CURTIS’S | BOTANICAL MAGAZINE; “Seeoeenes, oR Flower Garden Displayed: In which the most Ornamental Forr1en Pian‘ cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented and coloured. To which are added, THEIR NAMES, CI.ASS, ORDER, GENERIC AND SPECIFIC CHARACTERS, ACCORDING TO THE SYSTEM OF LINNZUS; 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. S. and Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. 2 VOL. Il. (2 OF THE NEW SERIES; Or Vol. xvi. of the whole Work. ** Soft roll your incense, Herbs, and Fruits, and Flowers, In mingled clouds, to Him, whose sun exalts, Whose breath perfumes you, and whose pencil paints.” THOMSON. LONDON : Printed by Edward Couchman, 10, Throgmorton Street 5 FOR THE PROPRIETOR, SAMUEL CURTIS, BOTANICAL MAGAZINE WAREHOUSE, PROSPECT ROW, WALWORTH, AND AT GLAZENWOOD, NEAR COGGESHALL, ESSEX? Also by Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 23, Paternoster Row; J. & A. Arch, Cornhill; Treuttel & Wurtz, Soho Square; Blackwood, Edinburgh; and in Holland, of Mr. Gt. Eldering, Florist, at Haarlem: Anda to be had of all Booksellers in Town and Country» 1829. Uris Walworth, Jan? 122 ( 2876 ) CALCEOLARIA CONNATA. CONNATE-LEAVED > SLIPPER-WORT. Class and Order. Dianpria Monoeynts. ( Nat. Ord. — Scropuurarina. ) Generic Character. Cal. 4-partitus. Cor. bilabiata: labium inferius calcei- forme, inflatum. Caps. semibivalvis, valvulis bifidis. Specific Character and Synonyms. Caxcrotaria connata ; herbacea subpubescens, foliis ova- tis basi attenuatis connatis, grosse dentatis, superiori- bus subcordatis sessilibus, bracteis: cordatis integer- rimis, panicula trichotoma patentissima. : Cauceotaria. Hook. MSS. Graham in Edin. New Phil. Journ. 1828, p. 572. : ; Descr. Root biennial, or more probably perennial. Stems erect, slender and weak, rounded, pubescent, as, in- deed, is the whole plant in a greater or less degree. Leaves, all in opposite pairs, ovate, or narrow ovate, acute, ‘waved, nerved ; the nerves much branched and reticulated, the margins very coarsely and unequally serrated, the lower ones attenuated at the base and connate, the upper ones in remote pairs, almost cordate, sessile. Bractee resembling leaves, but smaller, and quite entire. Panicle terminal, and smaller ones are often lateral, dichotomously divided, and much spreading, with a solitary flower in the axil, and the flowers on the branches, in the more luxuriant state, racemed. Pedicels slender, free from bractee. Flowers pale yellow. Laps of the corolla closely applied to each other, compressed, the upper one not much larger than the lower. A My first knowledge of this new species of CaLcEoLARIA was derived from plants sent to us by Mr. Tarte of the Sloane Street Nursery, who raised it from seeds which he received “in 1827 along with Tacson1a * pinnatistipula and many other rare plants and bulbs from M. Hogan, Esq. Consul of the United States at Valparaiso.” About the same time, indeed, seeds were sent to the Glasgow Botanic Garden both by Dr. Griures and by Mr. Crurcxsnanks ; those from the latter gentleman were gathered near La Guardia, on the Western side of the Andes, on the route from St. Jago de Chile to Mendoza. They have all blossomed readily and abundantly during the whole of the summer and autumnal months, on a cool shelf of the greenhouse, and promise to have perennial roots, though the stems are very slender and herbaceous. ’ The dried specimens sent me by Mr. Cruicxsnanxs have much larger panicles of racemes than what are here repre- sented ; so that, another season, when the plants become stronger, we may expect to see, in this species, one most highly deserving of cultivation. ; °. ipa has flourished in the Sloane Street Nursery, planted in the open ground, Fig. 1. Lower Leaf, to show the connate base ; nat. size. 2. Flower, with the lower Lip forced down. 3. Stamen.—Magnified. WIZ dele 4 : PiLh ay S Curtis Walwor ‘Ch: Tar? 2IE20. Swati e Se ( 2877 ) i, My — : Be BroDI#A GRANDIFLORA. LARGE - FLOWERED \ Bropima.. Se ee | Class and Order. | TrianpriA Monoeynia. | ( Nat. Ord. — Hemerocatipem. ) : Generic Character. Perianthium tubulosum, sex-fidum, persistens ; Squame tres ad faucem (stamina abortiva) staminibus alternantes. Stylus filiformis. Stigma trifidum. Capsula obovata, basi in stipitem attenuata, 3-locularis, polysperma. Specific Character and Synonyms. : x Bropiza* grandiflora; pedunculis umbellatis bracteas longe excedentibus, squamis lanceolatis obtusissimis integris. , , Bropiaa grandiflora. Smith in Linn. Trans. ». 10. p. 2. — Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 169. Bot. Reg. t. 1183. (not of Pursh, nor of Nuttall.) : Broprza coronaria. Salish. in Par. Lond. t. 98. € Descr. Root a small, roundish, solid, wrinkled bulb, from the top of which, and surrounded by a few membra- nous scales below, spring two or more linear, acuminated, very slender leaves, grooved on the inside. Scape ss as * f Viviane petOnS * « A plant of the Liliaceous, or Patrician Order, which I have named after James Bropie, Esq. F. L. 8. of Brodie, in North Britain, a gentleman, whose scientific merits, whose various discoveries, and whose liberal commu- nications on every occasion, tending to elucidate the Botany of his own country in particular, require no elaborate display before the Linnean Society.’— Situ, in Linn. Trans. v. 10. ee long as the leaves, erect, terete, terminated by a bracteated Umbel of from six to eight very handsome flowers. Brac- tee small, soon becoming membranous and withered. Pe- duncles an inch and a half long, and about equal in length with the flower, spreading. Perianth tubular below, where it is green, with six elevated brown lines, upwards expand- ing mto six spreading, lanceolate, bright purplish - blue segments. The throat or faux has three stamens, whose anthers are oblong, yellow, opening at the sides, and the filaments winged and short ; and alternating with these are three lanceolate, or rather linear-oblong, very obtuse, white and entire, somewhat fleshy scales, or abortive anthers ; their bases unite with the bases of the filaments, which thus, to a certain degree, are monadelphous. Pollen of the anthers oblong, diaphanous. Germen obovate, attenuated at the base into a stalk, three-lobed upwards: Style fili- a not reaching beyond the stamens, white: Stigma trifid.. A beautiful plant, and well worthy of bearing the name of so great a patron of Botany as the late James Broprz, Esq. It was first found by Mr. Menzies in 1792, in New Georgia, on the North-west coast of America, and recently by Mr. Doveras and Dr. Scouter at Puget, Fort Van- couver, and throughout the dry plains West of the Rocky Mountains. By the former of these travellers, bulbs have been introduced to the gardens of the Horticultural Society, which flourished, and blossomed in July, 1828, planted in the open border, and im a peat soil. | Mr. Doveras has examined the Missouri Hyacinth of Lewis, which is the authority for Pursu’s and Nurrat.’s Bropiaa grandiflora, and clearly ascertained it to be a very distinct plant, having six perfect stamens. Beautiful spe- cimens of this plant, gathered also by Mr. Doveuas, prove, that it is anew species of Mittea of Cavaninies, and scarce- ly differing from Bropiaa, but in the presence of six perfect stamens. Stilla third genus allied to them is in Mr. Dove- Las’s rich collection, having six stamens, placed in two rows, three higher up on the perianth and large, and three lower down and small: and by no means monadelphous. Fig. 1. Flower, two of the Segments being cut away to show the position of the Stamens and Seales. 2. Flower cut open. 3. Back view of a Stamen- 4. Front view of ditto Magnified. WTiide> 4ub. & S. Curtis. Walworth, Jan” 2 1¢20 oe ( 2878 ogre eas BRrASSAVOLA TUBERCULATA. 'TUBERCULATED BRASSAVOLA. KEEEEEEEEEEEE ERE EER EEE Class and Order. GynanpDRIiA MonanprRiA. ( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipeEz. ) Generic Character. Labellum ungue simplici; lamina indivisa. Petala dis- tincta patula. Masse Pollinis 8 (vel plures !) Specific Character. Brassavoxa * tuberculata; caule unifloro, lamina labelli integra, pedunculo petalis exterioribus tuberculatis. vet = yellow ae Si * In honour of Avronto Musa Brassavon, a Physician of Ferrara, in Italy, who published many works in the 16th century, on the properties of _ Plants as employed in medicine. yellow towards the base, the margin quite entire. Column short, white: the margin, behind the anther, trifid, with the segments fimbriated. Anther hemispherical, sunk _ within the margin at the top, yellowish, externally finely granulated ; within having eight distinct cells in two rows. Pollen Masses eight, large, ovate, compressed, attached in pairs to the two opposite extremities of two elastic, flat- tened, yellow filaments, which filaments bear near the middle three or four other smaller, and apparently abortive — pollen masses. Germen very long, terete, straight, pur- plish, tuberculated at the base. Hitherto only one species has been described of this very singular Genus, which was established by Mr. Brown upon — the Cymgrpium cucullatum of Swartz and WiLtpENow, the Erwenprvm cucullatum of Botanical Magazine, t. 543. The — present, although the same in the structure of the leaves, differs remarkably in the form of the labellum, and in the — want of the fringe. 3 A native of the trunks of trees, in rocky places, at the en- trance of Botafogo Bay, where it was found by Henry Harrison, Esq. and by him brought to the collection of his brother, Ricnarp Harrison, Esq. of Aigburgh, near Liver- pool. It produced its flowers in July, 1828, and we were — then favored with a specimen, and a drawing from the pen- cil of Mrs. Arnotp Harrison. | In habit, it very much resembles the only species of this curious Genus at present known (Br. cucullata. Brown) ; but it differs remarkably in the form and colour of the flower, and especially the labellum. Fig. 1. Column. 2. Under side of the Anther, shewing the arrangement of the Pollen Masses. 3. Inside view of the Anther Case. 4. Front view of the Pollen Masses. 5. A pair of the filaments, with the Pollen Masses at- tached to them.—Magnified. OGPTL,, GUOL? ULLOMZOM PIZLMD SAG QUT 4l9PH LM CL86 ( 2879 ) ABRONIA MELLIFERA. HONEY-SMELLING ABRONIA. Seeeeeeebbbebiek 7 Class and Order. Pentanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord. — Nycracinez. ) Generic Character. Perianthium simplex subhypocrateriforme, limbo 5-par- tito, basi tumido angulato. Staminum filamenta 5, basi coalita in vaginulam hypogynam. brevissimam, supra ag- glutinata tubo perianthii coarctato, demum libera: Anthere oblonge, incluse. Germen 1, vaginula staminifera infra cinctum, in tumida perianthii basi: Stylus 1. Stigma incrassatum. » N ns nN] =, La) Pd fay & uN = ig & : > tos Finns Wy ZAIN 7 f i m/f EE Wh (fi ys \ p 4 * 4 4 f 4 ee (2884 +) PoINCIANA REGIA. SuperB POINCIANA. SH Hidicekiiielelok- Class and Order. Decanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Lreuminosaz. Div. 1V. Casarpinen. D.C.) — Generic Character. Calycis: sepala 5, inequalia, basi in cupulam subper- sistentem coalita, inferiore fornicato. Petala 5, stipitata, superiore difformi: Stam. 10, longissima, omnia fecunda, filamentis basi hirsutis. Stylus longissimus. Legumen plano-compressum, bivalve, submultiloculare, isthmis spon- giosis. Semina obovata, compressa, endopleura in aqua gelatinosa, cotyledonibus planis, plumula ovali. De C. Specific Character and Synonym. Poincrana * regia; inermis, foliis bipiunatis, pinnulis ovali- oblongis muticis, petalis longe stipitatis crenato-un- dulatis, superioris ungue marginibus involutis. Poiciana regia. Bojer MSS)” ; ae = : ger — Descr. A magnificent tree, thirty or forty feet high, having an erect trunk, three feet in diameter, for half its height unbranched, covered with a grey smooth bark ; the wood white ; above forming a vast cyme of alternate patent branches, the younger ones green spotted with white, and glabrous. The leaves broadly ovate in their cireumscrip- tion, two feet long, very patent, abruptly bipinnate, with from eleven to eighteen pairs of Pimne, which are four inches long, horizontally patent: pinnules spit * In honour of M. pg Pornet, a governor of the the Seventeenth century, who is said to have paid the Natural History of those islands. — blunt at each extremity, upon very short petioles, beneath paler and one nerved. Common petiole grooved above, inserted upon a remarkably swollen fleshy base. Stipules abruptly bipinnated, erect, the lower leaflets plane, like those of the true leaves, the rest subulato-setaceous, decidu- ous. Flowers in lax racemes, terminal, and from the axils of the superior leaves, bright scarlet. Pedicels alternate, patent, two inches and more in length, jointed at the extre- mity, having at the base an ovate, acute, reflexed, gla- brous bractea. Leaflets of the calyx equal, coriaceous, acute, very patent, coloured within, and deciduous with the petals. Petals almost orbicular, patenti-reflexed, taper- ing into long claws, crenate at the margin, at the base, on the upper side veined, and above the base dashed with yel- lowish lines: the wpper petal more cuneate, with the mar- gins involute at the base, variegated and striated with red and yellow; beneath striated with these two colours: all of them and the filaments downy at the base. Stamens ten, — shorter than the petals: Filaments red: Anthers oblong, two-celled. Germen linear-oblong, plane, shortly stipitate, glabrous: Style filiform, terminated by an obtuse stigma ; the whole green, scarcely longer than the stamens. Le- gumen somewhat inflated, two-valved, of a rather woody texture, about four inches long, terminated by the persist-_ ent style. Seeds more than half an inch long, compressed, ash-coloured, streaked with brown. Boser MSS. _ ' Sometimes, though rarely, we have introduced in the present work plants of great beauty and rarity, which we have no hope of ever cultivating successfully. Such is not the case with the present individual, which is, however, B0_ less remarkable for its extreme beauty than for its rarity, having been found only in Madagascar, near Foule Point, (where it is known by the name of Tanahou) by Professor Boser. To that gentleman I am indebted for a magnifi- cent drawing, of which a portion only is engraved for the present work : and this is so satisfactory in all its parts, that I have no hesitation in immediately laying it before the pas Were not the subject of such great interest, I might ave been induced to wait for its blossoming in this coun- try: for plants have been raised by Mr. Barcray at Bury Hill, from seeds sent by Mr. Terai, and there is every reason to think they will be brought to great perfection in that well-managed establishment. set — Fig. 1. A Legume, natural size. 2. A Stipule, magnified. nae. ( 2885 ) PorTULACA GRANDIFLORA. LaArGE-FLow- ERED PURSLANE. Doe ae oe oo es Os oe a NO a Class and Order. IcosanpriA Monoeynta. ( Nat. Ord. — Porrutaces. ) Generic Character. Cal. aut liber aut imo ovario adherens, bipartitus, demum basi circumscissus et deciduus. Pet. 4—6, equalia, inter se libera aut ima basi concreta, calyci inserta. Stam. 8- 15 (v. plura,) filamentis liberis interdum ima corolla adna- tis. Ovarium subrotundum. Stylus 1, apice 5—6- (9-) fidus, aut stylus nullus et stigmata 3—8 elongata. Capsula subglobosa, 1-locularis, medio circumscissa. Semina plu- gee placente (v. placentis tot stigmata) centrali affixa. Specific Character. Portrutaca * grandiflora ; caulibus diffusis ramosis, foliis cylindraceis acutis, axillis pilosis, floribus terminalibus congestis, petalis calyce longioribus. 7 lie Descr. Root tuberous. Stems diffuse, branched, six to eight inches long, rounded, smooth, succulent, reddish. Leaves scattered, rather remote, an inch or an inch and a half long, cylindrical or terete, acute, sessile, or with a very imperfect contraction at the base, which may be con- sidered a sort of petiole, fleshy, glaucous green, glabrous ; the axils alone have numerous long, entangled, white (de- ciduous ?) hairs. Flowers terminal, three or four in a cluster, sessile upon the top of a branch, and —- ane y ———— en _ *- An ancient Latin word applied to the Purs/ane, of very doubtful origin, Some say from portula, a little door, because the leaves resemble a little door. by a kind of involucre, whose leaflets resemble the cauline leaves, and are plentifully interspersed with hairs at the base. Calyx diphyllous, spreading, leaflets ovate, green, at length scariose, hairy at the point of insertion. Corolla large, showy, considerably longer than the calyx, orange co- lored, or of a very bright reddish purple. Petals five, united at the base, and apparently incorporated with the base of the calyx at the point of insertion of the germen. Stamens united with the base of the calyx and corolla, and in aslight degree with each other, numerous: Filaments deep, blackish purple. Anthersrounded,two-celled, purplish: pollen bright yellow. Pistil: Germen superior, conical, including several upright receptacles, to which the seeds are attached : Style as long as the stamens, filiform: Stigma of seven to nine filiform, pubescent, at length recurved rays. Professor De Canpo.ie justly observes, that the Genus Porrutaca is a very heterogeneous one; and its characters are certainly but imperfectly understood. I am happy, therefore, in haying the opportunity of giving an analysis of what I cannot but think a new species of the Genus, and ~ one,, the beauty of whose flowers must render it a desirable inhabitant of the cool stove or greenhouse. . It was discovered by Dr. Gituies, growing in light sandy soil, in various situations between the Rio del Saladillo, or Western boundary of the Pampas, and the foot of the mountains near Mendoza. On the Western side of Rio Desaguardero plants were in great profusion, giving to the ground over which they were spread a rich purple hue, here — and there marked with spots of an orange colour, from the orange-coloured variety which grew intermixed with the others. It has some affinity with P. pilosa, (Bot. Reg. t. 792) but differs in the greater length of its leaves and vastly larger size of the flowers. The colour of these flowers we find to vary to that degree, that it must afford a very deceit- ful character for the grouping of the species of the Genus. P. teretifolia and P. lanuginosa will also rank very near our plant, but the latter is described as having small flowers, and the former, many ovate, acute, diaphanous bractez. at the base of the flowers. I, Fig. }. Orange-flowered state of the plant. 2. Purple-flowered ditto. 3. Extremity of a Flowering, Branch, from which the corolla is removed. 4 Portion of the Stamens. 5. Pistil. 6. Section of the Germen.—All but fig. I. and 2 more or less magnified. ( 2886 ) Iris TRIPETALA. Turre-PeTALeD Irté. Class and Order. — TrianpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord. — Irie. ) Generic Character. Cor. 6-partita: laciniis alternis reflexis. Stzgmata peta- liformia. Specific Character and Synonyms. {ris tripetala ; imberbis, caule tereti foliis lineari-ensiform- ibus longiore, corolle laciniis interioribus erectis minu- tis integris dentatisve. Eee & Iris tripetala. ‘ Walt. Fl. Carol. p. 66.” Elliott Sketch. v. I. p. 45. Roem. et Schultes Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 480 ; — Tris tridentata. Pursh Fl. Am. Sept. ». 1. p. 30. Roem. et Schultes Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 468. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 161. eae Descr. Root “ creeping” Exx. Stem one and a half to two feet high, terete, bearing a few deaves ; but most of them spring from the root and are linear, ensiform, striated, acuminated, slightly faleate : uppermost ones spathiform. "towers, three or four from the extremity of the stem, each subtended by its own foliaceous spatha. Peduncle shorter than the spatha. Exterior segments of the corolla broadly Oval, much waved, somewhat clawed, large, of a beautiful bluish purple mottled with white, and distinctly marked with deeper purple lines, the claw whitish, with yellow- own reticulations : inner segments very small, linear-lan- ceolate, acuminated, the segments incurved, entire, or with three teeth at the extremity, the middle tooth beg longer and much acuminated : the colour a pale purple. Divisions : : of J Hedhean, crate Bett. } of the styles purple: stigmas toothed, bifid and almost blue. Communicated by Davin Fatconer, Esq. from his collec- tion at Carlowrie, Edinburgh, in May, 1828. It is a native of Carolina, first described by Watrer, in his Flora of that country : nor does it appear to have been known to any other Botanist except Mr. Exxiorr, who, however, speaks of it as being very much circumscribed in its locality. The inner segments of the corolla, I do not find to be by any means constantly three toothed. Sometimes they are quite entire. : Fig. 1. One of the Inner Segments of the Corolla— Magnified. The Ints lutescens figured at tab. 2861 of the present yolume being consid- ered by Dr. Granam distinct from the Iris Iutescens of SpRENGEL, his specifie character should have been adopted in lieu of that of the author last men- tioned. “ 1. Zutescens; caule simplici unifloro folioso, folium inferius equanti; flore barbato, breve pedunculato, tubo corolle germen superanti, laciniis un- dulatis, crenulatis, obtusis, unguiculatis, interioribus latioribus inflexis, laci- niis labii superioris stigmatis acutis, spatha erecta, excedente et valvula interi- oe a inflata involvente tubum. Granam in Edin. N. Phil. Journ. No. [X- p- 174. 2887. WS Bae ver Luk. by So. lartis, Wadworthy, Be 22829 : ( 2887 ) EiscHSCHOLZIA CALIFORNICA. CALIFORNIAN ESscHSCHOLZIA. Class and Order. PoryAnpriA T'rrrRAGyniA. ( Nat. Ord.—Papavaracez. ) Generic Character. Receptaculum ampliatum, hypocrateriforme, limbo ex- panso integro. Cal. mitreformis, caducus. Cor. 4-petala, petalis unguibus fauci receptaculi insertis, staminiferis. ( Cham.) Caps: siliquiformis, bivalvis ; Semina marginibus valvarum affixa. © t * gs : Specific Name and Synonyms. Escuscuoxzia * californica. Mae Escuscuouzia californica. Chamisso in Hore Phys. Berol. . p. 74. t.15. De Cand. Prod. v. 3. p. 344. — rt. Reg: t. 1168. Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 265. Chamisso et _ Schlecht. in Linnea, v. 1. p. 554. "a / . st ia 4 a * 2. ee : eee i ¢ . ‘ Pet. ed - Pi! 7 Descr. Root perennial, large in proportion to the size of the plant, somewhat fusiform, woody, tortuous, produ- cing from its upper extremity many leaves ai d geal Pf als andi “4 J . en ee ce 3 Pe gt, ts . ae a ; , ™* Named by Caamusso in honor of Dr. Escuscuo1z, an excellent Botan- ist and Entomologist, who accompanied him as a fellow Natu in ‘the Voyage round the world under the command of Korzznvs. It is not, perhaps, ‘enerally known, that this gentleman is a descendant of the Joun Sicismunp _ Etsnouz, a Prussian Botanist, author of a Flora Marchiea, | after whom ‘ILLDENOW named the Exsnonza aristata. ‘The Russians, into whose ser- vice the present Exsnouz went, wrote his name EscuscHou: The Genus is now so well established, that the alteration to | name might create unnecessary confusion. ks: + abounding ina yellowish juice. Stems about a foot long, terete, branched, glaucous, as is the whole plant, and bear- ing several distantly-placed leaves. Leaves: all of them on long, flat, linear footstalks, especially the radical ones, tripinnatifid, the segments linear, acute, the ultimate ones trifid at the point. Peduncles axillary and terminal, long, terete, terminating in a cup-shaped, fleshy receptacle. Flowers large, beautiful. Calyx mitriform, thin, membra- naceous, acuminated at the top, separating transversely from the thickened margin of the receptacle at its base, and like the calyptra of a Moss, which it very much resembles, falling off quite entire, or with one or two short fissures, previous to the expansion of the bud. Petals four, spread- ing, inserted within the margin of the receptacle, and bear- ing some of the stamens upon the very short claws, obcor- date, waved, and crenate or notched at the margin, of a beautiful bright yellow colour, at the base deep orange, gradually melting into the yellow. Stamens about thirty, partly inserted on the thickened inner margin of the recep- tacle, and partly accrete with the claws of the petals. Fla- ments short: Anthers long, linear-lanceolate, golden yellow, the cells opening longitudinally, and occupying the mar- gins of the anthers. Pistil inserted at the very base of the hollow receptacle. Germen subcylindrical, but tapering upwards, and bearing four filiform glandular stigmas, two opposite ones shorter than the other two. A section of the germen exhibits two opposite, lougitudinal, parietal, rows of seeds, placed where the sutures of the valves of the cap- sule will appear*. Ovules very numerous, but many prov- ing abortive. Capsule a long, siliquiform, straight, capsule, generally curved after the valves have separated, attenuated at both extremities, and surrounded at the base with the persistent, cup-shaped receptacle, with ten deep sulci, the corresponding ridges forming distinct ribs; bursting, from the extremity to the base, into two equal valves, and exhi- biting, attached to the margin of these valves, by means of slender ———————— * The peculiar situation of these seeds or ovules within the germen, corre- sponding as to situation with the shorter, or abortive stigmas, has led Mr- Liyotey (in the Bot. Register) to form a new theory of the structure of the fruit of the Crucirer#, in which the two stigmas are, contrary to the us structure in fruits, opposite to the receptacle of seeds (placenta): and it hence appears to him, that their fruit is “formed of four confluent pistilla, of which two are placentiferous, and furnished with stigmata, and two destitute of ple cent and stigmata, but separable, in the form of valves. 2 slender stalks, many globose, corrugated, dark brown, almost black seeds, filled with a fleshy albumen, and having an embryo immersed in that albumen, near the base of the seed, and with the radicle pointing to the hilum. The coty- ledons are a little spreading, and notched at the ends. This singular and very beautiful plant, which already con- stitutes one of the most lovely ornaments of our flower- borders, was discovered by Mr. Menzizs in 1792, during the celebrated voyage of Capt. Vancouver, in various parts of the coast of California: but lay long in the Herbaria of various Botanists of this country, to whom its discoverer had generously distributed it, as a new Genus, allied to CneLiponium, but without any public notice being taken of it. At length, in the year 1820, it appeared in the Hore Physice Berolinenses, under the name we have here adopt- ed, as a discovery of the able Naturalists, Cuamisso and Escuscnoxz, at St. Francisco in California, during the Rus- sian voyage of discovery, directed by Count Romanzorr, and commanded by Korzzsus. Still it was only known from dried specimens, and it was again reserved for a Bo- tanist of this country to introduce it to our gardens. The indefatigable Mr. Dovetas gathered it abundantly on the North-west coast of America, on the dry sandy banks of streams, on the plains of the river Multnomah, in about 43° North latitude, and Southward to the Spanish possessions, where, as with us, it flowers from July till September; and seeds were sent to the Horticultural Society’s garden, whence they have been dispersed both at home and abroad by that valuable institution. | : I may observe, that specimens of the Escuscnoiz1a were found. by the Botanists Mr. Lay and Mr. Coxtre of Capt. Brrcuy’s Expedition, both at Monterfy and other places on the coast of California. Ds Canpotxe, in his Prodromus, not without much hesitation, places this Genus among his Catycirtor#, at the end of Loasez: misled, perhaps by Cuamisso, who, in his first memoir on the plant, in the Hore Phys. Berol. calls the stamens perigynous. But had he Seen living plants, or had Cuamisso’s further observations in the “ Linnza”’ been then published, where this latter error 'S corrected, that great man would unquestionably have ranked it with Papayaracesz: or if, as eRe A “ the recewed Character of Paravarace# Will not admit the union of Escuscuoxzia, that Character must be amended.” ‘The cup-shaped, fleshy body into which the pistil is pp arias assuredly, nothing more than an enlarged receptacle or ex- tremity of the flower-stalk, a tendency to which, Mr. Linp- Ley remarks, is observable in CHELiponium majus and Hyrr- coum grandzflorum. - : Fig. 1. Base of one of the Petals, to which some of the Stamens are attach- ed. 2. Apex ofan Anther. 3. Pistil inserted in the cup-shaped Receptacle, or hollowed extremity of the Peduncle. 4. Section of the Germen. 5. Ripe Capsule (nat. size). 6. Seed. 7. Section of ditto. 8, Embryo.—All but fig. 5, more or less magnified. ( 2888 ) Ponta ALBIFLORA, x. rosea. DovusLe Wuite Cuinese Paony, with Rose coloured Flowers. Class and Order. Potyanpria Dieynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Paontacez. ) Generic Character. _ Cal. 5-sepalus, foliaceus, inequalis. Pet. 5—10, subor- biculata. Stam. plurima. Discus carnosus, ovaria cingens. Carpella 2—5, grossa, stigmatibus bilamellatis crassis in- structa, in folliculos capsulares conversa. Semina subglo- bosa, nitida. D.C. Specific Character and Synonyms. Paonta * albiflora; herbacea, carpellis glabris recurvatis foliorum segmentis glabris nitidis tripartitus, lobis ova- 3 to-lanceolatis. D.C. . “ Paonia albiflora. Pall. Fl. Ross. v. 2. t. 84. De Cand. % oe v. 1. p. 392. Prodr.v. 1. p. 66. Bot. Mag. t. (x) rosea ; flore plenissimo, petalis roseis, t. 2888. =e Communicated by Joseru Sanrne, Esq. from the garden of the Hortisaitural Society, as a rare and new kind of Paony from China, and well deserving a place in the works which treat of plants that are cultivated in our gardens. ’ : i * After Paxon, a physician whe cured the wounds which the Gods received during the Trojan war. it was unaccompanied with any further notes or observa- tions, its being referred to the P. albiflora rests entirely upon myself. I have so done, from its general resemblance to the P. albiflora y. Whitlejt of Bot. Reg. t. 630, and still more to the P. edulis (a synonym to P. albiflora, var. sinen- sis, Bot. Mag. t. 1768.) From the former it is distinguished by its inner petals being much broader, and more entire, and from the latter, by these being of a beautiful and most delicate rose colour, little if at all inferior to that of our most favourite roses. te eee PP abet 229 Feb! Jie LY OPE NS CUPrzEE Pah by ¢ 2899 ) | “CENoTuERA DECUMRENS. Decumeenr Smatt- FLOWERED Evening Primrose. Class and Order. | Ocranpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Onacraria. ) Generic Character. Cal. 4-fidus tubulosus. Pet. 4 calyci inserta. Capsula 4-locularis, 4-valvis, infera. Semina comosa. Specific Character and Synonym. (Enornera decumbens ; caule pubescente basi decumbente, foliis lanceolatis glaucis, petalis calyce vix longioribus, stigmate globoso, capsula subcylindracea sulcata pu- _bescente. (xornera decumbens. Douglas MSS. Descr. Annual. Stem decumbent, especially below, waved, pubescent and much branched. Leaves nearly ses- Sile, alternate, lanceolate, glaucous, entire, or sometimes distantly and obscurely toothed towards the extremity. Flowers axillary, solitary, of a dark purple colour, small. alycine segments acuminate, glabrous. Petals broadly obovate, waved, and irregularly notched. Stamens eight ; four long and four short. Anthers oblong, white. Stgma deep purple, the four segments so much reflexed that the Whole appears globose : it terminates a slender, white style. about equal in length with the stamens. Capsule nearly an inch long, cylindrical, a little tapering upwards, furrowed, pubescent. This, as well as the species given at tab. 2873 of this Work, from the same country, is nearly related to G4. purpu- rea; but the present differs from it in its decumbent stem and lax, slender branches: in the capsule being less ss : and less deeply furrowed. The flower is smaller, the style shorter, and the stigma has the appearance, from the short, reflected segments, of a globose head. Dovetas. Detected in Northern California, where: it frequents dry soils in mountain vallies, by Mr. Davin Dovetas, who sent seeds in 1827 to the Horticultural Society, in whose Garden at Chiswick it blossomed in the same year, and seems to flourish in any kind of soil. Fig. 1. Style and Stigma, magnified. 2. Capsule, nat. size. ty Feb? L/$29 La its Wadwore ae by ( 2890 ) EscaLLONIA RUBRA. ReED-FLOWERED E\scALLONIA. © Class and Order. Penranpria Monoeynia. e ( Nat. Ord.—Escattonez. Br. ) Generic Character. Cal. 5-fidus, superus. Petala 5, et stamina, calyci inser- ta. Stigma bilobum. Caps. baccata (?) semi- bilocularis, placenta bine in quovis loculo: semina creberrima. Specific Character and Synonyms. Escattonia * rubra; foliis obovato-lanceolatis acutis basi in petiolum attenuatis duplicato serratis inferne glan- dulosis subtus (plerumque) resinoso-punctatis, pedun- culis in axillis foliorum terminalium simplicibus vel ramosis bracteatis, floribus oe Escarionia rubra. Pers. Syn. Pl. v. 1. p. 235. Spreng. Syst. Veget.v. 1. p. 793. Stereoxyion rubrum. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Per. v. 3. p. 15. pf O00. Jb, ed a Descr. A shrub, with numerous twiggy, rounded, red branches, more or less pubescent, and sprinkled with pedi- cellated glands. Leaves numerous, alternate, persistent, rigid, coriaceous, obovato-lanceolate, acute, doubly ser- rated at the margin, attenuated at the base into a short, red petiole, and there bordered at the sides with glands, which are sometimes sessile or nearly so, sometimes pedicellated ; the surface is veined, but not very distinctly, from these veins, on the underside, there exu on from a points, minute resinous drops, most abundant on the native speci- mens. A tuft of young leaves springs from the axil ofeach ——————_ % * After Escanuon, a pupil of the celebrated Mutts, as well as his compa- on and fellow traveller in New Spain. of these older ones, indicative of numerous branches. In the axils of the upper leaves the peduncles appear, which, in our cultivated specimens, are single-flowered, but in the wild ones, the peduncle is branched, and bears many rather drooping flowers. Indeed, in our plant, the two small, alternate, leaf-like bractee, near the base of the peduncle, show a disposition to bear pedicels. Calyx: the lower part turbinate and adherent with the ovary, the upper part free, cup-shaped, with five acuminated, at length elongated and reflexed teeth or segments, reddish, glabrous. Petals five, inserted upon the calyx, s athulate, erect, and forming a tube for the greater part of their length, and, indeed, slightly cohering with the back of the anthers and the margins, just below the oval spreading or reflexed limb. Their color is a deep red, paler in the limb, and there, when fading, becoming brown, and distinctly marked with a few dark veins. Stamens inserted upon the calyx, alternately with the petals, and nearly equal to them in length: fila- ments rose colour: Aniher oblong, yellow, opening by two longi- tudinal clefts. Germen inferior, imperfectly two-celled by means of the introflexed margins of the valves, and these latter at the ex- tremity, have two longitudinal receptacles, which are covered with very minute ovules. Sty/e filiform, purple, sheathed at the base by a large, conical, grooved, yellow, afterwards reddish gland; up- wards the style is greenish, and terminated by a two-lobed, cap! tate stigma. «i Raised from seeds, sent about two years ago by Mr. Crvuick- sHANKs from Chili, in the Botanic Garden of Liverpool, where, in September of the present year (1828) it has produced its richly- coloured blossoms : and from the structure of these, as from the form of the leaves, there can, I think, be no doubt that it is the Esc, rubra of Ruiz and Pavyon. Our cultivated individuals, m- deed, exhibit no traces of the resinous dots upon the leaves? but our native specimens in the Herbarium, sent also by Mr. CrvuiceK- SHANKS, show them very distinctly : so that their absence may; perhaps, be considered due to the cooler temperature to which plants are exposed in our greenhouses. Mr. Suepaerp, indeed finds, that the plants flourish when planted in the open air; al dif they can be made to bear the winter they would constitute a great ornament to our shrubberies. on ae I possess, in my Herbarium, a variety with white flowers: an the Esc. glandulosa of Smrru in Rees, and Loppices (tab. 1291) is, probably, not distinct. As far as I am able to judge from various individuals in my collection, the Genus is very liable 1 vary in the degree of pubescence, in the presence or absence © glands, and of the resinous dots, — eo ESP ie Escantonia has been considered by Jussrev’and most authors to belong to the Ericinez. Mr. Brown detected its affinity with Rizes, yet seems to consider that it should constitute a distine rebes kos. with ANopTERUs and some other New Holland gene for which he proposes the name of EscanLone®, as here adopted. Fig. 1. Flower, with the Peduncle and Bractee. 2. Petal and Stamem, 3. Calyx and Pistil. 4. The same ina more advanced state. 5. Section the Germen. 6. Leaf of the cultivated plant. 7. Leaf froma native specimen ’ —All more or less magnified. 2EPG1 nF 1A 7 a) Lue. by S. Gartis. Walworth March t§29, ( 2891 ) Hipiscus LiLiFLorus: var. hybridus. Hy- brid var. of the Lity-rLowerep Hisiscus. KEKE EEE EERE EEK KEE EK Class and Order. MonapetpuiaA PoLyAnpRIA. ( Nat. Ord. — Matvacea. ) Generic Character. — ~ Cal. cinctus involucello sepius polyphyllo, rarius foliolis paucis aut inter se coalitis. Petala hinc non auriculata. Stigmata 5. Carpella in capsulam 5-locularem coalita, valvis intus medio septiferis, loculis polyspermis aut rarius monospermis. ' Specific Character and Synonyms. Hiziscus * liliiflorus ; foliis lanceolato-oblongis rariusve tri- fidis, involucello 5-phyllo, calyce 5-dentato, petalis extus subvelutinis. D. C. Hiziscus liliiflorus. Cav. Diss. 3. p. 154. t. 57. f.1. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 446. Var. hybridus, ex H. liliifloro et H. Rosa-sinensi. (Tan. gc, OURS) Bd _ Descr: A mule plant, derived from H. —, whose flowers were fertilized by the pollen of H. Rosa-sinensis. The consequence is a production, very variable, indeed, as to the size and form both of leaves and flowers, and amply deserving a place in every collection of stove plants. The first I heard of this charming plant was from my often- mentioned friend and invaluable correspondent, Cuarues eg TELFAIR, ete — * From s€icxos, an ancient Greek name, which was applied to the Autuma, & plant of the same natural family with Hisiscvus, and nearly allied to it, Texrair, Esq. of the Mauritius, to whom I am indebted for — two beautiful drawings, from the pencil of Mrs. Trexrair ; from one of which, the engraving here given is made. These drawings were accompanied by a letter, with the following remarks-upon them. “ We think a sight of these drawings may induce our excellent friend Mr. Barcray to endeavour to cultivate and vary this beautiful shrub. The variety to be artificially produced is endless, especially in the colour :—the size of the flowers too is very great, and their brilliancy and delicate shading render them objects of great interest to cultivators. With us it grows almost to a tree: and the blossoms are upon it nearly at all seasons of the year.” | : Plants were at the same time sent to Mr. Barcray at Bury Hill, who cultivates them most successfully, and has favoured me both with drawings and dried specimens. Sometimes the shape of the leaves is almost exactly as in H. Rosa-sinensis: at other times, and that very frequently, they are trifid, or tripartite, with the segments laciniated. The flowers are deep red, buff-coloured,and more frequently of a bright and delicate rose colour. The outer calyx, or involucre of Dr Canpotts, is always more erect than in H. Rosa-sinensis: but the column of fructification is not so much declined. Fig. 1. One of the trifid Leaves.—Nat. size. f ptt ay ‘ * ay a, Nie | Sail J A i de® Lub by SL. Curtis Walworth Marcel 2g ( 2892 ) BILLBERGIA CRUENTA. BLoop-sTAINED BILLBERGIA. Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeynis. ( Nat. Ord.—Brometicez. ) Generic Character. Calyx superus. Petala convoluta, basi squamosa. Stam. basi perianthii inserta. Stylus filiformis. Stigmata linea- ra, convoluta. Capsula baccata? Semina nuda. Lindl. Specific Character and Synonym. Birtgereia * cruenta ; foliis ligulatis obtusis mucronatis dentato spinosis apice (sepissime) sanguineo-maculatis, bracteis lato-ovalibus imbricatis obtusissimis concavis, Spica capitata subsessili. Bromenis cruenta, Graham in Edin. Phil. Journ. eee _ Descr. Plant probably parasitic. Stem short, ascend- ing, cylindrical. Stolons axillary, sheathed with large, im- bricated, ovate, adpressed, entire scales. Leaves (one and a half to two feet long, three inches broad,) numerous, im- bricated, erect at their base, spreading above, linear, ob- tuse, mucronate, serrato-spinous, very hard and rigid, bright Steen and concave above, pruinose in transverse stripes and rounded below, sprinkled irregularly with blood-red stains, and marked with the same colour on the anterior surface for above half an inch at the apex, greatly dilated at their base, and forming a cup, from which water thrown upon the plant does not escape. Spike terminal, capitate, bea | . tea * Sp named by Taunzere, in honour of Gustavus Joun BiLLBERG, an excellent Swedish Botanist. teate, but without coma, nearly sessile, and raising only its — upper surface above the water which the cup formed by the leaves contains. Bractee, one on the outside of each flower, ovate, convex internally, and somewhat cucullate, broadest on the outside of the capitulum, and there longer than the calyx, shorter than it in the centre. Flowers ex- pand in succession from without inwards, generally only one or two at atime, standing three-fourths of an inch above the surface of the capitulum. Calyx ovate, acuminate, green, glabrous, shining, segments overlapping, greatly dilated upon one side, which is scariose, transparent, and rT between the next segment and the corolla (ten and a alf lines long). Corolla (one inch four and a half lines long) three-parted, segments subequal, unguiculate, claws white, linear, glabrous, equal in length to the calyx (two and a quarter lines broad) erect, bearing on their inside at their base large, connate, smooth, shining, colourless, nec- tariferous glands ; limb spreading, segments ovate, acumi- nate, blue, slightly striated in the centre, and paler behind and towards the edits Stamens inserted at unequal heights into the claws, three into one, two into another, and one into the third; filaments flattened, similar in structure and colour to the claws of the corolla, inserted into the back of the anthers, and continued along these to their apices ; all- thers projecting into the throat of the corolla, of equal length, and approximating at their apices (nearly three lines long), white, acuminate, cleft from the base for about a quarter of their length, above which they are connate along the back with the filaments; pollen white. Pistil equal in height to the stamens ; stigmata three, flattened, - ciliated on one edge, spirally twisted ; styles three, united throughout their whole length ; germen inferior, glabrous, three-celled ; ovula very numerous, small, attached to @ central receptacle. ° This plant was brought to the Edinburgh Botanic Gat- den by Captain Granam, of H. M. Packet Service from Mr. Harris, at Rio Janeiro, in 1824, and has grown freely 2 rich soil in the stove, pushing up three crowns from it8 root, only one of which has yet flowered. Granam. ee a Fig. 1, Flower scarcely magnified. 2, Petal, with the Stamens. 3. Pistil. 4. Section of the Germen.— Magnified. LUD, By SL ; Bde CUP LL Waleorty Mitchel 702 9 ( 2893 ) CoLLOMIA LINEARIS. SMALL-FLOWERED CoLLoMIA. | SHE Hokobeekeeakskukskookakskakeskalesk Class and Order. ~ Penranpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord. — Potemontacez. ) — Generic Character. Cal. obconicus, glandulosus, 5-fidus. Cor. subhypo- crateriformis, limbo 5-fido. Stam. intra faucem tubi inserta, inequalia. Capsula trilocularis, trivalvis, valvis obcordatis loculicido-dehiscens, axi libera, trialata loculis mono- di- Spermis. Semina mucosa. (Flores involucrati.) Specific Character and Synonyms. Cottomra* parviflora ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis lato-lanceo- latisve opacis plerumque glabris, ramis superioribus patentissimis pubescentibus, corolle limbo patentibus tubo gracillimo triplo breviore. Cottomia linearis. Nutt. Gen. v. 1. p. 126. Douglas Journ. ined. Bot. Reg. t. 1166. : ‘eee Descr. An annual, erect, much branching plant, with founded, glabrous stems; the uppermost branches ren-ark- ably patent and pubescent. Leaves two to. four or five inches long, linear lanceolate, lanceolate, or broadly lance- olate, the shorter ones almost ovate, alternate, patent, ses- Sile, waved, entire, opaque, glabrous, the younger and - Upper ones only pubescent: pubescence glandular. The uppermost leaves form an involucre around the terminal, Sessile, dense heads of flowers. Calyx large, obconical or | inclining = * From xoAa, gluten, in allusion to the character of the seed. inclining to bell-shaped, glanduloso-pubescent, cut into five deep, acute, erect segments. - Corolla more than twice the length-of the whole calyx: the tube slender, enlarged upwards, yellowish-brown : Limb spreading horizontally, small, pale lilac-purple, its breadth not equalling one third of the length of the tube; the segments oval. Stamens five, inserted at unequal heights within the mouth of the tube: Filaments short: Anther rounded. Germen obo- vate, with three furrows. Style filiform ; Stigma three- cleft. Capsules ripen abundantly, and are lodged within the enlarged husky, persistent calyces, obovate, three-lobed, three-celled, bursting longitudinally from the summit in the centre of these lobes into three obcordate, deeply groov- ed valves, which leave the axis or. central three-winged re- ceptacle free, to the flat sides of which are attached three seeds, one to each cell. These are oval, fixed by the middle, filled with a horny albumen, which encloses a cylindrical embryo, whose radicle is inferior. _ This plant seems to have been first discovered by Mr. Norraxz, near the banks of the Missouri river, about the confluence of the Shian river. Dr. Ricuarpson and Mr. Drummonp found it abundantly further North, to the East- ward of the Rocky Mountains, particularly plentiful about Carlton House and Cumberland House Forts: and Mr. Dove- Las and Dr. Scouter on dry sandy banks of the Columbia; and the former traveller observes, that it extends over a immense tract of country from Menzies Island in the Colum- bia, to Lake Winipeg, East of the Rocky Mountains, @ distance of sixteen hundred miles, growing upon the banks of streams ; and flowers from May to July. In our garden it is a hardy annual, flowering nearly the whole summer. Introduced by Mr. Doveuas to the garden of the Hortt cultural Society. a ee Fig. 1. Single Flower. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil. 4, Capsule within the Calyx. 5. Capsule in the act of bursting. 6. Seed with its Hilum. 7 Section of a Capsule from which the Se . Section of ? and Te e Seeds are removed. 8 2E94 ng? Phd 0 ewer izen Malvortn. MarchZiG??, ( 2894 ) | CoLLOMIA GRANDIFLORA. LARGE-FLOWERED CoLLoMIiA, Class and Order. PrentanpriaA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Potemontiscez. ) Generic Character. Cal. obconicus, 5-fidus, glandulosus. Cor. subhypocra- teriformis limbo 5-fido : Stamina intra faucem tubi inserta, inequalia. Capsula trilocularis, trivalvis, valvis obcor- datis, loculicido -dehiscens, axi libera trialata: loculis mono- di-spermis. Semina mucosa. (Flores involucratis.) Specific Character and Synonym. Cottomia grandiflora; foliis lato-lanceolatis nitidis inferio- _tibus sepissime serratis glabris superioribus ramisque junioribus pubescentibus, capitulis viscosis, corolla limbo obliquo erectiusculo tubo vix breviore. one grandiflora. Douglas Journ. ined. Bot. Reg. t. 174. | | See Descr. Annual. Much stronger in its growth than the Subject of the last plate, Cornomsa parviflora. The stem reddish purple, striated, pubescent above, the branches ‘rect, pubescent. The leaves large, shining; the lower ones quite glabrous, and inciso-serrate, the upper ones en- tire, glanduloso-pubescent. Heads of flowers larger, few More showy. Calyx smaller in proportion to the size of the corolla, viscid with glandular hairs; the teeth more obtuse. Corolla at first yellow, when fully expanded, the limb becomes of a salmon colour, and is never spread hori- Zontally, but stands nearly erect, with a degree of obli- quity in the oval segments; its whole breadth is ane equa equal to the length of the tube. Some of the stamens are alittle protruded. Anthers oblong, bluish. Germen ovate, surrounded by a glandular ring. This fine new species of Cottomia (a genus, by the bye, which seems to me too closely allied to Gix1a), which is much more worthy of cultivation than C. parviflora, was discovered by Mr. Doveras and Dr. Scovuter on the North- west coast of America, especially about the mouth of the Columbia; and it has been traced by the latter from the sea to the source of that vast river in the Rocky Mountains, which seem to be its limits to the East. Flowers in the open border the whole summer. Intro- duced by the Horticultural Society in 1827. ae _ Fig. 1. Single Flower. 2. Stamen, 3. Pistil—Magnified. i ; q LLL by S Curtis: Walworth March 2723 io ua | ( 2895 ) CoLLOMIA HETEROPHYLLA. NARROW-LEAVED CoLLomMIA. Class and Order. — PentTanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Potemonracez. )~ Generic Character. ro Cal. obconicus, glandulosus, 5-fidus. Cor. subhypocra- teriformis, limbo 5-fido.. Stam. intra faucem tubi inserta, Inequalia. Capsula trilocularis, trivalvis obcordatis locu- licido-dehiscens, axi libera trialata ; loculis mono- di-sper- mis. Semina mucosa. (Flores involucrati.)» » Specific Character and Synonym. Cottomia heterophylla ; pubescens, caule erecto ramoso, ‘foliis inferioribus bipinnatifidis superne sensim magis Integris, involucris omnino-integris, capitulis pauci- oris. : Gitta heterophylla. Douglas Journ. ined. ‘eee, _ Descr. Annual. A foot to a foot and a half high, frect, much branched. Leaves alternate, all petiolated : 1€ lower ones on long petioles, and deeply and doubly Pinnatifid ; the segments lanceolate, rather acute, pubes- Cent as are all the leaves and stem: upwards the leaves be- pome gradually more and more entire, and upon shorter footstalks, till they pass into the uppermost leaves or brac- _"e of the involucre, where they are oval, sessile, quite en- re, or with a single tooth on one side. Heads sessile, of ew flowers. Calyx campanulate, nerved with five deep Segments half its length, glanduloso-pubescent. Tube of the corolla very long, slender, purplish, enlarged and yellow "uPWards at the faux: Limb of five oval, purple segments, spreading spreading horizontally. Stamens wholly within the tube. Germen oval, three-celled, each cell having two seeds: Style filiform, as long as the tube of the corolla: Stigmas three, linear-filiform. Introduced to the Horticultural Society’s Gardens at Chiswick, by Mr. Davin Dovetas, who, as well as Dr. Scouter, found it about Fort Vancouver, on the Columbia. Mr. Dovetas afterwards ascertained it to be ‘‘ a common plant on the subalpine hills of North-west America, grow- ing in partially shaded places. It is of easy cultivation in any soil ; flowering through the summer. I have specimens in my Herbarium, which were gathered by Mr. Menzies in California, in 1792. Mr. Dovexas, in his MSS., has considered this plant to be a Giza ; and, indeed, I scarcely see how it is to be distin- guished from that Genus, except in the inflorescence. If the situation of the stamens in the sinus of the segments of the corolla be characteristic of Gina, then G. capitata is the only North American species with which I am acquainted. The present plant cannot, however, be separated from the Genus of the plants in the two preceding figures CoLtomIs linearis and C. grandiflora. ———— Fig. 1. Flower, 2. Pistil. 3, Section of the Germen.—Magnijfied. Pad WS. Curtis. WalworthMarch 21099 C 2896 ) FRANKENIA PAUCIFLORA. FEW-FLOWERED FRANKENIA. KKK KKEEKE KEE KERR RK Class and Order. Penranpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord. — Franxentacez. ) Generic Character. Stylus 3-fidus, lobis oblongis, intus stigmatosis. Cap- sula 3—4 valvis, polysperma. D. C. : Specific Character and Synonyms. Frankenta* pauciflora; foliis linearibus obtusis margine revolutis ramulisque et calycibus acutis canescentibus, petiolis ciliatis, caulibus erectiusculis, floribus termi- nalibus solitariis. Graham. -Prankenia pauciflora. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 350? Graham in Edin. Phil. Journ. a . Descr. Stem shrubby (one foot high), suberect, branch- ing. Branches diffuse, opposite, twigs slender, round, sca- brous, dichotomous. eaves (half an inch long) green, sca- rous, hoary or minutely tomentose, especially below, where ey are paler, opposite, linear, blunt, slightly channelled at € base, reflected in the edges, middle rib prominent below. Petiole very short, adpressed, ciliated. Flowers (seven and @ half lines long) solitary, terminal or in the cleft of the twigs, sessile. Calyx adpressed, scabrous, having also a Minute tomentum as on the leaves, and in a slighter degree on =... : In honor of J. Francxenrus, a Swedish Botanist, and Professor of Me- licine in the University of Upsal, who died in 1633. on the twigs, rigid, five-toothed, five-gonous, channelled, persisting, teeth acute, erect. Corolla five-petaled, funnel- shaped ; claws linear, as long as the calyx, yellowish ; Jaminez obovate, scarcely as long as the claws, sharply cre- nated at the apex, pale rose-coloured. Stamens six, une- qual, subexserted ; filaments white, flattened ; anthers large, incumbent: Germen small, green, ovate, glabrous, unilo- cular 3-valvular. Style filiform, 3-cleft. Ovules elliptical, attached to the edges of the valves. This plant, a native of New Holland, but I am not in- formed of what district, was obligingly communicated to the Edinburg Botanic Garden in spring last from Kew, un- der the name of Franxenia pauciflora. The decidedly sca- brous leaves, branches, and calyx may excite some doubt whether it be the plant to which De Canpotze gives that name; but of this I know nothing, except from the short character in his Prodromus, Our specimen has been kept in the greenhouse. Granam. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Leaf. 3. Petal. 4. Portion of lvx. to shen the deep angles. 5. Stamen. 6, Pistil. ortion of the Calyx, to s Lub. by 8 Curticg Walworth Marth 2829 7 del? , ( 2897) CALCEOLARIA POLIFOLIA. WHITE-LEAVED Suipper- Wort. ee ee ee ce Class and Order. DianpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Scropuutaring, ) ; Generic Character. Cal. 4-partitus. Cor. bilabiata ; labium inferius mflatum, calceiforme. Caps. semi-bivalvis, valvulis bifidis. Specific Character. CaLcronarta polifolia ; suffruticosa, caulibus erectis ramo- Sis, foliis ovatis oblongisve crenatis in petiolum atten- uatis, pedunculis dichotomis, floribus rotundatis. me: Descr. Perennial. Stem erect, somewhat woody, round- ed, a foot high, much branched, especially below, the ranches opposite, every where woolly. Leaves opposite, M my wild specimens ovate, in the cultivated ones, oblong, attenuated at the base into a petiole, an inch long (includ- ing the petiole) obscurely nerved, hoary on both sides, but my beneath, with a white, dense, woolly covering. The stem is leafless upwards, and divides into two elon- sated peduncles, having a pair of opposite, oblong leaves or bracteas at the base : each of them bears a corymb of rather small, almost globose yellow flowers: the pedicels are dichotomous, and there is one, sometimes two flowers in bs axil. Calyx, as well as the pedicels, quite white with *ariness: the form quadrifid, with the segments patent. Pper lip of the corolla small, very pale yellow, the under one appressed to it, and deep yellow. -Anther large in pro- "tion to the size of the flower. Pistil: Germen roundish, vate, dotted : Style filiform. | Native Native of the Cordilleras, whence seeds were sent to the — Glasgow Botanic Garden, by Mr. CrutcxsHanks, in 1826. It flowered for the first time in July, 1828, in a cool part of the greenhouse. Our dried specimens, from the same gen- tleman, were gathered below the Ojos de agua, the cele- brated pass from Mendoza to St. Jago de Chili. I am in- debted to the Horticultural Society of London for speci- mens of the same plant, gathered at Combre by their col- lector Mr. Macrae: and Dr. Gizuies informs me, that he gathered it on la Cuesta de Zapata, the second ridge of mountains which is passed in going from St. Jago de Chili to Valparaiso, along with the C. thyrsilora of GraHam, hereafter to be figured. In many points, this plant. agrees with the figure and description of Caucrotaria nana of Cavanixies, Icones, t. 443, f.2.: but that has the leaves much longer, more ob- tuse, and the corolla oblong, not subglobose. = Fig. 1. Corolla, with the upper lip forced back, to shew the Stamen and Pistil. 2. Calyx, including the Pistil—Magnified. ‘Carica Papaya. — Papaw Tree. oe Class and Order. - 3 re! be 2 zt 3 > ‘Dia@cra Decanpria. (Nat. Ord. Inserrx sepis; an Urricris arrinis? Cucur- BITAcEH. Juss. (non De C.) Passirtorex. Ach. Rich. in Dict. Class.. Tricocem. Linn.) es ' Generic Character. Cal. (minutus) 5 dentatus. Masc. Cor. infundibuliformis. Stam. alterna breviora. Fam. Cor. profunde 5-partita. Stigmata 5. Pepo polyspermus. Sem. membrana obvo- luta. Spreng. fT ee ee Specific Character and. Synonyms. al Carica * Papaya ; foliis palmatis 7-partitis, laciniis oblon- gis acutis sinuatis, intermedia 3-fida, fructibus oblon- _ gis sulcatis. Spr. Maca 3 Carica Papaya. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1466. Willd. Sp. Pi. ». 2. p. 814. Hort. Kew. ed. 2.0. 5. p. 399. Bot. Reg. t. 459. (feemina.) Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 905. Papaya vulgaris. Laan Ag. t- Bat. 4. Ta} Papaya Carica. Gert. de Sem v. 2. p. 191. t. 122. f.2._ . Papaya fructu oblongo melonis effigie. Trew Ehret. p. 2. Papasa, masc. et feemina. Rumph. Amb. v. 1. p. 147. €. 50. : —- See Ampa paja (mase.) Rheede Hort. Mal. v. 1. p. 21. t. 15. f.1. PAaPaya-MARAM. Rheede Hort. Mal. v. 1. p. 23. t. 15.7. 2. | ae _ Descr. Ais So called by Linnaus, I presume on account of its resemblance to the ‘ mmon Fig (Ficus Carica ; from Caria a province in Asia, where the tree Pounded), Papaya is, indeed, a general name for the plant, especially in the t Indies ; but Rumpnius suspects, that it was originally brought from a “Yay called Popaya, in Peru, and that hence that name came to be applied Descr. An upright growing, unbranched tree, with somewhat of the habit of a Palm, the foliage being large and confined to the top of the tree; every part yielding @ slightly acrid and somewhat milky juice. Stem twelve to fourteen feet high in the stove of our garden, in the tropics attaining to a height of twenty feet and more, cylindrical, or, generally, thickened towards the base, clothed with a pale greyish, rather smooth bark, here and there marked with the scars whence the old leaves have fallen. Leaves spreading, often a foot in length, petiolated, heart-shaped in their circumscription, cut into seven oblong, sinuated or laciniate and almost pinnatifid, rarely entire lobes or la cinia, acute at the points, the middle one the longest*and the most divided, glabrous on both sides, dark green above, and marked with the much ramified pale veins, beneath much lighter coloured, with prominent veins. Petiole ove to two feet long, glabrous, cylindrical. , Flowers (male) in slightly compounded racemes or patl- cles, springing from the axils of the leaves, several inches long. Peduncles and pedicels terete, glabrous. Calyx very minute, a little concave, with five very small teeth. Corolla infundibuliform, an inch or an inch and a half long, yel- lowish white, of a thickish, subcoriaceous texture, espec! ally the tube, which is cylindrical: Zimb cut into five lacinie, oblong, imbricating each other, as they do in the state of the bud. Stamens ten, inserted into the mouth of the tube, and all on the same line, five nearly sessile one, opposite the segments, and five furnished with evident fila ments, and, of course, taller. Filaments white, halry, thickened upwards: Anthers of two, linear-oblong, chat nelled cells, projecting on one (in the in-) side of the extte mity of the filament. Abortive Pistil small. Germen ob- long: Style subulate : Stigma none. Female Flower’, which I have not myself had the opportunity of examining, m short, simple racemes, upon a different tree from he male, or occasionally on the same : and, indeed, according to Trew, the flowers are sometimes hermaphrodite*. as in themale. Corolla much larger than in the male, of 8 yellower colour, cut nearly to the base into five, oblong: moderately spreading segments, or, if we may trust the figures, pentapetalous. Pistil : Germen large, ovato-0 long, green: Stigmas nearly sessile, of five, radiate, cue ated se * In this case the stamens, judgi am neo : » judging from the figure, alternately sma™¢ in the male, are placed at the yery base of the mate and all are with distinct filaments. ti == Malware Per pet § LEER MP LES. Peel PY. ated and fimbriated, yellowish-green lobes. The corolla falls away, and the germen, in coming to maturity, becomes peasant the tree, too, advancing in height, casts its lower eaves from beneath the flowers ; and the fruit, constituting a large oblong-kind of berry, or more correctly speaking, a pepo, rests suspended upon the leafless part of the trunk, very much in the same way as that of the Arrocarrus (Bread Tree). The surface, when the fruit is ripe, isa pale and rather dingy orange-yellow, obscurely furrowed, and often rough with little elevated points. The flesh is very thick, coloured, but paler than the outside ; and there pass through it, longitudinally, five bundles of vessels (cor- delettes pistillaires of Auguste Sv. Hmarre). In the centre is a considerable cavity, with five longitudinal ridges; aud these are thickly clothed with numerous. seeds, about as large as those of Cannasis sativa, roundish, compressed, almost black, but covered with a transversely wrinkled, loose, greyish, skin or arillus, and enveloped in mucus. Albumen fleshy. Embryo rather large, compressed. Radi- ele inferior. ,. The Genus Carica is considered by most authors to be dicecious ; and in figuring the female plant in the Botanical Register, the author takes occasion to mention, that he had hot met with the flowers of the barren tree. In the stove of the Glasgow garden, we long possessed a tree, which, from the flowers I examined, being male, I imagined was of this barren kind. Ina few years’ time, however, this indi- vidual plant produced fruit, which came to great perfection, and the seeds of which yielded an abundant stock of young plants : and this was the case for several years in succession. Yet at the moment when I was engaged in’ making the analysis of the parts for the accompanying plates (in Febru- ary, 1829) none but male flowers were to be found upon the tree. I have had recourse, therefore, to the figure in the Botanical Register for the representation of the female, and for thus enabling me to give all the essential parts of the fructification. These, indeed, amply serve to show that the characters are at variance with those of any hitherto established Natural Order. Laiynaus referred it to the Tri- Coccm (or Evpnorsiacez), where Jussieu, in his Genera lantarum likewise places it, though he afterwards was dis- Posed to arrange it among the CucurBITACEZ, in which he has n followed by a great number of Botanists : the | Aa Ricuarp, alone placing itamongst Passirtorez. Dp Can- POLLE has not introduced the Genus into the third volume of his Prodromus, which contains the two latter orders, and perhaps "perhaps is of the opinion expressed by Aveusts St. Hrtaire, in the ninth volume of the. Mémoires du Museum d’Hist. Naturelle; that ‘* instead of uniting the Carica: to some Natural family, by employing isolated, and, consequently, systematic characters, it should be left among the Genera whose place is doubtful; and we must wait till new dis- coveries will enable us to connect it with other vegetables. Nevertheless, if it were absolutely desirable to give it a station in a linear series, it ought, perhaps, to be referred to the neighbourhood of the Urticez. | fn ae The native country of the Papaw Tree is almost as diffi- cult to determine as its situation in a Natural series ; writers on the Bast, and writers on the West Indies being equally disposed to claim it as an aboriginal of their respective countries. WiutipENnow gives the East Indies as the station, and speaks of it as only being culiivated in America. SO likewise the authors of the Dict. Classique d’Hist. Nat. say, «* Almost all the species are natives of South America. One only, the Carica Papaya, grows in India, but it is to a cer- tain degree naturalized in America.”” Rumpuivs, however, seems to be decidedly of opinion, that it was introduced to India by the Portuguese ; and Dr. Hamizron, in his learned Commentary upon the Hortus Malabaricus, published in the thirteenth volume of the Transactions of the Linnean Society, observes, that every thing he has seen induces him to believe, with Rumpurus and Dr. Roxzuren, “ that the tree is an exotic in India.” Mr. Brown * justly argues, that a careful investigation of the geographical distribution — of Genera, might often lead to a determination of the native - country of plants now generally dispersed: for example, that in doubtful cases, where other arguments were equal, it would appear more probable that the plant in question should belong to that country in which all the other species of the same genus were found decidedly indigenous, than 10 — ; that, where it was the only species of the Genus known to exist. Hence that learned Botanist and Philosopher infers, _ that the Papaw Tree is a native of America, there being” several other decidedly distinct species, natives of that con- tinent, while no species, except the cultivated Papaw, not any plant nearly related to this singular Genus, is known t0 exist either in Asia or in Africa. Dr. Fremine too, has expressly said (Asiatic Researches, vol. ii. p. 161. 8y0- ed.) of the Papaw “ this is not an indigenous tree of India, and consequently has no name in the Sanscrit languagy * Botany of the Congo, p. 50. MO cts i eck It isa native of South America and the West Indies * ; whence it was brought by the Spaniards and Portuguese to the Philippinés and Moluccas ; and from these islands, being of very quick growth, it spread rapidly to all the other countries of India. It has long been cultivated in every quarter’ of Hindostan, and is in flower and in fruit during the greatest part of the year.” : The Papaw Tree is of rapid growth. Sr. Pierre probably spoke from his own knowledge, when he described Virgin1A as having planted a seed, which, in three years’ time, produced a trunk twenty feet high, with its upper part loaded with ripe fruit. It is for the sake of this fruit, mainly, that the plant is cultivated ; but if the flavor were not better than that yielded by what ripened m our stove, I cannot recommend it as at all agreeable. Brown in his Natural History of Jamaica tells us, that “ it has a pleasant Sweetish taste, and is much liked by many people; that, while young, it is commonly used for sauce ; and when boiled and mixed with lime juice and sugar, is not unlike, or much inferior to that made of real apples, for which it is commonly substituted.” In the opinion of Sioane it is notea very pleasant fruit, even when a with pepper and sugar; and the more ordinary use, he adds, of this fruit, is before it is ripe, when, as large as one’s fist, it is cut into slices, soaked in water till the milky juice is out, and then boiled and eaten as turnips, or baked as apples. The juice of the pulp, according to Descourtitz, in the Flore Medicale des Antilles, is used as a cosmetic, to remove freckles on the skin, caused by the sun; and the negroes in the French colo- nies employ the leayes to wash their linen instead ofsoap. _ As a medicinal plant, the Papaw Tree is particularly deserving of notice. H&rnANDEZ long ago spoke of the milky juice of the ve fruit as a powerful vermifuge ; which has been confirmed by M. Cuarpentier CossigNi, as mentioned in the Asiatic Researches, by Dr. Fremine (vol. ii. p. 162.). A single dose, that gentleman says, is sufficient to cure the disease, however abundant the worms may be. Another French writer (Pourer ESPORTEs) recommends the use of the powder of the seed in- stead ‘of the juice. ? ; pi _ _ But the most extraordinary property of the Papaw Tree, is that which is related, first I believe by Browne, in his Natural istory of Jamaica; namely, that ‘ water impregnated with the milky juice of this tree is thought to make all sorts of meat washed m it very tender; but eight or ten minutes steeping, it 1s said, . Will make it so soft that it will-drop in pieces from the spit before it is well roasted, or turn soon to rags in the boiling. Mr. EILL mentioned this circumstance more fully in his interesting Horticultural Tour through Holland and the Netherlands; and it hae repeatedly been confirmed to me by gentlemen of this coun- try who have been long resident in the West Indies, and who Speak of the employment of the juice for such a purpose as of mae , 8eneral occurrence ; and more, that old hogs and old poe ick . Stoanz. mentions, that there isa lesser sort of Papaw Tree growing wild i the woods of Jamaica, which he guesses by culture may be improved, “nd brought to the state in which it is now so generally known, 7 which are fed upon the leaves and fruit, however tough the meat they afford might otherwise be, it is thus rendered perfectly ten- der; and good too, if eaten as soon as killed, but that the flesh very soon passes into a state of putridity *. Whether this power of hastening the decay of meat be attribut- able to the animal matter or fibrine contained in the juice of the Papaw or not, I will not pretend to say ; but the presence of such is a fact scarcely less wonderful than the property just allud- ed to. ‘Two specimens of the juice were brought from the Isle of France ; in the one the juice had been evaporated to dryness, and was in the state of an extract; in the other, the juice was pre- served by being mixed with an equal bulk of rum. ‘ Both were subjected to analysis by Vauquenin. The first was of a yellowish- white colour, and semitransparent. Its taste was sweetish. It ‘had no smell, and was pretty solid; but attracted moisture when kept in a damp place. The second was reddish-brown, and had the smell and taste of boiled beef. When the first specimen was macerated in cold water, the greatest part of it dissolved. The solution frothed with soap. he addition of nitric acid coagu- lated it, and rendered it white; and when boiled, it threw down abundance of white flakes. When the juice of the Papaw_is treated with water, the greatest part dissolves; but there remains a substance insoluble, which has a greasy appearance. It softens in the air and becomes viscid, brown, and semitransparent. When thrown on burning coals it melted, let drops of grease exude; emitted the noise of meat roasting, and produced a smoke which had the odour of fat volatilized. It left behind it no residue- The substance was fibrine. The resemblance between the juice of the Papaw and animal matter is so close, that one would be tempted to suspect some imposition, were not the evidence that It is really the juice of a tree quite unquestionable +”. _ This fibrine had been supposed, previously, to belong exclu- sively to the animal kingdom : but it has since been found in other vegetables, especially in Fungi. y written , adopted from the | Whose jesse is synonymous with their 7dvocjos, the latter being titost generally ion =e Nymph Mintha, a favourite of Pluto, is fabled’ fo have bert hae by Proserpine into this Herb, as incidentally mentioned by Oviv.— Qn, ae membrane, to the angles.of which the roots, branches, and leaves may be easily traced, and on the inside of which there is a fascicle of spiral vessels. Branches simple. Leaves one and a half inch long, gradually smaller upwards, very numerous, verticillate, four in the whorls towards the top of the stem, often five or six below, (ten according to Don,) oblongo-linear, sparingly and distantly serrated in the upper half, rarely more than two serratures on each side, spreading, veinless, flat, slightly channelled above, keeled below, and having minute dots on both sides. Inflores- cence a terminal, dense, whorled, cylindrical spike (on the leading shoot three-fourths of an inch long, on the others shorter,) much thicker than the top of the stem. Bractee, one at the base of each flower, ovato-lanceolate, hairy and strongly ciliated, concave, connivent at the points, and as long as the calyx. Calyx ovate, inflated, four-cleft, seg- ments equal, connivent, pointed, hairy. Corolla four- toothed, slightly spreading, hairy on the outside, twice the length of the calyx, nearly regular, purple, and varyitg with the internal membrane of the stem in the depth of its shade, lower segments slightly emarginate. Stamens four, exserted; anthers like rounded, clavate, terminations to the filaments, pale, unilocular, bursting in a line across their extremities, and becoming brown; pollen subglobular, white ; filaments pink, straight, distant, having in thelr middle a whorl of hairs, appearing under the microscopé like strings of round beads. Style filiform, as long a8 the stamens, cleft at the top ; segments revolute. Stigma cap tate. Germen four-lobed. Granam. , My friend Professor Granam is perfectly correct m Te ferring this plant to the Menrua verticillata of RoxBuRreH; for, though somewhat at variance with the description ° Mr. Don in the Prodromus Flore Nepalensis, it quite 2 cords with the figure sent by Dr. Roxsureu to the Honour able the East India Company. It is a native of watery places in Bengal as well as in Nepal, and was raised in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden from seeds obtained from the latter country, and communicated by Capt. M‘Gitt. ‘ plants were reared in the stove in pots set in watel, bu . after blossoming they soon damped off without produci"s - any seed. tT 0: Fig. 1. Flower and two Buds. 2. Stamen. 3. Hair from the Stame® 4, Pistil—_ Mag nified, LUE. OV SS. bP ZI LU OP ELE AY. ALAA, a yee ae a a ae awe - a hi a = he ar 29008 € 2908.) CRINUM PLICATUM. PLAITED-LEAVED Crinum. Class and Order. git Ba HEXANDRIA Monoeynta. rai ( Nat. Ord. — AMARYLLIDER. yA Generic Character. a Cor. 6-partita subregularis, laciniis apice uncinatis. Stam. recta, tubo inserta. Caps. trilocularis. Spr. ‘Specific “Charatte? and Synonym. Crinum* plicatum ; foliis supra basin alato-expansis, alis _ plicatis. : Gta inuM plicatum. Livingstone MSS. _. Descr. From the top of the Bulb arise several dark-green leaves, from a foot and a half to two feet long, sheathing at the very base and striated : at some little distance above the base, the margin is suddenly and very curiously ex- panded intoa broad, membranaceous, striated, and singularly -_plaited wing, which, upwards, gradually becomes attenuat- ed into the extremity of the leaf itself. In other respects the plant so much resembles the Crinum asiaticum, that it 1s not necessary here to describe it. | About five years since Dr. Livinestone obligingly com- municated to our Glasgow Botanic Garden, a bulb of this Singular plant from China, and he sent me a drawing of the natural size, made in that country, which, after compar- ing with our plant that flowered in the spring of last year, 1828, I have here copied upon a greatly reduced scale. I 3 confess ne * From xpos, a Greek word for the Lily, and hence applied to other showy flowers allied to that tribe. “— confess myself unable to decide upon what constitutes a species and what a variety in this most variable tribe of plants. 1 cannot do better, then, than follow the opinion of my valued friend Dr. Liyinestons who has cultivated it in China, along with the Crinum asiaticum (its nearest ally,) and who, from many years’ experience, finds it to be per- anent in its character. He observed that it was not diffi- It to increase it; and at Macao he obtained several individuals by offsets from the bulbs. It has, he observes, ‘not unfrequently three flowering stems from the same bulb, and each stem about twenty flowers. — = i < The figure represents Crinum plicatum, reduced to about one quarter of the natural size. k ( 2909). ERYTHROLENA CONSPICUA. Conspicuous — ERYTHROLANA. ids Class and Order. £7 F, S Syneenesia ALQuALis. ( Nat. Ord. — Composirz. 2 ore Character. Involucrum conicum ; foliolis acuminatis, interioribus imbricatis, integerrimis, exterioribus reflexis spinoso-den- tatis. Receptaculum convexum pilosum. Flosculi omnes hermaphroditi, tubulosi : Limbo altero quinque partito : la- ciniis linearibus apice incrassatis: tubo 5-angulato basi angustato. Filamenta glanduloso-pilosa. Anthere basi bisetosee. Stigma bifidum ; laciniis approximatis. Pappus sessilis, plumosus. Sweet. | Specific Name and Synonym. Eryrarotana* conspicua. , ERyTHRoLmna conspicua. Sweet. Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 134. Descr. Annual, or perhaps biennial. Stem eight to ten feet high, erect, much branched, angled and furrowed, pubescent, purplish-green. Leaves alternate, sessile, the Ower ones six to eight inches long, deeply pinnatifid or even bipinnatifid, dark shining green, pubescent with deci- duous own, much veined, the veins most conspicuous be- neath, the margin waved and sinuated, and armed with short brown or purplish spines: those of the upper part of the stem and branches lanceolate, very spinous. Flowers large and very handsome, terminating the young poet “un. * From Epupos red and adaawa a covering : so named in consequence of the beautiful red inyolucre of the flower. Involucre long, conical : scales lanceolate, outer ones reflex- ed, somewhat foliaceous, green with a purple tinge, spinous at the margin and tipped with a long, sharp spine ; the rest erect, imbricated, linear-lanceolate, somewhat membrana- ceous, very sharp, but scarcely spinous, of a beautiful deep orange-red colour. Florets several, inserted upon a convex, fleshy, pitted receptacle, interspersed with numer- ous chaffy hairs. Corolla yellowish, scarcely longer than the involucre, tubular; limb cut into five long, linear seg- ments. Anthers purple, much protruded, bisetose at the base: filaments purplish, rough. Style considerably ex- serted. Stigma clavate, bifid, purple. Germen oblong, glabrous. Pappus sessile, the hairs beautifully plumose. _ This extremely beautiful plant, which is already becom- ing a general ornament to our flower borders, was intro- duced to this country from Mexico, by Mr. Butxocx ; and first raised by Mr. Tare of the Sloane Street Nursery, under the name of the Scarlet Thistle. It was early brought to flower in the highest degree of perfection by Mr. Barczay, at Bury hill, by planting it in the border against a South wall. So situated, it thrives most luxuriantly in the latter end of summer, and a succession of blossoms appear till the plant is cut down by the frost. The Glasgow Botanic Garden is indebted to Mr. Barcray for its introduction there ; and even in this Northern latitude it thrives well in the exposed flower bed. —_—,~ Fig. 1. Floret, with some of the chaffy hairs of the Rece i 3 4 ¢ ptacle at its base. 2. Searcely mature Germen. 3. Hair from the Pappus.—Magnified. _ Lue by at M CaItts, Melworth May LILII : ( 2910) VERBENA BRACTEOSA. BRACTEATED VERBENA. | SHES Seceeokabbekseak Class and Order. DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord. — VerBenacez. ) Generic Character. Cal. 5-fidus, dente unico subbreviore. Cor. limbus irre- gulariter 5-lobus. Stam inclusa. Utriculus 4-spermus, cito rumpens, ut maturi fructus caryopses sistant, , Spr... “ris 136 ae Specific Character and Synonyms. VERBENA * bracteosa ; hirsuta, foliis laciniato-pinnatifidis, supremis trifidis, spicis elongatis, bracteis lanceolatis fructu duplo Jongioribus squarrosis. ‘ 3 Versena bracteosa. Mich. Fl. Am. Bor. v. 2. p.13. Pursh. ip Am. Sept. v: 2. p. 416. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. Zarania bracteosa. Poir. Encyel. »v. 8. p. Sg ‘eee, ‘ek Descr. Perennial. “Stem procumbent below, branched ; the branches opposite, square, hairy. Leaves opposite, Iree inches and more in length, spreading, hairy, laciniato- Plunatifid, veined, dark green; paler, and with more pro- minent veins beneath, the upper leaves trifid, gradually Smaller, and changing almost imperceptibly into bractez. emuch elongated, composed of numerous flowers, which, however, are very evanescent, bracteated ; the bractew oe ‘nceolate, entire, variously curved and Squarrose, 2 T * From Ferfaen a Celtic word. Fer (charier in French, scan Se —— and hence I presume meaning) to convey away, and faen, a 8 ; it was employed to cure the disorder of that name. secund. Calyx almost cylindrical, five toothed, the inner- most tooth the smallest, green, reddish at the point, hairy. Corolla about twice the length of the calyx ; tube cylin- drical, reddish purple, pale, a little narrower upwards: limb small, oblique, of five unequal lobes, pale bluish pur- ple. Fruit of four oblong, wrinkled, pale-brown achenia, firmly enclosed in the calyx. Versena bracteosaseems to have an extensive geographical range, it having been found in the Illinois country and in Kentucky, and lately by Mr. Doveras on the sands of Menzies Island in the river Columbia, and on dry gravelly river banks throughout almost all the Western parts of the Continent of North America which he visited. By him it was likewise introduced to the Horticultural Society’s Gar- dens, from whence the specimen here figured was kindly communicated in September, 1828. Fig. 1. Flower and Bractea. 2. Pistil. 3. Fruit enclosed in the Calyx. 4. Fruit separated from the Calyx.— Magnified. Sune H829 a R 5 5 2 J —t € KR ey a Ss 2 : ‘ ( 2911 2912) ANNONA RETICULATA. Nerren Cusrarp APPLE. ~ | KEK EE EEE EEK EERE EEE Class and Order. PoLyanpriA Poryeyni. ( Nat. Ord.—Annonace®. ) Generic Character. Sepala 3, basi coalita, concava, subcordata, acutiuscula. P e¢. 6, crassiuscula, interiora minora aut nulla. Anthere plurime, subsessiles, apice angulate, dilatate, torum obte~ gentes. Carpella plurima, coalita in baccam sessilem, cor- lice muricato squamoso aut reticulato, intus pulposam, ad ambitum multilocularem, loculis monospermis. Specific Character and Synonyms. Annona * reticulata ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis gla- bris subpunctatis, petalis exterioribus oblongis sub- clausis, fructibus ovato-globosis reticulato-areolatis. Annona reticulata. Linn. Sp. Pl. p.'757. (excl. Syn. Rumph.) Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 1266. (excl. Syn. Plum. et Rumph.) Dunal Monogr. des Annon. p.72. De Cand. i Veget. v. 1. p. 473. Ejusd. Prodr. v. 1. p. 89. reng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 640. («.) areolis squamoso-rotundatis. Anona-maram. Rheed. Mal. v. 3. p. 23. t. 30, 31. : Anona maxima; foliis oblongis angustis, fructu maximo luteo conoideo, cortice glabro in areolas distincto. The Custard Apple Tree. Sloane Jam. v. 2. p. ‘167. ¢. 2. p. 296 3 GUANABANUS x ti, 4) Often written Anona, a word of doubtful origin. Evsesrus Nreren- BERG says it is the name applied to this tribe of plants by the inhabitants « St. Domingo, Rumrnivs supposes it to be derived from the Malay word » 2hoa, or Menona, by which name the Genus is still known in Banda. Nana ‘its denomination in Sumatra. Lrxnavs calls it Annona, a Latin word sig- nally 5 As peepee and hence applicable to plants whose fruits are so gene- sculent, é ca Guanazanvs fructu purpureo. Plum. ed. Burm. v. 2. p. 134. t. 143. f. 2. (8.) areolis angulatis subpentagonis. Annona reticulata. Jacg. Obs. v. 1. p. 14. t. 16. f. 2. Descr. A shrub, or small tree, from ten to fifteen feet high, or more, with spreading, tuberculated branches, tubercles brown. Leaves numerous, alternate, on short, channelled petioles, oblongo-lanceolate, six to eight inches long, submembranaceous, dark green, quite entire, penni- nerved, obtuse at the base, rather acuminated at the point, yielding like its congeners, a very disagreeable smell. Pe- duncles lateral branched, bearing about three flowers, and drooping. Pedicels swollen upwards. Calyx of three mi- nute, subcordate, acute leaflets. Three exterior petals large, linear, obtuse, broader at the base, of a greenish color, thick texture, and trigonous; at the base of each is a hollow to receive, as it were, the body of stamens and pistils, and there of a deep purple colour, externally paler: the inner side of the petals is almost white. Three interior tals, very minute, alternating with the outer, linear ob- ong, green, with red on each side near the top. Mass of Stamens and Pistils roundish, springing from an hemi- Bea torus, or fleshy receptacle. Anthers oblong; almost sessile, having a capitate appendage at the point. . Pistils minute. Germen oblong, green. Stigma. linear, brownish, sessile. As the fruit advances to maturity, the stamens fall away, and leave that part of the torus naked, above which the mass of pistils become enlarged, con- glomerated, and united into a globose, inclining to heart- shaped, pulpy Berry, as large as a good-sized orange, whitish within, externally ofa reddish-brown colour, sprink- led with dots of a darker colour, and marked with more oF less angular reticulations, whose areole are constituted by the enlarged and united pistils. Seeds numerous, oblong, compressed, dark, shining brown. Albumen horny, white, marked with numerous transverse lines. A native of the West India Islands, thence introduced into Malabar, and the Mal : aye © stoves of the alay Archipelago, and in Royal Garden at Hampton Court, in 169, It does not appear, however, ever to have produced flowers with us: hence I am glad to have the opportunity of repre senting the plant both in this state and in fruit, from dried specimens V, 2019 On 2 lworth, June LE Lub by S Curte's Wia specimens and from drawings, sent to me by Mr. Guiting, from the island of St. Vincent in the West Indies. Although, according to Stoane and other writers, the pulp of this fruit “ is, for colour, and consistence, and sweetness in taste like a custard” (whence the common English name) is ‘‘ eaten with a spoon,” and, “ thought a very delicious substance,” yet by others it seems to be but little prized, and is scarcely so general an article of food as the Sour Sop, (An. muricata) or the Sweet Sop, (AN. squa- mosa) of the same countries. It is more frequently vaunted on account of its medicinal qualities; so that, according to Dr. Curvauier, a celebrated physician of St. Domingo, as quoted in the Flore Medicale des Antilles, we have not in Europe so quick and so certain a remedy against Diar- thea and Dysentery as the Custard Apple. The flowering season in St. Vincent is from June to Octo- ber ; and the fruit comes to perfection in March and April. This latter is termed by the French colonists “ Ceur de Beuf.” Tas. 2911. Fig. 1. Flower of the Annona reticulata, with one of the Petals bent back to shew the Stamens and Pistils, nat. size. 2. Calyx anda portion of the Peduncle. 3. Two ofthe inner Petals. 4. Flower, from which the three outer Petals are removed. 5. Stamen. 6. Pistil.—All from fig. 2. magnified. Tab, 2912. Fig. 1. Fruit of Avnona reticulata, 2. Section of ditto. 3. Seeds. 4. Section of ditto.—All of the nat. size. — LE é. learhis. y vn HT ded? We A « 7 Pad bd 5 y, oy « A arts, Wal OTTA . 2 June 2 AM ? =. Swany BO i ( 2913 ) Lotus PINNATUS. PINNATE-LEAVED Lotus. ERE EEE EEE EEE EEE EE Class and Order. Diapetpuia Decanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Lecuminosz. ) Generic Character. 6h RS Cal. tubulosus, 5-fidus. Ale vexillum subeequantes ; ‘Carina rostrata. Legumen cylindraceum vel compressum apterum ; stylus rectus; stigma oculo nudo subulatum (vel Capitatum.) De C. Specific Character. Lorus* pinnatus ; foliis pinnatis, foliolis 4jugis cum im- pari oblongis glabris. és ‘eee Descr. Whole plant glabrous. Stems decumbent, branch- ed near the base, branches terete, striated. Leaves remote, alternate, pinnated with about three pairs of alternate ob- long, or, in the wild specimens, obovate leaflets, and ter- minated by an odd one. Stipules ovate, rather small, erect, appressed. Rachis or main petiole a little swollen at the base. _ Peduncles axillary, but generally spreading in a direction opposite to that of the leaves, equal to them in length or longer, sometimes shorter. Flowers umbellate. Pedicels short. Calyx tubular, thick and fleshy at the base, the rest rather membranous, four-toothed, the two — SaaS * A tink ous ryptians and the Greeks to some plant, which employed by the Egyptians and the Greeks to some plant, Was esteemed as food, sed heneelgeshenss applied to this Genus, of which our jpecies, the Lorvs edulis, is used as food by man in Italy; while the others are unquestionably good for cattle. Ul and lower teeth linear, the upper one oblong and bifid. Corolla: Vexillum and carina yellow: Ale almost white, waved, the claws very distinct, linear, that of the vexillum remote from the rest. Stamens diadelphous; the free one apparently always abortive, the rest united to a little below the anthers, where they separate into nine alternately shorter and narrow filaments. Anthers smaller on the short- er filaments, roundish, yellow. Germen linear : Style fili- form, curved upwards: Stigma capitate. Legumen two to three inches long, compressed, brownish, a little contracted between the seeds, acuminated at the point ; within bear- ing several roundish, oblong, compressed seeds. Between the seeds are spurious dissepiments. This is another of the many interesting novelties dis- covered by Mr. Dovetas, and thus introduced to the gar- dens of the Horticultural Society, where it flowered in June, 1828, in the open border, and in common soil. It was found growing abundantly in low alluvial, overflowed soils between Fort Vancouver and the Grand Rapids, upon the Columbia, and also near the base of Mount St. Helen’s, in similar situations. The root is perennial. The habit of this plant, and the general appearance of the flowers and seed-vessels, unite this plant to the Genus Lotus. But it differs from it in the pinnated (not ternate) leaves, in the long, linear, remote claws of the petals, the waved ale, and the capitate stigma ;—still I am not sure that these are characters which would warrant a separation from the true Lor. : Fig, 1. Flower. 2. Stamens including the Pistil. 3. Summit of the Pistil and Stamens, the latter spread open. 4. Style and Stigma—Magnified. Sune 1. 1829, — ML del? ( 2914 ) JUSTICIA NoDosA. SwWoOLN-JOINTED _ Jusvicia. Sees eaeakaeokakoleseakeskeok skakealeate. Class and Order. Dianpria Monoeynta. ( Nat. Ord. — AcanrHacez. ) oe Generic Character. : Cal. equalis, 5, raro 4-partitus. Cor. valde irregularis, bilabiata vel 'ringens, labio inferiore diviso. Stam. duo, antherifera. Anthere biloculares, loculis insertione sepius Inequalibus. Filamenta sterilia nulla vel obsoleta. a- ra loculi dispermi. Dissepimentum adnatum. Semina retinaculis subtensa. Br. Specific Character. Justicia nodosa; (anthere loculis distantibus) foliolis ovato- acuminatis obsolete serratis brevissime petiolatis gla- bris, floribus axillaribus tubulosis bilabiatis, labio supe- riore erecto, inferiori deftexo trifido, bracteis longis angusto-linearibus, caule ad nodos tumido. : ‘ata: oe Descr. A low shrub, glabrous throughout the stems and leaves, much branched, the branches greenish-brown, Jointed, articulations terete, swollen at each extremity. aves opposite, ovate acuminated, obscurely serrated, dark-green above, pale beneath. Flowers in short axillary, few (two or three) flowered racemes, erect. Bractee four ° or five, at the base of each flower, linear-filiform, subpubes- cent. Calyx ovate, cut into five deep, erect, oblongo-ovate Segments. Corolla large, handsome, of a beautiful rich but rather pale crimson: Tube very long, thickened up- Wards and striated, a little pubescent below: Lips long, "pper one erect, linear acuminate, emarginate at the ool | . ; mity mity. Stamens four, didynamous, standing with beautiful regularity. Anthers with the cells remote, but opposite and unequal in size, deep purple: the substance which unites these, whitish, fleshy. Of this handsome species I know nothing except. that it was imported by the Messrs. Sazruerns from Brazil to the Liverpool Botanic Gardens, in the stove of which noble Institution it flowered in September, 1828. Its nearest ally is, perhaps, Justicia oblongata of Linx and Orro, in the ninth number of their plants of the Berlin Garden; but that has truly lanceolate leaves, and much longer and more ‘leafy bractee. Both are swollen at the jointings of the stem. J. nodosa is a plant worthy a place in every stove, on ac- count of the large size and beautiful colour of the flowers. * Fig. 1. Calyx with its Bractea and a young Bud. 2, Anther.—Magnified. WN 2915, "Pab by S. Curtts Walworth, June 17822 ( 2915 ) CALCEOLARIA THYRSIFLORA. TUFTED SLIPPER-Wort. ee ee ee Class and Order. Dianpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord. — Scropuurarina. ) Generic Character. Cal. 4-partitus. Cor. bilabiata, labium inferius calcei- forme, inflatum. Caps. semibivalvis, valvulis bifidis. Specific Character and Synonym. Caucrotaria thyrsiflora; fruticosa ramosa, foliis oppositis linearibus, basi attenuatis, lineatis serrato-dentatis gla- bris viscosis sessilibus, thyrsis terminalibus confertis, pedicellis decompositis umbellatis. ae Catcrouaria thyrsiflora. Graham in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 1828, p. 2718. ; ee Descr. An erect shrub: stem round, bark brown and cracked ; branches spreading at their origin, afterwards erect, when young, somewhat rough and obscurely glan- dular. Leaves (two inches long, two lines broad) opposite, Sessile, spreading, linear, subacute, becoming narrower towards their base, channelled, lineate, keeled behind, rather distinctly serrato-dentate ; the whole edge, but par- ticularly the teeth, reflected, without hairs, as well as the peduncles and pedicels shining on both surfaces froma viscid exudation. Common peduncles terminal, elongated, nearly naked below, the upper leaves passing into bracteas, and oming entire; the pedicels rise from the axils of these, and are once, twice, or oftener divided, in form of little umbels, having at each subdivision a pair of bracteas, Similar, but successively smaller: ultimate division of the Pedicels longer than the flowers. Flowers yellow, crowd- into a handsome thyrsus at the extremity of each branch. “yx yellowish-green, four partite, segments (one-fourth of an inch long,) ovato-lanceolate, glandular on both sur- ~s Unequal, slightly divaricated, but after the corolla falls closing over the germen, obscurely nerved. Corolla ‘ubglobular, nearly twice as long as the calyx, glabrous on © outside, except a slight pubescence where the closed lips touch, pubescent within, especially towards the base, obscurely striated, depressed at its base, closed, lower lip larger than the upper ; stamens projecting into a depres- sion in the lower lip: filaments rising from the base of the lower lip, hairy, stout, slightly curved upwards, pitted on their lower side near the anthers. Anthers pale yellow, placed transversely on the filaments, bilobular, lobes con- nected to each other longitudinally, and furrowed along their anterior surface, where they burst and discharge a white pollen. Germen conical, furrowed on two sides, bilocular, green, viscid. Style, filiform, straight, longer than the stamens; stigma small, ovules very numerous, and attached to a large central receptacle, the transverse section of which is kidney-shaped, and entire in each locu- lament. Granam. This very handsome and novel species of SiipPER-woRT was raised in the Botanic Gardens, both in Edinburgh and Glasgow, from seeds received from Dr. Giuties, Mendoza ; but it flowered first in the collection of P. Nem, Esq. Canonmills, Edinburgh, who had obtained the plant from the same liberal source, in the summer of 1828. Mr. Cruicxsuanxs also has obligingly sent me specimens mark- ed as.“ Palpe’’ of the natives, who use it to procure a yellow dye *. The blossoms have a slight fragrance, not unlike that of the flowers of the Lagurnum. * I mentioned under Cau. arachnoidea, (tab. 2874.) that Dr. GrLLiss had communicated to me some further information respecting that plant, which I should insert under the present species. The Cauiceoxarta, he says, “ de- scribed by Dr. Granam under the name of C. arachnoidea, and to which 1 had assigned the specific appellation of C. tinctoria, in consequence of its utility in dying, I first found, near the silyer mines of St. Pedro Nolasco, on the summit of the mountain so called, near the junction of the river Maypt with the Rio del Yeso and del Volcan. On a subsequent journey across the Cordillera, further to the South, and opposite to San Fernando, I also met with it in abundance, growing in all the most elevated vallies which I visited, in the vicinity of la Casa de las Damas. Here many people were employed in digging up the roots, which they dry and collect in bundles for sale. Ib Chili, where this ‘plant is in great use, under the name. Relbwn, for dying woollen cloths of a deep crimson colour, the alum-earth called Poleura, © employed as a‘mordant in this process, is obtained abundantly from a mown” tain in the neighbourhood. It grows in hard gravelly soil, where the fibrous roots penetrate in all directions ; a circumstance which renders the collecting of this plant to any considerable extent, a work of time and labour. _/ Pie arachnoidea flowers about the end of March or beginning of April ; and at - latter time the ripe seeds may also be procured. ‘ “ The elevation of the Casa de las Damas, in the neighbourhood of which the Relbun abounds, may be estimated from the height of the barometer, which stood at 22,956 inches, heat of mercury 54°. ‘Temperature of atmo- sphere 52°. This Relbun appears to be quite distinct from that which 15 mentioned by Mottin, Chili, vol. 1. p. 115.” ee gee Fig. 1. Entire Flower. 2. Corolla, shewing Iyx, with the Pi 4, Pistil—All more or less augue. ———- emdeoin eo” aa J. artis, : el, 1829. ( 2916 ) DIscHIDIA BENGHALENSIS. BENGAL DIscHIpIA. ERE KEE EEE EEK EEE EEE EEE Class and Order. - Penranpria Dieynia. ( Nat. Ord.—AscreprapEz. ) Generic “Character. ; met tS ee Cor. urceolata, quinquefida. Corona staminea laciniis subulatis patentibus recurvis. Masse Pollinis erecte, basi affixe. Stigma muticum. Folliculi leves. Semina co- mosa. Br. Specific Character and Synonyms. Discuipia * benghalensis; foliis ellipticis tereti-compressis carnosis glaucis.- __ toc Discrip1a benghalensis. Colebr. in Linn. Trans. v. 12. p. 357, Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 844. Sere, _Descr.. Whole plant succulent;glaucous green, para- “Sitic. Stem scandent and ¢ . anched, terete, here and there sending forth slender, branching, fibrous roots, actescent. Leaves opposite, an inch and an inch and a oe half long, elliptical, rather obtuse, tereti-compressed, entire, Upon short, rounded, fleshy footstalks. Flowers placed in Small, axillary, almost sessile umbels, white. Calyx of five feshy, rounded lobes. Corolla urceolate : tube globose, limb of five erect, oval, acute, fleshy teeth. Corona of five Segments, linear, branching at the top into two falcate, re- curved, subulate lacinia. Anthers confluent at the a , J Na ovato- ici, ee a “i —— * So named by Mr. Brown, from ds, two Consequence of the dividing of the segments of the * ovato-triangular, acute, yellowish-brown, meeting so as to form a cone ; each two-celled. Pollen Masses club-shaped, yellow, waxy, connected by a gland into pairs, each pair belonging to two different anthers. This has, I believe, been known for some years as an inhabitant of the stoves in this country; but I am not aware that it has ever produced flowers with us, except at the Liverpool Botanic Garden, whence specimens were sent to me in that state by my often-mentioned friends, the Messrs. SHEPHERD, in the month of September 1828. Its treatment is the same as that of the parasitical orchideous plants, and it is by no means difficult of cultivation. Two species only of the Genus are known; the one Discuipia nummularia, a native of Amboyna and the tro- pical parts of New Holland, and the subject of our present plate, which is, according to Mr. CoLegrooxg, a native of Silhet, where it is named like other parasites, Pardriuhd. It was introduced by Mr. M. R. Smiru to the Calcutta _ Botanic Garden, and thence to the gardens of Europe. ul * Fig. 1. Single Flower. 2. Corona staminea. 3. One of the segments of the Corona Staminea. 4. Two Cells of one Anther ; one of the Cells be- ing empty ; the other filled with a Pollen Mass, whose Pedicel is connected by a Gland to the Pollen Mass belonging to the nearest Cell of the adjoining Anther.—Magnified. Pub by 8. Girlie, Walworth, June 1.1829 Soon FO —~R2H del* ( 2917 ) PLUMBAGO RHOMBOIDEA. RHOMBOID-LEAVED LEAD-wort. KEKE KEKE KEKE KKK EKER Class and Order. Pentanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord. — Piumsaerneg. ) Generic Character. _ Cal. plicatus, 5-dentatus. Cor. monopetala, hypocrate- tiformis, limbo 5-partito. Stam. 5, hypogyna. Stylus 1, filiformis. Stigmata 5, acuta. Capsula valvata. Semen albuminosum. Br. Specific Character. PLumBaco * rhomboideu ; annua, caule terete, foliis rhom- boideis inferne in petiolum alatum ad basin auricu- latum amplexicaule attenuatis, spicis paucifloris, brac- teis calicybusque glandulosis. a Descr. Plant annual, one to one and a half foot high, erect, branched, the stem and branches erect, terete. Leaves arge in proportion to the size of the plant, rhomboid, quite entire, elabrous, veined, tapering into a long, winged, Petiole, whose very base is auriculated and embraces the stem : upper leaves smaller, and less distinctly auriculated. Spikes terminal, of a few remote flowers, each subtended by 4 single glandular bractea, which is small and ya. Calyx * From plumbum, lead ; as Sir JAMES SmitH suggests, on account of the dark hue of the leaves of Pu. europea; but Puiny says the Plumbago is a : * which cures a disease in the eye called Plumbum, and that hence it de- res its name: whilst Taérs assures us, that our Plumbago is employed in ruring the tooth-ache, but that it at the same time imparts a leaden colour to them, In French it is called Dentelaire. Calyx oblong, green, somewhat plicate, five-cleft, the teeth or segments erect, rather obtuse, clothed with large brown, pedicellated glands. Corolla hypocrateriform : tube slen- der, purple, more than twice as long as the calyx: limb of five spreading, oval, acute, deep bluish-purple segments, with a dark line down the centre of each. Stamens five, as long as the tube, hypogynous. Filaments slender to the very base. Anthers oblong, two-celled, purple. Pistil as long as the tube of the corolla. Germen ovate, green, gla- brous : Style filiform : Stigmas five, small, linear. Raised from seeds sent to the Glasgow Botanic Garden. It is cultivated in the stove; and the flowers, though — have a very pretty effect, from their extremely rich color. With us it blossomed in the month of September. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil, 3. Stamen.—Magnified. WITH. ded? , Pud bv § f aan Kalworth: Ji Z a“ 2 y id At cai . ( 2918 ) — CLARKIA PULCHELLA. Beavtirun CxLarK1a. “SSIS Ses eickesieksiokeszsjoteapataatean Class and Order. Octanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Onacrariz. ) Generic Character. - __ Cal. superus 4-partitus reflexus, spe laciniis coheren- tibus. Pet. 4, unguiculata, zstivatione convoluta. Stam. _ alterna sterilia, antheris demum reflexis. Stigma 4-lobum, petaloideum. Capsula cylindracea, sulcata, 4-locularis, 4- valyis. Semina adscendentia, nuda. a5 Specific Character and Synonyms. Crarxia* pulchella; petalis trilobis. Ctarxia pulchella. Pursh Fl. Am. Sept. v. 1. p. 260. t. 2. Nutt. N. Am. Gen. v. 1. p. 249. Bot. Reg. t. 1100. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 52. : ; (8.) petalis minus profunde lobatis magis denticulatis. a Descr. An annual plant, about a foot high, every where slightly pubescent, least so on the old leaves, most so. on the stems, which are cylindrical, branched upwards. Leaves our to five inches long, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, ses- ile, the midrib distinct, but the veins obsolete. Flowers 8e, solitary, handsome, from the axils of the leaves, €specially the upper ones, on short footstalks. Calyx supe- Mor, reflexed, of four lanceolate, deep segments, which senerally cohere by the margins, at length frequently sepa- rating and turning brown. Petals large, of a beautiful Purple rose-colour, cruciate: claw long, slender, with a reflexed ————— * So named by Pursu, in honor of Captain Cxarx, who traced the course % the Missouri in company with Captain Lewis, a det?.. Pith by S.Curtis. Walwortly. July 1. 1829. . Swat? ( 2919 ) NICOTIANA ACUMINATA. ACUMINATED- LEAVED 'T’oBACco. Ss oe a Oe na On ON On ROR OR Class and Order. PrEntTANDRIA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—So.anez. ) Generic Character. Cal. tubulosus, 5-fidus. Cor. infundibuliformis, vel hypo- crateriformis, limbo plicato. Capsula apice 4-dentata, pla- centis ad dissepimentum transversis. Spr. ~ Specific Character and Synonym. Nicotiana acuminata ; herbacea, pubescens, foliis lato- lanceolatis acuminatis undulatis sublonge petiolatis, paniculis paucifloris, calyce glanduloso-pubescenti laciniis angustis, corolla tubo elongato, limbi laciniis rotundatis obtusis. ETUNIA acuminata. Graham in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. July, 1828, p. 31 a [eee Descr. Root perennial ? Stem herbaceous, erect, terete, -Pubescent, branched. Leaves remote, broadly-lanceolate, Sometimes almost ovate, acuminate, waved at the margin, nerved, stightly pubescent, entire, petiole. Petiole slender, about an inch long. Panicle terminal, few-flowered, flow- *'s naked or having a leaf or bractea at their base. Pedicel short. Calyx ovate, with five unequal, narrow teeth, which Tun down and form so many ribs to the glanduloso-pubes- rent, and almost colourless tubular portion. Corolla about tee inches long. Tube a little curved, green, striated, a little enlarged upwards: Limb rather small, of five, nearly- equal, rounded, white lobes, blunt, or even emarginate, Marked with a few ereen lines. Style filiform, as ve e a the tube. Germen two-celled. Stigma thickened, two- lobed, green. Capsule enclosed by the calyx, ovate. Communicated in June, 1828, by Dr. Granam, from the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, where it was raised, having been sent from Mendoza, by Dr. Gitties. Hitherto it had been treated as a greenhouse plant : but Dr. Granam con- jectures that it will thrive better in the open border. Perunia seems to differ from Nicott1ana in little else but its irregular corolla, which being wanting here, I have reluctantly differed from my valued friend, who has hitherto alone described this species, in considering it not to be of that Genus. Fig. 1. Pistil and Calyx. 2. Section of an advanced Germen. 3. Cap- sule invested by the Calyx.—Magnified. nf H. 2920. = Sate SO Pd tr S. Cartes. Walworth. Faly 1. 1829. ded? — Wy C299" BEGONIA SEMPERFLORENS. FREE-FLOWERING BEGontia. FE SIHESISS Sonesta» Class and Order. Monaecta PotyanpRiA. ( Nat. Ord.— Becontacea. ) Generic Character. _ Masc. Cal. o. Cor. polypetala, petalis plerumque 4, Inequalibus. Fam. Cal. o. Cor. petalis 4—9, plerumque inequa- libus. Styli 3, bifidi. Caps. triquetra, alata, trilocularis, polysperma. Specific Character and Synonyms. Brconra semperflorens ; glaberrima, foliis ovato-rotundatis Inequalibus vix cordatis planis apiculatis, minute Serratis subciliatis, capsule alis valde inaqualibus, Maxima triquetra obtusissima. Brconra semperflorens. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1439. Gra- ham in Ed. New Phil. Journ. May, 1829. | Pare Descr. Stem erect, rather thick, terete, fleshy, glabrous, reddish green, scarcely, if at all branched. Leaves alter- nate, remote, plane, ovato-rotundate, obtuse at the base, rarely a little cordate, unequal, apiculate, the margins Minutely serrated, more or less ciliated at the margin, the color pale green, the surface particularly smooth, and free from hairiness. Petiole long, reddish, channelled : at the ase of each are two large, ovato-oblong, deciduous, cili- ated, brownish stipules. Peduncles axillary and terminal. ale Flowers with two large, rounded, and two small, ob- ong or linear, rose-coloured petals: Female, with five small, Mequal petals, of the same colour. Capsule greenish brown, : membranous membranous, reticulated, having three very unequal wings ; two small, narrow, and equal in breadth throughout, while the third forms a large, triangular, very projecting and obtuse membrane. : The nearest ally of this species is, probably, the B. spa- thulata of WittpEnow ; but there, the leaves are far more concave, not apiculated, the stipules are larger, and the larger wing is acute. The present species was sent to the Liverpool Botanic Garden, by Cuartes CHAMBERLAYNE, Esq. from Brazil, and flowered in October, 1828. I have seen this species cultivated in gardens in Britain, under the names of B. setaria and B. sellovit. 5 es AD ¢ Py swat fi Lub. by §. Curtis, Walworth, July 11829 SH del* BR (2929; 7 LicusTRUM NEPALENSE, 6 glabrum. NEPAL Privet, glabrous var. REEKEEEEEEEE EERE EEE EE Class and Order. Dianpr1a Monoeyntia. * ( Nat. Ord.—Jasminez. ) | Generic Character. Cal. exiguus 4-dentatus. Cor. infundibuliformis limbo A-lobo. Bacca 2-locularis, 4-sperma. Spr. = Specific Character and Synonyms. _ Licusrrum * nepalense ; foliis ovatis vel oblongo - ovatis : acuminatis subtus villosis; panicula terminali villosa € racemis suberectis densis. Wall. Licusrrum nepalense. Wallich in Fl. Ind. v. 1. p. 151. lacusrrium spicatum. Hamilton MSS. Don. Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 107. (8.) foliis paniculisque glabris. Wall. in Fl. Ind. v. 1. p. 152. (nobis Tas. 2921.) a Descr. From three to four feet high, as cultivated in the Steenhouse of our Botanic Garden, much branched, the Tanches rounded with small, scattered warts ; the younger Shes glabrous. Leaves opposite, from one to three or four inches in length, oblong, sometimes approaching to ovate, green, coriaceous, glossy, waved, quite glabrous, entire at the margin, acuminate, petiolate. Petzole rather short, thick, reddish, grooved above. Panicle terminal ; branches etragonal, brachiate ; flowers on each branchlet forming a cluste ike - . » Calyx small, four-toothed, red spike : glabrous. © Calyx slightly * From ligare, to bind, from the use sometimes wade of its soft and pliant branches, j 5 slightly scabrous, with four minute, imbricated bractew at _ the base. Corolla with the tube so short as to be almost rotate, deeply four-cleft, white, the segments, ovate, re- curved. Stamens two, opposite: Filaments rather thick, white. Anthers short, oblong: Cells remote, opening laterally. Pistil : Germen roundish, ovate, green: Style shorter than the germen, cylindrical, purplish: Stigma capitate. A native of the mountains of Nepal, where it is called Goom-gacha, and where it grows to be a considerable tree, producing profuse clusters of white, sweet-smelling flowers from April to June, which are succeeded by small, oval, berries, of a beautiful blue colour, and covered with a beau- tiful bloom,” as remarked by Dr. Watuicu, to whom our Glasgow Botanic Garden is indebted for the living plant. This flowered with us in August, 1828. The more common state of the plant in its native coun- try is to have the panicle and leaves below hairy... _Dr. Watticu seems to consider it possible, that the Lie. sinense of Lourriro may be the same, and observes, that = : poem, Tuoune. and lucidum of Arron, are allied it. : Fig. 1. Front view of a Sieaae: 2, Back view of ditto. 3. Calyx and Pistil. 4. Anther. 5, Section of the Germen.—Magnified. _ an Sra Pub by 3. Curtis, Walworth. July 1. 1829. -¥Iidel?— | ( 2922). : ACACIA LANIGERA. Woo.ty-roppEp ACACIA. Se oe Se cs a ee OO Class and Order. Poryeamia Moneccia. ( Nat. Ord —Leeuminosz. ) Generic Character. Flores polygami. Cal. 4—5-dentatus. Petala 4—5, nunc libera, nune in corollam 4—5-fidam coalita.. Stam. fumero varia, 1O—200. Legumen continuum. D C. Specific Character and. Synonyms. ~ Acdcra* lanigera ; floribus capitatis, capitulis axillaribus, geminis, multifloris ; atdpuilis subulatis, herbaceis, mar- cescentibus ; phyllodiis lanceolato-faleatis, multiner- __ Viis, ramulisque lanatis. aie de Acacta lanigera, Cunningham in Field’s Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales, 'p. 345. Graham in _ Ed. New Phil. Journ. Jan. 1829, p. 385. ead waid.. _ Descr. Shrub erect, aphyllus; branches scarcely angled, “rect ; bark brown and wrinkled, on the young shoots Woolly. Leafstalks (phyllodia) two and a half inches long, four lines broad,) lanceolato-falcate, curved downwards, erved, spreading, stiff, dull green, somewhat woolly, having one gland towards the base on the upper edge, mucronate, mucro rigid, afterwards withering. Stipules Small, subulate, withering. Capitula geminate (sometimes Solitary at the points of the branches), axillary, globular, flowers in each numerous, one spreading to each side ona x peduncle, Sg. ann Ge eae vlan in Greek, (from axafe, to sharpen) applied to some thorny peduncle, which is as long as the stamens, and slightly vil- lous. Bractee ovate, villous, ciliated, marcescent, one sheathing the base of each peduncle, another below each flower, the latter attenuated at the base, and more delicate ~ than the former. Calyx colourless, transparent, adpressed, five-cleft, seements blunt, ciliated. Corolla smooth, twice as long as the calyx, five-cleft; tube transparent, colour- Jess ; limb yellowish, spreading, segments pointed, concave. Stamens (three lines, long) yellow ; anthers small, bilo- bular ; lobes round, bursting by a transverse line on their outer sides. Pistil wanting in most of the flowers, yellow; stigma minute ; style rather longer than the stamens, ob- lique ; germen obscurely pubescent, oval. Granam. This plant was received at the Edinburgh Botanic Gar- den through the kindness of Mr. Arron, from the Royal Garden at Kew, in the beginning of 1828. It had been sent there by Mr. Cunnincuam under the name now given ; and Mr. Cunninenam says of it, in Field’s Memoirs, thatit is “a shrub ireanant on rocky barren ranges in the interior,” between the colony of Port Jackson and the settlement of Bathurst. It flowered freely in January and February. This species probably bears a great resemblance to A. multinervia, D C. only io to me, however, by the de- scriptions in his Memoirs on the Legumrnosa, and in the Prodromus ; but it differs in being provided with stipulz, and in the young branches being less angular. The pedun- cles, too, are probably longer, and the marginal gland, perhaps, nearer the base of the phyllodium. Further, the woolliness of the phyllodia, and more particularly of the young branches, could scarcely have been overlooked ; and as it 1s not mentioned, I presume it is wanting in A. nervia, GRAHAM, — HI del? — Lub be § Cartas Walworth. Faky I. 1829, a ( 2923. ) ERIGERON GLABELLUM. SMOOTHISH-LEAVED ERIGERON. EEK KEKE EEE EEE EE EKER Class and Order. Syncenesia SuPERFLUA. ( Nat. Ord. — Composir2. ) Generic Character. Involucrum imbricatum. Receptaculum nudum. Filos- “a radii ligulati angustissimi. Pappus pilosus seu sea- er: | | te Specific Character and Synonyms. — Ericeron * glabellum ; foliis Janceolatis integerrimis gla- bris ciliatis, radicalibus subspathulatis nervosis, caule involucroque pubescentibus, floribus subcorymbosis, radiis (purpurascentibus) numerosis angusti linearibus. Ericrron glabellum. Nutt. Gen. of N. Am. Pl. 2. 2. p. 148. Richardson in Frankl. First Journ. ed. 2. App. p. 30. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 519. ‘ee Descr. Root perennial, somewhat creeping, throwing out — radicles from beneath. Stems from six to eight inches to a foot high, erect, herbaceous, below purple, green and pubescent and somewhat angular above, where it branches into four to six flower-stalks. Leaves’: those springing fom near the root the longest, spathulate, tapering down- Wards gradually into a footstalk, the rest sessile, lanceolate scarcely * From ; i d an old man; in other pt, early (from x, spring) and, yépwy, vs words, which real old early in the season, The name was given by the reeks to the Genus Sznecio, and by more modern writers, to our present nus, as allied to it. scarcely decurrent, somewhat acute, all of them quite en- tire, glabrous, ciliated at the margin, and the midrib beneath, sometimes pubescent, nerved; the merves almost parallel with the midrib, anastomosing. Peduncles two to four inches long, single flower: flower large, handsome. Involucre hemispherical, of many subulato-lanceolate, pu- bescent, closely imbricating scales. Florets of the ray very numerous, exceedingly narrow, linear, purple, female, but apparently abortive, bidentate at the extremity. Germen oblong, crowned with a pappus of few rough fis Style longer than the tube’of the floret: Stigma bipartite; seg- ments filiform, much spreading. Florets of the disc yellow, tubular, five toothed, perfect. Germen oval-oblong, rough atthe margin. Pappus sessile, rough, of few hairs. Anther scarcely protruded. Stigma bipartite ; its segments some- what incurved. There are few Genera, even in the Natural Order of Com- Posit#, whose species are so difficult to determine as those of Ericeron. Of the present individual, I can confidently say, that it is the E. glabellum of Ricuarpson in FRANKLIN'S Journal, and that it accords sufficiently well with the de- scription of Nurrar, who discovered it on the plains of the Missouri, especially about Fort Mandan, in great abund- ance. Dr. Ricuarpson gathered it in the moods country of British N. America, between the latitudes 54° and 64° North, and Mr. Drummonp, in the second overland Arctic expedi- tion, under the command of Captain Franx1in, found it m the prairies among the rocky mountains, and on the plains of the Saskatchawan. From seeds brought home by that zealous Botanist, our plants were raised at the ee Botanic Garden. They flowered in the autumn of 182, and continued in blossom until Christmas. | - 1. Floret of the Ray. 2, Floret of th i son of a hair of as Pape eee e Dise. 3. Portion — WIE. del? — eC Pub by §. Carits, Walworth. Inky 1 1829, ( 2924 ) GILLIA Gracitis. Sienper GH. — Be a eo ee ee Class and Order: Penranpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord. — Poremonracez. ) Generic Character. Cal. campanulatus, 5-fidus. Cor. infundibuliformis vel hypocrateriformis, quinquefida. Stam. fauci inserta. Stig- ma trifidum. Capsula 3-locularis, 3-valvis, loculis mono- di- polyspermis. | : Specific Character and Synonym. Gita gracilis ; elanduloso-pubescens, caule valde ramoso, foliis lineari-oblongis obtusis, calycis segmentis longis subulatis. aed Cottomra gracilis. Douglas MSS. ‘ee _ Descr. Plant much branched, annual, every where, as 18 the whole plant, clothed with short, glandular hairs. Branches. not unfrequently opposite. Leaves: those of the stem opposite, those of the branches frequently alter- nate, linear-oblong, obtuse, the lower ones inclining to Spathulate, costate, and obscurely nerved. The leaves continue upon the branches up to the flowers, where they become small, and under each calyx become bractez. Flowers crowded towards the extremity of the branches, at length elongated into a raceme. Calyx cylindraceo-campa- ulate ; the tube white, thin, and mem branaceous, with five long, awl-shaped, straight, teeth, which run down the tube and form five broad, green nerves, and clothed with lack glands. Corolla hypocrateriform. Tube long, yel- OWish. Limb of five patent, rose-coloured, oval segments. Stamens inserted within the tube, unequal in thew apo ] tion. Filaments short, white. Anthers oblong, yellow. Pistil: Germen oval, green: ce ie filiform, white: Stigmas three, pubescent. Capsule enclosed in the dry and much enlarged, husky calyx, whose teeth are now spreading ; three-valved, three-celled, three-seeded. Seed semi-oval, brown. oS Discovered by Mr. Davin Dovetas “ on light soils, on the banks of the Spoken river, and on high grounds near Flathead river, in North-West America, flowering in May and June: and by him introduced to the gardens of the Horticultural Society, where it flowered in 1827 and 1828. From thence, the specimens here figured were liberally communicated. oe Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil. 4. Calyx, including the ripe Fruit. 5, Capsule. 6, Section of ditto. 7,8. Seeds.—Magnified. Cub by S Cardio Pep errrth fapte 182° ( 2925 ) CLERODENDRON EMIRNENSE. SMALL-FLOW- ERED MADAGASCAR CLERODENDRON. Class and Order. Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Verpenacez. ) Generic Character. _ Cal. 5-fidus (nunc. 5-dentatus). Cor. tubo cylindrico; limbo 5-partito, patenti, laciniis subequalibus. Stam. pate faucem inserta, exserta, adscendentia: antherarum oculis parallelis. Bacca pyrenis 4, monospermis. Br. “Specific Character and Synonym. CLERODENDRON * emirnense ; foliis oppositis ternatisque ovatis acutis basi in petiolum brevem’attenuatis inte- Serrimis vel grosse serratis, corymbis terminalibus, corolle tubo gracili staminibus duplo breviore, denti- bus calycinis minutis. ~ 3 ? LERODENDRON emirnense. Bojer MSS. ‘=e Dzscr. A much branching shrub, from ten to twenty feet high, subject to much variation in the stems and leaves. The branches sometimes opposite, sometimes verticillate, elongated, flexuose, dotted, and slightly pubescent. Leaves in the younger plants or branches, opposite, in the older Ones ternate or quaternate, from one to two inches or more _ 1 length, ovate or oblongo-ovate, shortly acuminate, en- _ Ure or grossly serrated, the base attenuated into oy ——— es From «anos, lot, or fortune, and delpor, a tree; and given to this Genus in allusion to the saleniey on dangerous ria of the different species which -~ wv it. Thus, the Cu. fortunatum is useful in medicine ; while the Cu. calamitosum and infortunatum are the reyerse, Tnéts. petiole, above dark green and minutely scabrous, beneath paler, veined. Corymbs of flowers terminal, of a pale purplish or flesh colour, almost white. Peduncles much branched, pubescent, aud the pedicels bearing two or three linear bractee. Calyx persistent, short, with five, small acute teeth. Corolla salver-shaped: the tube long, curved ; limb of five, nearly equal, spreading lobes. Stamens four, inserted just within the mouth of the tube; two a little shorter, and reaching to twice the length of the tube of the corolla. Style a little shorter than the stamens: stigma acute. Berry glabrous, globose, included within the some- what enlarged calyx, yellowish, four-seeded. Discovered by Professor Boyer in waste and mountain- ous places about Tananarivou, the capital of the province of Emirne, in the interior of Madagascar. Seeds were com- municated by that gentleman and by C. Trxrair, Esq. to Mr. Barctay, at Bury Hill, in whose stove the plants pro- duced blossoms in the month of February, 1824. From these our drawing was made : but it is only fair to observe, that I have lately received from Mrs. Terrair a beautiful drawing of this plant, made in the Mauritius, from which it is evident, that the plant as it advances in age becomes Jarger in all its parts, especially in the leaves, which are twice or thrice the size of those here figured. | I have adopted the name communicated to Mr. Barciay along with the seeds, by Mr. Bogzr. , Fig. 1. Flower, 2, Fruit. 3. Section of the Fruit.—Magnified. WV, 2026. SwWAaAwS?C Pubs by 8 Curtes Walworth: Aug? L829. PY @revittedett ( 2926 ) _Bonatea speciosa. Snowy BonatTza. KEK EEK REE EEE EERE EKER ESE Class and Order. Gynanpri4 Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord. — Orcuipez. ) Generic Character. Corolla 5-petala, ringens, petalo superiore fornicato. La- bellum basi subtus calcaratum. Stylus alatus. Anthere loculamenta ad marginem ale styli. Willd. Specific Name and Synonyms. Bonatea* speciosa. | Bonarra speciosa. Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. p. 43. Persoon, Synop. Pl. ii. 506. _ Lodd. Bot. Cab. t.284. Sprengel, Syst. Veget. iii. 694. Orcuis speciosa. Thunb. Prodr. p. 4. Linn. Suppl. 401. - Swartz, Act. Holm. 1800, p. 206. _Descr. “ Roots fascicled.”. Whole plant (one and a half foot igh) erect. Stem jointed, joints swelling a little upwards, round. Caves (four inches and a half long, two broad), sheathing, ovate, spreading on all sides, undulate, reflected at the apex, coriaceous, smooth and shining, deep green above, lighter and irregularly stained with rusty spots below, collected towards the upper part of the stem, the lower part of which is only cased in black, decayed sheaths ; middle-rib strong, and prominent behind, with four to eight much smaller lateral nerves. Spike (seven inches long, five road) terminal, erect, many-flowered. Bractee large, ale green, ovate, attenuated at the base, acuminate, smaller upwards. — ascending obliquely on all sides, nearly sessile ; their perfume pret —_ resembling that of the orange flower, but more faint. i crianth of three, membranous, nerved, pointed, green segments ; of which the upper is cucullate, the two lower ovate, oblique, ‘preading, undulate, reflected at the apex, and whitish on their in- ner side. Inner Perianth three-parted ; the two upper segments ;“trow, membranous, linear, pointed, green, as long as the cucul- late Portion of the whter péviant along the edges of which they e near the base, a are laid, and each has, arising from its upper edg i iform, erect, straight, whive appendage, about half ee . Fa ower segment (labellum) fleshy, unequally a fale Ye; the lateral portions separated to the base, are sprea aon > — . * So named by Witupgnow, in honor’ of Bonaro, a celebrated Botanist, ee Wadi. cate, acute, pure white, the reflected apex — with green, the inner part thick and fleshy, the outer, especially towards the apex, reduced to a thin edge; below these, and rather less deeply sepa- rated, are two white, shorter segments, ofsimilar structure to them, but, from their thin edge being convolute, they appear like two parallel, nearly straight cylinders, distilling honey from their ex- tremities, and projecting downwards upon the surface of the cen- tral lobe, which is the longest of any, and is cleft into three long, green, linear, flexuose segments; while from its base, in the centre of the flower, rises ashort, white, blunt, slightly curved, cylindrical tooth, round which, and round the mouth of the spur, a fold of the perianth passes, connecting to each other the bases of the con- volute segments. The two lower segments of the outer perianth are connate at the base with the inner. Between the bases of the first and second portion of the labellum, there is on each side a short, broad, subcrenate, fleshy scale. Spur (an inch and a quar- ter long) blunt, flattened, nearly straight, shorter than the germen, green. Stamen green, cucullate, placed under the hood of the outer perianth. Pollen-Masses two, marginal, spathulato-elliP tical, flattened bi-parted, yellow, granular, on long, elastic p cels, which enlarge at their upper extremities, and arise from @ little adhesive scale, which, asin other Orcu1pE4%, attaching itself firmly to any body that is brought into contact with it, causes the pollen-mass to be readily drawn from the flower ; segments of the peace nae somewhat concave on their inner side, granules large, oose, and attached only to the outside of the segment, Anther- cases greatly attenuated at their bases, projecting forwards like two teeth in the middle of the flower, partly covered by the re- flected edge of a white, ciliated cucullus, which rises in front of the anther-case, and is much larger than it. This investing fold of its edge passes backwards, and terminates on each side in the fleshy scale, between the base of the first and second segments 0 the labellum. Germen (about two inches long) longer than the spur, green, twisted, unilocular. Ovula minute, very numerous, white, naked, forming two waved lines nearly the whole length of the germen, on each of three parietal receptacles. his rare plant, the solitary species of a genus presenting a very complicated form of flower, is a native of the Cape of Hope- Here, and I suspect in other cases among the Orchidew, the sud den abstraction of the pollen-mass, by the adhesion of the scale at the base of its pedicel to the finger of the examiner, has give? rise to the belief that it starts out from an elastic power. The pedi- cel, when forcibly extended, contracts from elasticity, but never forces the pollen-mass from its case, otherwise than by dra it after a substance to which the scale at its base had adhered. The specimen described was kindly communicated to the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, by Mr. Arron, from the rich collec tion at Kew, in 1826. It has been always kept in the stove, I soil containing a large proportion of peat, and flowered very freely both last year and this in March and April. The flow’ remain expanded for a considerable time. Graham. — ee ee et Fig. 1. Flower, from which the three outer Segments of the Perianth a Ae moved, 2. Column of Fructification and peat g 3. Section of the Col a and of the base of the Spur. 4,.Anther and Stigma, 5. P ollen-Mass: Mannikna eee WI delt W207 ( 2927 ) -Maxittaria Harrisonia. Mrs. Harrison’s MAXILiaria. ASRS HSS seiootok Class and Order. Gynanpria Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord —Onrcuipez. ) Generic Character. Perianthium, patens, resupinatum. Labellum cum ro Cessu unguiformi columne articulatum, trilobum. Foliola lateralia exteriora basibus cum processu column connata. Pollinia 4, basibus connata, glandulosa (vel 2, pedicellata, pedicello basi glanduloso.) Herbe parasitica, bulbose, Americe meridionalis. Racemi (vel scapi uniflori), radi- cales. Lindl. Specific Character and Synonyms. Maxitrarra * Harrisonie ; foliis solitariis lanceolatis pli- catis, racemo bifloro, perianthio maximo cerino pa- tente, labelli venosi disco glanduloso-piloso, lobis recurvis crispis. Lindl. , AXILLARIA Harrisonia. Bot. Reg. t. 897. ENDRoBIuM Harrisoniew. Hook. Ex. FI. t. 120. Corax Harrisonie. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 727. Descr. This beautiful plant, which I had the pleasure of naming in c ompliment to Mrs. Arnotp Harrison, of Aigburgh, has an oblong, attenuated bulb, clothed at the € with a coarse reticulated sheath, and having at the extremity a lanceolate, somewhat waved. or ara cal, bearing two flowers and the rudiment ofa th ae ‘% —=== === _ * Named by Ruiz and Pavyon from the resemblance of the Labellum to the J@W of an animal, with sheathing scales at the joints. Flowers very large and handsome. ‘The three outer segments of the orl are spreading, oval, the two lower ones united for their whole length at the back, and tapering down into a sharpish point, which embraces the lower part of the corolla, with its invo- lute margins. The color of the three outer segments is yellow brown, tinged more deeply at the extremity: the two inner ones are rather smaller than the outer, yellowish, all of them rather thick and fleshy. zp large, standing nearly erect, and parallel with the column, narrow at the base, and yellowish, broad upwards, cut into three large lobes, beautifully, marked with purple veins and pubescent; of these the two lateral lobes are incurved, the extreme one waved, recurved, and obscurely two-lobed. Within, the lip is wholly striated with red lines, except in the middle, where is a large orange-coloured gland, and hairy. Column long, adnate for nearly its whole length, and uniting to- gene the base of all the petals. Anther operculiform, -celled. Pollen Masses in two pairs, each pair consisting of a larger and a smaller one, attached to the extremity of a bifid, large, white, gland, having a duplicature at the base. Germen long, cylindrical, or a little thickened up- wards, scarcely striated. Mr. Linpiezy has rightly determined this plant to pao to the Genus Maximraria. As to the species, it varies Wi one or two flowers on the scape, and these flowers are cet- tainly among the largest of the Genus. They yield too, a faint scent resembling that of the Primrose. I had over- looked in my figure in Exotic Flora, the gland at the base of the pollen-masses, which, indeed, adheres so closely to the top of the column, that it is not easily separated. It 1s, however, remarkable for its great size. el Fig. 1. Lip. 2, Upper side of 2 - Under- side of ditto.—Magnified, ide of the Pollen-Masses and Gland. 3 WITH del? Pub. by 8 Curtis Walworth, Aug?llg29 NH 2928. ) Nerves, destitute of gland at ( 2928 ) AcaciA Oxyceprus. Downy-stemMeEp ACACIA. EREEER EERE EEE EEE EEE Class and Order. PotYcamra Monaicra. ( Nat. Ord:—eeagantiaiiis. } Generic Charaeter. _ Flores polygami. Cal. 4—5-dentatus. Pet. A—5, nunc libera, nunc in corollam 4—5-fidam coalita. Stam. numero pote 10—200. Legumen continuum, exsuccum, bivalve. Wee a ee Specific Character and Synonyms. Acacta * Oxycedrus; stipulis subulatis, ‘petiolis lanceolatis acuminato-pungentibus sparsis glabris trinerviis eglan- dulosis, spicis axillaribus solitariis, floribus 4-fidis, ramis velutinis. ae O<-= @ Acacta Oxycedrus. Steb. Pl. Exs. Nov, Holl.n.457. De ; _ Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 453. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 136, ae Acacta taxifolia. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1225. (non Willd.) Tee ie ‘ee : Descr. An upright, crowing pants with very downy branches, and ph en ‘ied: dark green, scattered, peti- oan hich are lanceolate, wie, st eee ot int, with three distinct and p glabrous, marked with thr Suania™ Atthe base of € petiole j bulate, soft, small, and brownis © petiole is a pair of subulate, soft, sm ee geaam sti ul a : Pe + litar > a pules Spikes of ae eon: solitary Salas ea wi iia ae See ee tithe From axaxie of DioscoripEs, which was considered to be a ages we Taz’ and a kind of Thorn: or axatw, to point or sharpen: or, acco * HEIs, from ac, in Celtic, which signifies a point. inches long, yellow. Rachis pubescent. Calyx quadrifid, having a small pubescent bractea at the base. Corolla. quadrifid, the segments spreading. Stamens very numerous: Anthers subglobose. -Pistil: Germen oval, pubescent: Style filiform, flexuose: Stigma an obtuse point. Seeds of this plant were sent to the Glasgow Botanic Garden from New Holland by Mr. Fraser: who detected the species in the Blue Mountains. Sreser has publish- ed it among his beautiful “ Specimens of New Holland Plants,” under the name which I have here adopted. The Acacia taxifolia of WititpENow seems to be a very different plant, and a native of Cochin China. It flowers in the greenhouse in the month of May. _ Fig. 1. Single Flower. 2. Pistil. 3. Leaf, with its accompanying Sti- _ pules,—Magnijied, N 2929. f \ X AY > vagy a “i ¥ Wiidel? Pub by § Curtis. Walworth, Anat B29 € 2929 ) CEsTRUM ALATERNOIDES. ALATERNUS-LEAVED CEsTRUM. eovgigl ois oo Se es os OO ON ON OO OR ON Os OO, Class and Order. Pentanpria Monoeyntia. ( Nat. Ord.—Soranea. ) Generic Character. Cal. tubuloso-campanulatus, 5-dentatus. : Cor. infundi- buliformis, limbo plicato, 5-fido. Stam. tubo inserta, sub- denticulata. Bacca 1-locularis, polysperma. Specific Character and Synonyms. oe Cestrum * alaternoides; fruticosum, filamentis denticulatis, foliis alternis ovatis undulatis coriaceis nitidis, racemis subsessilibus. . Ree Cesrrum alaternoides. “ Cat. Hort. Par. 70.” Hamilt. Prodr. Pl. Ind. Occ. p. 25. — Pec ‘eee Descr. An upright, much branched, glabrous shrub d ving numerous, alternate, subsessile leaves, an inch an a half to two inches long, ovate, coriaceous, much waved, quite entire, obtuse, with a distinct midrib and Ley om nerves, dark green above and glossy, paler beneath. 1 Z ers rarely solitary, mostly in short and nearly sessile 6 femes, most crowded towards the extremities of the branches. Pedicels with a small, oblong, slightly ag 98 pubescent bractea. Calyx nearly cylindrical, with five Short, upright teeth. Corolla infundibuliform, pale yello a | é _/— green rd — | From soz be formerly given to the Betony : po, a Greek name supposed to 3 tnd the flowers of the present Genus have often the appearance of *ranged in the same way. reen, with a rather long and almost straight tube: limb cleft into five spreading, ovato-lanceolate segments, having the margins thickened. Stamens inserted just above the tube, within the faux. Filaments short, with a small blunt tooth at the base: Anthers roundish. Germen small, glo- bose: Style filiform : Stigma dilated and concave.. Received at the Glasgow Botanic Garden from the late Baron de Suack, as a native of Trinidad. It seems en- tirely to agree with the C. alaternoides of Dr. Wmu1AM Hamirron, in the work above quoted, which is, I believe, the only one in which it has been described. 7 It requires the heat of the stove, and in that situation, it flowers very early in the spring. Fig. 1. Single Flower. 2. Pistil. 3. Stamen.—Magnified. 2950. $aTR ELM Vah Feat* swan’ Pub bys Curtic Waku 2 e 4 Curtie Walworth: Aug? L829 . STENOCHILUS VIscosus. ‘CLamMMy STENO- ned book: CHILUS. 3 Class andl Order. if DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA. | iFa5 ( Nat. Ord.— Myoporin&. | Br. ) in : Generic Character. oe: “Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. ringens; labio superiore erecto, semiquadrifido ; inferiore’ indiviso, angusto, deflexo. Stam. didynama, exserta. Ovariwm'4-loculare, Joculis mono- spermis. Stigma obtusum, indivisum. Drupa baccata, 4- locularis. © Semina solitaria. uy ¢ : Frutices glabriusculi; v. tomento tenuissimo cinerascen- tes. Folia alterna, sepius integra, avenia. Pedunculi solitarti, uniflori, ebracteati. Flores purpuret v. flavicantes. Drupe putamen abortione sepe biloculare. Br. | Specific Character and Synonym. iso SteNocuinus * viscosus ;. foliis ‘ovato-lanceolatis | serratis postice integerrimis ee nitidis viscosis, flori- _bus axillaribus solitariis. Graham.’ = — Stenocuitus viscosus. Graham in Edinb. Phil. Journ. es Descr. Shrub erect, bark brown and smooth ; young branches subangular, scabrous, glutinous, green. Leaves (One inch and a half long,) scattered, ovat -lanceolate, sub- acute, coriaceous, rigid, suberect, slightly concave, gluti- hous, shining, bluntly and distantly serrated in their a * vrhon tess Slender, and xtihos, a lip: The lower lip of the corolla being pecu- liarly narrow. half, entire behind, obscurely and sparingly veined, midrib blunt, and slightly prominent below. Flowers solitary, axillary, collected towards the extremities of the shoots, longer than the leaves. Peduncles three lines long, green, filiform. Calyx half an inch long, green, five-cleft, seg- ments subulate, glutinous within and without, the upper broadest and longest, the two lateral ones shorter and nar- rower than those below. Corolla above an inch long, yel- low, ringent, curved, pubescent both within and without, the hairs distilling from their extremities a viscid, colour- less fluid, bilabiate; upper lip very broad, and folded down, by the sides of the teal four toothed, teeth subulate, — those at the sides reflected, and their apices approaching behind the two in the centre, which are erect, with their apices somewhat spreading ; lower lip much more narrow, linear, entire, blunt, revolute, tube inflated at its base, nec- tariferous. Stamens didynamous, arising from the inflated portion of the tube, exserted, (projecting half an inch be- yond the corolla) ; filaments thread-like, nearly straight, yellow, inserted into the back of the anthers; anthers ob- long, bilobular, with a rounded, continuous border ; lobes bursting in front; pollen yellow. Stigma minute, blunt, cleft, greenish. Style purple, filiform, (four and a half lines) longer than the stamens, over which it is curved. —— ovate, slightly flattened, yellow, greenish towards its apex. This “species is a native of New Holland, from whence seeds were imported by F. Hencuman, Esq. and plants raised by Mr. Mackay, in his nursery at Clapton, along with many other additions to our greenhouses from the same quarter. The specimen above described was kindly communicated by him to the Royal Botanic Garden, Edin- burgh, in October last. It fl vorinning of March. Graham. : owered in the beginning a Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil. 3. : F 4. Section of ditto, magnified. Young Fruit, nat. size. WV, 2801. Wr oF Hitet* Pub.by 8 Curtis: Walwerth. Aig? 11829 Swear Se C 2931 ) EULOPHIA STREPTOPETALA. T'wISsTED- PETALED EULOPHIA. BEEEEEEEE EEE EEE EEE Class and Order. GynanpriA Monanpri. ( Nat. Ord. — Orcuinez. ) - Generic Character. Petala 5, distincta, conformia, adsendentia, patentia. Labellum basi calearatum ; lamina sessili, cristata, triloba, postice indivisa. Masse pollinis 2, bilobe, lobulo postico. r. Specific Character and Synonym. Evtornia* streptopetala ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis nervosis, scapis simplicibus, sepalis exterioribus oblongis obtusis, interioribus duplo majoribus coloratis basi tortis, la- belli lobo medio rotundato (emarginato ?): calcare conico abbreviato. Lindley. Evtopnia streptopetala. Bot. Reg. t. 1002. Descr. Bulb (three inches long, one broad) ovate and Somewhat elongated, green and smooth, but cased in the Withered bases of the leaves. Leaves (one foot long, one inch broad), bright green, equitant, articulated above their dilated bases by which they ensheath the bulb, strongly nerved, plicate, linear-lanceolate, about seven perfect, and two or three on the outside, having the dilated bases ma: Scape (three feet high), rising from the base of the bulb, erect, jointed, with alternate, marcescent pointed sheaths Tsing from the joints. Spike were Bre gm evolved before the leaves on the bulb which produced it decayed, and after the leaves of a new bulb had nearly attained their full size. ractee resembling diminished sheaths, ovate, pointed, equal in length to the germen. Flowers single, inodorus, handsome. External perianth of three segments, reflected, ovate, acuminate, contracted at the base, obscurely nerved, Steen and irregularly spotted with brown within ; internal Pertanth of two segments, similar in form to the — —=== * Eyaoos, on account of the crest of the labellum. ee but rather broader, and blunt'with a smaller point, project- ing forwards, nearly horizontal, bright yellow on the out- side, paler within. “Labellwm articulated at the base of the column, of three segments, the two lateral the smallest, erect, broad and blunt, reflected’ in the edge, pale yellow on the outside, brownish within, with a few dark streaks at the base, crenate where it joins the central lobe, which is subrotund, reflected at the sides, crisped, but entire at the edge, excepting at the apex, where it is subcrenate, on the outside having nearly the same colour with the outside of the inner perianth, but darker and somewhat orange within, thicker than any other part of the perianth, all of which is somewhat fleshy, the green outer segments ‘the least so. Spur very short, straight, conical, but gibbous on both sides towards the apex. Column projecting horizontally into the centre of the flower, nearly white, clavato-oblong, thick and fleshy, rounded above, flat below. Anther-case terminal, pear-shaped, emarginate, having two cysts for the pollen-masses, and in the middle. of each an imperfect lon- gitudinal septum. Pollen-Masses two, waxy, orange, peat- shaped, furrowed on the side ext the anther-case for the reception of the imperfect septum, simple, arising by @ common, thin, colourless, oblong pedicel longer than them- selves, froma scale of similarappearance, oval, and glutinous. Germen (one inch long) rather slender, green, twisted, fur- rowed, flat on one side, rounded on the other. In one of the flowers on our specimen, there is a remark- able mansions: One of the segments of the inner perl: anth is reflected, and assumes the appearance of the outer perianth, and on each. side of the perfect anther there is aD abortive but distinct appearance of two others, making the whole number five. Mr. Brown remarks, that the appeal” ance of one. abortive stamen on each side of the perfect one in many Orcuiwex, brings them within the ternary arrang® ment so common in monocotyledonous plants ; and Dr- Hooker shows, that in Erienprum fuscatum, Bot. Mag. 2844, the three anthers are all perfected ; but the singular monstrosity which I have noticed, would show that the tea- dency exists to carry our plant forward to the quinaly arrangement of DicoryLepongs. | We received our plant in 1828 from the garden at Kew, where so much has been done lately to extend the high re- nulanon f iat pohie collection. “It has been kept in the » and flowered in Apri ing ina O pieces of bark. Graham. DFM ERQIRE AP AP On 97 " oo Fig. 1. Front view of a Flower, fro: : Labellum is removed. 2. Labellum. 3, Pollen-Mass,— Magnified. —— “ 2002. ! 4 x N fa = & ‘ rd > Ey E Lo ad fe ae ae mld ( 2932 ) PONTEDERIA AZUREA. LARGE-FLOWERED PoNTEDERIA. DR a ee Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Ponreperes. Rich. ) Generic Character. Cor. 6-fida, ringens. Stam. tria longiora ori, tria basi corolle inserta. Stylus declinatus. Caps. carnosa, trilocu- Spr. Specific Character and Synonyms. Ponreperra* azurea ; foliis rhombeis cordatisque, petiolis incrassatis intus cellulosis. Ponreperra azurea. Swartz Fl. Ind. Occ. v. 1. p. 609. Humb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Sp. v. 1. p. 212. (ed. in fol.) Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 22. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v.2.p.42. Relig. Hank. fasc. IL p. 116. Powreperia crassipes. Mart. in Nov. Gen. et Sp. Bras. v. tap. 0: 7° eee Descr. Whole plant, as cultivated in the aquarium of the stove, floating upon the surface of the water ; the roots hot descending to the bottom ; and these are exceedingly humerous, many of them thick and fleshy, and sent out horizontally, apparently for the ——_ of producing new Plants, whilst others are more slender, exceedingly long, and clothed with numerous long, horizontal fibres. ~~ roo’ =—_—_—_ * In honor of Junius Ponrepera, a Professor of Botany at Padua, during the beginning of the last century. root has a calyptrate covering at the extremity, similar to that found on the roots of the Duck-weeds (Lemnz). The Plant is stemless ; and, immediately above the roots, there rises a tuft of spreading, beautifully green leaves, almost entirely emersed: these leaves vary considerably in shape, sometimes almost rotundate, sometimes rhomboid, often quite cordate, acute, or not unfrequently obtuse at the point, having numerous nerves, which are nearly straight in the middle of the leaf, but which, towards the sides follow their curvature. Petioles various in length, all of them more or less thickened and inflated below the middle; the longest ones the least so: internally, they are remark- ably cellular, the cells filled with air, which no doubt assist the plant in floating. At their base are sheath- ing, large scales, at first green, then brown. Scape about a foot long, having sheathing scales at and above the middle, waved at the margin, and one of these is gener- ally terminated with one leaf, small, otherwise resembling that of the root. Flowers in a large, lax, and most beau- tiful spike ; ten or twelve on each scape; and inserted - _ upon an angular rachis. Tube of the perianth long, — cur ved, pubescenti-glandular, white, greenish at the base, where it is jointed upon the rachis, and accompanied bya small, deciduous bractea. Limb of six, oblongo-obovate segments, pubescent at the base externally, the rest gla- brous ; the coloura pale delicate purple ; the five lower segments nearly equal in size; the uppermost larger, with a blue cloud, or stain in the middle, and in the centre of it is an oblong, bright yellow spot. Stamens inserted within the tube, three short and three long, all curved upwards towards the extremity, and bearing a bluish-yellow, oblong, two-celled anther: Filaments of a lilac-colour, with nU- merous, pellucid, pedicellated glands. Germen superior, oblong, glabrous, green, with three furrows, tapering UP- wards into a long, white style, which is glandular : Stigma capitate, ¢landulose, white. ‘The number of cells in the germen is three, and the ovules are numerous, al- tached to the central angles of the cells without any pror minent receptacles, This most curious and beautiful of plants has, I believe, for. some years been cultivated in our stoves, and was intro- duced by Mr. Arrox to the Royal Gardens, at Kew; and, if I mistake not, from Brazil. To that gentleman we are lr debted for the possession of our plants in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where they flowered in great perform in July, 1829, immediately on being removed from a small tub to the larger aquarium of the stove. Every where, I believe, in our collections, this plant has been cultivated under the name of PonrEepErtiA crassipes, in consequence of that name having been brought more immediately into notice-by the beautiful figure (in Sprx and Martius’ Genera and Species of Brazilian plants) of his P. crassipes. But if that plant be constant in the colour of its flowers, as there represented, to the absence of the glands on the filaments of the stamens, and to the presence of them of a violet black colour on the germen, as there described, ours must be distinct, and is, I think, quite identical with the P. azurea of Swartz. The flowers ofour plant become quite blue when dry, which may ac- count for Swarrz’s name. Humsoxpr describes the colour more correctly, from specimens gathered in New Grenada. Our valued friend Mr. Parwer sent us from Demerara dried specimens, which had the flowers apparently wholly blue ; but a coloured sketch of the flower, made from the living plant, was in every respect like those here figured. Hanxe met with the species at Guayakil, and Dr. Giuuies 1n pools of water at Buenos Ayres. The plant must, therefore, have a very extensive geographical range, and seems to hold the place in South America, that PonrepERiA cor- data does in the Northern part of that vast continent. SS Sie a er Fig. 1. Anther and portion of the Filament. 2. Pistil. 3. Section of the Germen. 4, Leaves aa Root. 5. Detached Leaf,—All but fig. 4 and 5 more or less magnified. 2933 pate?’ | ( 2933 ) MITELLA PENTANDRA. FiIvrE-sTAMENED ~ MYTeELLA. CO eS a ie Class and Order. Decanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord. —Saxirracesx. ) Generic Character. Calyx 5-fidus, superus. Pet. 5, pinnatifida. Stam. nunc : Stigmata 2, sessilia. “Capsula unilocularis, bivalvis, obtusa. Specific Character. Mrreria * pentandra ; pubescenti -scabra, foliis cordato- lobatis crenatis, floribus pentandris, filamentis brevis- simis, stigmatibus bilobis. a . Descr. Root perennial, oblique, rather thick, and throw- ms-out numerous, branched jibres, bearing, at its upper _ €xtremity, many leaves, all of them radical, and inter- _ Spersed with many brown, ovate, shining, membranaceous _ Scales. ~The form of these leaves is cordate ; they are lobed _ atthe margin, with from five to seven rounded, crenated, _ & crenato-serrated lobes, having many scattered, or rather Mgid hairs. Petioles generally longer than the leaves, Somewhat hispid. Among the leaves, there arise from the foot also, many flower-stalks or scapes, four or five times Snger than the leaves, erect, slender, downy at the base, and here and there below the middle, having a few brown, Concave scales. Flowers in racemes, which are erect, ie the SS % ‘ From mitra, amitre ; the two-valved capsule bearing some resemblance 0 little mitre. the extremity of the scapes, which become elongated as the fructification advances to maturity. Pedicels very short, downy. Calyx having its tube obconical and adnate with the germen, downy, the limb or free portion deeply cleft ‘into five triangular, reflected segments, green. Corolla of five, pectinated, yellow, reflexed petals, alternating with the segments of the calyx, and inserted at their sinuses, the segments few, and very slender, opposite. Stamens only five, inserted just at the base of the petals. Filament ex- tremely short, incurved, shorter than the anther, which is subglobose, two-celled, yellow. Germen immersed in the tube of the calyx, its upper, and almost flattened extremity being alone free. Stigmas two, sessile, bilobed, downy. Capsule invested by the persistent calyx and petals, top- shaped, opening at the extremity between the stigmas, into two short, but very spreading valves, which lie back so much as to expose the seeds entirely, long before they are ready to be dispersed. ‘These are attached to two oppo- site, longitudinal and parietal receptacles. : Raised in the Botanic Gardens both of Edinburgh and Glasgow, from seeds brought from the Rocky Mountains of North America, by Mr. Drummonp. The plant as may be supposed is perfectly hardy: blossoming early in June, and scattering its numerous polished-black seeds before the end of that month. Notwithstanding the reduced number of stamens in this plant, the short filaments, and the two-lobed stigma, so en- tirely has it the habit and every essential character of - Mrrexza, that I am unwilling to separate it from that Genus. The petals are very beautiful, always reflexed, and of a rather rigid texture. - —— =. Fig. 1. Unexpanded Flower. 2. Flower fully opened. 3. Petal. 4, Stamen. 5. Capsule, with its Valyes burst, and including the Seeds.—All more or less magnified. Lith by S Cardis Smart Nalworth Sep * L/§29 @: 2934 ) DraBa AvuREA. GoLDEN-FLOWERED WuitTLow Grass. SH ebsbobokekekokslesesakok Class and Order. TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA,. ( Nat. Ord. — Crucirerz. ) Generic Character. Silicula integra, ovalis: valvis planis v. convexiusculis ; loculis polyspermis. Semina immarginata : cotyledonibus accumbentibus. Filamenta edentula. Br. Specific Character and Synonyms. Draza * aurea ; pubescens, caule erecto simplici folioso, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acutis integris dentatisque, co- rymbis terminalibus axillaribusque, siliculis oblongo- lanceolatis pubescentibus pedicello triplo- longioribus, petalis emarginatis. Draza aurea. ‘“ Vahl.” Horn. Fl. Dan. ». 9. t. 1460. De Cand. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 350. Prodr. v. 1. p. 170. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 875. ; ue, Descr. Root apparently biennial. Stem inclined at the » then erect, simple, stout in proportion to the size of the plant, pubescenti-hirsute, leafy. Leaves among the largest of the species, often an inch and more long, sessile, ovato-lanceolate, the lowermost ones crowded and slightly tapering below, the rest alternate, erecto-patent, entire, or frequently, especially in the cultivated plant, having re- mote >. iven to the Whitlow * From pan, of Droscoripes, a name supposed eae prices acrid or Gr 888, or to some allied plant, Linnavus says t rv iting, mote teeth or serratures at the margin, acute, obscurely nerved, on both sides pubescent with branched _hairs. -Corymbs of several flowers, axillary, from the upper leaves, and terminal. The axillary flowers in the wild specimens are not unfrequently reduced to a single blossom, as re- a, in the Flora Danica. Peduncles pubescenti- irsute, as are the pedicels, which are shorter than the calyx. Calyx with scattered patent hairs. Petals spathu- late, bright yellow, notched at the extremity. Germen subcylindrical, with the style about one quarter its length. Stigma two-lobed. Pouch oblongo-lanceolate, the valves plane, pubescent. Seeds numerous. Hitherto this species has only been known upon the authority of Vanz and Horneman asa native of Greenland. We have now the satisfaction of numbering it among the plants of the continent of North America, and likewise too, as a denizen of our gardens: it having been found by Mr. -Drummonp upon the summits of the Rocky Mountains; whence have been derived the seeds from which our flow- ering specimens were produced in the Botanic Gardens, both of Edinburgh and Glasgow. ——> Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal. 3. Stamens, 4. Pistil. 5. Pouch, with the Valves separating from the Dissepiment, : Lub by N. Curtes Walwertl: Sep? LI829 ~( 2935 +) TRADESCANTIA CRASSULA. WHutItE-FLow- ERED TRADESCANTIA. Se eo es i as oe Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeynta. — ( Nat. Ord.—Comme.inez. ) Generic Character. — Cal. et Cor. profunde 3-partita. Filamenta subvillosa. Caps. 3-locularis. Spr. : Specific Character and Synonyms. | Travescanria* erassula; caule ascendente ramoso glabro, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis nitidis glaberrimis integer- rimis nervosis vaginisque ciliatis, umbellis termina- libus, filamentis basi villosis. ; Trapescanria crassula. Link in Litt. Graham in Edin. Phil. Journ. Oct. 1828, p. 387. abe =e . Descr. Stem three feet long, stout, succulent, ascend- mg, rooting at the joints, smooth and shining, green, occasionally purple, especially at the joints. Leaves four to nine inches long, one to two broad, alternate, fleshy, ob ongo-lanceolate, mucronate when young, but soon Withering at the tip, bent back, slightly channelled in the Middle, and reflexed at the sides, naked and shining on th sides, sheathing, ciliated, especially when young, and at the base: sheaths half an inch long, shortest in the ‘Upper leaves, ciliated, adpressed. Umbels simple, many- flowered —___. * After Joan TRADESCANT, an Englishman, and a great patron of Botany Y mn the seventeenth century. flowered, axillary, peduncled, the uppermost but one gener- - ally sessile, solitary, or two together, of unequal heights ; involucrum of two opposite, unequal, ovate leaflets, resem- bling the ordinary leaves of the plant. Peduncles one to three inches long, angular, straight, smooth, and shining. Pedicels full half an inch long, like the peduncles, but re- flected when the flower has faded. Calyx of three green, boat-shaped, spreading leaflets, hairy upon the whole of their outer surface, except at the narrow, transparent, mem- branous edge ; hairs tapering, simple, transparent, colour- less, arising from slight, glandular elevations. Corolla little more than half an inch across, of three flat, spreading, ovate petals, pure white, and twice as long as the calyx, every where smooth. Stamens six, erect, shorter than the corolla ; Filaments colourless, smooth, excepting at the base, where each is surrounded with a tuft of jointed, co- lourless hairs, as long as itself. Anthers orange-coloured, kidney-shaped, loculaments distant, bursting at the edge ; pollen yellow. Pistil single, white ; Stigma small ; Style longer than the stamens, tapering both above and below ; Germen obovate, trigonous, trilocular. GraHam. This plant was received by Dr. Granam, at the Edin- burgh Botanic Garden, from Berlin, under the name of Trapescantia crassula of Linx, in 1828, and it blossomed in the stove in the months of December and January fol- lowing. We are ignorant of its native country. ——— Fig. 1. Bud. 2.3. Flower. 4. Stamen. 5. A Hair from the Filament of ditto. 6. Pistil, 7. Section of the Germen. 2656, Sinise i epee Soa ak Geel fyatle™ > 2 —.) CED a MoReeeny Ber ae #7 LfP9 p 7 6 Halnorvs deRP 5 LIDGE. WIHdel* Pub by 3. Cortes. halyorth, be, C 2936 ) - ANDROMEDA HyPNoIpEs. HYPNUM-LIKE ANDROMEDA. Se Sie Sie Os OR OS OS OR Class and Order. Decanpria Monoeyni. ( Nat. Ord —Enricines. ) Generic Character. Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. sub-campanulata, limbo reflexo. Antheree bicornes. Caps. 5-locularis, marginibus valvarum nudis, columna centrali quinquelobo. Spr. Specific Character and Synonyms. AnDRomepa* hypnoides; pedunculis solitariis unifloris ter- minalibus, corolla campanulata 5-fida laciniis obtusis _ Conniventibus, stylo ovato-acuminato, foliis imbricatis pluriseriatis erectis subulatis. Graham. AnpRomepa hypnoides. Linn. Succ. p. 355. Sp. Pl. 9.1. Pp. 563. Fl. Lapp. p. 165. t. 1. f. 3. Willd. Sp. Pl. v 2. p. 606. Fil. Dan. t. 10. Wahl. Fl. Suec. p 450. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 289. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2.0. 3.p.51. Graham in Edin. N. Phil. Journ. July, 1829. p. 178. we om eee Descr. Stem procumbent, much branched, every where Covered with leaves. Leaves imbricated, erect, minutely pubescent, ciliated, subulate, flat above, rounded below. eduncles (three lines long) terminal, solitary, one-flowered, ted. Flowers drooping.’ Calyx five-parted, red, sub-acute.. Corolla pure white, when, as in the specimens here de- scribed ——_—. a So named by Livnazus after the virgin Andromeda, because it is attach- 0 rocks in the midst of marshes which abound in aquatic monsters, scribed, raised under glass; but said to be reddish in native specimens, campanulate, five-cleft, segments rounded, but having a minute mucro, and slightly connivent, three-ribbed, central rib undivided, those at the sides fainter, and branched. Stamens ten, connivent ; filaments glandular, flat, slightly dilated below, yellowish above and below, colourless in the middle ; anthers orange-brown, bilobular, lobes blunt and rounded at the terminations, pores rounded, each with two reflexed awns, much longer than itself, and diverging a little. Pistil rather longer than the stamens: Germen green, globose, scarcely lobed, wrinkled, surrounded by brownish glands at its base: Style articulated on the top of the germen, suddenly swollen above its base, and gradually tapering upwards: Stigma blunt. This extremely pretty little plant was introduced from Canada, by Mr. Brarr, into the extensive and interesting collection of Mr. Cunninenam, at Comely Bank, near Edin- burgh, in 1826; and this enterprising cultivator had the satisfaction of seeing the plant come into flower in his garden in May last; the first time it had been seen in Scotland, and after it had been lost in England. Pours and Nurraxz confine the American station of this plant to the north-west. coast; but this Mr. Buare did not visit. It is, therefore, more Aiffused in the northern parts of America, and as it is a most abundant plant in the north of Europe and Asia, it is extremely probable that it may one day in the north of Scotland reward the labour of some British botanist : for, unless when it is in flower, it may be very easily overlooked. Grauam. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Back view, and 3, front view of a Stamen. 4. Pistil 5. Section of the Germen. 6, Leaf.—All more or less Magnified. 2957. S ro : 3 Pub. by §. Curtis, Walworth: Sep?lie29 Wi Hdel™ ( 2937.) OROBUS STIPULACEUS. LARGE STIPULED Oropgvus. KEEEEEEREEEE EE EERE Class and Order. DiapetpeHia Decanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Lecuminosz. ) Generic. Character. Cal. campanulatus, 5-fidus, lobis duobus superioribus - brevioribus. Cor. papilionacea. Stam. diadelphia. Stylus gracilis, linearis, apice villosus. Legumen cylindraceum, oblongum, 1-loculare, bivalve. Semina hilo lineari. D. C. Specific Character. Orogus* stipulaceus ; caule erecto angulato, superne subra- _ moso, foliis bi- trijugis, foliolis lineari-attenuatis lon- gissimis obscure trinerviis glabris, stipulis magnis Semisagittatis. — a ~~ Descr. Root perennial. Stem erect, herbaceous, slender, acutely angular, but not winged, often entirely simple, at other times slightly branched above. Leaves remote, Spreading, of two or three pair of opposite, very long, linear, attenuate, glabrous, leaflets: dark green above, paler be- Neath, with a distinct midrib, between which and the | margin is a conspicuous nerve throwing out occasional branches on both sides. Petiole terminated by a bristle. Stipules large, green, semi-sagittate, obscurely apie = ce ‘ ——— * From ow, to excite or invigorate, and fous, an ow. Because this or Some allied el was so called by the Greeks on account of its yielding food cattle. entire at the margins. Peduncle terminal, or from the axil of a superior leaf, bearing at its extremity a raceme of few, but showy handsome drooping ‘flowers. Pedicels short, curved. Calyx purple-green, very abrupt at the base, the mouth oblique, the uppermost teeth being considerably the shortest. Vexillum purple, with two prominent obtuse teeth near the middle, one on each side, which embrace the inner petals. Ale almost blue, firmly cohering by their lower margins to the purple carina. Stamens as in tuberosus. Style linear, pubescent on its upper and plane surface. The drawing of this species of Orozus was made from a fiat which flowered in the Glasgow Botanic Garden in ay, 1829: but whence the plant came, or how it esta- blished itself in the collection, we are ignorant. From the circumstance of its appearing among several American lants, Mr. Murray is of opinion it may have been introduced by accident from North America. Certain it is, that I can find no description that will accord with it, nor do I know of any with such very long leaflets. Those, too, among the described species of Orozsus, which have long and narrow leaflets, have usually narrow and almost subulate stipules also. ; In my Herbarium is an Orosvus from M. ScuiercHer, under the name of O. setiformis, which I can only distin- “ae from the present plant by its smaller size and shorter eaflets: a native I presume of Switzerland. But again in Srevpex’s Nomenclator the O. setiformis of “ ScuiEIcHER” is referred to the O. canescens, a very different species. — ——S—_—_—_— Fig 1. Flower. 2. Vexillum. 3, a Pistil. 5. Style-—Magnified. ets Carina and Ale. 4, Stamens an Wan SC: dl ade bi . i , > 4 delt : ‘ Pub by § Curtis Walwer Ot LISELI CyPRIPEDIUM MACRANTHON. LaARGE- FLOWERED LaApy’s S.LippEr. KEKE EEE EEE KK EKEEKKEKSE Class and Order. GynanpriA Dieyni. ( Nat. Ord.—Orcuwes. ) Generic Character. Labellum ventricosum, inflatum (nune saccatum). Co- lumna postice terminata lobo petaloideo (stamine sterili) antheras distinguente. Petala 2 antica, sepius connata. Br. Specific Character and Synonyms. Cyrrirepium * macranthon ; lobo columnz elongato-cor- dato, ore labelli perianthio brevioris contracto crenu- lato, antheris dorso aristatis, caule folioso, foliis gla- briusculis. ‘Cyprirepium macranthon. Swarts Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 103. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p.145. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. TAD. ae Caxcroxus purpureus speciosus. Amman. Ruth. p. 132. n. 176. ¢. 21. Catceotus y. petalis nectario equalibus aut minoribus. Gmel. Sib. v. 1. p. 2. t. 1. . ‘ence Descr. Stem simple, a span or more high, terete, joint- ed, pubescent, at the base having a sheathing scale, the root a good deal concealed by the long, sheathing bases of four or five leaves, which are ovate, attenuated at the base, Wavy, striated, or almost plicated, downy at the —— an — From Kumpos, Venus, and sods, a slipper, Venus’s Slipper, from the shape of the Labellum. and on the nerves beneath, ofa palish green colour. Pedun- cle terminal, enveloped by the base of a large floral leaf, glabrous. Flower solitary, large, very handsome, of an almost uniform purple colour, the two lateral or lowermost segments of the perianth, (which are united, except at the extremity, and adpressed to the underside of the labellum,) alone being greenish brown: Uppermost segment reflexed, large, broadly ovate: two inner ones broadly lanceolate, spreading, or slightly reflexed, dotted and hairy at the base within, and beautifully marked with deeper lines of purple. Labellum very large; inflated, broadly oval, striated and reticulated, the mouth contracted and crenated with a white margin: within at the base it is spotted with purple, and hairy. Column bent downward into the mouth of the labellum. Anthers large, roundish oval, deep brownish- green, two celled, bearing on the lower part of the back a softy, fleshy spur. _Abortive one, a flat, minutely glandular disk, pedunculated: from the back of which arises the elongato-cordate, petaloid lobe, of a pale reddish colour. Germen elongato-clavate, sharply angular. This beautiful species of Cypripeprum, quite new to our collections, is said by Amman to be found at Tobolsk, and hy Cat, to be peanent in all Siberia, within fhe 58° of atitude, in open places, or in w d of scatter Rirches pen p oods compose _ Seeds had often been sent by Dr. Fiscuzr of St. Peters- burg to the Glasgow Botanic Garden; but we nevel succeeded in cultivating the plant until last year, when roots were presented to us by the same liberal Botanist. One of these, from which the present figure aud descrip- tion were made, blossomed under tlie protection of a frame in May, 1829. C. macranthon appears to be nearly allied to the ©. ven- éricosum, which I only know by the Aare of Sweet's Brit. Fl. Garden , New Series, t.1. But there the two inner segments of the perianth are much narrower, and longer! than the lip, the mouth of the lip is larger, and with a si cleft at the lowest extremity, and is not so regularly note s ms in our plant. The whole colour too is a deep urple. —— el Fig. 1. Perianth, from which the Labellum (f. 2.) is removed. 3, Back view of the Column. 4, Front view of ditto. 5. xe view of ditto, slightly magnifigd. —Fig. 1, 2, 3, and 4, are represented of the nat. size: orth Oct i 4 (2939) Ficus RUBIGINOSA. RusTy-LEAVED Borany- Bay Fic. ee oe ee oo Class and Order. PotyeamiA Monecra (vel Diazcra). ( Nat. Ord. — Urticex. ) Generic Character. Receptaculum carnosum, clatsum, apice parvum, andro- synum. Flosculi pedicellati, 3-partiti. Stam. 1—3, 3~— 8-partiti. Stylus lateralis. Semina in pulpo receptaculi indulantia. Specific Character and Synonyms. _ Feus rubiginosa ; foliis ellipticis obtusis coriaceis basi vix | cordatis, junioribus subtus precipue ferrugineo-pubes- centibus, receptaculis geminatis sphericis cum umbone _,, tuberculatis, pedunculo brevi, superne incrassato. Ficus rubiginosa. ‘* Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. 209.” Spreng. : st. Veget. v. 3. p. 782. 4 adil Willd, Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 1138. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. p. 486. ~ Ficus ferruginea. Hort. a Descr. A small tree in our stoves, throwing out many, Spreading branches, and from the stem and branches ae merous woody roots, which reach the ground, like those o the famous Banyan, and give new support to those parts. tes numerous, handsome, three to four inches long, on mise eer tioles about an Naceous, elliptical, quite entire, on pe inch —_—_. * From the Latin, ficus, a fig. inch long, obtuse at the point, and at the base, where there is sometimes a shallow sinus; from the midrib there branch off several parallel nerves: when young, they are covered, but ecially on the underside, with a ferruginous down; the older ones are glabrous, except on the nerves beneath. Peduncles in pairs, from the axils of the leaves, short, thickened upwards. Receptacle scarcely so large as a Hazel-nut, greenish brown, globose, with an obtuse umbo at the point, the surface granulated with small tubercles. This includes many male and female flowers, each petio- lated, and having two, small, lanceolate scales at its base. — Perianth of each three-parted, the segments roundish oval, concave. Stamen single: Filament short; Anther reniform. Pistil solitary. Germen oval, pedicellate ; Style lateral, filiform. 7 Introduced by the Right Hon. Sir Josepa Banks, in- 1789, from New South Wales to the Royal Gardens, whence it has been distributed, and is, we believe, now general in collections of stove plants. Its fructification is, however, of rare occurrence. The specimen from which the accom- panying figure was taken was sent by the Messrs. SHEPHERD, rom the Liverpool Garden, in the summer of 1827. ane Fig. 1. Male Flower, 2, Female ditto. 3, | a All magnified. 3. Receptacle of the Flowe \\ * Se F P eet 477 Walworth. Oct! J 1829 ¥SHilel? Pub by § ¢ se ( 2940 ) GAILLARDIA ARISTATA. WhuHotn-cotourrp GAILLARDIA. | Class and Order. - SyNnGENESIA F'RUSTRANEA. ( Nat. Ord. —Composir=. ) Generic. Character. Receptaculum paleaceum, hemisphéricum. Pappus pa- leaceus. Involucrum imbricatum, planum, polyphyllum. Cor. radii trifide. = a Specific Character and Synonyms. Gamtarpis * aristata ; pubescenti-hirsuta, foliis oblongis _ Inferioribus sinuato-pinnatifidis, in petiolum attenuatis, -Superioribus sessilibus integerrimis, radio unicolore. AILLARDIA aristata. Pursh Fi. Am. Sept. v..2. p. 573. Bot. Reg. t. 1186. e7 : Gatttarpia bicolor, var. Nutt. Gen. Am. v. 2. p. 175. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 618. ee Descr. A rather tall branching plant, with striated stems, which are every where, as well as the leaves, more or less pubescent or hairy. Leaves oblong, four to six inches Ncles long, terminal, single-flowered. howy showy. tenn C Named in compliment to a French Botanic Amateur, M. GAILLARD de MARENTONNEAU. It is often incorrectly spelled GaLARDIA. showy. JInvolucre of many imbricated, lax, linear-lanceo- late, acuminated, pubescent scales, which at length spread almost flat. Florets of the ray, all ofa pale, uniform yellow, cuneate, trifid. Germen abortive, crowned with five, small, subulate, chaffy scales. Florets of the centre perfect. Co- rolla tubular, bright yellow, tipped with purplish red, and clothed with stout hairs or bristles of the same colour. Anthers purple. Germen oblong, green, hairy at the base. Pappus of five white, membranaceous, chaffy scales, which terminate in long awl-shaped points. Stigmas long, linear, hispid, with purple red hairs. The principal difference between this and G. bicolor of our gardens, consists in the leaves being entire in the upper part of the stem, and in the ray of the flower being of one pale, uniform, yellow colour. Pursu described it from the Herbarium of Lewis, who found it in the Rocky Mountains, on dry hills. Mr. Doveras discovered it abundantly in dry soils, through a tract of country extending from the Rocky Mountains, to the Western ocean ; every where retaining the characters above mentioned, which distinguish it from the G. bicolor. It varies in size: for intermixed with the common appearance of the plant, Mr. Doveias saw many which did not arrive to a height greater than ten or twelve inches, and having all theleaves entire. It flowers in J uly, and will soon become common : the seeds having been in- troduced by the Horticultural Society, and by them liber- ally dispersed among our gardens. Fig. 1. Radical Leaf, natural size. 2. Fi 3. Floret of the Disk—Magnijfied. oret of the Ray. WIA del? Luts br S. Curtis Rielwanth, Oe§? S29 Bi 2941,. Swan SO j ; ( 2941 ) LinaRIA @QuiTRILoBA. Smaui Fuesny- LEAVED TOAD-FLAX. : SEEKER KEE EE EEE EEE KEE Class and Order. Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Scropuunarinz. ) Generic Character. Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. ee meagre or Capsula bi- locularis, apice dentibus dehiscens. Semina submarginata. Spreng. Specific Character and Synonyms. Linarra* equitriloba ; pubescens, caule repente filiformi, foliis cordatis carnosis obtusissimis integra trilobisque, lobis rotundatis integerrimis subequalibus, pedunculis axillaribus, calcare calyce breviore. | Linaria exquitriloba. Viviani Fl. Cors. Sp. Nov. p. 10. (sub. non. AntirRHINI @quitrilobi). Muller in Un. Itin. 1827. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 790. ee Descr. Apparently a perennial plant, considerably tuft- ed, but having the stems filiform and creeping upon the ground, much branched, the branches as well as the leaves clothed with a very fine pubescence. Leaves broadly cor- ate, very obtuse, fleshy in our cultivated specimens, quite entire; but in the wild specimens gathered by M. Mutter although many of the leaves are entire, others are three- lobed, with the lobes rounded, blunt, nearly equal : petiole Onger than the leaf, pubescent. Peduncles filiform, longer n the leaves, axillary, solitary, or two from the fc * This was the specific name of a species formerly referred to ANTIRRHI- NUM, Linaria; from Linum, its leaves resembling those of Flax. point, curved, downy. _ Calyx quinquepartite, pubescent. Corolla beautiful purple, personate, tube elongated, inside of the lips more inclming to blue; palate large, pale red- dish-purple, pubescent. Seeds of this beautiful little plant gathered by M. Mutter on rocks at Laconi, in Sardinia, were sent by the German Travelling Society, or “‘ Unio Itineraria” to Dr. Granam, in 1828 ; and the specimens from which the above descrip- tion is taken, were raised from those seeds, and blossomed in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, in June, 1829. The ag: has hitherto been protected during winter in a frame, ut in all probability it will bear our climate in a shel- tered situation, and would prove a much more ornamental species than our L. Cymbalaria, to which it is allied in habit. Linaria pubescens, L. pilosa, and L. hepaticefolia belong « to the same natural groupe, distinguished by their procum- bent, herbaceous, filiform stems, broadly cordate leaves, Viviant, who first described this species, gives, as a station ~ it, moist rocks upon the mountain “ della Trinita” in rsica, SESS aie ow _ oe nt ~ —- - = =——— Fig. 1. Branch of L. éqititiloba with Flowers. 2. Single Leaf, slightly — 3, 4, 5. Leaves from the wild Specimens in fhe Herbarium.— ral size. is Walwerth, Oot?” LI6B9 Fab by 8.0 WIE del* (€ 2942 ) ASTER SALSUGINOSUS, SALT-PLAIN MIcHAEL- MAS Daltsy. Class and Order. SyncEengsia SupEeRFLva. ( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. ) Generic Character. Receptaculum nudum. Pappus simplex. | Cor. radii Plures 10. Involueré imbricati sguame inferiores (nonnun- quam) patule. Specific Character and Synonyms. Aster * salsuginosus ; caule uni pauci-floro, foliis lanceo- latis acutis subintegerrimis venosis inferioribus in pe- tiolum longe attenuatis, reliquis ‘sessilibus, involucri Squamis linearibus acutis pubescentibus subsquamosis disco vix duplo, radio plus triplo longioribus. Aster salsuginosus. Richard. in Frankl. \st Journ. App. ed. 2. p. 32. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 527. [eee Descr. From a woody and fibrous perennial root spring ohe or more erect, simple, striated, pubescent, and purplis stems, about a foot high, leafy. Leaves mostly lanceolate, ‘cute, those of the stem sessile, gradually smaller upwards, the lower ones often inclining to obovate, attenuated at the into a long footstalk, entire, or more or less toothed, slabrous, especially on the upper surface, below often more oF less hairy. Flowers solitary, or two or three at the ex- tremity of the stem in luxuriant plants, large and showy. volucre small in proportion to the size of the eh purp cane * So named from the Star-shaped flowers. purplish-green, its scales linear or inclining to subulate, pubescent, lax and squamose. Florets of the disk tubular, yellow, five-cleft. Germen slightly hairy, oblong, sur- mounted by the simple scabrous hairs of the pappus. Flo- rets of the ray ligulate, three-toothed, purple. Pistil and Pappus as in the central florets. This handsome species of Aster was first detected YY Dr. RicHarpson on the Salt Plains of the Athabasca, N. America, and described in the Appendix to Franxuin’s first Journal. Mr. Drummonp during the second journey found it among the Rocky Mountains, and from seeds brought home by him, our plants were raised which flowered in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in May, 1829 ; and there cannot _ be a doubt but that so desirable a plant will soon become common in our collections. The early flowering and weak specimens produced but one flower on the stalk; but later in the season, in the month of June, from two to four blossoms. were not unfrequent on the same stem. This — rather be called the Spring than the Michaelmas sy. f Fig. 1. Floret of the Disk. 2. Floret of the Ray. 3. Portion of the Hair of the Pappus. 4. Scale from the Involucre.—All more or less magnified. Sie t2 sieges REE ny yg WIiHdeit ( 2943 ) PEPEROMIA CLUSIAFOLIA. CLUSIA-LEAVED PEPEROMIA. KEE ERE EEE REE EER Class and Order. Dianpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord. — Pivrracez. ) Generic Character. Spadix cylindraceus, floribus undique tectus. Stamina duo. - Stigma indivisum. Bacca monosperma. Caulis herbaceus. Humb. et Kunth. - Specific Character and Synonyms. Peperomia * clusiefolia ; foliis obovatis inferne attenuatis subauriculatis crassis, rubro-marginatis, margine recur- vato brevi-petiolatis subvenosis, caule radicante ru- $0so, spicis terminalibus solitariis vel binis cylindra- Ceis. : Piper clusiefolium. Jacq. Collect. v. 3. p. 209. Ic. Rar. v. 2. p. 2. t. 213. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 1. p. 159. Piper marginatum. Pl. Suce. Hort. Dyck. p. 24. (non Jacq.) Haw. Succ. Pl. Suppl. p. 3. ~~ Piper magnoliefolium. Haw. Syn. p. 6. (non Jacq.) a Descr. Stems much branched, thicker than a swan’s quill, red, and full of little transverse wrinkles, glabrous, as 1S every part of the plant, decumbent at the base, and every where, immediately at the base of the leaf-stalks, disposed to throw out roots. Leaves four to six inches long, thick, tween coriaceous and fleshy, shortly petiolated, obovate, tapering downwards from near the middle, and somewhat auriculated at the very base, dark green above, peice —=—_—_— * Derived, as well as Pirer, from wireg, the Greek word for Pepper. veined, concave and channelled ; the margin dark red and | recurved, especially towards the base, the extremity often emarginate, the underside is pale green, and the midrib is very prominent when it joins the petiole. Peduncle ter- minal, quite smooth and red, bearing one or two long cy- lindrical spikes, acute at the points. Flowers numerous, almost imbedded in the substance of the spadix. Scale pellucid, obtusely quadrangular, above which are placed, one on each side, the one-celled small anther, on a short filament: and between these is the pistil. Germen ovate: Stigma sessile, radiated: at the back is a long sharp mem- brane or crest. Berry oval with an acuminated point, quite protruded, standing out from the spadix. This is one of the handsomest of the tribe, and one that appears to have been long cultivated in our stoves. It was introduced from the West Indies by Captain Burien, in 1793, and flowers in May. The specimen here figured, was from a fine plant in the collection of the Edinburgh. Authors seem strangely to have confounded this with the Pieer 06- tusifolium of WitipENow, which is figured by Piumier in his “ Plantes d’Amérique, p. 53. t. 70, and still more accu- rately, by Trew, Ehret. p. 54. t. 96.; but the slightest in- tion of those plates will at once shew how much that plant is at variance with the one here given. Fig. 1. Flower with its Seale, 2. Pistil, 3. Stamen. 4, Berry.—Magnified. WJ H del? Lib. by S. Curtis Waiwor Nov" LIgEg. SwarnSe € 2944 ) _ CommretTum craNnpirtorum. Larce FLow- ERED CoMBRETUM. oe ee | Class and Order. OcranpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord —Compreracez. ) Generic Character. 3 — . Calycis limbus infundibuliformis, 4-lobus, deciduus. Pet. 4—5, inter lobos calycis inserta. Stam. 8—10, biserialia ; _ €x his 4—5, petalis opposita, altius inserta. Germen 2—5- OVvulatum. Stylus exsertus, acutus. Fructus 4—5-pteri, Llocul. 1-spermi, indehiscentes. Semen angulatum, pen- dulum. DC. Jie : Specific Character and Synonyms. Compretum * grandiflorum ; inerme, scandens, molliter hirsuta, foliis oppositis ovali-oblongis acutis integer- rimis basi subcordatis, floribus densis secundis spicatis decandris, pedunculis he tee pan ovatis acutis. MBRETUM grandiflorum. on in Ed. Phil. Journ. 1824, - p. 347. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 21. i : _ Descr. Stems long, climbing, terete, downy, the down mixed with brown, patent hairs, the older ones woody, the younger herbaceous, bearing many branches of the same character as the parent stem. Leaves in rather distant, ©pposite pairs, from an inch and a half to five inches long, | Oval or oblong, or more frequently partaking of the cha- — Tacter of the two, acute, scarcely mucronate at the point, slightly cordate at the base, nerved, entire at the margin, Pn etre eee, * Its etymology unknown. hairy on both sides, the hairs soft and white, appressed, paler beneath. Petiole scarcely half an inch long, thick, downy, flat, or slightly grooved above, beneath convex. The color of the leaves is a pale green, the smaller and younger ones, at the extremity of the branches, beautifully tinged with red. Peduncles axillary, occupying the extre- mity of the branches, downy, bearing a spike of large and richly-coloured, drooping flowers. In my dried native spe- cimens, the upper leaves have fallen away, and then the inflorescence appears to be a compound brachiate spzke. Calyx infundibuliform, springing from the top of the small, slender, pentagonal germen, large, five-angled, quinquefid, green, shining, the segments acute, brown at the tips, black within at the base. At the base of the germen is an ovate, acute, deciduous bractea. Corolla of tive obovato-cuneate, shortly unguiculated petals, ofa deep scarlet colour, marked with still higher coloured veins. Stamens ten; five insert- ed lower down upon the calyx, and opposite its segments, and five in the sinuses of the segments, much protruded. Filaments red. Anthers, small, roundish, yellow. Style filiform, acute, green, longer than the stamens. Germen one-celled, with five ovules. : | This truly splendid stove plant was kindly communicated from the gardens of Wentworth House, by Mr. Cooper, in July last, as one which that able cultivator had received from Mr. Mackay, of the Clapton nursery, under the name of Comprerum grandiflorum. The country from whence it came was not specified: but on comparing it with specimens of a Comsrerum brought to me by Miss URNER, niece of the late General Turner, from Sierra Leone, I find it to correspond with them in every particular. There can scarcely be a question, therefore, of its having been introduced from that country. The plant was dis- covered by Mr. G. Don, while collecting for that inestima- ble institution, the Horticultural Society, growing ‘‘ near Freetown, and on the road to Congo,” and is described in the Linnzan Transactions. The flowers have at first sight the appearance of those of a species of Ipomma, being as large as in Ipomma Quamoclit. —————- wie 1. Flower, from which the Corolla is removed, the Calyx being ud. open to shew the Style and the insertion of the Stamens. 2. Petal. 3. (magnified) Section of the Germen.—Fig, 1. and 2. nat. size. o LIGEF Pub Py pete n BT: t® by So. Certis Walworth. Hes WIE del? | ( 2945 ) PENTSTEMON GRACILIS. SLENDER PENTSTEMON. | 3 KEE ERE EEE ERE EK KEKKEEE Class and Order. Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Scropnuarinz. ) Generic Character. Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. bilabiata, ventricosa. Rudimentum filamenti quinti superne barbatum. Caps. bilocularis. . Specific Charatsie and Synonyms. ‘ Pentstemon gracilis; caule herbaceo subglabro, foliis gla- bris glaucis radicalibus lanceolatis in petiolum atten- uatis integerrimis, caulinis lineari-lanceolatis acumi-. natis parce serrulatis, pedunculis elongatis decussatis. multifloris pedicellisque compositis calyce corollaque puberulis, filamento sterili barbato. Graham. Pentstemon gracilis. Nuttall N. Am. Gen. ». 2. p. 522. Penrstemon glaucus. Graham in Ed. N. Phil. Journ. July, 1829, p. 348, ? ‘ees’. Descr. Stem erect, glabrous below, slightly pubescent "towards the top. Leaves all glabrous, glaucous: root- leaves lanceolate, attenuated at the base into petioles shorter than themselves, quite entire ; stem-leaves ovato- or linear- lanceolate, acuminate, dilated at the base, and amplexicaul, distantly serrulate, smaller upwards and passing into ovato- acuminate, entire bracteas at the base of the peduncles. Inflorescence, as is common in this genus, axillary, pedun- cles collected in the form of a panicle at the extremity of the stems, peduncles elongated, as well as the compound, filiform pedicels, calyx, and corolla glanduloso- uberulent. racteas ovate, acuminate, gradually becoming gon from the leaves, and two placed opposite to each other at each subdivision of the peduncle. Calyx five-parted, seg- - ments, ovate, acute, spreading, the upper the broadest and shortest. Corolla rather pale lilac above, and, at the apices — of its lobes, yellow, with purple veins below ; upper lip of two, lower lip of three segments, upper surface of lower lip with long yellowish hairs. Stamens included ; filaments ascending ; anthers cordate, lobes spreading, purple on the outside, whitish within ; barren filament dilated at its base, and adhering to the upper side of the corolla, above which it dips to the lower side of the corolla, along which it is laid, densely covered with yellow hairs on its upper side for more than half its length. Piséil rather shorter than the barren filament ; germen conical; style straight ; stigma small, entire. : The seeds of this species, which flowered at the Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, during the greatest part of the sum- mer, were received from Mr. Drummonp, on bis return from the second expedition under Capt. Franxuin to British | North America. Granam. This species is unquestionably the P. gracilis of Mr. Nurrazt, who gave this name to specimens in my herba- rium, from the Mandan territory, which were communicated a. Mr. Brapsoury ; this being the same district in which r. Nurrazt had gathered the individual plants that he has described in the work above quoted. Mr. Doveras found it common upon the Red River, about Brandon House, in the plains near that settlement, and Dr. RicuarD- son near Carlton House. It has flowered in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, which yielded the specimen here figured. — Fig. 1. Root Leaf. 2. Lower Stem-Leaf, nat. size. 3, Pistil. 4. Sta- men.—Magnified. Wi Kdet? Dean’ Lud br S. Curtis Walworth: Nov” LEY ee ( 2946 ) ViICIA ARGENTEA. SILVER-LEAVED VeETCcH. Class and Order. Diapetpuia Decanpris. ( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosz. ) Generic Character. Cal. tubulosus, 5-fidus, aut 5-dentatus, dentibus duobus superioribus brevioribus. Cor. papilionacea. Stam. dia- delpha. Stylus filiformis, angulum fere rectum cum ovario conficiens, superne et infra apicem subtus villosus. Legu- men oblongum, 1-loculare, polyspermum. Semina hilo laterali ovali aut lineari. D C. _ Specifie Character and Synonyms. Vicia * argentea; canescens, caulibus tetragonis, foliis cine- reo-argenteis cirrho destitutis, foliolis oblongo-linea- ribus mucronatis, stipulis semisagittato -lanceolatis, pedunculis multifloris folio sublongioribus, floribus secundis laxiusculis, laciniis calycinis subequalibus longitudine tubi, stylis elongatis subclavatis apice barbatis, leguminibus oblongis compressis tomento- sis, : 3 Vicra argentea. Lapeyr. Abr. Pl. Pyr. p. 417. Hjusd. Suppl. p. 108. (excluding the Synonyms.) De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 359. 4 Vicia variegata. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 269. (not of Desr.) rye liens Descr. Root perennial, fusiform, slender, descending deep into the earth, and sending out a few branches and fibrous radicles. Plant every where clothed with ee we 7 s * From Gevig, in Celtic, according to Tuiis, whence Gvsor, in Greek. silky hairs. Stems many from the same root, ascending, branched, in thewild specimens compact, in the cultivated ones straggling, and, as well as the branches, angular, frequently exactly quadrangular, woody below, the rest herbaceous, often tinged with red. Leaves with eight to ten pair of alternate, elliptical, lanceolate leaflets, scarcely mucronate, terminated by an odd one, of a bluish-grey colour from the numerous silky hairs with which they are clothed, nearly sessile. Main petiole, or rachis, stout, grooved on the upper side; stipules large, silky, semisaggi- tate. Peduncles axillary, about as long as the leaves, having a secund raceme of several large flowers at the ex- tremity. Pedicels, curved, silky. Calyx silky, reddish- white, streaked with green at the base, the teeth green. Vexillum broadly obovate, gradually tapering into the claw, yellowish-white, streaked with purple, most distinctly so in the inside. : Ale@ obtuse, of the same colour as the vexillum. Carina white, very blunt, purple at the extremity. : “ Of this extensive Genus, few are more worthy of cultiva- tion than the present extremely rare species. It is sup- posed to grow in only one spot, namely, in the elevated pastures of Massive de Castanése, in the Pyrenées, where it was first discovered by La Peyrousr. For the opportunity of cultivating it in our gardens, we are indebted to Mr. Arnotr, who brought seeds from the Pyrenées to Dr. GranamM: and the plant is now flourishing in the open border, in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, whence the spe- cimens here figured and described were kindly commu- nicated by Dr. Grauam. Its flowering season is June. In the Supplement to his ‘ Histoire Abrégée des Plantes des Pyrenées, M. de La Prrrovss has fallen into an error, in considering this plant the same with the Armenian V. variegata of Desronraines, as any one may satisfy himself; by consulting the figure and description of the latter author, in the twelfth volume of the “ Annales du Muséum d’His- toire Naturelle.” The flowers are there represented con- siderably smaller, the plant longer and more straggling, (especially than the native V. argentea) and the leaves are termimated by branched tendrils. —— — Pi. 2940 Gaillardia aristata, 2883 Gilia inconspicua, 2924 Gilia gracilis, 2947 Habenaria macroceras. 2891 sa ag liliiflorus, var. hybri- us. 2880 Horkelia congesta. 2886 Iris tripetala. 2914 Justicia nodosa. 2921 Ligustrum nepalense, P. gla . brum. 2941 Linaria equitriloba. 2913 Lotus pinnatus. 2950 Ludovia latifolia. 2951 Ibid. 2952 Lupinus littoralis. 2927 Maxillaria Harrisoniz. 2955 —————- squalens. 2907 Mentha verticillata. 2933 Mitella pentandra. 2919 Nicotiana acuminata. 2889 Cnothera decumbens. 2937 Orobus stipulaceus. 2903 Pentstemon ovatus. 2945 gracilis, 2954 = procerus, 2943 Peperomia clusizfolia. 2917 Plumbago rhomboidea. 2904 Podolepis gracilis. 2888 Peeonia albiflora, «. rosea. 9884 Poinciana regia. 2932 Pontederia azurea. 2885 Portulaca grandiflora. 2953 Pothos microphylla. 2948 Stanhopea insignis. 2949 Ibid. 2930 Stenochilus viscosus, 2935 Tradescantia crassula. 2910 Verbena bracteosa. || 2882 Vesicaria arctica. 2946 Vicia argentea. “er INDE X, In. which the English Names of the Plants contained. in the Third Volume of the New Srrizs (or Fifty-Sixth of the. Work) are alphabetically arranged. | a Pl. FL 2922 Acacia, Woolly- voided: 2938 Lady’s- Slipper, Large - flow- 2928 Downy-stemmed. ered. 2879 Abronia, Honey-smelling. 2936 Andromeda, Hypnum-like. 2901 Azalea, Fragrant, Indian. 2900 Begonia, Handsome-flowered. 2920 Free-flowering. 2892 Billbergia, Blood-stained. 2926 Bonatea, Showy. 2939 Botany-Bay Fig, Sieh led 2878 Brassavola, Tuberculated. 2877 Brodiea, Large-flowered. 2929 Cestrum, Alaternus-leaved. 2918 Clarkia, Beautiful. 2925 Clerodendron, Small- flowered, Madagascar. 2955 2893 Collomia, Small-flowered. 2894 Large-flowered. 2895 Narrow-leaved. 2944 Combretum, Large-flowered. 2908 Crinum, Plaited-leaved. 2911 Custard-Apple, Netted. _ 2912 Ibid. 2906 Dendrobium, Small-clustered. 2916 Dischidia, Bengal. 2905 Dombeya, Angle-leaved. 2881 Elichrysum, Hoary-leaved. 2923 Erigeron, Smoothish-leaved. 2909 Erythrolena, Conspicuous. 2890 Escallonia, Red-flowered. 2887 Eschscholzia, Californian. 2889 Evening Primrose, Decumbent, Small-fiowered. 2931 Eulophia, Twisted-petaled. 2896 Frankenia, Few-flowered. 2940 Gaillardia, Whole-coloured. 2883 Gilia, Small-flowered. 2924 Gilia, Slender. 2947 Habenaria, Long horned. 2891 Hibiscus, Lily-flowered, Hy- brid var. 2880 Horkelia, Tufted-flowered. 2886 Iris, Three-petaled. 2914 Justicia, Swoln-jointed. 2917 Lead-Wort, Rhomboid-leaved. - 2913 Lotus, Pinnate-leaved. 2950 Ludoyia, Broad-leaved. 2951 Ibid. 2952 Lupine, Sea-shore. _ 2927 Maxillaria, Mrs. Harrison’ S. —_———- Dingy-flowered. 2942 Michaelmas-Daisy, Salt Plain. 2907 Mint, Whorled. 2933 Mitella, Five-stamened. 2937 Orobus, Large-stipuled. 2898 Papaw Tree. 2899 Ibid. 2903 Pentstemon, Ovatedearéd: 2945 Slender. 2954 Tall. 2943 Peperomia, Clusia-leaved. 2904 Podolepis, Slender-stalked. 2888 Peony, Double -White Chi- nese, with Rose- vas flowers. 2884 Poinciana, Superb. 2932 Pontederia, Large-flowered. 2953 Pothos, Small-leaved. 2921 Privet, Nepal, glabrous var. 2885 Purslane, Large-flowered. — - 2876 Slipper-Wort, Connate-leaved. 2897. —_—_—_——— White-leaved. 2915 ——_—_-——— Tufted. 2902 Spurge, Showy, Red-flowered. 2948 Stanhopea, Splendid. 2949 Ibid. 2930 Stenochilus, Clammy. 2941 Toad-Flax, Small, Fleshy- leayed. 2919 Tobacco, Acuminated-leaved. 2935 Tradescantia, White-flowered. 2910 Verbena, Bracteated. 2882 Vesicaria, Arctic. 2946 Vetch, Silver-leaved. 2934 Whitlow-Grass, Golden- flow- ered,