described. Either the individuals of the genus, therefore, are liable to much variation, or ours must be reckoned a new species. It differs remarkably from all, particularly from the few flowered kinds, by the shortness of the tube of the corolla. And that, in this respect, the plant is not liable to vary much, we may conjecture from the circumstance, of the wild specimen I have received from Wm. Swatnson, Esq., gathered by him at Pernambuco in Brazil, being exactly the same. The F. uniflora of Pout comes, perhaps, the nearest to it; but, that I possess from Dr. Marius, and the tube of the corolla is at least twice as long as in our plant, and the leaves are more inclined to obovate. The specimen from which the accompanying figure was taken, flowered in the stove of Roperr Barcray, Esq., at Bury Hill. It was first sent from Brazil, by Marsa BereEsrorp, to his sister Mrs. Tuomas Hops, of. Deepden, Surry, who has thus been the means of introducing to our stoves a most interesting and desirable plant ; for not only are the flowers of a rich purple-blue colour, but they are excessively fragrant. | mire! | Mr. Linptey had already made some sketches and notes upon this plant, which he very kindly communicated: to me 3; and of which I have availed myself in the above :de- ' Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. Portion of the Corolla with the Stamens. 3. Pistil. Pies ogo upper part of the Style. 5, Section of the Germen.— agnified. Eee de! Pu. by §. Curtis, Walworth, June 1148. Oxatis RosEa, a. Rosz-coLoureD: Oxauis. ed a y Ora® * ‘agi < Decanpria Penracynta. Cet ee ee oak Generic Character. , ‘ oaks Cal. 5-sepalus, sepalis liberis aut basi coalitis. Pet. 5. Stam. 10, filamentis basi breviter monadelphis, alternis bre- vioribus. Capsula pentagona, oblonga aut cylindracea. a pee ' FT Z / 2: (a.) floribus majoribus petalis lineatis roseis apice crenatis. Oxatis rosea. Jacg. Oxal. n. 5. p. 23. De Cand. Syst. Veget.v.1.p.693. . Vd ee Peo « Lehmann. in Litt.” Bot. Reg. t. Oxauis racemosa. Lam. Dict, v4. p. 684. Oxys roseo flore erectior, vulgé Cullé, p. 733. t. 23. (8.) floribus minoribus, petalis vix lineatis rubris apice in- tegerrimis. \ iF a : Oxauis rosea. Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 2415. ate _ Descr. Stem herbaceous, erect, much branched, terete, glabrous, subpellucid, leafy. Leaves ternate ; leaflets ob- cordate, minutely hairy, sessile upon the common peduncle, which is about an inch long, swollen at the base. Pedun- cles numerous, four to five inches long, glabrous, swollen at the base, at the extremity bearing two, forked, few- flowered racemes, with a solitary pedicellated. flower in the axil. Pedicels, at first drooping, in flower erect, in fruit refracted. Calyx of five, ovate, acute leaflets, bearing two Y > yellow, oblong glands,at the.points. Corolla large, showy. Petals obcordato-cuneate, somewhat clawed, the base white, the rest‘rose-coloured,,marked with darker lines, the extre- mity crenate. Stamens ten, inserted upon a five-toothed, deep, cup-shaped, hie foe nectary.:. the five longer filaments within the teeth; the five shorter ones situated in the sinuses of the teeth. _Anther roundish, yellow. Styles hairy ; Stigmas capitate, glandulous, Raised from seeds, sent by our friend A. CruicksHanxs, from Valparaiso. It is one of the handsomest, if not the very handsomest of this beautiful Genus, rising to a height of a foot, or a foot and a half, and covered with the ae rose-coloured blossoms, which it bears for very many weeks in succession. We have hitherto, in the Glasgow Botanic sarden, kept it in a cool part.of the stove, where it pro- ripen its se¢ el .. The flowering season with us mises to ripen its seed has been March and April, Lined It is assuredly the O. floribunda of Leumann and Linptey. The Oxatis rosea, with small red, scarcely lined flowers figured at p. 2415 of the’ Botanital Magazine, may, pro- bably,-be a distinct species. Ours is surely the “ Oxys roseo flore, erectior, vulgo Cullé,” which comes from the same — country, “ moist humid places in the kingdom of Chili, in the thirty-seventh degree of South latitude.” The Indians there make use of it mixed with other plants as'a dye. _ mS = \ Fig. I. Petal. 2. Flower deprived of the Petals.» 3. Stamens enclosing the 4. Portion of the nectary with Stamens.—Magnified. | : : Se ae SSOTHSSBI RELIA ZF PT Ea ei? LUD. bY S. Carti Walworth, June LOGE i? hiwy : a7) Aug a Class oo f See ss Gnanps ¥ -) s f ; raer. t Z a . Sy > f7 & at. Ord .—Orc 7 f + it. ee . y ¥ PAT RIO Generic Character) | Pye h spre eading,, from the circumstance re rgin, the alee watarkably race Ra conceal the column, at the obes ‘nearly equal, short ; the mid- h waved at the margin: at the base within, is a a cs Siegen Hee a large, fleshy, oblon gland, or tubercle, grooved in the middle, white, with red lines. Column much shorter than the labellum, semiterete, greenish and white ; its plane side beautifully streaked and dotted with red. Stigma large, concave, with a triangular Bab ors lip above it. An- ther terminal, deep purple, fixed by its back, four celled, containing four deep-yellow, plano-convex, waxy pollen- masses, joined in pairs by means of the stalks, which are pressed against the edges of the pollen-masses, in the same way the radicle of the embryo of many cruciferous plants is turned up and pressed against the cotyledons. Germen resembling a eelice!, club-shaped, streaked and purplish upwards. | SF ronk the collection of Mrs. Arnotp Harrison, of Aig- burgh, near Liverpool, where it flowered in the stove, in the month of February, 1828. It was introduced into the garden of that lady ‘by her brother, Wittiam Harrison, Esq. of Rio, who gathered it in the neighbourhood of that It would ap unnatural to arrange this singular Or- chideous lant thong with the splendid seule of CarrLEYA: yet, in point of essential character, it is very closely allied to it, and like it, unquestionably belongs to Mr. Linpuey’s tribe of Eprpenprex. I have, however averse to multiply- the Genera, already so much increased, of this family, felt myself under the necessity of giving a new name to this plant, which I have derived from the circumstance of the column of fructification being inclosed in, or wrapped round by, the labellum*. It is not, however, in this particular that it differs from Carrera; but, simply, in the decidedl straight, not inate flower, in the less patent S, and in its very different habit. | Sa * * Encyclia, from syxyxAsw, circamyolyo. Fig. 1. Flower. 2.:_Labellum inclosing the Column, in their uatural puil- tion. 3. Front view of the Labellum. 4. Column. 5, Underside of the Anther-case, 6. Pollen Masses, more or less magnified. 2852. : — Swan Se— Valworty Jura. ! 02F SO Chles WS dele rs Descr. Stem ascending, numerously branched with flexile twiggy brane ches. Leaves alternate, linear - ae entire; glabrous, on ot footstalks. Flowers axil i = sii et yg epee of the calyx twice as short as the pe Pe of the corolla broadly obovate, entire, of a deli. cat re lil ¢ colour, with a purple ne in the centre of each. Ve 4 Filame nt: s of t the stamens unequal, four long and four short. _Anthers \inear- oblo yellow. Stigma deeply four lobed, e yell es sessile, linear, an inch and a half >, cylindrical, destitute of furrows, and glabrous. t ‘present | handsome species of @Enoruera is allied to / ovit, CE. purpurea, CE. rvoulnera, and CE. » from all which it is manifestly. distinguished by the capsule. Its nearest affinity is with it isa far more robust and yet pro- cumbent or ascendant plant. In the Seon of the petals there is moreover an approach to Gi "quadrioulera, but ere here the flowers are much larger, quite entire at the mar- gin, and the capsule is terete or cylindrical, not furrowed. It is a hardy annual, a foot or eighteen. iyches in the length of the stems, flowering in the open border, from June till it is destroyed, by the frosts; hence it is a) most desirable inmate of the garden. Douglas. Introduced by the Horticultural Society fromthe North- West Coast of America, where it was found in 1826, in the FUT IOI Fig. 1. Stamens, 2, Stiguia.—Magnifiell. 3 Leaf from the lower pat of the stem.——Naf. size. 2 ; . nS ft. pee ARS aR ie ey aE Swatde ee Lle. Valvarth, Sidr J. Carles Prue ey L¢ ( 2833. 28H) ARTOCARPUS INTEGRIFOLIA. i Jack Tree, or ENTIRE-LEAVED Breap Fevrt,,...i5° pp Nat. ont ees ) : en ald Character. Flores siientbiels. Mase. Perianthium ery ‘aid tri- phyllum, Filamentum longitudine perianthii. Feu. Peri- angel ee ve Gontttscty. Bacea com posi "a . : _ramulis propriis eaulis. ne ae Baia: Auteci artis integrifolia. Linn. i p. 412. Wil id. Sp. | Pl. 0. 4. ps 189. Roxb. PL Corom. v. 3. p . 46. £. 250. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v3. p. 804. Ait. Hew: Kew. ed. 1B eobo ps 22h: e ArtocarPus. Jacg. Lam. EB Ic 0.3. p. 209. ‘Mustr. t. 16. Artocarpus heterophylla. Lam Eneycl. v. 3. p. 209._ Rapemacuta integra. “ Thunb. Act. Holm. v. 36. p. 252.” fieoeones nh a. Gaertn. Fr fructo1-p. 345. t. a 104. t 30 a 3. “A per Dasot ‘This forms a. riod nizedities in the West Iindies, to the height of thirty feet, with a diameter of eleven or twelve inches: but in the East Indies, Roxsurca asstires Us, the circumference of the trunk is from eight feet “covered with dark -coloured, _deeply-cracked very pi art of the tree yields a copious milky juic ounded. Branches numerous, spreading in every Seas and forming so large a top, and so thickly ae wit with leaves, that Bory pr Sr. Vincent informs us, they do not leave the smallest passage for the ne of the sun. Leaves four to six inches long, bursting from a pair of large, deciduous stipules, varying much in different parts of the plant: those of the fertile branchlets are such as are here represented, nearly obovate and entire: those from the higher branches are more obovate and oblong: whilst those produced by the young shoots from the root are often very narrow, or cut into two or three oblong lobes, making an approach, as Mr. Guitpine observes, to the leaves of Arrocarpus incisa. All of them are of a thickish, some- what coriaceous texture, smooth above, rough with minute hairs beneath, somewhat obtuse at the point, at the base attenuated into a short footstalk. The flowers, both male and female, are produced not only on the same plant, but, generally, on the same pecu- liar branchlet, springing from the trunk of the tree, or some of its main branches. The male mostly appear laterally, the female solitary and terminal. Sa ale Flowers exceedingly densely crowded on the out- side of a large, fleshy, peduncdiabed, central receptacle, so as to constitute an amentum, very minute ; consisting each of a single stamen, having a flattened, white filament, and a two-lobed, yellow anther, included within a two, more rarely a three-leaved, single perianth, of which the leaflets or scales are oblong-obtuse, downy at the top, about equal in length with the stamen. A transverse section shews these beautifully radiating from the circumference of the spongy centre. This amentum is at first covered (and frequently accompanied by a leaf) with the stipules, which thus seem to act the part of a spatha. | | Female flowers equally surrounding a large, fleshy recep- tacle, much crowded, so as to form an oblong, tuberculated mass of flowers ; each of which consists simply of an oblong, tubular perianth, green, contracted at the mouth, which surrounds the pistil in the same manner as the urceolate perianth of the Genus Carex: convex, and generally hex- angular at the top. Within is seen, at the base, the small ovate germen, bearing from its side the white style, whose simple, clavate, curved stigma passes through the aperture of € perianth. In advancing to maturity, this amentum, or spadix, as it might be called, swells in every direction, and es a muricate or papillose, compound, fleshy, oblong Jruit, of a yellowish colour, and of most enormous size, often exceeding seventy or eighty pounds in weight, and of a structure that deserves more particular consider- ation S. Carts, Walworth, July 11828. if ¢ Pub, in the centre, ‘the on receptacle, and surrounding e circumference, we find two brown : this has a/ double integument ;on removin outer one, a brown, inner coat appears, and the 7 at the to becomes Visi ole >on separating this, the embryo, (t. 2834, f. 14.) destitute of albumen, comes in sight, and the two very unequal cotyledons are distinctly seen. 3 This highly interesting and (in our gardens) rare plant, having flowered in December of last year, (1827) in the stove of the Edinburgh Botanic Garden; and having besides received a splen- did series of drawings of the fruit, as well as flower, made from the living plants in St. Vincent, by my often-mentioned friend, the Rev. L. Guiipina, I gladly embrace the opportunity which is thus afforded me, of Sabfishing its figure and description in the Botanical Magazine. 14 fe any parts of the continent, and of the It is a native of very many 2 islands in the East Indies, especially the Molucca Islands, and, according to Roxsurau, is cultivated yery generally through the warmer regions of Asia, on account of the use that is made of its fruit and seeds. This curiously muricated fruit, which appears to vary considerably in shape, as to its comparative length and breadth, Mr. Guinp1N@ reckons among the largest that is known ; often weighing, as we have already stated, seventy or ve ae pounds, The fleshy part of the fruit is eaten in the East Indies ; but authors vary in opinion in regard to the quality of it; yet all allow that it is difficult of digestion. Mr. Marspen says, it is of a rich, and, to strangers, too strong a smell and flavour, but which gains upon the palate, Inthe West Indies, “it hasa strong, sweetish, and, to some persons, offensive smell, and is but seldom eaten ; eaten; and when rotting under the tree, the odour is highly disgusting : in this state affording support to hundreds of Curcu- lionidew, Staphylinidee, Forficule, &c.” (Guiupine MSS.) The seeds, however, are allowed by all to be good, and even when roasted, to have the taste of chesnuts. In Amboyna, the bats greedily devour this fruit, and, passing the seeds entire, thus aid the more extended propagation of the plant. In Ceylon, where the tree grows most plentifully, and where it attains the eatest size perfection, it forms a considerable — of the iet of the natives, at particular times of the year. ‘The unripe fruit is also used pickled, or cut into slices and boiled, or fried in Palm oil. The wood itself is like mahogany in colour, when it has been for some time exposed to the air: and in some parts of India, is on that account employed to make furniture of. It is more commonly employed in building houses, for which it is well suited. From the juice or milk, a very viscid bird-lime is made. The tree seems naturalized in the West Indies, particularly in the island of St. Vincent. It was probably introduced there by the late Dr. AnpErson, and constitutes one of the peculiar fea- tures of its Botanic Garden. Mr. Guinpine says, Mh inter- esting account of that establishment, ‘* Assembled together are the various fruits transplanted from the islands of Asia and other distant lands, or the nations of the Antilles, attracting by their nectared flowers, the gaudy humming birds. You behold the Bread Fruit (Artocarrus incisa) of he Friendly Islands, the most precious gift of Pomona, and the Jack of India (ArtocarR- Pus integrifolia) bearing its ponderous fruit of sixty or seventy Saree on the trunk and arms—huge deformities for the lap of The Flowers have a sweet smell, and are produced, in the tropics, in the months of January and February. The fruit ripens in August and September. | We see no reason for making two species of this plant as Lamarck has done; for it is very certain, that, as far as leaves are concerned, the two kinds, with entire and cut leaves, are found on the same plant. The different quality and flavour of the fruit described by authors, probably depend upon cultivation. Into England, the Jack Tree was introduced in 1778, by Sir Epwarp Hucues, K. B. Tas. 2833. Fig. 1. Small Branch of the Jack T Female Amentum, and the two Bractez, enclosing anoth Spadix : reduced to one-third of the natural size. 2. ) ral size. 3. Ripe Fruit, very much diminished, Tas. 2834, Fig. 4, Male Flower,-or Stamen, with its two-leaved Peri- anth. 5. Female Fiower, or Pistil, enclosed within its monophyllous Perianth, 6. Germen and part of the Style. 7. Portion of the Ripe Fruit, less than the natural size. 8. Abortive Female Flowers : one of them cut open below, to shew the Pistil within. 9. Ripe Fruit, natural size, surrounded by the enlarged, soft, fleshy Perianth. 10. The same cut open to shew the Fruit within, the Pericarp already beginning to burst and shew the seed within. 11. Seed. 12. The same deprived of its Outer Coat. 13. Section of the same, 14. Embryo, taken entire from the Seed.—Fig. 4, 6, and 7 only, magnified. e, with a Male and er Male Amentum or Amentum, natu- “ \ CHPTCS Waiwortin file 22828. ee Lid, PP J LA dal¥ ee eee ae ee ee ee lai one 6 G-pattite. - Rlamdet Evens ‘incrassata, : bene inserta. Stigma trifidum. Bacca 3-locularis, ulis 2- ip rte epee | pia # ee ; Dbscaua aoa Graken m Sours, 1827, p.175. emained on a great par off for want of ro ie aes p, ana wh several off lt the | the Be , and, pushing , ~~ anicle terminal, grid. ep owering, = = e axils of which # iBig aD” 0 scafcely Bractee tine Teaves in miniature, quite entire, the pai becoming smaller smaller upwards on the panicle, at the lower branches of which there are two, one large, below the branch, the other much smaller, and above it. Flowers sessile, numerous, scattered, and highly perfumed. Corolla six-parted, revo- lute, afterwards approaching by the apices of the segments and withering. Filaments subulate, at length revolute : Anthers small, green: Pollen yellow. Germen ovate, green, trilocular : Style somewhat tapering upwards to the three-cleft stigma. Every part of the flower, except the germen and anther, fine. white. Granam im Jameson’s Journ. | . | Since the above was printed in the Edinburgh Journal, this plant has produced abundance of fruit, which Dr. Graunam has been so obliging as to send to me. It con- sists of white, fleshy, nearly orbicular berries, about the size of peas ; having at the base the withered corolla, and at the extremity the faded style. The top of the berry is marked with - rays or short furrows, indicating the three cells which exist within: and these are crowded with angular, shining, deep-black seeds, fixed to a receptacle in the central axis. At the base, or point of attachment, is a white ae or strophiolus. The plant, from which the accompanying figtire is taken, flowered in May, 1827, in the greenhouse of the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, having been raised from seeds seit by Mr. Fraser of New Holland ; but without any namie’ or state- ment of the particular ntry ‘from which it was obtained. Upon referring to my Herbarium, ‘I find ‘specimens of the same plant derived from the same source, marked “‘ Dra- cana australis.’ The characters of the plant are by no means at variance with those (short and imperfect it must be allowed) which we possess; and hence I have retained the older name. | In the numerous seeds contained in each cell, it departs from the Genus Dracena ; and, in that. particular, agrees with Corpyzina of Commerson and Brown, and with Cuari- _ woopia of Sweer, in his Flora Australasica. From the former again it differs in the. persistent (not deciduous) perianth or corolla, having equal segments, and all equally revolute. - 3 fig. Dascaes australis, much diminished. 2. Leaf still oo a a very _ 3. Part of a Panicle in Flower, xatural size. 4. Flower and Bractee. 5. Portion of the Corolla with its Stamens. 6. Pistil. 7. Fruit. 8. Vertical Section of the Berry. 9. Transverse Sdetion of ditto, 10/'Seed. 11, Section of ditto.—More or less magnified. Pub by 3 lurtis Wea Lh 2S, Walworlictely LZ4F2 é. Swan Jc Cal. ‘aiaaa he OR plo au ; _ sistentes. aes ‘5-obovata, Stam. Nee bl _-consimile Cuxrocastra. “lanceolata = annua, pilos gono, foliis Je o-la nceolati - Serrule breviter petiolatis S, pedui icul mentis linearib refle: Cuzroeastra lanceolata. Raexia lanceolata. — ! Bonpli Ospecxia lanceolata, Spreng. 3 aa Coun /4 ii et P : 4 ; 4 4 x e ‘ ; ‘ i é fi se : a q 4 ‘ ta Pry i 2 a j q ; 4 q * e Plant annua tnabs te eipt Tigls the sien olf scurely tet hairy, a8 is every part of the | lant, ex t the up id under! I of the corolla, the stamens, and pistil, throwing e - eh branches fr axils of the leaves. Leaves inches very ‘ht gaia ovato-lan late, two. ry ‘out es long, serru- ate at the margin, five-nerved. Peduncles axillary and terminal terminal, short, three-flowered. Calyx urceolate in its tube, with ten rather obscure elevated lines, and cut at the margin into five, linear-reflexed, hispid segments. Corolla of five petals, each oval, acute, the extreme point generally reflexed, pure white, the margin ciliated; the insertion is upon the margin of the calyx, between the segments. Stamens ten, alternate five shorter. Filaments white, erect : Anthers linear, oblong, yellow, transversely wrinkled, pro- truded into a didymous spur at the base, the extremity attenuated in a slight degree, brown, and there opening with a large pore. Pistil: Germen oval, hid by the per- sistent calyx, obscurely striated: Style straight, erect, filiform, as long as the stamens: Stigma obtuse, glandular. Seeds of this plant were received from Mr. Locxuarr, of Trinidad, with many other rarities, in 1827: but the plants raised in the stove promise to be only of annual duration. The blossoms a Widimmnary. > This genus has been recently established by the Professor De Canpo.te, who observes, that it is to be distinguished from another new Genus, Lastanpra, by its smooth stamina and inflorescence ; from Arrurostemma, by the quinary, and not quaternary number of the parts of the flower; from Ossecx1a, by the absence of appendages between the lobes of the calyx ; and from Metastoma by the fruit being cap- sular and free. The species are usually shrubs, and all from South America. Fig. 1. Petal. 2, Calyx and Pistil. 3. Pistil. 4. Stamens.—All more or less magnified. : Pub. by Sf. Curtis Watwarth. July 22124. @ 7 & dele & “Nicoriana ease Guat att sc de uliformis ea by. o-ovatis acutis obsolete | sinuatis gli se petiolatis, paniculis terminalibus, corolla laciniis ¢ acu is brevissimis. _ Graham. Nicoriana SAE Grad han og ) is Av r Branches tins obliq ee } s petioled, somewhat unequal ; scurely. sinuated, acumina (five inches long and ree b id), TOL ound, spreading, shorter than the es ee i 7 poet Panicle terminal, axils of minute, subulate bhgctieg w fen absent. _ x as long as the pedicel, = lobechrely angled, with ive, sharp, unequal, erect, somewhat ciliated teeth. Corolla green in bud, afterwards of an} niform yellow colour, covered with close white and soft pubescence on the outside ; tube slightly curved downwards, thrice as ie as the calyx, within which pr ag St which it is contracted and:impressed with five furrows: beyond this it is five-sided, and of a nearly uniform diameter, till near the. faux, where it is slightly inflated, and again contracted immediately below the limb ; limb small, cup- shaped ; segments short, acute, erect. Stamens unequal ; filaments slender, incurved from the sides of the corolla at their apices, also approaching each other above their inser- tion into the corolla‘at the extremity of the calyx, below this adhering to the tube, in the substance of which they are lost downwards: Anthers short, oblong, brown before burst- ing, on the longer filament subexserted. Pollen light yellow. Pistil: Germen ovate, imbedded in a fleshy disk or ring, two-celled, having attached to the middle of the dissepiment on each side large fleshy receptacle, to which the numerous ovules are attached : Style filiform, somewhat compressed : Stigma dark green, sub , bifid, seg- ments short, spreading. = 3 Ses ‘The whole plant, to the base of the pedicels, is of a beau- tiful glaucous hue: at this aay at the base of the petioles, and on the young leaves by the sides of the midrib, near the a the colour is dark purple. The bloom is easily rubbed from every part (except the leaves, where it is more fixed) leaving the cuticle of a lively green, as on the pedicels and calyx, where the bloom is wanting. Whole plant odorous. In the arrangement of the species, this should follow N. cerinthoides. — | The plant was raised from seeds, communicated to the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, by Mr. Smrra, of Monk- wood, Ayr, whose son had sent them from Buenos Ayres. It was kept in the stove, but on coming into flower in the middle of Nani. was removed to the greenhouse. Graham. aaa Fig. 1. Corolla seen within, 2. Anther. 3, Pistil—Magnified. W. 72. del? . Lub by S: Curtis, Valworth July 2 2626 Swande A 2888.) a pee 2 cad Spe! pain soy GLOMERATA. CiusTrr-rLowERED - Osnrexia, ; Clase ‘ind Gedy. sale | / Drcaxpmia Mowoaywta. | | (Nat Ord —Mexasromen, de < -Glaeti Character. Cal. tribus ovatus, sepius setis stellatis aut mith stellata vestitus ; lobi 4—-persistentes aut saci appendices inter lobos extus one soang, et magnitudine v: Speci Chatadter and aie. prin Oniecati glomerata ; octandra, caule tetragono. foliisque ovato-lanceolatis trinerviis appresso-hispidis, floribus terminalibus breviter pedunculatis, calycis segmentis ovato-lanceolatis ciliatis, tubi pilis ramoso-stellatis, e talis obtusis (roseis) minuto-ciliatis. ~ Ospeckra lomerata. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 141. Ruexia glomerata. “ Rottb. Pl. Surin. gi t. is | wi j Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 304. Spreng. eget. v. 2. p Ruexia 7 agers | et Kunt | Melast. v. 2. p. SA. ms af (8. ) flore abo. “ a HEXIA aay — Bot. Cab. t. 334. sal Av ontly an donetl, ak foot or a foot and a half high, erect, wie posite, four-sided branches, clothed with rigid, appressed give or bristles. Leaves opposite, about an inch long, upon very short petioles, ovato- lanceolate, lanceolate, entire, three-nerved, hispid with closely ap- pressed, whitish hairs, paler, and the nerves prominent beneath. Flowers from the extremities of the stems and branches, three or more together, having several small, green, foliaceous, ciliated bracteew at the base. Peduncles very short. Calyx urceolate, the tube clothed with many long bristles, which are stellated at the top, and, besides, are more or less branched: Segments of the calyx four, ovato-lanceolate, never reflexed, strongly ciliated at the margin. Petals four, obovate, rather large, finely ciliated at the margin, obtuse, rose-coloured, the claw yellow. Stamens ten, five alternate ones smaller, and these have the anthers yellow; the others are purple on the upper side ; both have two yellow, ovate glands or appendages at the base. Pistil : Germen oval, with a tuft oF we at the top, four-celled, each cell containing many ovules, attached o a fleshy receptacle: Style about as long as the stamens, filiform : Stigma obtuse. — ‘ [: el _ Seeds of this were sent along with those of Cumrogastra lanceolata to the Glasgow Botanic Garden from Trinidad, by Mr. Locxuarrt, and it flowers at the same season of the year. It grows in Savannahs; and if, as I suspect, and as SPRENGEL seems to be of opinion too, the R. capituta of Houmesotpr and Kunru be the same, it is a native also of Martinique. Rortséxx givesit as an inhabitant of Surinam. The calyx presents a highly curious appearance when magnified, from the nature of the hairs. ie Fig. 1. Small Cluster of Flowers with their Bractez, the Petals and Stamen being removed from the central Flower. 2. Petal. 3. The two kinds of Stamens. 4. Pistil. 5. Section of the Germen. 6. Hair from the Calyx. —All more or less magnified. Hue S Waa + LLOCE. Viti wor Ph, Saks Curtis Lub. by £ ig Mawva a ausnout _ Narrow-Leaven io ts iz é : Srey, 6 fh Yea ree ee f tus Iw. 184. SAE Yi io% . ee * i cage Oe ¢ ‘d.—MA.vacea. ) aay ik anend, Pd: a ei = Sag .# to ~~ a7 Character. © . : bracteolis oblongit 8 setace ) vima in abet c “Calyx, cinctus. | ‘tana. yl. Matva angustifolia. - €av. Diss. 0.2. p. 64. t. 0. f. 1. / ejusdem Icon. v. 1. p. 48. t. 68. Willd. Pag v. 3. p. 777. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. »v. 4. é 211. Serene. ae hei? v. = nD 87. | i * i nS ae f fou to five feet high, bonded, rest of the plant except the , with a closely-placed, stellated 2, four to six ‘inches long, upon a ite, crenate at their margin, having principal nerves at the base, besides many others baihebin the midrib: the young leaves are very downy, the Sacre ones less so, the down being more or less fugacious. — "Sti les setaceous, one on each side 2 the petiole. Peduncles axillary, four or five from the same point, an inch long, generally one, sometimes two-flowered. Calyx quinquefid, the segments ovato-lan- ceolate, the base having three. setaceous appendages, which constitute a midrib, mee gina constitute the outer calyx or involucre. Petals five, spread- ing, united at the base, obcordate, rose-purple. Column of stamens'short, white, a little hairy. _Anthers numerous, forming a rounded mass. Pisétil globular. Style white, as long as the stamens. Stigmas twelve, filiform, clubbed at the point. Fruit of about ten, compressed capsules, form- ing a globe of the size of a pea, very downy : each within containing three kidney-shaped, compr seeds. Raised in the garden of Rosert Barcray, Esq. at Bury Hill, from seeds received from Mexico in 1826. It isa very ornamental plant ; and during the summer and autumn comes to great perfection in the open border. I saw it in full blossom in October, 1827, when the accompanying drawing was made. ) We learn from the Hortus Kewensis, that it was intro- duced into Britain by Bensamin Bewick, Esq. in the year 1798 ; but it appears again to have been lost to our ens till Mr. Barcray cultivated it: and we know of no figure existing but that of Cavanites. Fig. 1. Calyx and Involucre. 2. Column of Stamens, including the Pistil. 3. Extremity of a Stigma. 4. Fruit (nat. size).. 5. Single Capsule or Car- pellum. 6. Section of ditto. 7. Seed.—More or less magnified. WIZ. Bal es : oi : 22k YS Curtis Walworth: July 21626. + Swan Se € 2840) HeEpyortis CAMPANULIFLORA. aa se Termaxona Moxoornia (Nat. Ord S-piaced, Le Generic Character. : . tubulosa, 4-fida. peri ge o Rep 9.locularis, polysperma, ones inter ¢ genips is a Die es oe oar ge lated, roundish oval, very short in the upper mo othe Asmere alow, more arden f an inch te — with purplish hairs, the = opposite ones gor a oo a hs purple, setaceous, hairy sti le. Flowers arge for the size of the plant, collected into a head, which is pedunculated, terminal, or axi Calyx : the tube subglobose, hairy, green, incorpo: “with the germen ; the limb of four erect, linear-lanceolate, hairy, erect, afterwards spreading segments. Corolla between infundibuliform and campa- nulate, tube rma, mo y hairy without, very much so within, and white at the Limb of four ovate spreading, brig le blue, inclining to purplish, segments, throat yellow. nities four : Fille senextes near the base of the tube: Anthers \inear-oblong; reaching a little higher than the tube, white. Germen two-celled, each having near the base of the dissepiment an ascending, short, filiform receptacle, bearing a cluster of ovules: upon the top of the germen, and on each side of the base of the style, are two fleshy, green glands. Style filiform, white, about as long as the tube of the corolla: Stigmas two, linear, pubescent. Cap- ‘ sules collected into a very compact, globular head, some- what turbinate, membranous and inflated, crowned with the segments of the calyx, hairy, didymous. Seeds by no means filling the cell, ten or twelve in each, somewhat angular, dark brown, minutely tuberculated. A very beautiful stove plant, flowering almost the whole year through, and remarkable in the Genus for the large size and rich colour of the flowers, as well as for the great breadth of the leaves, and rich clothing of purple hairs upon the stem. It is a native of Brazil, about Rio, where it cannot be uncommon ; for it is not unfrequently sent to this country in seed, or as dried specimens. Our first knowledge of the plant was from the latter, which were transmitted to us nearly at the same time by Mr. Booe, Mr. BurcHett, and Dr. Scouter. In 1826 and 1827 it flowered in the stove of Rosert Barctay, Esq. at Bury Hill, where our drawing was made, and where from only a casual inspection of the plant it had been called “Campanu.a nummulariifolia” — by Dr. Sims. In the months of February and March plants have flowered in the Glasgow Botanic Garden ; for some of which we are indebted to Mr. Barcuay ; and others, raised from Brazilian seeds were sent to us by the Honourable the ry | Justice Cuerx. It deserves a place in every collec- The stems in the younger part of the plant are fragile; but there is a ceabeas mes of Saeels which is by no means so easily broken, ; kd nett o * Since the above was printed, this plant has appeared in Jamzson’s Edinb. Phil. Journal aj Maiveriacapitata. = Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Calyx and Pistil. 3. Section of the Ger- men. 4. Head of Capsules (natural size).. 5. Single didymous Capsule. — 6. One of the two portions entire. 7. The other cut through vertically to shew the Seeds. 8. Single Seed :— All but fig. 4 more or less magnified. 2841. ‘TILLANDSIA PSITTACINA. GAUDY-FLOWERED TinLanpsia. TevIsy sew Asa Se Ree® — Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat, Ord.—Bromeniac oe Generic Character. Cal. 3-partitus, inferus. Cor, 3-partita. Caps. 3-valvis. Semina pape. . Spr. é | ‘Tintanps1a* psittacina ; foliis lineari-ligulatis integerrimis acutis nudis basi inflatis, spica simplici, rachi flexuosa lorata, floribus remotis, bractea longitudine floris colorata. Descr. An inhabitant of the trunks of trees. Leaves fine red, grooved on one side. Flowers.xemote, distichous, large. Bractea equal in length with the flower, or nearly so, broadly ovate, circumvolute upon the flower, its lower part of a bright-red, the rest deep yellow. Calyx of three : circumvolute * After T1L-Lanps, a professor of medicine at Abo, who wrote, in, 1683, a history of the plants of the neighbourhood of that city. circumyolute leaflets, scariose : Corolla of three petals, longer than the calyx and bractez, linear, revolute and green at the point. At the base. of each petal are two oblong, membranaceous, erect scales, within which the sta- mens are inserted. . Filaments as long as the corolla. Anthers versatile, lmear, yellow-brown. Pustil: Germen inferior ovate, tapering into a filiform style, which is as long as the stamens. Stigma trifid, the segments very blunt, villous. Recently introduced by Witzx1am Harrison, Esq. of Rio de Janeiro, to the rich collection of his brother Ricuarp Harrison, Esq. of Aighburgh, near Liverpool; who oblig- ingly sent me a specimen of the flowers and leaves, together with a sketch ofthe whole plant, which is here given. It may certainly rank among the most beautiful of this curious genus; the colour of the rachis, bractez, and flowers being singularly brilliant. It is allied to the Brometia alotfolia of my ‘‘ Exotic Flora” ; but here there are scales at the base of the corolla, asin Prrcamnta. —™” Fig. 1. Petal shewing the scales and the insertion of the stamens. 2. Pistil.—Scarcely magnified. 2842. SWiale SC. ZR. i ae a 7. LAD 0: Abbe XC eee PRIMULA VERTICILLATA. Wuortep- FLOWERED Primrose, | Class and Order. - Peranpria Moxooynra., es Nat. Ord —Paunviacea: ) Generic Ohiny Bet: : Flores subumbellati, involucrati. Cal. tubulosus, 5-fidus ‘s. 5-dentatus, persistens. Cor. tubulosa, fauce vel nuda vel glandulosa, limbo $-leboi' — _ 10-dentata, ee Spr. 20) DS 2 18h? Specific Character and sel. eties Go at JSE Parti: verticillata ; foliis ‘radicalibus’ erectis plete acutis serratis in petiolum attenuatis subtus farinosis, floribus verticillatis, involucris foliaceis, tubo corollee longissimo, laciniis integris. Spr. Primuta verticillata. Forsk. Fl. Aig. Arab. Cent. “ID p p. 42. Vahl Symb. Bot. p. 15. t. 5. Willd. Sp. Pl.2. 1. p. 500. Lehm. Primul. p. 92. Spreng. Syst. Veget. + 1. p. 57D. Gen Bee [Reape Hare PRNe, | in Edin. New ite. 49g oe | ae Descr. Root wnat rel shapes. gates sube- rect, rhomboideo-spathulate, decurrent along petioles that are ‘longer than the leaves, incised, and the divisions ser- rated, convex above, soft, much veined from the midrib, and somewhat bullate. Scape erect, round. Flowers ver- ticillate, five: mies ‘uaa he cesses Bractea, name Yo * From primus, on account of the early appearance of the flowers of most of the species. each pedicel, sessile, lanceolate, doubly serrated, but less so than the leaves, nerved and veined. Pedicels nearly as long as the bracter. Calyx five-cleft,; segments erect, or somewhat spreading, pointed, and serrated. Corolla yellow, scarcely perfumed, tube (three-quarters of an inch long) twice as long as the calyx, round and slightly swollen, where it covers the germen, and in the situation of the stamens, distinctly five-sided between these two points, and in some degree above the last; throat naked ; lzmb spread- ing at a right angle, small (less than half an inch across, ) segments obcordato-rotund, crenate (or entire?). Anthers oblong, nearly sessile in the upper third of the tube. Stigma cup-shaped, included, but carried above the stamens. Style filiform. Germen globular, green. Ovules extremely numerous, ranged round the central receptacle, a slender process which is continued with the style, and may be easily unsheathed from the lower part of this. The outer side of the corolla, both sides of the calyx, the pedicels and scape, the bractee and leaves, particularly on the lower sides, are powdery. Wereceived, in 1825, a plant of this species from M. Orro, of Berlin, under the name of P. mvoluerata, marked « Egypt”, but it suffered so much on the way that it could not be preserved. The subject of the present article was raised from seed, communicated from the sameliberal quarter, dn 1826, and flowered in the beginning of the present month (March, 1828). The divided edge of the corolla seems the only deviation from the essential character of P. verticillata of Forsxaon, andthe analogy of other species, as P. prenitens, shews that this cannot be relied upon as a specific distinction. Granam. _I have compared the drawing of this interesting plant, kindly sent to me by Dr. Granam, with Vaut’s re of P. verticillata, in his Symbole Botanic, and 1 think there can be no doubt of the identity of the two. The plate of Vau1, evidently made after a dried specimen, has -the segments of the corolla not only entire but acute; 'Forsxaon himself describes them as being emarginate ; but Lenwann assures us that both the specimen of Vani and Forsxaon have them entire. os . Forskaor found the plant growing ‘by the sides of streams onthe mountain Kurma, in Arabia Felix. €. Pa — e, as. ‘ = wes y —— ety pa rr ‘ * na? a bia we AD £ : ‘97% 4 ¥ Fei ghee, ee ee S : : : : Get ; isi5 SS i eit GAULTHERIA SHALLON. SHALLON GAULTHERIA. . Cal. b-fidus, pedicello ES ta urceolato-ovata, Anthere apice bicornes. Gansnis, cato vestita. t : - acutis serratis marginibu as ramisque junioribus hispidis, _. Yacemis secundis, pedicello infra niedium bibracteato, corollis viscoso-glandulis. | Bes GAprapNse shallon. Pursh. ae Sept. v.. L p. 284. Nut. Gen. v. 1. p, 263. LTHERI fruticosa. Menz. i £ ~(m Herb. nosir) £4 ea hae Descr. Stems friticose; taxete; hedicnda? a iste to a foot and a half high, nearly erect, the younger ‘branches hairy, or even hispid, the hairs deciduous. Leaves alternate, nearly sessile, -broadly vate, subcoriaceous, Somewhat cordate at the base, shining , acute, or rather suddenl and shortly acuminate, veiny on both sides, dark-green al ove, aler beneath, finely serrated a h e margin red 1 in the ome sana and ciliated, the hai judhe leaves, and at length de ou Pa oe / age st i PF sites » oe an a * Named after Gavuruter or Gautier, a French physician, resident i in Canada, who wrote on the Sugar Maple. two or three together. Peduncle ferruginous, glanduloso- hirsute and clammy, with small, concave, imbricated brac- tee at the base, and a larger, reflexed one at the base of each pedicel. Below the middle of the pedicel, but not at the very base, are two small, white, reflexed, ovate bractezx. Flowers secund and pendent, white, clothed with viscid, red, glandular hairs. Cal. of the same colour as the corolla, and closely embracing its base. Corolla ovate, the mouth five-toothed, the teeth small, reflexed. Stamensten: Fila- ment broad, white, ciliated: Anther oblong, two-celled, opening by two pores, and behind them are two bifid horns. Discovered by Arcuipatp Menzies, ae on the North- west coast of America, growing in pine forests, under the shade of trees where scarcely any other plant would live. Its handsome and graceful flowers, with the large, glossy, evergreen leaves, render it most desirable for the American border : but it was not till last year that we had any pros- of cultivating so great a rarity, when seeds arrived, for the Horticultural Society of London and for the Glasgow Botanic Garden, gathered at the Columbia by Dr. Scouter and Mr. Dovetas. These soon vegetated, and from the first plant that blossomed in our Botanic Garden early in May, 1828, the accompanying figure was made. There is no doubt that the plant will succeed well in the open air, treated like other North American shrubs, and that it will then produce stronger stems, and more nume- rous flowers. — The berries of the Shallon are much esteemed by the natives, on account of their agreeable flavour; and we can attest their excellence from having tasted some which Dr. Scouter brought home. Sir James Smiru, in Rees’s Cyclopedia, seems to have taken this plant for the Gautruerta erecta, of Venrenat, Hort. Cels: but that is a native of Peru, and though, un- questionably, very nearly resembling this, has the leaves less distinctly serrated, ferruginously downy beneath, and flowers of a bright red colour. Pe 1, Flower, Pedicel, and Bracter, 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil—Magni- 2844. Swen Se. | Luh, bp SC lurtig Wiel wort te, ditag® 2128 WAH. dealt ( 2844 ) EPIDENDRUM FUSCATUM. DINGY-FLOWERED EPIpENDRUM. | : Class and Order. GynanDrRIA Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord. — Orcuipes. ry Generic Character. Columna cum ungue labelli longitudinaliter connata in tubum (quandoque decurrentem ovarium). Masse Pollinis 4, parallele, septis completis oe an ae basi filo granuisie elastico a Br. pal Specific Character and Synonyms. Epienprum* fuscatum ; cauli simplici, foliis oblong is acu- minatisve, pedunculo terminali elongato, spica globosa, columna petalis breviore. Willd. Erinenprum fuscatum. Swartz Nov. Act. Ups. v. 6. p. 69. Smith Spicil. Bot. p. 2. t.23. Willd. Sp. Pl. v.A. p. 120. Andr. Bot. Rep.t.441. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. _ v5. p. 218. Bot. Reg. 4. 67. Loddiges Bot. Cab. _ tAT2. NI RUM maces de 4m p. 224. t. 138. Loddiges Erinexprum Stee Swartz Obs. Ps 325. enien TE TIER C Fide se a y Descr. Parasitic. Roots thickish, white, flexuose fibres. “Blem tix to eight inches high, by no means bulbous, below sheathed with scales, an e, upwards more compressed, - leafy, leaves distichous, oblong, thickish, fleshy, the point t reflected, the base — \. At the sieht rises a Soe Rae care : Seda Fee Sanaa ne aueiel * From ews, upon, and derdpor, a tree ; "from the cireumstance of the species growing upon the trunks of trees in their native country. peduncle four to five inches long, sheathed with remarkably compressed ancipitate scales. Flowers forming a loose head, or an imperfect umbel, of a brownish green colour, particularly the two inner, which are rather smaller, and somewhat spathulate; thethree outer more oval. zp, with its claw united by its upper surface to the whole length of the _ underside of the column, the lamina spreading, greenish, somewhat three-lobed, the middle lobe notched and some- one pair of pollen masses. last: * be by the Rev. L. Guiipine ; and this year, im the mont between E. fuscatum and anceps. Fig. 1. Flower, 2. Front view of the Column and Lip. 3. Uppermost and large Anther. 4. Its Pollen Masses. 5. 5. The lower and smaller An- thers. 6. One seen from its under side. 7. Its Pollen Masses —More or less magnified. ) ¥ 7a el? ’ S Curtis, Walwort 2712S, Wealuvorthe, Aig? aZPBe 2845. SRBC JUSTICIA QUADRANGULARIS. : ‘Sevann-sraticep Justicra. 3 eins _., Dianpara Monoeynra. nf Nat. Ord: — AcantHacem. ) d gatiy Genlerte Character. Cal. ainda 5 raro 4-partitus. Sir, velibeti irregulari bilabiata vel ringens, labio inferiore diviso) Stamina duo, antherifera. Anthere biloculares; loculis insertion sepi inequalibus. Filamenta sterilia nulla v. obsoleta. Ovarii loculi dispermi. — adnatum. © -Semina-reti- naculis sa asaazoacse Br. Specific eo : Jusricra* quadrangularis ; (antheris loculis parallelis), foliis late ovato-lanceolatis petiolatis acutis subserratis, — terminali, bracteis minutis, corolla subinfundibu curvato limbo subequali, caule acute tetragono Descr. Plant, in our stove, a afoot high, every whthe glabrous, slightly branched, and somewhat shrubby ; stem and branches dak green, acutely quadrangular, the angles margined. Leaves large, opposite, remote, broadly ovato- lanceolate, dark green, somewhat coriaceous, paler beneath, acute, rather obscurely serrated, the base entire, petiolated. Spike terminal on a quadrangular peduncle, four-sided, _ Bractee small, three to each flower, ovato-acuminate.. * Named by Houston after Jamas ides, Esq. F.R.S., who published, in 1674, a volume called the British Gardener's Director. Calyx five-partite, on a short, very thick pedicel, laciniz erect, linear-lanceolate. Corolla purplish red, somewhat infun- dibuliform :. ¢ube short, rather gibbous at the base, curved down suddenly at the upper part, limb nearly equal, of five suberect segments. Stamens two, much curved, as long as thecorolla. Filaments white, pubescent. Anthers oblong, acute, white, and pubescent at the back; cells two, parallel, brown. Germen ovate, upon a yellow fleshy disk or base. Style as long as the stamens, slender, filiform. Stigma slightly clavate. | his very distinctly marked species of Justicia, which I do not find described by any botanical author, exists in the stove of the Glasgow Botanical Garden, and is marked as having been sent eae Mr: Barczay’s collection at Bury Hill, pe the oe of «J. a eae epoming in e slightest ee rough about the plant; and it is to be feared there ae hacn some milaiaks in labelling it. Itis probably a native of the Mauritins or Madagascar, and one of M. Boszr’s discoveries. = 9 r ginical It flowers in the month of January. >See Fig. 1. Front view of a Flower. 2. Stamen. 3. Calyx and Pistil, with the three Bracter.—M ore or less magnified, ~— . hes : TR acl xg Pay Saas i, i si a? BEconia papitiosa. _ P dod | Moxecta PoLyaxprra. oe el Brice JON Om Bocoxtaces. ‘2 i Mase. Cal O. > - plypetal, petals plain A, inzequalibus. Fam. Cal.o. Cor. petal Styli 3. bifidi. Caps: tr sperma, Lie mine is acu ming . ; albo-maculatis papillis venas pubes enti DUS iS 74 a ie P sodintnates raris inten a | Maid ovatis ive inte- > . ie ing: Graham. » Brooxts papillos, Graber, branched in our gc | probably more so when oy a feats, state: ‘somewhat tumid at the jc joints, ounded, brown. Petioles alternate, - spreading, rodyioll channelled above, pubescent, one and _a quarter inch long. - Leaves three anda ftimesas lo a the petiole, we i revs pm ‘cordate, acuminate, somew wiplate and b late, crisped, on the via surface bright ( ee om Nines =>. a f ~ af i Wr, * ‘ | < aad , * So named by Puumrer, after Begon, who assisted that author with mate- rials for his writings on American Botany, green and shining, occasionally spotted with white, and having distant papille, of which each is terminated with a curved rather harsh hair, red and glabrous below, except at the veins, which are sparingly’ dbiads cent, unequally den- tato-ciliated, and somewhat angled. Sttpules ovate, acu- minate, smooth, entire, marcescent.: py af apres , longer than the leaves, turned to one side of the stem, drooping, (thrice?) dichotomous ; peduncles.and pedicels flattened. Bracteeé opposite, ovate, coloured, deciduous, placed in pairs at aah divnion of the cyme,:and at the base of each Jfemale flower, but wanting in the male. Male flowers placed in the axil of the bifurcations, and, as it would appear, always along with a female at the ultimate divi- sions of the cyme, where they hang on the outside of the female flowers in the two lateral, and, on the inside in the two middle divisions of the cyme; each always expands before the corresponding female flower. This distribution and premature evolution of the male flowers are common — in the genus. Corolla tetrapetalous, very unequal, rather more so in the female flowers, where the outer petals are retuse, full three-quarters of an inch broad by half an inch long, in the male cordato-subrotund. Stamens numerous ; filaments slender ; anthers large, wedge-shaped. Germen inferior, nearly equally winged, the. angles. obtuse, the upper edges placed at right angles to the axis of the flower. Styles three, channelled, enlarging upwards. Stigmas large, lobed, revolute, crisped, and pubescent. ae This Sri flowered in the stove of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in April of this year, 1828, and at about the same season during the three preceding years. We re- ceived the plant from Kew in 1824, but without specific pine, or any intimation regarding its native country.— aham. Fig. 1, Stamens, magnified. 2. Truncated Capsule —Nadural size. = x Swear S& +” TL8 BR. a Ah Z Ps > to FP Poss ye PJ, WS Hadel? Luo. oy & Curtis Weleortiz: A (2847) Rosa SINICA. "Tur e-Lea ven Cunese Roser. Hhehebbbbbebbbbebbbk | - Class and Order. - Tcosanpnia Moxoornta. ny Nat. Ord. — - Rosacne. ) Generic heres Cilijeis shila urceolatus, carnosus, achenia plurima his suta includens. Receptaculum villosum. Div. XI. Banksiane. Stipule sublibere, sibiatte v. angustissime, sepius deciduz. — ieee Pe —— nitida. Caules scandentes. Tan a | Specific Character ailiboaias Rosa*. sinica; -stipulis (parvis) Liciesats ance aac poy natis serratis deciduis, petiolis costaque (plerumque) aculeatis, fructibus muricatis.. Rosa sinica. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 2: p 202. ed. 2. %. 3: p. 261. (excl. syn.) Smith in Rees Cyl. (excl. syn. Linn.) Lindl. Roig z 126, f. 16. Spreng, Syst. Veg. v. 2. bees oe . hee Bidndie, Cand, Cat. Hort. Monsp. p. 137. Red. - Ros. v, 2 p. 81. cum Ie. De Cand: Prodr. 0. 2. “LysepebQ@yin oi dotlor'ge! Rosa ternata. Poir. in Eneycl. Bot. v. 6. p- 284. Rosa trifoliata. ” Le Bose. Dict.” Rosa cherokeensis. - Donn Cant. ed.8.p.170. Rosa levigata. © “Mich. Bor. ‘Am. 0. 1. p. 295. Pursh Am. peice _ 845, Smith in Rees Cycl. Nutt. Gen. ». 308. Elliott, Sketch, v.1. p. 567. Lindl. Ros. “ ik De Cand. Prodr. v. 2, p. 600. Spreng. Syst. Plant. 0. 2. p: pee -Descr. * From poder, in Greek, and that again from rhos (home hel. red) a Rose, in Celtic. Descr. A climbing, much branching shrub, with very long, flexible, green branches, clothed with a beautiful smooth bark, and bearing scattered, rather large, uncinate prickles, which are often gemimate at the setting on of the leaves. Petioles often tinged with purple, grooved on the upper side, generally, but not always, beset with several small, uncinate prickles; at the base are two small semiadnate, linear-lanceolate, yellowish, deciduous stipules, serrated and somewhat glandular. Leaffets three, rarely five, and in the latter case the two lowermost are much the small- est ; the rest an inch anda half, and sometimes (the terminal one) two inches long, broadly lanceolate, somewhat rigid, evergreen, perfectly glabrous, shining, dark green above, paler beneath ; the margins beautifully serrated, with the teeth almost setigerous, the nerves indistinct, the midrib beneath mostly very prickly. Petiole hispid above. Flower solitary, very large, fragrant. Calyx tube ovate, very hispid: the segments pubescent, spreading, soon reflexed, much — entire. Petals pure mae, waved, obeordate, very. obtuse, approaching to triangular. Stigmas collected into a head in fuente of a yellow, fleshy disk. ¥ The plant which produced the flower here figured in the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, was sent to that Institution by Mr. James Witson, from Savannah, with the name of the Cherokee Rose; under which appellation, I believe, it has long been known in British collections ; though it has never, to my knowledge, blossomed in any of them. Our plant was trained up to one of the rafters of the building, and in that situation bore its very large, pure white, and fragrant flowers in May, 1828. There can be no doubt of its being the Rosa laevigata of Micuavx and the American Botanist, who describes it as a native of Georgia, growing in shady woods, and climbing up trees to a great height. It has, however, altagethes the peculiar habit of the Chinese Roses, and, cultivated in the same stove with Rosa sinica, which we have received direct from its native country, there does not appear the slightest marks of distinction; and Mr. Linpxey, in his valuable Monograph, notices their great simi- larity. So that to me it seems more than probable, that Rosa sinica has been imported into North America, either from China, or from our European gardens; an idea which is much strength- ened, if not confirmed, by an observation made by Mr. Ex.iorz, in his Fora, of South Carolina and Georgia: ‘* This has been cultivated in the gardens of Georgia for upwards of forty years, — the name of the ‘Cherokee Rose,’ but its origin is still “ In ‘our rural economy,” Mr. Exxiort continues, “ This plant will one day become very important. For the purpose of forming hedges, there = peshege no plant which unites so many advantages ; and in quickness of growth, facility of culture, strength, durability, and beauty, it has perhaps no rival.” i Fis. 1. Flower, from which the Petals are removed, natural size. 2. ens.—Magnified. 2848. Lud. by §. Curtis. Walworth, Sept: |: W Ws dei? ie : C RM 2S ALSTROEMERIA OVATA. BRroap-Leavep DOWNY ALSTROEMERIA, | dito » Class and Order. toe Hexamnia Monoeynta. — ry eee eae ( Nat. Ord.—AmaryiupEs. Br. Kunth.) Generic Character. , Perianthium corollaceum, subcampanulaceum, sexparti- tum, irregulare ; laciniis duabus (vel tribus) interioribus basi tubuloso-conniventibus. Stam. 6, laciniis inserta, ~ demum ——— Stigma trifidum. Capsw loculis po wes Caulis erectus, scand foliatis. mond ‘Kunth. Nioticidstesti™ ovata ; -yolubilis, foliis oble agis petiolatis supra villosis, pedunculis u ibell bracteatis laxis, eee, ping ceo laciniis rectis. Ms AustRameERriA ovata. Cav. Ie, Pl. ‘Sp. Plo. 2. p. 196. Lan, t Syst. Vege. 2.9 81 | ALSTROEMERIA hirte Sweet | it. Fl. Garden, t. 228. Descr. Stem, in our pla herbaceous, quite simple, te plish:» Leaves al 2, remo! efor to fits inches. 3-2 in * So named after Aistnousxa, a Swedish Naturalist, who first made * genus known to Linnzvs. in length, and this is twisted in such a manner, that the underside of the leaf becomes the upper, and is perfectly glabrous, whilst. the underside is strikingly hairy, especially upon the numerous parallel nerves. Jnwolucre of about five spreading or recurved leaves, unequal in size, and exactly resembling those of the stem. Umbel of three, or according to Cavantitss, five peduncles, long, pendent, flexuose, red, bearing two flowers, one upon a short, the other upon a longer pedicel ; and there are two ovate, reflexed bractee upon each. Flowers pendent, an inch and a half long. Pertanth of six segments, tubuloso-campa- nulate, the laciniz straight, especially the three outer ones, which are oblongo-spathulate, pale ochraceous. yellow, nerved, green at thie points, the three inner are decidedly spathulate, a little longer than the outer, with the margins below remarkably inflexed, subsaccate and bearing honey, yellowish, the limb notched, having a little point in the notch, green, with many purple, linear, oblique spots. Stamens six: Filaments whitish, slightly pubescent. An- thers at first dark green, oblong, compressed, opening at the sides, at length, after the discharge of the pollen, oval, brownish-purple. Pollen purplish. Pistil: Germen infe- rior, turbinate, subtriangular, furrowed: Style at first short, slender, columnar, subpubescent, at length longer, and dividing at the extremity into three stigmata. This very interesting species of Atstra@menrta, allied, in- deed, but yet abundantly distinct from A. Salsilla, flowered in the greenhouse of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in Sep- tember, 1827. Seeds of it were received from Mr. Cruicx- sHANKS in.182b, and young plants from the. Edinburgh Botanic Garden in the same year : raised from seeds, equally, I believe, sent from Chili, by Mr. Cruicxsuanks. | It is said to be also a native of Peru *. * The Avstramertia hirtella of Sweet's British Flower Garden is, I think, though said to be a native of Mexico, unquestionably the samé species with the one here given; and it may also be that of HumBo.pr and Kuntu. Perhaps the A. hirsuta of these latter authors may not be specifically distinct; and all these approach yery near to the A. latifolia of Ruiz and Pavon. Fig. 1. Outer Segment of the Perianth. 2. Inner ditto, nat. size. 3 Stamen, before the discharge of the Pollen. 4. Ditto, after the Pollen is dis- persed. 5. Pistil—Magnified. » Brgonta DIPETALA, -T'wo-PeTaLeD Ait rg. Od S163 Ae Bacon. ii Alita and Order. -Moneecra Pouranpmia oye done ae ( Nat. Ord —Brooxtices ye 7 ~~ $ Generic Chcvesct: Dalises Cal. 10. «Cor. polypetala, petalis pléringi 4, ; cece ett ie ami Cal. o petalis 4—9, plerumque inequa- libus. Styli tres, aS S. sa alata, trilocalaris, polyeperiagg IN SA We BL Brconta dipetat d recta, ‘Silis semicordatis acu- tis suba Be op briusculis macu- latis discol a i semicordatis, floribus dipe- talis, capsule alis suba -qualibus rotundatis. Graham. sae eyish brown, with a few Gaicel branched in our scarcel e- : aves half heart-shaped, atte out any “agg on the edge, rrato -dentate, slightly bullate, crisped at the margin when ig, above green, with white spots, and having a pellucid, short, awl-shaped hair, risin from the centre of a few of the spots, below blood-colour but when. ol blanched, smooth, except at the veins, where there are a few hairs ; in’ prominent, especially below : petioles distichous, at. first subérect, afterwards spreading the leaves, rounded, flat- or divaricated, nearly as long_as tened a little, and slightl y channelled above. Cyme axil- lary, une pee and enh wou lary, peduncled, drooping, rather longer than the petioles and foliage, dichotomous, peduncles and pedicels flattened :. two obsolete, nearly opposite bracteas are on the middle of the female pedicel, but none on the male. Flowers pink, dipetalous, handsome, large, (female, one inch broad, by three quarters of an inch long; male, three quarters of an inch in either diameter,) males in the clefts of the cyme, and on the outside of its subdivisions; those in the clefts expand first, the others nearly at the same time with the corresponding females; petals in them subrotund; in the females more cordate ; in both, but especially the latter, subacuminate. Stamens numerous, filaments wedge-shaped at the top,.an anther-cell being fixed along each side. Capsule, wings rounded, subequal: Stigmata pale yellow, revolute, angled, pubescent along the edge. This species flowered at the Royal Botanic Garden Edin- burgh, in April, 1828, having been raised two years before from seed sent by Dr. Jounsronz, from Bombay. Like all the other species of Begonia, it requires the heat of the stove. GRAHAM. | + : 2850 Wan ke. Lib, bp § Curtis, Walworth, Sept. 1 7b28. WT. A. del® ( 2850 ) CoNOsPERMUM ERICIFOLIUM. HEATH-LEAVED - ConospERMUM. — Class and Order. TerranDRiA -Monoeynta. ( Nat. Ord. —Proreacez. ) Generic Character. - Perianthium tubulosum, ringens: lacinia suprema basi fornicata. Anthere tres, incluse : laterales dimidiate : su- perior biloba; primo coherentes, lobis proximis vicinarum loculum constituentibus. Stigma liberum. Nusx obconica, ‘papposa. Br. as Specific Character and Synonyms. Conosrermuo * ericifolium; foliis erectis numerosis subim- bricatis subulato-filiformibus, spicis simplicibus axilla- ribus pedunculo brevioribus. Conosrermum ericifolium. Smith in Rees Cycl. Knight et Salish. Prot. p.95. Br. in Linn. Trans. v. 10. p. "154, Spreng. Syst. Veget.v.1. p.¥i4. Descr. Shrub erect. Stem rounded, brown; Branches erect, green when young and pubescent. Leaves subulato- filiform, slightly twisted, mucronate, veinless, when seen under a microscope a little scabrous, veinless, somewhat imbricated, persisting, very numerous. Peduncles axillary, crowded at the extremity of the branches, erect, elongated, obscurely scabrous, and having a few scattered ovato- acuminate, blueish bractez, but no flowers (unless an abor- tive one) except at the top, where they form a rather dense, inn ~ * From xwvos, @ cone, and cripua, seed, on account of the shape of the seed, almost capitate spike. Flowers, in the bud, slightly tinged with pink, afterwards white, spreading, each sessile in the axil of a bractea, which is larger than those below. Per?- anth pubescent: tube curved outwards and obscurely tetra- gonous ; limb inflated, bilabiate: upper lip pointed, re- flected, the lower-lip of three straight, erect teeth of equal length, but the two outer are a little broader than that in the middle. Granam. If inastate of the bud the perianth be carefully cut open at the faux, where the stamens (three in number anther-bearing) are situated, they will be found, as Mr. Brown has long ago observed, to be most curiously joined, so that. the three anthers constitute but two cells: that is to say, the single lobe of each of the two anthers of the lower lip is conjoined with a lobe of the perfect anther in the upper lip. In flower, the stamens sepa- rate, and we find one perfect, two-lobed anther in the middle of the uppet lip, and two one-lobed anthers in the lower lip; the other lobe being abortive, and appearing like a subulate appendage : the fourth stamen, which should have occupied the middle of the lower lip, is entirely abor- tive, and appears like a bipartite scale, with a mucro in the sinus. The filaments are very short: the Anther-lobes oval, purple-brown : the pollen yellow. Pistil: Germen free, broadly oblong, narrow below, clothed with silky hairs, and crowned with a beautiful tuft of the same. Ovule pendent, obconical. Style zigzag, filiform. Stigma slightly toothed, clavate, concave. I have already, at t. 2724 of this work, observed, that some narrow-leaved varieties of C. taxifolium approach this species : still I believe it to be distinguished by the shape of this foliage. Seeds were received by Dr. Granam at the Edinburgh Garden, from Mr. Fraser of New Holland, and they flowered both in April 1827 and 1828. _ Fig. 1. Flower and Bractea. 2. Section of the Perianth and Anther, to shew the situation of the latter before the expansion of the flower. 3. Perianth in perfection, cut open, to shew the Stamen and Pistil, 4. Section of the Germen, to shew the Ovule.—Magnified. LUO oy SI CHPTES: ¥ uae i r 70 WALWOT LH SEpe. Lith mbes C 2851 ) ~ CATTLEVA INTERMEDIA. MUIDDLE-SIZE- FLOWERED CATTLEYA. Class and Order. Gynanpria Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Orcuex. ) Generic Character. ~ Perianthium resupinatum, patens ; laciniis subequalibus. Columna libera, semiteres, labello eroso cucullato am- plexa. Anthera infra-apicularis, opercularis, persistens, columne apice subulato supertecta, 4-locularis ; septis completis membranaceis marginatis. Masse Pollinis 4, lenticulares, per pares filo elastico granulato in ipsis re- flexo connexe. Lindl. linac — Specific Character. ae _ Carriers * intermedia ; perianthio subequali acutiusculo, -. Jabello trilobo, lobo medio cordato rotundato, spatha obtusa pedunculum subequante, caule articulato cla- - -vato compresso vix bulboso. Graham. r Catrieya intermedia. Graham MSS. ye Descr. Parasitical. Root consisting of several strong, cylin- ical, branching fibres, green where exposed to the light. Stems numerous, jointed, three to nine inches high, enlarging upwards, vdlacedicoly bulbous, smooth when in vigour, but often me, 4 8, furrowed, covered with grey, without blunt, appressed sheat green where exposed, terminated by two nearly opposite and equal, ees flat, M4 ceo pes shy, veinless /eaves, five a Maa Ye * So named by Mr. Linpxey, “ in con Esq. of Barnet, Hertfordshire, a great collector of rare plants of his day.” late, and more nearly lanceolate, the two inner rather the nar- rowest. Labellum as long as the periahth, and of a rather paler color, curved downwards, compressed, its edges entire, and over- lapping above; terminated by three lobes, of which the middle is the largest, projecting forwards, cordato-subrotund, saddle-shaped ; all the three jagged at the edges and waved, but the lateral lobes _ less so, and not spreading : middle lobe of deep purple, mottled with the general color of the labellum or perianth. Column half the length of the labellum, shaped like a boat, blunt in the keel, and inverted upon the labellum: there is a round notch at the extremity, with a projecting tooth in the middle, for the attachment of the anther: the sides of this notsh project, are truncated, and edged with purple. The general color of the column is the same as the upper part of the labellum, but beautifully streaked with urple, especially on its lower side. Anther hemispherical, two- obed, four-celled: cells linear-oblong, each having a thin, brown margin orrim. Pollen Masses four, in two pairs, subovate, plano- convex; the reflected, filamental stalks slightly cohering in each pair. Stigma occupying the upper half of the plane, or under, side of the column, concave, large, and coming to a point at the base. Germenan inch anda half long, club-shaped, erect, slightly curved, brownish-green, obscurely spotted with purple, and having three longitudinal, double furrows. GraHAM. * It is with much pleasure that I add a fifth species of CaTTLEYA to the four already in cultivation. Its nearest affinity certainly is to C. Forbesii, but the general appearance of the flower more nearly resembles C. Jabiata, and it is almost as handsome. C. Forbesii could not be distinguished from this by the essential character given by Mr. Linney, in Bot. Reg. t. 953, to which, therefore, must be added the acuminate spatha, much shorter than the peduncle. The habit, as shewn in Bot. Reg. is precisely the same as in C, intermedia. : Our plant has further the three-lobed lip and the stem of C. Loddigesit and C. Forbesit ; the approximating perianth of the latter, and of C. labiata, together with the form of the perianth and sharply jagged lip of C. Forbesii, and the colours and spatha of C. labiata, only that this spatha is united at its edges, in which circumstance there is an agreement with C. Loddigesii ; but in this again the spatha is pointed, and much shorter than the peduncle. We received our specimens along with many other valuable lants from Mr. Harris of Rio Janeiro, by Capt. Granam, of is majesty’s Packet service, in 1824. They have been kept in the stove in pots of decayed bark ; and the specimen now describ- _ ed flowered for the first time in spring, 1826, but met with an accident before it could be figured or described. It bloomed for the second time in April last (1828), and remained in perfection several days. Other specimens, subjected to the same kind of treat- ment, have remained without the least alteration in their appear- ance since they were imported. The subject of the present article is now pushing its roots freely over the pieces of bark. Granam. Fig. 1. Column of Fructification. 2. Anther-Case, from which the four Pollen Masses, fig. 3, 3, are taken. 4. Side view of a pair of Pollen Masses.— —Magnified. WS EX. delt Pub, bP S Curtis Walworth, Sort. LIE 2S. — ( (2852 ) PoryeaLa PAUCIFOLIA. ‘ FEW-LEAVED _ Munx-Wort. , Class and Order. | x Drapexpaia Ocranpria. na hd iNet Ord.—Potyeate. ) Generic Character. Calycis sepala persistentia, 2 interiora, aleformia. Pet. 3—5 tubo stamineo connexa, inferiore carineformi (forsan e duobus coalitis constante.) Caps. compressa, elliptica obovata aut obcordata. Semina pubescentia, hylo caruncu- lata, coma dite D. © Specific Chara haracter and Synonyms. PotycaLa* paucifolia ; caulibus implicisiis erectis in- ferne nudis, foliis ovatis, oribus ternis terminalibus, carina cristata. D.C. ve. mae ucifolia. Willd. ». 3p ). $80. Pers. 9 g} | De Cand. Prodr. p. nice . 331. Pursh'v: 2. p: het Ni ital, Pl. Am. 0.2. p.81, Bigelow Fl. Boston. Heels: Elliott, Bot. 8. Carolina et Georg. v. 2. p. | TRicLisPERMA grandiflora Rafincoqu Specch. 1, P. HY. ve h a Descr. Root yaa. crows near the ond i peren- nial. Stem herbaceous, me es , Shining, three to four inches high. Leaves coll near the top, petioled, J ning, nearly naked, imper- fectly ciliated, — ly veined, n, red wien: young, tasthe ‘lower part: the stem co compat poi ovate, acute at both ends,.s) * From wodvs, many, and yadn, milk: from the supposed quality, in cer- tain plants of this genus, of increasing the quantity of milk given by the cattle which feed upon them. pointed, sessile scales. Peduncle generally terminal, though im a few instances the stem is extended beyond it, where it is opposite to. the leaf, one, two, or three flowered, very short ; pedicels lax, half as long as the flowers, angular, red, naked, and shining. Calyx: two lowest segments small, lanceolato-ovate, upper segments tumid, ovate, con- cave, wings spreading, obovate, as long as the wings of the corolla. Corolla handsome, three-fourths of an inch long, nectariferous at the base; petals three, coalescing below for above half of their length, compressed, the wings over- lapping above, slightly arched towards their apices ; keel after separating from the wings inflated, rounded, edges in contact above, terminated by a purple tipped beard, form- ing a tuft nearly as large as the inflated portion of the keel ; whole flower of a beautiful purple, indistinctly veined and pale, almost white on its lower side. Stamens six ; fila- ments united to the inside of the petals to the point where these separate from each other, after which they project. forward in two equal, opposite bundles, smooth, flattened, - colourless ; anthers termimal, obscurely bilobed, yellow. Stigma truncated, obscurely bordered, bilabiate, lips di- verging, the upper largest and pointed: Style clavate, bent, colourless towards the stigma, purple below: Germen un- equally obcordate, green, compressed. __. _Novrratt quotes, though with doubt, the Poryeara uniflora of MicnHavx as a synonym for this species ; but as it is beardless, which no specimen, even imperfect, of this plant, ever is, and as the inflorescence is quite different, they must be distinct, though P. pares has often one flower only. This species is altogether overlooked by Micnaux. De Canpo1te, in his Prodromus, mentions the P. purpurea of Hortus Kewensis, as the same with P. pau- cifolia, although the former plant is stated in that work to be. woody. es : This beautiful little plant flowered sparingly last year in the Nursery Gardens of Mr. Cunninenam, at Comely Bank, near Edinburgh, having been introduced from Canada by Mr. Brain. During the month of May, 1828, it has blos- somed abundantly, and formed one of the most. pleasing objects in Mr. Cunnineuam’s extensive collection. Its roots spread widely among loose vegetable soil, and in a cool frame, under the shade of the garden wall. Granam. - Fig. I. The three outer Leaflets of the Calyx. 2. One of the inner ditto. 3. The combined Petals. 4. Stamens, 5, Pistil—Magnified. 2855 ae 0 ER op.a5@ (2688 bapa : BuDDLEA CONNATA, ~ Coxwar 'E-LEAV! Buppura. ew, pee Jobst aoa Class and Order, ( Nat. t. Ord —Vamers. 4 iets Character. Cal. A-fidus. Cor. 4-fida, tum gFicageh ten valvarum: ay +* * ternatim. ‘divi bi Buppiea connata. Pau et 81. fb. Roem. et Sch Veget. v. 1. p. 431. feet high, branches obscurely angular, glabrous above, pu Y cent. Leaves: the largest of them six to seven inches long, lanceolate, serrated, glabrous on the upper bescent_ and even white and tomentose — ? attenuated, entire, till at the connate bases, where the mar- gin is waved, and. general r dilated into ear-like appen-— age on each side; but in el ves, the margin is there quite regular. Fron of these leaves, in our — imens, spring the flo , angular, with one or ' pairs of opposite branches, which, with the centre axis, make them appear ternately d divided ; each branch or pedi. ce * In honour of Apam Buns an English Botanist of the last century, whose Herbarium is 2 in the British Museum. cel bearing a globose head of deep orange-coloured, power- fully-scented flowers, resembling that of honey. Beneath uh head of flowers.is‘a pair of small linear-lanceolate leaves. Calyx almost as long as the tube of the flower, pubescent ; segments acute. Corolla with the tube externally pubes- cent, limb spreading, the segments obtuse, the mouth a little hairy. ‘Sfaméns inserted near the mouth of the tube. Style as long as the corolla: Stigma obtuse, slightly notch- 4 green. All that has hitherto been known of this species of Bup- DLEA, is from the figure:and description of Ruiz and Pavon, who found it an inhabitant of the province of Chancay. The seeds from which our plants were raised, were sent to the Glasgow Botanic Garden from Valparaiso, by A. Cruicxsnanks, Esq. It forms a handsome greenhouse shrub, flowering in the beginning of May, and remarkable for its curiously connate foliage. _ | Ruiz and Payon’s figure, indeed, differs slightly from ours, in the crenated, not serrated margin of the leaves, and in those crenatures extending down to the auriculated base. In the older leaves these auricles become obsolete. Fig. 1. Flower.—Slightly magnified. _ 2854. WT H.del? Pub by S Curtis Walyorth, Sept-l 1P 22. Swan Se ErtosTtemon SALICIFOLIUS. -Wintow-Leaven ERiosTeEmon. 4 4 3 oti Claes’ chi Order. ino elf Decanpria Monoeynta. : Sarre | Nat. Ord.—Ruraces. ) Generic : Chilracier: Cal. 5-partitus.. Pet..5. Stam. 10, filamentis hispidis ciliatis aut nudis, antheris terminalibus. Stylus brevissi- mus. Carpella 5, basi coalita. Semina in loculis 2, aut abort solitaria. Embryo subcurvatus, radicula longa. Frutices arboresve nunc Diosmis nunc Croweis, nunc Phe. allie alipes, foliis alternis simplicibus, floribus axillaribus, #4 os Loe TSE ne fs ny iy ; ; = ~ Specific . Character and: Sync Enrostemon* salicifolium; foliis lineari-lanceolatis integer- subsessilibus. basi bracteolatis solitariis, calycibus pe- _. talisque extus canescentibus, filamentis hispidis. DC. Ertostemon salicifolium. Smith in Rees’ Cycl. D C. Prodr. v. 1. p. 720. Adr. Juss. Rutac. t.21. f. 25. eng. | Syst. Veget.v. 2. p. 38215 ; | Crowea saligna. Sieber. Fl..Nov. Holl. No. 294. ies aa Graham in Edin. N. Phil. Journ. 1827, as Le Descr. An erect shrub, with the stem more or less round- ed, the branches triquetrous, often scabrous. _ Leaves scat- tered, erecto-patent, linear-oblong, somewhat falcate, cori- ous, quite entire, a little concave in front, roughish, ss; the midrib obscurely prominent behind, pay as ae $$ — ae ——— a * From spor, wool, and snwr, a stamen: the filaments of the stamens being more or less woolly, or hairy. obsolete on the superior surface. Flowers axillary, soli- tary, pale lilac, on short scaly pedicels; pedicels slightl downy. Grauam. Cal. deeply quinquefid,.of five rounded, equal, somewhat downy, fringed lobes, small in proportion to the corolla. Petals oblong, or ovato-oblong, with three lines in the centre. Stamens ten, hypogynous, incurved and connivent at the top: -Filgments alternately longer, taper- ing, white, with numerous spreading hairs in the front at the margin: the longer ones:with a swelling, which is beset with small, spherical glands, s beneath the anther, but ovate-acuminated, largest. on the shortest filament, and the last to discharge the pollen, which is of a deep orange colour. Piséil much shorter than the stamens: Germen of five lobes, dotted with glands seated upon a fleshy base ; each lobe is one-celled, and has two ovules: Style of five united into one, which scarcely rises above the lobes of the germen, is sunk’ between them, and which at the base has a few white hairs; | Hs bit HS ‘Communicated from the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, by Dr. Grauam, who described it in JamEson’s Journal, under the name of Crowea scabra. I fear, that I may’ have my- self, from too hasty a comparison of the plant, have been accessory to that gentleman’s considering it to be a Crowea: for it is the same as what is sent by our valued correspond- ent Mr. Fraser, under the name of Crowea saligna, and Dr. Srezer has published it under that name. It is, howe- ver, as Dr. Granam has ascertained, a true Eriosremon, and certainly the E: salictfolium, which is admirably describ- ed by Sir James Surru, in Rees’s Cyclopedia, where, as well as by De Canpotte, it is acknowledged to have quite the appearance ofa CrowWEA. , Its flowering season is April: but it ‘does not grow freely, though treated with the same care as the generality of New Holland plants : but ‘it is unquestionably one highly ‘deserv- ine of cultivation. = t was introduced to the gardens of this country by Mr. Fraser, and to him we are likewise indebted for our dried imens. / _ It is curious, that Sprencet makes Ertosremon mascu- line, Smara feminine, and De Canpo1te neuter :—the former is surely correct, Jua, a stamen, is indeed neuter ; but ornjsv, oves IS masculine, from which our word immediately comes. Fig. 1. Petals. 2. “Shorter Stamen; back view. ‘3. Longer Stamen, back view. 4. Upper Part of the Stamen, front view. 5. Ditto of the Upper Part of a longer Stamen, 8. Scaly Pedicel and Calyx.—Magnified. Pub. bv &. Cnrits. Walworth: Vel 218 FE. Soi W..7 27, dade | SAPONARTA GLUTINOSA. 7 (CrAsiry-srankep Soapworr. © | 3 Lie po Order. sO0T kL: if “Decaxpnia Drovma. iiuebs vo aparots ee Nat. Ord —Canvormvutza. ) alan Character Cal. oylindrictss Basi ‘nudus.. Petala 5; ‘ungiiculata. — Capsula ares. yee rig ner oerg Saronsnia® 7 aistihoedls floribus’ faseicult - cory calycibus > glanduloso- -hispidis_ Mat ‘ ilis SF 4 crept 5 eee: "Se 43a Beat ik a "de : SAPONARIA olutinas, Biebs Fl Taner. Oniid) 0. EE p. 922. “ Cent. 2. t. 66.” De Cand Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 365, Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 374. SILENE Armeria. _ Pall. Ind. Aa ¢ Bieb. ) Descr. Plant apparently biennial, from one to two feet high when cultivated, with a roundish erect stem, having many, 5 anges reddish- Fie se branches, and, as is the whole plant, clothed with glandular, viscid hairs, much fewer upon the leaves, especially upon the lower ones. Leaves opposite, ovate; the uppermost ones cordate, ses- sile and subperfoliate ; those at the base attenuated into a broad, flat petiole ; all of them peice at the margin, and having * Saponaria—from sapo, soap. Because the bruised leaves of one species, S. officinalis, are said to form a lather when agitated in water, having three red nerves. Flowers in threes, collected into dense terminal, panicles, upon the stems and branches, with small, leaf-like bractee at the base of the divisions. . Calyx purple, cylindrical, an inch or an inch and a half long, very glandular and viscid, five-toothed, and having ten striz. Petals five: Claw very long; limb very small, deep rose colour, linear, recurved between the teeth of the calyx, bidentate, at their base having a bipartite gland or nectary. Stamens ten. Anthers purple, roundish. Pistil: Germen on ashort, thick pedicel, green, with a longitudinal furrow on each side: Styles two, filiform, as long as the stamens, purple at the extremity: Stigmas acute. The fruit I have not seen, but the germen is evidently two-celled. An inhabitant of the Taurian mountains, according to Bieserstein, its original discoverer, growing along the mar- ope of woods in sterile places, particularly abundant about emirdschi. I possess a specimen from Sreser’s Cretan collection, gathered at Lassiti, which differs in no respect from that here figured, but in being smaller, and having the leaves narrower, and the radical ones upon longer pe- tioles. It is a very desirable plant for the garden. The flowers, though small, are of a vivid red, and the purple calyces and stems and nerves to the leaves have a rich effect. Cultivated in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where it was raised from seeds sent by Dr. Fiscuer from St. Petersburg. It flowers in the month of June. sad 1. Flower. 2. Petal. 3. Pistil, 4, Section of a Germen—Mag- nified, : ; fh i JIN, Ne \aae i we i 2856, | ( 2856 ) | ImaTopHyttum Artront. HANDSOME- FLOWERED IMATOPHYLLUM. Sea seooiokaboosobebebeekobsbak ak abate Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—AmaryiuipEz. ) Generic Character. Flores umbellati, spathacei, nutantes. Perianthium su- perum, subcurvatum, sexpartitum, tubulosum, laciniis sub- zqualibus. Stamina basi submonadelpha, tubo inserta, perianthio longiora. Germen globosum, hexagonum: ‘Sty- lus filiformis, exsertus: Stigma ities reg sie trilocularis, loculis trispermis. NN ase bs Habitus Cyrtanthi ; sed radix fibrosa: folia numere loricata, distucha, marginata: umbella multiflora, loribus — vix curvatis, limbo perianthii profunde peperins stamina exserta. Specific Name. IMATOPHYLLUM * Aztoni. Descr. Root perennial, consisting of numerous ire nat thick, fleshy, simply or branched fibres. Leaves Mews long, spreading out in a distichous manner, strap-s flat, striated, green, with a diaphanous, jagged margin apex blunt, almost retuse, the bases sheathing ez and purplish. On breaking a leaf, a greenish, gelatinous fluid exudes in considerable quantity, which has the flavor and smell of a fully ripe apple. From the centre of these leaves arise one or more erect, rounded scapes, with a large ; " s—ee rr 3 * From Iwas, mares, a thong, or strap, and Quiver a leaf, from the shape of the foliage. = . umbel at the extremity, of handsome, numerous, drooping flowers, accompanied by a many-leaved spatha, which soon withers. Peduncles filiform, glabrous. Pertanth superior ; of six somewhat incurved and slightly unequal, lanceolate, acute, orange-green segments, united at the base into a tube. Stamens six, inserted at the top of this tube, and, at the very base of the filaments, monadelphous: longer than the perianth. Anthers oblong, yellow, fixed near the cen- tre of the back ; the.célls opening at the sides. Germen globose, with six angles and three cells, each with three ovules: Style longer than the stamens, filiform: Stigma trifid. Fruit, a large, three-celled, red Berry, containing about six, somewhat triangular, whitish seeds, clothed with a double integument; the outer loose and pulpy. Albumen between waxy and horny. Embryo cylindrical. ef Fe Ee REET} OR So Pes SEES fom piTiog. .Greohniems fA AMBG see TRV odie IS Mr. Bowie, who so successfully explored the Botany of Soith- ern Africa, and enriched the Royal Gardens at Kew with many of its choicest productions, in the summer of last year, immediately previous to Ris return to the Cape, mentioned to me‘a Cyrtanthus- ike plant, which he had there found and imported, and which, if it blossomed in this country, he desired might bear the Specific Name of this patron, Mr. Arron, At the same time, the letter enclosed one or'two of thé wild specimens of the flowers, and a small piece of the leaf; from which it was evident that, however closely allied the plant might be to Cyrtantuvs, it could not rank in the same Genus. as A specimen having flowered in October of last year, in the noble gardens at Sion House, Mr. Forrest, under whose skilful —— is placed the whole of those truly B see. collections, kindly requested His Grace the Duke of NortHuMBeRLAND’s permission for a drawing to be made of the plant, from which, the accompanying figure is copied, Mr. A1rTon has likewise been so obliging as to send méa pees and specimens of the fruit,, with the particulars of its habitat, extracted from Mr. Bowte’s. notes +“ on shaded spots, near Quagee flats, and more common in the Albany tracts, near the great Fish River.” | nn ¢ < = _ Fig.l. Lower part of'a Plant, to shew the Root. 2,3. Flowering Scape and portion of a leaf, natural size. 4. Flower, from which the segments of the Perianth are removed. 6. Anther. 7. Pistil. 8. Section of the Ger- men. 9. Berry, natural size. 10, Seed, natural size. 11, Section of ditto —Figures 4—8 magnified. 2857. ZX. dal® Pae be & Carits Walworth: Oct? 7 2E2h. SIDA SESSILIFLORA. SEssILE-FLOWERED : Pe k t ; Class and Order. Mowabenrara Poryanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Maxvacex. ) Generic Character. _ Calyx nudus, 5-fidus, sepe angulatus. Stylus apice mul- tifidus. Carpella capsularia 5—30 circa axim verticillata, plus minusve inter se coalita, 1-locularia, mono- aut oligo- sperma, apice mutica aut aristata. D C. 2 Specific Character. Siva * sessiliflora ; mollissima pubescens, subherbacea (?), foliis cordatis acutis serratis, floribus subglomeratis sessilibus axillaribus terminalibusque, capsulis 10 pu- bescentibus muticis, corolla calyce vix duplo longiore. ee ‘Descr. Plant, in our stove, from two to three feet high, having the stem rounded, branched, soft with very nume- rous short hairs, and apparently more herbaceous than woody. Leaves rather distantly placed, beautifully soft with short hairs or down (as is every part of the plant), ex- actly cordate, rather acute, veined, distinctly serrated, darkish green, paler beneath. Petiole about as long as the leaf, swollen just beneath its insertion on the leaf, and, at the base, having on each side a subulate stipule. The flowers are small, generally produced two together, in 4 ax * From oidy, an ancient Greek name, supposed to have been applied to some plant allied to the Marsh-Mallow. axils of the superior leaves, or clustered at the extremity of the branches, all sessile, or having so short a pedicel as to - appear destitute ofany.. Calyx cup-shaped, with five acute, almost erect segments. Corolla yellow, a little inclining to orange ; petals roundish .er obecordate. Stamens nume- rous, united by their filaments into a tube, yellow. Pistz : Germens ten, pubescent, united around the base of the style, destitute of spines: Styles ten, united in their lower half: Stigmas clavate. The seeds of this, which I take to be an undescribed spe- cies of Srna, were sent from Menpoza in South America, by Dr. Gitures, and produced plants, which flowered in the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in November, 1827. The flowers are very small, and not possessed of bright colours; so that, as an ornamental plant, it is scarcely worthy of cultivation, = ‘There seem to be few species of this Genus described whose flowers are sessile, or subsessile. Amongst them is the S. pellita of Kunrn (holosericea of Sprene.); but that has birostrate capsules, and ‘the S. verticillata, which is said to be a somewhat hairy plant, and to have only five birostrate capsules. “Fig 1, Pistib—-Mapnifed.: EP LLEGs. its Wale oth OF: SinveRsIA TRIFLORA. ’ THRE-FLOWERED: « SIEVERSIA fi) ioc § eee fe el FL aS. Se SFP POSSETT iT Se Class and Order. | iy ~ Icosanpria Potyeyntia. rt qeiokda shar Nat: Ord. ~-Rosacez. ) 7 ‘Generic Character. Cal. 10-fidus, laciniis alternis minoribus. Pet.5. Cary- opses stylis rectis coronate. Spr. 5a Specific Character and Synonyms. SreverRsiA* ay ; foliis radicalibus interrupte pinnatis pilosis, foliolis cuneatis inciso-dentatis, caule simplici sub-3 floro, petalis calycem equantibus, aristis longis- simis villosis. Spr. die SreversiA triflora. Brown in Parry’s First Voy. App. p. cclxxvt. in adnot. Richardson in toga phd ed, 2. App. p. 21. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 543. : eave teikbrdin: Pursh i of N. Am. v. 2. p. 736. (in Suppl.) De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 553. Richardson tn Frankl. Journ. ed. 1. App. p. 740. sr teats. Descr: Root perennial, woody, subfusiform, throwing out from beneath many radicles. Leaves radical, from four to six inches or more in length, with an oblong or obovate outline; interruptedly pinnated ; the pinne placed close to each other, often imbricated ; the upper ones more or less united at their base ; all of them pubescenti-hirsute, sub- cuneate, nerved, with the margins deeply cut and serrated ; Pe 5 - gradually —- * So named by Winupenow, probably after some Botanist of the name of Sievers, but of whose history I am ignorant. radually ——. smaller towards the base: Petiole ilated, grooved. Scape from eight or ten inches to a foot high, terete, purplish, clothed with soft hairs, bearing two deeply-pinnatifid and laciniated leaves or large bractee above the middle, which are connate at the base, and ter- minate in a three-flowered umbel. There are again two large, laciniated bractee, similar to those just mentioned, at the base of the pedicels ; and the two lateral ones have simi- Jar bractee near their middle, while the central flower is destitute ofthem. These pedicels are from three to four inches long, each terminated with a solitary, ~—s flower. Cal. dark purple, with five, erect, large inner laciniz, and five external, smaller, patent ones. Petals oblong, not longer than the calyx, white, purplish-red at the extremity and at the margins, never spreading. In the centre of the flower is a short, five-lobed, fleshy cup, around which, and beneath it, are the hairy stamens: and in the centre of which is an elongated, conical receptacle, with many elon- gated tubercles, upon which the Pistils are jointed. Ger- men hairy, tapering gradually into the arista-like style : _ Stigma obtuse. A very little known inhabitant of North America, having been first detected by Mr. Brapsury (some of whose specimens are in my Herbarium) in Upper Louisiana, and described by Pursn in the Supplement to his Flora. Mr. Goxpte found it on the banks of Ohio ; Dr. Ricuarp- son during his and Captain Franxuin’s first expedition ; Dr. Morison gathered it in Labrador ; and Mr. Cormack in Newfoundland ; and at length Mr. Bram brought living ons from North America, phe White Mountains) which owered in the collection of Mr. Cunnineuam near Edin- burgh. But the finest specimens I have ever seen are amongst Mr. Drummonn’s plants, gathered on the alpine prairies of the Saskatchawan. It is quite hardy and has the same graceful appearances, and subdued, but agreeable colour, as our Geum rivale, and which caused that plant to be so great a favourite with the late Sir James Smitu. Indeed, the habit of the two is so very similar, that it seems almost unnatural to separate them into different genera, on account of the slight differ- ence in the style. + Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Cup-shaped body in the centre of the Flower, from around which, all but one Stamen is removed. 3. Receptacle of the Pistils, with a single Pistil remaining upon it.—Magnified. LI LLGBE, a) Malwarte o a ‘Maree. Lub by SC a ¥. SJ. del PULTEN#A PEDUNCULATA. | | PULTEN EA. - = Class and Order: a toHok Decaspnra Moxocrst cnon? ( Nat. Ord. = Lecominoss. ) es Generic eR ee ro 4 Pye Cal. 5-fidus, er proportionatis, bibiiicteatus (binetis sepius ipso tubo insidentibus). Cor. papil sessile, dispermum. Stylus subulatus, adseende simplex, eke senna agbis wy ti is int ei - a: , E Paina? P sbasaliatnd pedunculis eine pane ter- minalibus, fructibus lateralibus, foliis Jineari-lanceo- _latis. pee ramisque adpresstnpieais, | a - Descr. A low growing Ss i! with slender, flexuose branches, which are deflexed, especially the lower ones, pubescent ; branchlets numerous. Leaves scattered, small, linear-lanceolate, sessile, clothed with many appressed hairs, plane, da green above, pé aed with a midrib beneath : at their base on the brown membranaceous stipules, which ‘stand upright and are appressed to the stem. Flowers in pairs from the ex- tremity of the young branches : but they afterwards appear lateral from the pro ongation of their branches. Peduncle an inch or more in 1 slender, filiform, flexuose. Calyx : en lines corresponding ited teeth. There is * In honour of Dr, Ricnarp Putrensy, an excellent Natural Historian. is a pair of linear subulate bractez, one on each side of the calyx, and inserted on the tubular part. Vexillum obcor- date, and, as well as the ale, bright yellow. Carina rather shorter than the ale, reddish, deeper within. Stamens 10, free: Germen ovate, hairy, vrudthlly tapering into an adscendent, glabrous style: Stigma a small, rather acute int. : The seeds of this species of Putrenza were sent with many others from New Holland by Mr. Fraser, the govern- ment Botanist in that Colony. It is distinguished from all the others of the Genus by its pedunculated flowers, and especially from the Purrenza tenuifolia of Mr. Brown in Bot. Mag. t. 2086, which is unquestionably a nearly-allied species. But the latter has, besides the sessile flowers, much narrower (linear-subulate) leaves, covered with long and spreading hairs, the upper side being concave, the lower convex.. The branches and calyces are likewise clothed with soft hairs. lie 3 Its flowering season with us, in the greenhouse, is the month of May. Fig. 1. Portion of the Stem with Leaves and Stipules. 2. Single Leaf and Stipules. 3. Flower. 4. Carina. 5. Stamens and Pistil. 6. Pistil.— Magnified, 2860. 4 W..7 Zabel Lub. by J. Curtis, Walwarth Cet! Llé2¢. ssh (:':2860 91} -iat ; sostuve ssqqu Dopon#a atrenvata (Mas.).| ATTENUATED LEAVED, Dopon#&a. “Class and Order. - Ocranpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Sapipacez. ) - Generic Character. Flores sepe abortu polygami aut dioici. Cal..4-parti- tus, deciduus. Pet. 9. Stam. 8, filamentis brevissimis, antheris oblengis linearibusve. Stylus filiformis ab. alis capsule distinctus, apice subtrifidus. Capsula 2—3 valvis, 2—3-loc. 2—3-alata, angulo centrali 2—3-angulato in faci- ebus seminifero. _Semina bina subglobosa. Frutices foliis oblongis sepius viscosis. DC. Specific Character and Synonym. Dopon#a* attenuata; foliis lineari-spathulatis basi atten- uatis subverrucosis rigidis, marginibus subrevolutis dentatis, floribus dioicis, racemis terminalibus axilla- ribusque, calycibus demum reflexis viscidis. Graham. Doponza attenuata. Cunningham in Field’s New South Wales, p. 353.. ¢ : Descr. Shrub erect ; stem round, with brown, cracked bark ; branches scattered, slightly compressed. Leaves scattered, sessile (three inches long, one quarter of an inch _ broad), spreading, linear-spathulate, with a small mucro at the apex, which is not always distinct ; much attenuated at the base, rigid, rough, with minute ,warty elevations Re a ae the * After Dopoens or Dovonzvus, a learned Belgian Botanist and Physician, who flourished in the sixteenth century. the upper surface ; middle rib strong and prominent both above and below ; vezns few and obscure, the margin slightly reflected, toothed. Racemes terminal and axillary, rarely compound, bractea ; rachis, pedicels, and calyx slightly hairy and viscid. Bractee subulate, solitary at the base of each pedicel and shorter than it. Flowers nodding ; segments acute, reflected, light green, deciduous with the other parts of the flower. Stamens eight ; Fila- ments very short. Anthers large, bilocular, and each lobe deeply grooved, bursting along the side, erect, and arranged ina square form around the centre of the flower, yellow. Pollen abundant, spherical, yellow. Pisti! abortive. Seeds of this plant were received at the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, in 1824, from Mr. Fraser, Colonial Bota- nist, New South Wales. It flowers freely in the green- house, in the months’of February and March. Grauam. Professor GraHam considered that this plant might probably be the Doponza pri of De Canpoxte, which is among the species dubie of that author. But the character is so short, that it is impossible to refer any species decidedly to it. The present plant is, however, nnquestionably the Dop. attenuata of Mr. Attan Cun- NINGHAM’s account of some new plants, published in Mr. Barron Fietp’s “ Memoirs relating to New South Wales’’. That indefatigable Botanist found it in the channel of sa River. — Ve possess in our Herbarium likewise, specimens gather- ed by Mr. Fraser among the Blue Mountains ; some of them being females, have given me the opportunity of re- presenting a flower of that sex and likewise the fruit. The former has a tripartite, reflexed, calyx ; an ovate triangular germen, a filiform style, and a clavate wrinkled stigma. The capsule has three broad, diaphanous nerved wings. Fig.}. Male Flower. 2. Stamens. 3. Pollen. 4. Female Flower. 5. Capsule (nat. size). 6. Capsule-—All but Fig. 5. more or less magnified. J¥aM SC. Curtis. Walworth, Oct? 189A ’ oe. A Dy f.~d eM aelt ne mOBL 5 24 IRIs LUTESCENS. PALE YELLOW Iris. Class and Order, TRIaNDRIA Monoeyni. - ( Nat. Ord. — Inez, ) Generic Character. Cor, 6-partita: laciniis alternis reflexis. Stigmata peta- liformia. : Specific Character and Synonyms. Iris* lutescens; barbata; scapo brevissimo subunifloro, foliis glaucis, spatha epee tubum corolla ante invol- vente, pistilli laminis obtusis erectis. / Pie Tris lutescens. Lam. Encycl. v. 3. p. 285. Willd. Sp. Pl. — v. 1. p. 225. Red. Liliac. v. 5. t. 263. Ait. Hort. — Kew. ed. 2. v. 1. p. 118. Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. AGA. pa (aed Iris virescens. Red. Liliac. v. 5. t. 295 ? | Descr. Stem leafy, flexuose, about’seven inches high, nearly round, oné-flowered. Leaves scymitar-shaped, and — 2 a little turned forward at the point, partially glaucous or subpruinose; ribbed, the lowest equal in length to the stem, the other shorter, sheathing the stem ; sheaths com- pressed and bordered. Spathe bivalvular, longer than the © tube of the corolla ; valves ‘pointed, herbaceous, green, membranous and withered towards their apices; outer valve rather the broadest, but ‘scarcely longer than the other, erect; the inner sheathing the tube of the corolla, and slightly inflated. Peduncle about three-eighths of an inch long, nearly round, succulent and almost i pee ; it lice ee = * From the varied ‘ween a colours of the flower, as those of the rainbow. by its side within the spathe there*is a small awl-shaped thread, the abortive representation of a second peduncle. Corolla pale yellow, delicate ; nearly the whole of the outer segments, and the claws of the inner, streaked with pale brown ; segments undulate, crenulate, especially towards their extremities, of about equal length ; outer ones rolled backwards, bearded with yellow hairs, spathulated, tapering gradually towards their base ; inner ones the broadest, bent across the centre of the flower above the stigmata, oblong and decurrent upon long winged claws, which are slenderer than those of the outer segments. All the segments when decaying have their claws adpressed to the style, and their lamine folded over the middle of the flower, so as entirely to close it. Tube exceeding an inch in length ; limb, in- cluding the claws, about two and a half inches. Stamens shorter than the stigmata ; filaments subulate, adhering to the corolla as high as the base of the hairy line ; anthers white, equal in length to the free portion of the filaments. Stigmata broader than the portion of the reflected segments of the corolla, which they cover, about one inch and a quarter long, upper lip erect, its segments pointed, inciso-serrated. Style three-sided, free for about half an inch, below which it is united to the tube of the corolla. Germen half an inch long, green, trigonous, marked along the middle of each side by a slightly prominent line, opposite to the insertion of the dissepiments. Ovules obovate, attached to the cen- tral column. This is certainly the Iris /utescens of the authors above quoted; though Stevpex (Nomenclator Botanicus) says it is not that of Lamarck; and he refers the I. lutescens of WiLLpDENow and Hort. Kew. to I. virescens of Dz Canpoute, which SprenGeL again considers to be I. variegata ; but this species, as figured in Bot. Mag. t. 16, is held distinct from our plant, by its many-flow- ered stem, and by the ee of its spatha. The I. lutescens of SPRENGEL, erroneously attributed to Lamarck, is quite dif- ferent from our plant; and it is at once distinguished by the ob- tuse upper-lip of its stigma, and the shortness of its stem. It is, ae Y me of the modifications of I. pumila, var. lutea, Bot. ag. t. : The subject of the present article was given to us by DaviD Fatconer, Esq. in whose garden at Carlowrie, near Edinburgh, (distinguished especially for being rich in this genus), it flower- ed in May, 1828; but our figure was taken from a second speci- men, sent by him from the garden of Messrs. Dickson & Co. seedsmen, in Edinburgh. According to Lamarck, this species of Iris is a native of hilly, stony: places in France and Germany. GRranHam. Ai € 2862 ) CYNARA CARDUNCULUS, A. Carvoon, UNARMED var. | | ai a espero Claes and’ Order. Syneenesta PoiyGamra JEQuAis. ( Nat. Ord. — Composrr2. ) Generic Character. Sqguame involucri basi carnose, spinose. Receptaculum carnosum, paleis fissis munitum. Pappus sessilis, plumo- sus. Spreng. | Specific Character and Synonyms. Crnara* cardunculus; foliis decurrentibus pinnatifidis subtus albo-tomentosis spinulosis, squamis involucri ovato-oblongis. — Cynara cardunculus. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 368. (.) foliis angustis squamisque receptaculi valde spinosis. Cynara cardunculus. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1159. Willd. Sp. Pl. v.3. p. 1691. Desfont. Fl. Atl. v. 2. p. 248. De Cand. Fl. Fr. 0.4. p.108. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 487. Pers. Syn. Pl. 0. 2. p. 384. i sylvestris. (Arricuaut sauvage.) Lam. Dict. Or tn Deak : 7 Scotymus ee, « Tabern. Ic. 697.” (8.) foliis angustis fere inermibus, involucro superne contracto squamis obtuse spinosis. Cultivated Car- doon. Ic. nostr. t. 2862. : Descr. (var. 6.) Stem four to five feet high, stout, erect, branched, especially upwards, striated and ribbed, some- what woolly, leafy. Leaves very long, especially the lower : ones, * From’ xvw, a dog, from a fancied resemblance in the spines of the leaf to the teeth of a dog. ones, which extend to three feet and more ; these are deeply pinnatifid, or even pinnated, with thé pinne decurrent, the segments pinnatifid, the divisions piblongeslanscelite, more or less acute, the sinus, and they alone, frequently furnished with a soft, blunt spinule. The midrib is remarkably large and thick, grooved on the upper side, the underside semi- cylindrical, marked with prominent lines, the inner part thick and fleshy, and abounding in bundles of longitudinal vessels, veins numerous, anastomosing ; the upper leaves become gradually smaller, narrower, and less pinnatifid, till, just beneath the flower, they pass into linear bracteas : the upper is dark green, obscurely tomentose, the under- side white with tomentum. Heads of Flowers large, nume- rous. Involucre broadly, almost rotundato-ovate, imbri- cated loosely with ovato-oblong, subattenuated, rigid scales, urple at the extremity, the base green and fleshy, more or ess spotted with purple, and waved : the upper and inner scales are smaller, scariose, brown: the outermost and lower ones patent, or even reflexed. Receptacle thick, fleshy, and nearly plane, abounding in chaffy, filiform, white hairs, among which are inserted the numerous florets which are placed erect, all tubular, the tube long, white, swelling upwards, and there purple, just before it breaks into the five linear, blue segments. Anthers dark purple, through which passes, much exceeding them in length, the linear, blue style, or perhaps it should be considered the stigma, for though it is bifid merely at the extremity, a line is visible, passing through it. Germen small. Pappus rather shorter than the tube of the flower, feathery. | ~ It has now, I believe, been generally acknowledged, that the Artichoke (Cynara Scolymus. L.) is but a variety of the Cardoon, depending on cultivation; and differing from this latter in its broader, spineless foliage, humbler growth, shorter and less branched stems, and larger and more fleshy heads: thus the heads of the Artichokes, and the stems of the Cardoons, or the midribs of their leaves, are employed for culinary purposes. 7 The plant here figured has, like the Artichoke, spineless leaves, but it has the other characters of the Cardoon family, and is one with the beauty of which I was much struck in the Garden of the Horticultural Society of Edin- burgh, in the autumn of last year, 1827 ; and indeed I can scarcely conceive a more highly ornamental plant for any shrubbery or extensive garden. It was received at Edin- burgh from the Horticultural Society of London, and is probably probably the fourth variety of Cardoon described by Mr. Anprew Maruews, in the 7th vol. p. 12, of the Transac-. tions of that most useful Institution. The stems, however; had not that deep tinge of red which could entitle it to the name of Red Cardoon.” The different kinds of Cardoon are eaten, after being blanched, as a salad, or boiled or stewed ; but by no means so generally in Britain as upon the Continent, though, ac- cording to Mr. Neitz, it was cultivated at Holyrood Palace so earlyas 1683. Its native countries are the South of Europe and the North of Africa; but the seeds having been con- veyed to South America, it has escaped into the extensive plain that lies between Buenos Ayres and the Andés, and has given such an extraordinary feature to that country, as deserves to be recorded under the history of the species. *« The great plain or Pampas of the Cordillera,” says Capt: Heap, in his ‘ Rough Notes taken during some rapid Jour- neys across the Pampas and among the Andés,’ ‘is about nine hundred miles in breadth ; and the part which I have visited, though under the same latitude, is divided into regions of different climate and produce. On leaving Buenos Ayres, the first of these regions is covered for one hundred and eighty miles with clover and thistles*; the second, which extends for four hundred and fifty miles, produces long grass; and the third region, which reaches the base of the Cordillera, is a grove of low trees and shrubs. The second and third of these regions have nearly the same appearance throughout the year, for the trees and shrubs are evergreens, and the immense plain of grass only changes its colour from green to brown; but the first region varies with the four seasons of the year in a most extraordinary manner. i 7 winter, * I feel myself justified, although Captain Heap does not mention the scientific name of this “ Thistle,” in calling it the Cardoon, from the circum- stance of my most intelligent friend and valued correspondent Dr. Gites of Mendoza, having sent me the Cardoon from similar situations in South Ame- rica, accompanied by the following remarks :— This Thistle is very common in all the province of Buenos Ayres ; it grows to a height of six to eight feet and upwards. The florets of several flowers, if tied up in a rag, and put into a quantity of warm milk fora few minutes, or stirred about among it, coagulate the milk, in the same manner as rennet ; and the plant is commonly used for this purpose in Buenos Ayres as well as at Mendoza, where it is not unfre- quent in cultivated fields. 1 presume it is not indigenous to Mendoza, but introduced by some accident. It is also sometimes used as a vegetable for the table. The tender footstalks of the leaves, and also the young stems, when they are boiled, and the outer skin is taken off, have the flayour of Artichoke. winter, the leaves of the thistles are large and luxuriant, and the whole’ surface of the country has the rough appear- ance of a turnip field.. The clover at this season is ex- tremely rich and strong ; and the sight of the wild cattle, grazing in full liberty on such pasture, is beautiful. In spring, the clover has vanished, the foliage of the thistle has extended across the ground, and, the country still looks as if covered with a rough crop of turnips. In less than a month the change is most extraordinary; the whole region becomes a luxuriant wood of enormous thistles, which have suddenly shot up to a height of ten or eleven feet, and are all in full bloom. The road or path is hemmed in on both sides ; the view is completely obstructed ; not an animal is to be seen; and the stems of the thistles are so close to each other, and so strong, that independent of the prickles with which tag ame armed, they form an impenetrable bar- rier. The sudden growth of these plants is quite astonish- ing ; and though it would be an unusual misfortune in military history, yet it is really possible that, an invading army, unacquainted with this country, might be imprisoned by these thistles, before it had time to escape from them. The summer is not over before the scene undergoes another rapid change ; the thistles suddenly lose their sap and ver- dure, their heads droop, the leaves shrink and fade,: the stems become black and dead, and they remain rattling with the breeze one against another, until the violence of the pampero or hurricane levels them with the ground, where they rapidly decompose and disappear,—the clover rushes up, and the scene is again verdant.” Paris Fig. 1. Portion of a Leaf, nat. size. 2. Floret. 3. Stamens, 4. Hair from among the Florets of the Receptacle —Magnified. HW? Biel? BS oases eer 5 wand O: 2 z, a x» Yo Py pp AMO. Pox LUE. bp L Curt RAM THEN. £ L ao. . et? SreversiA Pecxiur. Mr. Pecx’s Steversia. Class and Order. IcosANDRIA Potyeynia. ( Nat..Ord. — Rosacea. ) Generic Character. Cal. 10-fidus, laciniis alternis aiinonbis, Petala 5: Caryopses stylis rectis coronate. Spreng. 3 , Specific Character and Synonyms. = ———— Sreversia Peckii; foliis radicalibus lyrato-pinnatis, pinnis lateralibus paucis minutissimis, terminali maxima - reniformi-cordata lobato-serrata, caule pauce folios apice paniculato. | | ‘ eS 4 Sreversia Peckii*. Brown in Parry’s Second Voyage. ‘App. p. celxxvt. (in adnot. ) ‘iid Geum Peckii. Pursh Fl. of N. Am. 0.1. p.352. Nutt. Gen. v. 1. p. 309. Torrey Fl. of Midl. St. v1. p. 494. Bigelow Fl. Bost. ed. 2. p. 208. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 554. Spr. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 543. th ti — , . ? cs Descr. Root perennial, woody. Stem a foot or more high, rounded, pilose, branched upwards, so as to be pani- culated. Leaves mostly radical, upon long, hairy petioles, and in reality, pinnated: but having the lateral pinne so few and so small that, in some specimens, they may be easily overlooked; these are oblong or cuneate, aa - e * Peckii: named in honour of Mr. Peck, Professor of Natural History, if I mistake not, in the University of New Cambridge, State of New England. He was a zealous Entomologist, and communicated many curious Insects to Mr. Kirpy. - the extremity : the terminal pinna is remarkably large, re- niformi-cordate, slightly hairy, especially on the nerves, the margin cut into many lobes, and serrated. The leaves of the stem scarcely any, except at the branching of the pa- nicle, and there shay may be considered as bracteas, cordate, sessile, inciso-laciniate. Flowers terminal, solitary upon each ramification or peduncle. Calyx hairy, the tubular part larger and more distinct than in any other of this family, almost urceolate, as in Rosa. Outer segments of the calyx very small. Petals bright yellow, showy, roundish, waved. Stamen yellow. Receptacle of the pistils elongated. Germen oblong, hairy: Styles scarcely longer than the calyx, hairy below, straight : Stigma obtuse. I have native specimens of this rare species of Sreversia from Dr. Nurratt and Dr. Boorr, gathered by those gen- tlemen in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and find them exactly to correspond with the subject here figured, and which was brought from the same country, and proba- bly from the same mountains, to Mr. Cunninenam, near Edinburgh, in whose collection it flowered m June of this year, 1828. 7 It comes very near the Sreversia rotundifolia of Cuamisso and Scuiecurenpat in the second vol. of the Linnea, p. 4, a native of Kamtschatka, and also of the N. W. coast of America, whence I have specimens from Mr. Menzies, and which is identical with the Geum radiatum of Micuaux and Pursu ; and is distinguished from S. Peckii, by its more deeply cordate, radical leaves, whose lobes almost meet at the base, and the much larger cauline ones. Fig. 1. Receptacle with two of its Pistils—Magnified. 2864. OTH. OL? Pub By S. Cuartis Walworth,War? WbLb | ( 2864 ) SALVIA PSEUDO-COCCINEA. HAIRY-STALKED ScarLetT SAGE. SEEK KEKE EERE EERE EEE EEK * Class and Order. Dianpria Monoeynta. ( Nat. Ord. — Laziarz, ) Generic Character. Cal. bilabiatus, 3—5 dentatus. Cor. bilabiata, lab. sup. galeato, inf. trilobo. Filamenta basi appendiculata (an- theras spurias sepe gestantia.) Caryopses 4. Spr. Specific Character and Synonyms. Satvia* pseudo-coccinea; caule fruticoso, ramis pilosis, foliis ovato-oblongis (cordatisve) acutis crenatis pubes-. centibus, verticillis sexfloris subdistantibus, bracteis ovato-acuminatis calyce brevioribus. Satvia pseudo-coccinea. Jacq. Coll. v.2. p. 302. Hjusd. Icones, v.2. p.2. t.209. Willd. Sp. Pl. vo. 1. p. 1A. Roem. et Schultes Syst. Veg. v. 1. p. 231. et Mant. in vol. 1. p. 185. Humb. Nov. Gen. et Sp. v. 2. p. 239. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 1. p. 58. Descr. A small, slender, shrubby plant, about two feet high, with upright, hairy, tetragonal branches, and oppo- site, downy leaves, which are petiolate, varying in shape, ovate or oblong, in our plants more inclining to cordate, deeply veined, the margin crenulated, the apex more or less acute. Whorls remote, of six flowers, having two, ovate, * Satvia: from salvo, to keep safe, on account of the imagined medicinal properties of some of the species :—pseudo-coccinea, from ¥évdns, that which puts on the appearance of, or is like SaLvia coccinea. ovate, subulato-acuminate, pale green bractez, shorter than the calyx, hairy at the margin. Pedicels short. Calyx subcylindrical, pubescent, a little hairy at the mouth, striated, green, deep purple on the back, two-lipped, upper lip the longest, the.sides inflexed, acute, entire, the lower one bifid. _ Corolla thrice as long as the calyx, bright scar- let, downy : tube cylindrical : upper lip small, galeate, the sides compressed ; lower, large, three-lobed: lobes rounded, the intermediate one much the largest, bifid, concave. Stamens two: pedicel geniculated ; filament abortive at the lower extremity ; the other bearing aone-celled, oblong anther, and protruded: Style also protruded: Stigma bifid. A very beautiful and most desirable stove plant, having very richly coloured blossoms, which continue long in perfection. It is a native of South America, and was first described by Jacquin. Humegonpr found it in New Anda- lusia. Our plants in the Glasgow Botanic Garden were sent to us a few years ago by the late Baron pr Scuacx, from the Island of Trinidad. _ . Fig. 1, Stamen. 2. Calyx, seen from the underside —Magnified. LITLE. WiabwOF TRL OK TEZR Pub By PL ( 2865) BLUMENBACHIA INSIGNIS. PALMATED BLUMENBACHIA, KEK EERE ERK ERE KR ER Class and Order. PotyApEtrHiaA PoiyanpriA. ( Nat. Ord.—Loasez. ) Generic Character. _ Calycis tubus spiraliter striatus ovario adherens ; limbus 5-partitus, marcescens. Petala 5, compresso-cucullata, Squame 5 petalis alterne, singule filamenta 2 sterilia in- cludentes. Stam. plurima in fasciculos 5 petalis oppositos disposita. Stylus 1 obtusus. Fructus fungosus in partes 10 basi spirales dehiscens, 5 alterne tenuiores (dissepi- menta), 5 crassiores (valve). Semina plura parieti dissepi- mentorum versus axim adfixa, epidermide indusiata, rugosa. Herba ramosa, scandens, piloso-pruriens, habitu et inflores- centia Loasee, sed fructus structura distincta! Pedunculi axillares l-flori bracteati. Flores albi. De Cand. Specific Name and Synonyms. BiumEnBAcHia* insignis. , : Buumensacuia insignis. Schrad. in Diss. de Blumenbachia. p- 9. t. 1. Sweet. Brit. Fl. Gard. t. V1. De Cand. ~ © Prodr. v.3. p. 340. | Loasa palmata. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 601. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 342. . 96) Pee Deser: Stem climbing, much branched, herbaceous, four-sided, rising from a perennial root, and clothed, as is almost every part of the plant, with small, glandular hairs an ay * So named, by Dr. Scurapsr, after the celebrated German physician, Dr. Buumenbacn, — and larger stings, as in the genus Loasa. Leaves opposite, remote, palmato-partite, or sometimes pinnatifid, the seg- ments oblong, deeply inciso-serrate, nerved. Petioles about an inch long. From the axils of the upper leaves, princi- pally, the flower-stalk rises, three to four inches long, spreading or erect when in flower, deflexed in fruit, curved at the very extremity, and bearing there a small bractea. Calyx superior, of five, deep, lmear segments, which are incurved, and much shorter than the corolla. Petals five, spreading, pure white, hairy externally, oblong, ungui- culate, remarkably cucullate, compressed and carinate, with an apiculus at the extremity, and a large, more or less ser- rated, tooth at the margin, below the middle. Stamens in five bundles, alternating with the petals. Filaments white: Anthers roundish, oblong, yellow. Scales alternating with the bundles of stamens, thick, fleshy, very concave, bright yellow, with a brilliant red spot on the back, anda red thickened margin at the top; the lateral margins beauti- fully fringed. From the back of this scale, near the base, proceed three, long, yellow sete ; and within each scale are situated two linear falcate, aristate bodies, longer than the scale itself, and considered to be sterile filaments. Germen roundish-oval, spirally striated. Style straight, subulate. Fruit fleshy, separating into ten pieces, alternate five the largest, and dissepiments; the rest valves, to which are at- tached near the inner axis, and partly imbedded in the substance, (on each side three,) ovate, black, wrinkled seeds. Albumen white, fleshy. Embryo central; radicle superior. This very curious plant, in habit and in the structure of its flowers, so closely allied to Loasa, yet in the fruit differing so re- markably from it, appears to have been introduced into our stoves by Jonn Hunneman, Esq. probably from Germany; the German | aturalists having received it both from Monte Video on the eastern, and from Chili on the western side of South America. It is now not uncommon in our collections, requiring the same treat- ment as the rest of the Loasrz. We possess specimens from the Liverpool, Glasgow, and Edinburgh Gardens. Dre CanpouLe thinks it probable that the Loasa contorta of Jussieu should be referred to this genus: and I possess from Buenos Ayres, a spe- cies gathered by Dr. Ginxies, which I can scarcely distinguish from Bu. insignis, except by its much more divided (constantly bipinnatifid) leaves. a Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Bundle of Stamens. 3. Scale with abortive Anthers. 4. Abortive Anthers removed from the Scale. 5. Section of an unripe Fruit. 6. Ripe Fruit. 7. One of the Valves and its accompanying Disse- piment. 8, Seed. 9. Albumen. 10. Section of the Albumen to shew the Embryo.—More or less magnified. Pub. bp S. Curtis, Wad worth: Nor? LIP9P Sarvs © 2866..).6 OXALIS CARNOSA, Fiesuy Woop-Sorret. Class and Order. Decanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord. — Oxauipez. ) Generic Character. : Cal. 5-sepalus. «Pet, 5. stamina alterna longiora. Caps. _ 5-gona, 5-locularis, 5-valvis, seminibus arillatis ad angulos loculorum fixis. Spr. , Specific Character and Synonym. Oxauis* carnosa ; herbacea glabra, caule perbrevi dentato, foliolis ternis longe petiolatis obcordatis carnosis sub- tus punctato-chrystallinis, scapo triflora, calycis foli- olis duobus exterioribus majoribus planis. Oxauis carnosa. ‘ Molina.” Bot. Reg. t. 1063. Descr. Root, a large, subfusiform, tuber, from the crown of which arises a very short, herbaceous, toothed. stalk. Upon each tooth is jomted the long, terete petiole, gla- brous, as is all the rest of the plant. Leaflets ternate, obcordate, jointed upon the petiole, fleshy, dark green above, beneath clothed with beautifully minute, perfectly transparent, chrystalline dots or papilla, which extend to the very margin, and reflect a yellow or pale golden light. Scapes generally longer than the leaves, bearing three pedi- cellated flowers at the extremity, with a pair of oval, convex bracteas at the base. Calyx having the two outer leaflets the largest, quite flat and compressed, fleshy, a ate, * From ofvs, sour, many of the species being remarkable for their acid properties. date, and almost entirely concealing the three inner and more membranaceous ones; all of them more or less conjoined at the base. Corolla of five yellow, obcordate petals, united at the base by a membrane between the claws. Stamens united at the base: filaments slightly pubescent. Germen oblongo-cylindrical : Styles five, rather short, filiform : Stigmas penicelliform, green. 3 This very singular species of Wood-sorrel was received at the Glasgow Botanic Garden from Valparaiso, by favour of our often-mentioned friend Mr. Cruicxsnanxs, and is unquestionably the same with Mr. Linptey’s O. carnosa in the Bot. Register. That gentleman states it to be the plant of the same name in Mottna’s Chili. Dx Canpotie seems to have taken no notice of the species ; and SpRENGEL has united it with O. magellanica, which, as De CanpoLLE describes them, has the petioles clothed with hairs of a brown colour. | ; _ It is a plant well deserving of cultivation, flowering dur- ing a great part of the summer, and succeeding well in a cool greenhouse. It increases readily by the roots, and would no doubt flourish during the warm season, if planted in light earth in a sheltered situation in the open air: where perhaps the leaves would become still larger, and the glit- tering crystalline appearance of their underside more con- spicuous, as is the case with the Mrsempryanraemum chrystallinum, whose frosted appearance is of an exactly similar nature. Fig. 1. Single Flower, 2. Portion of the Stamens. 3, Pistil—Magnified. Lib by 8 Crartis VinoraeNer? LLEP?R ~ WF Bibel € 2867 ) 7 DESMODIUM NUTANS. | DroopinG-FLOWERED DesMopIuM. ee co Class and Order. Diapevpuia Decanpria. ( Nat. Ord. — Lecuminosz. ) : Generic Character. Cal. basi bibracteolatus ad medium obscure bilabiatus, Jabio superiore bifido, inferiore 3-partito. Corolla papi- lionacea vexillo subrotundo, carina obtusa non truncata, alis carina longioribus. Stamina diadelpha (9 et 1) fila- mentis subpersistentibus. Legwmen constans articulis plu- rimis ad maturitatem seudentibus compressis monospermis membranaceis coriaceisve, non aut vix dehiscentibus. Specific Character and Synonym. Desmopium* nutans, fruticosus ramosus, racemis compositis terminalibus axillaribusque ramisque pendulis, floribus eminatis bracteis acutis, foliis ternatis pendulis, foliolis ickitioidele integerrimis utrinque tomentosis, stipulis subulatis. , Hepysarum nutans. Wallich in Herb. Hook.—Graham in Edin. Phil. Journ. — a pa rn er ae ~~ eS ————_— > — . 7 Descr. A low slender shrub, much branched ; branches long, straggling, drooping: bark brown, cracked, scaling off. Leaves scattered, ternate, leaflets rotundato-rhom- boidal, undulate, mucronulate, reticulated, soft with a dense, ‘short down on both sides, the terminal one twice the tt re) * From d:cuos, a chain, from the bended or articulated appearance of the seed vessels. of the others, (three inches in both ways,) and on a petiole half its own length, the lateral ones just above the middle of the common petiole, on short, partial footstalks ; common etiole from its base to the terminal leaflet full three inches Gi, channelled above. Stipules lateral, subulate. Ra- cemes a foot in length, terminal or axillary, branched. Flowers in pairs, on pedicels nearly as long as themselves, the panicle branching from between them, but many of the branches shewing no more than their terminal flower-bud. Calyx four-cleft, opposite ; Segments equal, ovate, subacute, concave, spreading, and on the outside, as well as the pe- duncle and pedicels, hairy. Corolla of an uniform delicate lilac colour, gaping ; vexillwm erect, flattish, subrhomboid, notched, faintly striated, and marked in the middle with a deeper purple spot, the lower part of which is green; un- guis inversely conical ; ban depressed, about as long as the vexillum, and nearly forming right angles with it, lower edges in contact in the anterior half, open behind, abruptly cut down to narrow, flattened, linear claws, which are continuous with their lower edges ; keel rather paler than the rest of the flower, and somewhat more distinctly striated, shorter than the wings, notched at its apex, and split from the base to nearly half its length, having two linear claws, above which it is gibbous on both sides, and adheres there to corresponding depressions of the wings ; it shuts the aperture between the claws of these, so as with them to give the form of a boat to the lower half of the flower. Stamens monadelphous, straight, being scarcely curved at their apices; anthers yellow. Germen long, linear, slightly hairy, indistinctly lobed ; style bent at right angles to the germen, conical, smooth ; sé¢gma terminal, small, cleft, in contact with the vexillum. This plant was brought to the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 1823, under the name here adopted, from the Botanic Garden of Calcutta, by Dr. Macwuirrer ; and it has flowered in the stove every summer since. The early fall of the blossoms, and the small number of them which expand at a time, are prejudicial to the beauty of this spe- cies ; but its raceme is large, the hue of the flowers beau- tiful, and the drooping branches are remarkably graceful. No fructification has been perfected. : Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Vexillum. 3. Pistil. 4. Calyx, Stamens, and Pistil. —Magnified. { ‘4 #TZ ae? LUG. Ov |. Cartes. Walworth wove L£IPZP SWHESC ( 2868 ) PASSIFLORA CAPSULARIS. ANGULAR-FRUITED PASSION-FLOWER. KEKE EE EEE EERE KEK EEEK Class and Order. ‘Monape.pnia PEnrAnpRIA. ( Nat. Ord. — Passirtorez. ) Generic Character. Cal. 10-partitus, laciniis interioribus corollinis. Corona radiata perigyna. Nectarium in fundo calycis. Tubus staminifer stylum ringens. Stigmata 3, clayata. Pepo 1-locularis, placentatio parietalis. Specific Character and Synonyms. Passirtora * capsularis, foliis sulvelutinis basi cordatis - bilobis in sinu aristatis subtus petiolisque eglandulosis, pedicellis solitariis, ovario elliptico-oblongo fructi- busque acute hexagonis glabris. D C. “Passirtora capsularis. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1357. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. p.614. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v.3.p. 88. De Cand. Prodr. 2. 3..p. 328. -— 7 = Passirtora foliis bilobis. Plum. Pl. Am. ed. Burm. t. 138. (8.) foliis vix pubescentibus profunde bilobis, lobis oblongo- lanceolatis. Ic. nostr.¢. 2868. - Descr. Stem climbing, glabrous, triangular, purplish green. Leaves alternate, remote, cordate— at the base, dividing from below the middle, and spreading into two, oblongo-lanceolate, acute, entire lobes, glabrous and dark green above, paler and slightly downy beneath, ee a - from « * Flos Passionis: from a fancied resemblance in the different parts of the flower to the instruments of our Sayiour'’s Passion. ' from glands, having three principal nerves; one in the cen- tre of the leaf, which terminates in a reflexed mucro within the sinus; the others running up the middle of each lobe. Petiole scarcely an inch long, destitute of glands, with two subulate stipules at the base. Cirrht unbranched. Pe- duncles single-flowered, axillary, solitary. Calyx of ten, deep, oblong lobes, greenish white, the five inner smaller and more delicate. Filamentose crown pale yellow-green, scarcely so long as the calyx, surrounding a double white nectarium or cup, one within the other. Column green. Anther yellow ; germen oblong ; stigmas yellow. Capsule (immature) two inches long, oblong, acute, sharply six- angled within, containing many seeds arranged upon three longitudinal, parietal receptacles. Received from the West Indies by Dr. Granam, who communicated a flowering branch, together with the unripe fruit in the month of June, 1828, from the Edinburgh Botanic Garden. The plant has the flowers much smaller than PLumier’s figure represents them, and the leaves much more deeply lobed, indeed agreeing with Dz Canpoiue’s var. @. in every thing except the spotted leaves. Fig. 1. Section of the Capsule. 2869. oe Sz Arrocarpus incisa. Breap-Fruir Tree (a and B). | Class and Order. Monazcra Monanpris. (Nat. Ord. Urrices. ) 2 Geaacse Uharenter... _Flores amentacei. Masc. Perianthium simplex, mono- di- triphyllum. Filamentum longitudine perianthii. Fm. Perianthium monophyllum, ore contracto. _Bacca compo- Sita, ; series: Specific Character and Synonyms. Arrocarpus incisa* ; foliis cuneato-ovatis pinnatifido-loba- tis glabris, subtus scabris. (a.) fructu seminifero vulgd Bread Nut. e Arrocarpus incisa. Linn. Fil. Suppl. p. 411. Willd. Sp. Pl. 0.4. p.188. Art. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 0. 5. p. 231. - ‘Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 804. Rapemacuia incisa. “ Thunb. Act. Holm. t. 36. p. 250.” Rima, ou Fruit au Pain. Sonnerat Voy. ala Nouv. Guinée, p. 99. t. 57—60. : Soccus granosus. Rumph. Amb. v. 1. p. 112. t. 33. (8.) fruectu apyreno, vulgé Bread Fruit. _ _ Artocarrus communis. Forster Gen. Pl. p. 102. t. 51. . Soccus lanosus. Rumph. Amb. v. 1. p. 110. t. 32. | Descr. hoes, from thirty to forty feet high, with a diameter of trunk from a foot to a foot and a half, bearing a large head of many, patent, fragile branches, and abound- ing in every part with a viscid, milky juice. Leaves from one to two and even three feet long, and often a foot and a half broad, coriaceous, alternate, ovate, but cuneate and entire at the base, the upper part cut in a pinnatifid manner into from three to nine acute, more or less deep lobes ; on the suckers the foliage is often entire, and on the shoots from the larger branches, it has only two or three lobes* : the upper surface dark green, with numerous yellowish nerves, almost entirely glabrous, below scabrous, paler in colour, and marked with very prominent nerves. Petioles short and thick. Stipules large, soon withering and cadu- cous, downy. Peduneles axillary, solitary, from within the upper leaves of the branches : the superior one bearing the male, the lower, the female flowers ; when young, included within the same stipule with its accompanying leaf. The male flowers are very densely crowded around a central, sponsy receptacle, so as to form a cylindrical or somewhat. club-shaped catkin, ten to sixteen inches long, and of a yellowish colour. Perianth monophyllous, cylindrical, opening half-way down into two valves. Stamen one. Fila- ment broad, as long as the perianth, white. Anthers round- ish, two-lobed, two-celled. Female flowers collected into a globular, echinated head, having a central, spongy recep- tacle. _Perianths single, fleshy, united indeed, and incor- porated with each other, except at the very extremity, where they form as many sharp, pyramidal, downy points. The lower part only of each perianth is hollow, and downy within, where the pistil is situated. Germen oval, one- sometimes two-celled. Style lateral, incorporated with the solid substance of the upper part of the perianth, and again appearing beyond the point, where it divides into two sub- ulate, white stigmas. Fruit becoming a very large, aggre- gates oval or globose, fleshy Berry, as large as a good-sized elon ; in «, the seed-bearing kind, remarkably muricated. A vast number of these perianths prove abortive, and un- re & no alteration, but in becoming more developed and leshy ; those in which the fruit ripens, separate from the rest in the lower part and from the fleshy top, and form a loose cup-shaped, jagged, membranous receptacle to the enclosed fruit. Pericarp oval, gibbous on one side, mem- branous, loose, reticulated, still retaining the withered ay, —s * That kind which produces the seedless fruit, especially the Timor Bread Fruit, has the lobes very deep, reaching almost to the midrib. ; Swan SC. oT LIER. PE LICE WO re 2D, BP S. Curtis Va a he Z tev.Z.G.deé Seed erect, irregular, oval, brown, veined. Albumen none. Embryo large, yellowish. Radicle superior. Cotyledons unequal. (G4 ee! | The var. @ has the flowers abortive. The styles have but one stigma, and the fruit, instead of being remarkably muricated, is marked with reticulations, whose areole are flat, or but slightly prominent, and it contains no seed. A tree, producing a fruit, which, without any preparation, has the appearance of, and is used as a substitute for, bread, cannot fail to be an object of great curiosity ; and from the time of Dampier, who appears to have first * made known the existence of such a plant to Europeans, it has been spoken of as one of the wonders of the vegetable creation ; but much of its present celebrity is due to that deeply affect- ing history of the sufferings of Captain, afterwards Rear Admiral Buiex, consequent upon the mutiny in the Bounty, the ship that was employed to convey so valuable a fruit to our own colonies in the West Indies. = Dampter saw the tree abundantly in the Ladrone Islands, speaks of it as being in size equal to a loaf; from which we may infer, that th C already risen considerably during that time. He compares the flavour of the Bread Fruit, when boiled or roasted, to that of the common potatoe ; and further tells us that, “ the Spaniards slice it, and expose it to the sun, and when a sai brought Je ae 3 5 be The Jaca of Cxustus, Exot. t. 281, though | e quoted as the A. incisa, seems certainly to belong to the A. integrifolia, and might, 1 think, with safety have been referred to under that species. brought thereby to a crispature, they reserve it as a biscuit, and say it will bear long keeping when so prepared. Eaten ripe, it is delicious to the palate ; and when mixed with lime or orange juice, it makes a grateful tart not unlike to apple sauce.” It was eagerly sought by the crew of Com- modore Anson, and preferred by them to bread.” Rum- pulus figures the plant, and gives it asa native of Sumatra, Java, Amboyna, and of the Molucca Isles generally, where the seeds of the seminiferous kind are eaten as well as the pulp, and where the ample leaves serve as table-cloths. Sonnerat introduced the tree from the Isle of Lugon to the Isle of France, and M. Porvre to that of Bourbon. But it is in the South Sea Islands, and especially in Otaheite, that the best Bread Fruit isfound, and where itis consequently the most highly prized. Capt. Coox says of it, that the flavour is insipid, with a slight sweetness, somewhat resembling that of the crumb of wheaten bread mixed withJ erusalem Artichoke. From Otaheite then, it was arranged by our government, that the tree should be imported to the West Indies, and His Majesty, George the Third, ever anxious for the welfare of his people, appointed the Bounty to be freighted with this and other valuable productions of the South Seas, under the command of Capt. Witt1am Buen. Seven hun- dred and seventy-four healthy plants of the Bread Fruit were procured, and conveniently placed on board the vessel, so as to be protected from the spray of the sea, and there was every prospect of a happy termination to the voyage ; when, on the second morning after leaving the island, a mutiny broke out, headed by Curistian, the master’s mate, who was of a most respectable family in the north of Eng- land, and had now gone three voyages with his present commander, by whom he had been treated with more than usual kindness. The consequences of this mutiny, the sufferings of Buiex and of his faithful friends, together with the fate of the mutineers, and the good conduct and reform- ation of Curistian, are known to every one; and I need only here say, that they completely frustrated the bene- volent design of our government. Another ship, however, the Providence, was engaged for a similar purpose, and the charge was given to the same experienced navigator, who accomplished, to the fullest extent, the object of his mission. Eleven hundred and fifty Bread Fruit Trees were received on board. Many, as may be supposed, notwithstanding the care of the officers, and the skill of the gardener, perished during the voyage. Five hundred and fifty were landed - St. Vincent’s, in January, 1793, the rest went to Jamaica, with the exception of five plants, destined for the Royal Gar- ‘dens at Kew, and which arrived in England the same year. Of the success of the plants which were sent to Jamaica, I have no means of knowing ; but in St. Vincent’s, under the® judicious management of Dr. Anperson, then director of the Botanic Garden, the Bread Fruit Tree began to bear in the following year, 1794; and it has thence been com- municated to the other islands, arid to the colonies of equi- noctial America. Several memoits on the Bread Fruit are given by Dr. Anperson, in the, different volumes of the Transactions of the Society of Arts, and by the Rev. Lans- Downe Guitping, in his “ Account of the Botanic Garden of the island of St. Vincent.” It is to this able naturalist that I am indebted for a splendid set of drawings * executed in that island, (from which most of the accompanying figures have been made) as well as for specimens preserved in spi- rits; together with valuable information respecting the uses and history on the Bread Fruit. ‘ How curious and interesting,” says this gentleman, “ to the Botanist, is the migration of plants, which man in his travels exports from the most distant lands! The Bread Fruit is now known from Spanish Guiana to the kingdom of New Granada : thus, as Humpoxpr states the curious fact, the western coast of America, washed by the Pacific Ocean, receives from a British settlement in the West Indies, a production of the Friendly Islands. It is not probable that its culti- vation will ever sup e, valuable as it is, that of the Plantain, (Musa pai adisai -a) and its several varieties ; which on the same space of ground, furnishes perhaps more nutri- tive matter, at least in a shorter perio of time. “ The improvident negro, forgetting that for three parts of the year the Bread Fruit Tree is loaded with ripe, or lately developed fruit, considers only the greater ee with which he may reap the produce of his Plantain, whic in a few months after the setting of the sucker, repays the owner’s pains; and the master, equally thoughtless, seldom plants it, even in waste and otherwise useless spots. The Fruit rarely exceeds eight inches in diameter. When ripe, the skin assumes a yellow crust, and the viscous juice (so common in others of the same family) exuding in tears, _ runs neni * Among them is a variety or monstrosity, with the female fruit occupying the lower part of a male catkin. runs down its sides, and is concreted by the sun. It is eaten plainly boiled as potatoes, or as a substitute for bread, baked after the central pith has been removed. It is often also made into boiled or baked puddings. There are many varieties of the Bread Fruit, as may be supposed with a plant so extensively cultivated. Mr. Guixp- ing enumerates the following as the principal. Round and rough (muricated) fruit. Oval and rough, one of the most valuable. Oval and smooth variety ; the second-best. Round and smooth variety. Timor variety: small, and very inferior. orm GO RO _ 1 may sum up the properties of this tree by remarking, that in the native countries of this widely-diffused plant, clothes are made of the fibres of the liber or inner bark; the wood serves for building houses and making boats: the male catkins are employed as tinder ; the leaves for wrap- ing provisions in; and the viscid, milky juice affords bird ime. The Arrocarpus incisa, exists in a living state in the Glasgow, and, probably, other Botanic Gardens of this country: but it is both imported and kept alive in our stoves with great difficulty : so that we dare not expect to see it ever flourishing in Europe. = Tas. 2869. Artocarrus incisa,«. (Bread Nut.) Fig. 1. Branch reduced to one-third of the natural size, with Male and Female Flowers. 2. Section of a Male Flower (nat. size). 3. Male Flower. 4. Single ditto. 5. Cluster of Female Flowers. *6. Single ditto. 7. Germen. 8. The same laid open to shew the Ovyule. 9. A variety of the Germen with two Cells. 10, 'Trans- verse section of the same.—All but fig. 1 and 2 more or less magnified. Tas. 2870. Fruit of Artocarrus incisa, a, Fig. 1. Section of the ¢om- pound Fruit. 2. Single Fruit, withits enlarged Perianth. 3. The same with the Perianth forced back. 4, Seed. 5. Section of ditto. 6. Embryo.— natural size. _ Tan. 2871. Arrocarrus incisa, 8. (True Bread Fruit.) Fig. 1. Male Flower. 2. Female ditto, magnified. 3. Fruit, one-third of the natural size. 4, Section of the same. J¥aH lls Valeur th, Dec? LigPS* PS. Lures; F5F Ld a AL aed? _ ee 282°) SALVIA INVOLUCRATA, LARGE-BRACTED Z - ‘fe £ _ Sace. AHH HHS bbbnbobisbibilek Class and Order. © Dianpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord. — Lagiatra. ) Generic Character. _ Cal. bilabiatus, 3—5 dentatus. Cor. 2-labiata, lab. sup. galeato, inf. 3-lobo. Filamenta basi appendiculata (anthe- Tas spurias sepe gestantia.) Caryopses4.—Spr. sg Specific Character and Synonyms. Sazvia involucrata; glabra, foliis cordato-ovatis acumina- tis serratis, verticillis sexfloris, bracteis magnis colo- ratis deciduis, corolla ventricosa glabra calycem longe _. superante. ) Roget “Sanvia involucrata. Cav. Ic. v. 2. p. 3. t. 105. Willd. Sp. Pl.v.1. p. WAT. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 62. Satvia levigata. Humb. Nov. Gen. et Spec. v. 2. p. 238. t. 147. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 64. ae - a ~ Descr. Plant, as growing in Mr. Herpert’s conser- | vatory, twelve to fourteen feet high, almost woody below, much branched ; the older branches terete, the younger ones quadrangular, glabrous. Leaves also quite glabrous, large, cordato-ovate, acuminate, serrated, of a deep and singularly beautiful velvety-green above, beneath pale, where the nerves are prominent and often purplish : peti- oles an inch and a half or two inches long. Flowers form- ing a rather handsome thyrsus ; but if traced carefully they are seen to arise in threes, which are opposite, hence six form a whorl, each three included, while in bud, within Pits! | arge large, broadly-ovate, red, nerved bractea, which falls off before the blossoms are expanded. Pedicels short. Calyx tubular, reddish-green, ribbed, slightly pubescent, two lipped; upper lip with one, lower, with two small terminal teeth. Corolla large, tubular, somewhat inflated or ventri- cose, especially on the under side, marked with elevated lines, purplish red: upper lip very hairy, entire, with the sides compressed : lower reflexed, three lobed. Stamens having the transverse appendage remarkably long and large, at one extremity of which is placed a small, yellow, single- celled anther. Style scarcely exserted : Stigma bifid. Communicated by the kindness of the Hon. and Rev. WituiaM Hersert, of Spofforth, from his splendid conser- vatory : where, planted in the border, it has attained a height of from twelve to fourteen feet, and makes a brilliant appearance, with its numerous heads of richly-coloured blossoms, scarcely less beautiful than those of the well- known Sarvia splendens. Mr. Herserr received the plant from Mr. Tare of the Sloane Street Nursery, who imported the seeds from Mexico. The plant smells not unlike the Common Sage (Satvia verbeneca) of our country. There can be no question, I think, as to the propriety of considering the S. levigata of Humgoxtpr, synonymous with the S. wnvolucrata. The plates and the descriptions agree in every essential particular. Fig. 1. Bractea, including three Buds, nat. size. 2. Calyx. 3. Corolla. 4. Stamens.— Magnified. . Paar> Lib DW SL. Curie Weiwortin Dee? LPR \ 4 ¥ OE 629873) CENOTHERA VIMINEA. Larce Pourpie-riow- ERED Twiccy Evenine Primrose. ee ee Class and Order. Ocranbria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord. — Owacnantz. ) Generic Character. Cal. 4-fidus, tubulosus, Pet. 4, calyci inserta: Capsula _ 4-locularis, 4-valvis, infera. Semina comosa. — Specific Character and Synonym. CEnotHERA* viminea ; caule erecto ramoso virgato glabro, foliis lanceolatis glaucis integerrimis, capsulis cylin- draceo-attenuatis sulcatis pubescentibus. (EnorHers viminea. Douglas MSS. Descr. Stem annual, erect, glabrous, pale, almost white and polished, three to four feet high, branched, with many long, slender, twiggy branches. Leaves three to four inches long, alternate, hous petioled, upper ones sessile, quite entire, glaucous. Flowers sessile in the axils of the supe- rior leaves. Segments of the calyx acuminate, something more than half the length of the corolla. Petals large, of a fine and bright lilac colour, roundish-cuneate, waved, spreading, minutely crenulate at the extremity. —— ‘ | our * Oivos, wine, and Onpx, searching or catching, according to Smrru, (Ong, a wild beast, according to Tué1s) “from the circumstance of the root having caught the perfume of wine.” To what particular plant, however, the antients applied that name is uncertain : not, we may be sure, to any of the species now arranged in the Genus, which are wholly confined to America, with the excep- tion of one or two, said to be found at the Cape of Good Hope, four long and four short: Anthers linear-oblong, longer than the filaments. Style almost as long as the anthers. Stigma four-cleft, deep purple, the segments patent. Cap- le vountled: an inch or more long, with aan longitudinal furrows, tapering upwards, downy. Allied to GB. purpurea, from which it is abundantly dis- tinct. It isa handsome and hardy annual ; and if the seeds be sown in the open border in the spring, the plants will continue to blossom throughout the summer. Dovetas. Introduced to the garden of the Horticultural Society, by Mr. Davin Dovetas, in 1827. It was discovered by that most zealous Naturalist, in the interior of Northern California ; and it flowered for the first time in this country in the month of June, 1828. Fig. 1. Stigma, magnified. 2. Capsule, natural size. WI dele Pub. ay S. Curtis Palwor te, Dec”. LLFER te BAD CALCEOLARIA ARACHNOIDEA. CoBwrEs =¥] SLipper-worrt. Class and Order. Dianpria. Monoeynia. ; coe ( Nat. Ord. — Scropnurarina. ) Generic Character.. Cal. 4-partitus. Cor. bilabiata : Jabium inferius calcei- forme, inflatum. Caps. semibivalvis, valvulis bifidis. B + > os ee ee CALcEOL LARI F TA * arachnoide a; caule herbaceo ram oso patulo, | foliisque lingulato-oblongis subdentatis oppositis lana-_ tis, pedunculis terminalibus geminatis elongatis dicho- tomis, calycibus pedicellisque arachnoideis. e Caxcroraria arachnoidea. Graham in Edin. Phil. Journ. 1828, p. 572. : F att Caxceotaria tinctoria. © Gillies MSS. = aaa Descr. Stem herbaceous, round, much branched, spread- ing, succulent, woolly, hairs appressed. Branches opposite, spreading, similar to the stem. Leaves (with their petioles about five inches long) opposite, lingulate, oblong, narrow- ing downwards into long petioles, over which they are decurrent, ainplexicaul, obseufely toothed, wrinkled, woolly on both sides, midrib and branching veins prominent on uppermost leaves smaller than the the lower side; two w others, sessile, cordato- e, undulate, and placed at the origin of the peduncles. Peduncles terminal, geminate (six inches long) dichotomous, branches spreading, and ert : { the * From calceolus, a little slipper, on account of the peculiar form of the lower lip in the flower. — the pedicels in pairs. Pedicels round, undivided, and like the calyx clothed with a cobweb-like tomentum. Bracteas two, opposite, at the bifurcation of the peduncle, like the uppermost leaves, but smaller. Calyx and segments equal, ovate, pointed, spreading, woolly on the outside. Corolla of an uniform dull purple colour, subglobular, flattened below, glabrous within, upper lip very small, lower cre- nated, its neck white. Stamens rising from the base of the corolla at its sides; filaments straight, stout, smooth, sup- porting the elongated bilocular anthers by their middle in contact with the edge of the upper lip of the corolla : pollen yellow. Germen conical, grooved in its sides. Style straight, filiform, exserted. Stigma simple, small. Ovules very nu- merous, attached to a large central receptacle, the trans- verse section of which in each loculament is emarginate. Surface of the germen, outside of the corolla, and inside of the calyx, covered with short, obscure, glandular pubes- cence. 3 We received the seeds of this plant from our invaluable correspondent, Dr. Gittins *, of Mendoza, in January last, having been collected by him in Chili. It has been treated like all the other species of the genus, and hitherto kept in the greenhouse. There is great eT that it may not produce seed ; but it strikes very readily by cuttings, the branches even pushing down roots as they lie along the ground. : | 7 _ We fear it will be found more difficult to preserve the only other purple-flowered CauceoiariA in cultivation (C. purpurea, Edin. Phil. Journ. 1827; Bot. Mag. t. 2775,) which was also introduced through the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, by seeds sent from our other excellent cor- respondent Mr. Crurcxsuangs, as it has hitherto produced very few seeds. An entirely new aspect has been given to our greenhouses within these few years, by the kindness of Dr. Gitues and Mr. Crurcxsnanks, particularly in most interesting additions from the genera Fucusia, CA.cro- LARIA, Sarpigtossis, Scuizantuus, and Loasa. Graham. * Since the above was printed, Dr. Gixu1es, who is now, happily for his ds, returned to this country, has obligingly communicated to me some valuable ormation respecting the dyeing properties of this CanceoLaRtA : a as It cannot now be inserted here, I shall publish it in an early number, oNowing the description of a Cancronaria (thyrsiflora, Granam, equally used a2 6 dye) from the same country. W. J. H. oo - Sn » Fig. 1, Flower.—Magnified, ( ‘Be7B.: Dipiscus c#ruievs. . BLUE-FLOWERED Dipiscus. ©; _ SHEER: Class and Order. Pentanpria Dieynia. —£ Nat. Ord.—Umepe.urers. ) Generic Character. Diviscus. De C. Prodr. v. 4, ined. Umbella simplex. Involucrum polyphyllum. Flores ext. abortivi : Petala in- zqualia, estivatione imbricata. Fructus orbiculatus, plano- compressus utrinque bivittatus. 7 Specific Character and Synonyms. Duviscus * ceruleus ; piloso-glandulosus, foliis palmato- _ pinnatifidis, laciniis linearibus incisis, et obtusis- me foe tac Aes rot No Petey 7: ue Diniscus ceruleus. De C. MSS. 0 TracuyMENE cerulea. Graham in Edin. New Phil. Journ. 1828. p. 380. hel: -LLANVGA oe? es TracuyMene cyanea. Cunningham MSS. apud Hort. Kew. Descr. Root annual. Stem a foot or more high, ter ate, branched upwards, and clothed, as is every part of the plant, with soft hairs, many of which are tipped with glands. Leaves palmato-pinnatifid, their segments linear, again pin- natifid and incised, the ultimate divisions often trifid, and always acute, the lower extremity tapering into a com- pressed petiole; the upper ones sessile and gradually be- coming less divided, till at length they pass into the simple linear bracteas at the base of the peduncles. Umbels termi- nal, simple, showy. Involucrum of miany linear-subulate A leaflets. Peduncles long, whitish, mee ling a flat, green- ish disk, which occupies the centre of the umbel, spreading, at length reflexed. Calyx obsolete. Petals in bud curi- ously imbricated, slightly unequal (which is best seen before the flower is fully expanded): the outer petal (as ne . e * From ds, two, and dicxes, @ disk, in reference to the two flat, circular lobes which constitute the fruit. the umbel) being the largest, all obtuse, spreading, waved, of a beautiful blue color. Stamens at first erect. Fila- ments and Anthers whitish. Germen flat, nearly orbicular, reddish, dotted, and very glandular: disk flattish, white : Styles linear. Fruit between orbicular and reniform, or, rather, composed of two almost exactly orbicular hemi- carps *, quite flat, rough or granulated on the surface, having two semicircular, elevated lines or vitte in the disk, and athickened margin. Styles persistent. Seed pendent, obovate. With the exception of the flowers of some species of Erynerum, I am not acquainted with any Umbelliferous plant whose blossoms are blue. It was, then, with no small degree of surprise and pleasure that I received from my friends, the Messrs. Sepuerps, in the month of July of this ear, 1828, specimens of this most singular plant, which they ad raised, at the Liverpool Garden, from seeds sent by Mr. Fraser from New Holland. It has since flowered at Edin- burgh and Glasgow, and, I believe, too, at the Horticultural Society’s garden, as well as at the Geneva garden, under the care of Professor De Canpo.ze, the seeds having been de- rived from the same source as those at Liverpool. Again, Mr. R. Cunnineuam, of Kew, has been so good as to convey to me the information, that it has been cultivated at the Royal Gardens there from seeds sent by his brother, Mr. Atian Cunnineuam, under the name of TracHyMENE cyanea of his MSS. ; a name I should gladly have adopted, as given by, probably, its first discoverer, but that it has already been published by Dr. Granam, under that of cerulea. Professor De Canpouue intends separating this as a Genus, or Subgenus, from Tracuymene of Runce (Azorella, LABiLLAR- DIERE) on account of its different habit, bright blue flowers, and the peculiar structure of the fruit, very much resembling that of a Biscutetua. In my specimens of true TRACHYMENE, of which I have several species, the Umbels are compound. I may observe, that the TracuymeEne incisa of RupGe and Siezer will belong to the same groupe as the present plant, but in a dried state it does not appear that the flowers are blue. Dipiscus cyaneus is one amongst a few of the Umbelliferous plants which eminently deserves a place in every collection, and in — all probability it will be found to succeed well in the open air. _ * A very expressive term employed by Prof. Dz Canpouxs, to indicate the two united portions of the fruit of the Natural Order UmMBELLIFERz, Fig. 1. Flower Bud. 2. Flower partly expanded. 3. Fully expanded — 7 Blossom. 4. Stamen, 5, Fruit. 6. Hemiearp, cut open to shew the Seeds 2 —Magnified. 2 corinne ft na 6h: st fF 8 Bete pe INDEX, SEE SY SE ee ee eee ee ween —" atin tie nteeiae iit mein a 2791. Adansonia digitata. 2792 Ibid. 2848 Alstreemeria ovata. 2869 Artocarpus incisa. 2870. Ibid. aoe Ibid. 833 Artocarpus in olia. 2834 Ibid. a gi 2812 Arum campanulatum. 2802 Beckia frutescens. 5 ssc marcescens. e onia di 2846 g : ipetala.__ ee 2817. Bignonia Colei. 2818 Blechnum longifolium. ; 2865 Blumenbachia insignis. 2853 Buddlea connata. 2824 Madagascariensis. 2820 Cactus alatus. 2805 Calceolaria plantaginea. 2874 ——————. arachnoidea. 2851 Cattleya intermedia. 2836 Chetogastra lanceolata. 2850 Conospermum ericifolium. 2810 Corchorus olitorius. 2794 Croton castaneifolium. 2826 Cycas siaioatie. 2827 Ibid. 2862 Cynara cxrduntalts, B. 2867 Desmodium nutans. 2875 Didiscus ceruleus. 2825 Dioscorea cinnamomifolia. 2860 Dodonza attenuata, mas. 2804 Dorstenia tubicina. 2835 Draczna australis. 2831 Encyelia viridiflora. 2844 Epidendrum fuscatum. 2854 Eriostemon salicifolium. 2829 Franciscea Hopeana. 2843 Gaultheria shallon. 2815 Gomphrena globosa. 2799 Gonolobus niger. 2807 Grevillea acanthifolia. : i In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the Second 1 Volume of the New Seriss (or Fifty-Fifth of the Work) Hy are alphabetically arranged. & ; Pi. Pi. : 2840 Hedyotis campanulifiora. 2822 Houstonia serpyllifolia. 2856 Imatophyllum Aitoni. 2861 Iris lutescens. 2816 Justicia calycotricha. 2845 quadrangularis. 2808 Lotus microphyllus. — 2814 Lycopersicum peruvianum. 2839 Malva angustifolia. 2793 Morenii. 2806 Maxillaria pallidifiora. 2797 Neottia aphylla. 2798 Nepenthes distillatoria, mas. ; 2837 Nicotiana glauca. — 2823 Octomeria serratifolia. 2832 CEnothera Lindleyii. 2873 ————— viminea. 2795 Oncidium Papilio. 2796 Orobus sessilifolius. 2838 Osbeckia glomerata. 2866 Oxalis carnosa. 2830 rosea, a, 2868 Passiflora capsularis. 2809 Penza imbricata. 2813 Piteairnia bracteata. 2800 Polemonium Richardsoni. 2852 Polygala paucifolia. 2801 Pothos macrophylla. 2842 Primula verticillata. 2859 Pultenea pedunculata. 2847 Rosa sinica. 2811 Salpiglossis atro-purpurea. 2872 Salvia involucrata. 2864 pseudo-coccinea. © 2855 Saponaria glutinosa. ~ 2821 Sida globiflora. 2857 ——- sessiliflora. 2863 Sieversia Peckii. 2858 ———— triflora. 2828 Solanum Balbisii, var. pur- urea. 284) Tillandsia psittacina. 2819 Zygopetalon rostratum. INDE X, In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the Second Volume of the New Series (or Fifty-Fifth of the Work) are alphabetically arranged. —~~— Pi. Pi. 2848 Alstremeria, Broad -leaved, 2833 Jack Tree, or Entire-leaved downy. 2815 Amaranth, Annual globe.. 2812 Arum, Campanulate. 2802 Beckia, Shrubby, Chinese. 2803 Banksia, Marcescent. 2846 Begonia, Papillose. 2849 Two-petaled. 2817 Bignonia, General Cole’s. 2796 Bitter-Vetch, Sessile-leaved. 2818 Blechnum, Long-leayed. 2865 Blumenbachia, Palmated. 2869 Bread-Fruit Tree and 8.) 2870 Ibid. 2871 Ibid. 2824 Buddlea, Madagascar. 2853 Connate-leaved. 2820 Cactus, Wing-stemmed. 2862 Cardoon, Unarmed variety. 2851 Cattleya, Middle-size-flow- ered. 2836 Chetogastra, Lance-leaved. 2850 Conospermum, Heath-leaved. 2810 Corchorus, Bristly-leayed, or Jew’s Mallow. 2794 Croton, Chesnut-leaved. 2826 Cycas, Broad-leaved. 2827 Ibid. 2867 Desmodium, Drooping - flow- ered. 2875 Didiscus, Blue-flowered. 2860 Dodonza, Attenuated-leaved. 2804 Dorstenia, Peziza-flowered. 2835 Dracena, New Zealand, White- flowered. 2831 Encyclia, Green-flowered. 2844 Epidendrum, Dingy-flowered. 2854 Eriostemon, Willow-leaved. 2829 Franciscea, Short-flowered. 2873 Evening Primrose, Large pur- ple-flowered Twiggy. 2843 Gaultheria, Shallon. 2799 Gonolobus, Black-flowered. 2807 Grevillea, Acanthus-leaved. 2840 Hedyotis, Bell-flowered. pre Houstonia, Thyme-leayed. TEEE amcor, Handsome-flow- 2861 ie, P Pale yellow. | 2792 Ibid. Bread Fruit. 2834 Ibid. 2845 Justicia, Square-stalked. 2816 ; — Yellow-flowered. 2808 Lotus, Small-leaved. 2839 Mallow, Narrow-leaved. 2793 Broad-lobed Vervain. 2806 Maxillaria, Pale-flowered. 2852 Milk-wort, Few-leaved. 2797 Neottia, Leafiess. 2828 Nightshade, Balbis’, Purple- flowered variety. 2823 Serrated-leaved. 2832 (Enothera, Large: fowered, four-spotted. eg 2795 Oncidium, Butterfly. 2838 Osbeckia, Cluster-flowered 2830 Oxalis, Rose-coloured. 2868 PassionFlower,Angular-fruited. 2809 Pena, Imbricated. 2813 Pitcairnia, Bracteated. 2798 Pitcher-plant, Male. 2800 Polemonium, Dr. Richardson's. 2801 Pothos, Large-leaved. 2842 Primrose, Whorled-flowered. 2859 Pultenea, Pedunculated. — 2847 Rose, Chinese, three-leaved. 2872 Sage, Large-br: 2864 Scarlet, hairy-stalked. : 2811 Salpiglossis, Deep-purple-flow- ered. 2821 Sida, Globe-flowered. 2857 Sessile-flowered. 2863 Sieversia, Mr. Peck’s. 2858 Three-flowered. — 2874 Slipper-wort, Cobweb. 2805 Plantain-leaved. 2855 Soap-wort, Clammy-stalked. 2791 Sour-gourd, Ethiopian, or Mon- kiey Bread. 2841 Tillandsia, Gaudy-flowered. 2837 Tobacco, Glaucous-leaved. 2814 Tomato, Large-flowered. | 2866 Wood-sorrel, Fleshy- 2825 Yam, or Dioscorea, Cinnamon- leaved. 2819 rs aces Rostrate.