THE BOTANICAL REGISTER: CONSISTING OF Coloured Figures or EXOTIC PLANTS, CULTIVATED IN BRITISH GARDENS; HISTORY AND MODE OF TREATMENT. THE DESIGNS BY Syvenbam Cowards, AND OTHERS, nec fronde caducâ viret semper Carpitur. LONDON: PRINTED FOR JAMES RIDGWAY, PICCADILLY, 1819. S. Gusnell, Printer, Little Queen Street, London. APPENDIX TO THE CATALOGUES OF BOOKS IN THE FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, AND FOURTH VOLUMES; oR, List of Books quoted in the Fifth Volume in addition to those quoted in the First, Second, Third, and Fourth. ABEL chin. Narrative of a Journey in the interior of China, &c. &c. By Clark Abel. London, 1818. 4to. Act. soc. nat. scrut. hafn. Shrivter af Naturhistorie Selskabet. Kidbenhavn, 1739; segg. 8vo. Act. taur. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de Turin. Turin, 1782—1796. 4to. Andrews's roses, Coloured engravings of Roses. By H. C. Andrews, London, 1805, seqq. 4to. Arduin, spec. Petri Arduini animadversionum botanicarum specimen L Pe- tavii, 1759. Specimen Il. Venetiis, 1764. 4to. Bartram trav. Travels through North and South Carolina and West Flo- rida, &c. &c. published with Copper Plates. By William Bartram. Philadelphia, 1791. 8vo. ; Baumgarten en. ìransylu. vol. 3. Vide suprà in Catal. libror, Volum. tertii. . Tomus tertius. Vindobone, 1816. Beckman beytr. zur gesch. der erfind. Johann Beckman. Beytrüge zur geschichte der Erfindungen. Leipzig, 1780—1752, 1784-—1788, 1790—1792, 1795—1796. Voll. 4. 8vo. Bertol. pl. genuen. Ant. Bertoloni. Plantz genuenses quas annis 1802— 1809 observavit et recensuit. Genuæ, 1804. 6 fasc. in 8vo. Biv. Bernardi sic. pl. cent. Sicularum Plantarum Centuria Prima et Secunda Antonini Bivona Bernardi. Panormi, 1806. 4to. Bonani. Fide Biv. Bernardi cit. Carey beng. (v. hort. beng.) Hortus Bengalensis, or Catalogue of the plants growing in the Honourable East India Company's Botanic Garden at Calcutta. (W. Carey). Serampore, 1814. 8vo. Catesb, carol. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, by Mark Catesby. 2 vols. London, 1731, 1743. fol. Crantz austr. Henr. Joan. Nepom. Crantz Stirpium Austriacarum Pars I. Ii. Viennz, 1769. 4to. Cup. hort. cath, Franciscus. Cupani. Hortus Catholicus, seu Principis Catholicæ. Neapoli, 1696. Voll. 2. 4to. 42 iy Cup. pamph. Idem. Pamphytum Siculum, seu Historia Plantarum Si- ciliæ. fol. Cyrill. neap. Dom. Cyrilli Plantarum rariorum Regni Neapolitani Fascicu- lus I et 2, Neapoli, 1788, 1792. fol. D’ Asso fl. arag, Ign. D'Asso. Synopsis Stirpium indigenarum Aragoniæ. Massiliæ, 1779. 4to. Delaroche eryng. Eryngiorum Historia, auctore F. Delaroche. Parisiis, 1808. fol. Dunal anonactes. Monographie de la Famille des Anonacées. Par Michel-Felix Dunal. Montpellier, 1817. 4to. Etling. salw. Andr. Ernest Etlinger, Commentatio botanica de Sulvia. Erlange, 1777. Ato. Gesn. in Cordi hist. Valerii Cordi opera studio Conradi Gesneri collecta. Argentorati, 1561. fol. Gouan illustr. Ant. Gouan. Illustrationes et observationes Botanica. Tiguri, 1779. fol. Hort. angl. See Cat. pl. hort. londin. in the Catalogue of Books given in the first Vol. of this work. Hort. Cath. Vide suprà Cup. hort. cath. Icon. Kampf Icones selecte plantarum, guas in Japoniâ collegit et deli- neavit Engelb. Kæmpfer, ex archetypis in Musæo Britannico asservatis (edidit Jos. Banks). Londini, 1791. fol. Kempf. amor. Engelb. Kempfer Amontitatum Exoticarum Fasciculi 5. emgoviæ, 1712, 4to. Lepeyr. pyren. Figures de la Flore des Pyrenées, par Philippe Picot de apeyrouse. Tome 1, Paris, 1795. Tome 2, Paris, 1801. fol. L'Herit, sirp, Stirpes nove descriptionibus et iconibus illustrate à Car. Ludov. L’Heritier. Parisiis, 1784—1785. fol. Linn. syst. nat. ed. 12, Caroli à Linné Systema Nature, &c. &c. Holmiz, 1766. Voll. 2. 8vo. Linn. syst. veg. (ed. 19.) Car. à Linné Systema Vegetabilium. Gottingæ et Gothæ, 1774. 8vo. Mem. chin. Mémoires sur les Chinois par les Missionaires de Pekin. Tomes 15. Paris, 1776—1791. 4to. Mém. de Vinst. sc. phys. Mémoires de l’Institut National des Sciences et Arts, Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques. Paris, an 6, seqq. 4to. Mich. gen. Nova Plantarum Genera, Auctore Petro Ant, Micheli. Flo- rentiæ, 1729. fol, pus v Pohl fl. bohem. Tentamen Flore Bohemia, von Johann Emanuel Pohl. Vol. 1. Prag, 1810. Vol. 2. Prag, 1815.. 8vo. Probst. hort, Bosian. Vergleichniss derer inn-und auslandischen Baüme, Stauden, und Sommergewachse des Caspar Bosianischen Gartens, in vier ordnungen wie solche sich im Jahr 1737 befinden, durch Johann Probsten. Leipzig, 1738. 8vo. Redoulé's roses. Les Roses. Par P. J. Redout6, Paris, 1817. Livraison 1*. seqq. 4to. Riv. hex, (or Rivini hexapet. supplem.) Ycones plantarum que sunt flore irregulari hexapetalo; (absque loco vel auno]. fol. Riv. tetrap. Aug. Quir. Rivini Ordo Plantarum, que sunt flore irregulari tetrapetalo. Lipsiæ, 1691. fol. Rom. archiv. Archiv für die Botanik, herausgegeben von Joh. Jac. Römer. Leipzig, 1796, seqq. 4to. Rupp. gen. Henr. Bern. Ruppius. Flora Jenensis. Ed. 3. ab A. Haller. Jens, 1745. 8vo. Shaw specimen. Specimen Phytographiæ africanze, &c. &c. or a Catalogue of some of the rarer Plants of Barbary, Egypt, and Arabia. Printed as an Appendix to “ Travels and Observations relating to several Parts of Barbary and the Levant, by Thomas Shaw. Oxford, 1732. fol." Smith fl. brit. Flora Britannica, auctore Jac. Edv. Smith. Vol. 1—3. Lon- dini, 1800, 1801. 8vo. Smith ic. pict. Icones pictæ plantarum rariorum, auctore Jacobo Edvardo Smith. Fascic.1-—3. London, 1790—1793. fol. Sonnerat it. Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine, par. M. Sonnerat. Paris, 1776. 4to. Sowerby fl. luz. The Florist's Delight or Flora Luxurians. fasc, 3. Lon- don, 1789—1791. fol. Suter fl. helv. Flora Helvetica. Johann Rudolf Suter. .Turici, 1802, 2 Voll. 12mo. d Swert. florii. Eman. Swertius. Florilegium tractans de variis Floribus. Francofurti, 1612. fol. Thunb. diss. ( Protea.) C. P. Thunberg Dissertatio de Proteá. Upsaliz, 1781. 4to. Thunb. fl. cap. Car. Petrus Thunberg. Flora Capensis, Vol 1. Up- saliæ, 1813. Vol. 2. fasc. 1. Hafnie, 1818. 8vo. Usteri ann. (v. Usteri's annal. der botanik.) Annalen der Botanik, heraus- gegeben von Paul Usteri. 1—24 Stuck. Zurich, 1791. Leipzig, 1800. 8vo. Villars dauph. (v. delph.) Histoire des plantes de Dauphiné par M. Villars. Tomes 3. Grenoble, 1786-—1789. 8vo. Waldst. et Kitaib. hung. Franc. Comitis Waldstein et Pauli Kitaibel de- scriptiones et icones plantarum rariorum Hungaris. Tom. 1—3. Vi- enna, 1802, ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO VOLUME V. Acacia alata . Acacia decurrens, B. Acacia longifolia Acacia lophantha Amaryllis australasica . Amaryllis reticulata, f. Amorpha fruticosa . Angelonia salicariæfolis Artabotrys odoratissimu Azalea nitida ... Begonia acuminata . Biynonia grandi! Callistemon rigidum Calostemms luteum... Calostemma purpureum . Calycanthus fertilis . Calytrix glabra ... Camellia japonica; A. alb. simp. Cerbera fruticosa 391. Oxylobium arborescens Cistus purpureus ... 408, Pæonis Moutan. a. ... Clerodendron paniculatum . ...406. || Pancratium verecundum, $, . Combretum purpureum . - 429. Passiflora tuberosa Jasminum humile ..... Leucadendron corymbosum , . Lycium afrum ....... 420. Magnolia pyramidata + 35%. Maranta zebrina 427. Melaleuca incana 415. Melastoma hevigata .. . > Mesembryanthemum maximum | Mespilus japonicus . Modecca lobata; suas. . Murraya exotica +. Muscari ciliatum ,. Nyctanthes Arbor tristis . 499, Ophrys Speculum . . 404. Orchis Jongibracteata . 409. Orchis tephrosanthos, f. .. 353, || Orchis variegata +... ..... | 896. || Indigofera australis | 1 Dìosma cilinta . Diosma hirta . ++ 869. Rosa alpina Echinops paniculatus . ++ +556, Rosa Banksia. Eryngium aquaticum ..879. Ross ferox .. Erysimum diffusa . 388. || Rosa kamchatica Erythrins carnea 389. Rosa multiflora . Euchilus obcordatus Ross rubrifoli Evolvulua latifolius . Ross spinosissima: reversa Fumaria nobi! . + 895. Salvia hispanica . Gastrotobium bilobum . Gesneria prasinata . . Habenaris fimbriata Hemanthus pubescens . Hedysarum latifolium . Heliconia Bihai . Hepatica americana . Hibiscus diversifoli Hyacintbus amethystinus . 411. || Satyrium cucullatum 428. Sida grandifolia . 405. Spartium ferox . 389. || Templetonia retn: 355. Tulipa gesneriana .... 374. Vaccinium amoenum . !| Viburnum rugosum . Viola pubescens. B. . (| Xylopbylla falcata . . e ——ÀÓÀ — "— o AR a Syd C dwed del. Fus fe: I ladou- (Y. Cid 170 « Peral herck d EIG | 350 JASMINUM humile. Yellow Italian Jasmine. —— DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord, Jasmine. Jussieu gen. 104. Div. II. Fructus baccatus. JASMINEE. Brown prod. 1. 520. JASMINUM. Supra vol. 1. fol. 1. J. humile, foliis alternis acutis ternatis pinnatisque, ramis angulatis, laciniis calycinis brevissimis, Hort. Kew. 1. 9. Jasminum humile, Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1.9. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n.2. Willd. sp. pl. 1.40. Vahl enum. 1. 33. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. VT. Jasminum humile luteum. Knorr thes. 1. tab. 1. :Jasminum luteum, Lobel ic. 2. 106. Hort. Eyst. asiìv. t. A0. fig. 2. Bauh. hist. 2. 102. Rami glabri, erecto-patentes. (Fol. plerumque simplicia et ternata, rariìs ternata et pinnata: foliola ovata; vix attenuata, obscuré nervosi, avenia, glabra, pollicaria, lateralia parim minora, Vahll.c.) Pedunculi terminales, erecti, gemini aut terni, triflori v. abort florum. lateralium uniflori, punctis minutissimis albis conspersi. Cal. brevissimus, 5-dentatus. Cor. lutea ; tubus $ partes uncie longus vel circa, rectus; limbus duplo brevior vel magis, laciniis oblongis, oblusissimis, margine reflexis, sæpè retusis cum paucâ et minutá pube ad apicem. Anth. sessiles, oblonga, acutulæ, angusla, lutea, emicantes tubo. Stylus et stigmata virentia. The present is a low shrub, seldom exceeding three or four feet in height. It is much more common in the gardens about Paris, where it serves for ornamental hedges, than about London, where the winters are too damp for it, the branches being generally more or less damaged during that season; nor is it every year that serves for the expansion of the blossom in any tolerable state. Cultivated by Mr. John Tradescant in 1656. No botanist has been yet able to in- form us from what quarter of the world it derives its origin; and though known in our gardens by the name of the Italian Jasmine, it has only been called so from the plants of it having been formerly imported by the Italian warehonse- men, along with their Orange-trees, &c. from Italy. It seems to us nearer to Jasminum revolutum, figured in the 178th article of this work, than to any other species we are acquainted with. Miller has the following article concerning it. VOL. V. B * It is frequently called, Italian yellow Jasmine by the “ gardeners, the plants being annually brought from Italy, ** by those who come over with Orange Trees. These plants “ are generally grafted upon the Common yellow Jasmine * stocks, (Jasminum fruticans), so that if the graft decays, “ the plants are of no value. This sort is somewhat tenderer “ than the Common, yet will it endure the cold of our or- “ dinary winters, if it be planted in a warm situation. The ** flowers of this kind are generally larger than those of the “ Common yellow sort, but have very little scent, and are “ seldom produced so early in the season. It may be pro- ** pagated by laying down the tender branches, or by budding * or inarching it upon the Common yellow sort, the latter ** of which is preferable, as making the plants hardier than “ those which are obtained from layers. They should be “ planted against a warm wall; and in very severe winters will require to be sheltered with mats, or some other “covering, otherwise they are subject to be destroyed.” The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- ley, Brames, and Milne, Fulham. The plant flowers from July to September. It is only lately that the natural abode of the Common white Jasmine (officinale) has been made known to the naturalist; and it appears to us very probable that that of the present species will be at last discovered by the botanist somewhere in the same parts, viz. Georgia and Circassia. —A NOTES. In vol. 3. fol. 178, and vol. 4. fol. 264; for “ JAsMINEE. Brown prod. 350." read “ JASMINEE, Brown prod. 1. 520.” ln fol. 344 of the fasciculus for last month, we should have mentioned that the BRoMELIA pallida had been lately published in Loddiges's Bota- nical Cabinet (No. 76), under the title of TiLLANDSIA amena. To TiL- LANDSIA it cannot however belong, as having an inferior germen ; but might have been added as a synonym to our plant. Ridgway E Imal, JO eet ll le. A (dig ! RL by Z 351 PROTEA acerosa. Pine-leaved Protea. —A TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. ProTExR. Jussieu gen. 78. Div. T. Semen nudum aut fructus monospermus. PROTEACEÆ, Brown in trans. linn. soc. 10, 15, segg. Div, I. Fructus clausus. PROTEA. Supra vol. 3. fol. 208. Div. Flores laterales. P. acerosa, floribus lateralibus, foliis subulatis, receptaculo convexiusculo: paleis obtusis. Brown loc. cit. 95. Protea acerosa. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 194. Caulis órevis. Rami erecti, glabri, Folia levia. Involucra ramca, sub- aggregata, breviter pedunculata ; bracteis obtusis, interioribus pube diutius persistenti subsericeis, Calyx muticus, apice barbato. Receptaculi palee connate. Sguamule hypogyne subulate. Oss. Varietas? Foliis longioribus (sesquiuncialibus) semiteretibus in Herbario et Hort. D. Hibbert vidi, que secundim D. Niven. 3-4 pedes alta in montosis solo fertiliori lecta. Hac Protea virgata. Andrews’s reposit. 577. Brown loc. cit. Introduced from the Cape of Good Hope by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, of the Hammersmith nursery, in 1803. Requires, like the rest of its congeners, to be cultivated in bog-earth, with which a smaller proportion of hazel loam has been mixed, and to be guarded from frost and damp in an airy greenhouse. Blossoms from March to May. A low shrub. Stem short. Branches upright, smooth. Leaves subulate, smooth. Flowers lateral Involucres growing with the branches, disposed in a kind of cluster, shortly peduncled; bractes obtuse, inner ones somewhat silkily furred with a pubescence that endures for some time. Calyx awnless, bearded at the summit. Receptacle somewhat convex: paleæ (the chaff-like membranes which separate the group of florets within the involuere and spring from the receptacle) obtuse, connate. Hypogynous squamulæ (small scales below the florets) subulate (awl- shaped). Mr. Brown saw in Mr. Hibbert’s Herbarium a plant, which he thinks likely to be a variety of the present, and B9 a which was found by Mr. Niven, at the Cape, growing on a rìcher soil in the hilly country near Souder-End, to the height of three or four feet. This is the one figured in the 577th plate of Andrews’s Repository. Its leaves are long (an inch and a half) and semicylindrical. N MN QE y ( | | Ls “A dg, Un (77 é OE AM. FU, AI uM M. ^W In. k ndd b: c Mf HI l | Hl dc SUL S sr. wurels. bel L 352 AMARYLLIS reticulata g. Striped-leaved Amaryllis. aie » HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Nancisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. JI. Germen inferum, AMARYLLIDEÆ. Brown prod. 206. Sect. I. AMARYLLIS. Supra vol. 3. fol. 226. Div. V. Bi-mult flora. Tubus nudus. Folia bifaria. A. reticulata, pluriflora ; foliis pluribus, lorato-oblongis, inferné versüs in- voluto-angustatis; corollâ subcernuâ, longé cucullato-tubulosá, limbo obliquè ringente. Nob. in journ. of scien. and ihe arts. 2. 956. Amaryllis reticulata. L’ Herit. sert. angl. 19. Hort. Kew. 1. 417, ed. 2.2. 225. Curtis's magaz. 657. Thompson's bot. displ. 7. — Andrews's repasit. 179. Redouté liliac. 424. (8) foliis striâ longitudinali argenteo-candicante medio percursis. Bulbus rotundus, indusio pullo. Folia 4-5, intens? virentia, T-9-uncialia, Jatitudine unciali ad sesquiuncialem, involuta, costá mcdiâ carirata, acuta. Scapus glaucus, subcompressus, brevior foliis. Flores pedunculati, uncias 4-5 longi. Cor. lilacino-punicans, venis intensiìs coloratis reticulata, fauce albicans; tubus uncia longior, ind? in faucem angusta turbinatam dilatescens; labium superius limbi reflexum; laciniæ ovali-lanceolate. Germen dilutè coloratum, oblongum, rotundalê trigonum., Semina pauca, baccata, globosa, atrosanguinea. . sata seminibus persistit. Nob. loc. cit. 357. The bulb of this fine plant was received a few years ago by Mr. Griffin from the Brazils. It differs from the variety previously known in our collections, by having a larger flower, and a curious silvery white stripe which runs down tbe middle of every leaf, very like what we see in the foliage of Crocus. Seed has been abundantly produced in the hothouse at South Lambeth, where the present drawing was made; and the seedlings which have been raised from it are all characterized by the same white stripe we see in the parent plant. Whether this mark should decide at once its specific separation? or decision be deferred for further experience? we leave to others to determine. Bulb round; integuments dark grey. Leaves 4-5, deep green, lorately oblong, 7-9 inches in length, one to one and a half broad, involutely narrowed downwards, pointed, midrib keeled. Scape glaucous, slightly compressed, shorter than the leaves. Flowers peduncled, 4-5 inches long. Corolla of a lilac-crimson colour, subcernuous, longly and cucullately tubular, marked with deep-coloured netted veins, white on the inside of the faux; tube more than an inch in length, then widening into a narrow turbinate faux; limb obliguely ringent, upper lip refiex, segments ovally lanceolate. Germen faintly coloured, oblong, roundedly trigonal. Seeds black-purple, of the size of a pea, few, berried, globular. n \\ 7 td 5 i | E | | | A 2 Of : 43 i x y / wht A tilh "A y y ME shed Sub by LR uly ua ^. Ma 170 4 lly p D 1 1819 / 353 CAMELLIA japonica; v. Single white Camellia, or Japan-rose. —— — MONADELDHIA POLYANDRIA. Nat. ord. AURANTIA. Jussieu gen. 262. Div. III. Fructus polysper- mus capsularìs. Folia non punctata. Genera AURANTIIS et MELrrs affinia. THRACEE. Mirbelin Nouv. Bulletin. 3. 382. CAMELLIA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 22. Camellia japonica. Vide suprà vol. 1. fol. 22. (») flore albo simplici. In the twenty-second article of the present publication, where we spoke of the Pompone variety of this popular spe- cies, we enumerated twelve others, being all that were then in our collections. The present has been introduced long since, and is yet very rare. Although the double white CAMELLIA had been familiar in our gardens for some years past, yet the single white one continued so long a desidera- tum with our florists, that they began to doubt the existence of it. . Like the rest of the varieties of this species, it has been procured from China. The drawing was taken from a plant that flowered in December last at Mr. Lee's nursery, Hammersmith; and is the only one we have seen. UT En * Dire di tiy Mare b. i D L /7O pert Faw: by S Leuk qur ate lc Sons 17 354 LYCIUM afrum. African Box-thorn. — PENTANDRIA MONOGYNJA. Nat. ord. SOLANEE. Jussieu gen. 12%. Brown prod. 443. Div. II. Fructus baccatus, LYCIUM. Cal. urceolatus brevis, 5-fidus aut 5-dentatus. Cor. longior tubulosa, limbo erecto guinguelobo aut plano quinquepartito. Fil, basi tumida et villosa, mediæ corollz infixa, intra limbum erectum latentia, suprà planum exserta; anth. ochroleuce. Stig. bisuleum. Bacca subro- tunda; sem. reniformia. Frutices plerigue spinosi, ramulis apice pungenti- jus ; fol. edn Jasciculata; flores axillares solitarii aut geminati. Juss, oc. cit. 126, L. afrum, foliis linearibus subcarnosis basi attenuatis fasciculatis, ramis axis spinescentibus, pedunculis calyce longioribus, staminibus corollæ tubo inclusis. Willd. enum. 1. 245. Lycium afrum. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2.1. ZTT. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 1. ic. t. 171. Jig- 1. Hort. Kew. 1. 256. ed. 2. 2. 3. Zorn ic. 159. Murr. in commentar. gotting. 1779. 12. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1057 ; (excluso Mich. gen. 224. t. 105. L 2.). Xd liis linearibus flore fructúque majori, Trew ehret. tab. 24. fig. 2. Jasminoides africanum, jasmini aculeati foliis et facie. — Nissol in act. paris. 820, 1. 12. Frutex rigidus, tortuosus, nodosus, orgyalis vel duplus, robust? longeque inosus; cortice pallido. Fasciculi foliorum undique sparsi numerosi. ores inodori, solitarii, penduli, è centro fasciculorum foliorum; pedunculi uniflori, filiformes, glabri, deflexi, longiores calyce, duplo breviores foliis atque corollá. Cal. 3-plo ferê brevior corollá, virens, cupulato-tubulosus, glaber, 5-dentatus, dentibus acuminatis ciliatis tomento minuto. Cor. tubata, X partes unciæ longa v. circitèr, lurido-purpurascens, virore variè tincta, día» metro penne scriptoria minoris, recta: tubus parèm superné ampliatus, 4-plo Jfermê longior limbo, ‘uti et calyx 10-nervis, intús fauci saturate violaceas limbus campanulato-rotatas, laciniis oblato-subrotundis v. subreniformibus, basi imbricato-contiguis, margine depressis. Fil. albicaniia, inclusa, erecta, în- serta tubo in plano calycis, pedem limbi attingentia, infernê fusco-barbata, deindà glabra setaceo-filiformia: anth. sagillafo-oblonge, breves, erecta, œ basi infize, polline ochroleuco, farinaceo. Germ. breve, oblato-subconicum, glabrum, disco obsolet? 10-dentato insidens: stylus subclavato-filiformis, erectus, viridis, æqualis staminibus: stig. subpileato-capitatum, saturate wiride, transverse oblongum et subreniforme, Certainly native of the Cape of Good Hope; but not of Spain and Portugal, as most books have it. Comes very near to rigidum, also a Cape species, where the spines are however more numerous and robust, and the flowers much shorter, VOL, v. c Cultivated by the Duchess of Beaufort in 1712. A hardy greenhouse plant. Will survive our milder winters when planted in a warm situation against a wall. The drawing was taken from a plant we ourselves raised from seed ga- thcred at the Cape of Good Hope. The following is its description as given by Miller. “ It ** rises with irregular shrubby stalks ten or twelve feet high, * sending out several crooked knotted branches, covered * with a whitish bark, and armed with long sharp spines, “ upon which grow many clusters of narrow leaves; these “thorns often put out one or two smaller on their sides; * which have some clusters of smaller leaves upon them; “ the branches are garnished with very long leaves, an inch and a half long, and at the base of these come out clusters “ of shorter and narrower leaves. - The flowers come out. of “ the side of the branches, standing upon short footstalks; “ they have a short permanent calyx of one leaf, which is * tubulous, and cut into five segments at the brim; the * flower is funnelform, of one petal, with a long incurved “ tube, cut into five obtuse segments at the brim, they are “ of a dull purple colour, and have five stamina almost as “ long as the tube, with erect anthers. In the centre is * situated a roundish germen, supporting a style which is “ longer than the stamina, crowned by a bifid (more truly “ a capitate) stigma. The germen afterwards turns to a ** roundish fleshy berry, of a yellowish colour when ripe, in- “ closing several hard seeds.” May be raised with great facility from cuttings. Fre- quently ripens its seeds with us. Nineteen species are recorded in Persoon's Synopsis. By some or other of them the genus pervades every quarter of the globe. The nearest approach it makes to our Island is by the Southern part of France. One species only has been recorded by Mr. Pursh as native within the boundaries of the United States; and that grows in the warmer regions. / 3 a y Lf é / 70 fit CUD E p YOnS. yi WM th, ds Wy a ym * Au 355 HEDYSARUM latifolium, Broad-leaved Hedysarum, — DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. Lucumisosz. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. IX. Cor. irregularis papilionacea. Stam, 10 diadelpha. Legum, articulatum articulis mono- spermis. HEDYSARUM. Cal. 5-fidus, persistens. Carina transversè obtusa, Legum. articulis subrotundis compressis, Herbe aut rariìs suffrutices ; folia simplicia aut gemina gut ternata aut impuri-pinnata, stipulis à petiolo distinctis ; ternatorum petioluli in petiolum articulati, sepe substipulacei stipulá filiformi; Seres axillares pedunculis uni aut mullifloris, aut sepiìs terminales spicati v. paniculati; horum bracteæ nunc majores vari? constructa, aho parce aut subnullz. Legum. formå varium mod? subcylindricum arti- culis truncatis, modo compressum. et frequentèr utringue aut hinc tantim ad artículos contractum. Species quadam articulo unico 1-spermo, alia 1-3- phylle, alie plures pinnatifoliz pretercá distincte fructá cristato eb ideÿ Jorsán à genere distrahenda. Motus in foliolis Hepysant gyrantis pecu- Garis, Juss. loc. cit. 362, - Div. Foliis simplicibus, H. Tatifolium, fruticosum, (subfulvo-pubescens,) obliquum. Foliis simplici- bus rotundatê reniformi-cordatis, subrepandis. —Stipulis semicordatis, euspidatis. Racemis axillaribus, hamato-setosis. Leguminibus 3-5- articulatis, margine inferiori emarginatis. Roxburgh MSS. in Museo Banksiano, cum tab. ined, (ex anglico vers.) Hedysarum latifolium, Carey Hort. Bengal. 57. . . Caulis ¿revis, lignosus, glabriusculus. Rami obligui, fermê horizontales vel reclinati, ubi teneriorts villosi. Folia alterna (hic inde licét rarè in sum- mo ramo sub racemo occurrit horum par oppositum) bifaria, brevi-petiolata, subrotundo-cordata, subis tomentosa, supra scabrata, longitudine 9-4-unciali vel eò circa, latitudine fer? equali. Stipulae rameæ semicordale, cuspidate, etiolares subulata. ` Racemi axillares et terminales, horizontales, pluries ongiores folio, pilis setaccis hamatis vestiti. Flores tripli, parvuli, leté pur- purei, medius serior lateralibus. Bracteæ triple, triquetræ, acuta. Legu- mina plana, hamalo-setulosa, 4-5-articulata margine inferiori profundus emarginata, Roxb. loc, cit. (ex angl.). The sample here figured was sent by Mr. Lambert from Boyton House, in Wiltshire, and formed part of a plant, the produce of some seed collected in China by Sir George Staunton, during the period he was associated with Lord Amherst in the embassy to tbe court of that empire. W e See no feature suggesting any reason for distinguishing it from the Hepysarum latifolium of Dr. Roxburgh, by whom it had been cultivated in the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, havìng been brought by Colonel Hardwicke from c2 n northern part of Hindoostan, where it was spontaneous. The leaves in some samples, lately received from the Cal. . cutta Garden by Sir Joseph Banks, have a less cordate or indented base than those of others in Mr. Lambert's Her- barium, or indeed than in the base of those in Dr. Rox- burgb's figure. Here and there, though rarely, we find a pair of exactly opposite ones, with the stipules connate. Plants of it have formerly flowered with Mr. Lambert, which had been produced from seed out of the Calcutta Garden. The species is not recorded in the Hortus Kew- ensis. The following is Dr. Roxburgh's description. “ Stem “ short, ligneous, and pretty smooth. Branches oblique, “ almost horizontal or reclinate, the tender parts villous. ** Leaves simple, alternate, bifarious, short-petioled, round- * ishly cordate, somewhat repand, downy underneath, “above scabrous, about three or four inches long, and “nearly of the same breadth. Stipules of the petioles “* semicordate cuspidate, of the leaves subulate. Racemes * axillary and terminal, horizontal, many times longer “than the leaves, clothed with small hooked bristles. ** Flowers threefold, the middle one late, they are all small “ and of a bright purple colour. Bractes threefold, trian- * gular, acute. Legumes flat, clothed with hooked bristles, “ four-five-jointed, and more deeply notched at the under “ margin.” AN? NE - N 7 Y - Cs AN S à T E 4 YN 7 yN dei , Mo AD 4 BAR 4 - 2 2 } Y y t L ^ N «es Pb Lush n, | J ] Arde un Lf MU Son | 70 Pee LW My M et re b. 1 1619 356 ECHINOPS paniculatus. Tartarian Globe-thistle. tc SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SEGREGATA. Nut. ord. CYNAROCEPHALE. Jussieu gen. 171. Div. III. Cynaroce- phalæ anomale. Calyces uni aut pauciflori aggregati. ECHINOPS. Calyces \-flori flore flosculoso hermaphrodito, angulati oblongi, squamis numerosis insequalibus infra ciliatis imbricati, et extìs basi multisetosi, aggregati in capitulum globosum supra receptaculum come mune globosum subnudum, cinctum quandoque squamulis reflexis minimis calycem communem mentientibus. Stig. duplex. Semen villosum, apice ciliatum, calyce persistente cinctum. Herbe, quedam altissime; fol. alterna spinosa pinnatifida; capitula sap? solitaria terminalia. Jusa. loc. cit. 75. E. puniculatus, foliis rugosis, squarroso-pinnatifidis, suprà glabris, infernê: glaucis tomentosis; caule ramosissimo, Jacq. ecl. 1. 72. n. 40. tab. 40. Baumgarten en. stirp. transylv. 8. 80. Echinops tauricus. ilid. enum. suppl. 62. Radix biennis. Caules serpedales, herbacei, plures ex eâdem radice, erecti, inferna crassi, sulcati, pubescentes, purpurascentes, ramosissimt, ramis Jastigiatis. Fol. alterna, patentia, sessilia, amplexicaulia, inferiora sesqui- pedalia, superiora sensim minora, sguarroso-pinnatifida, rugosa, suprá pro- Sunde virentia, pilis raris brevissimis diaphanis obsita, caterüm glabra, nitida presertim juniora et caulina, infrá glauca, tomentosa nervis prominentibus albidis pilosis; laciniis 4 vel 5 in utroque latere, sinuatis, acutis; in £s caulinis versús basin lat? decurrentibus et tandèm evanescentibus versis basin, ut demèm appendiculas spinosas petioli semipedalis canaliculati referant. Flores tn capitulis globosis diametro bipollicari. Anthodium nullum ntsi selar ez calycibus infimorum serum persistentes it2 uuncuperiur. — Klosculi omnes hermaphroditi. Calyx viscosum, glaucescens involucro setoso proprio tecium, 12-14-phyllum, imbricatum, oblongum foliolis erectis, spathulato- lanceolatis, omnibus longè acuminatis, glaucts, basi fascescente, apice ciliatis, ciliis plumosis, exterioribus versús apicem pilis rarioribus capitatis pubescenti- bus; interioribus glabris. Corollule tu ulose, cærulescenti-allæ, glabra, tubo cylindrico, longitudine involucri, fauce globosá, limbo carulescente 5-fido, lacinits linearibus bisulcatis reflexis. Fil, laxa, ex fundo faucis orta. Anth. cylindrica, pentagona, cærulea, post anthesin pallescens. Germ. obversè conicum, pilis adpressis dense villosum, apice ciliis confertis fuscis coronatum stylus post anthesin staminibus longior: stig. bifidum, lobis reflexis, longitu- dine antheræ, basi ciliatis. Semen oblongum, glabrum, pappo marginato coronatum. Recept. nudum panciatum. Jacq. loc. cit. Native of the Crimea, and also of Transylvania. Lately introduced by Mr. Lambert, having been grown in his garden at Boyton House, from seed obtained from the Botanic Establishment at Berlin. The sample from which the drawing was made came off a plant that flowered last autumn. The species had been cultivated at Vienna in 1805, by Dr. Host, to whom the seed had been sent by M. Marschall of Bieberstein. It is only when the plant grows in perfection that the panicled character of the stem is dis- played. Seems to be hardy. Root biennial. Stems six feet high, herbaceous, se- veral from the same rootstock, upright, thick at the lower part, furrowed, pubescent, purplish, full of branches, branches level-topped. Leaves alternate, spreading, ses- sile, stemclasping, lower ones a foot and an half long, upper ones gradually smaller, sguarrosely pinnatifid, deep green above and very thinly furred with short transparent hairs, smooth, shining, especially the young and stem ones, underneath glaucous tomentose, with white prominent hairy nerves, lobes 4 or 5 on each side, sinuated, sharp-pointed, in the stem-leaves broadly decurrent towards the base, ulti- mately diminishing towards the lower part, till they have the appearance of the spinous appendages of a half foot long channelled petiole. Flowers in globular heads of about 2 inches in diameter. General involucre none, unless you choose to denominate the persistent bristles belonging to the calyxes of the lower florets such. Florets furnished through- out with stamens and pistils. Calyx viscous, inclining to glaucous, surrounded by a partial bristly involucre, 12-14- leafletted, imbricate, oblong, leaflets upright, spatulately Janceolate, all long-pointed, glaucous, inclining to brown at the base, ciliated at the top, cilia or fringe feathery; outer ones furred towards the top by thin-set headed hairs, inner ones smooth. Florets tubular, blueish white, smooth; tube cylindrical, the length of the involucre; faur globular; limb blueish; segments linear, two-furrowed, reflected. Filaments loose, springing from the bottom of the faux: anther cylindrical, pentagonal, blue, almost colourless after the pollen has been evacuated. Germen reversedly conical, closely and flat-pressedly villous, crowned at the top by a close brown fringe: style after the evacuation of the pollen longer than the stamens: stigma bifid; lobes reflex, the length of the anther, ciliated or fringed at the base. Seed oblong, smooth, with a margined pappus or seed-crown. Receptacle naked, punctured. Su by. J L y Sans (79 Srccadily * odd. / 1214 —— 357 ORCHIS longibracteata. Winter Orchis of Sicily. —— GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord, Oncnibex. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 309. Div. I. Anthera adnata subterminalis persistens. — Pollinis massæ à lobulis angulatis elasticé cohærentibus; basi affixa. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 188. ORCHIS. Supra vol. 3. fol. 202. O. longibracteata: bulbis indivisis; petalis conniventibus; nectarii labio (labello) trifido: laciniâ mediâ exporrectâ bilobâ; bracteis flore longio- ribus. Biv. Bernardi sic. pl. cent. 1. 57. n. 66. tab. 4. Orchis myodes liliacea hircina flore rubro porphyrographi fimbriata. Bonan. 4.33. Monorchis myodes liliacea hircina, flore magno rubro porphyrographi, Cup. Parph. 1. t. 200. Orchis myodes hyemalis liliacea, hircina, fimbriato flore magno rubro por- hyrographi. Cup. hort. cath. 157. et suppl. alt. 67. ulbi duo subrotundi. Scapus teres, subflecuosus, vaginatus foliis ovatis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, striatis, paginâ superiore præcipuè lucidis. Flores magni graveolentes in spicâ pyramidali compactá. Petala in galeam conni- ventia, erlìs purpurea nervis viridibus, intús albo-viridia punctis rubris pulchré notata: opercula (interiora 2) petalis. (exterioribus) angustiora, herbida. Nectarii labium (labellum) maculis albis purpureisque variegatum, trifidum; segmento medio productiori, bilobo cum appendiculá interná lateral brevissimá, aliguotiês nulla ; segmentis lateralibus margine externo undulatis, Cornu (Calcar) germine trigono intorto brevius. Columna antherifera brevis, apice obtusa. Stigma obcordatum. Bracteæ virides, lanceolate, cucullum sive galeam superantes. Biv. Bernardi loc. cit. The English botanist is indebted to Mr. Swainson, of Elm Grove, near Liverpool, for the introduction of this fine species. During an official residence in Sicily, the native place of our plant, the leisure time of this gentleman was dedicated to Natural History, and the exploring of the pro- ductions of that Island. His pursuits have led to the in- troduction and cultivation of many new and rare vegetables. Orcuis longibracteata has been described in a masterly way by M. Divona Bernardi, a Sicilian naturalist of emi- nence, and author of two botanical publications of great merit; copies of which have been lately received by Mr. Bohn, Bookseller in Frith Street. We shall avail ourselves of Mr. Swainson's communica- tion to us by quoting the following passage from his letter VOL. V. D which accompanied the present specimen on the 4th of Ja- nuary last: “ Oncurs lon gibracteata i is one of the rarest species < found in Sicily, nor had I ever met with it in six years “ residence on that island, until it was pointed out to me * by my friend Bivona Bernardi, growing on a rich soil be- « | SÉ) quy A — Hart. del, Lub, by Ha A Sona 770 Recadelly ; T P, 7.1819 r Smith few 360 SIDA grandifolia. Large-leaved Sida. ——— MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Nat. ord. Maivacezæ. Jussieu gen. 271. Div. II.. Stamina in tubum corolliferum connata, indefinita. Fructus multicapsularis; capsule verti- cillate, in orbem dispositæ aut in unam compacts, SIDA. Cal. 5-hdus simplex. Anthere in apice tubi. Styli plures (5-80) hasi approximati (rarô stylus veré unicus); stigmata totidem, Capsule totidem 1-loculares 1-3-spermæ 2-valves, in unam conniventes. Frutices aut herba, rard arbores; fores axillares aut terminales, pedicellis sub calyce quasi articulatis, in articulo solubilibus, observante D. Cavanilles. Ex eodem petala in speciebus 5-10-capsularibus 1-spermis sæpiàs hinc falcatim et obliguê productiora, in ceteris non item. Capsule in $. vesicariâ ejusdem 5-sperma. Juss, loc. cit. Div. Foliis cordatis dentatis, pedunculis multifloris vel racemosis. S. grandifolia, foliis subrotundo-cordatis inegualitêr dentatis pubescenti- mollibus, pedunculis bi-triflorisgue petiolo brevioribus, capsulis acumi- natis calyce parüm majoribus, ramis.hirtis. Willd. enum. 2, 'T24. Arbor viginti-pedalis. Folia in juniore arbore semipedalia, in adultá qua- dripollicaria, Capsule circiter decem subtruncate acuminate calyce parüm majores hirlæ trisperme. Willd. loc. cit. A species lately introduced by Mr. Lambert, by whom it was raised at Boyton House, from seed ripened in the Botanic Garden at Berlin. It requires to be kept in the hothouse, where it flowers during the winter season. Willdenow, by whom it has been recorded in the Cata- logue of the Berlin Garden, had not ascertained from whence it came. Sina differs from Hinrscus in having a single, instead of a double calyx, and a fruit of many capsules, instead of a five-celled enpsule. In the synopsis of Persoon we find 122 species, a great proportion of which belong to tropical America and India. Mr. Brown, in his excellent treatise on the Botany of Congo, has the following remark concerning the natural tribe to which the present genus belongs. “The Malvacee, Ti- * liacem, Hermanniacem, Bufneriaceæ, and Sferculiaceæ, * constitute one natural class; of which the orders appear “ to meas nearly related as the different sections of Rosacee * are to each other. In both these, as well as in several * other cases that might be mentioned, there seems to be a “ necessity for the establishment of natural classes, to which “ proper names, derived from the orders best known, and * differing perhaps in termination, might be given. * It is remarkable that the most general character con- “necting the different orders of the class now proposed, * and which may be named from its principal order Mal- * vaceee, should be that of the valvular estivation (the * folding previous to expansion) of the Calyx: for several, “ at least, of the genera at present referred to Tiliaceco, in “which this character is not found, ought probably, for “ other reasons likewise, to be excluded from that order; “ and hence perhaps also the Chlenacece, though nearly re- “lated, are not strictly referable to the class Malvacew, “ from all of whose orders, it must be admitted, they differ “ considerably in habit.” Sina grandifolia has grown in tbe Berlin Collection to a tree of twenty feet in height. Branches covered with a long close fur. Leaves round- ishly cordate, unevenly denticulate, covered with a soft pubescence, in the young plant about half a foot in length, in the full-grown one about four inches long. Peduncles two-three-flowered shorter,than the petiole. Capsules about 10, subtruncated, long pointed, but little bigger than the calyx, shaggy, three-seeded. South Je Ao FFO n Mw / 1819. Kidgway Z | $ 4A / MU aW 361 ACACIA lophantha. Two-spiked Acacia, POLYGAMIA MONŒCIA, Nat. ord. LEGUMYNOSIE. Jussieu gen. 345, Div. I. Corolla regularis, Legumen multiloculare, szpiüs bivalve, dissepimentis transversis, loculis . monospermis. Stamina distincta. Arbores aut frutices; folia abrupt? pine naba-—MiMoskm. Brown gen. rem. in Flind. voy. 2. 551. ACACIA. Suprà vol. 2. fol. 98. Div. Foliis duplicato-pinnatis, caule inermi, spicis globosis. A. lophantha, inermis, foliis bipinnatis, partialibus novem seu duodecimjugis, propriis subvigintijugis lanceolatis aveniis, glandulâ petiolari, et inter binas terminales partialium, spicis oblongis pedunculatis axillaribus geminis, Wild, sp. pl. 4. 1070. Acacia lophantha. Tat. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 468. Mimosa distachya. Venten. cels. 20. Mimosa elegans. Andrews's reposit. 563. Ramuli teretes sulcati. Fol. bipinnata, partialibus septem-novem-seu duo» decimjugis, propriis 15-18-seu 24-jugis lanceolatis acutis abris aveniis et tantúm costâ mediá instructis. Petioli pubescentes. Glandula urceolata de- ressa ad basin petioli communis et inter paria bina terminalia partialium, Spicæ pollicares vel sesgui pollicares oblonge axillares geminate. Legumen planum oblongum sinuatum margine incrassatum, Willd. L c. Found on the south-west coast of New Holland by Mr. Brown. Introduced in 1803 by Mr. Peter Good. An orna- mental greenhouse shrub, flowering for a considerable time in succession at various seasons of the year. The drawing was taken in January last at Mr. Knight's nursery, in the King's Road, Little Chelsea. . Branchlets round, fiuted. Leaves doubly pinnate, pinnæ in seven, nine, or twelve pairs; leaflets in fifteen, eighteen, or twenty-four pairs, lanceolate, sharp-pointed, smooth, veinless, with only a midrib. Petioles furred. Glands small urceolated depressed, one at the base of the common petiole and between the two terminal pairs of the partial ones. Spikes from an inch to an inch and a half long or more, oblong, axillary, twin. Legume flat, oblong, sinuated, thickened at the edge. . What are termed leaves in this species, are in fact dilated petioles, the true compound leaf being produced VOL. V. E only by the scedling plant. We shall subjoin some ex- tracts from Mr. Brown’s highly interesting observations on the natural tribe to which our plant belongs. “ LEGUMINOSÆ. This extensive tribe may be con- “ sidered as a class divisible into at least three orders, to “ which proper names should be given. Of the whole class * about 2000 species are at present published; and in Terra < Australis, where this is the most numerous family, consi- * derably more than 400 species have already been observed. “ One of the three orders of Leguminose, which is here ** for the first time proposed, may be named Mimoseæ. It ** consists of the Linnean Mimosa, recently subdivided by & Willdenow into five genera, along with ADENANTHERA and * Prosopis. This order is sufficiently distinguished from * both the others by the hypogynons insertion "and valvular * æstivation of its corolla, which being perfectly regular « differs in this respect also from the greater part of Lomen- ** tace and from all the Papilionacec. * Nearly the whole of the Australian species of the Lin- “ nean genus, Mimosa, belong to the Acacra of Willdenow, * as it is at present constituted; and abont nine tenths of “the Acacie to his first division of that genus, described by * him as having simple leaves, but which is in reality aphyl- * lous; the dilated foliaceous footstalk performing the func- * tions of the true compound leaf, which is produced only in * the seedling plant, or occasionally i in the more advanced “ state in particular circumstances, or where plants have “ been injured. “The great number of species of Acacia having this remarkable economy in Terra Australis, forms one of the * most striking peculiarities of its vegetation. “The second order, Lomentaceæ or Cesalpinec, com- ** prebends all the genera having perigynous stamina, a «< corolla whose cestivation is not valvular, and which though * generally irregular is never papilionaceous. To these cha- “ racters may be added the straight embryo, in which they * agree with the Mimosew, but differ from all the Papilio- * naceæ, except ARAcHIS and Cercis. “The third order, Papilionaceæ, which comprehends “about three fourths of the whole class at present known, — “ includes also nearly the same proportion of the Australian “ Leguminose, ** Panilionaceee admit of subdivision into several natural “ sections, but in Terra Australis they may be divided al- “ most equally, and without violence to natural affinities, * into those with connected and those with distinct stamina. “The decandrous part of the whole order bears a very “ small proportion to the diadelphous, which ìn Persoon's “* synopsis is to the former as nearly 30 to 1, while in Terra * Australis, as I have already stated, the two tribes are ** nearly equal. “ This remarkably increased proportion of Decandrous * Papilionaceous plants, forms another peculiarity in the “ vegetation of New Holland, where their maximum exists in ** the principal parallel. They are not so generally spread * over the whole of Terra Australis, as the leafless Acacico; * for although they extend to the southern extremity of Van “ Diemen's Island, they are even there less abundant, and “very few species have been observed within the tropic. ** Papilionaceous plants with distinct stamina do not in fact “ form a very natural subdivision of the whole order, though * those of New Holland, with perhaps one or two excep- “ tions, may be considered as such: this Australian portion, “ however, forms nearly three fourths of the whole section, “at present known: the remaining part, consisting of “ genera, most of which are very different, both from “ each other and from those of Terra Australis, are found * at the Cape of Good Hope, in seguinoctial and north * Africa, in the different regions of America, in New Zea- “ land, in India, very sparingly in North Asia, and lastly < in the South of Europe, where, however, only two species * have been observed, namely, ANAGYRIS fœtida and Cercis “ Siliquastrum; but the latter having a straight embryo * and a habit approaching to that of BAuHINIA, rather be- # longs to Lomentaceæ.” | = mo rs. P Jute up E | aed. A by. J 8 F e / 76 Sacaddly April / 1019. Smi L4 b 362 ACACIA longifolia. Long-leaved Acacia. —AÀ—— POLYGAMIA MONG:CIA. Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSE. Jussieu gen. 845. Div. I. Corolla regularis. Legumen multiloculare, sæpids bivalve, dissepimentis transversis, loculis monospermis, Stamina distincta. Arbores aut frutices; folia abrupta pinnata==Mrmosex. Brown gen. rem. in Flind, voy. 2. 551. ACACIA. Supra vol. 2, fol. 98. Div. Foliis simplicibus. A. longifolia, inermis; foliis lineari-lanceolatis utrinque angustatis trinerviis Striatis, spicis axillaribus geminatis cylindraceis. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 1052. . Acacia longifolia. Andrews's reposit. 207. Venten. malmais. 62. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 461. Willd. enum. 2.1050. Curtis's magaz. 1827. . Frutex sempervirens excelsior, Caulis erectus, teres, ramosus, foliosus, glaber, fusco-cinerascens: rami axilares, sparsi, siricti, angulosi. Fol. sparsa, approximata, patentia, obliqua, infernè versis attenuata, apice obtusa, venosula nervis 3 varicosioribus, glabra, plana, persistentia, haud saturat? virentia: petioli brevissimi, articulati, articulo corrugatè protuberantes, de» currentes. Spice instar amentorum, sæpiès geming, fermêgue opposite, axillares, plurimiim breviores folio, patentes, sessiles, cylindrice: pedunculi per omnem longitudinem floriferi, bracteati, Flores sessiles, confertiores, inodori, citrini, plerumque hermaphroditi, modo masculi, Bractem simplices, sigillatim pede spice florisque uniuscujusque posita, ovales, concave, mem branosæ, subrubentes, caduce; spicarum dupl? longiores florum. Cul. campa- aulatus, membranosus, pallidé lutescens, 5-dentaius, triplo brevior corolla. Pet. 5, imo calyci afflau, ovalia, acula, erecto-recurva. Fil. numerosa, Fundo calycis sub petalis inserta, basi in annulum connata, ind? libera, globoso- divergentia, capillacea, petalis quibus dupló longiora concolora : amth. erecte, roiundiuscule, citrine, minima, biloba. Germ. liberum, albicans, ovale, pubescens: stylus lateralis, stamina exsuperans, rectus, capillaceus: stig. simpler, obtusum. When cultivated in the border of the conservatory, this ` plant forms a fine tall shrub; and is covered from February to May with blossom’ nearly throughout the whole of the branches. Introduced by Mr. Ord in 1792. Native of New South Wales. There are several presumed varieties, - differing with longer and shorter, broader and narrower, paler and deeper green leaves. The drawing was taken from a specimen from Mr. Her- bert's collection at Spofforth. Evergreen. Stem upright, round, branching, leafy, smooth, of a cinereous brown: branches axillary, scattered, stiff, straight, angular. Leaves scattered, near, spreading, obligue, tapered downwards, obtuse at the peint, veiny with three raised nerves, smooth, persistent, not of a very deep green colour: petioles very short, jointed, protuberant at the joint and wrinkled, decurrent. Spikes resembling cat- kins, generally in pairs, much shorter tban the leaf, spread- ing, sessile, cylindrical: peduncles flowerbearing their whole length, bracteate. Flowers sessile, close, scentless, lemon- coloured, chìefly with both stamens and pistils, sometimes with only stamens. Bractes simple, one at the base of each peduncle and of each flower, oval, concave, membranous, reddisb, caducous, those of the spikes twice the length of those of the flowers. Calyx campanulate, membranous, pale yellow, five-toothed, three times shorter than the corolla. Petals five, affixed to the lowermost. part of the calyx, oval, acute, upright, recurved. Filaments numerous, inserted at the bottom of the calyx below the petals, grown together at the base into a ring, free and distinct all the way, from thence diverging into globular tufts, capillary, twice the length of the petals and of the same colour: anthers round- ish, upright, lemon-coloured, very small, two-lobed. Ger- men detached, whitish, oval, pubescent: style growing on one side of it, overtopping the stamens, straight, capillary: stigma â simple obtuse point. Both the above descriptions are principally collected from the French in M. Ventenat’s work. tyf #, el A C I^ a . L ipe Je YSFÂAS » t ( y, a y. : ý y) éd F c i : A by. Y it ly LU Fo à Jon 7 FYDD a ^C " ub ES op. 24m bb. / Les > j 363 MELASTOMA levigata. Smooth-leaved Melastoma. — DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. D Nat. ord. MELASTOME (recentis MELASTOMACRE). Jussieu gen, 899. vv. FI. MELASTOMA. Cal. l-phyllus, extàs nudus, 4-5-6-dentatus, fruc- tum vestiens. Pet. 4-5-6. Slam. 8-10-12, omninô libera. Germ. liberum. Bacca seu capsula molli pulpá farcta, 4-5-locularis apice dehiscens. Sem, numerosa, in pulpá nidulantia, Ventenat in mem. de l’Institut. sc. phys. 1807. 8. 11. M. Levigata, folis integerrimis lævigatis quinquenerviis ovato-oblongis .. leeviusculis acuminatis: margine lævibus. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 559. Melastoma lævigata. Swartz obs. 176. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 599. Sweet hort. suburb. lond. 94 . Melastoma fruticosa minor, foliis tenuibus, ovatis, racemis terminalibus. Browne jam. 212. Grossularia fructà non spinoso, malabathri folio oblongo, floribus herbaceis racemosis, fructà nigro. Sloane cat. 165. hist. 2. 140. Frutex humane altitudinis, erectus. Caulis ramosus, laevis. Rami erecti, tereti-angulati, leves, Folia petiolata, decussato-opposita, lanceolato-ovata, acuminata, integra, 5-nervia, nervosa, venosa, utrinque glabra, tenuiora, in- terdüm subtús rugosiuscula, subnitida, saturaté viridia. Racemi terminales, compositi, erecti, paniculati, ramis oppositis decussatis, ramulis itidem oppo- sitis; foribus confertis, brevitêr pedicellatis, albis, parvis. Cal. superus, 5-dentatus: dentes obtusi, breves. Petala 5, infra dentes inserta, subsessilia, subrotunda, integra, Vil 10 calyci infra petala adfiza, corollá longiora, geniculata; anthere erecta, apice perforate. Germ. subrotundum: stylus erectus, staminibus longior: stigma crassiusculum, truncatum, concavum. Bacca subrotunda, primüm albida, dein cerulea et tandèm atra evadit, S-locularis, succo atrocaruleo. Swartz loc. cit. MERE S Said by Swartz to be a common plant in Jamaica. It is however rare in our collections, into which, aecording to Sweet's Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis, it was not intro- duced tili 1815. We find no mention of it in the Hortus Kewensis. The sample from which the drawing has been taken, was kindly sent by Sir Abraham Hume from Wormleybury, where it flowered in the hothouse during the late winter months. : Mr. Brown, in his valuable notes on the Congo Her- barium, has the following interesting notice concerning the natural order to which our plant belongs. FL AR YA O a WM o o T “In a considerable part of the species published ìn the * monograph of Rurx;, by M. Bonpland, and in some “ other genera of the Melastomacee, the manner in which “ the germen is connected with the tube of the calyx is pe- “ culiar. This cohesion, instead of extending uniformly “ over the whole surface, is limited to 10 longitudinal equi- * distant lines or membranous processes, apparently origin- ^ ating from the surface of the germen; the interstices, “ which are tubular, and gradually narrowing towards the “ base, being entirely free. * The function of these tubular interstices is as remark- “able as their existence. * In Melastomacee, before the expansion of the corolla, “ the tops of the filaments are inflected, and the antheræ are * pendulous, and parallel to the lower or erect portion of “ the filament; their tips reaching either to the line of com- * plete cohesion between the calyx and germen, where that * exists; or, where this cohesion is partial, and such as I “ have now described, being lodged in the tubular inter- “ stices; the points extending to the base of the germen. * From these sheaths, to which they are exactly adapted, £ the antheræ seem to be disengaged in consequence of the ‘€ unequal growth of the different parts of the filament; the “ inflected portion ceasing to increase in length at an early “ period, while that below the eurvature continues to elon- “ gate considerably until the extrication is complete, when “ expansion takes place. “ It is singular that this mode of cohesion between the ger- 4 men and the calyx in certain genera of Melustomacee, and * the equally remarkable æstivation of the antheræ accom- ** panying it, should have been universally overlooked, espe- “ cially in the late monograph of M. Bonpland; as both the £“ structure and economy certainly exist in some, and proba- “* bly in the greater part of the plants which that author has “ fig red and described as belonging to RHEx1a.” ‘Swartz describes the present shrub as growing, on its native spot, to the height of a man. Stem upright, branched, smooth; branches upright, cylindrically angular, smooth. Leaves petioled, decussatedly opposite, lanceo- lately ovate, acuminate or long-pointed, entire, five-nerved, veined, smooth on both sides, thinner than usual in the genus, sometimes slightly wrinkled at the under side, some- what shining, of a deep full green colour. Racemes terminal, compound, upright, decussately panicled. eo Hal dl LE Gh Uf D 3 » A | P fn oa T E May À Mb My N QN N, a Ad fe. 364 BEGONIA acuminata. Pointed-leaved Begonia. —-—— MONŒCIA POLYANDRIA. Nat. ord. Plante incertæ sedis. Polypetale germine infero. Jussieu gen. 486. . BEGONIACEE. Bonpland nav. & malm, 151. BEGONIA. Suprà vol. 4. fol. 284. B. acuminata, caulescens; foliis hispidis semicordatis acuminatis inegualitêr dentatis, capsule alà maximá obtusangulâ, reliquis acutangulis. Dry- ander in trans. linn. soc, 1. 166. t. 14. fig. 5, 6. Begonia acuminata. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 417. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 284. Floris masculi petala quatuor, quorum duo opposita minora. Floris fœminei petala quinque, quorum duo minora, Ad basin germinis bractee due, argut2 serrate, germine dimidio breviores. Dryand. 1. c. Native of Jamaica. Introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1790. Requires tobe kept in the hothouse, where it flowers during the winter months. A shrub. The staminiferous and pistilliferous flowers are distinct, as is usual in this genus. The former have four petals, of which two opposite ones are smaller than the other two. "The latter have five petals, of which two are smaller. Two sharply serrate bractes are placed at the base of the germen, and are twice shorter than that. We had no opportunity of inspecting the inflorescence while fresh. 'The drawing was made at the nursery of Mr, Jenkins in the Regent's Park. VOL, V. F AM ei» Ud uH , A y Y 365 MESPILUS japonica. Japan Mespilus, or Loquat. — — ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. , Nat, ord. Rosaceæ. Jussieu gen. 334. Div. I. Germen simplex infe- rum, polystylum. Pomum calycino limbo umbilicatum, multileculare, Arbores aut frutices. POMACEJR. . MESPILUS. Cal. 5-fidus. Pet. 5. Stam. 20. Styli 2-5... Pomum sphæriceum 2-5-spermum seminibus osseis. Folia simplicia, indivisa aut lobata, pedunculi sæpiès multiflori, corymbosi terminales et interdàm solitarii gaillares. Flos M. germanice terminalis sessilis ut in (Pyno) Cydonia. Juss. - €. 335. M. japonica, inermis; foliis obovatis apice serratis, subtüs tomentosis, race» mis paniculatis terminalibus. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1010. Mespilus japonica, Thunb. jap. 206. Icon Keempfer.t.18. Hort: Kew. ed. 2. 3. 205. Venten. malmais. 19. Bywa. Kæmpf. amæn. 800. . Caulis cylindricus, ramosus, cortice cinereo-fuscescente rimalo : rami ine Jfernê nudiusculi, subcicatrizati: ramuli sparsi, proximi, patentes, ferrugineos tomeniosi. Fol. magna, sparsa, approximata, recurvo-patentia, summa sub» rosaceo-disposita, petiolata, stipulata, ovali-oblonga, acuminata, superna versis acuté et distantiüs dentata, infernè versis attenuata margine integro reflezo nervo medio utrinque ramoso subtús prominente, supra glabra, subtus tomento Jerrugineo-cinerascente obtecta: petiolus crassus, brevissimus: stipule 2, petiolo æquales, ovales, acuminata, pubescentes. Panicula terminalis, brevis, bracteata, spiculis alternis, horizontalibus, bracteatis, ferrugineo-tomentosis e flores sessiles, confertiusculi, bracteati, albi, CnATAEGI Oxyacanthi majores, odori. Bractem ovales, acute, concave, extús ferrugineo-tomentose, panicu- larum fasciculatee, spicularum horizontales solitaria, florum trina, calyci appressæ. Cal. crassus campanulatus, dimidio brevior corolla, inferna ferru» gineo-pubescens, germini adnatus, superna viridis glaber, stellalo-patens. „Pet, rosaceo-patentia, obovata, unguiculata, margine crenulata, intàs striata villosa. Germ. hirsutum. Bacca v. Pomum flavum, subtomentosum pulposum, 1-5- loculare, 1-5-spermum. We are told by Thunberg that this is a very common tree in Japan, where it grows to a vast size, and bears a fruit which is much esteemed. With us it was introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1787. In France it was received from Canton in 1784. It will live here in the open air when planted against a warm wall; but we have never seen it in such perfection as in the form of standard, in the border ofa spacious conservatory. Flowers in October and November, and ripens the fruit about May or June. We have been en- abled to give a representation of the fruit by the kindness of Sir Joseph Banks, who furnished us with a drawing for that F purpose. This has been brought to perfection in our coun- try, at Lord Bagot's, where, we are told, it has been used in the dessert, and much liked for its peculiar but agreeable subacid flavour. Mr. Abel, who had eaten it in China, while in the suite of Lord Amherst, praises it as a delicacy. The drawing of the flowering branch was taken at Colonel Ansley's, at Otto House, North End. The foliage is large and very ornamental. Stem round, branching, with a cinereously brown rimose or cracked bark: branches rather bare of leaves at their lower part, and somewhat scarred: branchlets scattered, near, spreading, covered with a rusty fur. Leaves large, scattered, near, recurvedly spreading, forming at the ends of the branches a kind of rose, petioled, stipulate, oblong- oval, long pointed, sharply and widishly dentate at the up- per part, tapered downwards with an entire reflex margin, smooth at the upper surface, and covered with a cinereously rusty fur at the under, midrib with nerves branching from both its sides: petiole thick short: stipules 2, the length of the petiole, oval, longpointed, furred. Panicle terminal, short, bracteate, with alternate horizontal bracteate rusty- furred spikelets: flowers sessile, closish, bracteate, white, larger than those of the Hawthorn, odorous. Bractes oval, sharp-pointed, concave, with a ferruginous fur on the out- side; those of the panicle fascicled, of the spikelets solitary and horizontal, of the flowers in threes and close-pressed to the calyx. Calyx thick, campanulate, half the length of the corolla, ferruginously furred below, adnate to the germen, above green smooth and stellately spreading. Petals rosace- ously expanded, obovate, unguiculate, crenulated at the edge, striate on the inside and villous. Germen shaggily furred. The fruit is a yellow apple, with from one to five one-seeded cells. 366 : : Jod niu “Y ex NW Ww) S j^ NS Pi ym ANE. e A | Eo / NI : â j í $ v" d V k ^ IR lgwag | | y d Hart del DLL f fi 366 DIOSMA ciliata. Fringed-leaved Diosma. — TENTANDRIA MONOGYNTA. Nat. ord. Ruraces, Jussieu gen. 296. Div. III. Genera Rutaceis affinia. DIOSMEZ. Brown gen. rem. in append. to Flind. voy. 2. 545. DIOSM A. Wal. profundê 5-fidus persistens, basi intìs vestitus disco (hypogyno?) ad limbum 5-crenato aut in 5 sguamulas producto, Pet. 5, sessilia, sæpè marcescentia, sub disco inserta et ejusdem crenis aut sgua- mulis opposita. Stam. 5, ibidêm inserta, petalis alterna. Germ. disco infrá cinctum; stylus 1; stig. capitatum. Fructus 3-5-capsularis, capsulig compressis conniventibus oblongis, intús dehiscentibus, fetis arillo con- formi cartilagineo similitêr dehiscente, mono aut polyspermo; sem. nitida. Frutices ericoidei ; folia opposita aut sparsa, sep? conferia et linearia, inter- dam subtàs margine punctata ; flores corymbosi aut capilato-lerminales. Calyces quorundam punctato-glandulosi. Juss. Toc. cit. 298. Dio. Agathosma. Filamentis alternis sterilibus cochleari-petaliformibus. D. ciliata, foliis lanceolatis carinatis ciliatis, umbellis terminalibus. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1185. Diosma ciliata. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 287. Berg. cap. 66. Thunb. prod. 49. Hort. Kew. 1. 215. ed. 2. 2. 80. Hartogia ciliaris. Lin. syst. nat. ed. 12. 2. 625. Rami foliosi, teretes, fulvias-subhirsuti, erecti: ramuli plurimi, summitate et medio ramorum congregati, sparsi, axillares, diminuto-foliosi, filiformes, aciles, ascendentes, simplices, duplo longiores foliis rameis v. ultra, apice umbelliferi, Fol. numerosa, sparsa, divaricata, lanceolata, glanduloso-punc- tata, margine et nervo medio subtis hirto-ciliata, suprà glabra, $ uncia circitêr longa, 4plo vel ultrà angustiora. Umbelle mulit-( sub12-) flores, convexæ: pedunculi capillacei, rubentes, æquilongi, y unciæ circitér longi, pilosiusculi, ebracteati. Flores odorem herbaceo-resinosum spirantes, parvuli, albi, erecti. Cal. persistens, crassiusculus, albido-virens, turbinato-campanulatus, albo-punc- Jatus, segmentis. subulatis, erectis, ciliatis. Pet. turbinato-patentia, filamentis Jertilibus alterna, spathulato-oblonga, duplo longiora calyce. Fil. 5 sterilia, petaloda, cochleariformi-ligulata, angusta, alba, inférnè pilosa: 5 fertilia, fili- Sormia, successive procrescentia, infern2 pilosa, erecto-patentia. Germ. disco glanduloso crasso immersum, viride, apice hirsutum, obovatum, compressum (in nostro specimine) biloculare, bicorne, cornubus erectis glanduloso-puno- tatis: stylus setaceus, persistens, albus, glaber. The genus Diosma has been divided into four by Will- denow, in his Catalogue of the Berlin Garden. Our plant would belong to the AcaTHOsMA of these distinguished from Diosma in having ten petals instead of five, the five alter- nate ones being however, in fact, sterile filaments, not pe- tals as they are termed by him. We know of no figure of this species; although cultivated in our collections ever since 1774, when it was introduced by Mr. Masson from the Cape of Good Hope. Willdenow has made some confusion in respect to synonymy, between this and the pubescens of Thunberg. That our plant belongs to the synonymy above cited, we have satisfied ourselves by the inspection of the specimen in the Banksian Herbarium from Kew Gardens, which has been collated with the pro- totype of the species in the Linnean Herbarium. The draw- ing was made from a sample in Mr. Creswell’s collection, near Battersea. A branching heathlike shrub: branches leafy, round, tawnily and rather shaggily furred, upright; branchlets many, congregated at the top and about the middle of the branches, scattered, axillary, filiform, leafy, slender, simple, ascending, twice the length of the leaves of the branches or more, terminally umbelliferous. Leaves numerous, scat- tered, divaricate, lanceolate, glandularly dotted, roughly ciliated at the margin and underneath at the midrib, smooth at the upper surface, about two thirds of an inch long, 4 times narrower or more. Umbels many-(about )2-)flowered, convex: peduncles capillary, red, about the third of an inch in length, slightly haired, bracteless. Flowers with a kind of herbaceo-resinous smell, small, white, upright. Calyx persistent, tbickish, white and green, turbinately campa- nulate, glandular dots white; segments subulate, upright, ciliate. Petals turbinately spreading, alternate with the five fertile filaments, spatulately oblong, twice the length of the calyx. Filaments: 5 barren, petal-like, ligulate, narrow, concave at the top, white, furred at the lower part: 5 fertile, filiform, growing out to their full length in succession, furred at the lower part, uprightly spreading. Germen imbedded in athick glandular stand, green, shaggy at the top, ob- ovate, compressed, (in our sample) bilocular, two-horned, horns erect with glandular dots: style setaceous or bristle- shaped, persistent, white, smooth. A greenhouse plant. Flowers very early in the spring. Requires the treatment of the Cape Heaths; and is easily propagated by cuttings. Heat da Sub Ç LR U dgway E / /? Head, May | 1810 PA: oc 367 ORCHIS variegata. Pointed-petalled Orchis. —À—— GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDE®Æ. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 1. 909. Div. I. Anthera adnata subterminalis persistens. — Pollinis masse € lobulis angulatie elastic coherentibus; basi affixæ. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 188. ORCHIS. Supra vol. 3. fol. 202. o. variegata, bulbis subrotundis, caule folioso; labello tripartito levi, lobis apice dentatis, medio majori emarginato cum mucronulo interjecto ; cornü bracteisque germine brevioribus. Biv. Bern. sic. pl. cent. 2. 44. n. 60. Orchis variegata. — Allion. pedem. n. 1898. D’ Asso flor. arag. 129. n. 888. Jacg. ic. rar. 3. t. 599. Coll. 2. 267. Swartz in Schrader's neues journ. Sur die bot. 1.15. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 21. Bertol. pl. genuen. 119. Orchis acuminata. Desfont. atl, 2. 818. t. 247. Swartz in Schrader's neues Journ. fur die bot. 1. 14. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 17. Curtis's magaz. 1932. Orchis militaris. y. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2, 2. 1334. Orchis radicibus subrotundis, spicâ brevissimâ, labello brevitêr 4-fido cir- cumserrato punctato. Hall. helv. n. 1275. t. 30. Orchis militaris pratensis elatior, floribus variegatis. Segu. veron. 2. 123. t. 15. fig. 8. Orchis militaris, Riv. her, t. 15. Orchis militaris minor et minima Rivini. Rupp. jen. 279. cum tab. Orchis latifolia hiante cucullo minor. Vaill. paris. t. 31. figg. 22, 23, 24. Orchis seu Cynosorchis galeata, purpurea leucostincta, sponsam ornatam effigiens. Bonan. t. 35. Cup. hort. cath. suppl. alt, 68. Panphyt. 2. t. 165. Rad. didymo-tuberosa, fuscescens, tuberibus ovali-oblongis. Fol. sub- septena, plurifaria, erecto-patentia, subglauco-v. potiiis cinereo-virentia, opaca, 3-5-uncialia, raris unciam latitudine exsuperantia modô submaculata, lamina lanceolato-oblongá acuta striatá; interiora longiora, proliziìs vaginantia. Scapus spithamaus, teres, sulcis striatus, pallidè virens. Spica florum curta cylindrica conferta patens, seminum elongata laza appressa. Flores mediocres, remissiüs odori, Mutius incarnati, nutantes, & unciæ vel circà transversi. Bractez albidæ v. nunc coloratæ, membranosæ, lanceolato-acuminate, germini sublongiori appresse. Germ. sessile, tortum, pallido-virens, tereti-angulare, vix longius petalis. Cor. nutans, semiringens: pet. 5 galeato-conniventia, ina Fern? fulvo-viridia, superne carneo-albida, sanguineo-striata, lanceolata, cus- pidatim acuminata: $ exteriora eguilonga ; lateralia inaquilatera obliquo- assurgentia, siriis 4 incomplet? percursa ; medium rectum unistriatum : 2 interlora opposita, inclusa, plurimüm minora, linearia, acuta, wnistriata. Labellum propendens, viz longius petalis, oblato-subrotundum, carneo-albicans, micans, laxids sanguineo-punctatum, glabrum, denticulato-erosum, profund2 trilobum, breviter unguiculatum 3 lobi laterales breviores cuneato-oblongi. margine summo obliqui, medius latior obcordatus corniculo o. mucrone minuto in fundo emarginaturæ : calcar pallidum, descendens, germine cui parallelum brevius, paululüm auprâ basin dilatatum, acumine obtusulo. Columna duplo brevior petalis v. ultra, infernê dilatata, alba: cucullus sanguineus, termi nalis, erectus anticê retrorsúm obliquatus, thecis sulco profundo glandu- lam albam intergerinam incompletam infern® comprehendente distinctis: glandula antherifera obliguato-protuberans obtusa: pollinis masse clavá indi- visá brevi erugined, stipite longo flavo lucido. Stigma areola didyma antica madida purpurascens parieti interiori cavitatis filamenti v. columnæ partis inferioris sub glandulâ antheriferâ adnata. Another of the species of this interesting genus which have been introduced into our collections by Mr. Swainson, of Elm Grove, Liverpool. It was found by that gentleman growing plentifully on the mountains near Palermo, parti- cularly on those of Capreto aud Monreale, where ìt flowers in the spring. That it is the Orcuis variegata of his friend Bivona Bernardi, Mr. Swainson tells us he can have no doubt, that he has scarcely any of its being the O. acumi- nata of Desfontaines; but not having seen the figure in Jac- guin's works, he was less able to satisfy himself of its being also the plant of that author. We have carefully reviewed the synonymy adduced above, and are convinced that the whole belongs to this species; which extends itself widely over the South of Europe, and is known to reach the Coast of Barbary. It comes the nearest to the Orcuis militaris, of this country, of any other species we are aware of; and was deemed a variety of that by Linnæus; but afterwards properly distinguished from it by Allioni. Root tuberous, twin, tubers oval, oblong, brownish. Leaves about 7, multifariously disposed, uprightly spreading, of a dullish glaucous or rather cinereous green, sometimes marked with a few irregularly disposed spots, opaque, 3-5 inches long, seldom exceeding an inch in breadth, some- times with a few spots, blade lanceolately oblong, sharp- pointed, streaked: inner ones longest, and sheathing the scape to a greater height. Scape 6 or 7 inches high, round, fluted, pale green. Spike in flower short close cylindrical spreading, in seed elongated distant adpressed. Flowers of a middling size, slightly scented, very palely flesh-coloured, nutant, about one third of an inch in diameter. Bractes white, sometimes coloured, membranous, lanceolately sub- ulate, pressed close to the germen, which is rather longer. Germen sessile, twisted, pale green, round, angular, scarcel longer than the petals. Corolla nutant, semiringent: peta 5, converging into a casque, at the lower part of a tawny green, at the upper of a rosy-white, striped with deep purple, lanceolate, euspidately long-pointed: 3 outer ones of the same length; side ones uneven-sided, erecting themselves obliquely, marked with 4 incomplete stripes, middle one straight, one-striped: 2 inner ones facing each other, en- closed, much smaller, linear, pointed, one-striped. Label hanging forwards, scarcely longer than the petals, oblately roundish, rosy white, glittering, loosely spotted with purple, smooth, denticulately eroded round the margin, deeply three-lobed, shortly unguiculate; side lobes cuneately ob- long slanted at the top, middle one broader, obcordate, with a minute cornicle or mucro at the bottom of the notch: spur pale coloured, pointing downwards, shorter than the germen with which it is parallel, bluntish at the end, a little dilated below the tip. Column twice shorter than the petals or more, dilated at the lower part and white; headpiece or cu- cullus deep purple-red upright slanting backwards in front, cists parted by a wide furrow which contains the white landular incomplete partition in its lower portion; antheri- erous gland slanting and protuberant obtuse: pollen masses with a short copperas-green head and a longer tawny yellow shining stalk. Stigma two-lobed, shining, humid, purplish, affixed to the front of the interior wall of the cavity in the lower part of the column or filament underneath the anthe- riferous gland. VOL. v. c Mael 1810, Ry a 190 Brady CC A 368 SPARTIUM ferox. Barbary Broom. ipe DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. Lecumisosm. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V. Cor. irregularis papilionacea. Stam. 10 diadelpha. Leg. 1-loc, 2-valv. Frutices aut herbe; Jol. simplicia aut ternata aut variis. digitata; stipulae nunc subnulle, nunc conspicue imo petiolo adnate aut ab eodem distincte. =P APILIONACER. Brown gen. rem. in Flind. voy. 2. 552. SPARTIUM. Cal. deorsüm productus. Carina quibusdam pendula. Tilam. germini adhmrentia. Stig. longitudinale, suprà villosum. Legum. oblongum, mono-aut polyspermum. Persoon syn. 2. 286. Div. Foliis ternatis. S. feroz, foliis ternatis simplicibusgue oblongis mucronatis, racemo terminali, ramis striatis teretibus spinescentibus. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 934. Spartium ferox. Desfont. atl. 2. 136. t. 182. Poiret voy. en barb. 2. 206. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 257. Spartium heterophyllum. L Herit. stirp. 183. Cytisus foliis oblongis sessilibus glabris, siliquis compressis incanis. Shaw specim. n. 194. Caulis fruticosus, 9-15 decimet. allus, ramosus, erectus. Rami numerosi, striati. Spinm valide, longe, striate, florifere. Fol. glabra aut brevis- sim? villosa, mucronata, superiora simplicia, lanceolata et obovata, brevissimà petiolata 6-9 millem. longa, 2-4 lata; inferiora ternata obovata. Flores nu- merosi, solitarii, axillares, breviter pedicellati, in racemos 2-5 centim. longos dispositi. Rachis pubescens. Cal. tripartitus ; laciniis acutis, inferiore pau- lulùm longiore, trifidä. Cor. lutea, magnitudine GENISTÆ spinose Lin., glabra. Germ. argenteum. Legumen subarcuatum, compressum, acuminatum, 2 centim, longum, 4 millem. latum, torulosum, sericeum, incanum villis adpressis densis brevissimis, 8-ad 10- spermum. Desf, L c- Native of Barbary. Introduced about the year 1800. With us a hardy greenhouse shrub, flowering in the spring. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham. It differs from SPARTIUM spinosum by having the upper leaves simple, and not ter- nate as there. An upright branching shrub: branches numerous, fluted. Spines strong, long, fluted, flowerbearing. Leaves smooth or furred with a very short nap, mucronate; upper ones simple, lanceolate and obovate, most shortly petioled; lower ones ternate, obovate. Flowers many, solitary, axillary, shortly stalked, disposed in racemes. Rachis or general G stalk furred. Calyx three-parted, segments sharp-pointed, lower one a little the longest, trifid. Corolla yellow, smooth. Germen of a silvery white. Legume or pod somewhat bowed, compressed, long-pointed, torulose or marked with protuberances, silkily furred, grey with a very short dense close-pressed nap, from 8- to 10-seeded. FRWD / 1 ant del. . WW, Ij E by SA dieu 170 fuod My Pa ith jt 369 DIOSMA hirta. Purple Diosma. —— PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Ruracrz, Jussieu gen. 969. Div. III. Genera Rutaceis amnia. DIOSMEE. Brown gen. rem. in app. to Flind. voy. 2. 545. DIOSMA. Suprà fol. 366. Div. Agathosma, Filamentis alternis sterilibus cochleari-petaliformibus. D. foliis lanceolatis carinatis imbricatis hirtis, corymbis terminalibus, stami- nibus pique sterilibus, germinibus apice biglandulosis. Venten, mal- mais. 72. Diosma hirta. Lamarck encyc. 2. 286. illustr. tab. 127 [Diosma] Sg. 3. ‘Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 30. Diosma purpurea. Herb. Banks. Frutex ericoides, prolifero-ramosus: rami 8-10, longiores caule, erecte- patentes, foliosi, pulescentes; ramuli apice Roriferi. Fol. sparsa, subsessilia, lineari-subulata, subtès convexo-carinata, hirta, suprà concava, glabra, punce tala, saturatè virentia, trita odorem aromaticum fundentia, inferiora patentia, . superiora imbricato-conferta: petioli brevissimi tuberculo decurrenti impositi, albicantes. Umbellæ terminales, convexæ, confertæ ; flores numerosi, parvi, intensiùs roseo-purpurei: pedicelli capillacei, pubescentes, purpurei, duplo longiores flore, ebracteati. Cal. duplo brevior sorolla, segmentis lanceolatis, extús pubescentibus. Pet. 5, disco hypogyno inserta, unguiculata, erecto- patentia; ungues filiformes longitudine calycis: laminæ ovales obtusæ, longi- tudine unguium. Fil. 10, eodem plano cum petalis inserta, alternè sterilia : sterilia petalis opposita et eorum concolora, linearia, obtusa, concava, infernè ubescentia, longitudine unguium getalorum < fertilia subulata, albida, corol- am æquantie: anth. erectæ, ovales, obtuse, compresse, quadrisulcate, Tu- bescentes. Germ. globosum, supra biglandulosum, disco immersum : stylus rectus, corollæ concolor, filiformis, longitudine staminum. Plurimim ex gal. Venten. 1. c. vers. 'The present species has been very generally mistaken by our gardeners and nurserymen for Diosma rubra, so much so that we have never met with it in any of our collections under its real name. It is one of the prettiest and liveliest flowered of the genus, and continues in bloom most part of the spring and summer. Introduced from the Cape of Good Hope (where the whole generic group is native) by Mr. Masson, about 1794. Requires the same treatment as the Cape Heaths, and is easily propagated by cuttings. A heathlike shrub, proliferously branched: branches 8-10, longer than the stem, open, upright, leafy, furred; branchlets flowerbearing at the top. Leaves scattered, sub- sessile, linearly subulate, underneath convexly keeled and roughly furred, above concave smooth and dotted, deep green, when bruised diffusing a strong aromatic odour, Ïower ones spreading, upper ones close-pressed and imbri- cate: petioles whitish, very short, fixed to a small decur- rent tubercle. Umbels terminal, convex, close; flowers numerous, small, rose-purple; pedicles capillary, furred, purple, twice longer than the flower, bracteless. Calyx twice shorter than the corolla; segments lanceolate, furred on the outside. Petals 5, standing upon the hypogynous basement, unguiculate, uprightly spreading; unguis or nar- row part the length of the calyx, filiform: lamina: or broad part oval, obtuse, the length of the unguis. Filaments 10, inserted at the level of the petals, alternately barren: barren ones 5, opposite to the petals and of the same colour, linear, obtuse, concave, furred at the lower part, the length of the ungues of the petals: fertile ones subulate, whitish, of the length of the corolla: anthers upright, oval, obtuse, 4-furrowed, reddish. Germen globular, with two glands on the summit, enchased in the glandular basement: style straight, filiform, of the colour of the petals, of the length , - of the stamens. 'The drawing was taken in February from a plant culti- vated in the greenhouse of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at the Fulham Nursery. 3/0 W í Œ. rar tg. del Feet by E Reg 1 77e. ente, Magl. 1/8510 f South adc. 370 ` OPHRYS Speculum. Mirror-lipped Ophrys. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDEÆ. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 1. 309, Diw. I. Anthera adnata subterminalis persistens, Pollinis massæ è lobulis angulatis elasticé cohzerentibus; basi affixze. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 5. 188. OPHRYS. Supra vol. 3. fol. 205. O. Speculum; folia caulina lanceolata. Petala 3 exteriora expansa, acuti- uscula, viridia, interiora 2 acuta, purpurea. Labelli lacinie laterales erecta, media rotundata emarginata non appendiculata, medio glaber- rima, cærulescens, limbo villoso fusco. Link in Schrader's journ. fur die bot. 1799. 2. 824; (malè à Willdenovio ad OpPnnyDEM Scolopacem citata; cui tamen verè pertinet Orurys Speculum Biv, Bern. sic. pl. cent. 1, 61. n. 70. t. 4. Ophrys ciliata Biv. Bernardi sic. pl. cent, 1. 60. n. 69. Ophrys insectifera; myodes. à Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2, 2. 1343. Orchis muscam cæruleam majorem representans. Breyn. cent. 100. t. 44. Moris. hist. 3, 494. sect. 12, t. 13. fig. 11. Orchis Ricinum villosum referens. Cup. panph. 1. 1.175. Hort. cath. 158; et. suppl. alt. 68.— Bonan. t. 98. Nil pulchrius. Radix bulbi 2 subrotundi. Caulis 9-6-uncialis, foliis lan- ceolatis vaginatus, pauciflorus. Flores in spicâ laxá muscas circumvolantes miré referunt. Petalum superius fornicatum, columnam tegens, marginibus revolutis; 2 lateralia patentia, ovata, viridia, fascia rosed per medium. Oper- cula (petala 2 interiora) petalis (exterioribus À duplo breviora, angustissima, acuminata, intense purpurea, recurvata, Nectarii labium. (Labellum) tri- lobum, ceeruleum, splendens, limbo barbato barbá purpured ; lobo medio ez- porrecto, obovato, convezo, emarginato, mutico; lateralibus angustioribus, suspensis alarum instar. Columna obtusa. Biv. Bern. l. c. One of the prettiest of the genus, and now first intro- duced by Mr. Swainson; by whom the excellent design, from which our engraving has been made, was taken from a sample that flowered in his garden at Elm Grove, near Liverpool, in February last. The species is native of Portu- gal and Sicily, in the latter of which countries Mr. Swainson tells us that it js very rare, and that he never found it in any other place except in the hilly meadows behind the Convent of Santa Maria di Gesù, near Palermo. _Link speaks of it as growing in Portugal, and abundantly in the neighbourhood of Setuval. Our plant has been erroneously adduced by Willdenow for a synonym of Opurys Scolopax; to which however the Opurys Speculum of Bivona Bernardi really belongs. The specific name has been suggested by the lustre of the ceruleous convex disk in the lip of the corolla. Root of two roundish tubers. Stem 3-6 inches high, few- flowered. Leaves several, ambient, spreading, lanceolate, sheathing. Flowers in a loose spike, with the appearance of so many flying insects. Uppermost petal vaulted, covering the column, revolute at the edges; two outer side-ones spreading, ovate, green, with a red stripe along the middle; two inner side ones twice shorter, very narrow, long-pointed, deep purple, recurved. Labellum three-lobed, ceruleous, bright, with a purple bearded border; middle lobe pointing forwards, obovate, convex, notched, pointless; side-ones narrower, hung like wings. Column obtuse. It is not improbable but that the Opurys verniria of the Flora Lusitanica of Professor Brotero may be the same with the present species. But the description is far too scanty and pointless for us to decide by. i à j 1 O MIN s yy Pg À l M I//ZA VI TT) SWN < ff, ' TTL, VL ig / 70 Feed elly Fuge |. P / Y. p de. 371 ACACIA decurrens. £. mollis. Green-Wattle of Van Diemen's Island, — POLYGAMIA MON(ECLf, Nat. ord. Leguminosae. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. I. Cor, regularis, Leg. multiloculare, seepiìs bivalve, dissepimentis transversis, loculis mo- nospermis. Stamina distincta. Arbores aut frutices; folia abruplê pin- nata==Mimosex. Brown gen. rem. in Flind. voy. 2. 551. Div. Foliis duplicato-pinnatis, caule inermi. A. decurrens, inermis foliis bipinnatis, partialibus undecim-(v. quindecim-) jugis, propriis multijugis, petiolis partialibus marginatis; glandulâ inter omnia partialia, spicis globosis pedunculatis axillaribus, Willd. sp. pl. 4. 1072. Acacia decurrens. Willd. enum. 2. 1053. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 469. Mimosa decurrens. Venten. malmais. 61. . (8) mollior, gracilior, glaucior; foliis compactioribus; propriis minoribus, contingentibus. Arbor 20-30-pedalis, inermis. Rami juniores angulosi, villoto-incani. Fol. duplicato-pinnata, mollissima, cinereo-glaucescentia, nunc semipedalia latitudine subtriunciali: partialia 11-15-18-juga: propria vel foliola multi. (40-60-) juga, parvula, oblongo-linearia, viz 2 lineas longa, angusta, ob- fusa, contingentia: petiolus communis albo-villosus, teres, suprà costá de- cursivé glanduliferá elevatá percursus, glandulá apertá subrotundá pari cuique Soliorum partialium interpositä. Racemi 2 spiculis compositi, axillares simplices et terminales paniculati; pedunculus flexuosus, villoso-canescens; spiculse lobosæ, numerose (25-30?) luteæ, magnitudine pisi vel circa, laziŵs dispo- site, pedicelli longitudine diametrum spicularum subeguante, pallido-lules- centes: bracteæ singulares, minuta, membranosæ, subovate, conveze, villus, multotiès breviores pedicello, ejusque basi arctè appressæ. Flores odorem haud ingraté amaricantem spirantes. A slender thornless tree, from 20 to 30 feet in height. Native of Van Diemen's Isìand; where it is known among the colonists by the appellation of “ Green Wattle.” Not- withstanding its having a smaller finer closer and more glaucous foliage than («), the tree known in New South Wales by the same denomination; still Mr. Brown is not, at present, aware of any mark that in his apprehension would justify a theoretical separation of the two into dis- tinct species. The leaves retain their soft cinereous ver- dure when dry, as perfectly as when fresh, a circumstance to which the tree most probably owes the epithet prefixed to the english appellation, which is known to be derived from the economical purpose to which the branches are applied. VOL. V. H (a) was introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1790; but we are not informed concerning the date of the introduction of (8). The drawing was taken from a sample sent from Lord Bridgewater's collection in February last. We should have thought that the Acacia mollissima of Willdenow's Enumeratio Horti Berolinensis was intended for this plant, had not the leaflets in that been described as 11-15-paired. Requires the protection of the greenhouse, and is well adapted to the conservatory. Far from common in our col- lections. Younger branches angular, grey-furred. Leaves doubly pinnate, very soft, cinereously glaucous, somewhere about six inches long and about three in breadth: partial ones 11-15-18-paired; leaflets many-(40-60) paired, small, ob- longly linear, scarcely two lines in length, narrow, ob- tuse, touching each other: general petiole white-furred, round, at the upper side having a prominent glanduli- ferous ridge running along its whole length, with a round- ish perforated gland between the bases of each pair of partial footstalks. Spikelet-bearing racemes axillary and simple or terminal and panicled; peduncle flexuose, grey- furred; spikelets globular, numerous (20-30), yellow, about as big as a pea, placed rather distantly; pedicles about the length of the diameter of the spikelet, pale yellow: bractes single, minute, membranous, subovate, convex, villous, many times shorter than the pedicle against which they are. closely pressed. The flowers diffuse a bitterish but not un- pleasant scent. | > NOTE, In the first page of fol. 861 ( AcAc1A lophanta), from the words “ What, are termed, &c. &c." belongs to the subsequent article (fol, 362, ACACIA longifolia ), and has been accidentally misplaced. ' q 372 170 Ace did y ed TB ERN IS AME. 7 dan Py bi LHL. June 1719 "m Tumes Hdd wy, J 372 ERYNGIUM aquaticum: Fucca-leaved Eryngo. — PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA, Nat. ord. UMBELLIFERÆ. Jussieu gen. 218. Div. IV. Umbelliferm anomalze, . ERYNGIUM. Flores plurimi sessiles paleis distincti, densà aggregati in umbellulâ capitatâ suprà receptaculum conicum involucro pol yphyllo rigido cinctum. Singulis cal. 5-partitus; pet. inflexa ; fructus ovatus. Um- bellulæ nunc in umbellam involucratam sæpè irregularem et ramosam disposita, nunc sparse; fol. simplicia aut composita, sep? spinosa ut et involucra; habitus Cardui. Juss. L c. 226. Div. Foliorum nervis simplicibus parallelis. E. aguaticum, foliis latè linearibus, remotê ciliato-spinosis; floralibus lanceo- latis dentatis; capitulis rotundis; caule subdichotomo. Delaroche eryng. 54. n. XEL Eryngium aquaticum. Lin. sp, pl. ed. 2. 1.336; var. a; (excluso synonymo Gronovii loco citato tents). Mill, dict. ed, 8. n. 7. Jacg. ic. rar. 2 t. 347. coll. 1. 151. Willd. sp. pl. 1, 1957. Hort. Kew. 1. 325, ed. 2. 2. 116. Pursh amer. sept. 1. 189. Eryngium yuccifolium. Michauz bor. amer. 1. 164, Eryngium foliis gladiatis, utrinque laxé serratis denticulis subulatis. Gron. virg. ed. 2. 40; (excl, syn. Linnai). Eryngium americanum, yucce folio, spinis ad oras molliusculis. Pluk. alm. 18. 1. 175. fig. 4. . Eryngium virginianum yucce foliis, spinulis raris tenellis et inutilibus mar- ginibus oppositis, Moris. 3. 167. sect. 7. 1. 37. fig. 21. Planta 6-8-decimetralis. Caulis erectus, teres, striatus, viridis, infernê simplex, supernê 1-3 ramos laterales emittens, apice 2-5-fidus. Rami simplices aut bifidi, rariàs dichotomi, profundè striatt. Fol. radicalia numerosa, linearia, 3 decim. longa, 2-8 centim. lata, decumbentia, sessilia, vaginantia, molliuscula, subglauca, nervis longitudinalibus parallelis. instructa, remolê dentata, dentibus subulatis, tenuibus subsctaceis: caulina lanceolata, radicali- bus breviora, dentibus majoribus et rigidioribus instructa, illis caterum similia; floralia ovato-lanceolata, verticillata, aut opposita. Capitula pedunculata, ro- tunda, albida, Pedunculi terminales aut è dichotomis orti, subangulosi, pro- fund? striati. Involuc. 8-9-phyllum; foliolis ovatis, integris, apice spinosis, capitulo paulo brevioribus, conntventibus, â paleis viz distinctis. Paleæ ovata- lanceolate, integre calycibus paulô longiores. Recept. conicum. Calycis tubus /rectiès? germen inferum) squamis ovatis albis rigidis supernè tectus; lac, limbi f (foliola calycina ? ) ovate, mucronate, margine scariosæ, Cor. alba, calyce paulo brevior; petalis ovato-oblongis, profunde emarginatis. Fil. corolâ Jere triplo longiora, crassiuscula : anth. oblonga, fusce. Delar. 1. c. Of the same genus with the well-known Sea-Holly (ERYNGIUM maritimum) of our own shores. The group be- longs to a somewhat anomalous division of the Umbellifere; n 2 an order, designated in Mr. Brown's remarks, as chiefly european, with its maximum in the temperate climates of the northern hemisphere, certainly much less freguent in the corresponding southern parallels, and as having very few known species within the tropics. Aguaticum grows in the swamps of Virginia and the Carolinas; and was introduced by Mr. J. Banister, in 1699. Two species were confounded under it by Linnæus; but have been since duly distinguished by M. Delaroche in an elaborate illustration of the genus. All the american species have simple linearly elongated leaves, with straight parallel nerves, and form a section in the generic group, dis- tinct in that respect from the european. The drawing was taken from a sample in the nursery of Messrs, Frasers in Sloane Square, and was a part of the collection annually imported from America by those in- dustrious horticulturists; one of whom is now forming a botanical establishment at Ramsgate. Perennial. Sfem, in the specimen we saw, about a foot and half high, upright, round, fluted, green, simple below, branched above, at the top 2-5-divided: branches simple or divided, seldom dichotomous, deeply fluted. Radical leaves ambient, numerous, 6-9 inches long, from one to an inch and half broad, sheathing, softish cinereously glaucous, widishly ciliate with soft longish bristles, outermost recum- bent: cauline ones shorter with broader stiffer bristles, other- wise similar; floral ones ovately lanceolate, whorled, or else opposite. Flower-heads about i of an inch in diameter, peduncled, round, whitish. Peduncles terminal, or in the dichotomies, subangular, deeply fluted. Involucre 8-9- leafletted; leaflets ovately acuminate, entire, spinously pointed, but little shorter than tbe flower-head, spreading, scarcely distinguishable from pa/ec, which divide the florets. Palee ovately lanceolate, entire, but little higher than the florets. Receptacle conical. Germen inferior, armed above with small white rigid ovate scales. Leaflets of the calyx ovate, mucronate, with a scariose margin. Corolla white: petals ovately oblong, deeply notched at the end. Fila- ments nearly 3 times longer than the corolla, thickish: anthers oblong, dark-coloured. 373 XYLOPHYLLA falcata. Sickle-leaved Sea-side Laurel. ———— MONŒCIA MONADELPHIA. Nat. ord. EUPHORBLE. Jussieu gen. 364, Div. I. Styli plures definiti, saepius tres. EUPHORBIACEE. Brown gen. rem. app. Flind. voy. 555. XYLOPHYLLA. Masc. Cal. 6-partitus. Cor. 0. Net. glandulæ 6, globose. Fem. Cal. et Nect, ut in masc. Germ. superum. Styli tres. Stigmata tripartita. Caps, 9-loc. Sem. 2, in singulis loculamentis. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 336. Frutex facie Cacti Phyllanthi; folia (aut potiàs ramuli aphylli dilatati tomplanati foliis similes, und? nomen) simplicia alterna, utringue dentata, stipulæ simplici carinatæ subvaginanti-azillaria ; flores in foliorum dentibus conglomerati, quidam steriles et ideò masculi, Juss. |. c. 387. X. falcata, foliis sparsis lineari-lanceolatis subfalcatis crenatis, floribus sub- sessilibus triandris monoicis. Swartz prod. 98. Xylophylla falcata. Hort. Kew. 1. 376. ed. 2. 5. 336, Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1501. Andrews's reposit. 331. Phyllanthus falcata. Swartz fl. ind. occ. 2.1115. Willd. enum. 2. 996, Phyllanthus Epiphyllanthus. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2. 1392. Phyllanthus americana, planta flores è singulis foliorum crenis proferens. Comm. hort. 1. 199.t. 102. Catesb. car. 2. 26. t. 26. Frutex 5-6-pedalis, ramosus, cortice cinereo. Rami sparsi, teretes, strict, glabri. Fol. subsessilia, sparsa, s. versus apices ramorum subconferta, 4-5- pollicaria, lineari-lanceolata, subfalcata, erectiuscula, crenata, crenis re- motis floriferis, striata, lineata, saturatè viridia, nitida. Flores ad crenos conferti, subconglomerati, brevissimé pedicellati, sanguinei, monoici, masculi et feminei mizti; hi pauciores. Mascutt. Cal. 6-phyllus, patens. Foliola 3 exteriora dimidio minora, ovato-acuta, pallidiora; 3 interiora ovata obtusa pallidiora. Glandule 6, ovate, rubre, ad basin foliorum calycis. Fil. cylindricum erectum. purpureum apice viz trifidum, Anth. 3, didyma, lobis subrotundis, luteis. ' FEMINEI. da. ut in mare, sed param major. Germ. subrotundum, margine crenulato basi cinctum. Styli 3, reflect. Stigmata bifida, Sw. fi. ind. occ. I. c. ' A hothouse shrub, introduced from the Bahama islands before 1699; at which time it was cultivated in the Royal Garden at Hampton Court. Five or six feet high, branching; bark cinereous. Branches scattered, round, stiff, smooth. Leaves subses- sile, scattered, sometimes rather crowded towards the top ef the branches, 4-5- inches long, linearly lanceolate, subfal- cate, inclining to be upright, crenate, with wideset flower- bearing crenæ or notches, fluted or striate marked with lines or lineate deep green, shining. Flowers crowded in the notches, subconglomerate, very shortly pedicled, purple, monoicous, sterile and fertile ones mingling together; the latter fewest. In the staminiferous flowers the calyr is of six pieces or leaflets and spreading: the 3 outer leaflets smaller than the others by one half, ovate and pointed, of a palish red; the 3 inner ones ovate and obtuse, likewise of a palish red. Glands 6 ovate, deep crimson, at the leaflets of the calyx. Filament cylindric, upright, purple, at the top slightly trifid. Anthers 3, twin, lobes roundish, yellow. In the pistilliferous flowers the calyx is the same as in the other, but a little larger; germen roundish, encircled by a crenulated ledge at the base; styles 3, reflex; stigmas bifid. The drawing was taken in the autumn, in the stove of- the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham. 0 Ma vl del c Full. SC Je 1181) fA) U tan U : Pl by yi ed guray yu Pond My ` 374 HELICONIA Bihai. Wild Plantain. —M—— PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Moss, Jussieu gen. 61. HELICONIA. Spathæ communes partialesque alterne, distinctes, floribus hermaphroditis. Cal. 0. Pet. 3, oblonga, canaliculata erecta, acuta, qualia. Nectarium diphyllum: foliolo altero petalis subæquali, altero brevissimo canaliculato, uncinato, opposito. Fil. filiformia: anth. longs, erecta. Germ. inferum, oblongum. Stylus staminibus brevior. Stig. longum, gracile, curvatum, capitulo terminal. Caps. oblonga, truncata, 3-quetra, 3-loc. sem. solitaria oblonga. Schreb. gen. pl. 1. 158. n. 408, Caulis herbaceus: fol. alterna vaginantia, juniora convoluta, nervo longitudi- nali medio simplici emittente utrinque nervos innumeros transversim aut obliqua parallelos. Spadix rectus, spathis distichis magnis distantibus, cymbiformibus, florum fasciculos involventibus; flores in singulo fasciculo dense spicati aut glomerati. Juss. l. c. H. Bihai, folis basi spiceque acutis, spadice erecto radicali, spathis dis- tichis multifloris, nectarii folio superiore trifido. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1187. Heliconia Bihai. Swartz obs. 96. t. 5. f: 2. Thompson's bot. displ. 8. Hort. Kew, ed. 2. 2. 54. Andrews's reposit. 640. Heliconia luteo-fusca. Jacg. hort. schœnb. 1. 25; absque icone. Musa Bihai. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2.2, 1477. Musa spadice erecto, spathis rigidis amplexantibus distichê et alternatim sitis. Browne jam. 364. Musa humilior, foli Jam. 2. 147. Planta herbacea, maxima, 10-12-pedalis. Fol. radicalia, longè petiolata, oblonga, utrinque angustiora, integra, nervis parallelis lineata, erecta, con- sistentia, glaberrima: petioli longitudine lamina v. magis, teretes, crassi, suprà canaliculati. Scapus erectus, longitudine petiolorum, teres, crassus, glaber. Spadix simplex erectus, Spathæ universales plures (19 alterne, rigida, cordate, amplectentes, erecto-patentes, acuminate, distichæ, luteo- Juscæ. Flores fusciculati in unáquáque pM reconditi, spathis partialibus membranaceis, albidis florum longitudine distincti, subsessiles, pallidê s. viridi- lutei. Cor. 3-petala; basi coharens, inaequalis, curva et recurva et quasi bilabiata. Pet. 2 superiora lanceolata acuta, apice paulüm reflexa, infra me- dium conniventia, et versüs basin petalo inferiore coalita, basi albida: pet. inferius superioribus viz longius, lanceolatum, concavum, apice paulàm recurvo integro acuminato, basi nectarium posticè amplectens. Nect. diphyllum : foliolum posterius longitudine corolle,. lato-lanceolatum, concavum, suprà medium subtàs ventricosum; apice 3-fidum, marginibus membranaceis conni- ventibus infiezis filamenta includens, basi humore nectareo repletum: foliolum anterius minutissimum, lanceolatum, petalo anteriori adnatum. Fil. corollae Sere longitudine infra medium coalita in tubum antic? apertum, foliolo nectaris posteriori adglutinatum, filiformia: anth. lineares, acute, 2-loc., lulea, sepa spiralitèr torte. Germ. 8-gonum, oblongum, bast attenuatum, apice retusum, album: stylus staminibus brevior, filiformis, S-queter: stig. S-angulare, per- eratum, luteum, obtusum, inflesum. Caps, 3-gona, carnosa, nigrescens. wartz. I, c. lis minoribus nigricantibus, fructú minimo erecto. Sloane Heuconra belongs to the small tropical order of Muse, and differs from the genus Musa, which includes the Plan- tain and Banana Trees, in having all the flowers fertile, and no mixture of barren ones as there. SrRELITZIA, the mag- nificent group of which all the known species have been recently illustrated with unprecedented skill and splendour in the “ STRELITZIA DEPICTA” of Mr, Francis Bauer, is another co-ordinate genus. The present species is found wild in moist shady spots on the west-indian mountains; and was introduced by Mr. A. Anderson in 1786. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Loddiges' at Hackney, where it is cultivated in a hothouse, which is both warmed and irri- gated by means of steam. A large herbaceous plant, 10 feet high. Leaves radical, long-petioled, oblong, narrowed at each end, entire, marked with parallel nerves, upright, standing together, guite smooth: petioles as long or longer than the blade, round, thick, channelled at the upper side. Scape upright, the height of the petioles, round, thick, smooth. Spadiz simple, upright. General spathes several (8-10), alternate, rigid, cordate, clasping, uprightly spreading, acuminate, distich, yellow-brown. Flowers subsessile, of a pale or greenish yellow, fascicled, embosomed in the separate spathes, and parted by whitish membranous partial spathes of the same length as themselves. Corolla three-petaled; cohering at the base, unegual, bent in opposite directions, and as if bilabiate: 2 upper petals lanceolate, pointed, a little reflex at the tip, converging below the middle, and towards the base united with the lower petal: lower petal hardly longer than the upper ones, lanceolate, concave, clasping the hinder part of the nectary by the base, tip slightly recurvate, entire long-pointed. Nectary of two pieces: the hinder piece of the length of the corolla, broadly lanceolate, concave, ventricose underneath below the middle, three-cleft at the top, enclosing the filaments by the mem- branous convergent inbent edges of the sides, nectariferous at the bottom: fron£ piece very minute, lanceolate, adnate to the front petal. Filaments nearly of the length of the - corolla, united below the middle into tubes which open in front, adhering to the hinder piece of the nectary, filiform: anthers linear, pointed, bilocular, yellow, often twisted spirally. Mi zÉ Al. “ys Y 7 - 7 p ÍA dad ly JE Pegg MU Piccadilly E P d 22 j EEN 375 ORCHIS tephrosanthos; 8. undulatifolia. Curled-leaved Orchis. —d— GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDE®. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 1.309. Div. I. ORCHIS. Supra vol. 3. fol. 202. Div. Radice bituberosâ. O. tephrosanthos, labello 3-partito, laciniis linearibus, mediâ 2-furcá cum mucrone inter crura, petalis acutis liberé conniventibus, bracteia lato- subulatis cornüque duplo brevioribus germine. Orchis tephrosanthos. Villars delph. 2. 82. Desfont. atl. 2. 919. Willd. sp. pl.4. 21. Swartz in schrad. neues journ, 1. 15. Orchis longicruris. Link in schrad. journ. 1799. 2. 323. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 22. Orchis militaris; «. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2. 1334. Orchis zoophora cercopithecum exprimens oreades. Column. ecphr. 919. t. 320. Orchis flore simiam referens. Vaill. paris. t. 91. figg. 25, 26. (8) flore majore; foliis undulatis. Orchis undulatifolia. Biv. Bernardi sic. pl. cent. 2. 44. n. 61. t. 6. Tubera mole nucis avellana: majoris. Fol. 8-9, plurifaria, erecto-patentia, 3-5-uncialia, latiora X uncie wiz excedentia, oblongo-et ligulato-lanceolata, remotiits lineata, acuta, interiora interdèm undulata. Caulis spithamæus ad dodrantalem, striato-teres. Spica densa, brevis, conica, albo-incarnata, flo- ribus odoris, Bracteæ albo-membranose, lato-subulate, germini appressæ duploque breviores. Germ. galee semunciali aguale, tortum, curvatum, rubido-virens. Cor. semiringens: pet. 3 exter. galeato-conniventia, libera, ovato-lanceolata, cuspidata, dateralin surrecto-obliquata 4-lineata, medium 3-lineatum: 2 inter. duplo minora, concolora, lineari-oblonga acumine abrupto brevi, columnam intercludentia : labellum § parte v. circa longius petalis, pro- pendens; lamina oblongiuscula, angustiis 5.fído-8-loba, intüs disco con- veriusculo subtilitêr Pr lobi laterales lineari-attenuati, medius longior 8-fidus laciniis lateralibus lobos laterales exact? referentibus mediâ minimá mucroniformi : calcar germini rect? præpendens duplogue brevius, oblongum, supernè compresso-subdilatatum, obsoletè emurginatum. Columna brevis, alba, thecà puniced: pollinis masse indivise, æruginosæ. Stig. bulla sub- cordata, subpunicans in cavitate anticâ columnæ propè infra glandulam anthe- riferam. We do not think our plant will bear a separation from this species, solely on account of the crispature in the foliage, and we are not aware of any other distinctive mark. Tephrosanthos itself does not appear to us to afford any very certain difference from militaris; the coloured pencilled spots upon the label have been relied on, though they are VOL. Y. 1 now known to be the objects of mere variety. The prin- cipal difference we can detect between the two, lies in the longer narrower and more tapered segments of the label of the former. The shortness of the bractes in the latter, we suspect from a review of samples in the Banksian Herbarium, ìs occasional and will not hold good as a cha- racter. If the outer petals are really confluent in militaris, this might afford a valid distinetion, but we believe these will be found merely to converge, as in our plant, but not to cohere. The drawing was taken from a sample remitted by Mr. Swainson, with whom it bad flowered at Elm Grove, in February last. The root was imported by that gentleman from Sicily, where the plant grows with a longer and more luxuriant spike than in the present specimen, and is com- mon on the mountains of Messina, but more rare on those of Palermo. Tubers twin, ovately oblong, about the size of largish acorns. Rootsheath white, membranous, nerved. Leaves 8-9, alternate, compassing, uprightly spreading, 3-5 inches long, where widest about à of an inch across, smooth, lineated, ovately and ligulately lanceolate, sharp, midrib keeled, inner ones gradually longer sheathing farther more upright eurled, one or two of the lower ones and the upper stem-one plain. Stem 5-9 inches high, pale green, round, fluted. Spike short, dense, cylindric, conical: flowers white and fiesh-coloured, scented. Bractes white, mem- branous, broadly subulate long-pointed, as if awned, close- pressed to the germen than which they are twice shorter. Germen half an inch long, roundedly hexagonal, equal to the casque of the corolla, twisted. Corolla semiringent: 3 outer petals converging into a casque, ovately lanceolate, long-pointed, concave, 2 side ones obliquely erected, with 4 deep red streaks, middle one 3-streaked: 2 inner petals twice smaller, of the same colour, linearly oblong with a short abrupt point, lapping together over the summit of the column: label pale-pink, about + longer than the petals, propendent, lamina or broad part nearly oblong, narrowly fivecleft and threelobed, disk oblong slightly raised minutely roughened, two side lobes linear and tapered narrow di- vergent, middle lobe about + longer trifid, side segments of the same shape as the two lateral lobes, middle segment minute mucroniform: spur pale, twice shorter than the germen, descendent, oblong, compressed, slightly dilated upwards, obseurely notched at the end. Column short, oblate, white; anthercase dark crimson: pollen-masses ver- digrise-coloured. Stigma raised, heart-sbaped, purplish, in front of the inner wall of the cavity of the column, close below the gland on which the anther stands. 12 / Au LE "74 by I ogg “wag / 7 O Tecade ly Rne A. 410. arr | 376 VIBURNUM rugosum. Canary Laurestine. — >r PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA, Nat. ord. CAPRIFOLIA. Jussieu gen. 210. Div. III. Calyx bracteatus, Stylus nullus: stigmata 3. Cor. monopetala. VIBURNUM. Cal. parvus 5-fidus, basi bracteolatus. Cor. parva, campanulata 5-fida. Stam. 5, ejusdem laciniis alterna: stylus O; stig, 3. Bacca 1-sperma, coronata in Tino (Tournef.), in ceteris nuda. Frutices ; Jolia opposita, basi nuda ; flores umbellato-corymbosi terminales, in Tino et Viburno ( Tournef.) hemaphroditi omnes, in Opulo ( Tournef.) marginales neutri difformes et muli majores. Juss. gen. 213. Div. Foliis integerrimis. V. rugosum, foliis lato-ovatis rugosis subtüs hirtis, involucro universali 7- phyllo. Persoon syn. 1. 326. ('excluso synon. Hort. Kew. quoad varietatem excitatam ). Viburnum rugosum. Sweet hort. sub. lond. 60. Viburnum Tinus. Z: siríctum; foliis ovatis undique hirtis rigidis. Hort. Kew. 1. 370. ed. 2. 2. 167. * Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1486. Caulis satis altus, ramis strictis, viridibus subangulatis pilosis, Fol. di. stantia, divaricato-recurva, nunc deffexa, opaco-virentia, submembranacea, rigida, hirta, lato-ovalia, utrinque attenuata v. acuminata fine obtusiusculo atque basi angustata, gross? rugosa, aspera nervo medio alios alternos adscen- dentes subtüs varicosos densièsque hirtos utrinque emittente, venosa, subtüs pallida, longiora semipedalia ultraque, latitudine 4-unciali : petioli divaricati, pluriós breviores laminá, hirti, compresso-teretes, suprà canaliculati, Cymæ niveo-candicantes, subodoratæ, ample, congestæ, decomposite, terminales, convexiusculæ : pedunculi pallidà virentes, hirti, angulo so-striati, stricti: pedicelli uniflori, brevissimi, basi aut in medio opposito-bibracteati: involu- crorum foliola minima, appressa, herbacea, ovato-oblonga, obtusa; partialium uaterna. Cal. parvulus, brevis, herbaceus, extús pubescens, rotato-campanu- atus, dentibus 5 acutis apice rubentibus. Cor. nivea, campanulato-rotata, demümque recurva, multotids amplior calyce; tubo curtos limbi laciniis ro- tundatis. Germ. ovatum, album, fauce corolle inclusum: stigmata trina sessilia pappilliformia, periphæriá roseá. Pollen ochroleucum. We know our plant to be the VIBURNUM Tinus. 3. of the Hortus Kewensis, from the inspection of the Banksian Her- barium; where the specimen gathered in the Canaries by Mr. Masson is preserved. The species was first instituted by Persoon. It differs from the Common Laurestine in having a somewhat membranous rigid hard-furred coarsely wrinkled or embossed opaquely green leaf, from 3 inches to half a foot in length and 4 inches in breadth. The in- florescence is likewise larger and whiter, the branches green rigid and roughly furred; and the foliage more distant. Introduced in 1778 from the Canaries by Mr. Masson, who found it growing in mountainous situations. The drawing 'was taken in March last, at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the King's Road, Chelsea. We are told it will live out of doors in warm sheltered situations; but we be- lieve it does best when preserved during the winter in a garden-frame. A tallish shrub; branches upright, stiffish, green, some- what angular, furred. Leaves wideset, outstretched, re- curved, broadly oval, tapered each way, acuminate with a bluntish point, pale underneath with a more conspicuous far and varicose nerves: petioles several times shorter than the blade. Flowers snow-white, somewhat scented, in large decompounded terminal convexly crowded cymes: peduncles pale green, roughishly furred, somewhat angular; pedieles very short, one-flowered, with two opposite bractes either at the base or middle: leaflets of the involucres very small, close-pressed, herbaceous, ovately oblong, obtuse; partial ones in fours. Calyx small, shallow, herbaceous, furred externally, rotately campanulate, teeth pointed, red at the tips. Corolla campanulately rotate, at length re- curved, many times larger than the calyx; tube very short; segments of the limb rounded. Germen ovate, white, en- closed in the fnnnel of the corolla: stigmas sessile, rosy red at the top. Pollen cream-coloured. Ka fa oe Lab by Padgoroy 170 Preval fine 4 M 377 CROTALARIA incana. Hoary Crotalaria. — — DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. Lecumtnosm. Jussieu gen. 347. Div. V. Cor. irregularis papilionaceæ. Legum. 1-loc. 2 valv. Frutices aut herbæ; fol. simplicis aut ternata aut rariüs digitata; stipulæ nunc subnullæ nunc conspicue imo petiolo adnate aut ab eodem distinctee.=PAPILIONACEE. Brown in app. to Flind. voy. 2. 552. CROTALARIA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 198. C. incana, foliis ternatis ovalibus subtüs villosis, racemis spiciformibus, carina margine tomentosa, leguminibus sessilibus hirsutis. Hort. Kew. 3. 20. Crotalaria incana. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 9. 1005. Jacq. obs. 4. 4. 1. 82. Cavan. ` ic. 4. 11.2. 322. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 985. enum. 2. 148. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 274. Crotolaria trifolia., Riv. tetrapet. 22. Subbipedalis, pubescens. Folia ternata, tenera; foliola ovalia aut obo- valn, fine obtuso mucronato, suprà virentia, infra villoso-canescentia, unciam aliquantàm exsuperantia: petiolus communis villoso-albicans, viz longior foliolis; petioluli hirsutiores, breves: stipulæ setaceæ, villosæ, breves, caducar. Racemi terminales, simplices, spicati, mulliflori, semipedales, erecti; pedi- celli breves, cum flore nutantes, villosi. Cal. villosus. Cor. flava, lineato- variegata acuta; vex. carinatum, longius alis: carinæ petala margine albo anata. We have ascertained by a sample in the Banksian Her- barium, collated with that in the Linnean, that our plant belongs to the CRorALARIA incana of Linneus; but have strong doubts of its being of the same species with the plants adduced for synonyms from the works of Sloane and Swartz; which we have in conseguence omitted in the present article. The drawing was taken from a specimen that flowered in the hothouse at Spofforth, and was kindly sent to us by Mr. Herbert. The species is stated in the Hortus Kewensis to be annual and native of the West Indies. Mr. Herbert in- forms us that he had the seed of it from the East Indies, and that the plant is perennial. Cultivated by the Duchess of Beaufort in 1714. About two feet high, furred. Leaves ternate, tender; leaflets oval and obovate, rounded or blunted at the end and mucronate, green above, villous and hoary underneath, | something more than an inch in length: general petiole scarcely longer than the leaflets, villous and hoary; partial petioles shaggy, very short: stipules short, setiform, vil- lous, caducous. Racemes terminal, simple, spiked, many- flowered, half a foot long, upright: pedicles short, nutant as well as the flowers, villous. Calyx villous. Corolla yellow, lineately variegated, pointed: verillum keeled, longer than the ale: petals of the carina edged with a white woolly pubescence. Mar d 1 À 378 PULTENZEA retusa. Obtuse-leaved Pultencea. ilir DECANDRIA A/ONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Lecuminosz. Jussieu gen. 345, Div. VI. PAPILIONACEE. Brown gen. rem. in Flind. voy. 2. 552. _PULTENZA. Cal. 5-fidus, labiis proportionatis, bibracteatus (brac- teis sæpiùs ipso tubo insidentibus). Cor. papilionacea. Germ. sessile, di- spermum. Stylus subulatus, adscendens. Stig. simplex. Strophiola semi. nis lobis posticis incisis. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3, 17. P. retusa, capitulis terminalibus, foliis linearibus retusis muticis planis glabris, bracteis calyce pauló longioribus. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. $. 18. Pultenma retusa. Smith in ann. of bot. 1. 502; et in trans. linn. soc. 9. 247. Willd. enum. 1. 438. Fruticulus erectus, strictiusculus, ramis villosis, foliosis, foliorum decursh angulatis, ramulosis, ramulis summitate et medio Tamorum laziüs sparsèque congregatis, axillaribus, ascendentibus, apice floriferis, totis appressè foliosis. Fol. sparsa, rigida, crassiuscula, obscuré viridia, glabra, cuneato-linearia, retusa, mutica, subsemuncialia; petioli breves, teretes, rugulosi: stipule 2 ` scarioso-membranacea, fusco-rubentes, petiolo (cui intüs utringue appressæ ) breviores, subulate. Flores capitati; capitula pauci-(subguingue)-flora, sub- sessilia, paràm exsuperantia folia involucralia: gemmarum floralium squamæ persistentes, plures, parvula, rigida, sphacelate, ustulato-spadiceæ, oblato- ovate, concave, extès subsericeæ, pedicellis breviores, imbricato-ambientes. Pedicelli crassi, sericei, erecti, breviores calyce. Cal. duplo brevior. corollá, tubulosus, membranosus, pallidus, sericeus, æquabilitèr 5-dentatus, dentibus acuminatis triplo circa brevioribus tubo. — Bracteze medio tubi calycini utrinque insertee, lanceolato-lineares, spadiceæ, calyce paulo alliores, sericeo-ciliate. Cor. flava, glabra, 4 partem uncie parèm excedens. A genus belonging to the decandrous division of the Papilionaceous plants of New South Wales, the large pro- portion of which, in relation to the diadelphous division of the same, forms a striking anomaly in the vegetation of those regions. The species was introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1789; but has not been figured in any work we are acquainted with. The drawing was taken from a sample remitted in April by Mr. Herbert from his collection at Spofforth; where it is cultivated in the greenhouse. A small upright shrub: branches villous, leafy, angular; branchlets axillary, upright, flowerbearing at the end. VOL. V. K Leaves scattered, rigid, thickish, dark green, smooth, cu- neately linear, retuse, pointless, about half an inch long: petioles short, round, wrinkled; stipules 2, scariosely mem- branous, reddish brown, subulate, shorter than the petiole to the inside of which they are flatly pressed. Flowers in heads: heads few-(5-)flowered, nearly sessile, slightly over- topping the leaflets that envelop them: scales of the flower- buds persistent, several, small, rigid, arid, brown-bay, oblately ovate, concave, somewhat silky on the outside, Shorter than the pedicles, imbricately compassing. Pedicles thick, silky, upright, shorter than the calyx. Calyx twice Shorter than the corolla, tubular, membranous, pale, silky, evenly 5-toothed, the teeth acuminate and 3 times shorter than the tube. Bractes inserted at the middle of the tube of the calyx, lanceolately linear, brown-bay, rather higher than the calyx, with a silky fringe. Corolla yellow, smooth, not much exceeding the fourth of an inch in length. Smal ae Lib by $ Ridgway 170 Piccadilly Jah d (elo ys H wb del 379 PAEONIA Moutan. a. Sir Abraham Hume's Tree-Peony. Moutan. —— POLYANDRIA DIGYNIA. Nat. ord. RANuNcuLACEX. Decand. syst. nat. l. 127. Div. II. Ra» nunculacese spuriæ, Nempè antheris introrsis donate. PJEONIA. Cal. 5-sepalus, sepalis subfoliaceis inæqualibus orbiculatis persistentibus. Pet. 5 (interdúm 6-10) orbicularia subæqualia ungue de- Stituta. Discus carnosus germina cingens; germ. 2-5 grossa; stig. sessilia crassa falcata bilamellata crispa; capss. (folliculive) 2-5, ovate, apice stig- Mate superati, l-loc., polyspermæ, suturâ longitudinali supernè dehis- centes: sem. subglobosa nitida; umbilicus prominulus; albumen carnosum; embryo in basi locatus. Herba aut raris suffrutices ; rad. perennes collo crasso subhorizontali, fibris fasciculatis extús nigricantibus aut omnibus aut aliis cylindricis, alteris in tubercula ovata cylindraceave incrassatis; vaginee squamose ad basin caulis; gemma radicales squamis petiolaribus constantes ; fol. alterna petiolata bis ternatim secta; flores terminales, ampli, purpurei, rosei, aut albi ( nunquàm nec carulei nec lutei ), facilà multiplices. Dec. |. c. $86. P. Moutan, caule fruticoso, foliis bipinnatlm sectis, segmentis ovali- oblongis subtüs glaucis, capsulis villosis interdüm urceolo inclusis. Decand. loc. cit. 387. Pæonia Moutan. Curtis's magaz. 1154. Bonpl. nav. et malm. 1. et 61. t. 1. et 23. Smith in Rees's cyclop. n. 1. Hort. Kew, ed, 2. 3. 315. Pæonia suffruticosa. Andrews's reposit. 373, 448. Peronia officinalis, var. Thunb. jap. 230. Lour. cochin. 1. 343. Moutan ou Pivoine, arbrisseau de Chine. Mem. chin. 8. 461. 8) Papaveracea; capsulis in urceolo omninô inclusis. 'eonia papaveracea. Andrews's reposit. 463. Smith in Rees's cyclop. n. 2. Frutex elegantissimus in hortis nostris sæpiàs 3-4-pedalis, ad 8-10 pedes interdúm crescens; caulis feres, ramosus, digiti crassitie, levis; rami novelli Jfoliosi, celeri nudi; fol. patentia, biternatim bipinnatimve secta, segmentis ovalibus oblongisve, inferioribus integris, summis trilobis superne intensê viridi- bus glabris, subtus glaucis pilos minimos sparsos gerentibus; flores terminales, ampli, solitarii, suaveolentes ; fol. floralia 2 immediat? sub flore involucralia, 2-3-partita, lobis oblongis sepiüs reflexis; cal. 5-sepalus; pet. 5-10 et plu- rima magna orbiculata sæpè inciso-dentata. — . . («) Urceolus carnosus germinum basin cingens, apice dentatus; germina 2-9 ovato-oblonga tomentoso-villosa, stigmate crispo rubro coronata; capsa. pollicem longe, rufis villis onusta, stigmate coronatæ, intùs 5-7-sperme, matura patentes. Variat floribus sæpiàs plenis, semiplenisve roseo-purpureis aut albis, petalis subintegris aut incisis, ramis longtoribus aut. brevioribus, foliis majoribus pallidioribus aut minoribus intensiès viridibus. — (8) (que forsán species propria) habet flores magnos semiplenos albos ad basin elde elegantér purpureo-radiatos; pet. sæpiùs apice lacera; capss. Jere semper 6 villosas dispermas. Germina hujus stirpis sunt, priùs observante d. R. ‘Brown, intra urceolum carnoso-membranaceum glabrum subglobosum apice perforatum dentatumque, modo singularissimo ut in Caricibus, inclusa! stigmata extra orificium urceolt paululîtm exserta. Dec. 1. c. K 2 The sample from which our drawing has been made, is the first produce of a plant recently received from China by Sir Abraham Hume, who had the goodness to send it from Wormleybury. It does not seem to be precisely either of the two double varieties, Known in our gardens by the denominations of var. rosea fl. pl. and var. banksia fl. pl. Yet Mr. Sabine, who has attended very particularly to the variation of all the species of Peony, appears to be con- rinced that its difference from banksia consists merely in its being a weaker specimen. This beautiful and most desirable shrub is native of China, and was obtained, like the greater proportion of the more valuable ornaments of our gardens, by the care of Sir Joseph Banks, who had sent out proper instructions, for the purpose. The first living plant reached England in 1794; several had been previously received, but none had survived the passage. In China, where the florist is said to have a list of two hundred and forty varieties, the plants, we are told, sometimes attain the height of from eight to ten feet. To have it in perfection in our climate, it should be planted in the border of the conservatory; but it will also do well in the open ground, if protected during the period of its bloom by a glass case. Stem round, branching, about an inch in diameter, smooth. Young branches leafy; others leafless. Leaves spreading, biternately or bipinnately divided, segments oval or oblong, lower ones entire, uppermost threelobed, of a deep green at the upper side and smooth, at the under glau- cous and furred with small scattered hairs. Flowers ter- minal, large, solitary, sweet-scented: floral leaves two by way of involucre immediately under the flower, 2-3-parted, with oblong and generally reflectent lobes. Calyx of five leaflets. Petals from five to ten or sometimes many more, large, orbicular often indented at the border. It does not yet appear to be decided whether (8), the plant with large white semi-double flowers, known by the title of papaveracea, ìs specifically distinct from (+) or not. We shall subjoin the translation of the distinctive charac- teristics of each as given by M. Decandolle, by whom the two are recorded provisionally. as mutual varieties. In (a) the fleshy cup in which the bases of the ger- mens are contained, is indented at the top: the germens are from two to nine, ovately oblong, tomentosely villous, and crowned with a stigma which is red and curled; the capsules an inch long, furred with reddish villi, terminated by the stigma, 5-7-seeded, spreading wide open when ripe. 'This varies with flowers which are generally either full, or else semi-double, of a very red or white colour, with the petals either nearly entire or else indented; the branches of greater or less length; with a larger and paler foliage, or with a smaller deeper green one. (8) has very large semì-double white flowers with a dee; purple radiated mark at the base of the petals. The petals are generally torn or jagged at the top. The capsules are almost always six in number, villous, and twoseeded. Mr. Brown was the first to observe, and describe, the curious fleshily. membranous envelop which holds the germens together, and which is somewhat analogous to that in the Carices; it ìs subglobular, smooth, open, and indented at the top, from which the stigmas are a little protruded. N 1 T J C MW à LLL SOI! A íi Aa bh di ^ i a | H Clé d. c /) : ad , AR "De Jh. L Tha 170 RAL L pad 380 TULIPA gesneriana. Common Tulip. —9À—— HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIA: (nobis) Nat. ord. LILIA. Jussieu gen. 48. TULIPA. Suprâ vol. 3. fol. 204. T. gesneriana, caule unifloro, floribus erectis, petalis obtusiusculis stamini- busque glabris, foliis lanceolatis. Marsch. Bieb. fl. taur, cauc, 1. 271. Tulipa gesneriana. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 498. Hort. Kew. 1. 495. ed. 2. 2. 249. Brot. fl. lusit; (in hortis). Desfont. atl. 1. 293; (in hortis). Sowerby fl. luz. 5, 6, 11, 1T. Nobis in Curtis's magaz. 1185. Tulipa hortensis. Gertz. sem. 1. 64. t. 17. fig. 2. Tulipa. Clus. hist. 137-148; passim. Park par. 45-65; passim. Swert. oril. 8, 9, 10; passim. fort. eyst. ord. 4. vern. passim. Tourn. inst. passim. Beckman beytr. zur gesch. der erfind, 1. 223. 2. 548. Tulipa turcarum, Gesn. in cordi hist. 219. Proles lateralis. Folia trina ovato-lanceolala, subconvoluta. Caulis gla- ber. Corolla erecta, lato-campanulata, laciniis obtusis. Filamenta equalia, glabra; germine prismatico-columnari duplo breviora, antheras adequantia. Capitellum stigmatosum continuum, triferióm trilobum; stigmata cristato- adnata, revoluta, canaliculata, Nobis in Curt. mag. fol. 1135. The first Flora, in which the Common Tulip has been included as one of the indigenous plants, is that of Cau- casian Tartary by Mr. Marschall of Bieberstein; and the first Herbarium in this country, known to contain a native specimen, is that formed by the Chevalier Pallas, and now in the possession of Mr. Lambert. The species grows natu- rally on the borders of the Caspian Sea, and on the sides of the hills and in the plains of the country about Mount Caucasus. 'The drawing of the present splendid variety was taken from a plant sent by Mrs. Liston, the Lady of the British Ambassador at the Porte, to Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, of the Fulham nursery. It appears that this popular species was first brought from Constantinople to Vienna, about the middle of the sixteenth century; and that it has since gradually found its way over the rest of Europe. From the varieties bred from this species by the florists in Holland, arose the well- known Tulipimania that towards the middle of the seven- teenth century seized nearly the whole of the Low Coun- tries, and which increased into a state of delusive stock- jobbing of so general and destructive a nature as to require the interference of government to be put down. Offsets produced laterally from the bulb. Leaves three, ovately lanceolate, somewhat convolute. Stem smooth. Corolla upright, broadly campanulate; segments obtuse. Filaments even, smooth, twice shorter than the prismati- cally columnar germen ; equal to the anthers. Stigma con- tinuous, trifarious, revolute, crested, channelled, not vil- lously fringed as the nearly allied species from France, which we have given in the third volume of this work (fol. 204), under the title of the Agen Tulip. (Turra oculus solis.) , Ku ur del Il ly Bag FU Bwch Fydd yy di y a WAN 381 HIBISCUS diversifolius. Various-leaved Hibiscus. —— MONADELTHIA POLYANDRIA. Nat. ord. Matvacem, Jussien gen. 271. Div. III. Stamina inde- finita. Fructus simplex multilocularis. HIBISCUS. Supra vol. 1. fol. 29. H. diversifolius, foliis quinque trilobisve obtusis dentatis, superioribus ob- longo-lanceolatis indivisis, pedunculis inermibus, caule petiolisque acu- leatis. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 820. Hibiscus diversifolius. Jacq. ic. rar. 3. t. 551. coll. 2. 307. Willd. enum. 2. 737. Hibiscus ficulneus. Cavan. diss. 3. 141. f. 51. Ag. 2; (non aliorum). Caulis arboreus, erectus, G«pedalis, teres, uncialis diametri et ultra, ra. mosus, viridis, villosulus, medullâ albd farctus, armatur aculeis brevibus pungentibus fuscescentibus rectisque. Rami virgati patent. Fol. alterna, longè petiolata, inferiora 5-loba, superiora 9-loba, summa indivisa et Hea a acutiuscula, serrata, utringue hirsutula, venosa, subtàs ad nervos hispida A petiolis teretibus, villosis armatisque sep? subids raris aculeis, Pedunculi uniflori, solitarii, breves. Cal. exterior polyphyllus ex foliolis plus minus undecim, linearibus, acutis, rigidulis, hispidis, patulis: interior etiam pilis albidis hispidus, longitudine exterioris, patulus, ad 3 5-fidus; laciniis ovato- acutis, Corolle ample et calyce multo longioris petala ex ungue angusto dila- tata in laminam latissimam, rotundatam, obtusissimam, oi solet? crenatam, patentissimam, sulphuream cum basi atrosanguined. Stam. et stigmata tota atrosanguinea, polline sanguineo-miniato. Stigma 5-fidum, capitatum, onn, pilosulum, Germ. hirsutum. Caps. ovata, 5-loc. polysperma. Jacq. 1. c. We do not find this shrub recorded in either edition of the Hortus Kewensis; but it is enumerated in Sweet's Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis, and there stated to have been introduced in 1798. The specimen, from which the drawing has been made, was received from Mr. Herbert’s collection at Spofforth, where the plant is cultivated in the hothouse. A native of the East Indies. Stem arboreous, upright, attaining the height of about six feet, an inch or more in diameter, branching, green, subvillous, armed with short straight pungent brownish spines. Branches rodded, spreading. Leaves alternate, long petioled, lower ones five-lobed, those above three- lobed, uppermost undivided and oblong, rather pointed, ‘serrate, somewhat shaggily furred on both sides, veined, hispid underneath at the nerves; petioles round, villous, and VOL, Y. L often thinly beset with spines at the under side. Peduncles one-flowered, solitary, short. Outer calyx of about eleven (more or less) Tinea pointed stiffish hispid spreading leaf- lets: inner one likewise beset with hispid whitish hairs, the length of the outer, rather spreading, 5-cleft to about two thirds of its depth; segments ovate and pointed. Corolla large and much longer t than the calyx: petals widened from à narrow unguis into a very broad rounded obtuse obsoletely crenated outspread primrose-coloured lamina with a dark blood-red base. Stamens and stigma black red, with pollen of a colour between vermilion and crimson: stigma five- cleft, capitate, flat, slightly furred. Germen shaggily fur- red. Capsule ovate, five-celled, many-seeded. 242, $ i T / | El Le coll. el > Y] ly ; 7 = 29A Ly . Wi : ROIR à SP (Ul. Fantell. 382 HÆMANTHUS pubescens. Hairy Hamanthus, —— HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Nancissr. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. JI. Germen inferum, AMARYLLIDEE. Brown prod. 296. Sect. Y. Radix bulbosa. Flores spathacei, umbellati, rarô solitarii. HÆMANTHUS. Supra vol. 3. fol. 181. H. pubescens, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, undique hirsutis, umbella fastigiato- rotundata, limbo staminibusque erectis. Hort, Kew. 1. 404. Hemanthus pubescens. Lin. suppl. 193. Thunb. prod. 59. Willd. sp. pl. 2.26. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 208. Nobis in Curtis's magaz. fol. 1298 in noté. Hæmanthus albiflos. Jacg. hort. schœnb. 1. 81. t. 59. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 27. Nobis in Curtis's magaz. 1239. Redouté liliac. 838. Hort. Kew. ed, 2, 2. 208. Folia erectiìs opposita, subquaterna, oblonga, hirsutis villosa, ciliata, ine tens? virentia, subbreviora scapo, subsemipedalia latitudine subbiunciali, florum contemporanea. Scapus tereti-compressus, hirsutus, obliquus. Spatha inæ- uivalvis, umbelle subagualis, albido-membranacea, viridi-venosa, pubescens. ores multi, conferti, albi, brevissimè pedicellati, erecti. Cor. infundibult- JSormis, angusta; limbi laciniæ erectæ, lineares, triplo longiores tubo. Fila- menta corollam und tertiá parte feré exsuperantia: anth. fulvo-flavicantes, ovato-rotunde. Stylus subcrassior subaltiorgue staminibus, erectus; stigma levissim? trifidum, patulum. Bacca magnitudine fer? pisi, subrotunda, 3-loc., miniala, nitida; loculamentis monospermis. Native of the Capé of Good Hope. Introduced by the late Mr. Francis Masson in 1774. Requires to be kept in the greenhouse. Of easy culture. The separation of pubescens and albiflos is clearly un- founded, as we have proved by the prototype specimen of the former in the Banksian Herbarium. The drawing was taken from an imported plant which flowered at Mr. Lee's nursery, Hammersmith. Leaves opposite, inclining to upright, about 4, oblong, rather shaggily furred, fringed at the edge, deep green, somewhat shorter than the scape, about half a foot in length, with the breadth of about two inches, full grown at the time the plant is in flower. Scape compressed, shaggily furred, slanting. Spathe unequally valved, about even with the umbel, whitishly membranous, green-veined, furred. L Flowers many, crowded, white, very shortly pedicled, up- right. Corolla funnelform, narrow; segments of the limb upright, linear, three times the length of the tube. Fila- ments overtopping the corolla nearly by one third: anthers deep yellow, ovately rounded. Style rather thicker and taller than the filaments, upright; stigma very slightly trifid, rather spreading. Berry about the size of a pea, roundish, vermilion, shining, three-celled, with one-seeded cells. Ciliaris and toxicarius, though left here in the last edi- tion of the Hortus Kewensis, should certainly be referred to Brunsvieta; a character and enumeration of which genus 193) be seen in the third volume of this work (foll. 192, f Jl x fS 2 x Ix | TS Fa œ e Soh ty 7 Á, dgwoy 174 Pr cade Ny fv ly { 16/0 383 TEMPLETONIA retusa. Wedged-leaved Templetonia. — DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Nat. ord. Lecuminosx. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. VI. PAPILIONACEA. Brown gen. rem. in Flind. voy. 2. 552. TEMPLETONIA. Cal. ebracteatus, 5-dentatus, dentibus parììm inzqualibus. Carina oblonga. Stam. omnia connexa, antheris uniformibus. Legumen pedicellatum, plano-compressum, polyspermum. Semina strophi- olata. Brown in Hort, Kew. ed. 2. 4. 269. Templetonía retusa. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 269. Rafoia retusa. Venten. malmais. 53. Frutez erectus, ramosus: rami angulosi, foliosi, cinereo-virentes, glabri. Fol. alterna, patula, Pitiolata, stipulata, cuneata, integerrima, levitêr emar- ginata cum apiculo brevi inconspicuo, glabra, coriacea, plana, persistentia, suprà profunde viridia, infra pallidiora: petioli articulati, decurrentes, cor- rugati, brevissimi, albicantes: stipulæ parti inferiori- petioli adnate, erecta, ovales, acuta, membranosæ, subrufee, brevissimæ, citò decidua. Pedicelli axillares, solitarii, uniflori, erecti, glabri, virentes, longitudine dimidium folis subæquantes, medio bibracteati. Mores erecti, punicei, magnitudine fer? Kennepiz rubicunda: bracteæ opposite, ovales, obtuse, subciliatæ, brevis- sime. Cal. campanulatus, glaber, virens, limbo bilabiato: labium superius ovale, obtusum, emarginatum; inferius à segmentis 3 parŵm profundis, ind- qualibus, medio lonpiore acuto. Pet. brevi-unguiculata: vex. parèm reflexum, ovali-oblongum, obtusum cum apiculo inconspicuo, pum striatum: ale vexillo subæquilongæ, recte, oblonga, obtuse: car. alis obtecta nonpihilümque brevior, & petalis duobus oblongis superna incurvescentibus, obtusis. il monadelpha: anth. parve, sulphuree. Germ. lineare, labrum, virens, brevi- pedicellatum: stylus filiformis, persistens, stigmate capilato. Sem. 8-10. A handsome species, first observed by Mr. Brown on the south-west coast of New Holland. Introduced by Mr. Peter Good in 1803. The drawing was taken at Mr. Lee's nursery, Hammer- smith; where it is cultivated in the greenhouse, and flowers about April and May. A tallish branching upright shrub: branches angular, leafy, cinereously green, smooth. Leaves scattered, not spreading much, petioled, stipulate, cuneate, quite entire, slightly notched at the end where there is a small short in- conspicuous point, smooth, coriaceous, flat, evergreen, deep green above, paler ¡underneath: petioles jointed, decurrent, wrinkled, very short, whitish: stipules adherent to the lower part of the petiole, upright, oval, pointed, membranous, with a slight tinge of red, very short, quickly deciduous. Pedicles axillary, solitary, one-flowered, upright, smooth, green, about egual to half the length of the leaf, with two bractes at the middle. Flowers upright, crimson, about the size of those of Kennepta rubicunda: bractes opposite, oval, obtuse, slightly fringed, very short. Calyr campa- nulate, smooth, green, with a bilabiate limb: upper lip oval, obtuse, notched at the end: lower one of three rather shallow unequal segments, of which the middle one is the largest and pointed. Petals shortly unguiculate: verillum slightly reflex, ovally oblong, obtuse, with a small incon- spicuous point, flat, streaked: ala: nearly the length of the vexillum, straight, oblong, obtuse, carina euclosed by the ale and rather shorter, consisting of two oblong obtuse pe- tals, inbowed at the upper part. Filaments monadelphous: anthers small sulphur-coloured. Germen linear, smooth, green, shortly pedicled: style filiform, persistent; stigma capitate. Seeds 8-10. We have relied chiefly upon Ventenat’s work for the description of the species; not having ourselves had the op- portunity of inspecting the flowers while fresh. ) / oll del V 7 I Ppra y Sadik fuh | iti) PH se 384 CULLUMIA ciliaris. Ciliated Cullumia. —e— SYNGENESIA POL YG AMIA FRUSTRANEA. Nat. ord, CORYMBIPERE. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. II. Recept. nudum. Sem. papposum. Flores radiati. CULLUMIA. Recept. favosum. Semina glabra. Pappus nullus, Cal, monophyllus : foliolis imbricatis tectus. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. C. ciliaris, foliis ovatis glabris imbricatis bifariàm ciliato-spinosis: spina ter- minali reflexa. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 137. Berckheya ciliaris. Willd. sp. pl. 8. 2273. Rohria ciliaris. Thunb. prod. 140. Act. soc. nat. scrut. hafn. 3. 99. Gorteria ciliaris. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2. 1284. Carlina foliis imbricatis oblongis reticulatis et in aculeum aduncum desinen- tibus. Burm. afr. 151. t. 54. fig. 1. Aculeosa eethiopica, atractylidis facie. Pluk. amalth. 51. t. 354. fig. 3. Frutex: rami loricato-foliosi, supernè paniculatim divisi, prope florem cum calyce arachnoideo-pubescentes, lactescentes. Fol. sparsa, a dimidio superiore squarroso-patentia, a disco ad medium usque adnata, ovato-lanceolata, gla- bra, convexa, margine depressa cartilaginea, spinis alterno-bifariàm biseriatis ciliata, spiná terminali longiori reflexá. Flores ramulorum terminales, solitarii, lutei, diametro biunciali v. majori, Cal. Solioso-tectus, limbo membranaceo multifido, segmentis ovato-lanceolatis planis villoso-ciliatis spina erecta præ- Axis. Discus floris calyci equalis, radio recurvo-patente subtàs obsolete pur- purascente 2-3-plo brevior. flosc. disci hermaphroditi, limbo ultra medium 5-fido erecto acuto glabro, tubo duplo breviore villosiusculo: stig. 2 revoluta, Java: germ. oblongum glabrum alveolo proprio immersum. Flosc. radi neutri, plurimi, unciales v. ultrà, sublance ato-ligulati, sulcato-striati, 4- dentati. Recept. planum, ex paleis ciliatis coadunatts favosum. CuLuvMrA was detached from BERCKHEYA by Mr. Brown in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis. It has smooth seed and no pappus, while in Bercxueya the seed is villous, and endowed with à pappus which is either chaffy or else partly chaffy and partly bristly. Both genera have an alveolate or honeycombed receptacle, and thus differ from Gorreria and GazaniA where the seeds are not lodged in distinct cavities formed by the chaffy bractes that beset the surface of the receptacle. The very curious manner in which the foliage is disposed in this species for the protection of the branches and its armature consisting of a double edging of fine spines that point alternately upwards and downwards, seem to have im- pressed the fancy of Linnens with peculiar admiration; and he terms the structure “ stupendum nature artificium." ip The shrub belongs to the greenhouse department, is native of the Cape of Good Hope, and was introduced by Mr. Francis Masson in 1774. It has never before, as far as we know, been figured from a living sample. Branches loricately leaved, paniculately divided at the top, at the upper part araneously furred as well as the calyx, milky. Leaves imbricant, spreading at the upper half, growing to the stem by the disk at the lower half, ovately lanceolate, smooth, convex with a depressed carti- laginous border, edged round with a double row of fine spines pointing alternately in two different directions, the ter- minal spine longer and reflectent. Flowers at the end of the branches, solitary, yellow, two inches across or more. Calyx covered with leaves; limb membranous, multifid; segments ovately lanceolate, flat, villously fringed, with an upright spine at the end. Disk of the flower even with the calyx, 2-3 times shorter than the recurvedly spreading ray. Florets of the disk fruitful; limb 5-cleft to below the middle, upright, pointed, smooth; tube twice shorter, slightly villous. Stig- mas revolute, deep yellow. Germen oblong, smooth, lodged in its proper cell. Florets of the ray barren, an inch or more in length, sublanceolately ligulate, striated, 4-toothed. Receptacle flat, honeycombed, the lodges or cells being formed by the coalition of the fringed chaffy bractes. -n Put by a Arde way 170 Luca ally Aug S. "dug IST Soned de 385 MARANTA zebrina. Stripe-leaved Maranta, T MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Nat. ord. CANNÆ. Jussieu gen. 62. CawNEm. Brown prod. 307; in obs. .MARANTA. Anthera simplex, filamento adnata. Stylus petaliformis, Stigma subtrigonum. Sem, 1. Roscoe in linn. trans, 8. 389, - M. zebrina, foliis a supino pruinatis vittato-discoloribus, Maranta zebrina. Curtis's ax, 1926, Sweet hort. sub. londin. 1. (Herba perennis: radix tuberosa), Fol, radicalia, guadrifaria, fascicu- lata; exteriora (primordial ) interioribus duplo breviora, petiolis 2 is suffulta; petioli 1-2-pedales, erechi, canaliculati, basi ‘equitantes, apice quam basi 3plo angustiores, lata virides, margine pallidiores j Tamina maj iolo articulo §-l-unciali, cylindraceo, viridi-purpureo sejuncta, 24' pedes nga, medio 8 uncias lata, primüm erecta, convolutiva, demàm horizontalis paululàm reflexa, elliptica, undulata, obtusa, margine basin versis auricula- fam crispatulg; suprà velutina, atroviridis, maculis parallelis obliqua transe persis æquidistantibus multô pallidioribus alternis trans medium interruptis ad gostam st marginem confluentibus vittatn, venis tenuissimis simplicibus approxi- matis pallidis lineata ; infrà sericea, purpurea, unicolor, ad marginem perm dilutior. Scapus cylindraceus, levis, ad basin digiti crassitudine, ex asillis prtiolorum. aphyllorum quibus. paulà longior, Spica composita, terminalis pvata, compacta, ovi anatini magnitudine; bracteæ commiines amero inder Jinite, densissimè imbricata, equitantes : extima maxima, suborbiculata, basi (angustata o. cunsiformis, undique sub lente pube brevtconfertá obsita, coriacea, venis valg? approzimatis à bast ad marginem radiantibus trajecta; interiores pvaiæ v. elliptice, purpurascentes, venis parallelis longitudinalibus ad apicem Precipud estús pubescentem confluentibus lipeata, sensim angustiores et pal- lidiores, flores in @ fasciculos 2-3-floros (git antici sunt et postici quoad azim communem ) sejungentes; proprie terñæ, lineari-lan Me, I pure urea: unica interior libera, 2 est€riores, quarum, margine altera cum eo [pel Joris proximi conferruminato, septulum flores invichm stparans ef» ormatur. Perianthium superum, unciales exterius (braciez $ cum germine connate? ) ad basin S-partitum, laciniis obtusis lineari Jenceolatis, equalibus, impubibus, marginibus approzimatis et parim incurvis fubum simulantibus, interioris longitudine; interius tubo gracili, laciniis suis duplo. longiore, sursüm fanthesi ctâ) sensim annee, intüs lineis 2 elevatis hersutis ab imâ basi ferê ad apicem ayri ms labeli (quibus opposite) ‘ten. dentibus notato: limbus duplex, cestivatione convoluted; exterior S-parti- fus, laciniis lineari-lanceolatis, phtesis, paun ribys, 2 lateralibus, alterá, quoad arin partialem infiorescentice (fusciculorum), posticá ; ins terior S-partitus, laciniis paul} supra seriem exteriorum connalis, 9 late. ralibus, obovatis, posticis, ad basin marginis anterioris ultra label qu productis, quám exteriores quibus alternant brevioribus; unica (labeli) VOL, Y, M anticá (tubo modicê torto, laterali, et laterales tum antici fount et pos- lici), inter lacinias laterales exteriorum, concavd, cucullatá? cestivatione stylé parlem liberam cum stigmale involventi, intrà marginem lateralium, quasi serie alterá, insertá, hinc denti auriculiformi ( stamen sterile labello connatum) paulo suprà faucem tubi marginatá, indè filamento connalâ v. liberd, tum utroque. margine auriculatd; stamen Jaciniâ posticá serici ex- terioris insertum; filam. tenue, lanceolatum, diaphanum, erectum, styli longitudine, labelli margine altero hinc connatum v. liberum, margine anthe- rifero multó crassiore et paululùm labellum versüs torto; anth. paulo infra apicem dextram filamenti adnata, elliptica, æstivatione ad styli apicem ap- pressa et ant labelli expansionem pollinem album sphæricum carnosum mutud pressione sæpè subangulatum emittens, unilocularis, septo longitudinali in loculos binos parallelos semidivisa. Germ. inferum 3-loc.; loculamenta ovulo unico erecto; stylus filiformis, impubis, faucem usque cum tubo ante flamen- tum accrelus, suprà faucem liberus, valdé incrassatus, paulô compressus, glaberrimus, albidus, transversus, apice obliguâ horizontali; stigma termi- nale, infundibuliforme, obliquum, margine incrassatum, æstivatione compres- sum, posted apertum, ab antherá reversum: plerumgue pollen in humero styli stigmati proximo dimittitur;. bis autem in ipsá stigmatis cavitate observavi. Anthesis à fasciculis posticis (axi communi proximis) spice infima incipit, et ordine simili sursùm pergit; fasciculorum posticorum floribus emarcidis, ante- riores eandem normam sequuntur. Lindley. MSS. Introduced from the Brazils in 1815. We have no doubt that the dif. ferences between the species previously combined under MARANTA and the "present, will suggest to some botanist, who may feel himself sufficiently versed in the study of the natural tribe to which our plant belongs, the „propriety of detaching it under a new generic denomination. In the _mean time we present our readers with a most ingenious and elaborate description by Mr. Lindley, junior, of Catton, near Norwich. The drawing was taken from a fine specimen which flowered in the hot- house of Mr. Kent, at Clapton; to which a very liberal access is afforded -for the purposes of science. A perennial herbaceous plant, with a tuberous root. Leaves tadical, uadrifarious, disposed in fascicles, the euter ones (those which were ret Produced) twice as short as the interior and supported by two leafless footstalks; JSootstalks 2-3 feet long, erect, channelled, equitant at the base, three times narrower at the upper extremity than at the lower, bright green with a paler margin; lamina of the largest leaves separated _ from the footstalk by a cylindrical greenish purple joint from â an inch to an inch in length, about 2} feet long and 8 inches broad in the middle, at first erect and rolled up longitudinally, afterwards horizontal and a little bent downwards, elliptical, undulated, obtuse, a little curled at . the margin towards the base which is dilated on each side of the footstalk; e upper side velvety, dark green, banded with parallel, obliquely trans- verse, equidistant, broad stripes, alternately interrupted across the middle, much paler than the rest of the leaf and confluent at the margin and rib, traversed in the direction of the bands by numerous; very narrow, simple, close-set, pale veins; the under side si ky, purple, whole- coloured, a little paler towards the edge. Scape cylindrical, smooth, naked, of the thickness of a finger at the base, arising from the axille of the leafless stalks, than which it is a little longer. Spike compound, ter- minal, ovate, compact, the size of a duck's egg: common braciee indefinite in number, closely imbricated equitant: the esterior largest, roundish, narrowed towards the base or wedge-shaped, covered with dense inton- spicuous hairs, coriaceous, traversed by close-set veins radiating from the base to the margin; interior ovate or elliptical, purplish, furnished with parallel longitudinal veins becoming confluent at the tip, which is pubes- cent especially on the outside, gradually narrowing and paler, separating the flowers into 2 parcels, each of which is 2 or 3 flowered, and anterior and posterior with respect to the common axis of inflorescence; partial bractece 3, linear-lanceolate, palish purple, one interior and separate, 2 exterior of each of which one edge becomes confluent with that of the bractem of the nearest flower, so as to form a partition completely separating each flower from its neighbour. Perianthium superior, double, an inch long: outer (formed of three bracteæ connate with the germen?) divided to its base into 3 obtuse linear-lanceolate equal naked segments with edges approximated and a little curved inwards so as to resemble a tube as long as the inner perianthium; inner with a slender tube twice as long as its segments, gradually attenuated towards its upper end when the function of the limb has ceased, traversed in the inside by 2, elevated, hairy lines running from its very bottom almost as far as the top of the auricles of the labellum to which they are opposite; limb double with a convolutive estivation: outer 3-parted with linear lanceolate obtuse rather irregular segments, of which 2 are Jateral and the other posterior with respect to the partial axis of inflorescence (of the fascicles); interior S-parted: segments united a little above those of the outer limb: two lateral, pos- terior, obovate, extended at the base of their front edge a little beyond that of the labellum, shorter than the outer segments with which they alter- nate: one (labellum ) anterior (by a slight twist of the tube appearing lateral, and then the 2 lateral divisions become anterior and posterior,) between the lateral laciniæ of the outer limb, concave, hoodshay ed?, in æstivation involving the free part of the style and stigma, inserted within the margin of the lateral segments as if in a different series, on one side having a rounded denticulation (or sterile stamen connate with the Jabellum) a little above the orifice of the tube, on the other side united to the fila- ment or separate and then furnished with an auricle on both sides: Siamlen inserted into the posterior segment of the outer series: flamer? thin, lanceolate, diaphanous, erect, the length of the style, either united on one side to the margin of the labellum or distinct from it, that side which supports the anther being much thicker than the other and somewhat twisted towards the labellum; anther affixed a little below the right hand side of the apex of the filament, elliptical, in æstivation pressed against the top of the style and shedding the pollen before the expansion of the labellum, one-celled, half-divided by a longitudinal partition into bwo parallel cells: pollen white, spherical, fleshy, often an, ular by mutual pressure of the particles. Germen inferior 3-celled; celts with one erect ovulum; style filiform, naked, united with the tube, as far as its orifice, in front of the filament, beyond the orifice disengaged, much thickened, very smooth, whitish, somewhat compressed, transverse, with an obligue horizontal summit; stigma terminal, funnel-shaped, oblique, thickened a the margin, during æstivation compressed, afterwards open and turne away from the anther; it usually happens that the pollen is dropped o the shoulder of the style nearest the stigma; but we have twice observe it in the cavity of the stigma. Expansion commences in the posterior M2 fascicles (those next the common axis) of the lowest part of the spike, and proceeds in the-same order upwards: after the flowers of the posterior fas- cicles are wíthered, those of the anterior begin to open in a similar man- ner, — Lindley. Drawn by J. Lindley, Esq. a The anther. ô The stigma. c The top of the style. d One of the lateral appendages. e The base of the labellum. _f The filament. g The germen.—All magnified. d d i e. Cards. del. 9 r ly. E 272277 P, Mr Ie Free eller $ bug A. 1510). 386 INDIGOFERA australis. Botany-bay Indigo. ee DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Nat. ord. Lecuminost. Jussieu gen. 845, Div. V. Cor. irregularis papilionacea. Legum. l-loc. 2-valv. Frutices aut herbs; fol. simplicia aut ternata aut rariüs digitata; stipulæ nunc subnullee nunc conspicuæ imo tiolo adnate aut ab eodem distincte==PAPILIONACZA. Brown in app. o Flind. voy, 2. 552. INDIGOFERA. Supra in nolis appendicis vol. 3, L australis, foliis pinnatis glabris multijugis oblongis, racemis folio brevio- ribus vexillis glabris leguminibus patentibus. Wild, sp. pl. 3. 1935. Indigofera australis. Venten. malmais, 48. Hort. Kew. ed. 2,4. 355, Frutex ramosus, supernê foliosus, plaber, ramis alternis, patentibus, bre- . vibus. Fol. alterna, horizonìali-rgfleza, petiolata, impari-pinnata, 3-6juga, foliolis oppositis distantibus brevi-petiolatis, ovalibus et lanceolatis, glanduloso- apiculatis, sabtüs obsolete ntibus + pet. articulati, ad lentem villis a e sis obsoletè pubescentes, glandulâ parvulá purpurascente pari singulo, foliorum int tá: stipule à petiolo distincte, recta, lineares, brevistinwe, cito deciduæ. Racemi axillares, solitarii, suberecti, subbreviores folio, pedunculo ad lentem obsoleto pubescente. Flores alterni, proximi, horizontales, dicellati, roseo-rubentes, suaveolentes: bracteæ 2-3 ad basin 7 rum, brevissime, purpureo-membranacem. Cal, entissimus, saturate purparens, villis nigricantibus obsoletè pubescens, vexillo truncatus, sub carind ineguali-5-dentatus. Pet. unguiculata: vex. erectum, rotundatum, emarginatum, striatum, maculd candidâ ad basin: ale vexillo æquilongæ, re- Jleze, oblonga, obtusiusculee: car. alis aliguantulîm brevior utringue juxta supra u calcarata, Fil. diadelpha: anth. erecta, glanduloso-apiculate, pallido lutee. Germ. lineare, compressum, glabrum: stylus geniculatus, filiformis, stigmate capitato. Leg. reflexum, cylindricum, ob medullam fun- gosam monospermo-3-4-loculare, Sem. nigricantia, angulis 4 obsolel notata, ad lentem impresso-punticulata. A species from New South Wales. Introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1790; and now pretty common in our greenhouses, in which it thrives with little care. A smooth branching shrub, leafy at the upper part: branches alternate, spreading. Leaves alternate, horizon- tally reflectent, petioled, unevenly pinnate, 3-6-paired, leaflets opposite, widish apart, short-petioled, oval and lanceolate, with a small glandular apex, obsoletely furred underneath: petioles jointed, farred with a short close- pressed pubescence scarcely visible but through a magnify- ing glass, bearing a small purplish gland between each pair of leaflets: stipules detached from the petiole, straight, linear, very short, soon dropping off. Racemes axillary, solitary, inclining to upright, rather shorter than the leaf; peduncle obsoletely furred. Flowers alternate, near, hori- zontal, pedicled, rosy-red, sweet: bractes 2-3 at the base of the pedicles, very short, membranous, purple. Calyx outspread, of a full purple colour, obsoletely furred with blackish villi, under the vexillum truncate, under the carina unequally five-toothed. Petals unguiculate: veril- lum upright, rounded, emarginate, streaked, with a white spot at the base: ale as long as the vexillum, reflex, ob- long, bluntish: carina a little shorter than the alæ, spurred on each side just above the unguis. Filaments diadelphous: anthers upright, with a glandular apex, pale-yellow. Ger- men linear, compressed, smooth: style filiform, kneed; stigma capitate. Pod reflex, cylindrical, with a thick _fungous pith, by which it is divided into 3-4 one-seeded “cells. * Seeds blackish, faintly four-cornered, when observed through a magnifier pitted with small thickset hollow dots. We have relied chiefly for the above description on the one given by M. Ventenat in French. J / > a del Jui by SN may / [0 Pret (Lig 13H) 7 à i D AM V c 387 HEPATICA americana. American Hepatica. —— POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nat. ord. RANUNCULACER. Decand. syst. nat. 1. 129. Div. I. Ra- nunculacez Vere. Tribus II. Anemonem. HEPATICA. Involucrum 3-folium flori approximatum 1-florum, calyciforme, foliis integris; petala 6-9 duplici triplicive serie disposita. Stam. et germ. indefinita, Sem. ecaudata. Herbs perennes montana vernales ; rad. fibrose ; fol. radicalia petiolata, plurima è gemmis radicalibus squamosis orta, simplicia, 3-7-lobata, coriacea; scapi plurimi, radicales 1-flori. Cupule minime serrato-filameniosæ adsunt ad basin germinum observante cl. Schkuhrio. Decand. L c. 215. H. americana, foliis cordatis trilobis, lobis rotundatis obtusis integerrimis: petiolis scapisque pilosissimis. . Hepatica triloba, 8. obtusa. Pursh amer. sept. 2. 891.—B. americana. Decana. loc. cit. 216. Nuttall gen. 2. 23. Anemone Hepatica. Michaux bor. amer. 1. 119. Bigelow fl. boston. 185. Anemone foliis trilobis integerrimis, Gron, virg. ed. 2, 84. Hepatica. Gron. virg. 61. Heparica is at present constituted by a group of three Species, and has been very recently detached from ANEMONE; from which it is easily distinguishable by having the invo- lucre near to the flower, not at a distance from it, and the leaves of the involucre entire, not variously carved. We have no hesitation in recording the american plant as a distinct species from the european triloba, to which it has been generally appended for a variety. The lobes of the leaves are rounder and less pointed in the american plant, the flower-stem and leaf-stalks shaggily farred, the whole altogether smaller and of different appearance. Found, according to Mr. Pursh, in woods, and on hill-sides from Canada to Carolina; varying with blue and with purple flowers. 'The drawing was taken at the nursery in Sloane Sguare, from a specimen recently imported by Messrs. Frasers. It has been kept in a garden-pot and sheltered.un- der a garden-frame; but we have no doubt it will do per- fectly well in the open ground, D FAR À MERTER OP , Wd . Jes x E Y SE N / S d / $ / Jul. : Pit by â Vadywey iH Mesi i, - HN lid. 4/1. Irth e 388 ERYSIMUM diffusum. Alpine Hedge-mustard. — :o—— TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. Nat. oyd. Crucrrerz, Jussieu gen. 297. Div. I. Fructus siliquosus. Stylus nullus. . ERYSIMUM. Siliqua tetragona. Semina emarginata. Cotyledones incumbentes, Stigma capitatum, nunc emarginatum lobulis patentibus. Cal. clausus. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 115. E. diffusum, foliis lanceolato-linearibus integerrimis v. paucidentatis: pilis - bipartitis, unguibus calyce longioribus; laminis obovato-oblongis, sili- qus erectiusculis elongatis; stigmate bilobo; stylo brevissimo. Brown e cit, Erysimum diffusum. Ehrh. beitr. T. 157. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 512. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 115. Erysimum canescens. Roth catal, bot. 1. 76. Cheiranthus alpinus. Linn. mant. 93. Jacq. austr. 1. 48.1. 75. Hort. Kew. 2. 394. Eruca sylvestris angustifolia. Lob. ic. 205. . Tota planta scabriuscula est. Rad. albida, à 3 ad 10 uncias Jonga, 2% plures lineas crassa, lignosa, biennis, modô recta descendit, madd inter saza vari? distorquetur, et primo anno sola promit folia radicalia. Caules strict? eriguntur, aut solitarit, aut rariìs pauci, ab 1 ad 3 pedes alti, modô simplicis- simi, modó supernè ramosi, subangulati, tenues, firmi, parìm scabri. Fol. sunt lanceolato-linearia, pilis brevissimis et viz conspicuis modice exasperata, sessilia, inordinat? alternantia, magis minüsve conniventia, aculague. Hac caulem ant? florescentiam satis numerosa decorant; sed brevi post illam ares- cunt, pereuntque, aded quidem ut sap? sub florescentice finem caulis vel ad ramos racemosve usque foliis nudatus spectetur. In aliis autem individuis sunt angustissima, ver? linearia, integerrima, fermê incana, et veluti convoluta. In aliis multd sunt latiora, magis virentia, et inferiora obitèr atque rarifèr dentata. Caules ef rami producuntur in racemos k simos, Flores ferme inodori, Calycis glauci glabri et parèm compresi | foliola 2 opposita deorsiim ibba sunt. Pet. Bea in unguem desinunt longitudine calycis. Stig. obso- is 2.fidum est. Siliquæ tenues, 4-gonæ, et erectiusculæ, modà pollicares aut sesquipollicares; modo bipollicares et filiformes. Jacq. L c. Native of the South of Europe. Cultivated by Miller, in the Physic Garden at Chelsea, in 1733. The whole plant is roughishly furred. The hairs are described by Mr. Brown as biparted. Root woody and bien- nial. Stems straight, stiff, generally solitary, sometimes more than one, from one to three feet high, sometimes Simple, at others branching at the upper part, slightly an- VOL. V. N gular, slender, firm, a little roughened. Leaves lanceolately linear, beset with very short and inconspicuous hairs, but not very closely, sessile, scattered, more or less connivent and pointed. Stem, before flowering, beset with numerous leaves, which dry up and perish soon after the flowers go off, so that towards the end of its blossoming it is sometimes quite naked from the root to the raceme. In some indivi- duals the leaves are very narrow, exactly linear, quite en- tire, nearly gray, and appearing convoluted or rather rolled longitudinally on each side upon themselves. In others they are much broader, greener, and the lower ones slightly and loosely indented. Racemes extending to a great length. Flowers with scarcely any scent. Calyx glaucous, smooth, slightly compressed; 2 opposite leaflets, gibbous at the base. Petals sulphur-coloured; unguis longer than the calyx: la- mina obovately oblong. Stigma 2-lobed. Style very short. Pods siliquose, inclining to upright, lengthened. The drawing was taken from a fine specimen, which flowered in the nursery of Messrs. Colville, King’s Road, Chelsea; where that of the Cuzcumra ciliaris of the last fas- ciculus was also taken; a circumstance which we omitted to mention in the proper place. 36 A aul dys ) 2 i | Po ac ; Pal by JA rye 170 Srecod My y / (U 389 ERYTHRINA carnea. Flesh-coloured Coral-tree. — DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSIE. Jussieu gen. 845. Div. V. ERYTHRINA. Suprâ vol. 4. fol. 313. E. carnea, foliis ternatis glabris, caule arboreo shbaculeato, calycibus cam- panulatis truncatis. Hort. Kew. 3. 8. Erythrina carnea. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 951. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 912. Erythrina americana. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 2. Corallodendron triphyllum americanum non spinosum foliis magis acumi- natis, flore pallidê rubente. Trew ehret. 2. i. 8. ^ Caulis 7-pedalis, aculeatus, Calyx truncatus uti in ERYTHRINA herbaceâ. Vexillum carneum, fer? rectum, latere deflezum, compressum, calyce sextuplo longius. Ale pallida, oblonge, altero latere recte, calyce viz longiores. Carina pallida, dipetala; petalis basi rotundatis, dein. subulatis, longitudine alarum. Dryander in sched. banksianis. We are obliged to Mr. Herbert, for the drawing of this scarce shrub, which flowered ìn the hothouse at Spofforth, in the early part of last spring. The species was introduced by Dr. Houston, from Vera Cruz, before 1733. Having had no opportunity of taking a description of the plant ourselves; we shall subjoin a few notes concerning. the species from Mr. Dryandev's manuscripts in Sir Joseph Banks's library. Stem about 7 feet high, thorny. Calyx truncate, as in EnvrHRINA herbacea. Vexillum flesh-coloured, nearly straight, bent down at the sides, compressed, six times longer than the calyx. Alæ pale, oblong, with one straight side, scarcely longer than the calyx. Carina pale, of two petals rounded at the base, then tapered subulately, of the same length as the ale. hth. à Marit dl P : WALLAU ” Jul ly I Ralyway | 7 SrecadMy (lig / 191) 590 VIOLA pubescens. 8. eriocarpon. Woolly-fruited furred-leaved Violet. ——— PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord, Cisti, Jussieu gen. 294. Div. Genera Cistis afinia fructà trivalvi valvis seminiferis, sed definitè staminifera. i VIOLA. Supra vol. 1. fol. B45 Oss. Capsula cartilaginea, obtus? trigona, valvis disco medio seminiferis, post dehiscentiam contractilibus, nist elastico semina demiÿtentibus: semina seriebus trinis disposita; testa colorata fragilis, hilum carunculatum, embryo erectus planus, centralis, albumen carneum: cotyledones rotuadat? ovales, radicula cylindrica, Nuttall gen. 1. 147; (ex anglico). Div. Caulescentes. V. pubescens, villoso-pubescens; caule erecto supernó folioso, foliis lato- cordatis, stipulis oblongis apice serratis, Pursh amer. sept. 1. 174. Viola pubescens. Hort. Kew. 3. 290. ed. 2, 2.47. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1166. Nuttall gen. 1. 150. Viola pensylvanica. Michauz bor-amer. 2. 149. (8) eriocarpon; fructà dense villoso, stipulis minoribus. Nuttall loc. cit. Folia aut pube copiosá obducta aut feré glabra, subserrata: etipule ovata, maximam partem integre: stylus compressus, stigma subglobosum penicillis duobus lateralibus, erostellatum. Fructus glaber B. eriocarpon, Fructú lanâ brevi albâ obtecto ; stipulis minoribus. Nuttall loc. cit ; (ex anglico). 'The American Violets have received particular attention from Mr. Nuttall, in his “ Genera of North American Plants;” in which work he hâs enumerated twenty species, and in a great measure recast their characters. It is observed by that botanist, that all those of America, like the canina of these parts, continue through the summer to produce flowers without petals, which are succeeded by fruit; and that in all the caulescent species, with the exception of the anoma- lous concolor, the fruit so produced is generally situated near to the root, and not unfreguently underground. The Viora striata, which flowers in the vicinity of Philadelphia till June, begins to bear apetalous flowers in July, in con- sequence, as Mr. Nuttall expresses it, of the elevated tem- perature. He is of opinion that the genus, as now defined, requires reduction; and that it should be removed from the order of Crsrr, and made the basis of a new one. VIOLA, strictly defined, is almost equally divided between Europe and the temperate portion of North America. VioLa pubescens grows in shady woods among rocks, particularly those of limestone, from New York to Virginia. ntroduced in 1772 by Mr. William Young. Hardy. The present variety has a densely woolly capsule, and somewhat smaller stipules than £, "where the capsule is without pubescence. Both are abundant about Phila- delphia. . Perennial caulescent. Leaves much furred or nearly naked, slightly serrate. Stipules ovate, with their principal part entire. Style compressed: stigma nearly globular with two lateral pencils of pubescence, rostellate. The drawing was taken from an imported plant, which flowered in May, at Mr. Fraser’s nursery in Sloane Square. wv A i EL by F lilly Aug 1 LIO Ct Fe À L MA IT D Y) EC Har Aol. 391 CERBERA fruticosa. Rosy-flowered Cerbera. — 9 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord.. APOCYNEIE. Jussieu gen. 148. Div. III. Germen simplex, fructus baccatus aut rariüs capsularis. CERBERA. (Contorta). Cal. 5-partitus, patens. Cor. infundibuli- formis, tubo clavato, fauce 5-angulari 5-dentatâ, limbo magno 5-partito obliquo. Anth. conniventes. Stylus 1; stig. 2-lobum. Drupa magna, latere sulcata ac 2-punctata, feta nuce osseâ 4-valyi 2-loc. 2-spermá. Ar- bores ; fol, alterna; flores sap? terminales, subcorymbosi. Juss. loc. cit. 149, C. fruticosa, dichotoma; foliis oppositis, lato-lanceolatis; corymbis termi- nalbus; drupis obliqué urceolatis, hiantibus, Rorb. MSS; (ex anglico verso/. Cerbera fruticosa. Carey hort. beng. 19. Frutex speciosissimus. Caulis brevis, non long? supra basin se dividens, indèque in ramos ramulosque multiplices teretes glabros dichotomos atque rectos subdividendas. Fol. opposita, sapè ab invicóm remota, breve perioleta, oblonga ad lanceolata, integra, glabra, acuminata, 5-6-uncialia latitudine 2-3-unciali, Stipula interfoliaceæ, acute. Corymbi [rm terminales, deîn dichotomiarum intermedii evadentes : partiales subtrichotomi breves. Flores ampli, roseo-rubentes ore tubi saturatiús colorato, subodorati. Bractem oppo- site, triangulares, acute, Cal. 5-phyllus, foliola oblonga, glabra, persis- tentia, glandulâ glabrá præfiza. Cor. tubo fer? biunciali, gracili, fauce tumidá, ore piloso: limbi laciniis obovato-oblongis, æqualibus. Fil. brevia, fundo faucis inserta: anth. sagitiatæ incluse. Germ. 2, unumve bilobum, superiora, hinc ubi invicèm contingant villosa, fissurá utrinque squamulá subu- dat operta : lobi germinave simplicia bilocularia, singulum ovulo unico disse- pimenti medio annexo, Stylus tubum ferè eguans: stig. majusculum, apice ilobo, The drawing was taken in May, at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, Fulham, where the plant is cultivated in the hothouse. It has been only re- cently introduced by Captain Craigie. The species was first observed by Dr. Roxburgh, whose account of it we subjoin from his manuscript in the Banksian Library. 'This elegant shrub was brought from Pegu (its native country) to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it is in constant blossom. The flowers are like those of Vinca rosea, but larger and faintly fragrant. Altogether it is one - of the most ornamental shrubs in the garden. Stem short, soon dividing and subdividing into many straight round smooth dichotomous branches and branch- lets. Leaves opposite, often remote, short-petioled, from oblong to lanceolate, entire, smooth, acuminate, 5-6 inches long, 2-3 broad. Stipules interfoliaceous, acute. Corymbs terminal, when they first appear, but long before all the blossoms expand a branchlet shoots forth from each side, and places them in the fork; divisions subtrichotomous and short. Flowers large, mouth of the tube lively red, the rest a bright pink, somewhat fragrant, and highly ornamental. Bractes opposite, triangular, acute. Calyr 5-leaved; leaflets oblong, smooth, permanent, with a smooth gland at the top. Corolla funnelform; tube nearly 2 inches long, slender, even, except at the faux, where it swells considerably, orifice highly coloured and pubescent; segments of the limb obovate, oblong, equal. Filaments short, inserted round the bottom of the faux: anthers sagittate enclosed within the faux. Germens 2, or single and 2-lobed, superior, villous on the sides where they meet, a small subulate scale covering the fissure on each side; lobes or germens singly 2-celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to the middle of the partition: style nearly as long as the tube: stigma large with a 2-lobed apex, which is lodged in the dome formed by the converg- ing of the anthers. S Wali de: G s Oe 1 by P a Relgway 170 / R Sen ” / $). Hart. del. 392 OXYLOBIUM arborescens. Tall Oxylobium. — DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. LeouMtNosm. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. IV. Corolla irregu- laris papilionacea. Stamina distincta, aut rard basi coalita. Legumen uniloculare bivalve. Arbores aut frutices; folia simplicia aut ternata aut im- Pari-pinnata.—PAPILIONACEZ. Brown in app. to Flind. voy. 2. 552. OXYLOBIUM. Calyz profundê quinquefidus, subbilabiatus. Corolla papilionacea, carina compressa longitudine alarum sequantium vezillum ex- planatum. Stylus adscendens. Stigma simplex. Legumen polyspermum, ventricosum, ovatum, acutum. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 8. 9, O. arborescens, foliis lineari-Janceolatis, bracteis npicis pedicelli persistenti- bus, corymbis confertis, leguminibus calyce vix longioribus. Brows in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 8. 10. A tall shrub, first observed by Mr. Brown in Van Die- men's Island. Introduced in 1805. The drawing was taken in April last, from a plant in the greenhouse at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the King's Road, Chelsea. 'The genus has been defined by Mr. Brown in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis; and is distinguished among the decandrous section of its papilionaceous co-ordi- nates, by a deeply fivecleft faintly bilabiate calyx; a corolla with a compressed carina the length of the ale, which are as long as the flatly expanded vezi//um ; an ascending style; simple sfigma; and a polyspermous, ventricose, ovate, pointed pod. We are not aware of any published representation of the species. It is known by its linearly lanceolate leaves, the persistence of the bractes at the top of the pedicles, closely flowered corymbs, and by pods scarcely longer than the calyx. We have not been enabled to add any further particulars concerning it; as we missed the opportunity of examining the blossom. Three of the genus are recorded in the Hortus Rewensis. VOL, V. o 7] p 393 “CALLISTEMON rigidum. : Stiff-leaved Callistemon. ibe ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNLA. Nat. ord. Myatt. Jussieu gen. 322. Div, I. Myrracez. . Brown in app. to Flind. voy. 2. 546. CALLISTEMON. Stamina (numerosa): filamentis distinctis, elon- gatis ; antheris incumbentibus. Capsula trilocularis, polysperma, connata et inclusa calycis tubo incrassato basi adnato (ramo). Brown MSS. Div. Filamentis puniceis. CALLISTEMON rigidum, foliis linearibus (lanceolato-linearibusve) planis acutissimis mucronatis lævibus, ovariis pubescentibus, capsulis distinctis, Brown MSS. ` Metrosideros linearis. Willd. enum. 513; (non veró METROSIDEROS linearis . ejusd. sp. pl. 2. 955). d A genus first proposed by Mr. Brown to be detached from Merrosiprnos, in his general remarks on the Botany of New Holland, and now defined from his manuscripts, which were communicated with the same liberality we have ever experienced from that gentleman. CaLLisTEMON is at present constituted by about 10 o. 11 australasian species; and consists of 2 sections; one distinguished by crimson filaments, the other by yellow. Our sbrub is native of New Holland. We cannot do better, for our readers, than extract the remarks of Mr. Brown on the natural order to which the plant belongs. * MYRTACE/E. This is one of the most extensive “ tribes in Terra Australis, in which above 200 species have “ been already observed, and where the order is also more * strikingly modified than in any other part of the world. * [t is very generally spread over the whole of Australia, but “its maximum appears to be in the principal parallel. “ Of EucaLyPTus alone nearly 100 species have been al- * ready observed, most of these of trees, many of them of “ great and some of enormous dimensions. Euvcanyprus « globulus of Labillarditre and another species peculiar to “ the south end of Van Diemen's Island, not unfreguently * attain tbe height of 150 feet, with a girth near the base of ** from 25 to 40 feet. In the colony of. Port Jackson there “ are also several species of great size, but none equal to o “ those of Van Diemen's Island: and no very large trees of “ this genus were seen either on the south coast or in the * æquinoctial part of New Holland. Mr. Caley has ob- “ served within the limits of the colony of Port Jackson * nearly 50 species of Eucalyptus, most of which are dis- “ tinguished, and have proper names applied to them, by the “ native inhabitants, who from differences in the colour, tex- “ ture, and scaling of the bark, in the ramification and ge- “* neral appearance of these trees, more readily distinguish “ them than botanists have as yet been able to do. Euca- * lyptus, although so generally spread over the whole of * Terra Australis, and so abundant as to form at least four- fifths of its forests, is hardly found beyond this country. I “ am acquainted with one exception only, in an additional “ species which is said to be native of Amboyna. ** Next to Eucalyptus in number, is the beautiful genus “ MELALEUCA, of which upwards of 30 Australian species * have already been observed, exclusive of Tristania, CALO- * THAMNUS, BEAUFORTIA, and an unpublished genus which I “ separate from it. The maximum of Melaleuca exists in “the principal parallel, but it declines less towards the * south than within the tropic, where its species are chiefly ** of that section which gradually passes into CALLISTEMON, à * genus formed of those species of Mwrnosipenos that have ** an inflorescence similar to that of Melaleuca, and distinct * elongated filaments. With the exception of 2 species, Me- “ LALEUCA Leucadendron, and M. Cajeputi, the genus Me- “ Jaleuca appears to be confined to Terra Australis. * LRPTOSPERMUM, of which nearly 30 Australian species “ have been observed, exists also in New Zealand and in the “Moluccas. In Terra Australis its maximum is decidedly “in the principal parallel, aud like Melaleuca, it is much “ more abundant in the southern regions than within the tropic. ** Bzcxia, to which I refer Impricarta of Sir J. Smith, as well as the opposite-leaved Leptospermums, is also an extensive Australian genus, having its maximum in tbe principal parallel, extending like the two former genera to the highest southera latitude, and bardly existing within the tropic; onc species has however been found in New Caledonia, as that from which the genus was formed is u native of China.” “ A A Sil by À 27277) 170 En Sol E (PG. S Walla de dc a mm Í re 394 MUSCARI ciliatum. Clusius s, Grape-Hyacinth. —— HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. — Nat. ord. ASPHODELI. Jussieu gen. 51. Div. III. Flores spicati. , Radix bulbosa. Corolla basi tubulosa. ASPHODELERE (includentes Asparagos plerosque Jussieuii). Brown prod. 1. 274. MUSCARI. Cor. ventricoso-tubulosa, fauce coarctatá crenis sex bre- vissimis marginatâ. Nobis in Curtis's mag. fol. vers. 1185. Catera omnia ut in HYACINTHO; [vide infra fol. 398.) . M. ciliatum corollis campanulato-cylindricis, semisexfidis, pedunculis fructi- feris longissimis horizontalibus, foliis ciliatis. Marsch. Bieb. taur. cauc. 1. 264; (sub HyACINTHO ciliato). Hyacinthus ciliatus. Marsch. Bieb. loc. cit. Cyrill. neap. 2. 22. t. 10. Hyacinthus sarmaticus. Pall. ind. taur. (fide Marsch. Bieb.). Hyacinthus romanus. 8. Lamarck encyc. 8. 102. n. 8. Hyacinthus comosus byzantinus. Clus. hist. 1. 180, Quaterna, quina, aut sena interdum habet folia, humi ut plurimum fusa et expansa, nonnunquam procumbentia duntaxat, oblonga, Hyacinthi primi athioli (MuscAn1 comosi. Nob.) foliis vald? similia, latiore tamen mucrone predita, et in lateribus veluti tenui lanugine obsita, presertim infimá parte, circà eorum. exortum, ingrati gustús et nauseam facil? excitaturi: ex horum medio, pedalis, nonnunquam major, nascitur caulis, teres et rotundus, nudus, intús fungosus, foris viridis lavisque, quem à medio ad summum sexageni ple- rumque aut plures ambiunt flores oblongiusculi, oris in sex laciniolas divisis, sex staminulis purpureis intús prediti, inodori, initio candicantes, deindê cum marcescere incipiunt, fusci et inelegantis coloris: pediculi quibus flores nitun- tur, initio brevissimi sunt, deindê paulatim marcescentibus floribus excres- centes, 4 unciarum aut ampliorem longitudinem. adguirunt, sic ut totus caulis suis floribus ita expansis onustus, aspergillum non minus referre videatur, quam Hippuris quoddam genus. Caulis suprema pars cum florum pediculis pur- purascil: incipit florere ab imis: trigona deindê capitula fert, exigua, pro planta amplitudine, in quibus paucum semen, interdum in singulis capitulis unicum duntaxat, rotundum nigrum MuscARI comosi semine minus contine- tur, interdum nullum, nam ut plurimum capitula inania sunt, nec arbitror unguam plura collegisse ex unicá, quam habebam plantá, ternis seminibus, aut quando plurima quinis aut senis: radix rotunda, bulbosa, multis candicantibus tunicis constat, exteriore subfuscá, et basi multis fibris albis Julid. Chus. loc. cit. We find no mention of the introduction of this rare species into our collections in any of the botanical records; nor do we believe any live specimen of it has been seen in this country until the present was received by Mr. Griffin from Moscow. The drawing was taken at the garden at South Lambeth, in April last. It comes pretty near to Muscari comosum, the well-known Tassel-Hyacinth, but is very distinct from Scriia romana of which it has been deemed a variety by Lamarck; there the corolla is six- parted, here the divisions are exceedingly shallow. Clusius, whose excellent description we have extracted entire, tells us, that roots of our plant were received at Vienna, from Constantinople, in 1578. It is now known to be indige- nous of. Caucasian Tartary, the Ukraine, and Puglia. We have seen a specimen, in the Banksian Herbarium, that ‘was gathered, by the late Dr. Patrick Russell, in Syria. Muscani is distinguished from Hyacinruus by the con- striction of the throat of the corolla, and the six very shallow , and sometimes nearly obsolete lobules forming the mouth of the same. Bulb tunicated, with brownish integuments. Leaves 4-6, 6-9 inches long, lorate, tapered, obtuse, villously edged, especially towards the bottom. Scape round, a foot or more in height: raceme terminal, subpyramidal, loosely many-flowered; peduncles purplish, divaricate, at first only one or two inches long, ultimately acquiring double that length or more, stiff. Corolla rather smaller than that of the Tassel-Hyacinth, at first white, then passing into a dull brownish purple colour before it decays. In its native place the scapes, with their peduncles, become quite dry and rigid in the autumn, and are blown about the fields by the winds that prevail at that season. Filaments wholly adnate to the, corolla: anthers purple. Style the length of the stamens; stigma trigonal, slightly pubescent. Capsule oblong, tri- gonal: seeds black, roundish. Y» ; d. l ela anedd . aed. M Hai io | 395 FUMARIA nobilis. Great-flowered Fumitory. DIADELPHIA HEXANDRIA. . Nat. ord. PAPAVERACEH. Jussieu gen. 235. Div. II. Stamina defi- nita. FUMARIA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 50. Div. Corollis unicalcaratis. F. nobilis, caule simplici, racemo terminali, bracteis oblongis, acutis, flore brevioribus, foliis pinnatis, foliolis tripartito-laciniatis. JVilld. sp. pl. 3. 858. Fumaria nobilis. Linn. syst. veg. 639. Jacq. hort. vindob. 2. 53. t. 116. Hort. Kew. 3. 1. ed. 2. 4.239. — Andrews's rcposit. GIA. Curtis's magaz. 1953. Radix, initio bulbosa et subtis cava, in florente plantá, solida. Folia radicalia, plura, spithamaa, bipinnata, glabra, ex glauco virentia; costâ communi media pentagona et antice sulcata; lateralibus subtrigonis, alternis; Joliolis subrotundis, obtusis, lobatis et incisis. Caules etiam egrediuntur Plures, angulati, inanes, tribus plerümque foliis ornati, Quartum summum Jolium, bractee instar, florem ex ald emittit, â spicá remotum. Bractee inferiores sunt magis lobate, et foliis proptered similiores ; superiores sunt ovate et integra. Flores albi, limbo luteo cum faucis prominentis apice migricante, odorem spirant ad Primulam veris accedentem, e eadem sunt magnitudine in horto quam FUMARIA bulbosa, structuráque simili, sed labiis brevioribus magisque concavis, et calycis foliolis membranaceis albentibus et ex lanceolatá figurá in setam desinentibus. — Faciliüs tamen, distinguitur spicá valde obtusd et depressâ, caulibusque et petiolis angulatis. Jacq. loc. cit. Native of Siberia. Introduced by Mr. John Groefer in 1783. A hardy perennial plant. Root tuberous. Radical leaves 7-9, a span long, bipin- nate, smooth, glaucous green; midrib sulcate and angular; leaflets roundish, blunt, lobed and carved. Stems several, slanted, angular, fistular. Cauline leaves 4, sessile, com- pound. Raceme inclining one way, very obtuse. Bractes ovately lanceolate, entire. Flowers smelling something like those of the Cowslip, twice the size of those of Fumania bulbosa, white, with a yellow limb and with the top of the tongue of the faux nearly black; lips neither notched, nor serrate. Calyx minute, toothed. The drawing was taken at Mr. Knight's nursery, in the King’s Road, Fulham. AM See âl a Rondhi Kar fi /g 396 ACACIA alata. Wing -stalked Acacia. — —— POLYGAMIA MON(ECIAd. Nat. ord. LeGvM1Nosz. Jussieu gen. 945. Div. I. Corolla regularis. Legumen multiloculare, seepiús bivalve, dissepimentis transversis, loculis monospermis, Stamina distincta. Arbores aut frutices; folia abrupt? pin- nata.— MimoseÆ. Brown in append. to Flind, voy. 2, 551. ACACIA. Suprà vol. 2. fol. 98. Div, foliis simplicibus. E A. alata, caule bifariám alato, foliis decurrentibus uninerviis spinula termi- natis; margine interiore dente unico glandulifero, stipulis spinosis, capi- tulis pedunculatis subsolitariis. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 464. Native of the south-west coast of New Holland; where it was first observed by Mr. Brown. Introduced in 1803 by Mr. Peter Good. The drawing was taken from a plant which flowered in the greenhouse, at Mr. Colville’s nursery in the King’s Road, Chelsea. The only species, yet found in New Holland, which has a winged stalk. We know of no representation of it before the one now published. Distinguished from its congeners by a two-edged winged stem, decurrent one-nerved leaves terminated by a small i i i -beari heir prickle and having a single gland-bearing tooth at t inner margin, by prickly stipules and stalked flower-heads, which are mostly solitary. VOL. V. P SN y : E >i E Ful ^ - JF adn 170 Precadlly fehl | 1819 397 ROSA Banksie; B. flore plano. Lady Banks's Rose; double-flowered variety. e ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nat, ord. Rosacem. Jussieu gen. 934. Div, II. Ross. ROSA. Suprà vol. 1. fol. 46. Div. Fructibus subglobosis. R. Banksiæ, ramis inermibus ; stipulis liberis caducis. Lindley MSS. Rosa Banksiæ. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 258. Curtis's magaz, 1954. æ) flore simplici. osa banksiana. Abel chin. 160. (8) flore pleno. Supra. Rami ¿nermes, impubes, debiles, filiformes, altero latere rubicundi. Fol. erecta, internodiis duplo longiora; stipule lineares, petiolo distincte, citis- sime deciduæ, margine parc? glandulosa, pilis simplicibus inarticulatis ciliate ; petioli nudi v. rard pilosi, inermes, foliola 1-5; plana, oblongo-lanceolata, obtusa, sepiús undulata, simpliciter serrata, utrinque omnino impubia, nisi ad basin costæ ubi dense sunt pilosa : lateralia sessilia, basi paulo obligas termi- nale pedicellatum. Flores nutantes, umbellis 3-5-floris terminales, albescentes, odorem debilem gratissimum spirantes; bractez minime, citissimê emarcide et deciduæ ; pedunculi omninô nudi, gracillimi, calycem versis paul incras- sati ; calycis tubus nudus, depresso-globosus, hinc viridis, indê rubro colora- tus, sepala (foliola) ovata, apiculata, omnia simplicia, extús nuda, intús densê tomentosa, petalis duplo breviora; pet. emarginata, integra, exteriora paul) recurva; stamina ef apex receptaculi petalorum auctione monstrosa evadunt; germina plurima, monostyla, hinc (intus). plana, subnuda, inde convexa, pilis longis simplicibus densissimê vestita: ovulum latere interiore appensum, puncto annexionis unico conspicuo ; styli Jiberi, arcte pilosi, sursim incrassati, ultra tubum parüm ezserti: stigma planum incrassatum, Lind- ley MSS. Native of China. Introduced in 1807 by Mr. William Kerr. The single-flowered variety was found by Dr. Abel, growing on the walls of Nanking. The drawing was taken from a specimen with which we were favoured hy Sir Joseph Banks, in honour of whose Lady the species has been named. The shrub is cultivated in the garden at Spring-Grove in the open air, being planted at the foot of the wall of a hothouse, where it has attained the height of 20 feet, or more, and flowers abundantly every year about June or July. At present rare; and seldom seen in bloom at any of the nursery-gardens; where it is usually kept in a pit or frame. p2 Branches thornless, smooth, weak, filiform, reddened at one side. Leaves erect, twice the length of the inter- nodes or intervals; stípules linear, distinct from the petiole, guickly deciduous, scantily glandular at the edge, fringed with simple jointless hairs; petioles naked, or now and then furred, thornless; /eaflefs 1-5, flat, oblong-lanceolate, ob- tuse, generally undulate, simply serrate, guite smooth on both sides, except at the base of the midrib, where they are thickly furred: lateral ones sessile, a little slanted at the base; terminal one pedicled. Flowers nodding, terminal by 3-5-flowered umbels, whitish, diffusing a mild but exceed- ingly grateful fragrance; bractes very small, withering rapidly and falling off; peduncles guite smooth, very slender, but little thickened towards the calyx; tube of the calyx smooth, depressedly globular, green on one side, reddened on the other, leaflets ovate pointedly tipped, all simple, smooth on the outside, thickly tomentose on the inside, twice shorter than the petals; petals emarginate, entire, outer a little recurved; the stamens and the apex of the receptacle A the petals grow out into petals and form the double ower; germens many, one-styled, one side (the inner) flat, nearly smooth, the other convex and very densely furred with long simple hairs, ovulum appended by the inner side, with one only conspicuous point of annexation; styles free, close-haired, thickened upward, protruding but little beyond the tube: stigma flat, thickened. We are obliged to Mr. Lindley for the excellent descrip- tion, of which the aboveis the english version. Aout. del 298 HYACINTHUS amethystinus. Spanish Hyacinth. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. ASPHODELI. Jussieu pen. 51. Div. III. Flores spicati. Ra- dix bulbosa. Corolla basi tubulosa. ASPHODELEJX (includentes Asparagos plerosque Jussieuii). Brown prod. 1. 274. | HYACINTHUS. Cor. infera, tubulosa, cis medium sexfida, fauce solutâ, laciniis patentibus. Stam. inclusa tubo; Jf. ex toto fermé adnata. Stylus triquetro-subulatus; stigma apex obtusus. Caps. ovato-trigona, triloc. Sem. plura, subrotunda. Bulbus tunicatus, indusiis membranaceis. Folia radicalia, subcarnosa, vari? lorata. Scapus teres, carnosus. In H. orientali germen poris tribus subtilibus stillà stante limpidá coronatis apice perforatum. Nob. in Curtis's magaz. 937, et 1185, vers. fol. H. amethystinus, corollis basi cylindricis. Hyacinthus amethystinus. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 454. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 5. Hort. Kew. 1. 458. ed. 2. 2. 282. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 167 ; (excluso Pall. it.) ejusd. enum. 1.377. Redouté liliac. 14. Hyacinthus hispanicus. Lamarck encyc. 3. 191. Hyacinthus angustifolius. Uster ann. st. 2. 18. H. oblongo cæruleo flore minor. Rudb. elys. 2. 27. fig. 8. H. hispanicus minor, orientalis facie. Park. par. 120. H. minor hispanicus. C/us. app. alt. ; _. Bulbus magnitudine Olive. Fol. plurima (6-7) æquantia scapum v. bre- viora, + v. & unciæ lata, ligulata, attenuata, canaliculata, subtus striata, sub anthesin laxata, recumbentia. Scapus 9-uncialis ad pedalem; racemo multifloro, laxo, sparso, erectiusculo floribus nutantibus, cæruleis: pedicelli recurvatt, ed i florum v. breviores: bracteae membranaceæ, subcolorate, lineari-lanceolate, anguste, æquantes pedicellos. | Cor. oblongo-campanulata, subsemuncialis, teres diametro penne corvine satis majore, nec fundo tumida ac in H. orientali, supern? obsoletè hexagona angulis saturatius cæruleis, pro 3 Jere longitudinis sue sexfida ; limbus pallidior tubo, equalis, recurvo-diva- ricatus, lac. obovato-rotundis, exterioribus incrassato-apiculatis, interioribus retusis. Stam. immersa tubo, dimidio feré breviora corollá, alternê longiora ; fil. pro 3 partibus adnata, subulata, conniventia : anth. erectee, à dorso ap pense, bd racc polline — Pist. staminibus 3 brevioribus sub- equale : germ. subrotundum, obsoletè 3-lobum, 6-lineatum, Sinapeos granum. viz æquans : stylus subulato-continuus, strictus, subtriqueter, ad lentem 6-stri- atus: stig. punctum simplex obtusum. Cultivated by Miller, in 1759, in the Chelsea Garden; but we believe long since lost to our collections; never having met with a specimen of it ìn any, till favoured with the pre- sent by Mr. Sabine, secretary to the Horticultural Society, in whose garden ìt flowered in May last. Native of Spain. The Hyacintuus amethystinus of Pallas, a russian plant, usually quoted as a synonym of the present species, is very distinct; belongs to Muscanr, and comes near to botryoides. It has been recorded in the Flora Taurico-caucasica of Mr. Marschall of Bieberstein, by the title of Hyacintuus pallens. As at present defined, we know of only two species of this genus, vìz. the subject of the present article, and the Garden Hyacinth (H. orientalis) familiar to every one. Bulb about the size of an olive. Leaves several (6-7) equal to or shorter than the scape, 3-5 of an inch broad, ligulate, tapered, channelled, streaked beneath, flaccid and recumbent when the plant is in flower. Scape from 9 inches toa foot in height. Raceme openly manyflowered, scattered, somewhat upright; flowers nodding, blue; pedicles re- curved, sometimes as long as the flowers, sometimes shorter; bractes membranous, somewhat coloured, narrow, linearly lanceolate, even with the pedicles. Corolla oblong, cam- panulate, about half an inch in length, round, of a consider- ably larger diameter than the tube of a crow-quill, not en- larged at the bottom as in the Garden Hyacinth, faintly hexangular at the upper part, with angles of a deeper blue, sixcleft for about 3 of its length; limb of a paler colour than the tube, even, widespread, recurved, with obovately rounded segments, outer ones with a small thick point, inner ones retuse. Stamens deepishly enclosed within the tube, nearly as short again as the corolla, alternating in length; filaments adnate for three fourths of their length, subulate, connivent: anthers upright, suspended from the back, with sulphur- coloured pollen. Pistil about equal to the three shorter sta- mens: germen scarcely so large as a mustard-seed, roundish, faintly 3-lobed, marked with 6 lines: style subulately con- tinuous, stiff, slightly 3-edged, when viewed through a magnifier sixstreaked: stigma a simple blunt point. L Hurl. des N Fb Fy ; A Morea tantu, A Eo cat ey Se £/ 15 472 399 NYCTANTHES Arbor tristis. Square-stalked Nyctanthes or Night-Jasmine. — ,á9— DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. JASMUNER. Jussien gen. 104. Div. I. Fructus capsularis. JasMiwEX. Brown prod. 1. 590. NYCTANTHES. Cal. tubulosus, integer. Cor. tubulosa limbo 5-lobo, lobis obliquis obcordatis. Anth. subsessiles intra tubum. Capss. 2 ovate compressæ erectæ, hinc plane et in unam coadunate, indè paulu- lùm convexæ, 1-loc. 2-spermæ non dehiscentes; sem. ovata plana, infimo loculo annexa, Rami 4-goni ; peduuc. axillares et terminales multiflori, pedi- cellis 3-floris 2-bracteatis ; flores plures abortivi. Juss. 1. c. Nyctanthes Arbor tristis, Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1.8. Willd, sp. pl. 1.85, Vah enum. 1.25. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 15. - Parilium Arbor tristis. Gert: sem. 1. 294. €, 57. fig. 2. - ` Scabrita triflora. Linn. mant. 37. — Scabra. syst. veg. 152. Vahl symb. bot. 2.28. Geert. sem. 2. 265. t. 188. Sephalica. Asiat. research. 4. 244. Manjapumeram. Rheede mal, 1. 35. t. 21. Arbor tristis. Clus. exot. 225 et 279. . Arbuscula caule erecto; ramis numerosis undique sparsis, novellis &-gonis. Fol. opposita, brevê petiolata, cordata, proxima floribus oblonga, acuminata, interdèm integra, interdèm grossissimé serrata v, inferdàm imá parte angu- losa, scabra, 3-5-uncialia latitudine 1-3-unciali. Inflor. foliosa, terminalis, brachiato-paniculata, umbellulis terminalibus sap? 5. floris constituta. Flores numerosi, suaveolentissimi, manè expandentes, vesper cadentes; tubus au- rantiaco-flavescens, limbus candicans. Umbellularum involucra hilos. foliola apposita, obcordata, sessilia. Cal. campanulatus ore alique dùm co- arctatus levissimèque 5-dentatus, villosus, emarcescens. Core. tubus cylindricus longitudine limbi: limbus explanatus, 5-8-partitus, contortus, lac. triangula- ribus v, obliqua truncatis, emarginatis. Fil, fer? obsoleta; anth. 2-lobe, tubo incluse. Germ. superum, compressum: stylus aguans tubum : stig. capita- tum, glandulosum. Caps. amplitudine unguis pho. obcordata v. suborbi- esdata, compressa, 2-valvis, ab apice transuers? dehiggens. Sem. exalbuminosa. Roxb. MSS. (ex anglico verso.) Thê drawing of this rare and curious plant was tâken at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, in June last, when we -believe it flowered for the first time in this country, although introduced by Sir Joseph Banks as far back as the year 1781, if not long before, by Miller. It is usually kept in the tan-bed of the hothouse; but Mr. Sweet thinks, that if it were kept in a cooler situation there would be a better chance of ensuring its flowering. The following account of the species is taken from Dr. Rox- burgh's manuscripts. Of what country the species ìs native, Í know not; for on this coast (that of Coromandel), I have never found ît but cultivated; and it ìs always raised from seed, which may be the reason we have two varieties of this most delightfully fragrant plant. In our gardens it is found in the state of a large shrub or small tree. Flowers nearly the whole year round: in Bengal only during the rains. The flowers exhale an odour something like that of fresh honey; they open at sun-set and drop off at sun-rise. Destitute of blossom, the shrub has but an indifferent appearance. The orange-co- loured tubes of the corolla dye a most beautiful buff, in various shades according to their preparation and the mode of conducting the process, but unfortunately no means have been yet devised to render the colour durable. Trunk erect: bark scabrous: branches numerous, spread- ing in every direction; young shoots 4-sided, angles formed by 4 ligneous cordlike nerves that run beneath the bark. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, cordate, those next the flowers oblong, pointed, sometimes entire, sometimes very coarsely serrate, and sometimes with the lower parts angular, rough, 3-5 inches long, 1-3 broad. Inflorescence may be best de- scribed as a large, terminal, leafy, brachiated panicle, com- posed of small, generally 5-flowered terminal umbellets. Flowers numerous, of middling size: tube orange-coloured: limb white. 'Inwolucre of the umbellets 4-leaved; leaflets ob- cordate, opposite, sessile. Calyx campanulate, mouth a little contracted and slightly 5-notched, downy, withering. Co- rolla: tube cylindric, length of the calyx: limb spreading, 5-8-parted, contorted (slanting circularly); segments ob- liquely truncate, scalloped. Filaments nearly obsolete: anthers 2-lobed, sessile within the tube. Style length of the tube: stigma glandular, capitate. Capsule the size of a man's thumb-nail, obcordate or nearly orbicular, com- pressed, 2-celled, 2-valved, opening transversely from the apex: seeds one in each cell, compressed, &c., as described by Geertner, only that I have never discovered any thing like an albumen. The species is still the only one of the genus; may be at once distinguished from Jasmine by the fruit being a dry capsule instead of a fleshy berry. / Mil al, Clés def : | S | Uy 7 pun e ul by E grant . 170 Jicadi ly Oct E 1319 : A LM its. Ze. 400 VACCINIUM amonum. Broad-leaved Whortle-berry. —.—— OCTANDRIA (DECANDRIA. Pursh) MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Emrcm. Jussieu gen. 159. Div. II. Germen inferum aut semiinferam, ` Ericez. Brown prod. 1. 557. VACCINIUM. Suprà vol. 4. fol. 302. Dio, Foliis deciduis. V. ameenum, racemis bracteatis, corollis subcylindraceis, foliis ellipthois subserrulatis deciduis: venis subtis villosiusculis. Hort. Kew. 2. 12. . Vaccinium amcenum. Willd. sp. pl. 2.358. Andrews's reposit. 198... Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 9, 358. Pursh amer. sept. 1. 287, Vaecinium disomorphum; var.? Michauz bor, amer. 1. 932. Frutex: rami glabri, teretes; ramuli villosiuseuli, form compressi. Fol, alterna, subpetiolata, lato-elliptica, acuta, suprà glaberrima, subtìs circa venas villosiuscula, tenuissima subserrulata, sesquiuncialia : petioli brevissimi, villosiusculi. Racemi in ultimis ramis plures, alterni, simplices, patentes, JOliis duplo breviores, sessiles, secundi, mulliflori: pedicelli villosivsculi, tri vel quadrilineares: bractese oblonga, acute, glaberrimæ, imque incar- mate; unica in rachi communi ad exortum singuli pedunculi partialis, 2 v. $ líneas longa, ovata, concava; due opposite in pedunculo partiali paulo suprâ basin, patentes, reliquis paulo breviores. Cal. monophyllus; 5-fidus, glaberri> mus, sordide rubescens, sesquilinearis: laciniæ ovate, late, obtusiusculee, Cor. extús ez albo rubicunda, monopetala, subcylindrica, parúm ventricosa, calyce 4plo longior, ore 5:fido: laciniæ ovate obiusiusculs. Fil. 10, margins receptaculi levitèr affiza, subulata, plana, erecta, villosiuscula, calyce paulo longiora: anth. Janceolato-subulate, erecta, Bicornes, corollá paula reviores, Save. Germen inferum, depressum. Stylus filiformis, corolla paulo longior. Stigma obtusum. Solander in sched. banks. Native of North America; where it ig said by Mr. Pursh to grow in low grounds and swamps, from New Jersey to Virginia; forming a tall red-twigged shrub, having large white flowers, with a red tinge; black insipid berries; and varying much in size, shape, and colour. Introduced by Mr. John Cree, in 1765. The drawing was taken in Mr. Lee's nursery at Ham- mersmith; where the plant is cultivated in a sbeltered bor- der of peat-earth, along with other hardy american shrubs. The well-known Cranberry belongs to the same generic group. . Branches smooth, round; branchlets somewhat villous, slightly compressed. Leaves alternate, subpetiolate, broadly VOL, V, 9 elliptic, sharp-pointed, quite smooth at the upper side, slightly villous about the veins at the under, finely sub- serrulate, about an inch and a half long: petioles very short, somewhat villous. Racemes several on all the end- branches, alternate, simple, spreading, twice shorter than the leaves, one-ranked, manyflowered: pedicles somewhat villous, 3-4 lines long: bractes oblong, sharp-pointed, very smooth, generally of a pinkish hue; one upon the common peduncle at the foot of each pedicle, 2-3 lines long, ovate, concave; two opposite ones upon each pedicle a little above the base, spreading; but little shorter than the others. Calyx 5-cleft, quite smooth, of a dullish red colour, a line and a half long: segments ovate, broad, bluntish. ` Co- rolla white, with a reddish tinge on the outside, sub- cylindrical, faintly ventricose, 4 times the length of the calyx, 5-cleft at the mouth: segments vate, bluntish, Filaments ten, slightly affixed to the edge of the receptacles, subulate, flat, upright, subvillous, but little longer than the calyx: anthers lanceolately subulate, upright, bicornous, but little shorter than the corolla, deep yellow. Germen depressed: style filiform, scarcely longer than the corolla; stigma obtuse. Un 4 Watts st Jib by À riter, JO REE Ctd S 810 401 EVOLVULUS latifolius. Broad-leaved Evolvulus. — PENTANDRIA TETRAGYNIA; [rectis foin DIGYNIAT] Nat. ord, Convozvurr. Jussieu gen. 192. Div. II. Styli plures. . CONVOLVULACEm. Brown prod. 1. 481. Sect. I. Germen unicum, , EVOLVULUS. Cal. S-partitus. Cor. subrotata, plicata. Germ. biloculare, loculis 2-spermis. Styli duo, bipartiti. Stigmata simplicia. Caps. valvata. Herbe non lactescentes, prostrate v. repentes, rarü erectæ. Fol. integra. Pedunculi axillares, 1-pauciflori, pedicellis bibracteatis. Brown loc. cit. 489, OBS. CLADOSTYLES Humboldt et Bonpland differt tantummodo capsuld evalvi, et forsân numero ovulorum. 1d. in eod. E. latifolius, suffruticosus, pannoso-villosus, infernê erectus, ramis diffusis; foliis subsessilibus, oblongo-cordatis, acuminatis: fasciculis subsessilibus, subtrifloris. Caulis teres: rami simplices, foliosi, flexuosi, graciles. Fol. alterna, bifaria, numerosa, divaricato-patentia, recurva, internodiis duplo longiora, brevissimè petiolata, oblongo-cordata, longiùs acuminata, 1-biuncialia latitu- dine, ubi latiora, duplo minore, subrugaia, late virentia, nervo medio laterales utrinque. emittente: ob petiolum brevem et sinú baseos inclusum quasi am- plezicaulia. Flores candicantes, subssessiles : pedunculi solitarii, axillares, brevissimi pauci-(3-42) Jori; pedicelli wniflori brevissimi; bracteæ ape presse, acuminate, plurimüm breviores calyce. Cal. herbaceus, $ brevior corollâ, segmentis lineari-lanceolatis, piloso-ciliatis. Cor. rotata, diametro 4 artem unciæ paulo exsuperans, extús pilosa, tubo brevissimo. Styli 2 albidi, bipartiti, Germ. liberum, glabrum, viride. An unrecorded plant, from the Brazils; belonging to a genus of very rare oceurrence in our collections, and not found within the limits of Europe. A co-ordinate of Con- voLvuLus, but distinguishable at once by the two bipartite styles. The drawing was made from a sample which flowered this summer in the hothouse at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, King's Road, Chelsea. A villously furred suffrutescent perennial: stem upright at the lower part, round; branches wide-spread, fiexile, simple, leafy, flexuose, slender. Leaves alternate, bifarious, nu- merous, subsessile, oblong-cordate, _long-pointed, divari- cately spread, twice longer than the intervals, very shortly Q petioled, 1-2 inches long, and at the broadest part twice as narrow as long, somewhat wrinkled, of a lively green; owing to the petiole being shorter than the sinus at their base, they have the appearance of stemclaspers. Flowers white, subsessile: peduncles solitary, axillary, very short, 3-4-ílowered; pedicles one-flowered very short: bractes close- pressed, long-pointed, a great deal shorter than the calyx. Calyz herbaceous, a third shorter than the corolla, with linearly lanceolate hairily ciliated segments. Corolla rotate, scarcely exceeding one fourth of an inch in diameter, hairy on the outside: tube very short. Styles two, white, bipartite. Germen detached, smooth, green. bs S Malls He Fab ty E Bd rar STO Le cali lly fie À 1910). Y (Fel Wed. 402 LEUCADENDRON corymbosum; mas. Corymbed Leucadendron; the barren flowered plant. —Á— DIŒCIA TETRANDRIA. Nat. ord. PROTRE. Jussieu gen. 78. Div. I. Semen nudum aut fructus monospermus. PROTEAOER. Brown in trans. linn. soc. 10. 15, 4egg. Div. I. Fructus clausus. A. ANTHERE DISTINCTÆ: à corolla libere. Flores dioici, (organis imperfectis.) Stigma femineorum obliquum, emar- ginatum, papulosum. Nur v. Samara squamis dilatatis strobili inclusa. Masculi flores capitati. LEUCADENDRON. Masc. Flores capitati. Cal. 0. Pet. 4, staminifera, Fem. Stigma obliquum. Nus vel ara monosperma, squa- mis strobili inclusa. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 873. Frutices rarè Arbores, sep? sericeo-tomentosi. Folia integerrima. Capi- tula terminalia, solitaria; bracteis imbricatis foliisve verticilltis eb su ratis plerumque cincta. Id. in trans. linn. soc. 10. 51. Div. Nux ventricosa v. lenticularis aptera, undique inibusve pilosa. Stylus totus deciduus, basive solum remanentis C did persistens guadripartita, . , . L. corymbosum, foliis lineari-subulatis imbricatis glabris, strobili squamis acutis apice recurvis, nucibus subcompressis obcordatis margine pilosis, Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 375. Leucadendron corymbosum. Berg. act. stockh. 1766. 825. Berg. cap. 21; mas. Brown in trans. linn. soc. 10. 57. . Protea corymbosa. Thunb. diss. n. 28; (deser. è mare præci mè) tab. 2; mas. Thunb. prod. 26. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 518. Lam. illustr, gen. 1. 238. n. 1250. Poiret encyc. bot, 5. 659. — Andrews's reposit. 495 ; (fem.) Protea bruniades. Linn. suppl. 117. Mas. fid. spec. in illius Herb. Os. Squamule 4 hypogyne in utroque sexi, A greenhouse shrub from the Cape of Good Hope: whence it was introduced by Mr. Masson in 1790. The drawing was taken from a specimen in the nursery of Messrs, Colville, King's Road, Chelsea; where it formed a slender upright proliferously branching plant about four feet in height. 'The genus is dioicous, that is, one where the fruitful flowers are borne on different plants, from those which bear the barren ones. The following is a note by Mr. Brown: “ The separation “ of the plants with fertile from those with sterile flowers in “the genus Prorea of authors, obscurely suspected by < Linnæus himself in his Prorea parviflora, and afterwards ** more expressly by Lamarck in P. pinifolia, was first ascer- * tained in AuLax and the present genus (as I am informed * by Mr. Dryander) by our countryman Masson, during his * last residence at the Cape of Good Hope, and is beauti- * fully illustrated by that eminent botanical painter, Mr. ** Francis Bauer, in his unpublished drawings preserved in the * Banksian collection. Numerous observations on the same * subject have also more, recently been made by Dr. Rox- ** burgh and Mr. Niven, who have bestowed much pains in * ascertaining its limits, of which, as far as regards the ** african part of the family, Mr. Salisbury has given ân ac- * curate account in his essay ou this natural order. The * dissertation of Thunberg, who was wholly unaequainted “ with this separation of the fertile and the unfertile flowers * in these plants, is necessarily imperfect, and he has in ** several cases described the fertile and unfertile flowered * plants as distinct species; and thus also Bergius has ** founded his genus Auzax on the sterile flowered plant of a * species, whose fertile flowered plant he had previously * published as a LEUCADENpRON. On the other hand, Jus- * sieu, deceived by the resemblance in inflorescence, be~ * tween BuaBEJUM and the spiked species of PnOTEA, has * erroneously suspected these to be monoicous, while he has * totally overlooked the truly dioicous nature of the present * genus." A sketch of the whole plant diminished, is added in the annexed plate. Ayal LY 12 E pue L/ ST d f. Z Pn Lud: o T; 7/4 S Us AL) Y / + E « 403 EUCHILUS obcordatus. Heart-leaved Euchilus. —dá—— DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSI. Jussieu gen. 945. Div. IV. Corolla irregu- laris papilionacea. Stamina distincta, aut raró basi coalita, Legumen uniloculare bivalve. Arbores aut frutices; folia simplicia aut ternata aut impari-pinnata.—PAPILIONACEZ. Brown in app. to Flind, voy. 2. 552, EUCHILUS. Calyz profundé quinquefidus, bilabiatus, labio supe- riore maximo; basi bibracteatus, Corolla papilionacea, carina longitudine alarum. Germen dispermum, pedicellatum. Stylus subulatus, adscendens. Stigma simplex. Legumen compressum. Strophiola seminis lobis posticis integris. Brown in Hort. Kew, ed, 2. 3. 17. Euonizus obcordatus. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 8. 17. A genus of which we have but one recorded species. It was instituted by Mr. Brown, who first observed the shrub on the south-west coast of New Holland. Introduced in 1803 by Mr. Peter Good. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, Fulham; where the plant flowers in the greenhouse, in the spring and summer. By no means common in our collections; mor has it been represented by any figure pre- vious to the present. Comes near to Purrenza, from which its chief technical differences consist in having a calyx with a disproportion- ately large upper lip, instead of two proportionate lips; a pedicled, instead of a sessile germen; and the hinder lobes of the seminal strophiola (a ventral accretion peculiar to certain seeds) entire, not carved as there. xt Jtt Pr ^ / /d10. a) ^ Ly Mw L j 74 7 À Rym 170 A: TE P 7 zv Pe de 404 CALYCANTHUS fertilis. Scentless Allspice. —9— ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nat. ord. CarycaNTHEX. Flores hermaphroditi. Perianthium in- ferum, urceolatum, multipartitum, laciniis serie multiplici, imbricatie, insequalibus. Stamina plurima, disco carnoso faucis inserta, interiora sterilia; antheræ postice, longitudinalitêr debiscentes, adnate. Ovaria plurima in pariete interna perianthii inserta, unilocularia ovulo 1 (v. 2 altero abortiente) ascendente; s£yli terminales ; stigmata simplicia. Achenia tubo perianthii carnoso inclusa ; Embryo exalbuminosus cotyledonibus convolutis, transversis, radicula infera. Frutices ( America septentrionalis et Japoniæ ). Folia opposita, simplicia, scabra, exstipulata. Flores solitarii. (Rosaceis affines, Juss. gen, Vent. Monruizis affines, Juss. in ann. du mus. vol. 14.) Lindley MSS. . m CALYCANTHUS. Stamina inæqualia decidua 12 exteriora fertilia. Achenia plurima. Frutices ( Am. sept.) ramis brachiatis. Flores terminales, luridi, concolores, sæpiùs odori. Lindley MSS. C. fertilis, foliis planis oblongis, acuminatis, subtds glaucis nudiusculis. .. Lindley MSS. : Calycanthus fertilis. Walt. carol. 151. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 282. Calycanthus glaucus. Willd. enum. 859. Pursh Fl. Am. Septr. 1. SBT. Nutt. gen. 1. $12, . . ME WN Frutex erectus, compactus, S-Apedalis. , Rami oppositi, brachiati, teretes v. paulô angulati, juniores pilosi, adulti nudi, rubro-brunnei, opaci, circa nodos tumidi, Folia opposita, simplicia, decussata, horizontalia: stipulæ nulle; petioli breves, pubescentes, supra canaliculati, rubro tincti; lamine ovato- oblonge v. ovato-lanceolate, integra v. subdentate, rugose, suprà nitide, Scabriusculæ, laté virides, nervis distantibus demersis, inf â laucæ, opacæ, nude, cost et nervis primariis prominentibus pilosiusculis. Flores inodori, terminales, inter folia duo rami loco, viridi purpurei ; bracteæ nulla nist laciniæ perianthii extima, lineares, pilosiuscule. Perianthium fè calyce et corollá confluentibus, nullas enim limites invenire possumus) monophyllum, urceolatum, multipartitum ; lacinie imbricata, lanceolata, carnosa, pilose, viridi- vel purpureo-brunneæ, intermedia majores, extima minores, eo Pallidiores,. íntima breviores apice incurw, omnes usculae, amine circitèr 48, disco magno, carnoso, cum erianthio connato, serie quadrup i inserta, 12 exteriora iantüm Jertilia, intermedia minora, intima minima: filamenta crassa, ultrà antheras in apiculo iis obtuso, diaphano producta, ureo-brunnea, piosiuscula ; antheræ eli Vice, A Q ee, bilocu- t- “A Save: loculi ap, rozimati, longitudinale dehiscentes, medio septiferás septum compleium P non marginibus valyularum e po! th T "i Ovaria plurima, ovata, hinc recta, basi irse, bein o Tubi DIFAS nosum, Rose instar, inserta, unilocularta ; | di a a parieti interne, unum suprà alterum, inserta, Jungilliformia (i. ^, parte superiore vald? dilatata et pilei instar, inferiorem eylindraccam rus o sum ovarii directam, involucrante); hilum in margine infim pu “le M 1 fote quot ovaria, simplices, liberi, filiformes ad basin hirsuti, termina 2 stigma terminale simples. Fructus (â b. Frasero missus) obovatus, elongatus perianthio persistente induraio formatus, costis 5 v. 6 basi simplicibus, sursim VOL, V. R variè divisis trajectus. Achenia pilosiuscula per faciem internam perianthii paulo obligue inserta, sessilia, numero indefinita, ovalia, brunnea, polita, facie rectiuscula, dorso gibbosa, ulringue obscurè marginata, margine ciet paululîon evidentiore: pericarpium corneum non fragile. Semen cavitati achenii conforme, ascendens, hilo pericarpii cicatrici ferê opposito; test tenerá duplici, exteriore pallidá brunneá, tenaci, interiore tenuissima albidá : inter has duas ab hilo ad chalazam depressam percurrit vasculorum series (raphe) tenacissima, ab ipsá chalazá longiès producta inter margines approzi- matos cotyledonum. Embryo homotropus, orthotropus, exalbuminosus ; coty- ledones albe, carnosæ, quinquiès convolutæ, dorso placenta opposito ; radi- cula intra bases cotyledomun, ungue latá brevi inserta, obconica, exorhiza, majuscula, apice obtusa, basi truncata: gemmula vix conspicua in centro basis vadicule depressiusculo. Lindley MSS. CaxvcaNTRUS fertilis differs from C. floridus, with which it is often confounded in the gardens, in having flat scabrous oblong leaves with an acumen, in being glaucous and nearly naked. beneath, and in the colour of its almost scentless flowers. From C. levigatus the same characters equally distinguish it. It is right, however, to observe that the young leaves of the present plant have nearly the form of C. levigatus. We do not feel disposed to alter Walters excellent name of fertilis for that of glaucus, which ori- ginated with Willdenow, and which has no pretensions to be retaiúed. ^ Andrews's figure, which every body cites to this, seems to us decidedly CarycantHus levigatus. . Native.of the southern states of North America, and introduced, according to Hortus Kewensis, in 1806 by Mr. yon. . M. de Jussieu in his elaborate dissertation on Moni- mieæ published in the 14th volume of the Annales du Mu- séum, has not suffered the affinity of CawvcANrnus to that order to escape his notice. Without however absolutely forming-a new order for the genus, he has only hinted at the propriety of so doing, when more individuals may have been discovered to increase it. But we cannot help think- ing, that when plants have such decided characters as the present, and when there is so little uncertainty with respect to their situation, it is much better to establish even a soli- tary individual as the type of an order, than to leave it amongst the mass of imperfectly known genera, which necessarily must always be appended to every natural sys- Kt is presumed that the characters given above are abundantly sufficient to distinguish Calycantheæ, not only from Monimiew, properly so called, but also from those genera which bave been more recently separated by.our profoundly learned countryman, Mr. Brown, .únder the name of Atherospermee. “It equals the last-mentioned group in number of genera, by the addition of CALYCANTHUS precor of Linnæus, whose peculiarities appear sufficient to entitle it to become the type of a new family*, as Pérsoon has already hinted. From the very incomplete account of Cirrosma in Flora Peruviana, it is impossible to ascertain whether it can also. be admitted as Jussieu has proposed. Bush erect, compact, 3 or 4 feet high. Branches op site, brachiate, round or rather angular, younger ones pildse, old ones naked, chocolate coloured, opaque, sweiling about the joints. Leaves opposite, simple, decussate, horizontal: stipule none; footstalks short, pubescent, chanuelled above, tinged with red; lamine ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, entire or somewhat toothed, ragose, above shining, rough- ish, bright green, with distant immersed veins, beneath glaucous, opaque, naked, with the rib and primary nerveg, ‘which are prominent, somewhat hairy. Flowers sceutless, ‘terminal, between two leaves, in the room of & branch, green purple: bractew none, except the outer segments of the perianth, linear, rather pilose. Perianth (formed of the confluent calyx and corolla, without any apparent limits to either) one-leaved, pitcher-shaped, many divided; the segments imbricate, lanceolate, fleshy, greenish-choco- late, the intermediate largest, exterior least, innermost shorter than the middle ones, curved inwards at the tip, all rather pilose. Stamina about 48, inserted in a great fleshy disk connate with the perianth, in four series, the outermost of 12 fertile, the intermediate shorter, innermost least; Filaments thick, extended beyond the anthers in a round, obtuse, diaphanous tip, purplish-brown, rather pilose; anthers elliptical, adnate, exterior, two-celled, yellow; cells approximated, opening lengthwise, in the middle sep- tiferous; septum complete, but not united with the margin of the valves; pollen oval. Ovaries many, ovate, straight on one side, hairy at the base, inserted on the face of the tube of the perianth, like that of the Rose, unilocular: * CHIMONANTHUS. Stamina æqualia, persistentia, 5 exteriora fertilia, maturitate basibus connatis faucem operientia. Frutex (Japoniz) ramis virgatis. Flores axilares, solitarii, odori, flavescentes, intús purpurei. Lindley MSS. R2 ovules two, inserted one above the other on the inside of the face of the ovary, fungilliform (that is, with their upper part much dilated and in the shape of a hat, wrapping over the lower half, which is cylindrical and directed towards the back of the ovary): hilum on the lowest edge of the hat. Styles as many as ovaries, simple, disengaged, filiform, hairy at the base, terminal: sfigma terminal, simple. Fruit (received from Mr. John Fraser) obovate, elongated, formed of the hardened, persistent perianth with 5 or 6 ribs, simple at the base, variously divided upwards. Achenia somewhat hairy, inserted obliquely on the inside of the pevianth, sessile, indefinite, oval, brown, polished, face straight, back gibbous, down each of the last obscurely margined, margin of the face more prominent than the other; pericarp corneous, not fragile. Seed shaped like the cavity of the pericarp, ascending, with the hilum nearly opposite the scar of the achenium; skin double, the outer pale brown, tough, the inner extremely delicate, white; between these two, from the hilum to the chalaza, which is flattened, runs a series of vessels (the raphe) possessing considerable tenacity, and extended even beyond the chalaza down between the approximated edges of the cotyledons. Embryo homotropous, orthotropous, without albumen; cotyledons white, fleshy, 5 times convo- lute, their back opposite the placenta: radicle inserted by a broad short unguis within the bases of the cotyledons, obconical, exorhizous, obtuse at the tip, truncate at the base; gemmule scarcely visible, in the depressed centre of the base of the radicle. Lindley MSS. J S Hable. PC £ R.E lag a Sutgiwag /7O. Ga OST. /IdIg. A a. D P 405 HABENARIA fimbriata. Purple fringed Habenaria. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. Oncmipzx. Jussieu gen. 64. Orcuipex. Brown prod. 1. 309. Sect. I. Anthera adnata subterminalis persistens. Pollinis masse è lobulis angulatis elasticê cohz- rentibus; basi affixe. Jd. in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 188. HABENARIA. Cor. ringens, petalis 3 v. 5 in galeam conniventibus. Labellum basi subtüs calcaratum v. subsaccatum. ^ Anthera terminalis, loculis adnatis, basibus quandoque solutis elongatis. Massa pollinis pedi- cellatæ, pedicellis singulis basi glandulæ respondenti nude insertis. Brows prod. 1. 812. Div. Loculis antherarum columnæ juxta apicem longitudinaliter adnatis, — H. fimbriata, cornu filiformi germine longiore, labello tripartito laciniis ' cuneiformibus fimbriatis. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 193. Orchis fimbriata. Hort. Kew. 3. 297. Willd: sp. pl. 4. 39; Pursh amer. sept. 2. 588, o i Radix fasciculata. Caulis erectus glaber ex ancipiti acul® tetragonus. Folia caulina nonnulla (3-5) alterna sessilia oblonga acuta glabra integerrima nervosa carinata, basi vaginantia biuncialia. Spica ovato-oblonga, multiflora. Flores à cæruleo purpurascentes. Bractew lanceolata nervose germinibus paulo longiores. Petala quinque plana longitudine egualia trilinearia, su- premum seu dorsale ovatum obtusum erectum, lateralia exteriora ovata acuta potentissima, lateralia interiora oblonga obtusa juxia. petalum dorsale erecta, Infra medium dilatata ibique denticulata, basi attenuata. Labelium petalis paulo longius tripartitum, laciniæ lata: cuneiformes equales plane ad medium subdivise in cilias subulatas, laterales divaricate, intermedia patens. Germen semiunciale, Solander in Hort. Kew, 3. 297. Native of North America; where it is found in low meadows and high mountain bogs from Newfoundland to Pensylvania. Introduced by Dr. W. Pitcairn in 1777. The drawing was taken at Mr. Knights nursery, in the King's Road, Little Chelsea; and affords, we believe, the only representation of the species yet published. The feature, mainly relied upon by Mr. Brown for the technical distinction of the present genus from Orcuis, is, the circumstance of the glandular supports of the pollen- masses being naked or uncovered in this, not enclosed within the case or hood of the anther as in that. Some of the species are remarkable for the elongation of the detached bases of the cells of the anther-case, and have suggested the generic appellation. Oncnrs is scarcely met with beyond tbe limits of Europe; no where within the tropics or the southern hemisphere. HABENARIA is represented by various species in the four quarters of the world, as well as in our own country. From one to two feet high. Ront fascicled. Stem up- rìght, smooth, proceeding from two-edged to four-edged. Leaves cauline, several (3-5) alternate, sessile, oblong, sharp-pointed, guite entire nerved, keeled, at the base sheathing two inches long. Spike ovately oblong, many- flowered. Flowers blue-purple. Bractes lanceolate, nerved, but little longer than the germens. Petals 5, flat, of the same length, 3 lines long, the uppermost or dorsal one ovate obtuse upright, outer lateral ones ovate sharp-pointed outspread, inner lateral ones oblong obtuse near to the dorsal petal upright, widened below the middle, where they are denticulate, tapered at the base. Labellum but little longer than the other petals, tripartite, segments broad cuneiform or wedge-shaped equal flat divided to the middle into subulate strips, lateral ones divaricate, middle one spreading. Germen half an inch long. 400 LZ cete, OA S181 0) FETE 406 — CLERODENDRON paniculatima. Panicled Clerodendron. — DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. nol ord. VERBENACEE. Jussieu in annal. du mus. Brown prod. 1. CLERODENDRON. Cal. campanulatus, 5-fidus v. 5-dentatus. Cor. tubo cylindraceo sæpids elongato; limbo 5-partito; laciniis ssqualibus Stam. 4, didynama exserta, secunda. Germ. 4-loculare, loculis mono- spermis. Stig. bifidum, acutum. Bacca tetrapyrena, calyce sepiìs am- iato cincta. Arbores v. Frutices. Fol. siia, simplicia, indivisa, nunc fa, petiolorum basi persistenti, Corymbi terminales et axillares, tricho- tomi. Brown prod. 1. 510. . C. paniculatum, foliis cordatis quinquelobis subdenticulatis glnbris ;- summis seepiús indivisis, panicula brachiata, corolla tubo calygem multoties superante. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 63. : Clero lendron paniculatum. Linn. mant. 90. Vahl symb. 2.74. Willd. sp. pi. 3. 388. Clerodendron pyramidale. Andrews's reposit. 628. Rami tetragoni, glabri, purpurei, lateribus sulco exarati. Folia petiolata, opposita, palmaria, inferiora spithamæa, guingueloba, basi costata, utrinque glabra, remotè denticulata, lobi lanceolata acuti: petioli teretes, sulcati, €rassitie penne columbine ; azille hirsuta: pilis longis crispis albidis caulem ambientibus æquè ac ad basin ramorum panicula. — Panicula terminalis, brachiata: pedunculi partiales horizontales, oppositi, glabri, multotiós dicho- tom? divisi: ramuli divisissimi: pedicelli ultimi capillares: foliola petiolata, cordato-lanceolata ad basin pedunculorum partialium ; subulata ad basin ramu- lorum. Calyx glaber: laciniis lanceolatis. Corolla pollicaris : tubus filiformis: laciniæ limbi oblonga. Vahl loc. cit. A very ornamental shrub belonging to the hothouse de- partment; flowering from July to October. Native of Java and Pulo Pinang (Prince of Wales's Island); from which last place the species was introduced in 1809, by Mr. Evans, of Stepney. 'The drawing was taken this summer at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, Fulham. Branches four-cornered, smooth, purple, scored along the side. Leaves petioled, opposite, cordate, five-lobed, from three to seven inches or more ìn length, remotely and obsoletely denticulate, uppermost generally undivided, smooth on both sides: lobes lanceolate, pointed: petioles round, scored, about as thick as the stem of a pigeon’s guìll; axils shaggily furred with long whitish curled hairs surrounding the stem at that place, as well as at the base of the branches of the panicle. Panicle terminal, brachiate: partial peduncles horizontal, opposite, smooth, dichoto- mously subdivided: branchlets repeatedly subdivided: end- pedicles capillary: leaflets at the base of the partial pe- duncles petioled, cordately lanceolate at the base of the branchlets, subulate. Calyx smooth: segments lanceolate. Corolla an inch long; tube filiform, many times longer than the calyx; segments of the limb oblong. It is observed by Sir James Smith, that “ there is a * great resemblance in the general habit and several promi- “nent characters between the species of this genus and * those of VorkaMERIA. That it differs from the latter in * having a simple, not a bifid stigma, and one-seeded, not * two-seeded stones or pyrenes. That the number of ker- z “nels or seeds is, however, in both genera exactly the “ same.” y " K 5 7 Pa Z y Pel» by TA M prt GO Hicrtrtly Me F- VIL. SW, : 407 MAGNOLIA pyramidata. Pyramidal Magnolia, —À POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nat. ord. MAGNOLIACEZ. Decand. syst. nat. 1. 489. MAGNOLIA, Supra vol. 4. fol. 825. M. pyramidata, foliis deciduis utrinque concoloribus spathulato-obovatis, basi cordatis, auriculis divaricatis, sepalis (foliolis calycinis) tribus patenti- bus, petalis novem lanceolatis, acuminatis. Decand. syst. naf. 1. 454. Magnolia pyramidata. Pursh amer. sept. 2. 382, Sweet hort. sub. lond. 126. Magnolia auriculata; 8. pyramidata. Nuttall gen. 2. 12. Magnolia auriculata. UE bor. amer. 2. 328 (ezcluso synonymo); non aliorum. Another new species of Magnolia, &c. &c. Bartram's trav. 340; sub calce. A MacnoLIá auriculatá differt, testibus Bartramio et Purshio, non tantum. habité pyramidato, sed foliis fradruplo minoribus subtüs viridibus, guriculis a PA divaricatis, petalis lanceolatis sensîm acuminatis. Decand. loc. cit. We have followed Messrs. Bartram, Pursh, and Decan- dolle in recording our plant, as a different species from Macnoua auriculata, of which it has been considered by : others a mere variety. Pyramidata is a tree of more upright pyramidal growth than auriculata, with leaves not one-fourth the size; be- Sides, these are here of one colour on both surfaces, but there green on one and glaucous on the other; and the lobes of the base are divaricate in this, converging in that; the petals are nine in both, but oblong in auriculata and lanceo- late in pyramidata. Native of the western parts of Georgia and Carolina, in North America. Introduced by Mr. Lyon in 1811. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Col- ville, King's Road, Chelsea, where it is cultivated along with other North American plants in the open ground, and flowers in June. | The foliage of pyramidata is of a much thinner sub- stance than in auriculata, and the whole plant has a very different appearance. VOL, Y. s He ^f. E Al / V att 4 MU Sen 2 T at oup vet A E P Mou. / /d â () < 408 CISTUS purpureus. Spotted purple Cistus. —— POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Cisti. Jussieu gen. 294. . CISTUS. Supra vol. 8. fol. 225. Div. Exstipulati, drer, C. purpureus, fruticosus, exstipulatus, foliis lanceolatis utrinque acutis ru- . gosis, pedunculis brevibus. Lamarck encyc. 2. 14. Cistus purpureus. Smith in Rees's encyclop. — Decand. hort. monsp. 19; , Persoon syn. 2. 75, Cistus ladaniferus orientalis, flore purpureo majore. Tournef cor. 19? „Frutex ripedalis ultrève ramis numerosis ascendentibus, villosiusculis, Joliosis. Folia obscurowviridia lanceolata, utrinque attenuata, minut? ru- gosa, margine undulata uncias duas vel duas cum dimidio longa latitudine guingue-octolineari. Flores terminales ampli, roseo-purpurei, maculd fusco- sanguinea ad basin cujusque petali. Calyx foliolis quinque ovalibus, mu- . €ronatis, appresso-villosis. arck loc. cit.; (ex gallico vers.). This handsome shrub is universally known in our col- lections by the title of Cisrus creticus; from which however it has been well distinguished by the industrious and sa- gacious Chevalier de Lamarck in his excellent Encyclo- pédie Botanique. Creticus is much smaller in all its parts than purpureus; has spatulately lanceolate or ovate leaves, a corolla of one colour not marked with the dark purple Spot at the base of each petal so remarkable in the present Species. Purpureus is supposed to be native of the Levant; in- deed if really the plant of the synonym we have adduced from Tournefort, there can be no doubt on that head. We presume its omission in the Hortus Kewensis, has arisen from its having been confounded with creticus: why ìt has not been adopted by Willdenow, we are unable to say. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Col- 'ville, in King's Road, Chelsea; where the plant flowers during the summer months; and is preserved in a garden frame during winter. It is one of long standing in the gar- dens of this country, as well as in those of France. We suspect that the specimen from Tournefort’s Herbarium, placed in that of Sir Joseph Banks along with another of the s true creticus, belongs to the species we are speaking of; though the want of the corolla prevents absolute certainty on this point. Four feet high or more; branches numerous, ascending, slightly villous, leafy. Leaves dingy green, lanceolate, ta- pered at each end, finely wrinkled, undulated at the edge, two inches or two and an half long, from five to eight lines broad. Flowers terminal, large, rosy-purple, with a dark spot at the foot of each petal. Calyx with five oval, mucro- nate, close-pressedly villous leaflets. 40g >` b I Wa / 17 fer LAGO / T0 t Ley / á Ls l'y 4t "CAY JE a » LP s Mart. del, 409 CALYTRIX glabra. Bare-leaved Calytrix. ' —,á—— A ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord.. Mynmi frecentiès MYRTACEE). Jussieu gen. 822. . . CALYTRIX. - Cal. superus, tubo cylindraceo, limbo 5-partito, laciniis aristatis persistentibus, Pel, 5, decidua. Stam. omnia (sepids indefinita raró decem) antherifera, decidua. Ovarium uviloculare, dispermum. Pe- ricarpium C Achenopsis) monospermum, indehiscens, exsuccum.. Frutices (Nova Hollandiæ} ericoidei. Folia parca sepiis angulata, sparsa, imbri- cata, glanduloso-punctata, in isque petiolata et stipulis! setaceis liberis minutis deciduis instructa. Flores (albi. vel purpurei) axillares, solitarii; iðracterti, bracteis membranaceis, carinatis, persistentibus, basi connatis, own. C. glabra, icosandra; foliis petiolatis stipulatis adultis bracteisgue glabris. Brown MSS. A genus instituted by M. Labillardiére, but promulgated with a definition so vague and general, that the name is almost the only accession to science. Nor has our author been more successful in the description of his only species or in the figure he -has given us from the dried plant; for, with all the attention we could use to ascertain whether his plant is specifically the same with the present or not, the point still remains so great a puzzle with us, that we have thought it safest to give.no opinion on the subject. The generic character, now offered, is from the pen of Mr. Brown, and. has been framed with the accustomed skill and foresight of that learned naturalist with a view to the cluster of confining genera from the same regions, which will be found near it in the concluding volume of his Pro- dromus of the Flora of New Holland. Achenium implying an indehiscent originally one-seeded ' seedvessel, while that of. the present genus though eventu- ally one-seeded, having been found by Mr. Brown to ori- ginate in a germen with two ovula, one of which proves constantly abortive, he has thought it advisable to suggest- Achenopsis as a more precise denomination for this sort of seedvessel. Glabra is the first of the genus tbat has presented itself in our european gardens,' and is native within the Colony of Port Jackson, where it was found by Mr. Brown, whose Herbarium contains likewise four more of its congeners, of which that gentleman has favoured us with the following account. Three, our plant being one, were observed by him in the colony above mentioned as well as in Van Diemen's Island, and agree in having a petioled stipuled foliage and icosandrous flowers; & fourth he discovered: on the' south- west. coast of New ‘Holland, this had likewise a petioled &tipuled follagé, but thé flowers were decandrousj-the fifth he observed on the north coast of the-same'contineht (in the bay of Carpentaria), in that the flowers were icosandrous asin the three first’ mentioned species, but it differed: from all the others in having a foliage without either petioles or stipules. Through these modifications the genus will be found to unite with its confining co-ordinates at different points. All five are heathlike shrubs; with small, generally au- gular, scattered, imbricated, glandularly dotted leaves, niostly petioled, and furnished: with. minute setaceous deci- duous stipules; white or purple axillary solitary bibracteate flowers, the bractes membranous; keeled, persistent, and cormate at:the base; a superior calyn with: cylindrical tube, ' kinb, awned and persistent segments; © deciduous als; stamens (genétaly indefinite, seldom ten) all an- therbedring, deciduóus; a ‘one-celled, two-seéded germen; and a' one-seeded dry indebiscent seedvessel (Achenopsis of Mr. Brown). . o. Ot "The leaves of our plant, when fresh, are perfectly cylin- drical; but when dry, triangular, owing to the flesh shrink- inig from thé longitudinal nerves ôr ribs. pts -Phe drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Col- ville, King's Road, Chelsea; where the plant flowered early in the summer; being kept in the greenhouse and treated like.the: Cape Heaths. We understand that it had been very lately imported by Mr. Rollison, thé hursery-man. +- Mir, Brown thinks the genus should be placed next to Eiin ih the Linnean system. P poe EET! L TW "vw e M^ ts 3 DA». f Y ; > sek by P Mop reru VO reete e, : f^ E SITY. 710 1 AN , J Hits n 410 MELALEUCA incana. Grizzly Melaleuca. —.] —— POLYADELPHIA JCOSANDRIA. Nat. ord. Myrri (MYRTACEE). Jussieu gen. 322. Div. I. Flores in foliorum axillis aut in pedunculis multifloris oppositi, Folia plerumque opposita et punctata. MELALEUCA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 103. Div. Folia verticillata. M. incana, foliis ternis lineari-lanceolatis utrinque ramulisque incano-pu- bescentibus, spicis ovalibus oblongisve. Brown MSS. An unpublished greenhouse species, of recent introduc- tion, first observed by Mr. Brown, in King George the Third's Sound, on the south-west coast of New Holland. Comes near to MELALEUCA densa, which also has a foliage in whorls of three, but there the leaf is obovate and without pubes- cence, We were favoured with the specimen, for the drawing, by Lady Aylesford, with whom the plant flowered in the collection at Stanmore, early in the summer. We are indebted to Mr. Brown for the specific charac- ter, and all we know concerning the plant. / 7 + ME 3" / D e Gu. ¿ | 3 ) O Ma Ha SO Hant el Fit by E Holy wity 1/0 eere a lg š fov f. /O /() Z Ma ee 411 GASTROLOBIUM bilobum. Two-lobed Gastrolobium. —,o—— DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSE. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. II. PAPILIONACEE. Brown gen. rem. in Flind. voy. 2. 552. " GASTROLOBIUM. Cal. 5-fidus, bilabiatus, ebracteatus. Cor. pa- pllionacea, petalis longitudine subæqualibus. Germen dispermum, pedicel- atum: stylus subulatus, adscendens: stigma simplex. Legumen ventrico- sum: semina strophiolata, Brown in Hort. Kew, ed. 2. 8. 16. G. bilobum, foliis (uncialibus) subtüs subsericeis retusis: lobulis rotundatis mucronulo longioribus, leguminis pedicello tubum calycis seguante. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 9. 16. A genus instituted by Mr. Brown in the second edition of the Hortus Kewensis; and consisting of a group charae- terized by a fivecleft bilabiate bracteless calyx; a papiliona- ceous corolla with nearly equal petals; a pedicled twoseeded germen; a subulate ascending style; a simple stigma; a ventricose pod; and strophiolate (furnished with ventral epiphyses) seeds. The present species, the only recorded one, is distin- guished by its retuse leaves (an inch long) with a somewhat silky fur on the under side, their end lobes rounded and longer than the intervening point; and by a footstalk of the pod which is even with the calyx. First observed by Mr. Brown on the south-west coast of New Holland; and introduced by Mr. Peter Good in 1803. A greenhouse shrub. One however far from common in our collections; and never represented by any published figure, tbat we are aware of, before the present. We are obliged to Mr. Herbert for the specimen from which the drawing has been taken. It flowered in the col- lection at Spofforth, last spring. VOL. V. T 27 pa Hidas 7/70 Bosne Mov S IMY 412 PERGULARIA odoratissima. Sweet-scented green Pergularia; or Chinese Creeper. — JF PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Nat. ord. ApociwEE. Jussieu gen. 148. Div. II. Germen duplex. Fructus bifollicularis. Semina papposa. ] ASCLEPIADZJE, Brown in mem. Wern. soc. 1. 19. Div. I. ASCLEPIADEJ VERS, PERGULARIA. Cor. hypocrateriformis, tubo urceolato. Corona siaminea 5-phylla, foliolis compressis apice indivisis, intús Jacinulá auctis. Anthere membrana terminate. Masse pollinis erectae, basi affixe. Stigma muticum. Folliculi ventricosi, leves. Semina comosa. Plante volubiles. Fol. latiuscula, membranacea, Cyme interpetiolares. Flores flavescentes odoratissimi. Patria ignota: in Chiná et India Orientali ob flores suaveo- lentes culta. Brown loc. cit. $1. P. odoratissima, foliis cordatis acuminatis, calycibus tubo corollæ breviori- bus. Dryander in Hort. Kew, ed. 2. 2. 88. . Pergularia odoratissima., Smith ic. pict. 16; (exclus. Lour.) Andrews reposit, 185. . Pergularia tomentosa. Lin. mant. 53; (tantim modd quoad descriptionem J. Flos siamicus, Rumph. amb. auctuar. 7. 58. t. 26. fig. 1. Mr. Brown observes that “the only certain species of this genus are the present and minor; P. purpurea, Vahl. and japonica, Thunb. may belong to it. P. edulis of Thun- berg (prod. cap.) is probably very different. When Lin- neus established the genus in his Mantissa, he certainly meant his character to apply to PERGULARIA glabra, of which he had a specimen in his Herbarium, and which is the Flos Pergulanus of Rumphius; but unfortunately this plant does not belong to the order of Asclepiadece, but to my first section of Apocinee. The character of Linnœus was no doubt chiefly taken from a plant of P. odoratissima, that had flowered in the Upsal Garden, and which he con- founded with the AscLEPiASs cordata of Forskael, an error long since pointed out by Sir James Smith in his very accurateand satisfactory account of P. odoratissima in the Icones Pictæ.” To the above remarks we shall subjoin Sir J. Smith's amended history of the present species, as given by that learned botanist in Rees's Cyclopedia. T2 * Sir Joseph Banks is said to have sent it to Kew about the year 1784. It is cultivated in China, as a favourite bower plant, though of what precise country a native is not known. We have been told it is wild in Sumatra. The late Lady Amelia Hume received a fine plant of this species in 1789, which covered the stern of the ship with its fragrant green blossoms, during a great part of the voyage, and has since been widely propagated in this country. Ít thrives either ìn a. stove or warm conservatory, flowering through- out the summer and autumn, and exhaling, in an evening, ‘that peculiar, light, lemon-like, but luscious fragrance, of which the Chinese are so fond, and which belongs to vari- ous greenish night-scented flowers, as the CHLORANTHUS in- conspicuus, and some Orchidee. The root is branched, widely spreading. Stem shrubby, round, branched, twin- ing and climbing to a great extent; downy when young; the bark spongy and cracked when old. Leaves opposite, stalked, deflexed, heart-shaped, rather taper-pointed, en- tire, opaque, veiny, downy at the veins and margin, paler beneath, each 2-3 inches long. Stipulas none, but the Jootstalks much shorter than the leaves, are glandular at their summit, as well as on each side at the base. Panicles axillary, solitary, drooping, forked, many-flowered, downy. - Bracteas lanceolate, at each division of the panicle. Flowers the size of a primrose, pale yellowish-green, bearded within, .their segments linear-oblong, oblique, the length of the tube, fringed." |- “ Linneeus had in his Herbarium a chinese specimen of this plant, marked tomentosa, with a note at the back sig- nifying that the Catholic clergy at Macao prepare, from its 'milky juice, a medicine for the dysentery. He cultivated 'the same in his stove, and described it in his Mantissa. 53. 'The name and specific character however do not apply to this, but to.a very different plant, Forskael's ASCLEPIAS cordata. Flos siamicus, Rumph. amb. auctuar. 7. 58. t. 26. ‘f. li, seems to be intended for our present species; though CYNANCRUM odoratissimum, of Loureiro, by the description of the yellow flowers, probably belongs rather to minor.” _ The drawing was taken at Mr. Pamplin's nursery in the King’s Road, Chelsea. es - = IS â13 PANCRATIUM verecundum., 8. Solander’s Sea- Daffodil. ibe : HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Narcisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germen inferum. AMARYLLIDEÆ, Brown prod. 1. 296. Sect. I. PANCRATIUM. Suprà vol. 8. fol. 221. Div. Floribus petiolatis v. subsessilibus: limbo radiato: incisuris senis corona . staminiferis. P. verecundum, spatha 2-4-flora, foliis linearibus acutis, limbo corollæ bre. viore tubo, coronæ'incisuris alterné profundioribus, staminibus incurvis 2-8plo longioribus lobulis coronæ. Nob. in journ. of scien. and the arts. 3. 318; (ab anglico Rozb. MSS. verso). Pancratìum verecundum. Solander in Hort. Kew. 1.412; (sed in editione secundá à Dryandro omissum. A Willdenovio aliisque mal? cum P. mari- timo confusum). : Pancratium triflorum. Roxburgh MSS. in Museo Banksiano cum tabulá pictä. Carey bengal. 23. | Catulla pola. Rheede malab. 11. 79. t. 46. (8) tubo subtriunciali. Distinguitur P. maritimo (vid. suprà fol. 161.) foliis numerosioribus, non glaucis, ucuté acuminatis, nec exact? (TE dentibus coronee undulatis longi- oribus, magisque acuminatis, filamentis bis terve longioribus dentibus corona. Fol. 8-10, sesquipedalia, semunciam lata. Scapus erectus, compressus, pedalis. Spathee oblonga, lanceolata, acuminate, albida, marcescentes, ex- teriores majores sesquiunciales. Flores suaveolentes pedicellati. Pedicelli tri. goni vie semunciales. Corolle tubüs eylindrico-tri; onus, virescens viz biun- cialis, crassitie penne anserinæ. Limbus campanulatus : lacinie lanceolata, acute, tubo paulo breviores, nivea, extús medio virescentes, Corona campa- nulata, pu» laciniis brevior, sesfida, laciniis bifidis. Fil. alba. Anth. Have. Stylus declinatus virescens. Stigma obsolelê trilobum. Solander. We are indebted to Mr. Herbert for the specimen of this rare plant. lt was produced this summer in the hothouse at Spofforth; and had been received from the Calcutta Botanic Garden. The species was originally named and recorded in the first edition of the Hortus Kewensis by Dr. Solander, from a plant which flowered at Mrs. Theobald's in 1776; but has been omitted by Mr. Dryander in the second edition of that work; for reasons of which we are not precisely aware. In our plant the tube of the corolla is longer than in that described by either Dr. Solander or Dr. Roxburgh; but this is at all times a very variable feature, and one little to be relied on in the cultivated plants of this genus: we have, however, marked it as the variety @; that others may dis- tinguish the two according to their own views. Leaves 8-10, lorate, acuminate, convolute, channelled, a foot and an half long, half an inch or more in breadth, not glaucous. Scape upright, compressed, a foot or more in length. Spathes oblong, lanceolate, long-pointed, whitish, withering, outer ones the largest, about an inch and an half in length. Flowers sweet-scented, pedicled; pedicles 3-cor- nered, scarcely half an inch long. Tube of the corolla cylindrically 3-cornered, greenish, 2-3 inches long, with the thickness of a large quill: limb campanulate: segments lanceolate, pointed, shorter than the tube, quite white, greenish in the middle on the outside: crown campanulate, shorter than the limb, sixcleft, with two-cleft segments. Filaments white: anthers deep yellow. Style declining, greenish. We had no opportunity of describing from the living plant, and have adopted Dr. Solander's description. Differs from. maritimum (see fol. 161) in having more leaves, and these taper-pointed and not glaucous, longer” taper-pointed segments to the crown, and filaments which are at least 2 or 3 times higher than the segments of the crown. foy st " 7 AA IF Jy, S 7 d / Ata 2 del. Atl 2 ut. SS rby ee al TEL Sieci lu | Vor f. 111) I Wa A14 AZALEA nitida. Glossy-leaved Azalea or Swamp Honeysuckle. —— PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. RHODODENDRA. Jussieu gen. 158. Div. I. Corolla mono- petala. AZALEA. Suprâ vol. 2. fol. 120. A. nitida, foliosifiora; ramis glabriusculis, foliis parvis oblanceolatis sub- mucronatis coriaceis utrinque glabris suprâ nitidis: nervo subtìs seti- gero, margine revoluto-ciliatis, floribus viscosis: tubo laciniis paulo longiore, calycibus brevissimis, filamentis exsertis. Pursh amer. sept. 1. 158. Azalea nitida. Sweet hort. sub. lond. 34. A hardy shrub, first recorded as a species by Mr. Pursh; who tells us that it grows in deep mossy swamps, on mountains, from New York to Virginia; and flowers about June and July. Introduced, according to the Hortus Suburbanus Londi- nensis, in 1812. The drawing was taken at the Nursery of Messrs. Col- ville in the King's Road, Chelsea, the only. place where we have yet met with it. Distinguished at first sight from its congeners by smaller dark green shining leaves. Inflorescence leafy; corolla white with a red tinge. Branches smoothish; leaves obversely lanceolate, with a slight end-point, of coriaceous or leathery substance, smooth on both sides, shining at the upper, revolutely fringed at the edge, midrib bristly underneath; flowers viscous; tube a little longer than the segments; calyx very short; fila- ments protruded. - We have relied upon Mr. Pursh for the description; as ac had no opportunity of taking one while the plant was in ower. How. T à | Set by Mp LI Lccal ly 2 e 4 L 1810. 415 415 ANGELONIA salicariæfolia. Violet-flowered Angelonia. Angelon. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. SCROPHULARLE. Jussieu gen. 117. Div. I. Stamina 4 didy- nama, ScROPHULARINE. Brown prod. 1.438. Sect. II. Stamina 4 antherifera. ANGELONIA. Cal. (parvulus, virens) 5-partitus, subobliguus, ap- pressus; lac. subæqualibus, 2 approximatis. Cor. irregularis, patens, 2- abiata : tubus brevis; faux fornicata; labium superius 2-partitum; inferius multô majus, 3-partitum, Jaciniâ intermedia ad basin ferè in formam calcei ampliata, demüm rotuüdato-plana. File. tubo corollæ inserta, eo pauld longiora, arcuata, hirsuta, subsequalia : anthe, loculis divergentibus acutis, Germ. globosum hirsutum : stylus brevis: stig. acutum. Caps. calyce pere sistente stipata, depresso-globosa, levìtêr 4-sulcata, 2-loc., polysperma, apice 2-valvis, valvulis 2-fidis: sem. numerosa; minuta, subcuneata, super» ficie scrobiculata. Caulis herbaceus * fol. decussatim opposita, serrata, pu- bentia: pedunculi axillares, solitarii, Ì-flori ; fructiferi-recurvatí. Humb. et Bonpl. pl. equin. 2. 92. Angelonia salicarieefolia. Humb. et Bonpl, pl. equin. 2. 92. tab. 108. Angelon. Colonis hispanicis, fide Humb. e$ Bonpl. - This very ornamental plant has been recently intro- duced by Mr. Herbert, to whom we are indebted for the drawing, taken by himself from a sample that flowered this summer, for thê first time, in the hothouse at Spof- forth. 'The genus was framed by Messrs. Humboldt and Bon- pland, and originates with the present species, observed by those distinguished naturalists in a wild state on the arid rocks of gneiss in the environs of Caraccas, the capital of the South American province of that name. It is known among the inhabitants by the appellation of Angelon, and used me- dicinally for the same purposes as the flowers of the Violet with us. The range of its geographical elevation appears to be between 5 and 600 toises above the level of the sea. In natural affinity the genus borders upon ALoNsoa; but differs essentially in corolla and fruit. It is confined at present to a single species, not recorded in any general sys- tem of vegetables. VOL. V. v Annual, 15-30 inches high ; dividing into branches im- mediately above the crown of the root. Branches 4-cornered, generally upright, sometimes recumbent for the lower half or thereabouts ; leafy only at their upper extremity, closely and shortly furred. Leaves opposite, spreading, near, sessile, 14-2 inches long, 6-8 lines broad, shortly furred on both sides; slightly indented at the edge. Flowers violet-coloured, axillary, solitary: peduncles long. Calyx deeply five-cleft, two segments closer than the rest. Corolla subbilabiate, distended; tube short cylindric; faux vaulted; upper lip bipartite ; lower lip much larger, tripartite, the middle seg- ment larger and enlarged at the base in the form of a slip- per, rounded at the end. Stamens 4 attached to the tube of the corolla: filaments unequal, shorter than the corolla, slightly bowed and furred their whole length: anthers 2- celled, yellow; cells divergent, pointed. Germen spherical, pubescent: sfyle very short: stigmas pointed. Capsule spherical, depressed, girded. at the base by the calyx which becomes slightly fleshy, marked from bottom to top on the outside by 4 furrows, opening at the upper part into 2 cells; both valves splitting at the top into 2 parts: seeds nume- rous, small, wedge-shaped, attached to a fleshy receptacle, with a pitted membranous coating. We trust to the work we have cited for all we have said of our plant ; not having had an opportunity of describing from the living plant. SY Halts so. 3/0. L My Dec. f. POOLA 2- 44, we « T LAPE 4 by » e th L TEL 416 SATYRIUM cucullatum. Cucullate Satyrium. —Mdá— GYNANDRIA MDNANDRIA. Nai. ord. ORCHIDWIE. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. t. 909. Div. I. Anth. adnata subterminalis persistens, Pollinis masse è lobulis angulatis elasticè cohærentibus; basi affix. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 188. SATYRIUM. Cor. ringens; pel. 5 antica basi connata. 'Labellum posticum, fornicatum, basi bicalcaratum v. bisaccatum. Anth. resupinata. Stig. 2 labiatum. Brown in loc. cit. 196. S. cucullatum, foliis radicalibus binis cordato-subrotundis concavis, caulinis remotis cucullatis subretusis, floribus cernuis. Swartz in act. holm. 1800. 216. Satyrium cucullatum. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 54. — Swartz in Schrader's neues Journ. 1.33, Hort. Kew. ed 2.5.196. Thunb. flor. cop. 1. 88. Satyrium bicorne. Thunb. prod. 6. Orchis bicornis. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2. 1880, Houtt. nat. hist. 2. D. 12. St. . 455. t. 86. fg. 1. Hort. Kew. 3.294. Andrews's reposit. 815, Orchis lutea, caule geniculato, Bus). cent. 3. 6. t. 8. . Fol. radicalia bina, ovato-subrotunda, basi vaginata, amplexicaulia, con- cava, arcuato-nervosa, margine membranacea, subths pallidiora. Scapus pedalis, erectus, teres, purpurco-maculatus, inanis, vaginatus: vaginæ 2-3, remote, cucullate apice apertæ, ovate, subreiuse, rigidiuscule, nervosa. Spica 2 v. 3-pollicaris, erecta, floribus alternis, distinctis, cernuis. Bractes sub singulo flore sessiles, lanceolate, integra, glabra, reflexe, longitudine Joris. Cor. submonopetala, subringens, s. petala 5, basi coalita: $ esteriora quorum unum superius magnum s. gulea ovato-subrotunda fornicata apice pro- ducto obtuso, acul2 carinata, postice. basi bicalcarata.s calcaria lindrico- subulata, deffeza, parèm curva, germine ferè longiora > pet. 2 lateralia linearia integra obtusa, 2 interiora uis minora linearia obtusa stylo petalisque ezte- rioribus ad basin accreta: labellum petalis interioribus consimile sed longius illisque basi connatum. Anth. globosa didyma, scrotiformis versis apicem styli adnata 2-loc. loculis prope stigma dehiscentibus. Stylus elongatus, superna dorso gibbus, sub galed reconditus, apice dilatatus concavus excisus: stig. fia apicem dilatatum, supra insertionem antheræ concavum. Thunb. fl. cap. L c. t ———— Introduced from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Masson. Flowered at Kew Gardens in 1786, as we learn by a ma- nuscript note of Mr. Dryander's, in Sir Joseph Banks's library, which also notices the fragrance of the blossom. The drawing was taken from a specimen that flowered this summer in Mr. Griffin's collection at South Lambeth, where it had been lately imported. Mr. Brown has remarked the inaccuracy of preceding authors, in calling the flower of) the Orchideæ “ reversed," it v2 being in fact originally “ upright,” and the change of pos- _ ture merely the consequence of a subsequent twisting either in the pedicle or in the germen which supports it. Hence the labellum from a back petal becomes a front one. SATYRIUM is however an exception, for the middle front petal, designated by Swartz, as the labellum, has been found by Mr. Brown not to be one; the casque at the back of the flower being the true labellum, a part which is always de- termined by its position in relation to the stamens and pla- centa of the germen, by being the middlemost of the 3 inner petals, and by facing the middlemost of the 3 outer. | The genus (consisting of about 12 or 13 known species, from the Cape of Good Hope, of which the present and another are all that have been seen in our gardens), accord- . ing to Mr. Brown, has a ringent corolla with 5 front petals connate at the base; a vaulted two-spurred or two-pouched labellum situated at the back of the flower; an adnate sub- terminal permanent reversed anther, pollen-masses (of angu- lar lobules held together by an elastic substance) affixed at the base, and a two-lipped stigma. The flowers in all the spontaneous specimens we have seen, have changed to a blackish purple hue in drying, and if not remembered in the fresh state would pass for the re- presentatives of a purple inflorescence in the live subjects. * To this we impute Thunberg's describing the flower of the species as purple; he always describing from a dried sample whenever he treats of Cape plants. We missed the oppor- « tunity of examining the blossom while alive. The plant published by Messrs. Loddiges for SATYRIUM, cucullatum in the Botanical Cabinet, is a very distinct spe-. cies. Aou Ap, gy Walls di Lt La A / M ad f, LLL UE V ) y LA "d JO E Aly / € / / A 4 S Cee. â17 FLUMBAGO capensis. Cape Lead-wort. — | PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. PLUMBAGINES. Jussieu gen. 92. P&UMBAGINEE. Brown prod. 1. 425, PLUMBAGO. Cal. tubulosus, plicatus, 5-dentatus, persistêns.'. Cor. monopetala, hypocrateriformis, limbo 5-partito. Stamina hypogyna. lus filiformis: stigmata 5, acuta. (Germ. 1, liberum, monospermum, ov inverso ab apice funiculi à fundo germinis orti.) Caps. valvata: sem.. albu- minosum | (inversam: integumento simplici: embryo crochan: radicula mi- pera). Herbæ v. Suffrutices caulessentes. | Folia amplezicaulia, Spicæ ter- inales. | Flores Sb oats Brown prod. 1. 425. . P. cape sis, foliis petiolatis oblongis integris subtüs glaucis, caule erecta. unb. prod. 88. a y | Plumbago capensis Willd. sp. plu’), 897.: Thunb. fl'tap. 2.18 Loddigers. - cab. n. 295. : DU Pe. Frutescens, ascendens, 1-2-pedalis v. ultra. . Rami foliis asillares, flexuosi, varicoso-nervosi, virentes, distanter foliosi, atomis opaco-crystallizatis trroratt, supern? levissime pubescentes ceterum glabri : fol. sparsa, patentia, internodiis longiora, petiolata, plus minus 2-8-uncialia, transversè subduplo-angustiora, ob- longa, subrhombeo-ozata, apice rotundatis, petiolum versis cuneata, more ramo-. rum atomis exsudatis conspersa: petiolus marginatus: stipule (rectiès forsan petiolorum auricula?) gemina, perfoliato-opposita, herbaceæ, retculatoe' venosæ, patentissimæ, subsemiorbiculato-oblatæ, repande, plurimum breoiores petiolo, cujus margine continue. Spice multiffore, erecta, conferta, fasti- &iatæ, breves: flores albo-carulescentes, hypocraieriformes, subbiunciales, ad- scendentes: pedunculi 1-fori, brevissimi v, subnulli: bractem terne, herbaceo- rubescentes, lineari-acuminatæ, recuroe duplo v. ultra breviores calyce. Cal, viridis, rubore passim suffusus, duplo brevior tubo corolla, 5-gono-tubulosus, plicis 5 pallidioribus striatus, setis carnosis viscoso-capitatis .patentissimis atrorubentibus echinatus, Cor", tubus gracilis, lineari-clavatus, 5-gonus, bis terve longior laciniis; limbus saturatizs 5-radiatus, laciniis cuneato-obovatis contiguis. Stam. & pist. agualia tubo: fil. alba, filo serico simplici viz cras- siora; anth. violaceg, introrse, sagillato-lineares, erecta. Germ. subrotun- dum glabrum. d The species is not found in the Hortus Kewensis, though cultivated in the Kew Collection many years back. It seems however to have been confounded in that garden with Zristis, for we find a sample that had flowered there, matched in the Banksian Herbarium with a spontaneous one of PLUMBAGO tristis, a very distinct species, and known only by the sample collected at the Cape by the late Mr. Francis Mas- son. Seeds of this species were lately received by Lady De Clifford from the Cape of Good Hope; and from these the plant from which our drawing is taken, has been raised at the Nursery of Messrs. Colville in the King's Road, Chelsea. We believe it had been long ago lost in this country. Very ornamental when in flower, of easy culture, and a free blower. Shrubby, 1-2 feet high or more: branches axillary, flexuose, varicosely nerved, green, distantly leaved, covered with whitish opague particles of ehrystallized gum, very slightly pubescent at the upper part. Leaves scattered, spreading, longer than the intervals, petioled, 2-3 inches long or more, and generally about half that breadth, ob- long, subrhomboidally ovate, rounded at the end, cuneate towards the petiole, covered with the same kind of gummy particles as the branches: petiole narrowly bordered: sti- pules (or rather perhaps earlets of the petioles) two, facing each other by the interìor edge like the base of a perfoliate leaf, herbaceous, reticulately veined, widespread, sub- semiorbicularly-oblate, repand, much shorter than the petiole with tbe border of which they are continuous. Spikes manyflowered, upright, fastigiate, close, short: flowers of a whitish blue or french-grey, about 2 inches long, ascending: peduncles one-flowered, very short, or scarcely any: bractes generally in threes, herbaceous, ru- bescent, linear]y taper-pointed, recurved, twice shorter than the calyx or more. Calyx green, reddening here and there, twice shorter than the tube of the corolla, tubular, 5-cor- nered, scored by five paler plaits, echinately beset with seti- form viscously headed fleshy excrescences: tube of the co- rolla slender, linearly clavate, 5-cornered, two or three times longer than the segments of the limb: limb marked with 5 deeper blue rays, segments cuneately obovate. Sta- mens and pistil even with the tube: filaments white, scarcely thicker than the thread of a silk-worm : anthers violet, turned inwards, sagittately linear, upright. Germen nearly round smooth. d Ke F, = SS L f. La fs P 4.43566 y 4 418 BIGNONIA grandifolia. Gigantic-leaved Trumpel-flower. —. —— DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat, ord. Bicnontæ. Jussieu gen. 137. Div. II. Fructus capsularis bivalvis. Caulis arboreus aut frutescens. BIGNONIACEE. Brown prod. 471. BIGNONIA. Supra vol. 3. fol. 249. : Div. Foliis conjugatis. B. grandifolia, foliis conjugatis cirrhosis, foliolis oblongis, utrinque acutis, corymbo trifido terminali, pedunculis petiolis ramulisque scabris. Willd, sp. pl. 8. 296. Bignonia grandifolia. Jacq. hort. schanb. 3. 19. 1. 287. Caulis frulicosus teres cinereus glaber ramosus debilis scandens : rami teretes punctis ferrugineis extantibus scabri, quales etiam petioli communes et pedunculi. Fol. opposita conjugata cirrhosa; pet. comm. crassus teres viz uncialis firmus ; partiales glabri semunciales: foliola ovato vel ovata-lanceolata integerrima acuta venosula subcoriacea firmula, facie nitida et saturatè virentia, subtus costata et pallidè wirentia, à dimidio ad integrum (etidm sesqui-) pedem (v. ultra) longa, 4 ad 8 uncias lata Í v, ultra): cirrhi simplices longi validi dorsales ad apicem peti, comms. Pedunci. in ramulis junioribus inter 2 fol. opposita terminales, terni fv. solitarii paniculati) laterales 2-3-fdi et 3-flori, intermedius duplo longior et subpaniculatus cum pedunculis partialibus sepa Sfloris. Cal. tubulosus glaber virens cum affusá purpurá, ore 5-dentato fv. truncato et subintegro hinc tantàm fisso). Cor. flavissima, (sub-) 3-uncialis inodora glabra : tubus brevissimus, supra calycem coarctatus in collum, atque hic intern? (ubi inseruntur filame,:) hirsutus: faux longissima valde com- pressa, sic 9 lins. lata, utrinque 2-sulcata sulcis superioribus intern? per maculas ferrugineas aspersis variegatis : limbus 2-labiatus patentissimus, lac. subro- tundis qualibus, 3 infer. subundulatis cum intermediâ crenatä. Fil, subulata, 2 exter. longiora et petalo duplo breviora cum rudimento brevissimo 5ti ad dorsum corolle: (loculis antherarum divaricatis incumbentibus) flavo pallene tibus. Germ. pedicellatum ovatum sulcatum plabrum glandule circulari niti- Seque insistens + stylus filiform. longit. staminum : stig. 2-lamellatum patens. acq. l. c. ` The drawing of this magnificent climber was taken from a plant which flowered, late this summer, in the hothouse of Mr. Catley's botanical garden, Barnet; where we are told it grew in such luxuriance that the branches acguired nearly 30 feet in length in the space of a few months. Some of the leaves we saw measured a foot and an half in length, and 9 inches across. We believe the plant is of very recent introduction, as it is not enumerated either in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis, or in the Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis. The species, according to Jacquin, comes from the pro- vince of Caraccas in South America. In the plant that flowered at Vienna, the panicles were short and the pe- duncles generally trichotomous and 3-flowered, in Mr. Cat- ley's plant the panicle was long, but the two side flowers on each peduncle were almost always abortive, and the main peduncle had no side branches like the specimen figured in Jacquin's work. A high climbing shrub: branches round, roughened, as well as the main petioles and peduncles, with ferruginously coloured excrescences. Leaves opposite, conjugate, cir- rhose: main petiole thick firm round an inch long; partial ones smooth half an inch long: leaflets ovate or ovately lan- ceolate, entire, pointed, veiny, firm and slightly coriaceous, deep green and bright above, paler underneath and ribbed, from 6 inches to a foot and a half long, 4-9 inches broad : tendril simple strong, at the back of the apex of the main petiole, (this is sometimes converted into a leaflet, when the leaf becomes ternate, instead of conjugate and cirrhose.) Pa- nicles terminal between two leaves, generally in threes or trichotomous, the middle much the largest, with 3-flowered peduncles: bractes single linear subulate, one to every pe- dicle. Calyx short and tubular, obsoletely 5-toothed, green, sometimes suffused with purple, cleft on one side. Corolla deep yellow, nearly 3 inches long, smooth, without scent: tube very short, constricted above the calyx, having a shaggy ring on the inside at the mouth where tbe stamens are inserted: faux very long, much wider, compressed; limb bilabiate, widespread; segments roundish, equal, 3 lower subundulate, middlemost of these crenate. The fifth stamen, a mere rudiment. Germen stalked, standing on a circular fleshy disk, . We have trusted chiefly to Jacquin for the description of the species; having missed the opportunity of inspecting the fresh blossom. Fel Le Vt y S L JO Faxa My De i / / y | y Leo 11819 I" E 2. nen C d. del. â19 ROSA kamchatica. Kamtschatka Rose. — ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nat. ord. Rosacgm. Jussieu gen. 334. Div. II. Rosz. ROSA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 46. . Div. Rami tomentosi. R. kamchatica, foliis rugosis opacis, aculeis stipularibus et rameis valdè inequalibus, fructu impubi, Lindley MSS. Rosa kamchatica. Ventenat cels. 67. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 8. 259. Smith in Rees's cyclop. in loco. _, Frutex 3-5-pedalis diffusus. Rami procumbentes, tomentosi, aculeis pilosis biformibus—stipularibus falcatis distantibus—rameis minoribus, densis, seti- ormibus, setis raris intermiztis. Folia opaca, densa; stipule grandes, semi- obovate, pilose, margine crispe, hic ilic glandulosa: petioli tomentosi inermes; foliola 7 eli ica, simplicitér serrata, serraturis apice callosis— suprà impubio, subtès pilosa, pallidiora. Flores subsolitarii, rubri; bracteæ lipticæ, subnudæ ; pedunculi nudi, purpurei: calycis tubus globosus, nudus : Sepala angustissim2 triangularia, extüs impubia, glandulosa, apice latiora, petalis longiora: petala obcordata, apiculata, demüm plana. Discus elevatus, carnosus—Ovaria subnuda : styli pilosi, ad basin nudiusculi—stigmatum massa conica, nuda, Fructus gi p Coccineus, cerinus, sepalis brevior. Lindley MSS. It is remarkable that this species should have been hitherto placed in the vicinity of Rosa cinnamomea, which it does not resemble in the least, and that it should at the same time have been separated widely from Rosa feroz, which it approaches so nearly that the two can scarcely be discriminated by any describable permanent character, and yet no two species can be more truly distinct. In kamchatica the leaves are less shining, and the stem less prickly than in ferox. Tn the latter the prickles imme- diately under the stipulee and those of the branches are equal in size, and of nearly the same form; but in kamcha- tica the stipulary prickles are large and falcate, those of the branches setiform and minute. Feroz retains its leaves and their verdure till late in the autumn, those of kamchatica. fall off soon after the summer heat has commenced. The leaves of the specimen which Sir J. Smith described in Rees's Cyclopedia are more obovate and retuse than those VOL. Y. x of our plant, and there are some other trifling differences ; but we do not doubt the identity of our species and his. Redouté says that his kamchatica, figured in Ventenat's work many years ago, has now changed to feroz, which he consequently has published as the same. But this must surely be a mistake, as we can perceive no tendency in the two to exhibit even intermediate appearances. 18 Native of Kamtschatka, and introduced by M. Cels in 02. Shrub 3-5 feet high, loosely spreading : branches trailing, cottony, with biformed hairy prickles, those under the sti- pules falcate and distant, those upon the branch smaller, thickset bristleshaped, with thinly mingled bristles. Leaves wrinkled, opaque, thickset: stipules large, halved obversely ovate, hairy, curled at the edge, here and there. beset with glands : petioles cottony, without prickles: leaflets 7, simply serrate, with the teeth callously tipped, naked at the upper side, hairy and paler at the under. Flowers generally soli- tary, red; bractes elliptic, nearly naked; peduncles naked, purple: tube of the calyx round, naked: leaflets of the calyx very narrowly triangular, furless on the outside, beset with glands, broader at the tip, longer than the petals: petals obversely cordate, tipped, ultimately flat. Disk raised, fleshy. Ovaries nearly naked: styles hairy, rather naked at the base, mass of stigmas conic, naked. Fruit globular, furless, scarlet, waxen, shorter than the calycine leaflets. Lindley MSS. o Pa Linley Esp, del, ick Ps y; V4 eJ / $ i Pa aa a (TO Li vetlel ly Plec LAQ. S Hit AC 490 ROSA ferox. Hedgehog Rose.. — ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nat. ord. Rosacea, Jussieu gen. 39% Dis. IT. Rosx. ROSA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 46. Div. Rami tomentosi. R. feroz, foliis rugosis glabris, aculeis confertissimis rigidis, stipularibus et rameis subæqualibus, fructu impubi. Lixdley MSS. Rosa ferox, Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3.262. Miss Lawr. roses. t. 42. Smith in Rees's cyclop. in loco. Rosa kamchatica. Redouté's roses. 1. 47. t. 12. Frutex 4-pedalis diffusus. Rami fomentosi procumbentes, aculeis pilosis, gracilibus, subæqualibus, flavidis, conformibus, setis intermixtis horridi. Folia glabra, nitida, densa, atro-viridia : stipulae dilatatæ, semiobovatæ, tomentose, margine crispe, glandulosæ, intús nude : petioli tomentosi, setosi et aculeati, aculeis gracilibus rectis; foliola 5-9 elliptica, simplicitèr (quandóque dupli- catô) serrata, suprà impubia, subtìs tomentosa pallidiora. Flores magni rubri solitarii; bracteæ v. nulle, v. suborbiculatæ, pilosa, serrate, glandu- doso-ciliatæ : pedunculi fomenfosi; calycis tubus obovatus, nudus; sepala angusté triangularia, subcomposita, glandulosa, extús nudiuscula, petalis lon- iora; petala obcordata, concava; discus magis obliteratus guôm Rosa amchatics, hujus carnosus elevatus. — Ovaria hirsuta: styli villosi, villis a pressis. Fructus globosus, coccineus, cerinus, nudus ut et pedunculus. indley MSS. In the preceding article (Rosa kamchatica) we have no- ticed the chief circumstances which distinguish that from the present very distinct species. That they are most de- cidedly different, must be evident to any one who is ac- quainted with them in a living state; and on this account we are the less able to imagine what can have induced M. Thory to pronounce them the same. Native of Mount Caucasus, and introduced in 1796 by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, of the Hammersmith nursery. Shrub four feet ‘high, diffused or loosely spreading: branches cottony, trailing, bristled over with hairy slender yellowish prickles nearly of the same dimensions, with inter- mingling uniform bristles. Leaves smooth, shining, thick- sêt, of a black-green hue: stipules widened, halved, obversely ovate, cottony, curled at the edge, beset with glands, naked x on the inner side: pefioles cottony, bristly and prickly with slender straight prickles; leaflets 5-9, elliptical, simply (sometimes doubly) serrate, furless at the upper side, cottony at the under and paler. Flowers large, red, solitary: bractes either none or orbicular, hairy, serrate, with a fringe of glands: peduncles cottony; tube of the calyx obversely ovate, naked; segments of the calyx narrowly triangular, slightly compound, beset with glands, nearly naked on the outside, longer than the petals; petals obversely cordate, concave; disk more faintly defined than in Rosa kamchatica, where it is fleshy and raised. Ovaries shaggy: styles vil- lous, villi close-pressed. Fruit globular, scarlet, waxen, naked as well as the peduncle. Lindley MSS. Hurl, del, BL by: F AU. Y D y y ee Ridgway 470 ROG i p 7 lilly Dec. A LY] v Watts Zt. 421 CALOSTEMMA luteum. Yellow-flowered Calostemma. ——— HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat, ord, AMARYLLIDEE. Brown prod. 1. 206. Sect. Y. Radix bulbosa, Flores spathacei, umbellati, rard solitarii. CALOSTEMMA. Corolla supera, infundibuliformis, limbo. sexpartite. Corona faucis tubulosa, ore 12-dentato, dentibus alternis subulatis, anthe- riferis. Anthera versatiles. Germen uniloculare, 2-9-spermum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma obtusum. Bacca sphærica, 1-2-sperma. PANCRATIO quàm mazim? affine, diversum, præcipuè structurá germinis et pericarpii. Flores paroi (unciá breviores). Semina in baccis germinantia. Brown foe, Cit. a C. luteum, foliis scapo, florido contemporaneis, lorato-linearibus; sinubus senis interstamineis corone: edentato-excisis; antheris subequantibus filamenta: limbo patente, laciniis oblongo-obovatis. en Calostemma luteum. Curtis's magaz. 2101. EM © Bulbus tunicatus: folia narcissina, succulenta, carnosula, obsoletà carinata, estriata. Scapus bipedalis, strictim erectus, angulato-compressus, diametro digiti minoris vel circitèr. Umbella muliifiora + spatha acuminata, sphacelato- membranacea, subæqualis pedunculis vel brevior. Flores unciam longi vel paulo magis, lutei : limbo corollæ subdistantér patente; coroná maculis senis puniceis interstamineis ad basin notatá; catera ut in purpureo, infrà "No. 422 videndo. g The present is, we believe, the first season that the flowers of any of the genus have been seen in our gardens. From outward appearance, the two species we have seen, would be without hesitation ascribed to PANCRATIUM; yet dissection displays in their one-celled fruit a neater and better defined distinction than has been yet obtained for any other group of this order. This circumstance was first ob- served by Mr. Brown, and has been made the foundation of CarosrEMMA. The difference induced in habit is slight, but still manifest; the corolla ig smaller than in PANCRA- TIUM, the segments of the limb converge campanulately, and do not extend themselves radiately as there; these are likewise obversely oblong, mot tapered upwards as in most PawcnaTIUMS, and approach in this respect nearer to those of Narcissus. The coronal web is narrower between the stamens than it generally is in PANCRATIUM. Luteum, if really distinct, is certainly very near to pur- pureum. 'The chief differences we perceived, consisted in the foliage of luteum being contemporaneous with the in- florescence, while in purpureum it does not appear till long after the decay of the flower; in the anthers of luteum be- ing nearly egual to the naked part of tbe filaments, in pur- pureum twice shorter; in the interstamineous sinuses of the coronal web being unindented in luteum, in purpureum bi- dentate; in the segments of the limb of the corolla in luteum expanding wider and being narrower than in purpureum, where the flower is altogether smaller. Could we have compared fresh plants of the two, perhaps other marks of distinction might have occurred. The three species as yet known are natives of New Hol- land. The present was observed by the party who per- formed the late expedition to the south-west of the colony, beyond the Blue Mountains. The two others by Mr. rown. The drawing was taken from a plant that flowered in the fine collection of Mr. Griffin, at South Lambeth. It rìpened its fruit, of which a representation is given in the annexed plate. The seed was about the size, colour, and consistence of a largish pea, at the period we saw it. The seed-vessel consisted of a thin sphacelate membrane. . A greenhouse plant. + T, alts. A. lys £ : 7 U cP _ Y O . TE j . / ^ cot My » wl A 9^ (^ ee á Vil hy S" 7 422 CALOSTEMMA purpureum. Purple-flowered. Calosiemma. ——— HEXANDRIA MONOGYNTA. Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDEE, Brown prod. 1. 296: Sect. I. Radix bulbosa. Flores spathacei, umbellati, raró solitarii, Ñ ' ` CALOSTEMMA. Suprà fol. 421. C. purpureum, scapo florido foliis (lórato-linearibus) præcociore, corona ` ' dentibus sterilibus trïangularibus, Brown prod. 1. 298. Calostemma purpurcum. Curtis’s magaz. 2100. Bulbus tunicatus, subrotundus magnitudine pugni. Scapus sesgui-bipe- dalis, strictus, subangulari-compressus, folía praveniens, proportione florum robustus, Umbella multiflora: pedicelli graciles, flexiles, compressiusculi; «quales coroll vel longiores: corolla infundibuliformis roseo-punicans, à ` paries unciæ longa vel circa; tubus pallescens, scxstriato-angulatus, duplo Jerme brevior limbo; ` limbus sexpartitus, turbinato-campanulatus, laciniis spathulato-obovatis, concavis, mucronatis:. corona. & brevior. limbo, angustà turbinata, viridis, membranis interstamineis purpureis angustissimis bidentatis haud raró medio fissili-partitis quando flamenta alata utrinque. unidentata uti ORSITHOGALORUM ÁLLIORUMQUE plurimorum evadunt, Fil. (vel rectiès horum portiones qua exsuperant corona membranam ) viridia subulata conniven- tia duplo breviora coroná: anth. versatiles, oblonga, bis breviores lamentis, Sulvo:flavicantes, Stylus compressofliformis, virescens, equalis corolla: stigma simplex: germen subglobosum, 1-loculare, magnitudine viz duplâ grani sinapeos. Native of New Holland, where the species was origi- nally observed by Mr. Brown. Introduced about a year ago. We saw fine plants of it at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the King's Road, Chelsea, among other bulb- ous species from the same cogntry. Scape from a foot and: half to two feet high, stiff, somewhat angularly comprêssed, stont in proportion to the size of the flowers, reeg. te foliage. Umbel many-fiowered: pedicles slender, A tly compressed, equal to the corolla or longer: corolla nnelform, of a rosy purple colour, about three fourths of an inch long: tube ale, scored and angular, nearly twice shorter than the imb; limb sixparted, turbinately campanulate, segments spatulately obovate, concave, mucronate; crown (or mona- delphous portion of the stamens) a third shorter tban the limb, narrowly turbinate or cucullate, green, insterstami- VOL. V, Y neous membranes very narrow purple bidentate, often separating down the middle, when the filaments assume the appearance of so many distinct winged ones with a tooth on each side, Hke those in most of the ORNITHOGALUMS and ALS, instead of forming a continuous coronary web as. in Pancratium; filaments (or those parts of them which are extended beyond the web) subulate, green, con- verging, twice shorter than the crown: anthers eblong, versatile, twice shorter than the filaments (that is than the part of them beyond the web), tawnyish yellow. - Style compressedly filiform, greenish, equal to the corolla: stigma simple; germen nearly globular, one-celled, not much above twice the size of a seed of Mustard. In November last the plant of CarosrEMMA luteum, which afforded the figure of the preceding article, produced another flowering stem at Mr. Griffin's; the former remain- ing perfect, though the fruit had opened, and the seeds were germinating at its foot. We observed that the flowers ` possessed a strong pungent smell, that reminded us of Penny-Royal (Mentus Pulegium). The interstamineous sinuses should have been termed obsoletely bidentate, rather than edentate, as we have called them in the description given in the article of that species. S Walls H de y San ; /J 20 CATIA y Z Gilt hy A a Mon pera 470 b 423 . ARTABOTRYS odoratissimus. $ Fragrant Artabotrys. — -—]á POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nat. ord. ANONACEE. Decand. syst. nat. 1.465. Div. III. Carpellis plurimis distinctis. ARTABOTRYS. Cal. 3-partitus. Petala sex. Stamina hypogyna. Ovaria distincta, disperma. Bacce dispermæ (abortione quandoque mono- ` Sperma). Semina collateralia erecta exarillata albumine rimeso. Frutices lecumbentes. Folia alterna, int ima, exstipulata. Pedunculi ertraalares zubo, sitifolŵ pauciflori pedicellis (1-2) lateralibus, apice uncinati. Brown Oss. Characteribus suprà datis proximè accedit Kapsurm cujus baccæ dispermæ seminibus collateralibus paritèr distinciæ receptaculo carnoso insi- dentes fide iconis et descriptionis Kæmpferi (aman, exot, 476.) ; sed Kan- SURA viz Anonacea ob summam affinitatem cum UvABxA heteroclità Roxb. flor. ind. ined. cwi albumen indivisum nec processubus membrane interioris rimosum auctoritate descriptionis operis citati. Brown MSS. A. odoratissimus, lorum laminis planis lanceolatis, foliis oblongis acumi- natis, Brown MSS, Uvaria odoratissima. Rosburgh flor. ind. ined. Unona uncinata, Dunal anonacées. 105, t. 12. et 12.4. Decand. syst. nat, 1. 490. Unona hamata. Dunal anonacées. 106. t. 27. Decand. syst. nat. 1. 491, Unona esculenta. Dunal anonacées. 107. Decand. syst. nat, 1. 491. Uvaria esculenta. Roitler in nov. act. soc. nat. cur. berol, 4. 201. Uvaria uncata. Loureiro cochin. 349. Anona unincata. Lamarck encyc. 2. 127. Annona hexapetala. Linn. suppl. 270. Hort. Kew. 2. 253. ed. 2. 8. 335. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1266. The present plant, after various shiftings from one in- appropriate group to another, according to the wavering views of different botanists, is now placed in a new genus constituted for its reception by Mr. Brown; to whom the generic name has been suggested by the curious grapple or tendril belonging to the peduncle, by which the growing fruit is conveniently suspended on the nearest support du- ring its advance to maturity, and the slender flexile branch relieved from the disproportionate burden, which would be otherwise laid on the ground. NN The synonymy is also a valuable contribution from Mr. Brown; and presents a critical view of the scientific history of the species. 'The shrub is native of China and the East Indies, where *y2 it is cultivated as an ornamental covering for walls, as well as on account of the fragrance of the blossom, diffusing an odour like that proceeding from the finer kinds of ripe fruits. The drawing was taken in the autumn before last, at the Dowager Lady De Clifford's garden, Paddington, where the fruit was produced, in the hothouse, probably for the first time in Europe. The flower which is seen at the bottom of our plate was obtained from the same source. Under a warmer sun the bloom is described as yellow, not green, as it proves to be with us: the fruit is likewise said to attain that colour when well ripened, and is sometimes much larger than in our specimen; but never eatable. Introduced in 1758 by the then Duke of Northumber- land. In Mr. Brown's opinion the genus is intermediate between Kabsura and GUATTIERA; the former of which may probably prove not to be a genuine co-ordinate of the Anonacee, if it should turn out, as Mr. Brown has reason. to suspect from a dissection of the seed shown in the draw- ing of an analogous species, that the albumen is even and entire, instead of being indented and scored by the processes of (he interior membrane of the seminal covering as through- out this order. In Unona, the genus where our plant was placed by M. Decandolle, the petals are of unequal depths, the seedvessel is many-seeded, the seeds disposed in one rank or one above the other, and the stalk not furnished with any prehensile tendril or grapple: in AnrABoTRYs the petals are of equal depths, the germen two-seeded growing up into a 2-(or sometimes accidentally solitary-)seeded fruit, the seeds without an arillus, placed side by side, not one above the ether, and the peduncle furnished with a grapple or crooked tendril for its peculiar support, not as in most other ten- dril-bearing plants, for the assistance of the branches in their ascent. We understand that 3 species of AnrABornys besides the present, are already known; one of which with euriously small flowers has been recently discovered by Dr. Horsfield during his residence in Java, and is in the rich Herbarium that gentleman has brought to this country. In Anona the whole bunch or head of berried seedvessels is concreted into a single fruit, something in the way of the Pine-Apple. In Uvarta the berries of the bunch or head of fruit are distinct as in the present genus, but are many-celled. Jul 114 Hey, Cag del. Fal Z LE Hu ys bu Artur YO FiccadMy Se / /#90 » Walls. JU. 424 ROSA alpina. Common alpine Rose. - —»— ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nat. oyd. Rosacex. Jussieu gen. $34. Div. IT. Rosa. ROSA Supra vol. 1. fol. 46. Ral Ñ " 5 Div. Tnermes. aut L . alpina, stipulis adnatis, fructú solitario ulo elongato. Lin MSS. (a) daa le 5-9, floribus roseis. Lihdley. N "d Rosa alpina, Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2, 1. 708. Jacq. austr. 9. 48. 1. 219. Alllion. ped. 2. 189. "Mise Lawr. roses, t. 30. Willd. sp. E 2.1075. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 9. 265. Smith in Rees's encyc, in loc. — Lindley's mon. ined. Rosa inérmis. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 6. . | Rosa lagenaria Villars dauph. 8. 558, Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1075. Smith loc, cit. Rosa hybrida. Villars dauph. 3. 554.. Rosa biflora. Krock siles. 2. 151? Le Rosa hispida. Krock siles. 2. 152. Pohl fl. bohem. 2. 174. Rosa rupestris, Crantz austr. 85. n. 6...“ . Rosa pyrenaica., Gouan ill.t.19. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1076. Smith Le. Rosa pyrenaica alpina. Jacq. hort. scheend. 4. t. 416, Rosa turbinata. Villars dauph. 9. 550, R. inermis, foliis septenis glabris, calycis segmentis indivisis. Hall. helo. n. 1107. | (B) pygmea, pumila, foliolis 5-9, floribus roseis. Lindley. Rose pimpinellifolia. Villars dauph. 3. 553. Rosa glandulosa. Billardi in act. taurin. 1790. 230. . (y) pendulina, elatior, foliolis 7-13, floribus rubris. Lindley, . Rosa pendulina. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1076. Moench. meth. 689? Miss Lawr. roses. t. 91. Hort. Ke . ed. 2, 9. 265. Smith loc. cit. Rosa alpina pendulina. Redouté's roses. 1. 57. 8. 17. Rosa inermis. Andrews’s roses. e. - Frutex 2-8-pedalis; rami patentes v. erecti, fusco-virides, sæpiùs glauces- centes, inermes, rarissima pel radices erate tenuissimis, v. rameis, tum slipdaribus, Folia densa, patentia, opacas stipulæ plane, anguste, apice aulò dilatatæ, impubes, glanduloso-ciliatæ : petioli impubes, dens? glandu- bos, selis inæqualibus intermiztis: foliola 5-13, ovata, utrinque acuminata, simplicitèr v. duplicato serrata, omnino impubia, subtès carsía, costá aculeolis sepe scabriusculá. Flores erecti, ruberrimi v. rosei, subsolitarii ; pedunculi jnermes v. selgsi; calycis tubus clongalo-ovaius, nudus aut setosus; sepala (foliola calycina) ovata, acuminata, simplicia, apice quandoque foliacea, ex- tis pilosa, inermia v. setosa, Petala obcordata, erecta, concava: discus obli- deratus, staminodia sep? vald? conspicua, depressa: stigmatum massa con- veza, exserta. Fructus coccineus, elongatus v. obovatus, rostratus, cernuus. Lindley MSS. 'This beautiful ornament of the Alps of Switzerland and the temperate latitudes of Europe forms the type of a small group of species, with little affinity to each other, except in the circumstance of being almost universally deprived of prickles. It would therefore be better perhaps to refer the present plant to the neighbourhood of Rosa rubella, with which it has many points of resemblance, and from which it does not very materially differ. It would seem from Pallas's account of his Rosa alpina that he has actually confounded two different things under that name;—one not perhaps differing from R. alpina of Europe, and the other Marly re- lated to R. rubella; at least, if the last be the same as what Marschall von Bieberstein has called Rosa pygmaa, and which does not appear, as far as we can judge from the de- scription, essentially different from that plant. Shrub 2-8 feet high: branches spreading or upright, dark-green, generally with a glaucous hue, without thorns or prickles, or very rarely having prickles towards the root or on the branches, then being stipulary. Leaves thickset, spreading, opaque: stipules flat, narrow, a little widened. at the end, unfurred (destitute of all hairy or villous substance), glandularly ciliate: petioles unfurred, with thickset glands and intermingling unequal bristles: leaflets 5-13, ovate, acuminate at both ends, simply or doubly serrate, quite bare, grey-blue underneath, midrib often roughened over with small prickles. Flowers upright, either very red or rose-coloured, usually solitary; peduncles without prickles, or bristly; tube of the calyx elongatedly ovate, bare or with bristles; leaflets ovate, acuminate, undivided, sometimes foliaceous at the end, on the outside hairily furred, without prickles, or bristly. Petals obcordate, upright, concave: disk obliterated, staminodia (the part supporting the sta- mens) often very conspicuous, flat: stigma-mass convex, protruding. Fruit scarlet, elongated or else obversely ovate, rostrate, cernuous. Lindley MSS. t Y! flatts, 4c: À Kindly ag del Fel by F Hilguuy JO Hel Fon 1 1820. 425 ROSA multiflora. Bramble-flowered Hose. — ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nat. ord. Rosacem. Jussieu gen. 334. Div. If. Ro, ROSA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 46. TK Div. Rami impubes, aculeati, setis nullis, stylis ŵn: colugmait! : ' coalitis Lindley MSS... Po Ln R. multiflora, subscandens, foliolis quinatis, lanceolatis, sulis, pedunculis calycibusque tomentoeis. Lindley MS, R rugo- Rosa mulidora. Thunb. jap, 214. V Will tp. ph 2. 1077. Horts Món, ed: Sid Eom 2. $. 965. Curtiss magas, 1059: in Reet cyclogü 431 looo.. Lindley's monograph. ined: > ` vU virides, aculeis utrinque tomentosa. Flores pulchre rubescentes, dense corymbosi ; bractedr lineares, dentate, extüs tomentose; pedunculi, calycis tubus- K sepalaque simplicia, ovata, dens? tomentosa; petala semper hortis m iplicia. Styli dilatati pilosi in columnam elongatam coaliti, Fructus ignotus. Lind- ley A Thunberg was the discoverer of this very pretty species, near Nagasaki, in Fishers Island, at Papenberg, &c. &c. in Japan. No one has since been so fortunate as to meet with it in a wild state. ` : Introduced by Mr. Thomas Evans in 1804; andis now cultivated in the open air against walls and along trellis- work. - It is very readily distinguished from all the other species with columnar styles, by its lanceolate leaves, which are slightly wrinkled and soft to the touch; but more particu- larly by the dense hairiness of the calyx and its peduncle, on which account we are disposed tô make the singular co- herence of styles the character of species rather than of a group; because there are some individuals from the East Indies in the Banksian Herbarium, which possess little besides this character in common with those with which they must be associated if this mode of division be ob- served. A remarkable variety is cultivated in some of the nur- series under the name of R. Roxburghii; it is weaker in its manner of growth, has very narrow leaves and little disposi- tion to flower. Shrub 12-15 feet high: branches runnerlike, somewhat climbing, furless, rubescently green, with two crooked egual stipular prickles. Leaves very opague, cinereous, stipules linearly pinnatifid (or feathercleft) at the edge, cot- tony underneath: petioles highly villous: leaflets 5-7 some- what imbricate, lanceolate, wrinkled, simply serrate, cot- tony.on both sides. Flowers of a delicate blush red, closely corymbose; bractes linear, toothed, cottony on the outside; the peduncles, the depressed tube of the calyx, the simple ovate calycine leaflets all of them covered with a thick cottony fur: petals always multiplied (or in many rows) in the plants we see in our gardens. Styles dilated hairy grown together into an elongated column. Fruit unknown. Lindley MSS. ^ 420 Le I. e Her el. del LL ly E Fraga (JO Ficcadely Fant S$20 z 426 AMARYLLIS australasica. New Holland Amaryllis. —— HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Nancissr. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. IL. AMARYLLIDEE. Brown prod. 1. 296. Sect. I. AMARYLLIS. Supra vol. 3. fol. 226. Div. Bi-multiflora: tubo nudo. Folia bifaria. Nob. in journ. of scien, and the arts. 2. 356. A. nustralasica, multiflora; foliis Jineari-loratis; corollâ infundibuliformi, limbo nutante subbilabiato, laciniis lanceolatis subæqualibus, recurvo- distantibus, tubo triguetro subæquilongis; pedunculis germine pluriès longioribus, tubo corolle isoperimetris v. crassioribus. Bulbus tenicatus. Folia plura, angusto-lorata, acuminato-altenuata, convoluto-canaliculata, erecto-recurva, fente, agualia sgapo v. longiora. Spatha acuminata, sublongior pedunculis. Flores fragrantes, candidi, sub- sesunciales; pedunculi rofundatà trigoni, pallidè virentes, erecti, robusti. Germ. viride, oblongum, gem brevius pedunculo: tubus pallidê virens, triqueter, densè striatus, lineari-elongatus, subtriuncialis, crassitudine duplá penna corvine v. circa: limbus turbinato-campanulatus, albus, subtriuncialis Sauce intús flavescens, laciniis 3 unciæ latis v. circa, supern? recurvis, acwmi- natis, disco extern? virentibus carinatisque, lateralibus labii inferioris suban- gustioribus lineari-lanceolatis. Fil. lazits fasciculata, declinato-assurgentia, albida, limbo ex und quartá parte breviora, gracilia, alterna longiora. Stylus subexsertus, albidus, crassitudine fer? filamentorum, obtusè triqueter, tristri- atus: stigmata obsolet2 trina v. in unum coadunata. Capsula, ex stati in- teraneo germinis conjectantes, bulbisperma? A newly discovered species, which has flowered this summer for the first time in our gardens. The knowledge of it is due to a late expedition into the western interior of New Holland, in the course of which the plant was found under Macquarie Range in E. longitude about 146, and about 33 of S. latitude, a region not long since deemed in- accessible from the side of the Colony." The drawing was taken from a plant that flowered in Mr. Barnard's hothouse at Bexley; where the CALOSTEMMA purpureum had likewise blossomed in great perfection. No other species of this genus has been yet observed in all Australasia. Bulb tunicate. Leaves several, narrowly lorate, acu- minately tapered, convolutely channelled, upright, recurved VOL. y. Z towards the upper part and flaccid. Spathe acuminate, rather longer than the peduncles. Flowers several, white, fra- grant, subbilabiately funnelform, about 6 inches long: peduncles voundedly 3-cornered, pale green, as thick as the tube of the flower or thicker. Germen green, oblong, seve- ral times shorter than the peduncle. Tube of the corolla pale green, about the length of the segments, two or three times thicker than a crow-guill, linearly elongated, 3-cornered, closely scored: limb turbinately campanulate, nodding, white, about three inches deep, yellowish within at the faux, upwards recurved and spreading: segments lance- olate, nearly equal, standing apart from near the faux, three fourths of an inch broad or thereabouts, taper-pointed, keeled and green along the middle at the back; two lower side ones linearly lanceolate and rather narrower than the rest. Filaments loosely fasciculate, first declined then as- cending, whitish, about one fourth shorter than the limb, filiform, 3 alternate ones longest, all slender. Style rather ‘longer than the corolla, of the same colour as the filaments and nearly of the same thickness, obtusely 3-cornered, fluted: stigmas three, very shallow. 4% Y Halts M. P TN I. v we ced y Yd L4 "A ly JE E 170 : 4 U E UL É del. < f£ v 427 AMORPHA fruticosa. Wild Indigo. ibe DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. Leauminosm. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. VIxzPAPILIONACRE. Brown in app. to Flind. voy. 9. 552. | . AMORPHA. Cal. 5-dentatus. Fer. ovatum concavum; ake nulle nec carina. Stam. basi monadelpha. Legum. minimum ovatum tubercula- tum dispermum, (Corolla monopetala in LEGUMINOSIS peculiaris). - Juss, Lc 357. Frutices suffruticesve: fol. pinaata, (pellucenti-) glandulosa ; atipule sefaceæ, minute, tim partiales thm generales, à folis et foliolis distinctæ : flores spicati, numerosi, parvi, sepius. carulei; spice solitaria, aggregate el terminales: legumen glandulosum: stylus pubescens: stigma glabrum. Nuttall gen. 2. 91; (ex anglico). A. fruticosa, glabra, subarborescens; foliis petiolatis, spicis tis Tonga: calycibus nudiusculis pedicellatis, dentibus H obtusis, unico acuminato, leguminibus oligospermis. Pursh amer. sept. 2. 466. Amorpha fruticosa. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2.2. 1003. Mill. dict. ed. 8. Duham arb. 1. 46. tab. 16, alt. carol. 179, - Schmidt arb. 1. 28. t. 30. Michaux bor. amer. 2. 64. Hort. Kew. 8. 17. ed. 2. 4. 265. Schkuhr handb, 197. Willd. sp. pl. 3.970. Nuttall gen. 2, 91. . Amorpha. Hort. cliff. 358. t. 19. Mill. ic. 18. t. 27. Pseudo-acacia virginiana non spinosa. Probst kort. bosian. 17. 97. 39; cum icone. Barba jovis americana, pseudo-acaciæ flosculis purpureis minimis. Hort. angl. 11. t, 4. vulgaris. (a) foliis mucronatis, calycibus glabris. Pursh. emarginata. (8) foliis emarginatis calycibus canis. Pursh. angustifolia. e foliis lineari-ellipticis basi subacutis. Pursh. A North American genus, remarkable among its papili- onaceous co-ordinates for a corolla of one petal; the vexil- lum alone being present, while the ale and carina are en- tirely wanting. 'The present species belongs to Carolina and Florida, where it is known by the name of “ Wild Indigo;" an in- ferior kind of blue dye having been formerly made by the inhabitants from the young shoots. Introduced in 1724, by Mr. Mark Catesby. The drawing was taken this summer, at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the King’s Road, Chel- sea. It is cultivated in the open ground, and flowers about June in favourable seasons. The following description is chiefly from the french of the Chevalier Lamarck in bis Encyclopédie Botanique. z A bushy-headed shrub, from 8 to 12 feet in height: bark of the trunk greyish brown, of the larger branches ash-coloured: bud small short and obtuse: young shoots, petioles, peduncles and calyxes downy, or nearly tomentose. Leaves pinnate with an odd one, 7-9-paired, leaflets oval, obtuse, green, naked above, furred underneath, from an inch to an inch and half in length, shortly petioled: stipules in pairs at the base of both the general and the partial petioles, small, subulate. Spikes terminal, 4-6 inches ong: flowers small, violet-blue; pedicles shorter than these. Calyx permanent, shallow, turbinate, scored, cleft at the border into 5 short teeth. Corolla (verillum) oval, concave, obtuse, full as large again as the calyx. Stamens longer than the corolla; filaments straight, almost entirely detached from each other, fascicled, a little spreading to- wards the top; anthers of a rich deep yellow colour, mak- ing a fine contrast with the deep blue corolla. Germen oval; style subulate. Pod from 2 to 2 lines and a half long, slightly curved, besprinkled with small glandular tu- bercles, slightly villous, terminated by a small point formed by the remnant of the style: seeds 2, reniform. We have 4 species upon record, of which only the pre- sent was known to Linneus. Nana (microphylla. Pursh) reaches only from 6 inches to a foot in height, and is found, according to Mr. Nuttall, on the woodless grassy hills of the Missouri, from the River Platte to the Mountains dif- fused like heath in Europe over hundreds of acres in suc- cession, seeming to be the only upland shrub capable of withstanding the peculiarities of that climate. The most ornamental species is canescens; found from the banks of the Fox River and the Ouiconsin to the Misisippi; round St. Louis, in Louisiana, and on the banks of the Missouri, probably to the Mountains. The technical distinctions principally relied on to mark our present species from the rest seem to be, its having only one of the calycine teeth pointed, instead of all being so, and a two-seeded, instead of a one-seeded, pod. han. def. Jul 7 f Wil, WM e O ea dd E LS 2 (#2 4 Ma ed ar, d Y 428 GESNERIA prasinata. Ringed-stemmed Gesneria. : nu DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. CAMPANULACEK. Jussieu gen, 163. Div. Anthere dis- tinctæ. Guswerxx. Richard et Jussieu in ann. mus. 5, 428, GESNERIA. Supra vol. 4. fol. 329. G. prasinata, tota pubescens; foliis ovali-lanceolatis, suprà velutino-hirtis : petiolis annulo subarticulatìm'insertis, paniculá subfoliosá, floribus sub- Be deal fáuce campanulatá subtüs iod , linibo brevi obliquo fevoluto subæquali. Caulis fruticosus, erectus, annulatus; rami supernè subsuóculenti, estriati, teretes, villoso-hirti, distantèr foliosi, infern? fuscescentes. Fol. crasstuscula, decussata, patentia, acuminata, bast attenuata, costaio-nervosd, serrata, 4-8- trhclalia, subiès sericeo-tomentosa, albicantia, varicoso-nervosa: petiol. brevis, érassus, fübterés, convoluto-canaliculatus, annulo . prominente subarticulato- Puerius. Pedunculi opposisi, crassi, brevissimi, sublifiori, im foliis sensim bracteaceis atque caducis. axillares ; pedicelli lorgiores ascendentés, robusti. Cal. herbaceus, semisuperus, 2-8-plo rior corolla, ebutinus, Joliolis lánceo- latis acuminatis eequalibus. Cor. viridis, nigro-punciata, sesquiuncialis v. ultra, subbilabiato-infundibuljformis, foris villosissima ; tubus cylindricus, bast circumcirca protuberans, subæqualis fauci ; limbus obliquus, fauce subduplo brevior, laciniis subrotundis, Fil. glabra: quinti rudimentum scarioso-mem- branaceum subulatum brevissimum: auth. cruciato-coadunate, receptaculis loculorum glanduloso-crassis : pollen ochroleucum. Germ. oblongum, rostrato- pyramidatum, obtus? 3-gonum, 9-sulcum, subtilissime velutinum, crassé rose iratum, inferna pallens, basi serto cinctum brevi glanduloso sublutescente 5-dentato, dentibus ovatis equalibus obtusis basi callis v. carunculis 5 fuscis interstinctis, pone apicem poro foratis sub anthesi guttd limpidd madente: stylus rostri germinis continuus. We do not find our plant reducible to any established species within our research. It flowered this summer at Wormleybury, for the first time. The specimen for the drawing was kindly sent us by Sir Abraham Hume. Native of the Brazils. Stem shrubby, upright, prominently rìnged; branches somewhat suceulent, round, furrowless, roughly villous, dis- tantly leaved, when full grown brown. Leaves thickish, de- cussately opposite, spreading, ovally lanceolate, taper- pointed, narrowed at both ends, ribbed, serrate, 4-5 inches long, the fur on their upper side close and hard, like that of plush, on the under side soft and glossy, white: petioles thick, short, nearly round, involutely channelled, subarti- culately fixed to a projecting ring of the same colour as the bark and deriving from thence the appearance of stemclasp- ing. Panicle partly leafy, partly foliaceously bracteate, with the flowers in opposite pairs: peduncles thick, very short or nearly obsolete, generally two-flowered, axillary in the leaves, which gradually decrease to mere bractes; pedicles longish, one-flowered, stiff, ascending round, ro- bust. Calyx semisuperior, herbaceous, twice or thrice shorter than the corolla, furred; deaflets lanceolate acumi- nate equal. Corolla green, black-dotted, about 14 inch long or more, subbilabiately-funnelform, with a closely villous nap on the outside: tube cylindric, about the length of the faux, protuberant round the base; faux campanulate, inflated underneath; limb slanting, short, revolute, nearly equal, segments almost round. Filaments smooth, the ru- diment of the fifth scariose membranous subulate very short: anthers cruciately coadunate (united into the form of a cross): pollen cream-coloured. Germen oblong, pyramidal, rostrate (beaked), bluntly 3-cornered, scored, velvetly fur- red, thickly rostrate and green above, pale below, sur- rounded at the base by a shallow glandular yellowish 5- toothed crown, the teeth ovate equal obtuse separated at the base by 5 brownish caruncles or calli. When the flowers are open we perceive a limpid drop standing at the back just below the point of each tooth, and issuing from a fine pore- like perforation in the same place. Style continuous with the beak of the germen. We have observed fine plants of this species in the hot- house at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the King’s Road; but which have not yet flowered. } Z XY Te) Aw wl del {| i 5 E A ì Fil by S. TE S70 Su cudidly Sell yc AL (PLO. S e L 429 COMBRETUM purpureum. , Scarlet Combretum. Madagascar Aigrette. OCTANDRIA (v. DECANDRIA) MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Onacnz. Jussieu gèn, $17. Div. III. : oa CowBRETACEE. Cal, superus: Jimbo 4-5-fido, æquali. Pet. 4-5, vel nulla, Stam. 8-10; quandoque laciniis calycis sequaliá et cum iisdem alternantia. Germ. 1-loc., ovulis 2-4, ab apice loculi pendulis absque re- ceptaculo communi vel columná centrali: stylus 1: stig: 1. — Pericarp, I-spermum, clausum, figura et texturá varium, Drupa v. Samara. Sem. exalbuminosum. Embryo cotyledonibus sepiìs involutis: plumula încon- spicua.' Arbores o. Frutices. Fol. simplicia, integra, exstipulata, alterna, nunc opposita, rar punctato-pellucida. Flores spicati azillares. Brown in append, to Flind. voy. 2. 548. ` COMBRETUM. | Cal. campanulatus, limbo 4-5-dentato deciduo. Pet. 4-5, parva. . Stam. plurimüra exserta, antheris oblongis. Stig. L Caps. oblonga, 4-5-angularis angulis alatis membranaceis, 1-loc., 1-sperma. Frutices sarmentosi; fol. opposita iy eres spicati, vo. spicato-paniculati, ter- minales et axillares spicis oppositis. Juss. 1. c. 320. ~ ` C. purpureum, floribús decandris, spicis laxis paniculátis. Lamarck encyc. 1.727; (sub ComBRETO coccineo). . ` Combretum purpureum. Vahl symb. 9. 51. Curtis's magaz. 2102. Willd. p pl. 2. 919. . . Combretum coccineum. Lamarck loc. cit. et illustr. 1. 282. f. 2. Cristaria. Sonnerat it. 2, 247. t. 140. Frutex sarmentosus floribus pulcherrimis. Fol. opposita, petiolata, ovalia acumine brevi, integerrima, glabra, firmula, 3-A-incialia latitudine 2-uncials v. majore. Panicule racemosa, terminales, coccineæ. Stam. 10, longà ES; seria. Caps. alis 5 tenuibus membranaceis. Lam. loc. cit. (ex gallico). The natural order, in which our plant now ranks and for which its genus has suggested tbe name, was first pro- posed by Mr. Brown in the Prodromus of tbe Flora of New Holland, and subsequently defined by him as above, in the General Remarks on the Botany of Terra Australis. A principal character of the group consists in the one-celled germen with two or more ovula simply pendulous from the upper part of the cavity, not inserted, as in the confining Santalacece, into a central receptacle or column. The order, Mr. Brown observes, appears to be connected with the Myrtaceæ through Jussieu's genus Gurera, which has the structure of the Combretacec, and the foliage dotted: with pellucid glands as in the Myrtacee. VOL. V. AA The present species is not recorded in either edition of the Hortus Kewensis, and we believe has been very recently introduced. Native of Madagascar: much cultivated in the Isle of France on account of the beauty of its flowers. The drawing was taken from a very perfect sample furnished by Messrs, Colville, who are 10 possession of a stock of the species, which they cultivate with success in the hothouse of their nursery in the King's Road, Chelsea. Since ìt was in vain to attempt the representation of the entire panicle of flowers of the natural size, even in a double plate, we have delineated a portion of it as large as in na- ture, subjoining the outline of the whole specimen in minia- ture. Being a very ornamental climber, a free flowerer, and of easy culture, we have no doubt it will before long be- come general in the stoves of our collections. . .À smooth climbing shrub: branches round brachiate. Leaves opposite, petioled, thickish or slightly coriaceous; oval, shortly acuminate or abruptly taper-pointed, quite entire, smooth, 3-4 inches long, two across or more, those immediately under the spikelets sharp-pointed. Pa- nicles racemous, brachiate, outspread; peduncles 6 inches long or more; flowers scarlet, numerous, loosely scattered, every one with a setaceous bracte at the base of its pedicle. Calyx campanulate. Stamens 10, twice the length of the corolla, Seeds roundish, retuse, polished, of a shining gold colour. The description is chiefly from Vahl, as we missed the opportunity of inspecting our specimen while fresh. —— The uncoloured outline in the plate shows the entire panicle of the in- florescence from which the drawing was taken, in miniature; the part me is coloured is a branch or racemelet of the same, of the natural IL ndiley Esg del. des Sak by E R_rdgwag WYO Fiveadilly Feb. A /d 20 al alts. MU, 430 ROSA. rubrifolia. . Lurid Rose. — ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nat. ord. Rosacem, Jussieu gen. 38% Div. JI. R ROSA. Supra wol. 1. fol. 46. en BORE Dio. Rami impubes aculeati, setis nullis, stylis liberis. Lindley MSS, R. rubrifolia, glauca; foliolis opacis ovatis eglandulosis discoloribus, den- tium sinubus acutangulis, aculeis sparsis uncinatis minoribus, sepalis (foliolis calycinis) corollá longioribus citó deciduis. Lindley MSS. Rosa rubrifolia. Villars dauph. 3. 549. M in act. taurin, 1790, 229. t. 90. Jacq. m. TO. i. 106. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1075. Lapeyr. pyren. 284. Sui in Reess e in loco. pubs roses, 1. PN n Rosa rubicunda, Hall, fd. in 's archiv. fur die bot. 1. 2. 6. Rosa canina 8. Suter fl. helo. 1. 902. Rosa lucida. Andrews's roses. Rosa cinnamomea. y. Redouté’s roses. 1. 194. Rosa. No. 1101. 8. Hall. Helv. Frutex 4-5-pedalis. Rosm caninæ facie, sed ramis paulo gracilioribur + rami impubes teretes purpurei cerini, colore in latere soli adverso intensiore : aculeis stipularibus sparsisque solitariis eequalibus aduncis, adultorum pallidis parvulis quandüque rectiusculis apice incurvis. Fol. patentia glauca opaca rubrotincia: stipule glabriuscule nude lineares, quandóque dŵatate, apice ovate recurve, costá et totâ basi sanguineis : petioli impubes subis virides suprà purpurascentes aculeis minimis raris aduncis armati, flexuosi: foliola o , primordialia sæpiès obovata v. truncata, simplicitêr serrata, utrinque nuda, subtús pallidiora. Flores parvi solitarii v. in cymis subtrifloris con- gesti, pro loco intense v. dilulê rubri, planiusculi bracteæ ovato-lanceolatæ purpuree v. £ in multifloris) late virides, nuda, floribus approximate v. diş- tantes. Pedunculi et calycis tubus ovatus nudi; sepala simplicia glandulosa et setigera, integra, petalts longiora. Pet. subintegra plana basi pallidiora. ‘Stam. lutea. Discus depressus, faucis aperturam fer? claudens. Ovaria hirsutissima, 15-20-25. Styli breves liberi hirsuti exserti: stig. depressa. Fructus ovatus coccineus, sepalis deciduis. Lindley MSS. Native of the woods of Dauphiny, where it was found by Villars. It is also indigenous in the Alps of Savoy and Switzerland, in Austria about Gutenstein, among the Pyrenees, and on mountains in Auvergne. Distinct from canina as this plant at first sight appears, a careful examination will show that, except colour, ìt has little to distinguish it from that species. It may however be known by its very glaucous purple aspect, by the small size of its red flowers, the very contracted orifice of the fruit, little ad scattered recurved prickles, and by having its sepals (leaf- lets of the calyx) considerably longer than the petals. The last character we imagine to have induced M. Thory to think of referring it to cinnamomea, feom which it certainly is divided as widely by nature as any individual of the genus. Andrews has given a figure of it in a most luxurìant state under the name of lurida, by which it is known in the nurseries. Bush 4-5 feet high, looking like the common Dog Rose, but with rather slenderer branches. Branches naked round purple waxen, the colour on the part next the sun much deeper: prichles scattered solitary egual hooked, of the full-grown branches small, sometimes nearly straight, recurved at the tip. Leaves spreading glaucous opague tinged with red: stipules smoothish naked linear, sometimes dilated, ovate and recurved at the top, with midrib and the base entirely crimson: petioles naked green underneath, purplish abové thinly beset with very small croeked prickles, flexuose: leaflets oblong, primordial ones generally obovate or truncate, simply serrate, naked on both sides, paler on the under. Flowers small solitary or gathered into cymes of about three, according to the situation they grow in, either of a deep or a faint red, flattish: bractes ovately lanceolate purple or (in the manyflowered ones) of a lively green, naked, near to or at a distance from the flowers. Pe- duncle and tube of the calyz ovate, naked; sepals (leaflets of the calyx) simple glandular and bristled, entire, longer than the petals. Petals nearly entire flat, paler at the base. Disk depressed nearly closing up the aperture of the faux. Germens very shaggy, 15-20-25. Styles short distinct shaggy protruded. Stigmas depressed. Fruit ovate scarlet, with deciduous leaflets. Lindley MSS. LM if HUW 7 WT FA a lg Wet /7U A ced Lab. L 20 2 Tr Sih by S A 431 ROSA spinosissima; 'reversa. Scotch Rose; with deflexed prickles. —dá—— ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nat. ord. Rosacea, Jussieu gen. 894. Div. II. Rose. ROSA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 46. Div. Rami impubes aculeati setis persistentibus intermixtis. Lindley MSS. R. spinosissima, armis valdê inæqualibus, foliolis opacis nudis rotundatis, stipulis linearibus, sepalis (foliolis calycinis) inermibus integerrimis, disco obliterato, Lindley MSS. Rosa spinosiasima. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 705. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 2. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1067. Smith va brit. 2. 587. Hort, Kew. ed. 2, 3. 259. Rosa spinis rectis, confertis foliis novenis glabris, pinnis et petiolis sub. spinosis. Hall. helv. n. 1106. ` : Rosa campestris odora. Clus. hist. 1. 116. a) Common séotch rose. Engl. bot. 187. Miss Lawr. ros. t. 48. (8) Striped-flowered scotch rose.. Miss Lawr, ros. t. 15. t y) Red scotch rose. Miss Lawr. ros. 1. 62 l (3) Double scotch rose. Miss Lawr. ros. t. 63. (:) Tall scotch rose. Miss Lawr. ros. t. 19. ` (2) Marbled scotch rose, Miss Lawr, ros. t. 78. ; (») reversa, pumila, cesia, floribunda, armis tenuissimis inferioribus de- - flexis, sepalis glandulosig fructú ovato' nigro, ovariis 40-50, Lind- . MSS.. na Jacq. fragm. 79. t. 124? Rosa spinosissima nana. Andrews's roses? (») Fruticulus 2-pedalis compactus: rami stricti, teretes, impubes, novelli virides aculeis gracitlimis rectis inæqualibus rubentibus setisgue intermiziis: , adulti rufo-brunnei armis gracillimis innocuis valde inaequalibus deflexis, Folia minima, densissimê conferta patentia cæsia; stipulæ lineares apice libere, glandulis rubidis ciliate; petioli impubes, glandulis minutis raris induti; foliola 3-9 omninò nuda ovata, simplicitér v. duplicato-serrata, suprà subglauca, ‘infra pallidiora, imbricata v. (rard) distantia, concava, hinc sæpiùs contorta. Flores densissimè in ramis thyrsi instar solitariè congesti, odore debili, albi, medio flavescentes: bracteæ nulle; pedunculi virides, nudi. Calycis tubus ovatus viridissimus nudus; sepala taiala calycina ) simplicia, petalis breviora, post anthesin refleza, intüs tomentosa, extüs pilosiuscula, passim glandulosa v. setosa, Pet. concava, integra v. emarginata; stam. luteo-brunnea numerosa, Discus obliteratus. Ovaria 40-50 pilis densis omnind tecta; styli inclusi liberi; stigmata ochrea massâ depressa. Fructus ovatus niger erectus sepalis persistentibus. Lindley MSS. The present variety is supposed to be a native of Siberia; but we are unable to refer it to any thing of Pallas ‘or Gmelin. It ìs known in some gardens under the name of Rosa pimpinellifolia sibirica. If the Rosa spinosissima, figured by Jacquin in his frag- menta, is our plant, it must be a native of Austria, but the prickles in his plate are all horizontal. Besides, there is a specimen ìn the Banksian Herbarium from Jacguin, which is indisputably a different variety. We are scarcely acguainted with a more charming shrub than this plant is in the spring, when it is adorned with a pro- fusion of the most elegant white blossoms so closely disposed as almost to hide its delicate light blue foliage. The slender reflexed prickles distinguish it readily from all the varieties included under spinosissima; but the same character exists in Rosa myriacantha on the lower part of the shoots. This however is in other respects a very different species, and more nearly allied to Rosa involuta of our own highlands. * Were we disposed to be guided by those botanists whose aim ìs to multiply species, rather than reduce them, we sbould have little difficulty in forming a specific character which would distinguish our plant much better from Rosa spinosissima than many at present adopted are discriminated from each other; but we confess ourselves disposed to hold that characters must be subservient to nature, not nature to them. That a character far from worthless might be put to- gether, the phrase distinguishing our variety will demon- strate. In this is for the first time introduced a difference obtained from the number of ovaria (germens) which are from 40 to 50 in the present variety, instead of from 15 to 20 and 30, as is usual in the common states of the spinosis- sima of the North of Europe. We should observe that R. reversa of Waldstein and Kitaibel appears to be an essentially different plant, ap- proaching more nearly to R. involuta of Sir J. Smith. A little compact shrub of two feet in height: branches straight and firm, round, furless, when young green, with very slender straight unequal reddish prickles and inter- mingled bristles: when full grown reddish brown with very slender innocuous exceedingly uneven deflexed arms. Leaves among the least, most densely set together, spread- ing, light-blue; stipules linear, detached at the top, fringed with reddish glands; petioles furless, beset with minute thinly standing glands; leaflets 3-9, quite bare, ovate, simply or doubly serrate, slightly glaucous on the upper side, on the under paler. Lindley MSS. N y Gn FP. A Deh JE IS20 Fb Ly JJ. He GY. “FE Deicadilly Na Y, ls Je. 432 PASSIFLORA tuberosa. Forked-leaved Passionflower. — MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. Nat, ord. PASSIFLOREÆ. Jussieu in ann. mus. 6. 102, PASSIFLORA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 13, Dio. Foliis bilobis. P. tuberosa, foliis bilobis subtüs glandulosis, lobis oblongis erectis; pedun- culis geminis. Jacg. hort. schœnb. 4. 49. t. 496. Passiflora tuberosa. Willd. enum. 9. 697. Passiflora punctata. Miss Lawr. passionfi. * Loddiges's bot. cabin. n. 101; gron altorum ). rutex glabriusculus, radicibus tuberosis. Rami compressi, angulosos striati, Fol. oblonga, biloba cum lacinulâ in imá frc aristatâ sapide- que minutd lobisque cuneato-acuminatis plerimgue parallelis rariès di. varicatis tumque. abbreviatis, S-nervia, basi rotundata, májera sezuncialia latitudine 4-unciali, omnind viridia vel nunc disco pallentia, juniora nunc hepatico-fuscescentia, subtüs intra neroos 2 laterales bilineari-ocellata ocellis remotis glandulosis Emren albis cavitate wood sco-marginatin 2 ad basin folii positis majoribus lym stalli: entibus: petiolus Key ea (mans els v cad) NEE parve, lineari slate sepe circüm ramum falcato-reflexa: cirrhi simplices. Pedunc. gemini, fili- Jformes,. elastico-rigentes, 1-flori, subduplo longiores La bracteolis 3 sparsis approximatis membranaceis appressis lineari-snbulatis paul infra ar. ticulum muniti. Flores diametro biunciali v. circa, chloroleuci extús obsoleto 'purpuro nimbati, ‘Cal. urceolato-stellatus, coriaceus, urceolo brevissimo intüs vividissimè virente fado erternê plano, segmentis cuneato-oblongis angustis obtusis 3 unciæ longis, quam petala conformia concolora tenerrima triplo majoribus: corona duplex, bis brevior petalis, exterior numerosa simples radiis contiguis: crassiusculis cylindricis obtusulis introrsüm obligue truncatis infernè vivid? virentibus suprà albo et purpuro variekatis, interior plurimèm brevior simplex radiis exterioris concoloribus pluries gracilioribus Jiliformi- clavatis erectis apice capitalis glanduloso-pruinatis. Operculum incumbens dense plicatum pruinosum viridi-pallescens puncticulis minutissimis densè cone spersum: nectar. breve, dissepimento brent carnoso crasso obsoletà dentato subduplicato introrsüm pruinoso. Columna parim brevior calyce; stipes glaber, paulo breuior petalis: fil. ustulato.fuscescentes divaricalo-recurva 3 anth. lŷneari-oblonger, ustulato-nigricantes, polline favo. Germ. subrotun- dum, opaco-oirescens; obsoleta trigonum: styli horizontales, atro-purpuras- centes, duplo longiores germine, filiformi-clavati, intüs sulcati: stigmata orbiculata, pulvinato-pileasa, cernua, sntensissimà virentia, We find by a manuscript note of Mr. D. eost that relying upon a figure in Miss Lawrance's designs of this genus, he had been of opinion that our plant might be the ASSIFLORA capsularis, a species taken up by Linnaeus from Plumier's figures. But it is clear that this his opinion did not amount to conviction, or he would have insertedthat species in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis, where our plant is not to be found under any name. In regard to ourselves, a comparison of the plant itself with Plumier's figure, has proved that the two are essentially distinct; the leaves in capsularis are cordate at the base, not rounded as bere, the lobes obliguely truncated much shortened and di- varicate as in rubra (see above vol. 2. tab. 95) without any trace of the two parallel rows of small eye-like glands so conspicuous in those of tuberosa. That species appears in fact to be altogether much nearer to rubra than to the pre- sent. Punctata, for which our plant seems to have been sometimes mistaken, is widely different. It may be well to mentìon, that Mr. Dryander directs, in the above-mentioned note, that the synonym adduced to capsularis by Willdenow from Miller’s works should be expunged, as the prototype specimen in the Banksian Herbarium shows that excellent horticulturist to have intended a different species; one nearer to oblongata than to either capsularis or rubra. Tuberosa is native of the West Indian Islands, and was introduced many years ago. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Col-. ville, in the King's Road, Chelsea; where the plant flowers abundantly for a long time in succession, and proves a very desirable ornament for the hothouse. A high climbing smoothish shrub, with tuberous roots. Branches compressed, angularly fluted. Leaves oblong, twolobed with a small awned segment sometimes a mere awn in the fork of the division, rounded at the base, three- nerved, larger ones six inches long, four broad, sometimes of. one colour, sometimes paler at the disk, young ones fre- quently of a liver-coloured brown, studded within the 2 lateral nerves, with a double row of small white glandular eye-like dots pitted in the centre, surrounded by a brown rim, the two nearest the base of the leaf larger than the rest, all filled at first with a crystalline liquid, lobes cuneate and taper-pointed generally paraliel sometimes diverging and shortened : petioles scarcely exceeding half an inch in length, glandless: stipules small, linearly subulate, often bent fal- cately and reflexed so as to embrace the branch: tendrils simple. Peduncles in Jpairs, filiform, stifüsh, elastic, one- flowered, about twice as long as the petiole, furnished with 3 small closely scattered membranous flat-pressed linearly subulate bractes placed a little below the joint. Flowers about two inches across, greenish white, faintly clouded with purple on the outside. Calyx coriaceous, from urceolate below, radiately expanded above; tube or urceolus very shallow vividly green on the inside, flat at the bottom on the outside, segments 3 of an inch long, cuneately oblong, narrow, obtuse, of the same shape and colour as the petals, which are three times smaller and of a very tender consist- ence: crown two-ranked, twice shorter than the corolla, outer rank numerous, close, simple, radii thickish cylindrical rather obtuse obliguely truncated from the top inwards, vividly green below, variegated with purple and white above, inner rank much shorter, simple, radii of the same colour as those of the outer rank, several times slenderer filiformly clavate upright capitate glandularly frosted at the top. Operculum or lid incumbent closely plaited frosted pale and greenish, thickly besprinkled with minute purple dots: nectary shallow, with a short fleshy thick obsoletely toothed partly double partition which is frosted at the inner Side. Column of fructification a little shorter than the calyx; shaft smooth, but little shorter than the petals: filaments burnt-brown, divaricate and recurved; anthers linearly oblong, blackish; pollen deep yellow. Germen roundish, opaquely green, obsoletely three-cornered: sfyles divaricate, purplish black, twice as long as the germen, filiformly clavate, channelled inwards: stigmas orbicular, pileate or cap-headed, pulvinate or pillowed, cernuous, in. tensely green. VOL. V. BR 7 í | ^ aie Malls ra Lilly Sid E 1320 a LOG 7. 170 Lar WY A L L by JT Hd ^ e L del. 7 Lo 433 MODECCA lobata; mas. Lady Amelia Hume's Modecca ; the barren-flowered plant. —F,—— DIŒCIA (v. MONCECIA?) PENTANDRIA, Nat. ard, PassrrLorxzæ. Jussieu in ann. du mus. 6. 102. MODECCA. Flores declines (dioici v. monoici). Cal, 5-fidus. Pe tala 5, calyci inserta, Squamæ ( Nectarium Linn.) numero definite (5-10) raró nulle. Mas. Stamina 5: anther stantes. Fem. Caps. (pedicellata] unilocularis 3-valvis polysperma. Herba ( Indie Orientalis, Nove Hollandiai el Africa aquinoctialis ) scandentes cirrhis azillaribus simplicibus vel à divisuriq pedunculorum. Folia lobata v. indivisa basi et subis sæpiès glandulosa. Pedunculi axillares apice divisi dichotomiis cirrhiferis. Brown Mat ' M. lobata, dioica, esguamatg, foliis integris tri-septemlobatisve eglandulosla basi cordatis, petiolo summo auriculato-glanduloso: nectario 5-scrobicu- lato esguamoso; corollá inclusâ. Mas. Pistillo abortivo. Fasina. Staminibus abortivis. Modecca lobata. Jacg. fragm. 82. n. 255. +. 191. (Mas.) Rami herbacet, sarmentosi, scandentes, teretes, nervosi. ` Pal, cucumerina, membranacea, flaccidiuscula, oblongo- vel subrotundo-cerdafa, subintegra v. 3-5- ad subjlobata, suprà opaca, subtis lucentia, 5-nervia, sub5- uncialia ; lobi inequales, apiculato-acuminati, repandi, sinubus latè rolun- dis intercepti; petiolus subtriplo brevior, teretiusculus sulco supino obsoleto, apice infra laminam bibullato-auriculatus auriculis parvis crassis ovato-oblatis basi connexis suprà convexis opacis, infra concavis ocello glanduloso vitreo- splendente ppro guttifero pene in fundo cavitatis. Stipulæ 2 spiniformes sphacelalæ ad basin petioli. Pedunculi cirrhosi, stricti, elastici, asillares, solitarit, plurimüm graciliores duplo longiores petiolo, supernè corymboso-pluri (2-6?) flori, indè dina prehensilt-intortis : pedicelli 1:fori breves bracteolis membranaceo-sphacelatis acuminatis subtensi. Flores suaveolentes. Cal. sub. membranaceus, luteowirescens, oblongus wrceolato-campanulatus, subuncialis pro tertiá sud parte 5-fidus, fundo extis planiusculus ; .urceolus cylindricus, obsoletè pentagonus et basi subS~orosus ; limbus S-partitus, laciniis TYGUTVO o tentibus, oblongis, ovato-acuminatis, 3 interioribus concavioribus margine tenuissimá fimbriatä, 2 exterioribus integris planiusculis. Corolla virescens, erecta, pentapetala, tubo calycino equalis, periphæriæ carnosa tomentose Jundi calycis pone stamina inserta, petala angusta, siaminibus alterna, spa- thulato-lanceolata ungue crasso viridissimo brevi, laminá extenuntá, pallidiore lanceolato-elongatá, cochleari-concavá, tandem conduplicandé, fimbrid membras nosâ marginatd. Nectarium à scrobiculis 5 subrotundis viridibus glabris fundo calycino in orbem contiguis. Stam. 5, imo disco corolle inserta, erecto-com- niventia, subequalia corene > fil. viridia, subulata, firma, apice lutescentia, erecta, glabra, breviora antheris: anth. lutea, lineari-elongate, à basi infize, versatiles, erectæ, ad latera in longum dehiscentes, apiculata, ante dehiscentiam 4-sulce. Pistillum abortivum. pe 2 Mopgcca is an Indian word forming a member of the appellations under which two or three congeners of our plant appear in the Hortus Malabaricus; and has been adopted as a generic title in the Encyclopêdie Botanigue of Lamarck, where the genus was first recorded. We are not aware why the group has been wholly passed over in all the general systematic enumerations of plants; nor why it has not found a place in the Hortus Kewensis, as the present species was introduced many years ago by the late Lady Amelia Hume, and has continued to be cultivated from that time in the hothouse at Wormleybury, from whence, through the kindness of Sir Abraham Hume, we were supplied with the specimen for the annexed drawing. The.character at the head of the article is by Mr. Brown, and comprises the six species already observed, viz. 3 in the East Indies, 1 in New Holland by Mr. Brown, and two in Sierra Leone, of which the present is one. Our sample belonged to the barren-fiowered side of the species, which is dioicous; as that which aftorded the figure to Jacquin, did, we have no doubt, to the fertile-flowered sìde. . (Barren PLANT.) Perennial: branches herbaceous, sar- mentose. Leaves membranous, oblongly or roundly cor- date, nearly entire or divided into 3-5- and sometimes partly into 7, lobes, opaque at the upper side shining at the under, 5-nerved; lobes pointed: petiole about 3 times shorter, with two glandular oblately ovate fleshy earlets at the top, each of which is hollow underneath, with a white glossy eye-like oozing gland in the centre of the cavity. Peduncles cirrhose, ‘stiff, elastic, axillary bearing a corymb of several flowers at the upper part, beyond which they are spirally coiled and’ prehensile. Flowers fragrant: calyx yellowish green, urceolately campanulate, oblong, 5-cleft for about y of its length, segments of the limb ovately pointed recurved» 3 outer ones with a finely fringed edge, two inner plain. . Corolla enclosed in the tube of the calyx, greenish, upright, 5-petalled: petals narrow, spatulately lanceolate, with a short thick fleshy unguis, a lanceolately elongated attenuated blade with a fringed border. Nectary of five small green pits forming a circle at the bottom’ of the flower. | x 774 27 * Hutyway //t Ficcadslly Fut P / j 2 | 434 MURRAYA exotica. Ash-leaved Murraya. Chinese Box-Tree. —»— DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. AURANTIA. Jussieu gen. 259. Div. JI. Fructus polysper- mus baccatus. Fol. pellucido-punctata. AURANTIA VERA, poysper Orangers, Correa in ann. mus. 6. 976. , MUHRAYA.Cal. -dentatus. Cor. campanulata, pentapetala. Germ, biloculare loculis singulis ovulis 2 subpendulis summitati axeos annexis, Bacca supera bilocularis, seminibws solitariis lanatis. Embryo inversus: albumen nullum. Roxb. MSS; (es anglico). M. exotica, foliis alterno-pinnatis, foliolis guinis v. septenis, obliquè obovato. prc corymbis terminalibus globosis congestis. Roxb. MSS.; (ex anglico ). Murraya exotica. Murray in commentat, gitting. 9.186. t. 1. Gerin. sem. 2. 76.1.8. f. 5. Hort. Kew. 2. 59. ed. 2. 3. 36. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 5A8.- Murrea exotica. Linn. mant. 563. Chalcas paniculata. Lina. mant. 68. Hoult. nat. hist. (edit. belg.) 5. 57. t. 2A. f. 2. Chae japonensis. Loureiro, cochin. 271. Chalcas cammuneng. Burm, ind. 104. Marsana buxifolia. Sonnerat it. 2. 245. 1. 139. Camunium japonense. Rumph. amb. 5. 29. t. 18. f: 2. Arbuscula sempervirens, frondosissimas rami superne flezuosi vìren- tes, elastico-rigentes, teretes, obsoletiììs villosi, petiolique variè verruculosi, Fol. ascendentia, sparse, impari-pinnata ; petiolus communis strictus elasti- cus pruinoso-pubescené; foliola membranacea, patentia, rigidiuscula, subal. terna, profunde lucidèque virentia, punctato-pellucida, approximata, obovato- oblonga, subsessilia, obtusa acumine brevi v. nanc emarginata, longè deorsüm cuneata, subtüs pruinoso-pallentia, sesqui-biuncialia, latitudine unctali v. ma- jore. Cymi terminales azillaresque, numerosiflori, conferti, breviores foliis z pedunculo communi viridi, terete, stricto, superna subtrichotomo ; flores odoratissimi, nivei, opaci, pedicellis brevibus bracteolà appressá ad basin. Cal. minimus, turbinatus, pruinoso-pubens, pallidà virens, '5-fidus, segmentis acuminatis carinatis erecto-distantibus, lateribus membranosis tnflezis.. Cor. turbinato-connivens, infra imbricato-contigua, suprà recurva: petala 5, longa, obovato-cuneata, subunguiculata. Stam. 10, erecto-divergentia, al- terna longiora præcociora æqualia corolle : fil. alba, linearia, transversa compressa, acuta, omnind distincta, disco carnoso hypogyno subcupulato virenti énserta: anth. didymo-quadrangulares lobis 2-loculosis, Pist. equale corolla: germ. obovato-oblongum, compressiusculum, opacum, pallidum, vesiculoso- punctatum, obtuse subanceps, triplo brevius stylo; stylus continuus, elongato- cylindricus, obsoleta clavatus, curvulus: stig. peltato-capitatum, suprà pulvina- tum splendensgue. In the East Indies, according to Dr. Roxburgb, this pecies is generally seen in the state of a large bushy shrub, sometimes in the form of a smaller sort of tree, with a pale cinereous bark. It is known to have been brought many years ago from China to the Coast of Coromandel, where it has continued to be universally cultivated in the gardens ever since. It has likewise been found not unfreguently in the wild state among the mountains of the Northern Circars. Not long ago an unrecorded species was introduced into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it is now cultivated un- der the specific name of sumafrana, from its native Island Sumatra. Dr. Roxburgh describes this as differing from exotica in being much less bushy, with larger leaves, fewer and bigger flowers, and a very distinct habit. Exotica was introduced by Mr. B. Torin in 1771; and proves a most desirable evergreen for either the conservatory or the greenhouse. It is delightfully fragrant, and the opaque snow-white blossom forms a pleasing contrast with the bright deep green of the foliage. The species appears to be a great favourite with the Chinese; whence it is known among the French in the Isle of France by the name of Buis de Chine. The drawing was made from a sample that flowered in the fine collection of Comtesse de Vandes, at Bayswater. The genus makes one of the same ordinal group as the Orange Tree. The wild plant is described by Dr. Roxburgh as follows: “ Leaves scattered pinnate with an odd one: leaflets gene- rally in 3 pairs, alternate, obovate-oblong, emarginate, smooth, of a deep shining green, 11-2 inches long, about 1 broad, lowermost smallest: petioles glandular, round. Co- rymbs terminal, crowded, with pretty large beautifully and purely white exquisitely fragrant flowers. Calyx 1-leaved, 9-parted, glandular; segments erect pointed. — Anthers ob- long. Germen glandular, 2-celled with 2 ovula in each cell vertically attached to the uppermost part of the partition. Berry superior, 2-celled: seeds solitary, 1-2, oblong, pointed above, flat on one side, woolly: embryo inverted, albumen- less,” The fruit is about the size of a largish Pea; has â leathery rind, beset with small miliary glands like that of an Orange. v € C Z p F c Y EY à A Y “elo en 2 | « í yg ay 1/0 p» y Fee z / f2 R t ó ( í S Mai éd. FE, 77 435 CRYPTOSTEGIA grandiflora. Large-flouered Cryptostegia. —— PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Nat. ord. ASCLEFIADEIE. Brown in trans. Wern. soc. 1.19. Div. III. Massa pollinis 5-20, granulosæ, (granulis è sphærulis 4 compositis), soli: tariæ, usque quaternatim apici dilatato corpusculi singuli stigmatis affixa; Filamenta partim vel omninô libera. PERIPLOCEJE, Brown. loc. cit. 56. CHYPTOSTEGIA. Cor. infundibuliformis: tubus squamis 5, inclusis (bipartitis subulatis), laciniis limbi alternantibus. Stamina incluso, img tubo inserta; filamentis distinctis: antheris basi stigmate coherentibus, Glandule 5, spathulatæ, angulorum stigmatis pollen granulosum (simplex) colligentes. Ovaria 2. Styli 2. Stigma (commune) entagonum, Folli- culi *****, Semina comosa. Frutex volubilis, b Folia opposita, Pedunculi terminales, 3-fidi. Flores speciosi. Corolla estivatione contorta. Folliculi ungulati, divaricatissimi, Brown MSS. , Dot HN Cryptostegia grandiflora. Brown MSS. " Nerium grandiflorum. Roxburgh Flor. ind. ined. Carey hort. beng. The above generic character is another of the oontribu- tions from the pen of Mr. Brown, which we have .been'so fortunate as to be the means of imparting to the public. 'To those who are aware of the vast store of knowledge from which the various groups for the use of science are com- bined by that eminent naturalist, the circumspection and sagacity with which they are adopted, and thé accuracy with which they are defined, no appreciation of ours can be ne: cessary to enhance the value of the present we now offer iu the three genera constituted and ‘defined by that masterly band in this fasciculus. — | "E ' CavProsrEGIA is founded upon a single species, hative of the peninsula ‘of India, where it was first observed by'De. Roxburgh and strangely mismatched by him with the species of the genus Nerrum, belonging to the Apocynew ; while our plant belongs to the'third ‘section of Mr. Brown’s Asclepi- dde, distinguished from the other sections by granular solitary pollen-masses and filaments which are distinct in whole or in part. CRyPTOSTEGIA is however conceived by Mr. Brown to be the link by which the two orders connect through his genus CarrroLurzS also a native of India ant a climber. . . . Q We have elsewhere stated the main technical differences relied on by Mr. Brown to keep separate the 4Asclepiadew from the Apocynee to be, that the pollen in the former is ap- plied to the stigma by an indirect and intermediate process, while in the latter it reaches its destination directly and of itself; circumstances associated to a proportionate influence upon tbe general habit of the two orders. The present genus is remarkable for 5 glandular spoon- like processes placed at the angles of the stigma, ìn which the pollen is deposited previous to its arrival.at its ultimate destination; a character that brings the genus within the confines of the order where it now stands. ` . The drawing was made from a specimen sent. us by th kindness of Sir Abraham Hume, by whom the plant is cul- tivated in the hothouse at Wormleybury, where it flowered last sammer, we believe, for the first time in Europe. In the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, it is said to be in blossom through most of the year, but rarely to seed. The follow- ing is Dr. Roxburgh's description of the plant. * Stem erect and woody: bark smooth, greenish ash- colour: branches twining up and over trees of very consider- able size, every part abundantly milky when wounded. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, entire, obtuse, pointed, polished on both sides, underneath minutely netted, about 3 inches long by 1{ broad. Flowers terminal, from one to many, forming a dichotomous raceme with one in the fork, very large, pale pink. — Bractes conically lanceo- late, opposite, caducous. Calyx five-leaved: leaflets ovate- lanceolate, with ample thin curled margins. Corolla cam- panulate, half five-cleft. Scales 5 attached to the tube of the corolla, immediately above the stamens, each divided into long filiform coloured segments. Filaments short, in- serted in the contracted base of the corolla: anthers cordate, ineuryed in the form of a dome over the stigma. Germens 2, l-celled, each containing many ovula, attached to a large projecting fleshy receptacle on the inside: styles 2 at the base, coalescing near the top: stigma single, large, glo- bular, bifid at the apex, with 5 glands round its sides which are firmly attached to the inside of the 5 anthers, near their. base, between these are 5 dark-coloured spear-shaped scales, which become detached by age.” . | ` - The name was suggested to Mr. Brown by the circum- stance of the enclosure of the five-scaled crown within the tube of the corolla, and its not being exposed to view as in ether bordering genera, NOTES. IRIS. Vide suprà vol. 9. fol. 246. SPECIERUM SYNTHESIS. Rhizoma elongatum crassum solidum horizontale, rard totum in caudicem assurgens : folía ensiformia collaterali-disticha. IMBERBES. tripetala *. Elliot sketch of the bot. of S. Carol. and Georgia. 1. 46. Iris tridentata. Pursh amer. sept. 1. 50. pseud-Acorus. Eng. bot. t. 572. i (spuria; a. major. nob. in Curtiss Magaz. fol. 1131. Iris halophila. . nob, loc. cit. tab. 875. spuria; 8. minor. Curtis’s Magaz. tab. 50. spuria; y. ochroleuca. nob. in Curtis's Magaz. fol. 1131. Erts ochro- leuca. doc. cit, tab.61. Iris Monnieri, Redouté liliac. tab. 296. spuria; 3. halophila. mob. in Curtis's Magaz. tab. 1191. Iris ochro- leuca. Redouté liliac. tab. 854. spuria; e. desertorum, nob. in Curtis's. Magaz. tab. 1514. Iris spathu- lata. Willd. enum. suppl. 4. spuria; Z. stenogyna. nob. in Curtis's Magaz, tab. 1515. -Iris steno- gyna. Redouté liliac. tab. 810. foetidissima, Eng. bot. tab. 596. graminea. nob. in Curtis's Magaz. tab. 681. ensata. Vahl enumer. 2. 148. . biglumis. Vahl enumer. 2. 149. Iris an spuria? Pallas iter. 3. append. 26. t. C. fig. 1. 7 tennisi Pallas iter. 3. 114. 1. C. fig. 2. Herb. Banks. ventricosa. Pallas iter. 3.712. t. B. fig. 1. Herb. Banks. " sibirica. Curtis's Magaz. tab. 50. lmis pratensis. Redouté liliac. tab. 237. sibirica; 8. flexuosa. nob. in Curtis's Magaz. tab. 1163. Iris fiexuosa, Vahl enumer. 2. 181. . sibirica; y. sanguinea. nob. in Curtis’s Magaz. tab. 1604. Ins orien- talis. Vahl enumer. 2. 127. Iris sanguinea. Donn hort. cantab, ed. 6. 17. virginica. nob. in Curtis's Magaz. tab. 703. Iris hexagona. Walt. flor. carol. 66. . . lacustris+. Nuttall gen. 1.23; (species inquirenda). —.— spuria. sibiriea. * Iris tripetala. Root creeping. Stem slender, two feet high. Leavés shorter than the stem, linear-ensiform. Flowers solitary. Exterior segments of the corolla large, twice as long as the stigmas, nearly acute, unbearded: interior larger than the style, three-toothed; the two interior teeth obtuse; the middle one longer, acute. Stigmas two-toothed near the base. Capsule nearly c ylindrical, obscurely three-angled, very acuminate.— Found in the ponds of St. John’s and St. Stephen's ; and appears to be very cireumscribed in its habitat, as I have heard of it in no other part of the country. Elliot's sketch of the botany of South Caro- Tat L M Flowers without a bearded crest; lenves short ensiform ; shorter than the leaf, one-flowered ; pelals nearly equal? nttenuated onthe. bes capsule turbinate, "three-sided, margined; seeds somewhat round and smooth; root tuberous. Found on the gravelly shores of the calcareous Islands of Lake Huron, near Michilimakinak. | 1 have seen no perfect specimens, and therefore recommend the examination of this plant to others. Tt appears to be allied to Uris cristata. Nuttall’s Genera of North American plants, &c. 1. 23. VOL. V. cc NOTES. prismatica. nob. în Curtis Magaz. tab. 150b. Iris gracilis. Bigelow gore boston. 12. trifora. Redouté liliac. 8. tab. 481. versicolor. Curtis’s Magaz. tab. 21. fulva. nob. in Curtis's Magaz. tab. 1496. Iris cuprea. Pursh amer. sept. 1. 30. ruthenica. nob. in Curtis's Magaz. tabb. 1123, 1393. Iris humilis. Marsch. â Bieb. taur. cauc. 1. 83. verna*. Pursh amer. sept. 1.30; (non aliorum). unguicularis, Vahl enumer. 2. 143. Iris stylosa. Desfont. flor. allant. 1. tab. 5. ' BARBATÆ vel SUBBARBATJE. susiana. Curtis's Magaz. tab. 91. Iris iberica. Marsch. à Bieb. taur. cane. 1. 30: cristata. Curtis's Magaz. tab. 412. Iris verna. Vahl enumer. 2. 147. atque Linnei. pumila, Curtis Magaz. tab. 9—var. lutea. nob. loc. cit. tab. 1209.—var. violacea. nob: loc. cit. tab. 1261. lutescens, Vahl enumer 2; 134: Inxs virescens. Redouté liliac. tab. 163. arenaria, Waldst. et Kitaib. plant. rar. hung. 3. tab. 220. Redouté liliac. tab. 296. flavissima. Jacg. ic. rar. 2. tab. 220. subbiflora. nob. in Curtis's Magaz, tab, 1130. Ins biflora. Vahl enumer. 2. 131; (algue Linnai.) variegata. Curtiss Magaz. tab. 16. lurida. nob. in Curtis's Magaz. tabb. 662, 986: sambucina. Curtis's Magaz. tab. 187; (; enuina squalens Linnet Jar. squalens. nob. loc. cit. tab. 'T8'7.—In1s flavescens. Redouté liliac. tab. 878. hungarica. Waldst. et Kilaib. plant. rar. hung. tab. 226. japonica, Vahl enum; 2. 129: florentina. nob. in Curtis's Magaz. tab. 671. germanica. nob. in Curtis’s Magaz. tab. 670: bohemica. Schmidt flor. bohem. pallida. nob. in Curtis's Magaz, tab, 670. Iris germanica. Flora pracâ, tab. 40. Inrs odoratissima. Jacq. hort. schœnb, 1. tab. 9; (genuina sam- bucina Linnæi). aphylla; a. nudicaulis. nob. in Curtis's Magaz. fol. 870. Iris amoena. Redouté liliac. tab. 336; (non verd hungarica. Waldst. et Kitaib. 3 hung.) : E4 aphylla; £. Swertii, nob. in Curtis's Magaz. fol. 870. Iris Swertii. E Redouté liliac. tab. 306. | aphylla; y. plicata. nob. in Curtis's Magaz. tab. 870. Iris plicata. . Redouté liliac. tab. 356. ` dichotoma, nob. suprà vol. 3. tab. 246. — * Judging of the Linnean Iris verna, from the prototype specimen ín the Gro- novian Hérbarium, and the synonym adduced from Plukenet, we hate scarcely a doubt of its identity with IRIS eristata of the Hortus Kewensis. The IRIS verna of Mr. Nuttall is plainly the same as cristata. But if Mr. Pursh's specific character is correct, his verna is as plainly distinet, 18 verna; imberbis acaulis, uniflora, foliis longissimis gramineis glaucis, tubo longissimo, petalis subæqualibus, capsulis Subrotundis ad terram sessilibus. m amer. sept. 1. 30; (excluso synonymo Willdenovü ). c ound on the high mountains of Virginia and Kentucky; ylentifally on the poca mountains near Winchester. Flowers pale blue striped with purple. er all, Igis verna is, in our mind, still an apocryphal species. NOTES. chinensis. Curtis's Magaz. tab. 378. Inis fimbriata. Redouté liliac. tab. moræoides. nob. in Curtis's Magaz. fol. 1407, in noté; et suprà in notis vo- lumini; 4to appensis. Monza iridioides. nob. im Curtis's Magar. tab. 623. Iris compressa. Vahl emumer, 2. 137. Monma vegeta. Miller's dict. ed. 8; (non verb Linnæi, ea enim Mon A tristis). Radiz tuberosa. Folia angulata. IMBERBES. tuberosa. Curtis's Magax. tab. 531. Igra reticulata, Marsch. à Bieb. taur. cauc. 1. 34. Sa... Belbus tunicatus. Folia canalicylata, â plano bifaria. xiphioides. nob, in Curtis's Magaz. tab. 687. Xiphium, nob. in Curtis's Magaz. tab. 686. lusitanjca. nob. in Curtis's Maguz. tab. 679. juncea. Vahl enumer. 2. 145. Planta Tournefortii et Poireti ; ab intequente distincta satis. Exemplar spontaneum ig Herbario Dom. Lambert. mauritanica. nob. in Curtis's Magaz. vers. fol. 986. Clus. cur. post. 24. juncea. Desfont. flor. atlant. tab. 4. Exemplar spontaneum in Herbario Dom. Lambert. i alata. Lamarck encyc. 3. 303. Iris scorpioides. Desfont. flor. atlant. tab. 6. Redouté liliac. tab. 211. Iris microptera. Vakl enumer. 2. 142. Ims transtagana, Brotero flor. lusitan. 1. 52. persica. Curtis’s Magaz. tab, 1. Iris caucasice. Marsch. à Bieb. taur. cauc. l, 31, l 1615, although represented by a greater or less number of species in all the four quarters of the globe, has not yet been observed within the tropics. The figure which is found among the drawings of the Bengal plants in Sir Joseph Banks's library, and which we had formerly adopted under the title bengalensig, is clearly either florentina or pallida, and taken from a plant which had been derived from some European importation. SPECIES NOBIS MINUS NOT VEL INCERT.E. acuta. Willd. enum. suppl. 4. odorata. Persoon syn. 1. 53; very near to ribirica. sordida. Jd. eod. loc. t barbata. Jd. eod. loc. elegans. Persoon syn. 1. 53. Tris fugax. Tenore flor. neapolit. 1. 15. tab. 4; belongs to Mone ; and if not, Monza Sisyrinchium with an elongated branching many-flowered stem, an unro- corded species, and makes the second European MoR&A now known. . We know of only one species of Iris from Southern Africa; viz. moraoides from the Cape of Good Hope, In Northern Africa several have been observed, and only one Morxa, viz. Sisyrinchium, though that genus is so numerous and various in the Southern parts. VESTIA lycioides. Supra vol. 4. fol. 299. . . . At the time we published the article concerning this species, a compari- son of our plant with the figure and description of PERIPHRAGMOS fetidus in the Flora Peruviana had nearly convinced us, as it had Willdenow be- fore us, that in spite of a curious coincidence between the general appear- ance, and especially between some remarkable features of the two, they could never belong to one species or even genus. Since then a prototype sample of the plant ìntended in the Flora Peruviana has been remitted to Mr. Lambert by Don José Pavon, one of the two respectable aúthors of that yet unfinished national work; and the inspection of it has now left us without a doubt that PERIPHRAGMOS fætidus is the same species as VESTIA CC 2 NOTES. lycioides. We have found that the marks which misled us, in common with illdênow, exîst only in the defectiveness of the figure and description in the Flora Peruviana, and do not belong to the plant itself. Some unac- countable error has occurred in regard to the seedvessel, attributed in both figure and description to this plant; for such seedvessel evidently belongs to a plant of a different family. VEsTIA has been properly separated from PERITHRAGMOS, or at least from the other species which had been combined with it under that generic title; for besides other differences, as Mr. Brown observed to us, the very essential feature of an imbricate æstivation belongs to the corolla of PERIPHRAGMOS, while in Vestra the æstivation of the corolla'is valvular. Owing to the same misrepresentation that misled us, the species has been reduced by Jussieu, in the Annales du Muséum, to the genus CANTUA, belonging to the order Polemonia f Polemonidee ). The following synonymy should be subjoined to that already in the article cited at the head of this note. Periphragmos fcetidus. Ruiz et Pavon flor. peruv. 2. 17. t. 132; (fide exempl. . prototypi in. Herbar. Dom. Lambert; exclusis tamen figurá descriptione- que fructús operis citati J. Cantua ligustrifolia. Jussieu in ann. du museum. 9. 118. Guevillguevill. Vernaculè Peruvianis. ANGELONIA salicariafolia. Supra fol. 415. The following synonym may be added. Angelonia salicariæfolia Kunth nov. gen. et spec. 2. 903. r. Herbert informs us, that Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland bave erred in supposing this species to be annual; and that it is decidedly peren- nial, with a suffrutescent stem. The same gentleman has propagated it by cuttings, and says that it requires to be kept with a pan of water under the garden pot in which it is kept in the summer time. Hzricox1A Bihai. Supra fol. 974. Add to the synonymy of that article. Heliconia humilis. Redouté liliac. t. 382. In Vol. 3. fol. 229; 2d page of the first leaf, line 11 of the English text, for * that genus” read “the genus Mona.” GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO VOLUMES I. II. IH. IV. AND V. Polwnen, Acacia alata, v. 5 Acacia decurrens, 8. Acacia Houstoni, v. 9. Acacia longifolia, v. 5. . Acacia lophantha, v. 5. eoo 896. 871. + 98. + 362. . 361. Achania mollis. a. v. 1. . 1. Acrostichum alcicorne. v. 3, ...2€2, 263, Aerides paniculatum. v. 8. . + 220. ZEsculus discolor, v. 4. . «+810. Albuca fastigiata. v. 4. . «+277 Albucafugax. v. 4. «ses e s es es 811. Alpinia calcarata, v. 2. +. 141. Alpinia malaccensis. v. 4 . 398. Amaryllis australasica, v. 5. +426. Amatyllis calyptrata. v. 9. +164. Amaryllis coranica, v. 2. . .139. Amaryllis crocata, v. 1 38. Amaryllis equestris. B. v. 8. .. 234. Amaryllis flexuosa, v. 2. ... 172. Amaryllis fatgida. v. 3. . 226. Amaryllis hyacintbina. v, 2. 163. Amaryllis longifolia. y. v. 4. 303. Amaryllis psittacina. v. 3, 199. Amaryllis reticnlata, B: v. 5. 352. Amaryllis rutila. v. 1. 23. Amorpha fruticosa. v. 5, +427. Amsonia latifolia, v. 2. 151. Anemone palmata. v. 3. . 200, Angelonia salicarizfolia. v. 5. , +415. Anthocercis littorea. v. 3. .212. Arbutus Andrachne. v. 2 .113. Arctotis acaulis. v. 3. +122, Arctotis aspera. v. 1. . . 84. Arctotis aureola. v. 1. . 82. Arctotis maculata. v. 2. + 130. Arctotis tricolor. v. 2. eere 131: Artabotrys odoratissimus, v. 5. .423. Asclepias curassavica. v, 1 , 8l. Asclepias incarnata. v. 3. verres 250, Aaclepias tuberosa, a. Y. 1... . 76. Aster Amellus. v. 4. . - 840. Aster geandiflorus. Y. 4. .873. Aster Nove Anglie. v. 3. . . 183. Astragalus caryocarpus. v. 2, ... 176. Azalea calendulacea, a. v. 2. + 145. Azalea nitida. v. 5. +404, Azalea nuditlora. y. . 120. Barleria flava. Jn notis append. voluminis 4". Barleria mitis. v. 3. 191; et in notis append. vol. 4. Beaufortia decussata. v. 1. . 18. Begonia acuminata. v. 5. 364. Begonia bumilis. v. 4. . 284. Bignonia grandifolia. v. 5. ... 418 Bignonia venusta, v, 3. 249. Blandfordia nobilis. v. 4. . 288. Folium. Volumen. Borago orientalis. v. 4. Bossiæa cinerea. v. 4. . Bouvardia triphylla. v. 2. . Bouvardia versicolor. v. 3. Brachysema latifolium. y, 9, . Bromelia nudicaulis. v. 3, Bromelia pallida. v. 4. .. Bransfelsia undulata. v. 3. Brunsvigia Josephine, 8. v. 8, ,. 192, 198. Bryonia quinqueloba, v. 1 . 82. Cacalia bicolor, y. 2.. 110, Cacalia ov Pe. 101. Cactus Dillenii. v. 3. 255. Cactus gibbosus. v. 9. . 137.. Cactus repandus. v. 4. 336. Cactus speciosus. v. 4. 304. Caldasia heterophylla. v. 2. 92. Calendula chrysauthemifolis, +, 40. Calendula graminifolia. y. 4, 289. Calendula Tragus. A. v. 1 28 Callistachys lanceolata. v. 3. . 216. Callistemon rigidum, v. 5. 898. Calostemma luteum. v. 5. . 421. Calostemma purpureum. v. 5. 422. Calotropis gigantes, v. 1 ... 58. Calycanthus fertilis. v. 5. 404. Calytrix glabra. v. 5. 409. Camellia axillaris. v. 4. 349. Camellia japonica. s v. 2. . 112. Camellia japonica. 4. v, 1 Camellia japonica. fl. albo simp. v. Camellia Sasanqua. v. 1. .... Campanula aurea. a. Y, lo... Campanula coronata. v. 2. Campanula lactiflora, v. 3. .. Campanula lilifolia, v. 3. ... Campanula pentagonia, v. 1. ... Campanula sarmatica. v. 8. ... Canna gigantea. v. 3. . Carthamas tinctorius, v. 2. Cassia ligustrina. v. 2. . Cassia occidentalis. v. 1. Ceanothus azureus. v. 4. Cerbera fruticosa. v. 5. . Cheiranthus Cheiri. y. v. 3. Chelone barbata. v. 2. . Chelone obliqua. v. 2. . Chironia jasminoides. v. 3. Chrysanthemum indicum. a. 3. v. 1. Cistus purpureus. v. 5. . Cistus vaginatus. v. 3. Citrus nobilis, 8. v. 3. . Citrus Aürantium. y. v. 4. Clematis aristata. v. 3. Clematis brachiata. v. 2. Clerodendron paniculatum. v. $. » GENERAL INDEX TO VOLS. I. If. HI. IV. AND V, Volumen. Foliwn. Clitoria Plumieri, v. 4. ,........... 268, Combretum purpnteum. v. 5. ........ 429. Convolvulus chinensis. v. 4..,,..,.,.322. Convolvulus involucratus, v. 4. ..... 318. Convolrulus pannifolius. v. 3. , Convolvulus suffruticosus. v. 2. . Coreopsis incisa. v. l. .. Correa speciosa. v. 1. . Cornea virens. v. J. Crassula versicolor, Crinum bracteatum. v. 3. . Crinum cruentum. v.9.... Crinum pedunculatum; v. 1. Crossandra undubefolia. v. 1. . Crotalaria incaua: v. 5. . Crotalaria purpurea. v. 2. Crotalaria retusa. v. 3... Cryptarrhena innata, v, 2. Cryptostegia grandiftora. v. 5. . Cullumia cilirris, v. 5. Caphea procumbens. v. 3. Curculigo plicata: v: 4. . Cynanchum pilosum. v. 9. Cyrtanthus collinus. v. 2. Cyrtantius spiralis. v; 2, Cyrtanthus unifforus. v. 2. Cytisus biflorus. v. 4. ..., Cytisus proliferus: v. 2. ...... Dahlia superflua. e. v. 1. . Delphinium coneatum. Dianthus crenatus, v. 8, Digitalis ambigua. v. 1. . Digitalis canariensis. v. 1 Digitalis Intea. v. 8. . Digitalis parviflora, v. 3. Diosma ciliata. v. 5. ...... Diosma hirta, v. 5. Dirca palustris. v. 4. .... Disa bracteata, v. 4. Disa prasinata. v. 3. . 210. Donia giutinosa. v. 3, 187; et in motis append. ejusd. vol. Duranta Plumieri. v. 3. .... Echinops paniculatus. v, 5, Ecbium candicans. v. 1 Echium fruticosum. v. 1. Echium grandiflorum. v. 9. . Elichrysum proliferum, v. 1. Epidendrum fascatum. v. 1 Epidendrum notans. v. 1. . Epidendrum umbellatum, v. 1 Epigwa repens. v. 3. Erica ardens; v. 2. Erica filamentosa, v. 1. . Erica tumida. v. 1. .... Erigeron glaucam. v. 1... Eryngium aquaticum. v, 5. Erysimum diffusum. v. 5. . Erythrina carnea. v. 5. Erythrina crista galli. v. 4. . Euchilus obcordatus, v. 5. Eucrosia bicolor. +, 3, Euphorbia punicea. v. 3. . Euphorbia rigida. v. 4. . Evolyuhus latifolius, v. 5, Fragaria indice, Y, 1, ,,,, Fumaria aurea. v,j,,, Há. .....182, 167. .. 168. 308. 321. 56. 244. 356. 44. Volumen. Fumaria eximia. v. 1, < Fumaria nobilis, v. 5. Galactia pendula. v. 4. Gnlega orientalis. v. 4. Gardenia radicans. v. 1 Gastrolobium bilobum. v. 5. Gazania pavonia. v. 1. . Genista canariensis. v. 3... Gesueria aggregata, Y. de ...... Gesneria bulbosa. y. 4. Gesneria prasinata. v. 5 «428. Gladiolus edulis. v. 2. . 169. Gloriosa superba. v. l., QT Gloxinia speciosa. v. 8. 1.213. Glycine bituminosa. v. 3. Glycine caribæn. v. 4. . en Glycine comptoniana. Y. 4. .... Gnaphalium apiculatum. v. 3. .. Gnaphalium congestum. v, 8, Gnidia oppositifolia. Y. 1... Gnidia pinifolia. v. l...... Gonolobus diadematus. v. 3. . Goodyera discolor. v. 4. .. 27% Gossypium barbadense. v. 1. . + 84. Grindelia glutinosa, Jn notis appendicis voluminis 3. Grindelia inuloides, v. 8. .......«... 248. . + + 19. .952. Grislea tomentosa, v. 1. 30. Habenaria fimbriata. v. 5. . 405. Hemanthus pubescens. v. 5. + . 982. Hemanthus coarctatus, v. 3. «18%. Hedychium angustifolium. v. 2 Hedysarum latifolium. v. 5. Heliconia Bibai. v. 5... Hepatica americana. v. 5. Hibbertia dentata. 3. v. 4 iscus diversifolius. v. 5. us heterophyltus, v. 1. us pedunculatus. v. 8. Hibiscus phœniceus. v. 3, . Hibiscus Rosa malabarica., v. 4. + Hibiscus tiliaceus. v. 3. Hovea Celsi. v, 4. . Hyacinthus amethystinus. v. 5. Hydropbyllum canadense. v. 3. » Hydrophyllum virginicum. v. 4. Hyoscyamus canariensis, v. 8. Hypericum ægypticum. v. 3. .... Hypoxis obtusa. v. 2. +... 159. Indigofera amena. v. 4. .. Indigofera australis. v. 5. . Indigofera filifolia. Zu notis appendi luminis 8. Inga purpurea. v. 2. ..... Ioula glandulosa. v. 4... Ipomea bona nox B, purpurascens. v. 4. 290; et in notis appendicis vol. 4. Jpomea cerulen. v. 4. .. Ipomcea cbryseides. v. 4. . Ipomeea denticulata, v. 4. . Ipomea hederacea, v. 1.. Ipomoea Jalapa, a. v. 4. Ipomæa insignis. v. 1. -. lpomcea maritima. v. 4. Ipomoca muricata. In notis appendicis volu- minis A, Ipomaca mutabilis, v. Le» aoe BSL. ou. 276. .270. vee 39 GENERAL INDEX TO VOLS, I. 1, III. IV. AND v. Volumen, Folium. Clitoria Plumieri, v. 4. .... .. 268. Cembretum purpnreum. v. 5. Convolvulus chinensis. v. 4.. Convolvulus involucratus, v. 4. Convolvulus pannifolius. v. 3. Convolvulus suffruticosus. v. 2. Coreopsis incisa. v. 1. . Corræs speciosa. v. Y. .. Corren virens, VJ, .»..,.. Crassula versicolor. v. 4. .. Crinum bracteatum. v. 3, .. Crinum cruentum. v.2..... Crinum pedunculatum. v, 1. Crossandra undukefolia. v. 1. .... Crotalaria incana: v. 5 Crotalaria purpurea. v, 2, Crotalaria retusa. v. 3.. Cryptarrhena Innata, v. 2. Cryptostegia grandiftora. v. Cullumia cilinris, v. 5. . Cuphea procumbens. v. 3, Curculigo plicata. v. 4. . Cynanchum pilosum. v. 2 Cyrtanthus collinus. v. 2. .. Cyrtanthus spiralis. v. 2. Cyrtanthus uniflorns. v, 2. Cytisus biflorus. v. 4. .. Cytisus proliferus; v. 2. . Dahlia superflua. e. Y. 1. . Delphinium cuneatum. Dianthos crenatus. v. 3. Digitalis ambigua. v. 1. . Digitalis canariensis. v. 1. Digitalis lutea. v. 3. .. Digitalis parviflora. v. 3. .. Divsma ciliata. v. 5. .... Diosma hirta. Y. 5. ,,.,.,. Dirca palustris. v. 4. Disa bracteata, v. 4. Disa prasinata. v.3. ... Donia giutinosa. v. 3. 187; el in notis append. ejusd. vol. Duranta Piumieri. v. 3... Echinops paniculatus. v. 5. Echium eandicans, v. 1. . Echium fruticosam. v. 1. +. 36, Echium grandiflorum. v.2. . A ...366. 244. 356. Elichrysum proliferum. v. 1. .. 21. Epidendrum fuscatum. v. 1. . 67. Epidendrum nutans. v. 1. 17. Epidendrum wmbellatum, v. I 80. Epigwn repens. v. 3. Erica ardens; v. 2. . Erica filamentosa. v. 1. . Erica tumida. vit... Erigeron glaucum. v. 1 Eryngium aquaticum. v. 5. Erysimun diffusum, v. 5. Erythrina carnea. v. 5. .. Erythrina crista galli. v. 4. . Euchilus obcordatus. v. 5. Eucrosia bicolor. * v. 3, Euphorbia panicea. v. 3. . Euphorbia rigida, v. 4. . Evolvulus lstifolius. y, 5, Fragaria indica. y. 1. . Fumaria eur, v. 1, Volumen. Fumaris eximia. v. 1. Fumaria nobilis, v. 5. . Galactia pendula. v. 4. . Galega orientalis. v. 4. . Gardenia radicans, v. 1 Gastrolobium bilobum. v. 5... Gazania pavonia. v.j. .. Genista canariensis. v. 3. Gesneria aggregata. v. 4. Gesneria bulbosa. v. 4. Gesneria prasinata. v. 5. Gladiolüs edulis. v. 2. Gloriosa superba. v. 1. Gloxinia speciosa. v. 8. Glycine bituminosa. v. 3. ... Glycine caribæa. v. 4, .. Glycine comptoniana. v. 4. . Gnaphalium apiculatum. v. 3, .. Gnaphalium congestum. Y, 8. ...,... 248. Gnidia oppositifolia. v. 1. Gnidia pinifolia. v. 1. . Gopolobus diadematus. v. 3. . Goodyera discolor. v. 4. ... Gossypium barbadense, v. i. . Grindelia glutinosa, Jn metis appendicis voluminis 3, Griodelia inuloides, v. 3. .... Grislea tomentosa, v. I Habenaria fimbriata. v. 5. Hemanthus pubescens. v. 5. . Hemanthus coarctatus. v. 3. Hedychium angustifolium. v. 2 Hedysarum» latifolium. v. 5. Heliconia Bibai, v. 5. Hepatica americana. v. 5. . Hibbertia dentata. $, v. 4. ibiscus diversifolius, v. 5. us heterophyllus. v. 1. ¡seus pedunculatus. v. 3. . iscus pheeniceus. v. 3. iscus Rosa malabarica., v. 4. - scus tiliaceus, v. Bu... Hovea Celsi. v. 4. ... Hyacinthus amethystinus. v. 5. Hydrophyllum canadense. v. 8. + Hydrophyllum virginicum. v. 4. .. Hyoscyamus canariensis, v. 8, Hypericum egypticum. Y. 3. Hypoxis obtusa. v. 2. . Indigofera amoena. v. 4. .. +300. Indigofera australis. v. 5. . «386. Indigofera filifolia. Ju notis appendicis vo- luminis 3. Inga purpurea. v.9. Inula glandulosa. v. Ipomea bona nox 8. purpurascens. Y. 4. 290; et ŵn notis appendicis vol. 4. Ipomeea cerulea, v. 4. ... Ipomcea cbryseides. v. 4. . Ipomoea denticulata, v. 4. . Ipomæa hederacea, v. 1. Tpomeea Jalapa. a. v. 4. Ipomea insignis, v. t. . Ipomeca maritima. v. 4. .. Ipomaa muricata, In notis appendicis volu- minis 4%, Ipomæa mutabilis, y, he s sese s e r es 39. P 169. en 77 e... S13. arene E82. .$81. . 99. . 831. . 230. "887. + 232. » 280. . 398. »249. 331. ...» 180. ev 196. +159. serere 129. e M gm mm GENERAL INDEX TO VOLS. I. UM. Hl. IV. AND Y. Volumen. Tpomæa Obscura, v. 3. .. Ipomea paniculata, v. 1. . Ipomæa platensis. v. 4... Tpomora sanguinea. v. 1. .,.,,. Ipomoca setosa, v. d... Ipomea tuberculata. v. 1. Tpomeca Turpethum. v. 4. Iris dichotoma. v. 3. . Ixora blanda. v. 2. Ixora grandiflora. v. 2. Jasminum auriculatum. v. 4. Jasminum azorìcnm. v. 1. ... Jasminum grandiflorum. v. £. Jasminum hirsutum. v. 1. .. Jasminum humile. v. 5. .. Jasminum revolutum, v, 3. Jasminum Sambac, v. 1. , Justicia eustachiaba. ¥. 4. ..... Kempferia pandurata. v. 2. . Kolreuteria paniculata, v. 4. Lachenalia pallida, a. v. 4. . Lachenalia pallida. f. v. 4. Lebeckia contaminata, v. 2. 19. tippendicis voluminis 3. Léonotis nepitifolia, v. 4, ... Leucadendron corymbosum. v. 5. Liatris elegans, v. 4. ,.,. Lilium pumilum. v.2. .... Limodorum falcátum, v. 4. Lipariâ hirsuta. v. 1. + Lobelia fulgens. v. 2 Lobelia splendens, v. 1. Lonicera dioica. B. v. 2. ... Lonicera japonica, Lonicera tatarica. v Lycium afrum. v. 5. Magnolia cordata, v. 4. Magnolia pyramidata. v. Makernia grandiflera. v. 3. Malpighia fucata. v. 3. Malpighia urens v. 2. . Maira calycina. v. 4. . Malva capensis. v. 4. ».... Malva fragrans. v. 4. . Maranta zebrina. v. 6. . Marica gladiata. v. 3. - Melaleuca fulgens, v. 2.. Melalenca incana. v. 5. . Melastoma levigata. y. 5. Meliantbus major, v. t. . Mesembryanthemum maximum. v. $. Mesembrianthemum tigrinum. v. 8. Mespilus japonicus, v. 5. . Mimosa sensitiva, Mitella diphylla. v. 9. . Modecca lobata; maz. v. 5. Monarda punctata, v. T. Morza lurida. v. 4. Murraya exotica. v. $. . Muscari ciliatum. v. 5. Narcissus montanus. v. 2. Nerium odorum. B. v. t. Nyctanthes Arbor tristis. v. 5. XEnothera odorata, v. 2... Ophrys Speculum, v. 5. . Ophrys tenthredinifera. v. 3. . Orchis longibracteata. v. 5. + Orchis longicornu. v. 3. Folium, ese 138, + 79. + 31. . 354, + 825. rom... 25 357. 202. Volumen. Folium. Orchis tephrosanthes. B. v, 5. . (75. Orchis variegata. v. 5. 2 867. Ornithogalum niveum. v. 8. Ornithogalum prasinum. v. 9. Oroitbogalum revolutum. v. 4. Ornithogalum thyrsoides. æ v. 4. Ornithogalum thyrsoides. 8. v. 4. Otkonna abrotanifolia. v. 2. 158, 815. 316, 305. 198. Othonna cheirifolia, v. 4. . 266. Oxalis inva, v. 2. ,.. 207. Oxylobium arborescens. v. 5. «24892. Pachysandra procumbens, v,1. ,., as. Pæonia albiflora. B. v. 1. + 42 | Peonia Moutan. a. v, 5. 379. ' Pancratium angustum, v. S. ... 278. | Pancratium calathinum. v. S. . | Pancratium canariense, v. 2. i Pancratium guianense, v. 4, | Pancratium maritimum. v. 2. ; Pancratium ovatum. v. 1. .- | Pancratium verecundam. v. 5. Papaver floribundum. v. 9. | Passiflora adiantifolia, v. 8. Passiflora angustifolia, Y. 3. Passifiora fœtidn, v. 4. + Passiflora glauca. v. I. Passiflora holosericea. v. 1. Passifiora incarnate. s. v. 4. Passiflora incarnata. ff. v. 2 Passiflora laurifolia. v.1. ... Pawiflora lutea, v. 1.. Passifiora maliformis. v. 2. | Passiflora minina. v. 2. Passifiora perfoliata. v. 1 Passifiora quadrangularis. v. 1. Passiflora racemosa. Y. 4. .285. Passiflora rubra. v,2. . Passiflora tuberosa. Y. 5. Patersonia glabrata. Y. 1. Pavetta indica. v. 3. . Pavonia spinifex. 7.4. . Penza squamosa. +, 2. . Pergularia odoratissimn, v. 5. Phascolus Caracalla. v. 4. . Phlox suffroticota. v. 1. Pinguicula lutea. v.9. . Pittosporum revolutum. Pittosporum undulatum. v. 1, . Plumbago capensis. v. 5. Plumeria acuminata. v. 2, . Pogonia ophingiossoides, v. 2. . Polianthes tuberosa. v. 1. Polygala speciosa. v. 2. Polygonum frutescen: Prostanthera Jasianthos. Protea acerosa, v, 5. +. Protea longifolia. v. 1 Protea neriifolia. v. 3. Protea pulchella. v. 1. Pronus japonica, v. 1. . Prunus prostrata. v. 2. Psoralea pedunculata, v. 3. . Pulmonaria paniculata. v. 2, Pultenga retusa. v. 5. . Pyrethrum fœniculaceum. v. 4. Reseda odorata. B. v. 3... Rhexia holosericen. v. 4. . | Rhododendron dauricum. 8. 215. ien 227. 323. .194, GENERAL INDEX TO VOLS. Y. If. ITI. 1V. AND Y. Volumen. Folium, Rhododendron hybridum. v. 3. . Rhododendron punctatum. B. v. 1. . Ribes aureum. v.2. .. Ricotia ægyptiaca. v. 1. Rosa alpina. v. 5. s... Rosa Banksiæ. v. 5. . Rosa ferox. v. 5. Rosa kamchatica, Rosa multiflora. v. 5. . Rosa provincialis. B. (muscosa fiore allo pleno) v. 9. cease 102 À Ross provincialis. 8. (muscosa flore simplici.) v.1 Rosa rubrifoli Rosa spinosissima; reversa. Y. 5. Ross sulphurea. v. t.. Ruta pinnata. v. 4. .. Salvia amarissima. v.4. . Salvia hispanica. v. 5, +... Satyrium cucullatum. v. 5. Sanseviera zeylanica. v. 2. Sedum ternatum, v. 2. Selago fasciculata. v. 3. Sempervivum arboreum. v. 2. Sempervivum glutinosum. v. 4. Senecio speciosus, v. 1. . Sida grandifolia. v. 5. ... Silene pensylvanica. v. 3. Solanum amazonium. v. 1. Solanum decurrens, v. 2. . Solanum fontanesianum. v. 2. Sparaxis grandiflora. v. 8. ..........258. «+ 49. UN l e 897. || - Vinca herbacea. v. 4. . Folium. Volumen. Spartium ferox. v. $, ....,. Spermadictyon suaveolens. v. 4: Stenanthera pinifolia, v. 3. ... Sterculia Balangbas. v. 3. Stevia Eupatoria, v. 2. Stylidium graminifolium. v. I Styphelia longifolia. v. 1... 'Tabernemontana amygdalifolia. Teedia lucida. v. 3. ... Teedia pubescens. v. 8. 'Templetonia retusa. v. 5. Tiliandsia xiphioides. "L'rachelium ceruleum. Trapa natans. v. 3. . "Tritonia refracta, v. 2. Tulipa cornuta. v. 2. Tulipa gesneriana. v. 5. . Tulipa oculus solis. v. 3. Uropetalon glaucum, v. 2. 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