CU R TIS’S - BOTANICAL MAGAZINE; TER OR Flower Garden Displayed: In which the most Ornamental Foreren Pins cultivated in the Open Ground , the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented and coloured. To which are added, THEIR NAMES, CLASS, ORDER, GENERIC AND SPECIFIC CHARACTERS, as ACCORDING TO THE SYSTEM OF LINN-EUS; Their Places of Growth, Times of Flowering, and most approved Methods of Culture. “By SAMUEL CURTIS, F. L. S. By Sm WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K. H. LLD, F. R. A. and L. S. and Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. VOL. X. 3 OF THE NEW SERIES; Or Vol, 1x111. of the whole Work. ‘« Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to ev'ry flower ; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.”’ LONDON : Printed by Edward Couchman, 10, Throgmorton Street 5 FOR THE PROPRIETOR, SAMUEL CURTIS, fe AT THE _ ,, BOTANICAL MAGAZINE WAREHOUSE, GLAZENWOOD, NEAR COGGESHALL, ESSEX : ’ Published also by Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 23, Paternoster Row; J. & A. Arch, Cornbill; Blackwood, — Se rgh; and in Holland, by Mr. Gt. Eldering, Florist, at Haarlem: And to be had of all Booksellers in Town and Country. 1836. “COUNSELLOR OF CIN TESTIMONY OF Pub. by 5. Curtis, Clacenwood: Bssex: Jan! 7. 1630 - autsquamata. Cotyledones null ?—Frutices carnosi, elon- ( 3458 ) Cereus NAPOLEONIS. NaApoLeon’s CEREUS. skokobakskokakakokobeskakakebakabababesksbale Class and Order. ’ Icosanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Cacrez. ) Generic Character. Sepala numerosissima, imbricata, basi ovario adnata, in tubum elongatum concreta, exteriora breviora calycinalia, media longiora colorata, intima petaliformia. Stamina nu~ « merosissima, cum tubo concreta. Stylus filiformis, apice — multifidus. Bacca sepalorum reliquiis areolata, tuberculosa galt, axi ligneo interne medullifero donati, angulis verticali- bus spinarum fasciculos gerentibus regulariter suleati. An- guli seu ale nunc plurime, nunc paucissime, rarius due tantiim et tunc rami compresso-alati. Flores ampli é spi- narum fasciculis aut crenis angulorum orti. DC. Specific Character and Synonyms. - Cereus Napoleonis; ramis diffusis repentibus triangularibus rarissime articulatis repandis, tuberculis 4—5-spinosis, spinis rigidis patentibus. . Cereus triangularis, var. major. Salm-Dyck. Otto, Alge- =n meine Gartenzeitung, 1833. : Cacrus Napoleonis. Hort. We received this plant at the Botanic Garden, Edin- burgh, from Mr. M‘Kay, at Clapton, about ten years ago. It has repeatedly formed buds, but no blossoms expanded — till now (September, 1835). The flower opened in the morn- ing, and closed towards the afternoon; it is very like that of C. grandiflorus, and is slightly, not very agreeably, per- _ fumed. The far greater length of its joints, their different ___ form, and the shape of the edges between the tubercles, , _ prevent me from considering it a variety of C. triangularis. a Descr. — a VOL. x. B : ‘Descr. Stem much branched ; branches diffused, root- ing, very distantly jointed, light green, with three acute angles, and concave sides; angles tubercled, with repand intervals, about an inch and a half long, tubercles wjth four or five rigid, stellate prickles (about four and a half lines long) having tumid bases. Flower (eight inches long, and when fully expanded six inches across) ascending; tube (three inches long, ten lines broad) green, furrowed, inter- vening ridges round, and having a few triangular sub- appressed deep-red scales, gradually enlarging upwards, and passing into the straw-coloured, lanceolato-linear, outer segments of the perianth, the inner segments of which are pure white, somewhat shorter, broader, spathulato-lanceo- _ late and crenate at the apex. Stamens numerous, yellow, declined, ascending at the apex, shorter than the perianth ; anthers erect, small. Pistil sub-exserted ; stigma yellow, multifid, segments subulate, spreading from their middle; style stout, cylindrical, ascending. Germen incorporated with the base of the tube of the perianth, one-celled, Ovules numerous, fixed to a long seed-stalk. Graham. ‘ S. Curtis, Glazenweed, Fis-sex Jan® TBF E. ( 3459 ) PIMELEA HISPIDA. HtIsPpID-FLOWERED PIMELEA. Class and Order. Dianpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—TuyrMeEzaz. ) Generic Character. Perianthium infundibuliforme, limbo 4-fido, fauce esqua- mata. Stamina duo fauci inserta, laciniis exterioribus op- posita. Stylus lateralis. Stigma capitatum. Nusx corti- cata, rard baccata.—Frutices. Folia opposita (raro al- terna.) Flores capitati, terminales, foliis involucrantibus, sepé dissimilibus, interdum connatis, rariis spicatt vel axil- — lares, quandoque dioici. Perianthii tubus in plerisque medio articulatus, articulo inferiore persistenti. Br. Specific Character and Synonyms. Pimetea hispida; involucris tetraphyllis : foliolis ovatis margine simplici intis subsericeis capituli dimidio bre- vioribus, perianthii tubo dimidio inferiore hispido, foliis lanceolatis linearibusve. Br. Pimetea hispida. Br. Prodr. p. 360. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 1. p. 92.. Bot. Reg. t. 1578. This is assuredly the handsomest of this very pretty Aus- tralian Genus, whether we consider the beauty of its blos- soms or the great quantity of them produced by a single plant: of which one now before us, scarcely a foot high, is loaded with upwards of forty heads of flowers. It requires the usual treatment of those New Holland plants, which we - derive from the Southern coast, where the present species was discovered by Mr. Brown. Descr. An erect shrub, with numerous, upright, slender, glabrous branches. Leaves opposite, broadly lanceolate, obtuse, _ obtuse, yellow-green above, palet and of a glaucous hue below. Peduncles terminal, solitary, in fact, a continua- tion] of the branches, bearing a single, rather large head of delicate, rose-coloured, hairy flowers ; surrounded by a four-leaved involucre: its leaflets ovate, concave, often tinged with red at the margin. Flowers sessile. Perianth salver-shaped: its twbe much elongated, slender, clothed _ below with very long, spreading hairs: limb of four spread- ing, oblong segments, beset with long spreading hairs on the under side. Filaments short, exserted. Anthers oblong, a deep orange. Germen oblong, green, furrowed, with a tuft _ of hairs at the base. : Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified. S S N ; S Ry As Q 8 & e ny & ~ eS Lub, by ( 3460 ) CoREOPSIS CORONATA. CROWNED CoREOPSIS. KEKE KEE EK KEKE ERE EEE EK Class and Order. SyYNGENESIA F'RUSTRANEA. ( Nat. Ord.—Composirs. ) Generic Character. Receptaculum paleaceum. Semina compressa, emargi- nata. Pappus bicornis. Calyx duplex uterque poly- phyllus. Specific Name and Character. Coreopsis coronata; annua, caule erecto debili flexuoso glabro, foliis spathulatis integris vel ternatim-pinna- timve-sectis integerrimis flaccidis basi ciliatis, infimis longé petiolatis, pedunculis elongatis, involucro inte- riore piloso, radii corollis profundé quadrifidis coroua macularum atro-sanguinea, achenio bi- tripaleaceo. Seeds of this beautiful Corzopsis, gathered in Texas, were received from Mr. Drummonp in the spring of 1835, and the plants raised from them blossomed copiously in the summer and autumn, those in the open air continuing to display their handsome flowers, remarkable for the circle of brown spots placed at a distance from the disk, till October, when they were cut off by the frost. Those sheltered in a frame continued much longer in perfection. Only one specimen, exactly corresponding with this, is found in Mr. DruMMonp’s Mexican Herbarium, from which it may be inferred that the flowering season was passed when he discovered it. Descr. Root annual, small, and subfusiform. Stem erect, but weak and flexuose, a foot to a foot and a half or two feet long. Leaves opposite, in remote pairs, spathulate, tapering much at the base, undivided, or cut in a pinnated - Manner into two, three, or tive segments, the ultimate lobe or pinnule the largest, the lower ones into long scare | the = ~ the base ciliated: the rest quite glabrous and of a very flaccid texture. Peduncles much elongated, sometimes almost a foot long, each tipped with a large handsome deep yellow flower, bearing a circle or crown of deep brown or. blood-coloured spots at a distance from the disk. Corollas of the ray neuter, large, cuneate, deeply four-fid, the two middle segments the longest and often emarginate : those of the disk (which is small,) infundibuliform. Anthers black, the appendage deep-orange. Achenia compressed, oblong-obovate, bearing two or three small lanceolate, white, chaffy scales. JInvolucre double: outer of about eight leaflets, which are linear, herbaceous, and glabrous ; __ mner, about as long as the outer, oval, membranaceous, clothed externally with white, succulent hairs. Receptacle scaly ; scales linear-subulate, chafly, nearly as long as the flower. 4 Fig. 1. Floret of the Ray. 2. Floret of the Disk, with a Scale of the Re- eeptacle :—magnified. Pub by. 5.Curtis, Hazenwood Esse, Jan¥ LISSE. Swan So i ( 3461 ) VERONICA LABIATA. FRAGRANT WHITE- FLOWERED SPEEDWELL. SERS KKK EEE KEE EKER Class and Order. DianpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Scropuu ring. ) Generic Character. Calyx 4-partitus, rard 3-partitus. Corolla subrotata. Tubus calyce brevior. Limbus 4-partitus, inequalis, lobis indivisis. Stamina 2 autherifera, sterilia nulla. Capsula valvis medio septiferis, v. bipartibilis—Herbe vel frutices. Folia opposita, quandoque verticillata vel alterna, sepe dentata vel incisa. Inflorescentia varia. Calyces ebrac- teatt. Br. Specific Character and Synonyms. VERONICA labiata ; erecta, foliis lato-lanceolatis longe acu- minatis sessijibus arguté ineequaliter serratis, racemis axillaribus oppositis elongatis, corollis bilabiatis pa- tentibus labio superiore indiviso, inferiore tripartito lobo medio minore. | Venoxice labiata. Br. Prodr. p. 434. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. TA. Veronica Derwentia. Andr. Rep. t. 531. A very pretty species of VERONICA, with leaves much acuminated at the extremity, and long axillary racemes of fragrant white flowers. It is a native of the Southern shores of New Holland and also of Van Diemen’s Land, from which latter country it has been transmitted to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where it grows in the greenhouse, by Ronatp Gunn, Esq. Descr. Stem two feet high, simple, nearly glabrous, under a lens are seen two opposite lines of hairs. Leaves Opposite, three to four inches long, sessile, broadly lanceo- late, late, very much attenuated, glabrous, the margins sharply and unequally serrated ; the colour full green above, paler beneath, indistinctly nerved. Peduncles axillary, opposite, longer than the leaves, bearing a raceme of rather large, white, fragrant flowers. Bracteas subulate, about as long as the pedicels. Calyx small, four-partite, segments lan- ceolate, acute, two of them a little smaller. Corolla rotate, formed of two spreading lips: the upper of one ovate seg- ment; the lower of three of the same form, but of which the middle one is the smallest. Stamens two: filaments white: anthers purplish. Germen ovate, two-celled. Style deautiful Speedwell ; judging, as we do, from t = filiform, declined. Fig.1. Flower. 2 Young Fruit with the Calyx :—magnified. For the information of our readers, we take the opportunity of occ pying a spare page, with brief descriptive characters of three unpub- lished species of the Genus of our present subject, recently discovered in New Zealand by Mr. Ricuarp Cunnincuam, ; V. speciosa (R. Cunn. MSS.) ; glaberrima, racemis terminalibus bre- vibus erectis confertifloris, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis pedicello di- midio brevioribus, laciniis calycis ovatis acutiusculis tenuissimé ciliatis dimidium tubi corolla subequantibus, foliis (oppositis) planis obovatis coriaceis decurrentibus, apiculo calloso obtuso, marginibus integerrimis incrassatis coloratis, caule fruticoso erec- _ tiusculo v. diffuso. Napuka ab Indigenis vulg6 vocatur. Has. In Nove Zelandie insula septentrionali: in collibus arenosis juxta estuarium fluvii Hokianga, ad oram occidentalem, ubi in mense Decembri lauté floret. 1833. Rich, Cunningham. _ Frutex spectabilis 3-6 pedalis, caulibus pluribus robustis adscenden- tibus, et in loco natali valdé insignis. Folia 3-4 pollicaria. Flores speciosi cyaneo-violacei, feré facie Lysimachie atropur- puree, Stamina exserta pistillum equantia. Capsula biparti~ bilis, elliptica, acuminata, glabra, calyce duplo longior. Oss. Of all the plants of New Zealand, with either as attached to voyages of disc ready fully established in our gardens—than this very remarkable and have received, and from the description given _ by its discoverer, Since the country around its locality, at the mouth has has, in our open borders; the elevated grounds, occupied by our Veronica in its native-land, being greatly exposed to the prevalent tempests of its weather-beaten coast, in nearly the same degree of southern latitude (about 36°), in which, we believe, the Clianthus has been lately found on the Eastern Coast. V. lgustrifolia ; racemis pedunculatis terminalibus pubigeris folium subeequantibus, bracteis oblongo-lanceolatis pedicello duplé bre- vioribus, laciniis calycis ovato-lanceolatis acutiusculis longitudine tubi corolle, foliis ovali-oblongis angusto-lanceolatisve obtusius- culis integerrimis glabris, caule fruticoso, Has. In Insula septentrionali Nove Zelandie: in collibus sylvosis — umbrosisve ad ripas fluminis Kaua-Kaua, Bay of Islands. 1833. Rich. Cunningham. Frutex gracilis bipedalis. Folia opposita, ovalia, vel attenuato-lanceo- lata, sessilia. Flores albidi, spicato-racemosi. Calyx persistens, laciniis equalibus. Corolle dacinie acutiuscule. Ozs. V. angustifolia, A. Richard (Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 187.), cui affinis differt: spicis gracilibus pedunculatis axillaribus folio duplé et ultra longioribus, laciniis calycinis obtusis tubo corolla duplo bre- 2 vioribus, foliis lineari-angustis acutis subtus glaucescentibus. V. diosmifolia (R. Cunn. MSS.) ; corymbis axillaribus terminalibusve multifloris, bracteis. ovatis pedicello duplé brevioribus, laciniis — calycis ovalibus obtusis dimidium tubi corolle aquantibus, foliis — decussatis petiolatis lanceolatis acutis integerrimis serrulatisve, — serraturis simpliciter incisis remotis, supra concavis lavibus subtus- discoloribus, caule fruticoso erecto. ioe Has. In Nova Zelandia: in sylvis densis prope ortum fluminis Wycaddy ; etiam circa cataractas preruptas rivi Keri-Ken, ad sinum Bay of Islands dictum; alibique in insula septentrionali. 1834. Rich. Cunningham. Ab Incolis Piriti dicitur, Frutex gracilis virgatus 3-12 pedalis, cum habitu omnind Zrachy- menes, Rami stricti, erecti, foliosi. Folia 9-lineas longa, avenia, subtus carinata. Fores albi. Capsula elliptica, acuta, compressa, bipartibilis, calyce ciliato triplé longior. With the above enumerated species, specimens were received of another, which appears identical with one originally discovered by t. Brown, in Van Diemen’s Land: viz. oe V. calycina (R. Br.) ; racemis lateralibus pedunculatis paucifloris Strictis folio multoties longioribus, foliis laté ovatis subcordatis rugosis ineequaliter serrato-crenatis petiolatis cauleque hirsutis, calycibus pilosis ciliatis capsula longioribus. eee oS _ Veronica calycina. Brown Prodr. Fl, Nov. Holl. 1. p. 435. Rom. | et Schult. Syst. Veget. 1. p. 119. a Has. In Nove Zelandie ins. sept.: ad ripas amnis Keri-Keri, inter gramina. 1834. Rich. Cunningham. | ' oe Caulis herbaceus elongatus (sepe 5-6 pedalis) in locis graminosis late Tepens v. decumbens. Folia opposita grossé serrata, subtus dis- colora, hispida. Calyx quadripartitus capsula longior, laciniis obo- : Vatis obtusiusculis nervosis. Capsula rotundata, compressa, emar- _ ginata s. obcordata polysperma, dissepimento contrario. A.C. Swims 3 s = oo] Fae 7 8 seen — — SS eS or sritsieiaietnnrenaahinaee so — Fiub by S Curt's Glaxenwicd Foe0cx ( 3462 ) TROXIMON GLAUCUM. GLAUCOUS-LEAVED 'TroxIMon. KKK REE EEK EKER EEE Class and Order. SyNnGENESIA ASQUALIS. ( Nat. Ord.—Composir. ) Generic Character. Involucrum duplex : ext. e foliolis laxé imbricatis ovato- lanceolatis ; int. e foliolis 10—12 equalibus uniformibus infra medium coadunatis. Receptaculum planum, leviter foveolatum, subfimbriatum. Achenium oblongum, nunc in rostrum attenuatum. Pappus pilosus seu scaber, pluri- serialis. Specific Character and Synonyms. Troximon glaucum; foliis lanceolatis inferne attenuatis glaucis integerrimis dentatisve, flore maximo flavo, corolle fauce valdé pilosa. («.) seapo involucrique foliolis patentibus hirsuto-tomen- tosis. Hook, Fl. Bor. Am. v. 1. p. 300. TRoxImon elaucum. Nutt. in Frazer’s Cat. 1813. Pursh, Fl. Am. v. 2. p. 505. Rich. in Frankl. \st Journ. ed. 2. App. p. 29. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 633. — (B.) pa involucrique foliolis erectis glaberrimis. Hook. o. TRoximon glaucum. Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1667. TRoximon cuspidatum ? Pursh, Fl. Am. v. 2. p. T42. TRoximon marginatum ? Nutt. l. c. So different is the appearance of this handsome plant from that of Troximon glaucum of Dr. Sims in the Botan- ical Magazine, that were I not possessed of native speci- mens, exhibiting intermediate gradations, I should certainly have published it as a new species. But, as the original glaucum glaucum of Mr. Nurratt has a pubescent involucre, we must claim for that which is here represented, the right of being considered the original type of the species, and, as we have already done in the Flora Boreali-Americana, consi- der Dr. Sims’s plant (which has a flower scarcely half so large as this, a glabrous scape and involucre, of which the outer scales of the latter are erect and imbricated ; also. having narrower and quite entire leaves) as a variety. Our plants, which are quite hardy, were raised from seeds gathered by Mr. Drummonp in the prairies of the Rocky Mountains, during Capt. Sir Jonn Frankuin’s Ex- pedition. It flowers from June to August. Descr. Whole plant abounding in milky juice. Root somewhat fusiform, perennial, sending out runners, b which the plant increases to a very great extent. Stem none. Leaves numerous, from the crown of the root, six to eight or ten inches long, and of a glaucous colour, thus forming very conspicuous tufts, lanceolate, more or less™ downy, acute, tapering below into a broad footstalk, the margin entire, or sometimes very distinctly but irregularly toothed. Scapes longer than the leaves, thick, striated, woolly, single-flowered. Flowers very large, of a bright but not deep yellow. Involucre of numerous scales, of which an inner series is composed of nearly equal, up- right, linear-lanceolate scales, united at their base, the outer of many lax, spreading, and broader scales, thickly clothed with white, woolly hairs. Receptacle minutely pitted, the margins of the pit obscurely fimbriated. Corollas ligulate : the tube long, slender, about the mouth, or the outside, very villous. Germen oblong, by no means rostrate: Pap- pus white, rough. Anthers narrow, linear, orange. Fig. 1. Floret : magnified. Lub. by 3, Crrias, Olaxenwocd Fiser. fant I FE 36. Pee fo ee eee ee ee ( 3463 ) GILIA TRICOLOR. 'THREE-COLOURED GILIA. Be oe es on Oe On a a OO es aN OR a Class and Order. Pentanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—PotemoniAcez. ) Generic Character. Calyx campanulatus, 5-fidus, margine et sinubus mem- branaceis. Corolla infundibuliformis vel subcampanulatus, limbo 5-partito, laciniis obovatis integris. Stamina ad faucem vel vix intra tubum inserta. Anthere ovato-subro- tunde, Capsule \oculi polyspermi.—Herbe foliis alternis pinnatisectis, segmentis integris dissectisve, (vel oppositis _ thie ae segmentis integris subulatis). Benth. in Bot. eg. Specific Character and Synonyms. Gis tricolor ; caule erecto glabro folioso, foliis bipinnati- sectis, segmentis lineari-subulatis, corymbis 3—6- floris virgato-paniculatis, corollis calyce subtriplo lon- gioribus. Benth. Guia tricolor. Benth. in Bot. Reg. fol. 1622 (in the text). ae Trans. N.S. v. 1. t. 18. f. 3. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1704. | The lamented Dovetas, during his excursions in Cali- fornia, had the satisfaction of adding no less than twenty- five new species to the hitherto comparatively very limited Order of Potemontacem, besides those which have been detected elsewhere on the Pacific side of America. All of them are remarkable for gracefulness and beauty, and are well suited to ornament our flower-borders, to which, indeed, _ several have been introduced, through the medium of the Horticultural Society, by the same indefatigable Naturalist. An epitome of these, and a few others from the Nt coas coast of America, from Chili, and Peru, are given by Mr. Benruam in the Botanical Register, where they are with much skill and judgment, grouped into seven distinct and Natural Genera. Of these Genera, the most numerous is GiL1A, comprising fourteen species: and of these, the present one is undoubtedly that which bears the palm for beauty. ‘‘ Nothing can well be prettier,” observes Pro- fessor Linney, “ than this is, when thickly filling a bed a_ few feet in length and breadth.” Thus cultivated in thick tufts, it flourishes as well in the unfavourable climate of the West of Scotland as in its native country, continuing for a long time in perfection during the summer months. Descr. Root annual. Whole plant slightly pubescent. Stem erect, a foot to a foot and a half high, erect, branched in a paniculated manner almost from the base. Leaves bi- tripinnatifid, the lower ones petiolated, upper ones sessile, the segments narrow, linear, subulate, somewhat fleshy, and compressed. Flowers corymbose, almost capitate, six to eight or ten at the extremity of the branches of the pan- icle, extremely handsome. Pedicels short. Calyx of five, deep, lanceolate, acute, erect segments, with the margins scariose, not half so long as the corolla. Corolla infundi- buliform: the tube yellow ; the faux very dark purple, the limb spreading, of five broadly cordate segments, white, or nearly so at the base, tinged with bluish-purple towards the extremity. Filaments short, incurved, situated in the faux. Anthers oval, pale blue. Style as long as the corolla. Stigma trifid. ' Pub. by S$ Curhs, Glazenwood Essex, Jan¥ 11836. Sean ce Sn Syn fi i ee al \ ks i ( 3464 ) VESICARIA GRANDIFLORA. LARGE-FLOWERED VESICARIA. Class and Order. TTETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. ( Nat. Ord.—Crucirer2. ) Generic Character. Silicula globosa, inflata, valvis hemisphericis. Semina plurima (ultra 8) spits marginata. Petala integra. D C. Specific Name and Character. Vesicarta* grandiflora; annua, stellatim pubescens, cauli-- bus crectis flexuosis, foliis oblongis radicalibus sub- lyrato-pinnatifidis petiolatis caulinis sinuato-dentatis sessilibus, racemis elongatis multifloris, petalis rotun- datis patentibus brevissime unguiculatis, siliculis sub- stipitatis membranaceis globosis glaberrimis 4—6-sper- mis stylo longioribus, stigmate capitato. No less than three new species of Vestcarta were disco- vered; by M. Berenpier in Texas of Mexico, all of which are in my Herbarium, V. lasiocarpa, Hook. MSS., V. gra- cilis, and the subject of the present plate. Of these, the two last have been also found by Mr. Drummonn. . V. gra- cilis is n. 13. of Mr. Drummonn’s third Texas Collection : the present one (of which specimens are distributed in Mr. Drummonp’s first Texas Collection) is further known to us by seeds sent in the spring of last year, which produced plants in the summer, exhibiting a profusion of blossom and a brightness and size in the flower equalled by few plants of this Nat. Order, and which render the species most highly deserving * From Vesica, a bladder ; on account of the bladdered fruit. deserving of cultivation, whether in the flower-border or on the shelves of a cool greenhouse. The almost sessile spreading and concave petals give it an appearance very unlike that of most cruciform flowers. The blossoms are long-lived, and the same plant will yield a succession of flowers from July to October. Descr. Root annual, subfusiform. Stems one or several from the same root, a foot or more high, erect, but flexuose and weak, so that it is desirable to prop them with a stick in cultivation ; clothed, as is the whole herbage, with short stellated down, but much less so than most of the known downy Vesicariz. Radical leaves oblong, or almost spa- thulate, tapering below into a footstalk, pinnatifid and somewhat lyrate, the lobes obtuse; cauline ones oblong, sessile, subamplexicaul, more or less sinuato-dentate; all of them paler and more downy beneath. Raceme, when fully advanced, eight or ten inches and not unfrequently a foot in length, bearing numerous large, bright-yellow flowers. Pedicels, in fruit, nearly an inch long. Calyx of five oblong-oval, hoary, spreading leaves. Corolla of five rounded, spreading, concaye petals, scarcely unguiculate. Stamens six, tetradynamous, yellow: Filaments subulate : _ Anthers oblong. Pouch globose, membranous, glabrous, situated on a very short stalk, and longer than the style. Stigma capitate. Seeds generally about four or six in number. Fig. 1. Stamens and Pistil. 2. Petal. 3. Stamens. 4. Silicule:—mag- nefied. 5. Root-leaf:—nat. size. Se ia Lich by S.Curts, Haxenwood EiserheBU 1936 ( 3465 ) PENTSTEMON CoBpa@ma. COBAA-FLOWERED PENTSTEMON. | Class and Order. DipynAmi1A ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Scropuutarin2Z. ) Generic Character. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla bilabiata ventricosa. Rudi- mentum filamenti quinti superne barbatum. Capsula bilo- cularis. Specific Character and Synonym. Pentstemon Cobea; elatus puberulus, foliis oblongo-ovatis denticulatis nitidis, panicula terminali foliosa, pedun- — culis 3—5-floris, pedicellis bracteatis, corolla pubes- cente (magna) tubo inflato, limbo bilabiato quinque- lobo, lobis 2—3 rotundatis patentibus -intus lineatis, appendice intus barbato, calycis pubescentis laciniis _oblongo-lanceolatis erectis. ; : Pentstemon Cobea. Nutt. Pl. of Arkansa, in Amer. Phil. Journ. 1834, p. 182. Handsome as is this species of Pentsremon, the native specimens gave me reason to expect a more splendid plant than that which is here represented, of which seeds and well-dried specimens were sent to Europe by Mr. Drom- monp in the spring of the past year (1835) from the interior of Texas*, about St. Austin. But, unfortunately, sia, Sh * The particulars respecting Mr. DRuMMOND’s journeys in rary ately been States of North America, and in Mexico, have ki oD ey “ CoMPANION TO THE BoTANICAL MAGAZINE,” a periodical stir 45 , VOL, p 4 . ° * c blossoms till the period of the autumnal colds, and then do = _ SIEBOLD’s residence in Japan ;—Mr. Watson on the Distribution of Trees districts at Huanuco, with the mode of collecting it. the lateness of the season, our plants did not produce their not appear to have obtained either the size of those on wild specimens, or the colour, as described by Mr. Novrratt, who called it P. Cobga, on account of the magnitude and a sort of general resemblance in its flowers to those of Cospza scandens. Certain it is, that the flowers on some of our dried specimens are nearly twice as large as those here represented. It was first discovered by Mr. Norratn, sy Nae in which, we flatter ourselves, only needs.to be more known in order to meet with still further encouragement; for it is expressly undertaken with the _ view of recording such useful Botanical information, as is not suited to _ the pages of the Magazine. In the seven numbers which have now ap- _ peared, we may confidently refer to the following articles, many of them original communications prepared solely for the work, as being such, as will, we are sure, be read with interest even by those who are not deeply versed in Science :—Journal of an Ascent to the summit of Adam’s Peak, Ceylon;—Account of Mr. Matuews’ Journeys in the Peruvian Andes ;— Excursions in the neighbourhood of Quito, and towards the summit of - _ Chimborazo, in 1830, by the late Colonel Hatt ;—Notice respecting Dr. _ and Shrubs in Britain, and towards the Arctic Regions ;—the same gentle- _ man’s Remarks on the Numerical Proportions of the Natural’ Orders of British Plants at different elevations;—Drummond’s Letters from Texas ~ in Mexico;—Dr. Puttrrpr on the V egetation of Etna ;—Physical and Geo- graphical Observations made in Colombia, by Professor W1LL1aM JAMESON of Quito;—Dr. Péprie’s Picture of the Vegetation of Chili;—a Memoir of the Life of the late Mr. WiixraM Jack, including many of the Letters of that accomplished individual from Sumatra and the East Indies, &c.; —M. Duriev’s Botanical Excursions in the Mountains of Asturias ;— Dr. Péppia’s highly interesting account of the Uses of Coca, a Dru Aa which is to the Peruvians what Opium is to the Inhabitants of the East; - —the same gentleman’s Memoir of the Cinchona- (or Medicinal Bark-) The above, together with notices respecting Botanical ublications, the Contributions towards the Flora of the East Indies (by Messrs. WicHT and ARnotT,) of North and South America, of Britain, &c., with M. nd Sou emoirs communicated by various distinguished Botanists, cannot fail to be acceptable to every man of science. —A Memoir of the Life of the late Mr. David Dovctas, whose tragical death in the Sandwich Islands: excited so much interest and such deep sympathy throughout the whole Botanical world, accompanied by a Portrait, (already prepared from an excellent original likeness in the possession of _ Dawson Turner, Esq.,) is in a state of considerable forwardness, Our readers will at once perceive that the Proprietor of the work, Mr. Curtis, is not _ actuated by sordid motives in its publication; but mainly by a desire to as seg the study of Botany ; when it is known that each monthly num- ___ ber (consisting of thirty-two closely-printed pages of letter-press, in double _ _ columns, with two plates, partially coloured) is offered at the low price of Is. when stitched with the Magazine, or 1s. 6d. if taken se ately. It is _ hoped that this appeal to our Botanical. friends, in behalf of wwe so well _ calculated to further the cause of Science, will not be made in vain. — Lithographed fir the Companion to Curtiss Botanical Magazine. RMartin & 00.26, Long Acre. im calcareous soil on the prairies of the Red River: and I have one of his own original specimens now before me. Descr. Root perennial. Stem two feet and more in height, erect, stout, roundish, or very obtusely angular, slightly downy, as is the whole plant. Leaves opposite, the upper ones oblong, or even oblongo-cordate, and semi- amplexicaul, the middle ones oblong, narrower at the base but sessile; the root-leaves oval-spathulate, petiolate, all of them somewhat glossy, denticulate at the margin. Pa- nicle terminal, leafy. Peduncles opposite from the axils of these leaves, bearing three to five large, downy flowers, the short pedicels bracteated. Calyx cut into five deep, erect, oblongo-lanceolate segments. Corolla with the tube considerably inflated, pale, almost white tinged with pur- ple, the limb of five spreading segments, within white, slightly suffused with yellow and streaked with red. Fila- ments (fertile) four, included, two didynamous, curved : the © anthers somewhat reniform. Fifth filament: elongated, slightly clavate, furnished with long hairs internally at the apex. Capsule conical-ovate, acuminate, splitting open into two valves, whose margins are curved inwards. Se chaffy, attached to a central receptacle. _Fig. 1. Flower, from which the Corolla is cut away. 2, Capsule, nat, size. 3%. Capsule. 4. Capsule burst open, magnified. 4 7 ! ¢ 4 \ *, LE Vig Z\ MA 4y j LN / jit Zz, i a SS 'TTELEKIA SPECIOSA. LARGE-FLOWERED TELEKIA. KEK EEE KEE ERE EK EEK EK Class and Order. SyNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. ( Nat. Ord. —Composir2. ) Generic Character. Radius uniserialis. Achenium lineare, elongatum, multi-_ costatum, exalatum, triquetro-obcompressum, conforme. | Pappus coroniformis, denticulatus, subcartilagineus et ‘conformis. Corolla exalata, disco teres tuboque inferne— sensim angustato.—Herbe procere in Europa media cres- centes, foliis scabris, integris, alternis, infertoribus amplis cordatis; involucris pluriserialibus, squarrosis, disco equa- hibus, foliolis ellipticis seu linearibus ; lingulis radii angustis v. oblongo-ellipticis. Less. Specific Name and Synonyms. TELEKIA * speciosa. a Texexia speciosa. Baumg. Enum. Stirp. Transylv.—Les- sing, Compos. p. 209. . Motpapia suaveolens. Cass. in Dict. Sc. Nat. v. 32. p. 400. | Burntuatmum speciosum. Schreb. Ic. et Descr. Dec. 1. wu.11. t.6. ; Burataatmoum cordifolium. Waldst. et Kit. Ic. et Descr. Pl. Rar. Hung. v. 2. p. 117. t. 113. Spreng. Syst. Veget. — v. 3. p. 605. Inuta Caucasica. Pers. Syn. Pl. v. 2. p. 450. Inuza macrophylla. Bied. * Probably so named in compliment to some person with whose name and merits I am unacquainted. A fine stately plant, better suited, however, to a shrub- bery than to the borders of a small garden, on account of its great size and luxuriant foliage. Although introduced into our gardens so long ago as the year 1739, when it was, according to the Hortus Kewensis, cultivated by Mr. Puizip Miter, it has never been figured in any publication of our country. It is a native of woody places in the vallies of the Bannatian and Croatian Mountains : and I also possess specimens, through the kindness of Dr. Fiscner, which were gathered at Guriel on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, a province of Georgia. It is quite hardy, and bears its copious blossoms in July and August. Descr. Root perennial. Stems herbaceous, many from the same root, erect, four to six feet high, simple, or pani- cled only at the top with the flowers, stout, hairy, rounded, obscurely furrowed. Flowers very large, often a foot in length, alternate, the lower ones cordate and petiolate, the upper gradually smaller, sessile and ovate, or even lanceo- late, all of them more or less acuminated, coarsely serrated, pubescenti-scabrous, dark green above, paler beneath, co- piously and reticulatedly veined. Peduncles long, thick- ened upwards, naked or bearing one or two small leaves. Involucre of many spreading, oblongo-lanceolate scales, the outer ones larger, leaf-like, and more or less reflexed. Re- ceptacle chaffy, with numerous subulate scales. Florets of the ray, undoubtedly not in a single, but in several (2—3) series, very numerous: Corollas narrow-linear. Florets of the centre tubular. Akenium (immature) oblong, crowned with a minute, jagged cup. r xe 1. Central Floret. 2. Part of a Floret of the Circumference : magni- | ed. 3467. Curtis. Clazenwougl Essex, Febt1 1836 Pub. by Ag ne CHOI) Lupinus SUBCARNOSUS. FLESHY-LEAVED LUPINE. BO oR Oe A a sO as a Class and Order. DiapevpH1A Decanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosz. ) Generic Character. Calyx profunde bilabiatus. Corolla papilionacea, vexillo lateribus reflexis, carina acuminata. Stamina monadelpha, vagina integra, antheris 5 parvis subrotundioribus preco- rioribus, 5 oblongis serioribus. Stylus filiformis. Stigma terminale, subrotundum, barbatum. Zegumen coriaceum, oblongum, compressum, oblique torulosum. Cotyledones crasse, per germin, in folia converse. . Specific Name and Character. Lupinus subcarnosus ; herbaceus annuus, caule pubescenti- sericeo, foliolis quinis obovato-lanceolatis subcarnosis supra glaberrimis subtis (margineque precipue) seri- ceis, stipulis elongato-subulatis, racemo pyramidali, pedicellis alternis longitudine florum, calycibus sert- ceis bibracteatis bilabiatis, labio superiore breviore bifido inferiore lanceolato apice tridentato dente inter- medio longiore, vexillo orbiculari intense ceruleo me- dio macula alba plica longitudinali divisa. An extremely beautiful, and, apparently, very distinct species, of which specimens exist in my Herbarium, which were collected at Bejar in Texas, by M. Brerenpier In 1828. It has been again gathered most abundantly by Mr. Drummonp, between Brazoria and San Felipe, particularly about the latter place. Seeds arrived in England from the last mentioned Naturalist, and have produced their hand- some flowers in July of the present year, 1835. . Descr. Descr. Root apparently annual. Stem eight to ten inches to a foot high, simple or branched, downy. Leaves upon long petioles, of five obovato-lanceolate, singularly thick, and almost fleshy, retuse leaflets, those of the lower leaves the shortest and broadest; all of them quite glabrous on the upper surface, below slightly silky with scattered hairs ; the margiy ciliated with white appressed silky hairs. Stipules half to three-fourths of an inch long, subulate, ap- pressed. Racemes terminal, pedunculated, pyramidal, com- posed of many extremely richly-coloured flowers. Peduncle downy, silky above. Pedicels about as long as the flowers, silky. Calyx silky, purplish-green, two-lipped, bearing a bractea ou each side near the middle. Standard bent back, especially at the sides, orbicular, deep rich blue, with a nearly quadrangular white or yellowish-white spot in the centre, which appears to be divided in the middle by a longitudinal fold: ale (combined by their lower margin, and wholly concealing the carina) oval, deep blue: keel white, much acuminated, purple-black at the tip. Legumes, in my native specimens, an inch and a half in length, linear- oblong, compressed, torulose from the four or five seeds contained within, and silky. Fig. 1. Inside view of the Vexillum. 2. Calyx with the Carina —mag- nified. ( 3468 ) CoLtomiA CAVANILLESII. -CAVANILLES’ CoLLoMIA. KKK KKK KEE KEK EK K KEKE Class and Order. Pentanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.— Po temontAcem. ) Generic Character. Calyx campanulatus 5-fidus vel sub 5-partitus, lobis lan- — ceolatis linearibusve zequalibus integris. Corolla hypocra- teriformis, tubo tenui exserto, limbo patente 5-partito, laciniis oblongis integris. Stamina versus medium tubi mserta. Anthere ovato-subrotundx. Capsule loculi 1—2- — spermi.—Herbe, folia alterna, rarius inferiora opposita, in- — tegra inciso-dentata vel rarius pinnatifida. Flores dense capitati, bracteis late ovatis integerrimis suffulti. Benth. Specific Character and Synonyms. Cottomia Cavanillesii ; foliis lanceolato-linearibus supremis ovato-lanceolatis integerrimis vel apice profunde 3—4- dentatis, calyce semi-5-fido, laciniis lato-lanceolatis obtusis, corollis calyce plus duplo longioribus, stami- nibus inclusis, capsule loculis monospermis. Benth. Cottomsa Cavanillesii. Hook. et Arn. Bot. of Beech. Voy. ©. 4. p. 37, 1831. | Cotiomia coccinea. Lehm. Hort. Hamb. 1832. Benth. in Bot. Reg. t. 1662. Cottomia lateritia. Sw. Br. Fl. Gard. t. 206. Putox linearis. Cav. Ic. v. 6. p. 17. t. 527. (uot Collomia linearis, Nutt. ) It is singular that two authors, who have described this plant, should both have overlooked the figure and descrip- tion of it in Cavanittes. Nurratn mistook them for ee o of his North American Collomia, quoting it indeed doubt- fully, but adopting the specific name; whereas the two plants are totally distinct. It was introduced to our gar- dens from Chili by Mr. Cumine, and is a very desirable annual, flowering in Scotland in the latter part of the sum- mer. Professor Linpiey observes, that if the seeds are sown in March, in the open border, the blossoms will appear in June; if again sown, shortly after that time, a second crop of flowers may be had in September and Oc- tober, seasons which suit it rather better than the dog-days. In Chili it seems to be abundant. Cavanizxes found it at ‘Talcahuano ; Mr. Cumine at Valparaiso (n. 549 of his col- lection), and in the Cordillera (n. 221); Mr. Brinees at Los Ojos de Agua (n. 146), and in Valdivia (n. 611), and the officers of Captain Bercuey’s Voyage at Conception. Descr. Annual. Stem erect, a foot high, rounded, more or less branched and hairy, as well as the foliage, especially in the upper part of the plant. Leaves alternate, at the base only opposite, linear-lanceolate, entire, or incised at the extremity, those near the flowers broader at the base. Flowers umbellato-capitate ; pedicels short. Calyx glandu- _ loso-pilose, nearly half five-cleft. Corolla with a long, harrow, deep-yellow tube, which is slightly downy, and twice as long as the calyx ; limb of five spreading, narrow- ovate segments; of a dull, but rather deep red on the upper side, pale birch red at the back; eye yellow. Cap- sule as long as the calyx, one-celled, three-valved ; valyes obcordate. Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified. Fah by 8 Carts Charen werd Ears BB? 1.1836. ( 3469 ) PETROPHILA ACICULARIS. N&EDLE-LEAVED PETROPHILA. Class and Order. TerranprRiA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Prorteacez. ) Generic Character. Perianthium quadrifidum, totum simul deciduum. Sgua-— me nulle hypogyne. Stylus basi persistente. Stigma fusiforme, apice attenuato. Strobilus ovatus. Nux lenti- cularis, hine comosa vel Samara basi barbata.—Frutices _ rigidi. Folia glabra, varia, filiformia v. plana, indivisa, lobata v. pinnatifida, quandoque in eodem frutice diversi- formia. Amenta ovata, vel oblonga, terminalia et axillaria, nunc aggregata. Br. Specific Character and Synonyms. Perropuita* acicularis ; foliis filiformibus supra obsolete sulcatis, squamis strobili nervosis ovatis. Perropuita acicularis. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 10. p. 69. Ibid. Prodr. Fl. Now. Holland, p. 364. Roem. et Schult. v. 3. p.338. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 459. This plant was raised at the Botanic Garden of Edinburgh from seed, having been communicated from King George’s Sound, New Holland, by Col. Linpesay in 1830, under the name of Perropuita filifolia, and specimens flowered in the greenhouse both last year and this, in April. Descr. Shrub erect ; branches erect, glabrous, yellowish- green. Leaves (three to six inches long) filiform, obscurely furrowed * From mstpoc, a stone, or rock, and QsAeo, to love: from the species in- habiting rocky or stony places, furrowed on the upper side, glabrous, mucronate, bright ereen, smaller and cartilaginous at the base. Capitulum terminal, receptacle densely covered with short white wool. Bracteas ovate, acute, the outer ones having a leaf-like apex. Perianth silky, deciduous, four-parted, concave and red internally in the apices of the segments. Anthers ob- long, yellow, sessile in the apices of the perianth ; Pollen- granules angular. Stigma articulate, the upper portion hairy, about twice as long as the green, glabrous, angular, turbinate lower portion. Style longer than the perianth, capillary. Germen sessile, every where covered with long, white, érect hairs, green, corticular, ovule solitary. Gra- ham. Fig. 1. Flower, with its Bractea. 2. Bractea. 3. Pistil: magnified. Pub. by 8. Curtis Glavnwood, Essex#eb7 7, 1836 ( 3470 ) PoTENTILLA ATRO-SANGUINEA; hybrida, RussELLIANA. Mr. Russexr’s hybrid variety of the Deer © “Buioop-coLoureD CINQUEFOIL. “desk seskeskesokesakolesbakeobeakeakeobeskeateskeakeakeobeak Class and Order. IcosANDRIA PoLyGyniA. ( Nat. Ord. —Rosace#. ) Generic Character. Calyx decemfidus, segmentis alternis minoribus. Petala 5. Pericarpia receptaculo sicco affixa. : Specific Character and Synonyms. PorentILLA atro-sanguinea ; caule erecto pubescente ra- moso, foliis ternis petiolatis superne sessilibus foliolis ellipticis profunde serratis subtus niveo-tomentosis, sti- pulis magnis ovatis, petalis obcordatis (atro-sangul- neis. ) PorenTitta atro-sanguinea. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 786. Don, . Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 232. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 579. Bot. Mag. t. 2689. P Hybrida, Russelliana ; foliis subtus concoloribus, corollis maximis intense sanguineéo-coccineis. Russell’s Po- tentilla. Bot. Reg. t. 1496.— Tab. nostr. (3470). Ba MM Si eB a Fe toate Perhaps no plant, bearing the open air in our cli- mate, produces flowers of a richer hue than the present, which is an hybrid, said to have been first raised by Mr. Russeut of Battersea, between P. atro-sanguinea and P. Nepalensis ; but far exceeding in the size and beauty of its blossoms either of its parents. It is perfectly hardy, brav- ing the severest winters of our island with impunity and — flowering during the summer and autumn. a ee eee —— - ca) to are ) TriroLiuM REFLEXUM. Burrato Crover. SEK KKK KKK EERE EERE EKER Class and Order. DrapELPHIA DECANDRIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Lereuminos2. ) Generic Character. Calyx tubulosus, persistens, eglandulosus, 5-fidus, laciniis subulatis. Carina alis et vexillo brevior. Stamina diadel- pha. Legumen parvum vix dehiscens, sepius ovatum 1—2- spermum, calyce brevius et ab eo tectum rarius oblongum, 3—4-spermum calycem paululum superans.—Herbe. Sti- pule petiolo adnate. Folia palmatim 5- aut rarissime 5-fo- liolata. Flores capitati aut dense spicati, bracteati, purpuret, albi aut ochroleuct. Petala in quibusdam omnia inferne basi coaliia. Specific Character and Synonyms. Trirotium reflexum ; adscendens, foliolis rhomboideo-ova- libus denticulatis, capitulis globosis terminalibus, flo- ribus defloratis reflexis, calycis tubi brevissimo dentibus elongatis subulatis rectis corolla persistente brevioribus, alis vexillo obovato brevioribus carina apiculata lon- gioribus, legumine oblongo 3—4-spermo. ee Trirotium reflexum. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1079. Mich. Am. v.2.p.39. Pursh Fl. Am.v.2.p.477. Spreng. Syst. Veget.v.3.p.205. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 201, (not of Waldst. and Kit. nor of De Cand. I. c. p. 197.) This handsome species of Trefoil, though long cultivated in the Southern States of North America, and even as far North as Kentucky, by the name of Buffalo-Clover, is very little known to European Botanists, nor are we aware that it has ever been raised in our gardens, though eminently deserving a place in every collection, until Mr. Drummonp , sent sent seeds from Texas in the spring of 1835. Its flowers are in perfection in the open border in June and July. Descr. Stems herbaceous, decumbent, branched, six to eight inches in length, more or less hirsute, sometimes, as in our specimens, almost entirely glabrous. Leaflets ter- nate, oval, approaching to rhomboidal, the lower ones obo- vate, denticulate, especially in their upper half, frequently spotted with brown and white ; petioles one to two inches long. Stipules obliquely cordate, acuminate. Peduncles terminal and lateral, two to three inches long. Heads large, globose, many-flowered, very handsome. Pedicels short. Calyx with a short cup-shaped tube and five upright, subu- late teeth much shorter than the petals. Corolla persistent, not withering. Vexillum broadly obovate, beautiful rose- red, the claw scarcely forming a tube. Wings white, at first straight, shorter than the vexillum, but longer than the mucronated, white keel. After flowering, the wings spread considerably and by slightly cohering with the sides of the ale, they cause it to dilate and to have the appearance ofa white bird with its wings expanded. Stamens diadelphous. Germen linear. Style long. Legume oblong, stipitate, three to four-seeded, terminated by the long persistent style. Seeds greenish-brown, spotted. > Fig. 1. Back view of a Flower. 2. Side view of ditto. 3. Keel. 4. Pistil. 5. Fruit :-—magnvfied. a Pub by 3.Curtis Clarnwod Essex March 1 1856 Swan ra oe ( 3472 ) Pentstemon Murrayanus. Mr. Morray’s | ScARLET PENTSTEMON. Class and Order. ¥ Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Scropnutarina. ) Generic Character. _ Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla tubulosa, subventricosa, bi-_ —- Jabiata. Filamentum 5 sterile. Capsula bilocularis, bival-— ___ Vis, dissepimento duplicato e marginibus valvarum inflexis demum bipartibili. Semina nuda. ei Specific Name and Character. Pentstemon Murrayanus ; elatus glaberrimus glaucus, foliis integerrimis oblongis inferioribus spathulatis superio- ribus seu bracteatis connato-perfoliatis, floribus race- mosis, corollis glaberrimis, tubo subcylindraceo longi- - tudine staminum, filamento quinto nudo. A native of San Felipe, in Texas: discovered by Mr. Drummonp, in 1834, and by him sent to our gardens, where it promises to be a very great acquisition, being remarkable for its stately growth, its singularly glaucous and large foliage, and for the number and size and rich colouring of the flowers. 'The seeds arrived rather late in the spring of 1835, so that, in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, the autumn advanced rapidly upon us before the blossoms were gene- rally expanded. Under more favorable circumstances we may judge of the beauty of the plant, from the fact that, on _ one specimen, we counted eleven pairs of floral leaves, from _ the axils of which sprang two to four flower buds: and in one of the dried native specimens a single raceme had fifty- six blossoms. It will probably prove quite a hardy, her- baceous perennial. I am anxious it should bear the name aL eae D ee of the skilful Curator of our Glasgow, Botanic Garden, who has been the means of rearing so many of Mr. Drummonp’s plants, and to whose undeviating kindness and friendship that zealous Naturalist was greatly indebted for much of the success that attended his exertions. Descr. Root perennial. Stem three feet high, erect, . simple, rounded, purplish below. Leaves remarkably glau- cous, and all quite entire, large, opposite : the radical ones six to seven inches long, spathulate, those of the lower part of the stem oblong, gradually becoming shorter and broader upwards and united at the base, till at length among the flowers (where they may be considered bracteas) they are remarkably connate, perfoliate, and cup-shaped, sensibly diminishing towards the extremity, so that the upper part of the stem forms a paniculated raceme, each pair of floral leaves bearing two, generally four, and often six, large, pedunculated, somewhat drooping, very handsome flowers. Peduncle as long as the space between the leaves. Calyx deeply cut into five, nearly equal, slightly-spreading, linear- oblong segments. Corolla an inch and a half or more long, of arich glossy scarlet especially at the base, slightly enlarged upwards : limb two-lipped ; upper lip small, bifid ; lower large, of three spreading, oval segments. The fifth abor- tive filament deep red, curved at the extremity, which is filiform and not at all bearded. Germen ovate, green, seated upon a glandular disk, tapering into a deep red, filiform style : Stigma obtuse. Fig. 1. Flower from which a portion of the Corolla is cut away, to show the Stamen, the fifth Filament, and the Styles magnified. Lub. by S. Curtis, Glaxenwood: Essex:Marl 1836. « BR) LINARIA. CANADENSIS. AMERICAN TOAD- Fax. SEK KKK KEE KEKE KKEKEEE Class and Order. DipynaMiIA ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Scropnurarine. ) Generic Character. Calyx 5-partitus persistens. Corolla personata, tubo in. cornu producto: limbo bilabiato: lab. sup. erectum emar- ginatum aut bifidum lateribus reflexis; if. palato eleva- tum, trilobum. Stamina conniventia. Anthere ovales, biloculares. Stylus filiformis. Stigma capitatum subbilo- bum. Capsula bilocularis, apice dentibus pluribus dehis- cens: dissepimento utrinque placentifero.. Semima com- pressa, marginata, vel solida. Spr. Specific Character and Synonyms. Linaria* Canadensis ; erecta glabra glauca, foliis lineari- bus obtusis, floribus racemosis, labio inferiore maximo — palato obsoleto, calcare subulato, stolonibus procum- bentibus. Lrnaria Canadensis. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 2. p. T97. Antirruinum Canadense. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 861. Pursh, Fl. Am. v. 2. p. 421. Elliott, Carol. v. 2. p. (13. Many Botanists object to the use of the names of coun- tries, as applied to the specific denomination of plants, on the ground that they may be, and are frequently, found in other localities besides that from which the species de- rives its appellation: and such is eminently the case with the * From dinum, flax, which the leaves of this and many other of the species considerably resemble. the present individual, which, though called Canadensis, is not only found in all the temperate and warm regions of North America, but extends likewise through the greater part, if not the whole, of South America,* both on the Atlantic and Pacific sides; so that few phcenogamous plants can boast so extended a range. If we exclude the very dubious Linarra tenella, Pu. (not Cav.) this is the only species indigenous to North America; and except the Linaria glabrata of Humeoxpr, there seems to be no other found in South America. The present species is remarkable for the very large lower lip of the corolla and the very slightly projecting palate: the faux, however, as WILLDENow well observes, is not pervious, whence it dif- fers from the Genus Anarruinum. Although a plant known since the days of Linnaus, and even Gronovius, it does not appear to have been intro- duced to our gardens till the spring of last year, when Mr. Drummonp sent seeds (as well as specimens) from Texas, which produced flowering plants the ensuing sum- mer. It is a hardy annual, and, on account of its compara- tively large and delicate flowers, well worthy of being perpetuated in our gardens. Descr. Annual. Stems often several from the same: - root, erect, a foot or more high, simple or branched, throw- _Ing out several procumbent stolones or barren shoots at the base, asin Linarta simplex, and especially L. Pelisseri- anum. Leaves linear, alternate, and rather remote on the flowering-stems, on the procumbent shoots crowded, often ternate and quaternate, all of them perfectly glabrous, entire, slightly glaucous. Racemes terminal, of several handsome, large, and extremely delicate, pale purple fow- ers, streaked with darker veins. Pedicels short. Calyx of five deep, glabrous segments. Corolla with the lower lip remarkably large and deflexed, cut into three truncated or retuse lobes, the disk pale, slightly prominent, but present- ing no manifest projection or palate, yet closing the faux. Capsule globose, compressed, scarcely longer than the ca- lyx, crowned with the short persistent style. a ae * I have specimens from Lurin, in Peru, gathered by Mr. Marnews; _ from Chili, by Mr. CrucksHanxks and Mr. CuminG; from Valdivia, by Mr. Bripces; from Paraguay, by Mr. Barr; from Maldonado, by Dr. GiLtigs ; and from Rio Grande do Sul, by Mr. Tweepre: whilst SELLOW a detected it in other parts of South Brazil, according to CHaMrsso in , Linnea, v. 2. p. 591. Lub. by § Curtis, Glavenpood: £ ssa Mar] 1836 Swan Se. ( 3474 ) CoREOPSIS DIVERSIFOLIA. WVARIOUS-LEAVED Coreopsis. KEKE KEKE KEKE EER EERE EK Class and Order. SynGENESIA F'RUSTRANEA. ( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. ) Generic Character. Receptaculum paleaceum. Achenia compressa, emargi- nata. Pappus bicornis vel obsoletus. Involucrum duplex ; utrumque polyphyllum. Specific Character and Synonym. Coreopsis * diversifolia ; annua, hirsuta vel glabra, ramosa, foliis ternatis pinnatis etiam bipinnatis, foliolis rhom- beo-rotundatis obovatis obtusis integerrimis, pedun- culis elongatis glaberrimis unifloris, involucro utroque monophyllo suboctopartito, radiis apice 4-fidis, ache- niis ovalibus muticis subincurvis hince disco plano margine incrassato. Coreopsis auriculata; var. diversifolia. Elliott, Corol. v. . 2. p. 437. Sent from Texas by the late Mr. Drummonp, who was much struck with its beauty, and who gathered it, not only upon the coast at Brazosia, but in the interior of the coun- try round San Felipe. Seeds which arrived in February of the past year (1835) produced plants, which displayed their large and bright orange-coloured flowers with a dark eye in the open air, in the month of July. So that it promises to be a hardy and most desirable annual. Its nearest affinity, * From xopss, a bug, and obi, a resemblance, from a fancied likeness in the fruit to that insect. affinity, as a species, is undoubtedly with C. auriculata, with which Mr. Exuiorr appears, though doubtfully, to have united it. It differs from that plant in its miich smaller size, thinner, and usually more divided leaves, with broader and blunter segments, in its much larger flowers, and above all, the truly annual duration of the root. Descr. Root annual. Stem a foot, or a foot and a half high, branched, varying exceedingly in hairiness, sometimes thickly clothed with rather long, spreading hairs, at other times quite glabrous. Leaves generally glabrous, petio- lated, extremely variable, sometimes obovato-spathulate, and quite undivided, sometimes ternate, with the two late- ral segments or leaflets smaller, at other times pinnatifid, and not rarely even bipinnate, the leaflets obovate, or oval and very obtuse, those of the lowermost leaves almost orbi- cular. Peduncles terminal and axillary, long, slender, gla- brous. Involucre double, small; both monophyllous and about eight-partite ; the outer lax with linear, green seg- ments : the inner with broadly-elliptic, brown, glossy, mem- branaceous ones. Filorets of the ray eight, very large, obovate, spreading, bright orange, with a dark brown spot at the very base, neuter, cut at the extremity into five, large, unequal teeth, the two middle ones the longest. Germen compressed, abortive. Dise small; its florets dark purple, black above, the anthers and styles and tips of the anthers alone orange. Germen ovate, compressed, slightly curved. Achenia oval, slightly curved, minutely dotted, the inner face with a depressed disk. Receptacle chafty ; the scales long, lanceolato-subulate, dark purple-brown, pale below. Fig. 1. Floret of the Ray. 2. Floret of the Disk 3. Scale of the Re- ceptacle. 4. Achenia: magnified. ERS AE He gy ee ee aa REE oot is ddams. de® Pub by S.Curts Haxemvod. Besece Mar 11836 OE eR ROSEN Eanes e aaa ( 3475 ) Rosa CENTIFOLIA, muscosa; cristata. Crestep var. of the Moss Rosr. KEKE REE KERR ER EK EEE Class and Order. IcosANDRIA PoLnyeynia. ( Nat. Ord. —Rosace#. ) Generic Character. Calycis tubus urceolatus carnosus, achenia plurima hir- suta includens. Receptaculum villosum. Specific Character and Spnonyms. Rosa centifolia ; armis inequalibus majoribus falcatis, folio- lis glanduloso-ciliatis, floribus cernuis, calycibus visco- sis, fructu oblongo. Lindl. Rosa centifolia. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 704. Lindl: Ros. p. 64. (8.) muscosa; calycibus pedunculisque muscosis. Land. L. oh Rosa muscosa. Mill. Dict. n. 22. Sims, Bot: Mag. t. 69. («.) cristata. (Tab. nostr. 3475.) ‘ The Moss Rose of our gardens, having been by Professor — Linb-ey, in his excellent work above quoted, satisfactorily, as we think, referred to Rosa centifolia, we rank this plant as a subvariety of that well-known favourite of our gardens, and proceed to extract from Mr. Curtis’s letter the remarks that accompanied the beautiful drawing, from the pencil of Miss Apams, daughter of Capt. Apams, R. N. of Witham, Kssex. « This variety of the’Moss Rose, like many of the more novel sorts, was obtained from France. Independently of _ the curious mode in which the moss springs in tufts from the edges of its calyx, giving to the early buds a most remarkable appearance, this Rose, when fully ie ara is arge, large, and of the loveliest hue, vying in beauty with any Provins Rose. In luxuriant plants the leaf-stalks are adorned with moss, and the foliage is very ample, rich, and of a lively green colour. Amongst the Roses which I cul- tivate here, to the number of more than a thousand dif- ferent kinds, this variety promises, when more generally known, to become the universal favorite. Its beauty and rarity will, I hope, plead an excuse for departing from the rule against figuring varieties in this work, the Moss Pro- vins Rose having already found a place; but, to avoid repetition, it may be desirable to state, for the information of those who desire to possess the most eligible kinds of Moss Rose, that, among the newer sorts now cultivated, the White, the Scarlet or Tinwell, and the De Meaux, witha White Perpetual Moss Rose, which grows in a clustering manner, and resembles in habit the Quatre Saisons, are the most generally approved varieties. These are well worthy of a conspicuous place in every flower-garden, and their vigor is generally increased by budding them on the stock of the Dog Rose, whether it be desirable to keep them in a dwarf state, or to rear them into standards.” S. C. = taggin ns npg Lub by 5. Curtis. claxenvood FisezMar P7836 * —_ acne ili gee steereerter i ' ‘ 4 q e $ : a, ee ( 3476 ) EvpHorBIA BUPLEURIFOLIA. HArRe’s-Ear- LEAVED SPURGE. - SIG, SIZ SRC SIG, SK SI SIC SCL Sd Sd SIC. SEK Sid SCL KZ SCS, I, Class and Order. Monazcc1a Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—EvurHorsiaces. ) Generic Character. Involucrum androgynum 4—5-fidum, extus appendiculis glandulosis rotundatis v. bicornibus. Flores apetalis mas- culi peripherici. Pedicelli incerti numeri, singuli cum sin- vulis staminibus articulati. Anthere biloculares loculis discretis, sursum dehiscentibus. Germen pedicellatum cen- trale. Styli 3, bifidi. Caps. tricocea. Cocci bivalves. Sem. albuminosa. Spr. Specific Character and Synonyms. Evrnorsia bupleurifolia ; caule bulbiformi tuberculato- areolato, foliis terminalibus fasciculatis lanceolatis in petiolum attenuatis, pedunculis axillaribus monoce- phalis, involueri universalis foliolis subrotundatis basi coadunatis. Evrnorsia bupleurifolia. Jacg. Hort. Schoenbr. v. 1. p. 55. t. 106.- Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 787. Among the many curious forms of this extensive and ‘varied Genus which exist in Southern Africa, the present is, perhaps, the most remarkable, having a thick, succulent, bulbiform stem, marked all over with the scars occasioned by the falling away of the old leaves, giving a reticulated appearance to the surface, the areole constituting tubercles, which are umbilicated in the centre. The whole foliage arises from the extremity of the stem. The Glasgow Bo- tanic Garden is indebted for its first possession of this plant to to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it has been long cul- tivated ; and very lately we have received living specimens through the liberality of Baron von Lupwie, which, arriy- ing in the month of April, quite destitute of leaves, soon produced both foliage and flowers as here represented. The whole plant abounds with milky juice. Descr. Stem four to five inches high, and about three broad, oval or obovate, brown, greenish above, marked all over with the tuberculiform scars, arising from fallen leaves, of which the interstices exhibit a reticulated appearance. Leaves all terminal, clustered, erecto-patent, four to six inches long, lanceolate obtuse, with a few oblique veins from the costa, below tapering into a footstalk. From within these leaves the peduncles arise, two to three inches long, erect, bearing each only one capitulum or head o flowers. Germen: Involucre of two roundish or obcordate leaves, of a rather thick and coriaceous texture, united at their bases, within which, and quite sessile, is the partial mvolucre, cup-shaped, with five equal, nearly erect, round- ed, minutely crenated, fleshy lobes, and alternating with them are five smaller, somewhat membranaceous and fim bri- ated ones. Staminiferous flowers numerous. The pistillife- rous one had fallen away when this drawing and descrip- tion were made. But Jaceurin describes the germen as smooth, and the stigma trifid, with the segments obscurely bifid. ee wT Swan 2 cnwood: Esser: Mar? 1936 ee S Cartas, Gla: Luh. by €: 8477) ANCHUSA VERSICOLOR. CHANGEABLE-FLOW- ERED ALKANET. _ shofesksskespeskesbicbeobeabeabeabakesbealealeabeabeale Class and Order. PentanpriA Monoeynlia. ( Nat. Ord.—Boraeineg. ) Generic Character. _ Calyx 5-partitus, fructiferus erectus v. nutans, inflatus. Corolla infundibuliformis, fauce fornicibus erectis obtusis clausa. Stamina tubo adnata, inclusa. Stylus stigmate bilobo. Nuces turbinate, basi foveolate. Spr. fe Specific Character and Synonyms. Ancuusa* versicolor; calycibus quinquefidis, fructiferis maxime inflatis cernuis, corollis equalibus, foliis ob- longis obtusiusculis floralibus latioribus, caulibus pros- tratis, nucibus rugosis. Ancuusa versicolor. Stev. Act. Mosq. p. 21. Roem. et Sch. v. 4. p. 93. Lycopsis rosea. Reich. Ic. Bot. t. 330. (excl. syn.) An exceedingly pretty annual, which we are surprised is not more known and more cultivated. The corollas are large, for plants of this family, at first sight resembling those of Convotvutus tricolor, and are remarkable for the striking change of colour which they undergo, being almost red in the state of the bud; then, when expanded, reddish purple ; at length bright blue with a yellow eye, from which diverge several delicate rays of a pale yellowish-white colour. Reicuensacn and Sprencet have strangely con- founded * From ayyovea, paint; the roots of one species, A. ¢inctorta, yield a red dye, which was formerly used to stain the face. founded it with the Ancnusa rosea of BresersTein, admira- bly figured in the Cent. Plant. Ross. Merid. t. 43, but that has much smaller, deep rose-coloured flowers, sharper teeth to the calyx, and acuminated leaves. A. versicolor is an inhabitant of the Caucasian Alps, about Chinalung and Kasbek. In the Glasgow Botanic Garden it flowers in July. ; Descr. Root annual. Stem weak and decumbent, branched, slightly angular, and moderately hispid. Leaves slightly hispid, entire, the radical ones spathulate, those of the stem oblong, the uppermost or floral leaves broader, inclining to ovate, all rather obtuse at the extremity. Racemes elongated, leafy. Flowers arising from the axil of each leaf or bractea, on a very short stalk. Calyx five-toothed, oblong, erect, at length singularly inflated and deflexed, slightly five-angled. Corolla large, salver-shaped rather than funnel-shaped : tube as long as the calyx : limb five-lobed, spreading, at first deep rose-red, then purple, at length blue with pale yellow rays. A little below the mouth of the tube are five small, rounded scales, hairy at the margin. Stamens with their filaments very short ; the anthers oblong, dark coloured. Nuts (immature) five, ovate, compressed, much wrinkled, fixed by their base. Fig. 1. Section of the Calyx with young Fruit. 2, Corolla laid open. 3. Scale of the Corolla. 4. Stamen :—magnified. = Pub by §.Curhs Clacenwoed Essex Mar 11836 Swan Se CC 847831) PereskiA BLEo. RosE-COLOURED PERESKIA. SKK RK KK EK EEE KEKE EK Class and Order. IcosanpRiA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Cacrea. ) Generic Character. Sepala plurima ovario adnata et super fructum sepe per- sistentia foliiformia. Corolla rotata fere Opuntia. Stamina numerosa petalis multo breviora. Stylus filiformis. Steg- mata spiraliter aggregata. Bacca globosa aut ovata. Se- mina in pulpa nidulantia.—Frutices aué arbores, ramis teretibus. Aculei ad axillam foliorum solitarit aut m caule fasciculati. Folia distincta plana in ordine maxima, Flo- res subpaniculati solitarti ramulos terminantes aut sublate- rales. DC. Specific Character and Synonyms. — Pereskia * Bleo; foliis ellipticis acutis, aculeis axillaribus fasciculatis, pedunculis in axillis supremis 3—5-floris, petalis obovatis retusis demum reflexis. | Peresx1s Bleo. Humb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. 2. 6. p. 69. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. #74. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1473. A very handsome stove plant, which few at the first sight with its large, glossy, nerved leaves, and spreading and even reflexed petals, would take for one of the Cactus family. It appears to have been discovered on the banks of the Magdalena, * In honour of Nicotas Fasricius PEIRESKIUS, Counsellor in Par- liament of Aix en Provence. “Son nom seul fait son éloge, dit TouRNE- FoRT.”—Théis. Magdalena, South America, by Humsoxprt, who retained, for its specific name, the uncouth appellation given to it by the natives of New Grenada. Mr. Tare introduced it to the stoves of this country from Mexico, and to him the Glasgow Botanic Garden owes the possession of it. With us it flowers in May and June. Descr. The specimen before us is scarcely a foot in length; its stem rounded, fruticose, brownish-green, with several tufts of deciduous spines, two to five in number, from one-half to three-fourths of an inch long, imbedded ina dense mass of hairs, or soft bristles. Leaves alternate, four to six inches long, rather soft and fleshy, elliptical, acute, tapering at the base into a very short footstalk ; and bearing, in the axils which do not contain peduncles, similar tufts of spines and hairs. The upper axils bear peduncles, which are thick, rounded, and fleshy, about an inch or more long, with from three to five handsome rose-coloured flowers. Calyx fleshy, green, of several somewhat imbri- cated teeth, with a small leafy appendage at the extremity, the outer ones with a small dense tuft of hairs on each side at the base ; petals ten, in two series; the outer smaller, greenish on the back ; the inner larger and deeper coloured, all obovate, more or less retuse, soon reflected. Filaments numerous, inserted upon the calyx. Anthers yellow. Style as long as the stamens. Stigma large, of five to six erect rays. i hiacid yi i] eee we V. Bartholomew bsg! ass.ot the Sve? cf Paint in W.Col del™ Lubh.bu S. Curtis, laxcnmod ks ser Apt ll5 36, wer C3479 2) PERISTERIA PENDULA. PENDULOUS Dove-FLowe_er. SEK KER EKER KKK KKK KEKE Class and Order. GynanpriA Monanprlia. ( Nat. Ord.—Orcnipez. ) Generic Character. Perianthium globosum. Sepala concava, subcarnosa, basi connata, ita calyx submonophyllus. Petala confor- mia paulo minora. Labellum carnosum, medio articulatum ; dimidio superiore erecto apice reflexo, inferiore lobo utrin- que dilatato. Columna basi petalorum adnata inferne pro- ducta et labello continua, utrinque in alam vel lobum producta. Anthera ecristata, bilocularis. Pollinia 2 pos- tice fissa, glandula sessili nuda.—Herba terrestris, pseudo- bulbosa. Folia plura, plicata. Scapus radicalis vaginatus, pluriflorus. Flores speciosi, odoratt. Specific Name and Character. -Perristeria pendula ; scapo brevi paucifloro, columne alis seu lobis parvis porrectis, labelli basi disco cristato crasso, lobo superiore disco canaliculato ecristato. This fine plant unquestionably belongs to the curious Genus Peristeria, of which only one species (P. elata, Bot. Mag. t. 3116,) was hitherto known, and that is a native of Panama. The present one was imported with many other rarities from Demerara, by Joun Attcarp, Esq. in whose stove at Stratford Green it flowered in January of the present year, and who kindly sent us the drawing here engraved, from the pencil of V. Barrnotomew, Esq. Asso- ciate of Painters in Water Colours. Descr. Bulb oblong-ovate, grooved, partially sheathed with membranaceous scales, and bearing at its summit three to VOL. x. E to four lanceolate, wavy, striated, somewhat membrana- ceous leaves. From the base of this bulb descends a scape, six to seven incheslong, clothed with membranaceous scales, and bearing about five large, handsome, globose, fleshy, fra- grant flowers of a pale, greenish-white without, within tinged with blush, and sprinkled with purple dots. Sepals round- ish, rather obtuse, very concave, united at the base, espe- cially the two lower ones, under the lip: petals rather smaller, but similar in form and texture. Lip of a very remarkable shape, thick and fleshy, dingy white, spotted with purple, jointed in the middle ; the lower portion with a membranous, rounded lobe on each side, and its disk re- markably cristate, having a thick, elevated projection : the upper joint or lobe erect, ligulate, its disk deeply grooved, the apex recurved. Column semiterete, standing forward, with a horizontal lobe or wing on each side, singularly dilated downwards below, and gradually passing into the lip. Anther-case depressed. Pollen-masses obovate. Fig 1. View of the base of a Flower, to show the combined Sepals. 2. Front view of the Column and Lip, the floral coverings being cut away. 3. Side view of ditto. 4, Side view of the same, the upper lobe of the 4 (fig. 5.) being removed. 6. 7. Anther. 8 9. Pollen-masses.—Fig. 2 to _ more or less magnified. i : &> e ee aj («3480 +) Linum BerenpieEri. BERENDIER’S Y ELLOW- FLOWERED F Lax. Class and Order. PenTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Linez. ) Generic Character. _ Flores proportione partium quinaria. Sepala integra. Styli rarissime 3, cum petalis staminibus sepalisque 5. . — ‘Specific Character and Synonym. Linum Berendieri; annuum monogynum multicaule ra- — mosum, caule angulato, foliis alternis linearibus rigi- diusculis glabris mucronato-acuminatis: marginibus levibus, floribus subcorymbosis, fructibus racemosis, sepalis bracteisque lanceolato-acuminatis marginibus serrulato-scabris, capsulis globosis acutis. Linum Plotzii. Hook. MSS. in Herb. Tex. An exceedingly beautiful and new species of Linum, first known to me by means of specimens in a small collection of plants gathered by M. Berenpier, (at first erroneously supposed to be by M. Puorz,) in Texas. These specimens were from “ Bejar,” where they were found blossoming in March, 1828. By Mr. Drummonp it was afterwards detected at Rio Brazos and San Felipe, in the same country, and introduced to our gardens in 1835, With us it has been kept in a cool frame, where it flowered in August ; but there is reason to think it will prove a hardy annual, and a most valuable acquisition to our gardens. : Descr. Root annual, sending up from its summit many stems, which are more or less branched, especially pe wards ; wards; the branches angular. Leaves scattered, linear, three-fourths of an inch to an inch in length, mucronate, glabrous and quite entire at the margin, slightly glaucous. The flowers are, at first, before expansion, corymbose, afterwards the rachis is lengthened out, and in the state of fruit there is an elongated raceme, the pedicels half an inch long, pointing one way. Bracteas lanceolato-acuminate, aristate, as well as the sepals, which, have three to five pro- minent ribs, and are serrulate at the margin. Corolla large, yellow, deeper and almost orange at the base. Petals obovate, entire ; the claw at the very base hairy. Stamens five. Anthers sagittate. Germen globose. Style longer than the stamens, dividing at the extremity into five patent branches, each tipped with a globose stigma. Capsule globose, acute, five-celled, five-valved. Fig. 1. Calyx, including the Stamens and Pistil. 2. Petal. Pe re ee ee 56. Jswan. Sf : Fab. by S.lartis Claunwmed. Essee.dprl Jé. = ( 3481) CHATOGASTRA GRACILIS. SLENDER Cu2TO- GASTRA. Class and Order. DecanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—ME.astTomace&. ) Generic Character. Calycis tubus turbinatus pilosus aut squamosus ; lobi 5 persistentes. Petala 5 obovata. Staminum filamenta glabra ; Anthere 10 oblonge consimiles porose, connectivo basi producto nunc in calcar simplex aut bifidum nune in tuber- cula 2 obtusa interdum minima. Ovarium liberum, apice setosum et spe denticulatum. Capsula 5-locularis, Semana - cochleata. D C. Specific Character and Synonyms. Cuzrocastra * gracilis; herbacea, erecta subsimplex apice nuda, caule tereti-tetragono villoso, foliis sub- sessilibus lanceolato-linearibus acutis integerrimis 3—5 nerviis villosis, pedicellis axillaribus I-floris et = terminalibus ternis, calycis tubo ovato lobis lanceolatis acuminatis subequal. a Cumrocastra gracilis. De Cand. Prodr. 0. 3. p. 183, 7 Chamisso in Linnea, v. 9. p. 407. a Ruexia gracilis. Humb. et Kunth, Rhex. t. 52. An extremely beautiful Melastomaceous plant ; for dried specimens of which we are indebted to several travellers in Brazil, where the species appears to be common ; and for the seeds, from which our living plants were raised in the Glasgow * From xairn, a bristle, and yaerns; so named, I apprehend, from the copious bristles which crown the ovary. : Glasgow Botanic Garden, to Mr. Tweenies, who collected them at Rio Grande do Sul, in South Brazil. It requires the heat of a stove, and blossomed with us in June. Cua- Misso speaks of it as a very variable species, and is inclined torefer to it the C. strigillosa, hieracioides, repanda (Martius, Ospecxia, DC.), and even C. fraterna and hirsuta, DC. Descr. Root perennial. Stem herbaceous, erect, nearly simple, rounded, or obscurely four-sided, clothed with long, spreading, rigid hairs. Leaves lanceolate, or oblongo-lan- ceolate, patent, rather rigid, three-nerved, clothed on both sides, and ciliated, with copious, harsh hairs, or bristles. Upper part of the stem nearly bare of leaves, or the leaves are reduced to small, oblong bracteas. Panicle subspicate. Flowers large and handsome. Calyx ovato-turbinate, bristly, with five acute, spreading segments. Petals five, large, broadly obovate, approaching to cordate, spreading, concave, rose-lilac, deeper at the base. Stamens ten, declined, unequal. Filaments bright rose-red. Anthers long, curved, attenuated upwards, yellow, opening by a single pore ; the base with two rounded tubercles. Germen oval, crowned with a silvery tuft of hairs or bristles. Style about as long as the stamens, flexuose. . Fig. 1.2. Stamens. 3. Calyx laid open to show the Pistil :—magnified. Pub, by S.Curtis,Glaxenwood Essex. Apr LISS¢é. W Herbert del® i nesinetinsnbnanentnnennt a ee ee i Sl mr ST (3482) CoopERIA CHLOROSOLEN.: GREEN-TUBED CoopeERIA. BS ON Das OR is Ons Os Ons Ons as Oe Ons Oe Oe Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—AMmARYLLIDEZ. ) Generic. Character. Scapus cavus. Germen erectum. Perianthium tubo erecto cylindrico ore ampliato, limbo albo regulari 14 un- ciali sub sole patente. Filamenta decurrentia, subzqualia, apice ad faucem tubi libera. Anthere subulato-lineares, (dein lineares) erectz, non versatiles, a tertid parte inferiore dorso affixee. Pollen difforme (quod in Sephyranthe acuté ovale). Stigma crassum trilobum vix trifidum. Sema complanata testa tenui nigra. W. H. Specific Character. Coorgrria chlorosolen ; scapo ultra-pedali viridi, infra rubes- cente ; foliis sesquipedalibus, 1 unc. latis, canaliculatis, tortilibus, acutis, viridibus ; germine sessili ; spatha 17 unciali tubata, apice fenestrato ; perianthii tubo Al unciali viridi limbo 14 unciali albo, sepalis viridi-api- culatis, extus viridi-lineatis; filamentis+ unciz liberis ; stylo incluso semiunciam vel ultra tubo breviore. W.H. This singular plant, the second species of the Genus that has flowered in this country, was sent, as well as Coorrria Drummondi from Texas by Drummonp. It flowered at Spofforth in the greenhouse at the beginning of January, and differs from Coorerta Drummondi, which had bloomed | in the autumn at Wentworth House, in having a much — larger limb, the tube green, and the sepals lined with green — on the outside, the leaves longer and wider, the i ree free from the tube one-eighth instead of one-sixteenth, and the style shorter than the tube. They both differ from the Genus Zepnyrantues,.in having anthers subulate before their inversion, erect, and not versatile, and in the deformity of the pollen, which in Zernyranrues is acutely oval. The remarkable long tube which distinguishes these two species, is perhaps not essential to the Genus; and Zepuyranrues candida (supra 2607) which refuses to breed with Zepuy- ranTHES, differing from it, and agreeing with Cooperia in the more important points, will probably be found to belong to another section of this Genus. Cooperta Drum- mond has the leaves twelve or thirteen inches long, about one-twelfth wide ; the tube four inches and a half, red ; the limb five-eighths, lined with red on the outside ; the fila- ments free, one-sixteenth only; the style longer than the tube, shorter than the anthers. There is a third Coopsria amongst Drummonp’s bulbs, which has not yet flowered ; and it is uncertain whether it will prove different from C. chlorosolen or not, There is also a Zepuyrantues, of which the flower is known by his specimens, which it is proposed to call Texana. Z. Texana, foliis viridibus, rectis, infra lineam latis, flore pedunculato luteo, extus cupreo. : The Genus Cooprreria is named, in compliment to Mr. Coorrr, who has during a very long course of years had the superintendence of the rich collection of plants which he has brought together at Wentworth House, the seat of Earl Firzwituiam, in Yorkshire. The point of the perianth was not naked at the first ap- pearance of the bud, as seems usual with ZeruyranvuHes : it was yellowish before it acquired its full size, turning gra- dually to clear white. W. H. Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Style. 3. Pollen, magnified. 4, P tal and St ; 5. Back of a Sepal. gf etal and Stamen * ‘ Soe 5485. Maria Curks fub. by S évertis Glaxenwood Essex: Apr LIES. on iil a 5 i ( 3483 ) RuopanTHe Mancuesit. Captain MANGLEs’ RuODANTHE. KAM KEE EEE EERE EEE Class and Order. SyNGENESIA ALQUALIs. ( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. ) Generic Character. Capitulum multiflorum, homogamum. Pappus unise- rialis, piliformis, plumosus, distinctus. Achenium erostre, — lanatum. Receptaculum nudum. Lindl. * Specific Name and Synonym. Ruopantue* Manglesiv. Ruopantue Manglesii. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1703. A beautiful, hardy annual, drawn by Miss Marra Curtis, at her father’s extensive nursery-grounds of Glazenwood, where it bears its brilliant rose-coloured and yellow blos- soms in the early summer months. In July, Professor Linp-ey observes, it becomes shabby, and, by the begin- ning of August, its seed is ripe, and its life departed. We are indebted for its introduction to Captain Manexezs, R.N., who brought the seeds from the Swan River Colony, New Holland, to the gardens of Roserr Manezes, Esq., Sun- ning Hill. The genus seems very nearly related to Po- potePis, of which one species is figured at t. 2904 of this work. The involucre, however, is different, and the pappus is plumose in our present plant. Descr. Root annual. Stem (as is the whole plant) glabrous, rounded, slightly glaucous, branched in a dicho- tomous * So named by Professor LINDLEY, from pode, a rose, and avbos, a flower, in allusion to the colour of the flowers. tomous manner, with a leaf at the setting on of the branches. Branches wavy, slender, forming a sort of panicle upwards ; peduncles single-flowered, more or less drooping. Leaves oblong-obtuse, cordate, and amplex- icaul at the base, dark green above, paler beneath. In- volucre turbinate, much tapering at the base, formed below of numerous laxly imbricated, purplish-grey, mem- branaceous, ovato - lanceolate scales, gradually, as they proceed upwards, larger and longer, and of a fair rose- colour, toothed at the apex; the uppermost forming a beautiful concave ray around the disk, which consists of numerous yellow, tubular florets. Receptacle naked. Ache- num very hairy. Hairs of the pappus feathery. Bich by S.Curtis, Harenmood Buen. Apr LIS3E. ‘ae age . ( 3484 ) COREOPSIS SENIFOLIA. S1x-LEAVED Co- | REOPSIS. | er he he ee ee Class and Order. SYNGENESIA F'RUSTRANEA. ( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. ) Generic Character. Receptaculum paleaceum, Achenium compressum, emar- ginatum. Pappus bicornis (quandoque obsoletus). Invo- lucrum duplex, utrumque polyphyllum. Specific Character and Synonyms. Coreopsis senifolia ; perennis, erecta, foliis oppositis sessi- libus ad basin usque tripartitis laciniis lanceolatis integerrimis rigidiusculis, floralibus plerumque indi- visis, radii flosculis integerrimis. Coreopsis senifolia. Mich. Am. v. 2. p.138. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. p. 2054. Pursh, Fl. Am. v. 2. p. 568. Ell. Carol. v. 2. p. 433. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 614. A native of Carolina and Georgia, and introduced to our gardens by Mr. Joun Lyon, in 1812. Notwithstanding that it is peculiar to the Southern States of North America, where the summer heats are excessively great, it flourishes well in the open air, with us, even in Scotland ; flowering in the latter end of the sammer and autumn. _ It is readily distinguished by its leaves being oppoaite. and each deeply three-partite, the segments generally spreading ; so that it appears as if there was, at every joint, a whorl of six leaves, whence the specific name. The species is certainly very variable in the breadth of the segments of its leaves, and in the whole plant being more or less downy, or quite gla- brous: hence, as it appears to me, Nurratt has lately al constituted constituted two species, C. stellata and C. senifolia; the former being characterized by the broader leaves, and the whole plant being glabrous; the latter, by the narrow leaves and downy plant. Thus the specimen we have given is destitute of hair, like C. stellata, but has the narrow leaves of C. senifolia of this author. This species will probably unite with the C. éripteris, L. to form Lessine’s Genus of CurysosTemMA. : Descr. Root perennial. Stem erect, straight, rigid, angled, glabrous, as is the whole plant in our specimens ; which, in other instances, is more or less downy : branched upwards in asubtrichotomous manner, the flowering branches forming a sort of corymb. Leaves opposite, deeply tri- partite, somewhat rigid, the segments lanceolate, (some- times: broadly so,) spreading, entire, acute, the uppermost ones, among the flower-stalks, not unfrequently undivided. Involucre glabrous : outer of about eight linear, nearly erect, green leaves ; inner of about as many ovate, membra- naceous, brownish ones. Radical florets about eight, spread - ing, oval, full yellow, abortive ; those of the disk greenish - yellow ; the fruit oblongo-cuneate, compressed, “slightly winged at the margin, especially upwards. Pappus ob- solete; in the perfectly ripe fruit constituting a small bidentate membrane. os , ee ——— Fig. 1. Floret of the Circumference. 2. Floret of the Disk :—magnified. Pub, ly §. Carts, Glazenwd Fssex. Spr 118 26 Races o_O ( 3485) NEMOPHILA INSIGNIS. SnHowy NEMOPHILA. SHR kaboeocoolesios Class and Order. Penranpria Monoeynta. ( Nat. Ord.—Hypropuyttea. ) Generic Character. Cal. inferus, persistens, 10-fidus ; laciniis alternis reflexis. ‘Cor. campanulata, 5-loba: lobis emarginatis. Nect. fove- ole 10 ad marginem faucis. Stam.brevia. Anthere lunate. Caps. unilocularis. Sem. unum supra alterum receptaculis duobus parietalibus inserta. Sa ee ' Specific Character and Synonyms. a Nemoruita* insignis ; foliis (superioribus) oppositis pinna- tifidis basi in petiolum angustatis lobis integerrimis 1—2-dentatisve, calycis sinubus reflexis, corollis calyce duplo longioribus, ovariis multi-ovulatis. Benth. Nemopuira insignis. Benth. in Hort. Trans. v. 1. N.S. p. 479. Bot. Reg. t. 1703. This, again, is one of the many highly ornamental plants of California, for the discovery and introduction of which to our gardens we are indebted to the exertions of the lamented Douatas. The flowers are large, and of so bright a blue, that no artificial colouring can do justice to them. It blos- soms in July and August. é Descr. Root annual. Stem procumbent, branched, slen- der, hairy. Leaves alternate in the lower, and opposite in the upper, part of the stem, petiolate, pinnatifid, hairy, the seg- ments rather remote, oblong, one- to two-toothed. ee : = cles —_—_—_—— * From xpos, a grove, and Qirem, to love; from its place of growth, in. 3) - woods ds or thickets. aie " * eles long, axillary, hairy, solitary, one-flowered. Calyx hairy, of five ovate, nearly erect segments, and as many smaller, lanceolate, reflexed ones, alternating with them. Corolla rotato-campanulate, deeply divided into five obcor- date lobes, of an intense blue within, paler externally: the tube hairy within at the base. Stamens inserted at the base of the tube, shorter than the limb: Anthers purple brown. Germen broadly ovate, very hairy, inserted upon a five- lobed, fleshy disk: Style as long as the stamens, bifid : Stigmas small, capitate. 1 sien dail Fidd. by B's Cio 8; Olaxenweod. FsscaMa yw LLE3E. ( 3486 ) ONCIDIUM CORNIGERUM. HorNEpD OncIDIUM. No eee eo Class and Order. GyYNANDRIA Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord. —Onrcuipes. ) Generic Character. Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata: late- ralibus nunc sub labello connatis. Petala conformia. La- bellum maximum, ecalcaratum, cum columna continuum, varie lobatum, basi tuberculatum vel cristatum. Columna libera semiteres, apice utrinque alata. Anthera semibilo- cularis, rostello nunc abbreviato, nunc elongato rostrato. Pollinia 2, postice suleata ; caudicula plana; glandula ob- longa.—Herbe epiphyte, nunc pseudo-bulbose. Folia co- riacea. Scapi paniculati vaginali, rarius simplices. Flores speciost, sepius maculati, rarius albi. Lindl. Specific Character and Synonym. Oncipium cornigerum; pseudo-bulbis oblongis sulcatis mo- nophylilis, foliis ovalibus acutis sessilibus striatis scapo elongato paniculato multifloro brevioribus, sepalo supremo petalisque obovatis concavis undulatis obtu- sis, inferioribus minoribus angustioribus basi connatis, labelli lobis lateralibus linearibus cornutis intermedio obovato subrepando undulato, crista antice verrucosa truncata postice lamella crenata transverse cornuta, columna alis linearibus obtusis porrectis. Lzndl. (pauc. verb. mut.) Oncipium cornigerum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1542. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 199. re 34 ; This plant, which, from our first knowledge of it, pro- mised, by its very few-flowered scape and the small size of those flowers, to be little deserving of attention on the i er ae en, score of beauty, now, as cultivated in the collection at Wentworth, whence our fine specimen was kindly com- municated in August of last year, 1835, must be allowed to possess considerable beauty and gracefulness. Lord Firzwitiram received the plant from the Hon. and Rev. W. Herzert of Spofforth, who imported it from Brazil ; and the scape here represented was produced by an offset of the same year’s growth. Descr. Bulbs, or pseudo-bulbs, about three inches long, rounded, a little tapering upwards, furrowed, dark green ; bearing, at the extremity, a solitary, oval-oblong, dark green, striated, rather obtuse leaf. Scape from the base of the bulb, fourteen to sixteen inches long, slender, bearing a drooping, many-flowered panicle, or rather compound raceme. Perianth yellow, spotted with red. Sepals and __ petals obovate, concave, the two lower sepals the smallest : the upper one forming a kind of hood over the column. The lip may be called panduriform, with a horn-shaped lobe on each side at the base : the apex rounded and broad, emar- ginate, the disk below the apex with a sort of double crest, of which the lowest projects into a horn on each side at the base. Column short, with two projecting, elongated lobes or wings. Lip hemispherical, truncated in front. Pollen-masses pear-shaped, stalked. (i 26) OR aa Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Lip. 8. Column, 4. Apex of the Column, from which the Anther is removed, showing the Pollen-masses : magnified. ga ~ S § * FJ RR i § g % g = ‘2 BY os . 3 ft rie & , veliee S487 ) vin : | SENECIO AMPULLACEUS. FLASK-FLOWERED > AMERICAN GROUNDSEL. bi foe KEE EEE EEE EE KEE EEE ERE ER Class and Order. SyYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. ( Nat. Ord.—Composir2. ) Generic Character. * Anthodium multipartitum apice maculatum basi subinvo- lucratum seu bracteatum. Receptaculum nudum. Spreng. : Specific Name and Character. Senecio ampullaceus ; herbaceus, erectus, glaberrimus, stri- atus, foliis oblongis obtusis carnosis inferne precipue dentatis basi subcordatis semiamplexicaulibus, infimis spathulatis, panicula corymbosa, involucris demum — ampulliformibus nitidis, radiis paucis patentibus, ache- niis cylindraceo-attenuatis sericeo-pubescentibus stri- atis. A handsome, showy species, but.too near perhaps, in the appearance of its flowers, to some of our larger European - Groundsels, to become a general favourite. Its leaves, indeed, are very different from those of any species with which I am acquainted, and peculiarly thick and fleshy ;— nor do I find any described Senecto that will accord with it. It is one of Mr. Drummonp’s discoveries in Texas, but he probably did not meet with it in a good state of flower ; for there are very few specimens in the herbarium, and those in a most indifferent condition, and with their lower leaves much more toothed than in the cultivated state. Nor do these specimens, probably owing to pressure, exhibit the remarkable contraction in the upper part of the involucre, which is so striking in the recent individual, giving the old flowers the form of the capsule of SpLacunum ampullaceum. ; | Descer. Descr. Root annual? Stem one to two feet high, herba- ceous, erect, glabrous, as is the whole plant, striated, green, tinged with purple, branched upwards. Leaves three to four or five inches long, remote, oblong, obtuse, or the upper ones alone acute, semiamplexicaul at the base, of a thick and fleshy substance, the margin entire, or more or less toothed, particularly below the middle, the radical leaves spathulate. Branches panicled above, the branchlets corym- bose. Pedicels with subulate bracteas at the base. Flowers rather large, handsome. Involucre cylindrical, of many closely-placed, linear scales, sharp and discoloured at the point, and with a few small scales or bracteas at the base. Florets of the ray six to eight, rather large, spreading : those of the disk twenty to thirty. Style and stamens considerably exserted: segments of the stigma revolute. Achenia oblong, attenuated upwards. Pappus copious, white. Fig. 1. Floret of the Disc. 2. Floret of the Ray. 3. Achenium : mag- nified, ? a ; Lr NINA eR eB Qala Lub & 3. Curtes Glazenwoed E:sac Mav? IGG wan Se —e (3488+) -CoLLInsIA BICOLOR. Two-coLouRED CoLLInsIA. Class and Order DipynAmMiA ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—ScropuutaRin&. ) Generic Character. Calyx 5-fidus, equalis. Corolla bilabiata, tubo supra gibbo, limbo inequali; labio superiore erecto bifido im- - feriore trifido. Stamina didynama. Capsula globosa, 4- valvis, oligosperma. _ Specific Character and Synonyms. Cotuwsia * bicolor; foliis ovato-acuminatis serratis basi subcordatis, nervis subparallelis, verticillis (infimis ex- ceptis) aphyllis. Coxuinsia bicolor. Benth. in Hort. Soc. Trans. N.S v. 1. p. 480. Bot. Reg. t. 1734. . A very handsome hardy annual ; detected in California by the late Mr. Doveras, and by him introduced to the garden of the Horticultural Society in 1833; whence it has been liberally distributed to other collections. Our plants flow- ered in August in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. — Descr.. The stems are upright, but weak and flexuose, slightly downy. Leaves opposite or ternate, sessile, ovate~ acuminated, glabrous, serrated, somewhat cordate at the base, marked, with a few nerves which run nearly ponte wit * So named by Mr. NuTTaLL, in compliment to Mr. ZACCHEUS COLLINS, a Botanist and Mineralogist of Philadelphia. with the midrib. Flowers arranged in several whorls, towards the extremities of the branches, large, and striking from the contrast of colour between the upper and lower lip: each whorl subtended by a pair of bracteas, which, in the upper ones, are obsolete, Calyx campanulate, five-fid ; the segments ovate-acuminate. Corolla with the tube white, swollen on the upper side. Lower lip large, pendent, pur- ple; upper lip erect, white. a : ——— —— ee EE ( 3489.) JABOROSA INTEGRIFOLIA, ENTIRE-LEAVED | JABOROSA, : SE KKK KEKE KEE KEK EEK EREEK Class and Order. PENTANDRIA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Sotaneaz. ) Generic ‘Character. Calyx parvus, 5-fidus. Corolla tubulosa seu subcampa- nulata. Anthere subsessilia intra faucem. Stigma clava- tum 3—5-fidum. Bacca bi- (tri-, Commers.) locularis. wy Specific Character and Synonyms. Japorosa integrifolia ; acaulis, radice repente, foliis petio- lis ovalibus subintegerrimis, corolla longe tubulosa limbi laciniis valde acuminatis. Japorosa integrifolia. Lam. Encyel. v.3.p. 189. Ilustr. t. 114. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p.'700. Hook. Bot. Misc. 2. 1. p. 348. The Genus, which has derived its name from Jaborosa, or Jaborohh, the Arabic name for the Manpracora, to which our plant is allied, was founded upon the present and another species, (J. runcinata,) by Jussieu, in the Genera Plantarum, from specimens collected by Commerson, at Buenos Ayres. These plants, I apprehend, however, were little, if at all, known to Botanists till many years after ; when the late Dr. Gizxres gathered them both in the same country, and added a third, which we had the pleasure of figuring and describing in the first volume of the Botanical Miscellany, and which he found in the Andes of Mendoza. _ The two original species have been again sent to us by Mr. _ 'Tweepre from the Pampas of Buenos Ayres, accompanied likewise by seeds, from which plants have been raised both at the Liverpool and Glasgow Botanic Gardens, and which, planted | planted in the open border, and in a favorable situation, prove perfectly hardy, flowermg in July and August. Descr. Root, or rather subterraneous stem, much creep- ing, rounded, about the thickness of a goose-quill, here and there sending out fibrous radicles from the underside, and leaves from the upper, which latter are solitary or two together, erect, four to six inches long, oval, obtuse, ob- scurely and distantly toothed, running down at the base into a rounded, purplish petiole. The surface of the leaf is distinctly marked with nerves, and is full green above, paler below. Peduncle from the base of a leaf, or be- tween two leaves, about as long as the petiole, rounded, erect, bearing a solitary, upright flower. Calyx small, cup- shaped, five-cleft. Corolla large, externally pale yellow green, internally white. Tube long, rather thick, curved ; limb of five lanceolate, much acuminate, spreading seg- ments. Anthers five, oblong-ovate, acute, sessile, or rather the filaments are combined with the tube of the corolla. Germen small, ovato-globose. Style exserted, much longer than the tube: Stigma clavate, three to five-cleft : the seg- ments erect, green. Fig. 1. Calyx and Pistil: 2. Stamen. Pe ener ree tetas BC Senne A reo ee Oe Ee ee " Miss Adams det? Pubby §.Curtis Glaxenwood LvsexMaylIB3é. 4490 Swan Je cage ia itis ete Wi pat ict ape 8 shige: wea ( 3490) Rosa MICROPHYLLA. SMALL-LEAVED CHINESE Rose. Class and Order. 3 Tcosanpria Po.tyeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Rosacez. ) Generic Character. — Calycis tubus urceolatus carnosus, achenia plurima hir- suta includens. Receptaculum villosum. : oo. Specific. Character and Synonyms. 4 Rosa microphylla ; foliolis nitidis argute serratis, calyce aculeis densissimis muricata, sepalis brevibus late ova- tis apiculatis. Lindl. 4 : Rosa microphylla. “ Roxb. Fl. Ind. ined.” Lindl. Ros. Monogr. p.9. Bot Reg. t. 919. Whether the single-flowered state of this plant is in cultivation, I am ignorant. Certain it is, that the highly double blossoms, so much admired by cultivators, cannot i be exceeded in delicacy of form, shadow, and colour-— ing by any species of this highly-prized Genus: and no where, perhaps, is the present kind brought to so high a degree of perfection as in Mr. Curtis’s extensive Nursery at Glazenwood, near Coggeshall, Essex, where the accom- panying figure was made. — ‘It is a native of China, and is stated to have blossomed : for the first time in Mr. Cotvitte’s Nursery, about ten years ago. Weare indebted to Mr. Curtis for the following remarks, cannot fail to be acceptable, to our Horticultural Wale ; _ friends. “‘ Rosa microphylla is hardy enough to bear our _ mild winters without protection, but with very sharp frosts it is liable to be destroyed in the open ground, a circum- stance stance owing to the tenderness of its roots: for when budded on the dog-rose stock, it becomes much more hardy. “* Those who are curious in Roses, should always have a few potted plants of the present kind reserved in a pit ; lest the severity of winter should destroy those in the open border. It is well adapted for a standard-rose on a lawn, since it flowers freely throughout the autumn, and has besides a graceful, drooping kind of growth. I have, how- ever, found it to succeed best when budded on the common blush China Rose, and placed against a wall. In such a situation it would seldom be injured, even by the hardest of our winters. It strikes freely from cuttings.” Pub. by S Curtis. Gaxenwoods Es sea: Aug I IE IE. (3491+) LEPTOSIPHON ANDROSACEUS. ANDROSACE- LIKE LEprosiPpHon. Se Sie he he ee ee ss a Class and Order. PentanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Po.emoniacez. ) Generic Character. Calyx tubuloso-campanulatus, xqualis, semi- 5-lobus, lobis lineari-subulatis, acutis, sinubus membranaceis. Co- rolla infundibuliformis (hypocrateriformis) ; tubo longe ex- serto tenuissimo ; limbo campanulato (patenti) 5-fido ; lobis ovalibus obtusis integerrimis. Stamina fauce inserta: an- there oblonge, basi sagittata. Capsule loculi polyspermi. — —Herbe annue, basi glabra, apice pubescentes. Folia sessilia, opposita, palmatisecta, segmentis linearibus vel subu- latis. Flores dense corymboso-capitati, axi sublanato. Brac- tee imbricate, foliis conformes, segmentis ciliato-hirsutis. Bentham. Specific Character and Synonyms. Leprostrnon * androsaceus ; foliis 5—7-fidis oblongo-linea- ribus, corolla tubo limbo 2—3-plo longiore, stamini- bus limbo corollz triplo longioribus. Benth. Leprosipnon androsaceus. Bentham, in Bot. Reg. fol. 1622. Hort. Trans..N. S. v. 1. t. 18. f. 1. A Genus of five species, established by our valued friend Mr. Bentuam in the work above quoted, all of which are remarkable for their graceful habit, slender foliage, and exceedingly pretty flowers, and which make a very hand- : some * From aswrog, slender, and oor, a tube, in allusion to the slender tube of the corollas. z . 5 some appearance when planted thickly in an open border. It was remarked, however, by Mr. Bentuam, how much : better this Genus and the nearly allied one Gurr succeeded in our Glasgow Botanic Garden, than in the environs of London ; doubtless owing to our cooler temperature and moister climate. Professor Linptey indeed, observes of this plant, in the noble gardens of the Horticultural Society, | that, “ although it is perfectly hardy, yet it cannot bear our summer heats, and only flourishes in the spring, and more particularly in autumn, when the sun has lost its power, and the nights are cool with heavy dews.”” It should there- _ fore be sown either in the autumn, so as to flower early ; or ~ in June, in order that it may be ready for blossoming in | September. In our Scottish climate, it has been in its . © greatest beauty at the hottest season of the year (1835) the latter end of July, expanding its varied blossoms, white and various degrees of lilac, always with a black eye and deep yellow anthers and stigmas, to the full blaze of ' the sun. . a Descr. Root fibrous, annual. Stem eight inches to a , foot high, throwing out sparingly axillary, opposite branches chiefly from near the base, which, as well as the stem itself, are spreading below, then erect, purplish-green, downy. Leaves opposite, hairy, deeply pinnatifid, or rather almost — digitate, with from five to seven linear, acute, and almost — cuspidate segments ; upper ones constituting bracteas to the head of flowers: lowermost ones with only one or two spreading segments at the base. Calyx tubular, with five subulate, erect, equal, hairy teeth. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube very long, slender, purplish: limb spreading, of five ovate segments, the faux almost black, with a pale yellow- 2 ish circle round it. Filaments short, black, inserted just =~ within the faux. Anthers oval-oblong, orange-yellow. Style exserted. Stigmas three-cleft. Fig. 1. Flower: magnified. CS Ras saat sp teesggs omo: Lupinus Texensis. Texas. Lupine. | Seeded Class and Order. . DiapetpuH1aA Decanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosz. ) Generic Character. Calyx profunde bilabiatus. Corolla papilionacea, vexillo lateribus reflexis, carina acuminata. Stamina monadelpha, vagina integra ; antheris 5 parvis subrotundioribus precoci- oribus, 5 oblongis serioribus. Stylus filiformis. Stigma terminale subrotundum barbatum. Legumen coriaceum oblongum compressum, oblique torulosum. Cotyledones crasse, per germin. in folia conversee.—Herbe aut Suffru- tices. Stipule petiolo adnate. Folia sepius foliolis 5—9 digitatis constantia, rarius simplicia. Folia ante explic. aut per somnum complicata. Pedunculi oppositifolii termi- nales. Flores racemoso-spicati alterni, aut verticillati aut sessiles. Bractea sub pedicellis. Bracteole 2 lateraliter calyci adnate caduce aut nulle. Specific Name and Character. Lupinus Texensis ; herbaceus, annuus, caule pubescenti- sericea, foliolis quinis lanceolatis acutiusculis supra glaberrimis, subtus (margineque pracipue) sericeis, stipulis subulatis, racemo pyramidali, pedicellis alter- nis longitudine florum, calycibus sericeis bibracteatis bilabiatis utrinque bractea parva, labio superiore bre- viore bifido, inferiore acuminato integerrimo, vexillo orbiculari intense ceruleo medio macula alba plica longitudinali divisa. Much and closely as this plant resembles the Lupinus subcarnosus figured at tab. 3467, it nevertheless appears to me to be really distinct. The habit is stouter, the leaves are are by no means fleshy, nor are their leaflets retuse, but acute: the flowers are deeper coloured, and the ale or wings of the corolla are more projecting. The lower lip of the calyx I find to be always entire. Equally with the L. subcarnosus; the L. Texensis is an inhabitant of Texas ; but the former is found near the coast, the latter at San Felipe in the Interior. Our present plant continues longer in flower, its blossoms are larger, deeper coloured, and the raceme is broader. The chief distinction is, however, cer- tainly to be looked for in the foliage. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx: magnified. eee Pub. by §. Curtis. Glarensood Fesex, Funel 1336 wart & ( 3493 ) POINSETTIA PULCHERRIMA. Snowy PoINseETTIA. : | of Class and Order. Monazsta _Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Evuprnorsiacea. ) Generic Character. Involucrum monophyllum, androgynum, basi 5-loculare, extus appendiculatum, nectariferum. Flores pedicellati, -nudi; masculi bifariam in singulis loculis, monandri; foemi- nei solitarii, germen trilobum, ovulwm solitarium singulis lobis. Specific Name and Synonyms. 4 Pornserria* pulcherrima. Graham in Edin. New Phil. . Journ. March, 1836. Evpnorsia pulcherrima. Willd. Herb.! | Evprnorsia Poinsettiana. Buist MSS. By whom this truly splendid plant was communicated D to WILLDENow’s Herbarium, I am not informed, but it was again discovered by Mr. Pornserre in Mexico, and sent by him to Charleston in 1828, and afterwards to Mr. Buist : of Philadelphia, who has within a very few years brought | together a choice collection of plants, equally creditable to his enterprise, and promising, as a point from which will be diffused a greater knowledge of the vegetation of North America. From Mr. Buist it was brought by Mr. James M‘Nag, to the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and to several other establishments in this country, in November, 1834, and from the information communicated by him it has since been imported into other British collections from Mr. Buist’s — It flowered twice with us last year, but too imper- ectly to allow of its being figured. It subsequently flowered with Dr. Nem, Canonmills, and again with us this month (February, 1836). Nothing can be more ornamental in the stove. The rose-like whorls of bractee which eo nate lip * In compliment to Mr. PornsETTE, who rediscovered the plant, and "gave occasion to its introduction in a living state into Europe. VOL. X. G nate the branches, have been seen on the large plants cultivated at Philadelphia as much as twenty inches across, and equal in colour to the finest tints of Hrerscus Rosa- sinensis. The structure seems to me to constitute a new generic type, though in several species of Evrpnorsta, as in E. splendens, there are the rudiments of the remarkable septe found in the involucre here. I have dedicated it, if not to its original discoverer, at least to one who has first brought it into cultivation, and into general notice among Botanists, and from whose exertions many additions to the plants in cultivation from Mexico are expected. The period of flow- ering both at Philadelphia and here seems to be in winter, or early in spring. I entirely agree with Sir W. J. Hooker | that Eupvorsia cyathophora, Bot. Reg. t. 765, will be found to be a member of the same Genus. _. Descr. Shrué erect, ramous; branches round, yeung shoots bluntly four-angled, green, glabrous, hollow. Leaves scattered, occasionally opposite, spreading; petiolate, ovato-elliptical, subacute, sinuated, vein- ed, soft and pubescent on both sides, bright green above, paler below. - Petioles furrowed above. Bractee similar in shape to the leaves, but aggregated at the extremities of the branches, and of splendid vermilion colour, paler below. Cymes terminal, subtrifid, at length falling off at a joint in the common foot-stalk. Jnvolucres on short, stout foot-stalks, articulated at the base, green, ovato-orbicular, toothed, marked by five sutures on the outside, with which alternate, on the inside, five faleate rocesses, beginning with narrow extremities at the mouth of the invo- ucre, and, adhering to this with their backs, they become gradually | broader below, passing inwards, and attached to an elevation in. the centre, they divide the lower part of the involucre into five distinct cells, and supporting on their edges erect fimbrie, they divide the upper part which are next each other in the furrow along their outside. Pollen granules ellow, lenticula a ea solitary, central, ona shorts ates pedicel, naked ; abieleahoul pedveach lobe emarginate ; style awanting (1). Ovule solitary in each Fs z These appearances I describe as I saw. them, but the female ool were probably imperfect, none enlarged, projected beyond the aie ao hor produced seed ; but after awhile, a small number of the. ogee owers having been perfected, and protruded beyond the involucre, be came yellow, and separated at the articulation near the base of € lootstalk, the bractez for some time remaining, and then the whole cyme dropped at the articulation in the common peduncle. Graham. Fj oS 5 20: 397° < : ig. ma Tnvoluere. 2. The same a little more advanced. 3. Section of ditto showing the 4. Male Flower with its Scale. 5. Female Flower, abortive: magnified. 3494 Pub. by S.Curtis. Glaxenwood Kesax.Jiune | 1836. sain 3494) PHYSOSTEGIA TRUNCATA. BLUNT-CALYXED PHYSOSTEGIA. Class and Order. | Dipynam1A GyMNOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Lasuara. ) Generic Character. Calyx per anthesin tubuloso-campanulatus, post anthesin inflato-campanulatus, obscure sub 10-venius, subequaliter 5-dentatus vel truncatus vix dentatus. Corolla tubo longe exserto, intus exannulato, fauce inflata, limbo bilabiato, labio superiore suberecto subconcavo integro vel marginato, inferiore patente trifido, lobis rotundatis, medio majore emarginato. Stamina 4, sub labio superiore adscendentia, subdidynama, inferioribus eminentibus. Anthere approx- imate, biloculares, loculis parallelis distinctis nudis. Stylus apice subequaliter bifidus, lobis subulatis apice stigmati- feris. Achenia sicca, levia. Benth. - Specific Character and Synonyms. Puysosrecia truncata ; annua, calyce bilabiato, labio supe- riore latissime trilobo, inferiore bidentato segmentis omnibus cuspidato-acuminatis. Puysosteaia truncata. Benth. Lab. Gen. et Sp. p. 505. 7 My first knowledge of this plant was derived from very in- different specimens in my Herbarium, gathered in Texas by M. Bertanpier, the same as were described by Mr. Bentuam in the admirable work just quoted. So conspicuous a plant could not escape the researches of Mr. DrumMonp, who, on visiting the same country in 1833 and 1834 found it abundantly about San Felipe de Austin, and communi- cated specimens and seeds to Europe. Our i were rawn drawn from plants which flowered in the open borders of the Glasgow Botanic Garden. Descr. Root decidedly annual. Stem erect, eight or ten inches to a foot in height, branched in a brachiated manner, acutely four-angled, glabrous. Leaves oblong, or oblongo-lanceolate, serrated, glabrous. Flowers oppo- site on the racemes, leafless, but each with an ovato-acu- minate bractea at the base of the short slightly glandular pedicel. Calyx gibbous and downy at the base, two-lipped ; upper lip very broad, and cut into three rounded, spinuloso- acuminated lobes ; the lower much smaller, ovate, with two sharp teeth, the whole veiny and distinctly reticulated when dry. Corolla more than twice as long as the calyx, purple-rose-coloured, slightly downy ; the throat inflated. Upper lip convex, entire; lower lip of three spreading, nearly equal, rounded lobes, the middle part white, spotted with purple. Filaments slightly woolly, rather distant, Hel Anthers each of two rounded, almost black obes. Fig. 1. Back view of a Flower. 2. Front view of a Calyx. en Pub, by S Curtis Glasenwood Essmc June 17836 Swart) COE dD ai E\sCHSCHOLTZIA CROCEA. SarrRoN-coLovren EscuscHoutzia. "sana HSE See eeeobiiees Chass ‘ct Ondund ie 3 bE Potyanpria TETRAGYNIA. | ( Nat. Ord.—Papaveracedz. ) Generic Character. Receptaculum ampliatum, hypocrateriforme, limbo ex- panso integro. Calyx mitreformis, caducus. Corolla 4- petala, petalis unguibus fauci receptaculi insertis, stamini- feris. Capsula siliqueformis, bivalvis ; Semina marginibus valvarum affixa. Specific Character and Synonyms. Escuscnourzis crocea; caule ramoso folioso, foliorum seg- mentis linearibus, pedunculi cyatho infundibuliformi limbo maximo dilatato, calyce longe acuminato. Benth. Escuscuoutzia crocea. Benth. in Hort. Soc. Trans. v. 1. N. S. p. 406. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1677. It has been remarked by several of my English friends, that the many beautiful, hardy, herbaceous plants which have been lately introduced to our gardens by the indefatig- able Douetas, succeed better in the humid climate of Scot- land, than in the vicinity of London ; they remain longer in perfection, the flowers are frequently larger, aud the colours brighter. The present individual is a striking in- stance of the correctness of this remark : for beautiful as it certainly is, in every situation, I have no where seen it dyed with so brilliant a saffron hue as in the specimen here figur- ed from the gardens of Hamilton Palace. Together with the true E. crocea and Californica, there came from the same same garden a third kind, (see fig. 2,) which was raised from seeds of the former species, but which produced flowers exactly intermediate between the two: the colour of the petals was neither so yellow as in E. Californica, nor so much inclining to red as in E. erocea; and the limb of the cup was much smaller than in the latter species, but larger than in the former. Still, I agree with Mr. Bentuam and Professor Linpiey, that our crocea is a truly distinct species, (all the characters existing in the wild native speci- mens equally as in the cultivated ones) and further, that the variety just mentioned, though raised from seeds of E. crocea, was derived from a plant whose flowers had been fertilized by the pollen of E. Californica. As this last mentioned species is fully described at t. 2887 of this work, we deem any remarks on the present individual quite un- necessary, further than to say, in the words of its first de- scriber, that it is chiefly distinguished from that species “ by the widely expanded limb of the curious appendage of the peduncle beneath the insertion of the calyx, which is cha- racteristic of the Genus, and by the long attenuated point of the calyx ;’—which latter circumstance I do not find to be the case in our specimens. Fig. 1. Cup of the Calyx, including the Pistil, magnified. 2, Hybrid var. Swern Pub. by S. Curtis. Glarenwood KsveaTianell 836. ( 3496 )- GENTIANA QUINQUEFLORA. FIVE-FLOWERED GENTIAN. KERR EE EERE EE EEE Class and Order. Pentanpria DieGynta. ( Nat. Ord. —GeEntTIANEA. ) Generic Character. Calyx 4—5-fida. Corolla subcampanulata, infundibuli- formis vel hypocrateriformis, basi tubulosa, gland. nect. destit. Styli sepe coherentes. Capsula 1-locularis, 2-valvula. Specific Character and Synonyms. GenTrIana quinqueflora; caule ramoso tetragono-alato ; flo- ribus congestis terminalibus ; calycibus brevissimis, acutis; corolla clavata, quinquefida, laciniis aristatis, fauce nuda; foliis amplexicanlibus deltcideo-cordatis 3—5)-nerviis. GenTIANA quinqueflora. Pers. Synops. Plant. 1. 285. Schultes Syst. Veget. 6.150. lliott, Bot. of S. Caro- lina et Georgia, v. 1. p. 341? Torrey, Fl. of Mid. et North Sections of United States, p.288? Beck, Bot. of North and Mid. States, 239 ? GentiAna amarelloides. Pursh, Fl. Amer. Septent. v. 1. p. 186. Nuttall Genera, 1. 172. This very pretty annual was raised at the Botanic Gar- den, Edinburgh, from seeds sent without name by Mr. Tuomas Cuurnsipe, Nurseryman, of New York ; and flow- ered in the greenhouse in the end of October. It was seen by Mr. James M‘Nap growing on the grassy banks of streams among the Alleghany Mountains, and his native specimens differ in no respect from those raised at the garden, excepting in having smaller flowers. One which I have from the collection of Mr. Beyricn, gathered on the Peaks of Otter, has flowers as large as the garden specimens. From the synonyms I have excluded GentiAna quinque- folia of Flora Danica, because, in the plant figured there, the leaves are ovate, the flowers axillary as well as terminal and much smaller, and because the identity of an Iceland and Virginian plant seems unlikely. I have likewise ex- cluded cluded the Genriana quinguefolia of the various works of Linnaus, and the Gentiana quingueflora of WiLLDENow, Lamarck, and SprenceL; because reference is by them made to Flora Danica, and because the leaves are generally described as ovate or oblong, and the stem simple. I have . abstained from quoting Grentiana amarelloides of Micuaux, because he describes his plant as smaller than G. ama- rella, with oval leaves; small, lateral as well as terminal flowers, of pale yellow colour ; and having the segments of the limb lanceolate. In all these respects does our plant differ. I have quoted with doubt Exuiorr, Torrey, and Breck, on account of references they make, and because some parts of their descriptions neither accord with native nor cultivated specimens ; yet I think they must allude to the plant now described. In the other writers quoted, the references are, I think, sometimes mistaken, but the cha- racters are corrected. Descr. Root annual, dichotomously branched. Stem (nine to twenty inches high) single, erect, square, winged, branched ; branches decussating, spreading. Leaves stem- clasping, deltoideo-cordate, glabrous on both sides, palest below, three to five-nerved and obscurely reticulate, entire in the margin, slightly crisped, nerves prominent below. Flowers clustered at the extremity of the stem and branches, generally from three to five together, pedicellate, or if single in the axils of the leaves, it is only from the degene- ration of the branches ; pedicels erect. Calyx small, green, quinquefid, segments lanceolate, slightly spreading. Corolla (before expansion of the limb ten lines long, three lines in its greatest diameter in cultivated specimens, in native spe- cimens often smaller) pale lilac: tube (seven lines and a half long) clavate ; limb five-parted, segments ovate, aris- tate ; throat naked. Stamens as long as the tube ; filaments adhering to the corolla as far as their middle, to which point they enlarge, and then gradually contract upwards, chan- nelled on their inner surface, unconnected with each other : anthers small, leaden coloured, bursting on their outer sur- face; pollen pale, its granules nearly spherical. Pistil as long as the stamens : Stigmas small, acute : Germen linear- lanceolate, greenish-leaden-coloured. Graham. (This is undoubtedly the G. quinqueflora of the American Botanists, from whom I have received many specimens, and from Dr. Snort, a beautiful drawing, which is that here re- sera The dissections are from Dr. Granam’s speci- mens. Fig. 1, Flower. 2. The same laid open. 3. Calyx and Pistil. a YY SS < Lich by S.Curtis Glaunwood Essex. June 11836. ‘ 2 naiiidiienenementiiaaenen ee ene adnlbes_=- aa * ( 3497) RopricvueziA Barkert. Mr. Barker’s RopRiIGuEzia. Class and Order. GynanpriaA Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Orcuwwez. ) Generic Character. Perianthium patens, subequale, sepalis 2 lateralibus connatis labello suppositis. Labellum integrum, unguicu- latum, basi cornutum, medio callosum; ungue cum co- lumna parallelo. Columna teres, apice barbata. Anthera unilocularis, carnosa. Clinandrium nudum, retrorsum de- clive. Pollinia 2, postice excavata, caudicula elastica.— Herbe epiphyte, subpseudobulbose. Folia coriacea, vel mem- branacea, plicata. Spice secunde. Flores spicatt. Specific Name and Character. Roprieveza Barkeri ; bulbis ancipiti-compressis oblongis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis enerviis levibus, perianthio undulato, sepalo inferiori (e duobus formato) fere ad medium bifido, segmentis patentibus, labello apice in- tegro. A Brazilian plant, imported from Brazil by Grorce Barker, Esq. of Birmingham, and communicated to us in full flower, January, 1836, by Mr. Cameron of the Bir- mingham Botanic Garden. It is in many respects allied to the Gomeza (Ropriguezia, Linpt.) recurva, of Bot. Mag. t. 1748, and to the plant of the same name in Bot. Cab. t. 660 (Ropricvezia planifolia, Linvt.) ; from the former it differs in the smooth not striated and plaited leaves; and from both, as well as from R. swaveolens, Linpt. (PLeuRo- THALLIS foliosa, Hoox. Bot. Mag. t. 2746.), by the = eep deep division, and, consequently, long segments, which are spreading, of the lower (combined) sepal. The whole flower, too, is of an uniform pale green colour, nearly desti- tute’of fragrance. Descr. Bulb three to four inches in length, oblong, compressed so as to be ancipitate, striated, having on each side a small leaf with a long compressed sheathing base, and below them three or four sheathing brown scales. A pair of leaves also terminates the bulb, they are linear-lan- ceolate, and except the costa, which is keeled at the back and depressed in front, have no nerve or plica whatever. Scapes two, one from the axil of the leaf on each side the bulb, curved so as to have the long spike of flowers droop- ing. Flowers numerous, directed to all sides, pale green. Sepals and petals spreading, linear-oblong, much waved, the two lateral sepals placed under the lip, combined for rather more than half their length, so as to represent one deeply cleft sepal. Lip ovato-oblong, at the base having two, erect, thin plates, and on the disk near the middle two prominent callous lines, where the lip becomes suddenly and singularly reflexed. Column semiterete, marked with a bright orange line round the stigma. Anther-case he- imispherical, with a little point. Pollen-masses nearly globose. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Lip: magnified. ‘n, She Lub. bu S. Curtis Glexenwood Essex, June 11836 a a_i aaa — ( 3498 ) Fucusia piscotor. Port-FAmIneE Fucusta. KKK KEK EK KEE EE EEEERERRE Class and Order. OcranpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—OnaGrarIE&. ) Generic Character. Calycis tubus basi ovario adherens, superne productus in tubum cylindraceum 4-lobum post anthesin articulatim deciduum. Petala 4 summo tubo inserta lobis alterna, rarius 0. Stamina 8. Ovarium glandula urceolata coro- natum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma capitatum. Bacca ob- longo- aut ovato-globosa, 4-locularis, 4-valvis, polysperma. —Frutices. Folia se@pius opposita. Pedunculi axillares 1-flori, interdum ad apices ramorum racemost. Flores s@- pius nutantes, rubri rarius albi, interdum 5-fidi 10-andri. Specific Character and Synonyms. Fucusta discolor ; ramis brevibus densis compactis strictis, foliis ternis longiuscule petiolatis ovato -lanceolatis nitidis denticulatis subcomplicato-carinatis, floribus folio multo longioribus, staminibus exsertis, stigmate ovali. Fucusta discolor. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1805. Fucusra Lowei. Afort. The difficulty of discriminating those different kinds of Fuchsia, now so common in our gardens, of which F’. ma- crostemma of the Flora Peruviana may be considered the original type, has been felt by every one who has turned his attention to the subject; and this difficulty has been increased by cultivation and the skill of the horticulturist in fertilizing one kind with the farina of another ; so that what few characters were supposed to exist to entitle them to to rank as species, are, of necessity, obliterated. Closely allied as the present is to that which goes under the name of F. gracilis, (especially the 8. multiflora of Linpt., Bot. Reg. t. 1053) it will, nevertheless, I think, be found dis- tinct ; and possesses one strong claim to our attention, imasmuch as it is a native of the most southern portion of the world which has yet been visited by any Botanist, Port Fa- mine in the Strait of Magelhaens, whence seeds were pro- cured by Mr. Anperson, who accompanied Captain Kine in his late voyage, for the purpose of surveying the southern extremity of South America, Tierra del Fuego and the Strait of Magelhaens: This able officer has given us, in the Ist vol. of the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, the following interesting account of the vegetation of that singular country, in which our Fuchsia is particu- larly alluded to. “ At Port Famine, and in its neighbour- hood, the Evergreen Beech (Facus betuloides) grows in the greatest abundance and reaches a very large size. Trees of this species, three feet in diameter, are abundant ; of four feet there are many ; and there is one tree (perhaps the very same noticed by Commodore Byron), which mea- sures seven feet in diameter for seventeen feet above the roots, and then divides into three large branches, each of which is three feet through. Besides this, there are but few other trees in the Strait that can be considered as timber: such an appellation only belongs to two other species of Beech and the Winter’s Bark. The last, which is also an evergreen, may be found, mixed with the first, in all parts of the Strait ; so that the country and hills, from the height of two thousand feet above the sea to the very verge of the high water mark, are covered with a perpetual verdure which is remarkably striking, particularly in those places where the glaciers descend into the sea; tlie sudden contrast, in such cases, presenting to the view a scene as agreeable as it seems to be anomalous. I have myself seen vegetation thriving most luxuriantly, and large woody- stemmed trees of Fucus1a and Veronica, in England con- sidered and treated as tender plants, in full flower, within a very short distance of the base of a mountain, covered for two-thirds down with snow, and with the temperature at 36°. The Fucusia, certainly, was rarely found but in sheltered spots; but not so the Veronica, for the beaches of the bays on the west side of St. John’s Island, at Port San Antonio, are lined with trees of the latter, growing even in the very wash of the sea. There is no part us the trait a | Strait more exposed to the wind than this, for it faces the reach to the west of Cape Froward, down which the wind constantly blows, and brings with it a suecession of rain, sleet, or snow; and in the winter months, from April to August, the ground is covered with a layer of snow from six inches to two or three feet in depth. There must be, therefore, some peculiar quality in the atmosphere of this otherwise rigorous climate, which favours vegetation ; for, if not, these comparatively delicate plants could not live and flourish through the long and severe winters of this region.”’ The author further remarks ; ‘© Whilst upon this sub- ject, there are two facts which may be mentioned, as illus- trative of the mildness of the climate, notwithstanding the lowness of its temperature. One is the comparative warmth of the sea near its surface, between which and the air, I have in the month of June, the middle of the winter season, observed a difference of 30°, upon which occasion the sea was covered with a cloud of steam. The other is, that parrots and humming-birds, generally the inhabitants of warm regions, are very numerous in the southern and western parts of the Strait; the former feeding upon the seeds of the Winter’s Bark, while the latter have been seen by us, chirping and sipping the sweets of the Fucus1a and other flowers, after two or three days of constant rain, snow, and sleet, during which the thermometer has been at freezing point. We saw them also in the month of May upon the wing, during a snow shower; and they are found in all parts of the south-west and west coasts as far as Valparaiso. I have since been informed that this species is also an inhabitant of Peru; so that it has a range of more than 41° of latitude, the southern limit being 533° south.’’ It is possible that, like the humming-birds, the same species of Fucusta may inhabit the valleys of the Chilian Andes, as well as the almost antarctic regions of Port Famine; and in such widely different latitudes it may put on different appearances. As may be expected, F', discolor, is the most hardy of its kind, growing in a short space of time into a dense bush, and putting forth numerous shoots, which are never injured by the winters even of Scotland. Our plants were received from Mr. Lowe of Clapton, who was the first to raise the species in this country. Piub.by 5 urtzs. Glavermood Essex. Jartel 1836 “6g FLATT 5 te Naas taal metal? ¥ q ' ' 7 ea ee C 3499 ) ONCIDIUM CRISPUM. CRISPED-FLOWERED ONCIDIUM. KKK KKK KEK EE KKEKEKEKEK ; Class and Order. GyNANDRIA MonanpriA. ( Nat. Ord.—Orcuweg, ) Generic Character. Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata : late- ralibus nunc sub labello connatis. Petala conformia. La- bellum maximum, ecalcaratum, cum columna continuum, varie lobatum, basi tuberculatum vel cristatum. Coluwmna libera, semiteres, apice utrinque alata. Anthera semibilo- cularis, rostello nunc abbreviato, nunc elongato rostrato. Pollinia 2, postice suleata, caudicula plana, glandula ob- longa.—Herbe epiphyte, nunc pseudo-bulbose. Folia cori- acea. Scapi paniculati vaginati, rarius simplices. Flores speciosi, lutei, sepius maculati, raro albi. Landl. Specific Character and Synonyms. Oncipium crispum ; pseudobulbis oblongis sulcatis rugosis diphyllis, foliis lanceolatis coriaceis acutis, scapo sim- eS multifloro, sepalis recurvis undulatis obtusis, ateralibus semiconnatis, petalis duplo majoribus ob- longis undulatis unguiculatis, labelli lobis lateralibus cornuformibus recurvis nanis intermedio maximo un- guiculato subrotundo-cordato undulato, crista duplici serie deltoidea dentata, columne alis rotundatis denti- culatis carnosis. Lindl. Onciwium crispum. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1854. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 197. A large-flowered and very handsome species of Oncip1um, a native of the Organ Mountains in the neighbourhood of. Rio, Brazil, and first made known by Mr. Loppiges in his Botanical Botanical Cabinet. We are indebted for a drawing and specimen, to our often-mentioned contributor, Mrs. Hors- FALL, of Everton, Liverpool, in whose rich collection it flowered in the autumn of 1835. Descr. Bulbs oblong-oval, rather compressed, deeply furrowed, bearing two oblong-lanceolate, dark green, cori- aceous, obscurely nerved leaves. Scape from the base of the bulb, a foot or a foot and a half high, with a simple raceme of large flowers at the extremity. Perianth spread- ing. Sepals more or less reflexed, oblong, acute, atten- uated below, the two lateral ones connate for some way up from the base, all of them waved, of a greenish-brown colour, spotted. Petals broadly obovate, obtuse, much waved and crisped, of a rich brown colour, the claw yellow, spotted with red above, beneath green. Lip much contracted at the base, where it has a thick double crest, yellow spotted with red, and bearing two small, yellow, horn-shaped lobes, the central lobe very large, roundish- cordate, much crisped, coloured like the petals. Column yellow, marked and spotted with deep red, expanding upwards into two deep serrated wings. Anther-case ovate, acuminated, but truncated at the apex. Pollen-masses oval, yellow, on a long and broad white caudicula, which has an ovate brown gland at its base. Fig. 1. Column. 2. Anther-case. 3. Pollen: magnified. ——— 7 ( 3500 ) DrvyANDRA PTERIDIFOLIA. FERN-LEAVED DRYANDRA. SEK KKK KEKE ERE EEE EERE Class and Order. TerranpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Prorteacez. ) Generic Character. Perianthium quadripartitum vel quadrifidum. Stamina apicibus concavis laciniarum immersa. Squamule hypo- one 4. Ovarium uniloculare biovulatum. Ovula post Eecndationem coherentia. Folliculus ligneus. Dissepi- mentum ligneum semibifidum fractus maturi omnind simile. Receptaculum commune planum, floribus indeterminatim confertis ; paleis angustis, rard nullis. Involucrum com- mune imbricatum.—F rutices plerumque humiles. Rami dum adsint sparsi vel umbellati. Folia sparsa, pinnatifida v. incisa, plante juvenilis conformia. nvolucra solitaria, ter- minalia, raro lateralia, sessilia, foliis confertis, interioribus guandoque nanis obvallata, hemispherica, bracteis adpressis, in quibusdam apice appendiculatis. Stylus sepe perianthio vix longior. Br. Specific Character and Synonyms. ( §. AprHraema. ) Dryanpra pleridifolia ; foliis pinnatifidis caule abbreviato erectiusculo, vel propensé decumbente tomentoso lon- gioribus : lobis elongato-linearibus acutis, s. oblongo- linearibus obtusis mucronatis, margine revolutis, peri- anthii laminis colorato-lanatis apice penicillatis, invo- lucri squamis exterioribus lato-ovatis spadiceo-tomen- tosis. (.) lobis foliorum obsoleté nervosis basi dilatatis, caule erectiusculo. (Tab. nostr. 3500.) DRYANDRA VOL. X. H Dryanpra pteridifolia. Brown in Linn. trans. v. 10. p. 215. Bjusd. Prodr. v. 1. p. 399. Rom. et Schult. | Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 447. ied atte (8.) lobis foliorum manifesté trinervibus, basi simplici, caule perquam humili, ramis floriferis prasertim pros- tratis. Dryanpra blechnifolia. Br. in Linn. trans, et Prodr. necnon. Rém. et Schult. Syst. Veget. in locis citatis. — When Mr. Brown published the first volume of his invaluable Pro- dromus, the plant here figured, which was discovered by that very eminent Botanist on rocky hills, at King George’s Sound, was regarded by him, as possibly a distinct species from another named D. dlechni- fola, of which specimens without fructification, and originally gathered also on the shores of the Sound, by our highly respected and venerable friend Mr. Menzirs, in his voyage with VANCOUVER, were preserved in the Banksian Herbarium. “A subsequent examination however, of : sgt eae specimens, has proved them to be but varieties of one spe- cies, differing from each other chiefly in habit, and in some measure in the figure of the lobes of the leaves, although in some native specimens examined, there is manifestly a disposition to produce the two shapes of leaves upon the same plant : The present remarkable and variable subject was raised from seeds, collected by the late very indefatigable botanic-voyager, Mr.W. Baxter, during his first visit to the South-western shores of Australia, in 1823; and the specimens transmitted us from Kew, by the liberality of Mr, Arron, last spring, were taken from a plant, which we understand, is ot only the first that has produced flowers in Britain, but is the only example of the species at this time alive in Europe. It may here be dded, that for its presence at all in our collections, as indeed for the oe introduction to England, of many others of the rarer and more beauteous of Australian vegetables, cultivators of ornamental exotic plants are en- tirely indebted to the disinterested liberality of F. Hencuman, Esq. Descr. Our plant in cultivation exhibits the contour of a dwarf, bushy shrub, with short, flexuose branches, clothed with a whitish wool. Leaves exceedingly rigid, crowded, and pinnatifid ; Jobes alternate, for the most part linear, an inch and ‘a half to two inches long, terminated by a sharp, rigid mucro, the margins revolute, base dilated, covered on the under side with a ferruginous tomentum and nerved, the nerves even- tually obsolete ; upper paging of a very dark green and glossy. Flowers in terminal heads, surrounded by coloured leaves, of a faint honey-scent. Involucre closely imbricated, clothed with a very dense reddish-brown tomentum, having the outer bractes elliptical, acuminate, very smooth within, and the inner scales linear, covered with orange-coloured appress- ed, rigid hairs, pencilled at the apex. Pertanth deeply divided into four equal segments, invested with a pink-coloured, curled wool, barer towards the base: /amina linear, much longer than the unguis, tipped with a pencil-like tuft of soft, spreading hairs. Stamens four, inserted in the long, concave extremities of the lamine. Anthers linear, — ate Se oe Pa ala “ - lated, bursting longitudinally. Style terete, obscurely sulcated, exserted, longer than the perianth, very smooth, slightly subulate, thickened towards the base. Stigma simple. Hypogynous glands four, oblong, bilobed. i, The eager avidity with which spirited, liberal-minded gentlemen in this country, have, at various periods in the course of the last forty years, sought to possess and maintain im their collections living examples of the many Genera of PRoTEACEs#, affords an abundant proof of the great interest they have excited, and of the high estimation in which plants of a family, possessing forms no less extraordinary than numerous, whether indigenous to the Cape of Good Hope, or to the arid shores of Australia, have been held. At one period, within, doubtless the recollection of some of our readers, not only the King’s gardens at Kew, and the rich Conservatories of GEoRGE HIBBERT, Esq. at Clapham, but the gardens of other gentlemen, and espe- cially the sale-collections of the more eminent nurserymen around London, could boast of many choice specimens of Cape Proteaceous plants, which, in the present day, are nowhere to be seen ; for having been urged by culture to put forth their showy flowers, they immediately afterwards, in many in- stances, exhibited, from some mistreatment, debility and sickness, and eventually dying, have ever since been lost to Britain. Since an ignorance. at the time, of the proper mode of managing the plants of this family, whether natives of the Cape or of New Holland, doubtless led to the mortality that prevailed at periods not many years subsequent to their having been raised from the imported seeds, perhaps it may not be out of place in this work, to give our readers the substance of a few practical observations offered us, on the successful treatment of certain of the Order, as pursued at Kew by the principal very able cultivator in that garden, Mr. Joun Situ, to whose horticultural knowledge is superadded a critical botanical discrimination of plants generally, and especially of that numerous and beautiful tribe, the FILicgs, and to whose talents in these particulars, we are happy, in common with other Botanists in Britain and on the continent, especially attached to the study of Cryptogamic vegetation, to bear ample testimony. : Adverting to the interesting pamphlet of Mr. Macnas, ‘the excellent Bitbenistcadait of the Royal Botanic Garden at Edinburgh, on the propaga- tion and culture of Cape Heaths, which appeared in 1831, Mr. Smita observes, that he had pursued with success for some time antecedent to that date, the same mode of treatment of PRoTEACE# under his care, that is re- commended in that publication, with respect to the culture of Heaths, viz. in regard to shifting the plants into fresh and larger pots; in the process of which, it is very important to afford, by means of potsherds, or set of half-baked pottery, a good drainage below, and especially to avoid deep pot- ting, by placing the plant, with its ball of earth round the roots quite entire, So as to be some two or three inches above the surface of the soil at the edge of the pot, which will have the effect of carrying off any superabundant moisture from the roots to the circumference, and thus prevent the chance of water becoming stagnant round the base of the stem; by inattention to this latter circumstance, many a BANKsra and Dryanpra in other collections have been killed; whilst a steady regard to free drainage, to an abundant circulation of air, and a low temperature, he has succeeded in preserving many fine proteaceous plants longer than is generally effected in other gar- dens in the neighbourhood of London. ‘« Even in the present day,” he observes, “ there may be some few gardeners, who may object to the mode of potting certain plants here insisted on, on the ground that, by being thus raised in their pots above the soil at the edge, they have not a handsome look ; and this practice, now adopted and recommended recommended by Mr. MacnaB with regard to Cape Heaths, &c., had its prejudice on his mind for years, for no other reason, as he himself tells us, “than that I fancied the plant looked as if it were ill potted, and, to my view, unsightly.” ‘‘ But we now see, how much other and more judicious management, founded on physiological principles, has overcome the preju- dices of former days, and the difficulties attendant on the culture of not ‘simply these, but the plants of other tribes :—witness our orchideous Epi- Ss. y The soil,” continues this intelligent cultivator, ‘“‘ which I use in the cul- ture of most of the PRoTEACE#, is a good fresh loam, with which, if stiff, I mix a portion of sand, so as not to admit of its being retentive of water. In time, after being potted as already directed, the main roots next the stem of the plant will become uncovered: this circumstance I regard as favour- able to the health of the plant: there will be no danger of its dying suddenly, as I have known many to do, that have been buried alive,—in other words, been deeply potted !” ‘In the winter months, care should be taken not to saturate the earth with water, nor wet the leaves or stem more, than can be avoided. In dry weather however, during the summer season, water may be freely given to the plants about sunset, and a very essential point to be observed is, that, when they are placed out in the open air in groups, the sun’s rays should not be allowed to fall directly on the sides of the pots, for if they are, all the feeding les of the tender roots round the inner side of the pot, will assuredly destroyed, and the life of the plant greatly endangered. Repeatedly have I known a Banxsia to have been killed by the solar ray having been thus allowed to act on the side of the pot, which six months’ afterwards retained so much of a life-like look—being kept yet in its pot—as to appear to the eye of a superficial observer, to te still alive, and in perfect vigour. The lowest greenhouse-temperature that can judiciously be allowed, to prevent the effects of frost, is sufficient for the generality of the family now in culti- vation in Britain, and no artificial heat is required for their preservation, excepting in severe frosty weather.” He adds, with reference to pruning, that “as the rapid upright-growing species are, if left to themselves, shorter- lived, than others naturally more robust, the free use of the knife is recom- mended, and the growth of the plants checked, by keeping the luxuriant shoots cut back. is remark is especially applicable to those beautiful plants of the Order, with simple, straight, wand-like stems, such for example as Banksia Brown and DryanpRa Serra, Br., the former of which has been lost to several collections that could once have boasted of it, by its having been suffered to shoot up into exuberant growth, far beyond what the slender, tapering, thinly-fibred root could at all furnish sustenance. By heading these down somewhat, and thus reducing the ascending axis, or column of circulation, a more robust habit is induced, a growth of roots in their pots takes place, lateral branches are thrown out, and the plants thus treated at Kew, are now in the best possible health, with every indicative of being fully established in that garden”, To the above observations ofan intelligent and practical man, may be added a few very brief remarks on the habits, economy, and indispensable treat- ‘ment, in cultivation, of a division of Australian PRoTEACE#, growing natu- rally on the sea coasts, or upon barren tracts within the influence of the sea air, in the tropical regions of that continent. The Genera hitherto observed on the equinoctial shores of New Holland are GREVILLEA, HAKEA, PER- SOONIA, STENocARPUS, and Banxsta, and these comprise a group collec- tively of thirty-three species, of peculiar constitution entirely governed in their growth, and general development, by the circumstances and modifica- tions of the climate in which they exist. ; _It is a well-known fact, that what constitutes the change of season : intertropical intertropical regions, is not any approach to the winter of count the lemnnesoie Penien, Hn lon of tes BE te Reghey labbadel ae tenner any material difference of atmospheric temperature at opposite periods of the year, but (we are speaking of the climate of the sea coast) is due to that . periodical, well-defined break-up, from great dedug tt to extreme humidity, commonly called the dry and rainy seasons. With such perfect regula- rity do these changes of season take place on the N. W. coast, that our frienc Capt. P. Rina tries within N., who was employed, during nearly five years on its survey, could look forward almost to the very day when the break-up of the easterly monsoon, and with it the period of drought, would oblige him perernperyy to stand off shore, and immediately to quit the oie “wis uring the existence of that monsoon, which prevails between May and October, when the wind blows steadily off shore, that portions of that survey were annually conducted, and the Botanist of the voyage, although he landed almost daily from the vessel to pursue his researches, ’twas oftentimes but to behold vegetable life in a state of extreme langour, by the aridity of the atmosphere, and its uniformly high fervid temperature. FO) IE The GRAMINE4, and, indeed, herbaceous plants generally, had suffered in the early part of the season : these were all burnt up, and the more woody vegetables, the shrubs, arbuscule, and stunted timber trees bore the marked evidences of participation in the general distress. None were detected in a flowering state, whilst all were laden with their ripened fruits. The AcCAcrIAs, of which every sandy beach and rocky islet furnished some species, bore their clustered pods on branches, in many species incrusted with a brittle concrete matter, that had exuded through the cuticle, which a peared by thus covering the bark, the phyllodia, and buds, to suspend a time, the operation of their respective functions, and thus lull vegeta life into a state of quiescence. All nature wore an air of desolation, and the vegetable world assumed an aspect unusually gray and gloomy. But it was its season of rest—that period of repose which appears essential to vegetation generally in tropical countries, to enable it upon the return of the rains, to burst forth with a renovated strength into fresh life, and undergo with vigour that sudden and prodigious development of leaves and flowers, which con- stitutes the beauty and grandeur of the vegetables of warm countries. During the surveys of Capt. K1nG just noticed, the seeds of no less than twelve species of Proteaceous plants, (and chiefly of Mr, Brown’s last section of the Genus GREVILLEA,) were received at Kew. Plants of each were readily raised, which afterwards, with the treatment they received, grew to the stature of large shrubs, and some eventually flowered, to the admira- tion of all yisitors. But these goodly plants were not destined to long life in the King’s gardens, for, inattentive to the conditions under which alone, those lovelier forms of Australian vegetation exist on their native coasts, they were urged immediately after flowering, into a new and unnatural vigorous growth. In vain they looked for some short season of rest, by perhaps a dryer warmth, with but the slightest possible watering afforded, to sustain life—a treatment, to which their constitutions, inherited from their parents, ap- peared so fully adapted. They found none; but debility resulting from forced culture, was followed by extreme exhaustion, and death closed the scene! But we have yet to discover, in our future endeavours to cultivate the shrubby vegetables of the sands of the intertropical shores of that vast country, by what mode of treatment, plants delighting in a high atmospheric temperature, and subject to the extremes of drought and humidity at oppo- site periods of the year, can possibly be cultivated in Britain. It is to be hoped that our government may, ere long, be induced to re-establish settle- ments on the northern coasts of New Holland, whence the seeds of those beautiful plants, to which we have particularly referred, may be again obtained, and other methods of culture tried, in which their native habits should should be more consulted, than they were, some few years since, when one or two collections only, about London, could, for a short period, boast of pos- oon ag cimens, We will just observe, that these are considerations of vegetable life well worthy of the attention of the intelligent botanic gar- dener : it should ever be his business to imitate nature in the care and treat- ment of her vegetable subjects, by affording them, as far as practicable, the soil, the temperature, and situation in which they flourish in their native re- ions, when these can be ascertained ; and it should be no less the duty of He botuntb traveller to communicate these and other circumstances, in re- spect to the seasons of growth and cessation from it of plants of equinoctial countries, in which he may have extended his labours, as all such will greatly aid the skill of the intelligent cultivator. Lub. by S. Curtis. Glasenwood., Essex. Sub 18.56. Swan. Ad an Ace i | / TR ee ( 3501 ) TRADESCANTIA Vireinica, fl. albo. Vir- GINIAN SpipER- Wort, White-flowered var. Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Commetines. ) Generic Character. Calyx et Corolla profunde tripartite. Filamenta plerum- que villosa. Capsula 3-locularis. Spr. Specific Character and Synonyms. Trapescantia Virginica; caule erecto subsimplici, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis canaliculatis glabris, umbellis ter- minalibus, floribus congestis. Travescantia Virginica. Linn. Sp. Pl. p.411. Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 105. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 16. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 116. Schultes, Syst. Veget. v. 7. p.1173. Mich. Am. v. 1. p. 195. (3.) flore albo. Schultes, l. c. p. 1174.—(Tab. nostr. t. 3501.) ‘The purple-flowered and more usual state of the Virginian Spiderwort is not uncommon in our gardens. Mr. Curtis in his description of it, under our tab. 105, has alluded to the white-flowered sort, which we have now the pleasure of presenting: it is one of the numerous varieties which are raised from seed, and may be continued by parting the roots. Although the species was originally introduced from Virginia, as its name implies, to our gardens, “ it bears the severity of a British climate uninjured,” observes Mr. Cur- gis, “ and being a beautiful as well as hardy perennial, is found in almost every garden.” The white-flowered variety, which is generally tinged with purple near the base of the petals, is equally deserving a place in our collections, and is quite as hardy as the purple. EVR peas Reg Weal, Oneal ak Fid. by S.Curtis. darenwood Essex July L836. Swan. 3? ¢ 3502 ) ACACIA PROMINENS. Conspicuous Acacia, or Nepean Wattle. | KKK KKK K KEKE KEK KKK Class and Order. Potyeamia Monaccta. ( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminos#. ) Generic Character. Flores polygami. Cal. 4—5-dentatus. Pet. 4—5, nune libera, nunc in corollam 4—5-fidam coalita. Stam. numero varia 1O—200. Legumen continuum exsuccum bivalve.— Frutices aut arbores, habitu et foliatione valde varie. Spine stipulares sparse aut nulle. D C. Specific Character and Synonyms. Acacia prominens ; glabra, phyllodiis (sesquiuncialibus) lineari-lanceolatis acutis patentibus retrorso- falcatis rectisve uninervibus tenuissime ciliatis, mucrone sub- uncinato terminatis, margine antico versiis basin uni- glanduloso, glandula leviter elevata, racemis termina- _Tibus axillaribusve 6—10-cephalis phyllodio pauld lon- gioribus, capitulis (in racemo) solitariis geminisve ‘pedicello brevioribus, floribus quinquepartitis, petalis ovato-oblongis subacuminatis, stylo staminibus parum longiore. Allan Cunn. e Acacia prominens. Allan Cunn. MSS. (1817.) G. Don’s Syst. of Gard. v. 2. p. 406. n. 67. A charming conservatory shrub, native of New South Wales, where it inhabits barren forest-grounds, in the immediate vicinity of the Nepean river ; and although it may, in its native regions, be truly said to be, like Goxp- suitn’s village thorn, ‘“ unprofitably gay,”—no one caring to receive it into his garden, it nevertheless seldom fails, even there, in the month of September, when decked with Fe blossoms, blossoms, to commend itself to the notice and admiration of the passing, way-worn colonist, not less by the extreme rich- ness and profusion of its golden flowers, than by the delicious fragrance they diffuse around. It has been several years at Kew, where it flowers annually in the months of spring ; and our acknowledgments are due to Mr. Arron for the opportunity now afforded us of publishing a figure of it. Descr. A tall, slender shrub, often ten feet high, of erect growth, numerously branched, the branches being smooth, greenish, and slightly angular, Phyllodia copious alternate for the most part, an inch and a half in length and two and a half to three lines in breadth, spreading, linear- lanceolate, acute, mucronated, mucro rather hooked, to- wards the apex often retrosely falcate, with several slightly- marked veins diverging from the midrib, on the upper edge near the base is a rather prominent gland. Flowers golden- yellow, very fragrant, formed in axillary and terminal ra- cemes, each raceme having from six to ten heads, generally longer than the phyllodia. Heads many-flowered, distinct, solitary or in pairs. Pedicels patent, very smooth, longer than the heads, having at the bases short, brown bractes. _Calyx very short, five-parted. Petals five, ovate-oblong, subacute, erect or slightly spreading. Stamens numerous, shorter than the style. Stigma simple. : Bs : The following closely allied, but very distinct species, may be character- ‘ve cat ized as follows : : A. fimbriata ; villosa, phyllodiis (sesquiuncialibus) linearibus obtusis (cum mucronulo) erectis introrso-falcatis rectisve uninervibus, an- gulisque ramorum densé ciliato-fimbriatis, mucronulo recto, margine antico versus basin uniglanduloso, glandula subimmersa, racemis axillaribus terminalibusve polycephalis phyllodio sapé duplo longi- oribus, capitulis (in racemo) plerumque solitariis pedicellos eequan- tibus, floribus quinquepartitis, petalis ovatis acutis, staminibus stylum subzequantibus, A. fimbriata. Allan Cunn. MSS. G. Don’s Syst. of Gard. v. 2. p. 406, n. 68. Has. InN ova Cambria Australi: secus flumen Brisbane, Moreton Bay, versus tropicum: pracipue ad margines petrosos aquaductuum in sylvis apertis aridis. Florens mense Septembri, 1828, Allan. Cunn. _ Arcté affinis A. prominenti, sed frutex humilior (vix orgyalis,) ramis omnin6 villosis angulatis, angulis phyllodiisque fimbriatis. Phyllodia angustiora recta vel interdum introrso-falcata, racemi etiam, flexuosi graciliores: Capitula florum numerosiora et confertiork pedicellos vix excedentes, it ee ( 3503 ) PAssIFLORA KERMESINA. CrIMSON Passion- 3 FLOWER. i SEK KEK KK KEKE KEKE KKKEE Class and Order. | MonapetreuiA PEentraNnpRiA. ( Nat. Ord.—Passirtore#. ) Generic Character. Calyx 10-partitus, laciniis interioribus corollinis. Corona radiata perigyna. Nectarium in fundo calycis. Tubus staminifer stylum cingens. Stigmata 3 clavata. Pepo 1-lo- cularis, placentatio parietalis. . Specific Character and Synonym. PassiFLora kermesina ; scandens glaberrima cirrhata, foliis cordato-trilobis obtusis integerrimis subtus discolori- bus, petiolo bi-triglanduloso, stipulis semicordatis magnis, pedunculo unifloro nudo, calycis segmentis uniformibus lineari-oblongis demum reflexis, corona erectiuscula, columna elongata. Passirtora kermesina. Hort. Berol. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1633. I regret to know nothing of the history of this ex- tremely beautiful Passion-flower, further than that it was received at the Glasgow Botanic Garden from that of ~~ Berlin, by favour of Mr. Orro, and under the name here adopted. It is, probably, a native of Brazil. It requires the heat of the stove, and bears numerous flowers during the summer and autumnal months, which open towards evening and close in the morning of the following day, not again to expand. ‘ ee Descr. Stems slender, branched, climbing to a consi- derable height. Leaves petiolate, cordate, three-lobed, glabrous (as is every part of the plant) : lobes nearly equals . oval, oval, obtuse, here and there glanduloso-dentate, green above, purplish beneath. Petioles slender, bearing two or three elongated, dark-purple glands: from the axil a sim- ple tendril arises, and from each side, at the base, a large semicordate, obtuse stzpule, of the same colour and texture as the leaves. Calyx on both sides crimson-red, the seg- ments ten, uniform, narrow-oblong, at first horizontal, afterwards reflexed, whitish at their base; they are com- bined below into a short tube, swollen at the base: at the mouth of this tube is a filamentous crown of several series of nearly erect, dark-purple filaments, the outer ones paler at the extremity, within this is another and smaller circle of white filaments, united for the greater part of their length into a conical tube. Column much elongated. Stigmas club-shaped. July 118.36 Glaxenwood. Essez urits C 3504) RoprRiGueziA PLANIFOLIA, EVvEN-LEAVED He RopriGueEzia. 3 Class and Order. GynanpriA Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—OrcHiweEa. ) Generic Character. Perianthium patens, subequale, sepalis 2 lateralibus connatis labello suppositis. Labellum integrum, unguicu- latum, basi cornutum, medio callosum; ungue cum co- lumna parallelo. Columna teres apice barbata. Anthera unilocularis, carnosa. Clinandrium nudum, retrorsum de- clive. Pollinia 2, postice excavata ; caudicula elastica.— Herbe epiphyte, subpseudobulbose. Folia cortacea vel membranacea, plicata. Spice secunde. Flores speciost. Lindl. Specific Character and Synonyms. Ropricuezia planifolia; bulbis valde compressis ovato- oblongis, foliis lanceolatis enerviis levibus, perianthio undulato, sepalo inferiori (e duobus formato) apice solummodo bifido, labello apice integro. Roprievuezsa planifolia. Lindl. in Hort. Trans. v. 7. p. 67. ejusd, Gen, et Sp. Orchid. p. 195. , Gomeza recurva. Lodd. Bot. Cab. (not Bot. Mag.) ¢. 660. This deliciously fragrant plant, named Gomeza (Ropri- gurziA, Linpt.) recurva by Mr. Loppiees, but distinguished from that species by Professor Linptey on account of the even (not striated) surface of its leaves, and the entire, not emarginate, lip, has been kindly communicated to us by Mr. Joun Camppett, of the Botanic Garden, Belfast, — where it was imported from Brazil. It flowers in February. Descr. Bulbs clustered, scarcely more than two inches high, pale coloured, much compressed and sharp-edged, bearing bearing a pair of leaves at the extremity, which are lan- ceolate, even on the surface, and more or less recurved. Scape arising from the base of the bulb on one side, and from within a leafy sheath, short, bearing rather a long, drooping raceme of many fragrant greenish-yellow flowers, more remarkable for their scent than their beauty. Sepals oblong, waved, acute, the two lateral or lower ones com- bined together for nearly their whole length, the extremities straight, not in the least spreading. Lip broadly oblong, yellow, crested at the base with two crenate white mem- branes, and bearing two oblong tubercles near the middle, where the lip is very suddenly and much reflexed, the apex rather acute, entire. Colwmn nearly white, semicylindrical, with a deep orange margin round the stigma. Anthers hemispherical. Germen clavate, subtended by a white, membranous, sheathing bractea, nearly as long as itself. Fig. 1, Flower: magnified. cee, ANNES eee Aenea Swear St July 11836. SSE, ~ Pub.by S. Curtis, Glaxenwood C 3505) CoREOPSIS FILIFOLIA. THREAD-LEAVED CoREOPSIS. Jobe 3 Class and Order. SyYNGENESIA F'RUSTRANEA. ( Nat. Ord.—Composirez. ) Generic Character. Receptaculum paleaceum. Achenia compressa, emargi- nata. Pappus bicornis vel obsoletus. Involucrum duplex; utrumque polyphyllum. Specific Character. Coreopsis filifolia ; glaberrima, caule erecto striato, foliis oppositis pinnatifidis bipinnatifidisque foliolis lineari- filiformibus subcarnosis supra canaliculatis, radii co- rollis 8—9 obovatis luteis, disco purpureo-sanguineo. Of all the narrow and divided-leaved species of Corzopsis, this has unquestionably the narrowest foliage, and which, if examined carefully, exhibits the most fleshy texture, the under side semiterete, and presenting no appearance of a nerve or costa, which indeed is only indicated on the upper — side by the presence of a furrow. _ Its nearest ally is perhaps the C. tenuzfolia ; but there, besides the difference in foliage, the disk is described as being of the same colour as the ray, and the florets of the ray are much narrower. Its seeds were sent by Mr. Drummonp to this country from Texas, in the spring of 1835, and the plants flowered in the open air in August and September. The same species is distri- buted to the friends of Mr. Drummonp’s Expedition, marked “Texas, Lin 101,” Descr. Annual. Stem erect, but slender, branched, especially upwards, striated and glabrous, as is every part of the plant. Leaves opposite, pinnatifid or bipinuatifid, allies the the segments very narrow-linear, almost filiform, entire, somewhat fleshy, convex or nearly semicylindrical on the under side, above marked with a furrow. Peduncles termi- nal, slender, single-flowered. Flower rather large, hand- some. Involucre almost globose: inner of six to eight somewhat imbricated, ovate scales; outer of the same number of linear-subulate, spreading ones, arising from the base of the inner, and there forming one with them. Ray of eight to nine, obovate, irregularly three to five-toothed, spreading, orange-yellow corollas: their tube short: Ger- men linear, abortive, destitute of pappus. Corolla of the disk tubular, dark blood-coloured, glabrous. Anther-tube black, exserted. Pollen yellow. Pub.by S.Curtis,Glarenwood. Essex... Faby LIS 36. - GAURA PARVIFLORA. SMALE-FLOWERED- | GAvRA. ecu SERRE Class and Order. OcranpriaA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Onacrariz. ) Generic Character. Calyx tubulosus 4-partitus, Petala 4. Nux angulata l-sperma. Spreng. Specific Character and Synonyms. Gaura parviflora ; pubescenti-mollis, foliis lato-lanceolatis acuminatis remote-denticulatis, spica multiflora, peta- lis (parvis) obovatis erectis, stamina stylumque equan- tibus, fructibus oblongo-fusiformibus. Gavra parviflora. Douglas, MSS. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. v. 1. p. 208. This very distinct species of Gawra does not appear to be noticed by any writer on North American plants, not- withstanding that it has been found in two widely different parts of that vast continent. The specimens here figured were raised from seeds sent by Mr. Drummonp from Texas ; and, on a careful examination, the plant proves to be iden- tical, as to species, with the G. A at (Fl. Bor. Am.), which Mr. Doveuas found on the banks of the Wallawalla River, on the North-west Coast of America. As an orna- mental plant it has, indeed, little to recommend it; but when the flower is carefully examined, it will be found to be possessed of no little beauty. The habit and inflo- rescence are very similar to those of G. bennis, but the flowers, independent of the great difference in size, are widely different. In the latter, the calyx bursts on one side, the segments continuing combined at their ex- tremities, tremities, the petals are all directed to one side upwards, the stamens and style downwards, and both these latter, especially the style, are longer than the petals; the four lobes of the stigma are erect and close placed. In our plant, the four segments of the calyx are separate and reflexed, the petals are erect, the stamens and style equal to them in length, the four lobes of the stigma spreading. O. parviflora is quite hardy, flowering in August and September. Descr. Biennial. Stems two to four feet high, erect, simple or branched, clothed with soft patent hairs. Leaves broadly lanceolate, the lower ones ovato-lanceolate, all of them sessile, acuminate, denticulate, more or less downy with soft hairs, especially at the margin and on the midrib, gradually becoming smaller and narrower upwards, till they pass into the small subulate and ciliated bracteas of the flowers. Spike elongated, many-flowered. Germen fusiform, downy, sessile. Calyx-tube shorter than the ger- men, equal in length to the four linear, free, reflexed segments. Petals four, small, erect, deep rose-coloured, obovate, slightly clawed, of the same length with the erect stamens and style. Filaments rose-coloured, inserted below the middle of the back of the oblong dark purple anthers : Pollen yellow. Style red: stigma four-lobed, the lobes ovate, spreading, white. Fruit fusiform, obscurely four- angled, constituting an indehiscent nucumentaceous cap- sule, four-celled, each cell containing one pendent, obovate seed, attached to the inner angle of the cell by a rather long seed-stalk : dissepiments thin, membranaceous. Fig. 1. Flower, 2. Immature Fruit: magnified, i s s 8 2 Lich ba 8 Curtis Glaxensood bisex Aig h 1836 ( 3507 ) : ae CyRTOPODIUM PUNCTATUM. SpoTrep- — FLOWERED CyRTOPODIUM. Class and Order. _GynanpriA Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Orcuiwez. ) Generic Character. Perianthium explanatum, zquale, sepalis petalisque liberis. Labellum unguiculatum, cum basi producta co- — lumne continuum, tripartitum, explanatum, ecalcaratum. — Columna semiteres. Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 2, pos- tice biloba; caudicula lineari brevi, glandula ovata,—Plante terrestres, fruticose. caulibus fusiformibus, carnosis ; folits plicatis ; scapis radicalibus, vaginalis ; floribus speciosis. - Lindl. . Specific Character and Synonyms. Cyrrtoropium punctatum; bulbis elongatis, foliis lineari- lanceolatis tenuiter acuminatis, scapo paniculato, brac- teis magnis membranaceis, sepalis petalisque undulatis acutis maculatis, labello stipitato, profunde trilobo, lobis lateralibus obovato-cuneatis incurvis intermedio — late obcordato margine granuloso, disco basi calloso. — popes punctatum. Lindl. Gen. et. Sp. Orchid. p. 188. ) Ermenprum punctatum. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1348. Willd. Sp. Pl.v. 4.p. 116. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 3. p. 736. HeLiesorus ramosissimus cauliculis et floribus maculosis. Plum. Sp. p.9.t. 187. This superb plant, of which only a small portion is re- presented on our plate, flowered in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in the spring of 1835. It was sent many years ago from Brazil by Wm. Swainson, Esq., and has never till the ne period | VOL. X. I period above mentioned shown any disposition to blossom. Dr. Linpiey obliged us by naming it, or we should pro- bably have had a difficulty in determining it; the figure refered to in Piumier being in some respects, particularly in the bulb and foliage, considerably at variance with our specimen. It was originally discovered by Pxiumier, in Hispaniola, and Professor Linpixy has specimens from the same country, collected by Cuartes Macxenzir, Esq. Descr. Pseudo-bulbs a foot and a half, or two feet long, cylindrical, or slightly compressed, tapering at each ex- tremity, clothed with pale brown, faintly-striated, acumina- ted, sheathing scales, and crowned witha tuft of six to eight long, linear-lanceolate, much acuminated leaves. Scape arising from the base of the pseudo-bulb, erect, including the panicle, nearly three feet high: spotted, as are the branches, with purple. Bracteas oblong, lanceolate, ex- ceedingly large, spreading, membranous, yellow, the upper ones chiefly spotted. Flowers large, handsome. Petals and sepals oblong, wavy, yellow, the latter chiefly spotted with red-purple. Lip stipitate, jointed upon the decurrent base of the column, deeply three-lobed, yellow, two lateral lobes obovato-cuneate, incurved, with a broad red-purple margin ; intermediate one broadly obcordate, the margin granulated and dotted with purple, the disk at the base crested and dot- ted with purple. Column semiterete, singularly produced, at the base, between the two lower sepals, yellow-green. Anther-case almost nectariform, ta ering at the back. Pollen-masses two, oblongo-obovate, Ravin a deep furrow at the back, attached to a white, ovate gland. Germen long, slender, slightly clavate, spotted. pee ‘ie Fig. 1. Column and Lip. - : Me. Lip. “8.Col ae chet. «th Upper side of a Pollen- p olumn. 4. Anther-case. 3. mass. 6. Underside of ditto —magnified. aes A vigernck it 33 ———— ee: ae et a ( 3508 ) Rueum Emopr. Orricinat Ravurare. ie he ee ee a ae a as a Class and Order. ENNEANDRIA T'RIGYNIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Potyeonez. ) Generic Character. Perianthum simplex, 6-partitum, persistens, laciniis al- ternis minoribus. Achenium triquetram, perianthio majus, marginibus membranaceo-marginatis. Stigmata verrucoso- papillata. Specific Character and Synonyms. Ruaeum * Emodi; foliis rotundato-cordatis scabriusculis, pe- tiolis lateraliter compressis pedunculisque sulcatis ver- rucoso-scabris, racemis compositer elongatis strictis, floribus minutis atro-sanguineis. . Rueum Emodi. Wall. MSS. Cat. E. I. C. Mus. n. 1727. Ruevm Australe. Don, Prodr. Nep.p. 75. Sweet, Br. Fl. Gard. t. 269. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 4. (cur. post.) 7200. a : The true officinal Rhubarb, long known in commerce, as one of the most valuable of drugs, had been considered by different writers and travellers, as the root of either Ruzum undulatum, R. compactum, R. Rhaponticum, or in the opin- ion of the majority of authors, of R. palmatum ; but it does not appear that any one had ascertained the fact in the coun- | try whence the Rhubarb had been imported, so that no de-— pendance can be placed upon these statements. Indeed, being a native of the vast range of the Thibetian and_ Himalaya mountains, it was scarcely possible that the plant _ itself could be known to Europeans, until that vast and interesting region was visited by Dr. Watuicu and his collectors. There, at Emodus, a mountainous district of Gossam Than, by Dr. Watuicu, and about Kamoun by * From Rha, the river so called, now the Volga ; because the true Rhu- 4arb was supposed to be derived from thence. Rosert Buenxworrnu, the present plant was discovered, and seeds of it sent by the former, in 1828, as the true officinal Rhubarb of commerce, to Mr. Lampert, in whose garden at Boyton House, Wiltshire, plants were soon raised and distributed. For it proves perfectly hardy, even in Scotland, where in comimon soil, it attains a height of seven and eight feet and recommends itself, independently of its commercial interest, by the large hand- some foliage and deep blood-coloured flowers, which are succeeded by conspicuous pendent seed-vessels of the same colour as the blossoms. The root used to be sent from China to Ormuz and Aleppo, thence by Alexandria to Vienna, and hence it obtained the name of Turkey, or Levant Rhubarb; now our vessels obtain it dried from - Canton and Ormuz (in the Persian Gulf). But the best, Mr. Don assures us, “ is what comes by way of Russia, as reater care is taken in the selection ; and on its arrival at Kiachta, within the Russian frontiers, the roots are all care- fully examined and the damaged pieces destroyed. This _ Asthefine rhubarb of the shops.” It is much to be regretted however, that we have as yet no authentic particulars re- + ting the mode of collecting and preparing the roots by natives. Descr, Stems six to ten feet high, much branched and ‘Sulcated, very thick below, gradually attenuated upwards into the large panicles, and there rough with minute warts or excrescences: the colour is yellow-ereen, streaked with red-brown, Leaves very large, but gradually smaller up- wards, roundish-cordate, entire, somewhat wavy, slightly rough upon the surface, and at the margin. Petioles thick, angled and furrowed, rough, embracing the stem by means of the large, bifid, sheathing membranous stipules. P anicles, or rather compound racemes, terminal, very long, _ the branches erect, virgate, rough. Pedicels solitary or clus- tered, somewhat verticillate, short, spreading, in fruit, de- flexed. Flowers very small, of a deep blood-red colour. Pi ervanth of six spreading, ovate, deep segments, three alter- _ hate ones smaller. Stamens nine, shorter than the perianth. Filaments subulate, monadelphous at the base. Germen ert triquetrous, often abortive. Styles three, spreading. ugmas large, warty. Fruit pendent, dark blood-coloured, shining, an achenium which is cordate, triangular, the angles sharply winged, covered at the base with the persistent pe- Tianth, of which the three smaller segments are iiphied to —— winged angles. Seed ovato-triquetrous. > Fig. i. Flower. 2. Fruit : me + ified, = : = re FIO, 1g SS aneerres Sean Seo: Pub.by 5. Curtts, Glaxerwood E'ssex. dug 1836 ( 3509 ) SISYRINCHIUM GRANDIFLORUM. DLARGE- -FLOWERED Sisyvrincnium. Class and Order. Monapetpuia TRiaANDRIiA. ( Nat. Ord.—Irinea. ) Generic Character. 2 Spatha diphylla. Calyxo. Petala 6, subequalia, plana. Filamenta connata. Stylus 1. Capsula trilocularis, mfera. Specific Character and Synonym. ‘* Sisyrincuium grandiflorum ; caule stricto compresso foliis erectis vaginantibus longiore, spatha biflora pedun- culos subequante, perianthio late campanulato, fila- mentis longissimis subulatis basi contracta solummodo connatis erectis demum patentibus. Lal Sisyrincuium grandiflorum. Dougl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1364. A most lovely and graceful plant, remarkable for the large size and peculiarly bright purple colour of its flowers. The very long filaments, broad at the base, below which they are contracted and where alone they are combined, seem to be at variance with the characters of other species of Sisyrincuium, and may, perhaps, entitle the subject of our plate to rank as a distinct Genus. It was discovered by the late Mr. Dovetas, on low hills of the Columbia, from the Great Falls to Oakanagan, in dry soils, flowering in May ; and introduced to the gardens of the Horticultural Society of London. Our wild specimens precisely accord with those here figured, only they are rather smaller and the flower is less drooping. It appears yet to be a rare plant in collections, and though stated by Professor Linpiey to be perfectly hardy, the shelter of a greenhouse is afforded it at Glasgow, where it flowers in March. Descr. Descr. Roots truly fibrous, the fibres moderately slender, branched. Stem six to eight or ten inches high, simple, erect, compressed ; bearing, chiefly below, three or four leaves, which are erect, sheathing and shorter than the stem. Spatha terminal, of two unequal leaves, pale and membranous at the margin, two-flowered, though I find one flower only expanded at a time. Peduncle nearly as long as the spatha, slender, curved, as if from the weight of the flower, which thus droops. Perianth of six oblong slightly concave, obtuse, bright purple, moderately spreading sepals, faintly striated externally. Stamens three. Filaments erect, about as long as the sepals, white, broad and purplish below, quite distinet (except at the contracted base) eventually spreading. Anthers oblong, yellow. Germen, inferior, pyriform, obtusely trigonal. Style filiform, longer than the stamens. Stigmas three. Fig. 1. Pistil and Stamens. 2. Interior view of a Stamen magnified. BALO A SO a ate walkie 3b ee 1 Pub.by § Curtis Glarenwood Fos gui cae HELIANTHUS DECAPETALUs. 'TEN-RAVED ~ oes _ Sun-FLower. 2 Kokekokekeokokokeokeokiokeskokak kaka Class and Order. 8 SYNGENESIA F'RUSTRANEA. ( Nat. Ord.—Composir2. ) Generic Character. Achenium compressum, conforme, paleis magis minusve deciduis, binis pluribusve minoribus coronatum.—Herbe se@pe altissime, rarius frutices, Americe indigent, foliis op- positis vel alternis integris (vel fissis) asperis ; capitulis luteis solitariis et terminalibus vel corymbosis ; involucris polyphyllis imbricatis, rachi plana. Less. esag é Specific Character and Synonyms. Heianruus decapetalus ; foliis oppositis (supremis brac- teantibus exceptis) subrhombeo - ovatis acuminatis Srosse serratis utrinque scabris supra basin tripliner- vils, involucri foliolis lineari-acuminatis squarrosis paleis integris radii corollis subdecem. Hexianruus decapetalus. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1277. Pursh, Fl. Am. 0. 2. p. 571. ~ Ell: Carol. 0. 2. p. 425. ae (8.) frondosus ; involucri squamis elongatis foliosis. - Hexrantruus frondosus. Lznn. and other authors. .™ Few plants are less understood by Botanists, or more ill defined in books, than the species of the Genus now before us; especially those which are natives of North America. And it is much to be regretted that Sir James Smrra has not even noticed the Linnean species in Rees’ Cyclopedia, so that we are at a loss to distinguish accu- rately those whose names are the most familiar to us. As far as can be judged from description, the present is the H. decapetalus of the Species Plantarum, where its affinity with with H. multiflorus, (Bot. Mag. t. 227,) from which it princi- Ily*differs in the smaller flowers and much fewer rays, and in the lower leaves not being cordate, is noticed. It is a hardy perennial, an inhabitant of the northern and middle States'of North America and of Canada, and blossoming in the autumn."; By‘luxuriance the scales of the involuere are enlarged and become leafy, and, as it appears to me, have given rise to the Linnean H. frondosus. Descr. Stem four to five feet high; much branched upwards, and there principally scabrous. Leaves all op- posite, (except the uppermost ones, which are smaller and narrower and less distinctly serrated, and which as arising from the flower-bearing stalks, may rather be considered bracteas,) ovate, but tapering below so as to be some- what rhomboidal, three-nerved above the base, acuminated, coarsely and distantly serrated, scabrous on both sides, of a rather lively green above, paler beneath, but scarcely atall downy, the lower one petiolated. Flowers about two inches across, slightly drooping. Scales of the involucre numerous, squarrose, linear-acuminate, ciliated at the mar- gin, especially below, where they are of a blackish colour, sometimes, in 6, becoming leafy. Receptacle slightly conical, chaffy : the scales linear, acute, usually quite entire, and nearly as long as the florets of the disk. Florets of the ray bright yellow, their germens abortive, destitute of pappus; those of the disk, orange. Anthers purple-black : their germens compressed, with two soft, subulate, opposite scales, and sometimes, two or three other minute ones. aaae i what , the Ray. 2. Floret of the -_ with its accompanying Pub, by S. Curtis. Glaxenncod Essex 4ug "11836. ieee eee ea Cauiiopsis TINCToRIA: var, atropurpurea. - Dyeine Caxuiopsis; dark-flowered var. — oi %, Class and Order. SYNGENESIA F’RUSTRANEA. ( Nat. Ord.—Composir. ) Generic Character. Achenium obcompressum, omnino calvum, intus curva- tum, apice truncatum, anguste bialatum, disco-epigyno mi-_ nuto, alis concoloribus, integerrimis. | Stylus disci ramis truncatis apiceque solo penicillatis—Herbe Boreali-Amer- icane, glabre, foliis magis minusve sectis ; capitulis geminis v. corymbosis, radio luteo basi macula atropurpurea notato v. roseo ; involucris biserialibus, serie interiori gamophylla. Less. Specific Character and Synonyms. Catuiopsis* tamctoria ; caule ramosissimo foliisque glaber- rimis, radicalibus pinnatis foliolis spathulato-lanceo- latis, caulinis bi-tripinnatifidis summisque 3- partitis linearibus, pedunculis subcorymbosis, flosculis radii inciso-dentatis. — mel 65 Cauuiopsis bicolor. “ Reichenb.”—Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 61. ovms tinctoria. Nutt. Journ. Acad. Sc. Phil. 1821, p. 114. Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2512. Bot. Reg. t. 846. Sw. Brit. Fl. Gard. t.72. Bart.’ Fl. of N. Am. ». 2. t. 45. (6.) floribus atropurpureis, nune limbo fulvo circumdatis. (Tab. nostr. 3511.) i The * From xaddos, beauty, and ox, an appearance ; I presume, from the beautiful appearance of the blossoms. a The ordinary state of this pretty plant is given at t. 2512, where it will be seen that the flower is a bright and full yellow colour, with a deep blackish-purple or blood-red eye. Cultivation shows that these colours are liable to vary, and has made us acquainted with a state of this plant of great beauty and richness as concerns the flower. In some specimens the whole of the ray is atro-sanguineous ; in others there is a tawny narrow margin, forming, as it were, a kind of limb around it. Mixed with the common yellow sort in large patches, they add greatly to the charms of a flower-garden. Our specimen here figured was from the garden of Mr. James Tarr, Merry Flats, and was one of the twelve best species of hardy annuals which gained the prize at the September Meeting (1835) of the Glasgow Hoticultural Society. Fig. 1. Floret from the Disk :—Magnified. ancth eg L836 é Glaxenwood. # see. Mt, Pub by 3.Curtis Hor Mae VI S512 s!') 'THUNBERGIA ALATA; (albiflora). Wiaunerp Tuunsereia ; White-flowered var. KEKE EEE EEE KEKE KEEK Class and Order. Divynami1a ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Acanruacez. ) Generic Character. Calyx duplex : ext, diphyllus ; int. subduodecim-den- tatus. Capsula bilocularis rostrata. Specific Character and Synonyms. Tuunsercia alata; pubescenti-sericea, foliis cordatis acutis angulatis, petiolis alatis, caule volubili. | («.) Corolla lutea. Tuunsereia alata. Bojer MSS.—Hook. Ex. Fl. p. 177. Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2591. (8.) Corolla alba. (Tab. nostr. 3512.) Tuunsereia alata, is a plant discovered by Professor Bogzr of the Mauritius in grassy places of Zanzibar and Pemba, two small islands on the eastern coast of Africa, in about the fifth or sixth degree of South latitude: and it was by the late Mr. Trxrair sent to Mr. Barctay’s collection at Bury Hill. Through his liberality, the buff-flowered variety is become general in the stoves of our collections, where it is greatly admired for its copious blossoms, marked with a deep purple-brown eye in the centre. The variety now figured, with a white limb to the corolla, forming a still greater contrast with the dark stain in the centre, is, we believe, much more uncommon, since we are only ac- quainted with it from plants given to the Glasgow Botanic Garden by the kindness of Mr. Lowe of the Clapton Nursery. It flowers during the summer and autumn months, and re- quires the same treatment as the buff-stained kind. Descr. Descr. Stems long, slender, twining, clothed, as well as the leaves and calyx, with short, pale, silky pubescence. Leaves opposite, cordate, or cordato-hastate, membranous, acute, angled at the margin more or less, particularly near the base, dark green above, paler beneath. Petioles about as long as the leaves, singularly winged on each side; the wings broader towards the upper extremity. Peduncles ax- illary, solitary, opposite, longer than the petioles. Exte- rior calyx of two large ovato-cordate, inflated, membrana- ceous leaves: inner one small, cup-shaped, with several irregular teeth or segments. Corolla large ; the tube longer than the outer calyx, inflated upwards, black purple within, paler without : Limb oblique, of five, nearly equal, somewhat obcordate, spreading lobes, buff-coloured in «, white in our var.8. Stamen wholly concealed within the tube: Anther white, two-celled, ciliated. Germen ovato-globose. Style white, filiform: Stigma of two unequal lips, the lower one ~ the broadest, and concave. ‘S Fig. 1. Outer Calyx (or bracteas). 2. Stamen. 3, Calyx and Pistil :— QS cb 3618) DryANDRA TENUIFOLIA. SLENDER-LEAVED DRYANDRA. Class and Order. TrerranpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Proteacez. ) Generic Character. Perianthium quadripartitum v. quadrifidum. Stamina apicibus concavis laciniarum immersa. Squamule hypo-— yne 4. Ovarium uniloculare, biovulatum. Ovula post foecundationem coherentia. Folliculus ligneus: Disepi- mentum ligneum semibifidum fructis maturi omnind simile. Receptaculum commune planum, floribus indeterminatim: confertis ; paleis angustis, rard nullis. Involucrum com- mune imbricatum.—F rutices plerumque humiles. Rami dum adsint sparsi vel umbellatt. Folia sparsa, pinnatifida v. in- — cisa, plante juvenilis conformia. Involucra solitaria, termi- nalia, raro lateralia, sessilia, foliis confertis, interioribus quandoque nanis obvallata, hemispherica, bracteis adpressis in quibusdam apice appendiculatis. Stylus sepé perianthio vix longior. R. Br. 3 Specific Character and Synonyms. Dryanpra tenuifolia ; foliis elongato-linearibus pinnatifidis - subtruncatis subtis niveis basi attenuata integerrima — petioliformi: lobis triangularibus decurrentibus divari- catis margine recurvis, involucro longitudine florum : bracteis tomentosis : exterioribus ovato-lanceolatis, pe- rianthio stylum subequante: unguibus basi lanatis supra cauleque glabris ; laminis subsericeis. Br. in Linn. Trans. 10. p. 215. ejusd. Prodr. 1. p. 398. Rom. et Schult. Syst. Veg. 3. p. 447. A native of barren heaths on the shores of King George’s Sound, where it forms rather a dense bush, flowering in the month of January. In our conservatories, where, accord- ing to Hortus Kewensis, it has been an inhabitant since the year 1803, it usually puts forth its oval heads of flowers in March ; and continuing its blossoms during the two suc- ceeding months, is a most desirable plant for greenhouse _ cultivation among other compatriots in our possession from the sterile shores of South-western Australia—a locality, so desert-like in aspect, yet so rich in the rarer and more diversiformed species of the great and splendid family to which our plant belongs. Beyond its remarkable habit, and the density of its extremely attenuated foliage, it holds out other recommendations to the care of the botanic culti- vator ; namely, its freedom of growth, and the readiness with which well-ripened cuttings take root. Our thanks are again due to our liberal friend, Mr. Arron, for the spe- cimen furnished us last spring, by which, the means of publishing the first figure of so interesting a plant, has been led us. i Descr. A robust shrub, usually about three feet high, very much branched ; branches smooth, densely clothed with leaves, spreading, often pendent. Leaves very linear, six to eight inches long, pinnatifid, truncated at the apex, smooth and dark green on the upper side, clothed with a white tomentum beneath, very attenuated and entire at the base: lobes alternate, triangular, decurrent, spreading, apex acute and uncinated, the margins recurved. Involucre terminal, solitary, oval, formed of numerous, imbricated bractes : the outer ones ovate, acute, inner oblong and bluntish, ciliated, and clothed with a thin adpressed tomentum. Receptacle chaffy. Flowers numerous, bright-brown, included within the involucre. Perianth deeply divided into four parts ; each segment very linear, thinly clothed with spreading, white hairs towards the claws, which are themselves very woolly, base, however, quite smooth. Lamina slightly silky, Stamens four, inserted in the concave lamine. An- thers linear, apiculated, shorter than the concavities in which they repose. Style smooth, terete, enlarged somewhat at the base, and angular, the length of the perianth. Stigma simple. Hypogynous scales four, each lanceolate, and attenuate. _We know not that we can do better in occupying another page, than by giving publleabon, "9.8 note furnished us by Attan Counninenam, regarding another subject of the “e ; es highly highly interesting Order of the plant here figured ; namely, a sali of Piatt: of goolly oren stature, and. moreover, the inhabitant of a country, in which the Genus has never been supposed to exist. | f It may be just premised, that as far as the Botany of the Islands of New Zealand has been investigated, from the — days of Sir Josern Banxs and Dr. Soranpver in the first — voyage of our great circumnavigator, down to the present period, Botanists have been made acquainted with but a solitary example of the family Prorgaces, existing on those Islands. In that individual, truly, the Order has there, a | very noble representative, viz. Knicuria excelsa, a laree tree, often to be seen from sixty to eighty feet in height, in — the drier forests. This observation of the bare existence of an Order on those Islands, so abundant in the neighbouring continent of Australia, is the more remarkable, since in the southern latitudes of this latter vast country, (in which is included Van Diemen’s Land,) and in the same parallels in South America, which also intersect New Zealand, Emporn- rium as limited by Mr. Brown, and Lomartia of the same very eminent botanist, furnish several species ; which, affect- ing as they do cool regions, and rather humid localities, might reasonably be expected to hold a standing also, on the latter intermediate Islands. Neither the one Genus, nor the other, have yet been discovered there, but a species of Prrsoonia—a Genus hitherto limited in geographic range to New Holland and Van Diemen’s Land, was observed at Wangaroa, in 1826, and may be thus defined :— P. Toru, foliis elongato-lanceolatis acutis basi attenuatis strictis sub- falcatisve obsoleté trinervibus utrinque glabris nitidis, racemis axillaribus lateralibusve multifloris, pedunculis perianthiisque tomento ferrugineo tectis, ovariis glabris dispermis epedicellatis, caule arborescenti, cortice . levi. : ; ‘. Incolis Zoru audit, unde nomen triviale. Has. In Nove Zelandiw insula septentrionali: prope sinum Bay of Islands dictum ; et in montosis sylvaticis viciniA oppidulum Wangaroa, (altitudine supra oceanum 1000 circiter pedum); nec non in sylva primeva, (“Great Forest” dicta) versus flumen Hokianga ; alibique inter pagulos Indicos Wytangy et Keri-Keri, in nemoribus. Lecta cum fructibus immaturis mense Novembri, et verosimiliter in mensibus Septembri, Octobrique, florens. 1826. Al, Cunn. 1833. b. Rich. Cunningham. Arbor sempervirens, viginti ad quadraginta pedes alta, potiis gracilis, admodum venusta, et in habitu omnind aliquot specierum Acaciarum aphyllarum ; trunco erecto ad basin diametro 6-uncias equante, cortice levi, levi, sursum ramosissimo. amuli patentes, glabri, rugosi, cinereo- atri, lapsu foliorum cicatricibus prominentibus notati. Folia alterna, versus apices ramulorum confertiora, elongata, coriacea, valdé glabra, supra nitidissima, venosa, seepé sex uncias longa, et semunciam lata. Racemi plerumque axillares, erecti, multiflori tomento rubiginoso tecti : / es (in specimine immaturi et nondum aperti) unibracteati. Ova- rium glabrum, dispermum, sessile, v. epedicellatum. Glandule hypo- 4, brevissime. Stigma depresso-capitatum. Drupa baccata, putamine biloculari. _ Oss. Affinis P. articulato, et inter hanc et P. longifoliam fere media. Folia longiora, angustiora quam in P. articulato, perianthiaque tomen- _ tosa. Inflorescentia P. longifolie, a qua differt, foliis latioribus, ovariis- que sessilibus. A. C. WiHileh del? Pub.by S.Curtis. Glaxenwood Essex. Sepe1.1836 Myanruus BarBatus; var. labello albo. Brarper Frywort; white-lipped var. Wine Stque ae | pee ee Class and Order. acti GynanpriA Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—OrcnweEa. ) Generic Character. Perianthium explanatum. Sepala libera, equalia, late- ralibus paululum adscendentibus. Petala conformia, an- gustiora, sepalo supremo supposita. Labellum planum, obovatum, tridentatum, sepalis brevius. Colwmna erecta, teres basi bicirrhosa, postice ad cardinem anthere longe producta. Anthere et pollinia Cataseti—Epiphyta, Cata- seti omnino vegetatione. Specific Character and Synonyms. Myantuus* barbatus ; labello in pilis succulentis barbefor- mibus dissoluto basi supra unicorni. Lindl. Myanruus barbatus. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1778. (8.) labello albo. (Tab. nostr. 3514.) The Genus Myanruus was founded by Professor Linney (see Bot. Reg. t. 1721,) upon a plant which I had referred, when I was ignorant of the Myanruus of Linptey, to Cara- serum (CatasErum trifidum, Bot. Mag. t.3262,) from which it appears to me only to differ in the spreading, three-lobed lip. In his valuable “ Genera et Species Orchidearum,” the learned author remarks that, “ Caraserum cristatum is intermediate between this Genus and Caraserum.” The present plant is, however, by the same Botanist, in the Register, * From pu, a fly, and aos, a flower. ‘ The flowers look when dried very much like a pressed fly.” a K Register, referred to Myantuus, without any allusion to its exceedingly close affinity with his Carasrrum cristatum, a similarity so great, that I was at first disposed to consider our plant with a white lip the same species, differing chiefly in being furnished with a spur or tooth-like process at the base of the lip. The two plants are indeed, I doubt not, specifically distinct ; but they cannot be separated generi- cally, and perhaps Professor Linney will agree with me in thinking, that Myanruus should only form a section of CaTasEtum. Our kind friend, Mr. Atucarp, imported the plant here figured, from Demerara ; and it blossomed in his collection at Stratford Green, Essex, in the month of May, of the present year (1836). The flowers, when the box was open- ed which contained the specimen, yielded an odour very similar to that of Juniper Berries. Descr. Bulb ovate, sheathed with large, broad, striated scales, which, in the upper part, bear several distichous obovato-lanceolate, striated and somewhat plaited, mem- branous leaves, tapering at the base. Scape arising from the base of the bulb, in our specimen at once drooping, ring a many-flowered raceme, green below, dark purple above. Flowers spreading. Petals and sepals narrow- oblong, grooved, dark green, spotted with dark purple within, with paler spots on the outside. The upper sepal and two petals meet together in a nearly erect position above the column ; the two lateral sepals, at first patent, become eventually singularly deflexed. Colwmn elongated, semiterete, greenish-brown, with a long, acuminated point, beneath which the anther is lodged : in front, one on each side the stigma, are two deflexed sete. Lip deflexed, shorter than the sepals, linear-oblong, with a short, pale greenish- brown sack a little above the middle, fringed with numerous long, upright, white, fleshy hairs; in the disk, at the base, is a long, white, curved, fleshy, horn-like process. Anther- case with a long, acuminated point. Pollen-masses as in Cataserum. Germen clavate, dark purple. Fig. 1. Column and Lip. 2. Anther-case. 3, and 4. Pollen-masses : magnified. Pub by 8. Cures Glaterwood Kiree Sep. ©] 1036 Swan Se ( 3515) SARRACENIA RUBRA. Rep Sipe-SApDLE- FLOWER. | KEEREEEEE EEE EEE EEE Class and Order. PotyanpriA Monoeynta. ( Nat. Ord.—Sarraceniez. ) Generic Character. Calyx persistens pentaphyllus, involucratus; involucro triphyllo. Petala 5, decidua. Stigma magnum peltatum, 5-angulare, persistens, stamina obtegens. Capsula 5-locu- laris, 5-valvis, polyspermis, valvis medio septiferis. eS Specific Character and Synonyms. Sarracenia rubra ; foliis scapo brevioribus, tubo angusto superne sensim dilatato venoso, appendice ovato-acu- minata planiuscula erecta. Sarracenia rubra. Walt. Carol. p.152. Ait. Hort. Kew. og.2.0.3.9.291. Hook, Ex. Fl. v, lt. 18. (excl, the Syn. of S. psittacina). Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 308. This truly beautiful Sarracenta is, we believe, rarely seen in this country, though the plant has, perhaps, been not unfrequently imported ; for it is a species of difficult culti- vation, and shy of flowering. Many roots were sent by Mr. Drummonp from New Orleans, and from one of these, which flowered in the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in March, 1836, our figure and description are taken. The species seems wholly confined to the southern United States. The S. psittacina is totally different from this, and ve little known to Botanists. Numerous plants of it have also been received from Mr. Drummonp, collected in Louis- iana; but I have not heard that it has flowered in any col- lection. Descr. Descr. Leaves tufted, eight to ten inches and a foot in length, somewhat ensiform, broader upwards, the back dilated into a tube, very narrow for the greater part of the length, gradually enlarged towards the oblique mouth, which is terminated on the upper side by a nearly erect, ovato-lanceolate, slightly concave, acuminated appendage. Often the leaves are imperfect at the extremity, without tube, and without appendage. Scape, in our plant, two feet long, rounded, erect but wavy, curved at the apex so that the fine large flower is drooping. Involucre of three ovate leaves, pressed close to the flower. Calyx of five broadly ovate leaves or sepals, curved downwards at the extremity, the margins a little recurved, green, the base and sides red. Petals five, broadly-obovate, the base spreading, the rest suddenly decurved, flaccid, rich and deep red, greenish at the base. Stamens numerous. Anthers two-celled, yellow, each with a large opening at the extremity. Pistil: Ger- men roundish-ovate, green. Style short, dilated into an immense five-cleft, convex, membranous stigma, the seg- ments bifid, with a spur within, bent down: so that the whole covers the rest of the organs of fructification like a spread umbrella: the stigmatic surface being undermost, and slightly papillose. —_—_——_—____ Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Pistil. Pub, by 5. Curtis. Glanerewood Essex: SPFLISIE. i eee ( 3516 ) STREPTANTHUS HYACINTHOIDES. Hyacintn- FLOWERED STREPTANTHUS. KEKE EEE EEE EERE EEE EEE Class and Order. TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. ( Nat. Ord.—Crucirer2. ) Generic Character. Calycis foliola erecta, colorata, basi saccata. Filamenta subulata. Anthere elongate, acuminate. Siligua longis- sima compressa, utrinque linea dorsali subtetragona. Se- _ mina uniserialia, compressa, marginata, Cotyledones accum-— bentes.—Herbe elate, annue. Folia glaucescentia. Flores — purpurascentes. Specific Name and Character: Srreprantuus hyacinthoides; foliis oblongo-linearibus acu- minatis, petalis linearibus limbo reflexo, filamentis duo- bus coadunatis abortivis, floribus pendulis. There are perhaps few persons who would at the first sight of the inflorescence of this plant, in long racemes of pendent deep purple flowers, and much protruded stamens, suppose that it belonged to the Cruciferous family, but rather to some kind of Hyacinth, or still more to the Genus Uroreratum. Its real affinity is, however, soon detected, and notwithstanding some striking peculiarities its identity with the Genus Srrepranruus : of which all the species that _ we yet know are confined to the southern part of North | America. The present species is a native of ‘Texas, and was discovered by the late Mr. Drummonp at San Felipe de Austin. Seeds, as well as specimens, were sent to this coun- try, and the plants from which our figure was taken flower- ed in the greenhouse of the Glasgow Botanic Garden in August August of 1835. It will no doubt bear the open air ex- ceedingly well. Descr. Root annual. Stem two to three feet high, and, as well as the whole plant, glabrous and glaucous, rounded, branched in a somewhat paniculated manner, with the branches erect. Leaves oblongo-linear, sessile and semi- amplexicaul, acuminated, entire, or very obscurely toothed, the upper ones gradually narrower. Racemes elongated, bearing numerous flowers on short pedicels, green at first in the bud, then drooping, and when the flowers are fully expanded almost wholly deep bluish-purple. Calyx-leaves _ovato-acuminate, coloured greenish only at the apex, sac- cate at the base, two opposite ones less so than the other two. Petals linear: the claw straight, the limb wavy, slightly twisted and reflexed, pale at the apex. Stamens six, much exserted. Filameuts subulate, purple, pale below: of the two opposite pairs, one pair is short, combined into one, forked at the apex, and bearing each an abortive, linear anther : the two which are opposite to these are distinct, and the longest’ of the six: the two solitary ones Intermediate in length, and as well as the two longest ones, ring large, subsagittate anthers, of a greenish-purple colour with yellow pollen. Pistil shorter than the perfect Stamens, linear. Style scarcely any, stigma obtuse. Pod long, slender, linear, compressed, with a dorsal line on each valve, but not tetragonous. Seeds compressed and mar- gined, similar to those of 8. obtusifolius (Bot. Mag. t. 3317.) ee Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Sepal. 3. Petal. 4, Stamen and Pistil, 5, Pistil. 6. Pod (nat. size), 7. Seed.—All but fig. 6, magnified. = Baus cng tae te , oe tub. bu S Cautis Glaaemenod F’ a, , aut: Glaxenwood Essex Sep #11836 ( 3517) SrropiLantues Sapiniana. Mr. Sapine’s STROBILANTHES. ae SEEK EE EK EERE EK EEE EK Class and Order. Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—AcantHace. ) Generic Character. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla infundibuliformis. Anthere erectz, loculis parallelis. Capsula in medio tetraspermaad — basin bilocularis v. brevissimo tantum spatio a basi clausa, ‘tetragona. Retinacula in papillae formam contracta semina — ferentia nec fulcentia. Semina parva scrobiculata. Nees. Specific Character and Synonyms. SrropiLantuEs Sabiniana: herbacea (v. suffrutex), foliis ovatis acuminatis in petiolum attenuatis repando-sub- crenatis glabris, opposito minore, summis cordatis amplexicaulibus, spicis axillaribus terminalibusque laxiusculis viscido-pubescentibus, bracteis orbiculatis basi cuneiformibus. Nees. — ie SrropitantHeEs Sabiniana. Nees ab Esenb. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. v. 3. p. 86. . RvELLIA “tg gp Wall. Cat. n. 2338. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1238. . Rueiia macrocarpa. Wall. Cat. n. 2348, ex parte. —- (8.) argentea, Nees; spicis minoribus maxime pubescenti- bus viscidisque, foliis minoribus. Rue argentea. Wall. Cat. n. 2339. A very beautiful stove plant, a native of Nepal, whence it was introduced to our gardens by Dr. Watttcu, who named it in compliment to Joszrn Sasine, Esq. to whom Horticulture, no less than Natural History in general, is most deeply deeply indebted. Its flowering season with us is the latter end of winter, when several of the numerous purple spikes have a succession of flowers; two on each, never more, being open at one time. _ Descr. Stem two to three feet high, shrubby below, ~ much branched ; branches erect, glabrous, the younger ones quadrangular. Leaves opposite, unequal, oval, much acu- minated, oblique, obscurely crenato-serrate, tapering at the base into a winged petiole ; often of a fine purple beneath, nerves oblique, united by reticulated nervelets, slightly prominent above, much so below. Spikes axillary and terminal. Bracteas imbricated, in four rows, broadly ovate or rounded, coloured, somewhat spreading, cuneate below, clothed with glandular down. Calyx in five deep-coloured, spathulate segments. Corolla funnel-shaped, the lower a of the tube yellow and much curved, the rest bright _ bluish-purple, vue and reticulated : the limb of five nearly equal, rounded lobes. Filaments declined, hairy at the base on one side; the two longer ones reaching a little beyond the mouth, Style rather longer than the longest - stamens. 4 Ja Nab ael* ~ Pub by S. Gertis Glaxerencod Essex. Sep? 11836. orange ; iff the secon and crowned by ee pe ea st: Srey shi SOAS) oe tee Rizvi Sirota. SPREADING-FLOWERED isi BueTia. Oo Sak JSS SHES HEE RISHEERISISEK Class and Order. \ gs a GYNANDRIA Wide corte: . , : * | i ( Nat. Ord.—Orcuez. ) Generic Character. Sepala patentia equalia. Petala nunc patentia, nunc conniventia, sepalis equalia. Labellum cucullatum, cum - columna articulatum, nunc basi saccatum, trilobum, disco’ sepius lamellato vel tuberculato. Columna elongata, semi- teres. Anthera carnosa, 8-locularis. Pollinia 8 equalia, caudiculis 4 pulvereis coherentibus.—Herbe subterrestres, foliis ensiformibus plicatis, scapis racemosis multifloris, flo- ribus sepius speciosis. Lindl. Specific Name and. Character. Buiet1A patula ; foliis radicalibus lanceolatis plicato-nervo- sis, scapo elato subramoso, floribus patentissimis, eee lis lanceolato-ellipticis basi attenuatis subaqualibus patulis, labello cucullato, lobis lateralibus rotundatis, medio emarginato transverse plicato, disco lamellis 6 subramosis fequelibus: oo t This handsome species was received at the Botanic Gar- den, Edinburgh, from Dr. Fiscuer, St. Petersburgh, in 1830, without specific name, but marked as a native of Hayti. It has repeatedly since flowered finely in our stove, Descr. Bulb round, at first, when it pushes up the scape, very small, ane enlarging to the size of a small second year green, shining, nearly smooth, the withered bases of the leaves, marked with three or four cireular bands, and furrowed at the apex when these fall, persisting for some years, and becoming gradually gradually smaller without shrivelling much; young bulbs are formed at the base, or near the apex of those of the preceding year. Leaves arising from the apex of the bulb after the flowers, lanceolate, plicato-nervose. Scape (above three feet high) terminal, but from its appearing in the very young state of the bulb, seeming to be lateral, the’ old bulb only being conspicuous, purplish and spotted at the base, with a few distant, sheathing scales, greener above, subra- mous. Raceme (above twenty-flowered) gradually elon- gating. Flowers large, very handsome, each springing from the axil of a small, acute bractea, of a nearly uniform reddish-lilac colour, only the base of the labellum and its ridges being white. Sepals (an inch and a half long) lan- ceolato-elliptical, nearly equal in size, the uppermost being rather the narrowest, all attenuated at the base and spread- ing. Lip much broader than the sepals, the lateral lobes erect, rounded, the central broad-linear, notched, plaited — _ transversely ; disk with six waved, somewhat branched lamelle, those at the sides being the shortest, and passing into diverging veins. Colwmn more than half as long as the sepals, projecting into the centre of the flower, some- what clavate, rounded on the upper, flat on the lower side, with a single tooth on each edge at its middle, a small ter- minal tooth, and two others on each edge immediately below the apex, the lower being rounded and decurrent. Anther-case rounded, notched at its apex, two-celled, each cell divided longitudinally. Pollen-masses four, parallel, each two-lobed, laid along a thin plate spread above the stigmatic surface. Germen (an inch and a half long) twist- ed, spreading at right angles to the rachis. Graham. Lub by 8. Curtis Clacimwved Kissee Sept] [83 bas GIL Swan Se ( 3519 een CoTONEASTER LAXIFLORA. LoOOSE-CLUSTERED CoTONEASTER. : | Bese aeoeoe a sokeokeokeabeakeebeabeabeakeateabeabeay Class and Order. IcosanpRIA DiGyNIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Rosacea. ) Generic Character. Flores abortu polygami. Calyx turbinatus obtuse 5-den- tatus. Petala brevia erecta. Stamina dentium calycis lon- gitudine. Styli glabri staminibus _breviores. Carpella 93 parietalia calyce inclusa biovulata.—Frutices : foliis simplicibus integerrimis subtus lanatis, corymbis lateralibus patentibus bracteis subulatis deciduis, petalis parvis persis- tentibus. DC. Specific Character and Synonyms. Coronraster * laxiflora ; cymis elongatis dichotomis pendu- lis nitidissimis sub lente pilosis, foliis oblongo-ovatis supra glabris nitidis subtus incano-tomentosis deciduis. Oa laxiflora. “ Jacq. fil. in. litt—Lindl. Bot. Reg. 7 . : oe Like the Mespitus lobata, lately figured, the native coun- try of this plant is not known to us. It was introduced to our gardens through the Horticultural Society by means of seeds, which were sent from Vienna by Professor Jacquin, under the name here given. A species, indeed, nearly allied to this, has recently been discovoured by Leprsour in the Altai Mountains, and figured and described by that Author under the name of C. multiflora, Bunez, but our specimens of * Named from Cotoneum (xvdwnor), Gr., the Quince. * of this plant have much thicker, broader, and rounder leaves, with generally a deep notch at the extremity. The inflo- rescence is extremely similar in the two. With us, the flowering season is May, when the pendent, reddish blos- soms, and the glossy leaves have at first the appearance of some Vaccinium, rather than a CoTonEasTeEr. Descr.. It forms an upright shrub, from four to five feet high, clothed with brown and glossy bark, the young branches only having a deciduous down. Leaves shortly petiolate, elliptical, or nearly oblong, frequently approaching to ovate, almost acute, entire, glabrous and shining above, pale and hoary with down beneath, but by no means so much so as in the more common species of our gardens. Cymes longer than the leaves, the terminating short branches of the pre- ceding (as is the case with the C. multiflora, described by Lepesour) much divided in a dichotomous manner, grace- fully pendulous. Peduncles and pedicels dark greenish-red, with minute bracteas, glossy, yet when seen under a micro- scope slightly hairy. Calyx glossy, glabrous, red, green on the side less exposed to the light. Petals concave, in- _ curved, delicately tinged with blush. Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified. ba tubby yd urits. laxerwood Essen Sep Ll 36. ct C 3520 ) BrGoNIA sANGUINEA. Buioop-Rep Begonia. Class and Order. Monazcta Poxyanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Brcontacea. ) Generic Character. Mase. Calyx 0. Corolla polypetala. Petala pleruin- que 4, inequalia. Fam. Calyx o. Corolla petalis 4—9, _ plerumque inequalibus. Styli 3, bifidi. Capsula triquetra, alata, trilocularis, polysperma. i Eg Specific Character and synonyms, Beconia sanguinea ; caule ramoso, foliis inequaliter cor- datis acuminatis coriaceo-carnosis glaberrimis subtus sanguineis, margine crenulato revoluto, germinis alis __ tribus equalibus. - Beconia sanguinea. Radd. in Sprengel, Syst. Veget. ». 2. Pp. 625. Link et Otto, Icones Plant. Rarior. Hort. Reg. Bot. Berol. p. 25. t. 13. ” 4% di This plant, more remarkable for the colour and texture of its leaves than elegant in its form, was raised at the Botanic Garden of Berlin, from seed transmitted by M. Setto, from Brazil, in 1823, and communicated to the Botanic Garden in Edinburgh in 1832. It flowers in the stove in April. : : Descr. Stems several from the crown of the root, sub- ligneous, red, with scattered oblong paler spots. Leaves (four to six inches long, two and a half to three and a half inches broad) subpeltate, unequally cordate, acuminate, the apex soon withering, leathery-succulent, perfectly gla- brous and shining on both sides, green above, blood-red be- ‘ ' low, low, the edge crenulate and revolute all round, nerves about ten, radiating, the larger branched, the smaller subsimple. Petioles of Very unequal length, round, resembling the stem. Stipules intra-foliaceous, large, ovate, acute, keeled, marcescent. Peduncle (ten inches long) terminal, becom- ing axillary, tapered, similar to the stem but without spots, repeatedly dichotomous at the apex (primary branches about one inch long, the others gradually shorter). Bracteas lanceolato-elliptical at each subdivision. Flowers white, rather small. Male flowers in the clefts of the cyme, or on the inner side, where the ultimate branches are reduced to two flowers (the outer being a female), or, occasionally, solitary on the ultimate branches. Petals four, the two outer subrotund, slightly crenate, the two inner linear- elliptical, very narrow, entire. Stamens numerous ; /fila- ments free, excepting at the base, where they are mono- delphous ; anthers spathulate. Female flowers with five subequal petals, expanding later than the earlier of the males. Stigmas pale-rose coloured. Germen with three subequal wings. I was at some pains to ascertain the relative position of the male and female flowers when only these two were found at the extremity of the ultimate branch. It seems to me that the normal form is the conversion of the last dichotomous ramification of the cyme into the pedicels of two female flowers, and that the male flower here, as else- where, is placed in the cleft; the loss of the inner female flower being an illustration of the opinion, that internal parts, from pressure, more frequently abort than those which are external. As the common support of these two flowers generally turns half round on its axis, their true position may not be obvious unless examined when they are very young. Graham. —_ OS UBMs GEST 14299 ROLY peomuamyg cqunz 5 hy -gng LEEFE ( 3521 ) FUCHSIA MACROSTEMA; var. recuryata. LARGE-STAMENED Fucusia; recurved var. KEKE KKEK EKER EKER EREEEEEEK Class and Order. OctanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Onacraria. ) Generic Character. Calycis tubus basi ovario adherens, superne productus in tubum cylindraceum 4-lobum post anthesin articulatim de- ciduum. Petala 4 summo tubo inserta lobis alterna, rarius 0. Stamina 8. Ovarium glandula urceolata coronatum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma capitatum. Bacca oblongo- aut ovato-globosa, 4-locularis, 4-valvis, polysperma.—Frutices. Folia sepius opposita. Pedicelli axillares 1-flori interdum ad apices ramorum racemosi. Flores sepius nutantes, rubri rarius albi, interdum 5-fidi, octandri. D C. Specific Character and Synonym. Fucusia macrostema ; glabra, foliis oppositis ternisve petio- latis ovatis acutis denticulatis, floribus axillaribus solitariis, staminibus productis, stigmate 4-lobo, Don. Fucusia macrostema. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. v. 3. p. 88. t. 324. f. b. Mr. Don includes the following Synonyms. (Turco. Feuill. Per. 2. p. 64. t. 47.—F. discolor. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1805. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3498. (8.) conica.—F’. conica. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1062. (y.) globosa.—F’. globosa. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1556. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3364. (d.) gracilis—F. gracilis. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 847. et t. 1052.—F. decussata. Grah. Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 2507.) (s.) recurvata; ramis pendentibus, floribus foliisque majori- bus. (Tab. nostr. t. 3521.) Of VOL, X. L Of all the Fucustas which we have yet seen in our Botanic Gardens, this strikes us as the most handsome, whether we consider the graceful mode of growth, the delicate green of the large foliage, the deeply-coloured branches, or the size and form of the flowers, and their exceedingly rich hues. It was raised from seeds, probably of hybrid production, by Mr. Niven, at the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, Dublin, and sent to Mr. Murray at the Glasgow Botanic Garden, under the name of F. recurvata. I so entirely agree with Mr. Don in the view he takes of the Fucusias above named, and considered by many Botan- ists as species, that I have here followed that author in the varieties and synonyms which he has referred to F. macro- stema, adding to the list our present one, which indeed accords better with the original figure of Ruiz and Pavon, than with any of the other kinds. BILE = See FA (‘i - > ee aig ere a Pb by 8. Curtis Glarerreood Binex 0002 1886 (98522'5') VACCINIUM VIRGATUM. PaLe GREENISH- FLOWERED WHORTLEBERRY. , Class and Order. DecanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Vacciniez. ) Generic Character. Calyx 4—5-dentatus. Corolla urceolata seu campanu- lata, limbo 4—5-fido reflexo. Anthere bicornes vel mutice. Bacca 4—}-locularis. Specific Character and Synonyms. Vaccinium virgatum ; ramis floriferis plerumque aphyllis, racemis subcorymbosis secundis nutantibus bracteatis, corollis subcylindraceis, calycibus erectis, foliis obo- vato-oblongis integerrimis utrinque acutis membrana- ceis deciduis subtus pubescentibus, germine semi- supero. Vaccinium virgatum. Av. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. v. 2. p. 12. Willd. Sp. Pl. v.2. p. 353. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 2. p. 210. Andr. Bot, Rep. t. 181 ? (ramis floriferis folio- sis). V. virgatum, 8. var. Wats. Dendr. t. 34 (non 33.) _ V. corymbosum. Linneus. The excellent collection of American Whortle-berries possessed by the Glasgow Botanic Garden has given me an opportunity of studying their peculiarities, which few per- haps have enjoyed to such an extent: yet, I confess myself much at a loss to find characters to distinguish some of the species, which, even to a common observer, appear suflici- ently marked : and such is the case with the present indivi- dual, which goes by the name of V. virgatum in our gar- dens, and which, I have reason to believe, is the plant so designated designated by Arron. Mr. Arron’s plant, however, is now almost universally referred to the V. corymbosum, an opin- ion which I once entertained myself: yet a more accurate examination has led me to a different conclusion. But others must determine for themselves, and I will be content with giving an accurate figure and description of the plant in question. Descr. A rather small bush, three to four feet high, much branched ina straggling manner, clothed with smooth brown bark, the younger branches green and downy. Leaves an inch or an inch and a half long, obovato-oblong, entire, acute at both extremities, nearly sessile, above glabrous and shining, often tinged with brown, below paler and downy, especially when seen under a magnifier. Racemes corym- bose, on branches which are generally destitute of leaves, each of several flowers, pointing one way and drooping. Calyx-lobes nearly erect, tinged with rich brown. Corolla cylindrical, generally a little broader at the base, the mouth slightly contracted, with five reflexed teeth; the colour a pale yellow green, on one side more or less tinged with red. Stamens as in V.corymbosum. Germen partly superior. Style included. Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Pistil and Calyx :—magnified. JIBS Miss ddams ded” Pub by S Curtis Clazenwood Essex Oath 11850 Swan S¢ ( 3523 ) SOLLYA HETEROPHYLLA. VARILOUS-LEAVED SOLLVA. BEEK KEKE EEK ERE EERE Class and Order. PentanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Prrrospores. ) Generic Character. Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5, patentia. Anthere conni- ventes, loculis apice dehiscentibus. Stigma obscure bilo- bum. Pericarpium biloculare, polyspermum, seminibus substantia carnosa nidulantibus.—Frutex Australasicus scandens. Pedunculi corymbosi, terminales vel laterales, oppositifolit. Specific Name and Synonyms. Sottya* heterophylla. Sottya heterophylla. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1466. Don, Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 232. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1975. Bittarviera fusiformis. Labill. Nov. Holl. v. 1. ? «05:4, 90. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 345. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 792. This charming plant, which has been ascertained by Mr. Don, to be the Bittarpiera fusiformis of Lasittarpiere, was discovered by the Botanist now mentioned in Van Diemen’s Land : but our native specimens were gathered at King George’s Sound, New Holland, by ALuen Cunnincuam, Esq. and by Mr. Baxter. It is undoubtedly a great acqui- sition to our gardens. We have seen it blossoming in the open air, even in Scotland ; and, in very high perfection, he the * So named in compliment to Ricuarp Horsman So ity, Esq. author of a work on the use of the Microscope, and ardently attached to the study of Vegetable Physiology. the extensive and well-kept nursery-grounds of Mr. Macxiz, Norwich: yet Mr. Curtis, who cultivates it with remark- able success at Glazenwood, where our drawing was made by Miss Apams, observes, that it cannot be considered a hardy plant, even when trained against a wall; that it is with difficulty kept in a brick pit ; and that its proper situa- tion, and where it comes to the highest perfection, is the back wall or the trellis-work of a conservatory. Some difference of opinion exists in regard to the con- tinuance of Sotnya as a Genus, Mr. Don remarking that the fruit is the same as that of Bitnarpiera, while Dr. Linney observes that the seeds are imbedded in a fleshy or pulpy substance, which circumstance, added to the inflo- rescence being opposite to the leaves, to the “ short, some- what campanulate corollas, short staments with the anthers adhering im a cone round the style, and opening by two pores at the points,’ would seem to constitute a distinct Genus. Mr. Attan Cunninenam has described another closely allied Genus, under the name of CuerranTHEra, (see Bot. Reg. sub fol. 1719,) having a dry and leathery pericarp and stamens, which bend to one side of the ovary, forming themselves into a slightly curved line, like the fingers of the hand. I possess another Australian plant, from the Swan River, with blue, corymbose flowers, similar to those of Sottya and Cuerrantuera ; but having the stamens distant, the anthers curiously contorted, and opening by longitudi- nal clefts *. Descr. A twining shrub, three to four feet high. Leaves oblong, glabrous, entire, or rarely sinuato-serrate, shortly petiolate. Corymbs terminal, or axillary and opposite the leaves, of several patent, nearly campanulate, bright blue Jlowers. Calyx small, of five ovate acute segments. Petals oval, obtuse. Stamens: Filaments five, short ; Anthers sub- sagittate, connivent, opening at the extremity, bent for some way down by a long pore or short fissure. Germen oblong, tapering upwards, very silky: Style linear : Stigma obscurely two-lobed. * Tt may be thus characterized :—SprrantHera. Sepala 5, acuminata. Petala 5, acuminatissima, patentia, vix unguiculata : Anthere libere, line- ares, spiraliter contorte. Ovarium oblongum villosum, biloculare, intus pulposum, Pericarpium 1—Frutices esi. ith ; folits oblongis. Flores terminales, corymbosi, cerulei, 1. S. Fraseri, Hab. Swan River, N. Holl. Mr. Fraser. Pub by S. Curtis, Glaxenwood. Lusex.0eP 11836. 3 Swan Se ( 3524 ) RoDRIGUEZIA SECUNDA. SIDE-FLOWERED RopRIGUEZIA. Kokeokokeokokeokeokesbeskesbakesbaak be ease ae deadeade Class and Order. GynanpriA Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—OrcuibEz. ) Generic Character. Perianthium patens, subequale, sepalis 2 lateralibus con- natis labello suppositis. Labellum integrum, unguiculatum, basi cornutum medio callosum ; ungue cum columna paral- lelo. Columna teres, apice barbata. Anthera unilocularis, carnosa, Clinandrium nudum, retrorsum declive. Pollinia 2, postice excavata, caudicula elastica—Herbe epiphyte, subpseudo-bulbose. Folia coriacea,v. membranacea, plicata. Spice secunde. Flores speciost. Lindl. Specific Character and Synonyms. Roprievezia * secunda; pseudo-bulbis compressis ovalibus, foliis lanceolatis apice emarginatis obliquis, spica cy- lindracea foliis longiore recurva, sepalo supremo forni-_ cato, petalis ovatis obtusis, labello abrupte deflexo disco calloso apice cuneato emarginato. Lindl. Ropricuezia secunda. Humb. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Pl. v. 1. t. 92. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 930. Ropricguezis lanceolata. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 676 (non Ruiz et Pav.) PLEUROTHALLIs? coccinea. Hook. Ex. Fl. t. 129. A very beautiful Orchideous plant, native of Trinidad, also of the Province of Popayan near Carthagena, where Humsotpr’s original specimen was found, and of Demerara, whence * So named by Ruiz and Pavon in compliment to EMANUEL Ropri- SUEZ, a Spanish Botanist, and Apothecary to His most Christian Majesty. whence plants have been lately brought by Capt. Bispnam, with several other rarities, to the garden of my valued and often-mentioned friend, C. A. Parker, Esq., Liverpool. In_ his stove this species has come to a much higher degree of perfection than I have ever seen before. It there too varies considerably in the length and breadth of the bulb, and in its surface being more or less deeply wrinkled, inthe breadth of the leaves, and in the deeper or paler hue of the flowers. From the finest of them, drawn by Henry Sanppacu, Esq. aided by specimens sent by Mr. Parxer, the accompanying figure was made. Descr. Pseudo-bulbs, when fully formed, usually ellip- tical, much compressed, with a prominent line on each face and often wrinkled, bearing one or many leaves. Leaves linear-oblong, lanceolate, thick, coriaceous, nerveless, more or less keeled or complicate. Peduncles several on the same plant, at first nearly erect, with the flower-buds com- pletely distichous, so as to form a flattened spike, afterwards curved or drooping. Bracteas lanceolate, membranous, pale. Flowers sometimes twenty or more on a spike, con- stantly unilateral, of a deep rose colour. Sepals and petals erect. Upper sepal (as well as the petals) ovate, convex : two lower sepals combined into one, deeply carinated under the lip, gibbous at the base. Lip obovate-oblong, waved, emarginate, with two small lobes near the base which runs down into a kind of spur. Disk with a deeply furrowed tubercle : the colour of the lip is deeper than the rest of the flower, almost orange in the disk. Column rather short, cylindrical, pure white. Anther-case hemispherical, fixed to the back of the column. Pollen-masses two, pale co- loured, fixed to a filiform stalk, which has, at its base, an oblong gland. Germen clavate, red. Fig. 1. Side view of a Flower, 2. Lip, slightly magnified. ( 3525). SILPHIUM TEREBINTHACEUM. 'TEREBINTHINE SILPHIUM. Ne Bick KEKE KEK KR EEK EERE KEE Class and re pets SyncenesiA NeEcEsSARIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. ) Generic Character. Receptaculum paleaceum. Pappus marginato-bicornis. Involucrum squamosus. Specific Character and Synonyms. Sinpuium terebinthaceum ; foliis inferioribus amplis cordatis profunde dentato-serratis longe petiolatis subtus mar- gineque scabris, paniculis bracteatis. Sitpuium terebinthaceum. Linn. Suppl. p. 383. Jacq. Hort. Vind. v. 1. p. 16. t.43. Mich. Fl. Am. v. 2. p. 245. Pursh, Fl. Am. v. 2. p. 577. Ell. Carol. v. 2. p. 463. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 629. A very fine and handsome species of Sipu1um, to which the specific name seems to be applied on account of a tere- binthine gum, which exudes from the plant, as in the Sir- poium gummiferum of Mr. Extiort, and probably in other species of the Genus, during the hot summers which are experienced in their native climates. But in our chilly and damp country, no such exudation is observable: though the sap yields a peculiar odour. It is a stately plant, re- markable for the great size of its lower leaves ; and though inhabiting the western mountains of Carolina and Georgia and the prairies of St. Louis on the Missouri, it bears the open air in England and even in Scotland, remarkably well: flowering in the autumnal months. Descr. Perennial. Stem herbaceous, four to six feet in height, quite glabrous, striated, branched, erect ; lower leaves ample, some of them a foot long, cordate, coriaceous, acute, smooth smooth above, beneath and at the margin beset with numer- ous short bristles, each seated ona small white callous point. Petiole very long, sometimes measuring a foot or a foot and a half, below dilated into a sheathing base. The leaves gradually become smaller and narrower and less stalked upwards, and among the flower-stalks they pass into brac- teas about an inch long, often spreading and with their margins involute. Flowers paniculate, large, handsome, yellow. Involucre globose, of several roundish, green, closely imbricated, glabrous scales, innermost ones smaller and longer. Corollas of the ray numerous, ligulate, entire at the apex, each bearing a pistil. Segments of the style long, filiform. Achenium obovate, flat, scarcely downy, bearing a small blunt awn. Florets of the disk each sub- tended by a blunt, linear-oblong scale. Corolla yellow. Anthers protruded, dark brown. Style linear, filiform, entire. Germen cylindrical, slightly downy, abortive. Fig. 1. Florets of the Ray. 2. Discal or abortive Floret, with its accom- panying Scale. 3. Achenium :—magnified. Fub.by J. Curtis Gaxenwood Esser, Oct7 11836. Swan Je : vince of Mexico, by Mr. Drummonp, who likewise introduc- (859g 81) to MonarDA ARISTATA. AWNED MoNakpa. KEK EEE EEE EKER EE KE KEES Class and Order. Dranpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Lasiara. ) Generic Character. Calyx cylindricus 15-nervis subequalis 5-dentatus, intus fauce villosus. Corolla tubo longe exserto, fauce subinflata, bilabiata, labiis subequalibus ; superiori erecto lineari in- tegro, inferiori patente trifido. Stamina fertilia 2, ascenden- tia, e labio superiori exserta. Anthere margine connexe, biloculares, loculis divaricatis. Stylus apice subequaliter bifidus. Achenia sicca levia. a Specific Character and Synonyms. Monarpa aristata; canescens, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis basi angustatis, floralibus bracteisque exterioribus ses- silibus subcoloratis apice longe subulato-aristatis, caly- cibus striatis pubescentibus, fauce barbata, dentibus subequalibus longe subulatis apice penicellatis, co- rolle tubo dentes calycinos vix excedente. Benth. Monarpa aristata. Nutt. in Herb. Hook.—Coll. towards a Fil. of the Arkansas, p. 187, Benth. Lab. p. 318. Monarpa citriodora. Cervant., ex Lag! Nov. Gen. et Sp. 2. Apparently first detected in the Arkansa Territory by Mr. Nurratt, from whom we long ago received specimens under the above name, though it has only lately been published in a valuable memoir by that author on the plants of the Arkansas, givenin the American Philosophical Transactions. My collection also contains specimens found by M. Brren- pier, at Bejar and Rio de la Trinidad in Texas, and again it has been gathered about San Felipe, in the same pro- ed ed it into our gardens in the early part of the spring of the present year. It is quite hardy, flowering in July and August, and is a desirable acquisition to our borders. Descr. ‘ Perennial and annual,’”’ according to Mr. Nut- tart. Stem a foot or more long, very obscurely four-sided, downy. Leaves oblongo-lanceolate, remotely and acutely serrated, narrower and ciliated and tapering into a footstalk at the base, marked with several nerves which run almost parallel with the midrib. Whorls several, closely crowded in the axils of the upper pairs of leaves, and accompanied by several broadly ovate, strongly aristate, downy bracteas, forming a kind of involucre. Calyx downy, tubular, stria- ted, the mouth closed with dense white hairs: teeth subu- late, brown, nearly as long as the tube, bearing and termi- nated by a little tuft of hairs. Corolla pale rose-coloured. Upper lip arched, sharply keeled at the back, two-toothed at the apex : lower one trifid, with the sides much reflexed, the disk spotted with purple. Filaments of the stamens gla- brous. Cells of the anther narrow, spreading. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx with the tuft of white hairs at the mouth :— magnified. Pub. by S. Curtis. Glasenwood Essex, Vet LIS 36 ( 3527 ) Evrpnorsia Boveri. Mr. Bover’s Spurce. KERR KEK ERK KE KEKEKREK Class and Order. ) Monaesta Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—EupnorsiAceEg. ) Generic Character. Involucrum androgynum, 4—5-fidum, extus appendiculis glandulosis (petala vel nectaria aliorum) : peripherici pedi- celli incerti numeri, singuli cum singulis staminibus articu- lati. Germen pedicellatum, centrale : Stylz 3, bifidi. Cap- sula 3-cocca. Spr. Specific Character. Evrnorsia Bojeri ; fruticosa spinosa, foliis numerosis coria- ceis patentissimis obovato-oblongis retusis cum mu- crone basi utrinque spina valida patente, pedunculis axillaribus cymosis dichotomis, bracteis duabus semi- orbiculatis coloratis basi unitis concavis involucrum in- cludentibus, involucri glandulis 5 semiorbiculatis. A most beautiful plant, and better meriting the name of splendens than its near ally so called, which is represented at t. 2902, and which was, equally with the present, introduced from Madagascar to Mauritius and to Europe, through the indefatigable exertions of Professor Boser. It seems to be a plant of humbler growth than E. splendens ; it has fewer spines, more coriaceous, more obovate and retuse leaves, richer-coloured bracteas, and simple filaments. It flowers in the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in the latter end of winter, and in early spring; and more or less through the greater part of the year. Descr. Stem woody, obtusely and irregularly angular, smooth, and of a pale gray colour. Leaves spreading, dark ‘green, coriaceous, on short petioles, obovato-oblong, retuse with a mucro, quite entire. Each leaf is situated between two two spreading, strong spines. Peduncles axillary, dichoto- mously divided, subcymose. Each involucre is subtended by two semiorbicular, spreading, brick scarlet bracteas, united at their bases, within which the involucre is lodged, and sessile. This is cup-shaped, yellow-green, with five short, red, incurved segments, alternating with the five orange yellow, waxy, semiorbicular, spreading glands. Male flowers several : Filaments simple ; Anthers dark pur- ple, of two globose distinct cells. Pustil or female flower on : oa pedicel: Styles three, nearly erect ; Stigmas two- obed. Fig. 1. Involucre (with one Bractea removed, ) and from which the Male Flowers are protruded. 2. Section of the Inyolucre (one of the Bracteas being removed) ; showing the Female Flower :—magnvfied. z ub by S Artis Hazenwoed Lrgex Mov" 7 LESE z /f ( 3528 ) _AmARYLLIS psiTTacina, hybrida. Hybrid var. of the Parrot AMARYLLIS. KREKEKKEEER ER EERE REE Class and Order. HexanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—AmaryLupeE&. ) Generic Character. Corolla 6-partita, regularis vel ringens, fauce nuda vel squamis coronata. Stamina declinata vel recta. Capsula trilocularis. Spr. Specific Character and Synonyms. Amarytuis psittacina ; biflora subsemiringens, tubi mem- brana brevissima bicolori denticulata, staminibus in- clusis. Amary.uis psittacina. Ker, Bot. Reg. t. 199. Lodd. Bot. Cab. 1204. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 50. Hysriva: 4-flora, perianthii laciniis angustioribus. Amaryius psittacina-Johnsoni. Gowan in Hort. Soc. Trans. v. 5. p. 361. (Tab. nostr. 3528.) For this truly splendid Hybrid, the offspring, it is re- ported, of AMARYLLIs Johnsoni (itself, I believe, a hybrid,) fertilized by the pollen of A. psittacina, the Glasgow Botanic Garden is indebted to the late Lord Carrnarvon. The first notice we have of it is from Mr. Gowan, in the Horti- cultural Transactions above quoted, where he observes :— «It was given to Lord Carrnarvon by my friend, W. Grirrin, Esq., who raised it in his hothouse at South Lam- beth, previous to the year 1820. The knowledge of its parentage led me to form great expectations of its beauty, and to pay it particular attention. It has grown rapidly here, and a few days ago produced two scapes, which have just VOL. X. M just expanded their flowers. My expectations have been fully realized, and I think it may fairly be pronounced the most splendid individual of this splendid Genus. The co- rolla of the hybrid Amarytuis psittacina-Johnsoni is nearly an inch longer than that of A. psittacina: and expands about an inch wider. The upper lacinia of the corolla of A. psittacina assumes a horizontal position, in the hybrid it is inclined upwards, and the lacinie are altogether more regularly and widely expanded, so that the flower shows itself to greater advantage. The faucial membrane of A. psittacina is minutely denticulated : in the hybrid, it is con- spicuously bearded. But the superior beauty of the sub- ject of our present plate arises chiefly from its colours ; for while in A. psittacina the crimson tint is confined almost entirely to a small terminal portion of the petals, and a few small streaks proceeding thence ; in the hybrid, the hue is not only much richer, but occupies a considerably larger space, being diffused over the whole margin of the laciniz, besides a most delicate pencilling of the same fine colour, which is streaked over the greater part of their surface with an inimitable richness of effect, much enhanced by a cream- coloured stripe, proceeding from the central green mass, and prolonged to their tips. But it is so difficult to convey in words an adequate idea of the complicated colouring of the flowers, that I must refer you to an actual inspection of it, and would only add, that the foliage differs materially, as might be expected, from that of its parents: but ap- proaches more nearly to the male than to the female parent : the leaves being rather broader than those of A. psittacina. Our plant produced four of its richly coloured blossoms on one scape, in the month of April, 1836. Lov Lis 36 AE's 36. Pub. by 3: Curtis Glaxenwo. ( 3529 ) CONVALLARIA OPPOSITIFOLIA. OpposiTr- LEAVED SoLomon’s SEAL. ERK EK EE EE EERE KER EKER Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeynta. ( Nat. Ord.—Smmacinz. ) Generic Character. Perianthium campanulatum, vel tubulosum, limbo 6-fido. Stamina corolla breviora, filamenta tubo adnata ; anthere lineares, recta. Stylus erectus. Bacca spherica, 3-locula- ris, loculis dispermis ; seminibus sepe abortivis. Specific Character and Synonyms. Convatiaria* oppositifolia ; caule tereti, foliis oppositis oblongis acuminatis nitidis breviter petiolatis, pedun- culis axillaribus umbellatis 3—10-floris nutantibus, perianthio tubuloso basi ventricoso. Convaxtaria oppositifolia. Wall. in Asiat. Res. v. 13. p. 380. cum Icone. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 640. Hook. Ex. Fl. v. 2. t. 125. A very desirable greenhouse plant; for though it has been now introduced from Nepal many years, by Dr. Watticu, I am not aware that it has been found sufficiently hardy to bear the open air of our fickle climate. It is of graceful growth, the leaves are of a bright and glossy green ; and the copious flowers, which continue for a long time in the latter end of the winter months, are elegantly marked with reddish lines. Descr. Stem a foot to a foot and a half high, erect, rounded, simple, green, tinged with red. Leaves copious, three * From convailis, a valley, in allusion to the place of growth of many of the species. three to five inches long, opposite, distichous, oblong, acu- minate, striated, of a glossy green colour, the petiole short. Flowers drooping at the back of the plant, copious, in axil- lary, almost sessile umbels of from three to eight or ten blossoms. Pedicels reddish, three-fourths of an inch long. Perianth nearly an inch long, tubular, greenish - white, marked with six lines of reddish dots: the twbe swollen below, the throat contracted, the limb greenish, of six reading segments. Stamens six, inserted near the middle of the tube. Filaments white, curved. Anthers arrow- shaped, yellow. Germen ovate, with three obtuse angles : Style included : Stigma trifid, villous. Fig. 1. Single Flower :—magnijfied. Pe TTT TT ee a SN el IIBO Ww yey 44 seth #4 "oe We Curtis, del. Pub, by S. Gurtis Glaxenwood Fuser Nov LIS36. dwan Jo. ( 3530 ) RIBeEs sPECcIOSUM. Snowy GooskEBErRRY. KEKE EK KEK EK KEEKEK EERE Class and Order. PENTANDRIA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—GnrossuLariEe. ) Generic Character. Calyx 5-lobus, laciniis plus minusve coloratis. Petala 5, parva, albida, lutea vel rubra. Stamina 5, rarissime 6, filamentis liberis. Stylus 1, 2,3, 4-fidus. Bacca unilocu- laris, receptaculis lateralibus. Semina arillata (an in om- nibus ?) oblonga, compressa. D C. Specific Character and Synonyms. Riwes speciosum ; ramis setosis, aculeis stipularibus rigidis tripartitis, foliis glabris trilobis incisis basi cuneatis, racemis nutantibus 2—5-floris, calycibus tubulosis basi dilatatis, staminibus (plerumque 4) longissime exsertis. Rizes speciosum. Pursh, Fl. Am. v. 2. Suppl. p. 731. De Cand. Prodr. p. 478. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1557. Sw. Br. Fl. Gard, t. 149. . Rises stamineum. Sm. in Rees. Cycl. De Cand. Prodr. v.3.p.477. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. v. 1. p. 229. Rises fuchsioides. ‘“ Fl. Mex. ined. Berland Mem. Soc. Phys. Genev. v. 3. t. 3.” Rises triacantha. Menz. MSS. cum Icon. nitidiss. This fine Rises, so remarkable for its leaves resembling those of the White-Thorn, and its flowers those of a Fucusia, was first discovered by the venerable Menzigs in California, during the voyage of Capt. Vancouver, and his beautiful drawing and description made on the spot, are now before me. It was introduced to our gardens by Mr. Cotte, the surgeon of H. M.S. Brossom, in 1829. Our drawing was made made by Mr. Wixu1am Curtis, at the extensive Nursery Grounds of Glazenwood. In native specimens, the leaves are smaller, and the racemes only two-flowered. In England the plant seems to be perfectly hardy: in Scotland it re- quires the protection of a wall, or the flowers will effectually, in most years, be destroyed, by our fickle springs. Its flowering season is April and May ; its growth is rapid and vigorous during summer, and the plant is now becoming common. Descr. A shrub, three to five feet high, with sextose, red-brown branches, and at the base of each cluster of leaves a strong, three-forked spine. Leaves on short petioles, small, three-lobed and irregularly cut into sharp lobes or teeth ; the base cuneate. Racemes of from three to five flowers. Bracteas ovate, acuminate, much shorter than the piloso-glandular pedicels. Calyx deep scarlet, glandular, tubular, swollen at the base; segments straight. Petals included, red. Stamens twice or thrice as long as the flower, straight, red. Anthers ovate. Germen small, glan- dular. Style as long as the stamens: Stigma bifid. Bub.by S. Curtis Glaxenwood Essex. Nove 11836. ( 3531 ) Auuium Cowant. Mr. Cowan’s Onion. KEKE EERE EKER KERR EE Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—AsPHoDELEZ. ) Generic Character. Corolla 6-petala, patens. Filamenta vel xqualia peta- lorum basi inserta, vel basi dilatata subconnata, vel 3-cus- pidata. Capsula 3-locularis. Embryo excentricus. Specific Character and Synonyms. Axutium Cowani ; scapo nudo semitereti, foliis lineari-lance- olatis longe attenuatis flaccidis, spatha monophylla, umbella multiflora, sepalis ovatis obtusis (albis), fila- mentis subulatis uniformibus. Auuium Cowani. Lindl. Bot. Reg.t.'758. Hort. Soc. Trans. v. 6. p. 98. Spreng. Syst. Veget..v.2. p. 36. Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 7. p. 1109. A native of elevated situations in Peru, according to Professor Linptey, whence bulbs were sent to the Horticul- tural Society of London by James Cowan, Esq. To that valuable Society, as well as to Joun Mac Lean, Esq. of Lima, we owe the possession of the plant in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where it flowered in the stove in Septem- ber, 1835. Descr. The bulb I have not seen. Leaves all radical, linear-lanceolate, flaccid, attenuated into a very long point, keeled, in our plant much longer than the scape, the young ones obscurely ciliated. Scape a foot or a foot and a half high, semiterete, naked, bearing an wmbel of many flowers. Spatha of a single, whitish membranous, pointed leaf. Pedicels two inches or more long. Sepals white, ovate, obtuse, concave, spreading. Filaments subulate, equal: Anthers oblong, green. Germen globose, three- lobed, lobes with a deep furrow. Style reaching about the length of the stamens. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified. Pub. by 3 Curtis. Glarenwoed Essex. Nov 11836. ip Cn eS a na. et ( 3532 ) Beconia Fiscueri. Dr. Fiscuer’s BEGONIA. KEKE KKK KEE KEKE EE EEE Class and Order. Monaecia PoLyAnpDRIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Breon1Acez. ) Generic Character. Mase. Calyx o. Corolla polypetala, petalis plerumque 4, inequalibus. Fam. Calyxo. Corolla petalis 4—9, plerumque ine- qualibus. Styli 3, bifidi. Capsula triquetra, alata, trilo- cularis, polysperma. Specific Character. Beconta Fischeri; caulescens, foliis oblongis acutis inequa- liter cordatis dentato-serratis utrinque glabris nitidis, stipulis ovatis integerrimis, floribus masculis 4-petalis, petalis exterioribus rotundatis concavis marginibus plano-revolutis, floribus femineis 6 - petalis petalis ovato-lanceolatis, alis germinis inequaliter rotundatis. Brecon Fischeri. Otto, MSS. This plant, which has small flowers, but exquisitely beautiful foliage, was received at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh from Berlin, in 1835, and flowered in the stove in February and March, 1836. Descr. Stem erect, branched, fleshy, swollen at the joints, red, shining. Leaves unequally cordate, acute, in- distinctly sinuated, slightly undulate, unequally dentato- serrate, glabrous on both sides, when young bright red behind, paler at the veins, and pink above, with a peculiar silvery lustre which continues on the old leaves, the colour being then beautifully delicate yellowish green, and the redness behind much less considerable; petioles nearly round, round, half as long as the leaves. Stipules large, ovate, acute, entire. Peduncles axillary, twice as long as the pe- tioles. Cyme twice or oftener forked ; branches divaricated. Male flowers in the forks of the cyme, four-petalous, the outer petals rounded, with a sinuosity on one side where the pedicel is attached, hollow in the centre, with flattened, slightly revolute edges, forming a perfect miniature of a barber’s basin; inner petals obovato-cuneate, undulate. Stamens united only at their insertion. Female flowers 6- petalous, the petals ovato-lanceolate. Germen rather une- qually winged, the wings unequally rounded. Graham. mittens Pub.by S. Curtis, . Glavenwood: F ssex; Wel. 1836. Sram + Ps a et ( 3533) VESICARIA GRACILIS. SLENDER-STEMMED VESICARIA. Class and Order. TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA. ( Nat. Ord.—Crucirer2, ) Generic Character. Silicula globosa, inflata, valvis hemisphericis. Semmina plurima (ultra 8) sepius marginata. Petala integra. DC. Specific Character. Vesicarta gracilis ; annua multicaulis, caulibus filiformibus rigidis scabriusculis, foliis lanceolatis integris vel sub- angulatis inferioribus subspathulatis petiolatis omnibus nudiusculis, racemis elongatis, petalis patentibus ob- cordatis subsessilibus, siliculis globosis membranaceis glaberrimis tetraspermis stylum equantibus. A native of the same country with our V. grandiflora (Tas. 3464), namely, Texas, and discovered at the same time by Mr. Drummonp. It is less showy than the latter, but a lively and graceful plant, and well adapted for orna- menting rocks. It continues long in flower, during almost the whole summer ; and the blossoms are succeeded by the numerous, small, and exactly-globose seed vessels. Ano- ther and very similar Vestcaria is in my Herbarium, from Texas, gathered by M. Bertanpier, in which the leaves and stems are rather thickly clothed with short, dense stel- lated pubescence. Descr. Root annual, sending from its upper extremity several stems, which are slender, filiform, wiry, branch- ed, minutely scabrous, more or less procumbent, from eight to ten inches long. Leaves remote, and chiefly at the base of the racemes: lanceolate, almost entirely glabrous, their margin margin quite entire or obscurely angled, narrow at the base and subpetiolate ; the lowermost ones decidedly so and spathulate. Racemes axillary and terminal, elongated. Flowers remote, bright yellow. Pedicels scabrous, with short, stellated hairs, considerably elongated after flower- ing. Calyx of four linear-lanceolate, appressed, glabrous leaves. Petals obcordate, scarcely clawed, very patent. Germen elliptical, stipitate, shorter than the style: Stigma capitate. When the fruit is ripe, the pedicels are almost horizontal, curved upwards at the extremity, and bearing the erect, exactly globose pedicellate szlicula, or pouch, which is smooth and shining, membranous, and not larger than hemp seed. The fully-ripe fruit does not readily separate into valves Cells two, each containing about four, depressed, dark brown seeds. Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Stamens and Pistil. 3. Pistil. 4, Seed-vessel. 5. ied from which one valve is removed, showing the four Seeds:—mag- nified. 4 Se M"*Cha'Herstall del Pub. by S.Curtio Glaxenwood Essex Wov 11836. dunt ( 3534.) Eprpenprum mAcrocuiuwuM. LaArGE-LIPPED EPIDENDRUM. | Class and Order. GynanpriA Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipeg. ) Generic Character. Sepala patentia, subequalia. Petala sepalis equalia vel angustiora, rarius latiora, patentia vel reflexa. Labellum cum marginibus columnz omnino vel parte connatum, limbo integro vel diviso, disco sepius calloso, costato vel tuberculato ; nunc in calcar productum ovario accretum et cuniculum formans. Colwmna elongata; clinandrio mar- ginato, sepe fimbriato. Anthera carnosa, 2—4-locularis. Pollinia 4, caudiculis totidem replicatis annexa.—Herbe (Americane) epiphyte, caule nunc apice vel bast pseudo-bul- boso, nunc elongato apice folioso. Folia carnosa, rarissime venis elevatis striata. Flores spicati, racemosi, corymbosi vel paniculati terminales vel laterales. Lindl. Specific Character. Epipenprum macrochilum ; bulbis ovatis rugosis diphyllis, foliis lineari-oblongis, coriaceis obtusiusculis, sepalis petalisque oboyato-lanceolatis patentibus apicibus in- curvis, labello libero trilobo lobis lateralibus ovatis acutis columnam amplectantibus, intermedio maximo obcordato disco calloso ecristato lateralibus reflexis, columna aptera. A charming Epiphyte, introduced from Mexico, by Cuartes Horsraut, Esq., in whose fine collection at Ever- ton it flowered in June, 1836, when a drawing and speci- men of the handsome flowers were kindly communicated by Mrs. Mrs. Horsratt. In the general structure of the flower it resembles my Encycria * patens (Bot. Mag. t. 3013.), that is, it has, like that, the lip distinct from, not united with, the column, and the two lateral lobes of the lip enfolding the column. The two species are, however, totally distinct, the flowers here being thrice the size of the other, and the lip of a totally different form and colour. Descr. Bulbs clustered, ovate, about the size of a pigeon’s egg, the older ones wrinkled ; the younger ones bearing two leaves at the extremity about six to eight inches long, linear-oblong, rather obtuse, recurved, some- what coriaceous. Scape arising from between the two leaves, a span or more high, bearing a raceme of three to four large, handsome inodorous flowers. Sepals and side- petals uniform, spreading, obovato-lanceolate, or nearly spathulate, singularly incurved at the extremity, as well represented in Mrs. Horsraux’s drawing, of a greenish- brown, paler on the outside, and pale green at the base. Lip very large, of three lobes: the two side lobes, at the very base, ovate, acute (the apices reflexed) completely en- veloping the column, and even crossing each other on the upper side of the column, the middle one is very large, broadly ovate, or rather obcordate, having a deep notch at the base, the sides bent back : this lip is pure white (chang- ing to cream-colour in age), having a red purple spot at the base, where there is a flattened fleshy disk, and another near the middle. Column quite distinct from the lip, tri- angular, compressed, wingless. Anthers deep yellow, large: cells small, each containing two pollen-masses of a bright orange colour. * More correctly an EPIDENDRUM, as suggested by Professor LINDLEY, and the E. odoratissimum of that author. Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column. 3. Anther inverted. 4. Two of the Pollen- masses :—magnified. Swart 5. Dee WIS36 7 rd E SSEL \. Curtis, Glasenwe Pub by S RS 7), _~ ; AX ( 3535 ) BANKSIA OCCIDENTALIS. West-Coast BANKSIA. REE EEE EERE EE ERE EEE EE Class and Order. TretranpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Proreacez. ) Generic Character. Perianthium quadripartitum (raro 4-fidum). Stamina apicibus concavis laciniarum immersa. Squamule hypo- gyne 4. Ovarium biloculare, loculis monospermis. Frollc- culus ligneus: dissepimento libero, bifido. Amentwm flos- culorum paribus tribracteatis. Br. Specific Name and Character. Banxsta occidentalis ; foliis linearibus extra medium spinu- loso-dentatis subtus aveniis, bracteis amenti apice gla- bris, perianthiis marcescentibus, unguibus basi intus barbatis, folliculis ventricosis tomentosis, apice com- Dreeuacule nudo, caule fruticoso, ramulis glabris. ‘ a; Banksia occidentalis. Brown, Linn. Soc. Trans. v. 10. p. 204. Ibid. Prodr. p. 392. Ibid. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 1. p. 215. Roem. et Schult. 6% Veget. v. 3. p. 438. Sprengel, Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 484. This handsome species flowered in the greenhouse of the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in September, 1835. Descr. Shrub erect. Branches ascending, red, glabrous, when young angled and having a few adpressed hairs. Leaves (four inches long, two lines broad) verticillate, linear, glabrous above, covered with white tomentum and veinless below, revolute in the edge, beyond the middle distinctly spinuloso-dentate, terminated with three mucros, of VOL X. x of which that in the centre is the shortest. Inflorescence terminal. Perianth dark red, but appearing leaden colour- ed froma covering of adpressed hairs, glabrous at the apex. Styles glabrous, reddish-purple, spreading horizontally, about three times as long as the perianth, connivent in double rows, and tipped with the yellow pollen. Graham. Lg ow LIS 36. Pub. by 5. Curtis, Glaxenwood Essex Dee. ( 3536) BROUGHTONIA COCCINEA. CRIMSON- FLOWERED BROUGHTONIA. SKK KKK EERE EK EEK EEEEE Class and Order. GyYNANDRIA MonaANDRIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Orcuinez. ) Generic Character. Sepala angustia, patentia, lateralia basi obliqua, cum labelli basi connata et decurrentia. Petala latiora. Label- lum indivisum, adscendens, basi columnz adnatum, in cal- care lineari mellifluo, ovario connato decurrens. Columna brevis, crassa, apice dilatata. Anthera 4-locularis, septo- rum marginibus membranaceis. Pollinia 4, caudiculis re- plicatis—Herba epiphyta, pseudo-bulbosa ; foliis carnosis ; scapo terminali multifloro. Lindl. Specific Name and Synonyms. Brovueuronia sanguinea. Brovenronia sanguinea. Br. in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. p. 217. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t.793. Spreng. Syst. Veget. ». 3. p. 734. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 118. Denprozium sanguineum. Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. v. 4. p. 1529. EpipenpDRUM sanguineum. Sw. Prodr. p. 124. Viscum radice bulbosa minus, &c. Sloane, Jam. v. 1. p. 250. ¢. 121. f. 2. Satyrium parasiticum ; foliis paucioribus; &c. Browne, Jam. p. 324. (8.) foliis longioribus, petalis angustioribus. Broventonia sanguinea. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3076. When the figure of Broveutonia sanguinea was given at tab. 3076 of this work, from the pencil of Mrs. Horsratt, I had not seen the usual state of the plant; but now that this has blossomed in the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, I I cannot but consider the former as a variety, having longer leaves and narrower petals; with a colour, very inferior in brilliancy, to that which we now represent, and which may indeed be reckoned among the handsomest, and certainly the most richly coloured of this splendid family. Their blossoms also continue for a considerable length of time in perfection. Though introduced to Kew from Jamaica since 1793, it appears to be yet a rare plant in our gardens. Its blossoming season is May and June. Descr. Bulbs or pseudo-bulbs clustered, roundish-ovate, compressed, often richly stained with brown, and bearing, from the apex, one or two leaves, which are linear-oblong, three to four inches high, somewhat coriaceous. Peduncle also arising from the same point, eight to ten inches or more high, jointed and bracteated, and bearing a raceme of six to nine flowers at the summit, which are of a very rich crimson colour. Calyx of three equal, spreading, equi- distant, lanceolate sepals. Petals spreading ; two lateral ones broadly ovate, acute, slightly crisped ; lower one or labellum rotundato-cordate, obscurely two-lobed, waved and delicately crenate at the margin : the base beneath running down into a very long, adnate spur upon the scar- let germen, Column short, whitish. Anther-case small, hemispherical : Pollen-masses, two compressed pairs, with the caudicles folded down upon them. Fig. 1. 1, Column, with the Germen and Spur. 2. Inner view of the Anther, containing the Pollen :—magnified. Pub by S. Curtis Glarennood Base. Dee I JE36 | Swan So- ( 3537 ) Matva Munroana. Mr. Monro’s Mattow. KKK KKK KEKE EEE KEE EE Class and Order. MonopeEtpuHiA PoLyANDRIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Matvaces. ) Generic Character. Calyx cinctus involucro triphyllo rarius 5—6-phyllo, bracteolis oblongis setaceisve. Carpella capsularia plurima in orbem disposita. De Cand. Specific Name and Character. Marva Munroana ; herbacea glaucescens, foliis cordatis ob- © tusis 3—5-lobis lobis crenato-lobatis pubescentibus pilis brevibus stellatis, stipulis subulatis deciduis, pe- dicellis axillaribus solitariis vel binis 1-pauci-floris lon- gitudine florum, involucri foliolis subulatis longitudine calycis. Matva Munroana. Douglas’ MSS.—Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1306. A very pretty showy species, flowering in June in the greenhouse. It seems to be hardy in England, but its beauty suffers by exposure to the wet. Introduced by Mr. Doveras from the barren plains of the Columbia, North- West America. I was disposed at first to refer it to M. miniata, which it considerably resembles in the size and colour of its flowers: but I find, on a careful examination, that the leaves are shorter and more obtuse, and the pedun- cles are shorter and fewer-flowered. It blossoms during the summer months. Descr. Stems weak and trailing, if not artificially sup- ported, rounded, glaucous, slightly downy. Leaves or petioles about equal to the blade in length, alternate, distant, cordate, very obtuse, glaucous, three to seven-lobed, and those those lobes again crenato-lobate, above, and below more so, clothed with short, inconspicuous, stellated down. Siéz- pules small, subulate, soon falling away. From the upper leaves, in the axils, appear one or two pedicels rather more than half an inch long, each bearing one or more flowers. Calyx cup-shaped, quinquefid, hoary with stellated down. Involucre of three subulate bracteas, about as long as the calyx. The /fruzt I have not seen. Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified. Pub. by §. Gurts, larenwood Essex DeeT1 1836. Swan Se. & :8588-o}paor5. ORNITHOGALUM CONICUM. PURE-WHITE- FLOWERED STAR OF BETHLEHEM, _ SKK KEKE KEK KEK EEE KEE Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—AsPHopDELEz. ) Generic Character. Corolla 6-petala, patens. Filamenta basi dilatata recep- taculo inserta. Capsula trilocularis. Embryo axilis.— Flores racemosi. Specific Character and Synonyms. ORNITHOGALUM conicum; racemo conico, filamentis subula- tis, bracteis membranaceis (longitudine pedicellorum), foliis lanceolatis planis ciliato-marginatis, sepalis (albis) lanceolatis. OrnitHoGaLum conicum. Jacq. Coll. v. 3. p. 232. Ic. Rar. v. 2. t. 428. Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. v.77. p. 514. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 31. We are indebted for our knowledge of this plant to Baron Lupwic, who sent bulbs from the Cape of Good Hope to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in 1835. Flowering spe- cimens were produced in the greenhouse in the summer of the same year. The flowers are large, handsome, pure white, the sepals acuminate, spreading, but never curled back as in O. revolutum, to which this plant, in other re- spects, bears some affinity. Descr. Leaves few and springing from the root, or from the base of the scape, lanceolate, plane, acuminate, bright but pale green, the margin white and delicately fringed ; the lower part is sheathing. Scape a foot high, terminated by a raceme of flowers, at first conical, afterwards more elongated. Pedicels an inch Jong, erecto-patent, having a a large ovato-acuminate, membranous bractea, about its own length. Sepals pure white, lanceolate, acuminate, spread- ing. Filaments much shorter than the sepals, and, as well as the anthers, yellow. Pistil (probably imperfect) yellow. Fig. 1. Portion of the Leaf, to show the margin :—magnijied. Jwart FISP P36 rrenwood Essex. Dee) Curtis ¢ ub, by J. P. i = co ( 3539 ) Isopocon Baxtert. Mr. BAxter’s Isopocon. KKK EK KE EKER EEE EKER Class and Order. Trerranpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Prorteacez. ) Generic Character. Perianthium quadrifidum, tubo gracili, diutices persis- tente. Squame nulle hypogyne. Stylus totus deciduus. Stigma fusiforme vel cylindraceum. Nusx sessilis, ventri- cosa, undique comosa.—Frutices rigidi. Folia glabra, plana vel filiformia, divisa vel integerruma. Capitula termi- nalia, raro axillaria. Flores modo densissime imbricati ; strobilo globoso, modo fastigiato, receptaculo communi pla- niusculo subinvolucrato, paleis deciduis, congestis. Br. Specific Character and Synonyms. Isopocon Baxteri; foliis dilatato-cuneiformibus, fruticis adulti trifidis lobis incisis lacinia mucronatis, juve- nilis indivisis apice dentato, capitulis aggregatis, re- ceptaculo plano. Br. Isopocon Baxteri. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. Suppl. v. 1. p. 9. Grah. Descr. of Plants in Edin, Phil. Journ. for Jan., 1836. A handsome species, of which seeds were sent by Colonel Lixpesay from New Holland to the Botanic Garden, Edin- burgh in 1830. It was raised the following year, and flow- ered in the greenhouse in March and April, 1835. Descr. Shrub erect, the specimen described two feet hich. Stem round. Bark brown, densely covered with short, soft pubescence, mixed with longer hairs, on the branches red. Leaves hard, stiff, with glands on both sur- faces, faces, having pubescence and hairs similar to those on the stem, especially when young ; subglabrous when old ; strongly marked on both sides with elevated veins, which are generally trichotomously branched, once or twice trifid, cuneate and once or twice twisted at the base, edges placed vertically ; the segments terminated with long, pungent mu- cros; the lower leaves undivided, rounded and toothed at the apex, the teeth terminating in pungent mucros. Heads of Flowers crowded at the termination of the stem) and branches. Scales of the Involucre pubescent and hairy, smaller inwards, acute, reflected, subdentate. Perianth soft, rose-coloured, darkest at the tip, densely covered with spreading, white hairs, tube very slender, segments of the limb reflexed. Anthers linear, yellow. Pollen granules roundish-triangular, shining, orange yellow. Style as long as the perianth, fusiform at the apex, below it tumid, and densely covered with yellow, reflected, crystalline pubes- cence. Stigmatic surface terminal. Graham. Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified. ae 6 Te ) Wo uLerey = Waa Liay TUT edhe. a ae a Swan Se. Pub. by S. Curtis, laxenwood Essex Dee 1836. JM? Nab del. se ( 3540) DrosERA FILIFORMIS. NARROW-LEAVED SuN-DEW. KKK EEE KEKE EEE KEE : Class and Order. PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Droseracez. ) Generic Character. Sepala petalaque 5 inappendiculata. Stamina 5. Stylt 3—5, bipartiti—Herbe in uliginosis sphagnosis crescentes. Folia cilzis glandulosis rubidis irritabilibus ornata, D C. Specific Character and Synonyms. Drosera * filiformis ; scapis lateralibus, foliis lineari-fili- formibus glanduloso-pilosis, dorso glabris canalicula- tis, basi lanatis, staminibus 5, stylis 8 basi in paribus coalitis. Drosera filiformis. Rafinesque, in Need. Rep. 2.360. Ibid. in Desv. Journ. de Bot. 1. 227. Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 1. 211. Nutt. Gen. 1. 142. Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. 6.763. De Cand. Prodr. 1.1318. Tor- rey, Fl. of North. and Mid. Sect. of the United States, v. 1. p. 332. Spreng. Syst. Veget.v. 1. p.955. Beck, Bot. of North and Mid. States, p. 42. Drosera tenuifolia. Willd. Enumer. p. 340. Roem. et Schult. 1.763. Bigelow, Plants of Boston. p. 124. This remarkable species was found by Mr. James Mac- NAB, in a swamp about ten miles above Tuckerton, New Jersey, United States, and introduced by him into the gardens * From Jpooos, dew. A pellucid fluid exudes from the glands of the foliage, whence the plant appears as if covered with dew. gardens about Edinburgh in 1834. It flowered freely in the stove at Dr. Neitx’s, also at Comely Bank Nursery, and with us. I cannot hesitate to agree with those who consi- der Drosera tenuifolia of Wittp., as synonymous with D. filiformis of Rarinesque, which, being the earliest published name I retain. Descr. Primordial leaves deltoideo-subulate, glabrous ; secondary leaves radical, linear, circinate, very woolly at their base, channelled and glabrous behind, in front round- ed and covered with spreading, greenish hairs, which sup- port, on their summit, a red gland, and exude a viscid, colourless juice. Scape lateral, with us always simple, green, glabrous, about as long as the leaves. Spike race- mose, unilateral. Pedicels, and five-cleft persisting calyx, covered with green, glandular hairs. Corolla glabrous, rose-coloured, more than twice as long as the calyx, mar- cescent ; petals five, obovate, claws greenish. Stamens five, scarcely longer than the calyx ; Pp pemnes colourless ; anthers erect, oblong, yellow. Pollen- granules round, yellow. Styles eight, spreading at their base in pairs, above erect and clavate, colourless. Germen round, green ; ovules numerous, oblong. Graham. fub. by S. Garé, Glaxenwood Essex Decl 11836. eG 3541 } ) VERBENA TWEEDIEANA. Mr. Tweepir’s — ; ScaARLET VERVAIN. LEEK EEE EEE EEE EEE EERE Class and Order. DipvyNnAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—VeERBENACER. ) Generic Character. Calyx 5-fidus, dente unico subbreviore. Cor. limbus irregulariter 5-lobus. Stam. inclusa. Uériculus 4-spermus, cito rumpens, ut maturi fructus caryopses sistant. Spr. Specific Character and Synonym. Versena Tweedieana; pubescenti-hirsuta erecta suffruti- cosa ramosa, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis mem- branaceis grosse inaqualiter serratis basi cuneatis inte- gerrimis in petiolum gracilem attenuatis, spica corym- bosa, calycibus cylindraceis 5-costatis tubo corolla 4 brevioribus, limbo 5-lobo segmentis cuneatis emargi- natis subequalibus. VersBenA T'weedieana. Niven, in litt. The accompanying drawing, together with excellent dried specimens of this most lovely plant, were sent by the kindness of Mr. Niven, the able and zealous curator of the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, under the name here adopted. The same has been raised by Mr. Murray at Glasgow, and in both cases from seeds sent by Mr. Tweepie. Our native specimens, corresponding with these, were collected by Mr. Tweepie in boggy places at Laguna de la Molina in the Banda Orientale, where, he says, what we can well conceive, that the plant makes a most splendid appearance with its large and brilliant heads of crimson flowers. We have also the same species gathered at Rio Grande do Sul by M. IsaBexwe. It It will be at once seen, that the species has much affinity with V. chamedrifolia, Bot. Mag. t. 3333 (V. Melindres, Git. in Bot. Reg. t. 1184): but it is a tall, upright-growing plant, clothed with soft, downy hairs, of a much more deli- cate texture, especially in the leaves, which are considerably larger, more acuminate and serrated, more cuneate at the base, and decidedly petioled. The flowers are larger, and more inclining to rose-colour, (“ rich rosy crimson,”) in greater number, and the raceme more capitate. The same characters hold good in the native specimens in my Herba- rium as in the cultivated ones. Hitherto it has only been treated as a stove plant: but it will in all probability be found to bear the open air as well as V. chamedrifolia. It flowered with Mr. Niven in September, 1836. a &K In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in’ the Tenth _ Volume, of the New Sxates (or Sizty-third. of the Work) are alphabetically arranged. — Pi. 3502 Acacia prominens. 3531 Allium Cowani. 3528 Amaryllis psittacina, var. hy- brida. 3477. Anchusa versicolor. 3535 Banksia occidentalis. 3532 Begonia Fischeri. 8520 - sanguinea. 3518 Bletia patula. 3536 Broughtonia coccinea. 3511 Calliopsis tinctoria, var. atro- urpurea. 3458 Pcreus Napoleonis. 3481 Chetogastra gracilis. 3488 Collinsia bicolor. ‘3468 Collomia Cavanillesii. 3529 Convallaria oppositifolia. 3482 Cooperia chlorosolen. 3460 Coreopsis coronata. 3474 diversifolia. 3505 ————— filifolia. 3484 —————- senifolia. 3519 Cotoneaster laxiflora. 3507 Cyrtopodium punctatum. 3540 Drosera filiformis. 3500 , pteridifolia. 3513 ——. tenuifolia. 3534 Epidendrum macrochilum. 3495 Eschscholtzia crocea. 3527 Euphorbia Bojeri. 3476 bupleurifolia. 8498 Fuchsia discolor. 3521 macrostema, var. recurvata. 3506 Gaura parviflora. 3496 Gentiana quinqueflora. 3463 Gilia tricolor. 3510 Helianthus decapetalus. 3539 Isopogon Baxter. 3489 Jaborosa integrifolia. 8491 Leptosiphon androsaceus. 3473 Linaria Canadensis. 3480 Linum Berendieri. 3467 Lupinus subcarnosus. 3492 Texensis. Fi. 3537 Malva Munroana.,. 3526 Monarda aristata, _ 3514 Myanthus barbatus, var. la- Joa bello albo, emophila insignis. 3486 Outidtapn dean cat 3499 ————— crispum. 3538 Ornithogalum conicum. 3003 Passiflora kermesina. 3465 Pentstemon Cobea. 3472 —————— Murrayanus. 3478 Pereskia Bleo. 3479 Peristeria pendula. 3469 Petrophila acicularis. 3494 Physostegia truncata. 3459 Pimelea hispida, 3493 Poinsettia pulcherrima. 3470 Potentilla atro-sanguinea; hy- brida, Russelliana. 3508 Rheum Emodi. 3483 Rhodanthe Manglesii. 3530 Ribes speciosum. 3497 Rodriguezia Barkeri. 3504. ———_——— planifolia. 3475 Rosa centifolia; muscosa, cristata. 3490 microphylla. 3515 Sarracenia rubra. 8487 Senecio ampullaceus. 3525 Silphium terebinthaceum. 3509 Sisyrinchium grandiflorum. 3523 Sollya heterophylla, 3516 Streptanthus hyacinthoides. 8517 Strobilanthes Sabiniana. 3466 Telekia speciosa. 3512 Thunbergia alata (albiflora). 3501 Tradescantia Virginica, fl. alb. 3471 Trifolium reflexum, 3462 Troximon glaucum. 3522 Vaccinium virgatum. 3541 Verbena Tweedieana. 3461 Veronica labiata. 3033 Vesicaria gracilis. 3464 ———— grandiflora. IN DE X, In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the Tenth Volume of the New Serizs (or Stzty-third of the Work) are alphabetically arranged. 4. Fr 3502 Acacia, conspicuous or Ne- || 3526 Monarda, awned. pean Wattle. 3485 Nemophila, showy. 3477 Alkanet, changeable-flowered. 3528 Amaryllis, hybrid var. of the Parrot. 3535 Banksia, West-coast. 3520 Begonia, blood-red. 3532 Dr. Fischer’s. 3918 Bletia, spreading-flowered. 3536 Broughtonia, crimson-flow- _ ered, 3511 Calliopsis, dyeing, dark-flow- ered var. 3458 Cereus, Napoleon’s, 3481 Chetogastra, slender. 3470 Cinquefoil, Mr. Russell’s var. of the deep blood-coloured. 3471 Clover, Buffalo. 3488 Collinsia, two-coloured. 3468 Collomia, Cavanilles’. 3482 Cooperia, green-tubed. 3460 Coreopsis, crowned. ————. six-leaved. 3505 _-—— thread-leaved. 3474. ——-—. various-leaved. 3519 Cotoneaster, loose-clustered. 3507 aon wiiaaag spotted-flow- er 3479 Dove-flower, pendulous. 3500 Dryandra, Fern-leaved. 3513 —————. slender-leaved. 3534 Epidendrum, large-lipped. 3495 Eschscholtzia, saffron-coloured 3480 Flax, Berendier’s yellow-flow- ered. 3514 Flywort, bearded, white- lipped var. 3521 Fuchsia, large-stamened te- curved var. 3498 Port-Famine. 3506 Gaura, small-flowered. 3496 Gentian, five-flowered. 3463 Gilia, three-coloured. 3530 Gooseberry, showy. 3487 Groundsel, flask-flowered American. 3491 Leptosiphon, Androsace-like. 3467 Lupine, fleshy-leaved. 3492 Texas. 8537 Mallow, Mr. Munro’s. 3499 Oncidium, crisped-flowered. 3486 horned. 3531 Onion, Mr. Cowan’s. 3503 Passion-flower, crimson. 3465 Pentstemon, Cobe-flowered. 3472 Mr. Murray's scarlet, 3478 Pereskia, Rose-coloured. 3469 Petrophila, needle-leaved. 3494 Physostegia, blunt-calyxed. 3459 Pimelea, hispid-flowered. 3493 Poinsettia, showy. 8483 -Rhodanthe, Capt. Mangles’. 3508 Rhubarb, officinal. 3504 Rodriguezia, even-leaved. 3497 ———_—_——— Mr. Barker’s. 3524 —= side-flowered. 8490 Rose, small-leaved Chinese. 3475 Moss, crested var. — 3515 Side-saddle-flower, red. 3525 Silphium, terebinthine. 3509 Sisyrinchium, large-flowered. 3523 Sollya, various-leaved. 3529 Solomon’s Seal, opposite- leaved. 3461 Speedwell, fragrant white- flowered. 3501 Spider-wort, Virginian, white- flowered var. 3476 Spurge, Hare’s-ear-leaved. 3527 — Mr. Bojer’s. 3538 Star of Bethlehem, pure white- flowered. 3516 Streptanthus, Hyacinth-flow- ered. 3517 Strobilanthes, Mr. Sabine’s. 3540 Sun-dew, narrow-leaved, 3510 Sun-flower, ten-rayed. 3466 Telekia, large-flowered. 3512 Thunbergia, winged, white~ flowered var. © 3473. Toad-flax, American. 3462 Troximon, glaucous-leaved. 3541 Vervain, scarlet, Mr. Tweedie’s 3464 Vesicaria, large-flowered. _ 3533 ————— slender-stemmed. 3502 Wattle, Nepean, or conspicu- ous Acacia. ” 3522 Whortleberry, pale greenish- — flowered. igen ie ete ee GENERAL INDEX, THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN THE FIRST TEN VOLUMES OF THE NEW SERIES, RS (Or from Vol, LIV. to LXIILI. inclusive, of the whole Work,) OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. —me@our Vol.| No. Vol.| No. _ 56 | 2879 | Aprontra mellifera. 59 | 3198 | Althzea rosea. 61 | 3358 | Acacia brevipes. 61 | 3313 | Alyxia daphnoides. 59 | 3174 cinerascens. 61 | 3312 |. ruscifolia. 60 | 3244 decipiens, var. premorsa || 61 | 3311 | Amaryllis aulica. 61 | 3337 elongata. 57 | 2983 var. 60 | 3279 graveolens. tala, glaucophylla. 61 | 3341 hastulata. 63 | 3528 | ————— psittacina, v. hybrida. 59 | 3203 intermedia. 62 | 3380 | Anagallis Monelli, var. Willmo- 56 | 2922 | —_—— lanigera. reana. ” 61 | 3346 | ———— lineata. 63 | 3477 | Anchusa versicolor. 54 | 2747. mucronata. 56 | 2936 | Andromeda hypnoides. 56 Oxycedrus. 60 | 3286 | ——————- salicifolia. 54 | 2754 penninervis. 59 | 3181 tetragona. 61 | 3366 plumosa. ~ 62 | 3376 | Anemone vitifolia. 62 | 3408 prensans. 56 | 2911 | Annona reticulata. _ 63 | 3502 | ———— prominens. 56 | 2912 | Ibid. es 59 | 3195 | ——— ruscifolia. 58 | 3095 — squamosa. 62 | 3420 tristis. 57 | 3017 | Anthericum bulbosum. 61 | 3338 | ——— umbrosa. 58 | 3084 | ——————? plumosum. 62 | 3394 unduleefolia. 59 | 3129 | ——————_ semibarbatum. 60 | 3266 verniciflua, 57 | 2961 | Anthocercis viscosa. 58 | 3111 | Achras sapota. 60 | 3284 | Anthyllis Webbiana. | 58 | 3112 | Ibid. 58 | 3091 | Aphanochilus blandus. 59 | 3171 | Acrotiche ovalifolia. _|| 57 | 3021 | Arabis collini. 58 | 3046 | Adamia cyanea. - 60 | 3246 rosea. 55 | 2791 | Adansonia digitata. 61 | 3331 verna. 55 | 2792 | Ibid: » 58 | 3093 | Arbutus mucronata. 59 | 3186 | Anchmea Mertensi. 59 | 3177 pilosa. 63 | 3531 | Allium Cowani. _ 61 | 3320 tomentosa. 59 | 3192 | Alpinia magnifica. 58 | 3073 | Argemone grandiflora. — 58 | 3050 | Alstroemeria acutifolia. 58 | 3092 | Arracasia esculenta. 61 | 3350 | —————— aurea. 59 | 3142 | Arthrostemma nitida. 58 | 3105 Neillii. — 55 | 2869 | Artocarpus incisa. 61 | 3344 | ————— oculata. 55 | 2870 | Ibid. 55 | 2848 | ————— ovata. 55 | 2871 | Ibid. 58 | 3040 pallida. 55 | 2833 | Artocarpus integrifolia. 57 | 3033 | —-_————- psittacina. . 55 | 2834 | Thid. » | Nw ot ee SSSLOSSSASALSSSASSSMAHSSL ASSAAGASSSUASSSLSSSsRSes ge sassaaarrsras INDEX Vol. Arum campanulatum. 54 Asarum Canadense. 55 Asplenium Nidus. 55 Aster acuminatus. 55 fruticosus. 54 —— levigatus. 54 —— salsuginosus. 61 Astragalus alopecuroides. 61 procumbens. 61 —_—_———- vesicarius. 61 Azalea ledifolia. 61 ledifolia, var. 8, pheeni- || 62 cea. 58 Beckia frutescens. 55 saxicola. 57 Banksia integrifolia. 56 littoralis ? 60 marcescens. 60 ——— media. - occidentalis. 55 speciosa. 56 Baptisia perfoliata. 54 Barbacenia purpurea. 56 Barosma crenulata. 59 Beaufortia Dampieri. 63 Beaumontia grandiflora. Begonia dipetala. 59 diversifolia. 54 Fischeri. 61 eraniifolia. 54 ——— heracleifolia. ————. insignis. 54 longipes. 61 papillosa. tet 54 _— — sanguinea. 62 semperflorens. | 60 undulata. 56 Bellis integrifolia. 56 Bidens striata. 54 Bignonia Colei. 54 grandifolia. 54 Telfairize. 54 Billbergia cruenta. 62 ————— purpureo-rosea. 62 Blechnum lanceola. 61 ——— longifolium. 60 Bletia acutipetala. 60 ily 55 hepherdii. 58 Woodfordii. 58 Blumenbachia insignis. 58 Bonatea speciosa. 58 Brachystelma crispum. 54 Brassavola sees 59 —_————— 54 tuberculata. 57 Brassia caudata. 62 Brodiza grandiflora. 63 Broughtonia coccinea. rf Browallia grandiflora. 61 Buddlea Brasiliensis. connata. Madagascariensis. Cactus alatus. cochinellifer. Thid. Ceelogyne flaccida. Caladium fragrantissimum. ———— grandifolium, Calandrinia discolor. grandiflora. —————— speciosa. Calceolaria angustiflora. —————— arachnoidea. bicolor. connata. crenatiflora. integrifolia, var. y, viscosissima. plantaginea. polifolia. urea. — thyrsifiors. Calendula officinalis. Calliopsis tinctoria, var. atro- purpurea. Calochilus campestris. Calypso borealis. Calythrix virgata. Carneliia Japonica, fl. pity reticulata. Campanula macrantha, B. poly- antha. Prismatocarpus. Candollea cuneiformis. Canna glauca, y,. rubro-lutea. Carica P uae: arica a. Tbid. _— Ca: Ibid. Caryophyllus aromaticus. bid. ocar nuciferum. Cassia glandulosa. Catasetum purum. tridentatum, var. ————— trifidum. Cattleya Forbesii. intermedia, Centroclinium appressum. a ee. Sephaletins follicularis. Thid. Careee Bichersteini rasus spherocarpa. Ceratiola ericoides. Cerbera Tanghin. nm a Royeni. Ceropegia elegans. INDEX. . ia Wightii. Peoiteen alaternoides. bracteatum. Cheetogastra gracilis. ———— lanceolata. Chilodia scutellarioides. Chrysophyllum Cainito. monopyrenum. Cineraria Tussilaginis Clarkia pulchella. Cleome dendroides. gigantea. Clerodendron emirnense. hastatum. nutans. Clitoria? arborescens. Coburgia fulva. Coccoloba pubescens. uvifera. Cocculus palmatus. Ibid. Codizeum pictum. Coleonema pulchrum. Collinsia bicolor. Collomia Cavanillesii. —- g Siero a eterophylla. ad seit, pet Columnea hirsuta. Colvillea racemosa. Ibid. Combretum grandiflorum. Commelina gracilis. Conospermum ericifolium. ———_— taxifolium. Conostylis aculeata. Convallaria oppositifolia. Cooperia chlorosolen. Corchorus olitorius. Coreopsis coronata. ——— diversifolia. 3505 | ————— filifolia. senifolia. Coryanthes maculata. Corydalis bracteata. longiflora. Cotoneaster laxiflora. Couroupita Guianensis. Ibid. Craspedia macrocephala. Crategus coccinea. Crepis macrorhiza. Crescentia Cujete. Crinum plicatum. Crocus aureus. —— minimus. Crotalaria dichotoma. ————. ovalis. striata. —————- verrucosa. - Croton castaneifolium. hamia lanceolata. Cryptophragmium venustum. Ibid. Cycas revoluta. Ibid. Cyminosma oblongifolia. Cynara Cardunculus, var. Cardunculus, 8. - Cypripedium macranthon. ———_—_—— insigne. —————— parviflorum. Cyrtopodium punctatum. Datura ceratocaula. Daviesia virgata. Deeringia celosioides.. Delima sarmentosa. Dendrobium densiflorum. zemulum. speciosum. Desmodium dubium. ————— nutans. Dianthus Caryophyllus, var. Dichorisandra oxypetala. Didiscus czruleus. Didymocarpus Rexii. Dielytra Canadensis. Dioscorea Cinnamomifolia. Diplopappus incanus. Dischidia Benghalensis. ‘Diuris maculata. Dodonzea attenuata, mas. Dombeya angulata. Doronicum Caucasicum. Dorstenia ceratosanthes. tubicina. Draba aurea. Dracena Australis. Dracophyllum secundum. Drosera inata. Dyckia rariflora. Echinocactus Eyriesii. —————- ittonis. Elichrysum incanum. Encyclia patens. viridiflora. Epacris cereeflora. heteronema. impressa. —— nivalis. onosmeeflora. Epidendrum bicornutum. ————— conopseum. m. Harrisonie. macrochilum. 59 BUASAASPRALMSSSAAAVSS SSEF2SRSRSS 61 61 Dp — yaqsegeeeseeses INDEX. Vol. Epidendrum ? stenopetalum. | 57 —————— variegatum. 60 Epimedium diphyllum. 54 Eranthemum strictum. 54 Erica recurvata. 62 Erigeron glabellum. 55 Eriocaulon decangulare. 60 Eriodendron anfractuosum, B. || 54 Caribeeum. 57 ostemon myoporoides. 55 Eriostemon salicifolium. 59 Erythrina poianthes. 55 velutina. 60 Erythrolzena conspicua. 59 Eseallonia rubra. 59 Eschscholtzia Californica. 59 —————— crocea. 59 Eucalyptus amygdalina. 62 Eugenia trinervia. 62 Eulophia streptopetala. 54 Euonymus echinata. 57 Euphorbia atro-purpurea. 56 amit LIOIBTE 61 bupleurifolia. 62 —————- corollata. 57 ——-——~ splendens. 58 Eurycles Cunninghamii. 55 Eutoca Franklinii. 57 sericea. 63 Farsetia lunarioides. 54 Ficus acuminata. 61 —— comosa, 61 —— rubiginosa. 59 Franciscea Hopeana. 60- Francoa appendiculata. 59 - sonchifolia. 59 Frankenia pauciflora. 56 Fritillaria leucantha. 59 ————— minor. 57 Fuchsia discolor. 56 globosa. 58 macrostema, var. recur- || 55 vata. 54 Gaillardia aristata. 58 bicolor, var. Drum- || 62 mondii. 58 Gardenia florida, fl. simplici. 54 Gastrolobium retusum. 60 Gaultheria Shallon. 57 Gaura parviflora. 59 Geitonoplesium cymosum. 60 Gelonium fasciculatum. 54 Gentiana quinqueflora. 54 pickling albiflorum. 55 esnerla aggregata. 58 —————— bulbosa., . 57 ————— verticillata. 61 Gilia achillezefolia. 61 —— gracilis. 61 —— inconspicua. 55 —— pungens. 61 —— tricolor. 56 Gilliesia graminea. 63 Gladiolus psittacinus. Gloxinia speciosa, var. albiflora. Gnaphalium modestum. Gnidia tomentosa. Goldfussia anisophylla. Gomphrena globosa. Gongora atro-purpurea. speciosa. viridi-purpurea. Gonolobus niger. Gratiola tetragona. Grevillea acanthifolia- arenaria. Caleyi. canescens. robusta. Habenaria cordata. . — gigantea. goodyeroides. leptoceras. longicauda. —————— macroceras. Hemanthus carneus. Hakea ferruginea. Hedychium acuminatum. flavum. Hedyotis campanuliflora. Helenium autumnale. Helianthus decapetalus- ——— pubescens. ————— speciosus. ... Heliopsis levis. Helleborus purpurascens. | Heteropteris chrysophylla. Hibbertia Cunninghamia. Hibiscus Genevii. liliiflorus,var.hybridus. Manihot, £. splendens. Horkelia congesta. Houstonia longifolia. serpyllifolia. Houttwynia eordata. Hovea pannosa. Hoya Pottsii. Hunnemannia fumariefolia. Hutchinsia stylosa. Hydrastis Canadensis. Ibid. Hymenanthera dentata. Hypericum hyssopifolium. Iberis nana. Tenoreana. Imatophyllum Aitoni. Indigofera atropurpurea. ————— sylvatica. ———— violacea. Ipomea Horsfalliz. rubro-cerulea. Iris lutescens. —— tenax. —— iripetallas i591 Isopogon Baxteri. _ useegeessanaagareerereseapapgeraasag Vol.| No. sopogon: Loudoni. 60 | 3273 spathulatus, var. line- || 61 | 3362 "aris. 55 | 2839 Jaborosa integrifolia. 55 | 2793 Jambosa vulgaris. 634 3537 Janipha Manihot 54 | 2787 Jonesia Asoca. 59 | 3202 Justicia calycotricha. 60 | 3289 carnea. 62 | 3395 nodosa. 56 | 2927 ——. quadrangularis. 55 | 2806 speciosa. 54 | 2729 ventricosa. 59 | 3154 Kentrophyllum arborescens. 59 | 3173 Lantana nivea, var. mutabilis. 54 | 2789 Selloviana. 56 | 2955 Lath decaphyllus. 59 | 3146 Ledebouria Hyacinthina. 60 | 3210 Leontice Altaica. 58 | 3090 Leptosiphon androsaceus, * 56 | 2907 Leptospermum scoparium, var. || 59 | 3205 grandiflorum. 59 | 3176 Leucopogon lanceolatus, 62 | 3442 ————— Richei. 59 | 3128 | Libertia formosa. 62 | 3377 roa Nepalense, 8. gla- || 62 | 3378 61 | 3327 ‘Livum: tenuifolium. 61 | 3336 Limnocharis Humboldtii. 58 | 3067 Linaria xquitriloba. 61 | 3353 Canadensis. 61 | 3363. Linum Berendieri. || 59 | 3157 Liparis foliosa. 54 | 2771 Lissanthe sapida. 56 | 2933 | Loasa hispida. 63 | 3526 incana. 61 | 3310 Placei, var. B. 57 | 2958 Lobelia hypocrateriformis. 58 | 3122 Kraussii. 58 | 3059 mucronata. 57 | 3007 puberula. 8. 61 | 3351 robusta. 54 | 2705 Lockhartia elegans. 63 | 3514 Lodoicea Sechellarum. Ibid. 59 | 3153 Ibid. 54 | 2756 Ibid. 54 | 2757 Ibid. 60 | 3222 Lonicera Chinensis. 63 | 3485 hirsuta. oo pa nas hospermum scandens. y ioe pe bq | 2790 pont microphyllus. 57 | 2956 — pinnatus. Ludovia latifolia. 55 | 2798 Ibid. — 56 | 2919 Lupinus Cruckshankii. ~ 55 | 2837 incanus. 54 | 2785 littoralis. 61 | 3371 subcarnosus. 61 | 3370 Texensis. os pi Lychnis Pyrenaica. Lycopersicum Peruvianum. 60 | 3287 core ‘Azorica. — alesherbia tincarifolle- Malva angustifolia, ~~ Morenii. - Munroana. | obtusiloba. Manettia cordifolia. ' Marsdenia flavescens. Maxillaria Deppii. ———— Harrisonize. ek epires ag oamenmrmnati Si. picta. . placanthera.: racemosa. squalens. ——— tetragona. Melaleuca Fraseri. Melocactus communis. Mentha verticillata. Mentzelia hispida. Menziesia empetrifolia. Mespilus lobata. Michauxia levigata. Microtis parviflora. media. Milla uniflora. Mimulus luteus, var. variegatus. perfoliatus. roseus. var. Younganus, Mimusops dissecta. Mirbelia grandiflora. — Mitella pentandra. Monarda aristata. fistulosa, flore maculato menthzefolia. Monnina obtusifolia. — Monodora Myristica. —— Moricandia arvensis. © Morinda jasminoides. _ Mutisia speciosa. ~ Myanthus barbatus, var. labello albo. Myrcia acris. ree officinalis. Ibid. Myrsine capitellata. Nemophila insignis. Neottia aphylla. calcarata. diflora. Neottia ? grandiflora, est Ulan- tha diflora, Nepenthes distillatoria, mas. Nicotiana acuminata. ————- glauca. ——— noctiflora. Nierembergia calycina. ————— filicaulis. ——_——— gracilis. Nothocleena tenera. Nuttallia Papaver. INDEX Vol. Octomeria graminifolia. 60 serratifolia. 60 Ocymum montanum. 63 Q£nothera decumbens. 61 | ———. Drummondii. 60 Lindleyii. 60 sinuata. 59 speciosa. 59 ————. viminea. 55 Oleo undulata. 59 Omalanthus populifolia. 58 Oncidium altissmmum. 60 ———— bicornutum. 62 cornigerum. 60 crispum. 60 papilio. 54 pulchellum. 60 ————— triquetrum. 57 Onopordum Arabicum. 56 Opuntia Brasiliensis. 56 cylindrica. 60 | Orchis tephrosanthos, var. den- || 56 sifolius. 63 Ornithidium album. 57 Ornithogalum conicum. 55 bosum. 55 ——__—_———— fimbriatum. 59 Orobus canescens. 60 sessilifolius. 60 stipulaceus. 56 Osbeckia glomerata. 58 Oxalis bipunctata. 56 carnosa. 63 a a. Oxylobium ellipticum. 5 -Palavia rbpinbifotia. Hi croceum. Peeonia albiflora, x. rosea. 57 officinalis, var. Anemo- || 55 niflora. 56 Russi. 60 Passiflora capsularis. 60 kermesina. 57 I is. 62 Penza imbricata. © 57 Pentstemon Cobzea. 59 gracilis. 62 Murrayanus. ovatus. 55 procerus. 54 Richardsonii. 60 Peperomia clusizfolia. 60 Pereskia Bleo. 62 Peristeria elata. 59 —————- pendula. 62 Petrophila acicularis. 58 Phacelia congesta. 58 Phlox Drummondii. 62 Phormium tenax. 55 -Phrynium coloratum. 60 ae aaa albens. 54 Physostegia imbricata. 62 truncata. 57 Pimelea arenaria. graciliflora. hispida. hypericina. longiflora. sylvestris. Piper Betle. nigrum. Pitcairnia bracteata. Pittosporum cornifolium. Pladera decussata. Plagianthus divaricatus. sidoides. Platylobium Murrayanum. —————— obtusangulum. Pleurothallis foliosa. prolifera. ——_—_————. saurocephalus. Plumbago rhomboidea. Podolepis gracilis. Pogostemon plectranthoides. Poinciana regia. Poinsettia pulcherrima. Polemonium pulcherrimum. Richardsoni. Polygala paucifolia. Polygonum adpressum. Pomaderris Andromedefolia. —————— betulina. Pontederia azurea. Portulaca ee oe Potentilla etto-enrigraitios 5 i brida, Russelliana. gracilis. nivea, var. macro- Pale crassinervia. macrophylla. microphylla. Priestleya villosa. Primula ameena. mistassinica. Palinuri. usilla. ibirica. Sibirica; 8. integer- verticillata. Protea longiflora. Psychotria daphnoides. Pteris pedata. Pterostylis acuminata. —————. Banksii. concinna. curta. Sele ae Pultenza —— ee me Satine subumbellata. rethrum uliginosum. | Randia Bowieana. rima. INDEX Vol.| No. Ranunculus, millefoliatus. 63 | 3487 montanus. 55 | 2821 Renanthera coccinea. 62 | 3436 Ibid. 54 | 2759 Rheum Emodi. 54 | 2753 Rhipsalis Cassytha. 59 | 3150 ——_——— fasciculata. 55 | 2857 —————. grandiflorus. 55 | 2863 : mesembryanthemoi- || 55 | 2858 des. 61 | 3342 Rhodanthe, Manglesii. 61 | 3354 Rhodochiton volubile. 63 | 3525 Rhododendron arboreum, var. || 61 | 3355 album. 54 | 2786 arboreum, var. || 63 | 3509 hybridum altaclerense. 59 | 3197 calendulaceum, || 57 | 2965 var. fulgidum. 55 | 2828 Caucasicum, ’ par. stramineum. 54 | 2708 Lapponicum. 54 | 2739 maximum, hy- || 62 | 3385 bridum. 63 | 3523 Ribes cereum. 62 | 3390 sanguineum. 57 | 2993 speci é 58 | 3042 Rodriguezia Barkeri. 61 | 3359 —————— planifolia. 56 | 2949 secunda. 56 | 2948 Rosa centifolia; muscosa, cris- || 56 | 2930 tata. 63 | 3516 -—— Kamtchatica. 61 | 3317 ——— microphylla. 63 | 3517 sinica, 59 | 3136 Rubus Nutkanus. 59 | 3194 | Ruellia elegans. 62 | 3417 Rulingia corylifolia. 59 | 3188 Ruscus androgynus, a. 60 | 3224 Salpiglossis atro-purpurea. 60 | 3278 ————— integrifolia. 59 | 3191 linearis. 63 | 3466 straminea, var. 54 | 2751 picta. 54 | 2752 Salvia involucrata. 57 | 3004 pseudo-coccinea. 59 | 3148 strictiflora. 63-| 3612 Santalum album. 55 | 2841 Saponaria glutinosa. 60 | 3275 Sarracenia rubra. a = aoe Saxifraga leucanthe wee ‘ ———— ligulata. | 61 | 3334 ————— petrea. 56 | 2935 Sczevola Koenigii. 61 | 3291 Schelhammera undulata. 63 | 3501 Schinus Molle. Schizanthus Grahamii. 54 | 2779 ———_——. Hookeri. 54 | 2790 ——___—— retusus. 63 | 3471 | Scilla esculenta, f. fl. albo. 58 | 3097 —— pumila. 60 | 3250 —— villosa. Scorzonera mollis. 57 | 3002 Selago Gilli. 2765 Senecio ampullaceus. Sida globiflora. _ ualis. —— rosea. sessiliflora. Sieversia Peckii. triflora. Silene Virginica, — Silphium perfoliatum. terebinthaceum. ———— trifoliatum. Sisyrinchium Chilense. maculatum. ——————— pedunculatum. Solanum Balbisii, var. pur- purea, coriaceum. Quitense. Tweedianum. Soph heterophylla. ora tomentosa, f. Seleeale Lindleyi. Sphenogyne crithmifolia. Stanhopea eburnea. Ibid. Stanhopea insignis. Stenochilus viscosus. Streptanthus hyacinthoides. ——_—_——— obtusifolius. Strobilanthes Sabiniana. Stylidium scandens. hirsutum. Stypandra propinqua. Symphytum Caucasicum. Symplocarpus foetidus. Syringa Josikea. > Tecoma Stans. Telekia speciosa. Telfairia pedata. — ee alata (albiflora). Tillandsia psittacina. setacea. Torenia scabra. Tournefortia heliotropioides. Trachymene lanceolata. Tradescantia crassula. ETrade 808 irginica, flore eg Trifolium alpestre. ————. Olympicum. reflexum. Trillium discolor. erectum, var. viridiflo- rum. arythrocn a Trixis auriculata. See BAVLVS INDEX Vol. Trochocarpa laurina. 56 Tropzolum majus, var. atrosan- |, 61 guineum. 63 pentaphyllum. 59 tricolorum. 58 Troximon glaucum. 57 Tulipa stellata. Tupistra nutans. 63 Ulantha grandiflora, sub nom. | 56 Neottia? grandift. 63 Urena lobata. 63 Vaccinium albifiorum. 56 ceespitosum. 62 Canadense. 61 corymbosum. 61 myrtilloides. 62 Pennsylvanicum. 54 ——— virgatum. 58 Vanda Roxburghi, var. unicolor. |, 54 ek are velutina. © 62 Veltheimia glauca, (var. floribus rubescenti-purpureis). 55 Verbena bracteosa. chamzedrifolia. Verbena Tweedieana. venosa. Vernonia acutifolia. Veronica Alpina, var. Worms- kioldii. labiata. Vesicaria arctica. ————- gracilis. — grandiflora. Vicia argentea. Wedelia? aurea. Westringia cinerea. Dampieri. eremicola. Witheringia montana. Xanthochymus dulcis. Zygopetalon Mackaii. Mackaii, 8. crini- tum. — rostratum. 3 EEN G LS Brotrrmnhomias: GENERAL INDEX, TO THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN THE FIRST TEN VOLUMES OF THE NEW SERIES, (Or from Vol. LIV. to LXULI. inclusive, of the whole Work,) OF THE BOTANICAL - MAGAZINE. PH? OOO