, THE 1 5 a£ BOTANICAL REGISTER: © CONSISTING OF Coloured Figures or EXOTIC PLANTS, CULTIVATED IN BRITISH GARDENS; HISTORY AND MODE OF TREATMENT. ————. THE DESIGNS BY Sydenham Cowards, AND oma VOL. VI. (9) ———viret semper——nec fronde caducá Carpitur. - LONDON: PRINTED FOR JAMES RIDGWAY, PICCADILLY. ` 1820. Printed by $, Gosnell, Lille Queen Street, London. APPENDIX TO THE CATALOGUES OF BOOKS IN THE FOREGOING FIVE VOLUMES; OR, List of Books quoted in the Sixth Volume and which have not been enumerated in the Lists given in any of the other Volumes. ACTES de la soc. d'hist. nat. de Paris. Actes’ de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Tom. 1. 1 partie, Paris, 1792. fol. Adanson fam. Familles des Plantes. Par M. Adanson. Paris, 1763. 2 Parties. 8vo. Barton's elem. of bot. ed. Lond.* Elements of Botany, or outlines of the Natural History of Vegetables, illustrated by thirty Plates. By Ben- jamin Smith Barton. Revised, with notes by the english Editor. London, 1804. 8vo. Boccon. sic. 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Bulletin des Seiences, par la Société Philomatique. Paris, 1791—1805. 4to. Decand. monsp. Augustin Pyramus de Candolle Catalogus plantarum horti botanici Monspeliensis, addito observationum circa species novas aut non satis cognitas fasciculo. Monspelii, 1813. 8vo. * This book should have been inserted in the Catalogue of the Second Volume. A2 iv Desfont. cat. (ou tabl.) Tableau de l'école de botanique du jardin du Roi. Par M. Desfontaines. Ed. 2. Paris, 1815.. 8vo. Edinb. philos. journ. Edinburgh Philosophical Journal. Edinburgh, 1819. Vol. 1. seqq. Ehret pict. Plante et Papiliones rariores depicta et ære ineisze à Geo. Dion. Ehret. Tabula 15. Londini, 1748—1759. fol. Gaterau montaub. Description des plantes qui croissent aux environs de Montauban ou qu'on cultive dans les jardins. Par M. Gaterau. Mont- auban, 1789. 8vo. Gmel. bad. als. Carol. Christ. Gmelin. Flora Badensis-Alsatica. Carls- ruhz, (1) 1805, (2) 1806, (3) 1808. 8vo. Gron fl orient. Flora orientalis, sive Recensio Plantarum quas Leonhardus auwolfius annis 1573, 1574, 1075, in Syria, Arabia, Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Assyria, Armenia, Judæa crescentes observavit et collegit. Cura Johan. Fred. Gronovii. Lugduni-Batavorum, 1755. 8vo. Haworth succ. suppl. Supplementum plantarum succulentarum, sistens plantas novas vel nuper introductas sive omissas in Synopse Plantarum Succulentarum. Aut, A. H. Haworth. Londini, 1719. 8vo. Hughes barbad. The Natural History of Barbados, by Griffith Hughes. London, 1750. fol. Knight et Salish. prot. On the cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order of PRoTEEE, with their generic as well as specific cha- racters and places where they grow wild. By Joseph Knight. London, 1809. 4to. Lagasca gen. et spec. Genera et Species Plantarum, que aut nove sunt aut nondum recté cognoscuntur. Auct. Mariano Lagasca. Matriti, 1816. 4to. Cum Elench. impress. (Vid. cat. vol. 4. ad Lag. elench. ubi annus 1816, non 1716 ponendus). Lehmann asperif. Plante è familia Asperifoliarum nucifere. Descripsit Joannes Geo. Christ. Lehmann. Berolini, 1818. Partes 2. seqq. 4to. Lobel adv. Stirpium adversaria nova, auctoribus Petro Pena et Matthia de Lobel. Londini, 1571. fol. Matthize de Lobel adversariorum pars. ib. 1605. fol. Marsch. bieb. fl. taur. cauc. suppl. Flora Taurico-caucasica. Auct. L. B. Friderico Marschall à Bieberstein. Supplementum continens plantas phanerogamas per Tauriam atque’Caucasum, post edita priora volumina, detectas, et in pristinas animadversiones. Charkouiw, 1819. 8vo. Mer. par. Nouvelle Flore des environs de Paris. Par F. V. Mérat. Paris, 1812. 8vo. v Muhlenb. catal. Catalogus Plantarum Ameriez Septentrionalis hucusque cognitarum indigenarum et cicurum. By Henry Muhlenberg. Edit. 2. Philadelphia, 1818. 8vo. - Münch. hause. Der Hausvater. (Auctore Von Münchausen), Hannover. (Zweyter Theil, 1766). 8vo. Petiv. mus. Musei Petiveriani Centuria prima Rariora Nature continens. A Jacobo Petiver. 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Novi Proventus Hortorum Academico- rum Halensis et Berolinensis. Centuria specierum minus cognitarum, quz vel per annum 1818 in horto halensi et berolinensi floruerunt vel sicc® miss fuerunt. Auct. C. Sprengel. Hale, 12mo. Trattinick archiv. der gewachs. Archiv der gewachskunde. Wienn, 1811; Seqq. 4to, Trattinick obs. bot. Idem. Observationes botanica Tabularium rei herbariz illustrantes. Vienne, 1811; seqq. 4to. Viviani ft. ital. Dom. Viviani. Flore Italice fragmenta. Genus, 1806; seqq. dto. Wahl. carp. Georgii Wahlenberg. Flora Carpathorum principalium. Got- «inge, 1814. 8vo. Zanon, ist. bot. Istoria Botanica di Giacomo Zanoni, Bologna, 1675. fol. ERRATA. Vol. 2. fol. 142. 1. 5. for “ Jussieu gen. 207." read “ Jussieu gen. 307." Vol. 2. fol. 152.1. 14. for “ Barton's elem. of bet. ed. Lond." read “ Barton's elem. of bot. Lond. ed. append. 30. tab. 25.” Vol. 3. fol. 220. 1. 5. pro “ Div. 11,” lege “ Div. IP." Vol. 3. fol. 245; overleaf, 1. 7. for ** broader than long” read “ longer than broad.” Vol. 8. fol. 258.1. 9. pro “ abiune" lege ** abiens." Vol. 4. in cat. libr. p, iv. 1, 16, for 1716” read ** 1816," Vol. 4, fol. 265.1. 7. pro “ vol, 1. ful, 49." lege “vol. 4. fol. 221.” Vol, 4. fol. 339; overleaf, 1. 6. for ** remitted” read ** transmitted.” Vol. 4. fol. 349. 1. 3. of the english text. Leave out the words “or, as i Vol. 5. fol. 350; overleaf, last line but one, for ** but might" read “ but the name from the above work might.” Vol. 5. fol. 365, l. 5; from the bottom, after “ form of” add “ a.” Vol, 5. fol. 366. 1. 4. from the bottom, for ** of these distinguished” read “ of these, which is distinguished." Vol. 5. fol. 377. 1. 2. of the english text, for “ with thatin” read '* the one in.” Vol. 5. fol. 404. 1. 17; pro “ Achenia plurima" pone ** Achenia plurima," Vol. $. fol. 432; overleaf, 1. 18, 19; for ** shows that excellent horticulturist to have in- tended" read ** shows that that excellent horticulturist intended.” Vol, 5. fol 435. 1. 16. pro ** ungulati” lege “ angulati” Vol. 5. both Indexes in this Volume, for ** Mespilus japonicus” read ** Mespilus japonica.” Fol. 440; overleaf, 1. 16. for ** LEUCAJUM" read ** Leucosum.” Fol. 441; overleaf, last line: for “ OLEA odoratissima” read “ OLEA fragrans.” Fol. 448. 1. 13. à calce pagine: pro “ Wahl cauc.” pone “ Wahl carp.” Fol. 450. L 3. for “ Cuckow-point” read ** Cuckow-pint.” Fol. 480; overleaf, 1. 3, for “ Donn” read ‘* Don." Fol. 509. 1. 11. pro “ capoque" lege ** scapoque.” In the several Indexes to the volumes preceding the present, for “ Euphorbia punicea, vol. 3. 199." read ** Euphorbia punicea. vol. 3. 190.” ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO VOLUME VI. Folium. Abroma augusta ...... eren 0518, Amaryllis aulica 444; et fab. in append. Amaryllis laticoma 497; ef in notis appen- dicis. Anchusa italica Arum orixense Arum tenuifolium . Begonia pauciflora 471; et in appendice. Berberis sibirica .. Burchellia capensis .. Cactus speciosissimus Calotis cuneifolia ... Calycanthus levigatus . Canna Lamberti . Carica Papaya ; fem. Celsia sublanata .. Chimonanthus fragrans. f. Chrysanthemum indicum. 3. Convolvulus elongatus . Convolvulus pentanthus . Convolvulus siculus . Correa alba ..... Crotalaria vitellina Cyrtanthus odorus .. Delphiniom cheilantbum Delphinium grandifiorum. 8. Diosma divica; mas. Diosma lanceolata . 488. 450. 512. 487. 466, 486. ++ $04. 481. 470. 459. 488. 451. 455. 498. 439, 445. 515, 447. 503. 473. 472. 502, 476, Diospyros Embryopteris; fem. 201.499. Gardenia florida, a. ......... 20000449. Gompholobium grandiflorum . 484. Grevillea buxifolia ..... .... «443. Griffinia parviflora 511; e£ tab, in append. Hemanthos carneus +... 509. Haken microcarpa ... 475. Helianthus atrorubens . 508. Homalium racemosum . 519, Hovea linearis .. 463. Hovenia acerba 601. Ipomova sagittifolia 497. Ixora Bandhuca . 513, Jasione perennis .. . 505. Jasminum undulatum 436 ; ef in appendice. Kaulfussia amelloides . Lomatia longifolia .. . Lupinus mexicanus . Lychnis fulgens .. Malachra fasciata ... Marsdenia suaveolens Melaleuca squamea + Mesembryanthemum capitatum Mesembryanthemum elongatum Mussenda florida . Pzonis albiflora. +. Peonia mollis .... Pancratium zeylanicum Passiflora cerulea . Passiflora peltata Photinia arbutifolia Plumeria bicolor .. Plumeria tricolor . Polemonium mexicanum Psoralea melilotoides . Psoralea Onobrycbis . Pyrus salicifolia .. Quisqualis indica . Rhaphiolepis indica - Rosa fraxinifolia Rosa gallica; a. . Rosa parvifolia .. Rosa sempervirens .. Royens pubescens, fem. Rubus reflexus Rubus parvifolius . Salvia amena .... Sedum caeruleum .. Selloa glutinosa .... Stenocarpus salignus Strelitzia parvifolia; B; juncea . Strophanthus dichotomus ; f. Stramaria filifolia ..... Thunbergia grandiflora . Tournefortia fruticosa Tradescantia fuscata . Vanda Roxburghii Viburnum odoratissimum ..... 446. ++ 520. 462. Neu Je Fet ly turn UT Ieecadelly Mask h SEY. Z halaa 436 JASMINUM uridulatum. China Jasmine. — DIANDRIA MONOGY, NIA. Nat. ord. JASMINEE, Jussieu gen, 104. Div. II. Fruotus baccatus. JasMiNEUm. Brown prod. 2. 520, JASMINUM. Suprà vol. 1. fol. 1. Div. Folia simplicia. J. undulatum, foliis cordato-oblongis nitidis, ramis pedunculisque hirtis, pe- dunculis subtrifloris, laciniis calycinis rectis. Vahl enum. 1. 27; (| ache. syn. Burmanni). Jasminum undulatum. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 36; (excl. syn. Rheedei). Mogorium undulatum. Lamarck encycl. 4. 212. Nyctanthes undulata. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 8; (excl, syn. Rheedei). Arbuscula. Caulis erectus, (ramosissimus, cortice subcastaneo-fuscd: rami subbrachiato-ramulosi, elongati, diffusi, superno volubiles, numeros? ‚foliosi, nob.), teretes, uti ramuli petioli pedunculi calycesque è villis copiosis hirti. Folia brevitér petiolata, opposita, vix bipollicuria, attenuata, subun- dulata, avenia, nervosa. Pedunculi breves ex apice ramulorum. Flores albi tres vel plures. Calycis lacini setacee, Corolle limbus 8-fidus: laci- nie oblonge. Vahl loc. cit. We do not know of any published figure of this rare species. It has not appeared in the Hortus Kewensis, nor have we met with it among the numerous East Indian ones observed by Dr. Roxburgh; at least we find no mention of it in the manuscripts of that botanist in the Banksian Library. We were favoured with the specimen from a plant which flowered in Lady Aylesford's collection at Stanmore; but have never heard tliat the species has been seen in blossom in any other of our gardens. Very strong plants of it are growing at Messrs. Colville’s nursery in the King's Road, Chelsea, where they are kept in the hothouse. Native of China, and apparently more nearly related to Jasminum angustifolium than to any other; but in that the branches have scarcely any fur, tbe foliage is far more widely apart than in this, scarcely undulate and of a lighter green, ` the flowers of much larger dimensions, and the leaves with an even ovately rounded, instead of a cordately indented, base. Thetwo agree however in the curious upright straight setaceously narrowed segments of the calyx. VOL. VI. B A bushily branched dark full-leaved shrub, having a thickish straight tall clean stem with an opaque chesnut- brown bark: branches brachiately subdivided, long, twining at the upper part, numérously leaved, round, like the branch- lets petioles peduncles and calyxes covered with a close short roughish fur. Leaves cordate, oblong, of a dark dingy glossy green, shortly petioled, opposite, 14-2 inches long, tapered, slightly waved, veinless, nerved. "Peduncles gene- rally three-flowered. Flowers white. Segments of the calyx narrow, setiform, straight. Limb of the corolla eight-parted, stellate: segments oblong. Jasminum and Nycrantues are now the only genera comprised in the Order Jasminee ; abundantly distinguished, as Mr. Brown observes, from the-Oleine, lately detached from them, by the difference of the situation of the ovula, as. well as of the structure of the seed, the mode in which the . corolla is divided and its zestivation (or the way it is disposed. in the bud-state).. Neither is there any resemblance between. the general appearances of the two orders; though they co- incide i in so far as that both have a diandrous regular corolla and a fruit which.is either berried or capsular. : The Jasminee, freed from the Oleine (or Olive-tribe), have been defined by Mr. Brown in the first part of the Pro- dromus of his Flora of New Holland, and the following is our version of that character. Species shrubby and generally twining. Leaves oppo- site, usually compound, ternate or pinnate with an odd. leaflet at the end, sometimes simple; petiole jointed in most. Flowers of the corymbs opposite. Calyx of one piece, either divided or only indented, permanent. Corolla onepetalled, inferior, regular, hypocrateriform (tubular with a divided rotate limb); limb 5-8-parted, segments overlapping at the edges, imbricate and twisted together before they expand. Stamens epipetalous (upon the corolla), enclosed within the tube. Germen without any surrounding glandular disk ` (not imbedded at the base in a shallow fleshy matrix as this part is in some of the nearest tribes), 2-celled; cells one-seeded; ovula upright. Style single. Stigma 2-lobed. Fruit either a twin berry or a bipartible capsule. Seed either with a very scanty albumen or else with none at all. Embryo Straight: radicle inferior. - ES 23] TP Hebert del Til by FRhidyrag 170 Bret Mash A 1820 "SD Malls a, is y 437 IPOM(EA sagittifolia. Catesby's Ipomeea. — ` PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Coxvorvuri. Jussieu gen. 132. Div. I. Stylus unicus. CowvoLvuLACEx. Brown. prod. 1. 481. ct. I. Germen unicum." IPOMCEA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 9. I. sagittifolia, volubilis, glaberrimus; foliis oblongo-sagittatis; sin profun- dissimo: auriculis subacuminatis, pedunculis unifloris, laciniis calycis ro- tundato-ovalibus, corolla infundibuliformi-campanulatä. Pursh amer. sept, 1. 144; (sub CONVOLVULO sagittifolio). Convolvulus sagitüfolius. Michaux bor. amer. 1.132. Persoon syn. 1. 177. Pursh loc. cit. Poiret suppl. encyc. de Lamarck 3. 461. Elliot sket. 1. 254. Nuttall 1. 123. n. 9. Convolvulus speciosus. Walt. carol. 93. . Convolvulus caroliniensis angusto sagittato folio, flore amplissimo purpureo, radice crassà. Catesb. carol. 1. 35. t. 35. Perennis radice crassá caule tereti, glabro. Folia glabra margine inte- gro, mucronata, lobo antico posticis divergentibus longà acuminatis acutissi- mis plurimim latiore: petioli uni-biunciales, Flores ampli, roseo-purpurei, folia exsuperantes: pedunculis axillaribus, solitariis, unifloris, petiolo ro- bustioribus, erectis, circa medium bibracteolatis. Calycis foliola erecta, im- bricato-conniventia, ovato-oblonga, apice rotundata, subequalia, tria exte- riora reliquis manifestius mucronata. Corolla infundibuliformis, limbo exanguloso, fauce extüs carneo-pallente cylindricá unciali, triplo longiore calyce. Filamenta inequalia, basi barbata: anth. lineari-oblonge, albide erecta, basi sagittate. Stylus staminibus longior, stigmate bicolli-globoso vel didymo-capitato, albo, incluso. Caps. 2-3-valvis, bilocularis. We are obliged to Mr. Herbert for the excellent drawing of this plant, as well as for a specimen of the same. . It was raised last year in the hothouse at Spofforth from seed re- ceived from Carolina, and flowered during the summer. The species does not appear to have been introduced before, nor is there a sample of it either in the Herbarium of Sir Joseph Banks or that of Mr. Lambert. Mr. Elliot, the au- thor of the very useful work entitled * A Sketch of the Botany of South Carolina and Georgia," tells us, that it grows wild * along the sides of salt waters; among rushes and saline plants." Mr. Pursh speaks of it as native of Virginia and Carolina, and as growing in wet situations among bushes. Catesby, upon the authority of Colonel Mure, a Carolinian gentleman, said to have been an eye- B witness of the fact, tells us, that the Indians, after rubbing themselves with the juice of this plant, handle the Rattle- snake without fear of harm. The species had not been recorded in any general system of Vegetables previous to the appearance of the Synopsis of Persoon. It comes very near to the Ipomea sagittata of Messrs. Poiret and Desfontaines (the Convotvutus Wheleri of Willdenow’s Species Plantarum), a native of Spain and Barbary; but there the lower leaves are cordate and only the upper sagittate; in all other respects, however, as far as we can judge from a middling engraving and the short descriptions by which alone sagittata is known’ to us, the two resemble each other very exactly, even to the colour of the flower, and both are attached to wet maritime spots of the mutually distant regions to which they respectively be- long. Perennial. Root thick. Stem smooth round, twining about small bushes, rarely prostrate. Leaves oblongly sa- gittate, smooth, entire round the edge, the front lobe much broader than the two hinder ones, which are divergent longly tapered and sharply pointed: petioles from one to two inches long. Flowers large, of a purplish rose-colour; peduncles solitary, axillary, one-flowered, stouter than the petioles, upright, with two small opposite close-pressed bractes situated about the middle of it. Leaflets of the calyx upright, imbricately connivent, ovately oblong, rounded at the end, nearly equal, three outer ones more conspicuously mucronate than the two inner ones. Corolla funnelform; limb cornerless; faux of a pale flesh colour on the outside, cylindrical, an inch long, 3 times the length of ` the calyx. Filaments unequal, bearded at the base. An- thers linearly oblong, whitish, upright, sagittate at the base. Style longer than the stamens; stigma didymously capitate, white, enclosed within the faux. Capsule 2-3- valved, 2-celled. Sud C duranda del. Silly F Iudgway (JO Iiicadelly Manch SISO. P Mallat 438 CELSIA sublanata. Collinsonia-scented Celsia. ——— DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERNIA, Nat. ord. SOLANEE. Jussieu gen. 124. Div. Fructus capsularis, SoLANEX. Brown prod. 1. 443. Sect. II. B. CELSIA. Cal. 5-partitus. bor. rotata patens 5-loba insequalis. Fila- menta villosa. Stigma. Cups. 2-valvis. Herde ; folia simplicia aut pin- nata ; flores laxi spicati terminales, singuli unibracteati aut foliolo axillares, CELSIz cretic® filamenta 2 glabra. Juss. 1, c. C. sublanata, tota lanato-tomentosa, caule suffruticoso: foliis ovali-oblongis obtusis crenatis rugosis mollibus uno alterove pari foliolorum (nunc mini- morum) sessilium appendiculatis; staminibus pilis capitatis barbatis. Celsia sublanata. Jacq. fragm. 79. n. 247. t. 126, Planta bipedalis, tota lanato-tomentosa. Caulis suffruticosus, erectus, digitum crassus, teres, semipedalis et ultrà, supernè ramosus: rami annui, pilis albis densè obsiti, virentes. Fol. alterna, petiolata, ovali-oblonga, ob- tusa, duplicato-crenata, rugosa, mollia, uno-alterove pari foliolorum sessi- lium appendiculata; petiolis dens? hirsutis. Racemi terminales, simplices, longi, multiflori, erecti. Pedicelli subunciales, patentissimi, bracteis suf- falti sessilibus convolutis acutis subserratis et parvis. Flores suaveolentes, omninò odore COLLINSONLE. Calycis foliola ovata, acutula, villosa, vi~ rentia. Cor. rotata, fava cum fauce et ungue purpurascentibus, laciniis subrotundis, subequalibus. Fil. erecta, petalo breviora, purpurea, omnia pilis capitatis purpureis barbata. Stylus glaber: stigma obliquum. Caps. subrotunda, bilocularis, glabra: semina minuta. Jacq. |. c. Crısıa differs from its nearest co-ordinate VERBASCUM in having four instead of five stamens; according to Schrader, a stable mark and of influence sufficient to keep the two groups naturally apart, notwithstanding their close agree- ment in most other respects. We have not found any mention of the species except in the above-cited work of Jacquin. "There are no speci- mens of it in the Banksian Herbarium. Jacquin, who first observed it in the gardens of Vienna, had not learned from whence it came. In general appearance the inflores- cence comes nearest to that of Cesta Arcturus, but the foliage of sublonata is alternate and otherwise distinct, and bears a greater resemblance to that of Cexsia betonice- folia than to any other, as far as we can judge from a de- scription by Desfontaines and a costly engraving by M. Robert. The drawing was taken from a specimen sent to us by the civility of Mr. Biggs, Curator of the Botanie Garden at Cambridge; and we are not aware that the plant is in any other collection in this country. Hardy; about two feet high covered with a fur of a na- ture between woolly and cottony. Stem suffrutescent, up- right, of the thickness of a man's finger, round, about half a foot high or more, branching at the upper part: branches annual, beset with a thick white fur, green. — Leaves alter- nate, petioled, ovally oblong, obtuse, doubly crenate, wrin- kled, soft, winged with one or two pairs of very small sessile leaflets distant from the main one: petioles thickly and shaggily furred. Racemes terminal, simple, long, many- flowered, upright. Pedicles an inch or more in length, ho- rizontally extended: bractes subtending, sessile, convolute, pointed, partly serrate, small. Flowers sweet-scented. Leaflets of the calyx ovate, rather pointed, villous, green. Corolla rotate, deep yellow, with a purple faux and unguis; segments roundish nearly of the same size. Filaments up- right, shorter than the corolla, purple, bearded with purple- headed hairs. Style smooth. Stigma slanting. Capsule roundish, two-celled, smooth: seeds minute. The above is a version of Jacquin’s description; the spe- cimen having faded before we had an opportunity of describing from it. Mark. det, WM by I Ridge aty GO Pecudilly Mask /. /4d2 0. Io Ma, se, 439 CONVOLVULUS pentanthus. Jacquin’s East India Bindweed. —— PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. ConvorvuLi. Jussieu gen. 132. Div. L CONVOLYULACEX. Brown prod. 1. 481. Sect. d CONVOLVULUS. Suprà vol. a. fol. 133. Div. Caule volubili. C. pentanthus, caule volubili fruticoso, foliis oblongo-cordatis acuminatis subrepandis glabris, pedunculis umbellatim subquinquefloris, floribus sub- sessilibus, calycibus ciliatis. Jacq. ic. rar. 2. 10. tab. 316. i Convolvalus pentanthus. Jacg. coll. 4.210. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 855. Poiret suppl. Lamarck encyc. 3. 468. Frutex caule ramisque teretibus glabris. Folia oblongo-cordata v. sub- ovata, acuminata, nervosa nervo medio laterales plurimos parallelos divari- eato-ascendentes utrinque emittente, subtùs reticulato-venosa, ad marginem villosiuscula, suprà nuda, majora subtriuncialia interdüm basi subhastato- excisa sin brevi latissimo, juniora sink angusto: petiolus villosiuscu- lus uni-sesquiuncialis v. ultrà. Pedunculi axillares, solitarii, 2-6-unciales, filiformes, graciles, elastico-rigentes, ascendentes, villosiusculi, terminati cymà subcapitato-contractá pluri-( sub5-) flora subtrichotomá subfoliosá, folio- lis 2 v. bracteis ad dichotomias. Cal. foliaceus, tenuis, venosus, usque ad basin partitus, foliolis erectis, inaequalibus, ovato-acuminatis, ciliatis, 2 multà majoribus villosiusculis à plano oppositis florem nascentem intercluden- tibus, lateribus reflexis. Cor. cerulea, rotata, radiis 5 pallidioribus stellata, angulato-5-loba. Fil. equalia, basi barbuta: antherz pallide. Stylus albus, indivisus: stigmata 2 replicata, oblonga, cylindracea, brevia, albida, prui- nosa. It does not appear by any of the horticultural records that this pretty shrub has ever appeared in our gardens till last year; when it flowered in December in Mr. Kent's | richly stored and well-managed hothouse at Clapton, having been raised from seed from the East Indies. In regard to inflorescence the species has considerable affinity with Convorvuzus involucratus, an account and figure of which will be found in Volume 4. (fol. 318) of this publication. But it comes still nearer to ConvoLvuLus ma- labaricus, as far as we can judge from an unpublished figure and description of that species among Dr. Roxburgh's manuscripts in the Banksian Library; by which we find that it differs from pentanthus principally in having no bractes, a corolla of a different colour, and a small mem- branous calyx instead of a large foliaceous one. A twining shrub; stem and branches round, smooth. Leaves oblongly cordate or subovate, taper-pointed, with a midrib furnished on each side with numerous parallel diva- ricately ascending nerves, reticulately veined underneath, slightly villous at the edge, quite naked on the upper side, the larger ones about three inches long, sometimes subhas- tatedly cordate at the base with a shallow but very broad sinus, in the younger ones the sinus is always narrow: petiole slightly napped, from an inch to an inch and a half long or longer. Peduncles axillary, solitary, from two to six inches long or more, filiform, slender, firm and elastic, ascending, slightly napped, terminated by a several-(about 5?)-flowered subtrichotomous somewhat leafy cyme with a pair of small leaves or bractes at the forks of the divisions. Calyx leafy, thin, veined, parted to the base, leaflets up- right, unequal, ovate, taper-pointed, fringed, 2 much larger than the rest facing each other shutting in the flower- bud and reflexed at the sides. Corolla blue, rotate, with a star of five paler points, five-lobed and cornered. Filaments equal, bearded at the base: anthers pale. Style white, un- divided: stigmas two, divaricate and reflexed, oblong, cy- lindrical, short, frosted, whitish. — N. The stigmas in the outline of the dissection are somewhat magnified. P del, È A È ? r 4 L y, Meet IJO Kivenddly Mambo A 1820 440 440 STRUMARIA filifolia. Fine-leaved Strumaria. — aana HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Narcıssı. Jussieu gen. Div. IL AMARYLLIDEE. Brown 1.296. Sect. O STRUMARIA. Spatha a-valvis, brevior umbellá bracteatà. Cor. su- pera, erecta v. nutans, regularis, subeequalis, 6-petalo-partita, turbinata ad stellato-divaricatam, laciniis lanceolatis, nunc in tubum ad basin connexis. Fil. disco corolla inserta, haud rarò exserta, distincta v. monadelpha v. alterna 3 inter se concreta 3 altera gynandricé cum stylo: anth. oblonge, plurimüm breviores filamentis, versatiles. Stylus strictissimus, polymorphus, nunc fusiformis triquetro-sulcatus, nunc alatus, nunc infernè strumà varia protuberans: stig. 3, attenuata, replicata vel in cuspidem coadunata. Caps. membranacea, trigibba, g-valv. valvis medio septigeris: sem. biserialia, in loculamentis singulis pauca, v. unicum bulboso-laxatum albumine herbaceo- emollito. Bulbus tunicatus. Fol. 2-plura è vaginá radicali, filiformia ad lorato-oblonga, à plano bifaria, nunc tardiora scapo. Umbella parca laza ad congesto-multiradiatam. In quibusdam corpuscula 3 strumosa inter stylum et stamina videnda, Differt HEMANTHO, tam ob spatham non multivalvem quàm ob capsulam non baccatam; à LEUCOJO ob spatham non follicularem ob antheras breviores filamento, necnon. haud inversas neque apice hiantes. Nob. in Curtis's magaz. 1303. 8. filifolia, foliis filiformibus, corollis stellato-divaricatis: stylo strumA inflatá anguloso-plicatä infra medium protuberante. Strumaria filifolia. Jacq. ic. rar. 3. 14. Willd. sp. pl. 2.32. Hort. Kew, ed. 2.2. 213. Leucojum strumosum. Solander in Hort. Kew. 1. 407. t. 5. Jacq. coll. 3. 222. ic. rar. t. 361; (in ipsá icone non verò in textu.) Thunb. prod. 68. . Crinum tenellum. Lin. suppl. 194; (excl. synonymo). . . Bulbus ovatus magnitudine ovi passerini. Fol. plura, plurimim longiora scapo, procumbentia, subtus convexa, suprà canaliculata. Scapus 3-4-uncia- lis penné corviná duplo gracilior, flexuosus, nunc infra sanguineo-rubens. Umbella pluri(6-10-)-flora, laxa: pedunc. patentes, unciales v. ultrà, EE formes, strictiusculi, suprà subtriquetri. Flores inodori. Germ. subg sum, 3-gibbum. Cor. erecta, micans, intús candicans, extis cinamomeo- punicans, semunciam transversa v. circà, laciniis 3-plo latitudine engustiori- bus, subunguiculatis, concavis, ad basin usque distantibus. Fil. distincta, $ breviora corolle, basi ovato-dilatata contigua, indé setaceo-subulata patentia: anth. cinnamomeo-rubentes. Stylus albus, inferné strumá obovato-turbinatá angulari-plicatá micante extumescens, indè triquetro-subulatus, 3-suleus: stig*. obsolete trina. This genus, comprising a very naturally assorted group, is remarkable in its ordinal section, for the strange incon- stancy in the configuration of the style, a part of almost un- deviating uniformity throughout the rest of the section. VOL. VI. c In this genus however it is a part more prone to conspicuous change in the transitions of species, than even the less es- sential ones, and those usually the subjects of obvious va- riation, are found to be in most other vegetables—and it would seem as if this circumstance was combined with a similar tendency in the filaments, which occur within the corresponding limits, sometimes entirely distinct, at other times variously monadelphous, at others partly monadel- phous and partly gynandrous, three alternate ones adhering one to the other, the rest to the style; differences that in Strictness would require their dispersion among three dis- tant classes of the Linnean System. All the species yet known belong to the Cape of Good Hope; from whenee the present was introduced by Mr. Masson in 1774, aud soon after recorded by Dr. Solander in the first edition of the Hortus Kewensis, under Leucasum; from which genus, though plainly its near of kin, it differs in not having a follicular or unilaterally debiscent spathe, nor reversed anthers longer than the filament, and that shed the pollen from an aperture at their summit. In the genus our species is known by a style with a tur- binately ovate angularly plaited wenlike protuberance, form- ing the part below the middle and just above the base. The drawing was taken towards the end of autumn from à plant that flowered in the conservatory of Mr. Griffin, at South Lambeth, where the bulb had been recently received from abroad. We never saw it growing in any other collection. —— SPECIES. spiralis. nob. in Curtis's magaz, tab. 1383. rubella. Jacq. ic. rar. tab. 358. stellaris. nob. AMARYLLIS. Jacq. hort. schenb. tab. 71. crispa. nob. in Curtis's magaz. tab. 1363. È ata. nob. în Curtis's magaz. tab. 1620. undulata. Jacq. ic. rar. tab. 360. linguefolia. Jacq. ic. rar. tab. 356. truncata, Jacg. ic. rar. tab. 357. angustifolia. Jacq. ic. rar. tab. 359. filifolia. Supra. 1 359 un Ar D del Lit by iat Katgvruy YO Sicovalilly ati: 4.13 DO 2729 441. STENOCARPUS salignus, Willow-leaved Stenocarpus. —— TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. PRoTEE. Jussieu. gen. 78. Div. II. Fructus unilocularis P polyspermus. B . ROTEACER. Brown in trans. lin. soc. 10. 1 A iv, II. Fructus dehiscens. Subdiv. A. Unilocularis 5 segg; Div STENOCARPUS. Cor. irregularis, petalis distinctis secundis. Sta- mina epieibus cavis petalorum immersa, Glandula hypogyna unica, semi- annularis. Germ. pedicellatum polyspermum. Stylus deciduus. Stigma obliquum, orbiculato-dilatatum, planiusculum. Folliculus linearis. Semina basi alata! Frutices glaberrimi. Folia alterna, integerrima. Umbelle axillares v. terminales pedunculate. Flores ochroleuci. Brown prod. 1. 390. S. salignus, foliis elongato-lanceolatis basi trinervibus. Brown prod. 1. 390. Stenocarpus salignus. Brown in linn. trans. 10. 202. i ' It is a notable fact in botanical geography, and of which the observation is due to Mr. Brown, that the type of no australasian species of the present natural order, has been found to have extended itself into another region. With the exception of the present genus, a species of which has been found in New Caledonia, and of Lomarıa exemplified by several species in South America, the same observation applies to genera under the existing definitions. Srenoearpus appears to come between Lomatia and Banksia, and consists at present of two species, of which only the New Holland one has found its way into our gar- dens. When we do not exactly know, but most probably not long since. It has not a place either in the Hortus Kew- ensis or in Sweet's Catalogue, tbe latest and most compre- hensive enumeration of the plants in our gardens. The drawing was taken from a sample that flowered in the greenhouse at the nursery of Messrs. Colville in the King's Road, Chelsea, where it had been raised from im- ported seed, along with other eurious plants from the same quarter. c2 The generic name has been suggested by the narrowness of the follicle (unilaterally dehiscent seedvessel). The main technical difference that marks the group in its tribe, ‘is the striking anomaly of the seed being winged at the base, instead of the summit. Both species are smooth shrubs with alternate entire leaves, axillary or terminal umbels borne on stalks, and cream-coloured or greenish white flowers. They are com- prised in the following general character: Corolla irre- gular, petals distinct, in one direction. Stamens sunk in the hollow of the tops of the petals. Hypogynous gland (a gland below the germen) solitary semicircular. Germen È dicled (with a stalk), many-seeded. Style deciduous. Stigma slanted, orbicularly dilated, flattish. Follicle linear. Seeds winged at the bottom. The species is distinguished from its congener Forsteri by elongately lanceolate leaves with three nerves at the base. We should observe that the flowers are exceedingly fra- grant; with the flavour of those of OLEA odoratissima. SP Malti. IU, 1 Hart. del. Subo Ly ae Ridgway GO Melilla . March 1 18220 442 LOMATIA longifolia. Long-leaved Lomatia. — TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. PRoTEX. Jussieu gen. 78, Div. IL Fructus 1-loc. polysper- mus. PnRorEACEX. Brown in trans. linn. soc. 10. 15, segg. Div. IT. Fructus dehiscens. Subdiv. A. Unilocularis. LOMATIA. Cor. irregularis, petalis distinctis secundis. Stam. apici- bus cavis corolla immersa. Glandule hypogyne 3, secunde. Germ. pedi- cellatum, polyspermum. Stylus persistens. Stig. obliquum, dilatetum, subrotundum, planiusculum, Folliculus ovali-oblongus. . apice alata; alè marginatà, disco evasculoso, Frutices. Fol. alterna, in lerisque di- visa v. dentata, rariùs integerrima, quandoque in eodem ice varia. Racemi terminales, interdum axillares, elongati, laxi, nunc abbreviati co- rymbosi, paribus pedicellorum 1-bracteatis. Flores ochroleuci. Involuer. nullum. Seminis nucleus faring sulphured conspersus. Brown prod. 1. 389. L. longifolia, foliis lineari-lanceolatis elongatis glabris remot? serratis, race- mis axillaribus, pedicellis corollisque pilosiusculis, pistillis glaberrimis, rown prod. 1. 390- Lomatia longifolia. Brown in Finn. trans. 10. 200. Sweet hort. suburb, lond. 22. Embothrium myricoides. Gert. sem. 3. 215. t. 218? (oomjectante Dom, Brown.) Tricondylus myricmfolius. Knight et Salisb. prot. 122. The foliage of the plant of our figure was considerably narrower and far less conspicuously indented than in the na- tive specimens in the Banksian Herbarium: the racemes were also longer and more remotely flowered. But we believe the differences to be entirely imputable either to se- minal variation or exotic culture; and not the types of specific origin. The species is not enumerated in the Hortus Kewensis; but we find by Sweet's useful Catalogue of the Garden Plants in the environs of London, that it was introduced in 1816 from New Holland; where it was originally observed by Mr. Brown on the Eastern Coast, near Port Jackson, growing on rocky banks of rivers and streams. Lomatia is the only genus of the australasian Proteacew, besides STENOCARPUS of the preceding article, that has been yet observed to extend its type into other regions. It con- sists at present of eight species, three of which belong to South America, the rest to New Holland. "The following is the version of its character as defined by Mr. Brown. Corolla irregular: petals distinct, in the same direction. Stamens sunk within the hollow summits of the corolla. Hypogynous glands (glands below the pistil) 3, in one direction. Germen stalked, mauy-seeded. Style perma- nent. Stigma slanted, dilated, roundish, a little flattened. Follicle ovally oblong. Seeds winged at the top; wing bordered, evascular in the space within the border. The species consist of shrubs with alternate and for the most part either divided or toothed leaves, seldom quite entire, but sometimes varying in this respect on the same plant: racemes that are generally terminal, but sometimes axillary, sometimes elongated and loosely flowered, sometimes close and corymbose; pedicles in pairs with one bracte to each pair; cream-coloured flowers: no involucre: and the body of each seed powdered over with a sulphur-coloured meal. Longifolia is specifically distinguished in the genus by its linearly lanceolate elongated smooth widely serrate leaves, axillary racemes, slightly furred pedicles and corollas, and smooth pistils. The drawing was taken last summer from a plant in the conservatory at the nursery of Messrs. Colville in the King's Road, Chelsea. It is still rare; although of easy culture and propagation. Aust de RSA Ly SS Higway /70 Rica My March / £20 Wa Dath A 443 GREVILLEA buxifolia. Box-leaved Grevillea. —— TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. PRoTEX. Jussieu gen. 78. Div. II. Fructus unilocularis polyspermus. . PROTEACER. Brown in trans. linn. soc. 10. 15, segg. Sect. IT. Fructus dehiscens. Subdiv. A. Unilocularis. GREVILLEA. Cor. irregularis; petalis laciniisve secundis: apicibus cavis staminiferis. Anth. immerse. Glandula hypogyna unica, dimidiata. Germ. dispermum. Stig. obliquum depressum, (rarò subverticale, conicum.) Folliculus 1-loc., 2-spermus, loc. centrali. Sem. marginata, v. apice brevis- Sim? alata. Frutices rariüs arbores, pilis dum adsint medio affixis? Fol. alterna, indivisa v. pinnatifida. Spice nunc elongate racemose, nune ab- breviate corymbosa v. fasciculiformes, involucro wullo, pedicellis geminatis, rarò pluribus, paribus fasciculisve 1-bracteutis. Corolle sepissime rubi- cunde nunc flava, in quibusdam oblique inserte. — Folliculi vel coriacei ovati, stylo toto coronati, seminibus ovalibus, angustissim? marginatis et apice bre- vissimè alatis: vel lignei, suborbiculares, pseudo-bivalves, basi tantummodd styli mucronati, seminibus undique alatis. Brown prod. 1. 375. Div. I. Folliculi coriacei stylo toto stigmateque depresso coronati. Semina ovalia angustissime marginata, apiceve brevissimé alata. — Subdiv. c. Folia omnia integerrima. Flores fasciculati, subumbellati. Pistillum lanatum, pedicellatum. — Folliculus ecostatus. En1osTYLIS. Brown l. c. G. buxifolia, foliis ellipticis suprà punctatis scabris subtàs tomento adpresso cinereis, stigmate orbiculato appendicem recurvum vix sequante. Brown rod. 1. 379. Grevillea buxifolia. Brown in trans. lin. soc. 10. 174. Idem in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1; 206. Embothrium buxifolium. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 538. Smith new holl, 29. t. 10. Andrews’s reposit. 218. Embothrium genianthum. Cavanill. ic. 4. 60. t. 387. Stylurus buxifolia, Knight et Salisb. prot. 115. Stylurus collina. Knight et Salisb. prot. 116! (conjectante Dom. Brown.) This pretty shrub was introduced by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy from New South Wales in 1790. The drawing was taken from a plant that flowered in the greenhouse of Messrs. Colville, of the Chelsea Nursery in the King's Road, in November last. We shall transcribe some remarks on the genus from Mr. Brown's elaborate account of the order to which our plant belongs. * GreviLLea is probably the most extensive genus of Proteacee in New Holland, and admits of division into several very natural sections, most of which are readily dis- tinguishable by more than one character, existing either in the parts of fructification or in habit, notwithstanding which Y have not ventured to separate them into distinct genera, as I probably should have done, had I been acquainted with fewer species; but have given to each section a proper name, a practice that may perhaps be advantageously adopted in all large genera, where they are thus capable of natural subdivision. It must be unnecessary to observe that proper names can in this manner be given only where the sections are perfectly natural and not in those cases where genera have been subdivided from single characters, and those too of but little importance, as in Thunberg’s division of Pro- TEA, from the form and division of the leaves, to which may be opposed the masterly subdivision of the same genus given by Linnaeus in the Mantissa, whose sections, though appa- rently depending upon single characters, are evidently formed from a contemplation of the whole structure, as far as it was then understood; and it is remarkable that, with the exception of the first species, with whose real structure he was necessarily unacquainted, the rest are arranged, and even divided into sections, in most cases corresponding with the genera proposed in the present way." Buzifolia falls within the division distinguished by cori- aceous follicles surmounted by the entire style with its depressed stigma, and by oval seeds which are either very shallowly bordered all round or very shortly winged at the top; and within the subdivision entitled EnrosrYLIs, con- taining those species where the leaves are all entire, flowers fascicled and subumbellate; pistil woolly and stalked, and the follicle without ribs. Among these it is specifically cha- racterized by elliptical leaves dotted and rough above, cinereous underneath, from the effect of a close-pressed cottony fur, and by an orbicular stigma that is scarcely equal to its recurved appendage at the top. Our page will not admit of the version of the definition of the genus by Mr. Brown. ^N A x x Y I È sè x N NS y Y > 5 A thy FÀ ge A ite 444 AMARYLLIS aulica. Mr. Woodford’s Amaryllis. —,]À—— HEXANDRIA AfONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Narcıssı. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. IL AMARYLLIDEE. Brown prod. 1. 996. Sect. L AMARYLLIS. Supra vol. 3. fol. 226. Div. Bi-multiflore: tubus coronatus: folia bifaria. A. aulica, biflora, ringens; foliis nitidis; tubi coroná firmá coloratà obsoletà denticulatá; laciniá ima limbi infernè involutà; staminibus inclusis. Amaryllis aulica. Nobis in journ. of scien. and the arts. 2. 353. Sweet hort. ub. lond. 65. n. 10. ` Bulbus integumentis einerascentibus. Fol. plùs minis 9, lorato-elongata, utrinque attenuata, erecto-divergentia, non glauca. Scapus vix longior foliis, teres, glawciusculus. Germ. lat? virens, oblongum, rotundaté 3- gonum, exsulcum, estriatum. Cot. nutans punicea, venis saturatibus picta, infernè pro y parte virescens, subsuncialis, 6-petalo-partita, campanulato- ringens, labio inferiore porrecto, superiore suberecto-patente: tubus subnullus, viridis coronà viridissimá 1 uncie profundá v. circà; faux turbinaté dilatata viridis ord utráque atrosanguineo-rubens; lacinie oblonge, lanceolate, tres exteriores 2 summis interioribus duplo angustiores, labii inferioris tres infra imbricato-conniventes supra distantes, harum laterales 9 lineori-oblonge sur- sùm obliquate cartaliculate, media latior porrectior longiùs acuminata infrd ex lateribus inflexis filamenta incumbentia comprehendens. Fil. fasciculata, de- elinato-resurgentia, breviora limbo, rubra, parùm inaqualia, infernà albo et rubro varia, crassitudine fermé penne corvina: anth. atro-purpuree, erecto- vibratiles; pollen sulphureum. Stylus filamentis subequicrassus concolorque, longitudine corolle: stig. 3 replicata, rubro-violacea, pruinosa. This splendid novelty was imported by Mr. Griffin from the Brazils. It flowered in the hothouse at South Lambeth in December last: - A name had been already attached by ourselves to the species, taken up in a paper on this genus in the second volume of the Journal of Science and the Arts from a transient view of a sample produced in the gardens at Kew. The species belongs to a division of the genus dis- tinguished by a crowned tube. In most this crown is an in- conspicuous shallow colourless pellicle shredded into a kind of fringe; but in a group of 3 newly recorded ones among which is the present, this appendage is nearly entire, sub- stantially membranous, conspicuous, and seemingly associ- ated with the production of a two-flowered scape, if we are VOL. VI. D to judge from the specimens we have witnessed in the in- stances of calyptrata, psittacina, and aulica. Our plant differs from its two immediate relatives in having a bright foliage, the outer segments of the corolla much narrower than the inner, and the lowermost one of all involute below the middle; specially from calyptrata by stamens which are shorter than the limb, from psittacina by a more deeply divided corolla and a broader crown of one colour. The species was first observed by the late Mr. Woodford. —ÉÜ—— We have withdrawn the AmarviLis hyacinthina of the .163d article (given in the second volume of this publication) from the genus where it had been provisionally deposited, ‘and bave founded a new one upon it, under a name in- .tended as an acknowledgment of the benefit derived to Bo- tany from. the pursuits of Mr. Griffin; the means through which many and valuable additions have been made to the Liliacea of our collections. GRIFFINIA hyacinthina. GRIFFINIA. Spatha a-valvis umbellà polyanthá brevior. Cor. infun- dibuliformis nutans, limbus 6-partitus irregularis bilabiato-campanulatus, laei- nie 2 laterales labii superioris ceteris dissimiles collaterali-conniventes. Fil. summo tubo inserta, unum remotum arrectum, reliqua declinata. Germ. loculamentis imo angulo collaterali-dispermis: stig. simplex. Sem. (ex dictá D. Griffin) globosa, durids tuberosa, nitida. Differt AMARYLLIDE stamine uno inflexione ceterorum contrarid, laci- niis 2 labii superioris disparibus colore substantia atque inflexione quadante- müsque etiam formå, loculamentis germinis ovulis 2 arrectis collateralibus angulo interiori fundi annexis, et foliis petiolatis cum laminá costatá. Pe- dunculi fructiferi floriferis plurimum productiores, Semina magnitudine pisi majoris, pallide flavicantia. . Griffinia hyacinthina. Amaryllis hyacinthina. Nob. suprà vol. 2. fol. 163. et in journ. of scien. and the arts. v. 2. 369. J [^ 7 : a "v " JI P E LIA E d ^ 5. 2 Y ADS rs 222977 SIGLA f, à n X. Fb Ze F Kıdzeray 7 E F ec Y AH LOL AV. ARA s 445 CONVOLVULUS siculus. Small-flowered Bindweed. —,dÁ— PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. CONVOLVULI. Jussieu gen. 132. Div. E+ CoNvoLvULACEE. Brown prod. 1, 481. Sect. L CONVOLVULUS. Supra vol. 2. ol 133. . Div. Caule prostrato s. non volubili, C. siculus, foliis cordato-ovatis superioribus acutis, junculis uniftoris ‘folio brevioribus, bracteis oblongo-lanceolatis calyce ciliato longioribus. Willd. enum. 1. 205. Convolvulus siculus. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 223. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 2. Willd. pl 1.866. Hort. Kew. 1. 212. ed. 2. 1. 335. Lamarck encyc. 3-540. Flor. grec. t. 196. Lam. $ Decand. flor. franz. 3. 646. Convolvulus ovatus. Manch meth. 450. Convolvulus siculus minor flore o anriculato. Boecon. sic. 89. tab. 48. Convolvulus africanus minor. Moris. hist. 2. 18. t. 7. fig. 5. Annuus prostratus v. raris. subvolubilis, lis v. subsesquipedalis, ramosus, distanter foliosus, ramis teretibus lanato-pilosis. Fol. sparsa inflexione subsecundá, subeordato-ovata, sesquiuncialia v. circa latitudine 4 partium uncie, nervosa, pilosiuscula; petiolus triplo brevior laminá v. ultrd. Pedunculi solitarii, axillares, uniflori, filiformi-graciles, bis longiores petiolis, pilosi, juxtà infra calycem opposito-bibracteati; bracteis foliaceis elongato-lanceolatis pubescentibus patentibus duplo longioribus calyce. Cal. pilosus; foliola elliptico-laneeolata, acuminata, piloso-ciliata, persistentia, 2 interiora duplo fere minora, 3 exteriora subequalia parùm breviora corollá. Cor. è minimis generis, ceruleus; limbo turbinato-rotato, tubo brevi pallido. Caps. globosa, glabra, apiculata, 2-loc. 4-sperma, The smallest flowered of its genus we have met with. Usually ranked in the division of trailers or those which do not climb by twining round foreign support; but as the branches of our plant are sometimes seen to wind round each other as they lie on the ground, it seems to us to be rather an intermediate link between the twining and the trailing divisions of the genus, than to belong exclusively to either. : Native of the southernmost parts of Europe, the Coast of Barbary, and Greece. Cultivated, as stated in Parkin- son's Theatrum Botanicum, by Mr. James Boel in 1640; - but now very rare in our gardens, where we had never met with it, till last October, when we found it in a collection D of curious annuals in the borders of Messrs. Colville’s nur- sery in the King's Road, Chelsea. Annual; trailing and occasionally in some degree twin- ing, from a foot to about a foot and half long, branching, distantly leaved, branches round, with rather a woolly fur. Leaves scattered, inclining one way, subcordately ovate, about an inch and a half long, and about 2 of an inch over at the broadest part, nerved, slightly furred: petiole thrice shorter than the blade or more. Peduncles soli- tary, axillary, one-flowered, filiform, slender, twice as long as the petiole, furred, oppositely bibracteate just below the calyx; bractes leafy elongatedly lanceolate, pu- bescent, spreading, twice longer than the calyx. Calyx hairily furred; leaflets elliptically lanceolate, taper-pointed, fringed, permanent, two inner ones nearly twice smaller than the others, three outer ones nearly of one size, little shorter than the corolla. Corolla the smallest of any in the genus, azure blue; tube short, pale, limb turbinately rotate. Capsule globular, smooth, with a small point at the top, two-celled, four-seeded. Sit: Ci Y A Niky corny I 7 O Fecade ily . Aol , Pal by 2 Auhry AGO Pica y Apu / ELISE btt. At. ne mmc LE Aa S nmt mee rt e lt IP a i a. 450 ARUM orixense. Orissa Cuckow-point. — MON(ECIA POLYANDRIA. Nat. ord. AROIDEE, Jussieu gen. 33. Div. I. Spadix spathà invo- lutus. AROIDES (includentes tam TYPHAS quam AROIDEAS Jus- sieuii). Brown prod..1. 333. Sect. I. Flores diclines; Perianthio (calyce nob.) nullo. Arcidea vere. - ARUM. Spatha monophylla, cucullata, basi convoluta. Spadiz apice nudus, medio staminifer, Re eris multiserialibus; - basi femineus: sæpiùs Staminibus pistillisve sterilibus fertilibus approximatis. Bacee uniloculares, polyspermæ, Semina parieti altero inserta. Radicula umbilico obversa. Brown prod. 1. 335. Div. Acaulia foliis simplicibus, A. orixense, foliis hastato-tripartitis, spathà pedunculatä bicolori spadice longiore: apice lanceolato deflexo. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2: 5. 309. Arum orixense. Roxburgh MSS. cum tab. pict. ined. — Andrews's repotit. 356. Brown prod. 1. 336. Carey hort. beng. $n loc. Perenne, acaule, radice tuberosá subanfractuoso-rotundatá, albá, mag- nitudine circitór ovi pullastrini minoris, fibris circa gemma matricem cri- nitä. Folia radicalia, petiolata, profundo trilobata, 8-10-uncialía, lobis ovatis acuminatis repandis nervo geminato peripheria proximé parallelo à * parte supiná circumdatis: petioli teretes erecti attenuati striati 12-unciales, basi convoluto-vaginantes. Scapus azillaris (subterraneus) pro tanto dun- taxat elongatus ut spatham proximé extra humum sublevet. Spatha petiolis brevior striata erecta, intüs rubro colorata, extús herbacea. $ bast (femineus) germinibus congestis indéque contiguo suprà contectus filamentis sterilibus ramosis, medio antheris aggregato-circumdantibus extumescens, indè supra iteràm filamentorum priorum consimilium annulo! crinitus; clavà nudá coccineá subulatá spadicem totum reliquam «quante basi. latiore subtus- que concavá terminatus. Roxb. MSS, (ex angl. versum). . ` The species has been observed by Dr. Roxburgh in the East Indies and by Mr. Brown in New Holland; and was introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1802; but still continues to be exceedingly rare in our collections. The drawing was taken by Mr. Herbert from a plant that flowered last autumn in the hothouse of his Botanic Garden at Spofforth, a source from which numerous rare plants are finding their way among the curious. Among Dr. Roxburgh’s unpublished drawings in the Banksian Library there. is a coloured representation of this Te ee nos plant done in India, From this we have borrowed the sketch of the spadix, to be seen by the side of the principal figure in our plate; and from the manuscript illustration of the drawing the following account. * Native of the shady Mango-Groves, &c. near Semul- cotah, where the soil is pretty dry and fertile. Root peren- nial, tuberous, nearly round, white with small inequalities; surrounded by fibres at the top where the leaves and scape come out. Stem none. Leaves radical, petioled, deeply three-lobed, 8-10 inches across each way, lobes ovate, pointed, a little scalloped, smooth, with a double nerve at the under side near to and parallel with the margin: petioles erect, round, tapering, striate, about 12 inches long, sheath- ing and embracing each other at the base. Scapes axillary very short, just long enough to elevate the spathes above the ground. Spathes shorter than the petioles, striate, erect, red on the inside, herbaceously green on the outer. Spadir surrounded at the base with germens crowned (placed im- mediately below) many yellow branching (antherless) fila- ments; swelled in the middle with anthers; and above these a second row of barren filaments; club scarlet, as long as all the rest of the spadix, upright, tapered from a concave base to a point which is neither obtuse nor sharp.” * The roots when fresh are exceedingly acrid, more so than those of the Common Dragon (Arum Dracunculus) or the Wake-Robin (Arum maculatum) of Europe. The natives apply them in cataplasms to discuss or bring forward scir- rhous tumours. They also apply them externally for the bite of venomous snakes; at the same time giving inwardly a piece about as big as a field-bean.” The Aroidee of Mr. Brown include the Typhe as well as the Aroidee of Jussieu, and are defined by a character, of which the following is intended for the english version. Flowers spadiceously aggregated (collected together in a body upon a spadix); sometimes bearing the stamens and the pistils separate and usually naked; sometimes with a 4-6- seldom 3-parted calyx bearing both stamens and pistil. Stamens in the naked flowers aggregated, in those with a calyx opposite to the segments s the calyx and generally equal to them in number, with an£hers that face outwards. Germens, in flowers where stamens and pistil are borne in separate ones, placed at the lowermost part of either the same or a different apadix, aggregated: in those where the stamens and pistil are borne ia one flower, solitary within the calyx, detached, 1-3-celled, 1-manyseeded, ovula upright, some- times inverted or else inserted at the wall of the cell, Style either none, or simple. Stigma 1. Seedvessel close, either ber- ried or else with a shell. Seeds with an albumen (perisperm), seldom (and then most probably only after germination has begun?) without. Embryo (rudiment of the future plant) in the axis of the albumen, straight, cylindrical, monocotyle- donous (with one seed-lobe). Radicle (rostel) obtuse, point- ing towards the umbilieus of the seed, seldom the contrary way. Cotyledon (seed-lobe) cylindrical, having on one side, (outwardly where the seedvessel is manyseeded) a short longitudinal cleft situated near the radicle. Plumule (plume) 2-3-leafletted, leaflets rolled inwards at the edge, the outer- most one placed opposite to the cotyledon, embraced between the edges of the cleft belonging to that viscus, more or less uncovered and enfolding the inner mutually fronting ones. Plants either herbaceous or else suffrutescent. Roof either tuberous or else thick and fleshy. Leaves sheathing, simple or compound, all usually upon the root. Spadir terminal, lateral, or radical, mostly only one and shrowded by a spathe; sometimes naked. "Mr. Brown observes that the only distinctive character that marks the order throughout, is afforded by the embryo, which is of a very different structure from that of any other of the vegetable groups comprised in the monocotyledonous class to which this order belongs. AnuM belongs to the first section of its order, consisting of the genuine Aroidee, with androgynous naked flowers; and has received a generic definition from Mr. Brown, of which the version is as follows. Spathe of one piece cucullate (cowled), convoluted at the base. Spadir naked at the top, bearing the stamens (consisting of numerous rows of an- thers) in the middle, and the germens at the bottom: gene- rally having barren stamens or barren pistils near to the fer- tile ones. Berries one-celled, manyseeded. Seeds inserted on one side of the loculament or cell. Radicle pointing to- wards the umbilical point of the seed. It is suggested by the same author, that the genus will hereafter be to be divided into two, according to the struc- ture of the germen which is manyseeded in some, and clearly one-seeded in others. And he observes that it is still a mat- ter to be investigated whether those appendages of the spa- dix always found near. the anthers in genuine Arums (the ones with manyseeded fruit) are of course to be regarded as barren stamens, while on. the other hand in the one-seeded Species where they are contiguous. to the germens they are consequently to be accounted as barren germens. Orixense is known among its congeners, by hastate three- parted leaves, a peduneled two-coloured spathe longer than tlie spadix, lanceolate and deflexed at top. , . N. In the last fasciculus, fol. 440, page 2, lino 16, for * LEUCAJUM" read “ LEUCOJUM;” in the last line of the second page of fol. 441, for “ OLEA odoratissima,” read ** OLEA fragrans,” (7) NN y 451 CHIMONANTHUS fragrans: 8. grandiflorus. Large-fiowered Japan Allspice. — :— ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nat. ord. CALYCANTHEZ. Lindley supra vol. 6. fol. 404... CHIMONANTHUS. Stamina subrqualia, petti, 6 exteriora fertilia, maturitate basibus connatis faucem operientia. Frutices (Japonie) ramis virgatis. Flores axillares, solitarii, odori; flavescentes, intüs purpu- rei. Lindley suprà vol. 5, fol. 404 in nota ad calcem peg. — - Chimonanthus fragrans. Lindley MSS. Calycanthus precox. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2. 718. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1120. Hort. Kew. 2. 220. t. 10. ed. 2. 8. 282. Curtis's magaz, 466. Obai s. Robai. Kam > amen. Mir 878. t. 879. (B) grandiflorus; flonbus subrotundis majoribus: laciniis patentibus: exteri- * rs nane margine crispatulis. Lindley MSS. . (2). Frutex virgatus. Rami oppositi, virgati, impubes, cortice pallid? brun- neo scabrello; ad nodos tumidi. Folia opposita, brevitèr petiolata, rigida, lanceolata, acuminata, plana, integerrima, scabra, venis primariis precipud subtüs pilosiusculis, supra atro-viridia niténtia, infra pallidiora. Flores post folia, odoratissimt, axillares, subsessiles, sohtarii, cernui; bractem numerose, pilose, brunnec, imbricate, superiores sensim majores, demim transeuntes in perianthium: foliolis impubibus, imbricatis, basi in tubo con- matis, exterioribus ovalibus, concavis, obtusis, margine plano sew crispatulo, amen? lutescentibus, semidiaphanis, interioribus uxgwiculatis, sensim minori- bus, crassioribus, coccineis albi: aculatis. Stamina fauce carnosá inserta, numero variabilia, sepissimé 10, tum serie duplici; 5 exteriora fertilia, Jilamentis carnosis pilosiusculis, foliolis intimis breviora, ultra anthoras pos- ticas, ellipticas, adnatas, biloculares, longitudinalitér dehiscentes, lutes- centes, medio semiseptiferas, producta: pollen sphericum; interiora toti- dem paulo breviora, filiformia, pilosa, equalia, stylorum longitudine. Sta- mina plura utriusque seriei quandóque superadduntur, sed hec vel manca vel sità irregularia. Ovaria (germina) receptaculo carnoso in basi tubi sessilia, unilocularia, impubia : ovulis duobus, verticalibus, adscendentibus, i citissime obliterato ; styli totidem, filiformes; stigmata simplicissima. Fructus oblongus, & tubo perianthii incrassati, velutinus, laciniis is cicatrizatus, fuscus, staminibus persistentibus carnosis basi connatis (an semper?) coro- natus, sapore terebinthino. Achenopses 1 v. 2 (5-6 ex Kempt.), oblonga, brusnea, nitida, basin versüs pilosa, cornea. Semen solitarium adscendens ; testa papyracea, pallid? brusnea; raphe crassa rectilinea axi ad- versa; aza orbicularis. Embryo CALYCANTH1. Lindley MSS. « Under the article CALYCANTHUS fertilis in vol. 5. fol. 404, I have proposed to distinguish the CALYCANTHUS præ- cox of Linnæus as a separate genus, by the name of Cumo- nanraus. ‘The propriety of this measure has been con- firmed by my subsequent observations. It differs very ma- VOL. VI. . F terially from the true Catycanrut, which are confined to North America, in baving the fruit crowned by the persist- ent, recurved, fleshy stamens, which grow together and close up its orifice. The difference in number of stamens is also of importance, because in the present genus they are ten inserted in a double row; in Catycantuus, on the con- trary, 48 and inserted in four rows, the innermost being merely rudimentary; so that CHIMONANTHUS must not be understood as a reduced CaLvcaNTHUS, because, if it were such, its stamens would. be twelve, or some such division of 48, and not ten, which is a division of 40. The pericarpia (seedvessels), moreover, are very numerous in CALYCANTHUS, and few in Cuimonanravs.” * There is some reason to suppose that two species are confounded under the name of CaLYcaNTHUS precor, in the gardens. But as I have beeti unable to ascertain their limits satisfactorily, I shall confine myself to indicating in what the chief differences appear to consist. The one, which is that figured in the Hortus Kewensis and Curtis's Magazine, has greenish yellow flowers, of which the outer segments are even at the edge and scarcely spreading, and the inner ones dull purple; the other of which my figure in flower is a representation, has large, clear, yellow, roundish flowers, whose outer segments are sometimes curled at the edge and spreading, and inner ones bright red. I have not succeeded in detecting other differences, but am assured that the leaves of the large-flowered sort (which is cultivated in the collec- tion of Comtesse de Vandes, at Bayswater) are rougher than those of the other, and of a lighter green. It is necessary to state, that the fruit and details of the plate all belong to the small-flowered kind.” ° ©“ From the drawings of the Chinese I am disposed to believe that at least one more species exists among them, | with very small yellow flowers. There is also, in an inva- luable collection of Japanese wood-figures of plants in Sir Joseph Banks's library, a representation of what I am ` willing to consider a fourth species of CurmonantHUS, with smooth egg-shaped fruit, and a very stunted habit." Lind- ley MSS. d i 1 Aa, fruit of C. fragrans; (x); 1, stamens of the same with perianthium (calyx) torn off; 2, a section of the same; 3; 8 section of an ovarium (germen); 4, fruit divided vertically; 5, an achenopsis; 6, the same divided vertically; 7, the. seed; 8, the embryo; 9, the same divided transversely. Lindley. This valuable article is a contribution by Mr. Lindley, as is also the fine drawing of the present unpublished variety (probably distinct species) as well as the representation of the fruit of the previously published variety and the masterly illustration of its constituent members, of which the figures of the minuter kinds are highly magnified. — NOTE. The english generic name of ARUM orizense of the 450th article (see the fasciculus for last month) has been accidentally misprinted ** Cuckow-point” for ** Cuckow-pint.” r2 I Lay 622. ( me A tilly - I, V. "A /d eo. ala MANLY, 22 452 ROSA parvifolia. Burgundy. Hose. — — ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nat. ord. RosacE®. Jussieu. gen. 334. Div. II. Rose. ROSA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 46. Div. VI. Centifolie. Setigere, armis difformibus; bracteate. Foliola ob- longa vel ovata, rugosa. Discus incrassatus faucem claudens. Sepala (foliola calycina) composita. Lindley monogr. 60. R. parvifolia, nana, armis subzequalibus, foliclia rigidis ovatis acutis argute serratis, sepalis (foliolis calycinis) ovatis. Lindley monogr. 70. n. 42. Rosa parvifolia. Ehrhart beytr. 6.97. Willd.-sp. pl. 2. 1078. Persoon syn. 2.50. Smith in Rees’s cyclop. in loco. Rosa remensis. Desfont. cat. 175. Decand. fl. franç. 4. 443. Mer. par. 191. Rosa burgundiaca. Rössig rosen. t. 4. Gmel. bad. als. 2. 431. Brotero » lusit. 1. 339. LM fusca compacta casia: rami subglaucescentes,stricti, erecti, graciles, aculeis inequalibus tenuibus subfalcatis setis parce intermixtis armati. Folia surculorum adultiorum bis saltém internodiis longiora, ramulorum novellissi- ‘simorum confertissimè aggregata; stipulae lineares, subnude, glandulis ci- liate, lucidé virentes; petioli pilosi, aculeolis paucis robustis subtùs armati, glandulosi; foliola 3-7, sepissimé 5, parva, rigida, ovata, acuta, plana, ‘subtilissime et simpliciter dentata dentibus hinc glandulá donatis, suprà saturate opacéque virentia rugosa atque nuda, subtüs cinereo-pallentia va- ricoso-venosa costé mediá pilosá, par imum, cum paria trinis plura, ple- rümque exiguissimum. lores solitarii, ramulis novellis exsuperati, ebrac- teati, purpurei, seriebus multiplicibus petalorum semper repleti; peduncu- lus depilis, setis paucis invalidis adspersus: calycis tubus ovatus, nudus; foliola (sepala) ovata cum acumine, subsimplicia, concava, reflexa, pilosa glandulisque adspersa, plurimim breviora petalis: petala patentia, preter interiora partim. germinibus provenientia arctissimeque imbricantia; styli pilosi, aliquantulum. exserta, à pube sud invicèm coherentes. Lindley loc. cit, (ex angl, versum). Through the ingenious and'instructive Monograph of the Roses with which Mr. Lindley has just presented the pub- lie, the history of that intricate group has been freed by sound criticism from tbe obscurity and ambiguity which have hitberto perplexed the study of it, and its bounds largely extended by newly observed and curious species illustrated by original descriptions and admirably charac- teristic figures. The subject of this article is found under the section Cen- tifolie, a section named after its assumed type the Rosa cen- tifolia of Linnzus, of which the Rosa provincialis of suc- ceeding writers is ably shown by Mr. Lindley to be an un- guarded repetition, while the centifolia of the same autho- rities is proved to belong to the Linnean gallica. In this way provincialis becomes justly merged in centifolia. The section consists of damascena, centifolia, gallica, and parvi- folia; and comprises in their varieties all the primeval fa- vourites, as well as the kinds which afford the celebrated essential oil called “ Attar of Roses." A hint is dropped by Mr. Lindley showing, that in his opinion, it is not im- probable but that centifolia may have been the parent- «stock of the entire section. . ** This species forms a little dark, compact, blueish grey plant. Branches somewhat glaucous, straight, erect, slen- der, armed with unequal, scattered, slender, somewhat . falcate prickles and a few setz. Leaves on the strongest -shoots at least twice as long as the joints, on the branchlets very densely aggregated; stipules linear, nearly naked, fringed with glands, bright green; petioles hairy, having at the back a few strong short straightish little prickles, glandular; leaflets 3-7, usually 5, small, stilf, ovate, acute, flat, very finely and simply toothed; serratures with a gland on one side, of a deep dull green, rugose, and naked above, pale _ash-colour, with a hairy rib and prominent veins beneath, the lowest pair, when more than three, generally very small. Flowers solitary, overtopped by the young shoots, without -bracteze, purple, always very double; peduncle naked; sepals (calycine leaflets) ovate with a point, nearly simple, concave, reflexed, hairy and scattered over with glands, very much shorter than the petals; these are spreading, except the inner ones, which are in part formed from the ovaria (ger- mens) and very closely imbricated; styles hairy, a little pro- truded, and adhering by their down.” * 1 have little hesitation in distinguishing this particu- larly from gallica (see above, fol. 448), especially as I have the autbority of the accurate and observing Ehrhart for doing so. It surely differs as much from that, as that does from centifolia; and as I have no varieties to enumerate of it, there is the less difficulty in finding characters that may be depended upon. I have seen it growing in the most sterile and the most fertile soils; yet without material alteration in its appearance, and most certainly without the slightest tendency to assume the characters of gallica (its nearest kin). M. Durand is reported, on the authority of M. De- candolle, to have found this wild on the mountains in the neighbourhood of Dijon." Lindley monogr. l. c. iro pu RET È A 453 PSORALEA Onobrychis. Rough-podded Psoralea. Louisiana Saint-foin. —— DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. ‘ Nat. ord. Lecuminosa. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V. Corolla irregularis papilionacea. Legumen 1-loc. 2-valve.—P APILIONACEJ&. Brown in ap- pend. Flind. voy. 2. PSORALEA. Suprä vol. 3. fol. 223. P. Onobrychis, caule alto glabro; foliis ternatis, foliolis ovato-lanceolatis subpubescentibus, racemis (axillaribus) longé pedunculatis, secundis, legumine subovato muricato glabro, radice flagelliformi. Nuttall gen. 2. 104; excluso Muhlenb. catal. (Ex angl. versum). Stylosanthes racemosa. Fraser's catalogue for 1813. Caulis spadiceo-fuscescens, 3-5-pedalis; ramis striato-angulosis villosis. Foliola 3-4-uncialia latitudine subduplo minore longè acuminata, utrinque punctata villosaque; petioli proprii villosi, foliolorum lateralium subminorum: brevissimi, centralis semunciam longus v. magis triploque petiolo communi bre- vior; stipule parve lineari-subulate, erecte, hirsute. Racemi plurimi, soli- tarii, confertiùs spicati, subequales folio; spica subinterrupta, duplo brevior pedunculo dense villoso v. multò magis, pedicelli per binos? vel trinos? segregati - pilosiores subbreviores calyce, deflexi, bracteá singulá lineari-subulata hirsuta, citò caduca ad basin cujusque fasciculi: flores parvuli, purpurascentes. Cal. turbinato-cainpanulatus, impunctatus, appresse villosus, duplo brevior co- rollá, (10-nervis?) brevi-bilabiatus equalis dentibus 5 acutis, labio superiore 2-dentato, inferiore 3-dentato. Corolle petala omnia obtusa; carina brevior: inclusa, (non vidimus recentem). Germ. oblongum, brevius calyce, compres-- sum, utrinque attenuatum (subpedicellatum?) papillosum: stylus duplo longior, glaber, à medio cum angulo obtuso ascendens: stigma punctum sub- capitellato-obtusum. Stam. diadelpha: filamentum alterum brevissime 9- fidum: anthere subrotundo-ovate acutule. (Legumen ex Nuttall, calycem exsuperans, monospermum, nigrum, tuberculis vehementér exasperatum ). A species observed by Mr. Nuttall on the banks of the river Merrimek, a few miles from St. Louis, in Louisiana. That botanist had not however seen the flowers before he recorded it, but ranked it in the present genus from the glandularly dotted foliage and the short one-seeded pod; observing at the same time that the plant had much the ap- pearance of an Hepysarum, and naming it specifically after the Onobrychis (or Saint-foin plant) of that genus. Seed was given by Mr. Nuttall to Mr. Lambert; and the plant raised in the gardens of Boyton House, whence the sample for the drawing was kindly sent to us during last summer. Mr. Nuttall questions whether our plant may not be the PsomaLEA hedysaroides of Muhlenberg's Catalogue; but ` there the flower is yellow. A hardy tall-growing herbaceous perennial. Stem brown, 3-5 feet high; branches flutedly angular villous. Leaves ternate; leaflets ovately lanceolate, long-taper-pointed, slightly furred and glandularly dotted on both sides, 3-4 inches long, about half as broad, two side-ones somewhat smaller, all when dry of a heavy yellowish green; common petiole shorter than the leaflets; lateral partial ones very short, central one about half an inch long or more; stipules small, linearly subulate, upright, shaggy. Racemes many, axillary, solitary, equal to the leaves or thereabouts, pe- duncle thickishly furred, twice as long as the spike or more; spike somewhat broken, closish; pedicles scatteredly de- tached in pairs or triplets? thickishly furred, rather shorter than the calyx, deflexed, with a single linearly subulate shaggy quickly falling bracte at the base of each pair or triplet: flowers small, purplish red, sweet. Calyx turbinately campanulate, not dotted, close-pressedly furred twice shorter than the corolla (10-nerved?), shallowly 2-lipped, equal, with five pointed teeth, 2 to the upper lip, 3 to the under. Petals all blunt, the two of the carina enclosed by the ale; (but we did not see the flowers while fresh). Germen oblong, shorter than the calyx, compressed, tapered at both ends (somewhat stalked?) papillary: style twice longer, smooth, bent upwards with an obtuse angle near the middle: stigma a small headed point.. Stamens diadelphous; one filament very shallowly 9-cleft: anthers roundish, ovate, rather pointed. Pod (according to Mr. Nuttall) overtopping the calyx, one-seeded, black and extremely rough with tu- bercles. —— NOTE. _ The following synonym may be added to the ASTRAGALUS caryocarpus of fol. 176, vol. 2 of the present work; Astragalus carnosus. Nuttall gen. 2. 100; (non tamen Purshii speciem quan- dam SOPHORE cui perperám ex D. Nuttall fructum ASTRAGALI camosi attribuerat intelligentis ). 4 454 PSORALEA melilotoides. Melilot Psoralea. n DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. Lecuminosa. Jussieu gen. 345. Div, V. Cor. irregularis papilionacea. Leg. 1-loc. 2-valv.==PAPILIONACEE. Brown in append, to Flind. voy. 2. PSORALEA. Supra vol. 3. fol. 223. Div. Foliis ternatis. P. melilotoides, foliis omnibus ternatis, foliolis lanceolatis, pedunculis folio longioribus spicatis: spicis lineari-lanceolatis, bracteis calyce longioribus. Solander MSS; (sub. P. Asphaltite). Psoralea melilotoides. Michauz dor. amer. 2. 58. Pursh amer. sept. 2. 475. Ventenat malm. 04. — Curtis's magaz. 2063. Psoralea Melilotus. Persoon syn. 2. 347. Psoralea Asphaltites. Solander in Herb. & Sched, banksianis. Specimine ontaneo sicco assumpta. Melilotus psoraloides, Nuttall gen. 2. 104. "Trifolium psoralioides. Walt. carol. 184. Hedysarum leguminibus monospermis, foliis ternatis foliolis lanceolatis. ron. virg. ed. 1.87; (affirmante specimine archetypo Claytoni in Herb. Gronov. in Mus. banks. Hoc malè a Linneo HEDYSARO violaceo, nunc LESPEDEZE violacex, pro synonymo adjunctum est.) Melilotus flore violaceo, odore remisso. Clayton n. 103. (ex specim. arche- typo). Onobrychis (forte) Asphaltites angustiori folio triphyllo floribus purpureis spicatis ex terrà mariana. Pluk. mant. 140; (affirmante specimine Herbar. luknetiani pag. 133; fide Solaudri ). Caulis angulatus, erectus, ramis caule brevioribus. Fol. alterna, ternata, petiolata: petiolo communi unciali: foliola lenceolata, obtusiuscula, sub- glabra sed punctis callosis utrinque adspersa, equalia: impar longiüs è reli- quis remotum quàm illa à basi (in superioribus, inferiora non vidi). Sti- pula lineares, lanceolate, punctis adsperse. Pedunculi è supremis alis, und? subterminales, foliis duplo v. triplo longiores. Flores subsessiles spicati: spica lineari-lanceolata. alyces punctis glandulosis adspersi. Bractex punctis magis callosis adsperse, ovale, acuminate, floribus 3-plo longiores, eosque arcte includunt ante explicationem dum bractee cadunt; valde enim caduca sunt. Soland. I. c.— Perennis, herbacea, pubescens. Racemus longis- sim? pedunculatus. Cal. varicoso-venosus. Cor. violaceo-pallens. Ale du- plo longiores cariná v. ultrd. Legumen wm, nudum, longitudine calycis, gibbosum, transversó rugosum, stylo persistente resupinato termina- tum. Nuttall loc. cit. (ex anglico.) By the inspection of the corresponding sample in the Claytonian Herbarium, from which the Flora Virginica was compiled by Gronovius, we are certain that our plant be- longs to the species cited from the first edition of that work; VOL. VI. G but at the same time we perceive that some confusion has been produced in the subsequent history of the species, from the plant having been erroneously identified by Linneeus with his widely distinct Hrpysarum violaceum, and by the error having been adopted, instead of corrected, by Gro- novius in the second edition of the Flora Virginica, where our plant (the one of the first edition) appears under the specific phrase by «which Linnzeus had distinguished Hepysarum violaceum in his Species Plantarum, while the right phrase of the first edition is in this postponed to the wrong one, and transferred to the synonymy. We have in consequence omit- ted all reference to the second edition of the Flora Virginica. The species was taken up many years ago by the late Dr. Solander, under the specific title Asphaltites, from a spontaneous sample in the Banksian Herbarium. The de- scription we have published from the manuscript, anxiously wishing to promulgate even the least unnoticed memorial of that accomplished pupil of Linnzus. We are at a loss to conjecture why Mr. Nuttall should have displaced the species from this genus, with the asser- tion that it is not furnished with the glandules or calli, that denote an affinity to Psorauea; the foliage of the plant being in fact covered with such. The drawing was taken from a sample that flowered in the Sloane Square Nursery; the seed of which had been im- ported from Virginia, where the species is native, by Messrs. Frasers. It is a hardy herbaceous perennial. Not enume- rated in the Hortus Kewensis. Stem trom a foot to a foot and a half high, angular, up- right, roughishly furred. Leaves alternate; leaflets very slightly furred, glandularly dotted, lanceolate with a bluntish point, equal; central partial petiole on the upper leaves as long or longer than the general one; stipules linear, lanceolate, glandularly dotted. Peduncles from the axils of the upper leaves, hence in some sort terminal, twice or thrice the length of the leaves (4-6? inches long). Flowers racemosely spiked, shortly stalked, of a palish violet-blue: raceme linearly lanceolate (3-4? inches long), upright. Calyx pubescent, varicosely veined, and glandularly dotted. Bractes ovate, taper-pointed, three times the length of the flowers and enveloping them before they expand, after which they quickly fall off, dotted with glandules of a harder consistence than those of the other parts of the plant. Ale twice the length of the very short carina. Pod one-seeded, the length of the calyx, gibbous, cross-wrinkled, not furred. Fil Ly LE Rıdywny /h c. Piccadilly May! IE). 45 A 455 CHRYSANTHEMUM indicum; 3. superbum. Superb White Indian Chrysanthemum. m BYNGENESIA POLYGAML4 SUPERFLUA. Nat. ord. Comrosıtz. Adanson fam. 2. 103. CoryMBIFERS. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. III. Receptaculum nudum. Semen nudum seu non papposum. Flores radiati. CHRYSANTHEMUM. Supra vol. 1. fol. 4. Chrysanthemum indicum. Character speciei cum synonymis supra vol. 2. fol. 4. videndus. We have been favoured with the following very useful communication from Mr. Sabine, the Secretary to the Hor- ticultural Society. The description of the species and the synonymy have already been given in the fourth article of the first volume of the present publication. “ Since the two varieties were figured in the fourth plate of the first volume of the Botanical Register, some fresh im- portations have added others to the number already known of this ornamental species, amongst which is the one now represented, which came from China in 1817. The drawing was made from a plant that flowered in the autumn of 1818 in the nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the King’s Road, Chelsea. * Although the colours into which the flowers of this species sport in China are many, yet it has so happened, that of the twelve varieties which are now established in this country, four are white: of these the plant represented in the aunexed plate is by far the finest, the terminating flower of the corymb being frequently near four inches in diame- ter. The inflected direction of the florets sufficiently dis- tinguishes this from the others. The tubular part of each floret enlarges towards the lip, which does not expand as in several others, but assumes a hollow shape in consequence of the contraction of its edges and apex. The following is a list of the varieties we have alluded to above: e. Purple. Bot. Mag. 327. ß. Changeable White. Bot. Mag. 2042. y. Quilled White. Bo Reg. 4. e 3. Superb White. Bot. Reg. 455. s. Tasselled White. €. Quilled Yellow. n. Sulphur Yellow. 8. Golden Yellow. Bot. Reg. 4. « Large Lilac. x. Rose or Pink. a. Buff or Orange. p. Spanish Brown. * Many others are described in different accounts of Chinese plants, as well as represented in drawings of un- questionable authority, some of them much excelling in beauty and splendour any of those above enumerated. We understand that Messrs. Barr and Brookes have, amongst other valuable novelties, obtained three new kinds by their late spirited mission of a gardener to Canton; and the Hor- ticultural Society have also imported several in the last season, which will still further increase the number of vari- eties.” Sabine, The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Col- ville, King’s Road, Chelsea. if TP L CEP. ge / Gory ha ) Z7 / / DS Mo Laut. del, AA MY ga gg I LL I to Y 7 Pigaditly May ve ICI xr. $ ^ is * e 456 VIBURNUM odoratissimum. China Laurestine. — n PENTANDRIA THIGYNIA. Nat. ord. CAPRIFOLIA. Jussieu gen. 210. Div. INI, Calyx bractea- tus. Stylus nullus: stigmata 3. Cor. monopetala. VIBURNUM. Supra vol. 5. fol. 316. V. odoratissimum, sempervirens, glabrum; foliis coriaceis elliptico-oblongis, distanter subdentatis margine reflexo: thyrso omnino hermaphrodito bra- chiato, ramulorum pedunculis trichotomo-pedicellatis. Frutex sempervirens, erectus, glaber, ramis teretibus robustis punctis ex- tantibus, verruculatis. Fol. opposita (modò verticillato-trina), coriacea, patentia, elliptico-oblonga, distantér nervosa, margine subtili cartilagined reflexä obsolet? distantérque dentatá vel interdum subintegrá, petiolum versüs attenuata, acumine brevi obtusulo apiculata, subtüs pallentia, juniora lucido letèque virentia, seniora opaciora, majora nunc 5-uncialia latitudine fermé 3-unciali: petiolus ad maximum 3 uncie longus. Thyrsi terminales brachiato- decompositi, stricti, laziùs numerosiflori, subtriunciales, glabri, patentes bracteati, ramulis in pedunculos trichotomo-pedicellatos terminantibus: pe- dicelli proprii brevissimi crassi basi cicatrice dilapse bractee profund? notati; bracteze sphacelate, acuminate, caduce ; pedicellorum minime. Cal. mi- mutus, campanulatus, rotundatè 5-lobulatus, pallidus. Cor. carnosula, tur- binato-rotata, alba, caduca, lutescentèr-emarcescens: tubus triplo longior calyce vel magis fauce dilatatá; limbus sublongior tubo, revoluto-reflecten- dus, laciniis rotundatis convexis. Fil. tubo adnata, laciniis corolle alterna, divaricata, equalia limbo, subulata, alba, stricta, persistentia: anth. in- cumbentes, oblonga, biloba, lobis linearibus basi sagittato-distinctis: pollen ochroleucum. Germ. disco glanduloso depresso viridi orbiculato fundo calycis delitescente insidens, virens, conicum, «quale calyci, rotundatè trigonum, tubo corolle inclusum, stigmate obsoleté tricolli continuo pallido pruinoso apiculatum. A handsome evergeen shrub, with blossom scarcely in- ferior in fragrance to that of the well-known Sweet Olive of India (Orga fragrans). The species is of recent introduc- tion, and said to be native of China. It does not appear to have been recorded. The plant from which the drawing has been taken was kindly sent to us by Sir Abraham Hume from the collection at Wormleybury, where it flowered last February for the first time in this country. It has been treated till now as a hothouse plant, but will probably be found to (lower more freely when it shall have been treated less tenderly. We saw fine strong samples of it in the stove at Messrs. Colvilles, of the Chelsea Nursery in the King's Road; but none of them have yet been brought to flower. A handsome upright smooth evergreen shrub; branches round, robust, beset with small warts. Leaves oppo- site (sometimes in whorls of three), coriaceous, spread- ing, elliptically oblong, widely nerved, with an extremely narrow cartilaginous refiexed edge obsoletely and widely toothed or sometimes nearly entire, tapered towards the petiole, shortly and bluntly pointed at the top, young ones of a bright lively green, old ones darker and duller, the larger ones about 5 inches long by 3 broad: petiole at most about à of an inch in length. Thyrse terminal, brachiately decompounded, stiff; loosishly and numerously flowered, about 3 inches long, smooth, spreading, bracteate, branch- lets terminating in trichotomously stalked peduncles: partial pedicles very short thick with a deep scar at the base from the falling off of the bracte: bractes sphacelate, taper-pointed, caducous, those of the pedicles minute. Calyx minute, campanulate, roundedly 5-lobed, pale. Corolla rather fleshy, turbinately rotate, white, caducous, turning yellow or buff as it fades; tube 3 times the length of the calyx or more, with an open dilated orifice; limb rather longer than the tube, revolutely reflexed in the end, segments rounded convex. Filaments adnate to the tube, alternate with the segments of the corolla, divaricate, equal to the limb, subu- late, white, stiff, permanent: anthers incumbent (or lying across the point of the filament), oblong, two-lobed, lobes linear sagittately parted at tlie base: pollen cream-coloured. Germen placed upon a green orbicular glandular insunk disk at the bottom of the calyx, green, conical, equal to the calyx roundedly 3-cornered, inclosed in the tube of the corolla, surmounted by continuous pale frosted triple- knobbed stigma. —— NOTE. In the article VIBURNUM rugosum of the 376th article of the fifth Volume of this Register, we have omitted to insert the following synonym of that Li les. Vibumam rigidum. Ventenat maim. 00. aru AL "n a Matta or , 457 LUPINUS mexicanus. Mexican Lupine. —— DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. LEGUMINOS®. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V. Corolla irregu- laris papilionacea. Stam.10. diadelpha. Legum. uniloculare bivalve. Fru- tices aut herbe; folia simplicia aut ternata aut rariüs digitata; stipule sub- nulle, nunc conspicue imo petiolo adnate aut ab eodem distincte. — PAPI- LIONACEA. Brown in append. to Flind. voy. 2. LUPINUS. Calyx 2-fidus laciniis integris aut dentatis. Carina basi bipartita. Stamina basi monadelpha; antheris 5 subrotundis, 5 oblongis. umen coriaceum oblongum polyspermum. Herbe; folia digitata, stipulis imo petiolo adnatis; flores spicati terminales, in spicá alterni aut subverticil- lati, nudi aut bracteati. An Lupinus integrifolius Linnei affinior Crora- LARLE? Juss. loc. cit. 354. L. mexicanus, calycibus alternis appendiculatis labio superiore semibifido, inferiore obscurè 3-dentato. Lagasca gen. et P: i, 22. Planta preter corollam omnind molli-pilosa. Foliola 3?-5?-7-8, elongato- cuneata, angusta acumine brevi, longè deorsum attenuata, suprà nuda, in- frà pilis sericeis albicantia, longiora biuncialia, petiolis pilosis breviora ; stipula: subulato-lineares erecte pilose. Racemi spicatim elongati, laxis multiflori, foribus sparsis purpureo-carulescentibus venis saturatioribus pictis, ante anthesin bracteosi: pedunculus (ex Lagascá) oppositifolius; pedi- celli hirsuti, ascendentes subbreviores calyce: bractew lineari-subulate, an- gustissime, longiores calyce, caduce. Cal, hirsutus, viridis, labiis divari- catis, summo emarginato-fisso. Vex. conduplicato-reflexum, ex imi disci plicd margines supremas alarum infern? equitans; ale dolabriformes, acute, è marginibus anticis coherentes; carina pallens, ascendens, angusta, subu- lato falcata, longitudine alarum, acumine longiusculo saturate violaceo. Anthere flave, alterne tardiores lineares, alterne precociores subrotunde. Germ. setoso-pilosum: stylus assurgens penicillo stigmatoso terminatus. A handsome species, lately introduced into the Botanic Garden at Madrid from Mexico. Its seed was sent by M. Lagasca to Mr. Lambert; and from this the present plant was raised in the garden at Boyton House, where it flowered last February in the stove. Probably biennial? but its duration has not been yet ascertained amongst us. In Mr. Lagasca's opinion it comes nearest to Lupinus Ther- mis, an egyptian species. The whole plant, except the corolla, is more or less beset with a long soft pile. Leaflets 3?-5?-7-8, cuneately elong- ated, narrow, shortly taper-pointed, tapered for a consider- able way downwards, naked, rendered white underneath by their silky fur, the longest about two inches in lengtb, shorter than the long-piled petioles; stipules subulately linear, up- right, long-piled. Racemes spiked and long, widishly many- flowered; flowers scattered, of a purplish blue colour with deeper streaks, bracteose (or intermixed with longish bractes) before they open: peduncle (according to M. La- gasca) opposite to its leaf; pedicles shaggy, inclining upwards, somewhat shorter than the calyx: bractes linearly subulate, extremely narrow, longer than the calyx, caducous. Calyx shaggy, green, with divaricate lips, the upper one of which is split at the end into a notch. Vexillum foldingwise reflexed placed astride by the deep plait at the lower part upon the upper edges of the ale; ala dolabriform (hatchet-shaped) pointed, cohering by their front edges; carina pale, inclining upwards, narrow, subulately falcate, the length of the ale, with a longish deep violet tapered point. Anthers deep yellow, alternate ones linear and shedding their pollen later, the other 5 round. Germen setaceously furred: style ascend- ing, terminated by a pencilled stigma. DE Lindley A Gg. aL, 18777 fy PEAR, lg 22777 £3 J dalai edelle ina, VA 1020. LM albato : 458 ROSA fraxinifolia. Newfoundland Rose. n ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nat. ord. RosacE®. Jussieu gen, 334. Div. IL Rose. ROSA. Calycis tubus urceolatus carnosus ackenia plurima. hirsuta in- cludens. Receptaculum villosum. Lindley monogr. xxi. Div. IV. Cinnamomer. — Setigere, v. inermes, bracteate. Foliola lanceo- lata eglandulosa. Discus tenuis (nequaquam incrassatus). Lindley monogr. 13. , R. fraxinifolia, elatior inermis, ramis strictis glaucescentibus, foliolis opacis undulatis impubibus. Lindley monogr. 26. n. 17. Rosa fraxinifolia, Bork. holz. 301. Gmel. bad, 2. 413. Rosa alpina. 8. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 265. Rosa alpina levis. Redoute's roses. 1. 57. t. 19. Red alpine rose. Miss Lawrance's roses. t. 75. Rosa corymbosa. Bose dict. d'agr.? — Desfont. cat. hort. paris. 2727 Rosa blanda; a. Solander MSS. Jacq. fragm. 70. t. 105. Rosa virginiana. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 10. Rami erecti, inermes, fusco-purpurei, rore casio cerino obducti; surculi radicales aculeis paucis setiformibus debilibus ad basin muniti. Folia opaca, omninò impubia; stipula late, extrema versus plurimàm dilatate, plane, serrulata; petioli inermes; foliola 5-7 lanceolata, simplicitór serrata, suprà incanescenti-virentia, infra glauca. Cymax pauciflore, floribus parvis ru- bris; bractez elliptice, nude, fimbriate atque denticulate; pedunculi bre- viores foliis, nudi; tubus calycinus depresso-globosus, incanus, nudus; sepala (foliola calycina) ovata, integra acumine longo, dorso hispidata; petala ob- cordata, subconniventia; discus non distinctus; styli villosi. Fructus par- vus, globosus vel ovatus, opacè et pallidé rubens, nudus. Lindley monogr. loc. cit. (ex anglico versum). “ In appearance and size resembling Rosa cinnamomea. Branches erect, unarmed, dark purple, covered with a pale blue, waxen bloom; rootshoots with a few weak setiform prickles at their base. Leaves opaque, entirely free from pubescence; sfipule broad, much dilated towards the ex- tremities, flat, serrulate; petioles unarmed; leaflets 5-7, lanceolate, simply serrate, greyish green above, glaucous beneath. Flowers small, red, in few-flowered cymes; bractec elliptical, naked, fringed and toothletted; peduncles shorter than the leaves; tube of the calyx depressedly glo- bose, grey—these last quite naked; sepals ovate, entire, with a long point, hispid at the back; petals obcordate, VOL. VI. H somewhat converging; disk not distinct; styles villous. Fruit small, round or ovate, dull pale red, naked.” “I have already (under Rosa blanda) attempted to explain why this, the original Rosa blanda, should not now be distinguished by that appellation. In determining on another for it, I have thought it right to take the oldest, excepting Miller's, for which probably no one will con- tend. The description of Bosc’s Rosa corymbosa answers so closely to this species that I have few doubts of the propriety of citing it here. So little reason was there to suppose this to be a variety of Rosa blanda, that, in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis, it has actually been considered as not distinct from Rosa alpina.” Gathered in Newfoundland by Sir Joseph Banks.” * The want of prickles distinguishes this from most of the section. Rosa blanda when unarmed, as it often is, is readily known by the downy stalks of its leaves. Cinnamo- mea in a similar state may be recognized by the same cha- racter, with the addition of the majority of its leaves on its stipules being inflexed at the edge, not reflexed.” Lindley monogr. 26, 27. The drawing for this article was kindly contributed by Mr. Lindley; from. whose able Monograph of the genus the above synonymy and account of the species have been borrowed. CARICA Papaya; femina. Papaw Tree; fertile flowered plant. — DIECIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. CUCURBITACEE. Jussieu gen. 399. Div, V. Genera Cu- curbitaceis affinia, germine supero przecipué distincta, CARICA. Cal. minimus 5-dentatus. Masc. Cor. monopetala tubulosa infundibuliformis, limbo 5-lobo. Stam. fauci corolle inserta; alterna fila mentis duplo brevioribus, calyeinis laciniis opposita; anth. erecte oblongw. Fam. Cor. 5-partita. Germ. superum oblongum; styli 5 breves; stigmata dilatata compressa, cristata. Bacca maxima cucumerina aut ovata, ó-sul- cata, oblonga, inths pulposa 1-loc. ad parietes 6-placentaris polysperma; sem. numerosa, arillata, arillo testam fragilem rugosam 1-spermam obvolvente. Embryo planus in albumine compresso carnoso oleoso. Arbores succo lac- tescente glutinoso, ligno fungoso levi, trunco indiviso aut raris ramoso, subspinoso aut sepius inermi et pristinorum foliorum vestigiis tantüm scabro ; fol. terminalia conferta alterna longè petiolata, digitata aut sepids palmata et subtus in nervorum concursü subsquamuloso ; flores axillares, MASCULI in longis pedunculis racemosi penduli aut erecti, FEMINEI pedunculo cras- siori breviori et paucifloro insidentes; quidam interdum HERMAPHRO- DITI in ‚foemineis arboribus observante Trewio, in masculis memorante Com- mersonio; fructus esculentus peponiformis. Juss. l. c. (sub PAPAYA). C. Papaya, foliis palmatis septemlobis, lobo intermedio sinuato, laciniis oblongis acutis, floribus masculis corymbosis, Willd. sp. pl. 4. 814. Carica Papaya. Linn. sp. pl. 2. 2. 1466. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n.1. Hughes barbad, 181. 14, 15. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 6. 399. Smith in Rees’s cyclop. in loco. Kunth nov. gen. et spec. 2. 99. Papaya vulgaris. Lamarch illustr. tab. 821. Papaya Carica. Gaertn, sem, 2. 191. t. 122, fig. 2. . Carica fronde comosa, foliis peltatis: lobis varie sinuatis. Browne jam. 360. Arbor Platani folio, fructu Peponis magnitudine eduli. Merian surinam. 40. t. 40. et tabb. 62, 64. : Papaya-maram. Rheede mal. 1, 23. t. 13. fig. 1. 9. (Mas) Ambapaya. Rheede mal. 1. 21, t. 16, fig. 2. Papaya mas. Ehret pict. t. 3. fig. 1. Rumph. amb. 1. 145. tt. 60. 61. (Fem.) Papaya fructu oblongo melonis efigie. Trew eret. t. 7. The separate flower and pistil at the bottom of the na- nexed Plate are represented of the natural dimensions, but the principal figure is diminished in the proportion which these flowers bear to those in tbeir places on the plate, that the general appearance of the tree might be shown in our page. The drawing was taken from a sample produced in the Duke of Northumberland’s: garden near- Brentford, where H 2 the plant was cultivated in the hothouse. The present indi- vidual belonged to the fertile-flowered side of the species, which is dioicous. ‘The flowers of the barren side of the species are very different, but these we have not yet met with. The genus is placed, by Jussieu, as an anomalous associate among the Cucurbitacew. It has a superior ger- men, instead of the inferior one of the genuine members of the order. The following account of the species is borrowed from that by Sir J. Smith in Rees's Cyclopedia. “Somewhat the habit of a Palm. Root perpendi- cular, whitish, spongy, of a disagreeable taste and smell. Stem twenty feet high, a foot thick, naked almost to the top, marked almost its whole length with the scars of fallen leaves, of a tender substance like that of the Banana, solid towards the base, hollow in its upper part. Leaves on petioles near two feet long, the lower ones almost horizontal, upper ones erect, deeply divided into 7, 9, or 11 sinuated gashed lobes, alternate, near to- gether. Flowers axillary, white, sweet-scented; barren ones in slender, pendulous racemes, 2 or 3 feet long; pedicles short; fertile-flowered ones numerous on short simple peduncles. Fruit about the size of a small Melon; various in its form, sometimes angular and flattened at both ends, sometimes oval or round, and sometimes pyramidal, yellow when ripe, containing a yellow suc- culent pulp of a sweetish taste and aromatic smell. It is seldom eaten raw, but, when boiled, is esteemed a whole- some sauce to any kind of fresh meat. It is also sometimes pickled in vinegar, and is frequently preserved in sugar, and sent to Europe with other tropical sweetmeats. When ripened in our stoves, it does not acquire its proper flavour, and is even said by Miller to be detestable. The whole plant abounds with a milky acrid juice. Barren flowers are occasionally fonnd on the fertile-flowered plants, and vice versá. A native of both the East and West Indies. The ANNONA triloba, trifid Custard-Apple, is also called the Papaw-Tree in the southern states of North America.” Grown in 1690, at the Royal Garden at Hampton Court. Said by Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland to be culti- vated over the whole of South America. We shall insert in this place some instructive observa- tions, relating in part to the subject of the present article, from Mr. Brown's View of the Botany of Congo. * [t is particularly deserving of attention, that the greater portion of the plants now enumerated, as cultivated on the banks of the Congo, and among them nearly the whole of the most important species, have probably been introduced from other parts of the world, and do not originally belong even to the continent of Africa. Thus it may be stated with confidence that the Maize, the Ma- nioc or Cassava, and the Pine Apple, have been brought from America, and probably the Papaw, the Capsicum, and Tobacco; while the Banana or Plantain, the Lime, the Orauge, the Tamarind, and the Sugar-Cane, may be considered as of Asiatic origin." * In a former part of this essay, I have suggested that a careful investigation of the geographical distribution of ge- nera might in some cases lead to the determination of the native country of plants at present generally dispersed. The value of the assistance to be derived from the source referred to, would amount to this; that in doubtful cases, where other arguments were equal, it would appear more pro- bable that the plant in question should belong to that country in which all the other species of the same genus were found decidedly indigenous, than to that where it was the only species known to exist. It seems to me that this reasoning may be applied with advantage towards determining the original country of several of the plants here enumerated, especially of the Banana, the Papaw, the Capsicum, and Tobacco.” “ Thus, the Papaw (Carica Papaya) may be regarded as of American origin; there being several other decidedly distinct species natives of that continent, while no species except the cultivated Papaw, nor any plant nearly related to this singular genus, is known to exist either in Asia or Africa. But in the present case, the assistance derived from the argument adduced may be considered as unneces- sary; for the circumstance of there being no Sanscrit name for so remarkable a plant as the Papaw, is nearly de- cisive of its not being indigenous to India. And in the Malay Islands, the opinion of the inhabitants, according to Rumphius, is that it was there introduced by the Portu- guese.” * [t is certainly not meant, however, to employ this reasoning in every case, and in opposition to all other evi-. dence; and instances may be found, even among the ali-. mentary plants, where it is very far from satisfactory. Thus the Cocoa Nut, though it will probably be considered as indigenous to the shores and islands of equinoctial Asia, is yet the only species of its genus that does not belong ex- clusively to America." Brown obs. on Herb. of the Congo. AI Hals. ICh Gul by XL Kıdquray /7 Sica wily Janet. (820. 460 POLEMONIUM mexicanum. Greek- Valerian of Mexico. —— PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. PoLEMONIA (recentis POLEMONIDEE). Jussieu gen. 136. POLEMONIUM. Cal. urceolatus, 5-fidus. Cor. rotata, tubo brevi, limbo ó-fido (regulari). Staminum filamenta (medio corolla tubo inserta) basi latiora: anthera incumbentes. (Caps. calyce persistente cincta, 3-locu- laris, 3-valvis, polysperma, valvis medio septiferis seu costá prominente in- structis, receptaculo s. dissepimento centrali trigono valvularum septis angu- latim applicito). Herbe erecta; folia alterna pinnata; flores corymbosi ter- minales. Juss. l. c. P. mexicanum, foliis pinnatis polyphyllis, terminali trilobo: floribus cernuis: calycibus villoso-viscidis. Lagasca elench. append. 10. ` Herbacea, biennis, erecta, viscoso-villosa, sesquipedalis v. ultrà, caule striato-tereti, alternè remotèque folioso, supernè paniculato ramulis aril- laribus apice aggregatim pauci-(2-4-) floris summis in pedunculos unifloros abeuntibus, infernè ad articulos vaginá brevi membranaceé cincto. ` Fol. erectiuscula, multi-(12-13-)pinnata foliolis angustè decurrentibus ovato- oblongis acutis. Cal. villis viscosis subhirsutiùs pubescens, cylindrico-cam- panulatus, persistens, segmentis brevibus angulato-ovatis, ad imum divi- surarum angulum glanduloso-lutescentibus. Pollen vitellino-flavescens. Germ. conicum, torulosum, glabrum, obtusum: stylus filiformi-clavatus: stig- mata 3 ligulato-lobata, obtusula, replicato-patentia. Caps, calyce inclusa. In the capsule of the Polemonidec the angles of the re- ceptacle of the seed (which is central) come in contact with the valves at. the partition borne along the middle; and by this circumstance the order has been technically dis- tinguished from the Convolvulacee, where the angles of the receptacle come in contact with the outermost edges of the valves; characters mutually influencing the general habits of the two orders they distinguish. The present species was sent by Professor Cervantes from the Botanic Garden at Mexico to Madrid, where it flowered, according to M. Lagasca, in 1815. The plant that affordéd the drawing was raised in the hothouse at Boyton from seed received from Madrid by Mr. Lambert, and flowered last autumn for the first time in this country, When it was kindly transmitted to our draughtsman. A herbaceous upright clammy biennial plant, about a foot and a half high; stem round, fluted, alternately and widely leaved, encircled at the lower joints by a short membranous sheath; paniculately divided at the upper part; branchlets axillary fasciculately few (2-4)-flowered at the end, uppermost ones passing gradually into one-flowered peduncles. Leaves pointing upwards, multi-(12-13)-pin- nate, leaflets ovately oblong, pointed, narrowly decurrent along the sides of the common petiole. Calyx hirsutely furred, pile clammy, cylindrically campanulate, perma- nent; segments short angularly ovate, with a glandu- lar yellow spot at the bottom of the fork that separates them. Pollen reddish yellow. Germen conical, full of knobs, smooth, obtuse: style clavately filiform: stigmas 3, ligulately lobe-shaped, bluntish, reflexed and spreading. Capsule enclosed within the calyx. | \ 461 RUBUS reflexus. Canton Bramble. u ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nat. ord. Rosacer. Jussieu gen. 334. Div. IV. Germina plura inde- finita, verè supera, receptaculo communi imposita, singula monostyla. Semina totidem nuda aut rariùs baccata. Herbie aut rariùs frutices. Po- TENTILLE. RUBUS. Cal. patens, 5-fidus. Pet, 6. Stam. numerosa brevia. Sem. numerosa baccata, supra receptaculum commune dens? collecta in baccam compositam. Frutices aculeati vel quandóque inermes, rariùs herba semper inermes, fol. simplicia aut ternata aut digitata, aut pinnata in RUBIS ibusdam Commersonianis habiti similibus ROSE; flores terminales aut et rariüs axillares, racemoso-paniculati aut rariüs solitarii, in R. odorato corymbosi et abortá dioici. R. Chammmorus sub terrá monoicus et extüs dioicus, radicibus maris et femina junctis, caulibus distinctis, observante post Solandrum Linneo, Juss. l. c. 338. Div. Frutescentes. R. reffexus, ramis teretibus, foliis oblongis cordatis lobatis lobo antico maximo ovato-elongato acuminate, infernè subcruciato-repandis, stipulis bracteis- que pectinatis, paniculis solitariis axillaribus paucifloris brevioribus petiolo, reflexis. Rubus moluccanus. Aiton’s Epitome 373? Sweet hort. sub. (non alio- rum), Frutex sarmentosus, exceptis corollá facieque supiná foliorum, undique fomentosus ; ramis longissimis petiolis pedunculisque lanato-tomentosis, aculeis reversis fulvis armatis. Fol. palmaria ad dodrentalia, transverse X angustiora vel circiter, serrata, à supino virentia tessellato-rugosa nudiuscula ad nervos pilosiuscula, à prono tomentoso-albicantia reticulato-venosa, vetustiora ad nervos venasque ferrugineo-fulvescentia, inferne subcruciato-quadriloba lobis 2 inferioribus obtusissimis inferiüs ad latus sini brevi excisis: petiolus triplò brevior laminá: stipule oblonga breviores petiolo, bracteis membranaceis ro- tundo-ovatis longiores atque profundiùs incise. Panicule lanate refleza. Cor. alba, calyce subequilonga? petalis obovatis. Anthera lateritio-rubentes. Styli lengiores staminibus. Samples of this species were gathered by Sir George Staunton in the province of Canton, China, and deposited in the herbariums of Sir Joseph Banks and Mr. Lambert. When the plant was introduced we have not learned. It is not recorded in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis. The species borders upon alceafolius of Lamarck as well as upon rugosus of Sir James Smith in Rees's Cyclopedia, but differs from both by leaves with an elongated middle lobe and by reflected panicles; specially from the first in not having apgular branches, from the second by its VOL. VI. 1 pectinated stipules and bractes. The plant seems to have been very generally mistaken in our gardens for moluc- canus, a very distinct species with aggregated panicles; nor is it even the moluccanus of Thunberg’s Flora Japonica, as is proved by the prototype sainple in the Banksian Herba- rium, although that is different from the true moluccanus. The drawing was taken at Mr. Kent's at Clapton, where it flowered in the hothouse during last autumn, we believe for the first time in this country. There are very large plants of it in Mr. Lee's nursery at Hammersmith, but none of them have been yet brought to flower. A sarmentose shrub growing much in the way of the Common Bramble or Blackberry of our hedges, and ex- tending its long woolly branches to a great distance. The flowers are whité and about the size of a sixpence. The anthers tile-red. The styles are longer than the sta- mens. The leaves in some of the samples were little less than nine inches in length; and covered underneath with a thick white eottony fur, which in time becomes rusty or reddish. The genus belongs to the Cinquefoil section of the Rosacee, and is. distinguished by the numerous fleshily berried seed of the frait being collected together on the outside of a common receptacle into a compound berry, and forming the esculent portion, as in the Raspberry and some other species. The Strawberry is another genus of the saine section of the same order; but there the fruit may in some sort be called the converse of the Raspberry kind, the seeds being dry and fleshless, but the receptacle on which they are collected fleshy and suceulent, and forming the whole of the esculent part of the fruit, as the seeds on the contrary do in the Raspberry, where the receptacle is ry. Rubus is of those genera whose type is pretty nume- rously represented in all quarters of the globe. A020, 462 SELLOA glutinosa. Clammy Selloa. — SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Nat. ord. Composite. Adanson fam. 2. 103. CORYMBIFERÆ. Jussieu gen. 173. Div. I. Receptaculum nudum. Semen papposum. Flores flosculosi. SELLOA. Calyx (anthodium) imbricatus ovatus. Receptaculum nu- dum. Pappus nullus. Flosculi fæminei inconspicui. Genus BACCHARI, Conyzm, GNAPHALIO ef ARTRMISUE affinis. Planta suffruticosa tota giutinosa, Folia conferta, fasciculata, lineari-lanceolata, trinervia, inte- gerrima. Panicula corymbosa, terminalis, erecta, ramis angulatis. Calyx (anthodium) glaber, ovatus, imbricatus. Corolle flave. ` Nullum pappi vestigium. Sprengell cent. spec. minds cogn. 36. n. 85. SELLOA glutinosa. Sprengell loc. cit. Caules teretes, flezuosi, striati, prolifero-foliosi. Fol. viscosa, alterna, numerosa, sessilia, decurrentia, elongaté lanceolate, angusta, 3-uncialia latitudine vix & uncie, trinervia immerst puncticulata et pruiná albidá ad lentem visibili densissim? adspersa, tenuia, lenta, acuminata apice recurvo, glandulis minutis subeilioluta. Panicula decomposito-dichotoma, cymoso- Jastigiata, foliosa, ramulis axillaribus gracilibus strictis elasticis anguloso- striatis, pedunculis terminalibus subsessili-trifloris. Flores aurei, purvuli, odorem spirantes nostrá mente Alga cujusdam marine quodammodo referentem, singuli bracteà lineari-oblonga appressè subtensi. Cal. viscosus, ovali-oblongus, albo et viridi varius, ore constrictior; foliola arctissimè imbricata, plura, lanceolata, dorso carinata, apice virentibus, interiora latiora obtusa. Dis- cus hermaph. floseulis 4-6? calycem exsuperantibus limbo revoluto; anth. vitellino-flavicantes; stigmate bilobo-clavato exserto: radius femin. inconspi- cuus, flosculis tubo pallido erecto capillari germine bis, limbo multoties longiore, limbo minuto flavo recurvo lineari-oblongo stigmate vix grandiore. Germina ambo similia, alba, turbinato-linearia, pruinosa, pappo mullo, stigma in flosc. fem, aureum bifurcum, lobulis linearibus. Recept. punctum nudum in fundo calycis. x The species has beer lately introduced from the Brazils by Mr. Sello, a german botanist, who has been employed some years in that country in the investigation of the ob- jects of this department of Natural History. The genus, at present consisting of an only species, bas been cha- racterized by Professor Sprengell from the absence of all pappus or seed-crown and the peculiarly diminutive limb of the pistilliferous florets of the ray. The drawing was taken from a plant that flowered in 12 i the hothouse at the botanic establishment of Comtesse de Vandes at Dayswater, in February last. Stems round, flexuose, fluted, proliferously leafy. Leaves clammy, alternate, numerous, sessile, decurrent, long-lan- ceolate, nacrow, of the length of 3 inches with the breadth of scarcely + of an inch, 3-nerved, covered with small glandular pits and white particles perceptible only by the help of a magnifier, thin, pliant, taper-pointed and recurved at the top, with a slight minute glandular edging, Panicle repeatedly dichotomous, cymously level, leafy; branchlets slender, stiff and straight, elastic, angularly fluted; pe- duncles terminal subsessilely 3-flowered. Flowers golden- yellow, small, and as it appeared to us with a scent some- thing like that of Seaweed; each subtended by a linearly oblong close-pressed bracte. Calyx clammy, ovally oblong, white and partly green, constricted at the orifice; leaf- lets several, closely imbricate, lanceolate, keeled at the back, green at the top, inner ones broader, obtuse. Disk of the flower of about 4-6? florets with stamens and pistil, higher than the calyx, with a revolute limb; anthers of a deep reddish yellow, stigma two-lobed clavately connivent protruded: ray of inconspicuous pistilliferous florets, tube slender capillary straight pale twice the length of the ger- men and many times that of the limb; limb minute, yellow, linearly oblong, hardly larger than the stigma. Germens of both disk and ray the same, white, turbinately linear, frosted; pappus (seed-crown) none; stigma of the ray deep yellow, forked, with two fine linear lobes.” Receptacle a naked point at the bottom of the calyx. y Hal AC e TA SOLO. 463 HOVEA linearis. Linear-leaved Hovea. —— DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSE. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V. Corolla irre- gularis, papilionacea, Legumen uniloculare bivalve.—P APILIONACEX. Brown in append. to Flind. voy. 2. HOVEA. Supra vol. 4. fol. 280. H. linearis, foliis linearibus subtüs pilosiusculis, leguminibus glabris. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 275. . Poiretia linearis. Smith in trans. linn. soc. 9. 304. Frutex pube fulvo-fuscá villosus: rami teretes graciles stricti elastici sub- flexuosi laxits foliosi. Fol. 3-plo intervallis longiora, sparsa, patentissima, lanceolato-linearia, rugulis subtilibus utrinque immerse reticulata, subtàs appresse pilosiuscula, margine depressa, recurvo-apiculata, nervo medio simplici subtùs pube brevi ferrugineá densá appressá vestito: petiolus fuscus teres brevissimus, stipulä parvulá subulatá utrinque stipatus. Flores $ uncie subadequantes, lilacino-pallentes, inodori; pedunculi (an veriùs pedicelli in pedunculo obsoleto? basi enim coherent) per ramos ramulosque racemos? dis- positi, axillares, param longiores petiolis, sepids aggregate bini? —quaterni? rariùs solitarii, 1-flori, fusco-hirsuti, bracteà minutá singulorum basi ap- pressi. Cal. more pedunculorum pubescens, bracteolis 2 oppositis calyculatim subtensus, nutans, bis ferme brevior vezillo, bilabiatus, labiis eguilomgis, summo latissime cuneato truncato-retuso, lateribus deflexis, dorso carinato, cornubus extremis acutis, imo ad } usque 4-fido segmentis equalibus erectis acuminatis. Vex. arrectum, obluto-v. subreniformi-ovatum, retusum, basi lamine areolá luted margine radiata extús halone purpureo circumdatá, ungue triplo breviore lineari-oblongo: ale porrecte vexillo à margine interiore transverse opposite oblonge apice rotundate, ungue brevi simplici: carina inclusa paulò exsuperans calcem, obtusa, compresso-ventricosa, apice saturate violacea, petalis à margine inferiore conniventibus, unguibus obsolete dicruri- bus crure altero brevissimo rotundato, altero angusto duplo breviore lamind. Fil. monadelphum breviter aqualitörgue 10-fidum, fissurd dorsali omnind divisum: anth. pallid? lutew, lineari-oblonge, erecto-incumbentes. Germ. oblongum, viride, glabrum; stylus pluriés longior, albus, glaber, filiformis, adscendens capitello stigmatoso minuto concolori pruinoso terminatus. Still an extremely rare greenhouse shrub, although in- troduced from New South Wales by Mr. George Hibbert, as far back as the year 1796. It is one of the two species enumerated in the Hortus Kewensis; but has never been re- presented by any published figure. Four species of this genus are now cultivated in our gardens. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Col- ville in the King's Road, Chelsea, where the plant is in blossom about February and March. We have never seen any other than young small samples. They are always much fuller of flowers than any we have seen of Hovea Celsi treated of in a preceding article of the present publi- cation. A shrub, furred with a brownish tawny pile: branches round slender straight stiffish elastic slightly flexuose, wid- ishly leaved. Leaves three times the length of the intervals, scattered, wide-spread, lanceolately linear, minutely wrinkled or netwisely marked with fine insunk lines, underneath slightly and close-pressedly hairy, depressed at the edge, pointed and recurved at the top, midrib simple covered un- derneath by a short rust-coloured dense flat-pressed pile: petiole brown, round, very short, furnished on each side with a small subulate stipule. Flowers about a quarter of an inch long, pale blueish lilae, without scent; peduncles (or rather perhaps pedicles upon an obsoletely shortened peduncle? for they cohere at the bottom) racemosely dis- posed upon the main and partial branches, axillary, but little longer than the petioles, generally aggregated by pairs? or fours?, not often solitary, oneflowered, furred, a minute close-pressed bracte at the foot of each. Calyx furred in the same way as the peduncles, calyculately sub- tended by two opposite bracteoles, nodding, almost twice shorter than the vexillum; dips of one length; uppermost very broadly cuneate, truncately retuse, bent down at the sides, keeled at the back, with two pointed corners at the extre- mities; lowermost 4-cleft to about one third of its depth with upright equal taper-pointed segments. Vexillum oblately or subreniformly ovate, retuse, at the base of the blade or broad part marked with a yellow radiately edged spot sur- rounded with a purple halo; unguis three times shorter linearly oblong: ale pointing straight forwards with their upper edges opposite to the vexillum, round-pointed; unguis short, simple; carina enclosed, exceeding the calyx but little, obtuse, compressedly ventricose, of a deep violet colour at the end, petals meeting at the lower edge; un- gues obsoletely 2-pronged, one prong extremely short and rounded, the other narrow and twice shorter than the blade. Filament monadelphous, shallowly and equally 10-cleft, divided all the way down at the back: anthers pale yellow, linearly oblong, from upright lying across the points of the filament. Germen oblong, green, smooth; style several times longer, white, smooth, filiform, ascend- ing, terminated by a minute frosted stigmatose head. 264 464 TOURNEFORTIA fruticosa. Sweet-scented Tournefortia. - —+— PENTÁNDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. BORAGINER. Jussieu gen. 128. Brown prod. 1. 492, TOURNEFORTIA. Cal. 5-parütug Cor. hypocrateriformis (v. sub- rotata), fauce nudà. Stam. inclusa. Stig. peltatum, subconicum. Bucca dipyrena, ossiculis dispermis, Frutices volubiles v. erecti. Fol. scabra v. tomentosa, integra. Spice secunde, ebracteate, sepiùs cymose. Brown prod. 1. 496. T. fruticosa, caule fruticoso, foliis petiolatis, corollis hypocrateriformibus. Lin. suppl. 132; (sub MESSERSCHMIDIA). Tournefortia Messerschmidia. Sweet hort. sub. lond. 31. Messerschmidia fruticosa. Linn. suppl. 132. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 789. Ejusd. enum. 1.188. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 303. Rami axillares, flexuosi, virides, teretes, hispidi. Fol. divaricata, elongato-lanceolata, saturati? viridia, hispida, nitida, S-uncialia v. ultrà latitudine unciali v. infra, inferné subovata superué longiùs attenuata: pets pluriés brevior laminá, à supino canaliculatus. Panicule ebracteate, ramu- lorum summorum terminales, dichotomo-eymose, divaricate, flexuosa, flore solitario in singulis furcis sessile; spicule dichotome, pedunculate, recurve, floribus parvulis bifuridm v. disticho-secundis, approximatis, rachide ap- pressé villosá. Cal. parvus, herbaceus, pubescens, campanulatus, aliquotiès brevior tubo corolla, persistens, segmentis acuminatis. Cor. hypocraterij mis, luteo-virens, extus pubescens; tubus rectus, tereti-angulosus; faux in- ‚flatior, saturate virens, intis ad orificium plicis 5 cum laciniis alternantibus notata: limbus pallidé et squalidé lutescens, stellato-patens wstivatione valvari infracto-connivente, laciniis acuminatis undulatis intis glabris. Anth. subsessiles, fusce, sagittato-oblonge, fauce incluse. Stylus colum- naris, teres, glaber, crassiusculus: stig. peltato-capitatum, virens, conicum, villosum, obtusum, basi planum: germ. calyce inclusum, viride, rugosum, umbilicatum, subrotundum, basi disco glanduloso luteo cinctum. The genus Mrsserscumipia, where our plant formerly ranked, has been incorporated by Mr. Brown with Toun- NEFORTIA, technically distinguished in the Prodromus of the Flora of New Holland among its co-ordinate Boraginea by a definition of which the following is a version: Calyx 5-parted: corolla hypocrateriform or nearly rotate smooth (naked) in the faux: stamens enclosed: stigma peltate, subconical: berry dipyrenous (twin-stoned), each stone (ossicle) containing two seeds (kernels): embryo iu- verted. The species are shrubby and consist of both twining and standard plants, with entire and either rough or else downy leaves, onesided bracteless spikes usually di- vided in the manner of a cyme. The present species was introduced by Mr. Masson in 1779 from the Canary Islands; but has never been repre- sented by any published figure. It is a greenhouse shrub of easy culture, rather straggling in its growth, but desirable on account of the exquisite scent of the blossom, the fra- grance of which seems to us to partake of the flavour of the Violet and the Miguionette. Branches axillary, flexuose, green, round, rough-piled. Leaves widespread, long-lanceolate, deep green, rough- piled, shining, 3 inches long or more, an inch broad or less, subovate at the lower part, far-tapered at the upper: petiole several times shorter than the blade, channelled at the upper side. Panicles bracteless, terminating the upper branches, dichotomously cymose, widespread, flexuose, with a single sessile flower at the bottom of each fork; spikelets dichotomous, peduncled, recurved, with small nearset flowers facing one way in two rows, rachis (general stalk) close-pressedly villous. Calyx small, herbaceous, furred, campanulate, more than twice as short as the tube of the corolla, permanent, with taper-pointed segments. Corolla hypocrateriform, yellowish green, furred on the outside: Zube straight, angularly cylindrical; faur wider, of a deep green, marked at the inside of the orifice with 5 plaits that alternate with the segments: limb of a pale squalid yellow, stellately spread; in the bud state with the valvular ends of the segments bent as if broken inwards, in the expanded state taper-pointed, undulate and smooth on the inside. Anthers nearly sessile, brown, sagittately oblong, enclosed within the faux. Style columnar, cylin- drical, smooth, thickish: stigma peltately capitate, green, conical, villous, blunt, flat at the base: germen enclosed within the calyx, green, wrinkled, umbilicate, roundish, girded at the base by a yellow glandular disk. The drawing was taken in March 1819 at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Co. Fulham. 465 ROSA sempervirens. Evergreen Hose. ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNTA. Nat. ord. RosacEr. Jussieu gen. 334. Div. II. Rose. ROSA. Supra fol. 458. Div. X. Systyle. Styli in columnam elongatam coherentes. Stipule ad- mate, Lindley monogr. 111. . R. sempervirens, surculis scandentibus, aculeis subwqualibus falcatis, foliis sempervirentibus, Lindley monogr. 117. n. 64. Rosa sempervirens. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 704, Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 9. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1072. Miss Lawrance's roses. t. 45. Persom syn. 2. 49. Decand. E franç, 4. 446. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 263. Decand. monsp. 138. ‘ith in Rees's cyclop. in loco. Rosa scandens. Mill, dict. ed. 8. n. 8, Brotero fl. lus. 1. 341. Rosa balearica. Desfont. cat. h. par. Persoon syn. 2. 49. Rosa atrovirens, Viviani fl. ital. 4. t. 6. Rosa capreolata. Neill in Edinb. philos. journ. 3. 104. (8) microphylla, foliolis suborbiculatis, Lindley l c. Rosa microphylla. Desfont. atl. 1. 401. Frutex scandens surculis productissimis,' gracilibus, lucido-virentibus, multotiós divisis, altero latere subrubescentibus, aculeisque tenuibus rubris subuncatis armatis. Folia plerumque defleza, nitidissima, sempervirentia omnind sine pube; stipula anguste, rubra, fine reflexa, glandulis raris ad marginem; petioli aculeolis curvatis armati; foliola 5-7, ovalia v. ovato- lanceolata, plana, simplicitèr serrata, utrinque lucido-virentia, subtüs verd plurimàm pallidiora. Flores valde numerosi, aregranten, albi; bractee nude, lanceolate, reflexa, rubedine tincte; pedunculi nudi vel glandulosi; tubus calycinus ovatus, nudus vel glandulosus; sepala (foliola calycina) de- cidua, ovata, acuminata, subsimplicia, petalis breviora, glandulis scabrata ; petala obcordata, concava; stamina 138-140, caduca; discus conicus, admo- dim crassus; ovaria 30; styli in columnam longam pilosum coagmentati. Fructus globosus, aurantiacus, parvus. Lindley loc. cit. (Ex anglico versum). “A climbing plant with very long, slender, bright green, much divided shoots, reddish on one side, and armed with slender, somewhat looked red prickles. Leaves usu- ally deflexed, very shining, evergreen and without any sort of pubescence; stipules narrow, red, reflexed at the end, with a few glands on their edge; petioles armed with little curved prickles; leaflets 5-7, oval or ovato-lanceolate, flat, simply serrated, bright green on both sides, but much paler beneath. Flowers very numerous, white and fragrant; bractem naked, lanceolate, reflexed, stained with red; peduncles naked or glandular; tube of the calyx ovate, VOL. VI. K naked or glandular; sepals deciduous, ovate, acuminate, nearly simple, shorter than the petals, rough with glands; petals obcordate, concave; stamens 138-140, quickly drop- ping off, disk conical, very thick; ovaries (germens) 30; styles united into a long hairy column. Fruit round, orange- coloured, small.” * A very ornamental plant, rapidly forming a compact covering to old pales or buildings against which it is plant- ed. From Rosa prostrata its rambling shoots and hairy styles distinguish it. Viviani’s Rosa atrovirens is described with rough and figured with smooth fruit.” * The Ayrshire Rose, described by Mr. Neill in the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal,. under the name of capre- olata, does not appear to differ from this, which is not a native of America, but is confined to the South of Europe and North of Africa.” Lindley monogr. I. c. The excellent drawing which accompanies this article has been kindly contributed by the author of the Monograph of the Roses. = SN Uh \ 466 BURCHELLIA capensis. Cape Burchellia. —_— PENTANDRIA . MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. RUBIACRE- Jussieu gen. 196. Div. IV. Fructus monocar- pus bilocularis spermus. Folia opposita; caulis escems. . BURCHELI JA. Capitulum involucratum. cae e dibuli- formis: limbo 5-fidó abbreviato faucegue imberbi; wstivatione mutuò im. bricatà contort4. Stamina supre medium tubi inserta; antheris subsesgilibus inclusis. Stigma clavatum, Bacca calyce alt? 5-fido coronata, bilocularis, polysperma, Brown MSS. ' Tutex- ramosissimus pubescens, ramulis compressit. Folia fifa. Stipulee interpetiolares, è dilatati basi subulate, indivise, caduce. pitu- lum terminale, extra involucrum monophyllum pluridentatum abbreviatum pari unico foliorum minorum stipulis proportionatim latioribus subtengum. Ovaria supra receptaculum convexum villosum bracteolisque nonnullis minu- tissimis conspersum sessilia, distincta. Calyx: limbo foliaceo equali, tubum aliquotiès superante. Corolla coccinea, extüs pilis appressis, intús glabra preter barbam annularem juxta basin tubi. ^ Antherwm lineares. iscus epigynus carnosus, indivisus, imberbis. Stigma exserfum, utrinque sulco ex- eratum. Bacca turbinato-globosa, bilocularis septo completo. Placenta adnata. Semina ta. Embryo axilis, dimidio albuminis cartilaginei longior. Brown MSS. Burchellia capensis. Brown MSS. Cephelis bubalina. Persoon syn. 1. 202. Patabea. Hujus congener aut genere proxima LONICERA bubalina; dc. dec. Jussieu gen. 208. A o : Lonicera bubalina, Lin. suppl. 146. Vahl symb. 3. 57.. Thunb. prod. 47. Ejusd. flor. cap. 2. 54. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 989. j Buffelhon Colonis batavis Cap. B. S. (ob lignum durissimum). Ramuli robusti. Folia saturaté viridia, subcoriacea, hispida, lato- oblonga brevitèr acuminata basi contractis subcordata, 3-5-uncialia, paria distantia: petiolus brevis hirtus. Corolla wncialis vel paulo longior, diametro fer? penne scriptoria, firma. . Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Long known in our Herbariums and the various botanical systems, though lately introduced into our gardens, where we believe it has now flowered for the first time. By its original observer, the species had been ranked under the head Lonicera; but was afterwards referred by Jussieu to its true station, the Rusrace®, though that learned botanist, in adopting an erroneous description, re- presenting the seeds of the berry as solitary, has placed the plant in a wrong section of the order. Mr. Brown having K proved it not to be consistently reducible to any established genus, has formed a new one from it, and, with that li- berality and vigilance which he extends to every interest of science, availed himself of the appropriate occasion of honouring the merits of Mr. Burchell, the zealous and enterprising investigator of the regions to which our plant belongs. t The shrub is called Buffelhorn (Buffaloe-horn) by the Dutch colonists at the Cape, from the hardness of the wood, according to Mr. Masson. The drawing was taken from a sample in the hothouse at the nursery of Messrs. Colville in the King’s Road, Chelsea, and is the first ever published. Shrub fall of branches, furred; branchlets compressed. Leaves opposite. Stipules between the petioles, broad at the bottom subulate at the top, undivided, caducous. Flower-head terminal, subtended on the outside of a short involucre of one piece and with several indentations by a single pair of smaller leaves with proportionately broader stipules. Germens sessile, distinct, resting on ¡a convex villous receptacle beset with a few minutely small bracteoles. Calyx deeply 5-cleft, with an equal foliaceous limb several times longer than the tube. Corolla scarlet, clavately fun- nelform, close-pressedly furred on the outside, except a bearded circle near the bottom of the tube quite smooth on the inside: limb 5-cleft, short: cestivation (folding of the segments in the unexpanded flower) mutually overlapped (as distinguished from alternately overlapped, a more common mode in this tribe). Stamens inserted just above the middle of the tube; anthers subsessile, enclosed, linear. Stigma protruded, clavate, with a furrowed line on each side. Berry turbinately globular, surmounted by the persistent calyx, 2- celled with an entire partition, many-seeded. Placenta (receptacle of the seed) adnate. Seeds angular. Embryo in the axis of the cartilagitious albumen, and longer than half the length of it. (From the latin manuscript of Mr. Brown.) | 1 1 | | x nti i den 4 67 467 MALACHRA fasciata. | Rough-piled Malachra. — -.Ü9——— on MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Nat. ord. MALVACEE. Jussieu gen. 271. Div. II. Stamina in tubum corolliferum connata, indefinita. Fructus multicapsularis; capsule verticil- late, in orbem disposita aut in unam compact. MALACHRA. Involucrum 3-6-phyllum multiflorum, Singulo flori calyx 5-fidus, caliculo 8-12-phyllo cinctus. Anthere in apice et superficie tubi. Stigmata 10. Capss. 5, in orbem disposite, 1-sperme. Herba; Flores axillares. Juss. loc. cit. 272. . M. fasciata, capitulis pedunculatis triphyllis subquinquefloris, foliis subro- tundis obsoleté lobatis, caule villoso. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 768. Malachra fasciata, Jacq. ic. rar. 9. t. 548. Ejusd. collect. 2, 352.. . Planta annua?. Caulis unicus, erectus, 6-pedalis, pollice duplo crassior, teres, ex alis foliorum ferè omnium ramos emittens, inferno cinereus, pilis rigidis et pungentibus issime obsitus. Ex dextro latere axille ramorum omnium, qui ex caule egrediuntur, in caule fascia adscendit ferè ad proxi- mum ramum usque viridis glabra erecta et plùs minds 2 lineas lata. Folia sunt alterna longè petiolata, serrata, venosa, utrinque et ad ora hispidula, infima subrotunda et margine 5-loba, superiora 3-loba magisque oblonga et acutiora; ad petiolos utrinque stat stipula solitaria, subulato-setacea, erecta, hispida et uncialis (vel 3plo brevior). Florum capitula axillaria, brevitor pedunculata, 2-3 successivè. In basi cujusque folii perianthii communis sedet flos: reliqui brevissimo pedunculati centrum occupant. Uterque calyx longé ciliatus est, exterior insuper utrinque hispidus. Perianthii proprii tubus viret, lacinie pallent cum striis badiis. Cal. comm. 3-(poly-) phyllus, 5- (multi )fforus, istens: foliola ovato-acuminata, argute serrata, nervosa, inzqualia (ad basin bistipulata ut reliqua folia) cum interjectis setis solitariis (stipulis): cal. proprius profunde 5-partitus, erectiusculus, istens; lac. lanceolate, acuminate, 3-striate, eorollä duplo breviores. Cor. foris rosea cum strüs purpureis, intùs pallet, extùs villosula, 1-petala, infundibulifor- mis, subsemuncialis, limbo tente 5-partito, laciniis obovatis, obtusis, planis. Fil. plurima, monadelpha, infernè villosa, corollá breviora, erecta: anth. subrotunde, ochroleuce. Germ. subrotundum, ó-sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, longitudine staminum; 10-fidus, superné recuruns, apiculis ro- tundato-obtusis villosis terminatus. Pericarpium: arilli 5 glabri cinerei, in capitulum subrotundum collecti, introrsum. dehiscentes, decidui: sem. soli- taria. Jacq. coll. 2. 352. Ma acura is distinguished from its nearest coordinates (Malvacea:) principally by short-stalked subsessile flowers collected within a common involucre composed of the dimi- nished upper leaves with their stipules. The leaves disap- pearing from about the central flowers, while the stipules re- main, afford the appearance of an additional calyx. The present species is said by Jacquin to come from the Caraccas, and is supposed to be annual. The samples in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium are from Jamaica. The drawing was taken from a plant which flowered during the winter months in Mr. Kent's hothouse at Clapton. The stem was more stunted, the heads of flowers nearer together, and ap- parently more numerous than is usual in the free-growing spontaneous individual. The specific name has been suggested by a green longi- tudinal stripe divested of the hispid pubescence that covers the rest of the plant, and which is to be-seen on strong samples on one side in the intervals between the branches; but which was not perceptible in the present. The blossom continues expanding a long time in suc- cession. The species is not to be found in any of the records of our own gardens, and has been probably now first i intro- duced. Some of them sting, like Nettles. LÓ d A £s f / Y A 7 y SARI Ges py UI PY e 468 RAPHIOLEPIS indica. China Hawthorn or Raphiolepis. —M—— ICOSANDRIA DIGYNIA. Nat. ord. RosAcEx. Jussieu gen. 334. Div, I. Germen simplex in- ferum, polystylum. Pomum calycino limbo umbilicatum, multiloculare. Arbores ut frutices. PoMACER.* . RAPHIOLEPIS. , Cal. infundibuliformis 6-dentatus deciduus. Fila- menta filiformia, " Ovarium (germen) biloculare. Pomum disco incrassato clausum, putamine chartaceo: seinixa dua’ gibbosa, testà coriaceà crassis- simi. Frutex (China). Folia sempervirentta crenulata coriacea reticulata. Racemi terminales bracteis foliaceis persistentibus squamosi.. Lindley MSS. Raphiolepis indica. Lindley MSS. i t7 Creteegus indica. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 683. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1005. Loureiro cochin. 319. igs magaz. 17261 Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. Arbor magna, inermis ramis patentibus. Folia lanceolata, inequalitèr serrata, glabra, alterna. Flos albus, corymbis racemosis, squamosis, ter- minalibus. Cal. superus, 5-fidus in senectute truncatus. Corolle petala 5, subrotunda, patentia. Stamina icosandra. Styli duo. Bacca calycina subrotunda, umbilicata, carnosa, 1-locularis, edulis: sem. 2-4, oblonga. Lignum rubescens, grave, tenax, aptissimum ad formandos remos, vel quos- libet palos, ci impulsi, vel pondere gravati, aliquantulum. cedunt, nec franguntur. Lour. I. c. RapnioLeris is proposed by Mr. Lindley in an unpub- lished tract on PoMAcEz, the first section of Jussieu's Order of Rosacez. The character was kindly communicated to us from the author's manuscript. The genus is distinguished from its coordinates of the same section by having a funnelform calyx, the whole of which, down to where it adheres to the germen, falls off immediately after or at the same time with the petals of the flower; specially from Crarzeus, where it has hitherto ranked, by a fruit-stone or putamen of a paper sub- Stance, and from all other double-celled single-fruited Coordinates by a seedcoat or testa of a leathery substance. The name (pæpiov Aeris) has been suggested by the narrow bractes of the raceme, which in spontaneous specimens are sometimes found to have acquired a herbaceous or folia- ceous consistence, and are unlike any thing else in this order. A chinese plant. Introduced by Mr. James Drummond in 1806. Said by Loureiro to grow to a large tree, the wood of which is of a reddish hue, heavy and tough, and appli- cable to various economical purposes. The Haw or fruit is eatable. Mr. Lindley thinks that the Crarzsus rubra of Lou- reiro is another species of this genus. The drawing was taken from a plant which blossomed in April last in the greenhouse at the botanical garden of the Horticultural Society near Hammersmith, an establishment which, under its present liberal and judicious superintend- ence, promises to become a valuable depository of curious and useful vegetables. 469 STROPHANTHUS dichotomus; £. chinensis. Chinese Strophanthus. —— © PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ^ Nat. ord. APOCYNEE. Brown in Wern. trans. 1. 59. Ejusd. prodr. 465. . Sect. I. Semina comosa. Fructus bifollicularis, nunc Capsule bilo- cularis. STROPHANTHOS. Cor. infundibuliformis. Faux coronata squa- mulis 10 indivisis. Zimbi lacinie caudate. Stamina medio tubo inserta. Anthere sagittate, aristate v. mucronate. Germina 2. Stylus 1, filifor- mis, apice dilatato. Stigma subcylindraceum. Squame 5, hypogyne. Folliculi *****, Frutices sarmentosi. Folia opposita. Brown in wem. traus, 1. 72. S. dichotomus, ramis pedunculisque dichotomis, foliis mucronato-acuminatis. Persoon syn. 1.999, —— Strophanthus dichotomus, Decand. in ann. du mus. 1. 408. Id. in bulletin des sc. par la soc. philom. n. 64. 123. Lamarck encyc. 7. 471. Smith in Rees's cyelop. in loco, Nerium cordatum. Lamarck excyc. 3. 458. Roxburgh flor. ind. ined. Nerium scandens. Loureiro cochin. 116. Echites dichotoma. Carey beng. 20. Echites caudata. Lin, mant. 52. Burm. ind. 68. 1.26. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1240. (x) cochinchinensis, segmentis calycinis erectis brevissimis transverse latiori- bus. (8) chinensis, segmentis calycinis bracteisque erectis transversé magnoperà angustioribus. u . . (y) coromandelianus, segmentis calycinis bracteisque recurvatis. Frutex scandens? rami oppositi cortice fusco verruculoso-scabrato. Fol. opposita, in summis ramis numerosa approximata, oblongo-v. obovato-lanceo- lata, saturaté viridia, nitida; pet. brevis: stinule collaterali-gemine, parvule, virides, intraazillares, semiovato-lanceolate. Flores inter folia ad finem ramorum, plures, dichotomo-cymosi, chloroleuci, biunciales v. ultrà; bractew engusie, lanceolate, erecta. Cal. campanulatus, 4 uncie vir ns, virens, 5-fidus segmentis lineari-acuminatis erectis canalicu- latis formi moleque ferè bractearum; squamule 5 hypogynz virentes subor- biculate. Cor. infundibuliformis, estivatione contortá: tubus cum fauce turbinata-contractus subsemuncialis angulosus, solus vir exeedens calycem constrictus striato-rugatus, faux angulosa intüs velutina punctis stritsque densé consitis punicans; limbus maximus, sesquiuncialis, equalis, recur- vato-patens, laciniis stellato-distantibus, caudato-attenuatis, convoluto- canaliculatis, infern? intús colore faucis: corona faucis è squamis 5 cuti- eulosis coloratis. bifidis basi divisurarum limbi adnatis, lobis dentifor- mibus -obtusissimis. Fil. pallida, breviter intra faucem libera, indé infra omnind adnata fauci ad orificium tubi usque, forma obversé clavatá, pro- minentia, lanuginosa: anth. erecta, sagitlate, aristato-elongate, conniventes, ockroleuce. Germ. viride, subrotundo-didymum, quadrilobo-suleatum, gla- brum, fundo glanduloso calycis incubans: stylus feré NERIL, albus, clavato- Jiliformis, pruinosus, suturá utrinque notatus, ut si ex binis conferruminatis: VOL. VI. L stigma pruinosum, oblongum, cylindricum, erectum, basi marginatum, fundo subtus plenum, apiculo angusto bifido terminatum, antheris demüm agglutinatum. y The three plants, enumerated above as varieties of this species, come from three different countries; and are repre- sented in the Banksian Herbarium by samples included under the present title. The subject of our article is clearly the same with the Chinese samples collected by Messrs. Bladh and Staunton at Macao; and differs from the Coro- mandel plant of Roxburgh by a closer foliage and in baving the bractes and calycine segments entirely upright instead of conspicuously recurved; as also from the Cochinchinese plant of Loureiro by longer and proportionately narrower calycine segments as well as a longer tapered foliage. The three plants are probably specifically distinct; though we have contented ourselves by separating them as varieties, under names that may be retained or rejected, as subse- quent investigation may suggest. It does not appear that this singular plant had been known in our gardens till now. We saw it first in the hot- house of the nursery belonging to Messrs. Colville, in the King's Road, Chelsea, where it blossomed this spring, and afforded the subject of the present drawing. A climbing? shrub: branches opposite, bark brown, mi- nutely warted. Leaves opposite, numerous and close-set at the upper part of the branches, oblongly or obovately lance- olate, deep green, shining: petioles short: stipules within the axils of the leaves, in pairs, the one facing the other edgeways, small, green, semiovately lanceolate. Flowers among the leaves at the ends of the branches, several, dichotomously cymose, between straw and cream-coloured, two inches long or more; bractes narrow, upright, lan- ceolate. Calyx green, campanulate, scarcely + of an inch deep, segments 5, upright linear and taper-pointed, chan- nelled, nearly of the same shape and size as the bractes; hypogynous squamules (small green roundish scalelike ap- pendage) 5, interposed between the germen and the seg- ments of the calyx (outside the corolla?). Corolla funnel- form: tube with the faux about half an inch long narrowly turbinate, tube (proper) scarcely longer than the calyx, narrow, of one colour throughout, wrinkled and streaked, four angular velvetly furred on the inside and crimsoned with closeset streaks and dots; limb very large, an inch and a half long, equal, distantly and recurvedly stellate, seg- ments narrow, caudately tapered, involutely channelled, at the lower part on the inside of the same colour as the faux: faucial scales 5, of the colour and consistence of the interior lining of the faux, bifid, adhering to the faux at the base of the fork of each division between the segments of the limb, lobes short dentiform rounded at the ends. Fila- ments pale, downy, springing from the orifice of the tube, shortly detached at the top within the faux, thence em- bossedly adnate to the faux down to the tube, having the appearance of so many thick plaits of an obversely clavate form: anthers cream-coloured, sagittate, long-awned, up- right, connivent. Germen on the glandular floor or disk of the calyx, green, smooth, twin, roundish, each lobe marked with a furrow: style white, pustular, clavately filiform, _ with a perpendicular seam on each side, showing it to con- sist of two parallelly cohering ones, nearly as in Nerium; stigma white, frosted, oblong, upright, cylindrical, flat at the bottom with a projecting ledge or rim, with a narrow bifid summit; ultimately adhering to the lower part of the anthers. Loureiro has described the twin follicles (indehiscent seedvessels) of his plant as horizontal, thick, and obtuse, with many oblong compressed feathered seeds. STROPHANTHUS comes very near to Nerium; but differs in the sarmentose or climbing nature of the shrubs, in the foliage being disposed in pairs instead of tbrees, in having a funnelform instead of an hypocrateriform corolla, and by a faucial crown of 5 regularly bifid scales instead of a erown with an irregularly shred border. The type of this genus has been observed in India, Asia, and the tropical parts of Africa. The present we be- lieve is the only species which has appeared in any European garden. 4 tif Z j M, Hart. dd 4 ty” È 1 0 5} A È A Wa Li. Ft. (LL. / 470 CANNA Lamberti. The new Indian Reed. — MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. CANNE. Jussieu gen. 62. CANNER. Brown prod, 1. 307, in obs. IIL; ubi à SCITAMINEARUM ordine distinguuntur. CANNA. Supra vol. 3. fol. 206, j C. Lamberti, folis impubibus, corolle laciniis interioribus, ternis: labello oblongo erecto-patente integro. Canna Lamberti. Lindley MSS. Canna indica. Ruiz et Pavon flor. peruv. 1. 1; (| afirmante specimine arche- typo Herbario Lambertiano asservato). Non a a Planta 13-pedalis. Folia oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, superiora minora, margine concolore. Spica triflora (vel exemplare spontaneo multiflora .) folio superiore brevior. ores omninó EUPHORBLE punice colore rutile. Bractea exterior longitudine calycis, oblonga, obtusa, membranacea; interior lanceolata concava, Sepala (segmenta calycina) farinosa, laciniis perianthii (corolla) exterioribus 3plo breviora, viridi-purpurea. Perianthii (corolla) lacinie exteriores lanceolate, concave, interioribus breviores: due antice paulo majores; interiores terne, suberecte, oblongo-lanceolate: labello erecto-patente, majore, subundulato integerrimo. Germen oblongum tuber- eulosum. Stylus spathulatus, stamine longior. A new gay-flowered addition to our hothouses, raised by Mr. Lambert from seed collected in the Island of Trini- dad. The plant blossomed in May last at Boyton House for the first time in England, when the sample exhibited in the annexed figure was kindly sent to us. The red of the corolla is peculiar, and resembles very closely the colour of the “ Scarlet Spurge” (Eurnorsia punicea), but is distinct from that of any other Indian Reed previously known in our gardens. That our plant is the Canna indica of the Flora Peru- viana, we are assured by the prototype sample in the rich Herbarium amassed by the public-spirited zeal of Mr. Lam- bert, and which sample had been transmitted by M. Pavon, one of the authors of the above Flora. The true Canna indica is however a very distinct species, and differs at first sight from the present, in having a revolute label with a notch at the end, instead of an upright one without any notch, though the two agree in having only three inner seg- ments to the corolla, and not four as in patens and coccinea. An herbaceous plant, attaining sometimes nearly twice the height of a man. Leaves smooth, oblongly lanceolate, pointed, upper ones smaller, edge of the same colour as the rest of the leaf. Spike three-flowered (in the spontaneous specimen manyflowered) shorter than the uppermost leaf. Outer bracte of the length of the calyx, oblong, obtuse, membranous, inner lanceolate, concave. Segments (or leaflets) of the calyx mealy, three times shorter than the outer segments of the corolla, between green and purple. Outer segments of the corolla lanceolate, concave, shorter than the inner ones: two front ones rather larger than the other: inner ones three, nearly upright, oblongly lanceolate: label uprightly spreading, larger, slightly undulate, entire (un- notched). Germen oblong, tubercled. Style spatulate, longer than the stamen. The roots are said to be preserved in various ways, and eaten by the Peruvians. 471 BEGONIA pauciflora. Few-flowered Begonia. ——— MONG:CIA POLYANDRIA. Nat. ord. Plante incerte sedis. Polypetala germine infero. Jussieu gen. 436. BEGONIACER. ‚Bonpland nav. et malm. 151. An Hr- DRANGER et indè Rubiaceis affines? Lindley MSS. BEGONIA. Supra vol, A. fol. 284. B. pauciflora, caulescens; foliis cordatis rotundatis nitidis plicatis subbi- crenatis : inferioribus zquilateralibus, capsule alis inzequalibus obtusan- gulis. Lindley MSS. Begonia patula. Haworth suppl. succ. pl. 1001 ' Herba carnosa 2-3-pedalis. Caules teretes rubidi erecti ramosi impubes, internodiis petiolorum longitudine. Folia fer? verticalia minutim puberula, stipulis ovatis acutis scariosis, petiolo suprd canaliculato, caulis colore, longitudine lamine, que nitida, cordata plicata subbicrenata suprà late viridis infra pallidior, superiorum obliqua, inferiorum subequilateralis. Panicule pauciffore pilose, bracteis $ ovatis appressis, P subrotundis. Flores g* pallidi rubro tincti laciniis exterioribus (at? ovatis obtusis, interi- oribus 4-plo angustioribus concavis acutiusculis— 9 pallidi virides paulò minores, alis ovarti obtusis, alterd majore. Lindley MSS. ** Beconta patula of Mr. Haworth's above cited tract is reported to be this, but the specific character does not alto- gether apply to it, and if it should turn out to be the same, the name patula can never be retained, for the plant is any thing but spreading.” “ I think I have detected a remarkable affinity between this genus and Hyprancea, which I shall take a future opportunity of explaining, contenting myself for the present with indicating my view. I believe it is the opinion of some of the Botanists in France that the genus is allied to Polygonece; an idea originating, 1 presume, in the taste of the leaves, which have certainly a very striking resemblance to that of different species of Rumex.” * The drawing was taken from a sample which flowered in the hothouse at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the King's Road, Chelsea, in June last." * If this species is the same with the doubtful Beconia I have quoted, it has been introduced in 1816 from the Berlin Garden into the Physic Garden at Chelsea." “ Caulescent, fleshy, 2-3 feet high; stems round, red- dish, upright, branched, furless, intervals between the leaves the length of the petioles. Leaves nearly vertical, minutely furred, cordate, rounded, shining, plaited, some- what doubly crenate, of a lively green above, paler under- neath, upper ones with a slanted blade, lower with an almost entirely evensided one; petiole of the colour of the stem, the length of the blade, channelled at the upper side: stipules ovate, pointed, scariose. Panicles few-flowered hairy; bractes of the barren flowers ovate close-pressed, of the fertile flowers nearly round. Barren flowers pale tinged with red, outer segments broad-ovate blunt, inner ones four times narrower concave rather pointed—fertile flowers pale green, but little smaller, wings of the germen obtuse one larger than the rest.” Lindley MSS. The whole of this article was kindly communicated by Mr. Lindley while the plant was in flower last spring. The following short notice of the natural tribe of our plant is taken from Mr. Brown’s Observations on the Botany of Congo. “ The extensive genus Beconia, which it is per- ** haps expedient to divide, may be considered as forming a * natural order, whose place, however, among the Dicoty- “ ledonous families, is not satisfactorily determined. Of “ Begoniacec, no species has yet been observed on the conti- * nent of Africa, though several have been found in Mada- “ gascar and the Isles of France and Bourbon, and one in * the Island of Johanna.” Brown obs. bot. Congo. 45. y O y / y. JU. EIKUN I. Qu m C o» ^ D P Yh, DHUWIT, del, arty A Rag SIT Oe ‘ ‘ > IN 7 MASALA Y Auqurl. AF2Q, g 7 helis c | 472 DELPHINIUM grandiflorum. @. chinense. Fischer’s Larkspur. ———_ POLYANDRIA TRIGYNL4; (vectis fort! PENTAGYNIA?) Nat. ord. RANUNCULACER. Decand. syst. nat. 1. 129. Div. I. Ra- nunculacex Vere. Tribus IV. Helleborex. DELPHINIUM. Supra vol. 4. fol. 327. Sect. III. Delphinastrum. Ovaria 3 interdàm 5. Calcar elongatum, in- terius dipetalum; Petala 4 libera, 2 inferiora stipitata, limbo intüs bar- bato in unicá pere integro, sepissimè bifido. Bractee 1 sub pedicello, 2 secùs pedicellum sapissim? opposite flori contigue.—Radices perennes. Subdiv. I. Petalorum inferiorum limbo integro. D. grandiflorum, foliis palmatim multipartitis, lobis linearibus distantibus, icellis bracteà longioribus, petalis calyce brevioribus, 2 inferioribus limbo oblique inflexo ovato integro. Decand. syst. nat. 1. 351. Delphinium grandiflomm. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 749 (excl. Mill. syn.) Mill. dict. ed. &. n. 6, Lamarck encyc. 2. 264. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1228; (excl. secando Mill. syn.) Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 320. Curtis's magaz, 1686. Delphinium nectariis diphyllis labellis integris floribus subsolitariis foliis com- itis lineari-multipartitis. Lin. hort. ups. 150. Mill. ic. 2. 167. t. 250. pos i. 1. opt. . . Delphinium foliis tenuiús divisis. Gmel. sib. 4. 187. t. 78. Delphinium lusitanicum glabrum aconiti folio, Roloff ind. A. eraus. 61. t. 3. (ex Lin.) non Tournef. . Delphinium elatius subincanum perenne floribus amplis azureis. Amm. rath. 175. (B) chinense, caule rectiore rigido, florescentiä seriori. Decand. loc. cit. 362; de Fischeri in litt. Delphinium chinense. Loddiges's bot. cabin. cies ab omnibus fer? DELPHINIIS perennibus petalis integris nec bifidis distinctissima. Radix nigricans; caulis erectus; fol. petiolata trisecta, segmentis tripartitis, lobis multifidis, lobulis linearibus angustis; pedicelli longi interdüm 1-2-pollicares; flores cerulei, magni; sepala ovalia, 8-lin. longa, dorso medio pubescentia; petala calyce multò breviora, 2 supe- riora alba limbo oblongo acuto integro, 2 inferiora ungue filiformi recto, limbo ovato falcatım ad floris latus inferiùs deflexo, basi pilis flavis bar- bato; ovaria 3 rariùs 4 erecta, adpressè pubescentia. Variat, 1°. foliis floralibus inferioribus sapiús multifidis, interdàm linearibus integris; 2°, racemis paucifloris laxissimis aut multifloris confertioribus; 3°. pedicellis à 6 ad 2A lin. longis; 4°. bracteolis alternis oppositisve à flore distantibus aut huic contiguis; 5°. ibus sepius ceruleis interdüm (ex speciminibus ex Sisdem seminibus ortis) lilacinis subroseis imò albidis. An 2 species confuse? Decand. I, c. Our plant is said to have been raised from seed sent from Russia by Dr. Fischer, under the name of DELPHINIUM chinense, having been deemed by the Doctor distinct from grandiflorum, with which we have had no opportunity of VOL. VI. M . comparing it. "The differences we find relied on, are, that it comes later into flower, is a taller, more upright, and stiffer plant, with a more narrowly divided leaf. We must also observe, that M. Decandolle has described the limb of the two upper petals in the flower of grandiflorum as pointed, in our plant it was manifestly blunt and rounded. We have preferred recording the plant as a strongly marked va- riety or possible species until the two can be determined by comparison in the living state or rather by experience. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- ley and Co., King's Road, Fulham, in June 1818. Probably native of some of the Russian districts on the confines of China. Both (8) and (=) vary with cream-coloured flowers. Some of the samples we saw of (@) were three feet high. We found a garden one from Moscow in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium, where the plant is stated to be native of Kam- chatka. The species is remarkable among the perennial Lark- spurs in having the limb of the lower petals entire instead of cloven. Root inclining to black; stem upright; leaves petioled, triply divided, segments tripartite, lobes multifid (repeat- edly cleft), lobules linear narrow; peduncles 1-2 inches long or more, ascending, stiff, one-flowered; a simple leafy bracte at their base, with two rather smaller ones placed above their middle. Leaflets of the calyx obovate, with a small hollow gibbous yellowish green externally villous point. Petals much shorter than the calyx, two upper ones with pale blue oblong round-ended limbs; two lower ones with a filiform straight unguis, limb deflexed, bearded at the base wich Pid hairs. Germens 3-4, grey, close-pressedly urred. y UN N Poi EN è Da N 473 DELPHINIUM cheilanthum. Doroninsk Larkspur. u |— POLYANDRIA TRIGYNIA; (rectidone PENTAGYNIA 2) Nat. ord. RANUNCULACER. Decand. syst. nat. 1, 129, Div. I. Ra- nunculacez Vere. Tribus IV. Helleborez. DELPHINIUM. Supra vol. 4. fol. 327. Sect. III. Delphinastrum. Ovaria 3 interdüm 5. Calcar elongatum, in- terius dipetalum; Petala 4 libera, 2 inferiora stipitata, limbo intüs barbato in unicá specie integro, sapissimé bifido. Bractee 1 sub pedicello, 2 secús pedicellum sepissime opposite flori contigua. Radices perennes. Subdiv. I. Petalorum inferiorum limbo integro. D. cheilanthwn, caule erecto ramoso, foliis 5-partitis, lobis oblongis acumi- natis subtrifidis subdentatis, petalis calyce brevioribus, 2 inferioribus limbo oblique inflexo (sub-) integro (non exact? integro sed apice obtuse ; emarginato aut viz ac ne vix bidentato), capsulis reticulatim pictis pubes- centibus, Decand. syst. nat. 1. 352, 545. Delphinium cheilanthum. Fischer in litt. (fide Decandollai). Delphinium daouricum. Steven ined. (fide Decand. ). Delphinium foliis hirsutis. Gmel. A. sib. 4. 187. t. 76. Species distinctissima! Omnium longè pulcherrima! Folia hirsuta (Gmel) superiora brevitór petiolata 5-partita, lobis oblongis subtrinerviis apice trifidis acuminatis lateralibus subbifidis ; flores DELPHINIX grandiflori magnitudine; calycis sepala (foliola) ovalia apice calloso submucronato ; calcar rectum sepalis equale; petala 2 superiora ut in DELPHINIO grandi- floro, inferiora breviter stipitata, ad apicem stipitis inflexa limbo ovato ob- tusissimo apice emarginato aut vix ac ne vix bidentato prop? basin ciliato in medio disci barbato. (Fischer). Capsule tres pubescentes, membranacee, subinflate, ad dorsum venis nigricantibus anastomosantibus reticulate, stylis persistentibus mucronate. Species omnino media inter DELPHINIUM grandiflorum et alia Delphinastra, Decand. locc. citt. A very distinct richly coloured species of dwarfish growth, recently introduced, and not mentioned in any record of our gardens. First published by M. Decandolle from samples collected in that part of Siberia which lies beyond Lake Baikal, and also in the vicinity of Doroninsk in the province of Daüria. Seed has been lately procured from the gardens at Moscow through the means of Dr. Fischer, and the plant raised in several of the nurseries about London, where it is treated as a hardy perennial and flowers about Juue. The species does not come strictly under the head of those with the limb of the lower petals entire or even, though mM 2 placed there by M. Decandolle, since the limb is manifestly indented; but is rather the intermediate link between gran- diflorum, the limb of the lower petals of which is entire, and that section of Delphinastrum where this is bifid. The figure from a dried plant in Gmelin's work, referred to above, is very characteristic and a certain synonym; but the termi hirsutus applied to the foliage in the description implies, in our view, rather a more conspicuous kind of pubescence than is present in the cultivated samples, whose fur, although dense and uneven, is short. "The flowers are ‘said to vary to cream-colour. Leaves subtomentosely furred of a dark blackish green, 3-5-parted, lobes oblong trifid taper-pointed lateral ones subbifid; flowers about the size of those of DELPHINIUM grandiflorum, of a very deep blue colour; leaflets of the calyx oval with a callously thickened submucronately pointed summit; spur straightish, equal to the leaflets; two upper petals just as in grandiflorum, lower ones shortly stipitate (stiped), inflexed at the top of the stipe with a very obtuse ovate limb indented at the top, scarcely bidentate, ciliated (fringed) near the base, bearded in the centre of the disk. Capsules three, furred, membranous, subinflated, reticu- lately marked at the back with black inosculating veins; mucronately pointed by the permanent styles. The drawing was taken at Messrs. Colville's nursery in the King's Road, Chelsea. . 474 PAONIA mollis. Downy-leaved Peony. — PÓLYANDRIA DIGYNIA (v. potis. PENTAGYNIA). Nat. ord. RANUNCULACEZ. Decand. syst. nat. 1.127. Div. II. Ra- nunculacex spurix, Nempe antheris introrsis donate. PAONIA, Supra vol. 5. fol. 379. P. mollis, foliolis ovali-lanceolatis planis lobatis imbricatis subtis cxsiopilosis, lateralibus subsessilibus, germinibus tomentosis rectis. Anderson in trans. linn. soc. 12. 282. ` Pæonia mollis, Sweet hort. sub. lond. 124. Pæonia villosa. Desfont. cat. h. par. ed. 1.1267; (si ita sit malè à Decan- dolleo ad PEONIAM humilem relata. ) Radicis fibrz longe, tuberibus longis terminate. Caulis pedalis et ultra, rigidus, strictus, pilosiusculus, dens? foliosus, Petioli breves, suprà glabri, subtüs pilosiuscult ; partiales undique pilosi. Folia dodrantalia, tnequalitàr subtriternata, , horizontalia, saturaié ceruleo-viridia. — Foliola lateralia, subsessilia, extüs decurrentia, profunde lobata, lato-lanceolata, plana, obtusa, imbricato-congregata penis fuseis parallelis, subtùs dense pilosa, glauca; supra glabra, nitidiuscula. Bractem foliacer, integre v. incise. Calycis foliola obtusa, exteriora pubescentia, integra. Germina 2-3 rectius- , cula, adpressa, apice distantia, mollitàr pubescentia pilis ferrugineis. Semina equaliter ovata rugosiuscula, nitida. Anderson in loco citato. “ Although the Pzeony here given is perhaps the least beautiful of that splendid genus, yet as it has not been any where described except in the place referred to, nor been figured in any publication, we feel ourselves authorized to lay it before our readers." “ Mr. Sabine, from whose collection the plant was de- scribed by the late Mr. George Anderson, procured it from Messrs. Loddiges and Sons, under the erroneous name of anomala (denoting a very distinct species); it had been cul- tivated some years in the nursery at Hackney, having been raised from seeds sent to the proprietors by Professor Pallas. It flowers in the month of May, and is probably a native of the southern districts of the Russian Empire, in or bor- dering upon the Crimea." : “ The Downy-leaved Pony is easily distinguished from its congeners by dwarf growth and rigid habit, by the pecu- liar erowding and overlapping of the lobes of the foliage, the upper surface of which is of a dark opaque green, and the under very glaucous and woolly. The flowers are a dark purplish red, and appear imbedded in the leaves.” ** Ponta villosa of the French Gardens seems to be a va- riety of this species, and consequently is improperly referred by Desfontaines in the Catalogue of the plants of the Royal Garden at Paris to Pzonıa humilis.” Sabine MSS. We kave to thank Mr. Sabine, the Secretary of the Hor- ticultural Society, for the liberal permission to engrave the annexed drawing by Mr. Hooker, and also for the commu- nication of the above account of this nearly unnoticed Species. ` ** Linnæus remarks, that though the most natural num- ber of the germens in this genus is, in his opinion at least, two, they are often more numerous; but he thinks they scarcely ever amount to five. Some newly discovered species however contradict this, and indeed most of the old ones afford reasons, at one time or other, for the union of the Linnean Orders from Digynia to Pentagynia, in the Class Polyandria, into one; which is sanctioned also by DeLPHI- NIUM, Aconitum and others.” Smith in Reess cyclop. in loco. The type of the genus seems confined to the northern hemisphere. No species has been observed in America. YA AA GOES A QU. GEAR z xc 2227 VÀ 3 sd, Je O Uy ; š Mart del, + + ie by e 7 Sa ^U IVA Fee Milli rp AA 74 ZERI c BAS. ee 475 HAKEA microcarpa. Small-fruited Hakea. — 9—- TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. PROTBE. Jussieu gen. 78. Div. II. Fructus 1-loc. poly- Spermus, PROTEACE®. Brown in trans. linn. soc. 10. 15, segg. Div. IL. Fructus dehiscens.- Subdiv. A. Unilocularis. : HAKEA. Cor. A-petala, irregularis, petalis secundis, apicibus cavis staminiferis.. Anthere immerse. .Glandula hypogyna unica dimidiata. Germ. pedicellatum, dispermum. Stigma subobliquum, ? basi dilatatà mu- cronatum. Follicufus unilocularis, ligneus, pseudo-bivalvis, loculo excen- trico, Semina ala spicis nucleo longiore. Frutices rigidi, quandüque Arbores mediocres, pilis dum adsint medio affixis! Fol. sparsa, in variis varia, nunc in eodem frutice diversiformia. Fasciculi v. Racemuli sepius axillares, in plerisque involucrati, squamis imbricatis, scariosis, caducis, rudimenta ramulorum aliquandò simul includentibus, ideöque potiùs pro gemmá habendis, sed genus, extra tropicum saltóm, à confinibus optisne dis- tinguentibus, aliis notis in quibusdam vacillantibus. Pedicelli colorati, in racemosis geminati, paribus unibracteatis. Flores parvi, albi v. ochroleuci. Pistillum glaberrimum, stylo. suldeciduo. Folliculus parietibus incrassatis, Semina atra, rarà cinerea. Brown prod. 1. 381. Div. Capsule juxta apicem bicalcarate. Subdiv. Folia plura filiformia: aliqua plana.. Brown. ` H. microcarpa, foliis integerrimis glabris: rameis teretibus; infimis planis, corollis pedunculisque glaberrimis, capsulis bicalceratis umbellatis folio multotiès brevioribus. Brown prod. 1. 383. Hakea microcarpa. Brown in trans. linn. soc. 10. 182. Thirty-five species of this genus have been enumerated by Mr. Brown; all belonging to New Holland and Van Diemen’s Island. Of these only one was observed within the tropic. The present is of very recent introduction and not of the seventeen recorded in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis. It belongs to a small division of the group, remarkable for some.fiat and more cylindrical leaves. A greenhouse shrub, with a sweet-smelling blossom. The drawing was taken last May at Messrs. Colville's in the King’s Road, Chelsea. The following is the character of the genus from Mr. Brown's Prodromus. Corolla of 4 petals, irregular, petals in one direction, bearing the stamens in the hollow tops. Anthers im- merged in the hollow of the petals. Hypogynous glandule (small gland below the pistil) solitary, halved. Germen stalked, two-seeded. Stigma somewhat slanted, sharpening mucronately from a widened base. Follicle (indehiscent seedvessel) one-celled, woody, pseudo-bivalve, with a cell deviating from the centre. Seeds with the wing of the sum- mit longer than the nucleus or body. The species consist of rigid shrubs, or sometimes middle-sized trees, with the hairs, when there are any, fixed down at the middle. Leaves scattered, of different shapes in different species, sometimes of different shapes in the same plant. Flower fascicles or racemelets usually axillary, in the greater part of the species enveloped in an involucre of imbricated scariose caducous scales, sometimes enclosing likewise the rudiments of the future branches and consequently rather to be regarded as the buds, but which serve to distinguish the genus very securely (the extratropical part of it at least) from the con- fining genera, while at certain points other marks are found to be less steadfast. Pedicles coloured, in pairs, where the flowers are in racemes, with a single bracte to each pair. Flowers small, white, or cream-coloured. Pistil quite smooth, style subdeciduous. Follicle with thickened walls. Seeds black, seldom ash-coloured. The present species is characterized by quite entire smooth leaves; those on the branches being cylindrical, those lower down flat; by quite smooth corollas and pe- duncles and double-spurred umbellate capsules many times shorter than the leaves. 476 E Dakta Ki. Mag. | I2 0. Le dg "t - M, Hand Ach. 476 DIOSMA lanceolata. » Lance-leaved Diosma. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. RUTACER. Jussieu gen. 269. Div. III. Genera Rutaceis nffinin. 545 DiosMEx. Brown gen. vem. in append. to Flind. toy. 2. DIOSMA. Supra vol. b. fol. 366, Div. Agathosma. Filamentis alternis sterilibus cochleari-petaloideis. D. lanceolata, foliis ellipticis obtusis glabris (utrinque pilis raris: in notá). , Linn. syst. nat. ed, 12. 2. 625; (sub Harrocık lanceolata.) Diosma lanceolata. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 5. Linn. syst. veg. Murr. 239. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 11. 37; (excluso syn. Thunbergii.) Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 25 5 (exclusá phrasi specifici Willdenovii speciem omnind alienam in- telligentis). i Bucco obtuse. oblonga. Wendl. collect. 1. 47. t. 14? Hartogia lanceolata. Linn. syst. nat. ed. 12. 2. 625. Fruticulus dumosus subpedalis, resinam strenuissimà redolens, pubescens, ramis villosis foliosis. Fol. patentia, numerosa, sparsa, approximata, crassa, lanceolato-oblonga, obtusiuscula, $ uncis viz longiora, suprà plano-con- vexiuscula pilis raris, margine et costá subtüs pilis longioribus ciliata, à prono glanduloso-punctata pallidiora. Flores terminales, convexo-umbellati, roseo-subrubentes v. lilacino-albicantes, parvuli: pedicelli viz longiores flori- bus, hirsuti, globulis resinosis consiti, rubidi, recti. Cal. bis brevior corollá, pubescens, glandulosus, infernè rubescens, superne virescens, segmentis erecto- patentibus obtusis crassis. Cor. pet. campanulato-patentia, distantia, ligu- lata, angustiüs spathulata, concolora, lamin’ oblongá obtusá planá, ungue lineari villosiusculo. Fil. 5 sterilia erecta, breviora corollá, petalodea, petalis osita, lineari-ligulata, infernè plana pilosa, supernè convoluto-concava, apice cochleariformia rotundata. Stam. 5 fertilia successive exerescentia, corollam exsuperantia, diffuse patentia, primò ad medium replicata indè sen- sim arrigenda, filamentis glabris setaceis, antheris parvulis erectis à basi infixis ovato-rotundis flavis. Germ. viride, glabrum, disco crateriformi immersum, tricolle apiculis fuscis: stylus setaceus, albus, glaber, apiculorum germinis intermedius. A Linnean species, involved in some obscurity by an inadvertence of Willdenow in identifying it with a plant to which Thunberg had affixed the same name, under the impression of its being the same thing, but which a critical review proves to be of a very different nature. We know by the sample that the present is the species intended in the Hortus Kewensis, notwithstanding its having been enu- merated ia the last edition of that publication by the phrase descriptive of Thunberg’s plant. VOL. VI. N The figure quoted in the synonymy from Wendland we think is meant for this plant, notwithstanding the bractes shown on the pedicles, which we never observed in any sample we saw. It may also be the Diosma pubescens of Wilidenow's “ Enumeratio;” but clearly not that of his ** Species Plantarum," where it was adopted from Thunberg, and prefixed to an inappropriate synonymy; a circumstance we have noticed in the article Diosma ciliata (vol. 5. fol. 366). In Thunberg's pubescens the leaves are described as lanceo- late, three-cornered and villous; in the pubescens of Will- denow, in his “ Enumeratio, as oblong slightly pointed and fringed along the edge and midrib; while the figure we have quoted above from Wendland is adduced for the syno- nym of one of the varieties into which it is divided. From ciliafa, to which it has a near affinity, it may be at once distinguished by a germen. with a bare smooth top instead of one with the top clothed with a shaggy pu- bescence. Native of the Cape of Good Hope; requiring the same treatment as the hardier kinds of Heaths from the same quarter. Cultivated by Miller in 1768, in the Physic Garden at Chelsea. i ; A small bushy shrub, seldom much more than a foot high, exhaling a very strong resinous smell, especially when rubbed or bruised, furred; branches villous, leafy. Leaves substantial, spreading, numerous, scattered, near, lanceolately oblong, slightly blunted, scarcely exceeding a quarter of an inch in length, flat with a slight rise on the upper surface where they are furnished with a few straggling hairs, ‘fringed with longer hairs at the edge and along the underside of the midrib, paler under- neath with dotlike glands. Flowers small, terminal, con- vexly umbelled, often rosy red, sometimes nearly white: pedicles hardly longer than the flowers, reddish, straight, shaggily furred, bespangled with crystallized resinous- globules. Calyx twice shorter than the corolla, glandular,’ furred, reddish below, greenish above, segments blunt thick. Petals campanulate, spreading, standing apart, ligulate, narrowishly spatülate, of one colour; lamina or blade oblong blunt flat; unguis (claw or stand) linear vil- lous. Sterile filaments 5, one opposite to each petal, shorter - than the corolla, petal-like, linearly ligulate; at the lower part hairy flat, at the upper convolutely concave, at the top hollowed like the bowl of a spoon and rounded. Fertile stamens 5, acquiring their due length in succession, over- topping the corolla, diffusely spread, at first replicate at the middle, gradually straightening: filaments setaceous, smooth: anthers small, upright, fixed on at the base, ovately rounded deep yellow. Germen green, smooth, set in a cupped disk, triply pointed, points dark: style setaceous, white, smooth, placed amidst the points of the germen. Drawing done at Messrs. Colvilles, King’s Road, Chel- sea. JO- 7. f, Mies y SY P d Ay Va A he » 7 UL Lif) tC >; ; qe pA Faw 477 MELALEUCA squamea. Scaly-branched Melaleuca. POLYADELPHIA ICOSANDRIA. Nat. ord. MYRTI (MyRTACED. Jussieu gen. 322. Div. I. Flores in foliorum axillis aut in pedunculis multifloris oppositi. Folia plerumque oppo- sita et punctata. MELALEUCA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 108. Div. Folia alterna. M. squamea, foliis ovatis lanceolatis acuminatis trinervibus: novellis ramu- lisque villosis, capitulis globosis pubescentibus, phalangibus §-6-(9) andris: unguibus petalis brevioribus. Brown im Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 412, Melaleuca squamea. Labillard. nov. holl. 2. 28, t. 168. Frutex erectus, subverticillato-ramosus, ramis teretibus, novellis villosis. Fol. tàm opposita quàm sparsa, patentissima, intervallis longiora, elliptico v. ovato-lanceolata, cuspidato-acuminata, nervosa nervis parallelis, brevissime petiolata, novella villosa subtüsque hirsutiora. Flores letè lilacini, basi ra- mulorum in capitulum subovatum v. globosum foliis floralibus brevioribus hirsutissimis confertis subtensum congestt, foliolis bracteaceis interstincti. Cal. oblongus, turbinato-campanulatus, pallidé virens, sublanato-villosus, segmentis ovatis triangularibus erectis, intàs concavis saturate viridibus. Petala corolla lilacina, obovata, convoluto-concava, 3-plo breviora. staminibus, 2-plo lon- giora segmentis calycis vel magis, unguiculata, margine erosa, alanges staminei 5 lilacini, polyandri, ungue brevissimo vel subnullo: anthera Zuter. Pistilla quanta coram habuimus abortiva v. cassa. This lively flowered shrub is not uncommon in our greenhouses, though it has not yet been represented by auy figure from the living plant. A native of Vau Diemen's Island. Introduced by Mr. Brown in 1805. The specific name has been suggested by the peeling of the bark on the older branches of the plant in short scale- like strips along the intervals of the foliage. An upright shrub; branches produced nearly in whorls, round, young ones villous. Leaves both oppositely and Scatteredly disposed, wide-spread, longer than the intervals, elliptically or ovately lanceolate, long taper-pointed with parallel nerves, very shortly petioled, new ones villous more Shaggily so underneath. Flowers of a lively lilac-red, pro- duced at the base of the new branches in subovate or globular heads subtended by crowded shorter and very shaggy floral leaves, separated one from the other by bractelike leaflets. Calyx oblong, turbinately campanulate, pale green with a woolly-villous fur; segments ovate triangular upright con- cave on the inside and deep green. Petals of the corolla lilac-red, obovate, convolutely concave, three times shorter than the stamens, three times longer than the segments of the calyx or more, unguiculate (i.e. with a narrow claw or stand), eroded at the edge. Stamineous fascicles 5, of from 5 to 9 stamens, lilac-red, with very short nearly obsolete stands: anthers yellow. All the pistils we examined were imperfect. The drawing was taken in May, at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the King’s Road, Chelsea. _ 478 LYCHNIS fulgens. Siberian Lychnis. — DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. CARYOPHYLLBA. Jusieu gen. 299. Dio. V. Calyx. tubu- Josus. Stamina 10 (alterna hypogyria, altema spits epipetala). li duo aut tres aut quinque. LYCHNIS. Cal. tubulosus 5-dentatus. Petala 5 unguiculata, limbo sepè fissa. Styli 5. Caps. S-locularis 5-valvis. Flores sep? eorgmbosi terminales, rariùs spicato-paniculati, in. LycHNITE alpina et LYCHNITE quadridentatà interdúm 4-styli, in Lycunire dioicd aborti dioici. Fructus in L. viscarià 5-locularis, in L. Flore Cuculi unilocularis. Juss. loc. cit. 302. L. fulgens, hirsuta, floribus solitariis, foliis oblongis.. Sprengel eent. sp. pi. minus cogn. 26. n. 55. > Lychnis fulgens. Fischer ined. (fide Sprengelii). Curtis's magaz; 2104. Herba hirtiùs tomentosa; caulis subsesquipedalis erectus ramosissimus, ramis supernis floriferis trichotomo-cymosis, floribus brevissimà pedunculatis, medio singularum trichotomiarum ebracteato, lateralibus bibracteatis, bracteis calycem subequantibus. Fol. opposita, decussato-distantia, sessilia, oblongo- ovata, acuminata. Cal. oblongus, lanatus, qiindraceu, 10-anguloso-pli- catus, intüs glaber, dentibus 5 acuminatis. Cor. aurantiaco-coccinea, 3 metro sesquiunciali vel majori, limbo stellato-explanato; petala dorso cari- nata, laminá cuneato-obcordatá 4-fidd, lobis inequalissimis, mediis 2 mul- totiós majoribus distantibus lineari-oblongis obtusissimis apice denticulato- erosis, lateralibus duplo brevioribus, angustissimis, linegri-subulatis; ungue «quante calycem, intùs margine lanato-ciliato, parùm breviore laminá. Corona pede limbi posita, è paribus 5 squamularum dentiformium recumben- tium igneo-rutilantium. Stam. tubo subinserta, altdinà 5 tardiora, 5 petalis inserta, 5 stipite germinis: anth. incumbentes, coccinea. Styli 5 simplicis- ^ simi, inclusi. Germ. viride, glabrum, oblongum columella brevi innitens. It is not an easy matter to point out in what respects this new and brilliant acquisition is to be discriminated from the well-known * Scarlet Lychnis" (L. chalcedonica), if we except the differences of dimension. In fulgens the leaves are broader and proportionately shorter, the stem is scarcely one third the height of that of chalcedonica; in fulgens the flowers are several times larger, and the two outer segments of the petals longer and more perfectly defined than in chal- cedonica, where they are mere teethlike rudiments; in ful- gens the branches which support the flowers are greatly more extended, and farther apart, thus giving an incomparably wider breadth to the inflorescence than in chalcedonica, where the flowers are nearly sessile, and very compactly disposed. In all other things the two are extremely alike; flower at the same time in the open ground; and probably belong to the same regions; fulgens being specially stated to come from Siberia, chalcedonica in a more general way from Russia. The plant seems to have been originally observed by Dr. Fischer, by whom it was communicated to Professor Spren- gel, and by him first published in the tract we have quoted. It was raised by several of our nurserymen the year be- fore last from seed ripened in the Berlin Garden. Plants of the first year seldom produce more than from one to three flowers. The drawing was taken from a plant of two years growth, which flowered in June, in the nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the King's Road, Chelsea. We should have observed, that the pubescence is softer and more curled in fulgens than in chalcedonica. p» ^ r wa A 34 x y » Lo pup =e Mah St M. Hard. del. Lab by I, raum IJO Pera dalla Sch]. LE 20. t 479 PANCRATIUM zeylanicum. One-flowered Sea- Daffodil. ——— HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Narcıssı. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germen inferum. AMARYLLIDER. Brown prod. 1.206. Sect. I. PANCRATIUM. Supra vol. 3. fol. 221. Div. I. Floribus petiolatis v. subsessilibus: limbo radiato: excieuris senis corone staminiferis. Nob. in journ. of scien. and the arts. 8. 317. P. zeylanicum, uniflorum; foliis lorato-lanceolatis, subtàs glaucis; laciniis corolla longioribus tubo, superné revolutis; staminibus erecto-incurves- centibus. Pancratium zeylanicum. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 417. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 41. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 9, 218. Nobis in journ. of scien. and the arts. 3. 317. Pancratium tiarzflorum. Parad. londin. 86. Narcissus zeylanicus, flore albo hexagono odorato. Herm. lugdb. 691. t. 693. Commel. hort. amst. 1. 73. t. 38. Liliom javanicum. Rumph. amboin. 6. 161. t. 70. fig. 2. Bulbus ovato-globosus collo vaginoso, diametro sesquiunciali. Folia bifaria, 3-12 (in exemplaribus omnibus que vidimus 2-3), 6-12-uncialia, ubi latiora unciam transversa vel circà, costd mediá subtüs prominente. Scapus foliis brevior, tereti-subcompressus, striatus, non glaucus, Flos albus, gra- tissim? odorus, amplus, uncias 44 "us v. circà, tenuis, tener, erectus, bre- vissimé intra spatham pedicellatus. Spatha folliculosa (v. latere altero de- hiscens), membranacea, lineari-lanceolata, bracteolam pedicello brevi ap- pressam in se continens. Corolle tubus unciam unam parüm excedens, sub- virescens, 3-plo brevior limbo: limbus radiato-revolutus, pro dimidio suo ferè corone adnatus, laciniis distantibus, linearibus, jatertins inferné replicatis: corona profundé equalitérque 12-fida, rotata, is per paria contiguis acumindtis sinubus staminiferis tioribus rotundatis distinctis, Filam. param breviora limbo, multotiés longiora dentibus corone, erecto-conniventia. Germ. viride, oblongum, duplo brevius tubo, erangulosum, esulcatum, loculis biseriatim cumulatéque polyspermis: stylus longitudine corolle; stigma sim- plicissimum, puberulum. An exceedingly rare plant in our collections, where in- deed we had never met with it till this summer, when several samples were in blossom at the same time in Mr. Griffin's hothouse at South Lambeth: where the bulbs bad been lately imported from the Island of Ceylon; the country to which the species belongs. Cultivated by Miller, at the Physic Garden, Chelsea, in 1752; and had been most probably procured from the gar- dens in Holland. VOL. V1. o Bulb ovately round with a sheathy neck, about an inch and a half in diameter. Leaves bifarious, lorately-lanceolate, in all the samples we saw from two to three, 6-12 inches long, about an inch broad at the widest part, glaucous at the under side with a projecting midrib. Scape one-flowered, shorter than the leaves, round and slightly compressed, streaked, not glaucous. Flower white, large, about four inches and a half long, thin and tender, upright, shortly stalked within the spathe. Spathe follicular (of one piece and opening on one side), membranous, linearly lanceolate, inclosing a very small closed-pressed bracte. Tube of the corolla but little above an inch long, greenish, three times shorter than the limb; limb radiate, adhering to the crown for near half its length; segments distant, linear, revolute at the upper part, reflexed along that portion of their sides which adheres to the crown. Crown deeply and evenly twelve-cleft, rotate, lobes taper-pointed, contiguous by pairs, each pair separated from the other by a wider rounded stamenbearing sinus. Filaments upright, inclining inwards, little shorter than the limb, several times longer than the lobes of the crown. Germen green, oblong, twice shorter than the tube of the flower, uncornered, furrowless, with many seeds lying one upon the other in two rows; style the length of the corolla; stigma a simple bluntish slightly pubescent point. A very desirable acquisition for the hothouse, where it requires little care, takes up only a small Space, lasts some time in beauty, and is very sweet-scented. — A i ilis : \ 480 . PLUMERIA bicolor. Bicolor Plumeria. ——- PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. APOCYNEE. Jussieu gen. 145. Div. I. Germen duplex. Fructus bifollicularis. Semina non papposa. PLUMERIA. Cal. minimus, quinquefidus. Cor. infundibuliformis, tubo tenui tereti; fauce esquamatà; limbo infundibuliformi, uinquepartite, laciniis obliquis. Stamina basi tubi coroll: inserta, inclusa, libera: antAere conniventes. Ovaria (germina) duo, annulo carnoso immersa: styli duo, breves: stigma incrassatum, apice emarginatum. Folliculi ventricosi, de- orsüm flexi: semina inferne membranaceo-alata. Arbores aut arbuscule lactescentes. Folia magna, alterna, integra et integerrima. Flores spe- ciosi, terminales, corymbosi, incarnati, rosei, albi et lutescentes. Kunth nov. gen. et spec. 3. 229. P. bicolor, foliis oblongis, acuminatis, marginibus planis, corolla albo-lutea. Ruiz et Pavon fl. peruv. 2. 21. t. 141. Plumeria alba; £. fragrans. Kunth nov. gen. et spec. 3. 230; (PLuMERIA alba Zinnei toto celo distans). Yuraccarhuas Suche. Peruvianis. Arbor quingueorgyalis: truncus erectus, teres, cinereus, comá subrotundd magné: rami dichotomi, crassi, medullosi. Folia sparsa in summitatibus ra- mulorum, oblonga, acuminata, integerrima, plana, venosissima. Petioli basi biglandulosi, Pedunculi terminales, striati, glabri (in nostrá plantó lanuginosi v. subvillosi), multiflori, pedicellis bracteolis ovatis deciduis suf- fulti. Flores corymboso-umbellati, gemini. Cal. viridis, quinquecrenatus. Cor. magna, albo-lutescens; tubus curvatus; faux intens? lutea; limbus albo- lacteus. Folliculi bipalmares et ultrà, rubro-fusci: semina fusca, ald longá elbicante. Ruiz et Pavon. loc. cit. We have been furnished with the sample of this rare plant through the kindness of Mr. Lambert; who has culti- vated it for several years in his hothouse at Boyton, in Wiltshire, where it was introduced from Jamaica; most probably from some garden. It is a very different species from the PLumsrria alba of Linnaeus, which belongs to that Island. There the leaves are very narrow in proportion to their length; long-pointed, and revolute at the margins. As far as we can judge from the description and figure, we have scarcely a doubt that our plant is the PLumERIA bicolor of the “ Flora Peruviana,” as well as the plant intended by Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland in the place we have quoted above. Not having seen the sample while fresb, 02 nor had an opportunity of comparing it with rubra, we are not prepared to say in what respects the two differ beyond colour. However both Mr. Lambert and Mr. Donn his librarian, who have observed them while growing together in the hothouse, believe the two to be essentially distinct. We should observe, that the stalks of the inflorescence are described as smooth or bare in the bicolor of the Flora Peruviana; in our specimen they were slightly villous or downy, the down being however very slightly attached and tender, probably deciduous? The blossom is delightfully fragrant. The shrub, or rather tree, is said to grow to the height of about forty feet in its native place. The young wood abounds with a milky juice, is soft and pithy. Native of South America. d/ uA p ae N 481 CALYCANTHUS levigatus. Dark-flowered scentless Allspice. — a — ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nat. ovd. CALYCANTHE. Lindley Supra vol. 5. fol. 404. CALYCANTHUS. Supra vol. 5. fol, 404. C. lavigatus, foliis oblongis sensim acuminatis, subrugosis, utrinque viridi- bus glabris: ramis strictissimis. Lindley MSS. ! Calycanthus levigatus. Willd. hort. berol. 1. 80. t. 80. Ejusd. enum. 1. 559. Pursh amer. sept. 1. 358. Calycanthus fertilis. Andrews's reposit. 539; (pessimé). Calycanthus ferax. Michaux bor. amer. 1. 305; (fide Pursh.) Frutex. CALYCANTHO fertili (supra vol. 5. fol. 404.) simillimus; sed rami strictiores, folia oblonga, sensim acuminata, utrinque viridia nec subtüs glauca; flores colore multotiès intensiore, odore tamen equé carentes; peri- ` anthii lacinie angustiores quandoque semiexpanse. Fructus ignotus. Lind- ley MSS. For this very uncommon species of Allspice, we have to thank Mr. Sabine, by whom a sample was obligingly com- municated from the garden of bis residence at North Mimms, in Hertfordshire. Native of North America, and very like CaLYcANTHUS fertilis, which forms the subject of the 404th article of this publication. The principal differences between the two species consist in the leaves of the present plant being much more acuminate (taper-pointed) than those of CALYCANTHUS fertilis, and destitute of that glaucous hue, so remarkable on the under side of those of the latter as well as of the well-known Carolina Allspice (CaLYcaNTHUS floridus). The flowers of levigatus are also much darker than in fertilis, . and the segments much narrower, but in both differ from those of floridus in being destitute of all fragrance. It sometimes happens that the flowers partially expand; but we have never observed them open so completely as they appear to have done in the sample from which the pre- sent figure was drawn. Lindley MSS. 482 489 TRADESCANTIA fuscata. Stemless Spiderwort. —W— HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. COMMELINER. Brown prod. 1. 269. TRADESCANTIA. Cal. 3-phyllus, æqualis, persistens. Cor. 3- petala, wqualis. Stamina filamentorum pilis articulatis. Stylus simplex, stigmate tubuloso. Capsula supera, trilocularis: semina pauca dorso vel latere embrionifera. Gertn. sem. 1. 51. Herbe. Folia basi vaginantia, alterna, nervis parallelis. Involucrum conduplicatum foliiforme, inflorescentiam long? exsuperans, v. bracteola ob- soleta, v. plan? nullim. Flores ephemeri, modò biseriato-distachyi monosta- chyive, rarò solitarii: bracteis interstineti. Genus omnind eziracuropea- num. T. fuscata, acaulis, ferrugineo-hirsuta; foliis ellipticis acuminatis pedunculis- jue 1-3-floris? radicalibus. Tradescantia fuscata. Loddiges's bot. cab. Acaulis. Folia plura, lata, crassiuscula, radicalia, ambientia, recum- bentia, patentia, 3-4-uncialia v. ultrà, lanceolato-elliptica v. ovata, ferru- gineo-hispida nervis longitudinalibus utrinque convergentibus, pubescentiá 4 prono densiùs hirsutd: petioli breves, canaliculato-convoluti subtús hispi- dissimi. Pedunculi radicales, 1-3?-flori multàm breviores foliis, erecti, his- pidi. Calyx ferrugineo-hirtus, segmentis oblongis. Genitalia alba. The Commelinex, of which the present genus is a co- ordinate, were comprised in the Juncec of Jussieu, but have been since detached by Mr. Brown, and the group defined by the following character. Calyx three-parted. Corolla of three petals, with the ungues sometimes connate (united). Stamens six or sometimes fewer, hypogynous (inserted be- low the pistil), a part of them often either antherless or with othershaped anthers. Germen 2-3-celled, with few- seeded cells: style single: stigma single. Capsule 2-3-celled, 2-3-valved, valves septiferous (partitionbearing) along their middle: seeds generally two, and inserted at the inner angle of the cell. Embryo trochleate (pullied or like a short cylinder constricted at the middle), sunk in a hollow of the solid-fleshed albumen opposite the umbilicus. All the genera consist of herbaceous plants with leaves that are generally sheathing at the base. Trapescantia differs from CowwELINA in having six uniform anthers. Although the type of this singular genus js not repre- sented by one species within the bounds of Europe; yet owing to the long standing popularity of the Common Vir- ginian Spiderwort (TRADESCANTIA virginica), a nearly uni- versal ornament of our fiower-borders for almost two centu- ries, its features are as familiar to Europeans as those of any one of their native flowers. The present species bas been newly observed; being said to have beeu introduced about three years ago from the Brazils. The drawing was taken the summer before last from a sample that flowered in the hothouse in Mr. Lee's nursery at Hammersmith. It is remarkable for hav- ing no appearance of any stem; and being covered through- out (except at the corolla) by a rough tawny-brown fur, thickest at the underside of the foliage. The leaves broad, thickish, radical, several, ambiently scattered, recumbent, spreading, about three or four inches long or perhaps more, lanéeolately elliptical or ovate, fur rusty-brown, hispid, thickest at the underside of the leaf, nerves longitudinal converging at each end. Petioles short, convolutely chan- nelled; peculiarly hispid underneath. Peduncles hairy, ra- dical, 1-3?-flowered, upright, much shorter than the leaves. Calyx hispid; segments oblong. Stamen and pistil white. If WY. c A Haru, del. e NUT \{ eoo ta d y v. NY Pat 1277 V4, / E 483 ANCHUSA italica. Jtalian Bug loss. — P PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. BoRRAGINER. Jussieu gen. 128. Div. IV. Fructus gym- notetraspermus. ` Faux corolla instructa 5 squamis calcarum instar cavis, intra corollam prominulis in ejusdem laciniarum basi, extrà hiulcis. Herbe plerümque asperifolie. BORAGINER. Brown prod. 1. 492. ANCHUSA. Cal. 5-fidus s. 5-partitus. Cor. infundibuliformis, fauce clausa fornicibus erectis, obtusis. uces 4, wniloculares, turbinate, fundo calycis affixa, basi concava perforate. Lehmann asperifol. 1. 211. Div. I, Calycibus 5-partitis in fructü erectis; corollis in pluribus inequa- pP ni Lehm. l. c. P met A. italica, caule erecto ramoso, foliis lanceolatis undulatis strigosis lucidis, racemis conjugatis divaricatis paniculatis bracteatis, calycibus tubo co- rollze subzequalis longioribus: laciniis subulatis, fornicibus penicilliformi- bus. Lehmann asperifol. 1. 230; (sub ANCHusá paniculata). Anchusa italica. Retz. obs. 1. 12; (cujus exemplar prototypum in Herb. Banks.) Trew pl. rar. 14. t.18. Willd. sp. pl 1. 756. Ejusd. enum. 1.178. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 289. i Anchusa paniculata. Lehmann loc. cit. exclusis Hort. Kew. synonymisque omnibus ad plantam madeirensem orientalemque referentibus. Buglossum foliis linguiformibus asperis, spicis supremis gemellis. Hail. helv. n. 599; (exclusis synonymis). Buglossum italicum flore cæruleo Besleri. Hort. eystet. astiv. ord. 8. fol. 5. Buglossa vulgaris. Ger. emac. 798; cum ic. . Caulis erectus, strictus, teretiusculus, 2-3-pedalis et longior, ramosus, uti tota planta hispidus: pilis patentibus rigidis, tuberculis callosis insiden- tibus. mi patentes, in racemos abeuntes. Folia radicalia et caulina infe- riora petiolata, in petiolum supra planum attenuata, lanceolata, acuta, undulata ; superiora sessilia; summa basi cordato-ovata et ultra medium in acumen attenuata; omnia utrinque strigosa, profund? viridia, sublucida. Racemi caulem et ramos terminantes, bipartite flore centrali in dichotomid bracteis linearibus longitudine pedicellorum adspersi, luxi, divaricati, in summo caule paniculam constituentes. Pedicelli erecto-secundi, distantes. Calyces longitudine. pedicellorum, piloso-hispidi, usque ad basin 5-partiti: laciniis subulatis inequalibus. Cor. cerulea v. violacea; tubus cylindricus calyce brevior; limbus patens 5-partitus, laciniis inequalibus obovatis ro- tundato-obtusis. Fornices erecti, penicilliformes. Nuces 4, ovato-oblonge, reticulato-rugose, basi margine turgido ciucte. Lehmann loc. cit. sub AN- CHUSA paniculata. A species judiciously distinguished from officinalis and angustifolia by Retzius, whose prototype specimen 18 pre- served in the Banksian Herbarium; where we find also that VOL. VI. P from which paniculata of the Hortus Kewensis was insti- tuted. The first belongs to the South of Europe, the seed of the latter was brought from the Island of Madeira by Mr. Masson; yet the two have been subsequently united into a same species by Sir James Smith, as editor of the Flora Greca, and by M. Lehmann in a late Monograph of this tribe of plants. In our judgment the Levant plant of the Flora Greeca is plainly the same as the Madeira one; but on the other hand both appear to us distinct from italica, the European plant, which is taller and of a more succulent habit, with broad upper cauline leaves ovate and conspicu- ously cordate (indented) at the base, a circumstance which does not belong either to the specimen of the Madeira plant or to the Levant one, if we áre to judge from the figure in the Flora Graeca, while it is most obvious both in Retzius's specimen and in the excellent figure of ifalica in Trew's work. The distinction relied on by the learned editors of the Hortus Kewensis to separate paniculata from italica, as well as from all others of the genus, viz. that the segments of the calyx are parted from each other down to the bottom, certainly does not hold good in regard to italica, where the calyx is parted as far as in paniculata. Notwithstanding this, we have thought it safer to keep the two distinct, because of the other differences we have stated. We know by Gerarde, that it was cultivated here in 1597. A hardy biennial plant. Stem straight, roundish, from two to three feet high or more, branching, like the rest of the plant covered with a hard bristly fur, the hairs of which are spreading, and stand upon a callous tubercle. Branches Spreading, terminating in racemes. Radicle and lower cau- line leaves petioled, tapering downwards to a petiole which is flat at the upper side, lanceolate, pointed, undulate; upper ones sessile; topmost ones cordately ovate at the base and tapering to a point from above the middle; all of them stiffly furred, of a deep green, and rather shining. Racemes terminal, bipartite with a single flower in the fork, loose, divaricate, forming a panicle at the top of the stem, beset with linear bractes of the length of the pedicles; pedicles upright and pointing one way, standing wide apart. Calyx the length of the pedicle, hispid (stiffly furred), five-parted down to the base; segments subulate, unequal. Corolla blue or violet coloured: tube cylindrical, shorter than the calyx; limb spreading, five-parted, segments unequal obo- vate, rounded at the end. The five faucial appendages upright, pencilled. Nuts 4, ovately oblong, reticulately wrinkled, surrounded at the base by a protuberant rim. DA LATE, AL. Marl. a 484 GOMPHOLOBIUM grandiflorum. Large-flowered Air-pod. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSE. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. IV. Corolla irregu- laris papilionacea, Stamina distincta, aut rarò basi coalita. Legumen uni- loculare bivalve. Arbores aut frutices; folia simplicia aut ternata aut im- paripinnata.z—PAPILION ACE. Brown in append. to Flind. voy. 2. 652. GOMPHOLOBIUM. Cal. 5-partitus, subeequalis. Cor. papilionacea, vexillo explanato. Stigma simplex. Legumen golyepermum, subspheeri- cum, obtusissimum (glabrum). Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2.3.11. Fratices (Australie) facte rigidá atque levi. Folia ternata v. pinnata. Stipule è foliolis duobus minutissimis planis acutis appressis, nec ut in PULTENEA intrafoliaceis, sed petiolum communem utrinque ad basin sti- pantibus, haud rarò omninò deficientibus, Flores flavi (v. purpurascentes,) plerdmque numerosi, ampli, speciosi. Smith in Kees's cyclop, (ex anglico verso). G. grandiflorum, foliis ternatis, linearibus, rectis, ramis angularibus, glabris; carina imberbi, Smith exot, bot. 1. 7. tab. 5; (ex angl. vers.) Gompholobium grandiflorum. Smith in trans. linn. soc. 9. 249. Id. in ann. of bot. 1. 505; et in Rees's cyclop. in loco. Sweet hort. suburb. lond. 90. Gompholobium. Smith in trans. linn. soc. 4. 220. Kami angulosi, glabri, foliosi. Folia alterna, ternata, linearia, an- gusta, revoluta, integra, glabra, stricta, mucronata. Stipule parve. Flores lutei, speciosi; racemi 2-3-flori, ramorum lateralium terminales, bracteá parvá concavá squamiformi ad basin cujusque pedicelli. Calyx magnus, coriaceus, glaber, land subtili ciliatus. exillum amplum. Ale carinaque dipetala plurimüm minores. Stamina omnia distincta, sim- plicia, glabra, longitudine subinequalia. Germen oblongum, glabrum, breviter stipitatum. Stylus subulatus, simplex, persistens: stigma acutum. Legumen globosum, rigidum, & valvulis duobus inflatis, loculo unico: semina plura, brevitór pedicellata sechs suturam superiorem annexa. Smith exot. bot. loc. cit. (ex angl. versum), * The habit of Gomprororium is marked by the com- pound (ternate or pinnate) leaves, and a certain aspect of rigidity and smoothness. ‘The stipulas are not intrafoliace- ous as in PuLrenza, but stand on each side of the base of the common footstalk, being a pair of acute flat close- pressed leaves, extremely minute and often altogether want- ing. The flowers are yellow (or purple) generally nume- rous, large and handsome. All the species as far as hitherto known, are natives of New Holland." Smith in Rees’s cyclop. article GomPHOLOBIUM. The technical character of the genus is deduced by Mr. Brown from the five-parted nearly equal calyz, flatly ex- tended verillum and subglobular pointless smooth many- seeded pod. The drawing of the present species was made from a plant raised in Mr. Griffin's conservatory at South Lambeth from New Holland seed, and is the first taken in this coun- try. It is not recorded in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis; and is still exceedingly scarce. We have adopted the following account from Sir James Smith's work, having missed the opportunity of seeing the blossom. “ GomPHOLOBIUM grandiflorum, remarkable for its showy yellow flowers, is a shrub three feet in height, found in a sandy soil and flowering in October. The branches are angular, smooth, leafy. Leaves alternate, 3 on a footstalk, linear, narrow, revolute, entire, smooth, very stiff and straight, tipped with a sharp straight point. Stipules small. Flowers 2 or 3 at the end of each lateral branch on simple smooth footstalks, with a small concave scaly bractea at the base of each stalk. Calyx large, coriaceous, smooth, except a fine woolly fringe at its edge. Standard very large. Wings and keel very much smaller, of two petals each. Stamens all distinct, simple, and smooth, somewhat unequal in length. Germen on a short stalk, oblong, smooth. Style awl-shaped, simple, with a sharp stigma, permanent. Pod globose rigid, of 2 inflated valves, and one cell. Seeds se- veral, ranged along the upper suture of short stalks.” Smith exot. bot. 1. 7. The Gompnotosium grandiflorum of Andrews's Reposi- tory is the G. polymorphum of Mr. Brown in the Hortus Kewensis. All the species are shrubby greenhouse plants. MADAM, LLL, 4 485 - PJEONIA albiflora. .. fragrans. Double sweet-scented Chinese Peony. — POLYANDRIA DIGYNIA; (PENTAGYNIA ?) Nat. ovd. RANUNCULACEE. Decand. syst. nat. 1. 127. Div. HT. Ra- nuneulacer spurie, Nempé antheris introrsis donate. PZEONIA. Supra vol. 5. fol. 379. P. albifcrs, herbacea, capsulis glabris, recurvatis, foliis biternatim sectis, segmentis glabris nitidis tripartitis, lobis ovato-lanceolatis. Decand. syst. nai. 1, 392. Peoria albiflora, Synonyma supra vol. 1. fol. 42. videnda. (6) fragrans. Anderson in Linn. trans, 12. 260. Double sweet-scented chinese Pony. Sabine in hort. trans. 2. 278; cum tab. pict. For the general account of this species we shall refer our readers to the first volume of the present publication, where Pronia albiflora is the subject of the forty-second article. We are obliged to Mr. Sabine for a sample, and the fol- lowing account of the variety before us. . “ Of the double varieties of Paonta albiflora, this was the first introduced into this country; it has been cultivated in the Botanic Garden at Kew from 1805, but did not be- come general in the London nurseries for some years after- wards, and is still the least common of any." “ Another double Pzeony, similar to this in colour, was imported from China in 1810 by Sir Abraham Hume. That is a plant altogether of a more robust habit and with leaves more strongly wrinkled than.in the one before us. The present however possesses a very pleasing fragrance, remind- ing us of the Rose, and is so far superior to its rival.” “ A single variety has been already figured in the Bo- tanical Register, and notwithstanding the apparent ob- jection to the specific name, from the flower of some of the varieties differing in colour from their prototype sample, I have not changed it; not only in regard to its priority, but also in deference to the authority of the late Mr. George Anderson, in whose elaborate Monograph of the genus, published in the Transactions of the Linnean Society, the original name has been retained. M. De Candolle has also retained the title albiflora for the species in his Systema Naturale Regni Vegetabilis, though he was not aware of Mr. Andersons Monograph when his work was put to press." * I have subjoined, from Mr. Anderson’s Treatise, an enumeration of all the known varieties of the species." ** Pzonız albiflore varietates adhucdum note. “ (a.) vestalis, Andrews's reposit. 64. ** (B.) candida. “ (y.) tatarica. Suprà vol. 1. fol. 42. Salisb. Paradisus Lond. 78. “ (3.) sibirica. ** («.) rubescens. “ (£.) uniflora. Curtis's magaz. 1756. ** (».) Whitleji, flore pleno. Andrews's reposit. 612. “ (0.) Humai, —— —— Curtis’s magaz. 1768. ** (1) fragrans, —— Hort. trans, vol. 2, pl. 18." Sabine MSS. Mr. Sabine, from whose plants the descriptions in Mr. Anderson's Treatise were taken, has long cultivated all the known species and varieties of this magnificent genus in his garden at North Mimms, in Hertfordshire; from which source the gardens of his friends and that of the Horticul- tural Society, have been supplied, and several complete col- lections derived from the original ones are still in existence. Thirteen species of the genus have been recorded in the work of Mons. Decandolle. All belong to the northern hemisphere, and are found from Portugal to China, but not where either cold or heat is extreme. Ámerica is not known to produce any. 486 CACTUS speciosissimus. Crimson-flowered Torch-thistle. — ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Cacti Jussieu gen. 310. Div. II. Petala et stamina inde- nita. NoPALEX. Jussien ined. (fide Decand. théor. 246. n. 65.) CACTUS. Supra vol. 2. fol. 137. Div. Cerei; erecti (stantes per se). C. speciosissimus, caule erecto, 3-4-gono; angulis dentatis; flore campanu. ato-patente, genitalibus declinatis. Desfontatnes in mém. du mus. d'hist- nat. 3. 190. tab. 9. Cactus speciosissimus. Sweet hort. sub. lond. 109. n. 17. Cactus speciosus. Willd. enum. suppl. 31; (non aliorum, qui supra vol. 4. fol. 304. videndus). . Caules plures, recti, carnosi, verticales, trigoni tetragonique, simplices, parümque divisi, bi-tripedales diametro uni-biunciali crassitudine nequaquam equabili, faciebus levibus canaliculato-concavis, angulis subsinuatis dentatis dente quoque aculeis fasciculatis divergentibus. inaequalibus. lutescentibus nuneve fuscescentibus tomento albo brevi denso cinctis armato. Flores inodori, horizontales v. subnutantes, ad angulos caulinos. Cal. monophyllus, multi- partitus, segmentis ad oram membranosis, in disco virentibus, exterioribus ovalibus minoribus, interioribus lanceolatis concavis inaequalibus roseo-adum- brati. Cor. patens, campanulata, subsesuncialis diametro ferè pari: petala 20-25, punicea, summo calyci adnata, exteriora lanceolata acuta, interiora elongato-ovalia, latiora. Stamina numerosa: filamenta gracilia, teretia, alba, roseo-adumbrata, declinata, fasciculato-convergentia, uti petala summo calyci adnata, inferiora. superioribus sensim longiora petalisque subequalia: anthera oblonge, parvule, à basi affixe, polline è spherulis albis granuloso. Stylus crassiusculus, roseus, declinatus, teres, staminibus inferioribus brevior ; stigmata 10, alba, gracilia, paulò patentia, per paria approximata. Ger- men cylindricum, uni-biunciale, obiter sulcatum, ad angui € squamulis ob- tusis singulis aculeolarum setacearum fasciculo armatis squarrosum. Des- fontaines loc. cit. (ex gallico versum). This splendid-flowered plant has been recently added to our collections by the Comtesse de Vandes, and blossomed for the first time in the hothouse of the well-ordered bo- tanic establishment of that lady at Bayswater, where our drawing was made in July last. The flower is not only beautiful, but has the additional advantage of enduring Several days in perfection. It is said to have been first procured at Paris from the national garden at Madrid by the Comte de Salm, and is supposed to have been originally de- rived from Mexico. VOL. VI, Q The order Cacti, of Jussieu, has been lately divided into Nopalece and Grossularie. Stems several from one stock, straight, fleshy, upright, three and four cornered, simple, but little branched, 2-3 feet high, 1-2 inches in diameter, of unequal thickness, sides smooth channelled, angles shallowly sinuous, notched, furnished at the under edge of each notch with a pencil of unequal diverging tawny or brownish spines, set in a short dense cottony tuft. Flowers without scent, horizontal or slightly nodding, produced at the angles of the stems. Calyx of one piece, multipartite, segments membranous round the periphery, green at the disk, outer oval smaller, inner lanceo- late, concave, of different sizes, shaded with rose-colour. Corolla spreading, campanulate, about six inches long and nearly of the same width: petals from twenty to twenty-five, crimson, attached to the neck of the calyx, outer lanceolate pointed, inner long-oval broader. Stamens very numerous: filaments ‘slender, filiform, white shaded with rose-colour, declining, converging fasciclewise, as well as the petals at- tached to the neck of the calyx, under ones gradually longer than the upper and about the length of the petals: anthers small, oblong, fixed at the base to the point of the filament: pollen white, granular, grains globular. Style thickish, rose-coloured, declining, cylindvical, shorter than the un- dermost stamens: stigmas ten, white, slender, slightly spreading, disposed in contiguous pairs. Germen cylindri- cal, from one to two inches long, slightly furrowed, beset at the angles with small obtuse slightly raised scales, each of which is furnished with a small pencil of bristlelike spines. i The above description is a version from the excellent one in french by Professor Desfontaines. 447. 487 BERBERIS sibirica. Siberian Barberry. —- HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. BERBERIDES. Jussieu gen. 286. BERBERIS. Cal. 6-phyllus extüs 3-bracteatus, Pet. 6 ungue intüs 2-glanduloso, calycinis foliolis opposita. lus 0; stigma latum orbicula- tum. Bacca parva, ovata aut rariüs subsphericea, 1-locularis 2-3-sperma. Frutices; folia alterna, sep? alternatim Fasciculata, fasciculo squamis im- bricatis basi cincto et subtus spiná simplici aut partitá plerúmque stipato; Jores è medio fasciculo spicati, aut rariùs subcorymbosi solitariive ut in Magellanicis Commers., pedicellis basi i-bracteolatis. Staminum filamenta glandulis petalorum implicita elastic solvuntur. Juss. l. c. B. sibirica, pedunculis unifloris solitariis, foliis obovatis ciliato-dentatis. Willd. arb. 35. Berberis sibirica. Pallas itin. 2. append. 737. n. 108. tab. P. fig. 2. Ejusd. ross, 2. 41; (in text). Murr. in commentat. goett. 6. (1784) 87. t. 6. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 228. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 314, Berberis altaica. Pallas ross. 2. 41. t. 67; (in icone). . Fruticulus 2 fissuris rupium excelsarum procrescens, spithamaus v. peda- lis, rarò major, nunquam sesquipedali altior, crassitie viz digiti minoris, rigidus, alternè ramosus, erectus, ligno citrino, cortice extùs griseo striato, intds itidem flavissimo, sub singulo ramulo vel gemmá spina (stipula spini- formis Murray.) palmato-ramosa, 5-fida, 4-fida v. 3- fida, in ramos divari- catos et striatos setaceos rigidos divisa. Folia è gemmis v. spinarum alis fas- ciculata, oblonga, dentibus setaceis distantibus ciliata. In plantis è semine educatis folia longè petiolata, suborbiculata, ciliata. Flores inter folia soli- tarii pedunculo ‘nudo, cernui, subglobosi, majores quàm in BERBERIDE vulgari. Calyx exterior triphyllus, virescenti-flavus; interior corollà major et latior, totidem foliolis coloratis. Cor. sezpetala intensiùs flava. Bacce cernue, majores et majüs ovate quàm in BERRERIDE vulgari, stigmate fun- giformi umbilicate, ruberrime, gratè acide, continentes semina 5 oblonga hinc compressa, grisea, gustá acerbo. Pallas ross. l. c. A curious species of Barberry, known among the Mogol Tartars by the name of Scharà-módon, or Yellow-Wood, and applied by them to the purposes of both superstition and medicine. Native of the Altaic Mountains on the confines of China, of Dauria, and other districts of the Oriental portion of the Russian dominions. Said by the Chevalier Pallas to grow from the crevices of the highest rocks, and seldom to ex- ceed a foot in height. i i ich flowered The drawing was taken from a sample whic in June last, at the nursery of Messrs. Malcolm and Co. at Q Kensington, where it was preserved in a small garden-pot, in a pit. Introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1790. A stiff upright diminutive shrub, from nine inches to a foot and half high at most : stem scarcely of the thickness of the little finger; branches alternate; wood lemon-coloured; bark grey or ash-coloured, deep yellow on the inside. Each branch or bud is subtended by a palmately pronged thorn (thorny stipule according to Murray) with 3-4- or 5 divari- cated streaked subulate stiff prongs. Leaves fascicled, from the axil of the thorns, obovately oblong, widely dentate, cili- ate; in young seedling plants suborbicular, long-petioled, and ciliate. Flowers between the leaves, solitary, upon a naked peduncle, cernuous, larger than in the Common Barberry. Outer calyx (3 bractes) of three pieces greenish yellow; inner (true calyx) larger and broader than the corolla, consisting of as many leaflets as there are petals. Corolla of six deep yellow petals. Berries cernuous, larger and of a more ovate form than in the Common Barberry (Berperis vulgaris), surmounted by the permanent mush- room-shaped stigma, deep red, of a gratefully acid flavour: seeds five, oblong, flattened on one side, grey or ash- coloured, of a rough sour taste. c Sydenham Ldwardy Del. Ba bih i BA 488 PASSIFLORA cerulea. Common Passionflower. — MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. Nat. ord. PASSIFLOREE, Jussieu in ann. du musée. 6. 102, PASSIFLORA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 13. Div. Foliis multifidis, P. cerulea, foliis palmatis quinquepartitis integerrimis, petiolis glandulosis, involucro triphyllo integerrimo, filis coronze corollà brevioribus. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 623. Passiflora cerulea. «Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2.1360. Amen. acad. 1. 231. Fg. 20. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 2. Lamarck encyc. 8. 39. Cavan. diss. 10. 461.1. 295. Curtis's magaz, 28. Miss Lawrance's Passionft. Willd. enum. 2. 6%. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 4, 154. Granadilla ‘pentaphyllos, flore cxruleo magno. Duham. arb, 1. 272. tab. 107. Clematis quinquefolia americana s. Flos Passionis. Rob. ic. We have availed ourselves for the present article of a drawing of this favourite flower, made some years ago by Mr. Sydenham Edwards, for an engraving intended to be distributed amongst his friends, it appearing to us the best representation of the subject to be found in any work of this nature. i Cerulea, the Brazilian species, though now the com- monest of all exotic climbers in use for ornament, is of considerably later introduction than incarnata, the only other plant of the genus that will live with us in the open air; the earliest notice of the first in this country dating from about 1699, of the latter from as far back as 1629. The plant by which the type of this curiously configured genus made its first appearance in the south of Europe, some few years before any one had reached our country, we are persuaded from the contemporary figures done in Italy, was that which forms the 152d article of this publication, and belongs to South America, whence it was brought to Naples by a Spanish Viceroy on his return from Peru, The one which first appeared in our gardens, on the other hand, we believe to have been the North American plant of the 332d article of this work. We shall not dispute the pro- priety of discriminating the two in the way they have been by Mr. Sabine in the Horticultural Transactions, where the incarnata B of this work is denominated PassirLora edulis. Coerulea is a climbing shrub, extending itself (with sup- port) to the height of twenty feet or more: branches dark green, cylindrical, smooth, slightly cornered at the upper part. Leaves alternate, pretty large, green, smooth, palmate, 9- sometimes 6- and even 7-lobed, lobes ovally oblong, quite entire and bluntish at the top: petiole smooth biglandular. -Tendrils axillary, simple. Stipules semilunar, rounded at the outer edge and entire, setaceously mucronate downwards. Peduncles axillary, solitary, oneflowered. Flowers at least three inches in diameter, subtended by a threeleafletted in- volucre; leaflets oval, concave, entire, pale green. Seg- ments of the calyx 5, oblong, mucronate, dark green on the outside, white on the inside. Petals white, oblong, of the same size as the calycine segments. Crown radiate, not so large as the corolla, blue towards the extremities of its rays, purplish at the base, white in the middle. Fruit ovate, about the size of an apricot or large plum, orange-yellow when ripe. The shrub is covered with a succession of bloom from July tili the autumnal frosts set in. The above description is chiefly from the French of the excellent Encyclopédie of the Chevalier Lamarck. There is a variety in our gardens with the lobes of the leaves greatly narrower than those of the present. It has been sometimes taken for another species. url. Mel Il 27 Be. uo Cg t^ rx N ; IL 777 AUS, yc TOE: A Mali x. E 489 MARSDENIA suaveolens. Sweet-scented Marsdenia. — PENTANDRIA DIGYNL4. Nat. ord. ASCLEPIADEA. Brown in mem. wern. soc. 1. 19. et suprà vol. 2. fol. 111. Div. I. AscLEPIADEE VERE. Brown loces. citis, MARSDENIA. Cor. urceoleta, 5-fida, nunc subrotata, Corona sta- minea 5-phylla, foliolis compressis indivisis, intüs simplicibus. Anthere membrana terminate. Masse Pollinis erecte, basi affixe. Folliculi leves. Semina comosa. Suffrutices, sepius volubiles. Folia opposita, latiuscula, plana. Cyma nunc thyrsi interpetiolares. Stigma sapis muticum, quandò- que rostratum, rostro indiviso v. bifido. Brown in loc. cit. 28. et in prod. 460. Obs. PERGULARIX forsan nimis affinis, quee diversa tantummodo foliolis corone stamine intüs lacinulá auctis, Brown 2. c. Div. I. Stigma muticum. Marsdeniz vere. . . M. suaveolens, caule suberecto, foliis ovali-lanceolatis glabris aveniis, tubo ventricoso, fauce barbatà. Br in mem. wern. soc. 1. 80. . Marsdenia suaveolens. Brown prod. 1. 461. Rudge in trans. linn. soo. 10. 299; tab. 21. fig. 1. “Sweet hort. sub. lond. 51. Rami superné volubiles. Fol. firmula, oblongo-ovata, lanceolata, 2 uncias longa v. ultrà latitudine ferè duplo minore, villosiuscula, obsoletins nervosa, costá mediá pallidá à supino prominente: petioli plariés breviores lamind, teretes, villosi. Cymz in ramis plurime, pluriflore, parca, breviores foliis, villose, floribus ochroleucis, parvulis, odoris: pedunculus erectus, filiformis, cymá longior; pedicelli villosi, longitudine fer? florum, basi bracteolis villosis pluriès brevioribus stipati. Cal. villosus, 6-ftdus, campa- nulatus, pedicellorum concolor, duplo brevior corolla v. magis, segmentis ovato-acuminatis. Cor. unicolor, urceolato-rotata, limbo triplo longiore tubo, transversé subbilineari, 5-partito, intüs barbato, laciniis oblongis acuminatis patentibus. distantibus, istillum tudo corolle equale: stigma pallidum apiculo acuminato bifido. TROPIUM peruvianum. Native of New Holland, where the species was first ob- served by Mr. Brown, who in instituting the genus, ob- serves, that the group is perhaps scarcely distinct enough from that of PerguLaria, which differs merely by the addi- tion of a small segmentlike appendicle on the inside of each of the five pieces composing the stamineous crown. The drawing was taken from a sample which flowered this summer, for the first time, in the greenhouse at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the King's Road, Chelsea. A partly standard and partly twining undershrub, not recorded in the Hortus Kewensis. Leaves opposite, ob- longly ovate, lanceolate, two inches in length or more, with scarcely half that breadth, slightly villous, obso- letely nerved, with a pale prominent midrib: petioles several times shorter than the blade, cylindrical, villous. Cymes many along the branches, interpetiolar, several- flowered, small, shorter than the leaves, villous; flowers small, cream-coloured; peduncle upright, filiform, longer than the cyme, pedicles villous, about the length of the flower, furnished at the base with several times shorter vil- lous bractelets. Calyx villous 5-cleft, campanulate, of the colour of the petioles, twice shorter than the corolla or more, segments ovately lanceolate. Corolla of one colour, urceo- lately rotate; kmb 5-parted, twice longer than the tube, about two lines across; bearded on the inside, segments ob- long taper-pointed spreading, standing apart. Stamineous crown of five pieces, each piece compressed, undivided, without an appendage on the inside: anthers terminated by a membrane: pollen-masses upright, fixed at the base. Pistil equal to the tube of the corolla; stigma pale with a pointed bifid apex. Follicles (indehiscent seed vessels) smooth. Seeds comose (tufted). 490 per nenn ee ns ‘ > 3 N 490 KAULFUSSIA amelloides. Cape- Asterflowered Kaulfussia. —.2—- SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Nat, ord. CoRYMBIFERE. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. II. Recept. nudum. Sem. papposum. Flores radiati, in TUSSILAGINE et SENECIONE partim flosculosi. KAULFUSSIA. Cal. communis simplex, aqualis, foliolis (13) 14-16 lanceolatis obtusis membranaceo-marginatis costà valida herbaced obtusà carinatis, applicatis. Calathidium (corolla) radiatum. Flosculi radii feminei, copiosi (in nostra planta 7-8), contigui, ligulati, tubo filiformi (pubescente), limbo oblongo mox revoluto obtuso apice tricrenato.. Germ. compressum, cuneiforme, brevissimè pedicellatum, cum pedicello foveis receptaculi arctà inheerens (pubescens) ared apicali papillatà, Stylus tubo vix longior: stig. 2-fidum: pappus nullus nisi fimbria pilorum brevissimorum. lose. disci hermaphr., tubuloso-infundibuliformes, plerique incurvi; tubo pubescente; limbo 5-fido patente. . Anthe. coordinatorum, connate (polline ochroleuco). Germ. ut in flosculis radii: stylus longitudine tubi antherarum: stig. 2-fidum, revolutum: pappus è setis ngidulis plumosis longitudine: tubi flosculorum. Recept. (nudum) convexum, alveolatum. (Sem. fusca, obovato-oblonga v. cuneata, complanata, appressé pilosa, marginata margine crassa concolori). Differt SENICILLI Gertn. sem. 2. 453. t. 173. f. 4. pappi radialis defectá et discoidalis longitudine erimié. Ab AGATHEA Cassini (Bulletin de la soc. philom. Nov. 1817. 183) pappo difformi, qui in CINERARIA amelloide genere illius typo, tam in radio quàm in disco setosus plumosus. Nees von essenb. in hor. phys. berol. 53. ` Kaulfussia amelloides. Nees von essenb. in kor. phys. berol. 93 et 53. tab. 11. Curtis's magaz. 2171. . . 2L . Caulis à basi ramosissimus, circiter pedalis, ramis diffusis, tortuosis, teretibus, punctato-scabris pilisque rigidis "patentibus hispidis. Fol. (2-3- uncialia) alterna, sessilia, patentia, lanceolato-spathulata, mucronulata, , minutissimè remote denticulata, carinata, utrinque hirta, rigidula. Flores terminales, longe pedunculati, cernui, specie et magnitudine vum CINE- RARLE amelloidis. Pedunculus (2-3-uncialis) teres, glandulis sessilibus pilisque patentibus inspersus, supernè nudus, infernè foliolis aliquot lanceo- latis minoribus praeditus. Cal. hirsutus, Radius ceruleus. Discus saturatè violaceus. Planta annua v. biennis, Id. loc. cit. A genus lately instituted by M. Nees of Essenbacb, in the work we have quoted, and called after Dr. Kaulfuss of Halle. The essential distinction from the immediate re- latives, consists in the want of pappus (seedcrown) in the florets of the ray; while the florets of the disk are furnished with a sessile and feathered one. All will be struck with VOL. VI. R the resemblance to the well-known Cape Aster (CINERARIA amelloides), lately separated by M. Cassini from CINERARIA by the title of Acarnaa celestis, M. Nees appears to have some doubt whether our plant may not be the same as the Acarıza macrophylla of M. Cassini; but observes that the seed is described as smooth or bare in that, while in the present species it is furred; neither does he think it likely that the peculiar character belonging to the pappus (seedcrown) should have escaped so acute an observer as that botanist. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Lately introduced by Mr. Anderson, the superintendant of the physic garden at Chelsea; having been raised from the seed received from Mr. Otto, who has the charge of the botanic garden at Berlin. Annual or biennial. Sfem numerously branched from the very base, about a foot high; branches widespread, crooked, round, shagreened, with a nap of stiff-spreading hairs. Leaves alternate, sessile, spreading, lanceolately spatulate, tipped by a small point, minutely and widely toothletted, keeled, with rough nap on both sides, stiffish. Flowers terminal, long-stalked, cernuous. Peduncle round, beset with small glandular points and spreading hairs, leaf- less above, furnished with a few smaller lanceolate leaves below. Calyx simple, rough-furred, even; leaflets (13) 14-16, lanceolate, obtuse, membranously edged, close- pressed, with a strong keeled herbaceous back. Corolla rayed: florets of the ray pistilbearing (bright blue), many and contiguous (in the flowers we examined 7-8, and scarcely contiguous), ligulate; tube filiform, furred, limb oblong, becoming revolute, about à of an inch long, obtuse, triply notched at the end. Germen cuneiform (wedge-shaped) compressed, with an extremely short pedicle by which it is secured in the cavities of the receptacle, furred. Style hardly longer than the tube: stigma forked: pappus (seed- crown) none, except an exceedingly short villous fringe. Florets of the disk deep violet, bearing both anthers and stig- ma, tubularly funnelled, most of them inbowed; tube furred; limb 5-cleft spreading. Anthers, like those of the rest of the tribe, connate, dark; (pollen cream-coloured). Germen like that of the ray; style the length of the filaments; stigma forked, prongs revolute: pappus (seedcrown) of stiff- feathered bristlelike hairs, the length of the tube of th floret. Receptacle naked, convex, alveolate (honeycombed). (Seeds brown, obovately oblong or cuneate, flat, close- pressedly furred, with a thick border of the same colour as the disk). Requires the treatment of a tender annual; that is, to be sown in the spring on a hot-bed. The flowers of the ray roll themselves close up backwards towards evening, and spread again in the morning for several days in succession. The blue of the ray is bright and beautiful. We have adopted the description given by the framer of the genus; which seems to disagree with our own observa- tions only in the florets of the ray being termed “ copiosi et contigui,” while in our plant they were only 7-8, and scarcely to be called contiguous. R2 “ LA È. y d 7 ^ D + IAA Aard A LZ. Ge, M è P, by y ¿ P / a LAT U y 7227] JO fe T - e bl a Hg Cb. y. le A U . Nat . i 491 PHOTINIA arbutifolia. Californian Hawthorn or Photinia. — * ICOSANDRIA DIGYNIA. Nat. ord. WosAckm. Jussieu gen. 334. Div. I. Germen simplex, inferum, polystylum. Pomum calycino limbo umbilicatum, multiloculare. Arbores aut frutices. POMACEE. PHOTINIA. Cal. 5-dentatus. Petala reflexa. Ovarium (germen) semisuperum, villosum, biloculare. Styli duo, glabri. Pericarpium bilo- culare calyce carnoso inclusum. Testa cartilaginea. Arbores (Asie temperate et Californie). Folia simplicia, coriacea, sempervirentia, serrata v. integerrima. Panicule composite, corymbose, terminales, Fructus parvi, impubes. Lindley pomac. in trans. linn. soc. 12. 108. P. arbutifolia, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis distantér dentatis, pedicellis calyce brevioribus. Lindley pomac. in trans. linn. soc. 12. 103. Crategus arbutifolius. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 202. Folia sexies longiora petiolo, margine revoluta: panicula composita, non fastigiata. A genus established by Mr. Lindley in his '* Observa- tions on the natural group of Plants called Pomacee” form- ing the first section of the order Rosacee in Jussieu's Genera Plantarum; a treatise about to appear in the forth- coming volume of the Transactions of the Linnean Society. We have only seen a part of it; whence we have extracted the above generic and specific characters. Phorinia, as far as yet known, includes three certain and one doubtful species, natives of California and the temperate regions of Asia, all hitherto ranking in the genus Craracus. The limits are technically defined by “ a five- toothed calyx: reflex petals: a semisuperior villous two-celled germen: two smooth styles: a two-celled seed-vessel en- closed in a fleshy calyx: and a cartilaginous seedcoat.” The congeners are all arborescent, with a simple coriaceous ever- green, sometimes serrate, sometimes entire-edged foliage, compound corymbose panicles, and a small smooth-rinded fruit. Arbutifolia is from California, whence it was introduced by Mr. Archibald Menzies in 1796. It forms a handsome greenhouse-plant; flowers about August, and is distin- guished from the others of the genus “ by oblongly lanceo- Jate widely toothed revolutely edged leaves, by panicles which are not level-topped as in the others, and by pedicles shorter than the calyx.” The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Mal- colm and Co., Kensington, where this scarce plant is very successfully treated. The MesprLus japonica of the 365th article of this work, ranks according to Mr. Lindley's treatise in his genus Enro- BoTRYA, of which the character will be fully given in the appendix to the present volume of the Register. At one point it comes next to PHoTINIA. Not having had the opportunity of seeing the plant of the present article in flower, we shall not attempt any fur- ther description. / 492 QUISQUALIS indica. Amboyna Quisqualis. — DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. THYMELEZ. Jussieu gen. 76. COMBRETACEE. Brown in append. to Flind. voy. 2. 648; et suprà fol. 429. QUISQUALIS. Cal. longissimus filiformis limbo 5-dentato. (petala) 5 oblonge. Stylus filiformis : stigma obtusum. Drupa 5-angularis lesperma. Folia opposita, flores spicati, terminales aut azillares, singuli bracteati, Jussieu l. c. 78. Q. indica, bracteis oblongis ventricosis: petalis oblongis villosissimis. Roz- burgh flor. ind. ined. Quisqualis indica. Zinn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1.556. Willd: sp. pl. 2. 679, - La- marck illustr. t. 357. Smith in Reess cyclop. in loc. Sweet hort..sub. dond. 94. Curtis's magaz. 2033. Quisqualis pubescens. Burm. ind. 103. t. 35. uis qualis. Rumph. amboyn. 5. 71. t. 38. Frutex robustus scandens, ramis novellis villosissimis. Fol. subopposita, breviter petiolata, à lato-ovalibus ad oblongo-cordata, integra, villosa, acu- mine abrupto longiusculo. Stipule nulle. Spice terminales et axillares, villose. Flores plurimi, oppositi et alterni. Bractew solitaria, wniflore, rhomboidee, villosa, ciliate. Cal. tubo filiformi, proximé infra orificium villosum 5-fidum dilatescens, Petala quinque, oblongo-lanceolata, ore calycis inserta, villosissima. Filamenta ordine alters? duplo ori calycis. circumpo- sita: anthere oblonga, incumbentes. Germen i , seailocalare, = longum; ovula sepius 4, summo loculo annexa. Stylus wsque. A tubo calycis coadimatue, indè discretus atque in stigma majusculum Nieto trum perforatum. antheris equale abeuns. Roxb. in loc. cit. (ex ico versum). In the unpublished “ Flora Indica" two species of Quis- QUALIS are recorded by Dr. Roxburgh as cultivated in the Calcutta Garden; both of a pubescent habit. The one with narrow bractes has been named villosa by the Doctor, and is said to be native of Pegu; the other, tbe present species, with broad bractes, of Amboyna. —Loureiro's indica, of which we find a prototype specimen in the Banksian Herba- rium, is entirely smooth throughout, and we should think distinct from both the above. We transcribe the following account of the subject of this article from Dr. Roxburgh’s manuscript. * A large climbing shrub with the young shoots very downy. Leaves subopposite, short-petioled, from round- oval to oblong-cordate, entire, villous, their points triangu- lar and acute. Stipules none. Spikes terminal and axil- lary, villous. Flowers many, opposite, and alternate. Bractes solitary, one-flowered, rhomboidal, villous, ciliate. Calyx: tube filiform, widening just below the 5-cleft hairy mouth. Petals 5, oblong-lanceolar, inserted on the mouth of the tube of the calyx, very hairy. Filaments short, in two al- ternate rows round the mouth of the tube of the calyx: anthers oblong, incumbent. Germen inferior, oblong; ovula generally 4 attached to the top of the cell: style united with the tube of the calyx until it reaches the stamens, where it parts, ending in a large 3-sided stigma even with the anthers.” . The drawing was taken from a plant which flowered last year in the hothouse, at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Co. King’s Road, Fulham; where the species was first intro- duced from the Calcutta Garden. The corolla varies from white to rose-colour, and even blood red in different stages of the same flower. The fruit is about the size of a filbert and five-cornered. When quite ripe the kernel is said by Rumphius to be eatable. Though the plant is mentioned by Dr. Roxburgh as an aboriginal of Amboyna, other accounts speak of it as only naturalized there, having been derived from Java and the Molucca Islands. The generic name was combined by Rumphius from quis and qualis, and intended, as Sir James Smith has it in Rees's Cyclopedia, “ to express the singular variableness of the plant, as if nothing could be found like it." M Hand, del Sub by F Rizucay 70 Irecadilly Nov 1. 1620. Y dandi d m 493 MESEMBRYANTHEMUM elongatum. £. Dwarf tuberous Fig-Marygola. ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNLA. Nat. ord. Ficoipem. Jussieu gen. 315. Div. II. Germen inferum. MESEMBRYANTHEM UM. Supra vol. 3. fol 260. en Inforum Div. IV. Capitata. Foliis dens? alternègue imbricato-capitatis longissimis, impunctatis; caudice præ foliorum pondere decumbente, petalis anguatis- simis deorsüm plus minus ciliatis; stylis numerosis, germinibus depréssis. Haworth MSS. M. elongatum, foliis subspithamzis obtusè triquetris semiteretibusve, canali- culatis, glauciusculis, radice tuberosà carnosa. Haworth MSS. Mesembryanthemum elongatum. Haworth mesembr. 236. Ejusd. misc. nat. . - 40. et synops. pl. succ. 228. . Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 223, (2) corolla 5-unciali, odore hircino, petalis subcapillaceis pube long’ flexuosá ciliatis. Haw. MSS. (8) corolla 4-unciali, odore subhircino, petalis exterioribus deorsàm pilis rectis brevibus paucissimis nudo oculo vix manifestis ciliatis. Haw. MSS. Radix deformis, crassa, sublobata, magnitudine feré ovi anatini: (è sicco è var. a. in tabulá delineata). Caudex simplicissimus, debilis, s erecto-procumbens, simul cum pedunculo terminali dodrantalis v. ultra, viridi- lutescens, deorsùm foliorum vestigiis subarticulato-circinatus. Folia termi- nalia, ante florescentiam in fasciculum laxiús congregata, dodrantalia, septus semiteretia, suprà plùs minùs canaliculato-concava, superiora sensim mi- mora semipedalia aliquantümque distantiora: omnia erecto-patentia, de- emarcesceñtia, meque decidua. Pedunculus terminalis, teres «qua- bilis, debilis, 4-uncialis, purpurascens, basi bracteis 3 foliiformibus ver- ticillato-stipatus. Cal. subhemisphericus segmentis 5 subequalibus, semi- teretibus, subuncialibus, deorsüm latescentibus, 2 simplicibus, 2 basi mem- brand diaphaná wtrinque auctis, quinto altero tantúm latere membra- noso, Pet. lutea, nitidissima, numerosissima, multiserialia, calycem longè superantia, sudo celo post meridiem expandentia, lineari-acumi- nata, interiora gradatim decrescentia subconniventia, intima formá fere filamentorum è quibus pauca antherá incompletá terminata. Stamina vera humerosissima, incurvo-conniventia, filamentis tenuissimis, antheris erigwis, lline stramineo-pallido. Styli duodenis plures, saturate flavescentes tor- i» pa y lanum, pellucido-virescens, radiato-striatu- tuoso-congesti, Germen s lun (| radii loculos ca; s fature denotantes). Haworth MSS. (phraseologid “liquantulüm mutati). We have to thank Mr. Haworth for the above descrip- tion of this rare plant, which he considers a variety of elongatum, a species seldom known to blossom with us. The sample was communicated to him from Kew Gar- dens, where it had been raised in 1819, from seed from the Cape of Good Hope. It flowered this summer, and bids VOL. VI. s fair to perfect the fruit, but the parent plant, having pro- duced no lateral shoots or suckers (the means by which tbe species of this section of the genus survive from year to year), will most probably perish. We are glad to find that Mr. Haworth perseveres with zeal in the study of this race of vegetables, and to hear that he has collected as many as 200 species of the present genus, besides obtaining competent information of nearly 100 more. Root tuberous, nearly the size of a duck's egg. That shown in our drawing belonged to a dried sample of va- riety («.) Stem quite simple, weak, flexuose, procumbent, about 9 inches long or more with the terminal peduncle, greenish yellow, ringed by the scars of the fallen foliage, and looking as if jointed. Leaves loosishly congregated at the end of the stem, about 9 inches long, mostly semi- cylindrical, more or less concavely channelled, upper ones gradually smaller (about 6 inches long) and rather farther apart; all uprightly spreading, reflexed as they wither away, but do not fall off at the base. Peduncle terminal, round, of one thickness throughout, weak, 4 inches long, tinged with purple, furnished at the base with 3 verticillately disposed bractes. Calyx hemispherical, segments 5, nearly equal, semicylindrieal, about an inch long, widening down- wards, 2 simple, 2 membranously winged on both sides, the ffth only on one side. Flowers yellow, expanding after mid-day, but only when the san shines: petals bright, very numerous, in many rows, reaching far beyond the calyx, linearly taper-pointed; inner ones becoming gradually less; innermost (abortive stamens) with the form of the filaments, now and then bearing an imperfect anther. Perfect stamens very numerous, incurvedly connivent; filaments very slen- der; anthers very small; pollen pale straw-coloured. Styles more than 12, deep yellow, twistedly crowded. Germen flat-topped, of a pellucid green, radiately streakletted (the streaks denoting the number and place of the cells of the future capsule). / > / FÀ FO 4 D i VA] &y Z^ msi uh, uL Ly a. Girando, dal, Liab ly TA Maler "0 | rrr lly War. 7j (020, on Vials ur. à 494 MESEMBRYANTHEMUM capitatum. Short dagger-leaved Fig- Marygold. ^ —Á— ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNLA. Nat. ord. Fico1DEx. Jussieu gen. 315. Div. IL Germen inferum, MESEMBRYANTHEMUM. Supra vol. 3. fol. 260. Div. IV. Capitata. Foliis dens? alternéque imbricato-capitatis longissimis, absque punctis aut papulis; caudice pre foliorum pondere decumbente, petalis angustissimis deorsüm plus minus ciliatis; stylis numerosis, germi- nibus depressis, Haworth MSS. M. capitatum, folis sequilateri-triquetris glaucescentibus, membranis caly- cinis pallidis, petalis luteis longitudine calycis, exterioribus purpurascenti- bus, stylis strictis setaceis. Haworth misc. nat. 41. Mesembryanthemum capitatum, Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 9. 223. Haw. mesembr. 390. a. 227; et ejäsd. synops. pl. succ. 228, n. 68. Mesembryanthemum pugioniforme. , Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 690. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 46. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1050. Ejusd. enum. 1. 538. Ficoides capensis caryophylli folio, flore aureo specioso. Bradl. suec. 2. 5. t. 14. Astero aizoide del Capo di Buona Speranza. Zanon. ist. bot. 35, t. 13, Suffrutex stolonibus perennans radice fibrosi, caudice simplici, seniori pedali v. ultra, procumbente. Folia summo caudice congregata, interiora erecta, exteriora patentia sesuncialia, subulata, equilateri-triquetra, glau- ciuscula efflorescentiá papillosá nulli, ad angulos plus minus canaliculata. Rami infra folia provenientes, subverticillati foliosi elongati procumbentes. Pedunculi ramorum continui, subpaniculati, quadriunciales, obsolet? angulosi, asperiusculi. Folia ramea breviora, sepé remota, terna vel sparsa, brac- teacea. Cal. amplus, 5-angularis, 6-fidus, segmentis subaequalibus, è basi rotundiusculá caudato-attenuatis, interioribus ut sepiùs membrand latà in- struetis. Cor. ampla diametro triunciali: petala ordine multiplici numerosa, infra medium subciliata; exteriora linearia acuta purpurascentia, media lineari-lanceolata lucido-lutea, intima capillaria conniventia. Filamenta numerosa, à stylis distantia; anthe» lutea, polline luteo. Germ. hex ricum, depressius quam in speciebus effi: styli 16, à filamentis distantes, breves, erecti, setacei, lutescentes. aw. misc. 41; (phraseologià plurimis mutatä.) Cultivated here in 1717. Came originally from the Cape of Good Hope. Lasts sometimes from eight to nine years in a warm greenhouse. The prior name of pugioniforme has been transferred by Mr. Haworth from this ‘to the plant constituting the 72d article of the “ Plantes Grasses ;” differing from capita- tum in being scarcely more than biennial, in being larger, s 2 and in having a longer and more glaucous foliage, although the flowers are not larger than here. We submit our opinion entirely to Mr. Haworth in re- gard to the above synonymy, or else we should not have hesitated to adopt the figure in the ** Hortus Elthamensis" (tab. 210), usually adduced to this plant. The drawing was taken two years ago at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Co. King's Road, Fulham. Elongatum, capitatum, and pugioniforme are extremely near akin, and with two others already known, constitute so distinet a group in Mr. Haworth's view, that they are pro- bably destined to be embodied under a new generic name in some future production of the pen of that indefatigable ob- server of succulent plants. As the species do not in this section always produce suckers or shoots, the mode by wbich these plants survive, our chief reliance for their continuation is upon seed; which they produce freely, when placed out of doors from May to September. Stem about a foot or rather more in length, procum- bent owing to the weight of the foliage. Leaves collected at the summit of the stem, longest about six inches in length, subulate, equilaterally triangular, inclining to glaucous, without any papillary efflorescence; branches pro- cumbent. Peduncles on the branches, forming a kind of panicle, about four inches long, slightly roughened. Flowers yellow, expanding in the forenoon. Calyx large; segments nearly equal, caudately tapered. Corolla 3 inches over; petals numerous in many rows, very narrow, ciliated below the middle. Filaments numerous, innermost (abortive sta- mens) capillary, connivent, standing wide of the styles. Germen hemispherical, more depressed than in the other immediately allied species. Styles 16, insulated from the stamens, short, setaccous, upright, yellow. W Herber c^t 495 THUNBERGIA grandiflora. Blue-flowered Thunbergia. — DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. AcANTHI. Jussieu gen. 102. Div. I. Stam. 4 didynama. ACANTHACEE. Brown prod. 1. 472, THUNBERGIA. Cal. duplex, exterior 2-phyllus, interior 12-partitus, brevior, laciniis subulatis. Cor. campanulata, tubo ampliato, limbo 6-lobo quali. Stigma bilobum. Caps. globosa rostrata loculis dispermis. Herbe BARLERIA affines, caule 4-gono: flores solitarii, axillares, Juss. loc. cit. 108. T. grandiflora, perennis, scandens; foliis anguloso-cordatis; corollà campa- nulatà; calyce interiore nullo; antheris barbatis, calcaratis. Roxburgh lor. ind. ined. Thunbergia grandiflora. Carey hort. beng. in loco. Radix perennis, subtuberosa: caules frutescentes, volubiles, excels? scan- dentes; rami novelli villosiusculi, subquadrialati. Fol. opposita, petiolata, cordata, sep? angulari-lobata, acuminata, 5-7-nervia, utrinque pilis minutis rigidis albis hispidiuseula, 3-8 uncias longa latitudine ferè pari; floralia racemorum parvula, ceterum similia: petioli erecti, itudine ferà folii, Prope basim tumidi, canaliculati, scabri. Stipule 0.. Pedunculi axillares, solitarii, vel in racemis terminalibus pendulis gemini v. brachiatim gemini v. trini v. bis geminati: axillarum ut pedicelli uniflori, teretes, subclavati, petiolum equantes. Flores ampli diametro riunciali, colore caruleo pulcherrime nitentes. Bractex 0. Cal. Spatha bivalvis; valve oblonge, obliquate à latere inferiore curviores discrete, à superiore rectiores partim coherentes interdüm omninó, sepiüs tantummodò juxta apicem, striate, acuminate, villosiuscule, nigro-puncticulate, tubum cum simul fauce sub- «quantes. Cor. 1-petala, campanulata, disco annulari glanduloso insidens: tubus brevis, conicus, faux ampla latere superiore elongatim fornicata, infe- riore palato convexo grandiore lineis ceruleis saturatioribus dilutioribusque alternis picto intùs prominens: limbus 5-partitus, ‘laciniis subrotundis, 2 superioribus erectis, inferioribus porrecto-patentibus: discus hypogynus an- tlularis, carnosus, lobatus germinis basin cingens. Stam. fauce inclusa; fil. 4, ore tubi inserta, oblongo-ovata, compressa, rugosa, par anticum postico longius, sed ob curvaturam majorem non altius: anth. conniventes, equales, lineares, erecta, biloculares marginibus barbatis, anteriorum loculi utrinque calcari rigido acuto albo aucti, posteriorum tantummodò loculus exterior. Germ. conicum, subtetragonum: stylus longitudine staminum: stigma majus- culum, foramine pertusum. Caps. globosa, rostrata, bilocularis, bivalvis, ab apice dehiscens: semina demum tantüm duo in singulo loculo, subrotunda, compressa, margine incisa, latere extimo conveza tuberculata, intimo concava levia.—RKoxb. loc. cit. (ex anglico versum). The drawing of this newly introduced handsome-flowered climber is from the pencil of Mr. Herbert, whose kind com- munications we have so often had to acknowledge. It flowered in his hothouse at Spofforth the summer before last for the first time we believe in this country. The following account of the species is taken from the manuscripts of Dr. Roxburgh: * Found among bushes, &c. in wild uncultivated spots near Caleutta; whereit flowers in the rainy season." * Root perennial, subtuberous. Stems woody, winding themselves up high trees, &c.; young shoots a little hairy and slightly 4-winged. Leaves opposite, petioled, spread- ing, cordate, often angularly lobed, pointed, 5-7-nerved; slightly roughened on both sides by small vigid white hairs, 4-8 inches long by nearly the same breadth: floral ones like the rest, but small: petioles upright, nearly as long as the leaves, swelled near the base, channelled, rough: stipules 0. Peduncles axillary, solitary or in pairs or threes or double pairs on terminal racemes, which, when unsupported, hang in handsome festoons. Peduncles of the axillary flowers and pedicles of the racemes, cylindrical, subclavate, the length of the petioles, oneflowered. Flowers very large, about 4 inches broad when expanded; of a most beautiful bright blue colour. Bractes 0. Calyx: spathe bivalved, about as long as the tube and faux of the corolla; valves obliquely oblong, rounder and detached at the under edge, at the upper almost straight and slightly cohering, sometimes for the whole length, though in general only near the summit, streaked, pointed, a little hairy and marked with small black dots. Corolla of one piece, campanulate, placed on a large lobate annular disk which surrounds the germen: tube short and conical, faux large with a long vaulted cavity on the upper side, in which the stamens and style are contained, on the under with a larger corresponding palate elegantly marked with light and dark blue streaks; limb 5- parted, segments nearly round, 2 upper erect, 3 lower spreading. Stamens within the faux: filaments 4, inserted at the orifice of the tube, anterior pair much curved, aud although longer than the other pair, yet from the curve in the filaments their anthers are only even with the posterior pair, oblongly ovate, compressed, wrinkled: anthers converging, equal, linear, upright, bilocular, with bearded edges to the cells as in AcawTHUs; both cells of the anterior ones are tarnished with a curved sharp rigid white spur: of the poste- tor ones only the outer cell. Germen conical, subqua- drangular: style straight, the length of the stamens; stigma large, with an uncommon perforation, which I can only compare to an inverted crescent, with an handle affixed to the centre of its concave arc. Capsule globular, beaked, 2-celled, 2-valved, opening downwards from the summit: seeds when all come to maturity two in each cell roundish compressed, with a notched edge; tubercled'and convex on the outside, concave and smooth on the inner.”-—Roz- burgh MSS. 496 RUBUS parvifolius. Crimson-flowered Chinese Bramble. ———— ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Nat. ord. Rosackm. Jussieu gen. 334. Div. IV. Germina plura in- definita verè supera, receptaculo communi imposita, singula monostyla. Se- mina totidem nuda aut rariùs baccata. Herbe aut rarius frutices. POTEN- TILLE. RUBUS. Suprà fol. A61. Div. Frutescentes. . R. parvifolius, foliis ternatis (quinatisque) subtüs tomentosis, caule (pedun- culis petiolisque aculeis recurvis. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 707; (excl. syn. umph. Rubus Phrvifolius. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1083. Smith in Reess eyclop. in loc. n. p (non tamen quoad plantam Nepalensem D. Buchanani ibi pro eádem bitam ). a. , Rubus triphyllus. Thunb. jap. 215. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1082. Smith in Reea's eyclop. in loc. n. 13. . . . . . Suter humilis ramosissimus; rami aculeati erecti Jlexuosi teretes vil- loso-canescentes, aculeis rubidis recurvis sparsis distantibus. Fol. petiolato- ternata v. sape quinata, supra glabra, infra tomentoso-candicantia, foliola semuncialia ad uncialia obovato-rotunda inciso-dentata inferne cuneata atque integra nervo medio subtüs roseo-aculeolato, lateralia perika ^ revintmà stipitata, eriora 2 (in quinatis) cuneato-angusta, terminale in tern majus triloba incisum, f geinatis (ubì lobi in ¡Polis totidem. discedunt) lateralia 2 inferiora solummodò «quans; petiolus communis sub2uacialis aculeatus: stipule dine lineares erecte pilose, inferiores sapíüs simplices, superiores et florales ids bi-trifide. Flores , Ínodori, | roseo purpurei, terminales, laxiùs paniculati, Fastigiantes, erecti, 3 uncie hanseni, Do eirciter; pedunculi 1-3-fforì, inferiores foliis superiores stipulis subfolia- ceis axillares: bractem instar stipularum. Cal. rotato-revolutus extùs to- mentosus aculeolis muricatus viridi-canescens, intüs sericeus roseo-candicans, persistens, segmentis ovato-acuminatis mucrone carnosulo viridissimo apicu- latis. Pet. 5, caduca, rosea, calyci genitalibusque aqualia, erectisrima, subcontigua, spathulato-rotunda, lamina obovato-rotundá crerulato-eros staminibus appressá, ungue angusto concolori breviore. Stam. numerosa erecta pistilla arci? stipantia; fil. alba; anthe. fusce, polline ochrolenco. ow » numerosa erecta coarciata; styli sanguinet, glabri; germina virentia hirsuta. A small bushy bramble from Cbina; remarkable for the upright petals of the crimson flower and the compa- rative smallness of the foliage. Lately introduced by the Horticultural Society, at whose garden the present dr awing was taken in August. On the native samples in the ank- sian and Lambertian Herbariums, the leaves seem to e mostly ternate, on out's many were quinate, the upper ter- VOL. VI. T minal leaflet frequently dividing (owing probably to luxuri- ance induced by artificial culture) at the lobes so as to give off a second lateral pair; but in this case the terminal leaflet is always proportionately smaller than in the more usual ternate ones, and the upper leaflets smaller than the lower. The fruit we have not seen. A low suffrutescent upright numerously branched plant: branches ascending, round, flexuose, grey-furred, with scat- tered wideset recurved reddish prickles. Leaves petiolate, ternate-quinate, smooth and green at the upper side, tomen- tose and white at the under; leaflets from half an inch to an inch in length, obovately round, jagged and dentate, at the lowermost part cuneate and entire, midrib prickly underneath, lateral ones sessile or very shortly stalked, the upper pair (in the quinate leaves) cuneately oblong and narrower; terminal one much larger than the lateral pair in the ternate leaves, but only equal to the lower lateral pair in the qui- nate ones, where the two lobes have parted into a separate upper pair: common petiole 14-2 inches long; prickly and furred: stipules 2, upright, linear, furred, lower ones gene- rally simple, upper and floral ones generally 2-3-cleft. Flowers without scent, crimson, terminal, loosely and levelly panicled, upright, about 4 of an inch in diameter; peduncles or branchlets 1-3-flowered, lower ones axillary in full-grown leaves, upper in stipulaceous leaflets: bractes like the stipules. Calyx rotate, revolute, tomentose prickly greenish grey on the outside, on the inside silkily furred and white tinged with rose-colour, permanent; segments ovate taper-pointed tipped with a rather fleshy deep-green point. Petals 5, deciduous, even with the calyx and stamens, quite upright, subcontiguous, spatulately round, lamina obovately round, crenulately eroded, pressed against the Stamens; unguis narrow shorter of the same colour. Sta- mens numerous upright surrounding the pistils closely; filaments white; anthers brown; pollen cream-coloured. Pistils numerous upright crowded; styles dark crimson, smooth; germens green hirsute. S oi Hals ZU. AC. Kar A É / del. 497 AMARYLLIS laticoma. Prince Leopold's Amaryllis. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Nat. ord. Narcıssı. Jussieu gen. 64. Div. IT. Germen inférum. AMARYLLIDEZ. Brown prod. 1. 296. Sect. I. AMARYLLIS. Supra vol.3. fol. 226, Div. VI. Corolla hexapetalo-partite, subrotate. Folia bifaria. Nobis in Journ. arts and seien. 2; 362. A. laticoma, foliis lineari-loratis, scape plano seabro,. pedunculis strictis ro- bustis triquetris hispidis divaricatis duplo longioribus flore. Bulbus ovato-oblongus, magnitudine ovi anatini v. circitèr, tegminibus Sibroso-membranaceis multiplicibus fuscescentibus. Folie bifaria, recumben- tia, subsena, lorata, lenta, longiora scapo latitudine $ uncie v. circitór mar- gine alterno sinistrorsum et dextrorsum subfalcatim flexa, obtusa, î lucida. Scapus viridissimus, complanatus, sub9uncialis latitudine subse- munciali v. magis, tuberculato-scaber, erectus. Umbella multi- (17)-flóra, ordine triplo alterna, remota, divaricata, hemispherica, ramentis bracte- aceis: spatha bivalvis, sphacelata, subrosea, ter brevior pedunculis, valvis lan- ceolatis refractis: pedunc. stricti, robustissimi, triquetri, pube brevi glan- dulosá hispidá cinerascentes, 4-unciales. Cor. nutans, roseo-alba, inodora, sexpartita, irregularis, turbinato-rotata; laciniis omnibus collaterali-ascen- dentibus v. nunc und remotá genitalibus subtensd, subequalibus angustiüs ligulatis albis cum lined rosed medio-longitudinali, inferne versus convoluto- wnguiculatis, conniventibus, brevissim? connexis, supernè recurvis, non un- dulatis, 2 lineas latis v. circitér, acutis. Stam. declinato-assurgentia, co- rolle æqualia, alternè longiora, 3 præcociora: fil. rosea fundo brevissimè tubuloso corolle adnata: anth. oblonga, vibratiles, atropurpurez, polline ochroleuco. Germ. oblato-rotundum, rubido-virescens, subtrilobum; loculi pleni, biseriato-subpentaspermi, ovula globosa; stylus albus, stamina subex- superans: stig. patens, pruinosum, 3-fidum lobulis rotundatii. An unrecorded and singular species, by which the trans- ition from Amaryiiis to Brunsvicra is rendered still nar- rower than by AvanvLus flexuosa of the 172d article of this publication, which we once deemed the probable connecting link of the two genera at one point. Laticoma has the fructifi- cation of AmaryLLIs and the herb of Brunsvicia. The rough flat stem and proportionately massive three-cornered pe- duncles are anomalies in the genus. The leaves are not blis- téred nor the segments of the corolla undulate as in flexuosa. The bulb came from the Cape of Good Hope, and flowered, most probably for the first time in Europe, in the collection of H. R. H. Prince Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg, at T2 Claremont, in August last, when we were favoured with the sample for the drawing. In proportion to the stem the inflorescence is of singular breadth in this species. Bulb ovately oblong, integuments light brown, nume- rous, fibrously membranous. Leaves bifarious, recumbent, (six?) lorate, pliant, longer than the scape (14 feet long by about 3 of an inch broad), edgewisely falcate alternately to the right and left, blunt-ended, shining on both sides. Scape very green, flat, about 9 inches high by about half an inch across or rather more, papillarily roughened, upright. Umbel many-(17)-flowered, alternate and 3-ranked, wide apart, outspread, hemispherical: spathe with 2 sphacelate faintly red lanceolate reflexed valves 3 times shorter than the peduncles: peduncles straight, unusually massive for the size of the flowers, 3-cornered, about twice the length of the corolla, greyish with a short glandular hispid pubescence. ‚Corolla nodding, whitish pink, sixparted, irregular, turbi- nately rotate, about 2 inches long; segments either all con- verging upwards edgewisely or only one detached from the rest and subtending the stamineous fascicle, nearly equal, narrowishly ligulate, white with a deep rose-red line along the middle, downwards convolutely narrowed and connivent, very shortly connected at the base, upwards recurved, about 2 lines broad or rather more, pointed. Stamens declined and assurgent, even with the corolla, alternately longer, 3 shed- ding the pollen earlier than the others; filaments pinkish, adnate to the short tubular contraction of the disk of the co- rolla: enthers oblong, balancing, dark purple, with a cream- coloured pollen. Germen oblately round, reddish green, slightly 3-lobed; cells closely filled by about 5 globular ovula in two rows: sfyle white, rather overtopping the stamens: stigma open, frosted, slightly trifid, lobules rounded. y ; pr / E SUA x UD. "n^ SE NA 2 eu. ^, Mi. Hard. HA. Id In Ss hid ay ITO Seca Nov. 2.48; C. PS Walls. PC. 498 n CONVOLVULUS elongatus. Broussonet’s trailing Bindweed. ——- PENTANDRIA MONOGYNI4. Nat. ord. ConvoLvuLi. Jussieu gen. 132. Div. I. CoNvoLvULACEE. Brown prod. 1. 481. Sect. I. CONVOLVULUS. Supra vol. 2. fol. 133. Div. Caule prostrato s. non volubili. C. elongatus, foliis cordato-ovatis cuspidatis, pedunculis bifloris folio longio- ribus, bracteis lineari-subulatis pedunculo partiali brevioribus, calycibus subciliatis. Willd. enum. 1. 205. . Convolvulus pseudo-siculus. Broussonet MSS. (fide Willdenovii in loc. cit.) Annuus. Caules teretes elongati prostrati, nunc superne subvolubiles, to- mentoso-villosi, virides. Fol. alterna, distantia, cordata, acuminata, tenuia, letè virentia, sesquiuncialia latitudine unciali v. eirciter, suprà atomis albis crebris conspersa, subtis villosiuscula: petiolus teres multotiès brevior laminá. Pedunculi axillares, solitarii, filiformes, tomentoso-villosi, longiores folio, t-2-flori: pedicelli calyci subequilongi, crassiores, singuli bracteis binis lanceolato-linearibus herbaceis erectis oppositis ad basin. Flores pro genere parvi, albi: cal. infundibuliformis viridis ; foliola equilonga, obovato-oblonga, acuminata, superné ciliata, 2 interiora angustiora. Cor. subrotata, profan. diùs quinqueloba, lobis rotundatis, subtùs villosiusculis. Stamina plurimùm breviora corollá: fil. basi latiora, imo corolle disco subtubuloso-contracto atque lutescente adnata, glabra. Stylus albus, erectus, 2-3plo brevior stigmatibus binis filiformibus, robustis, erectis, albidis. Germ. pallidum, subrotundum. Caps. globosa, Piso mediocri minor, glabra; semina 3, Subrotunda, scabra. Supposed to be native of the Canary Islands. Ori- ginally observed by M. Broussonet. First published by Willdenow under the present name in his * Enumeratio." Introduced by Messrs. Colville, at whose nursery in the King's Road, Chelsea, the present drawing was taken in July last. A hardy annual. Stems round, long, trailing, some- times twining at the upper part, tomentosely villous, green. Leaves alternate, wide asunder, cordate, taper-pointed, thin, lively green, about an inch and half in length and an inch across or thereabouts, beset with white atomous dots and bare on the upper side, slightly furred on the under: petiole vound, many times shorter than the leaf. Peduncles axillary, solitary, filiform, tomentosely villous, longer than the leaf, 1-2-flowered: pedicles about the length of the calyx, thicker, each with two lanceolately linear herbaceous upright opposite bractes at the base. Flowers small for the enus, white: calyx funnelform, green; leaflets of one ength, obovately oblong, taper-pointed, fringed at the upper part, two inner ones narrower than the rest. Coroj]d subrotate, rather deeply 5-lobed, lobes rounded, slightly furred on the outside. Stamens considerably shorter than the corolla: filaments widest at the base, adhering to the very shortly contracted yellow disk of the corolla, smooth. Style white, upright, 2-3 times shorter than the stigmag: stigmas 2, filiform, thickish, upright, whitish. Germen pale, nearly round. Capsule globular: seeds 3, roundish, rough. Seeds freely. Of the easiest propagation and culture, Differs from siculus by peduncles which are longer, not shorter than the leaves, by narrow bractes at a distance from the calyx, not broad ones close to the calyx; also in the colour of the corolla, and the comparative bareness of the calyx. —dÁüp— NOTE. Supra fol. 491; lines 13 and 16; for “ linn. soc. 12." read “ linn. Sop, 13;" having by mistake quoted the 12th Volume of the Linnean Transactiong instead of the 13th, as containing Mr. Lindley’s treatise on the Pomacee. Ve COMO as: 1 t Y 07, f Em del : Gf buy : f 577 andan Ji : JA tid A 3 ^ £ 1620 E Waltz N k Acto) 499 DIOSPYROS Embryopteris. Femina. + Polyandrous Date-Plum. Fertile-flowered. —,—— POLYGAMIA DICECIA (v. DICECIA POLYANDRIA.) Nat. ord. GUAIACANE. Jussieu gen. 156. Div. I. Stamina definita. EBENACER. Brown prod. 1. 524. DIOSPYROS. Flores polygami (in Embryopteri dioici). Cal. pro- funde 4-(nunc 3-v. 6-) fidus. Cor. urceolata, 4-(nunc 3- v. 6-) fide. Masc. Stamina basi corolla inserta, ejusdem lacinis dupla (in Embryopteri qua- drupla). Filamenta duplicata. — Rudimentum pistilli. HERMAPH. FEM. Stamina effota, pauciora. Germen 8-12-loculare, loculis monospermis. Bacca globosa, calyce patenti demüm reflexo. Brown prod. 1. 625. EMBRYOPTERIS Garín. et Roxb. differt solùm staminibus ratione lacini- arum coroll quadruplis. Brown L c. D. Embryopteris, foliis lanceolato-oblongis, floribus axillaribus polyandris, bacea octosperma. Persoon syn. 2. 624. Embryopteris glutinifera. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 836. Roxburgh corom. 1. 49. t. ,"O. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 407. : Embryopteris peregrina. Gert. sem. 1. 145. t. 29. fig. 2. Mabola des Philippines. Cavanillea philippensis. Zamarck encyc. 3. 663. Jussieu in ann. du mus. 5. 418. Tumika. Telingis. Mangostan-utan. Malaicis. Lym appel. Batavis. Arbor medie magnitudinis, rectus, cortice glabriusoudo fusco-ferruginoso, ramis sparsis, patentibus (novellis glabris). Fol. bifaria, alterna, lineari- oblonga, acuminata, lucido-glabra, coriacea, sesuncialia latitudine biun- ciali (è culturá exotic nobis duplo minora v. magis) novella tenera atque rubra: pet. brevis: stipule solitarie, vaginose, evolvente folio disrupte exindöque caduce. Mas. Pedunc. axillaris, solitarius, nutans, floribus 3-4-v. pluribus, parvulis, albis: bractea parvule, caduca, singulo pedicello subtense. Fil. 20 v. circà, apice bifida: anth. 40 v. circa, lineares, erecta. Femina. Pedunc. axillaris, solitarius, simplex, uniflorus, flore albo plante mascule plurimim majore. Fil. 1-4, parva, brevia: anth. lineares, parve, casse. Germ. globosum: styli 4: stig. sepiùs trifida. Bacca glo- bosa. Malum medie magnitudinis subequans, pulposa, matura ferrugineo- lutescens, ferrugineo-farinosa: sem. 8, raro aliqua abortiva, nidulantia, reniformia, aciem versus attenuata. Roxb. (ex anglico versum). The tree which furnishes the true ebony of the Cabinet- maker is a congener of the present, and has suggested the name of the order. Embryopteris is said by the Chevalier de Lamarck likewise to afford a hard close-grained jet- black ebony. It is dioicous, bearing the barren flowers on one tree, the fertile ones on another; and to this last side of the species our present sample belongs. The drawing was taken in Mr. Kent's hothouse at Clap- ton, where the plant has now flowered, as we understand, for the first time in this country; though introduced in 179 by Mr. Peter Good. ` “ A middle-sized tree, growing in India in the moist vallies among the mountains of the Circars; where it does not shed its foliage; and flowers in March and April. The fruit is eaten by the natives, but I cannot say that it is pa- latable : it is strongly astringent.” “ Trunk straight, upright: bark pretty smooth, dark, blackish rust-colour; branches spreading, scattered, young shoots smooth. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, bifarious, linear-oblong, pointed, smooth, firm, shining, when young soft and red; six inches long by two broad: stipule single, sheathed, bursting and falling off when the leaf begins to expand. BARREN-TREE. Peduncle axillary, single, bowed, bearing 3, 4, or more small white flowers: bractes small, deciduous, one below each pedicle. Filaments about 20, bifid at the. point: anfhers about 40, linear, erect. FERTILE-TREE. Peduncle axillary, single, undivided, bearing one white flower, which is considerably larger than theibarren ones. Filaments 1, 2, 3 or 4, small, short: an- thers linear, small, sterile. Germen globular: styles 4, spreading: stigmas branched, generally 3-cleft. Berry glo- bular, the size of a middling apple, pulpy, rusty-yellow when ripe and covered with a rust-coloured farina: seeds 8, which generally all ripen, immersed in pulp, kidney-form, edge thin.” Roxburgh. Dr. Roxburgh, speaking of the true Ebony (DrospYros Ebenum), remarks that it is only the heart of the tree that is black and valuable, and that the quantity is in proportion to the age of the tree. The outside is white and soft and soon decays. Gertner mistook the bottom for the top in his figure and description of the fruit of Embryopteris. I CH Ass sc e HAL. A. Y RN NS N J 500 ROYENA pubescens. Femina. Jacquin’s Hoyena. Fertile-flowered plant. | DECANDRIA DIGYNIA. v. POLYGAMIA DIGECIA, Nat. ord. GUAIACANE. Jussieu gen. 155. Div. I. ' EBENACEZ. Brown prod. 1. 524. ROYENA. Cal. urceolatus 5-fidus. Cor. imo calyci inserta, urceolata brevis 5-loba. Stam. 10, filamentis brevibus corolla insertis. Germ. su- perum desinens in stylos 2; stig. 2. Caps. supera 4-sulca 1-loc. 4-valv.; nuces 4 trigonz arillo obvolute. Arbuscule; flores axillares sep? peduncu- lati interdüm foeminei antheris effetis. Juss. |. c. 166. RoYENA à Drospyro distinguenda floribus hermaphroditis sepiusque B-fidis, filamentis simplicibus; variat ovario 4-6-8-loculari: DiosPvRos lyciodes e£ hirsuta Defontaines à ROYENA itaque vix separande solummodd propter ovarium 6-8-loculare, sed hwjus Pericarpium cortice capsulari 5- valvi secundum Jacq. fragm. 1. t. 1. fig. 2. RovENA polyandra aliaque subsimilis inedita Africa australis, distinctum. genus constituunt, ob flores polygamos; masculorum stamina laciniis 4-pla, filamentis duplicatis, antheris barbatis; ovarium 4-6-loculare. Brown prod. 1. 526; ín obs. R. pubescens, (polygama, monogyna stigmatibus 5:) foliis obovato-lanceolatis pubescentibus. Willd. enum. 1. 457. . Royena pubescens’. Sweet hort. sub. lond. 97. Royena hirsuta. Jacg. coll. 5. 110. t. 13. fig. I. Ejusd. fragm. t. 1. fig. 2; (non aliorum, neque synonymorum. in loc. cit. ). Frutex 3-pedalis v. ultra erectus ramosus corti badio-fuscescente: rami summi ramulique appressè villosi teretes foliosi florigeri ascendentes. Fol. obversé v. obovate lanceolata utrinque appresse villosiuscula, apice obtusula v. cum brevi acumine, infrà longè in petiolum attenuata, margine breve re- voluta, supra nitida, infra opaca, uncialia ad triuncialia v. ultrà, juniora acumine breviore, sericea, mollia, adulta subcoriacea subdepilia acumine lon- giore. HxRMAPH. Fam. Pedune. solitarii, axillares, ramulis et supernè in ramis racemos? digesti, sepisssimè 1- rariùs 2-3-flori, recurvi, teretes, pilos sericeos viridi-translucentes, plurimi breviores foliis, uniflori bracteà foliaced supra medium, triflori eädem pedicellis lateralibus subtensá, al- terd minima flori medio vicind. Cal. persistens coriaceo-herbaceus sericeus, citra medium usque partitus, ex campanulato atque triplo breviore corollá in amplissimum stellato-explanatum procrescens, segmentis oblongo-acumi- natis margine reflexis. Cor. ARBUTI Unedonis magnitudine viz aquans, ochroleuco-flavescens, opaca, urceolata, citra medium usque 5-fida, extús obsoleté villosa; tubus brevis, oblato-ventricosus; limbus 5-partitus, con- tortus, infra constrictiñis connivens, superné reflexus, laciniis oblongis obtusis cum brevi acumine. Stam. 10, effecta, germini appressa atque aqualia: fil. duplicata? brevissima, carnosa, robusta, viridia, glabra, imá margine tubi inserta: anth. casse, erecto-continue, lanceolate, appresso-hirsute, plu= rimüm longiores filamento. Germ. ovato-rotundum, villoso-canescens: stylus brevis, sericeus, columellaris, in stigmata 5 Jiliformia ipso subequilonga glabra apice dilatata discedens. . ** Cal. persistit cum foliolis 5 reflexis et virentibus. Pericarpium subro- * tundum ferè uncialis diametri, ad tactum holosericeum, coriaceo-carnosum, VOL. VI, U “ flavescens, unilocularis, 5-valvis, valvis lanceolatis acutis patentissimis, 4 Sem. oblonga, subteretia, exiguo mucrone terminata, nitida, castanei “ coloris, à maculá nigrá supernè notata, numero quidem naturali 10, sed * plerumque pauciora, dum quidam abortant, inclusa et involuta singula * in proprio glutine dulci fatuo et odore subnauseoso, quod forti frictione “ inter digitos abscedit. Istiusmodi lobi glutinosi sunt 10 contigui sed “ sejuncti, et facile ab invicóm separantur haud alitèr atque arilli in MALvrs. ** Hi qui semine carent supernè et infernè corpusculum castaneum inclusum “ habent; rudimentum opinor seminis. Medio fruct ex receptaculo com- * muni columna attollitur 5-sulcata pallida flava apice 5-dentata et patula, ** eui lobi glutinosi adhesere.” Jacq. frag. loc. cit. A species judiciously separated by Willdenow in his * Enumeratio” from hirsuta, with which it had been very generally confounded. - Native of the Cape of Good Hope. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the King's Road, Chelsea; where the plant flowers late in the autumn, and is kept in a warm greenhouse. The genus does not appear to be even yet satisfactorily combined, nor its limits clearly distinguished from Drospy- ros, a species of which forms the subject of the preceding article. We have not met with the barren-flowered plant of pu- bescens; where perhaps the flowers and stamens are more numerous than in the present. We apprehend that plants of it are occasionally polygamous, bearing some flowers, with perfect stamens and pistils, as well as others with either only perfect stamens or else perfect pistils. ‘The number of the parts of the pistils seems to vary much in the different species in the genus. An upright ascendingly branching shrub, three feet high or more, with a reddish brown bark: the tops of the branches and the branchlets villous, round, leafy, flower- bearing. Leaves obversely or obovately lanceolate, with a slight close-pressed nap on both sides, either obtuse or with a short point, long-tapered towards the petiole, shallowly revolute at the edge, shining above, opaque underneath, from one to three inches long or more; young ones silky soft with a shorter point, old ones somewhat coriaceous, almost without a nap and having a longer point. FERTILE- FLOWERED PLANT. Peduncles axillary, racemously disposed on the branchlets and tops of the main branches, generally one sometimes 2-3-flowered, recurved, round, appearing green through a silky nap, much shorter than the leaves, with a foliaceous bracte above the middle, in the three- flowered ones with a bracte subtending each of the side- pedicles, and another just below the middle flower. Calyx permanent, coriaceo-herbaceous, silky, 5-cleft to beyond the middle, from campanulate and three times shorter than the corolla growing out into a very large flat star, with taper-pointed oblong segments reflexed along the edge and at last turned back from the seedvessel. Corolla hardly as big as that of the common Arsurus, pale-yellow, opaque, ceolate, 5-cleft to below the middle, obsoletely villous on the outside; Zube short, oblately ventricose; limb 5-parted, twisted, constricted at the lower part, reflexed at the upper, segments oblong obtuse with a short point. Stamens 10, abortive, even with and pressed close to the germen : fila- ments in pairs? very short, fleshy, robust, green, smooth, inserted round the edge of the bottom of the tube: anthers empty, continuously upright, oblong, taper-pointed, hirsute, much longer than the filaments. .Germen ovately round, grey, and villous: style short, silky, columnar, parting into 5 filiform smooth stigmas as long as itself and widened at the end. The following account of the fruit is from Jacquin's Fragmenta. * Calyx permanent, with five green reflexed segments. Seedvessel nearly round, not much less than an inch in diameter, velvetty, with a partly fleshy and partly coria- ceous rind, reddish yellow, one-celled, 5-valved, valves lanceolate pointed opening extendedly. Seeds oblong, roundish, terminated by a very small mucro (distinct sharp point), shining, chestnut-brown, marked at the upper part with a black spot, natural number when complete 10, though they are usually fewer, as some miscarry, each en- veloped in its peculiar covering of a glutinous insipidly sweet and rather offensively smelling substance, which comes off by rubbing. The number of these glutinous lobes is ten; they are contiguous, but detached and easily sepa- rated from one another, nearly in the way of the separate capsules (or as children call them the cheeses) of the fruit of the Mallow. Those that are without seed, enclose a chest- nut-coloured corpuscle at both their upper and lower parts, u 2 which I take to be the rudiments of seeds. In the centre of the fruit rises, from the common receptacle, a 5-furrowed pale red-yellow column 5-toothed and spreading at the top, to which the glutinous lobes have at one time ad- hered.” 501 HOVENIA acerba. Crab Hovenia. ———.,Á9—— PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. RHAMNI (RHAMNER). Jussieu gen. 376. Div. IV. Sta- mina petalis opposita. Fructus tricoceus. OVENIA. Cal. 5-ñdus. Petala 5 convoluta. Stamina petalis ob- voluta. Stylus 1; stigmata 3. Caps. pisiformis 3-sulca 3-locularis 3-valvis 3-sperma, basi calycis persistente infrà cincta. (Sem. in loculamento unicum, glaberrimum, rubrum). Arbor; folia alterna (stipulacea?); pedunculi aril- lares et terminales dichotomi multiflori, apice post florescentiam divaricati, incrassati et carnosi edules sapore dulci, pedicellis brevibus linearibus uni- floris, flores caduei, interdùm 4-petali 4-andri. Juss. loc. cit. 381. Hovenia acerba, foliis opacis pubescentibus integerrimis. Lindley MSS. Arbuscula gracilis ramis virgatis divaricatis. Folia ovato-lanceolata, acuminata, integerrima, opaca, pauld rugosa, utrinque pubescentia, sublüs glaucescentia. Flores ......... Fructus ruber è pedunculis incrassatis, Hovenı# dulcis multotiès minor, sapore acerbo. Lindley MSS. “For this unpublished species of Hovenia we are obliged to Mr. Lambert, in whose greenhouse at Boyton, it flowered last spring. The fruit (see the detached figure of it in the annexed plate) of which only a single sample had ripened in August, has an austere flavour very unlike that of Hovenia dulcis, which is reported to be exceedingly grateful and similar in taste to a Bergamot Pear." ** There is some uncertainty about the native country of the present species. Mr. Lambert's plant is supposed to have been raised from fruit introduced from California. But we should rather consider it a native of the East Indies or China, both which countries produce Hovenia dulcis; we have also noticed in Mr. Cattley's hothouse at Barnet, young plants of an Hovenia probably not essentially distinct from our present subject, and the seeds from which they have been raised were undoubtedly received from Calcutta." Lindley MSS. In the above observations the term fruit is used, not in the technical or restricted signification of seedvessel, but in its more general sense, when applied to the esculent part of a plant, which in this genus happens to be the forked general footstalk (peduncle) on which the short partial ones (pedicles) of the seedvessel stand. "This enlarges in dulcis after the flower decays into an unevenly roundish oblong fleshy red fruit, which is eaten both in China and Japan. We had no opportunity of deseribing the flowers of the present plant after the draughtsman had done with the specimen. : — NOTE. In a recent number of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine we find that the Prunus japonica of the 27th article (Volume I.) of this work, is asserted to be the AMYGDALUS pumila of Linnzus; and the stone of the fruit to have the character which marks it for a congener of AMYGDALUS, and not of Prunus. On both these points we shall make some remarks in the Ap- peudix to the present Volume. . 502 DIOSMA dioica. Mas. JDioicous Diosma. Barren-flowered plant. —— PENTANDRIA' MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. RUuTACEE. Jussieu gen. 269. Div. III. Genera Rutaceis la. 845 Diosme®. Brown gen. rem. in append. to Flind. voy. 2. DIOSMA. Supra vol. 5. fol. 968. Div. Agathosma. Corona è filamentis 5 alternis sterilibus cochleari- petaloideis. D. dioica (mas), foliis lanceolatis, glabris, superioribus verticillato-trinis; floribus axillaribus aggregato-trinis, pedunculis 2plo brevioribus folio. Frutex prolifero-ramosus, 2-3-pedalis; rami subvertillati, foliosi teretes villosi virgato-adscendentes, cortice rubro-fusco rimis striate. Fol. cori- aceo-firma, patentissima, angusta, laneeolata, 4 uncie longa latitudine lineari v. sesquilineari suprà obscura-virentia lavia, sublüs punetata pruinoso- pallentia, margine deflexa punctisque glandulosis denticulata, apice glandu- loso acutulo, costá suprà obsoletiusculá, infra immersá saturatiüsgue virente, inferiora subdecussato-opposita, superiora alia) subverticillato-trina: pe- tiolus brevis, appressus. Mas. Flores inodori, axillares, per trinos aggre- gati; fasciculi solitarii, numerosi, infrd summos ramos racemoso-digesti: pedunc. Jüliformes, uniflori, 2plo ferà breviores folio, glanduloso-paptllosi, racteis pluribus imbricatis minutis crassis ovatis glandulosis ad basin cincti. Cal. pedunculi continuus similitérque papillosus, crassiusculus campanulato- patens ter v, ultrà brevior corollá semibfidus segmentis angulari-ovatis. Cor. pet 5 alba, disco supernè erubescentia, fundo calycis inserta, patentia, oblonga, obtusa, apice inflexa: corona triplo fer? brevior corollá, connivens, ex lamellis (staminibus abortivis) 5 oblongis albis villosis tenuibus glandulá virescente capitato-apiculatis. Fil. setacea, exserta, erecto-patentia, equa- lia ante anthesin à medio duplicatim retrofracte, exindóque erecto-expli- canda: anth. parvule, oblonga, obverse subsagittate, ante anthesin. luteo Suscoque rufescentes. Pist. obsoletum. We do not trace our plant in any published species; nor find it in the Banksian or Lambertian Herbariums. It is said to be of very late introduction from the Cape of Good Hope. 'The flowers, in all the plants we examined, were provided with only a slight rudiment of a pistil in the midst of the natural quota of perfect stamens; whence we have assumed them to belong to individuals of the barren side of a dioicous species, and of which the fertile plant is still un- known to us, affording, as far as our acquaintance with the subject extends, an anomalous instance in the genus. The foliage when handled diffuses the resinous smell which belongs, under various modifications, to all the genus. The drawing was taken at Messrs. Colville’s nursery in the King’s Road; where the plant is kept along with the Cape Heaths. An upright proliferously branched leafy shrub, about 3 feet high; branches subverticillate leafy round villous as- cending rodded with a brown streakily cracked rind. Leaves substantial, widespread, linearly lanceolate, about 2 of an inch long and about a line or a line and a half broad, dark green and smooth above, frosted and pale underneath, de- flexed along the edge with glandular specks as if denticu- lated, somewhat ovate at the base, slightly pointed at the top, midrib obsolete above, underneath deep green and sunken; lower leaves decussately opposite, upper (floral) in whorls of three; petiole very short. BARREN PLANT. Flowers without scent, axillary, congregated in threes; fascicles so- litary numerous racemosely disposed along the branches below the top: peduncles filiform, oneflowered, about twice shorter than the leaves, papulously glandular, environed at the base with several minute thick ovate glandular bractes. Calyx continuous with the peduncle and similarly papulous, thickish, campanulate spreading thrice shorter than the corolla or more, half 5-cleft, segments angularly ovate. Petals of the corolla white tinged at the upper part of the disk with pink, inserted at the bottom.of the calyx, spread- ing, oblong, obtuse, inflected at the top: crown (abortive stamens) nearly thrice shorter than the corolla, converging, of 5 laminar oblong white villous thin pieces surmounted by a green gland. Filaments setaceous, protruded, uprightly spreading, equal, before complete expansion doubled close back from about the middle, gradually extending them- selves: anthers small, oblong, obversely sagittate, before they shed their pollen reddish and variegated with yellow and brown. SA ILE JF x. 503 CYRTANTHUS odorus. Sweet-scented Cyrtanthus. — HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Nancissi. Jussieu gen. 64.^. Div. II. AMARYLLIDEX. Brown prod. 1. 296, Sect. I. CYRTANTHUS. Spatha uniflora v. umbellato-multifiora. Cor. nu- tans v. cernua, elongato-oblonga, tubulato-infundibuliformis, curva, limbo regulari subzquali, laciniis oblongis fauce brevioribus. Fil. brevia, fauce longè supra tubum inserta. Sem. numerosa, biseriato-cumulata, paleaceo- compressa, festá fuscntà. . Cera omninó AMARYLLIDIS; und? discrepat limbo breviore fauce, non longiore, filamentis fauce longé supra tubum insertis, mon ore tubi infra faucem. ‘C. odorus, pauci (47) flora; corolla rectiuscula subnutante, fauce angust? turbinata, limbi laciniis subdistantibus: antheris fauce inclusis, alternis 3 cseteris pro duplo eorum longitudinis demissioribus: foliis non glaucis. Fol. 2-3, angusta, lineari-lorata, deorsúm attenuata, longitudine scapi, mon glauca. Umbella floribus pluribus (4) odoratis punicantibus: pedunc. pluries. breviores floribus, vel subnulli, virentes: spatha sphacelata, lanceo- lata, triplo fer? brevior umbellé. Cor. angustè tubata, unciis 2 lon- gior, curvo leni obsoletiore nutans; tubus gracilis, rotundatè trigonus in Saucem aquabilitór transeuns; faux angustè turbinata; limbus tubo cam Fauce 4-plo ferm? brevior, patens, laciniis subdistantibus lineari-oblongis planis obtusulis exterioribus subangustioribus acutioribusque. Stam. fauce inclusa: fil. brevia, conniventia, subulata, alterna 3 brevissima fauci proxime infra limbum inserta antheris incumbentibus, 3 altera plurimum demissiora antheris erectis: anth. oblonge, polline flavo. Germ. oblongum, minimum, fusco-virens, ovulis numerosis compressis biseriato-cumulatis: stylus filifor- mis, medium attingens limbum, suprà roseus: stig. 8. Àn unrecorded species, introduced about two years ago from the Cape of Good Hope, by Messrs. Colville of the Chelsea-Nursery, in the King’s Road, where the drawing was taken. It differs from all the species we are acquainted with, by the deep crimson hue and fragrance of the flowers: specially from collinus (see v. 2. fol. 162) by a foliage which is not glaucous, by a fewer-flowered more upright umbel, longer less curved slenderer corolla, more narrowly turbinate faux, less contiguously spreading segments, and essentially by having 3 alternate stamens placed lower than the others by twice the length of their anthers (when they have shed the pollen); whereas in collinus the tips of these reach to the base of the three upper, and rather above; VOL. VI. x : nor are there in odorus the six white parallel lines which in collinus traverse the germen and corolla longitudinally at equal distances. The differences of angustifolius are too manifest to require to be particularized. Leaves 2-3, narrow, linear-lorate, tapered downwards about the length of the scape. Umbel several-(4-)flowered ; flowers sweet, deep crimson: peduncles several times shorter, sometimes scarcely any, green: spathe sphacelate, lanceo- Jate, nearly 3 times shorter than the umbel. Corolla narrow trumpet-shaped, more than 2 inches long, nodding with a gentle bend; tube slender with 3 rounded corners, passing insensibly into the faux; faur narrowly turbinate; limb nearly 4 times shorter than the tube and faux together, spreading, segments standing apart, linearly oblong flat bluntish, outer ones rather narrower and more pointed. Stamens enclosed within the faux; filaments short, converg- ing, subulate, 3 alternate ones very short, inserted close below the limb, with incumbent anthers, the other 3'in- serted pretty far below these, with upright anthers: anthers oblong; pollen deep yellow. Germen oblong, very small, brownish green; ovula numerous flattish, piled one upon the other in two rows: style filiform, reaching to the middle of the limb, pinkish above: stigmas 3. f It should be sheltered during the winter in a frame or greenhouse. Flowers in July or August. J / X £x. bn c a 77 pe) /} 22 A Fe tara] (70 evo Dec. FÀ ‚820. c n 504 CALOTIS cuneifolia. Lachlan Calotis. ————& SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA NECESSARIA. Nat. ord. Composite. Adanson fam. 2. 103. CORYMBIFERE. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. II. Recept. nu- dum. Semen papposum. Flores radiati. CALOTIS. Recept. epaleatum. Achenia coronate paleis duabus op- positis aristisque 1-3, glochidatis. Involuerum subequale, simplici vel du- plici serie polyphyllum. Brown MSS. : Herbæ ramose, pilosiuscule. Folia alterna. Involucra ramos termi- nantia, solitaria, planiuscula, foliacea. Ligule faminee, numerose, imbri- cate, cerulee, post anthesin spiraliter revolute et diù persistentes. Flosculi masculi, quinquefidi, flavi, antheris basi muticis. Achenia (semina Linn.) vertiealitór compressa, cuneata. Pappus persistens, è paleis lateralibus, dilatatis, latioribus m longis, auriculiformibus; et aristis longioribus sepids duabus (anticá et posticá), extra medium vel apice solum aculeolis reversis. Receptaculum scrobiculatum vel subalveolatem converum. Brown MSS. Calotis cuneifolia, foliis cuneatis apice inciso-dentatis. Brown MSS. Ramuli graciles erecti strictiusculi remotè foliosi. Folia sessilia, pa- tentia, 3 uncie longa v. circa, dentibus v. lobulis 3-5. Flores foliis remoti, diametro subsesquiunciali, radio violaceo-pallente. Involucr. (cal. Linn.) radiato-divaricatum, foliolis subbiseriatis oblongis lanceolatisque, acutulis obtusulisque, albo-lineolatis. Ligule (flosc. radii) anguste, lanceolato-lineares, extùs pilosiuscule, tubo viridissimo piloso: stigmata tenuissima: germ. mar- gine virescens, aristis bis brevius: flosc. disci pilosi, tubo gracili pallido virescenti, fauce subequante limbum recurvum: anth, Inter, suturis 5 fulvo- füscescentibus, polline albido; germ. vertice mutico. - Recept. virens. ` The character of CaLoris was formed, but not pub- lished, by Mr. Brown about fifteen years ago, from C. denter, a species first observed by himself in New Holland, where it is not uncommon in the neighbourhood of Port Jackson. The present has been since found, during an ex- pedition into the interior of the above country, growing on the banks of the river Lachlan, in 1817 by Mr. Állan Cun- ningham, who is commended by Mr. Brown, as “ an inde- fatigable collector and acute observer." It was introduced in 1819 at the Physic Garden, Chelsea. The generic name has been derived from the two mem- branous earshaped palew of the seedcrown, which are con- stant in number and form in the only two certain species yet x2 known, and constitute the most important character of the genus. The following is the version of Mr. Brown's valuable de- finition of this curious genus. Receptacle chaffless. Seeds crowned by two opposite chaffs, and from one to three barbed awns. Calyx nearly equal, of many leaflets in one or two ranks. The species are herbaceous branching and slightly furred. Leaves alter- nate. General calyxes at the end of the branches, solitary, nearly flat, foliaceous. Florets of the ray fertile, numerous, imbricated, blue, rolled back spirally after expansion, and lasting for a considerable time: florets of the disk barren, 5-cleft, deep yellow. Anthers blunt at the base: seeds vertically compressed, cuneate. Seedcrown permanent, con- sisting of 2 dilated earshaped lateral chaffs (palew) broader than they are long, and of longer awns, generally two in number (one in front, the other opposite) and armed with small reversed prtckles, either all the way from above the middle or only at the top. Receptacle pitted or lightly honeycombed, convex. Cuneifolia is distinguished from dentex by cuneate leaves deeply indented at the top. The drawing was made last summer from a plant at Messrs. Colville’s, in the King’s Road, which had been raised by Mr. Anderson in the greenhouse of the Physic Garden at Chelsea, i 303. ~ l i "a RE i Mu SES E7727 M dani del. Ma ly ie Iudigway (70 "Meca Deo, f. Wwe 505 . JASIONE perennis. Perennial Sheep's-bit. —À—— PENTANDRIA MONOGYNL4. (MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA, Persoon syn.) Nat. ord. CAMPANULACE®. Jussieu gen. 163. Brown prod. 1. 559. JASIONE. Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. rotata, tubo brevissimo, laciniis 5-longis linearibus. Stam. 5, antheris in tubum coalitis. Stig. bifidum. Caps. 5- gona, 2-locularis, calyce coronata. Flores aggregati in calyce communi polyphyllo supra receptaculum nudum. Caules sep? simplices. Capitula terminalia solitaria: flores centrales sepé abortivi stigmate indiviso. Ha- bitus ScaBiosx. Juss. loc. cit. 166. J. perennis, foliis linearibus sublevibus planis obtusiusculis, Lamarck encyc. 3. 216. illustr. 124. fig. 2. Jasione perennis. Persoon syn. 2. 215. Lam. et Decand. flor. franc. 3. 717. Sweet hort. sub. lond. 37. Jasione montana (£.) Willd. sp. pl. 1. 888. Jasione montana (8.) radice perenni. Lin. suppl. 392. Jasione montana. Villars dauph. 2. 670; (side Decandollei.) Caulis erectus simplicissimus v. de basi ramosus, in plantä hortensi glaber in spontaned pubescens, pedalis v. plurimim altior, infra medium foliis erebris vestitus. Fol. numerosa, sparsa, exatté linearia, sesquiunciam ad 2 uncias cum dimidio longa latitudine subbilineari, obtusiuscula, integra, Plana, in plantá cultá subglabra, in spontaneá hispidiùs pubescentia. Capitula. congesta, caerulea solitaria, montana majora, pedunculis aphyllis 6-8 uncia- libus v. circa insidentia. Involucrum é foliolis 12-13 planis horizontalibus margine acute at rarè dentatis. Lam. loc. cit.; (ex gallico versum). A species first distinguished from montana by the Che- valier de Lamarck, who observes that it not only djffers in being perennial instead of annual, but likewise in having strictly linear leaves, which neither taper downwards nor are waved or curled at the edge. It is not noticed in the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis, though stated in Sweet's Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis to have been cultivated in our gardens in 1787. Native of the South of France. The drawing was taken at the nursery belonging to Messrs. Colville, in the King’s Road, Chelsea, where the plant is cultivated in a warm border in the open ground. The following description is the English of an article of the ingenious and diligent Lamarck, in his Encyclopédie Botanique. Stem upright, either simple or at times branching from the base, bare in the garden plant, hairy in the wild one, thickly leaved at the lower half, a foot or much more in height. Leaves numerous, scattered, exactly linear or straight-sided, from an inch and a half to two and a half long, about two lines broad, slightly blunted, entire, flat, nearly bare in the cultivated plant, slightly furred or hispid in the other. Flowers crowded into terminal solitary blue heads rather larger than those in montana, each head borne on a leafless peduncle about 6 or 8 inches long. Jn- volucre of 12-13 flat horizontal leaflets with a few sharp teeth round the edge. As yet rare in our flower-borders, though a free and abundant flowerer, of long duration and very ornamental. L. Hand. ded. - Yat by I Tdg ay (70 Kin ely Dar A JEDE. RS May. sí. 506 VANDA. Roxburghii. Chequer-flowered Vanda. — GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDEZ. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 1. 309. Div. IV. Anthera terminalis mobilis decidua. Masse pollinis demum cereacez, Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 208. VANDA. Labellum calcaratum, cum basi simplici (breviusve pro- ductà) columne aptere continuum, trifidum, lobo medio camoso. Petala patentia, distincta. Masse pollinis 2, obliquà bilobe. Brown MSS. OBs. AERIDES paniculatum, (supra v. 3. f. 220.) generis pristini species impar nimis huic (monente D. Brown) apt? satis associari potest. Pa- rasitica amba. Vanda Rozburghii, ovariis contortis, petalis oblongo-obovatis undatis, foliis oblique tridentatis. Brown MSS. Cymbidium tesselloides. Roxburgh MSS. cum icone ined. andá, (Sir William Jones in) asiat. res. 4. 302. The generic character now given has been formed by Mr. Brown, so as to include Arres paniculatum, published provisionally by that generic name in our third Volume (fol. 220); but now it will be seen that this species is not a very close congener of the one before us. The Cympi- DIUM tessellatum of Roxburgh is not included in the present genus. Mr. Brown had some scruples in not ranking the group under Anaracum of M. Du Petit-Thouars (of which a species is given in voy. de Bory de St. Vincent. 1. 359. tab. 19.), not being able from want of sufficient detail in the description of the structure of the parts of that genus, to decide satisfactorily, whether he ought to do so or not; and has at last been determined principally by the Zabel in An- erzcum being undivided and probably membranous, while in Vanpa it is three-lobed and fleshy. He expects that several species of Swartz's genus Limoporum will be found to rank under the present. This beautiful parasitic plant was imported by Sir Joseph Banks, and flowered last autumn in the hothouse at Springrove, now belonging to Lady Banks. It is common in most parts of Bengal, and grows on various trees, but principally upon one which bears the Mango. We have already spoken of the culture best suited to tropical para- sites in the 220th article of this Register. The following description is from the manuscript of Dr. Roxburgh. Stem creeping, sending forth long thick round branch- “ing fleshy ash-coloured roofs, which fasten firmly to the * trunk or branches of the tree the plant grows on. The “ plants are seldom more than two or three feet in length, * for they decay at the base as fast as they shoot from the “top. Leaves sheathing, bifarious, near together, recurved, “linear, keeled, forebitten, about five or six inches long. “ Scapes generally axillary, solitary, naked, supporting from “six to twelve large beautiful flowers. Petals 5, nearly * equal, expanded, oblong, waved at the edge and here * and there a little inflected, upper surface chequered with “ yellow and dusty ferruginous purple, under surface white: * label shorter than the petals; spur conical, protruding * towards the germen between the two lower petals; lamina (broad part) oblong, turgid, apex 3-lobed, sides inflected, ** so as to be convex above and deeply concave underneath, “colour blueish purple towards the apex: upper lip or ** portion which forms the attachment of the base and horn ** to the base of the column of fructification, with two late- * ral obliquely broad lanceolate lobes having acute points * incurved towards the summit of the column. Column of “ fructification thick, short, obtuse, open at the inner mar- * gin next the summit; this mouth or opening tapers down * through the column into a point, which ends in the cavity “of the germen; anther lidded, suborbicular, with two ** lidded cells for the two globular pollen masses which rise, ** when the lid is removed gently, with a jerk on their broad “ cordate filament, which is inserted on the anterior part of “the top of the column, by a large funnelform base. If re- * moved with less care, and before the pollen masses are “ ripe, these remain in their cells, and the funnelshaped base “of the filament rises erect. Stigma or channel for con- “ veying the subtle essence of the pollen to the germen, a “ clammy opening in the fore part of the column near its “top. Pericarp clavate, with six sharp ridges running “ the whole length.” Roxb. — E E I 2^. Loos Y DR 2% / m @ 507 PASSIFLORA peltata. Peltate Passionflower. ——— MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. Nat. ord. PassirLoRER. Jussieu in ann. mus, 6, 102. PASSIFLORA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 13. Div. (Ebracteate: apetale). Foliis trilobis. . PP. peltata foliis peltatis profunde trilobis glabris, lobis lineari-lanceolatis di- varicatis, petiolis biglandulosis, floribus apetalis. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 152. Passiflora peltata. Cavan. diss. 10. 447. t. 274. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 617. Passiflora hederacea; y. Lamarck encyc. 3. 88. n. 22. Grenadilla folio angusto tricuspidi, fruetà olivaformi. Tournef. inst. 240. Clematis indica, folio angusto trifido, fructü olivaformi. Plum. amer. 70. t. 85. Fruticosa, depilis, caule infern? suberoso-corticato ind? ramisque fusco- rubentibus subque lente puncticulis flavis crebrè aspersis. Fol. peltata, sub- coriacea, obscuro-viridia, 3-nervia, nitida, margine subdeflexa linedque fuscá tenui circumscripta ; superiora majora palmato-triloba, lobis distantibus ad pe- fiolum fer? usque discretis elongato-lanceolatis, medio submajore 3-4-unciali; inferiora minora, brevitis divisa lobis ovato-acuminatis: pet. Levee subunciales, ad medium circa urceolato-biglandulosi: stipule erecte, plano-subulate: cirthi azillares, nunc flores intereipientes. Flores apetali absque omni bracted vel involucro, chloroleuci, inodori, gemir, sillares, ia fare ires gre fom iunciali: pedunc. fusco-purpureus, filiformis, duplo ferà brevior gracilior- que petiole pauld supra modium ars indègue crassior. Invol. 0. Cal. stellato-partitus disco plano subtùs subintruso atque decem-toroso: seg- menta distantia, recurvo-patentia, è basi latá lineari-attendata, firmula, obtusula. Cor. 0. Corona duplex bis ferm? brevior limbo calycis; radii nu- merosi, exteriores viridi-lutescentes lineolis fuscis paucis maculati, elongato- teretes, obtusi: interiores alterni capillares, longitudine tantüm operculi, Susco-purpurei, albo variegati obtusi: operculum plicatum purpurá varium; nectarium simplex planum: septo interiori brevi erecto, crasso, margine prui- Roso, nigroque-maculato. Pist. calycem aquans: stipes teres coronam subexce- dens pallidus lineolis interruptis is punctatus: fil. ligulata, pallida, antheris oblongis viridibus longiora. Germ. ellipticum glabrum viride: styli cum stigmatibus clavati, virides, longiores germine ; stig. subgloboso-conveza. "This pretty species is seldom seen in flower in our col- lections; nor has it been figured in any of the popular publications. It comes near to suberosa, and, like that, has neither involucre or bractes, nor petals, but differs, besides in having the upper leaves more deeply divided, by all the leaves being peltate, that is, with petioles inserted within the disk and not at the edge as there, and by flowers with twice the circumference of those of the other. But it comes VOL, vi, Y still. nearer to Aederacea, where the leaves are likewise peltate, but larger, and more shallowly divided. Native of the West Indies; whence it was introduced in 1778. A plant flowered in September in the hothouse at the Chelsea Nursery belonging to Messrs. Colville, in the King’s Road; where the drawing was taken. The species has been enumerated in Mr. Pursh’s Flora of North America as a native of Virginia and Georgia; but the prototype sample in Mr. Lambert’s Herbarium, consists of a single detached leaf, procured from some other collection, and does not we suspect even belong to the species. A smooth twining shrub: stem coated below with a pale corky rind, above and at the branches dark red and thickly besprinkled with minute yellow dots, scarcely perceptible without a glass. Leaves peltate, subcoriaceous, of a dark shining green, 3-nerved, deflexed towards the edge, and bordered with a fine dark line, upper omes palmately 3- lobed, lobes wide asunder, separated almost to the petiole long-lanceolate, the middle one rather the largest, 3-4- inches in length; lower ones smaller, more shallowly di- vided, lobes ovate taper-pointed; petiole smooth, about an inch long, with two small dark red opposite lateral cup- ped glands; stipules subulate, flat, upright; tendrils axil- lary, sometimes one betweeu the two flowers. Flowers without either involucre or bracte, or corolla, whitish green, scentless, in axillary pairs, nodding, almost 2 inches in diameter: peduncle dark red, filiform, nearly twice shorter and slenderer than the petiole, jointed a little above the middle and thickest beyond the joint. Calyz stellately five- parted, slightly dinted underneath the disk with a circle of ten shallow nodules: segments wide asunder, recurvedly spreading, linear and tapered from a broad base, rather sub- stantial, bluntish. Crown of two rows, twice shorter than the limb of the calyx; outer rays numerous greenish yellow and slightly marked with dark broken linear stains, filiform, obtuse; inner ones alternate with the outer, capillary, only as long as the lid of the nectary, dark purple mottled with white, obtuse: lid (of the nectary) plaited, mottled purple; nectary simple, flat, inner wall short upright thick frosted and stained with black at the edge. Pistil even with the calyx: Shaft round, rather taller than the crown pale, spotted with small dark broken lines: filaments ligulate, pale, longer than the oblong green anthers. Germen ellip- tical, Smooth green: styles clavate, green, longer than the germen; sfigmas subglobularly convex, green. i ee ^ scatti 508 HELIANTHUS atrorubens. Shagreen-leaved Sunflower. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA FRUSTRANEA. Nat. ord. COMPOSITE. Adanson fam. 2. 103,, _ CORYMBIFERE. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. VI. Receptaculum paleaceum. Semen apice dentatum aut paleaceum. Flores in plurimis ra- iati, in paucis flosculosi. Receptaculum HELENII subnudum. HELIANTHUS. Flores radiati, flosculis medio ventricosis (tubo bre- - vissimo angusto) ligulis neutris. Cal. magnus imbricatus squarrosus. Sem. apice 2-paleacea paleis acuminatis deciduis. Recept. planum. Herbe sepe altissime; folia aspera, opposita, aut alterna, flores axillares aut terminales, interddm maximi, disco nonnunquam subfusco. Juss. loc. cit. 189, H. atrorubens, totus hispidus; caule supernè nudiusculo lax? panieulato, foliis spathulatis ovatis crenatis triplinervibus scabris, squamis calycinis ovato-lanceolatis longitudine disci atropurpurei. Pursh amer. sept. 2. 670. A Helianthus atrorubens. Lin. FA l. ed, 2. 2.1279. Mill, dict. ed. 8. n. 9. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 2246. Michaux bor. amer. 2. 140. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. H a. 129. Nuttall gen. 2. 177, às ` lianthus missuricus. , el cent. spec. min it. 21. n. 44. Helianthus diffusus. Pr His lao 2d26. mts Helianthus foliis ovatis crenatis 3-nerviis scabris, squamis calycinis erectis, longitudine disci, Gron. virg. ed..2. 128. ! Corona Solis minor disco atrorubente. Dill. eltham. 111. t. 94. f. 110. Corona Solis caroliniana, parvis floribus, folio tinervi amplo aspero, pediculo alato. Mart, cent. 20. t. 20. Y Planta aspera, perennis, floribunda, eubtripedalis vadicé repente: caules plurimi, teretes, strigosi, rigidi, ramosi; rami elongati, divisi, remotissimè alternéque foliosi corymboso-fastigiantes, ramuli axillares suboppositi pedun- culo longo subaphyllo strictissimo strigilloso anguloso-striato unifloro sapé rubescente ( haud rarò cum folio prope florem posito) terminati. Fol. sessilia, posita, rarius verticillato-trina, cinereo-virentia, opaca, utrinque punctis callosis setiferis asperrima ; inferiora oblongo-ovata v. elliptico-lanceolata, in- fra cuneato-attenuata atque integra, supra appresso serrata, media oblonga, infern? attenuata, summa spathulato-oblonga, alterna, integra: majora 5-7- uncialia latitudine 2-3-unciali. Cal. campanulatus, atrovirens, glabriusculus, altern? subáseriatus, arctè imbricatus, brevior disco, foliolis ovato-lanceolatis, ciliolatis concaviusculis. Corolla diametro 3-4-unciali v. majore: radius reu- ter, aureo-flavescens flosculis è 16 ordine simplici ad numerosos ordine duplice, elongato-oblongis ab unciá brevioribus ad sesquiunciá longiores, plicato-stri- atis, acutulis: discus hermaphroditus diametro subunciali, atro-rubens; flosc. flavi limbo ustulato-rubente, villosi, tubo brevissimo, fauce longá basi ventri- cosà, limbo 4-plo breviore patente laciniis ovatis; germ. cuneato-oblongum, m villosum album; pappus pale 2 opposite lanceolate bis breviores flosculo, ramentis brevissimis intermediis: conneze; stig. vitellina, linearia, revoluta: anth. ustulato-fusee, polline flavo. Recept, convexum, paleaceun, paleis navicularibus albo-striatis, cariná ciliatis, apice purpureo- virentibus fornicatis villosis ciliatis. ¥2 Heuianruus, with the exception of one or two of the species, is confined to North America. The present species, in our view, is one of the most attractive of the hardy ornaments of the pleasure-ground, being neither so tall nor heavily leaved as the others, and producing from its nu-, merous subdivided stems a profusion of the gayest co- loured blossom that suffers no intermission from August to October. It seems to do best in a strong clayey soil. Mr. Nuttall found it all over Upper Louisiana, others in Peüsylvania and Carolina. The root is creeping, and affords the easiest means of propagation. The flowers vary much in size, and are seen from about 21 to near 5 inches in diameter, even on the same plant, having some- times a small spatulate leaf on the peduncle just below the ' calyx, at other times none within a foot or more of the flower. The foliage, which grows chiefly on the lower part of the plant, is of an opaque dull dusty green, with a sur- face as rough as shagreen, and nearly as hard as emery paper, and makes but little appearance; the branches, the divisions of which are terminated by long oneflowered straight upright generally leafless peduncles, present a loose spreading corymb of flowers at the height of about 3 feet or more. Cultivated by Dr. Sherard, in the celebrated garden at Eltham, before 1732; but seems to have become rare, till lately introduced by Mr. Lambert, who raised his plants from Louisiana seed. The drawing was taken at the collec- tion of Comtesse de Vandes, Bayswater. The Composite (commonly called Syngenesious plants) form the tenth class of Jussieu's arrangement, and are divided into three orders; viz. Cichoracee, Cinarocephale, and Corymbifere. Since this division, the study of the class has occupied much of the attention of Messrs. Cassini and Brown; but no definite arrangement has been given to the public, since that of Jussieu. ‘ The following valuable observations are from Mr. Brown’s Remarks upon the Congo Herbarium. “Composirz. It is unnecessary here to enter into the question whether this family of plants, of which 3000 species are already known, ought to be considered as a class or as an order merely; the expediency of subdividing it, and affixing proper names to the divisions, being generally ad- mitted. "The divisions or tribes proposed by M. Cassini, iu his valuable dissertations upon this family, appear to be the most natural, though as yet they have not been very sa- tisfactorily defined." * Baron Humboldt has stated, that Composite form one sixth of the Pheenogamous plants * within the tropics, and that their proportion gradually decreases in the higher lati- tudes, until in the frigid zones it is reduced to one thir- teenth. But in the Herbarium from Congo Composite form only one twenty-third, and both in Smeathman’s collection from Sierra Leone, and in Dr. Roxburgh's Flora Indica, a still smaller part, of the Phzenogamous plants. In the northern part of New Holland they form about one sixteenth; and in a manuscript catalogue of plants of equinoctial America, in the library of Sir Joseph Banks, they are nearly in the same proportion." ** In estimating the comparative value of these different materials, I may, in the first place, observe that though the herbarium from Congo was collected in the dry season of the country, there is no reason to suppose on that account that the proportion of this family of plants, in particular, is ma- terially or even in any degree diminished, nor can this ob- jection be stated to the Sierra Leone collection, in which its relative number is still smaller." “To the Composite in Dr. Roxburgh's Flora Indica, how- ever, a considerable addition ought, no doubt, to be made; partly on the ground of his having apparently paid less at- tention to them himself, and still more because his cor- respondents, whose contributions form a considerable part of the Flora, have evidently in a great measure neglected them. This addition being made, the proportion of Compo- site in India would not differ very materially from that of the north coast of New Holland, according to my own col- lection, which I consider as having been formed in more fa- vourable circumstances, and as probably giving an approxi- mation of the true proportions in the country examined. Baron Humboldt's herbarium, though absolutely greater than any of the others referred to on this subject, is yet, with rela- * "That portion of the vegetable creation where the stamen and pistillum are manifest, as distinguished from Cryptogamous and Agamous plants, where the existence of these parts is either only presumed from analogy, as in the first of the two, or denied altogether, as in the latter. tion to the vast regions whose vegetation it represents, less ex- tensive than either that of the north coast of New Holland, or even of the line of the Congo. And as it is in fact as much the Flora of the Andes as of the coasts of intratropical America, containing families nearly or wholly unknown on the shores of equinoctial countries, it may be supposed to have several of those families which are common to all such countries; and among them Composite, in very different pro- portion. At the same time it is not improbable that the re- lative number of this family in equinoctial America, may be greater than in the similar regions of other intratropical countries; while there seems some reason to suppose it;con- siderably smaller on the west coast of Africa. This dimi- nished proportion, however, in equinoctial Africa would be more remarkable, as there is probably no part of the world in which Composite form so great a portion of vegetation as at the Cape of Good Hope." MA 509 HZEMANTHUS carneus. Hairy pink Hemanthus. fe — HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord, Narcisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germen inferum. AMARYLLIDEX. Brown prod. 1. 296. Sect. I. Radix bulbosa. Flores spathacei umbellati, rarò solitarii, HEMANTHUS. Supra vol. 3. fol. 181. Obs. In germine HEMANTHI carnei ovula inversa summo angulo locula- mentorum affixa. Vix character in genere constans? H. carneus, folis 2 rotundo-ovatis acuminatis capoque pilis retrorsis un- dique hirsutis, spatha sphacelata reflexa umbella breviore, staminibus inclusis. Bulbus è laminis imbricato-bifariis introrsum gradatim longioribus com- presso-conieus. Fol. scapo tardiora duploque breviora, erecto-divergentia pu- bescentiam canam viridi-translucentia. Scapus (subspithameus ) compresso-co- lumnaris robustus, marmoratimpur purascens, retrorsim pilosus. Spatha im- paritér plurivalvis sphacelato-membranacea, valvis reflexis lanceolatis: um- bella laxiús multiflora, pedicellis teretibus subrubentibus glabris: cor. lete carnea, semunciam circitér longa, turbinata; tubus 3-4plo brevior limbo patente equali; lacinie ovali-v. obverso-oblonge. Stam. erecta; fil. duplo breviora limbo, disco tubuloso corolle adnata, alterné sublongiora, alba, stricta, subulata, erassiuscula: anth. erecta, introrse, ovali-oblonge, breves, mucronato-apiculate, ab imo dorso affixe, polline flavo. Germ. subrotundum ezsulcum estriatum parvulum semine Sinapeos vix majus glabrum rubido- virescens; loculamenta monosperma, ovulis oblongiusculis summo angulo loculamenti affixis. Caps. subglobosa, lutescens, magnitudine Pisi vel eirciter. An unpublished species, agreeing with lanceæfolius in several peculiarities which distinguish that species among its congeners, but differing specially from it by shorter and broader leaves shaggily furred on both sides, and by stamens shorter than the corolla instead of overtopping it. Its in- volucre or spathe is not coloured, nor disposed in the up- right posture, that affords the corollalike appearance ob- servable in the majority of this genus, as far as yet known. The three ovula of the germen of our plant were at- tached each to the upper corner of its cell and pointed di- rectly downwards. We are not aware how far this circum- stance extends in the genus, but shall attend to the investi- gation of the circumstance. Introduced about two years ago from the Cape of Good Hope by Messrs. Colville, at whose nursery in the King's Road the present drawing was made the summer before last. | Bulb compressedly conic, lamine bifarious imbricated, inner ones longer. Leaves two, opposite, round-ovate, with a short point, coming up after the scape, shaggily and reflexly furred on both sides, twice shorter than the scape. Scape about 7 inches long, compressedly columnar, purplish, mottled, reflexedly hairy. Spathe of several unequal lan- ceolate valves, aridly membranous, reflexed. Umbel loosely manyflowered: pedicles smooth, filiform, reddish: corolla brightish pink, about half an inch long, turbinate, tube 3 times shorter than the spreading equal /imb, segments ovally or obversely oblong. Stamens upright; filaments twice shorter than the limb, adhering to the short tubu- larly contracted disk of the corolla, white, stiff, subulate, thickish, alternately longer: anthers upright, ovally oblong, short, mucronate (tipped with a short distinct point), fixed on near the base at the back; pollen deep yellow. Germen roundish furrowless streakless, not much bigger than a grain of mustard-seed, smooth, green tinged with red; cells oneseeded, ovula somewhat oblong, turned downwards. i about the size of a pea, of a yellowish dingy green colour. 510 PLUMERIA tricolor. Tricolor Plumeria. Se PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. APOCYNER. Jussieu gen. 146. Div. I. Germen duplex. Fructus bifollicularis. Semina non papposa. PLUMERIA. Supra fol. 480. P. tricolor, foliis oblongis acutis acuminatisque, marginibus planis corollis tricoloribus. Ruiz et Pavon fl. peruv. 2. 20. t. 189. Plumeria tricolor. Persoon syn. 1. 269. Yuracppaco Suche. Peruvian. Arbor G-orgyalis lactifera: truncus erectus teres cinereus, coma magni subglobosá: rami dichotomi tortuosi fragiles medullosi crassi petiolorum vesti- giis cicatriculati. Fol. sparsa oblonga utrinque acuta, integerrima, mar- ginibus planis, venoso-reticulata, venis majoribus horizontalibus vix incurvis rubris: petioli ad basin internam glandulis duobus connexis. Pedunculi striati rubicundi pubescentes umbellato-cymosi multiflori; pedicelli gemini uniflori, bracteolà ovatá concavá caducá suffulti. al. rubicundus quinque- crenatus pubescens. Cor. odoratissima, pollicaris: tubus rectus ruber: faux croce coloris: limbus patens, intüs albo-roseus, extüs dimidiatim ruber et — Folliculi spithamei, fusci: sem. fusco-pallentia. Ruiz et Pavon oc. cit. This is the second species of this fine genus, for the intro- duction of which we are obliged to Mr. Lambert, by whom the sample for the drawing was kindly sent, from his col- lection at Boyton-house, where the plant flowered this summer. It was raised from seed from the West Indies; and requires to be kept in the hothouse. As far as we can judge from the figure of PLUMERIA tricolor in the Flora Peruviana, and the prototype sample received from M. Pavon, now included in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium, we should think our plant of that species. It is extremely difficult however to distinguish between cari- nata and tricolor of the above Flora, owing to the dilapi- dated state of the samples, as well as the pointless descrip- tions and indifferent figures. The flowers of both are de- Scribed of the same colour. The petioles of the leaves indeed seem throughout much longer in tricolor than in carinata; and it is this circumstance that has chiefly de- cided our opinion in regard to the present plant. VOL. VI, Z Tricolor is much cultivated in the gardens of Peru; and is described as follows, in the Flora Peruviana. A tree from thirty to forty feet high, full of milklike juice: stem upright, round, ash-coloured on the outside; branches forming a large round head, forked, crooked, brittle, fall of pith, thick, scarred where the foliage has fallen off. Leaves scattered, oblong, pointed at both ends, entire, flat at the edges, reticulately veined, with larger horizontal red side-veins which are scarcely imbowed: petioles furnished with two small connected g/ands on the inside of their base. Peduncles fluted, red, pubescent, umbellately cymose, manyflowered; pedicles in pairs, oneflowered, furnished at the base with an ovate concave caducous bractelet. Calyx reddish, 5-notched, furred. Corolla very fragrant, more than an inch in diameter: tube straight, red: faux saffron- coloured: limb spreading, white and rose-red within, seg- ments on the outside white and red by halves. Follicles (indehiscent seedvessels) a span long, brown: seeds pale brown. 4 We had no opportunity of inspecting the plant in a fresh state. = ti We received by the civility of Sir Abraham Hume a very fragrant PLUMERIA with yellow flowers, produced in the collection at Wormleybury; but the corollas had closed, and could not be brought to expand again so as to serve the purpose of our draughtsman. SL VER LI, e 5. 511 GRIFFINIA parviflora. Small-flowered Griffinia. A HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. NARCISSI. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. AMARYLLIDEX. Brown prod. 1.296. Sect. I. GRIFFINIA. Nobis suprà fol. verso 444. in notá. Spatha bivalvis umbellá polyanthà brevior. Cor. infundibuliformis, nutans; tubus brevis; limbus 6-partitus inzequalis bilabiato-campanulatus. Fil. summo tubo inserta, altern® longiora, unum assurgens, cetera declinata: anth. incumbentes. Germ. 3-loculare; ovulis 2 parallelo-erectis imo cujusque loculamenti angulo annexis. Stylus tinbriaio- Aioria: stig. simplex. Capsula pedunculata, membranacea: sem. subsolitaria, obovata, nitida, apice chalazà fuscà in- signita. Bulbus tunicatus. Flores scapum subcylindricum terminantes, violaceo et albo varii. Fol. 2-3, coriacea, petiolata, laminá oblongá costato-nervosá, reticulato-venosá. Differt AMARYLLIDE stamine wno ceterorum directione deflectente; ovulis parallelo-gemellis erectis fundo loculamentorum insitis ; foliis petiolatis, cum nervis pluribus longitudinalibus costato-prominentibus. Semina, secundùm observationes Dom. Brown, obovata, ventricosa, ni- tentia ochroleuca; umbilicus basilaris: apex chalazà fuscá insignitus; raphe tenuis, immersa; integumentum duplex, exterius membranaceum nitens, per lentem pulchre areolatum, ventre longitudinaliter incrassatum, presertim. in regione umbilici; membrana propria tenuissima, albumini adherens, separa- bilis tamen, evasculosa, basi chalaze inserta ceterúm libera: albumen semini conforme, dens? carnosum: embryo axilis, longitudine dimidii albuminis, cy- lindraceus; radicula umbilico approximata, apice exserto. Brown MSS. G. parviflora, foliis ovali-lanceolatis petiolo transversé ancipiti; umbella in- signiüs pedunculata; corolla laciniis uniformibus. Bulbus ovatus, ovum columbinum mole subequans. Folia GRIFFINIE hyacinthinz minora; petiolo transverse compresso. Scapus tereti-subcom- pressus. Spatha arida, reflexa, valvis lanceolatis. Cor. lilacino-pallescens, turbinato-rotata, $ uncie longitudine viz excedens: tubus germinis con- coloris isoperimetri continuus, multotiès brevior limbo: limbi lacinie 5 labium superius constituentes, altera porrectior inferius; omnes spathulato- lanceolate, 3 exteriores mucronate, 3 superiores coloratiores proximiores, summa media sublatior, laterales 2 inferiores divaricate, ima media reli- quis plurimùm minor, albicans. Stam. bis fere breviora limbo: fil. violaceo- albicantia, subulato-filiformia. Germ. ovali-oblongum, lucidum: stylus vio- laceo-pallescens, rectior, subulato-filiformis, strictus, triqueter, puncto stig- matoso nudo acuto terminatus. Sem. obovato-oblonga, lucida, melino et fusco varia, magnitudine Pisi grandiusculi. This genus, founded on AmaryLLIS hyacinthina, was pro- posed in a note at the end of the 444th article of our Re- gister. Since then the present species has been introduced Z from Bahia in the Brazils, by the gentleman whose liberal exertions in favour of Botany are intended to be commemo- rated by the generic name. It flowered last autumn in the hothouse at South Lambeth. The principal points by which Garerinia is distinguished from AMARYLLIS, are, the having one stamen which assumes a different direction from the other five; a germen in which every cell contains two upright parallel ovula affixed to its lower corner; and by the petioled prominently ribbed foliage. In a plant of Grirrinia hyacinthina, that flowered last summer at Mr. Griffin's, we were made to observe a thick brownish crenulated cartilaginous ridge or margin that ran along opposite sides of the scape, overlooked by us when we described the plant, and of which there is no appearance in G. parviflora. If this circumstance is constant, and we have been assured it is, it forms a curious specific mark. Bulb in -parviflora tunicated and about the size of a pigeon's egg. Leaves 2-3 much smaller than those in Aya- cinthina; petiole transversely compressed and two-edged; blade ovally lanceolate. Scape cylindrical, compressed. Spathe sphacelate, reflexed, valves lanceolate; umbel many- flowered, stalked. Corolla of a very pale violet colour, turbinately rotate, scarcely above 3 of an inch long: tube continuous with the germen and of the same diameter and colour, many times shorter than the limb: segments of the limb nearly uniform, 5 forming the upper lip, a single one the lower; the whole of them spatulately lanceolate, three outer ones tipped with a distinct point (mucronate), 3 upper ones deeper coloured and nearer to one another, the upper middlemost one rather the broadest, two lateral ones wider spread, the lowermost one of all much smaller and paler than any. Stamens almost twice shorter than the limb: filaments of a diluted violet colour, taperingly filiform. Germen ovally oblong, shining: style nearly the colour of the filaments, straighter than them, subulately filiform, 3- cornered stiff; stigma a simple smooth terminating point. We are to thank Mr. Brown for the description of the seed of this genus; the nature of which had been miscon- ceived until the present subject was submitted to the test of his accurate and skilful investigation. 4) iV. A Y VUI a SI 512 ARUM tenuifolium. Grass-leaved Italian Arum. -——. 9— MONCECIA POLYANDRIA. Nat. ord. ARoIDER. Jussieu gen. 23. Div. I. Spadix spath involutus. AROIDER (includentes tàm Typhas quàm Aroideas Jussieuii). Brown prod. 1. 333. Sect. I. Flores declines; Perianthio (Calyce) nullo. Aroidee vere. ARUM. Supra fol. 450. Div. Acaulia, foliis simplicibus. A. tenuifolium, acaule; foliis (tardioribus scapo) angasto-lanceolatis, spatha subrecurva, spadice longo vermiformi acuto declinato. Lamarck eneyc. 3. 10. n. 10, ‘ Arum tenuifolium. Lian. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2.1970. . Mill. dict. ed. 6. n. 5. ‘Willd. sp. pl. 4. 486. enum. 2. 086; (exöluso passim synon. Gron. orient. ad ARUM gramineum. Russell alepp. 9. 264. pertinente). Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 309. Arisarum angustifolium Omithogali lutei facie. Zobel adv. 260, 261. Arisarum angustifolium. Clws. hist, 2. 74. — . Folia tardiora flore, radicalia, angusta, lanceolata, graminis vel Scor- zonere pen? instar, glabra viridia 7-6-uncies longa, deorsùm subattenuata, basi equitantia. Caulis brevissimus vagin membrañaceó inclusus: spatha elongata, acuminata, recuroula: spadix longis, gracilis, vermiformis, acutus, rubens, extra spatham inclinatus. . loe. eit. (ex gall. vers. Native of Italy; and said to have been cultivated here in 1570; though we had never met with a plant of it till last summer, when an imported one, from Italy, flowered inthe greenhouse of Mr. Griffin at South Lambeth, where the drawing was made. . The species has been inserted in some of the Floras of France, as native of that country; but in the sixth Volume or Supplement of the Flore Frangoise by M. de Candolle, we are told it is not a plant of that country, and has been enumerated as such through mistake. . - "The Arum, generally adduced for this species from the “ Flora Orientalis" (a work compiled by Gronovius from the Herbarium collected in the Levant by Rauwolf) is very different from tenuifolium, and belongs to Arum gramineum of Dr. Russell's Natural History of Aleppo, as is proved by samples preserved in the Banksian Herbarium. In that the spathe is far broader and shorter, the spadix upright and clavate (not inclined and tapered), the leaves much narrower, and not produced after the flower has faded, but in perfec- tion at the same time with it; and is on this account we believe different also from the Arum gramineum of La- marck's Encyclopédie. We know of no certain figure of fenuifolium subsequent to the cut we have cited from Clusius's work. The following is from the French of M. de Lamarck : Leaves appearing later than the flower, all upon the root, lanceolate, very like those of Viper's Grass (Scorzonera), five or ten inches long, smooth, tapering a little downwards, striding at the base. Stem exceedingly short, enveloped in a membranous sheath. Spathe terminal, long, taper- pointed, slightly recurved. Spadiz (receptacle of the flowers and fruit) long, slender, vermiform, taper-pointed, red, bending forwards out of the spathe. The fruit, according to Clusius, white and only just raised out of the ground. i Tenuifolium, gramineum (Russell), and gramineum (Lam.) have all of them undivided grassy leaves, though variously modified in éach species, and are all in so far anomalies in the genus. 513 IXORA Bandhuca. Bushy Ixora. Bandhuca. — TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. RUBIACRE. Jussieu gen. 196. Div. VI. Fructus monocar- pus bilocularis dispermus. Stam.4. Folia opposita, caulis plerimque fru- escens, IXORA. Suprà vol, 2. fol. 100. I. Bandhuca, fruticosa; foliis ovalibus amplexicaulibus corymbis congestis : corolla laciniis ovatis obtusis, baceis calyce patente coronati. Roxb. lor. ind. 1. 386; (ex angl.), Bandhuce. (Sir William Jones in) asiat. res. ( Calcutta edit.) 4. 250. s. 13; a emo Ixora coccines Linn. que est grandiflora, suprà vol. . fol. 154.) . Frutex dumosus, ramis numerosis flexuosis. Fol, oblonga v. obovato- oblonga, obtusa acumine brevi nervis lateralibus Rorizontali divaricatis: ipulee utrinque bracteaque subulato-cuspidate cum api rubente lanu- ginoso; bractere summa angustiores calyci subtense trip breviores. Cymæ subfoliose conferte: subdivise, pedicellis unifloris brevissimis. Cal. parvulus, ovatus, obsolete lanuginosus, limbus erectus tubo subarctior triploque brevior - segmentis ovato-acuminatia coloratis. Cor. extüs lanugine minutissimá opa- cata, limbus plus duplo brevior tubo, lac. ovatis obtusulis ad latera baseos deflexis brevique unguiculatan simulintibus, Fil. colorata, exbrobusta, 8-plo raue breviora antheris -flavis lanceolatis mucrowatia atque basi utrinque g ulä obi productis. tigma exsertum, oblongum, bilobo-partitum. (Bacca calyce patenti-persistente coronata.) We owe the introduction of this fine species, as well as that of its congener grandiflora (published in the second Volume of this work, fol. 154), to Sir Abraham Hume. The plant, of which a sample was imparted to us, fiowered this summer (for the first time) in the hothouse at Worm- leybury, where it had been cultivated for at least six years. The following is the account of the species by Dr. Rox- burgh. “ A bushy shrub, uncommonly full of branches; native of Hindustan, the flower of which, according to Sir Wil- liam Jones, is often alluded to by the best poets of India. It is in bloom nearly the whole year, but principally during the rains; when it is highly ornamental.” * Stem none, but branches innumerable; these divide much and feather down to the ground, forming a large 4 hemispherical bush: bark of the older branches dark brown and rather rough, of the younger shoots smooth and green. Leaves opposite, stemclasping (or rather appearing so, for in fact they have a short upright close-pressed petiole, above which the base of the leaf is bent so as to form a slight simis that stands close to the branch, looking as if it surrounded or clasped part of one side of it), oblong, ob- tuse, with a small point, entire, firm, smooth on both sides: stipules interfoliaceous, annular, with a subulate process on each side. Corymbs terminal, crowded, repeatedly divided, divisions short, (pedicles very short). Flowers numerous, bright crimson-scarlet; or scarlet et first and afterwards crimson: bractes opposite, conic, acute. Calyx 4-toothed, coloured, permanent. Corolla: tube long (twice the length of the limb or more), slender; segments ovate, rather obtuse, spreading. Filaments short (red), inserted without the mouth of the tube, spreading: anthers linear (lanceolate adnate in- wards, thrice longer than filaments, mucronate). Germen 2-celled, one ovulum in each cell attached to the middle of the partition: style length of the tube; stigma (clavately con- tinuous, deep red, oblong) bifid. Berry spherical, as big as a large pea, smooth, fleshy, when ripe purple, 2-celled: seeds solitary, oval, convex on the outside, flat with a deep dint on the inside; coats two, outer nucamentaceous, inner membranous; albumen of the shape of the seed, cartilaginous, rudiment of the future plant erect, curved, nearly as long as the albumen: cotyledons uniform, cordate; radicle inferior, cylindrical, longer than the cotyledons.” * Differs from grandiflora (see vol. 1. fol. 154), in being a very full-branched spreading bush; while that is much thinner of branches and a tall arborescent shrub; in having apparently stemclasping obtuse leaves, while in that they are sessile and sharp-pointed, without any appearance of clasping the branches; in having ovate bluntish segments to the corolla, while in that they are ovately lanceolate and pointed; and lastly by the berry being crowned with an open permanent calyx, while in that the calyx is closed by the conically converging segments." 514 A 514 PYRUS salicifolia. Willow-leaved Pear-tree. —.9—- ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. , » Nat. ord. RosacEm. Jussieu gen. 334. Div. I. Germen simplex, in- ferum, polystylum. Pomum calycino limbo umbilicatum, multiloculare. Arbores aut frutices. POMACER. PYRU, Cal. 5-dentatus. — Petala subrotunda. Pomum clausum $-loculare, putamine cartilagineo. Loculi dispermi. Testa cartilaginen. __Arbores v. arbuscula ( Asia et America septentrionalis). * Folia simplicia v. composita serrata. Cymæ patentes,. terminales, multiflore. Bractex subulate, decidue. Petala subrotunda, patentia, v. erecta, tum concava, conniventia. Styli glabri v. basi langti, liberi v. partim coherentes, Lindley pomac. in trans. linn. soc. 18. 97. Div. I. Folia simplicia. P. salicifolia, foliis lineari-lanceolatis utrinque acytis suberenylatis pubes- centi-canis, floribus corymbosis. Marsch. à bieb. flor. taur. cauc. 1. 390. Pyrus salicifolia. Linn. suppl. 256. Pall. it. 3. 734. t. N. fig. 3. Pall, ross. 1. 20. 1.9. Hort. Kew. 2. 176. ed. 2. 3. 210. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1020. enum. 1. 527. Pyrus sylvestris orientalis, folio oblongo incano. Fournef. cor, 43. ` Arbor dumosa, orgyalis v. sesquiorgyalis, ramosissima, è radice sue- crescens, "Truncus raro diametro sesquipollicari crassior, cortice tenui extis cinereo-fuscescente subfissili, ligno albo uniformi durissimo ossee instar sub- stantie levigando, ami extremi rigidi recti epidermide levi fusco-testacea, canitie quasi obducta: antiquiores ramulis patentissimis spinescentibus folii- Seris veluti stimulis infesti; Juniores alternis obsiti turionibus seu apophysibus rugoso-verrucosis @ quorum apice Jolia et flores, queque in ramos crescere deinde pergunt. Fol. circa turiones quasi fasciculata, in spinescentibus ramis alterna sparsa, in petiolum attenuata, lata, rigidiuscula, plerümque integerrima, passim versus apicem subserrata, tomento lavi obducta, supra obscuriùs viridia, subtüs glauco-canescentia, simillima SALICIS incubacez, Stipul 0. Pomum apice apophyseos foliose sessilis, poene solitarium (haud rarò geminum) turbinatum subvillosum, basi cylindraceo-atienuatum, supra rotundum, calyce et staminum rigescentium filamentis circa umbilicum cavum coronatum; sem. luteo-testacea, ovata, acuta, binc plana. Pall. ross. loc. cit. On remodeliing the genera in a late treatise on the natural group Pomacee, Mr. Lindley has not, followed M. de Jussieu in detaching the genus Matus from Pyrus; observing that although the styles in Marus are united towards their base, yet that this circumstance is scarcely of even specific importance, since it occurs in Crarzavs VOL. YI. AA Oxyacantha, which has commonly separate styles, and is variable in CHANOMELES and AMELANCHIER Botryapium. The Willow-leaved Pear was introduced by Chevalier Pallas in 1780; and does well with us in the open ground. It has been observed wild in Persia, in Iberia, in the vi- cinity of Tiflis, on the plains of Mount Caucasus, in Siberia, on the banks of the Terek, and in the Levant. We have no figure of it in any of our popular publications. The fruit shown in our plate is of the full size; though it finally turns brown. The flesh is thin, granulated, and of a stony hardness. The tree is bushy and grows to the height -of from six to twelve feet, with a stem that seldom exceeds two inches in diameter, the wood of which is exceedingly hard, white, and close-grained, being said to polish nearly as well as ivory. The flowers grow many together in a corymb; but scarcely ever more than two, and generally only one, in each corymb, produce fruit even on the native tree, The author of the Flora Tanrico-caucasica distinguishes the species of this article from P. eleagrifolia of the same regions, by the narrower slightly undulated leaves with a thinner silvery fur, and by the same being sometimes glan- dularly, though faintly, crenate, as well as by a style longer than the stamens. The following is our english version of Mr. Lindley's restricted character of the genus: * Calyx 5-toothed. Petals nearly round. Fruit (Pome) closed at the top, 5-celled, with a cartilaginous shell or cell-case (putamen). Cells 2- seeded.. Seedcoat cartilaginous.” The genus is arranged under three divisions, and is composed at present of 24 certain and 3 doubtful species, to which, Mr. Lindley says, several undescribed ones from India, in the Banksian and Lambertian Herbariums, are to be added, as well as one from Mexico in Mr. Lambert's possession. ` Prrus, under this limitation, does not appear to have any recorded representative of the type, either in South America or in South Africa. 1927. Pa He Yr y CA il] faa Pa? Y yy Pido waa 170 Fi IY 515 CORREA alba. White Correa, or Botany-Bay Tea-tree. — OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Dios MER. Brown in append. (p Find, voy. 2. 545. CORREA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 3. te d . c. alba, foliis ovato-rotundatis in petiolum attenuatis; floribus solitariis plu- ribusve in cymam; corolla turbinato-reflexa: petalis discretis, margine inflexis. Correa alba. Andrews’s reposit. 18. Ventenat malm. 13. Desfont. in ann. du mus. 2. 32. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 324. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 349. Correa cotinifolia. Parad. lond. 100. (8) color intensiüs rubigineus; folia minora; flores solitarii v. gemini. Correa rufa. Labillardiere voy. à la réch. de la Pérouse. 2. app. 120. Ventenat loc. cit. Persoon syn. 1. 419. Mazeutoxeron rufum. Zabillardiere loc. cit. 2. 11. t. 17. Frutex dumosus, erectus, pube compositá, rufescente; rami parüm diver- gentes. Folia subuncialia, coriacea, patentia; juniora rubiginco-pubentia ; seniora prolapsis villis suprà glanduloso-puncticulata eomparentia, ob- scurè venosa, fusco-virentia, subtüs tomentoso-candicantia, petioli 2-3-line- ares. Pedunculi petiolis breviores, nunc bi-trichotomi, 3-5-flori; pedicelli breves sepiùs juxta florem bibracteati, Cal. cupulatus, repando-dentatus, brevi. Cor. semunciam exsuperans, albida, extüs tomentosa, intüs gla- brata, rugosa, erubescens; pet. soluta, ligulato-oblonga, acuta, canaliculata, Stam. erecto-patentia, corollam @quantia, alterno subbreviora: fil. è basi subclevatá sulcatá setacea: anth. incumbentes, antó anthesin sanguinea. Germ. hirsutum sulcis octonis impressum: stylus setaceus: stig. obsolete 4. Flores inodori, fundo nectarifero. Tae whole shrub, except the bloom, has a dusky ap- pearance, and when drawn through the hand diffuses a refreshing fragrance, resembling that of the Myrtle in bloon. It belongs to New South Wales, where the leaves have been often used by the colonists as a substitute for Tea; and Mr. Brown tells us, that he has prepared it so as to have been drank by some of his European guests for good Chinese Tea. The art is to adapt the infusion so as to prevent too great a degree of bitter. In this country it varies much in the size of the leaf, which we have seen from ialf an inch to one and a half long, and more than one broad. We have 'sometimes perceived on these what appeard to us an oily secretion, seemingly exsuded from AA minute glands on their upper surface. The compound hairs are far less conspicuous than in virens, and shorter. The Banksian Herbarium contains spontaneous speci- mens of the present plant; as well as of rufa of Labil- lardiere from Van Diemen's Land, which we have subjoined as a variety or subspecies; not being able to discover any other marks of distinction tban those we have stated in dis- tinguishing the variéty @. This species was introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1793; and has become very common in our greenhouses; being of easy culture, and quickly multiplied by cuttings. It blossoms in autumn and winter. The drawing was made in the Botanical Garden of Comtesse de Vandes at Bayswater, three or four years ago. Gabby I. Nudgway 170 Phe BES SEZ/ Ho 516 STRELITZIA parvifolia; ß. juncea. Rush-leaved Strelitzia. ——— PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Musz (MusacEm). Jussieu gen. 61. STRELITZIA. Spatha universalis terminalis, monophylla, canalicu- lata, acuminata, patenti-declinans, basin florum involvens. artiales lan- ceolate, floribus breviores. Perianthium nullum. Cor. irregularis: pet. 3, lanceolata, acuta: inferius naviculare; superiora obtusè carinata. Necta- rium triphyllum. — Foliola 2 inferiora petalis paulò breviora, è latá basi subu- lata, margine undulata, complicata, includentia genitalia, versüs apicem postice aucta appendice crasso, formå dimidia sagitte. Foliolum inferius reve, ovatum, compressum, carinatum. Fil 5, filiformia, receptaculo in- sidentia: 3 altero foliolo nectarii, 2 cum stylo altero foliolo inclusa. Anthi lineares, erecta, filamentis feré longiores, incluse. Germ. inferum, ob- longum, obtusè 3-gonum. Stylus filiformis, longitudine staminum: stig. 3, subulata, petalis altiora, erecta, initio florescentie conglutinata, Caps. sub- coriacea, oblonga, obtusa, obsolet? trigona, 3-locularis, 3-valvis: sem. nu- ınerosa, conceptaculo centrali duplici ordine adherentia. Solander in schreb. gen. pl. 3. 796. S. parvifolia, scapo longitudine petioli vicesies longioris folio lineari-lanceo- lato. Dryander in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 56. Strelitzia Regine ; y. parvifolia. Smith in Rees's eyclop. in loco. (B) juncea; petiolia sepids aphyllis. . In the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis we find six species of this splendid genus, characterized by the late excellent Mr. Dryander with his usual ingenuity and pre- cision. They are all natives of the Cape of Good Hope. Our plant will appear at once to differ from parvifolia, by the footstalks being without any leaf at all; yet they are said to be now and then furnished with one like that of parvifolia, even while cultivated in the collections of this country; where however the plant is very rare and scarcely ever seen in blossom. We have not separated it from parvi- Jolia, not being aware of any difference beyond what we have stated. The drawing was made in Sir Abraham Hume's hot- house at Wormleybury, in September last. The footstalks, we understand, were about three feet high, all without any leaf; the flower-stalk shorter than these. The plant seems to be included by Sir James Smith, with ovata, angustifolia, and parvifolia, in Regine; of which species he speaks as follows, in the place we have cited in the synonymy; * Sir Joseph Banks, for nearly 50 years indefatigable in enriching the gardens of this country, is recorded as having introduced this superb flower in 1773. Its habit resembles a Musa or Canna, except in the want of a stem. The leaves are smooth, rigid, and coriaceous, erect, on long, straight, stout nearly cylindrical, smooth, radical footstalks, sheathing at the base. The form of the leaf itself is usualy ovate, acute, entire; wavy or crisped at the base, especially on one side; furnished with a long widrib, which sends off several simple, oblique, parallel, transverse veins. Sheaths one or two, at the top of the cylindrical simple flower-stalk, nearly horizontal, thick and rigid, purplish and thin at the edges, acute, 4 or 5 inches long, each containing many flowers, which expand in suc- cession. The orange-coloured petals, 3 or 4 inches long, are strikingly contrasted with the blueish purple nectary, both together composing one of the most brilliantly coloured flowers in nature.” ** We presume to think that S. ovata of Hort. Kew. does not deserve to be marked even as a variety, nor do the figures quoted answer to the character. The angustifolia, recorded as having been cultivated by the Marquis of Rockingham in 1778, we can aver to be a mere variety of Regine. If we mistake not, it was given to the Marquis by Mr. Bamber Gascoyne. Of this we are certain, that offsets of the original root, in the stoves of the late Marchioness, where for many successive years we have observed them, gradually diminishing in the size and breadth of their leaves, became first S. angustifolia, and then parvifolia, of Hort. Kew. Similar varieties may indeed have been fresh imported from the Cape, but this does not prove their specific difference. In some specimens the leat dwindles to a point." Smith loc. cit. 4 eee Tab ly E Kugurag 170 Leicadilly Feb SLI, pla Haid KO. DL] MUSSAENDA frondosa. Burmann’s Mussenda. ——— PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Rusiace®. Jussieu gen. 196. Div. IV. Fructus monocar- pus bilocularis polyspermus. Stam. 5. Fol. opposita, caulis sæpè fru- tescens. MUSS/ENDA. Cal. 5-fidus laciniis linearibus. Cor. infundibuliformis, tubo longo vix suprà dilatato, limbo plano 5-partito. Anth. oblonge intra tubum subsessiles, non exserte. Caps. ovata membranacea, apice nuda aut coronata, 2-locularis polysperma, receptaculo seminifero elevato loculos : bipartiente; sem. ideo quadrifariàm disposita, numerosa minutissima. frutices plerique hirsuti: flores sep corymbosi, terminales, bracteati; corolla sepe extus hirsuta. Hie sola sistenda MUsSJENDA frondosa Lin. cujus insuper lacinia una calycina persistens ceteris deciduis, producta in folium amplum petiolatum caulinis conforme sed discolor et 5-7-nerve. Juss. loc. cit. 200. M. frondosa, ramis foliisque villosis, tubo corolla paulo longiore laciniis calycinis. Dryander in MSS. biblioth. banks. Musswnda frondosa. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 251. Vahl symb. 3. 37. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 997. Roxburgh MSS. Mussenda pubescens. Curtis's magaz. 2099; (non Dryandri Hort. Kew.) Musseenda zeylanica, flore rubro, tructü oblongo, folio ex florum thyrso pro- deunte albo. Burm. zeyl. 165. t. 16. Frutex altiusculus, villosissimus, ramis teretibus erectis canis remote foliosis. Fol. opposita, ovali-lanceolata acuminata, infrà densius villosa ; petiolo brevi hirsuto, stipulà herbaceá erectá hirsutá utrinque stipato. Cyma terminales, subtrichotome, foliolorum pare subtense: peduncuh vix longiores petiolis, teretes, villosi, pluriflori; pedicelli robusti brevissimi v. submullı uniflori: bractex stipulis similes, calyci appresse. Germ. subrotundum hirsutum, disco glanduloso glabro wmbilicato coronatum. Cal. marginis germinis continuus, campanulato-patens; foliola herbacea distincto-distantia, subulata hirsuta, vir duplo breviora tubo corolle, decidua, preter unum in lore uno cymularum aliquarum primariarum cujusque cyme in folium candi- dum petiolatum subviridi-nervosum villosum formá aliorum foliorum at majus et nervis 3-5 preditum procrescens. Cor. flava erecta extüs villosa ; faux paulo amplior tubo, intüs albo-barbata; limbi lacinie convexissime. Anthere lineares, fauce demerse. Upon referring to Hermann’s Herbarium, the source of Mussanpa frondosa, the samples representing it will be found to belong in reality to two species, the present, and that which has been proposed by Mr. Dryander in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis, under the name of pu- bescens, differing from the one before us in many essential points, and remarkably in having the tube of the corolla several times longer than the calyx, while in the plant be- fore us the corresponding part is little more than one third longer than the calycine leaflets. We have omitted the standing synonyms from the works of Van Rheede and Rumphius; the Belilla of the former from want of likeness in the figure to our plant, as well as from want of agreemeut with the description in the text; and the Folium Principisse of the latter, because it appears to be the Mussanpa glabra of Vahl (probably the same with corymbosa of Roxburgh MSS.). Burmann’s plant we have no doubt belongs to the same species as the subject of this article. Frondosa belongs to the Island of Ceylon, where Mus- SENDA, adopted by Linnaeus for the technical name of the genus, is the vernacular one of the species. It is said by ae Roxburgh to be also native of several other parts of ndia. . The large white greenish-nerved long-stalked permanent leaf into which a leaflet of the calyx of one of the flowers in each of the three or four primary divisions of every bunch is transformed, is so unusual a circumstance, and of such ex- traordinary appearance, that it cannot fail to attract the notice of the most unpractised observer of plants, and seems designed, like the wings of the fruit in the Ash, the Maple, the Lime, &c. to assist in the dissemination of the species. oim part is said by Dr. Roxburgh to be used at table in ndia. The drawing was taken from a plant which flowered last summer in Mr. Kent's hothouse at Clapton. We were also meee with a sample from Mrs. Evelyn of St. Clare, in ent. Three distinct species of Muss#npa are now known in our gardens; all tall slender shrubs, from the East Indies and China. The present is a largish densely pubescent shrub, with upright grey-furred branches. Leaves wide apart on the branches, opposite, ovally lanceolate, taper-pointed, with a thicker fur underneath; petiole short, shaggy, with an herbaceous upright shaggy stipule on each side. Cymes ter- minal, subtrichotomous, subtended by a pair of small leaf- lets: peduncles (main flowerstalks) scarcely longer than the petioles, round, villous, manyflowered; pedicles exceed- ingly short robust oneflowered: bractes similar to the sti- pules, pressed to the calyx. e PI AN i 518 ABROMA augusta. I Smooth-stalked Abroma. o - POLYADELPHIA DODECANDRIA. Nat. ord. MALVACER. Jussieu gen. 271. Div. V. Stamina basi in urceolum sessilem connata, sterilia fertilibus intermixta, definita aut rariüs indefinita. ABROMA. Cal. 5-partitus persistens. Pet. basi fornicata (nectarium Linn. suppl.) apice 10-fidum, laciniis 5 brevibus 3-fidis 3-antheriferis, 3-al- ternis sterilibus erectis linearibus apice recurvato-fornicatis. Styli 5 approxi- mati; stig. 5. Caps. oblonga truncata mucronata, 5-alata, 5-locularis, suprà dehiscens, polysperma; sem. numerosa (nigra scabra ovato-globosa ) receptaculis barbatis utrinque adharentia, incompletè arillatà. Frutex, flores (THEOBROME) axillares (rectiùs oppositifolii) ; fructus Hısıscı. Juss. l. c. 276. A. augusta, ramis tomentosis levibus, foliis adultis subtüs pube simplicis- sima, capsula alis apice truncatis: angulo exteriore acutiusculo. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 409. Abroma augusta. Linn. suppl. 341. Willd. sp. pl. 8. 1424. ‘Abroma augustum. Salisb. parad. lond. 102; absque icone. Abroma Wheleri. Retz. obs. bot. 5. 27. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1425. Abroma fastuosum. Jacq. hort. vindob. 3. 3. t. 1; (non aliorum ). Ambroma angulata. Lamarck encyc. 1. 126. Theobroma augusta. Linn. syst. nat. ed. 13. 233. J. Miller illustr. cum tab. Gossipium demonis. Rumph. amboin. 4. t. 14; (monente D. Roxburgh). — (Arborescens, subl2pedalis): caules plures, lignosi, medullosi, erecti, eylindracei, superné foliosi. Fol. alterna, magna, basi cordata, subpalmato- lobata, angulosa, remote dentata, mollia, virentia, subtus pubescentia, petiolis longis; inferiora angulis 5-7 profundis nervisque totidem primariis, superiora minora angulis sepiüs quinque supernis, ad basin bilobato-rotun- data. Panicule breves ramulorum, superiorum in axillis positorum caulisque terminales, floribus brunneo-purpurascentibus: bracteze 2 anguste acuminate ad basin pedunculi communis panicularum, alie 4 involucrorum instar ad bases divisionum. Lamarck loc. cit. (ex gallico versum.) PI Aroma was formerly included in the same genus with the Chocolate-Tree (TugoBRowA Cacao) ; but has been since detached, and we believe consists as yet of only two re- corded species, the subject of this article and fastuosum, the latter found in New South Wales and the Moluccas, and distinguished by the long prickly stalks and elongated taper-pointed angles of the summit of the capsule; in augus- tum the stalks are smooth and the top-corners of the capsule short-pointed. VOL. VI. B E The drawing was made two or three years ago from a plant in the hothouse of Sir Abraham Hume's garden at Wormleybury. A flower is shown in the figure, by Mr. Edwards, more widely expanded and rather more upright than we believe it ever becomes naturally, in order that the interior of the flower might come into view. But our plate is far too small a field to admit of giving any idea of the growth and appearance of this stately vegetable. The top- leaves (shown in the plate) are oblongly cordate nearly twice longer than broad, scarcely angular or scolloped, and have short stalks, the lower ones oblately cordate, nearly round in the circumference, cut into 5-7 pointed lobes, and have long stalks. The corolla is nodding, and the petals con- verge. We do not know why the generic title has been changed into AMBROMA by the Chevalier de Lamarck. Dr. Roxburgh takes the following notice of this species. * [t is found in various parts of India, growing to be a small * tree. Flowers most profusely during the rains, and ripens “ seed in the cold season. The bark abounds with strong * white fibres, which make a very good substitute for hemp; * and as the plant grows so quickly as to yield two, three, * or even four crops.of cuttings within the year fit for peel- “ing, &c. &c.; it may be advantageously cultivated (in “ India) for its fibres, which, though not so strong as hemp, * make a good common cordage." 519 HOMALIUM racemosum. Bunch-flowered Homalium. Acomas. — AA POLYANDRIA TRIGYNIA. Nat. ord. RosACEJE. Jussieu gen. 334. Div. VIII. Genera Rosaceis affinia. HomaLina. Brown's botany of Congo. 19. HOMALIUM. Cal. basi turbinatus semisuperus, limbo patens 6-7-par- titus, laciniis persistentibus. Pet. persistentia, 6-7, laciniis calycinis ma- jora. Glandule (nectaria Jacq.) 6-7, unguibus laciniarum calycis insidentes. Stam. plurima (18-24) perigyna, 3 aut 4 congenita ex basi cujusque petali : anth. subrotunde. Germ. semiinferum apice desinens in stylos 3-4; stig. 3-4, simplicia. Caps. semiinfera, limbo calycis petalisque patentissimis coriaceis cincta, 1-loc., apice 3-4-valvis aut non dehiscens, intüs polysperma; sem. pauca parietibus affixa. Arbores aut frutices; fol. alterna stipulacea; flores spicato-paniculati axillares, divisuris panicule bracteolatis, pedicellis medio articulatis. An Rhamnis affinius; an embryo absque albumine? Juss. l. c. 343. H. racemosum, folis serratis, racemis axillaribus terminalibusque, floribus pedunculatis. Swartz pons 86. Homalium racemosum. Jacq. amer. 170. t. 183; fig. 72. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1225. Richard in actes de la soc. d'hist. nat. de Paris 142. Swartz ff. ind. occid. 2. 989. r Acomas à grappes (Homalium racemosum). Lamarck encyc. 1.32. — Arbor 10-15 pedalis, s. arbuscula, s. frutex: rami patuli, subdivist, in- ermes, ramulis demum tenuissimis rigidiusculis. Fol. petiolata, 2 pollic., ob- longa, utrinque acuminata, obtuse serrata, nervosa, venosa, tenuiora, utrinque glabra: pet. breves glabri. Racemi axillares, rariùs terminales, solitarii, erecti, simplices, 3-5-pollic., sushi tele ; flores breviter pedicellati, alterni, YPERICI perforati; pedic. 1-flori. Cal. approximati, albidi, magnitudine ; : f l semisuperus, basi turbinatus, 6-7-partitus; lac. lineari-lanceolatis, patenti- bus, sesquilinearibus, villosiusculis. Pet. 6-7, fauci calycis inserta, laciniis calycinis alternantia et majora, ovato-oblonga, patentia, wtrinque subto- mentosa s. sericea, ez albido lutescentia: glandule 6-7, ad basin petalorum posite, subglobose, villosiuscule, albe. Fil. 18-21, inter singulam glandu- lam tria omnia distincta, basi petalorum calycisque inserta, filiformia : anth. subrotunde, sanguinee. Germ. medio calyce cinctum, supra faucem in formam conicam elevatum, hirsutum: styli 3, filiformes, longitudine stami- num, glabri; stig. simplicia. Caps. semiinfera, dura, ovato-acuminata, 1-loc., apice 3-valv., inferne 3 lineis elevatis villosis notata, polysperma Li m aliquot, fusca, parietibus affixa. Numerus partium variat. Swartz fl. ind. occ. l. c. The species was observed by Dr. Swartz, growing in meadows and at the sides of rivers, in the northern part of Jamaica, where it becomes a tree from 10 to 15 feet high. BB 2 The drawing was made at Mr. Kent's at Clapton; a plant having flowered in that gentleman's hothouse in Sep- tember last, and is probably the first ever introduced into this country. The genus had been consigned by M. de Jussieu to a group appended, as a division of doubtful affinity, to his Ro- sacee. A further research inte its structure, as well as that of some kindred genera, has suggested to Mr. Brown a dif- ferent notion of their position in the vegetable system ; and determined their combination into a separate order, to which HomaLium, as the main type, has communicated the technical denomination. We regret to find ourselves obliged, from want of room, to refrain from extracting the whole of the instructive re- marks that accompany the project and definition of this new order, and to eonfine ourselves to the passage which contains its character. “ The distinguishing characters (of the order Homa- line) are the segments of the perianthium (calyx and co- rolla of Jacquin and Swartz) disposed in a double series or an equal number of segments nearly in the same series; the want of petals; the stamina being definite and oppo- site to the inner series of the perianthium, or to the al- ternate segments where they are disposed apparently in a simple series; the unilocular germen (generally in some de- gree coherent with the calyx) having three parietal placenta (receptacles of the ovula), with 1, 2, or even an indefinite number of ovula; and the seeds having albumen, as inferred from a genus from Congo. The cohesion of the germen with the tube of the perianthium, though existing in various degrees in all the genera we have enumerated, is probably a character of only secondary importance in Homalina. For an unpublished genus found by Commerson in Mada- gascar, which in every respect agrees with this family, has germen superum. ‘This genus at the same time seems to establish a considerable affinity between Homaline and cer- tain genera, either absolutely belonging to Passifloree, especially Parorsta of M. du Petit Thouars, or nearly re- lated to them, as EnvrHRosPERMUM well described and figured by the same excellent botanist.” Browns botany of the Congo. 19. 420, CALL ly t rp. / > GCMs ay (JO = Ridge e | M. Hark. del, 520 SEDUM ceruleum. Barhary Stonecrop. a DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. SEMPERVIVE. Jussieu gen. 307. SEDUM. Supra vol. 2. fol. 142. Div. Teretifolia. S. ceruleum, foliis oblongis alternis obtusis basi solutis, cymà bifidà glabra. Vahl symb, 2. 51. Sedum ceruleum. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 766. Sedum azureum. Desfont. flor. atl. 1. 362. Sedum vermiculare pumilum glabrum, floribus parvis ceruleis. Shaw specimen. 46. n. 550. fig. 550. Caulis sepé procumbens, 3-4-uncialis teres lineolis rubris interruptis crebris pictus, nunc ramosissimus ramis adscendentibus. Flores parvuli, violaceo- pallentes, numerosi, paniculato-racemosi; racemi ramulorum terminales, in- fern? subfoliosi, pedicellis alternis unifloris filiformibus patentissimis sub- equantibus flores: bracteole caduca, membranacea, rubra, subulate, mì- nute. Fol. teretiuscula, subspathulato-oblonga, obtusa, lineolis rubris punc- tata, suprà versüs basin concava v. canaliculato-depressa. Cal. crassus, cupulatus, virens, punctis linearibus rubris aspersus, duplo brevior corollá, 7-fidus, persistens, segmentis obtusis. Petala 7, oblonga, obtusula, patentia, caduca, siccatione intense caerulescens: glandule crystalline, minime, ob- late, bilobo-emarginate, singula basi cujusque germinis inserta. — Pistilla 7, equalia corolle; germ. oblonga incurvescentia, dorso planiuscula inde in- trorsùm in aciem attenuata, primò albo-micantia, indè herbaceo-virentia atque lineolis rubris punctata, inferné intüs glanduloso-muricata, stylo albo con- tinuo setaceo-rostrata. Stam. corolle «qualia, patentia; fil. setiformia, alba: anth. atro-violacee, oblato-subrotunde, didyme, à dorso infixa. A diminutive species observed at different periods in the clefts of rocks on the Coast of Barbary by Messrs. Shaw, Vabl, and Desfontaines; perhaps the smallest in the genus, where it is remarkable for the pale violet-colour of the corolla, which turns, when dry, to a full bright blue. It is not recorded in the Hortus Kewensis; and has been probably now first introduced by Mr. Kent, in whose col- lection at Clapton it flowered last summer in the green- house. Stem sometimes lying along the ground, 3-4 inches long, round, smooth, in some cases very much branched, dotted with shortly broken thickset tile-red lines. Flowers numerous, small, paniculately racemose, racemes termi- nating the branchlets, sometimes partially leaved at the lower part, pedicles alternate, oneflowered, filiform, outspread, about equal to their flower: bractes membranous, minute, red, subulate, caducous and seldom found on the plant. Leaves subcylindrical, subspatulately oblong, obtuse, marked with red linear dots, hollowed or channelled on the inside near the base. Calyx cupular, 7-cleft, green with red linear dots, twice shorter than the corolla, persistent, segments obtuse. Petals 7, oblong, bluntish, spreading, caducous: glandule crystalline, very small, oblate, indented at the top with a deepish sinus, one at the base of every germen. Pistils 7, even with the corolla. Germens 7, slightly in- bowed, broad and flattish at the back, tapering inwards to an edge, at first white and glittering, at last of the substance and colour of the foliage, glandularly muri- cated at the base on the inside, beaked at the top by the white continuous style. Stamens 14, even with the corolla spreading; filaments setaceous, white; anthers dark-purple, twin, roundish. m" s Pale Leake lo Le placed at ME Cy A f Mhe = Ks: ppended Lo Volume IZ) A rie liput of Amanplbis Haba DUK EDER Komt ins — MG A e Guth Aambelh: y “foe Capsule Y Gua P Sep ee | fel GM with lwo Seeds wee Realy th ay YO Fira y Ab. EV. NOTES. Prunus japonica. Vol. 1. fol. 27. It is asserted, in a late fasciculus of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (fol. 2176), that the plant of the above article is the undoubted AMYGDALUS pumila of Linnaeus, and the stone of its fruit of the nature of that ascribed to AMYGDALUS as distinguished from PRunus, while it is suggested that our plant may not even belong to the species we have given it for. In regard to the nature of the fruit-stone, we have only to observe that we found it decidedly of the kind proposed as the distinguishing characteristic of PRUNUS, being granularly roughened, but neither pitted, punctured, nor scored as in AMYGDALUS. This state of the stone was also observed by Mr. Lindley. The fruit has moreover the long pliant stalk of PRUNUS, not the short rigid one of AMYGDALUS. If our plant is to be the AMYGDALUS pumila of Linnzus, it must be so in defiance of an important character attributed to that species in the description of it; namely, “ a sessile flower,” since in our plant the flower has a stalk sometimes litile less than an inch in length, and always longer than the flower itself. Linnaeus has also drawn a character for that species from the “ petals being longer than the tube of the calyx;" but in our plant there exists no proportion between those parts which can suggest such point of compa- rison. It is true that a figure is cited by Linnzeus from Plukenet for a synonym, where the flowers are really stalked, and which figure probably re- presents a variety of our plant. This we believe is the only circumstance that ever suggested the idea of the plant being the Linnean AMYGDALUS pumila. But then a species from Hermann is also cited as a correlative synonym; and his figure represents a plant with sessile flowers, and his description tells us, that the fruit is downy and like a small peach, while that of our plant is smooth and like a small plum or sloe. It is also true that a sample of our plant is to be found in the Banksian Herbarium inscribed AMYGDALUS pumila; but then it is not one of those which are marked as having been de- termined by collation with the Linnean Herbarium, and can only speak the opinion of the person who inscribed the name. If actually there, at the time the two Herbariums were collated, the want of that mark would in- deed go to prove that the identity of the two was not satisfactory even to the person who put the title on the sample. We lay little stress upon the plants of Linnaeus, Plukenet, and Hermann, being considered as African, though our plant is known to be Chinese, as that is a circumstance very liable to mistake. ; ; re it is possible that our plant may be the PRUNUS sinensts of Persoon; be- cause itis a true Prunus and from China; but that author could have no other foundation for believing it the AMYGDALUS pumila, than Plukenet's re. E to the objection to our plant being the PRUNUS Japonica, m Thunberg has described the leaves of that species as ‘ smooth if om E while in our plant they are wrinkled (rugosa); we shall only remarl n - term used is ** utrinque glabra,” and that in leaves of this nature T E yo en the epithet glabra so qualified can only apply to pubescence; and the leaves of lant h one. "Upon the bob Mid it appears to us that the following ipm may be added to the above article, although, excepting that from Hortus Kewensis, they are very questionable. _ Prunus inci. Pond syn. 2. 36? (vix tamen quoad s «dr PR x dd Amygdalus pumila. Hort, Kew. ed. 2. 3. 195; (fide Herb. Banks, ); tamen Linnei? NOTES. Amygdalo-Persica nana, flore carneo pleno, ‘africana. Pluk. phyt. t. 11. . 4? ou plant was certainly imported by the late Mr. Charles Greville from China. Rosa provincialis; B. (muscosa fl. simpl.) Vol. 1. fol. 53. This species is very reasonably supposed to be the Rosa centifolia of Linnzus by Mr. Lindley in a Monograph of the Roses; to which we shall refer. Ixora blanda. Vol. 2. fol. 100. In the first published volume of Roxburgh's Flora Indica, the species stands under the title IXORA alba: with the observation that it is a Chinese lant, and possibly a mere variety of IXORA stricta (the IXORA coccinea of ned Kewensis, but not of Linnzus, which is the IXORA grandiflora, vol. 2. fol. 152, of this Register). Ixora alba. Roxb. fl. ind. 1. 389. (non aliorum. ) Rosa provincialis; 8. (muscosa fl. albo). Vol. 2. fol. 102. The last observation but one applies equally to the subject of this article. Hedychium angustifolium. Vol. 2. fol. 151. The synonym of HEDYCHIUM coccineum, a Nepaul plant, belongs, we understand, to a species distinct from angustifolium, and should be ex- punged from the above article. Astragalus caryocarpus. Vol. 2. fol. 176. Since the above article was published, this species has appeared as follows. Astragalus carnosus. Nuttall gen. 2. 100; (non tamen Pursh amer. sept. 2. 740). It is said to grow on the plains of the Missouri, from the confluence of the river Platte to the mountains; and that the pods are about the size of or- dinary plums, and have a considerable resemblance, as to form, with those of ASTRAGALUS physodes. The plant described for it by Mr. Pursh was a species of SOPHORA, to which he has, by mistake, applied the fruit of ASTRAGALUS caryocarpus. Jasminum revolutum. Vol. 3. fol. 178. fin following synonym has appeared since the publication of the above article. Jasminum chrysanthemum. Roxb. flor. ind. 1. 98. The plant has been found in Nepaul by Dr. Buchanan, as well as by Colonel Hardwick in the place stated in our article. It is said to acquire, after seven or eight years’ growth in the botanic garden at Calcutta, a stem as thick as a man’s leg. Aerides paniculatum. Vol. 3. fol. 220. 7 This species has been lately included by Mr. Brown in his genus VANDA. NOTES. (See VANDA Roxburghii, fol. 506 of the present Volume). So that the above article should be now inscribed i VANDA paniculata. The germen is not twisted, nor the corolla reversed, as in Roxburghii. Mespilus japonica. Vol. 5. fol. 365. Since the publication of that article, the division of the natural order to which this species belongs, has been recast by Mr, Lindley, in a treatise on Pomacee in the 13th volume of the Linnean Transactions; where our plant ranks in a new genus, named and defined as follows; ERIOBOTRYA. Cal. lanatus, obtuse 5-dentatus. Pet. barbata. Stam. erecta, dentium longitudine. Styli 5, filiformes, inclusi, pilosi. Pomum —— 3-5-loculare. Chalaza nulla. Radicula inter bases cotyledonum inclusa. Arbores mediocres (Asie temperate et Peruvie). Ramuli tomentosi. Folia simplicia, serrata, infra lanata. Racemi compositi, terminales, la- nati. Bractea subulate, decidue. Lindley in trans. linn. soc. 13, 102. Eriobotrya japonica, foliis lanceolatis serratis. Id. loc. cit. Synonyma ut supra vol. 5. fol. 365; ubi addi potest ; Mespilus japonica. Jacq. fragm. 85. t. 136. f. 2. 1 ERIOBOTRYA consists at present of two certain and two doubtful species, the former from China and N epaul, the latter from Peru. For the knowledge of the true nature of the fruit Mr. Lindley desires that he may be considered indebted to Mr. Brown. : In MEsPILUS, as restricted by the definition in the above mentioned treatise, the top of the fruit ( Pomum) is open, not closed, as in ERIOBO- TRYA. Viburnum rugosum. Vol. 5. fol. 376. A The following synonym belongs to that species. Viburnum rigidum. Ventenat malm. t. 98; (excl. syn.) Jasminum undulatum. Supra 436. Dr. Roxburgh has added JASMINUM undulatum, as a probable synonym, to the single-flowered variety of JasminuM Sambac. Possibly he has in view a different plant from the undulatum of the above article, which is however the true Linnean NYCTANTHES undulata. He says his plant is one of the most common in every forest of the Coast of Coromandel. Our plant is native of China. Jasminum Sambac; var. a. (Which I (Dr. Roxburgh) suppose to be JAs- MINUM undulatum). Roxb. flor. ind. 1. 37. Tsjiregam Mulla. Rheede malab. 6. 97. t. 55. n d ‘ Of the single-flowered plant the Doctor mentions two varieties, a smaller and a larger one. If our plant is the same as either, and we doubt if it is, it must be the smaller. Begonia pauciflora. Supra fol. 471. È ; "Mr. eod tells s that this is not the species he intended by Br- GONIA patula; therefore that synonym, which has been added with a quere, should be finally rejected. VOL. VI. ec NOTES. Amaryllis laticoma. Fol. 497. Mr. Herbert has been so good as to inform us that this curious plant was brought over by Mr. Burchell from the Cape of Good Hope, where it was found in the country that lies behind the Snowy Mountains. He adds, that the following notice of it (which we now insert entire) should have been adverted to in our account of the species. * An NERINE lucida? Burchell. Species nondum herbariis inveni- * enda: foliis angustis nitidis persistentibus. I am inclined to think that * this will belong to the same genus as coranica and falcata. Herbert in * Curtis’s Magazine, fol. verso 2124.” Considering the nature of the above notice we cannot be expected ta take to ourselves any great degree of blame in not having discovered our plant through its means. We confess we do not agree in Mr. Herbert's proposed alterations in re- gard to the genus AMARYLLIS. We have however always thought that the species it contains of the European type, might perhaps be separated without inconvenience into a genus of which the strophiolated seeds would form an important characteristic. From a drawing we have lately seen of IRIS reticulata, we should judge it clearly distinct from tuberosa, to which it had been added in the Enumera- tion of the genus IRIS, in the Appendix to Volume V. GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO VOLUMES I. II. III. IV. V. AND VI. Folium. +518. - 896. 4871. ».. 98. .862. »861. -th Folumen. Abroma angusta. v, 6, Acacia alata. v. 5. Acacia decurrens; 8. x 5. . Acacia Houstoni. v. 2. . Acacia longifolia. v. 5. ... Acacia lophantha. v. 5. . Achania mollis; a. v. 1. . Acrostichum alcicorne. v. 8. Aerides paniculatum. v. 3. append. vol, 6, JEsculus discolor, v, 4. ... Albuca fastigiata, v. 4. Albucafugax. v. Alpinia calcarata. v. 2. .... „141. Alpinia malaccensis. v. 4.398; ef in append. ejusd. vol. — Amaryllis aulica. v. 6. 444; el fab in append. ejusd, vol. Amaryllis adstralasica. v.5. ....... .426. Amaryllis calyptrata, v. 2. 164; et in append. €jusd. vol. Amaryllis coranica. v. 2. Amaryllis crocata. v. 1. Amaryllis equestris; B. v. 3. Amaryllis flexuosa. v. 2. Amaryllis fulgida. v. 3. Amaryllis hyacinthina. v. 2. 163; et invol. 6. fol. 444 ad calcem fol. vers. Amaryllis laticoma. v. 6. 497 ; et in append. ejusd. vol. Amaryllis longifolia; y. v. 4. Amaryllis psittacina. v. 3. . Amaryllis reticulata; B. v. 5. ». 303. 4199. 352. Amaryllis rutila, v. 1. . 23. Amorpha fruticosa, v. 5. . ..427. Amsonia latifolia. v. 2. 151. Anchusa italica. v. 6. 483. Anemone palmata. v. 3. 200. Angelonia salicariafolia, v. 5. «+ 415. Anthocercis littorea. v. 3. 212. Arbutus Andrachne. v. 2. 113. Arctotis acaulis, v. 2. 122. Arctotis aspera. v. 1. 34. Arctotis aureola. v. 1. . 32. Arctotis maculata. v. 2. 180. Arctotis tricolor. v. 9. 181. Arum orixense. v. 6. 480. Arum tenuifolium. 512. Artabotrys odoratissimus. vd. 423. Asciepias curassavica, v. 1. 81. Asclepias incarnata. v. 3. 250. Asclepias tuberosa; a, v. 1 76. Aster Amellus. v. 4. 340. Aster grandiflorus. v. 4. . 973. Aster Nove Anglia, v. 3, .. +. 183, woe 226. Folium. 176; et in Volumen. Astragalus caryocarpus. v. 2. append. vol. 6. Azalea calendulacea ; a. v. 2. Azalea nitida, v. 5. «« 414. Azalea nudiflora; y. v. 9. . ...190. Barleria flava. Ju notis append. voluminis 4", Barleria mitis. v. 8. 191; et in notis append. vol, 4. Beaufortia decussata, v. lo ....... Begonia acuminata. v. 5. Begonia humilis. v. 4, .. Begonia pauciflora. v. 6. 471; ejusd. voluminis. Berberis sibirica. v. 6....... Bignonia grandifolia. v. 5. . Bignonia venusta. v. 3. Blandfordia no! v. 4. Borago orientalis. v. 4. Bossiza cinerea, v. 4. Bouvardia triphylla. v. 2. Bouvardia versicolor. v. 3. Brachysema latifolium. v. 2. . Bromelis nudicaulis. v. 3. Bromelia pallida. v. 4. ... Brunsfelsia undulata. v. 3, . Brunsvigia Josephine; B. v. 8. . Bryonia quinqueloba. v. 1 Burchellia capensis. v. 6, +2 145. 192, 193. . 82. Cacalia bicolor. v. 2. 110. Cacalia ovali: 2. 4101. Cactus Dille: vB. «255. Cactus gibbosus, v. 2. 137. Cactus repandus. v. 4. ^ 886. Cactus 'ciosissimus. v. 6. 485. Cactus speciosus. v. 4. + -304. Caldasia heterophylla. v. 92. Calendula chrysanthemifolia. v. 1, +. 40. Calendula graminifolia. v. 4. 289. Calendula Tragus; B. v. 1 . Callistachys lanceolata. v. 8. .. Callistemon rigidum. v. 5.. Calostemma luteum, v. 5. . Calostemma purpureum, v. $. Calotis cuneifolia, v. 6. Calotropis gigantea. v. Calycanthus fertilis. v. 5. Calycauthus lævigatus, v. 6. Calstrix glabra. v. 8. ..... Camellia axillaris. v. 4. Camellia j japonica ; t Camelli Camellia japonica; Jf. albo imp. v. vs Camellia Sasanqua, v. 1. - Campanula aurea; = v. 1. Campanula coronata. Y. 2...... sc2 GENERAL INDEX TO VOLS. I. 11. III. IV. V. AND VI. Folium. + 241. 236. Volumen. Campanula lactiflora. v. 3. + Campanula lilifolia. v. 3. Campanula pentagonia. v. 1. $6. Campanula sarmatica, v. S. 237. Canna gigantea. v. 3. ... 206. Canna Lamberti. v. 6. . + - 470. Carica Papaya; fem. v. 6. ss.. 459. Carthamus tinctorius, v, 2. 170, Cassia ligustrina. v. 2. 109. Cassia occidentalis. v. 1 83. Ceanothus azureus. v. 4. 291. Celsia sublanata, v. 6. +. 438. Cerbera fruticosa, v. 5. + 891. Cheivanthus Cheiri; 219. Chelone barbata, v. 2. esses 116. Chelone obliqua. v. 2. » 178. Chimonanthus fragrans; 8. v. 6. Chironia jasminoides, v. 3. Chrysantbemum indicum ; Chrysanthemum indicum; Cistus purpureus. v. 5. Cistus vaginatus. v. 3. Citrus nobilis; B. v, 3. Citrus Aurantium; y. v. 4. . Clematis aristata. v. 3. Clematis brachiata, v. 2. .... Clerodendron paniculatum., v. $. Clitoria Plumieri. v. 4. Combretum purpureum. v. Convolvulus chinensis. v. 4. Convolvulus elongatus. v. 6. . Convolvulus involucratus, v. 4. Convolvulus pannifolius. v. 8. . Convolvulus pentanthus. v. 6. ... Convolvulus siculus. v. 6. . Convolvulus suffruticosus. v. 2. Coreopsis incisa, v. 1. . Cornea alba, v. 6, 515. Correa speciosa. v. 1. . + 96. Correa virens, v. 1. . s. Crassula versicolor. v. 4. " Crinum bracteatum. v. 3. Crinum cruentam. v. 2. ... . Crinum pedunculatum. v. 1. . . 52. Crossandra undulefolia. 69. Crotalaria incana. v. 5. . 877. Crotalaria purpurea. v. 2. . +» 128, Crotalaria retusa, v. 3, Crotalaria vitellina. v. 6, Cryptarrhena lunata, v. 9. . Cryptostegia grandiflora. v. 5. Cullumia ciliaris. v. 5. . Cuphea procumbens. v. 3. Curculigo plicata. v. 4. ... Cynanchum pilosum. v. 2,. Cyrtantbus coilinus. v, 2. . Cyrtanthus odorus. v. €, . 2 B45, “Hl. +162, Cyrtanthus spiralis. v. 9. 167. Cyrtantbus uniflorus, v. 9. . 168. Cytisus biflorus, v. 4. .............308. Cytisus proliferas. v. 2. Dahlia superfua; e. v. 1. Delphinium cheilanthum. v. 6. Delphinium cuneatum., v. 4. . Delphinium grandifiorum ; f. v. 6. Dianthus erenatus, v. 9. Digitalis ambigua, v. 1. ... Volumen, Digitalis canariensis. v. 1. ... Digitalis lutea. v. 3. ... Digitalis parviflora, v. 3. . Diosma ciliata, v. 5. Diosma dieica; mas. v. 6. Diosma hirta, v. 5. ... Diosma lanceolata. v. 6, Diospyros Embryopteris. v. 6. Direa palustris, v. 4. Disa bracteata, v. 4. + Disa prasinata, v. 3. . Donia giutinosa, Y. 8. append. ejusd, vol. Duranta Piumieri. v.'8. Echinops paniculatus. v. 5. Folium. reso. 4B. 251. 257. ». 366. + 502. 369. 476. 499. 292. 824. «= 210. 187; et in motis 244. 856. Echium candicans. v. 1. 44. Echium fraticosum. v.1.. 36. Echium grandiflorum. y, 2. 124. Elichrgsum proliferum. vY. 1. . Epidendrum fuscatum. v. 1 Epidendrum nutans, v, 1. . Epidendrum umbellatum, v. 1. Epigea repens. v. 3. Erica ardens. v. 2. Erica filamentosa, v. 1. Erica tumida, v.1. . Erigeron glaucum. v. 1. Eriobotrya japonica. Jn notis appendicis vo- luminis 6, Eryngium aquaticum. v. 5. Erysimum diffusum. v. 5 Erythrina carnea. v. 5. . Erythrina crista galli. v. 4. Euchilus obcordatus. v. $. Eucrosia bicolor. v. 3. . Euphorbia punicea. v. 3. . Euphorbia rigida. v. 4. ,. Evolvulus latifolius, v. 5. Fragaria indica, v. 1. Fomaria aurea. v. 1. Fumaria exi v. d. Fumaria nobilis. v. 5. . Galactia pendula. y. 4. .. Galega orientalis. v. 4. Gardenia florida; a. v. 6. Gardenia radicans, v. 1.... Gastrolobiam bilobum. v. 5. Gazania paronia, v. 1. Genista canariensis, v. 3. Gesveria aggregata, v. 4... Gesneria bulbosa. v. 4. .. Gesneria prasinata, v. $. Gladiolus edulis, v. 2. . Gloriosa superba. v. 1 Gloxinis speciosa. v. 3. Glycine bituminosa., v. 3. . Glycine caribea. v. 4. m Glycine comptoniana. v. 4. ser. Gnaphalium apiculatum. v. 8. Gnapbalium congestum. v. 3. . Gnidia oppositifolia. v, 1.....+ 2. Gnidia pinifolia; æ, v. 1. + 19. Gompholobium grandiflorum. v. 6.....484. Gonolobus diadematus, v. 3. Goodyera discolor. v. 4. .. Gossypium barbadense. v. t, Grevillea buxifolia. v. 6. .... GENERAL INDEX TO VOLS. I. IT. Til. IV. V. AND VI. Volumen, Folium. Grifinia hyseintbios, v, 6. in motá fol. vere, 444. Grifinia parviflora. v, 6. 811: et tab, in append. ejusd, vol. Grindelia glutinosa. In motis appendicis voluminis 3. Grindelia inuloides. v. 9. Grislea tomentosa, v. 1. Habenaria fimbriata. v. 5. Hemanthus carneus. v. 6. . Hemanthus coarctatus, v. 8. Hemanthus pubescens. v. 5. . Haken microcarpa, v. 6. ... Hedychium ange stifolium. v. %. 157; et in vel. 6, Hedysarum latifolium. v. 5. ...-....,855. Heliconia Bihai. v. 5. 374; ef in notá pe nultimi append, ejusd, vol. Helianthus atrorubens. y. €. Hepatica americana, vb. v. 4 vba Hibiscus heterophyllus. v. 1, . Hibiscus pedunculatus. v. 3. Hibiscus phreniceus. v. Hibiscus Rosa malabarica. Hibiscus tiliaceus, v. a... Homalium racemosum, v. 6. . Hovea Celsi. v. 4. + Hores linearis. v. 6. Horenis acerba. v. 6. . Hyacinthus amethystini Hydrophyllum canadense. Y. &. os... 949. Hydrophyllum virginicum. v. 4. ....89t. Hyoscyamus canariensis. Y. 8. 180; ef in notis appendicis ejusdem volum. Hypericum egypticum. v. 3. .... "+ 248. 80. +» 508. 887. 182. 38). Hypoxis obtusa. v.g... 159. Indigofera amosna. v. 4. + 800. Indigofera australis. 886. Indigofera filifolia, Jn notis appendicis vo- luminis 8. Inga purpurea. v.2.... Inula glandulosa. v. 4.. Zponea bona nox; B; purpurascens. v. 4.290; et in notis appendicis vol. 4. Ipomaa cerulea. v. 4. Ipomoea chryseides. v. Ipomea denticulata. v. 4. Ipomoea hederacea. v. 1. Jpomeea Jalapa; a. v. 4. 342; et oppend. ejusd, voluminis. Spomeea insignis. v. 1.. + 75. Ipomæa maritima, v. 4. . 319. Ipomoea muricata. Jn notis appendicis volu- - minis 4, Iporacea mutabilis, v. 1ooee eere 39 Tpomea obscura. v. 3. 239; et append. vol, 4. Ipomaa panicnlata, v. 1. . Tpomera platensis, v. 4. Ipomoea sagittifolia. v. €. Ipomea sanguinea, v. 1. . Jpomoza setosa. v. 4. ... Ipomcea tuberculata. v. 1. 86; ef in append. volum. de Ipomora Turpethum. v. 4. ........- 279 Volumen. Folium. Iris dichotoma. v. 3. 348; et in append. vol. 4. Ixora Bandhuca. v. 6. +518, Ixora blanda, v. 2. 100; et in append. vol. 8. Ixora grandiflora. v. 2... «154. Jasione perennis. v. 6. .. Jasminum auriculatum. v. 4. . Jasminum azoricum. v. 1. . Jasminum grandiflorum, v. 2, . Jasminum birsutum, v. Jasminum bumile. y, 5. Jasminum rerolutam. v. 8. vol. 6. Jasminum Sambac. v. 1, ....100000. d. Jasminum undulatum, v. 6. 436; ef in op- 178; pendice ejusd. vol. Justicia eustachiana. v. 4. +809. Kempferia pandurata, " 178. Kaulfussia amelloides. v. 6. . +490. Kelreuteris paniculata, v. 4. . 880. Lachenalia pallida; s. v. 4. . 814. Lachenalia pallida; f. v. 4. ... ++ $87. Lebeckia contaminata, v. 2. 104; et in notis icis voluminis 3, Leonotis nepetifolia. v. 4. ‚281. Leucadendron corymbosum. v. $. ..... 402. Liatris elegans. v. 4... 967. Lilium pumilum. v. 2. Limodorum falcatum. v. de ... Liparia hirsuta. v. l. ... Lobelia fulgens, v. 2. ... ‘Lobelia splendens. v. 1. . Lomatia longifolia. v. 6. Lonicera dioica; B. v. 2. Lonicera japonica. v. 1. . Lonicera tatarion. v. 1. Lupinus mexicanus. v. 6. Lychais fulgens. v. 6. - Lycium afrum., v. 5. . Magnolia cordata. v. 4. . Magnolia pyramidata. v. Mahernis grandifiera. v. 3. Malachra fasciata, v. 6... Malpighia fucata. v. 3. ... Malpighia urens. v. 2. Malva calycina. v. 4. Malva capensis. v. 4. Malva fragrans. v. 4 Maranta zebrina. v. 5. Marica gladiata. v. 3. m Marsdenia suaveolens, v. 6. .. Melaleuca fulgens. v. 2. ... Melaleuca incana. v. 5. Melaleuca squamea, v, 6. .. Melastoma levigata. v. 5. Melianthus major. v. 1. . Mesembryanthemum capitatum., Mesembryanthemum elongatum. Mesembryanthemum maximum. Mesembryanthemum tigrinum. v. 3. . . 260, Mespilus japonica. v. 5. YES; et in append, voluminis 6. Mimosa sensitiva. v. 1 Mitella diphylla. v. Modecca lobsta; war. v. 5. Monarda punctata. v. I Morea lurida. v. 4. ... GENERAL INDEX TO VOLS. Volumen, Folium, Murraya exotica. Y. 5, reece eee 484. Muscari ciliatum. v. 5. ++. 894. Mussenda frondosa. v. 6. (eO 917. Narcissus montanus. v. 2... 123. Nerium odorum; 8. 74. Nyctanthes Arbor trist 22.399. «Enothera odorata. . e MT. Ophrys Speculum. v. 5. 100011370. Ophrys tenthredinifera. <.. 805. Orchis longibracteata, Y. 5. .........857. Orchis longicornu, v. 3 ++, 202, Orchis tephrosantbes; B. v. 5. s.. 875. Orchis variegata. v. 5. . fere 867. Ornithogalum niveum. 8. +. 285. , Ornithogalum prasinum. v. 2. ....... 158. Ornithogalum revolutum. v. 4. .....815. Ornithogalum thyrsoides; æ. v. 4. ...816. Ornitbogalum thyrsoides; A. v. 4. ...805. Othonna abrotanifolia, v. 9. . 108. Othonna cheirifolia. v. 4. . 266. Oxalis flava. v. 2. ... 117. Oxylobium arborescens. v. 5. 392. Pachysandra procumbens. v. i. 88. Paonia albiflora; 8, v. 1. .... 42. Peonia albiflora; s v. 6. ++ 485. Paonia mollis, v. 6. ......1.0.00000474. Peonia Moutan; o. v. 5. 379. Pancratium angustum. v. 3. ... 221. Pancratium calathinum. v. 3. .. 215. Pancratiam canariense, v. 2, 174. Pancratium guianense. v. 4, 265. Pancratium maritimum, v. 2. 161. Pancratium ovatum. v. 1. 43. Pancratium verecundum, v. 5. 418. Pancratium zeylanicum. v. 6. 479. Paparer floribundum. v. 2. 184. Passiflora adiantifolia. v. 8. . »... 288. Passifiora angustifolia. v, 3. ......... 3188. Passiflora cerulea, v. 6. .. 488. Passiflora foetida. v. 4, + . 821. Passiflora glauca, Vel. ...... 88. Passiflora holosericea, v. 1...... $9. Passiflora incarnata; a. v. 4. .. 232. Passiflora incarnata; B. edulis, v. 2. 152; el in append. ejusd. vol, et quoque vol. 6. Passiflora laurifolia, v.1. ........ 13. Passiflora lutea, v. 1. ... TT 79. Passiflora maliformis. y. 2. 94. Passiflora minima, v.2. . Passiflora peltata. v. 6. Passiflora perfoliata. v. 1. Passiflora quadrangularis. v. 1. Passiflora racemosa. v. 4. Passiflora rubra. v. 2. .... Passiflora tuberosa. v. 5... Patersonia glabrata. v. 1. . Pavetta indica. v. 3. . Pavonia spinifex. y. 4. Penza squamosa. v. 2. . Pergularia odoratissima. v. 5. Phaseolus Caracalla. v. 4. Phlox suffruticosa. v. 1. Photinia arbutifolia, v. 6. . Pinguicula lutea. v.2. . Pittosporum revolutum. v. 3. Pittosporum undulatum. v. 1. Plumbago capensis, v. 5, ... te ALT, T. 18. DE IV. V. AND VI. Volumen, Plumeria acuminata. v. 2. Plumeria bicolor. v. 6. . Plumeria tricolor. v. 6. . Pogonia ophioglossoides. v. 2. Polemonium mexicanum. v. 6. Polianthes tuberosa. v. 1... Polygala speciosa, v.2........ Polygonum frutescens. v. 8. .. Prostanthera lasianthos, v. 2. Protea acerosa. v. 5. . Protea longifolia. v. 1. . Protea neriifolia., v. 8. . Protea pulchelia, v. 1. . Prunus japonica, v. 1. 97; et fn append. voluminis 6. Prunus prostrata. v. 2.... Psoralea melilotoides, v. 6, . Psoralea Onobrychis. v, 6. +++ Psoralea pedunculata. v. 8. .. Pulmonaria paniculata; a. v. 2. Pultenza retusa, v. 5.00005 Pyretbrum foeniculaceum. v. 4. + Pyrus salicifolia. v. 6. . Quisqualis indica. v. 6. . Raphiolepis indica. v. 6. Reseda odorata; B. v. 8. Rhezxia holosericeg.. v. 4. .. Rhododendron dauricum ; B. v. 3. Rhododendron hybridum. v. 3. . . 195. Rhododendron punctatum; B. v. 1. .... 37. Ribes aureum.. v, 2. ... 20000101285. Ricotia egyptiaca. v. 1. une 49. Rosa alpina. v. 5. . ARA. Rosa Banksia. v. 5. severe 000397. Rosa centifolia; B. (muscosa flore albo pleno). In notis appendicis voluminis 6. Rosa centifolia; B. (muscosa fore simplici). In notis appendieis voluminis 6. Rosa ferox. v. 5. .... Rosa fraxivifolia, v. 6. Rosa gallica; a. v. 6. .. Rosa kamchatica, v. 5. . Rosa multiflora. v. 5. .... «425. Rosa parvifolia, v. 6-........ «452. Rosa provincialis; B. (muscosa flore. albo pleno.) v. 2. 102; et in appendice volu- minis 6. Rosa provincialis; B. (muscosa fore simplici.) v. 1. 83; ef £n appendice voluminis 6. Rosa rubrifolia. v. 5. ++ .0............480 Rosa sempervirans. v. 6. «465. Rosa spinosissima; reversa. v. 5. 431. Rosa sulphurea. v. 1.... 46. Royena pubescens, v. 6. . ++. $00. Rubus redexus, v. 6. ...... +++ 461. Rubus parvifolius. v. 6. eres 496. Ruta pinnata. v. 4. .. weer B07. Salvia amarissima. v. 4. . Salvia amoena. v. 6. Salvia hispanica. v. 5. Satyrium cucullatum. v. 8. .. Sanseviera zeylanica. v. 2. ... Sedum caeruleum, v. 6. .... Sedum ternatum. v. 2. Selago fasciculata, v.3...... Selloa glutinosa. v. 6. ...... Semperrivum arboreum. v. 2. Folium, ...... 136, +454. „458, . 228. oe. 146. 1378. . 272, «514. «492. +468. 4227. «323. ++ 194. .420. $58. eco cs AAB. „419. one 959. 416. 160. 520. 142. 184» ++ 462. 99. GENERAL INDEX TO VOLS. 1. 11. Ilf. IV, V. AND VI. Volumen. Folium. Volumen, Folium. Sempervivum glutinosum. v. 4. .278. || Trachelium ceruleum. v. 1. Senecio speciosus. v. 1. « | Tradescantia fuscata. v. 6. . Sida grandifolia. v. 5. . - || Trapa natans. v. 3, 259; ef in append. nad. Silene pensylvanica. v. 3. 947; et append. rol. ejusd. vol. ¿| "Tritonia refracta, v. 2. rese. 185. Solanum amazonium. v. 1. 71; e? in append, | Tulipa cornuta. v. 2. . BU vol. 2. | Tulipa gesneriana. v, S. 380. Solanum decurrens. v. 8. ..... ++140. | Tulipa oculus solis. v. 3. 204. + 156. 400. 302. «+2177. | Uropetalon glaucum. v. 2 +258. | Vaccinium amoenum. v. 5. -968. ‘| Vaccinium fuscatum. v. 4. .848. | Valeriana Cornucopie. v. 2 158. «218. | Vanda Roxburghii. v. 6. «506. „441. | Vanda paniculata, In notis append. vol. 6. +185. | Vella Psendo-Cytisus, v. 4. "293. + 93. | Verbena Aubletia, v. ++ 294, +516. | Vestia lycioides, v. 4. 299; ef notis appendice «+469. voluminis 5, «440. | Viburnum odoratissimum. v. 6. ...... 456. . 90. | Viburnum rugosum. v.5. 376; el in ap- « 24. pendice voluminis 6. .988. | Vinca herbacea. v. 4. Solanum fontanesianum. v, 2. . Sparaxis grandiflora. v. 3. Spartium ferox. v. 5. Spermadictyon suaveolens, v. 4. Stenanthera pinifolia. v. 3. Stenocarpus salignus. v. 6, Sterculia Balanghas. v. 3; .. Stevia Eupatoria, v. 2, Strelitzia parviflora; juncea, v. 6. . Strophanthus dichotomus. v. 6. Strumaria filifolia. v. 6. . Stylidium graminifolium, y vl. Styphelia longifolia, v. Tabernemontana amygdalifolia. v. 4. »» $801. Teedia lucida. v. 3... ...... 209. | Viola altaica. v. 1. . 54. Teedia pubescens. v. 3. ++++214. | Viola pubescens; 8. v. 5. 890. "Templetonia retusa. v. 5. . 888. | Webera corymbosa. v. 2. . 119. 5. + 495. Witsenía maura, v. 1. . «+105. | Xylophylla falcata. v. 5. »- 464. . Thunbergia grandifidra. v. 6. Tillandsia xiphioides. v. 9. ... Tournefortia fruticosa. v. 6. .. References to Enumerations of the species of particular Genera in the present work. UnmorETALON.' Vol, 2, verso fol. 156. Bnuwsviora. Vol. 3.199, 193, folio ultimo verso. Marica, Vol. 3. fol. 229, secundo verso. ‘Tarronia. In appendice voluminis 3. Sparaxis. Jn eod. foco. Morza. In appendice voluminis 4. Ims, {n appendice voluminis 5. SrRUMARIA. Ad calcem fol. 440, versi. END OF VOL. VI. u pre peal S. Gosnell, Printer, Lite Queen Stree, London. A A ———Á