THE ie a3 BOTANICAL REGISTER: CONSISTING OF Coloured Figures or EXOTIC PLANTS, BRITISH GARDENS; . HISTORY AND MODE OF TREATMENT. — Ü€e-— THE DESIGNS BY VOL. IX. Q ' viret semper ——nec fronde caduch Carpitur. - MISSOURI '_ BOTANICAL . . GARDEN. PRINTED FOR JAMES RIDGWAY, PICCADILLY. 1823. ——— M Ŵ ., Printed by S. Gosnell, Little Queen Street, London. À ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO VOL. IX. Acacia vestita ,,..... Agapanthus umbellatus; y. . Allium Cowani...,.....,.. Alpinia tubulsta .......... Alstrosmeria Flos Martini .... Amaryllis Belladonna; B, pa/li Amaryllis candida Amaryllis maranen Arctopus echinatus ...... Arthropodium cirrhatum . Astelma frnticans Berberis pinnata . . Biguonia equinoctialis ; B. Chamberlayni 741. Brochystelma taberosum ... Calceolaria integrifolia ..... Camellia japonica: inteo-albicans Canna edulis Canna indica . esse T76. .. 778. sence TTL +. 778. Canna occidentalis Cassinia aurea. Dianella Tongifolia m Dianells strumosa ....... Dracontium polyphyllum . Edwardsia chrysophylia Erinus Lychnidea ... Erythrina caffra. . Pe 781. =... 700. . Jasminum paniculetum Folium. Galega grandiflora .... eee eee 769. Gardenia amana....,..............735. Gnidia denudata, 757; et in append. hujus vol. Gnidia imbricata, In append. Aujue vol. -Heüychium heteromallum Holmskioldia sanguinea ‘Ipomoea tuberosa Isochilus linearis Jatropha gossypifolin Lobelia campanuloides . Lonicera flexuosa ... Manettia coccines .. » Marica cernlea ... Massonia longifolia; B. « Musa roeaces. Narcissus Sabini vo. 162, Nemophila phacelioides . Neottia orchioides . Ocymum febrifagam €Enothera acaulis . Oncidium luridum m Pancratium australasicam 00 715. Passiflora herbertians . 787. Phaseolus semierectus . one 748, Phylica capitata ...... Pleurotballie punctata. .... 787. Fiber Tabernemontana laurifolia . Tillandsia flexnoea : pallida Tritonia flava ....... ERRATA. Fol.708: 1. 16. pro “ Rost,” lege € Barb," . Fol. 711. p. 1.. lines a «aloe pagine 11. pro subattennasur cano-viriicens" lege “ subai . mato, cana-virescenté;" Fol. 711. p. l. linea a calce 3. pro “ immerso" lege * ipimeraum." Fol. 714. p. 1. linea a calce pog: 15. pro ** foribus olim tarchora’” lege “ foribus diu tardiora” Fol 720. 1, 4. pro“ MONDGYNIA" lege * MONANDRIA.” Fol, 720. À. .8. pro“ infra” lege Fol. 720. 1.10. Tele verba: ud ne ‚erplanatunl? > ` Fol. 720, L 26. pro “é craeei? striatum” pone “ incrassatum,’ efriatum." Fol, 720. L 5. a pede pag.: pro “ referens” Íegy * referente.” Fol. 721. L 13. a pede pag.. pro ** hermáplitoditi” lege“ eric” Fol. 722, 1.22. pro ^ cumcto™ lege“ cunet.” Fol. 729. 1. 23. dele verbum “ meii" Fol:747. p. 2. 1.4 pede. de prO it aecurigera " lege“ securiger.” Fol. 766. L 9. pros ^^ lege s Fol..768. 1. 93. a calco pag. pro "€ intim" lege “é in ación!” Bab ty SGA OY. y "i ees é da a HIP (JO S rca uy y Ih sedi. / £P99 » Halt. Mo e 690 JASMINUM paniculatum. Small-flowered China Jasmine. age DIANDRIA MONOGYNLA. Nat. ord. JASMINER. Jussieu gen. 104. Div. II. Brown prod. 1. 620. JASMINUM. Supra vol. 1. Jor. 1 Dio. Foliis ternatis. J. paniculatum, fruticosum, erectum, undique leve; foliis (coriaecis) te ter- natis; foliolis ovalibus, obtus? acuminatis; paniculis terminalibus; ex NIA Roxburgh ind. 1.97; (ex l vers.) Sam-yeip-son-hing. Bie (fide Rozb. l.c.) T Frutex erectus, glaber; rami striéti teretes foliaque subtüs atomis callosis nigris crebrà punctata. Fol. pallidiàs virentia, coriacea, ternata (rard fo liorum lateralium abortú simplicia), decussato-distantia, divaricata, enervia, iolata: foliola ovali-oblonga, acuminata, biuncialia latitudine 3 uncia vel circitir, petiolulata, Panicule terminales, laxe, multiflore, brachiate, di- varicate, infern foliose, unculis ¿mis trifloris axique communi angu- losis, pedicellis pee ce viz longioribus: bractez subulate breves pe- demonios pedicellosque laterales arctê subtendentes. Flores parvi, albi, gratis- sim2 olenies. Cal. volore et substantiá foliorum, oblongus, cylindraceus, estriatus, enervis, corólle tubo pluriôs brevior, minut? Bedeniaïus, Cor. à uncie longa v. circitêr, limbus a partitus, stellatus, tubo stricto gracili sem- unciali denique flavescente brevior, laciniis 2 interioribus subangustioribus cum acumine conspicwiore, Anthere incluse, flava, lineares. filamentis parüm longiores: pollen granulosum, En Stigma inclusuâ, lanceolato- lineare, compressum, pruinosum, stylo brevius. \ Introduced, according to Dr. Roxburgh, into the Bo- tanic Garden at Calcutta, from Canton; and within three or four years into the collections of this country, where it is treated as a hothouse plant. The blossom, perhaps the smallest of the genus, dif- fuses a rich, but delicate, fragrance. Drawn at Mr. Colvil's Nursery, in the King's Road, Chelsea ; where it is in flower for months together. An ‘upright branching polished shrub, and, in this cli- mate at least, of a palish green: branches stiff, straight, cylindrical, and as well as the undefside of the foliage thickly speckled with minute black dotlike calli. Leaves ternate (seldom, by the failure of the two lateral leaflets, simple), leathery, firm, decussately distant, divaricate, VOL, IX. B nerveless, petioled; leaflets ovally oblong, lanceolately ta- pered, shortly stalked, generally rather less than two inches in length by about 4 of an inch in breadth. Panicles termi- nal, many-flowered, loosely brachiate, divaricate, leafy at the lower part, lower peduncles 3-flowered and as well as the common axis angular; pedicles ì-flowered hardly longer than the calyx; bractes short, subulate, subtending closely both the peduncles and lateral pedicles.. Flowers white, upright. Calyx of the colour and substançé ef the leaves, oblong, cylindrical, without nerve or streak, several times shorter than the tube of the corolla, minutely and pointedly 5-toothed. Corolla about â of an inch long: limb sixpar- tite, radiate, shorter than the straight stiff slender tube which turns to a reddish yellow as the flower goes off; two Inner segments rather narrow and further tapered than the rest. Anthers enclosed, deep yellow, linear, but Mttle longer than their filaments. Stigma enclosed, lanceolately linear, com- pressed, frosted, nearly as long as the style. i í i Mam VE = Wd, A ^" 691 ASTRAPRA Wallichii Rosy Astrapas. - —"— —— - MONADELPEJA POLTANDRIA. Nat. ord. Mawacen. Fuses gen. 271. Sect. Ve'(roctiüs VI.) Sta- mina basi in urosolum sonsilem pomi Bterilia fertilibua intermixta, definita aut rariììs indefinita, ASTRAPZA. Flores wmbellati involucrati. Involucrase (polyphyllum imequale). Cal. simplex, 6-phyllus, 1-bracteatus. Petala: 6, convolwto- elausa. Siam. 25, in tubo corollifero connata, quorum 5 sterilia, Germ. $-loculare, oligospermam, Stylus 1, Stigmata 5. Lindley eollect. bet. 14, Astrapea Wallichii. Lindley loc. cit. tab. 14; (plaut siccatá Herbarit Lambertiani desumpta.) Arbor maga. Rami cegsal, teretes, tomentosi. Fal. grandia, alterna, suborbiculata, cordata, acuminata, crenato-serrata, plana, suprà pubescen- tin, sublüs tomentosa, marginibus sinús basilaris imbricatis; der 5 (Ty 2 basi radiati, vena comcentrica, Petioli triunciales, teretes, pilosi; stipule magna, ovate, subundalate, tomentosa, medio crasse, uninerves, Flores ix capitulis (verus) axillaribus, longè pedunculati, ixvolucrati. Pedunculi (re nid Involucr. dupiez, (ex nobis simplex ineguale) exterius dip interius polyphyllum, foliolis magnis, subrotundo-ovatis, acuminatis, pilosit, véfosit, int interioribus sensim minoribus et angustioribus. Flores densi, circitór 100 in quovis involucro, pedicellati, coccinei ('rosei). Cal. (membranaceus, obsolet2 coloratus) pentaphyllus, villosus, bracteá lan- acolaté [colore e£ sulstantid ca calycis?) subten sabienms, foliolis linearibus ( lineari- prati) obtusis erectis cor ek. 6, (tenuia, corrugata), ga, rotundata, e ginoo beto clones fom anuiato-tresta, glabra). me, in tubo longo Y lindraceo, ro consita, corolla: longitudi Anthe, EO i 20 p. ino-lutéscentes » erecta, introrsce basi sagittata, polline melino è granulis Ficis grumoso), steriles 5 fsan- guinco-rubentes, lanceolata, fertilium polline omaia); de); hee subulate, ille ob- longe, biloculares, apiculate. Gem. poA hirsutum, S-looulare, loculi dispermi; ovula horizontalia. 8 lus filiformis, exsertus (albicans) versis basin hirsutus. Stig”. 5, Lindley |. c. (rosea, longa, contorta, Resecto pe- dunculo â vulnere copios? profluit mucus crassus tenax. atquo limpidissimus). The drawing of this beautiful species was taken last December in the Kew Garden, by favour of Mr. Aiton. The plant had been sent.by Dr. Wailich from the Calcutta col- ection. - Nothing certain is known of the native spot; but it has been surmised that seed was carried from the Mauritius to Calcutta, and that the plant came originally from Madagascar. 2 B The figure in Mr. Lindley's work having been done from a dried sample, the slight failures in its general exactness, when compared with the living plant, are such only as are imputable to that circumstance. The peduncles and umbel are represented upright instead of reflexed, and the bractes and calyx as green and foliaceous instead of faintly coloured and membranous. We do not see however, even in the dried plant, why the involucre should have been described as twofold, instead of simple with unequal leaflets, as it really -is.. We had no opportunity of inspecting a perfect flower ; but our draughtsman assured us that, in the umbel he drew from, no portion of the stigmas appeared above the anthers as in the native samples; a circumstance probably owing to want of force in the individual umbel, the last produced on the plant that season; others had blown nearly two months before. The petals seemed slightly rumpled, somewhat in the way of those of the Poppy.’ A copious flow of ropy limpid mucilage followed the cutting asunder of the flowerstalk, affording a striking exemplification of that part of the economy of the order. © A miniature figure of the entire plant (said to grow to a large tree) is placed in our plate by the side of the inflo- rescence, and also one of the smallest leaves, each of its na- tural size. “ The subject of the article had been referred by Dr. Wallich originall * to PENTAPETES and subsequently to DOMBEYA. To us it seems to de ** fer much more from those two genera than they do from each other, not “ only in general appearance, but in technical character. Not to mention * the great double involucre of AstRAP#A, which is at least of as much ** importance as the bractex, or outer calyx as they are usually termed, of “ many genera of this order, DoMBEYA and PENTAPETES have au outer ** calyx of 3 leaves; ASTRAP/EA has none; but in its room one large bracte, ** which subtends the calyx properly so called; DOMBEYA aud PENTAPETES ** have an almost expanded corolla; AsTRAPEA has its petals rolled toge- * ther like ACHANIA. There ìs a difference too in the number of stamens, ** but this perhaps is not of so much consequence as the great length of their “ tube, as compared with the shallow cup of PENTAPETES and DOMBEYA. “ The same observations are applicable to PTEROSPERMUM (PENTAPETES * of Jussieu), but that has neither bracte nor outer calyx; its flowers are “ solitary and its whole habit very different. Whether the seeds of ASTRA- “ PEA are winged or not we have no means of judging, except from the “ ovules, which exhibit no trace of any appendage. The germen appears ** to be that of a capsule of a thin rather than a woody nature.” Lindley loc. cit. o 692 — HOLMSKIOLDIA sanguinea. Crimson Holmskioldia. DER a DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPEI p. Nat. ord. VERBENACEX. , Jussieu in ann. — > Brown prod 1. 510; et supra fol.828,-,. HOLMSKIOLDIA. Cal. am campinulatus, amp ius, in > 'visus., Cor. ringens + labio superiore bilobo ; inferior “trifidi lacinià media majore. Bacca 4-partibilis, segmentis moñospermis. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 65, Germen 1, non 4. . x - DI d ; : + i / Holmskioldia sanguinea.: - Retz. obs. 6.31, sp. pl 2.00. Kin. - Kew. ed. 2, de An. Hp r. bleit. ; Hastingia cocchies: 2.41. £90. © o n» . Hastingia augu sta. Et b. Banks. - _ * ie Platunium rubrum. Ji "mus. 7. 76. — Frutex de basi brochiatoremosas, ramis imis Profiling. rodicanii- bus, novellis obsolet? 4-gonis lanuginosis. . Fol. opposita ovata Y. corddta, serrata, acuminata, albo-puncticulata, subvillom, di unciania petiolo gua- ter fer breviore. Racemi brachiato-paniculati, lazi terminales, axi pod cellisgue subvillosis ; ‚floribus:concoloribus sanguineo-rubentibis.. Cal. rofatus, obsolete 6-fidus, s, utrinque subvillosus, venosus, persistens, coroll plerimien ior, fundo iss fubuloso conico. Cor. angusta wir; Gab iiw, lobuke UN tubus calyce brevis, itus», is rofun- datis, By Sie mie in longi, Em pd inferior bis longiore. Fill. brevins lazè centia villis pi E Anth”. . tùs iue, las) pabeicentia silio fusca. - > Btylas y is filamentis. equalis sed gri acilior, glaberrimus, juprà coccineus: stigma: aew: men breve continuum albicans transoere® finem lobulo altero bis longiore. "fe plant of We drawing flowered last Decembpr garden of Com Vandes, Bayswater; we e, for the first -time in. thi country. It had been -&ültivatéd ` ir the hothouse ; but oWking either to the dark eokd-season of the year, or accidental weakness of the plant; -the.blossam_~- ^ proved inferior in size and brilliancy of colour to the Indian Samples we have seen ; though perfect in other respects. - - “The germen is a small round obsoletely quadran, granularly roughened silvery-white body, without the s isht- est appearance of a quadruple division at the exterior; and we should have had no hesitation in allotting the species to ÄNGIOSPERMIA, even if it bad pot been already transferred from GymNosPERMIA in the last edition of the Hortus Kew- ensis. Holmskiold is the name or title of a Dane, whose bo- tanical productions, in the opinion of Retzius, have ren- dered it worthy of being communicated to the present genus. The appellation has been criticized as uncouth to eur ut- terance, but still we suspect it will be more easily pro- nounced by an Englishman, than the generic one so justly derived from our monosyllable Smith can be by a Dane or indeed any foreigner. : * This very elegant plant was brought originally from ** China into the Botanic Garden at Caloutta, though native * of the interior parts of Bengal. In the garden it grows “ to be a small tree if trained up with a single stem, but * if left alone the branches spread far around from the base * of the stem close to the ground and strike root. The * bark is ash-coloured and tolerably smooth. The flower- “ ing is in the cold season, when nothing can exceed it in * beauty." ` ® Branches numerous, brachiate, while young somewbat * 4-sided and a little downy. Leaves opposite, petioled, “ cordate, serrate, long-pointed, a little downy, 3-4 inches * long: petioles 3 of the length of the leaf, downy. Pa- ** nicles or compound racemes terminal, brachiate: peduncles “ and pedicles a little hairy. Bractes, the longer petioled ** cordate, the smaller lanceolate. Flowers numerous, p “ large, of a most beautiful scarlet colour, slightly tinged “ with orange, inodorous. Calyx of one piece, very large, ** gradually widening into an ample bell, with a slightly * b-lobed border, coloured like the corolla, permanent. “ Corolla 1-petalled, irregular; tube longer than the calyx, “ projecting with a slight curve downwards; co “ widening gradually to the orifiee, a little hairy on the in- * side; limb small, 5-parted, under segment larger. Sta- “ mens from the middle of the tube, slightly protruded and * declined, somewhat downy. Anthers oval. Germen su- * perior 4-lobed, 4-celled, 4-seeded, (ovule) attached -a “ little above the middle. Style declinate in the direction “ of the stamens, and of the same length. Stigma acute, * slightly two-parted. Capsule 4-lobed, 4-partible, each - ME Ve nm Um oc me, LU EEE * lobe obliquely turbinate, clavate, wrinkled, the size of a “small Lentil, one-celled, one-valved, of a thick soft * spongy substance, and dark brownish black colour: seed “ conformed to the interior of the cell; integument single, “ pretty thick white soft and tough; albumen none; embryo * erect, of an almondlike substance; cotyledons 2, oval, “thick; plumule small lunulate; radicle oval, inferior." Roxb. MSS. Introduced in 1796, by Mr. Peter Good. Dr. Rox- burgh mentions a second species, found wild in Silhet, and names it scandens, though he doubts its being really dis- tinct from sanguinea, and suspects the apparent difference to lie between the wild and the cultivated states of the two plants. 693 " MANETTIA coccinea. Red-flowered Manettia.. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. : | + , Nat. ord. RuBIACER, Jussieu gen, 196. Div. LII. Fructus monótárpus bilocularis polyspermus. Stamina 4. Folia opposita, caulis herbaceus aut frutescens. ` ` ` . MANETTIA. Cal. 4-5-8-partitus. Cor. infundibuliformis, 4-5-par: tita (regularis): fauce barbatà. Caps. oblonga, bilocularis, bivalvig; valvis duplicatis. Sem. numerosa, imbricata, alata. (Stam, 4-6. Piante vols. biles aut scandentes.) Persoon syn. 1. 194. a T n DON an. M. coccinea, foliis ovali-ovatove oblongis acuminatis nervosis subtüs glabris; ramülis floriferis 3-5-floris axillaribus oppositis folio plurimüim longioribus ; '_ calyce 8-partito. Y A ` : Manettia coccinea. Willd. sp. pl. 1.625. >. | hon Nacibza coccinea. Aubl. guian. 1. 96. t. 37. fig.1.. Lamarck encyc. 4. 415. illustr. gen. 1.64 s MA ` Frutex sarmentosus vélubilis longissim? scandens, ramis teretibus supernd ramulosis: infr&:subapkyläs cortice pallido glabro. Fol. decussato-distantia, ovalia v. ovata, lanceolato-acuminata, bi-triunciália latitudine subduplo mi- nore, basin versüs plùs minüsve attenuata, inervis varicosis adscendenti- bus nofüta. glabraque suprà villis minutis decilluis (viz nisi oculo armato manifesta) pubesoentia: pet. brevior: ' stipulie Anterpetiolares virides breves transversô dilatate glanduloso-denticulate. Ramuli in ramis supernis axila lares oppositi, folio longiores, diphylli, 3-flori v. iterum divisi 6 flori; flores erecti, unus terminalis, cateri foliolorum azillares ; pedicelli flore plurimüm longiores glabri virides. Cal. germinis continuus, 8phyllus, viridis, vil- losus, corolle tubo brevior, revolut? divaricatus, persistens, foliolis lineari- sedalatis ab invicem distantibus. Cor. 1-petala, hypocrateriformis, à mi- , Riato-coccineo pallescens: tubus subsemuncialis, erectus, calyce longior, albus ` rubro-punctatus, ore pilis flavis articulatis erectis limbo brevioribus coronatus, intus infra medium aliis minoribus, ceterum similibus, barbatus: limbi 4- riti lacinie coloratiores, ovete, rotate, tubo satis breviores. Fil*. ad bar- bam tubum interne propê basin circumeunte inserta: auth, incluse, introrse, pallide, oblonge, Eitoculares, posticé annere. Stylus filiformis longitudine tubi: stig. lobuli 2 oppositi ovali-oblongi compressi virides. Germ. viz brevius ealyce, oblongum, cylindricum, sepiüs subcoloratum, subtilissime laxeque pu- bescens, lineis viridibus 8 striatulum, basi cuneatum, biloc. dissepimento me- dis: ovula plurima compressa alata receptaculo utroque dissepimenti affiza arctâque sursüm imbricata, No species of this genus appears to have been introduced. before the present ; which was lately raised by Mr. Ander- son at the Physic Garden, Chelsea, from seed from. Tri- nidad. ` - VOL. IX. c The drawing was taken in Mr. Colvill's hothouse, in the Kings Road; where the plant exceeded 14 or 15 feet in length, and divided ibto numerous branches, twined toge- ther by their growth in the way of a rope, on which a multitude of short lateral flowerbearing branchlets ap- peared in succession for two months together or more. "The stem and lower part of the principal branches were destitute of leaves.. The character of * many-flowered racemes” has heen in- truded by Willdenow upon the original specific definition of the species, and is incorrect; the branchlets being in fact ge- nerally 3-flowered, sometimes 5-flowered. A Guiana sample, the prototype of Aublet’s species, has been deposited in Mr. Brown's Herbarium, where there is also another from Tri- nidad, having somewhat narrower leaves. The foliage has been usually described as smooth, and is so on the under side, but on the upper we could perceive a minute nap scarcely observable by the naked eye, and probably deciduous. The hairs that crown the mouth of the tube of the corolla, as well as those that beard the lower part of the interior, are numerously jointed. The stem and branches are of a flexible tough wood covered with a smooth extremely pale bark. The shrub forms al- together an ornamental climber for the trellis and columns ef a hothouse. 694 CALAS. Z Sí FA Lu, / FU AL Fa y rg 694 MASSONIA longifolia: 8; candida. “^> Oblong-leaved Massonia. —M HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. AsPHODELEX. Brown prod. 1. 274. MASSONIA. Cor. infera, erecta, tubulosa, persistens, limbo 6-par- tito zquali rotato, plerìm ue.,refracto. Fil. exserta, rar) inclusa, subs ulato-filiformia, summo. tubo inserta, erecta plerìmgue incurvescentia, sepids qualia et basi menibraná breviangustà connexa. Germ. poris 3 ma» dentibus prop. apicem inter. aúgulos (anne constaptér?). Stylus setaceo- elongatus, curvulus: stig. punctum puberulum, rarô triplex. . Caps. scarioso- membrauacea, - sstbali , triloba, 3-loc., 3-valv., valvis septiferis, tur- binata ampla lobis fffendis cuneato-attenuatis, raris subovata parva lobis brevibus carinatié ; da . plura - - -numerosa, parva, globosa, internis septorum marginibus fenidalátim afnexa, ¿está nigrá. - Bulbus tundeatus. Bespus manus reconditus, rar) externus: corym- bus capitato-congestus foliaceg-bracteatus, modd in thyrsum brevem laxum extensus bracteis. diminulis membranaceis. Fol. cárnosula, bifaria, subge- mina, erecta vel reflexa et humi appressa, ovato-erbiculata, v. linearia, lan- ceolatave.. Semina viz triplo Sinapeos' majora. Geitts HYACINTHO diffi- cil dirimendum, sed in illo filamenta tubo infernê, nec summo ora, inserta, Evcomin collineat, alisado BRUNSVIGIAM et HEMANTHUM, licet germen in 2 ultimis inferum. Nobis in Curtis's magaz; 1468; in noth fol. versi, M. Longifélia, foliis lanceolato-oblongis acuminatis, Jacq, Aort. schoend. 4. 29. t ey . A. (E) candida. Burchell MSS. Bulbus ovatus magnitudine ovi colggibind. Fol. 2 divaricato-Bifaria, kumi appressê recumbentia, glabra, lineataipiol a, acuminata, majus sesunciale vel ultra, latitudine 4-unciali. Flotimcandicantes, grafistimŷ odori. Sca- us énchesus: corymbus plurimus, otiigestus, foliacec-bracteatus; pedicelli Dori, albi, robusti, eladati, tubo bramores: bractes ovato-lanceolate, acu- minate, tubo breviores, introrsúm deschescontes. Cor. 14 unc. v. circà longa, Aypocrateriformis: tubus erectus cylindricus, longitudine staminum, basi cuneatus: limbus sezpartitus, tenuior, arct2 deflexus, tubo X brevior, laciniis ligulato-acuminatis, concavis, supernê virescentibus, basi plic transvered ar- cuatá reflexis. Stam. erecto-patentia, incurvescentia, aqualia, limbo Y ferê altiora, alba; fil. robustide setacea, ori tubi inserta, laciniis opposita, basi membrané brevi angustistimá connexa; anth. parvule, versatiles, incumbentes, A genus apparently confined to southern Africa, no species having been yet discovered but in the colony and adjoining districts of the Cape of Good Hope. c The present plant has been lately introduced by Mr. Burchell, who considers it an unpublished species, not be- ing probably aware of the one of which we deem it a mem- ber. To us the two plants-seem to differ no otherwise than in the dimension of the foliage, which is rather larger in Jacquin's plant than in ours; a difference we suspect en- tirely owing to that in the ages of their bulbs: we have recorded however the two as varieties, and others may dispose of them as they think best. - 'The drawing was taken in the greenhouse at Mr. Col- vills Nursery, in the King's Road; from a plant that had been raised two years.before from seed obtained from Mr. Burchell. The-blossom was fragrant. —— LIST OF SPECIES. ensifolig. Nobis in Curtis's magaz. 991. Fort? non di uniflora. Herb. Banks. ‚Forte non diverse. angustifolia, Curtis's magaz. 736. undulata. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 211; (pusilla. Herb. Banks.?) echinata; Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 210. pauciflora. — JDryander in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 210. scabra. , Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2, 210. pustulata., Nobis in Curtiss ma- gaz. 642. ` muricata. Nobis in Curtiss magaz. 559. latifolia. Nobis in Curtis's magaz. 848. sanguinea. Jac. hort. schenb. - 4. t. 454. ^ ; coronata. Jacq. loc. cit. ‘obovata. Jacq. loc. cit. longifolia. Zn loco presenti. lancerefolia. Jacq. loc. cit. cordata. Jacq. loc. cit. grandifolia. Nobis in Curtis’s magaz. «fol. verso 091, ad finem spec. enum. latifolia. Jacg. loc. cit. Obs. MASSONIA nodicarpa. C. J. Gaertn. sem. 3. 13. t. 182. fig. 2.; non hujus generis, est MORES species. The separation of the genus from Hyacinruus is ex- tremely narrow, both in respect to habit and character, the latter being principally confined to the position of the sta-. mens, which is deep within the tube of the corolla in Hya- 4INTHUS, while in MassoNIA it is at the mouth. A ae, 170. Persea Sal 1628 YS Baladi Hart. del. lly I: — —— M re 695 ETHUETA conyzoides. Panicled Ethulia. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA. QUALIS. - Nat. ord. Composirm. Adanson fam. 2. 103. Ma CORYMBIFERE. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. IV. Receptaculum nudum. Semen nudum v. non papposum, Flores losi. SvNANTHEREX. Cassini dict. sc. nat. 10. 131.. Tribus X X. VERNONIER, Cass. loc. cit: 20. 384. Sect. VERNONIEE-ETHULIEJ. Germ. swpiìs turbinatum costato-5-angulare, costá unâ v. et alterá interdüm defici- ente. Cass. loc. cit. 16. 408; (ex gall. vers.) : ETHULIA. | Cor. flosculosa, multiplex, regularis, hermaphrodita. Cel. . corolla valdê brevior, irregularis, foliolis inequalibus, subbiseriatis, appres- sis, oblongis, herbaceis. Recept; nudum, hemisphericum. Germina tur- binata, 6-angularia, costis 5 facies totidem: glandulis conspersas intercipi- entibus: pappws nullus, sed margo coroniformis apicularis. Flosculorum E ` cini elongate. Cass. loc, cit. 487; (ex gallico vers.) E. conyzoides, floribus paniculatis. Lime. (AL) dee. 1.1. t. 1..- Vahl symb. 1.69. Willd. sp. pl. 9. 1240. Hort: Kew. ed. 2. 4. 501... Cassini in - dict. sc. nat. 15.487... _ » Kahiria. Forskh. descr. 168. ` Herba annua, caule 3-4-pedali, subramoso, tereti, striato, villoso. Fol. ebrymi rici, flosculis yubro-purpureis.. Odorem halat planta Rut graveolentis similem et is glanduleformibus, quibus precipu? scatent germina, manantem. Cass. l. c.; (ex gallico.) ; . E" : 7 _A scarce annual plant, of about three or four feet in height, introduced into our hothouses by.M.Thouin in 1776; but we believe long since lost. -The sample for the drawing was kindly furnished us by Mr. Barker Webb, who had raised it from seed gathered in the Botanic Garden of Count Parolini, at Bassano. According to M. Cassini, from whose writings We trans-. late the generic character and specific description, the spe- cies has a wide range, having been observed on thé banks, of the Nile, near Rosetta, as well as in India and Mada- `~ gascar. There ig a native Egyptian sample deposited by Forskal in Mr. Brown's Herbarium. The Rue-like scent exhaled by the plant is supposed to proceed from the glandular corpuscles dispersed over the whole plant, and very thickly over the germens. The species, divaricata and Sparganophora, are excluded by M. Cassini: the first under the generic title Eraures, the second under that of SPARGANOPHORUS. We have already enumerated the Tribes under which the Composite are distributed by M. Cassini (see vol. 7. fol. 532). The characters of these divisions have been combined from the following parts of the plant and in the following order of precedence in respect to importance: 1. the style with stigma and its collectors; 2. the stamens; 3. the florets; 4. the germen and its appurtenances; coupled always with the assumption that the parts of those florets that have perfect stamens and pistil are alone available for this purpose. The stigma, the most important distinction in the greatest portion of the tribes, is considered by M. Cassini a sole part; the smooth substance which either borders or covers the inner surface of the two branches of the style (stigmatophores) and is usually confluent at the fork, being alone accounted as such. ‘The variously modified efflorescences that occupy the outer and remaining surface of these branches, or as they have been usually considered by others, separate stigmas, constitute the collectors of M. Cassini, and are so called from gathering the pollen in their ascent along the common axis of the united anthers. The generic characters are selected from the seederown (pappus), the composition of the common corolla, the ca- lyx, and the receptacle; recourse being had in complex and intercurrent affinities to the combination of analogies drawn from other parts. The above principles are manifestly the result of a com- prehensive investigation conducted with eminent sagacity And industry, and will be found in prástice-to comprize much original resource for the Botanist. The varidus sec- tions and g genera assorted from them appear to. us both: na- tural and useful, and such as will be gen: nerally adopted ; we trust however without the fantastical and eapriciously novel phraseology with which their definitions abound in the French. . Go. LOPS Pos VS a LS. MR | LP C Le, E // y Lill JO 7 Leco UL RES 7 V TEAM ! He ES ) LA Til Ly se. 1 096 ' CACTUS truncatus. _ Ringent-flowered Cactus. ZI ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. - Nat. ord. Cacti. Jussieu gen. 310. Div. II. Petala et stamina indefi- nita. . Norma. Jütsien MSS.; (fide Decand. tMor. bot. 246. ` n. 65). CACTUS. Supra vol. 2. fol. 181. Dio. Phyllinthi. C. truncatus, ramis recurvo-divaricatis, foliaceo-compressis, articulis api lunato-truncatis; floribus terminalibus solitariis nutantibus, obliquato- ringentibus, staminibus adscendentibus, stigmatibus compact? conni- ventibus. Cactus truncatus. Link enum. hort. berol. alt. 2. 24. Epiphyllum truncatum. Haworth suppl. 85. lanta perennis, dichotoma, glauciuscula, humilis, caule brevi, ramis articulatis, recurvo-divaricatis, subfoliaceo-compressis, articulis cuneato-ob- longis, subuncialibus, dentibus paucis vagis arillari-penicillatis utrinque serratis, apice lunulato-precisis. Flores subtriunciales super fundum candi- dum roseo-rubentes, terminales, sessiles, solitarii, nutantes: petala imbricata turbinato-conniventia, rictú reflexo deorsüm obliquato supernt patentia. Stamina numerosa, fasciculata, subadscendentia, petalis equalia. Stigmata plura. (5-7?) atrosanguinea in conum compacta. Germ. viride, turbinato- oblongum, flore plurios brevius. The fine blossom of this newly imported species made its first appearance, we believe, last summer in several of our gardens together. - The drawing was taken from Mr. Hood's collection, Vauxhall Road; where it is cultivated in the hothouse. We were favoured with an excellent representation of the entire plant, by Mrs. Harrison, from a sample raised from Brazil seed, at Aigburgh, near Liverpool, in 1821. We re- gret, notwithstanding the size was too large for our work, we had not inserted a diminished outline of that draw- ing; the divaricated flexure of the branches, evidently a specific habit, being skilfully characterized in it. In our plate there is room only for the termination of the branches with their flowers of the natural size, and these are shown upright; but in their place on the plant they termi- nate the recurvedly divaricated branch, and incline down- wards as well as the flower. - The species is of the same division as CACTUS speciosus already figured in this work (v. 4. fol. 304). It has how- ever several peculiar features, of which a ringently slanted reflexed expansion of the flower, ascending stamens, and crescentwise foreshortened joints of the branches seem the most prominent. . Stem very short, soon and repeatedly divided; branches widely and divaricately extended, horizontally recurved, foliaceously compressed, the edges "perpendicular, glaucous, jointed, the joints cuneately oblong, lunately truncate at the upper end, about an inch long, with a few irregular axillary pencilled notches at the edges. i à | | 697 BANKSIA paludosa. Marsh- Banksia. E TETRANDRIA * MONÖGYNIA. + “Nat. ord. PROTER. Jussieu | gen. o. . Die, 1 Semen nudum aut fructus BOTEACEJB,< Brown in trama, lain. soc, 10. 46. Div. IT. Fructus dehisonen, eae E. Deli dissjpimento Mero bifido. Sub- seat. 1. Amentum paribus fl T aes yw . BANKSIA. egi vela, fel UU Die. L corp longior Aie aos —e arcvati ezsertus De Bs rá tardius denm inclusum. Arment forifren ANKSLE ferum lis transversis pluribus. a et i B. paludosa, foliis. dibvericillats cunsato-oblongis subtruncatis basi attenu- - atis extra, mediifin dentato-serratis e e brecurviss aubtis costatis ~ reticülato-venosis, petiolis ramulisque bris, corollis sericeis, caule fru- `: ticoso, : Brown ân trans. linn. soc. 10, 208. Banksia paladoss Ejusd. prod. 1. 994. "Hort. Kew. éd. 2. 1. 216, * Frutex 3-pedalis v. iri, erectus, Folia coriaceo-rigentia, truncialia v. crit int latitudine $ $ snig», circà, lariüs disposita, superiora ternatim qua- “Amenta terminalia, solitaria, elongato-cylindrica prier diametro muciali v. majore), ab effuso melle tactui sub» viida, "Bractem ime extrallorales majores, inaequales, elongate, pauce, a; e, fes crase, obtu, tomentose : iaterflorales ferruyineo-hirstite. m.puxld excedens, unguibus viridi-lutescentibus pallidis, lami- nis ovali fis fulvis. . Stylus pallidus, glaber, apice viz Amides, corol- tum ind non exsuperam;" stigmaté | bre cokico viz enatsiore- glabro obtuso ze om Introduced by Mr. Brown in 1805, who found it in the marshes of Botany Bay, within a few miles of Port Jack- , son, where however it is far from abundant and may be reckoned one of the rarer species; In this country it ha; seldom flowered, and we are obliged to Mr. Miller, nursery- man at Bristol, for the Communication of the only live sample we have ever seen in bloom. An upright shrub somewhat more than three feet high with smooth branches and petioles. Leaves partly scatter- ed, partly whorled, leathery, stiff, about three inches lon;; by 4 of an inch broad, cuneately oblong, somewhat trun- cated, tapered at the lower part, toothedly sawed, the in- VOL. IX. dentation not reaching to the middle, somewhat recurved at the edge, ribbed underneath and reticulately veined, the uppermost often disposed in whorls of threes and fours. Flowerheads terminal, solitary, elongatedly cylindrical (four inches long and rather more than one in diameter), sticky to the feel from the honeyed liquid that overruns the co- rollas. Lower extrafloral bractes of the flowerheads larger, unequal, elongated, few, close-pressed, dark brown, thick obtuse and tomentose: interfloral ones shaggily furred and of a reddish rusty brown colour. Corolla sericeous, little more than half an inch long; ungues pale greenish yellow; blades ovally oblong, tawny yellow. Style pale, smooth; scarcely at all enlarged at the end, hardly. longer than the corolla: stigma scarcely thicker, short, conical, ob- tuse, white, smooth. A greenhouse plant, of easy culture. | Wiss A pee eae ee ee T Gubeby I. Fedgway (JO Teocadiiy Ap J IR. PET. SC. ~ 698 ACÁCIA vestita. Cunningham’s Acacia. nn ls “POLYGAMIA MONGECLA. 5 . Nat. ord, LEGUMINOSA. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. I. Corolla tegularis. Legumen mültiloculare, sapiüs bivalve, dissepimentis transversis, locklis monosperinis. ' -Stamina distincta." Arbores aut frutices; folia abrupt? pin- nata.—MIMOSEE. Brown gen. rem. in Find. voy. 2. 651. - ACACIA, ‘Supra vol. 9. fol. 98. - . ai m ` “ Dio, Foliis simplicibus. EU A. véstita, hirsuta, caño-viresceñis; ramis diyaricatis, foliis hirsutis dimi- diato-ellipticis lanceolatis aristatis arjstá' marginis exterioris rectioris ter- minali; nervo uno à margine utráque tequidistante; stipulis minutis cadu- eis; capitulis sphwricis laxe eparseque Tacemosis subsolitariisve. t Frutex robustus, erectus, hirsutus, villis canis undique preter flores vesti- tissimus, cinereo-virescens, comoso-ramosud, ramis divaricatis teretibus. folio- sissimis, superne floridis. . Folia numerosa, proxima, sparsa, sessilia, erecto- patentia cum plano endiculari, dimidiato-eliptica, lanceolata. acumine de latere interiore obligue attenuato, aristata dristâ excentricá marginis erte- rioris rectioris continuá, unineivia nervo medio, $ «d'ì tucie;longa cum ` latitudine triplo minore: etipule minime, ovate, ferrugineo-rubentes, caduce. ,Flores lutei, capitati: capitula piso mediocri minora, a et racemosa ad solitaria: racemi numerosi, in ramis su. i, axillares, folio longiores, stricti, patentissimi ( sesquiunciales? ), pedicellis superne sparsis, robustis, teretibus, pubescentibus, chloroleucis, diametrum capituli longitudine equantibus. Cal. minutus, tomentosus, albus, 5-fidus. Petala 5, stramineo-lutescentia, calyce plurimum longiora, unguiculata laminá lanceolato-ellipticá, extús pilosiusculá. Stam", flava, petalis duplo longiora: anth*. globoso-didyma. Stylus flavus, filamentis duplo crassior, lateri altero apicis germinis inser- tus. Germ. glaberrimum, subtrapezoides, oblongum compressum, marginem alteram versus attenuatum, subhyalinum, fine utroque obtusim. An unpublished species found by Mr. Cunningham in the interior of New Holland; and raised in this country from seed sent home by that indefatigable and intelli- gent collector. The drawing was taken from a plant that flowered this winter in the conservatory of Comtesse de Vandes, at Bayswater; the first, we believe, that lias blos- somed here. A stout upright soft furred shrub of a cinereous Or grey- ish green hue, and of which we cannot cößjectüre the’ Bsta- ture it may hereafter acquire; divaricately branched at the D2 ` . upper part, where it forms a thickly leaved bushy head : branches round closishly leaved shaggy flowerbearing at the upper part. Leaves numerous, sessile, scattered, shaggy, halved-elliptic, lanceolate, suberectly spreading, flatwise perpendicular, obliquely pointed from the inner side, awned, the awn terminating the outer and straighter edge of the leaf, one-nerved (the nerve equidistant from both edges), from $ to 3 of an inch long and about three times narrower. Stipules minute, ovate, rusty red, caducous. Flowers yel- low, in heads: heads globular, several in a raceme or some- times solitary, smaller than a middle-sized pea; racemes axillary at the upper part of the branches, numerous, longer than the leaves, stiff, outspread, with several loosely set flowerheads ; pedicles scattered towards the top of the com- mon peduncle or axis, stout, round, .furred, whitish green, “about the length of the diameter of the flowerheads. Calyx minute, tomentose, white, 5-cleft. Petals 5, straw-coloured, considerably longer than the calyx, unguiculate with a lan- ceolately elliptical lamina, slightly hairy on the outside. ‘Stamens deep yellow, twice the length of the petals: anthers twin-globular. Style deep yellow, twice thicker than the filaments, inserted on one side the summit of the germen. Germen quite smooth, subtrapezoid, oblong, compressed, tapered towards one edge, nearly transparent, blunt at both ends. 7 6 a /70 Gee c S—— ALL A^ A Pie 7 Sub ty m E EET GU ROI RS N m DE NR DE NIA. A 699 AGAPANTHUS umbellatus: y. minimus. New African Blue- Lily. —— HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Narcisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. I. Germen superum, . HEMEROCALLIDEX. Brown prod. 1. 295. Obs. Sectio for- sàn potius quàm ordo Liliacearum et iisdem strictê sic dictis ( Liliis Juss.) vix diversa nisi corolla tubulosá.— Huc referenda nonnulla (nec omnia) ge- nera 4 hodelorusm Juss. coroHä tubulosâ. Jd. loc. cit. APANTHUS. JIavolucrwa spathaceum umbelliferum. Cal. nul- u. Cor. infundibuliformìs, mono) sexfida: laciniis alternis apice in- crassato uncinatis. Germ. oblongum, superum. Stylus simplex. Stigma 3-fidum minimum. Caps. oblonga, trilocularis. Semina deis, imbri- cata, alata. Grin. sem. 2.15; (sub CRINO.) Agapanthus umbellatus. Hort. Kew. 1. 414. ed. 2. 2.221. L'Hérit. sert. al. 17. Willd. sp. pl.2. 47. Curtis's magaz. 500, Redouté liliac. 6. Agapanthus precox. Willd. enum. 1. 333?- ia africana, Dahl obs. 26. Maublin linearis. Thunb. prod. 60. Crinum africanum. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1.419. Gertn. sem. 2. 15. t. 83. fe. 3. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n.1. Polyanthes floribus umbellatis. Mill. ic. t. 10. Ehret pict. t. 10. Tulbaghia Heisteri. Fabr. helmst. 4. Tulbaghia. Heist. brunsw. 10. n. 6. Hyacinthus africanus tuberosus flore cwruleo umbellato. Breyn. prod. 1.30. P t.10. Comm. hort. amst. 2. 133. t. 67. Hyacintho affinis tuberosá radice africana, umbella cesulea inodora. Pluk. phyt. t. 195. fig. 1. (a) major. (8) minor. ©) Rhizoma ass? bulbiceps. Folia plurima radicalia, à izoma perenne, cr: . Fol plano bifarid, Scapus Kissen oeo-umbelliferus, Mer bivalvi, pedunculis iractento distinctis. Cor. la, infundibulife formis, subirregularis ; tubo angulato, quasi quasi ex TE limbo G-partito: laciniis ob- longis patentibus Fil. fauci inserta, corellá bre- wore, declinata, oig, p subalternantia: tifon Lg incumbentes. m. duplex, utrumque membranaceum, tenue. Albumen semini conforme, po morem. agueo-pallidum. Embryo monocotyledonens, in basi cibuminis. Ex Linn. et Gert. loc. cit. comparata. The present plant is said to have been now first intro- duced from the Cape of Good Hope. Whether it is spe- cifically distinct from, or only a variety of, the two larger plants of the same name, long and universally known in our gardens, we have no certain means of deciding. "The flowers are a little paler, greatly smaller, and the leaves narrower. It looks like a miniature effigy of the larger ones. We cannot make out to which of the three AGAPAN- THUS preecox of Willdenow's Enumeratio belongs. The drawing was taken at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, in the King's Road ; where the plant flowers at the same time with the other two, and seems to be of as easy cul- tivation. adi 700. A. E DRACONTIUM polyphyllum. Motley-stalked Dragon-plant. — — HEPTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. AROIDER. Jussieu gen. 23. Div. I. Spadix spatha involutus. AROIDEX (includentes et Aroideas et Typhas Jussieuii). Brown prod. 1.333. Sect. II. Flores hermaphroditi perianthio (corollà) in- structi, ORONTIACER. DRACONTIUM. Spatha cymbiformis. | Spadix cylindraceus, floribus tectus. Cor. 5-7-partita. Stamina 5-7. Germ. 2-loc., loculis monosper- mis, ovulis pendulis, Bacca 1-3-sperma. Semina exalbuminosa. Brown prod. 1. 337. ; D. polyphyllum, foliis supradecomposito-pedatis, laciniis pinnatifidis, scapo petiolis multó breviore. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 288. Dracontium polyphyllum. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2.1372. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n.2. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 330; (excluso Brown prod. 337, ipso mo- nente auctore. ) ; Dracontium scapo brevissimo, petiolo radicato lacero, foliolis tripartitis: la- ciniis pinnatifidis. Linn. hort. cliff. 434. Dracontium americanum scabro puniceo caule radice cyclaminis. Herm. parad. batav. 93. t. 93. Arum polyphyllum surinamense, caule atrorubente glabro et elegantèr va- riegato. Pluk. alm. 52. t. 149. fig. 1. Tuber placentiforme soboliferum. Fol. 1-2, radicalia, composite pedata foliolis sepius tribus membranaceis decursivê interrupteque bipinnatifidis ; petiolus eaudiciformis, teres, erectus ( spithameus ad sesquipedalem ), fronde plurimüm longior, (inferne penná vel nunc et pollice crassior ), pruinoso-nitens, fasciis latis annularibus undato-flexuosis albis nigrisque irregulariús variega- tus, celluloso-medullaris cellulis elongato-cylindricis axin versus amplioribus, epidermide rimuloso-eicatrizatä: folium frondiforme, patentissimum, ( spitha- mcum ad pedale v. ultra), foliolis bi-quadrijugo-fissis cum impari, lobis ner- vosis acuminatis, costá carnosá crassa pallidá. Scapus flore multoties bre- vior, teres, crassus, ferrugineo-fuscescens solidus. Flos post deleta folia com- parens: spatha (3-9-uncialis) coriacea, oblongo-ovata, galeato-aperta, acu- minata, inferne constrictiús convoluta cum fundo planiusculo crasso dense carnoso melino-pallente, superne fornicata incurva tenuior, intüs atropurpu- rea, extüs obsolete purpurascens per «tatem ferrugineo-fuscescens atque nervis plurimis varicosis costata, utrinque opaca: spadix 2-3-uneialis, erectus, cy- lindraceus, floribus confertis omninö tectus, diametro penne olorine, celluloso- carnosus. Cor. membranacea, lurido-purpurascens, campanulata, petaloideo- partita, laciniis (7? 9?) cuneato-ligulatis apice rotundatis, basi breve con- nexis, supra arcté revolvendis. Stam*. (7? 9?) erecta, corolle subequalia ; fil. laciniarum basi inserta, membranacea, tenuia, ligulato-linearia : anth*. sor- didê fulve, erecta, à basi infixe, oblonga, modôque subturbinate, breves, bilo- culares loculis axi medio longitudinali connexis, apice poro subrotundê hiulco extrorsúm obliquante dehiscentibus: pollen fulvescens, scobiformi-pul- vereum. Stylus germinis paulo crassioris continuus, robuste subulatus sta- minibus duplo longior, (post fecundationem) rectiusculus cum curvo leni, subtrigono-teres, obsoleté 3-sulcus, super fundum album viridi et rubro varie- gatus; stigma areola minuta depressa puberula pallidior in apice obtuso styli: - germ. superum, virescens, subtrigono-rotundum, 3-loc., loculis 1-spermis: ovulum nucleus opacior oblongus gelatinä limpidissimá obvolutus. | ZEstivante spadice ità se inflectere videntur pistilla ut ope flosculi alieni proximi fecun- dari queant, flosculo proprio ob nimiam styli longitudinem inhabilia. This very singular species is said to have been cultivated in the days of Miller, in the Physic Garden, Chelsea. The plant is known to have been introduced into the gardens of Holland more than a century ago; and there is a sample in Mr. Brown's Herbarium that flowered at Kew, where the plant had been obtained from Guiana. The specimens in Holland came from Surinam; and Miller's probably from some Dutch collection. Our drawing was taken from a plant that flowered last December in the hothouse of Mr. Lee of the Hammersmith Nursery, and had been imported from Maranhao, in the Brazils. If smelled near, upon the first opening of the spathe, vomiting and even fainting sometimes ensue from the stench. Linnzus says, the fetor is so overwhelming “ uf olfacientes attonitos redderet et catalepticos” No sooner however have the anthers shed their pollen than the noxious odour ceases. The flowers of the spike are crowded together in such way that the stamens are pressed close round the style, which being from its original conformation at least as long again as these, the stigma at its end is necessarily placed beyond the influence of the anthers of its own corolla. To countervail this seeming defect, the style is bent conna- turally in such way as to bring the stigma at its summit into the midst of the anthers of an adjoining flower; and when these have shed their pollen, that organ is seen to re- lax gradually from its flexure to a nearly upright position within its proper flower. At least such was the process we observed in the uppermost flowers of the spike of the pre- sent sample. The spathe is much smaller and of a far darker colour in the earlier stage of its appearance than afterwards. It continues to fade to a duller rusty brown until all the flowers of the spike are decayed, while the upper portion bends gradually downwards until it closes the whole open ing of the front. When purposely extended, after the bloom was over, we found it to measure nine inches in length by six in breadth. The curiously mottled leafstalk looks more like a stem than what it really ìs. It is after the entire decay of the foliage that the inflorescence appears. DRACONTIUM ranks in the second division of Aroidew of Mr. Brown's Prodromus, differing from the first division in having the stamens and pistil within the same corolla, and not situated on distinct parts of the spadix without any corolla, as in Arum and Cazapium. The third division comprises the Typha of Jussieu, and is very distinct. from the other two. — PLATE A. fig. 1. represents the entire inflorescence on its short scape in its natural position. Natural size. : ‚fig. 2. represents the lower portion of two leafstalks. Natural size, B. y 1. The spadix removed from the spathe, after the bloom was over. atural size. NM fig. 2. The leaves with their footstalks, Diminished. VOL. IX. E From fol. 703. List of Cape Orchidee figured in ** The Journal of Science and the Arts;” with references to the Volumes and Plates of that work. Added in this place for want of room in article 703. Bartholina pectinata (male Burmanniana). vol. 4. Pl. 6. fig. 2. Disa grandiflora. vol. 4. Pl. 8. fwd Disa spathulata. vol. 4. Pl. 6. fig. 3. Disa porrecta. vol. 5. Pl. 1. fig. 1. Disa graminifolia. vol. 6. PI. 1. 2. Disperis capensis. vol, 5. Pl. 1. fig. 2. Disperis secunda. vol. 5. Pl 1. fig. 3. Disperis villosa. vol. 6. PI. 1. fig. 5. Disperis cucullata. vol. 6. PL 1. fig. 4. Corycium bicolor. vol. 6. Pl.1. fig. 1. Corycium orobanchioides. vol. 8. $ Pterygodium catholicum, vol. 6. Pi. Pterygodium alatum. vol. 8. Pl. 3. Je 2. Pterygodium Volucris. vol. 9. Pl, pU Pterygodium inversum. vol. 9. Pi. sa Satyrium bracteatum. vol. 8. Pl. 3. VA Not more than three of the above species have been introduced into our gardens. It is worthy of notice, .con- sidering the frequent intercourse with the colony, that hun- dreds of species of fine and curiously flowered Liliacec, Ensate, and Orchidee, growing in the neighbourhood of Cape Town, should never have been imported into our botanical establishments; while from far more distant and sequestered quarters there has been introduced a much larger relative proportion of the species of those natural orders. N S N —— mm temm ae Ho. 7 y Apo. FA}: d, f é Fy ceid £ E 701 NEOTTIA orchioides. Jamaica Neottia. ddd GYNANDRIÀ MONANDRIA. Nat. ord, OncuIDER. Jussieu gen. 04. Brown pred, 1.309. Dio. d Anthera stigmati parallela persistens. Masse pollinis vel farinacez ve gorpuseulis angulatis; apicibus étigmati affixre, Brown is Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 197. NEOTTIA. Supra vol. 7. fol. 602. ‚N. orckioides, scapo stricto folie glauciusculis præċociore floribusque pubes- centibus; corollà sacco recto len obeso antico ad basin áuctà; eo- lumuâ glaberrimâ; stigmate infrâ unilabiato-lobato. Neottia orchioides. ‘Swartz prod. 118. ‘flor. ind. occid. 3.1411: Wild, ap. pl. 4.75, -Curtisa magaz. 1096? * Hort. Kew. ed. % 6. 198. Satyrium. 7; aphyllum, scapo erecto simplici subsquamoso spicato. Browne jam. 325. Fol. plea, elongáto-lanecolata, glabra, procrescentia, basi vaginantia. Beapus bi is, te en o lanato-villosus, melino-pallescens, strictus, erectus, teres, Anfernà aginatas, inde spied tends aphyllus. Vogine glabre, foliacee, landen, cucul- into-convolite, ackikfnate acumine erecto. Spica nümeróa; erecta, 46 unclalis, eparsa, patent, floribus resupinatis, melino-erubescentibus, isons seculis, laziùs approximatis, oblongis, suprà. dilabiar fo papel, fr dei forum, Ayr A ni Ba tal danc Tongitidine es, } es. Potala 5, nbormadi, pes rum, pa ul Janela hii, ein ‘ pwys ri prin hr rd Porn superius erectum concavum efformand bast in gii brevem jermen posticê decurtentese tercintink ; Jatotalia 2 în rá piora, ya dla, sub- dimidiato-lanceolata acuminata. margine interior interioré Tebtiore ; 2 esto tiora lanceolata, subulato-acuminata, subbrevior € r grecia, patentia, labellum inter se recipientia, germini sechs adgdta itque -saccum rectum obesum obtusum cuin Té basi ponntventte. necnonad ultimum finem inter se connata: label nri dental pei crassius firmiusque sed equale petalis, ovato-lanceolatum, rostrato-acumina- tum, corvoluto-concavum, porrectum, apice recuroum, columnam compleo tens, basi demissê productum convolutum lanato-barbatum et intra peta exteriorum saccum conferruminat? inclusum. Columna inclinata, earneo- albicans, labelli equilongi involutis lateribus comprehensa, oblonga, semiey- lindrica, tota glabra, antic? convera et faciei germinis intra basin ornate labelii incluse P oblique adnata, supra in rostellum rectum gracile aciculari- arin abrupto producta, po , postio® sico antherifera: anth. imelino-fulvescens line. ari ta convexa, dorsum cavum columna omnind ocempans, biloc., septo li intercepta; masse pollinia 2, ret 2, reverse, farinacem, duplicato longitudinal ockrolence, clavato-elongate, parallele, anguste, versim llato-atte- nuate pediculis supern? in unum coalescentibus, retinaculo fusco cartilagineo Stig, in summá columná anticum, cavum, secernens, album, orbiculato-dila- tatum, obliquum, lobulo decurvo infra prominulo labiatum, supra rostellatum. Germ. oblongum, subsemiunciale, pubescens, melino- » obsolet? costatum, basi semigyrato-tortum. Introduced into our hothouses from Jamaica about 1806, by the late Mr. E. 1. A. Woodford, but continues a very scarce plant ; nor had we met with it for many years before this winter, when it flowered ìn the garden of the Horti- cultural Society, where the drawing was taken. The species comes the nearest of any to speciosa, in which however the leaves are undulate and not glaucous, the stem and flowers entirely smooth, the corolla of a much brighter red without the elongated pouch in front, the column bearded in front, the stigma without a prominent nether lip, and the stem at least three times shorter. In orchioides the stem is two feet high or more, and as well as the inflorescence covered with a frizzly. pubes- cence and appears before the leaves, which are glaucous and not undulated. The corolla terminates downwards in a short thick oblong pouch parallel with the front of the germen, which pouch is formed by the elongated bases of the two outer side-petals enclosing the elongated frizzly bearded base of the label. The column is entirely smooth in front; and the stigma has a prominently recurved nether lip. In speciosa the anther does not occupy the whole space in the back of the column, but in orchioides it does. The drawing in Curtis's Magazine has been taken from ‘a plant in a very different state from the one represented in the present plate, if it is really of the same species. Ours ig clearly the orchioides of Swartz. ‘ — me ) j Z s ED f / /g9« Prandi Ago tl. IOL 2- LA ED | Pl by L ap (PO 702 BERBERIS pinnata. Californian Barberry. dd HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. BERBERIDEZ. Decandolle syst. veg. 2. 4. BERBERIS. Supra vol. 6. fol. 487. foliis impari-pinnatis. B. pinnata, foliis 3-6-jugis iolis oblongo-ovatis, acuminatis, sinuato-denta- tis, uninerviis, utrinque nato ANM racemis aggregatis terminalibus axillaribusque brevibus erectis; bracteis membranaceis ; filamentis apice bidentatis. pz MSS. Berberis pinnata. Lagasca elench. À. madr. 1803. 6. et 1816, 14. Kanth nov. gen. et spec. pl. 6. t. 434, Mahonia fascicularis. Decand. syst. veg. 2. 19. Frutex rigidus suborgyalis ramosus erectus, cortice fusco rimoso deciduo. Rami crebri, foliosi, erecto-patentes. Folia alterna, remotiuscula, impari- pinnata, 3-0-7uga, 4-uncialia ad spithamea, patentia: foliola ita, mb- sessilia, a, opato-acuminata, glabra, sinuato-dentata di 5-12" inequa spinulá albicante prafizis, undulata, teliculete menes, , suprà viridissima atque lucida, subtüs glauco-pallentia, sesqui-biuncialia latitudine semunciali ad uncialem vel magis, basi rotundata: -raris suben- neata ; jugum imum remotius sepeque â fi basi distans: impar terminale subdependens, nuke basi subvordatum, Bag petiolelatem: richie gemifil formis, viridis, ud uo obsoleto exarata, basi se + tata, = pic dila aperia É pi € ) Harami apice aggreg v.-sege. wat gana Ud Basin’ tei, ult’ Birds olus solitarii; pedunculüs. aw boen? filiformis, obels skians; Ml copiar. biBnecres, 1-fori, racted "parbé membrenaccó voat cuspidath conodol ad be iisque binis trünisoe minoribus socis. le v apii ger, , gratissi es. rã coloratus, foliolis 3 ex- pos minimis orbiculatis, intisiis 3. concavis excedentibus petala. Petala 6, equalia, ovali-oblongs; concava, a; elatis up pori dulà di- dymá crocato-flavescente intis ad basin. Fil. petalis opposita a Srovieragee erana, incor, plono-omoeza aco longitudinal dymili atque dente de. flexo. patente acuto v. nunc emarginato «utrinque infra antheram ad apicem. Anth. oblonge, adnate, loculis bivalvibus parallelis discretis â basi ad apicem “valvá dekiscentibus, valvulá alterá majore subelasticà assurgente et in mimnno filamento £recto-persistente. Germ. ovale, supra constrictum, uniloculare, ovulis aumerosis. Stigma sessile crassum, orbiculatum, integerrimum, obsoletà Enero a Bacca (nec misi immaturam vidimus) ovalis, oligosperma. n . The points relied upon by M. de Candolle in separating MAHONIA from. Benes ate, the absepce of the glands of the petals and the presence of the teethlike appendages of . the filaments: the first grounded solely upon the adop- tion of an error originating with Mr. Nuttall, who had overlooked the glands; the other.not constant in the genus, as proved by the samples of Manonta nepalensis in the Lambertian Herbarium, where the filaments are simple. In respect to the difference of habit arising from the une- qually pinnated foliage of the group proposed for MAHONIA, it has been as acutely as judiciously remarked to us by Mr. Brown, that the footstalk of the simple leaf of all Berbe- rides is jointed, a modification known in many cases, par- ticularly in Jasminee, to be a natural step in the pro- gressive transition from the simple to the pinnated or com- pound state of foliation. In BERBERIS tragacanthoides and caraganefolia, although the leaf consists of one or two pair of leaflets without the odd one at the end, the place of that odd one is nevertheless supplied by a trifid spine. . The germen is certainly one-celled and not three-celled, as asserted by Pursh. The result of the review of these as- sumed distinctions proving such, we cannot but feel with Mr. Brown that they afford no pretence for following out the separation of Mamonia from Berseris, and we have consequently considered them of the same genus. The introduction of this highly ornamental shrub is due to Mr. Lambert, who raised it from seed sent to him By Professor Lagasca from the Botanic Garden at Madrid, where it had been obtained from seed collected at Monterey, on the coast of California, by Don Louis Née, the natu- ralist of the expedition under the command of the ill-fated Malespina. The species has been also observed by Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland near Moran, in Mexico, at the height of 1340 fathom above the level of the sea. Two plants of the shrub are now (March) covered with their golden fragrant blossom in the greenhouse at Boyton, where they have attained the height of five or six feet. Don MSS. ' nell A e fod. BR way" . pra " 26 $9 y et AL by 2: Kidgwny 170 7 Ap € n d Auf A Ea 103: SATYRIUM coriifolium. Golden-flowered Satyrium. —— GYNANDBIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDEE. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 1. 309. Div. I. Anthera adnata subterminalis persistens. Pollinis masse è lobulis angulatis elastic? cohwrentibus; basi afixe. Brown ix Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 6. 188. SATYRIUM. Supra vol 5. fol. 418. S. coriifolium, folis ovatis acuminatis subreflexis vaginantibus coriatts, margine membranaceo-crenatis, floribus galeâque cernuis. Swartz in act. holm. 1800. 218. Satyrium coriifolium. Willd. sp, pl. 4. 64. Curtis's magaz, 2172 Satyrium erectum. Thunb. flor. cap. 1.91; (vix tamen Swartzii.) Satyrium cucullatum. iges's bot. cab. 104; (nom aliorum.) Diplectrum coriifolium. Persoon syn. 2. 509. Orchis lutea, caule purpureo-maculato. Roxb. cent. 3.'7. t. 10. Bulbus ovatus, indivisus. Fol. plura bifaria, ima erecto-patentia, cori- acea, ovato-acuminata, basi convoluto-vaginantia, deerescentia. Scapus foliis plurimùm altior, infrà spicam foliaceo-vaginatus, foliorumque bases sepiüs purpureo-maculati. Spica erecta, plurima, sparsa, 3-4-unci- alis, foribus proximis flavissimis uncialibus, bracteis foliaceis ovato-lan- ceolatis florem aquantibus v. superantibus, retrofrangendis. Cor. erecto- nutans, neque supinata, semiringens, nunc m rubro ardente tincta: Jabellum posticum, erectiusculum, petalis altius plurimümque amplius, ovato- galeatum obtusum fornice proj intüs subbarbatá lateribus antrorsum pro- ductis, fronte summá brevi reflexá ; posticê ad basin bicalcaratum, calcaribus rectis subulatis parallelis cavis secundüm dorsum germinis is descen- dentibus: petala distincta, cquilonga, coucolora, germine jéora, Ša- bium inferius reflexum und efformantia ; exteriora 3 archiüs inter se approxi- mata, lateralia lineari-oblonga acuminata, medium lineari-ligulatum pla- num obtusissimum ceteris decurvius duplogue angustius; interiora 2 divari- cato-opposita deorsüm obtiquata , exteriorum medio dora, ceterum cum eo exact? conformia. umna adscendens, galed. inci paulóque bre- vior, chloroleuca, glabra, libera, lineari-elongata, tereti-compressa: stigma terminale, posticum, bilabiatum, obcordato-dilatatum, antrorsúm | flexum, Jabio superiore subtruncat? retuso eroso-denticulato, facie interná secernente ; inferiore equali recurve pro excipiendis retinaculis bicrenato cum rostello me- dio, utrinque margine membranaceá undulaté gu decurrente alate (de imo rictús interlabialis angulo prominet lame In the great majority of orchideous genera the back of the corolla comes round to the front, its position being reversed by a half turn of either the germen or pedicle, a Secondary process consequent upon expansion. In tbe pre- Sent genus no such process takes place, and the corolla re- tains its connatural position till it decays. It was in this genus that the middle petal of the lower lip had been mistaken by Swartz for the label of the corolla, and the mistake rectified by Mr. Brown, who has shown the _ helmet-shaped petal at the back of the flower to be the true label; a part always determinable by its position in relation to the germen, being the middle petal of the three inner ones, all opposite to the three valves of the germen, while the three outer ones are opposite to the three in- tervening prominent riblike sutures. The label is usually different from the other petals, either in consistence, form, or colour ; sometimes in all three ways. We are convinced that the species before us is the same with SATYRIUM erectum of Thunberg's Flora Capensis, though possibly different from the plant intended by Swartz under that name. The drawing of this rare and handsome-flowered vege- table was taken in the greenhouse of Mr. Lee at Hammer- smith; where it had been imported from the Cape of Good Hope, the native place of the species. i We doubt much whether SATYRIUM parviflorum of Swartz (Oncurs bicornis. Jacg. hort. Schenb. 2. 96. t. 179) is distinct from Saryrıum cucullatum (fol. 416) of this work, which is certainly ORcHrs bicornis of the first edition of Hortus Kewensis, and SATYRIUM cucullatum of the se- cond. We believe several of the recorded species of this genus are mere iterations. — — Dispersed in some of the earlier volumes of “ The Jour- nal of Science and the Arts" will be found sixteen coloured representations taken from the living plants of as many rare and curious species of Orchidee belonging to the Cape of Good Hope, all of them executed with great accuracy. The original drawings are in Mr. Brown's library ; but the name of the meritorious Dutch artist, who drew them for Mr. Masson, the then King's collector, is unknown. (See last page of fol. 700.). ; i 704 TUPISTRA squalida. Grey-flowered Tupistra. —-— HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. ASPHODELEE. Brown prod. 1. 274. TUPISTRA. Nobis in Curtis's magaz. 1655. Cor. infera, adscen- dens, carnosula, eupulato-campanulata, 6-fida, limbo subirregulari subinse- quali patente. Antie. parvæ, basi laciniarum ab axi parvå edi peltato: adnate, introrsm. Pistillum urceolato-columnare, inclusum, exsuperans antheras : stylus cum germine isoperimetro continuus aliquotiésque longior, Crassus, rotundato-trigueter, erectus, 8-sulcus, cuniculatus, in stigmata 3 crassiuscula brevia rotundata. ntia intús à toto ambitú plicato-corrugata cum canaliculo medio longitudinali discedens. Germ. viride, oblato-sub- rotundum exsulcum estriatum, repleth-S-loculare loculis collaterali-disper- mis. Bacca? Rhizoma duro-carnosum, conoideum, "yuibiceps, stolonizans, fibras cras- sas tenaces exserens. Folia cuncta radicalia, a. basibus dilatatis rhizoma imbricaté compactöque ambientia, adgcendentia, graminco-virentia, membra- macea, costá mediá firmata, densê nervosa; laneeolaia, 'sesqui-bipedalia la- titudine 4-5-unciali, supra flaccidiora recurvo-patentia acuminata, infernd versus longiüs attenuate é in pedunculum strictum canaliculato- licatum; (omnibus astivatio distincta, spirali-convoluta.) Scapus radicali. p foliis Gliquotiés brevior, reclinato-assurgens, livido-virens, robustus, rigidus, soli- dus, teretiusculus, foliolis nonnullis convolutis lanceolatis ad basin, aliisque weis bracteaceis vagis lineari-lanceolatis apprestis sechs longitudinem. pica terminali-continua (4-5-uncialis) erecta, cylindr , nume- rosa, sparsa, sessilis, crebra, infra laxior, axi â sedibus llu forum interrupiö engalaté: braetex herbaceo-membranose, geminata, una antica mejor corolle equals amtzque supposita lanceolata concuen, altera lateralis interior contigua i pharits minor, Cor. sessilis, adscendens, rachidi obligue accumbens, firma, latà sampanulata, quan alta v. cited, ane violaceo-pallens lucida, intàs enis opaca; tubus eupulatus, extis plicis senis longitudinalibus endi ans totidem. immersis altern? notatus; limbus subbrevior Po recarono patton, abtoletà bilabiatus, laci- niis oblongis obtusis planiusculis ambitá reflexis, imis tribus patentioribus, mediâ minore auctiore depressiore; (latus dorsale corolle propter arctam contra rachidem pressionem discum intrisum cum lateribus marginato- elevatis. Anth». cintia opposite, summo tubo ab axi brevi mediá peltatos adnate, albide, oblato-subrotunde, biloculares, loculis collateralibus basi subdivergentibus apice conniventibus, introrsum verticalitér dehiscentibus: pollen grumoso-farimaceum. Pistillum inclusum, tubo altius, ochroleucum e violaceo dilutiìs nimbatum: stylus crassus, germine pluriós lón- gior, obtusat? trigonus, 9-sulcus, tubulatus, in tres facile solubilis quasi es 3 intüs canaculatis confectus : stig*. lobi crassiusculi trini patentes subrotundi (angulos styli continuantes), intüs opaci plicisque carnosis radiato-rugati et ema medio longitudinali impressi. Germ. viride, stylobatam conti- efram pistilli efformans, subrotundum, ovulis geminis paral- por cujusque. loculi affixa. Plos mane partibos quartam addin Tupistra squalida. Nobis in Curtis’s magaz. 1655. VOL. TX. F The plants we presume to be the nearest kindred of the genus have been noticed in the article AsPIDISTRA lurida (fol. 628) of this publication; beyond them we suspect the direction points towards Dracana and others of Jus- sieu's Asparagi. ; Turistra squalida was introduced into the hothouses of this country about ten years ago by Mr. Loddiges; and is said to belong to Amboyna. The technical name we have applied to the species, on the publication of the genus in Curtis’s Magazine, had been suggested by a faded sample of the inflorescence, and proves disparaging to the true ap- pearance of the blossom when fresh, ìn which state how- ever it endures but for a short time, fading from a lively French-grey to a sombre yellowish hue. Leaves much higher than the scape, of a bright sap- ' green, membranous, nearly upright, stiffened by a midrib, elongatedly lanceolate, closely nerved, deeply tapered down- wards to a narrow channelled petiolelike base, 14 to 2 feet . high and from 4 to 5 inches broad where widest, all radical with their bases compactly alternately and imbricately ambient at the crown of the conical hardfleshed stoloni- ferous rootstock. Scape radical, nearly cylindrical, re- clinedly ascending, robust, rigid, solid. Flowers in à closish scattered spike without scent. Bractes membranous, twin, lanceolate; one close-pressed to the front of the flower and equal to it in length ; the other interior close-' pressed to one side of the flower, of the same shape with, but several times smaller than, that in front. Corolla as- cending, firm and fleshy, hemispherically campanulate, 6- cleft less than half way down; limb spreading and faintly bilabiate, segments obtuse recurved with a reflex border, the middlemost of the three lowermost less than the other, more pointed and, farther reflexed: the upper side of the corolla is flattened and sunk by pressure against the axis of the spike, and its sides rendered sharp atid prominent. An- thers small, sessile, peltately. fixed to the base of the seg- * ments, bilocular, roundish facing inwards, whitish. Pistd urceolately elongated, whitish, higher than the-uncleft por- tion of the corolla. Style an obtusely 3-cornered piped, shaft several times higher than the germen, but equal to i in diameter. Germen green, oblately rounded, even with out streak or furrow solid, 3-celled with two pencilled ovules attached to the base of each cell. | “o : 3 705 - ARCTOPUS echinatus. Mas. Prickly Arctopus. Staminiferous or sterile plant. — POLYGAMIA DIGECIA (PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA). Nat. ord. UMBELLIFERE. Jussien gen. 218. Die. IV. Umbelliferm anomale. UMBELLIFER EL. Sprengel in Rom. .et Schultes dyst. veg. 6. xxix. Tribus I. Forme desciscentes. Sect. Umbelle sub- = capitate. ARCTOPUS. Flores polygami dieci. Involucrum mescule plante 6-phyllum, feming 4-phyllum, demum auctum. Fructus ovati inclusi in involucro turgido spinoso. Sprengel I. c. xxx. ' Arctopus echinatus. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2. 1512. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 1117. ort. Kew. ed. 9. 5.481. Lam. encyc. 4. 674. illustr. t. 885. Thunb. Ji cap. 2. 197. Rom. et Schultes syst. veg. 6. 315. Arctopus. Hort. cliff. 495. ; a Arctopus foliis superne spinis stelliformibus echinatis laciniatis et in cilid di- ductis, floribus umbellatis. Burm. afr. 1. tab. 1. : Valerianoides cortusee Mathioli facie planta athiopica, foliorum ad laciniás superna parte spinis stelliformittr echinata et ad oras pilis longioribus fimbriata. Pluk, mant. 155. 1.271. fig. 5. - ` Radix filiformis profundè descendens longa resinosa. Caulis 0. Fol. radicalia plurima, terra adpressa, in stelle formam expansa, imbricata, interiora sensim minora, subcuneiformi-ovata, inciso-trifida; lacinie laci- pos pd inciso-trifidar dentate, omni margine ciliis longis brunneis ; 'd viridia, glabra, rugosa venosa spinosa, subtus eraso-nervosa lacunota pallida inermia, 1-2-pollic, Spine ad basin incineraywm omniam stelli- formes, basi late, 3- v. multipartite, lateralibus minoribus, ovate, u rascentes, apice pungentes, flavescentes, Petioli lati lineares albi glabri, suprà plant, margine tenui, sublüs convert margine utrinque sulco aplicó, radici verticillatim inserti, basi erecti, inde patentes semidigitales, lores radicales, perfect dioici. Mas. Umbell. univers. longa inequalis. Pe- dunc. 1 v. 2, 3-goni, glabri, albi, patentissimi, inequales, extimi digitales, interiores unguiculares. Umbell. partial. brevis kemispherica multiflora. Pedicelli erecti aibi 1 fori, lineam longi. Involucr. univers. hyllum, foliola lanceolata acuminata erecta tenuissima alba pedunculis multo breviora, unguicularia. Partiale 1-phylium, ad basin ferê 5-partitum erectum longi- tudine umbellule ; lacinia integre v. 2-fide, v. sepe 3-fide lanceolate acw- minate spinose glabre virides margine rubro, lacinule laterales minores. Cal. proprius 5-partitus minimus erectus rufescens. Cor. univers. uniformes; propria 5-petala.- Pet‘. margine receptaculi inserta, cum calyce alternantia, lanceolata, incurva, acuta: apicibus inflexis, extús canaliculatis, margini- bus exstantibus, calyce duplo longiora subundulata alba. Fil. 5, recepti. margini intra calycem inserta, subulata, erecta, apice incurva, alba corollâ duplo longiora, lineam longa, fertilia polline. Anth®. ovata, dorso a Purpurascentes. Germ. planum. dilatatum subdidymum superum gi purpurascens. Styli 2 subulati sulco germinis inserti erecti brevissimi purpu- rei decidui longitudine vix calycis. d simplicia acuta. Pericarp. sterili- F abortiens. Fem. Umbell. univers. ut in mare pedunculis crassioribus. Par tial. sepissime 4-flora, raro 5-flora, floribus sessilibus. Invol. univers. ut in mare, sed latius et longitudine pedunculorum. Partiale 1-phyllum erectum glabrum viride marginibus purpureum. umbellulá longius, 4-5-partitum pro numero flosculorum; lacinie ovate extús carinate, intüs concave acuminate, apice pungenti-spinoso et flavescente, 5-fide, laciniis utringue binis subulatis minoribus. Cal. proprius 5-phyilus corolla similis. Cor. 6-petala cum calyce alternatim margini germinis inserta equalis. Pet. ovata minutissima erecta acuta incarnata. Fil*.0. Anthe.0. Germ. sertiforme glabrum. Styli 2 basi crassi intús sulcati extús converi apice divaricati subulati albi lineam longi corollá multd longiores. . Stig*. simplicia, obtusa, fuscescentia. Thunb. Le. apud Rem. et Schultes 1. c. This singuler little species is the sole member of its genus, and we believe the only one of its Natural Family that ranks in this Class and Order of the Linnean system. It appears to have excited peculiar interest in Professor Thunberg, who has recorded it in the Flora of the Cape of Good Hope by the above elaborate detail. The plant in its native place is said to be in repute for certain medicinal virtues. In the view of proving these, the requisite quantity of roots was sent over to this country; and of these some were grown in the collection at Kew, where the subject flowered from which our drawing has been taken by the favour of Mr. Aiton. We understand its medicina] reputation turned out perfectly ungrounded. The species was first introduced by Mr. Masson, the King's collector, in 1774, but does not appear to have: fiowered till now. It is said to be very common all about Cape Town. Nap. A. Y [2 wag /, 79 WYD Ma Tedy D e f. e M. Hard. del. 706 MUSA rosacea. Mauritius Plantain-Tree. —-— POLYGAMIA MONGCLA. Nat. ord. Musa (MusacEx). Jussieu gen. 61. MUSA. Cal. profundi 2-partitus, lobo superiore et exteriore 5-dentato, inferiore et interiore cordato-concavo. Germ. oblongum; stylus cylindra- ceus; stigma capitatum 6-radiatum. Bacca cucumerina loculis et seminibus ob pulpam evanidis. Flores in spadice terminales, spathis persistentibus tecti, 5-andri, filamento sexto sterili et germine abortivo; cateri omnes fru- eri et 1-andri, filamentis 5 sterilibus.. Caulis herbaceus assurgens, vaginis oliorum longissimis tectus; spadiz, solitarius cernuus. Semina vidit phius in plantá sylvestri. Juss. loc. cit. M. rosacea, spadice nutante (v. erecto) floribus masculis deciduis, spathis ellipticis obtusissimis, fructâ oblongo. Willd. "sp: A Musa rosacea. Jacg. hort. schamb. 4. 22. t. 445. UU enum 1096. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. y^ There is some difference in the representation of this plant in Jacquin's work from the one before us, but we really believe the apparent difference arises principally from the upper portion of Jacquin’s plant being withered before opening. An accident prevented our being able to exa- mine the subject so accurately as we wished. Thes has been called rosacea by Jacquin, not from the colour of the spathe, but from the form into which the valves of the S| athe expand at the upper withered end in his sample. o not believe that Spadir erectus and Spadix nutans . Me available marks of distinction. Introduced from. the Mauritius by Sir Joseph Banks in 1805. Drawn at the ` Bayswater collection belonging to Cointesse des Vandes, where the plant flowered in the winter. “ The Banana or Plantain is generally considered to be * of Indian origin; Baron Humboldt, however, has lately * suggested that several species of Musa may possibly be “ confounded under the names of Plantain and Banana, * and that part of these species may be supposed to be in- * digenous of America. PHow far the general traditiou s aad to obtain both in Mexico and Terra ] Firma, as well « ag the assertion of Garcilasso della Vega respecting Peru, * may establish the fact of the Musa having been cultivated “ ìn the new continent before the arrival of the Spaniards, “ I do not mean at present to inquire: but in opposition to “ the conjecture referred to, it may be advanced that there ** js no circumstance in the structure of any of the states of * the Banana or Plantain, cultivated in India or the islands “ of equinoctial Asia, to prevent their being all considered * as merely varieties of one and the same species, namely * Musa sapientum; that their reduction to a single species ** js even confirmed by the multitude of varieties that exist; “by nearly the whole of these varieties being destitute of * seeds; and by the existence of a plant indigenous to the “ continent of India (Musa sapientum. Roxb. corom. 1.275), * producing perfect seeds; from which, therefore, all of * them may be supposed to have sprung. “To these objections to the hypothesis of the plurality * of species of the Banana, may be added the argument “ referred to* as contributing to establish its Asiatic origin; * for we are already acquainted with at least five distinct “ species of Musa in equinoctial Asia, while no other spe- “ cies has been found in America; nor does it appear that “the varieties of the Banana, cultivated in that continent, “ may not equally be reduced to Musa sapientum as those * of India: and lastly, it is not even asserted that the types “ of any of those supposed species of American Banana, “ growing without cultivation, and producing perfect seeds, * have any where been found. * That the Bananas now cultivated in equinoctial Africa * came originally from India, appears to me equally pro- ** bable, though it may be allowed that the Ensete of Bruce ** (trav. 5. 36.) is perhaps a distinct species of this genus, y ad indigenous only to Africa." Brown, botany of Congo, , 52. We have added to the drawing of the inflorescence of the natural size, another plate containing an outline of the whole plant in flower. — "-— WN * “ Namely, that in doubtful cases, where other arguments were equal, “* it would appear more probable that the plant in question should belong to “ that country in which all the other species of the same genus were found de- “ cidedly indigenous, than to that where it was the only species of the same ** genus known to exist.” Brown, un 707 SANVITALIA „procumbens. Trailing Süovilalia. 7 —M— "SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Nat. ord. Compositz. Adanson fam. 2. 103, . CORYMBIFERA. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. V. SYNANTHEREE. Cassini tn diet. sc. mat. 10. 131. Tribus IX. HELIANTHEE. Cassini loc. cit. 20. 369. SANVITALIA. Cal. bemisphericus, patens, foliolis planis ovelibus biseriatis. Cor. radiata: discus numerosus, lis hermaphroditis tubu- losis limbo 5-partito: radins flosculis subduodenis ligulatis laminâ ovali sub- integrá patente. Filz. brevissima, capillaria: anthe.oblonge. Germ. com- pressum, pubescens; stylus staminibus longior; stiga. 2 replicata, Sema. nuda; disci subcuneata, complanata, marginibus ciliata; radii turbintits, dentibus 3 subulatis coronata. Recept. conicum, paleaceum paleis lingala- tis concavis striatis. Lamarck encyc. 6. 509; (+ gallico.) S. procumbens, foliis ovatis, oppositis, superioribus subalternis hirsutis; ra- mis oppositis scabris. Lamarck encyc. 6. 600. Sanvitalia procumbens. “Lamarck journ. d'hist. nat. 2. 178. t. 38. illustr. gen. t. 686. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 2190. enum. 2. 212. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 109. Sanvitalia villosa. “Cavan ic. 4. 31. 4.361. | sito-ramosis, virescentibus aut viridi-purpurascentibus, cylindricis realis subvillosis 10-15-uncialibus: rami ineguales br feriores longiores infern? oppo- 3 5-8-lineari, S-nervia, basi in petiolum attenuata: inferiora distantiora. Flores terminales, solitarii, sessiles, basi foliolis bracteaceis cincti. Cal. subpubescens, Inteo-virens, squamis biseriatis ovalibus planis subpatentibus. Cor. magnitudine mediocri; radius potentissimus flosculis vivid? luteis ( subtQs nervis 7 viridibus) discus conicus v. ovatus flosculis nigricantibus numerosis parvis. Anth*. virides. Semina villosa ciliata mubbifornia, disci cuneato- complanata obtusa apice nuda, radii turbinata, dentibus tribus. acutis di- stantibus coronata. Lam. loc. cit. (? gall. vers.). Native: of Mexico, and originally sent from thence. to the Botanic Garden at Madrid, from whence the seed was brought into this country in [798, by the late Lady Bute. The drawing was taken from a plant raised by Mr. Barker Webb, from seed procured: froh. the botanic. ésta- blishment of Count Parolini at-Bassnnb. We had never met with it in any of the nurséries about London. It is a hardy annual, usually flowering in the autumn. The flower reminds one of that of some of the small Rup- . BECKIZ; the foliage has been likened to that of a VERBESINA or a BIDEus. The species does not seem to have fallen in the way of Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland during their botanical re- searches in Mexico, no mention being made of it in the “ Nova Genera et Species" of M. Kunth. The seed of the disk is described as cuneately compress- ed with a naked top; of the ray as turbinate and crowned with three subulate teeth. We have not ventured to place it in any of the five sections under which M. Cassini has attributed his tribe of Helianthee, not having had an op- portunity of inspecting any part of the plant ourselves. The names of these sections are, 1, Helianthew-heleniea : 2. Helianthece-coreopsidem: 3. Helianthee-prototypee: 4. Helianthew-rudbeckiee: 5. Helianthee-milleriew. Each of which is distinctly characterized in vol. 20. p. 347. of Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles. | —— By the later Volumes of the “ Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles” we find that Herranrnus has been distributed by M. Cassini under three subgenera (definite sections of a nus with a title not necessarily independent of the principal one); and that genus happening to have been exemplified in the present work by three species, each of which falls under a distinct section of this new arrangement, we shall take the opportunity of a vacant leaf to add some account of them, with versions of their characters from the French ° text, keeping as clear a8 we can of the inexpedient neology of the original. Tribus IX. HELIANTHEX. Cass. Sect. 9. HELIANTHRE-PROTO- TYPEE. Germ. sepids 4-gonum bilateraliter compressum (diametro trans- verso angustiore); pappus radiis filiformibus, triquetro-subulatis, aut palea- ceis, persistentibus aut caducis. Cass. dict. sc. mat. 20. 347; (òè gall. vers.) J. HELIANTHUS. Cor, radiata: disco hermaphrodito, numeroso, regulari; radio neutro simplici ligulato. Cal. disco longior, foliolis herba- ceis pauciseriatis imbricatione irregulari, squarroso-laxatis, interné versüs- decrescentibus, szpiüs lineari-acuminatis. Recept. convéxum, paleis semi- amplectentibus oblongis acutis brevioribus disco. Germina oblonga bilate- reli-compressa : pappus opposite bipaleaceus, paleis sublanceolatis articula- tis caducis, una antica, altera postica. Radii flosculis lamina. elliptics, stylus O, pseudo-germen absque ovulo, pappus semiabortivus. Cass. À c. 351. (? gall. vers.) € = This is the principal or prototype section, and consists of about thirty recorded species, the great majority of which -belong to America. In them the root is almost always perennial, the stem generally herbaceous, often very. tall, rarely of a woody consistence, the leaves sometimes oppo- Site, sometimes alternate, commonly three-nerved or with a triple-branched nerve, frequently rigid and roughened like shagreen, the flowers yellow and usually disposed in co- rymbs. It is discriminated from HARPALIUM and Lerenta, the other two sections, by a pappus of two jointed opposite caducous pales, by a two-ranked calyx which is higher than the disk of the corolla, and.composed of herbaceous irregularly imbricated concentrically diminishing squar- rosely diverging leaflets. This group is exemplified by Hg- LIANTHUS pubescens (vol. 7. fol. 524.) of our Register. : IL HARPALIUM. Cor. radiata: disco hermaphrodito numeroso re- lari; radio neutro simplici ligulato. Cal. hemispheericus, arctè imbricatus, isco brevior, foliolis subcoriaceis ovalibus obtusis inappendiculatis. Resept. convexum, paleis subfoliaceis, disco brevioribus, gemiamplectentibea, ob- longis, obtusis. Germina compressa, obovato-oblonga, hispida: peppus membranaceus uniseriato-pluripaleaceus caducus, paleis 2 magnis uno antico altero postico, reliquis lateralibus parvulis oblongis. Radii flosculis Aguia lata, stylus O, pseudo-germ. ovulo nullo. Cass. É. c. 20. 300; (: è gall. vers.) This section is distinguished from the first and last by a one-ranked pappus of several paleaceous radii, a bemi- ` spherical calyx of coriaceous closely and larly imbri- cated unappendicled leaflets shorter than the disk of th corolla, and by the round-pointed palese of the recept&el It consists at present of three published species, viz. aires (Hetianraus aureus. Kunth nov. gen. et spec.), truxillense H. truxillensis. Kunth I. c.), and rigidum, which is the HELIANTHUS atrorubens (vol. 6. fol. 508.) of tbe present publication. It seems that M. Cassini was utterly unap- prized of the true synonymy of the species. III. LEIGHIA. Cor. radiata: disco he ito, multifloro, regu- lari; radio neutro simplici ligulato. Cal. turtinttus, aller disco, foliolis numerosis, regularitêr et arctê imbricatis, oblongis, coriaceis, terminatis herbaceo foliiformi sani levatum, paleis recurve-paiemte. Ml issi . i , le: , membranaceo-folisoeis, brevioribus disco, amplectenübus, lanceolata, Sema, obkomge, bienal - compressa, hispidula: pappi radii plures serie hend imis contis, Lercnta differs from the preceding sections or subgenera by a one-ranked pappus of several permanent radii or pieces, of which two are large, opposite, filiform and 3-cor-- nered, the rest small and paleaceous (chaffy); as well as by a calyx higher than the disk of the corolla and com- posed of regularly imbricated close-pressed leaflets, each of which is surmounted by a large recurvedly spreading appendage resembling the leaves of the plant. There are three published species that belong here: 1. elegans, the HeziaNtHUS linearis (vol. 7. fol. 523.) of this Register, of the synonymy of which M. Cassini seems to have had only un uncertain knowledge: 2. bicolor, the Heuiantnus angus- tifolius of Linnseus: 3. microphylla, the Heısanttzus micro- phyllus of Kunth. (Vid. nov. gen. et spec. 4. 990. t. 375.). The genus Vieurera of Kunth is said by M. Cassini to differ from his HARPALIUM and L&rGHIA only by its one- ranked calyx and elevated conical receptacle. He suspects moreover that HELIANTHUS parviflorus of Kunth, with a ca- lyx very near to that of Vıeviera, but a pappus and recep- tacle of the true HELIANTAUS, may form a fourth subgenus; for which however he proposes no name. — 'TrrHoniA tagetiflora, vol. 8. fol. 591. of this work, be- longs to the first section of the Helianthee of M. Cassini, entitled Helianthec-heleniee; as does also HELENIUM qua- dridentatum of the same volume, fol. 598. HE iopsis canescens (see above in vol. 8. fol. 592.) be- longs to the fourth section of the Helianthee of the same author, entitled Helianthea:-rudbeckiew. 704 708 CAMELLIA japonica: +. Iuteo-albicans. Basington's New Camellia.. — Áá—— MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Nat. ord. AURANTIA. Jussieu gen. 202. Div. III. Fructus polysper- mus capsularis. Folia non punctata, Genera AURANTIIS: * et MELIIS affinia. CAMELLIEE. Decand. théor. ed. 1. 214. THEACEE. Mirbel in nouv, bullet. 3. 382. CAMELLIA, Supra vol. 1. fol. 22. Camellia japonica. Vide suprà vol. 1. fol. 22. (7) flore subpleno luteo-albicante;, staminibus cum petalis intermixtis. A presumptive variety of CawELLIA japonica, now first introduced from China by Mr. Basington, of the Kings- land Nursery; and wé are told is not to be met with in any other collection in this country. . x 62 Ml. Hart. del 2 / y yt 4 Le iif LIPO? v^ Malt sa is $t ^ 77] UNAM ae PAR P 2, A SAU /70 CANADA Ad tf ‘ “Wy. Es /Ü Ls 709 ARTHROPODIUM cirratum. New-Zealand Arthropodium. — HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. ASPHODELEA. Brown prod. 1. 274. ARTHROPODIUM. Cor. sexpartita, patens, laciniis interioribus margine undulatis v. fimbriatis: decidua. File. barbata. Amthere basi emarginate inserte. Germ. loculis polyspermis. Stylus filiformis. Stigma hispidulum. Caps. subglobosa, S-loc., 3-valy., valvis medio septiferis. Sema. pauca, subangulata, umbilico nudo. Embryo curvatus. Herbm glabre. Radix fasciculata, è bulbis nunc pedicellatis fibrisve crassis. Folia linearia, flaccida. Racemi laxi. Pedicelli aggregati v. so- litarii, medio articulati. Flores penduli, ascentes v. albi: corollá post anthesin. conniventi et longè ante fructüs maturitatem deciduá, basi cy- athiformi emarcidá remanente. Anthere v. albicantes. ANTHE- RICO proximum genus. Brown prod. 1. 276. . A. cirratum; racemo diviso, bracteis foliaceis, pedicellis fasciculatis, peta- lis interioribus integerrimis, filamentorum dimidio barbato basi biap) diculato, foliis lanceolato-ensiformibus. Brown in Curtis magaz, 2350. Anthericum cirratum. Forst. prod. n. 148. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 146. We have to regret the having been unable to avail our- selves of the opportunity of adding a“detailed description of this interesting species; amply distinguishable from its congeners by several striking peculiarities, but most curi- ously by the two downy curled appendages that spring from the lowermost termination of the upper bearded por- tion of each of the filaments. The anthers are greenish, and coil themselves backwards so as ultimately to form a complete circle. The plant belongs to New Zealand, and bad been origi- nally observed by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Solander, during their well-known voyage. There is a figure of it in Mr. Brown's collection, done by the draughtsman who ac- companied that expedition; but the species was onl known to the public by the short record we have cited from Forster's work, till now introduced into our gardens by the way of New Holland, where the seed had been carried from New Zealand. The drawing was taken at Mr. Colvill's Nursery, in the King’s Road, Chelsea; where the plant had been raised from imported seed, and flowered last April in the con- servatory. Mn. —————X E Yb mmm mh Ron mei tnl vL IE, /7, d / 710 SYMPLOCOS sinica. Chinese Symplocos. —]"-— POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. (POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Pere) Nat. ord. GUAIACANE. Jussieu gen. 155. Dio, IT. Stamina indefinita. SYMPLOCOS. Cal. 5-fidus, superus. Cor. 5-8-petala, petalis basi in tubum cohzrentibus. Stamina 4-plici serie tubo corolle aecreta. Drupas sicca, G-locularis. Persoon syn. 2. 74. TM 8. sinica, foliis elliptico-lanteolatis, utrinque pubescentibus “subcorrugato- venosis : foliolis calycinis acuminatis. un Frutex pubescens, ramis adscendentibus hirsutis. Fol. altern? subdistan- tia, intervallis aliquotiós longibra, patentia, cano-virentia, elliptico-lanceg- lata, acuta, serrata dentibus mucronatis appressis, utrinque attenuata, suprà immers? nervosa subcorrugato-retioulata appressê villosa; subtüs vari. kirsutiora: petiolus 1-2 linearis teres hirsutus. Flores jucundissimê odori, in ramis novellis folioso-paniculati; cymule pauciflore, alterne, extraazil- lari-laterales et terminales, foliis supra et extra axillam plùs minüsve approxi- mate aliquotiösque breviores, subtrichotome, pedunculo brevi tereti virenti hirsuto assurgenti flore vix longiore, pedicellis 1-floris calyce brevioribus pra- ter medium nudum bracteas 2-3? erectas philyraceas lineari-angustas acutas germen remotum aquantes hirsutas deciduas gerentibus. Cal. pallesoens, 5- phyllus, stellatus, corolla aliquotizs longiori a; , germinis continuus, appresse hirsutus persistens, foliolis cum petalis alternis, subequalibus an- gulari-acuminatis, intüs glabris. Cor. eandida, opaca, duplici serie imbri- cato-rotata diametrá ix semunciali, vegeta atque integra und cum staminibus caduca, petalis 5 (rariñs 4, 6, v. 7) oblongis ellipticis concavis apice ro- tundatissimis, bast:tnvicdm et cum staminibus imbri ütis, summi ger- minis ambitú sub calyce insertis, Stam”. alba, polyadelpha, numerosa, sub- Aseriata, radiato-patentia, imá corollá inserta brevique inter se connata, exteriora subexserta divaricatiora, interiora breviora erectiora, fasciculi 5, fil. acuta basi oblongê incrassata, anth*. suiphureæ, parvsla, súbrotundo- didyme, erectæ, biloculares. Stylus albus, columellaris, stamina interiora @quans, rectus, compressiusculus, bisulcus quasi ez 2 coadunatis conflatus, germinis disco ad ambitum glandulis 5 lucidis coloratioribus sym- metric? bullato-insertus: stig’. apex abrupt? obtusus virescens secernens, styli diametrum vix excedens. Germ. inferum, viridi-canescens, turbinatum, pe- dicelli continuum, appressê villosúm, calyce paulo longius, 2-loculare, disse- pimento medio verticali utrinque seminifero divisum, ovulis in loculo paucis, lei viridibus, oblongis, obovato-attenuatis v. subaciniformibus, “A small shrub with a delightfully fragrant blossom, just introduced by Mr. Basington of the Kingsland Nursery, where the drawing was taken in March last. It is said to have come from China in company with the variety of Cameııra japonica, No. 708, in the present fasciculus. We have placed our plant in the present genus, it being clearly a congener of a Nepalese sample deposited by Dr. Buchanan in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium under the title SyMprocos crateegoides, which differs principally in having a shorter broader nearly round leaf and blunt calycine leaf- lets. But neither species can belong to SYMpL0cos if our view of the structure of the germen is correct, and indeed the plants seem altogether of a different habit from those species which are at present allotted to SYMPLocos. We believe they will be to be formed into a separate genus by some one who has a closer knowledge of their natural affinities than we, owing to accidental causes, are enabled at pre- sent to acguire. In a future article we shall probably return to the subject; which is certainly an interesting one. Mr. Brown has separated the first division of Jussieu's Guaiacane into a distinct order, by the title Ebenacee (prod. 1. 524.) ; of these our plant is clearly no coordinate. 711 PHYLICA capitata. Downy-headed Phylica. —M— PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. RHAMNEE. Brown gen. rem. in Flind. voy. 2.554. Cal. 1-phyllus, 5-fidus, equalis, wstivatione valvatá. Petala staminibus toti- dem opposita, laminis concavis includentibus antheras, nunc omnind desunt. Stamina cum segmentis calycinis alterna : germen loculamentis 2-3, ovulo unico in uniquoque : o erectus, stepiüs in axi albuminis carnosi posi- tus, vel nunc albumine nullo. ES AE UU E Hc Ruamnus, ZIZIPHUS, PALIURUS, CEANOTHUS (quo viz diyno- scenda POMADERRIS), COLLETIA, CRYPTANDRA PHYLICA, GOUANIA, VENTILAGO, forsängue et Hoventa; De predictis non dubitandum plurimis affines esse RHAMNEZ cum BUTTNERIACEIS, indeque inopinata affinitas inter RHAMNEAS et MALVACEAS emicare videtur.. Brown; (ex anglico versum.) . . . PHYLICA. Calyx turbinatus 6-fidus. Petala 5 squamiformia minima (vel nulla). Stam. 5 parva, sub petalis. - Stylus 1; stigma 1. Caps. (in- terdim subbaccata) subrotunda 3-cocca coccis monospermis, intüs angulatis et dehiscentibus : Suffrutices er folia alterna aut verticillatim op posita, plerumque non stipulacea; flores sepiüs capitati terminales capitu densé involucrato rariüs distincti axillares, uide diocl quidam 3-stigma- tosi. Character REAMNORUM, habitus diversus. Juss, 16.981. . Um M P. capitata, foliis lineari-lanceolatis villosis, bracteis lanatis, capitulis ter- minalibus, Thunb. 45. - ^ Phylica capitata. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1109. . E Phylica pubescens. Hort. Pv. 1. 268. ed. 2. 2. 19.'. Chameælea pilosa angustissimo folio, capite lanuginoso. Burm. afr. 121. t. 44. fig. 3. or Capit terminalia, sessilia, solitaria diametro unciali plurive, imbricato- foliosa, foliolis numerosis ramorum imbricato-continuis, equalibus paten- fibus undique villosissimis v. hirsutis foliorum ramorum minoribus at- que plurimum pallidioribus. Flores plurimi, spicato-approzimati, sessiles, azillares, intra foliola latentes, erecti, dba binis hen tubo alibus stipati: calyx inferus. us infundibuliformis semi , extis pe pr intüs villosiusculus, tubo inferaê vernis subat- compressis: petala nulla. Stam". 5 inchisa introrsùm deflexo-conniventia, Maler dekiscentibus. Stylus brevis viridis columnaris teres apice glanduloso stigmatoso obluso isoperimetro. Germ. depressum tricoccum nectari- fero tubi immerso. Introduced from the Cape of Good Hope. Drawn at Mr. Colvill's. A greenhouse plant of little beauty. VOL. 1x. H * RHAMNEm. Into this order I admit such genera only as have the germen cohering more or less with the tube of the calyx, of which the lacinie have a valvular zestivation ; stamina equal in number to these lacinie, and alternating with them; a germen with two or three cells and a single erect ovulum in each ; an erect embryo generally placed in the axis of a fleshy albumen or entirely without albumen: the petals, which are opposite to the stamina, and inclose the antherz in the concave lamine, are in some cases want- ing." * With these characters RHAMNUS, ZizipHUS, PALIURUS, CzaNorHUs (from which PoMADERRIS is hardly distinct), COLLETIA, CRYPTANDRA, PHYLICA, Gouania, VENTILAGO, and probably Hoventa, correspond. In comparing this descrip- tion of RHAMNE& with that of BuTTNERIACE formerly given, they will be found to coincide in so many important points, that the near relationship of these orders cannot be doubted, and thus an unexpected affinity seems to be proved between Ruamnez and MALvACE/E.” * In Terra Australis upwards of thirty species of RHAM- NEE, belonging to ZiztPHUs, CRANOTHUS, POMADERRIS, Cor- LETIA, and CRYPTANDRA, have been observed, and chiefly in its principal parallel or southern regions.” — Brown in Flind. v0y.2. 504. 112 LONICERA flexuosa. Tate's new Chinese Honeysuckle. — ——— — PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. CAPRIFOLIA. Jussieu gen. 311. Div. I. Calyx canaliculatus, aut bracteatus. Stylus unicus. Corolla monopetala. LONICERA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 31. Div. Chamecerasa, pedunculis bifloris. L. flexuosa, floribus subsessilibus baccis distinctis, foliis ovatis integris glabris, caule flexuoso. Thunb. in act. soc. linn. 2. 330. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 989. : Lonicera nigra. Thunb. jap. 89. Rami divaricati flexuoso-erecti teretes villosi. Folia opposita petiolata ovata margine reflexa nervosa (venosa W.?) glabra nervis parüm villosa, pollicaria, superioribus minoribus. Flores axillares brevitér pedunculati, pedunculis vix lineam longis. Bacce distincte ovate acuminate nigre. Thunb. 1, c. Native of China. In many points of its general habit an anomaly not only among our European species, but even compared with the only Chinese one yet known in our gardens, viz. LONICERA japonica, figured in the first volume of our Register. 'lhe nature of the fragrance is entirely distinet from any European plant, and resembles that peculiar to tropical plants. Quite new to our collec- tion, where it has been lately introduced by Mr. Tate, of the Sloane Square Nursery. A greenhouse plant, extremely fragrant. m FR 0% Y, 713 MARICA carulea. Blue Northiana. <> TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. ENSATE. Linn. ord. nat. VI. Nobis in Ann. of Bot. 1. 219. InipEs. Jussieu gen. 57. Ymipkxm. Brown prod. 1. 302. MARICA. Supra vol. 3. fol. 229. Div. I. Stigmatibus petaliformibus coadunatis. Marice v. Cipuræ, America intratropice. Nob. suprà p. 4. vol. 3. fol. 229. M. cerulea, scapo numerosifloro erecto, spathâ non viviparä; (ut in Ma- RICA northìanâ.) A newly observed species from the Brazils; very near to the beautiful and well-known Marica northiana, but in that the lamina of the larger segments of the corolla is white, blue in this; in that the flowers are fewer, the flower-stem viviparous and bent backwards to the ground, where the young plant that is produced within the spathe takes root; here the stem is quite upright and straight, and the spathe not viviparous. Leaves from four to six feet high. + d La d A uL : . E 7 (PO Sete s 714 AMARYLLIS Belladonna: 2. pallida. Pale-flowered Belladonna Lily. mto HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Nat. ord. Narcisst, Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germen inferum, AMARYLLIDER. Brown prod, 1. 296. Sect. I. AMARYLLIS. Supra vol. 3. fol. 226. Div. IV. Bi-multiflora. Corolle tubus nudus. Folia bifaria. Nobis supra vol. 8. fol. 623: (24°,) A. Belladonna, pedicellato-multiflora; folis ligulatis canaliculatis scapo brevioribus, corollà nutante elongato-turbinatà, suprà recurvo-patente, rectissimâ: tubo subnullo. Nob. in journ. of scien. and the arts, 2. 359. Amaryllis Belladonna. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1.421. L’Heritier sert. angl. 12. J. Miller illustr. Hort. Kew. 1. 417. ed. 2. 2. 225. Nobis in Curtiss magaz. 733. Willd. sp. pl. 254; (exclusis undique Sloane, Her- mann, Seba, Merian, atque Swartz, ad AMARYLLIDEM equestrem re- ferendis. ) Lilio-narcissus indicus fl. elegantissime purpurascente. Weinm. phyt. 3. 276. t. 653. fig. A. Narcissus polyanthos lilacino flore. Rudb. elys. 2. 48. fig. 7; (figura Fer- rario desumpta. ) Narcissus indicus liliaceus diluto colore perpurpurascens. Ferrarius floril. 117. t. 121. (8) Pallida; minor flore pallidiore. Nobis in journ. of science and the arts. 2, 359. Amaryllis pallida. Redoute liliac. 479. Herbert append. 15. (2) Bulbus sepe ovo olorino major, indusiis fibroso-me mbranacis plexi bus intergerinis bombycino-fibrosis ex filis sericeis spiralibus ductilibus. Folia plura, angustiüs, fusco-virentia, 7-10-uncialia latitudine vir $ uncie exce- dente, floribus olim tardiora. Scapus foliis longior, solidus, compressus, se- piüs purpurascens. Spatha pedunculis coloratis germinis concoloris clavato- continuis duplo longior. Flores albido-rosei, suaveolentes, triunciales v. ultra. Corolle laciniis lanceolatis, deorsúm attenuatis longiüs imbricatis, sold basi concrescentibus, exterioribus latioribus margine omnino liberá. Fil. fascicu- lata, declinata, corollá & parte breviore, inegualia: anthera vibratiles. Stigmata lobuli 3 breves intense rubentes. Germ. turbinato-oblongum, tri- gonum loculis biseriato-polyspermis. Semina pauca, tuberoso-laxata. Nob. in journ. of sci. and the arts, 1. c. In Redouté's Liliacées our plant has been considered distinct from the well-known Belladonna-Lily : judging for ourselves, we are inclined to believe it a variety. We can find no technically available distinction ; and there are several intermediate acknowledged varieties that have per- suaded us of the inexpediency of separating the two with- out actual proof. (8) is a known native of the Cape of Southern Africa, and has been frequently imported from the Cape of Good Hope. We have no doubt that (x) is from the same re- gion, and that its supposed West Indian origin has arisen entirely from its having been mistaken for the plant of Sloane, Hermann, Swartz, and others, who have in view AMARYLLIS equestris, long confounded with AMARYLLIS Bel- ladonna. The drawing was taken at Mr. Colvill’s Nursery, where the plant flowers freely and ripens seed. 715 IL Aa. Le v alla Lane tt EI bly e G LA ur / TO Kee 715 PANCRATIUM australasicum. Cunningham’s Pancratium. — AA HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. NARCISSI. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. IT. Germen inferum. AMARYLLIDEX. Brown prod.1. 206. Sect. I. PANCRATIUM. Supra vol. 3. fol. 221. P. australasicum, foliis petiolatis, laminà nervoso-costatâ, coronâ brevissimâ omninó sexpartità. —————— cm Án unrecorded plant from the interior of New South Wales, where it was lately observed and sent to England by Mr. Cunningham, the zealous and intelligent investigator of the objects of natural history found in the newly ex- plored inland parts of those regions. Comes very close to PANCRATIUM amboinense, admirably figured by Mr. Sydenham Edwards in Curtiss Botanical Magazine (1419); but is altogether a smaller plant, where the short crown of the flower is sixparted to the very bot- tom, which is not the case in the other species. Drawn at Mr. Colvill's Nursery in the King's Road. A hothouse plant. VOL. IX. i 116 TABERNZEMONTANA laurifolia. Luurel-leaved Tabernemontana. — — PENTANDRIA Mi ONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. APOCYNER. Brown prod. 1.485; et supra vol. 4. fol. 338, Div. II. Semina non comosa. Fructus bifollicularis. TABERNZEMONTANA. Suprà vol. 4. fol. 338. T. laurifolia, foliis oppositis ovalibus obtusiusculis, Mill. dict, ed. 8. a. 3. Tabernemontana Tau olia. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1244. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2.72. Tabernæmontana foliis oppositis ovatis, pedunculis paucifloris, staminibus . inclusis. Jacg. amer. 39. Tabernemontana frutescens : foliis subnitidis ovatis venosis. Browne jam. 182. Tabernamontana laurifolia, flore albo, fructá rotundiore. Amm. herb. 212. Nerium arboreum, folio latiore obtuso, flore luteo minore. Sloane ji jam. 164. hist. 2. 62. 4.186. fig. 2 ` Lactescens. Flores odoratissimi. Cal. coriaceo-crassus, campanulatus, Inteo-virens . 5-fidus, corolla tubo pluris brevior, subequalis, segmentis imbricato-conni- ventibus opato-rotundis extús convexis papilloso-porosis totis exsudato visco An old but not common shrub in our hothouses.. In-, troduced from the West Indies. Drawn at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, in the King's Road. 12 M. Hart. del Gaby I. Kedgaray (70 ad p Same SSIES, 718 toe TROP/EOLUM peregrinum. ——— 7 Fringed-flower Indian Cress, or Canary-bixd-flower,. — OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. GERANIA. Jussieu gen. 268. Div. Genera Gerauiis affinia, TROPZEOLUM. Cal. profunde 5-fidus coloratus, laciniá superiore basi calearatä, calcare intrà florem hinc hiante extra stamina. Petala 5, calyci inserta, ejusdem laciniis alterna, quorum 2 superiora sessilia remota, cal- caris fauci infixa; 3 unguiculata germen ex opposito ambientia. Filamenta distincta, germini aret? circumposita et ejusdem disco (perigyno?) im- posita; anthere oblonge erectse biloculares (4-loculares ez Zinnzo). Ger- men 3-gonum; sfylus unus cylindricus 3-striatus; stigmata 3 aucta. Peri- carpia 3 reniformia suberosa 1-sperma non dehiscentia; hihc sulcata indé imo stylo persistenti affixa; semina conformia; embryo magnus absque albumine, radiculá intra lobos rectos suprà latente non prominulä. Herbe diffuse aut volubiles; folia alterna non stipulacea, simplicia peltata aut rariùs digitata; pedunculi uniffori longi axillares. Flores T. pentaphylli Juss. peruv. et Commers. herb. Bonar. tantàm dipetali, petalis cateris nullis aut citiüs caducis; iidem in summo caule vix calcarati fer? regulares, infe- rioribus longè calcaratis multô minores. Genus affine GERANIO staminum et petalorum sitü, stylo unico, stigmate multiplici, pericarpiis imo stylo efe perispermi defecti. Affinitas quedum calcaris TROPXOLI ef tubi ERANIORUM africanorum intra florem similitêr hiantis, sed tubus pedicello arctê inheret, non autem calcar. * Preterea TROPEOLUM discrepat stipulis nullis, floribus non oppositifoliis, lobis embryonis rectis, ‘Juss. l. c. 269. . T. peregrinum, foliis subpeltatis subreniformibus 5-7 lobis, petalis minoribus T cilinto-laceria, Curtis's Magaz. von wind. L 2. 299 ropseolum inum, Ruiz et Pavon fl. per. 3.36. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 209. Jacq. hart. schenb. 98. Andrews's vLposit. 597. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 339. Cardamindum quinquefolii folio, vulgó Malla. Fewillée peruv. 2. 756. t. 42. Annua: caule teretiusculo, evi, scandente. Fol. petiolis longis (propter torsionem suam cirrhorum gerentibus vices): subpeltata, quinqueloba, lobis rotundatis, mucronatis; inferiora 7-loba lonla . Pedunculi gaa, axillares, uniflores, folium eguantes. Cal. intrusus, quinque) N segmentis p AN inflexione subbilabiatum: labium superius calcare subulato fine hamato-reflexo. Cor. pallide lutescens, sulphurea, ringens, pen- tapetala, calyce inserta; petala duo superiora magna, quinquefida, obtusa cum mucrone, laciniâ (v. lobo) mediá labii superioris calycis ab ngue suo inserta; inferiora 3, spathulata, lacero-fimbriata.. Fil. bast calycind inserta, Anth. quadrisulcate, Germ, 3-lobum, trigonum. Stylus filamentis brevior. Stig". tripartita, acuta. © A tender annual. Native of Peru. Drawn from a plant sent us from Boyton by Mr. Lambert, to whom we are often and essentially obliged. VOL. IX. K divided; the leaflets of the involucre are likewise linear, subulate and pointed, and the florets of the circumference radiate, larger and irregular. Scapiosa sphaciotica of Ræ- mer and Schulte's Systema Vegetabilium, the S. tomentosa of Smith's Flora Greca, differs also in the leaves being all pinnatifid with ovate segments mostly entire, as well as in having a woody stem. The only other recorded species from which it is necessary to distinguish our present plant is ScaBIOSA argentea of Linnzeus ; there again the florets of ~ the circumference are radiate, the leaflets of the involucre pointed and longer than the florets, and the leaves all pinnately divided with deep-cut segments. We have named the species after Mr. Barker Webb, who gathered it in Phrygia, on the summit of Mount Ida, together with a curious new DiantHus, in the month of October 1819. A pretty considerable Herbarium was formed by that gentleman during his journey in the Levant, containing many yet unrecorded species. We have ven- tured to propose a new division of the genus Scasrosa, or subgenus to which we have affixed the old appellation of Asterocephalus. This division will include part only of the Asterocephali of Lagasca. Our drawing was taken from a plant raised by Mr. Lambert, from cuttings received from Mr. Webb, and which flowered at Boyton House last spring. Don MSS. 718 n ont Io TROP/EOLUM peregrinum. — ^ Fringed-flower Indian Cress, or Canary-bird-flower,. —— , OCTANDRIA MONOGFNIA. Nat. ord. GRRANIA. Jussieu gen. 268. Div. Genera Geraniis affinia, TROPZEOLUM. Cal. profundê 5-fidus coloratus, laciniâ superiore basi calcaratá, calcare intra florem hinc hiante extra stamina. Petala 5, calyci inserta, ejusdem laciniis alterna, quorum 2 superiora sessilia remota, cal- caris fauci infixa; 3 unguiculata germen ex opposito ambientia. Filamenta distincta, germini eret? circumposita et ejusdem disco (gerigynof) im- posita ; anthere oblonge erectee Diloculores (4-loculares er Linnzo). Ger- men 3-gonum; stylus unus cylindricus 3-striatus; stigmata 3 aucta. Peri- carpia 3 reniformia suberosa 1-sperma non dehiscentia; hìhc sulcata inde imo stylo persistenti affixa; semina conformia; embryo magnus absque albumine, radiculd intra lobos rectos suprà latente non prominulà. Herbe diffuse aut volubiles ; folia alterna non stipulacea, simplicia peltata aut raris digitata; pedunculi uniflori longi axillares. Flores T. pentaphylli Juss. peruv. et Commers, herb. Bonar. tantam dipetali, petalis cateris nullis aut citius caducis; iidem in summo caule vix rati ferd regulares, infe- rioribus longè calearatis multó minores. Genus affine ERANIO staminum et petalorum sitü, stylo unico, stigmate multiplici, pericarpiis imo stylo Gffiris, perispermi defects. Affinitas quedum calcaris TROPZOL et tubi ERANIORUM africanorum intra florem similiter Mantis, sed tubus pedicello arctà inharet, non autem calcar. ` Preterea TROP EOLUM discrepat stipulis nullis, floribus non oppositifoliis, lobis embryonis vectis. Juss. l. c. 260. . T. peregrinum, foliis subpeltatis subreniformibus 5-7 lobis, petalis minoribus ciliato-laceris. Curtis Magaz. 1851. | Tropeolum peregrinum, Ruiz et Pavon fl. per. 3.36. Willd. ep. pl. 2. 299. Jacq. hort. schenb. 98. Andrews's reposit. 597. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 339. Cardamindum quinquefolii folio, vulgó Malla. Fewillde perwo. 2. 766. t. 42. Annua: caule teretiusculo, levi, scandente. Vol. petiolis longis (propter torsionem suam cirrhorum gerentibus vices): subpeltata, quinqueloba, lobis rotundatis, mueronatis; inferiora 7-loba lobulataque. Pedunculi solitarii, azillares, uniflores, folium eguantes. Cal. subtus. intrusus, quinquefidus, segmentis subequalibus, inflexione subbilabiatum: labium superius calcare subulato fine hamato-reflezo. Cor. pallid? lutescens, sulphurea, ringens, pen- tapetala, calyce inserta; petala duo superiora magna, quinquefida, obtusa cum mucrone, laciniâ (v. lobo) mediá labii superioris calycis ab ungue suo inserta; inferiora 3, spathulata, lacero-fimbriata.. Fil. basi calyciná inserta. Anth. guadrisulcate, Germ. 3-lobum, trigonum. Stylus filamentis brevior. Stig*. tripartita, acuta. * A tender annual. Native of Peru. Drawn from a plant sent us from Boyton by Mr. Lambert, to whom we are often and essentially obliged. VOL. IX. K in 1775. Said to have been introduced by Mr. Benjamin Bewick The taste of our plant is rather stronger than that of the common sort. — —— cee 7 Walls se. m J. ALS Escala SA UY /70 +. td 5 by "i FA € Fi Lau 7 Ni? MH m. L P 719 AMARYLLIS maranensis. Tate's Amaryllis. — Fe ' HEXANDBIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDEX. Brown prod. 1. 296. Sect. I. AMARYLLIS. Supra vol. 3. fol, 226. Div. Bi-multiflore: tubo coronato: foliis bifariis, Nob. in joum. of sci. and the arts. 2. N A. maranensis; pluriflora; corolla nutante ringente; laciniis extimis lanceo- latis latioribus summâ omnium latiori, imá intimâ omnium angustiori line- ati: stellâ in fauce barbatâ nullà: tubo longitudine germinis. Hippeastrum stylosum. Herbert in Curtis's Magaz. 2278; (quoad colorem gwra pessima.) Drawn at Mr. Tates Nursery in Sloane Square.-—Na- tive of Maranhao in the Brazils. Probably distinct from tris, Differs from miniata in having a longer floral tube: but all three are extremely near species. x2 ( / A 3 YY E un Ñ All \ Oy N AV, Aa 77. f / he LEDO, E Sr 7 xai e a 720 CALANTHE. veratrifolia. Hellebore-leaved Calanthe, —— GYNANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDEE. | Brown prod. 1. 309; Div. IV. Anth. terminalis mobilis. decidua. Mase ‘polinis demüm oé- reacem. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 205. CALANTHE. Brown infra vol. 7. fol. ss; (in textá anglico.) La bellum porrecto-explanatum latum, latüs inferius "columns ab apice conti- muans (appendicem simulans), porrectum, explanatum, 3-lobum, basi den- tato-barbatum. Columna co explanatâ omnind libera, duploque re vior. Masse pollinis octo. . C. veratrifolia, foliis lanceolatis subplicato neivosis : scapo radicali foliis breviore aphyllo, spica numerosa ‘conferta oblonga cylindrica, bracteis parvis lanceolatis, Limodorum veratrifolium, Willd. sp. pl. 4. 122. Persoon syn. 2. 520. Folia subbipedalia, latitudine 5-unciali, subplicato-rervosa, lanceolate, basin versüs petiolatim attenuata, canaliculata, radicala, plura, radios, tentia, Tuteo' virentia, non glauca, swbwndulata. Schi p ning Hape} aphylli, villosi, tripedales $. ultra, stricti, teretes siiplioistini, veginis remotis perde sparse vagantibus. . Spica. sem: b par] , horizontali-patens, recta, terminalis, cylindrü viridi albe te sulcato-strinta. lores candidissimi, . inodori, vulnerati æ loco aruginco-virentes, biunciales vel. lóngiores, porrecto-nutantes, é£- plaga lc opaci. Germ. sesquiunciale, album, ; clavato-elongatum seteile, porrecto-patens, inferno. teres esulcatum, pere? reno m, erassiüs siriclwmh, seminiferum ;' bractew germine aliguotiós lanceolate, gradatim de- crescentes, herbacea. Cor. radiato-esplanata, ail. basin usque distanter-dii- ` tincta diametro uncial, autans, subregularis a -5, r eguidisientia ob tusa, mucronata ; exteriora 3 majora | 5 medium gmn n4 ra parüm grandius, erectum, eia teralia 2 inferiora, bellum deckinato-sequenfia, trapezdidt-oblongata v. inequilateri-oblonga ; interiora 2 aie fummum rw gui Calf ceteris id in- colinnam continuante er wen triseriató serious ê dentibus confertis inulis ordine distinctissimo atgwe patente in longum positis (lingue feli Tina spinalis non abeisélibus),coliuma lotus inferius porrecto-conti- axans, triploque ius, ezplanaium, cahrolence emarcescent, tripartitum, etungue, margini m, corolla duplo longius ; lobis 2 inferioribus divari- catis, medio plurimum brevioribus ob obtusis' ywyd! terminali recto fercato medium citra bifido eram Y quodammodo referens, segmentis Haeari oblongis recurvis pons c Columna corollá omnind E lo concolorgue wages ongirik obesa, summo dorso anti ra porrecta, apicis lateribus. elato-productis brevibus erectis, rostello medio longiori truncato-obtuso supra stigma prominente, â supino scrobiculo longitudinali pro retimaculo anthera impreso: anthera dorso sumo columna incumbens paul) immersa, turbinata corolla feró concolora, bilocularis lo- - culis scariosis subtus convoluto-conniventibus ; quisque 'massulas polli- neas 4 includens; masse pollinis 8, parallele, lineari-spathulate albida durissime. Stigma sub lobo medio elongato columna latens, bilobum, recur- vato-prominens, vitreo-splendens, corrugatum sed levissimum, atque niti- dissisuum lobis apice rotundatis, areolam secernentem subtus abscondens. Leaves radical, two feet high, yellowish green, plaitedly nerved, lanceolate, five inches over, channeled and petio- lately tapered toward the base. Scapes several, 2-4 feet high, simple, upright, round, villous, green, opaque, with several close-pressed lanceolate short scattered sheaths. Spike terminal, numerous, close, upright, six inches to a foot long, cylindrical, horizontally spreading: axis whitish green, sulcate; bractes several times shorter than the ger- men, green, lanceolate, gradually smaller. Flowers villous outside, uniformly white, turning green where wounded, 14-2 inches long. Germen li inch long, more than an inch longer than the corolla, and one third longer than the spur. Corolla outspread, radiate, nearly regular, two in- ner segments narrowest. Label twice the length of the corolla, continuous witb the lower side of the apex of the column, ‘and resembling an appendage to that part, out- spread, 3-parted, lower side-lobes divaricate, entire, shorter, middle furcately bifid like the letter Y, segments blunt, the whole turning to a cream-colour before it fades away. Column short, thick, turbinate: anther incumbent along the upper side of the summit of the column; bilocular: - pollen masses 8, parallel, linear-spatulate (the shape of Harlequin's sword in miniature), compressed, white ; sfig- ma 2-lobed, shining, recurvedly prominent, hid beneath prominent pistil. The name of CALANTHE was proposed for this genus, and its separation from Limoporum and BLETIA, in a former article of this work, by Mr. Brown. Drawn from a fine plant in Mr. Colvill’s hothouse at Chelsea, where several stems, three feet and more in length, were thrown up from the same root. 7, 721 - — ACACIA lambertiana. The Boyton Acacia. — p POLYGAMIA MON(ECIA. Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSE. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. I Mimosee. ‘Brown in Flind. voy. 2. 551. ACACIA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 96... A el comi ty inermis, foliis "Er rei oe Ag ye la inermis, coms fronde ains hind me virente ; ps filiformibus omni parte villosis. Folia bipinnata : dijuga sce ntu cyng foliola multijugi , contigua, 7 ovali-oblonga, talk ‘dea " H strings tf ai pol gde ias, e tnde mamma Samples of this fine-flowered shrub were sent for our use by Mr. Lambert from Boyton, where the plant bad been raised for the first time in this country from Mexican seed, transmitted by Mr. Cowan. We find the species also in the Lambertian Herbarium, fronr the collection of the celebrated botanical traveller Don José Pavon, the asso- ciate of Ruiz in the investigation of the plants of Pera. Cultivated in the hothouse. For the excellent descri tion we are indebted to the very intelligent Secretary of t Linnzan Society, to whose kindness we have often had recourse. 4 722 BRACHYSTELMA tuberosum. Cape Brachystelma. . ———— PENTANDRIA DJGYNIA. Nat. ord. ASCLEPIADER. Brown in Wern. trans. Edin. 1. 12. prod. 1. 458. BRACHYSTELMA. Corolla campanulata, sinubus anguletis, Co- dumna inclusa. Corona monophylla, quinquefida: lobis antheris oppositis, dorso simplicibus. Anthere absque membrana epiculari. Masse pollinis erectee, basi inserte, Brown in Curtiss magaz. 2343. Brachyetelma tuberosum. Brown I. e. Stapel ia tuberosa. — Meerb. ic. t. 54. fig. 1. a Tuber rotundum. Caulis suffruticens, ramosus; rami teretes, villosi. Folia opposita, membranacea, lineari-lanceolata, concava, margine et ca- rind ciliatis. Flores semiverticillato-aggregati in quoque fasciculo 3-4 magnitudine fer? STAPELLE reclinatæ, cernut, pedunculati. Calyx 6-fidus, acutus, e tubo brevior, ut et pedunculus brevé glandulostque pubescens. Corolla estàs virescens, rubro-punctata ; intüs nigro-purpurea, disco favo transvers? interruptique lineato ; tubo campanulato; limbo quinguepartito, laciniarum margine revoluto, basi fimbriata. Corona 5-fida; lobulis conni- ventibus, triangularibus. Flores uti STAPELIR species ferê cuncto odore Stent nauseabundo, Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Drawn at Mr. Colvill’s Nursery. ' A new asclepiadeous genus from the pen of the able reformer of that natural order. Every one will be struck by the primd facie resemblance it bears to STAPELIA. * Corolla campanulate, with angular siauses. Column inclosed. Crown l-leaved, 5-cleft: lobes opposite to the anthers, unappendaged at the back. Anthers without the membranous apex. Pollen masses upright, inserted by their base. “ Tuber round. Stem subshrubby, branching; branches round, villous. ‘Leaves opposite, membranous, linearly lan- ceolate, concave, ciliate at the edge and keel. Flowers partly collected in whorls with three or four flowers in each branch nearly of the size of those of SrAPELIA reclinata, cernuous, peduncled. Calyx 5-cleft, pointed, shorter than the tube of the corolla, and like the peduncle shortly and VOL. IX. L glandularly pubescent. Corolla greenish on the outside, dotted with red; inside black-purple, centre deep yellow with broken cross lines; Zube campanulate ; limb 5. parted, edges of the segments revolute, fringed at the base. Crown 5-cleft, with converging triangular lobules. The flowers, like those of nearly all the SrAPELIAS, emit a nauseous steach.” A PEA, gi PE 4 p 7 PLAC Sans AXE we ve if te AY y, LO GE dy I 723 CALCEOLARIA corymbosa. Chili Slipper-wort. — DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. ScRoPHULARIE, Jussieu gen. 117. Div. IT. Stam. 2. CALCEOLARIA. Cal. 4-lobus. Cor. tubo brevissimo, limbo bila- biato, suprà minimo, infra magno inflato concavo calceiforme, inflexo et in tubi faucem prono. Stamina brevia, antheris recurvis, Stigma 1. Cap- sula conica, apice 4-valvis. Herbe; plurimis folia opposita, pedunculi uni- aub multiflori, axillares aut boso-terminales; paucis commersonianis folia radicalia, scapi 1-2-flori. Juss. 1. c. 120. C. corymbosa, foliis radicalibus ovatis cordatisque petiolatis bicrenatis, cau- linis cordatis semiamplexicaulibus. Ruiz et Pavon A. per. 1. 14. t. 20. . 6. Calceolaria corymbosa. Persoon syn. 1. 15. Cunfis's magaz. 2418. Caulis simplex, erectus, tetragonus, pubescens, foliorum lapsu basin ver- sus nudus. Fol. radicalia petiolata, ovata, rariüs cordata, obtusa, dupli- cato-crenata; subtis albicantia venoso-corrugata, pubescentia: caulina re- mota, opposita, semiamplexicaulia, Flores corymboso-paniculati, pedun- culis gracilibus elongatis. Cal. tetraphyllus, foliolis ovatis patentibus. Cor. bilabiata: labium superius minimum; inferius maximum, inflatum (obovato- ventricosum subemarginatum ;, calceoliforme ;) orificio obovato-oblongo parvo â supiná parte infrà ventrem aperto. Filt, ad basin labii superioris inserta, brevissima: anth. biloculares loculis lobiformibus divaricatis: una sub la- pium superius latitans: exserta alia: fertiles ambe. Germ. globosum: stylo revissimo, A native of Chili. —The drawing was taken in the col- lection of Lady Tankerville, at Walton upon Thames, where the plant was raised from imported seed, and has now made its appearance for the first time amongst us. Probably the finest species of the genus. Annual? L2 124 AMARYLLIS candida. Peruvian Amaryllis. —Ó-—— HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDEX. Brown prod. 1. 206. Sect. I. AMARYLLIS. Supra vol. 3, fol. 226. A. candida, flore solitario erecto, petalis obtusis subsequalibus conniventi- patentibus; pedunculo spathà univalvi pluriés breviore; staminibus ad- Scendentibus: aníberis H dorso innatis non mobilibus; foliis linearibus carnosis. Bulbi parvi rotundi atri. Folia fasciculata Äncaria plana glaberrima carnosa late viridia, longitudine inequalia, biuncialia ad &-uncialta. Scapus conformis erectus foliis longioribus brevior, uniflorus. Spatha membranacea purpurascens hinc fissa flore duplo brevior. Flos inodorus erectus breviter pedunculatus non cum scapo continuus. Corolla alba basi viridescens, petalis subequalibus ovatis obtusis sub umbrá semipatentibus, sub sole expansis, nocte conntventibus, semper autem apice CROCI more incurvis, tubo brevissimo. 5 Stamina 6 petalis plusquam duplö breviora, fauce tubi inserta, qualia, ascendentia non declinata; authere innate. filamentis subaquales erecle non versatiles, Stylus declinatus, staminibus paululüm longior. Stigma trilobum nec trifidum, lobis appressis nec patentibus; ovarium triloculare; ovala carnosa disticha. Capsula deest: sed ex ovulorum visu semina forte rotunda pisiformia. Lindtey MSS. This species was sent to the Horticultural Society in 1823, from. Peru, where it was collected, with many other curious plants, by Mr. Cowan. It flowered in a cold frame in May. The flowers close in the evening, or in the shade, in the same manner as those of Crocus: a singular circum- stance, which, we believe, has not been noticed in any other species of Amaryllis. Lindley MSS. - Bulbs small, round, black. Leaves fascicled, linear, flat, quite smooth, fleshy, bright green, of from two to eight "inches long. Scape shorter than the leaves, compressed, one-flowered. Spathe membranous, opened on one side, twice shorter than the flower. Flower without scent, up- right, peduncled, not sitting upon the scape. Corolla white, greenish below, petals ovate, tearly even, obtuse, half opened in the shade, wide opened in the sunshine, closing at night, always however with tips incurved, as in Crocus, tube very short. Stamens more than twice shorter than the petals, inserted at the faux of the corolla, ascend- ently spread, not bent downwards, even. Anthers attached by the back, not vibrating. Sty le declined, rather longer than the stamens. Stigma 3-lobed, not trifid, lobes close pressed, not spreading. Germen 3-celled: ovules fleshy, in two rows. Lt, Hari del. Sib by E Ferdgwag 170 Ricaddly Mug 182I J Malit Eb OM, BN 725 SCHIZANTHUS pinnatus. Lady Tankerville s Schisanthus. — DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. SCROPHULARINE. Cal. divisus, persistens. Cor. 1-petala hypogyna, sepiüs irregularis, cestivatione imbricatá; deciduâ. Stam. ple- rümque didynama, raró aqualia, quandoque 2. Germ. polyspermum, 2-Ìoc. Stylus 1. Stigma 2-lobum, raró indivisum. Caps. (rarissime Bacca) 2- loc., 2-4-valvis, valvis integris v. 2-fidis, dissepimento v. duplicato ex inflexis inibus valvarum orto; vel simplici parallelo integro, sive contrario bi- parübili. Placenta: centrales, septo "udnatz, v. demüm solute. Sem. nu- merosa, albuminosa. .Ambryo inclusus, rectus. Radiculá umbilicum spec- tante. Herbe (quandoque frutices) sæpiùs oppositifohe. — Inflorescentia varia. Ons. Relatio dissepimenti ad valvulas posit plurilocularis, sive illud contrarium v. parallelum sit, magni valoris semper facit Illustr. Jussieu ; et ob hanc causam Bhododendra sua ab Ericis, Pediculares à Scrophulariis segre- gat, genera semper dirimens arcté affinitate juncta; hac nota tamen que ad genera distinguenda, plerumque, nec semper, valet, minim2 sufficit, dum aliis haud comitata ad eorum separationem in ordinibus diversis, ut luculen- tér probatum est in pluribus generibus hujus familie, presertim in VERO- nic, cujus in variis speciebus modi fer? omnes dehiscentiz obtinent. Brown prod. 1. 433. SCHIZANTHUS. Cor. irregularis: labio superiore 5-fido: inferiore tripartito. Fils. 2, fertilis, Caps. 2-locularis. Persoon syn. 2. 261. 8. pinnatus, foliis ini tê pinnatis. Ruiz et Pavon ff. parwo. 1. 13. £. 17. Schizanthus pinnatus. Person sm. 2. 261. oo . . Planta herbacea, villis longioribus glandulé terminatis. Radix fibril- losd. Caulis 2-pedalis erectus, parüm ramosus, teres. Rami alterni, con- similes. Fol. alterna, breviter petiolata, interrupt? pinnata: foliola sessilia: majora laciniato-pinnatifida: minora lanceolata, integra. Flores iew- lati: pedicelli 1-ffori, filiformes, bracteolis 2 lanceolatis suffulti. € ore ca- ruleo-violacea: labium superius variegatum: inferius purpureo-vittatum. Fil. stricta villosa. Stigma emarginatum. Caps. bilocularis bivalvis; val- vulis bipartitis. Ruiz et Pavon, loe. cit. A genus established by Messrs. Ruiz and Pavon, as- sociates in the celebrated journey destined to the in- vestigation of the Flora of Chili and Peru. The species before us is figured from the dried plant, in- the work published by those meritorious naturalists on their return from that expedition; and now from the live plant, which VOL. IX. . M has flowered for the first time in this country, in the collec- tion of Dowager Lady Tankerville, at Walton upon Thames. We had no opportunity of describing it, and have trusted to the description contained in the Flora Peruviana. : An herbaceous hothouse plant, covered with a pu- bescence of longish hairs terminated by a gland. Root finely fibrous. Stem two feet high, slightly branched, round. Branches alternate, alike. Leaves alternate, shortly petioled, brokenly pinnated: leaflets sessile; larger omes jaggedly pinnated; lesser lanceolate, entire. Flowers in panicles: pedicles ì-flowered, filiform, supported at the base by two small lanceolate bractes. Corolla blueish violet: upper lip variegated, lower with purple stripes. Filaments stiff, upright, villous. Stigma notched. Capsule 2-celled, 2-valved: valves bipartite. An undue importance seems to have been given by Jussieu, in the combination of orders, to the posture of the partition in a plurilocular seedvessel, in relation to the valves of the same (whether that is opposite to these or parallel with them), and has induced him to separate orders in every other respect too closely akin to admit of detachment: for instance, Rhododendra from Erica and Pediculares from Scrophularie; and it is justly observed by Mr. Brown, that although the above character will commonly serve for the distinction of genera, it never can of itself be sufficient to distinguish orders; a proof’ of which may be had in several genera of the present family, especially in VERONICA, where almost every kind of dehiscence takes place among the various species. ` An gn MAL del. FR by A Rubguray 170 Rizaddly MW. Aus. / 1823, MU 726 ` ASTELMA fruticans. : Shrubby Astelma. WWW — SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA JEQUALIS. Nat. ord. Composrrm. Adanson fair, 2. 103. CoRYMBIFER® Jussieu gen. 177. Div. I. . INULEE. Cassiñi in jour e phys. 88 (an. 1810). 193. Sect. Tnulew-gnaphatiex. . ASTELMA. Brown supra vol. f. fol. 532. Ax & A. fruticans, foliis amplexicaulibus ovato-oblongis trinerviis acutis utrinque lanuginoso-tomentosis, corymbo coarctato subsessili, calycibus oblongis. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1851; (sub GNAPHALIO fruticante). ` Gnaphalium fruticans. Persoon syn. 2. 416. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 6. 11. An old and very common standard in our greenhouses, into which it was introduced from the Cape of Good Hope, by Mr. Blackburn, in 1779. M2 > y t d y p he TH: fe Fe Ae ‘VT Fe veau li « a "v / IL Fd a 4) hil a 727 ONCIDIUM luridum. Mr. Griffin’ s Oncidium. —— GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDER, Brown . 1. 309. Div. IV. Anthera ter- minalis mobilis decidua. Masse pollinis demüm cereacgie!' Brown ix Hort. Kew. ed, 2, 5. 205. i ONCIDIUM. Labellum explanatum lobatum basi tuberculatum, Pe- tala patentia (2 antica nunc connata). Columna alata. Masse pollinis 2, posticè bilobæ, medio affixe processi: communi stigmatis. Brown in loc. cit. 215. O. luridum, foliis ellipticis acutis, scapo stricto ramoso, perianthii laciniis patentibus undulatis retusis subzqualibüs, labello reniformi, columnæ alis rotundatis. J. L. An unrecorded species; drawn from tbe collection of Mr. Griffin, at South Lambeth. Native of South Atherica. It is very nearly related to Oncidium carthaginense, from which it is nevertheless essentially distinguished by the different shape of its fowers, and by having its upper petal shaped like those next'it, and not galeate and incumbent upon the column as in O. carthaginense. It also seems to differ from the latter species in not having the two lateral outer petals smaller than the cortesponding inner petats, and În having a colourless, not red, columna. The Onci- dium olivaceam of M. Kunth, which Probab! resembles this in some particulars, is obviously distinguished by its re- flexed petals and trifid labellum. J. L. : Oncıprum is distinguished in its division of the order by * a flat-lobed label, knobby at the base; spreading pe- tals (the two front ones of which are sometimes grown to- gether); a winged column; a pair of pollen-masses, double- lobed behind, and fixed at the middle by a common pro- cess belonging to the stigma.” The coloured leaf and uncoloured scape, in our figure, are much diminished: the coloured spike of flowers and uncoloured leaf are of the natural size. ^ M, Karl. de. A Bety I bera 170 Rucadidly Hug L APL. /44 728 DAVTESIA alata. Winged Daviesia. ee Eb DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSE. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. IV. DAVIESIA. Smith in linn. trans. 4. 222. Calyx angulatus ebractea- tus. Corolla papilionacea, carinà vexillo breviore. Germen pedicellatum, dispermum, lus strictus. Stigma simplex. Legumen compressum an- gulatum, elasticè dehiscens. Strophiola seminis posticê integra, Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 20. D. alata, ramis erecto-patentibus elongatis aphyllis, exi lignoså tereti minente lat? utrinque alatà; pedunculis alternis incisuri ramorum seden- tibus brevibus inferné fimbriato-bracteatis apice fasciculato-floriferis : legumine compress? dolabriformi, scarioso- rgamineo monospermo; semine renato-rotundo, lineolis nigris super fundum melino-fuscum no- tato. i - Daviesia alata, caule aphyllo alato, umbellis Jateralibus, calyce bracteisque fimbriatis. Smith in linn. trans. 9. . Caulis brevis teres lignosus fusco-corticatus, ab apice ramorum comam nti- merosam fasciculato-fastigiantem elongatam erecto-patertem educens: rami aphylli, alati, latitudine fer? % uncia v. circà, virentes, foliaceo-extenuati axi mediá tenus ad utramque marginem pro florum sedibus excisi. Flores plures in summo pedunculo aggregati subsessiles: bractew piures, sparse, alterna, herbacez, ciliate. Legumen melino-fuscescens, oblate semi-ovatum, ing- quilaterum, margine altero rectiori obliquato, altero latiori ventricosissimo, pergamineo-scariosum, apice mucronatum, Semen remato-subrofundum, melinum, lineolis nigris elegantissimê pictum: Strophiote, fenionls brevi crasso umbilicali pedicellata oblonga crassa incumbens albidaz umbilicus arek subscyaneá insitus. or Drawn at Mr. Colvill's Nursery, where the species was probably first raised from New Holland seed. Still a very rare plant. Not taken up in the Hortus Kewensis. The solitary oblong seed contained in the elastically bursting pod ofthis curious little shrub, reminds us of some sorts of bird's egg in miniature, is of a fawn colour, brokenly spotted with short black lines, and scarcely bigger than a mustard-seed. The stem is short, round, and woody, with a rough brown bark; produces a level-topped fascicle of long green foliaceously winged leafless branches from its summit, which are indented quite to the midrib alternately and distantly at each edge; the indentations serve as niches where the peduncles of the inflorescence are seated. Co- rymbs of several yellow flowers having a deep tawny pur- plish eye, with a double bright yellow spot at the base; the size and colour of those of EUcHILUS obcordatus, already published in this work (v. 5. fol. 403). The calyx is per- manent; the crown much shorter than the vexillum, which is oblately obcordate. JE Weald, de. 5 E t Aug /. Z. o 4 e a 2727 J AY L7 “ a AA: 7 TAU 7 Ud 729 BERBERIS Chitria. Nepal Berberry, HEXANDRIÉ MéNOGYNIZ 00 os Nat. ord. BERBERIDEE. . syst. veg. 2. 1. BERBERIS. Cal. hexaphyllus (6-se) ), foliolis (sepalis) ordine duplici dispositis, exterioribus migplibus, extis squaitiulis 2-3 stipatus, Pe- tala 6, ungue intüs biglanduloso,' Stam, filamentis edentulis, antherarum loculis discretis. Germ. 1-ovatuin. "Stylus O. Stig. orbicylatum medio umbilicatum. Bacca ovata, unilocularis, 2-3-sperma, apicé umbilicata aut foramine pervia, hinc inths nervo à foramine deorsüm tendente lateralitêr aucta. . 2, rariüs 3, ad. bê6im ilateralitêr inserta, erecta, oblonga, testa crustaceâ, albumine carnoso; otyledonibus foliaceis ellipticis, radieulâ longa apice capitellatà; Sgt a o, P ' Frutices 2-6 pedales. Rami teretes aut subangulati. Ra lin et ramea, alterna, petiolata, primordialia gross? serrata, dentibus in spi- mas productis, cetera primaria abortiva, (primus hujus phenomeni descrip- tionem dedit. Linnaus in Prolepsi plantarum, am. ac. v. 6. 330. Reperi ramós quosdam. B. vulgaris in. quibus folia inferiora ver foliacea et supe- riora sensim in spinas 3-fidas trangientia.) et petiolo remanente indurato in gmn simplicem trifidamve mutatg, secundaria nempê axillaria sechs ramu- iferum brevissimum nischkhia conferta simplicia, integra aut serrata, rarissime omnia abrupt? pinnata, petiolo brevissimo apice ut in TRAGACAN- THIS indurato, Ramuli axillares, brevissimi, pedunculos nunc solitarios wnifloros, nunc plurimos corymbosim dispositos, une racemosos muliifloros apice gerentes. Flores in omnibus flavi. cat sarptis acide, subastringentes. uccus trunci et foliorum acidus ‘adstringens. Ons. Stamina BERBERI- DUM plurimarión (vulgaris, canadensis, sinensis, ef verosimilitêr omnium) acú seeds filamentum irritata, subitd suprà pistlum se dejiciúnt. Hoc phe- nomenon vitale plurids repetitum debilius et sogniws eundit; electrici- tati et vitri ardentis actione, teste Moklreutero, irritabiflfasstaminum atiam excitatur. Experimentum eodem iodg-& it calyos, peilio, anthePin, Pistillo ipso sectis. Insecta que nectaria glandulisad basin petalorum hauri- ^. e stamina titillast, motum in iis excitant et sic pollinis ejaculatidni | favent. cand. l.c. 4-6. ^" “ " > Dio. I. Foliis simplicibus, pedunculis multifloris racemosis. — B. Chitria, spinis simplicibus basi vix bidentatis, foliis bblongis dentibus | 4-5 spinulosis utrinque serratis! racemis patulis multoris. Decand. syst. veg. 2. 8; (sub B. aristatáM - "A , Berberis Chitria. milton (. inan) in Herb. Lambert. > Berberis aristata, Decand. I. c. : . uU . AN Species sinensi affinis. Rank tefetes, pallid? grisei. 8) ice simplices conice grisee, vix basi spigglas minimas utrinque gerentes. Fol. novella fa- scieulata, oblonga, utrinque Maita, basi vix petiolata, apice in rim mucronata, dentibus spinulosis réttis utrinque 4-5-serrata, glabra, viridia, 15-16 lin. longa, 6-6 lin. lẹta. Racemi fi paulo longiores, 2-3- Pollicares, patulî, sat racemis vulg&tis similes. edunculi et pedicelli sub- Sgoni. Bracteole minima acutissine. Flores flavi. Petala obtusa. Ger- mina oblongo-teretia, stylo crasso brevissimo, sed tamen distincto et stigmate orbiculato superata. Dec. l. c. : VOL. IX. N A species placed upon the records of the vegetable sys- tem from native samples in the Lambertian Herbarium, collected by Dr. Hamilton in Nepal. We have preferred the original name to that in the ** Regn? Vegetabilis Systema Generale,” &c. &c.; a work where the universal enumeration of the vegetation of no less than our entire globe is an- nounced, accompanied by the differential and natural cha- racters with a full synonymy of each species; but in his wild career the historian has stopped short at the history of not much more than a dozen of Linnzeus’s genera and one of the narrowest classes of his system. The botanic world was roused with the noise of this undertaking (actually an- nounced and opened at Geneva by the sound of drums and trumpets) nearly ten .years ago; since which period two moderate octavo volumes have been ushered amongst us, containing insulated accounts, without beginning or end (or monographs aecording to natural order), of a few Lin- nzean genera, together with the class Tetradynamia, turned into orders; the whole entangled in a complex unmanage- able machinery by way of natural arrangement. And here we suspect is the extinction of this glaring phenomenon, intended to spread durable and universal light, but which has left us in the same darkness in which we were found. For ourselves, we are not disappointed in our expectations; the work has reached as far as they ever extended; with a view subdued by age and experience, we foresaw no other event. We might have prognosticated better success, or conceived more hope from the annun- ciation of a Supplement to some of the Linnzan Sequences, beginning with Monanpria and ending in CRYPTOGAMIA: such as a continuation of that invaluable and unrivalledly useful work, “ Willdenow's Species Plantarum," or even of an addition to the classic “ Catalogue of the Kew Collec- tion;" a monument of the taste and criticism of Solander and Dryander, the worthy disciples of Linnaeus, and the most accomplished scholars of their age; but where in the very title-page we see them robbed of the reward of their erudition (and we know they received no other) to give im- mortality and renown to vulgar ignorance, the names of native dunces being suffered to usurp the place belonging to those of the genius and talent of another land. _ Jussieu, the great luminary of his department and the original framer of the soundest natural system extant, still the manual, in this department of science, as well of the student as of the philosopher, had the precaution or wisdom to keep to genera, leaving species to shift for themselves ; and he has thus extricated himself from the labyrinth of a natural arrangement ably and usefully, with- out leaving either himself or his readers in the lurch. The hints contained in the notes, the finest parts of his work, still are and will long remain the sources for extending and enlarging the system upon the base destined for it by his comprehensive and sagacious mind. Mr. Brown, second only in his day to the above great name, kept to the vegetation of one region, and under the modest title of Prodromus Flore Nove Hollandice has pro- duced a work easily convertible into an extended general system of vegetables. We know nothing that approaches the neatness, accuracy, precision and judgment shown in the definitions of this author ; which by experience we have found to comprize the justest proportioned limits that our mind can figure for the use of science. A surer and more instructive guide the student will never find in his progress along this fascinating path of science. Classes still remain the desideratum of a natural sys- tem; no one has devised even a tolerable substitute for them. Insulated wandering orders and genera Botany teems with ; but asylums to receive and keep these unsettled vagrants are still wanting, the devising of which is left to be the lot of an invention yet in embryo. The drawing was taken at Mr. Leigh's at Bexley, where the shrub had been raised from seed. 730 BREXIA madagascariensis. Madagascar Brexia. o PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. POLYPETALE HYPOGYNE. Incerte sedis. Aubert du Petit Thouars gen. nov. madagasc. 20. in Mélanges de bot. et de voy. Gori! Jussieu gen. 255. BREXIA. Cal. 1-phyllus, 5-fidus, persistens. Core. petala 5 rotun- data, caduca. Filamenta 5 basi in urceolo connata, intervalla fimbriata : anthere apici inserte intimé dehiscentes. Germ. conicum; stylus brevis; stigma crassum. Bacca oblonga, quinquangularis, cortice lignoso firmo: loculi quinque. Semina numerosa, trino ordine centro affixa; embryo rectus. Cotyledones hemispherica in albumine carnoso. Arbuscula: folia alterna, juniora longissima spinoso-dentata, adulta ovato-oblonga subdentata firma; umbelle axillares, 7-8-flor@: pedunculo communi compresso. Aubert du Petit Thouars loc. cit. Brexia. Aubert du Petit Thouars loc. cit. Venana madagascariensis. Lam. encyc. par Poiret. 8. 450. We are obliged to Mr. Brown for pointing out to us the record of this rare and curious plant; the drawing of which was taken from the collection at Bayswater, belong- ing to the Comtesse des Vandes. Native of Madagascar. Calyx of one piece, 5.cleft, permanent. Petals 5, round- ed caducous. Filaments united at the base, so as to form a kind of basin or urceolus, fringed in the intervals: anthers placed at the top, bursting inwards. | Germen conical; style short; stigma thick. Berry with a solid woody rind, oblong, pentagonal, with 5 cells. Seeds numerous, attached in a triple row to the centre: embryo straight. Cotyledons hemispherical, imbedded in a fleshy albumen. A tree-like shrub; leaves alternate, when young very long, prickly toothed, full grown ones ovately oblong, obsoletely toothed, more substantial; umbels axillary, 7-8-flowered ; common peduncle compressed. A species not in the Hortus Kewensis, nor in any general system of vegetables; and probably now introduced by the above-named lady. J ES y ae = X N : 7. idly Way / Fi / Tu 2 t 7 ( ~ ea ALLN “uu Din NND 191 ALSTRCOEMERIA Flos Martini. St. Martin's flower of Chili. EDW URN HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Narcıssı. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. TIT. Germen inferum. AMARYLLIDEX. Brown prod. 1. 298. Sect. II. Radix fibrosa. Flores subspicati v. corymbosi. ALSTROEMERIA. Corolla supera, limbo sexpartito, laciniis tribus interioribus, quarum 2 tubulose aut convolute. Stamina insequalia decli- nata, imis laciniis inserta. Germen inferum, 6-gonum; stylus 1, stigmata 3. Capsula infera (apice non tecta) sexangularis, mucronata, 3-locularis poly- sperma, seminibus globosis. Radix fibrosa; caulis foliosus, erectus aut volubilis, foliis alternis, sessilibus obliquis, flores terminales subsolitarii aut corymbosi non spathacei. Jussieu l. c. 56. A. Flos Martini, caule erecto, foliis lineari-lanceolatis, pedunculis subum- bellatis involucratis trifloris, pedicellis tortuosis, petalis exterioribus ob- cordatis mucronatis. Curtiss Magaz. 2421; (sub A. pulchrä). Alstremeria pulchra. | Curtis's Magaz. loc. cit. The drawing of this new and lively flowered plant was taken at the garden of the Horticultural Society, enriched, extended, and arranged under the able direction of the in- telligent and indefatigable secretary, Mr. Sabine; next to whom we must not forget, in their different departments, Messrs. Lindley and Monroe. In our opinion that richly endowed establishment cannot be confided to abler or more competent agents, as well in regard to the application of its treasures, as a judicious management of the collection. Nor do we say this in idle flattery, for which we have no motive; but in proof of an approbation extorted from us by what we have seen, and by that which has been produced within a period hardly to be believed, as if by magic. The present plant is known among the Chilians by the appellation of * St. Martin's flower "— Flor de San Martin. The seed was imported by the Horticultural Society, and the produce flowered this year for the first time. It will be a valuable addition even when put in competition with the prettiest of our hothouse species. 232 ABRE, À 732 DENDROBIUM squalens. Dingy-coloured Dendrohium. Pu cum GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDER. Jussieu gen. 61. Brown prod. 1. 300. Div. IV. Anthera terminalis mobilis decidua. Masse pollmis demüm cereacex. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 205. DENDROBIUM. Labellum ecalcaratum, articulatum cum apice pro- cessüs unguiformis, cujus lateribus petala antica adnata, calcar emulantia. Masse pollinis quatuor, parallele. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 212. D. squalens, terrestre bulbis conicis truncatis, floribus resupinatis confertis, foliis lanceolatis plicatis sub-3-nervibus scapo duplo longioribus. Lind- d MSS. erba terrestris bulbis conicis nudis truncatis. Folia cuique bulbo 2 v. 3 suberecta rigida lanceolata 1-4 pedalia leto-viridia tri-plurinervia, plicata. Scapus rigidus erectus foliis duplo brevior basi vaginatus. Spica conferta 8-10-flora. Bractee ovarii longitudine ovate acuminate membranacee. Flores majusculi, pallide rufescentes, recti (sec. autores resupinati ), perianthii laciniis oblongis obtusis recurvis, labello carnoso canaliculato viridi lobo medio obtuso purpureo crassiore. Columna et cetere partes generis. Lindley MSS. This species of Dendrobium appears to be nearly related to the D. /ongifolium of M. Kunth, from which, however, it seems to be perfectly distinct. In the latter plant the scape is described as being twice as long as the leaves; but in the species before us the scape is almost hidden by the leaves, than which it is at least twice as short. The D. longifolium is moreover a native of Popayan; while the present plant was found growing in woods near Rio Janeiro, whence it was sent to England by Mr. John Forbes, a collector in the service of the Horticultural Society, in 1822. The period of its flowering is May and June. Whether the Denprosia undulatum et variegatum of the authors of the Flora Peruviana are related to this it is scarcely possible to judge, with the very imperfect materials afforded by those botanists; but it is probable that the above-mentioned plants belong, on account of the other species among which they are placed, to some of the para- sitical sections of the genus, Lindley MSS. Grows on the ground, not on trees; bulb coated; conical. Two-three leaves on each bulb, which are nearly upright, stiff; lanceolate, a foot and a half high, lively green, plicate; with three or several nerves. Scape twice shorter than the leaves, stiff, upright, sheathed at the base. Spike thickly 8-l0-flowered. Bractes the length of the germen, ovate, taper-pointed, membranous. Flowers longish, pale, brownish, straight, according to authors, re- versed. Segments of the corolla oblong, obtuse, recurved. Label fleshy, channelled, green, middle lobe obtuse, purple, still thicker. The column and other parts as usual in the genus. M Hard. del. Publ IS RE (70 Deadly AI IMS. J Mile, do. o EEE o, y 733 LOBELIA campanuloides. Japanese Lobelia. —-. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. (SYMPHYANDRIA, Rick) Nat. ord. CAMPANULACEE. Jussieu gen. 163, Div. IL Brown prod. 1. 559. Sect. JI. Corolla irregularis (nunc penta- petala). Antherm swpê connate. LOBELIACENE, Jussieu in ann. mus. 18, 1. LOBELIA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 60. L. campanuloides, foliis subpetiolatis lanceolato-oblongis dentatis, caulibus decumbentibus, edunculis elongatis. Thunb. in po^ trans. 2. 332. Lobelia campanuloides. Willd. sp. pl. 1.948. Persoon syn. 2. 214. Lobelia erinoides. Thunb. jap. 326. Caulis decumbens, subsimplex, elongatus, filiformis, striatus, glaber, pedalis et ultrà. Folia alterna, subsessilia, lanceolata, acuta, obsoleté ser- ue glabra, patentia, subpollicaria. Flores terminales in ramis elongatis. unb. I. c. < Now introduced from China by the Horticultural So- ciety, in whose garden, at Chiswick, the present drawing was taken. Not recorded in the Hortus Kewensis. Found . br Thunberg in Japan. We did not see the plant our- selves. VOL, IX. o TU As Art, del. dE occ. Br: 574 Ass JPG MAY EM m / 7 UA e. 78 NIE e Le Li ty t P. v 734 DIANELLA longifolia. Long -leaved Dianella. — HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. AsPHODELER. Brown prod. 1. 274. Cor. sexpartita, «qualis, patens, decidua. Fil. curvata, apice incras- sata stuposa. Anthere lineares, stricte, basi inserte, Germ. loculis poly- spermis. dus filiformis. Stigma simplex. Bacca globosa, polysperma. ina ovalia, umbilico nudo. : Herbs perennes. Radix fibrosa. Folia graminea, elongata basibus se- mivaginantibus. Flores paniculati; pedicellis juxta apicem articilatis, basi bracteolá unilaterali stipatis: mutantes, carulei, antheris ápicibusque er s Mlamentorum flavis. Bacce oerulee. Semisa splendentia. Brown, . €, 279, D. longifolia, folis redicalibus ensiformibus elongatis (semunciam latis) margine carináque levibus, panicule ramis strictis pardm divisis: pedi- cellis racemosis corollá brevioribus bracteá scariosá duplo longioribus. Brown prod. 1, 280. Drawn at Mr. Colvill’s Nursery. Native of New Hol- land; where it was discovered by Mr. Brown. Drangua, according to Mr. Brown, is limited by the followirig definition : * Corolla six-parted, equal, spreading, deciduous. Fila- ments bowed, thickened at the top, and towy (stuposa). Anthers linear, stiff, and straight, inserted by their base. Germen with many-seeded cells. Style filiform. Stigma simple. ‘Berry globular, many-seeded. Seeds oval, with a naked umbilicus.” The group consists of perennial herbaceous plants, with a fibrous rodt; long grassy foliage, half-sheathed at the base; a panicled infloresence, with pedicles or flowerstalks jointed near thé top, and supported on one side at the base by a small posi ; corollas nodding, blue, having the fowy tops of the filäments deep yellow, as well as the anthers; blue berries ;: pining seed. The Äpbcies now makes its first appearance amongst us. t o2 p AA , "PE. P DA dc g â TAG. er A / fi Al 4 A M. WAV, Z 4 7 4. 4 70 Leucas Seb AT Me > — e -r 735 GARDENIA amoena. Chinese Gardenia. — PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Rusiacex. Jussieu gen. 197. Div. IV. Fructus monocar- pus bilocularis polyspermus. Stamina quinque. Folia opposita; caulis sepe frutescens. GARDENIA. Supra vol. 6. fol. 449. G. amena, spinis axillaribus rectis folio ovali acuto glabro brevioribus, ca- lyce campanulato denticulato, floribus terminalibus solitariis. Owrtis's magaz. 1904. A Chinese plant, said to have been introduced by the Duke of Marlborough, then Lord Blandford. We do not trace it in any recorded species; but we have never had an opportunity of comparing the specimens with those in the different Herbariums. It forms a tall strag- gling shrub, unequal to its own support, with short spinose arms. The flowers are fragrant, and are tinged with a rosy hue. In the nurseries it has been mistaken for GanbR- NIA spinosa. dar, TER y: E : AA UN LS. PLA TU T, 7 om : P 2 L CI) US RA y y E ^ PAS P v) i a ui d - t : d 22797727 ya j O Gye, £7 á y LLC s Gad e Vias Uer E to A Á FFA fd Si É 7 UP Z É — AA, OTL 9) ; ; i à MMH, ue A 9 4 4 A, LL LY Coe Gr Wy ITA Z , Y? 7] " EU" P. é N 4 o ALAJA EY 7 / Gaa di PA VARA 7 ty ft ^ D ía E; RL MR, — y, 736. A,B. Ñ UN © ERYTHRINA caffra. E Bo vL Cafranian Coral-tree. E — m E DECANDRIA. 6 "Nat. ord, Laauaitwo NOS: Jussien gen. . 946. Div. V. ERYTHRINA.: Supra gol. 4: n 313; E. A foliis ternatis, - inermibus, foliolis obtusis, caile arboreo aculeato. Awnb. prod. 121. “Pia, wi Erythrina, caffra. Wild, sp. pl. p-ga oum sn. 2.279 :.., We regret exceedingly that | an, overwhelming ;. malady prevented the taking a detailed account of iso fine, and rare plant; introduced into this. country. by Sir Abraham Hume, in whose collection at Wormleybury tle drawing was made. Frem,fhe wonted liberality and attention of the possessor we were supplied with ample. Specimens of the Plant, and every facility was given for a sufficient, “account of the species; but in vain; we were! hound posrerlesa to the bed of sickness, and could not ayajl purseļves of, she: ‚prof: fered kindness.: cU mabi os ah. We find no record of the s spedjes except im thê short phrase of Thunberg's as ynd: must refer to. the drawing instead of description, It to differ from the mass of, the congeners. by produ E ayes and; flowers at the same times, and is. manifestly, th neg, yet.known. .., One plate shows the bldisom of the: hatari + size; an- — other the; Whole plant. diminished. Sao —— P A moderatezpriced ‘periodical publication, with figures — of the objects ot that, departrhent of the History of nature ` to which’ it Happens ‘to be dedicated,’ acdompaniéd by ati as popularly: weiten account of the subject de e the ‘matter will. admit..of,. ‚server for the imediata and imperishable record of. species, which never gafter lose their place in tbe. forthcoming systems of nat&ral history; . E Abey temain a standard Tor compilers. to refer to, serving at th same time to lighten ‚their about. ‚We.heliere that many a 'tolerable botanist has been made by these works, and still more collectors, ever upon the alert to assemble the curious and new objects of their pursuit, that they may behold them a part of the general history of nature, and be taught their story, and while they themselves become the means of having a value stamped upon things which had none before. A plant, for instance, that is to remain unknown to its possessor except by the fugitive blossom or till the owner becomes a botanist, is valueless and escapes attention; while by the publications to which we allude, the pursuits and expenses of the collector and the florist, otherwise lost and useless, are rendered. important to knowledge, are made to enlarge the sphere of its activity; as well as to contribute to the amount of its treasures. It is not much above thirty years that a work of this kind ap- peared amongst us, and the diffusion of a taste for the study of nature has, to our certain knowledge and obser- vation, at least kept pace with that appearance. Formerly the rarest vegetable bloomed for its master alone, or per- haps to the desert air; now a blossom no sooner expands than its representative is spread, not only over this country, but in a short period reaches the abode of every Botanist, even of him who dwells at the foot of Mount Caucasus, and makes an addition to the general fund of literature, while it brings in contact the learned and lovers of this science in every region. The reference to a figure enables the inhabitant of Pe- tersburgh and Vienna to acquire the plant he wishes to pos- sess from the nurseryman in London ; while a name with- out a figure bad long proved a source of irremediable confusion and imposition between the two. The more costly works, published by the assistance of the continental governments, are useful only to the rich and to the student who has access to their libraries; to the bulk of mankind they are unknown and of no avail. To detect a species, in the general enumerations of plants, is only within the power of one already versed in this science; to others these works are unfathomable. The vulgar complaint of the use of technical or hard terms is inconsiderate: botany, as an accurate study, like the sister departments of natural history, is comparatt a new branch of knowledge. Parts are now spoken of; and. brought within the sphere of observation, that: were neither observed nor spoken of by our predecessors: are we to leave these new objects without a name? or describe them by tedious circumlocution? or adopt an old denomination which must necessarily belong to something else? This would be a solecism in knowledge. A new name must be called in, and the reader must learn it (he will find them few and useful), or remain without the pale of the pro- gress of knowledge. We do not here, of course, include the abuse of this liberty: to this every good is liable. To strip the study of natural history of abstruseness, and withdraw it from the sphere of abstraction, in which it has been too often unduly involved, is quite another thing. In regard to the task we have to perform, to render our- selves intelligible to every class of readers, while we endea- vour to familiarize them with the necessary new terms in use, will be a constant aim. New names in the history of nature are but thé conven- tional abbreviations of long phrases and wide circumlocu- tions; their use is in some sort the same to the naturalist that his algebraic signs and equivalents are to the geo- metrician. If Botany had had its conventional signs to work with as far back as Geometry has had hers, we should not now find it the last on the list ef sciences. VOL. IX. P — 737 PASSIFLORA herbertiana. Lord Caernarvon's Passionflower. ——— " MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. Nat. ord. PASSIFLORENX. Jussieu in ann. mus. 6. 102. PASSIFLORA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 13. P. herbertiana, pubescens, ramis striato-angulosis foliis cordato-trilobie, petiolis juxta folium bicallosis, floribus subgeminis, pedunculis duplo feré petiolo brevioribus infra verticillato-tribracteatis; urceolo calycino nullo, corollâ segmentis calycinis duplo minore, carinatá, angustâ: coroná "brevi coloratà operculum membranosum integrum sequante ; pistillo calycem zequante, Altissim scandens. Pedunculi adscendentes robusti. Flos albus radiatus : corona lutea. Pistillum virens. Folia absque glaucedine virentia. Urceolus cum calyce parallele distentus. Involucrum mullum, sed sua vice bractem verticillato-tring à flore distantes. The sample for the drawing came from Mr. Gowen ; and had been taken from a plant in the collection at Highelere, in Hampshire; raised from seed gathered in the interior o New Holland, by Mr. Cunningham. We have called the species after the family name of the possessor and introducer of the plant. - Comes near to PASsIFLORA adiantifolia, figured in the second volume of this work, in respect to the flower and general habit of the shrub; but differs in the shape of the foliage. It has the same remarkable and somewhat ano- malous crown and operculum, the same keeled segments of the calyx, the same tall straight pistillum, but a Shorter urceolus than adiantifolia. Mr. Gowen says the plant grows and flowers freely, and is all but hardy. An excellent subject for the conservatory. Now first appear- “ing in our collections. P2 2. E roc e 70 $ - Sagas | ” af. p Zu c te uL 738 EDWARDSIA chrysophylla. - Golden-leaved Edwardsia. —Üf»— DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord, LEGUMINOSE. Jussieu gen. 346. Div. IV. EDWARDSIA. Calyz 6-dentatus. Corolla papilionacea, Legumen tetrapterum polyspermum. Curtiss magaz. 1442. E. lla, foliolis 8-10 lineas longis obovatis, carinm petalis ellipticis, pete o da recto, i in trans, linn. soo. O. 299, b. 26. fig. 1. Edwardsia chrysophylla, Sweet Hort. suburb. londin. DO. - Facies aliqua sequentis (EDWARDSUR grandifiore), sed pubescentia dum tenera magis aurea. Folia densa. Petiolus angustus. Foliola 16-19 obo- vata, plus minus retusa. Flores minores quam in E. grandiflorà et micro- phyllâ; basi tantàm 3 lineas longi. Petala in specimine Herbarii Banksiani, ad quod modo descripsi, pallida flava, Salisbury loc. cit. The drawing of this native of the Sandwich. Islands, the last introduced of the genus, was taken at the collec- tion of Comtesse des Vandes, at Bayswater. The species was originally observed by Mr. Menzies, and samples were deposited by that gentleman in the Banksian Herbarium. From thence it was transferred by Mr. Salisbury to the re- cords of the Linnean Transactions. Much scarcer than its congeners, and never before figured from the live subject. The genus is named and established by Mr. Salisbury, in compliment to the late Mr. Sydenham Edwards, whose reputation, as a botanical draughtsman, was established by the first volumes of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, to which he contributed the designs for more than twenty years. The drawings of the four first volumes of the present. work are likewise from the pencil of the same excellent artist. CORRIGENDA. Fol. 703. 1, 16. pro “ Roxb.” lege “ Buzb.” 711. p. 1. 1. 9. à pede pag. pro “ immerso" lege “ immersum.” 711. p. 1. 1, 9. pro“ uniquoque” lege“ unoquoque." 711. p. 3. 1. 13. “ HovENIA” pro semicolon pone periodum. 711. p. 1. 1. 16. à pede peg. 1. pro *^ foliorum" lege * foliis." 720. p. 1. 1. 4. pro“ MONOGYNIA” pone“ MONANDRIA.” 720. p. 1. 1.10. dele verba “ porrectum, explanatum.” 722. p. 1. 1. 21. pro ** cuncto" lege “ cuncté." di hh n, Sat SALES, / /, UL, el de Vitec A an U a / / FAY 739 ' ROSA involuerata. Hamiltons Rose, _ Rs ICOSANDRIA POLYANDRIA: Nat. ord. RosacEr. Jussieu gen. 334. Div, JI. Rose, v n ROSA. Supra vol. 6.: fol. 458, Div, III. Bracteate. Rawi fructungua fomento persistente vestiti, Lind- monogr. . R. involucrata foliolis lanceolate ellipüeh infra tomentogia, bracteis contiguis pectinatis. Lindl. I. c. 8. n. 6. MAS Rosa involucrata. _ Rob. A. ind. ined. Rosa palustris. Buchanan MSS. “ This section, which probably extends across the con- tinent of Asia, from Nepal to China, is readily distin- guished from the preceding by the thick wooliness of its fruit; a peculiarity entirely confined to itself. Its leaves are very dense, usually shining, and the prickles are placed under the stipulz in pairs: the species which compose it may be considered to have their organs of fructification in the highest state of developement in the genus. The gta- mens vary from 350 to 400, and the pistilla from 140 to 190; the former being twice and the latter three times as numerous as in the last section (Feroces), which perhaps holds the next rank in the-scale of developement.” _ * Branches pale brown, flexuose, covered with very soft down; prickles generally naked, with a long base, bright brown, pointing upwards, placed by pairs under the sti- pule, which are nearly distinct, downy, and divided at the margin into severa! capillary cómpound segments, here and there fringed with glands; on vigorous rootshoots they are united half way, and then the part which is disen frequently extends into a small pinnate leaf; petioles slen- der, downy, with a few small prickles; leaffets 3-9, elliptic, lanceolate, obtuse, bluntly serrate, dull green, naked above, downy (rarely naked) and paler beneath. Flowers white, subsolitary, surrounded by three or four approximate leaves; bractec pectinate, woolly, as are the short pe- duncle, globose tube of the calyr, and spreading entire sepals (calycine leaflets); petals emarginate, longer than the last; disk long, large, and thickened; styles villous, slightly protruded.” “For an opportunity of examining spontaneous speci- mens of this new species I am indebted to Mr. Lambert: they were collected in Nepal by Dr. Buchanan (Hamilton), and, from the ticket attached to them, probably in marshy situations. Of this however no mention is made by Dr. Roxburgh, by whom, in his manuscript Flora Indica, a detailed account of the species is given with the name here adopted. It has recently been imported from the East Indies by Mr. Whitley, of Fulham, in whose collection I have seen it growing vigorously, and it proves a highly de- sirable addition to our gardens, It cannot possibly be con- founded except with R. bracteata and microphylla, from both which its dull narrow leaves, hoary beneath, and long slender shoots, distinguish it sufficiently; besides, the bractes are a little distance from the flowers. Native of Nepal, Bengal, and China.” Lindley, 1. c. 8-9. Drawn at Mr. Colvill’s, King’s Road, Chelsea. aL quer M Eu 1 t À E À Tib bz I Kedgway \_)170 Been oe IA | Y Wald de 740 on wey NEMOPHILA .phacelioides. Phacelialike Nemophila. dn PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. u . Nat. ord. BORAGINEE. Jussieu gen. 128. Div. II. Fractus uni aut bi-capsularis. tst HYDROPHYLLEE. Distincta à BORAGINEIS ordinis initia constituunt genera capsularia HYDROPHYLLUM, PHACELIA ef ELLICIA, ob albumen copiosum cartilagineum et folia opposita vel alt? lobata. Brown prod. 492. DE : . NEMOPHILA. Germen uuiloculare, placentis duabus parictalibus dispermis, ovulis distantibus. Capsula unilocularia, placentis carnosis, axi longitudinali dorsali affixis, csrterum solutis superficiei vetitrali seminiferis, Brown in Curt. magaz. 2373. : Nemophila phacelioides. Barton fl. amer. 61. Curtis's magaz. 2373. Biennis: caule succulento, procumbente, ramoso, Fol. alterna, pinnati- Ada; lobi obtusi, scabriusculi ciliis minutis; inferiores distantes, inequa- liter lobulati. Pedunc. solitarii, teretes, uniffori, folio longiores, (Bartonio axillares) Nobis oppositifolii. Cal. persistens, inferior, 10-partitus ; seg- mentis ovatis, acutis, ciliatis, alternis majoribus erectis, ceteris reflexis, Cor. campanulata ; limbo 5-fido; laciniis obtusis emarginatis. Stam. corollâ plurimim breviora: fil. nuda, corolle tubulo brevi inserta; anth. hmate. ECT. scrobiculi 10 urascentes, margine pubescentes, os tubi círcumse- pientes. Stig. 2-fdım. Caps. unilocularis; recept. dua cornosa postion à medio in longum, solutis lateribus, affiza: sem. duo im réceptaculo singulo. (Ex angl. vers.) . ‘ Hydrophyllee differ from Boraginew by a copious car- tilaginous albumen, as well as by an opposite or else deeply lobed foliage: distinctions announcing a further general diversity of habit between the members of the two orders, very properly separated by Mr. Brown in his Prodromus. NEMOPHILA owes the name and origin, as a distinct genus, to Dr. Barton ; its accurate definition of the limits to Mr. Brown. The essential properties of a well-defined genus seem to us to be, that they should express the peculiar characters of a convenient number of naturally (evidently) allied species, and the art of instituting the same to consist in the sagacious selection of such insulated species as will VOL. IX. Q gradually combine with others not yet observed. In the formation of such groups we have always found Mr. Brown peculiarly successful. The nuclei of his genera do not long remain without attracting a due conglomeration of species, until a natural and convenient assemblage of these has taken place. The genera of many other authors seem to be chosen by chance, and to be oftener drawn within the circles of those already established, than to become them- selves a receptacle for unobserved species. Biennial Stem succulent, trailing, branched; leaves alternate, pinnatifid; lobes obtuse, slightly roughened, edges minutely ciliate, lowermost apart from the rest, un- evenly indented. Flowerstalks solitary, round, 1-flowered, larger than the leaf. Calyx permanent, inferior 10-cleft ; segments ovate acute ciliate, alternately upright and larger, the rest reflexed. Corolla campanulate, limb 5-cleft, seg- ments obtuse, notched at the end. Stamens far shorter than the corolla; filaments naked, inserted at the short tu- bular base of the corolla; anthers crescented. Nectary of ten small purplish cavities with pubescent edges ranged round the mouth’ of the tube of the flower. Germen round- oval: style upright: stigma trifid. Capsule 1-celled, with two parietal fleshy placentee attached along the back, the sides remaining detached and separate. Seeds naturally two to each placenta. (Borrowed from Curtis's magaz. with some alteration.) : Drawn from the collection of Mr. Barclay, at Berry Hill, Dorking ; by whom the species has been probably now first introduced. : E A) EZ + za LL NI P LT MM A 741 BIGNONIA «equinoctialis. g. Chamberlayne's Bignonia. - —— DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, Nat. ord. BIGNONIACEZ. Brown prod. 1. 470. BIGNONIA. Supra vol. 3. fol. 249. Foliis conjugatis. B. equinoctialis, foliis conjugatis cirrhosis: foliolis ovato-lanceolatis, pe- dunculis bifloris, siliquis linearibus. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 299, Bignonia zquinoctialis. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4.31. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 6. Bignonia bifolia scandens, siliquis latis et longioribus, semine leto. Plum. ic. 44. t. 55. f. 1. (8) Chambery: racemis subsexfloris. Curtis's magaz. 2148. Frutex scandens: folia conjugata, cirrho valido racemi axein continuante : ‘ efoliolis ovato-acuminatis, integerrimis, levibus, supra nitentibus, subtüs pal- tdioribus. — Cirthus modo deest, suoque loco foliolum terminale tertium. Pedicelli divaricati, sulcati, hinc glandularum serie rectá verruculati. Ra- + cemi pedunculus azillaris, pluriflorus, pedicellis sepius oppositis unifloris, flore cernud. Calyx "cupulatus margine integrá, obsolet? quinquedentatus, * Corolla magna, lucidê flavescens. Tubus ultra calycem coarctatus. Faux ventricosa, Limbus patens, quinguepartitus, lobis rotundatis, subbilabiato-. infleris. [ 2 * (8) is too near to (a) to be separated as a species without proof. The marks hastily selected by the compilers of uni- versál systems for the specific distinction of the plants, 0 whi nging the sequences of their page, cannot be im- plicitfWrelied upon for decisive separation; recourse should be had to other evidence. We have already expressed our views of the inconveniences arising from the iteration of species and misapplication of synonyms, holding them among the principal blots in the history of natural objects. Provisional subspecies, with separate synonymies and marks, seem at least the palliative of this evil, and the one we always use. B has been lately introduced from the Brazils by Mr. Lee, of the Hammersmith Nursery, to whom the plant was sent by Mr. Chamberlayne, consul-general at Rio Ja- neiro. e2 The drawing was taken at the Bayswater establishment belonging to Comtesse de Vandes. The fact of the flower- stalks having only one flower instead of two, as in (æ), is just such a difference as is very likely to proceed from defect of vigour in the plant cultivated in a colder region. n ro rap T See © eaae Dil. /Id 2. 742 EULOPHIA gracilis. Slender Eulophia. ` GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDER. Jussieu gen. 61. Brown prod. 1, 300. Di TV, Anthera terminalis mobilis: decidua. Masse pollinis demìm cerencon, Brown in Hort. Kew. 2. 5. 205. EULOPHIA. Brown suprà vol. 8. fol. 686. E. gracilis, scapo gracillimo, folüs lanceolatis trinerviig 3-plo longiore, cal- care clavato, labelli lobo medio obsoleto. Lindley MSS. Herba terrestris. — Bulbi conici vestigiis asperis foliorum vestiti. Folia 3-5, disticha, rigida, angustê lanceolata suberecta pedalía basi inflatá bul: bos vaginantia, nervis tribus primariis, 4 secundariis, illis. subtus promi- mentibus. Scapus teres, gracillimus multiflorus foliis triplo longior [ thesin bractearum vestigiis tuberculatus. Flores in spicd sparsim dispositi, luteo-virides, intüs pallidiores, rubro paululüm suffusi bracteis lanceolatis acuminatis ovario duplo breviori: deciduis, suppositis. Corolle petala pa tentia, ovata, acuta, interiora paulo minora. bellum pendulum infundi- buliforme, calcare apice clavato, lobo medio obsoleto fimbriato. Columes libera, anticì plana, margine subciliato, ovata, à fronte in rostellum produc- tum desinens. Gynizus transversus excavatus. Anthera terminalis, opercu- laris, decidua, unilocularis, infrd apicularis, anticê rostro suo fum polliniorum tegens, prie justa cardinem elongata purpurea. 'ollinia 2, dorso semibiloba, glandule filiformi affiza. Lindley MSS. Obviously distinguished from EuLopHia guineensis (vol. 8. fol. 686) by its narrow rigid leaves and very long scapes, which remain in flower for many months. The middle lobe of the labellum is obsolete, and its place supplied by a few minute processes resembling a fringe. The plant was sent from Sierra Leone, in 1822, by Mr. George Don, collector in the service of the Horticultural Society; and has been in flower in the garden of this So- ciety at Chiswick for nearly all the summer through. Lind- ley MSS. A ground species (not parasitic: not growing upon trees or other bodies). Bulbs conical, enveloped in the hardened rugged permanent bases of the leaves. Leaves 35, two opposite stiff, narrowly lanceolate, nearly upright, a foot high, covering the bulbs by the enlargement of their per- manent remnants; primary nerves 3, secdŵdary 4, the former varicosely permanent at the under surface of the foliage. Scape round, very slender, many-flowered, three times the length of the leaves: as the flowers drop knobbed with the remains of the bractes. Flowers disposed in a scattered spike, subtended by lanceolate taper-pointed de- ciduous bractes, twice shorter than the germen, of a yel- lowish green colour, paler on the inside and slightly suf- fused with red. Petals of the corolla spreading, ovate,. pointed, inner a little smaller. Label pendulous, funnel- form; spur clubbed at the top, the middle lobe nearly obliterated and its place supplied by a sort of fringe. Co- lumn detached, flat in front, slightly ciliate at the edge, ovate, ending at the front in an elongated rostel or beaklike appendage. Secreting surface of the stigma (gynizus) a transverse hollow. -Anther terminal, lid-shaped, deciduous, of one cell, with a projecting apex beneath, covering by its beaklike point the gland of the pollen-masses, elongated at the back near the fringe or joint by which it is connected with the column, where it is also purplish. Pollen-masses 2, divided into two lobes for half their length at the back, held together by a filiform glandular corpuscle. pe eg i ng aÓÁáÓÀ y ET, ce s == Ne s M a "Y o Sg 743 PHASEOLUS semierectus. Dark red Kidney-bean. — DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSA. Jussieu gen. 341. Div. V. corolla irregularis papilionacea. Stamina 10 diadelpha. “Legúmen uniloculare bivalve. Fru- tices aut herbe; folia simplicia aut ternata aut rarins digitata; stipule nunc subnulle, nunc conspicue imo petiolo adnate aut ab eodem distincte. PHASEOLUS. Carina stylo staminibusque spiraliter convolutis: le- gumine compresso, falcato: seminibus compressis, reniformibus. Elliott in Nuttall gen. 2. 112. P. semierectus, caule semivolubili, floribus spicatis, calycibus ebracteatis, alis expansis majoribus, foliolis ovatis. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. Phaseolus semierectus. Jaeg. ic. rar. 3. t. 658. coll, 1. 194. Willd. sp. 1.3.1038. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 289. Phaseolus strumosâ radice, flore purpureo, siliquá angustissimá. Plum. . 8. Phaseolus barbadensis erectior, siliguâ angustissima, tinctorius. Dill. hort. eltham. 312. t. 233. fig. 901. Phaseolus subhirsutus americanus exitiosus, siliquis longis caulibulis insi- dentibus, Pluk. alm. 290. t. 214. fig. 2. i Radix annua ramosa, albida duplo gracilior calamo. Caulis unicus, teres, supernè striatulus ad lentem villosulus, ad duos tresve pedes erectus et stans per se, dein volubilis ramosus infernè suberosus. Folia ternata, petio- lata: foliolis ovatis, integerrimis, suprà glabris, subtùs ad lentem parumper villosis, in infimo caule obtusis et minoribus, reliquis acutis. Stipule gemi- ne, lanceolate acute. Pedunculi azillares, solitarii pedales, ‚strich, erec- tiusculi, ad apicem multiflori. Bractex ad calyces subulate, gemina, parve, adpresse, caduce. Flores sessiles, alternatim gemelli, ttodori. Perian- thium cylindricum, virens, angustum, parvum glabrum bilabiatum; labio superiori emarginato et breviori, inferiori dentibus tribus subulatis. Vexil- lum calyce duplo longius viret cum suffusá purpuró. Alm sanguinem, vexillo do iores, subrotunde concave distantes. Carina medio , hinc Poca ob convolutionem vezillo brevior. Anthere , oblonga, incumbentes. Semina plura oblongo-reniformia glabra fusco et nigro ma- culata continentur in legumine lineari, recto, teretiusculo, acuminato, tres quatuorve uncias longo, fusco, pilisque decumbentibus hirsuto. Numerosis- sima, que per plures annos colui in horti botanici caldariis e specimina, semper rádices habuere annuas, ramosas solito PHASEOLORUM annuorum more, nec vel minimum strumosas; quare Dillenii Plumierique in Mantissá à Linneo citata synonyma omisi, ubi radiz dicitur strumosa et per- ennis. Et Linnaeus quidem totam ibidem plantam descripsit, radicem omi- sit; pude suspicor meam quoque Lianci esse plantam. Jacq. |. v. Root annual, branching, whitish, twice slenderer than the tube of a common quill, Stem one, round, slightly fluted towards the top; when observed through a magnifier somewhat villous, to the height of two or three feet erect and standing of itself, from thence twining and branched, towards the bottom part corky. Leaves ternate, petioled : leaflets ovate, quite entire, smooth above, underneath when viewed with a glass slightly pubescent, on the lower part of the stem obtuse and smaller, elsewhere pointed. Sti- pules in pairs, lanceolate pointed. Peduncles axillary, solitary, a foot long, rigidly straight, almost upright, many-flowered at the top. Bractes of the calyx in pairs, subulate, small, close-pressed, caducous. Flowers sessile, alternately paired, without scent. Calyx cylindrical, green, narrow, small, smooth, bilabiate : upper lip notched at the end and the shorter of the two, lower one with three subu- late teeth. Vexillum (uppermost and largest petal) twice longer than the calyx, purple suffused over a greenish ground: ale (side petals) deep-purple-red, twice the length of the vexillum, roundish, concave, wide apart from the rest: carina (two lowermost parallel petals generally more or less connected at the inner edge) purple in the middle, on the sides white at both surfaces, shorter than the vexil- Jum owing to the spiral twist. Anthers deep yellow, oblong, balanced. Seeds several, oblongly kidney-shaped, smooth, with black and brown spots: shell linear, straight, round- ish, taper-pointed, 3-4 inches long, brown, with a roughish furred decumbent pubescence. Jacquin has left out the sy- nonyms of Dillenius and Plumier, because they speak of a perennial plant. This is too likely to be a mistake to be trusted to in displacing a synonym in other respects good. Drawn at Chiswick in the garden of the Horticultural Society; where the plant has been introduced from the West Indies. A kidney-bean, though not an esculent. Originally cultivated in 1732 by Dr. James Sherard, in the Eltham garden, where it was observed by Dillenius, and faithfally represented in his work. "n aso r bt Es AU t aa LP 2 a 4 e A > T poe "Y SI > 7 zu / ES d 7 oa y y AM 73 77 Go ACA ly C a TA 7 Tin "t YA del. Act Ly t 7 E AGA AY Ep OC La Y =T 744 CALCEOLARIA integrifolia. Undivided-leaved Slippercibort. . DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 2 Nat. ord. SCROPHULARUR. Jussieu gen. 117. Div. IT. SCROPHULARINE. Brown supra fol. 723. CALCEOLARIA. Supra fol. 723. - €. integrifolia, foliis lanceolatis rugosis serratis, floribus paaiculatis ter- minalibus. Smith ic. ined. 1, 8. "u AN Calceolaria integrifolia. Act. Stockh. 1770. Wid. ap. pl. 1, 107. Calceolaria serrata. Lamarck encyc. 1. 649. Md Calceolaria salvize folio. Feuillée peruv. 3. 13. 6.7. : M Fol. opposito-distantia, rugosa, lanceolata, serrata, subsessilia, breve villosa. anicula distantór oppositêgue ramosa, terminalis, K folioen, nu- merosa, lutea è cymis multifforis oppositis axillaribus termina Ru tantibus trichotomis; pedunculo communi aphyllo apice trichoteme -tŷmoso foliis longiori, pedicellisque villosis sepiüs dichotomis, filiformibus, his ca- pillaceis flexuosis. Cal, herbaceus utrinque villosus, pluries brevior, parvus, cruciato-A-fidus, segmentis late ovatis acutis explanatis. Cor. mag- nitudine pisi majusculi, lutea, abbreviato-calceiformis, subgloboso-infla:a, depressiuscula, germini semisupero infrà adnata, extüs minut? pubescens, infra supinatim excisa: labium superius operculare, inferiori « forme, triplo tamen minus, aperture tote incumbens, convexum, atum, secun- dùm marginem baseos calyci fer? ac a cardine connexum, germini semitecto adnatum indique cwm labio inferiore continuum. Stam". labio superi transvers? opposita atque inclusa, juncture germinis ét corolla intêr m utrumque inserta, und epigynarum instar, stylum versis inclinata ; fi. iliformia, antheris longiora: auth®. vibrate (demisso polline purpurascentes ) introrsim dehiscentes, polline farinaceo albicante { (estivantes albida, reni- formi-bilobe, crasse, filamento à receptaculo medio loculorum trans- vers? incumbentes). Stylus strictus, setaceus, ez } circa antheras un, glaber; stigma punctum simplicissimum. Germ. superum, ovatum, breve, vesiculis erystallinis papillosum. Introduced by the Horticultural Society in the course of last summer. Drawn at the Chiswick establishment belonging to that useful and thriving association. Native of Chili and Peru. A tender annual. Leaves opposite; wide apart, lanceolate, nearly sessile, very shortly furred, wrinkled (much in the way of Sack). Panicle branched, terminal; cymes nodding, many-flowered, yel- low, axillary and terminal, trichotomous : common peduncle VOL. IX. R longer than the leaves, villous, as well as the pedicles, fili- form. Calyx herbaceous, furred on both sides, several times shorter than the corolla, small, crosswisely 4-cleft ; segments broadly ovate, pointed, fiat. Corolla the size of a large pea, yellow, distended, nearly globular, attached by the base to the semisuperior germen, minutely furred on the outside, open at the upper side at the base: upper lip lidshaped, of the same form as the lower but much smaller, covering the aperture, convex, nearly orbicular, attached to the calyx by the edge of its base as by a hinge, concrete with the half-covered germen and conjoined at the base with the lower lip. Stamens standing across and inclosed within the upper lip, inserted between the two lips of these at their union with the germen, bending towards the style ; filaments longer than the anthers. , Anthers balancing, reni- formly bilobular before they shed their pollen, purple and shrunk after that. Style bristle-shaped with a simple point. Germen ovate, transparenily frosted. JL Kata. Fe, J. Iridpway 170 Teccadilly Oct. 22. 745 ISOCHILUS linearis. Linear Isochilus. — GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDER. Brown prod. 1. 300. Div. IV. Anthera termi- nalis mobilis decidua. Mass pollinis demüm cereacee. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 205. ISOCHILUS. Labellum petalis distinctis conviventibus subconforme. Masse pollinis quatuor, parallele. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 209. - I. linearis, spicâ terminali, foliis distichis linearibus obtusis emarginatis, caule simplici. Brown loc. cit. 209. Cymbidium lineare. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 97. Epidendrum lineare. Jacq. amer. 221. t. 131. f. 1. A West Indian species, introduced by Mr. Elcock in 1791.—Drawn at the Bayswater collection belonging to Comtesse des Vandes. A genus detached and defined by Mr. Brown, who dis- tinguishes it from other genera of the same division, by a label nearly of similar shape and dimensions as the rest of the petals of the corolla (distinct from each other), and four parallel pollen-masses. Two species are known in our gardens. We had no opportunity of examining the flowers; and refer to the annexed figure. ne R2 Jab A A Wun E ———— MÀ 746 JATROPHA gossypifolia, Cotton-leaved Physic-nut or wild Cassava. —d—— MONCECIA MONADELPHIA. Nat. ord, Ecrnonnia, Jussieu gen. 384: Dio. Styli plures definiti: swepiüs 3. US. i EUPHORBIACER. Brown ix Flitd. voy. 2, 555, JATROPHA. Monorca. Corolla perta aut 5-loba, interdüm in masculis caliculo 5-partito cincta. Masc. . 10, filamentis medio coa- litis, horum 5 exteriora interdäm breviora, interdütü distincta, interdüm glandulis 6 cincta. Fam. Germ. 1}: 3yli:3; atig. 8. trioocen, trisperma. Herbe aut frutices; folia alterna, stipulacea, x in- terdùm in apice petioli glandulosa; flores corymbosi axillares wut’ terminales, corymbis monoicis. Radix quarundam tubulosa, esculenta; Congéher ex Linn. suppl. Hevea. Aublet 1.335, Guianensibus Caoutchouc, arber mo- moica lactescens seu succo fæta aqueo resinoso, post cencrescentiam plastico py élastique) et tunc ad usus varios usurpato; hujus rami apice Solos, olia alterna ternata ; tus corticatus tricoccus coccis ligneis 1-2-spermás ; semina in crustd fragili; cetera ab Aubletio non observata. Juss. 1. c, 389. Oss. Genus dijficillim? determinandum ; character enim difformis, ên diversis speciebus varians. Tamen, niti leso genere maxim? naturali, in plures viz dilacerandum. Habitus et inflorescentia JATROPHAM à congene- ribus (coordinatis) distingwunt: RICINO omnind proxima est, solo fer? witìeto staminum ab illa charaoltze diverao.. Swartz obs. 396. . ' je ~a J. gossypifolia, folis og Se iratis gÍandulo-clliatis, pilis ramosis serine, fot - axillis et jéliulia. / Willd. sp. pl. 4. 657. Jatropha gossypifolia. Lina. sp. plied. 2, É. 1428. Boots oin 968. Hort. Jatropha, staphisagrifolia. Mi diot. ed. 8. a. 9 atropha staphisagrifolia. Mill. dict. ed. B. 2.9. _ . . J. humilior bus Ta mosis, foliis trilobis 1-5-lobis denticulatis. Browne jam. Ricinus minor, staphisagriæ folio » fiore 5-petalo purpureo. Sloane jam. 1. 129. 1.84. poA . ss Ricinus americanus perentis, floribus purpureis staphisagriæ folio. Comm. hort. 1.17. t. 9. MEN (8) Jacq. ie. rar. Wt. ,, Caulis 2-3- is, bifidis ; masculis copiosioribus ; à solitariis à au gelain Mas. Cal &-phyllu. Fe liola ovata; uewlw; Hits, Cor. profunde 5-partila, atropurpurea, lac’. ovatis. Glandulm 5, nectarifera, subrotunde, atl basin staminum. Fil. 10- 12, â basi ad medium coalita, longitudine corolle ; anth". flave, 2: de, ovate. Fem. Cal. eż Cor. maris. Nett.0. Germ. subrotundum. | ex bas S fidus: stig’. dilatata, 2-fida. Caps. ovata, 3-gona, N . Sem”. solitaria, Swartz loc. cit. / Native of the West Indies; by road-sides and cultivated lands. Introduced in 1690 by Lord Portland. A hothouse plant. Stem 2-3-feet high, herbaceous, branched, smooth. Branches subdivided, round, surrounded at their base by small bristles with glandular tips. Leaves digitate, 5-parted ; lobes ovate, pointed, serrate, toothedly ciliate: hairs glan- dular. Common peduncle terminal: partial ones cymose, dichotomous. Male flowers more abundant: female placed singly in the fork of the common peduncles. MALE FLOW- ers. Calyx 5-leaved. Leaflets ovate, pointed, ciliate. Co- rolla deeply 5-parted, dark purple; segments ovate. Necta- riferous glands roundish, placed at the feet of the stamens. Filaments 10-12, united from the base to the middle, the length of the corolla. Anthers deep yellow, 2-cleft, ovate. FEMALE FLOWERS. Calyx and corolla the same as in the male flower. Nectary O. Germen nearly round. Style 3-cleft from the base. Stigmas widened, 2-fid. Capsule ovate, J-cornered, retuse, 3-coccous, 3-celled. Seeds so- litary. According to Swartz this genus is of very difficult defini- tion, including widely varying anomalous species; but still so natural that it cannot be conveniently divided. Comes next to Ricinus, differing by little else in technical cha- racter, than the number of the stamens. E iadilly Dat. 11628. "NE Y 747 TRITONIA ‘flava. Paterson’ s "Tritonia. — TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. ENSATE. Linn. et nob. in ann. of bot. 1. 219. IRIDES. Jussieu gen. 57. IRIDER. Brown prod. 1, 302, TRITONIA, Nobis supra vol. 2. fol. 135, —————————————— —————————— T. flava, spathe valvula exteriore cuspidata, limbi Iaciniis tribus interioribus basi callosis: callo unguiformi perpendiculari. Solander in Hort. Kew. 1. 65; (sub GLADIOLO flavo. ) 1 Tritonia flava. Nobis im ann. bot. 1. 226; ef in append. bot. reg. vol. 3, Dryander in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 92, Gladiolus flavus. Solander in Hort. Kew. 1. 65. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 218. Vahl enum. 2. 110. Persoon syn. 1. 47. Flos flavus, nec fulvus uti in securigerä; corolla irregularior, lacinie inequaliores, angustiores, minüsque obtuse in fulvà quàm in flava; ceterüm species inter se simillime, signisgue plurimis conspicuissimis consentientes; unde discrimen validum difficile eruendum. Nec valere queant diagnoses spe- cifice Horti Kewensis; occurrunt enim note distinctionum ambe in i ejusdem plante utriusque speciei; nec valent note iste in ullâ ferà generis specie, A plant that has probably never appeared in our collec- tions from the time of the introduction of the original sample by Colonel Paterson in 1780, when it was cultivated by the then Lady Strathmore, till recently reimported by Mr. Colvill. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, and re- corded in Hortus Kewensis by Dr. Solander under Gra- DIOLUS; from which genus it was detached by us in a trea- tise on Ensate in the Annals of Botany. GLADIOLUS has an oblong capsule with winged seed; TRITONIA a roundish capsule with round wingless seed, a habit peculiar to the genus and distinct throughout from that of GLADIOLUS. The spots or areas from which the three remarkable calli or prominences of the corolla arise, have been termed by Professor Sprengell nectarostigmata, a term constituting the type of an injudicious neologism ; being unnecessary, not of convenient length, nor precise, nor expressive 0 any thing but the pedantry of its author. j istingui from Students have been perplexed to distinguish flava fro securigera, while taking the specific phrases, by which alone the two were formerly known, for their guide: “a spathe with an obtuse tridented outer valve" being made the differential mark of the first, and “a spathe with a spear-pointed entire outer valve" of the latter: marks that mutually occur throughout the genus in the spike of the same plant, the outer valve being often entire at the bot- tom of the spike, while it is indented at the top. For real points of distinction between the species we must have re- course, first: to the colour of the flower, which is tawny in securigera and yellow in flava; secondly: to the irregu- larity of the same, which is greater in flava than in the other; thirdly: to the breadth and inequality of the seg- ments, which are much broader in securigera, and more unequal in flava. The two being however now represented by good figures, can for the future cause no confusion. | Drawn in Mr. Colvil's greenhouse at Chelsea in July ast. The representation of securigera (GLADIOLUS securigero), in Curtis Magazine (No. 383), is characteristic and every way worthy of so excellent a botanical draughtsman as Mr. Sydenham Edwards. Als ewm, LIE e bid 748 tu l ERINUS Lychnidea, =» 7 (UU Lychnis-flowered Erinus: f 7 —)Ó9— E DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, |, Nat. ord. SCROPRULARINJE. Sect. II. Stamina 4 antherifera. Brown prod. 436.. eg ERINUS. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla tubulosa limbo 6-partito sub- wguali, lobis cordatis. Capsula ovata. Folia pleraque alterna; flores ax: illares aut 1-bracteati, spicati, terminales, Juss. gen. 100. E. Lychnidea, foliis lanceolatis serratis, corolle tubo pubescente, limbi la- ciniis semibifidis. E. capensis. Linn. mant. 252. E. Lychnides. Linn. suppl. 287. Willd. sp. plant. 3. 333... Thunb. prod. 102. Pers. syn. 2. 147. Caulis erectus, teres, pubescens, bipedalis. Folia alterna (inferioribus op positis), sessilia, linearia, dentata, remota, pubescentia. Spica term: 3 oblonga, imbricata Bracteis latioribus, ovato-lanceolatis, dentatis. Calyx sessilis, longitudine bractearum, quinquedentatus, bipartitus, erectus, obin- sus, inferne latior. Corolla flava, odoratissima. Tubus filiformis, calyce triplo longior. Limbus 5-partitus; lobis semibifidis, obovatis, equalibus. Stamina didyma. Anthere 2 in ore tubi; 2 infra faucem. Germen supe- ram. Stylus feliformis, longitudine tubi. Linn. mant. 252. M For the means of publishing this rare plant, which we believe is figured now for the first time; we are obliged to Riehard Leigh, Esq. of Bexley. i It was originally described by Linnaeus, in his Mantissa, with the name of E. capensis, and a figure of Burmann was cited, which is now known to represent Erınus fragrans; an error which Linnzeus afterwards detected, but which is continued in Persoon's Synopsis, although avoided by pre- vious writers. The appellation of LYCHNIDEA was given to the plant by the younger Linnzeus, in the Supplementum Plan- tarum; we suppose, from the belief that it was one of the species of LyYcHNIDEA represented by-Burmann. But, if we are right in our conjecture, the name'was unfortunately ap- plied, since neither of the species of LycaniDEA belonging to Erımus, which are described by Burmann, are referable to the present plant; one kind being a synonym of E. africa- VOL. IX. s nus; ànd that which was originally referred to this species belonging, as we have already stated, to E. fragrans. That our plant is identical with the E. capensis of Lin- neus we have fortunately been enabled to ascertain by the aid of the Banksian Herbarium, in which specimens both of E. africanus and E. capensis, compared with the Linnæan Herbarium, are preserved. On what authority Linnzus describes his plant as having yellow flowers we are unable to judge, unless, indeed, the species was cultivated in the Upsal garden. In our plant the flowers are certainly nearly white. It does not very obviously appear, from the characters either of Linnzus or Thunberg, in what the essential cha- racter of E. Lychnidea, as distinguished from E. africanus, consists ; we have therefore made a slight alteration in the specific character, so as to indicate what seems to us to be the most important point of difference, the pubescent tube of E. Lychnidea. In all the specimens of E. africanus which we have examined, that part was perfectly destitute of pubescence. Stem two feet high, erect, round, pubescent. Leaves alternate (the lower ones opposite), sessile, linear, toothed, distant, pubescent. Spike terminal, oblong, imbricate, with broad ovate-lanceolate, toothed bractew. ^ Calyx sessile, the length of the bractez, 5-toothed, bipartite, erect, ob- tuse, broader at its base. Corolla pale yellow, very sweet- scented. Tube filiform, three times as long as the calyx. Limb 5-parted ; the lobes cleft halfway, obovate, unequal. Stamens in two pairs. Anthers, two, in the mouth of the tube; two of them below the orifice. Germen superior. Style filiform, the length of the tube. J. L. ~ — P9 "E "ms a P DS. HP. A octaua SE LE (GW 749 TILLANDSIA flexuosa; y. pallida. Flexuose Tillandsia; pale-flowered variety. ——— HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat, ord. BROMELIE. Sect. T. Germen superum. Juss. gen. 50. TILLANDSIA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 105. T. flexuosa spicis laxis flexuosis, floribus distichis remotiusculis, foliis Ian- ceolato-linearibus reclinatis, caule apice subdiviso. Swartz prod. 57. Sl. ind. occ. 1. 590. Willd. sp. pl. 2.12. Ait. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 203. Pers. syn. 1. 345. B. fasciata; foliis fasciatis. s : IL T. tenuifolia, foliis lineari. subulatis integerrimis imbricatis, spica simplici laxa. Jacg. amer. 92. t. 63. y: pallida, floribus pallidis, spica sub simplici. | Parasitica. Radices filiformes, longi, rigidi. Folia plerumque radica- lia, lanceolato-linearia, basi latiora, sessilia, ventricosa, amplectentia, mar- gine integra, laxa, apice reclinata, striata, membranacea, subtus viridi- exalbida, subtomentosa, v. farinosa, ex squamis minutissimis peltatis medio excavatis margine hyalino striato cinctis, oculo armato distinguendis. Cau- lis v. Scapus foliis longior, 2-3 pedalis, laxus, teres, vaginatus, vaginis al- ternis, lanceolatis, acutis, rubris, inferioribus in foliola linearia desinentibus : apice subdivisus, spicis terminatus. Spice 2 v. 3, solitarie, longe, laxe, rachibus triquetris, flexuosis, flosculis alternis, distichis, remotiusculis. Brags tee v. Spathe 1-phylle, lanceolate, concave, striate, cincte. Calyx a partitus, basi trigonus, persistens, laciniis erectis, coloratis, Petala 3, & nearia, calyce longiora, apice reflexa, coccinea, v. caerulea. Filamenta » alterna parum breviora, receptaculo inserta, filiformia, longitudine ferê pe- talorum. Anthere ovate, basi bifide, albide. Germen ovatum, trigonum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma 3-fidum. Capsula elongata, cylindracea, “Se. minata, trigona, 3-carinata, 3-locularis, 3-valvis, intus nitida, nigra. Se mina papposa. Pappus capillaris, lutescens. Swartz l. c. We have placed this Tızanosıa provisionally only as a variety of flexuosa, because, although it is probable that it may be a distinct species, we, not having seen while u flower the plant from which our drawing was made, aré not prepared to point out its distinguishing characters. T. flexuosa must either be a very variable plant, or more species than one are already included in it by those Who have described the wild subject; to say nothing of Jacquin's T. tenuifolia, which is referred hither by Swartz and other botanists. The last-mentioned writer says, the Jamaica plant varies with scarlet and blue flowers! te" quin's plant has leaves banded yg those of some species o ` Aloe; and the subject of this article had pale green flowers with little colouring, either of scarlet or blue, in bracteze, calyx, or corolla. In foliage and form of parts it resembles perfectly the wild specimens of T. flexuosa preserved in the Banksian Herbarium. Our drawing was made from Mr. Colvill's collection. Native of the West Indies and South America. Parasitical. Roots filiform, long, rigid. Leaves chiefly radical, linear-lanceolate, broader at the base, sessile, in- flated, embracing, entire at the edge, loose, bent back at the point, striated, membranous, greenish white beneath, somewhat tomentose or mealy, with very minute peltate hol- lowed scales which are surrounded with a striated hyaline edge and may be distinctly seen with a lens. Stem or Scape longer than the leaves, two or three feet high, feeble, round, with alternate, lanceolate, acute, red edges, the lowermost ending in a linear leaflet ; somewhat divided at the top, and terminated by the spikes. Spikes 2 or 3, solitary, long, feeble, with a three-cornered flexuose rachis; the florets alternate, distichous, and remote. Bractece or Spathe of one leaf, lanceolate, concave, striate. ` Calyx 3-parted, tvi- angular at the base, persistent, with erect coloured laciniæ. Petals 3, linear, longer than the calyx, reflexed at the point, scarlet, or blue (or pale green). Filaments 6, the alternate ones a little shorter than the others, inserted into the receptacle, filiform, nearly the length of the petals. Anthers ovate, bifid at the base, whitish. Germen ovate, triangular. Style filiform. Stigma trifid. Capsule elon- gate, cylindrical, drawn off to a point, 3-cornered, with each angle a little dilated, 3-celled, 3-valved, inside shining black. Seeds pappose. Pappus capillary, yellowish. Swartz. J. L. 4 SN SS "i A ¢ Y 7 if 74 ; ¢ Y 7 yd É bee ERYTHRINA speciosa. Showy Erythrina. — — DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSE. Juss. gen. 345. Sect. V. ERYTHRINA. Supra vol. 4. fol. 313. E. speciosa, foliis ternatis subtus aculeatis, petiolis inermibus, caule acule- ato. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 4. 252, E. speciosa. And. bot. rep. 443. Caulis aculeatus, viridis, glaberrimus. Folia ternata, longissim? petio- lata, cum caule geniculata; stipule parve, obovato-lanceolate, dimidiate, glaberrime ; petiolus teres, glaberrimus, basi incrassatus colore intensiore, foliolis longior. Foliola magna, plana, glabra, acuminata, nervis primariis aculeatis, margine sinuata, cum petiolo communi geniculis teretibus, atro- viridibus, pube ferrugineo obtectis, basi utrinque 1-2 glandulosis, connata : lateralia rhombea, inequilateralia; terminale laté-ovatum subtrilobum. We had no opportunity of describing the flowers of this species of EnvrHRINA. In elegance and beauty of blossom it is superior to most of its congeners, with the exception of the much more common ERyTHRINA Crista Galli. The plant is of rather unfrequent occurrence in collec- tions. Our drawing was made from a plant which flowered in the collection of Comtesse de Vandes, at Bayswater. Native of the West Indies, and introduced to this country, upon the authority of the Hortus Kewensis, in 1805. Stem prickly, green, and quite smooth. Leaves ternate, upon very long stalks, jointed with the stem ; stipules small, obovate-lanceolate, halved, quite smooth; stalk round, smooth, thickened at the base, and of a darker colour there; longer than the leaflets, which are large, flat, smooth, and drawn to a point, with the principal nerves prickly ; sinuose at the edge, and united with the common stalk by means of round and dark green joints, which are covered sparingly with a ferruginous pubescence, and have Mm Lo or two glands on each side of their base; the lateral leatlets are rhomboid, and with sides of unequal breadth ; the ter- minal one is broadly ovate and obsoletely 3-lobed. 14 CORRIGENDA. Fol. 720. 1. 6. a calce pag. pro “ referens" lege ** referente” 720. 1. 7. pro “ infra” lege ** supra.” 721. 1.13. a calce pag. pro ** hermaphroditi” lege ** hermaphroditis." 722. 1. 21. pro “ cuncto" lege ** cuncte.” 728. 1. 23. post ** axi" dele ** media.” 729. fol. 1. pag. 2. 1. last but one, for ** his department" read ** of bo- tany.” 729. fol. 2. pag. 1. 1. 4. dele ** he.” 729, fol. 2. pag. 1. 1, 9 from bottom of page, for “ of science” read “ in natural history." 736. p. 2. l. 5. dele ** and." 736. p. 2. 1. 13. for “ are” read ** and.” 151 DIANELLA strumosa. Colvill’s new Dianella. ——— HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. ASPARAGI. Jussieu gen. 41. Div. Flores hermaphroditi. Germen superum. ASPHODELE&. Brown prod. 1. 974. DIANELLA. Supra fol. 734. D. strumosa, foliis latê viridibus, omnind levibus, (latitudine, ubi latiori- bus, subunciali): paniculà laxà, numerosâ, decompositä; corolla pen- dulo-cernuze laciniis reflexis, alternê saturatiìs 3-5-lineatis: filamentis cum strumâ obesâ saturatiìs coloratà antheriferâ apice articulatis: pedi- cellis flore paulô brevioribus. Fol. gramineo-ensata, undique levia, leté (neque ac in plurimis obscuri ) virentia, carinata, caule longiora; caulina vaginacea. Caulis sesquipedalis v. ultra, viridis, teres, solidus, flexuosus, elastico-rigens, culmo Tritici vix robustior, remote articulatus internodiis foliolo lanceolato vaginatus, pani- culà numerosá, distanter ramosá elasticá patente comatus: pedunculi com- munes graciles, patentes, basi bracteä foliaceá multoties breviore acuminatá amplexi; inferiores decompositi, longiores; superiores. semel dichotomi v. simplices. Flores laxé racemosi, cerulescentes: pedicelli filiformes, solitarii, stricti, distantes, erecto-patentes, sparsi, bracteolà ovato-acuminatá pluries breviore sphacelatim marginatá subtensi, cum fore articulati. Cor. emar- cido-persistens, cernua, extüs viriditate aliquá suff usa 3 laciniis. omnino re- flexis oblongis obtusis planis qualibus, interioribus dined saturatá triplici axi parallelá striatis, exterioribus pallidioribus lineá simili quintuplici notatis. Stamina pauld breviora, erecta: filam*. flava, apice flexa, antheram medi- ante corpusculo summo tumido oblongo breviore aurantiaco pruinoso articula- tìm connato gerentia: antheræ erecte, stantes, stamine, sagittato-lineares, corpusculi summitati apice declivi ad basin introrsum inserte. Stylus supe- rans stamina, filiformis, albus: stigma apex simplex puberulus: germen pal- lidum, globosum, stylo brevius, loculis tribus biseriato-polyspermis. Introduced by Mr. Colvill, of the Chelsea Nursery, where the plant flowered this spring. Native of the interior of New South Wales, and lately observed by Mr. Cunning- ham, the assiduous naturalist of those regions. The species does not appear reducible to any of the seven enumerated by Mr. Brown; by whom the corolla of the genus is described as “ deciduous,” which in our plant seemed to be * permanent,” and to envelop in the faded state the ripening capsule. We presume that the stami- neous appendicle we have termed struma, is the aper in- crassatus stuposus of the filament, in the definition of the character of this group. In strumosa the leaves are bright green; the corolla re- flex; inner segments ruled down the middle with three deeply coloured lines parallel with the axis of the segment ; outer with five similar ones ; the filaments are bent at the top and connected by a joint with a short thick orange- coloured frosted irregularly oblong strumous body, on the inwardly shelving summit of which the anther is fixed by its base. The above curious appendage of the stamens, re- minds us in some sort of the thigh of the Bee, when loaded with the golden farina collected from the blossoms of the field. The Asphodelece of Mr. Brown include the Asphodeli of Jussieu, along with several of his Asparagi; and are de- fined as follows. “ Corolla sixpartite or sixeleft, regular. Stamens 6, either inserted on the corolla or beneath the germen (hypogynous): the 3 opposite to the outer segments being sometimes of a different form from the rest and sometimes entirely wanting. Germen detached, 3-celled ; cells many-seeded, seldom 2-seeded. Style l. Stigma en- tire or shallowly 3-lobed. Fruit generally a 3-celled 3- valved capsule with partitions along the middle of the valves ; sometimes an undivided, rarely a tripartite, berry. Seedcase black, friable, crustaceous: albumen fleshy: em- bryo enclosed.” The above is followed by a remark by the same writer, that he has in vain sought for a decisive and really natural distinc- tion for this order (or, if you please, section of the Liliacew) ; that he has been able as yet to detect no other feature that is common to the whole, and that separates them from the generality of their bordering kindred, than the black friable crustaceous Seedcase, which is easily separable from the fine membranous coat immediately next to the seed: and on this account he has added Hypoxis and Curcuuico at the end of the order, each having the same kind of seedcase, though they differ by a germen which is below the corolla ; and as not only the covering of the seed is different in Branprorpia, but the dehiscence of the capsule, as well as several other of the marks, he has for the same reason kept it out of this family. He further observes, “ that the genera with berries ought not to be removed from those with capsules, nor all the Liliaceous genera with berries and a germen above the co- rolla (superior) piled together in one order.” He likewise takes notice, that the joint at the middle or the summit of the peduncle, which is of so frequent occurrence in Aspho- delece, is scarcely ever met with in the bordering genera, ex- cept in some species of ANEILEMA and in SANSEVIERA." SOLS oA nd y^ JC LOCALE MUU 152 SCHIZOPETALON Walkeri. Mr. Walker’ s Schizopetalon. ati TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. Nat. ord. CRUCIFERE. Juss. gen. 237. Decand. regn. veg. 139. SCHIZOPETALON. Calyx clausus. Petala pinnatifida! Siliqua torosa, seminibus uniseriatis. Cotyledones quatuor! separatim contortu- plicata ! Herba annua alternifolia, pube tenui ramosa. Folia sinuato-pinnatifida. Ra- cemus foliaceo-bracteatus. Calyx pubescens foliolis albo-marginatis, lateralibus altius descendenti- bus. Petala alba, unguibus calycem paulo superantibus, laminis circum- scriptione ovatis, pinnatifidis, laciniis linearibus siccitate qa forsan estiva- tione) involutis. Stamina 6, filamentis subequalibus, edentulis, antheris uniformibus, sagittato-linearibus, introrsis., Glandule hypogyne quatuor, lineares, erecte, petalis subopposite, geminatim basibus dilatatis confluentibus Filamenta lateralia stipantes. Stylus brevissimus. Stigmata papulosa, con- nato-approximata, in stylum decurrentia, basibus solutis, unicum quasi sub- extinctoriiforme efformantibus. Siliqua sessilis, bilocularis, angusto-linea- ris, pube ramosa brevi conspersa, valvis venosis. Semina spherico-lenticu- laria. Embryo viridis. Radicula albicans, arcuata, semine paulo longior. Cotyledones verticillate, equales, elongate, angustate, semiteretes, separatim subspiraliter involute. Obs. In ordine Cruciferarum genus nulli cognito affine, et equidem ob nume- rum, figuram, et vernationem cotyledonum, petala pinnatifida, stigmatis struc- WD et stamina subaqualia tribus distincte initium efformare videtur. Brown Schizopetalon Walkeri. Sims in Curt. mag. 2379. For the elaborate character which we have given above, we are entirely indebted to Mr. Brown, who alone, in this country, was capable of defining the limits and of fully ap- preciating the peculiarities of this truly singular plant. It adds another instance to the curious anomalies already knownin the cotyledonar structure of dicotyledonous plants: and must unquestionably be considered as the type of a new tribe of cruciferous plants; others of which may pos- sibly exist in the almost unexplored regions of which this is a native. It is unnecessary for us to expatiate upon the value to science of such a communication as the above; especially When it is remembered that the first, and indeed the only original attempt at forming philosophical characters for VOL. IX. T Cruciferous plants, the generic differences of which are diffi. cult to seize perhaps beyond all others, was made by the gentleman to whom we are obliged for our article; and that the soundness of those characters has never yet been questioned, even by theorists. In illustration of these remarks, we cannot d^ better than transcribe the words of M. Decandolle, who (gn. ves. 144) observes, that ** A methodical arrangemes: | * ciferous plants is, on account of the close afinity oi “the genera, both difficult and ambiguous. The division “of the order into Siliguose and Siliculose, which was first established by Ray, and afterwards adopted by Lin- neus and most other botanists, although it has the ap- pearance of being convenient, is not only occasionally uncertain, but has the great defect of not according with the anatomical structure and natural affinities of the ge- nera. In the first place, the silique and tbe silicule differ from each other only in length; and every degree of length is to be found, not only in allied genera, but even among species of one and the same genus; so that DRABA, for instance, NASTURTIUM, HELIOPHILA, ERYSIMUM, ARABIS, STEVENIA, ERUCA, and others, even after the most rigid examination,necessarily include examples of Siliguose and Siliculose mingled together. Secondly, there are certain cruciferous genera, such as RAPISTRUM, CAKILE, CRAMBE, &c. the fruit of which being neither siligue nor silicule, is so anomalous as to have received a distinct appellation from some modern writers, and to have been termed nu- camentaceous. In the third place, the length of the style is not always in an inverse ratio to the length of the pod, but has been observed to be long in many Siliquose, and very short or nearly obsolete in other Siliculose. Characters, however, of a more constant and important description, having been remarked by Gzertner, were suc- cessfully introduced as the basis of the generic characters * of the order by Mr. Robert Brown. These characters are A € e [14 “ € A “ deduced from the internal structure of the seed, and more * especially from the relative position of the radicle and * cotyledons; and although it must be confessed, that prejudices with regard to the association of species, which have become almost sanctified in our minds by habit, are in some cases attacked, the genera founded upon those “ principles are not only much better defined, but far more [44 * natural, than the genera to which we had been previously “ accustomed. It is also a singular fact, that in these plants * every variety of form in the fruit is accompanied by * equal variety of form in the seed, so that if primary cha- * racters be derived from the pericarpium, then in each * division will be an accumulation of genera with various * modifications of seed ; and if from the seed, then in like * manner each division will contain genera with dissimilar “ pericarpia." This plant is a native of Chili, from whence it was in- troduced by Mr. Francis Place in 1822. It is annual, and difficult to preserve, as it very rarely produces its seeds. Our drawing was made, in the garden of the Horticul- tural Society at Chiswick, in June last. J. L. fe x gA € J Har 153 OCYMUM febrifugum. Sierra Leone Fever Plant. —— DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. LABIATE. Juss. gen. 110. Brown prod. 506, Sect. II. B. Calyx bilabiatus. Brown l. c. OCYMUM. Calyx labio superiore orbiculato; inferiore quadrifido. Corolle resupinatz alterum labium 4-fidum; alterum indivisum. Filamenta exteriora basi processum emittentia, Flores racemosi. Pers. syn, 2. 134. O. febrifugum, suffruticosum pubesceus, foliis ovato-lanceolatis crenatis pe- tiolatis, verticillis terminalibus racemosis, bracteis rhombeis deciduis, corolla calyci subaquali. 8? O. heptodon, caule erecto ramoso, foliis petiolatis ovatis crenatis, peri- anthii labio inferiore 5-fido, superiore 2-dentato, perigonii labio inferiore 3-, superiore 2-lobato. Pal. de Beauv. Fl. d'Oware et de Benin 2.59. i. 94, Suffrutex 3-pedalis, nuda, MELISSA odore aromatico. Caulis tetrago- nus, pilosus, angulis rotundatis, glaberrimis. Folia opposita, ovato-lancco- lata, acuminata, obtusa, erenata, petiolata, glabriuscula: nervis pilosis; subtus reticulata, punctata. Racemi terminales villosi. Flores pallidi virides, verticillis G-floris dispositi. Bractex verticillo cuique due, tenues, rhombeo- ovate, pallide, decidue. Pedicelli breves, tenues, pubescentes. Calyx campanu- latus, pilosiusculus, punctatus; laciniá superiore lata, ovatá, lateralibus subula- tis, patentibus, inferiore bidentatá, ascendente. Corolla calyci equalis, pubes- cens, 5-dentata: dentibus 4 superioribus subequalibus, sursim flexis, labello majore, ovato, concavo, purpureo venoso, marginibus revolutis. Stamina de- clinata, duo postica supra basin tubi inserta, infra medium calcare brevi vil- loso: duo antica ad basin labelli inserta, glabra, mutica. Antheræ lutee, glabre, innate, loculis apice confluentibus. Pollen sphericum. Ovaria in disco carnoso immersa. Stylus filiformis. Stigma bifidum. This species of Ocymum is very similar to the O. hepto- don found by the late M. de Beauvois in the kingdom of Benin; a plant which is stated to have a flower singular in the genus for the seven teeth of its calyx, and appearing, from the figure which accompanies the description, of a red colour. But, as we are unable to discover other points of variance, it is possible that some allowance should be made for the different appearances of a dried specimen and a living subject. To avoid confusion, we have preserved the plant of M. de Beauvois as a distinct variety; and we leave the point to be finally determined by a future reference to the Herbarium of the author. Our plant was raised from seed transmitted in 1821 by Mr. George Don from Sierra Leone to the Horticultural Society, in whose garden at Chiswick we were favoured with an opportunity of describing it. Mr. Don informs us, that it is in request at Sierra Leone for medicinal purposes, and that it is there called the Fever Plant. Speaking of the genus Ocymum, Mr. Brown remarks (prod. 506), * that the whole genus requires to be entirely revised, in order to ascertain what species are furnished with toothed filaments; and how far that character, which at present is of doubtful value, is of real importance in fixing limits to the genus." An under-shrub 3 feet high, naked of foliage, and having in a high degree the smell of common Balm. Stem 4-cor- nered, hairy, rounded at the angles, which are destitute of pubescence. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, drawn to a point, blunt, crenate, nearly smooth, with a long stalk ; the nerves hairy; on the under side reticulated and covered with dots. Branches terminal, villous. Flowers pale green, dispersed in 6-flowered whorls. Bractee to each whorl two, thin, ovate-rhombshaped, pale, deciduous. Flower- stalks short, slender, downy. Calyx campanulate, hairy, dotted; the upper division broad, ovate, the lateral seg- ments subulate, spreading, the lower division with two teeth, and directed upwards. Corolla nearly of the same length with the calyx, pubescent, 5-toothed; the four up- per teeth being nearly of equal size and turned upwards ; the lip larger than they, ovate, concave, purple, veined, with the edges turned back. Stamens bent downwards, the two at the back being inserted above the bottom of the tube, with a short villous spur below their middle; the two in front inserted into the base of the labellum, smooth and without a spur. Anthers yellow, smooth, with the filaments inserted into their back; their cells running together at their point. Pollen round. Ovaries 4, immersed in a fleshy discus. Style filiform. Stigma bifid. J.L. S Bite JA di ue PAE | y E. augur (TO Fecadilly Mr / Ll E 754 CURCULIGO latifolia. Pulo-Pinang Curculigo. — HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. As ODELER. Brown prod. 1. 274. Div. Genera inter As- leas et Amaryllideas media. CURCULIG Shor vol a. fol. 345. a“ ae C. latifolia, foliis ell ii eu vix ped giore st Cureuligo latifolia, Involucrum. Rumph. deb Fol, pauca, inflorescesitü * plicato-nervosa, erecta, i en itulo sessili tubo floris (germinig collo mob. j in Hort. Kew, ed. 2. ,3, 853. . ) Metiós altiora, elliptico-lanceolata, radicalia, ipetiolatim ‘attenuata. Capitula radicalia, sestilia, lateralia, n , Aspicata, capitato-abbreviata, coarctata, bracteas Joliacea, ma, i ovbydllinaeet vel cired. Bractex herbacee, singulares, floribus longiores; pede iium to-acuntinate, partim sub terrá _ harentes, {eritu flaw, singulabes, shocessinê ab extra ne tes; cor, O-partita, rotata, equalis, egalaris, extús germenque pube longá molli sericeo-hirsuta, laciniis subseniendialihus, , tineari-oblongis, acutis, Stamina co- rolle disco inserta, & v, circa \brköidha,‘ ‘erecto-conniventia: filamenta lutea, spatio parvo ab invicèm distentiq, ¡subulata, parüm ' ris longiora: an- ere flave, adnate, Entraram, s épres, obtusule, apicê extüs nigricantes, basi emarginate. Stylus pa Ravescens, filamentis robustior, ter limbo equalis, disci centro Lema. ¿istigma subcapitatum, pubescens. . Ger men inferum, subterraneum, sordide pallens, corolla E $ longius, obtus?’ tii guetrum, crassitudine fer? penna) anserine, fundo fertili 3-loculari, owelis pluribus globosis oculorum intimo angulo ordine binario annexis, collo». rostro) summo sterili solido longiore. ” The plant was introduced by Mr. Allen in 1804 from the island of Pinang, where it îs said to grow wild. 'The species was taken up and defined by Mr. Dryander, in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis, but has not yet been transferred into any of the general systems. ~n, CurcuLico, with the exception of one species from the Cape. of Good Hope, and that only lately displaced from Gerðir, where it originally stood, is a genus belonging wholly t&India. The drawing was ‘taken at Mr. Colvill's Nursery at Chelsea, where the plant is kept in the hothouse. Leaves few, many teil “bind the inflorescence, radical, upright and spreading, elliptically lanceolate, ta- pering into a kind of footstalk at the lower part. Flower- heads lateral, radical, sessile, numerously flowered, from spikes shortened into crowded turbinate bracteously leafy heads standing just above the ground. Bractes herbaceous, single, upright, lanceolately-tapered, topping the flowers, partly under ground. Flowers numerous, yellow, placed singly in the heads: corolla sixparted, rotate, outspread, even, as well as the germen covered on the outside by a soft long-haired close-pressed fur; segments oblong, pointed, half an inch long. Stamens standing upon the disk of the corolla, which is 4 longer, having a narrow interval be- tween each: filaments subulate, flexuose, yellow, converg- ing, but little longer than the anthers: anthers deep yel- low, facing inwards, adnate, linearly elongated, bluntish at the top, notched at the base, tipped on the outside with black: pollen yellow. Style columnar, stouter than the filaments, of a paler yellow, equal to the corolla, and springing from its centre-point: stigma slightly headed, vil- lous. Germen inferior, under ground, about 4 longer than the corolla, nearly of the diameter of the tube of a small quill, dirty or brownish white, obtusely 3-cornered ; trilo- bular, fertile and polyspermous at the base, at the top lengthening into a solid sterile continuous neck (according to others, the tube of the flower): ovules in two rows at the inner corner of each cell. v eue qe dus cu RR So PE GD LU O E VIE 2 Wal te Vil, HE Filly LD. LL IT) AMA PAM. LLC /. AZ. De PUMA P 755 STAPELIA normalis. Regularly spotted Stapelia. —ÉüD— PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Nat. ord. ASCLEPIADEX. Brown in Wern. trans. 1. 12. Sect. I Pollinis masse eereacese leyes. STAPELIA. Corolla rotata 5-fida carnosa. Col. fructif. exserta. Corona staminea duplex, utraque in variis varia, interior quandoque obsoleta. Anthere apice simplices. Masse pollinis basi affixe, altero margine carti- logineo-pellucide. Stigma muticum. .Follicul subcylivdraeei levis. Se- mina comosa, . . . Plante carnose, aphylle, angulate, sepe tubereulato. Flores ut plu- rimum speciosi, odore nauseoso stercorario. Brown. e; Sect. II. Corona exterior 5-partita, laciniis bifidis: Brown. B. normalis, corollis 5-fidis 4-fidisve, orbicylo spurio, rostris alisque tereti- bus, ligulis: bifidis trifidisve, maculis corolle normalibus. Jacq. step. cult. t.41. “Rom. et Schult. sp. pl. 6.39. Link entm. ber. 1. 256. , Rami plurimi, ramosi, declinati, e. ascendentes, virides, a 4 ad 10 un- cias longi, adulti viz digitum minimum: crassi, tetragoni, angulis dentatis, dentibus patentissimis. Pedunculi ex inferiore parte ramorum juniorum, ple- rumque ad divisiones, solitarii, wjfler, teretes, glabri, patentissimi, ses- quiunciales, pennam columbinam"traisi. - Oillycis folia ovata, acuta, gla- bra, pallide virentia, patentistima. - Corolla feitida diimétri biuncialis et ultra, subplana, patentissima, 4 divisa; foris ex sulphareo pallens, lineata, glabra, intus tota flava, transversis striata, maculisque adspersa atroéapiysi- neis, et per series longitudinales, parallelas, mormalitór ördinatie. Tubus viz ullus, Laciniz 4 v. 6, ovata, atte; plane. Oficulus spurius, fuber- culatus, similiter coloratus. Necütrii 8ateus. brevis; albidus, basi circulo, et supern? maculis 2 v. '3 sanguineis notutus: - Rostra téretia, obtusa, erecta, supern? recurvata, virentia, sanguineo púxctata. . Ligule oblonga, obtuse, apice bifide, sepe cum intermedio denticulo mirimo, patentissime, viridule, utrinque punctis a is adsperse, ad basin stinguince. Folliculi gla- bri, digitum crassi, fere uncias 4 longi, erectiusculi, “Jacq. l. c. This species is principally distinguished from S. varie- gata by the regular disposition of the spots upon the flower. The only figure of it which has been previously published is in the fine work of the younger Jacquin upon the culti- vated species of SrAPELIA. Our drawing was made at Mr. Colvill’s Nursery. The genus Orbea of Mr. Haworth, which is founded on the sectional characters of Mr. Brown, cited at the com- mencement of our article, does not appear to depend upon VOL. IX. u distinctions of importance sufficient to constitute a particu- lar genus. We have therefore continued to retain this species among the genuine SrAPELIAS which have been di- vided into convenient sections by Mr. Brown. That gentle- man, in remodelling the order of Asclepiadee, found it necessary to make no other alteration in the genus, as ori- nally fixed, than to reform the essential character, which was defective and inaccurate; and to divide from it the species with a 10-cleft corolla (HuERNIA Brown), and those with a single corona to the corolla (Pıarantaus Brown). The singular appellation (normalis), which has been bestowed upon the species by Jacquin, alludes to the regu- lar manner in which the spots of the corolla are arranged. Branches many, much divided, bending down, or rising upwards, green, from 4 to 10 inches long, the old ones scarcely so thick as one's little finger, four-cornered ; the angles with very spreading teeth. Flower-stalks from the lower part of the young branches, generally at their divisions, solitary; one-flowered, roünd, smooth, very much spreading, an inch and half long, as thick as a crow’s quill. Leaves of the Calyx ovate, acute, smooth, pale green, very much spread- ing. Corolla stinking, its diameter two inches and more, nearly flat, very much spreading, divided half way; on the outside of a pale sulphur colour, streaked in lines, smooth, in the inside with a yellow ground, striped across and marked with blood-red spots, which are regularly disposed in longitudinal parallel rows. Tube scarcely any. Divisions of Corolla 4 or 5, ovate, acute, flat. Crown spurious, warted, of the same colour as the divisions. Sac of the nectary short, nearly white, marked at the bottom with a blood-red ring, and at the top with two or three spots of a similar colour. Horns round, obtuse, erect, at the top curved backwards, green, dotted with blood-red. Straps oblong, blunt, split at the end, often having a little tooth- let between them, very much spreading, greenish, covered on both sides with dark purple spots, at the bottom blood- red. Seed-pods smooth, as thick as one's finger, about four inches long, and nearly erect. Jacq. J. L. —P AAA — A. ————Ó——————— A——MMY 756 STAPELIA hirsuta; var. atra. Dark-flowered hairy Stapelia. — PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Nat. ord. ASCLEPIADER. Brown in Wern. trans. 1. 12, Sect. I. Pol- linis massa eereacex leyes, STAPELIA, Supra fol. 755. Sect. I. Corona exterior pentaphylla, fotos indivisis. Brown. - S. hirsuta, corollis planis ciliatis, disco in facié hirsutis, czeterum glabris et transverse rugosis; rostris subulatis acutis, dorso per maximam longitu- dinem excurrentibus ín alam latam acutam rostroque paulo breviorem. Jac. Stap. cult. t. 15.— var. atra ib. t. 16. Asclepias africana aizoides flore pulchro fimbriato. Comm. rar. 19. t. 19. Bradl. succ. 3. 5. t. 23. S. hirsuta. Linn. syst. 260. Mill. ic. 172. t. 258. Jacq. misc. 1. 28. 1.3. Thunb. prod. 46. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1278. Ait. Kew. 2.85. Pers. syn. 1.278. Haw. synops. succ. 19. suppl. pl. succ. 9. Rom. et Sch. sp. pl. 6.17. Linken. ber. 254. As the Srarerta, figured. in our last article, is an: ex- ample of Mr. Brown's second section of the family, aud-óf Mr. Haworth's genus Orsea ; so is the present an illústra- tion of the first section in the arrangement of the former gentleman, and of what is considered to constitute the true character of SrAPELIA by Mr. Haworth. The variety of S. hirsuta, which we have now before us, appears to be intermediate between that species and S. soro- ria; and to agree with the former in its essential charac- teristics, but to exhibit the colour of tbe flower of the latter speelês. It is stated by Messrs. Römer and Schultes, that it has been considered, by a writer in the Leipsic Diary for 1814, a distinct species. We. were favoured with the specimen, from which our drawing was taken, from the collection of Mr. Hood, of Lambeth; but we had no op- portunity at the time of describing it. - LL v2 — 757 GNIDIA denudata. Smooth-leaved Gnidia. —— OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. THYMELER. Brown prod. 1. 358, GNIDIA, Supra vol. 1. fol.2. G. denudata, foliis ovato-oblongis guadrifariam imbricatis pilosis trinervibus : nervis denudatis, floribus terminalibus villosis : villis ars patentibus, Suffrutex erecta, gracilis, ramis teretibus villosis. Folia ovato-oblonga, obtustuscula, plana, trinervia, quadrifariam imbricata, ciliata, sessilia, bass villosa, adulta utrinque glabriuseula (pube rara adspersa); nervis denudatis. Flores terminales, lutei, foliis longiores, villis longis patentibus confertis, ovarii albis, corolla nigrescentibus, tecti. Tubus gracilis, subarcuatus, cla- vafus. Limbus patens, quadrifidus, laciniis ovalibus, intus glabris. Squa- me 8, didyma, parve, erecte, ad sinus limbi. Stamina 8, erecta, ovata, biserialia, subsessilia: 4 superiora exserta, 4 inferiora inclusa. Stylus tubo brevior, usque ad stamina inferiora tantum attingens. Stigma acutum, sub- irsutum. This species of Gnipia is nearly related to the Gu imbricata of Linneus; but we think it decidedly distin- guished from that species by the differences we have pointed out ín the specific character. In G. imbricata the leaves are oblong, very blunt, and covered all over with so very dense and silky a pubescence, that no portion of the surface even df the midrib is exposed ; and the flowers are in like man- ner protected by a similar covering of closely pressed pu- bescence. In this species, on the contrary, the leaves are ovate-oblong and nearly acute, and the hairs upon the leaves are principally in the form of cilise at their edges; the three nerves of their lower surface being quite naked and dis- tinct; and the hairs upon the flower few in number, long, spreading, and óf a blackish colour when care- fully examined. We are informed by Mr. Sweet, that when the flower has been expanded for some days, its co- lour, which is at first pale yellow, changes to a brownish orange, becoming darker daily: so that the plant has upon it blossoms of several shades of orange and yellow at the same time. , Our drawing was made at Mr. Colvill's Nursery, in the King's Road, Chelsea. An undershrub, evect, slender, with round, villous branches. Leaves ovate-oblong, bluntish, flat, 3-nerved, imbricated in four rows, ciliate, sessile, villous at the base; the old ones nearly smooth on both sides (with a very thin, closely pressed, pubescence); the nerves naked. Flowers terminal, yellow, longer than the leaves, with long, spread- ing, close hairs; those of the ovarium white, of the corolla blackish. Tube slender, curved, a little thickened up- wards. Limb spreading, 4-cleft: the divisions oval, smooth inside. Scales 8, in pairs, small, erect, at the base of the divisions. Stamens 8, erect, ovate, in two rows, nearly sessile; the four in the upper row exserted, those iu the lower row included. Style shorter than the tube, rising no higher than the lower set of stamens. ‘Stigma acute, rather hairy. J.L. Bum Rd 158 ALLIUM. Cowani. l Peruvian Allium. ` —)— HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. AsPHODELEX. Brown prod. 1. 274. ALLIUM. Cor. 6-partite patens, Spatha multiflora, Umbella con- gesta. Caps. supera, Gen. pl. 657. Die. Folia radicalia. Scapus nudus, A. Cowani, scapo nudo semiterete, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis flaccidis ciliatis vaginantibus, umbella fastigiata, petalis obtusis. Radix bulbosus, Folia radicalia, lanceolata, acuminata, ciliata, flac- cida, vaginantia, breviora scapo nudo, semiterete, glabro. Umbelle spa- tha Aine , ovata, acuminata, pedicellis brevior. Corolla alba, patens, petalis oblongis, obtusis. Stamina petalis breviora, pistillo subequalia, fila- Roots of this new species of ALLIUM were sent to the Hortieultural Society from Peru, in 1823, by James Cowan, Esq. along with many other singular bulbous plants, from elevated situations in that country. Of these we bave lately had the advantage of describing (fol. 724) & curious new mountain species of AMARYLLIs. The subject of this ar- ticle flowered this summer in a cold frame in the garden of the Society at Chiswick, and we had there an opportunity of examining it. Although several species of the same genus had been discovered in North America, some of which are said to be identical with those of Europe or Asia, none had been known to be natives of the southern part of the new world before the arrival of the kind we are now describing. It is nearly related to the common ALLIUM ursinum of this coun- try, from which it is distinguished by its leaves being cili- ate, a little undulated, and much more flaccid, with quite a different outline; its petals are obtuse, not pointed. Root bulbous. Leaves at the surface of the ground, lanceolate, with a long point, ciliate, flaccid, sheathing, shorter than the scape, which is naked, half round, and smooth. Spathe of the umbel split on one side, ovate, pointed, shorter than the flower-stalks. Corolla white, spreading. Petals oblong, obtuse. Stamens shorter than the petals, about the same length as the pistillum, with subulate filaments. J. L. —M————M——— ——————————— 759 PLEUROTHALLIS punctata. Trowel-lipped Pleurothallis. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, Nat. ord. ORCHIDEZ. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 1. 309. Div. IV. Anthera terminalis mobilis decidua, Massa pollinis demum ceregcem. | PLEUROTHALLIS. | Labellum articulatim conuexum cum basi sim- plici vel brevissimê producta columna. Petala 2 antica exteriorum inferne connata; Masse pollinis 2, exsules. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 211. .P. fata, foliis (folio?) oblongis utrinque obtiisis scapo deflexo ramoso revioribus, floribus sparsis distantibus. . Parasitica? radice fibrosa. Folia (folium?) 1-3, oblonga, biuncialia v. circà, latitudine subsesquiunciali, gl acata, utrinque obtusata: petio- lus radicalis, brevis, robustus. Scapus folio longior, radioalis, declinatus, crassiusculus, virens, teres, subfleryosns, rigidus, nudus, ab ortú circa divi- sus, remanentibus bractearum ibus tandem tuberculosus, Flores spicati, mumerosi, laxiüs sparsi, parvyli, tiridi-pallentes, inodori. Bracteæ minute, ovalo-aeutate, germine aliquotiós breviores, basi tarnosá, atro-viridi, persis- tente. Germ. clavato-gracile, m, viride, petalis equale. Cor. cruciato- 4-petaloidea, bilabiata: a- distincta, «eqiilongas exteriorum medium g&leato-adscendens, concavum, ima 2 (lateralinm tj ŵ) dabéllo wipposita, infern? connata, supernà soluia-atque recursa: ‚iüteriore' 2 (kiteralium. nipe- riora) punctis trinis? flavis, parallelis, notata, duplo angustiora, pallidiora, ` Bineari-subfalcata, obiusula, incurvo-pateñtia, labello transverso opposita (v. “labelli margines laterales ex facie interiori respicientia').- Labellum albidym, trulleforme, porrectum; à: basi curgosd. tumidinsculá:cuim columns pede arbi- . eulatum?, petalis distinctum et quale: unguìs strictus, glaber, augustus, â facie supiná carinatus vel ab ari elevatá utrorsum declivis: lamina "concolor, latior, membranace? extenuata, Cunkate-ovata, reétd, opaca, apice rotur- data (arias: ¿osa v. truncata). Columna conica,- erecta, libera, pallida, . obtusa, petalis fer? equalis. Antbera. reversa, decidun, bilocularis, summe seals columna slorsum recumbens, spathulat? oblonga, congexa, albicans, an- tic? caudato-attenuata, cassa, rostellum cristato-compressum pruinosum vires- cens stig matis obtegens ; postic subrotunda, potlinisywe massis 2 fata ; ligula. - pollinifera alba, membranacea, horidontalis, circumscriptione theee anthe- ring, massas pollinis à parte posticá dildtaté é next glutinosi elastico affigens, glandulä (proscolià ?) , pared, mobili, in apice: masse pollinis bing, pa- railele, ab invichu spatio árigisto semôle, aurez, cereacée, semiovato-orbi- exlares, compresse, perpesulà , * integérrime. - Stigma viridissimum, columnam totam antic? occupans, huj lateribus involuto alatis, aolá re- lictá exeolà nud’ secernente (gyn o) rimafarmi perpendiculari, velatum. i ,. It was. onl the other daya y A general opinion; that ` thè "Hhigration' of pollen maea in Orchideons plants, was “Accessary to-the fertilization of the germen, and the mode By Which those bodies attained a consummatory contact VOL. IX. x with the stigma. This opinion is now, we believe, con- signed to the catalogue.of vulgar errors. ‚A nearer view and a more ‘philosophical research have demonstrated the probability of a` clandestine fertilization, previous to the opening of the flower and removal of the pollen-masses ; at a period when these bodies are endued with a very different nature and substance from those they are found with at the migratory stage. A theory, which, as the result of more aceurate investigation and sounder reasoning, may safely ‘replace that which has been found groundless, at least until itself shall have been refuted in turn, or modified by future observation. The original notion, we suspect, had no bet- ter foundation than the fact of the inert and exhausted residua of the pollen (after projection by an elastic dehia- cence of the anther) having been frequently observed to cling in masses of a determinate form to the neighbouring stigma, where they are retained (probably for the use of bees or of sóme other insects) by a viscid moisture secreted at this period from the surface of that organ. The waxen or horny state in which the pollen-masses are found in a great proportion of this family, is never that of their pristine consistence, but a consistence induced after parting with their fertilizing principle, and indicatory of exhaustion. For this reason, when these concrements en- ter into the definitions of the secretions of Orchidee by Mr. Brown, we find them designated “ demúm cereacea” (finally waren). And in this state only, from their permanence, greater evidence, and easier accessibility, could they.have been adopted for characteristic marks. Previous to tbat period, besides the continual change both in form and con- ' sistence which is more or less in progress, the precise but fugitive moment at which these bodies might be deemed perfect, that is, mature and still pregnant with the ferti- lizing principle, could not have been easily seized for prac- tical discrimination, even if such point of their existence was held a truer and safer ground of distinction. It is by the singular habit of the pollen that Orchidee are distinguished among Monocotyledons, as the Asclepiadew are by one nearly similar among Dicotyledons. In the Asclepiadeous family the anthers are five, all with a pollen concreting into a determinate number of masses, ` which, on.issuing from the mould or case of the anther, at- tach themselves to certain adjoining processes of the stigma, where they are held, probably with the same intent as that which has been surmised in Orchidee; and the recompo- sition they undergo:is not improbably analogous. The summary of the natural character of Orchidee stands in the Prodoiius. of Mr. Brown as follows : “ Corolla superior. Filaments:and style united either at the base or along their whole length. (Anther one, seldom two): pol- len resolving into concretions of determinate shape. Capsule one-celled, with three many-seeded receptacles attached to the axis of the valves.. Seeds minute, with an albumen, but no vitellus;" (from the Latin.) DENDROBIUM ruscifolium and racemiflorum of Swartz were both included in this ge- nus by Mr. Brown. ' | The drawing was taken at Mr. Colvill's Nursery, in the King's Road, from a plant sent from the Governor's garden at Trinidad by Mr. David Lockhart; and is the first of the species that has appeared in our hothouses. x2 NOTE. Of the two plates belonging to No. 720, one represents the whole plant in miniature; the other, a part of the spike and leaf, of the natural size. ...In No. 723, there is a diminished outline of the plant by the side of the corymb of the natural size. In the plate attached to No. 742, the figure with the coloured leaves is a diminished representation of the whole plant; that by the side of the spike, of flowers of the natural size. In plate 749, the figure of the foliage is diminished; the spike of flowers of the natural size. In 750, the flowers are of the natural size; the stem and leaves repre- sented in a separate plate, many times diminished. WN AX 760 PONTHIEVA petiolata. : Long-stalked Ponthieva. — Á— GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. , Nat. ord. ORCHIDER, Sect. II. Anthera stigmati parallela persistens. Messe. pollinis v. farinaces v. e corpusculis angulatis; apicibus stigmati affixe. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 197. PONTHIEVA. Cor. irregularis, - Labellum posticum cum petalis in- terloribus columns insertum. Pollen farinaceum. Brown l.c. 5. 190. P. petiolata, spica laxa erecta, foliis petiolatis erectis crispis glabris, floribus Bali neha, e longè petiolata, elli e eripe, “Folia radicalia, erecta, È petiolata, elliptica, acuta, margine crispa, 927 nervia, glaberrima: canlina.acula, vaginantia, pilosa. Seapus erectus, teres, pilosus, foliis duplö longior. Bracteæ ovario breviores, obtuse, Flores im spica laxa dispositi, patentes, recti, (non resupinati,) discolores. Petala glabra, 3 inferiora ovata, acuta, galeata, coherentia, interioribus Platanthere modo obliquis, iculatis, basi hinc cordatis, columne dorso acretis, 2; superiora oblonga, fortiter &-nervig, alaformia, reflexa, margini: bys revolutis. Labellum rufo-branneum, ovatum, cymbiforme, glabrum, gynizwm incumbente ita; tà 4-locularis, valvarum exteriorum, ginibus scariosis. “Pollinia 4, pulverea, geminata, rostelli retenta. Overium rectum, glantulomm. "The genus Ponruseva was established by Mr. Brown, în the second edition of the Hortus Kewensis, upon the Neof- tia glandulosa of the Botanical Magazine; a singular plant, which we fear is now lost to our gardens. With Neorria it has little in common, besides the peculiar characters of the section of the order in which it is included. For the new species which we are now enabled to add to the genus, we are indebted to the Horticultural Society, in whose garden at Chiswick our drawing was made in August last. The plant had been recently brought to that establishment, with many other interesting plants, from the island of St. Vincent, by Mr. James M'Rae; and we understand it is expected that among them is at least one other species of the same genus. In foliage this plant is so very similar to the NEorriA adnata of Swartz, that, before it produced its inflorescence, we supposed it would prove at least of the same- genus. That, however, is a Neorria with a spur, and therefore wholly distinct from Ponrmeva. It constitutes an unde- scribed genus (CoLLEA Nob.), to which we believe the N. calcarata of Swartz may also be referred. Leaves radical, erect, with long stalks, elliptical, acute, curled at the edges, with 5 or 7 nerves, quite smooth; the leaves of the stem acute, sheathing, hairy. Scape erect, round, hairy, twice as long as the leaves. — Bracfec shorter than the ovaria, obtuse. Flowers disposed in a loose spike, spreading, not twisted, of a brown colour. Petals smooth, the 3 lower ones ovate, acute, cohering into a sort of hood, the two interior being oblique like those of Platanthera, stalked, cordate on one side at the base, and fastened to the back of the column ; the 2 upper ones oblong, strongly 5-nerved, wing-shaped, reflexed, with the edges rolled back. Labellum brownish red, ovate, boat-shaped, smooth, lying upon the column, twice as short as the petals: its stalk yellow, fleshy, edged on each side, and continuous with the base of thé column. Column very short, thick; gynizus hollow, lunate ; rostellum subulate, with a gland at the tip. Anther posterior, narrow, pointed, lying upon the clinan- drium, which with respect to the column is vertical, and lies immediately upon the gynizus ; obscurely 4-celled, with the outer valves of the cells scariose at the edge. Pollen- masses 4, powdery, in pairs, retained in the clinandrium by means of the gland on the point of the rostellum. Ovarium straight, glandular. L J. L. wy CCA AMAU Z 761 POLYGALA paniculata. : „Swarts’s Milkwort. — A DIADELPHIA OCTANDRIA. m . Nat. ord. PEDICULARES. Jussieu gen. 90. Div. I. Stamina. non didy- nama dua aut plura. . PoLYGALEE. Brown suprà vol. 8. fol. 636. POLYGALA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 150. Div. Cristate.” . P. paniculata, floribus cristatis, racemis axillaribus longissim? pedunculatis, caulibus erectis supernê ramosis, foliis linearibus acutis. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 877. ` WN ramis foliosis fastigantibus caulegue teretibus. . Folia numerosa, laxite sparsa, : Peer lineam viz unam lata. Racemi erecti, elongati, aphylli, lax? multiflori, edunculo communi Aliformi, pubescente, pedicellis uniforis, ghraeteafìs, capillaceis, flore ines s fructiferis jar rp gr lores i, reo-albicantes, lined paulo loagioves. : 6j > Sg- mentis 3 herbaci Ded ald coreumocripti, summe bdo, baste cais wan Though the species before us is familiar to every Botanist by the engraving and description in the “ Observatianes" of Swartz ; and by being one that occurs in all vegetable sys- tems; it was, nevertheless, a stranger to. our.gardens:in the living plant, till now introduced by the Horticultural So- ciety at Chiswick, where the drawing was taken from plants obtained from seed brought from Jamaica, in the beginning of this year, by Mr. George Don, a collector in the service of the Society. The side petals in this species are completely evolved and Proportionate to the other petals, as in a genuine pea- flower; not imperfect and clandestine like those of the generality of Milkworts, among which they have been over- looked even by the most attentive Botanists. Is this cir- cumstance peculiar to the West Indian congeners, or be- longing to paniculata alone? We have seen no other from those parts. Paniculata is found in the shade of the mountain-forests and moisture of river-sides of St. Domingo and Jamaica. The genus extends itself, by the types of various and numerous species, over every quarter of the earth. An upright diminutive annual, seldom exceeding six inches in height, furred with a minute glandular pubes- cence ; branches fastigiant (growing to a level one with the other), and as well as the stem round. Leaves loosely scat- _tered, almost sessile, lanceolately linear, scarcely more than a line broad. Racemes upright, loosely many-flowered, : legfless, peduncles long; filiform ; pedicles capillary, bracte- less, one-flowered, shorter than the flower, in bloom upright, ‘in fruit drooping. Flowers small, purplish white, loosely . scattered, scarcely more than one line long. Calyx 5-cleft; - three segments herbaceous with a narrow white edge, the _ uppermost bipartite and incumbent upon the stamens and -in lieu of the vexillum, lowermost entire and resembling : the lobes of the uppermost, two lateral ones aleeform co- : loured, equal to the corolla, lanceolately oblong, upright, and spreading. Ale of the corolla whitish and equal to the carina, oblong, obtuse: carina whitish, crested. — .) —— N. In the character of. CALANTHE (fol. 721 of this volume) the words “ porrectum, explanatum," are an unintentional repetition, an should be omitted. We are requested to state, that the plant from which our figure of SEHI- ZOPETALON Walkeri el 752 of this vol.) was taken in the garden of the - Me Fes Pi ad been raised from seeds presented to the Society + Milde : m A 39-7 Rum PVP GU AA ^ Al. Wart, del. Pty I. Ruagwas (TO Pecadidiy Le H -N. Sabini, spatha uniflora, seapo ascipite, nectario colnmmari erecto plicato 762 NARCISSUS Sabini. Mr. Sabine's Narcissus. — HEXANDRIA MONOGYNLA. Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDEE. Brown prod. vol. 1. NARCISSUS. Supra vol. 2. foi 128, eroso petalip imbricatis patentibus breviore, stylo celumnee sequali anthe- , ris paulô longiore, tubo petalis subgequali. Folia pauca, pallid? viridia, latiuscu da, Scapus anceps, canaliculatus. Flores solitarié, cermui. Peduneulus sesquiuncialis, erectus. Germen par- vum el tubus.corolle eylindrapei, subinfundibulares, omnino virides, petalis @quales, cum pedunculo angulum rectum formantes. Petala albida, lata, bricata, nitida, ovata, cum nectario rectangularia, directione subirregulari. Nectarium dwfewm, plicatum, columnare, margine erosum, 9 lineas lonyum, petalis & brevius, Stamina breviora, stylus neotario equalis. Sabine MSS. Among the many different Narcıssı whieh flowered last spring in the garden of the Horticultural Society, we no- ticed two, which appeared not only undescribed, hat ex- ceedingly remarkable in general habit They were. part of an extensive arrangement p» hardy bulbs, the basis of which was a collection presented to the Society by Mr. Sabine, its Secretary ; a collection which was originally formed. by him, in his garden at North Mimms, by many years re- search, and which bas been materially increased since it came into the possession of the Society. Of one of these the opposite figure is from a drawing we made upon the spot. We have damed ît after the gentlê- man to whom we b and the public are indebted for the pos- Session of it, and from whose extensive acquaintance with the genus we have derived our knowledge of the characteristic marks by which it is distinguished from its congeners. Its petals are those of N. bicolor; its tube of N. incompara- bilis; and its nectary of the last-mentioned species, ` be- come columnar and elongated ; or of N. bicolor shortened. This species may therefore be considered to connect N. in- compar abilis and N. bicolor, and consequently Mr. Salis- bury's genera QueLria and Asax. Roots of it were origi- VOL. IX. Y nally received by Mr. Sabine, in 1818, from Mr. William Baxter, the Curator of the Oxford Botanic Garden. The other species, to which we have alluded, was pre- sented to the Society,: in 1820, by Alexander Macleay, Esq. from his garden at Tilburster; and is supposed to have been imported from Smyrna. Its appearance was very sin- gular, and resembled a N. Tazeita become dwarf, with an umbel reduced to two flowers. The leaves were broad and green; the scape channelled, ancipitous, and nearly as much flattened as in N. compressus; spathe 1 or 2 flowered ; peduncle an inch long, upright, and flattened ; germen swollen and oval; tube 4 of an inch thick, cylindrical, . en- Jarged at the top and green; petals white, imbricate, at right angles with the nectary, ¿ of an inch long, the outer ones broader with a mucro; nectary 4 of an inch long, bright yellow, cylindrical, perfectly truncate, without notches or wrinkles. We have distinguished it by à name whith will be always respected, so long as science and liberality continue to be objects of esteem; and we would charac- terize it thus : N. Macleaii, spatha 1-2-flora, scapo compresso subancipiti, petalis pa- tentibus imbricatis tubo nectarioque cylindrico truncato integerrimo pauld longioribus. Of N. Sabini the Leaves are pale-green, broad, and few. Scape ancipitous, channelled. Flowers solitary, cernuous. Flower-stalk 13 inch long, erect. Germen small, with the tube of the corolla, which is cylindrical, somewhat funnel- shaped, quite green, and equal to the petals, forming a right-angle with the stalk. Petals whitish, broad, imbri- cate, shining, ovate, at right-angles with the nectary, but not standing regularly. Nectary yellow, plaited, columnar, corroded at the edge, 3 of an inch long, 4 shorter than the petals. Stamens shorter than the nectary ; style equal to it in length. : J. L. 74,72 4» E y ¿e g ; SG 7 / E PA Y STEAD P PA Ua e. “ e: atu do. M by SF Iun "y Ly —“——— I ——— — ——Á——— —— 9 n 763 CENOTHERA acaulis. ‘ “Stemless (Enothera. — OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. - Nat. ord. ONAGRARIE. . Jussieu gen. 317. @NOTHERA. Supra vol. 7. fol. 562, Div. Capsulis ventricosis angulatis quibusdam pedicellatis, CE. acaulis, foliis T innatifidis: lacinis terminali major denticulata. Cao. ie. 4. 60. 1.399. Pers. .1.408. _ . CEnothera grandiflora. Fi. Peruv. 378. t. 318. Herba perennis?, lenta, depressa, primüm acaulis, tandem caulescens. Caulis teres, pallidus, pubescens. Folia long? petiolata, oblonga, dentata, lyrata: laciniis inferioribus linearibus obtusis, supremá majore denticulatá, pubescentia, obscuro-viridia. Flores sessiles, axillares, vespertini, foliis dimidio breviores. Calyx tubo terete, gracili, subclavato: lobis ovato-lan- ceolatis, acutis, hinc apice conniventibus, inde Assis. Petala alba, patentia, obovata, retusa, basi virescentia. Stamina erecta, pallide lutea, petalis breviora. Ovarium tetragonum. Stylus filiformis, tubi calycis longitudine. Stigma exsertum, 4-lobum: lobis linearibus. Capsula sessilis, oblonga, lig- nea, 4-locularis, apice 4-alata. We prefer retaining the name acaulis, which has been given to this plant by Cavanilles, because it appears less exceptionable than the appellation subsequently attached to it by the authors of the Flora Peruviana; and notwith- standing the curious criticisms upon the Abbé by the last- mentioned Botanists; (See FI. Peruv. 3. p. 79). We scarcely need remark, that the CE. grandiflora of the Hor- tus Kewensis, and of the gardens of this country, is a widely different plant. For our drawing we are obliged to the Horticultural Society, in whose garden it was made during the summer. The seeds had been sgat to the Society, by Mr. Francis Place, from Chili, where it is stated, by Ruiz and Pavon, to be common in waste places, and to be administered, un- der the form of infusion, for medical purposes (* ad apo- stemata interna expellenda") ; from which circumstance its native name Guadalagilen is derived. We believe the plant to be perennial, and not biennial, as stated in the Flora Peruviana. v2 A soft, depressed, perennial? herb, at first stemless, afterwards acquiring a stem, which is round, pale, and pubescent. Leaves with long stalks, oblong, toothed, ly- rate, pubescent, dull-green: the lateral segments linear, obtuse, the terminal one larger and toothletted. Flowers ses- sile, axillary, opening in the evening, twice as short as the leaves. Calyx with a round, slender, somewhat clavate tube: the lobes somewhat lanceolate, acute, on one side conniving at the tip; on the other divided into two por- tions. Petals white, spreading, obovate, retuse, green at the base. Stamens erect, pale yellow, shorter than the petals. Ovarium four-cornered. Style filiform, as long as the tube of the calyx. Stigma exserted, four-lobed : lobes linear. Capsule sessile, oblong, woody, four-celled, with four hard wings at the upper end. J.L. ep ———— ——c ——— Á——— — G—ÁÁ— DÀ € ` . 764 CASSINIA : aurea. Golden, flowered Cissinia: —. — - SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA AQUALIS. Nat. ord. Composit. * Adanson fam. $, 108, z CORYMBIFERE. Jussieu gen. 177. Dio. V. Receptac. | pa- leaceum. Semen nudum seu non papposum. Flores plerimque radiati, rar) flosculosi. TARCHONANTHO, CALE et ATHANASIR pappus CASSINIA. Supra vol. 8. fol. 618. ` Div. Involserum connivens: A. Fruticosa. . C. aurea, foliis lanceolato-linearibus elongatis levibus subtös glandulosis, corymbis decompositis, involucris (ealyeibus) ovalibus: squamis (fólio- lis) apice aureis. Brown. in Linn. trans. 12. 197. Found by Mr. Brown on the eastern side of New Hol- land, near.Port Jackson. Newly introduced by Mr. Colvill, of the Nursery, where the drawing was taken. A greenhouse shrub, which we had no opportunity of inspecting for a detailed account. Rémarkable for the brilliant yellow of the tips of its involucre or calyx. 765 EUPHORBIA. cyathophora.. Cup-appendicled Spurge. —— DODECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. Nat. ord. EUPHORBIE. Jussieu gen. 385. Div. Styli plures definiti, sæpiùs tres. EUPHORBIACEE. . Brown in Flind. voy. 2 557. Div. II. Fruticose, inermes. Caulis nec dichotomus, nec umbelliferus. E. cyathophora, inermis, foliis panduriformibus ovatis, floribus terminalibus subumbellatis, involucellis coloratis. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 891. Euphorbia cyathophora. Murray in comment. goett. 7. 81. t.1. Jacg. ic. rar..3. t. 480. Euphorbia t heterophylla. Jacg. collect. 1. 157. a ab ELN A bote yllâ okis superioribus nunquam lan- clan y Variat involucris rubris Wr Ana: We shall se say more of this species in our next number, which will contain Appendix. D verona utl. - ar Males ie. 766 BROMELIA melanantha. | Black-flowered Bromelia. ` —K— HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. . Nat. ord. BROMELI®. Jussieu gen. 49. Div. II. Germen inferum, BROMELIA. | Suprà vol. 8. 203. , . B. melanantha, ebracteata? foliis ligulato-oblongis cæsiis spiná nigrá ciliatis cuspidato-obtusis, spica obeso-strobiliformi hexasticha ? distantêr laxata, verticillis triforis alternis, floribus rigidis fundo land immerso, calyce trialato. » Fol. plurima, radicalia, ambientia, alterna, ligulato-oblonga, pedalia v. ultra, uncias plusquam 2 lata, casia, levis involuta, obtusa, cum spind terminali lateralibus grandiore, spinis nigris cartilagineis sursum incurves- centibus ciliata, subtüs e squamulis furfuraceis contiguis argenteis catenatim lineata, infernê imbricato-fasciculata et intüs obsoleto purpurascentia, exte- riora sap? plüs minis re ta, interiora rectiora gradatim interne versus al- tiora, per spicam superata. Scapus simpler, cylindracerús pennam olorinam crassitudine vix excedens, centralis, ‘foliis equalis, albo-lanatus, bracteis sparsis spathaceis sterilibus melinis arido-membranaceis tenuibus saturatiüs mervosis elongato-lanceolatis subtilissimé acuminatis distanter imbricantibus erectis floribus tenüs vestitus, erectus, cum spica. clavato-continuus. Spica ebracteata? strobiliformis oblonga obtusa ( biuncialis v. magis?) duplo fer pollice crassior, distanter hexasticha? lanata: foribus ü 7 obesis subsemiuncialibus, per trinos? ordine laxo verticillatis, respectu seriei ‘sextuplici alternantibus, Germ. breve cum calyce isoperimetruin, scariosum, viride, diaphanum, triptero-molendinateawm (v. cylindraceum exque tngulis inaciim attenuatis trialatum) venosum vinis obscurioribus basin versis. reti- culatim anastomozantibus, supera? albo-lanatum, im, ovulis or- dine plurali sursum imbricatis opäcis ovato-oblongis, e strophiolá crassd sue- culentd diophaná subclavaté intinib loculorum angulo affzit. Cal. germinis continuum pallid? virens triphylluskrotundaté 3-gonum, foliolis crassis duro- carnosis in tubum brevem conniventibus à lateribus ali? imbricatis, foris albo- lanuginosis. Petala 3, atropurpuréa, rigida, recta, erecto-convergentia ca- lyce $ parte Ppreproptêrve longiora; laminå lineari-oblonga tnvoluto-concava apice truncate retusa erosula, unguedreviore lato intüs fembrid crispa trans- versa concalori coronato. Staming¥x erecta, alterna 3 breviora nimmo petalorum ungui inserta filamentis anthera plurimüm brevioribus, reli- 8 carnoso calycis disco vel incrassato cacumini inserte filamen- is longioribus carita cordi eqielibus : antherwe lineari-elongate pal- Hide: introrse, erecta, mobiles, skmmi. o filasnenti spern? attenuati a dorso medio a; . Stylus à rectus, colore filamentorum simili : stigmata 3 lobiformia dilatata, brevia, jn unum cortorquenda. We were supplied with the plant for our drawing by Mr. Lambert, who received the seed of it from Trinidad. Leaves many, radical, surrounding the crowa of the roots in alternate order, lì ly oblong, a foot or more high, and more than two inches , blueish grey, slightly involute, obtuse, with a largish tâgminal spine, black like the others at the edge, which cartilaginous, bowed upwards, and smaller,covered underneath with narrow close- set silvery white lines formed of minute scurfy scales, im- bricately fascicled below aad faintly purple at the inner Side, outer ones generally more or less revolute, inner ones straighter, gradually higher, but all are overtopped by the flower-spike. Scape simple, cylindrical, scarcely thicker than the tube of a swan-quill, central, even with the leaves, white and woolly, upright, forming a club with the inflorescence, beset on all sides quite up to the spike by thin light brown membranous darker-nerved spathe-like longly lanceolate finely tapered loosely imbricated wideset flowerless bractes. Spike strobiliform, oblong, obtuse (two inches long or more?), twice the diameter of a man’s thumb, disposed in six? widish-set rows, woolly: flowers bracteless? sessile, projecting, about half an inch long, tabular, loosely arranged in whorls of threes, alternate in relation to a six-ranked order, immerged at the base in the wool of the scape. Germen short, with nearly the same circumference as the calyx, scariose, green, transparent, cylindrical, with three short vertical wings formed by its compressed taper-edged angles, marked with darker veins retieulately confluent at the base, many-seeded, white- woolled at the upper part; ovules in several-fold order, im- bricated upwards, ovately oblong, fixed to the inner corners of the cell by a somewhat clubbed diaphanous thick succu- lent strophiola or umbilical pedicle. Calyx continuous with the germen, pale green, roundly three-cornered ; leaf- lets three, thick, hard, fleshy, converging into a short tube and deeply imbricated at their sides, downy white on the outside. Petals 3, of a black purple colour, stiff, straight, erectly convergent, about a third longer than the calyx, with a linearly oblong involutely hollowed lamina truncately retuse and eroded at the top, and a broad short unguis of the same colour and crowned across the top on the inside by a curled fringe of the same colour. Stamens enclosed, upright, three alternate ones shorter, with fila- ments much shorter than the anther, and inserted at the top of the unguis, the three others with slenderer longer fila- ments inserted at the thickened summit of the germen: anthers linearly Jong, pale, turned inwards, upright, move- able, suspended by their back to the fine pointed top of the filament. Style upright, enclosed, of the colour of the filaments: stigmata three, widened into a lobular form, short, sooner or later united by twisting. mn ud u Mt. LI 767 . HEDYCHIUM keteromallum. - Colvill s Garland-flotoer. MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, .' Nat, ord. CANNE, Jussieu gen. 02. . ScITANINEE. Brown 1. 305. : HEDYCHIUM. Supra vol. 1. fol. 6526. H. heteromallum, foliis supra nudis subths pube long’ mollissimá sericeis, - - Spica sparsa multiplici conica; fasciculis subbifloris euBimbricato-dis- tantibus divergentibus, ungue lineari laminz 2 partite lobis dimidiato- . ellipticis subbreviore, filamento corolla: ‘plurimimm superante. . 7! 7 Fol. superiora - elliptico-lanceolata, dibumina subtili opirali præcociùs -emarcescente, suprà y subtüs pilis kongis mollissimis serivea. Spics eo- ; Nica, subiriuncialis? sparsa, multiflora, lazè imbricata, fasciculis i "patulis. Bracte trine, una communis herbacea subsericea. Flores albi, ; Thus incensum remissits redolenies: Cor. Sfida: tibus chlorbleucus, cylin- -dricus; limbus exterior tubo equalis, , laciniis 3 te&wioribus À - Cescentibus, angustis, lanceolato-linearibus, invohito-concavis, glabris, : . qualibus, aristulà arescente prefixis; interior candidior firmior dinturnior bila- Uiato-espannus, laciniis lateralibus planis ligulatis obtusis muticis exterioris , Drawn from a plant of the Calcutta. Garden, which flowered this summer at Mr. Colvill's. |. We think it may not be without use to subjoin in Eng- lieh the full and elaborate character in Latin by which the ScIrAMINEJ are distinguished by Mr. Brown, and by which they are detached from the CANNE. Calyx and Corolla superior, tubular: the former the shortest of the two with a shallow 3-lobed orifice; (it seems ‘doubtful whether this is to be considered an accessory or a constituent part of the flower). Limib of the corolla two- fold: outer tripartite with nearly even segments, or with a front one different from the others, and not unfrequently reversed so as to be the one at the back : inner tripartite, unlike the outer, with the middle segtient (label) inserted between the outer lateral segments and often 2-3-lobed, larger than its own side-segments, which are sometimes diminished to the appearance of small teeth, or even quite obliterated.” Stamen a single one, inserted within the edges i z VOL, IX. of the front segment of the puter limb, and’ consequently opposite to the label, Filament commonly broad and re- sembling a petal, ofteir extended beyond the anther by an appendage, which is sometimes entire, sometimes 3-lobed. Anther fixed to the front of the filament, with two separate parallel bilocular lobes that burst along their axis, where their inflected edges are inserted into a partition that finally disappears: each lobe frequently stands apart at the base from the filament, and sometimes ends in a spur. Rudi- mentary corpuscles (suppressed stamens) two, diminutive, cylindrical, standing on each side the base of the style (or in Costus ascending to its summit: see our obs. in foll. 665 ,and 683. vol. 8), sometimes united, seldom entirely want- ing. Germen 3-celled with many-seeded tells, sometimes separated by imperfect partitions. - Ovules attached along ‚the inner corner of the cells in a double row. Style filiform, ascending the. groove in .the- filament. Stigma wideped . €rossways, hollow. ` Capsule 3-celled, 3-valved, many-seed- “ed, sómetimes with à thick fleshy rind like a berry: parti- tion ‘usually’ central, inserted along the axis of the valves, from which in many cases: they differ- in substance and are finally detached: - Seeds roundish, in most instances pressed by one another into an angiilar shape; with or without an arillus, Albumen of a mealy substance, rayed throughout and falling short at the umbilicus. Vitellus fleshy, in- ` clining to funnelform, placed at the point opposite to the umbilicus, generally (if not constantly) perforated at the bottom for the passage of the radicle. “Embryo one-cotyle- ‘doned, somewhat cylindrical, sheathed by the vitellus, to ‘which however it does not adhere. Radio icle reaching al- ' most to-the umbilical point, commonly naked, being en- closed neither within the vitellus nor the albumen. — The order is composed of perennial herbaceous plants, belonging prin- sipally to tropical countries, and seldom extending themselves so far as the 34th degree of latitude. Stem simple, and sometimes very short. Leaves simple, with a single nerve and numerous acute angular quite simple thickset veins. Petiole a sheath, sometimes split down one side, at the otber length- ened in the form of a ligula (an appendage peculiar to the Grasses), or sometimes not; in some cases there is no fissure, and the sheath extends beyond the insertion of the leafstalk in the form of an ocrea (or gaiterlike appendage. Inflorescence at times a close spike, at othérs n bunch or ra- ceme, seldom inclining to the nature of a panicle, frequently terminates the stem or scape, rarely issues from the side. General bractes: either perma- nent or caducous: partial ones spathaceous obconically convolute, in most instances two-fiowered, one flower opening before the other, which often miscarries, . Un PEE The essential characteristics df this yiatural group may be sitmmed pin “ the twofold floral envelope (double perianth), solitary stamen, p seed with a vitellus." . ig ee A ——MM———— 768 TPOM(EA tuberosa. Tuberous-rooted Ipomea. — PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. CONVOLVULI. Jussieu gen. 13%. Div. I. Stylus unicus. CONVOLVULACEX. Brown prod. 1. 481. Sect. I. Germen unicum. IPOMGA. Suprà vol. 1. fol. 9. I. tuberosa, foliis palmatis lobis septenis lanccolatis acutis integerrimis, pe- dunculis trifloris. Jaog. obs. 1. 89. Ipomea tuberosa. Mill dict. ed. 8. a. & Willd. sp. pl. 1. 881. Hort. i Kew. ed. 2. 1. 339. Trans. ortie, societ. 7:184. t. 11. " ¡pomoea heptadactyla major scandens flore majori campanulato, calyce men A, Sominibus villosis. Browne jam. 155. P Convolvulus major heptaphyllus, flore sulphureo odorato, Sloane jam. 1. 152. 1. 96. f. 2. Cultivated by Mr. Philip Miller, as far back as 1731, in the Physic Garden, Chelsea; but, we believe, has very rarely blossomed in this country. In the Kew Catalogue, the season of its flowering is left in blank; to mark that the period when it did so had not been then ascertained. A figure of the flower has been thought entitled to an engraving and text in the Transactions of the Horticultural Society. We are obliged to Mr. Colvill, of the Chelsea Nursery, for the sample for our drawing, which was done in the course of last summer. The species is native of the West Indies. z2 27] TA MT. / dco att / CAT 769 GALEGA grandiflora. Rose-coloured Galega. — — DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSE®. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. VI. —PAPILIONACEX. Brown in gen. rem. in Flind. voy. 2, 552, GALEGA. Supra vol. 4. fol. 326. G. grandiflora, foliis pinnatis, foliolis oblongis mucronatis subtüs pubes- centibus, stipulis ovatis acuminatis, racemo subquadrifloro terminali, le- guminibus retrofalcatis pendulis. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1244. Galega grandiflora. Hort. Kew. 3. 70. Ed.2. 4. 356. Vahl symb. 2. 84. Thunb. prod. 134. The species belongs to the Cape of Good Hope; from whence it was introduced, by the late Mr. Masson, in 1774. We suspect it not to be a proper inmate of the present genus; where some reform is much wanted. The drawing was taken in the summer, at Mr. Colvill’s Nursery, Chelsea. 3 E Z min ushed At a” yrl A 770 CURCULIGO recurvata. Recurved-leaved Curculigo. en HEXANDRIA 270NOGYNIA. Nat. ord. ASPHODELE®. Brown prod. 1. 274. Div. Genera inter As- PHODELEAS et AMARYLLIDEAS media. CURCULIGO. Supra vol. 4. fol. 345. C. recurvata, foliis ellipticis recurvis, capitulo pedunculato cernuo, tubo floris brevissimo. Dryander in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 253. Rhizoma fuberosum soboliferum perenne, fibris multiplicibus carnosis. Fol. radicalia petiolata lanceolata recurvata plicata glabra, 1-3 pedalia la- titudine 2-6 unciali, petiolis laminá triplo 4-plove brevioribus cum canaliculo profundo. Scapi axillares compressi. villosi longitudine circiter petiolorum supra recurvati. Capitula cernua: bractez singulares, uniflore, villose, acuminate, florem subequantes: flores lutei, diametro uncie per quadrantem minores, pedicellat. Cor. persistens, 6-partita, hypocrateriformis laciniis lanceolatis, extüs villosis, intús glabris. Fil. brevi corolle tubo inserta : anthe. lineares monadelphe vel Compositarum more conjuncte. Germ. ob- ovatum, pilosum, 3 loc., polyspermum, ovulis axi annexis: stylus staminibus altior: stigma dilatatum, subtrilobum. Caps. baccata, triloc. evalvis pube molli tecta ovalis magnitudine pisi majoris. Semina in quoque loculo plura axi bi-triseriatim affixa, globosa, colore rugositate et mole Piperis nigri grano vix absimilia: integumentum duplex, exterius durum crassum rubrum fragile: interius. brunneum membranaceum crustaceum: albumen ceruleo- pallens semini conforme cartilagineum: embryo centripetus, cylindricus, ree- tus de umbilico albuminis medium pertranseuns. Native of the eastern frontier of Bengal, from whence seed was sent to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta; and from there to the collection of Comtesse de Vandes at Bays- water, where this drawing was taken last summer. Root perennial, tuberous, soboliferous, with numerous fleshy fibres. Leaves radical, petioled, lanceolate, recurved, plaited, smooth, 1-3 feet high, 2-6 inches broad: petioles + or 1 of the length of the leaf, with a deep channel. Scapes axillary, compressed, villous, about the length of the pe- tioles, recurved at the end. Flower-heads drooping, one on each scape: bractes single, one-flowered, villous, taper- pointed, about even with the flowers. Flowers yellow, 2 of an inch in diameter, pedicled. Corolla hypocrateriform, 6-partite, segments lanceolate, extended, villous without, smooth within, permanent. Filaments short, inserted in the short tube of the corolla. Anthers linear, upright, united like those in the flowers of the Composite or Syn- genesious plants. | Germen obovate, hairy, 3-celled, with many ovules in each cell affixed to the axis. S/y/e longer than the stamens. ~ Stigma widened, slightly 3-lobed. Capsule berried oval, about as big as a large pea, soft, and covered with soft hairs, indehiscent, 3-celled with several seeds in each cell, attached to the axis in 2 or 3 rows: seeds round, the size of a small grain of Black Pepper, wrinkled and black: integument double, outer one hard thick red and brittle; inner a brown membranous crust : albumen the shape of the seed, cartilaginous, pale blue: embryo cylindric, straight, centripetal, shooting from the umbilicus half way and more through the albumen. Roxb. MSS. The spike represented in the plate with expanded flowers is of the natural size: the figure of the entire plant, with the foliage, is diminished in the proportion by which the se- parate spike differs from the small ones, that are shown in their natural position on the entire plant. 711 CANNA limbata. Laced flowered Indian-shot. —— i£ MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. CANN&. Jussieu, gen. 62; (und comprehensis SCITAMINEIS.) CANNEE. Brown prod. 307; im obs. III. (exclusis Scrra- MINEIS.) CANNA. Supra vol. 3. fol. 206. C. limbata, coroll: limbi interioris labio. superiore tripartito; laciniis emar- gimatis, crenatis ; unguibus longis : labio inferiore bifido declinato. Roscoe MSS. (ex angl. vers.) Canna auro-vittata. Loddiges’s botan. cabin. The species has been adopted and its distinctions des fined by Mr. Roscoe, who has liberally communicated to us the character intended for bis own work. We are not apprized of any other synonym than the one that is added; and presume, since no other has been adduced by a writer so deeply versed in the study of this natural fa- mily, and whose pen has been more than once and still is employed in its illustration, that no other can be identified with the species. One variety of limbata has a narrow crenulated gold- coloured edge to the limb of the corolla, and is in that state the type of the plant represented in the publication we have cited. According to Mr. Roscoe, the species may be known among its congeners, “ by the upper lip of the inner limb being divided into three segments, each notched and crenulate at the end, a longish unguis, and a two-cleft lower lip (entire in our figure?) which points downwards." We have no information concerning the place of its origin. 112 CANNA occidentalis. Western Indian-shot. C. occidentalis, corolle limbi interioris labio superiore bipartito, laciniis in- tegris ovatis inzequalibus: labio inferiore dechnato (vel rectius revoluto?) Roscoe MSS. (ex angl. vers.) VOL. IX. A A In this species the upper lip of the inner limb of the flower is divided into two segments only, instead of three, as in the preceding one; the segments are ovate, uneven, and entire; the lower lip pointing downwards (perhaps re- volute:) We have no further information concerning the plant than is contained in the above character. From its specific name we should guess it to be native of the West Indies. 113 CANNA lutea. Yellow Indian. shot. — — ©. lutea, corolle limbi interioris labio superiore bipartito, laciniis emargi- natis; labio inferiore lineari bifido declinato. Roscoe MSS. (ex angl. vers. ) Canna lutea. Roscoe in linn. soc. trans. 8. 332. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 2. Oss. A CANNE indice varietate luted, à limbi interioris labio supe- riore bipartito primá fronte dignoscenda. . Mr. Roscoe appears to have considered the above species to be the same with the yellow variety of the Canna indica of Solander in the first edition of the Hortus Kewensis. But there the upper lip of the inner border of the corolla has three segments, not two only, as in the present species; which is, however, the /ufea of the second edition of the Hortus Kewensis. We have been prompted to insert in the present fasci- culus five figures from the samples of as many species of Canna (all but one from the pencil of Mr. Edwards) ; in the hope that they might serve for exemplifications of their tex- tuary counterparts in the forthcoming work on a portion of the Monandrous class by Mr. Roscoe. We ought to have awaited the appearance of that per- formance, if we had intended their complete and most authentic history. We are not acquainted with the native place of the present species; but suspect it to come from South Ame- rica. The identity of the plants that have furnished the sub- jects of our articles, with the species that are to appear under the same specific denominations in Mr. Roscoe's work, has been confirmed by the inspection of the author himself. at Z7 FU 774 HEDYCHIUM gardnerianum. Mr. Gardner’s Garland-flower. — MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. CANNA. Jussieu, gen. 62; (inclusis SCITAMINEIS.) SCITAMINEE. Brown prod. 1. 305; (exclusis CANNEIS.) HEDYCHIUM. Supra vol. 7. fol. 526. H. gardnerianum, spica numerosa sparsa oblonguiscula lato-patente, fasci- culis plurifloris? distantibus, bracteis flores arcte involventibus tubo per- brevioribus ; laciniis duabus interioribus cuneato-spathulatis cacumine ovato obtuso; labelli lamina obovata bifida lobis dimidiatis obtusiusculis divergentibus, ungue brevi canaliculato; filamento discolori, corollam superante. Hedychium gardnerianum. Sheppard in hort. liverpool. The drawing of this fine plant was taken in a hot- house belonging to Mr. Hatfield, at the Alpha Cottages. We were told, that it had attained the height of about four feet ; but had no opportunity of seeing any part of the plant. The specific distinction has been derived from the an- nexed figure; and as far as we can judge consists in the scattered numerous, somewhat oblong, broadly spreading spike; several flowered distantly removed fascicles; bractes much shorter than the tube, and enveloping the flowers closely; two cuneately spatulate inner segments, with ovate obtuse terminations; a labellum with an obovate two-cleft lamina, the lobes of which are halved, diverging, and ob- tuse; a short channelled unguis ; and a filament longer than the corolla, and of a different colour. But the most strik- ing distinction from all the species known to us seems to be the great breadth of the inflorescence. The plant has been only lately received in this country from the Calcutta garden; where we hear it was introduced by Mr. Gardner, the East India Company’s resident at the seat of the Nepal government. Of this genus our gardens, till of late years, contained but one species, H. coronarium; and, indeed, until the a pearance of the Flora Indica, that was the only one record- AA2 ed in the general systems. Five others have appeared in Dr. Roxburgh’s work; one, if not two, in Curtis’s Botan- ical Magazine; and two have been published in the Botan- ical Register; besides those which may have been recorded by Sir James Smith in Rees’s Cyclopedia, the volumes of which we happen at this moment not to have at hand to refer to. The genus is said to be daily increasing in our collections; and the major part of ìt to be derived from Nepal and the adjacent countries, the most copious sources of its various species. The following is the array of the species known to us. Hedychium spicatum. Curtiss magaz. tab. 2300. Hedychium coronarium, Curtis's magaz. 708. Hedychium heteromallum. Suprä tab. 767. Hedychium flavum. Curtiss magaz. tab. 2378; (vix tamen Wallichii in flor. ind. 1. 81.) Hedychium coccineum. Smith in Rees's oyclop. in loco. Hedychium angustifolium. Supra tab. 157. Hedychium gracile. Roxb. flor. ind. 1. 12, Hedychium villosum. Wallich in flor. ind. 1. 12. Hedychium speciosum. Wallich in flor. ind. 1. 13. Hedychium elatum. Supra tab. 525, Hedychium gardnerianum. In loco presenti. The list may be expected to be considerably longer in the proposed work by Mr. Roscoe, | The inflorescence is represented in our plate of the na- tural size. The foliage in the annexed engraving greatly diminished. — — CORRIGENDUM. In folio 766 of the last fasciculus, in the third line of the specific charac- ter of BROMELIA melanantha, bya slip in writing, the word ** calyce" has been used, instead of ** germine." Lx. 715 CANNA edulis. Esculent-rooted Indian-shot of Peru. — — MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. CANNE. Jussieu gen. 62; (inclusis SCITAMINEIS.) CANNER. Brown prod, 307; (exclusis SCITAMINEIS.) CANNA. Supra vol. 3, fol. 306. C. edulis, limbi interioris labio summo tripartito erecto, laciniis ovali-oblongis retusis latè unguiculatis, mediâ plurimüm breviore; labello lineari-ob- longo recurvato retuso : caule punicante. Canna indica. Ruiz et Pavon flor. peruv. 1.1; (non aliorum.) Radix tuberosa, oblonga rotundaque, oculata. Culmi plures, erecti geniculati teretes ( 5-6-pedales sanguineo-rubentes. Don in litt.) Tolia al- terna, ovata oblongaque, utrinque attenuata, glabra ( pulchré glaucescentia Don.) nitidiuscula, lineis parallelis inflexis striata; tenera convoluta: peti- olis convolutis. Racemus terminalis simplex. Bractex spatheformes; supe- riores ovate; inferiores longissime, lanceolate. Cal. lutescens rubescensque. Cor. coccinea : laciniis exterioribus subequalibus. Caps. scabra, echinata, trigona, trisulca. Semina globosa nigra nitida. Ruiz et Pavon loc. cit. This fine plant, we believe the only one of the species that has appeared in our collections, was raised in the hot- house at Boyton, in Wiltshire, by seed taken from samples collected by the authors of the Flora Peruviana, as Mr. Lambert informs us, nearly thirty years before it was committed to the ground. This seed had been collected and sown at the same time with that of the Canna iridiflora of this work. It is by the unexpected success of this expe- riment that our gardens have been enriched with two of the finest species of the genus that are known in them, We are informed by Mr. Don, the meritorious secretary to the Linnean Society, that the stem of the plant at Boy- ton is about the thickness of a man’s finger, from five to six feet high, and of a blood red colour; that the leaves are broadly elliptic, of a beautiful bluish green with a purplish edge, the root remarkably thick and fleshy, and composed of oblong cylindrical tubers. There is no doubt that the sample collected by Don José Pavon in Peru, and now deposited in the Lambertian Her- barium, belongs to this species, and not to Canna Lamberti; (see the note under that title in the Appendix to the present volume.) The plant is much cultivated in Peru by the name of Achira; and the root dressed in various ways as food for the inhabitants. The sample for the drawing came from Boyton House, and was sent to our draughtsman, by Mr. Lambert, for the use of this work, with the courtesy we have so long expe- rienced. Not having been able to inspect the fresh flower, we have taken the distinctions of the species from the figure; which shows it to belong to a very distinct one from Lam- berti, and indeed from all the others we are acquainted with of the genus. 116 CANNA indica. Common Indian-shot. —e— C. indica, coroll limbo interiore bilabiato, labio superiore tripartito, laci- niis linearibus integris erectis acutis convergentibus; labio inferiore inte- gro declinato; foliis lanceolatis subzequilateris. Roscoe MSS. (ex angi. vers. ) Canna indica. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 11. The only synonym of which we are certain is here ad- duced. From tradition, the species is supposed to be the earliest of the genus introduced into this country. We have not ventured to apply any of the new names and remodelled characters of the ** Enumeratio" of Willde- now; and acknowledge that to us at least these riddles are utterly insoluble. Probably of East Indian origin? It is said to vary with a yellow flower. “aa AY x i oo doe eh TTT TryTTT ` Te “SF RA, go Es ME a a é : > dome U MS - — S \ *. VADO RENE E " ! " LE uS U » i AS K * Ar HA ize. Y Mi (11 ALPINIA tubulata. Demerara Alpinia. — ——— MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Nat. ord. CANN, Jussieu gen. 62; (inclusis SCITAMINEIS.) SCITAMINEX. Brown prod. 305; (exclusis SCITAMINEIS.) ALPINIA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 141. Ops. ALPINIZE proxima est HELLENIA, differt vero filamento ultra an- theram producto et capsula crustacea. Brown Ì. c. A. tubulata, folis alterné bifariis remotissimis; scapo vaginato laterali; bracteis communibus divaricatis aridis acuminatis persistentibus; corolla tubulosa; labello incluso; anthera sessili. Extat in Bibliotheca Lambertiana icon inedita, inter alia plura pro opere Plumieri ere incisa, ex quá plante nostre genus, si non species, ex- primitur. Caulis scapo aliquoties altior, strictus. Folia rara, alterne bifaria, sessilia, distantia, patentia, elongato-oblonga, lanceolato-ovalia, glabra, lon- giora bipedalia vel circiter latitudine subquadriunciali ; vagina longa cylin- drica fissa, ab oris latere exteriore ligula aucta. Scapus radicalis lateralis, dodrantalis? coloratus tomentosus crassitudine penne scriptorie, vaginis indutus membranaceis alterné bifariis imbricatis rubicundis nervosis, imis squamarum instar oblato-abbreviatis, summis lanceolatis elongatis melino- Sphacelatis, racemi medium attingentibus. Racemus oblongus, laxius multiflorus, divaricato-patens, roseo undique rubens: bractew communes arido-membranacee, lanceolato-attenuate, divaricate, persistentes, flori subaquales: pedicelli crassi villosi breves, biflori, flore altero tardiore vel abortiente, seorsim pedicellato: bractexe partiales spathacee clavato-tubulose monophylle? biflore, bilabiato-fisse labio altero bidentato, calyce paulo bre- viores, nervose villose persistentes. Calyx spathe partiali similis, aliquantó tamen minor. Cor. subuncialis calyce $ circitér longior tubulosa oblonga granuloso-punctata : tubus angustior, limbo utroque aliquoties brevior : limbus exterior tripartitus, convolutus tubulosus oblongus ore aperto parum patente, laciniis erectis ovatis venosis subequalibus acumine obsoleto obtuso : interior unilabiatus, labello antico firmiore variegato cuneate dilatato breve incluso basi utrinque lacinulá subulatá diminuta aucto: ungue brevi lato: lamina cuneato-oblata, inequaliter triloba margine summa abru ta crenulatá vel crispato erosá, lobis lateralibus majoribus involutis, medio brevissimo la- tiusculo emarginato. Stamen sessile limbi exterioris lacinie summa sub- equale et basi sue insertum: anthere lobi bini lineares utrinque obtusi, basi soluti, caterum receptaculo plano granuloso-punctato membranaceo oblongo erecto ipsis isometro apice obtuso fisso anticê adnati. Stylus fili- formis, stamen adequans, basi compresse dilatatus: stigma capitato-trigonum antheram superans introrsim declive. Corpuscula dina in annulum crassum multifissilem? styli basin exactê includentem concreta. Germen oblongum dense villosum. Plantam solüm siccatam inspeximus. From any acquaintance we have with the majority of ALPINIA, the present species would not have impressed us with a claim to rank in the genus. The flower is more strictly tubular, and proportionately longer, than in that group ; the label falls short of the outer limb, instead of ex- ceeding it; the anther is sessile, instead of being elevated by a filament; the inflorescence terminates a lateral scape, which is enveloped by sphacelately membranous sheaths, instead of a central stem enveloped by a green foliage. In this last circumstance, however, the plant probably coin- cides with Aupınıa occidentalis, and the second section of the genus as arranged in the Flora Indica of Roxburgh. But we have fixed its present place, rather from an agree- ment in respect to the tecvaical character of ALPINIA, than from a conviction of the species being a good member of the group; and williagly avail ourselves of a colourable pre- tence for not founding a genus with a new name upon an only species, whose aflinities in the general system are less intimately known to us than to others of our cotemporaries, that happen to have made them their particular study. In this way we think we proceed with a juster regard to the interests of natural history, than by adding to the crude and desultory genera banaied about in the lucubrations of so many of its votaries. It has been already observed, and we think in more than one page of this work, that sound genera are the offspring of discretion and true criticism. Fancy may suggest that nature has traced with a wavering hand the fluctuating line which appears to bound these groups to-day to set them free to-morrow; but it is evident that cheir completion at least is left to the ingenuity of man; while reason ard experience teach us, that she has drawn with steady purpose the immu- table boundaries that comprise the species, the basis of her rule. We know that some ingenious persons say, there are not even Species; that organized existences are intercarrent, without stated or essential limits. To the truth of their as- sertion they bring, however, no other evidence, than that in their wisdom they have not found such limits; and seem more ready to presume an anomaly in the economy of nature, than to suspect a failure in their own sagacity. From such assumption, where hybrid procreation is ad- mitted, it would necessarily follow there was no check to the intermixture of proximate existences, and that the results were transmissable to all futurity. For if bounds are admitted anywhere, we rejoin, that the individuals comprised within their compass constitute the species. We care not how wide this compass may be taken. The per. petuation of groups of consimilar forms appears to us suf- ficient proof, that some check in this respect is main- tained in the rule of nature. If the case were otherwise, chaos might not be a chimerical view in the prospect of the universe; the mind of man might be appalled by strange and unforeseen appearances, while he himself might appre- hend, if such assumption were admitted, that his own race s no security from passing into some other mode of eing. In respect to hybridous mixture, we have elsewhere ventured to suppose, that the influence of either of the procreating types might be more or less predominant, and that, where the produce is continued by succeeding genera- tions, it finally resolves into one or other of those from which it sprung. It is true, that this proposition cannot at present be supported throughout by actual experiment; but then it is opposed to one where reason and experience ap- pears to us to be defied in every part. Our belief is, that nature can be scanned in her works in no other way than by the products of revolving periods, during which the countervailing processes by which she re- duces her apparent aberrations are in progress; and that when these can be taken into account, her true rule is made manifest. The subject of the annexed drawing was raised in the hothouse at Boyton. The seed was sent from Demerara to Mr. Lambert, to whom we are obliged for the sample for description, which however was not completed from the fresh flower. We have not identified the plant with any recorded species. Among the unpublished engravings in Mr. Lam- bert's library, there is one intended for a work of Plumier's, which clearly represents either one of the same species, or else one of the same genus. It was pointed out to us by Mr. Don, to whose assistance we owe much contained in the description of this species. VOL. IX. BB APPENDIX. A REVIEW OF THE GENUS JASMINUM. THE incorporation of the species occurring in the Flora Indica of Rox- burgh, the majority of which are there noticed for the first time, and have not been transferred to any of the general systems, is the only claim to attention that can be advanced for the ensuing Review. Dr. Roxburgh, though manifestly a man of talent and considerable shrewdness, was negligent in his writing, inattentive to method, and ap- parently endowed with a very slender share of literary education. The descriptions of the objects of his pursuit will be found replete with important matter and useful remarks, obscured by circumlocution and repetition, and still more by untechnical ambiguous terms, not unfrequently the vehicles of a sense in direct opposition with that intended. Others will judge whether we have retained the good, and rejected the faulty; we can only vouch for having presented the matter in a smaller compass, and ina tongue more ge- nerally in use among the students of Botany, than the one in which it stands in the original place. We are unable to decide to our satisfaction, taking the descriptions for the standard, whether arborescens and latifolium may not be the types of the double and full varieties of Sambac, so well known as the Arabian and Tuscan Jasmines. If neither of these is the type of any presumed variety of that species, it has not been found wild in any part of India by the author of the Flora Indica. Grandiflorum is another of the genus, which the Doctor never found wild in India, although universally held to be a native of that country. Several of the Indian Jasmines have been recorded by Vahl by such brief and vague characters, that we can have no assurance that others in the Flora Indiea may not be their iterations; at least we must rely upon the sagacity and attention of the writer of the latter work for their not being so. Heterophyllum, apparently the most desirable and ornamental species of the genus, has not yet, we believe, appeared in our collections. Its large golden blossom is said to be produced in greater masses, and to be still more fragrant than that of revolutum, with which it agrees in colour. APPENDIX. Foliis simplicibus. Sambac. J. Supra vol. 1. fol. 1; (excluso Loureiro.) k Jasminum ER. Pooch Jl. ind. 1. 87; (excluso J. Undulato Willd. )? Caulis ramique lignei, volubiles, cortice per senium scabrá. Folia opposita, breve petiolata cordato-ovata vel oblonga, acuta, undulata, modo crenulata, glabra vel subtüs tantum in venarum axillis pubescentia ; no- vella villosa. Flores albi odori plerumque per umbellas trichotomo-pau- cifloras terminales. Calyx segmentis 5-9 subulatis longis persistentibus. Germen 2-/obum. Bacca didyma, succo farcta, glabra, nigro pulcher- rimé nitida, lobo utroque globoso monospermo. Seminis integumentum simplex. Varietas cum flore duplici frutex volubilis; cum flore pleno arbor ramis neque volubilibus neque scandentibus. arborescens. J. foliis oppositis aut verticillaté trinis, oblongis, floribus nume- rosis terminalibus corymbosis, coroilz laciniis 10-12, stigmate 2-lobo. Roxb. fl. ind. 1. 94; (ex. angl. vers.) Nyctanthes grandiflora. Loureiro cochin. 26. Suptula. Nuva Mullika, Sanscrit. : $ Arbor cum fronde simul sumta subbiorgyalis; trunco vix ullo ; ramis plurimis robustis ligneis suberectis, cortice glabra cinerea: surculi villosi teretes. Fol. rarius terna aut alterna, ovato-cordata, acuminata, uncias 2-4 longa, 1-3 lata: petiolus brevis, cum articulo prope medium. Flores magni candidi odoratissimi, pedunculis trichotomo-trifloris haud raro in paniculas magnas corymbiformes collectis; bracteis subulatis villosis. Cal. segmentis 5-6 subulatis incurvatis villosis. Cor. tubo calycem super- ante, laciniis linearibus subacutis. Anthere ovate tubo incluse. Germ. turbinatum. Stigma tubum medio tenis adscendens. Species latifolio perquam affinis, illa vero volubilis, hec per se stans et erecta. Bengale in plagis elevatioribus indigena. latifolium. 3. fruticosum, volubile; foliis oppositis petiolatis cordatis co- rymbis terminalibus, calycis segmentis subulatis 5-7; corollz laciniis linearibus cuspidatis 10-12; baccis reniformi-bilobis. Roxb. fl. ind. 1. 98; (ex angl. vers.) : Congenerum maxinum. Caulis volubilis aut scandens ligneus, ramis strictis sepiusque patentibus, ramulis oppositis glabris. Fol. pe- liolata, opposita, oblonga latéve cordata, acuta, glabra, mensurá varia. Cory mbi terminales diffuse trichotomi, floribus magnis candidis odoratis. Cal. tubo brevi, segmentis constanter Jerê quinis. Corolle laciniis 8-12 angustis patentibus. Bacca sepiüs didyma, reniformis, vel nunc, lobi al- terius abortu, oblonga. Montium Circarsensium indigena. undulatum. J. Supra vol. 6. fol. 436. JASMINUM undulatum Roxburghii, ab illo pro eodem cum varietate priná JASMINI Sambac habitum, forsan à planta chinensi Linnei, que est nostra, diversum est. sinplicifolium. J. fruticosum, patens; foliis oblongis glabratis, floribus 3- plurimis terminalibus, corolla laciniis 6-8, linearibus, acutis, tubo wqualibus. Roxb. fl. ind. 1. 96; (ex angl. vers.) Jasminum simplicifolium. Forst. prod. 3. 7. Vahl. enumer. 1. 27. Curtis’s magaz. 980; (ex mente Wallichii autopse. ) Truncus ferê nullus, ramis ligneis robustis multiplicibus teretibus glabris, ramulosis, ramulis quaquaversüs patentibus. Fol. brevé petiolata, APPENDIX. opposita, levissima, uncias longa 2, lata 1. Flores â trinis ad multi- plices in paniculam decussato-trichotomam congregatos; pedicellis clava- tis glabris teretibus; bracteis minutis subulatis. Cal. campanulatus, 5- dentatus. Corolle tubus calyce multoties longior ; lacinive tubum eircitêr @quantes. Anthera semierect@. Stylus tubo duplo brevior. Stigma 2-fidum. Insularum Amicorum indigena. elongatum. J. scandens; foliis oppositis alternis lanceolatis utrinque villosis, corymbis terminalibus, corolle laciniis 8-12, linearibus ; stigmate bifido. Roxb. fl. ind. 1. 89; (ex angl. vers.) Jasminum elongatum. Vahl enumer. 1. 28. Nyctanthes elongata. Linn. suppl. 82. Bergius in act. angl. 1772. 290. tab. 11. Truncus longus, vagus scandensve; cortex adulta cinereo-pallens, novella villosa. Fol. breve petiolata, lanceolata vel ovato-lanceolata, mollissima, 1-5-uncialia. Flores candidi, majusculi odori, aut simpli- citér per trinos vel nunc in corymbum amplum compositum dispositi : pe- dicelli clavati uti bractez quoque breves subulate villosi. Cal. seg- mentis 5-6 brevibus subulatis. Corolle tubus suprd extumidus: limbi lacinie, margine revolute. Fil. brevia. Antherz tubo subemicantes. Germ. turbinatum. Stylus und cum stigmate bilobo antheras adequans. —A'J. arborescenti tam ex pubescentid et habitú scandente quam ex foli- orum formå diversum. — Illic folia cordata glabra, hic lanceolata villosa. Ostia gangetica et sylvas Hidegelee circumvicinas habitans. trinerve. J.leve, scandens; foliis oppositis ovato-lanceolatis glabratis tri- nervibus, acumine longo, floribus terminalibus axillaribusque, soli- tariis, calycis segmentis 6-7 subulatis, corollae laciniis 6-8, subfili- formibus tubum longum excedentibus. Roxb. fl. ind. 1. 91; (ex angl. vers. ) Jasminum trinerve. Vahl symb. bot. 3.2. Enumer. 1. 28. Mogorium acuminatum. Lamarck illustr. 1. 23. Excelsas conscendens arbores. Truncus cum ramis simul pluriorgyalis. Cortex adulta cinerea scabra, novella viridis levis. Fol. firma, lucida, 3-4-uncialia latitudine 1-2-unciali, acumine longo subtili, petiolo brevi, cum articulo conspicuo medio. Flores subsessiles solitarii ( v. noveni ) mazi- mi candidi odoratissimi. Cal. breve tubulosus, levis, segmentis ad tubi medium circitêr attingentibus. Cor. tubo supra medium pro capiendis staminibus dilatato; limbo patente. Fil, brevia. Anth®, lineares. Germ. ovale bilobum. Stylus tubo equalis. Stigma 2-fidum. Silheti sylvosa habitans. scandens. J. volubile, fruticosum, glabrum; foliis oppositis, cordato-oblongis acuminatis, corymbis sphericis trichotomis terminalibus, calycis segmentis setaceis 6-7, corolla laciniis 6-8 lanceolatis peracutis tubo clavato subzqualibus; stigmate bilobo. Roxb. fl. ind. 1.88; (ex angl. vers.) Jasminum scandens. Vahl symb. 3. 2. Enumer. 1. 27. Nyctanthes scandens. Retz. obs. 5. 9. Truncus subnullus ; sed rami plurimi lignei longissimi teretes glabri, primúm scandentes, deinde volubiles. Fol. glabra, utrinque sublucida, imä fere de basi in acumen subtile attenuata, petiolo complanato canalicu- lato. Corymbi subrotundo-congesti, ramorum principalium e trichotomiis pluribus compositi, pedunculo communi pedicellisque brevibus villosis. Flores copiosi, candidi, erguisitê fragrantes. Cal. villosus, segmentis pa- tentibus. Corolle tubus de inferne orificio tents sensim ampliatus, duplo APPENDIX. longior calyce; kmbi lacinie tubo aliquantuld breviores. Germ, tur- binatum. Plagarum pustraliorum Bengale indigena. hirsutum. J. Supra vol. 1. fol. 15. Jasminum pubescens. Roxb. fl. ind. 1. 90. Maghyun, Koondum. Asiat. res. 244; (Calcutta ed.) amulum. J. folis late ovatis subacuminatis pubescentibus basi integris sub- tüs mollibus, floribus sexfidis, laciniis calycis subulatis tubo longi- oribus, seminis integumento cribroso. Brown prod. 1. 521. Oss. Nimis affine J. hirsuto Willd. Smith exot. bot. 2. 117. t. 118. quod differt foliis cordatis, non acuminatis, suprà magis pubescentibus, dentibus calycinis longioribus angustioribus, floribus magis congestis, NYCTANTHES hirsuta Linn. sp. pl. ed. 1. 6. primim ni fallor om- nino mutuata fuit ab Icone et presertim descriptione Rava- Pou Rheede malab. 4. 99. t. 48. Brown. Nove Hollandie indigena. angustifolium. J fruticosum Ive volubile; foliis oppositis petiolatis ovatis glabris nitidis saturate viridibus, floribus 1-3 terminalibus, calyce et corolla 8-9-fidis; bacca simplici. Roxb. ff. ind. 1. 95 ; (ex angl. vers. ) Jasminum angustifolium. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 36. Vahl enumer. 1. 29. Jasminum vimineum. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 36. Nyctanthes angustifolia. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 18. Nyctanthes viminea. Retz. obs. bot. 3. 9. Nyctanthes triflora. Burman. ind. 4, t. 2? Katu-pitsjegam-mulla, Rheede malab. 6. 93. t. 53. Truncus ramique lignei. Fol. firma ovato-oblonga vel oblonga mo- dóve subcordata avenia, acumine subtili ; petiolo brevi. Flores magni stellati, albi, rubro, dilutissime tincti, odore peculiari jucundissimo pre- diti; pedicellis clavatis glabris. Cal. brevé tubulosus, segmentis acutis. Cor. laciniis lanceolatis. Stylus brevis. Stigma lanceolatum. Bacca oblonga. In sylvis coromandelianis vulgaris. laurifolium. J. Supra vol. 7. fol. 521; (ubi pro varietate possibili angus- tifolii ponitur. ) bracteatum. J. volubile; foliis oppositis ovato-oblongis acutis villosis, flori- bus 3-5-11, bracteoso-fasciculatis terminalibus, calycis segmentis subulatis 5-7, corolla laciniis oblongis attenuatis 5-8, apice rotun- datis, stylo superante tubum, stigmate simplici. Roxb. fl. ind. 1.92; (ex angl. vers.) Truncus viz ullus, ramis numerosis ligneis volubilibus scandentibus- que per excelsas arbores ad usque cacumina irrepentibus: surculi teretes pube copiosá molli viridi pallente tecti. Fol. 2-3-uncialia latitudine 1-2-unciali. Flores subsessiles numerosi, majusculi, candidi, odori, ra- mos vel ramulos axillares simpliciter vel decompositê terminantes: brac- tee exteriores ovato-cordate (ut et tenera) qualibet pars, fruticis villose, per paria inequalia fasciculo singulo subtense, interiores subulate minores. Cal. villosus, breve tubulosus. Cor. glabra, tubo sub- cylindrico calycem equante; laciniis obtusis cum mucrone. Stylus tubo exsertus: stigma lineare integrum, sulco verticali utrinque insculptum. Bacca duplex vel abortú simplex, glabra, nigro-lucescens, fortis succo, lobis binis ovalibus magnitudine pisi minoris, deorsum à medio unitis: semen ovale, integumento duplici nigricante, exteriori e fibris lanosis contexto, interiori tenuiori teneriori. Sumatra indigena. APPENDIX. coarctatum. J. fruticosum ; foliis oblongis glabris acutis, corymbis confertis peduneulatis terminalibus, floribus subsessilibus trinis, bracteis am- plis, calyce 5-fido. Roxb. fl. ind. 1. 91; (ex angl. vers.) : Frutex ramosissimus, ab aliis sui generis incolis indicanis in eo differens quod scandere vel se diffundere minim tendat. Copiá florum et corymbo congesto parvo reliquis dignoscendum. In montosis Chittagong proveniens. tubiflorum. J. scandens; foliis subsessilibus ovato-oblongis glabris, floribus 3-5 brevê pedunculatis terminalibus, calycis segmentis subulatis 7-8 a longissimo corolle tubo sexies superatis, baccis ovatis, Roxb. fl. ind. 1. 96; (ex angl. vers.) Species ex tubo gracili limbum 7-8-partitum longitudine triplicante facillime notu. Insularum malayarum indigena. gracile. J. Supra vol. 8. fol. 606. volubile. J. foliis simplicibus oppositis ovatis glabris, paniculà terminali, ramis volubilibus. Ramer et Schultes syst. veg. 1.79. Jacq. hort. Schenb. 3. t. 321. Ejusd. fragm. t.44. f. 2. Capitis Bone Spei indigena. glaucum. J. foliis lanceolatis mucronatis subcoriaceis, pedunculis terminali- bus subtrifloris. Vahl enumer. 1. 30. Jasminum glaucum, Thunb. prod. 2. Willd. sp. pl.1. Ventenat. cels. 55. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1.16. Jasminum rivulare. Salisb. stirp. rar. 15. tab. 8. Nyctanthes glauca. Linn. suppl. 82. Mogorium myrtifolium. Lamarck illustr. 1. 23. Mogorium ligustrifolium. Lamarck illustr. 1. 25. Capitis Bone Spei indigena. ruizianum. J. foliis lanceolato-ellipticis, pedunculis axillaribus terminalibus- que unifloris. Vahl enumer. 1. 28; (sub J. lanceolato.) Jasminum lanceolatum. Ruiz et Pavon fl. peruv. 1º. 1, 7. f. 2: (cum nomine specifico alia diversâ specie occupato.) oblongum. J. folis oblongis mucronatis, pedunculis axillaribus unifloris. Vahl. enumer. 1, 29. Jasminum oblongum. Burm. ind. 6. t. 3. f.2. sessiliflorum. J. foliis oblongo-ovatis acutis lucidis, floribus terminalibus ses- silibus. Vahl enumer. 1. 29. dichotomum. J, folis ovatis glaberrimis, paniculis terminalibus dichotomis, calycibus subulatis. Vahl enumer. 1. 26. molle. J. foliis ovatis acutis acuminatisve pubescentibus subtus mollissimis, peduneulis terminalibus trichotomis, calycis dentibus brevissimis. Brown prod, 1. 521. acuminatum. J. foliis ovatis acuminatis glabris, petioli articulo superiore 5-6-iesve longiore, ealycibus campanulatis, dentibus brevissimis. Brown prod. 1. 521. Foliis subternatis v. ternatis. heterophyllum. J. arboreum; foliis firmis petiolatis, alternis, simplicibus ternatisve, oblongis vel lato-ovatis acuminatis, undulatis, lucidis, paniculis fastigiato-trichotomis patentibus terminalibus, calycis ur- APPENDIX. ceolati dentibus subulatis, corolle laciniis oblongis, tubo zqualibus. Roxb. fl. ind. 1. 99 et 164; (ex angl. vers.) Gooje et Javana. Nepalice. x Arbor stature mediocris, ramis longis subdiffusis. Fol. formá et mensurá pro etate ramorum adeo varia ut prima fronte specierum distinc- tarum censeretis, suntque diversimodd simplicia vel ternata, interdum vel etiam binata, modo ovato-oblonga vel lato-ovata atque subcordata sepius alterna, in surculis et ramis novellis opposita, 3-uncialia ad tri- plo longiora latitudine 2-3-4 unciali, glaberrima, longe acuminata, basi rotundata vel subinegualia, supra nitida, subtus pallida, costá mediá prominente venas utrinque emittente longas suboppositas arcuato-obliquas marginem versus reticulate confluentes: petiolus gracilis unisulcus (uti et pedunculus foliumque ad venas subtüs) villosus; communis 1-2 uncialis ; partiales breves; ambo utrinque articulati. Panicule de- composito-cymose magne patentes, folia plus minus superantes ; bractex caduce ramulis singulis supposite: pedicelli graciles, lenti, ut quoque calyx pubescentes. Flores terni, lutei numerosi, odore gratissimo. Co- rolle tubus semuncialis striatus, cylindraceus. Stam*. tubo subexserta. Congenerum maxima. Nepale indigena. auriculatum. J. Supra vol. 4. fol. 264. didymum. J. foliis ternatis; foliolis oyato-lanceolatis, racemis axillaribus. Vahl symb. bot. 3. 2. Jasminum didymum. Forst. prod. n.8. Vahl enumer. 1. 32. divaricatum. J. foliis ternatis cum petiolis ramisque glabris: foliolis subova- tis, dentibus calycis obsoletis, seminis integumento perforato. Brown prod. 1. 522. OBS. JASMINUM didymum Forst. prod. n. 8. huic proximum, sed distinctum, seminis integumento reticulato-criboso ( arillus auctorum ) et petiolis ramulisque novellis pubescentibus. Brown. flexile. J. glabrum; foliis ternatis, foliolis ovato oblongis acuminatis, race- mis axillaribus brachiatis, caule scandente. Vahl symb. bot. 3. 1. Jasminum flexile. Vahl. enumer. 1. 31. tortuosum. J. foliolis oppositis, foliis lanceolatis mucronatis, caule volubili, ramis pubescentibus. Willd. enumer. 1. 10. Jasminum flexile. Jacq. hort. Schenb. 4. 46. tab. 490. Indie orientalis indigena. paniculatum. J. Supra vol. 8. fol. 690. dispermum. J. fruticosum, scandens, glabrum; foliis oppositis inzequaliter ternatis, foliolis ovato-oblongis acuminatis 5-nervibus, corymbis ter- minalibus axillaribusque, calycis campanulati dentibus subulatis, corolle laciniis oblongis obtusis; bacca didyma disperma. Roxb. fl. ind. 1. 99; (ex angl. vers.) Frutex ramosus diffusus, ramis gracilibus tetragonis divaricatis punc- tatis? Folia remota: foliola membranacea longê acuminata basi rotun- data modoque indentata, terminale sub4unciale, lateralia triplo minora subsessilia, nervis nonnullis transversê de costa aliisque 5 de basi deri- vantibus et cum vena fleruosa submarginali confluentibus : petiolus gracilis, curvatus, uncialis, exarticulatus? unisulcus. Corymbi ovati, pedicellis 4-gonis 3-floris bracteis 2 oppositis subulatis ad basin. Flores albi, magni, odori tubo clavato subuncials, limbum 5-partitum circitêr - APPENDIX. equante. Bacca fuseo-purpurea, mole fere Olive parve, cuticula li- bera diaphana. Nepale indigena. lanceolatum. J. fruticosum, erectum; foliis ternatis, corymbis terminalibus. Roxb. fl. ind. 1. 97. In Silhet inter arbusta crescens. lineare. J. foliis ternatis suboppositis pubescentibus : foliolis linearibus acu- tis, ramis teretibus, paniculis axillaribus trichotomis. Brown prod. 1. 521. azoricum. J. Supra vol. 1. fol. 18. angulare. J. foliis ternatis ovatis, ramulis àngulatis petiolisque villosis, pe- dunculis axillaribus trifloris, calycibus tubulosis. Vahl symb. bot. 3. 1. Jasminum capense. Thunb. prod. fl. cap. 2. Vahl enum er. 1. 32, fruticans. J. Curtis's botan. magaz. 461. Foliis subpinnatis et pinnatis. humile. J. Supra vol. 5. fol. 350. revolutum. J. Supra vol. 8. fol. 178. odoratissimum. J. Curtis's botan. magaz. 285. grandiflorum. J. Supra vol. 2. fol. 91. efficinale. J. Curtis's botan. magaz. SE LR Imereti et regionum adjacentium indigena. mervosum. J. foliis pinnatis: foliolis ovatis trinerviis, pedunculis multifloris, caule er Vahl enumer. 1. 34. Jasminum nervosum. ; Loureiro cochin. 20. VOL, IX. NOTES. Papaver floribundum. Supra vol. 2. fol. 134. _ Add the following synonym in the above article : Papaver virgatum. Smith in Rees's cyclop. n. 9. Canna gigantea. Supra vol. 4. fol. 206. : m Owing to a mistake in the remarks on Dr. Roxburgh’s descriptions of Scitamineous plants by Mr. Roscoe, in the 10th volume of the Linnean Transactions, we not only did not recognize CANNA gigantea of Redouté in CANNA latifolia of that celebrated writer, but were led to suspec: his CAN- NA patens to be CANNA gigantea. Mr. Roscoe, in a subsequent letter to us, has set this matter right, and sent an amended character of latifolia for our use: so that the front of the above article should be now altered as fol- lows; the name of /atifolia, having seniority of that of gigantea, must be preferred, and the doubtful synonym of patens omitted. CANNA latifolia. Woolly-stem'd Indian-shot. ES : C. latifolia, corolle limbi interioris labio superiore tripartito, laciniis acutis vagê patentibus, labello spathulato obsolete lobato; stylo petaloideo; foliis lato-ovatis; caule lanato. Roscoe MSS.; (ex angl. vers.) Canna latifolia. Roscoe in linn. soc. transact. 10, Canna gigantea. Redouéé liliac. 331. Nob. supra loc. cit. (excluso CANNA patente.) Canna Lamberti. Supra vol. 6. fol. 470. We have no doubt that the prototype sample of the CANNA indica of the Flora Peruviana has been too hastily referred to the species of the above article; and that if Mr. Lindley, whose acuteness is seldom at fault, had had an opportunity of comparing the CANNA edulis of the present volume with that sample, he would not have hesitated in referring it to the latter species, to which we have ourselves applied it. (See No. 775.) We understand from Mr. Roscoe, who, according to his usual courtesy, has favoured us with the distinctive character intended for CANNA Lamberti, in his approaching work on the Monandrous Class, that the plant is known in some Nurseries by the title of maxima, a name that applies neither to the whole nor to a part. * CANNA Lamberti, corolle limbo interiore bilabiato, labio superiore “ tripartito, laciniis integris, duobus majoribus, ovatis, latè unguiculatis, * labio inferiore integro, revoluto, foliis lato-lanceolatis inzequilateris. Roscoe MSS. ; (ex angl. vers.) Gnidia denudata. Supra fol. 757. We cannot agree with the ingenious botanist by whom the above article was contributed to our work, in considering the subject of it in the light of a plant that bears about itself that which precaution has taught us to consider as sufficient evidence of distinctness as a species; and we are led to reserve it for further proof and future decision, under the following front arrange- ment: NOTES. GNIDIA imbricata. £. G. imbricata, folis quadrifariàm imbricatis sericeis, floribus terminalibus in axillis foliorum. Linn. suppl. 225. Gnidia imbricata. Thunb. prod. 76. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 427. (8.) denudata, foliis ovato-oblongis quadrifariàm imbricatis pilosis trinervi- bus: nervis denudatis, floribus terminalibus villosis: villis sparsis paten- tibus. Lindley supra loc. cit. We admit, after all, this mode to be a mere evasion of the question : but we prefer such evasion to the risk of foisting a non-entity into the history of Nature for an incontrovertible species. àT GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO THE PRESENT AND PRECEDING VOLUMES. — Q——— N. The names in Italics are such as have been altered subsequently to their publication, for others referred to in one or other of the Appendixes to the several volumes of this work. —— Volumen. Folium. Volumen. Folium. Abroma augusta. v. 6....... ........518. | Amaryllis longifolia; y. v. 4. ........308. Acacia alata; Y. Oc. dest ce. JA 18 396. | Amaryllis maranensis, v. 9....,.....719. Acacia decurrens; B. v. 5....... suu. 871. | Amaryllis psittacina. v. 3. .......... 199. Acacia diffusa. v. 8. s.s.s... 2... 634. | Amaryllis purpurea; B: v.7. ........552. Acacia Houstoni. v. 9............... 98. | Amaryllis radiata. v. 7. ..,......... 596. Acacia lambertiana. v.9............ 721. | Amaryllis reticulata; B. v.5. ........ 352. Acacia longifolia, v. 5.......»....e.. 862. | Amaryllis revoluta. A. v. 8. ......... 623. Acacia longissima. v. 8.............-. 680. | Amaryllis revoluta. B. v. 8. ......... 615. Acacia lophantha. v. 5...-..........361. | Amaryllis rutila. v. 1. .........,.... 23. Acacia vestita. v.9. .../««««e«*...698. | Amellus Lychnitis, v.7. .....,.....-. 586. Achania mollis; a. v. 1. ............ 11. | Ammyrsine buxifolia. v.7. .......... 531. Acrostichum alcicorne. v. 3. ..... 262,963. | Amorpha fruticosa. v. 5..,.....v...* 427. Actinotus Helianthi. v. 8............ 654. | Amsonia latifolia. v. 2. ..... «Sc Din 151, Aerides paniculatum, v.3. 220; et in ap- | Anchusa italica. v. 6...... rr .483, pend. vol, 6. ZEsculus discolor. v. 4. .............310. Agapanthus umbellatus; y. v.9. ..... 699. Albuca fastigiata. V.4. ........-*...277. Albuca filifolia. v.7. .....«*****». 557. Albuca fugax. v. 4. ...... «.311, Allium Cowani. V. 9... ..*.*****»*.»798, Alpinia calcarata. v. 2...» ..»....».... 341, Alpinia malaccensis. v,4. 328; et in append. ejusd, vol. Alpinia tubulata. v.9. +......»......777» Alstroemeria Flos Martini. v. 9. .....781. Amaryllis acuminata. v.7.....»*-.... 984. Amaryllis aulica. v. 6. 444; et tab, in ap- pend. ejusd. vol. Amaryllis aurea. v. 8, .»..........». GIL Amaryllis australasica, v.5. .........426, Amaryllis Belladonna; 8. pallida. v.9. 714. Amaryllis calyptrata. v. 2. 164; e£ in append. ejusd. vol. Amaryllis candida. V, 9.....**»***.724. Amaryllis coranica., V. 2. ..+++.++++.. 189. Amaryllis crocata, V. l...».»........ 38. Amaryllis equestris; B. v. 3. ........ 234. Amaryllis flexuosa. v. 2.......»**-. Amaryllis fulgida. v. 3. ............. 226. Amaryllis hyacinthina. v. 9. 163; et invol. 6. fol. 444 ad calcem fol. vers. Amaryllis insignis. V. 7. ....».**»»»»579. Amaryllis laticoma. v. 6. 497 ; et in append. ejusd. vol. Amaryllis longifolia; a, v. 7. .»».».»* 546. Ancilema sinica. v. 8............... 859. Anemone palmata. v. 8. ............ 200. Angelonia salicariwfolia. v. 5. 415; et app. ejusd. vol. Angrecum maculatum. v. 8. 618; et in app. Antennaria contorta; mas, v.7. ..... 605. Anthemis apiifolia, v. 7. ............ 527. Anthericum pomeridianum. v.7. .....564. Anthocercis littorea. v.3. .......... 219. Arbutus Andrachne. v.2. ........... 118. Arbutus hybrida. v.8..............619. Arctopus echinatus. v.9. .......»...705. Arctotis acaulis. v. 2. ,..........»... 122. Arctotis aspera, v. 1. ......... ...... 34. Aretotis aureola. 4,1. 5.022400: eva Uh Arctotis maculata. v. 2. ............ 130. Arctotis tricolor. 4.9. «sw éco us «+ 191. Ardisia lentiginosa. v. 7. ......*.-. . 533. Ardisia paniculata, v.8. ...........» 638. Argyreia cuneata. v.8. ............. 661. Aristolochia labiosa. v. 8. ....-..** 689. Arum Dracontium, V, 8. -..--«****** 668. r.d Arum tenuifolium. v. 6. ............512 Artabotrys odoratissimus. v.5. ....... 423. Arthropodium cirrhatum. | v. 9........709. Asclepias curassavica. V. 1. .»...».»... Bl. Asclepias incarnata, V. 3. .»«******* 250. Asclepias tuberosa; a. V. lo»... ...... 76, Aspidistra lurida. v. 8. ...».».»»».+.»»»» 628. Astelma eximium, v. 7. 532; et in append. ejusd, vol, Arum orixense. v. 6. GENERAL INDEX TO THE PRESENT AND PRECEDING VOLUMES. Volumen. Folium. Astelma fruticans, v.9..... è S C NE. Jo Austins Vas in 340. Aster grandiflorüs. v. 4. .......... : 278, Aster Nove Anglie. v.3. ......+. $2. 188 Astragalus caryocarpus. v.2. 176; et in ap- pend. vol. 6. Astrapea Wallichii, v.9. .....,*.. 691. Athrixia capensis. V.8. .............68l. Azalea calendulacea; a. v. 9. ........ 145. Azalea nitida. v.5. ..o.ooo.....0....414. Azalea nudiflora; y. v. 9. ...... *«... 190. Banksia emula. v.8. ..«...*... 688. Banksia paludosa. v.9. ............697. Barleria flava. In notis voluminis Ati. Barleria mitis. v. 3. 191; et in notis vol. 4. Beaufortia decussata. vil. .......... 18. Begonia acuminata. v.5. ...... . 364. Begonia argyrostigma. v. 8. ......... 666. Begonia humilis. v. 4... «sse vee 284. Begonia pauciflora. v. 6. 471; et append. ejusd. voluminis. Berberis Chitria. v.9. .....,»»»»...799. Berberis pinnata. v. 9, .......».....702, Berberis sibirica. v. 6. ..,.....*.... 487. Bidens procera, v. 8. ..oo.o...»....084, Bignonia equinoctialis ; 8. Chamberlayni. Y. 9. Bignonia grandifolia. v. 5. ...........418. Bignonia. venusta, V. 3. ............9249. Blandfordia nobilis. v. 4. ....+...+...+... 986. Borago orientalis. v. 4. ..,..,,.»...» 288. Bossiea cinerea. v.4. ... ess. 306. Bouyardia triphylla, v.2. .....,,....107. Bouvardia. versicolor, v, 3. .......... 245. Brachysema latifolium. v.2. ..,...... 118. Brachysema undulatum. v.8. ........642. Brachystelma tuberosum. v. 9. ......7929. Brexia madagascariensis, v. 9..,.....730. Bromelia melanantha. v. 9...........766. Bromelia nudicaulis. v. 3. ........... 203. Bromelia pallida. v. 4. .,......,:....844. Brunsfelsia undulata, v. 3. ...,...... 228. Brunsvigia Josephine; B. v. 3; .. 192, 193. Brunsvigia toxicaria, v. 7. ...........567. Bryonia quinqueloba. v, l» .......... 89. Burchellia. capensis. v.6. ........... 466. Cacalia bicolor.. y.2...... 2. 425.5... 110. Cacalia ovalis.. y. 9. .. owes 10000... 101. Cactus Dillenii. v. 3. ..... 5265. Cactus gibbosus., v.2........».......137, Cactus repandus. v. 4. . ++ 886, Cactus speciosissimus. v.6..........,486. Cactus speciosus., y. 4.4... ss 25»... 304, Oactus truncatus. . v9v..s«>v«.. 696. Caladium odorum.. v. 8. ..,......... 641. Calanthe. veratrifolia, v. 9............720. Calceolaria corymbosa |. v..9...«....... 728. Calceolaria integrifolia, v.9. ........ 744. Caldasia heterophylla. v. 2. .......... 92. Calendula chrysanthemifolia, v. 1. .... 40, Calendula graminifolia, v, 4. .........989. Calendula Tragus; Bs Vé 1; ......... 98. Callistachys lanceolata, v.8. .........216, Callistemon rigidum. v. 5. «4... ...... 393. Calostemma luteum. v.5. ........... 421. Calostemma purpureum. v. 5........, 422, Calotis cuneifolia. v. 6. .,....,,,...504. Calotropis gigantea. v. 1, .,,. 58. — sis ee IO e e cce TE. GG DNI DEED Folumen, Folium. Calycanthus fertilis. v. 5. ......».... 404. Calycanthus levigatus, v. 6. ......... 481. Calytrix glabra. (4.8... 29.0... 409. Camellia axillaris. v. 4. 349; ef append. vol. 8. Camellia japonica; s. v. 9. .,........ 119. Camellia japonica; 4« V. le .......... 22. Camellia japonica; e. involuta, v. 8. ... 633. Camellia japonica: /ufeo-albicans. v.9. 708. Camellia japonica; f£. albo simp. v. 5. . 358. Camellia Sasangua. v. 1. ... 12. Camellia Sasangua; B. v. 7. ......... 547. Campanula aurea; a. v. 1. 67. Campanula coronata. v. 2. 149; et append. eR eer t t: n vol, 8. Campanula glomerata. 8. dahurica, v, 8. 620. Campanula lactiflora, v. 3. ......... . 241. Campanula lilifolia. v. 3. .......... , 236. Campanula pentagonia. v. b.. ........ 56. Campanula sarmatica. v. 3. 237; et append. vol, 8. Canna edulis, v.9. ......... ese seen 776, Canna gigantea. v..3. 206; et in append. vol. 9. Canna indica.. . v..9. é . cio. Canna iridiflora. v. 8.609; et append. ejusd. vol, Canna. Lamberti. v.6. 470; et im append. vol. 9. Canna latifolia... In append. vol. 9, Canna limbata...v.9. 03 se Hise cce 771 Canna lutea.. v.9...... dio Rito? R3 BPE. Canna occidentalis... v. 9.:.,....;...»772. Canna patens.. Vie cies. sees nn 44076. Carica Papaya; fem, v. 6: ........... 459. Carthamus tinctorius, v.2....,.,....170, Cassia ligustrina. v. 2. ....,........ 109. Cassia occidentalis. v. 1. ..... vsi é 83. Cassiniaaurêa. Vido 2... erros. co 4 764. Cassinia spectabilis. v. 8. ........... 678. Ceanothus-azureus. V.4....,........ 291. Celsia sublanata. v. 6. .............. 488. Cerbera fruticosa..v. 5. ........,.... 891. Ceropegia africana.. y. 8. ............ 626. Cheiranthus Cheiri; y. v. 8. 219; et in ap- pend. vol. 7. Cheiranthus scoparius: v. 7. fol. 551. (2.) pag.4; et in append. ejusd. vol. Chelone.barbata.. v..2.........«.....116. Chelone obligua. v..2...............175. Chimonanthus fragrans; B. v, 6: .....451. Chironia jasminoides. v8. ..........197. Chlidanthus fragrans. v.8. .,........640. Chlorophytum inornatum. Jn append. vol. 8. Chrysanthemum indicum; 2.9, v.1. ... 4 Chrysanthemum indicum; $.v. 6..... 455. Chrysanthemum. indicum ; var, 14, v. 8: 616. Cistus. purpureus. v..5...,........»... 408. Cistus.vaginatus..v.3..,...sse»»« 995. Gittus.nobilis; B.. v. B sins veces col. Citrus Aurantium; y. v. 4. .........346. Clematis aristata. v. 3. ,....,....... 988. Clematis brachiata. v.2.......«....*. 97. Clematis hedysarifolia. v, 7. .....»... 599. Clerodendron paniculatum. v.5.......406. Clerodendron squamatum. v. 8. ;..... 649. Clerodendron viscosum. v. 8. ........6929. Clitoria Plumieri. v; 4» .,........».,. 268. Colchicum arenarium; 8. umbrosum, v, 7. 541. GENERAL INDEX TO THE PRESENT AND PRECEDING VOLUMES. Volumen. Folium. Colchicum versicolor. v. 7, pasosa. NM é P Combretum purpureum, v.5. .,,.....429. Convolvulus chinensis. v.4. .........822, Convolvulus elongatus, v. 6. .........498. Convolvulus involucratus. v. 4. ......318. Convolvulus pannifolius. v.3. 292; et app. ej. vol. Convolvulus pentanthus. v.6. .......439. Convolvulus siculus. v. 6. ,,,........445. Convolvulus suffruticosus. v. 2. 1335 ef ap- pend. vol. 3. RI ODSIS INCISO. Vi 157, 4 coro E AAT o dA Coris monspeliensis. v.7. +.......... 536, uni un, ye... rana Correa speciosa. Vol. so mommnarnoo a: 26. Correa virens. v. l. .... Costus afer; a. v. 8. 683. Costus speciosus; B. v.8. ........... 665. Crassula versicolor. v. 4. ........... 890; Crinum amabile; B. augustum, v. 8. ..679. Crinum bracteatum. v. 3. .,......... 179. Crinum cruentum, V. 2, «oo». e» o 1213 Crinum pedunculatum. v. 1. ......... 52. Crossandra undulefolia. v.1........., 69. Crotalaria incana. V. 5. ,. censura ve 3775 Crotalaria purpurea. v. 2e ..,........ 128. Crotalaria retusa. Vs So... cce on sons ZOSA Crotalaria vitellina. v. 6, ...........447. Cryptarrhena lunata. v.2, ..........153. Cryptostegia grandiflora, v. 5. ........ 435. Cultumis ciliaris. Ve O, a.» posterior Bd. Cuphea procumbens. v.3, ..........182. Curculigo latifolia. v. 9, ....... vara 108; Curculigo plicata. v.4........... ....345. Curculigo recurvata. . v. 9. .......... 770. Cuscuta chilensis. y. 7. ........».g... 603, Cymbidium xiphiifolium. y. Te ses. sose 529, Cynanchum pilosum. v. 2. .......... IT. Cyphia Phyteuma. v. 8. ,............ 625 Cyrtanthus collinus.. Y. 9. .....,..... 162, Cyrtanthus odorus. V. 6. .,...».**»«. 903, Cyrtanthus spiralis. v.2. ...........167. Cyrtanthus uniflorus. v,2......,.«.... 168, Cytisus biflorus. v. 4..,........»*.... 808. Cytisus proliferus. v,2...,,..,....... 12; Dahlia superflua; s.V. le .......»»*.. 55. Daviesia alata. v. 9. ......»**. 728 Delphinium, cheilanthum. v, 6. ..,,.... 4783; Delphinium cuneatum. v.4. .,.,..... 327, Delphinium grandiflorum ; 8. v.6...... 472 Dendrobium cucullatum. v.7. ....... 548, Dendrobium squalens. v, 9.......... 732. Dianella longifolia. V. 9: sesse. esso 734. Dianella strumosa. v.9.....»»*»»-» 791» Dianthus crenatus. v. 3, 256; et in append, vol. 7. Dichorisandra thyrsiflora, v. 8,.,..»..» 682. Digitalis ambigua. V.l. ...»...*»»:* 64. Digitalis canariensis. v. 1, ........»»».48. Digitalis lutea. v.3. ...;»»»»*»*»*>* 291. Digitalis orientalis. Y. 7. <=...» ...»».. 554, Digitalis parviflora. v.8. +»+.++........ 257. Diosma amena. v. 7. +... «o...» o... 009. Diosma ciliata. v.5. ...*»»**^*»» 966. Diosma dioica; mas. y. 6. .....»...... 002. Diosma hirta. y.5. +.» ss one ss 4 309. Diosma lanceolata. v. 6, +.» .........476» Volumen. Folium. Diosma rubra, Vw, -s << etnias wb 6884 Diospyros Embryopteris. v. 6. ........499. Dirca palustris. v. 4. po cnc ooi oso dn 299. Disa bracteata. v. 4. . oe ee eases ss aea 994. Disa prasinata, v.8. ..,...,...».».2l0. Donia glutinosa. wv. 3. 187; et in append. ejusd. vol. Dracontium polyphyllum, v. 9,.....+-700. Duranta Plumieri. v.3. ............ 244. Echinops paniculatus, v. 5. .,........ 356. Echium candicans. ,v. )......».»'»*. Ate Echium fruticosum, v. 1. .,.,........ 36, Echium grandiflorum. v. 9. .,.,......1894. Edwardsia chrysophylla. | v. 9. .......738. Eleocarpus reticulata, v.8..,.........657. Elichrysum proliferum, v. 1. ,...,.... 21. Epidendrum fuscatum. v. b. sess.. ss 67. Epidendrum nutans. Vs l, .,.,....... l7. Epidendrum umbellatum. v. 1, ....... 80. Epigæa repens. V. 8. ..«... 4 eee 20l. Erica ardens. v. Lo: +... eee eso ee ooo oo lbs Erica colorans. v. 7. . se «see... 601. Erica filamentosa. v. 1. ...,....».«««« 6. Erica tumida. v. 1. .......o.»...... 65. Erigeron glaucum, V.le ..o.oo ooo... 10. Erigeron Villarsii. v.7. .......,...».. 583. Erinus. Lychnidea. v.9,............748. Eriobotrya japonica. In appendice volumi nis 6. Eriospermum pubescens. y. 7. ........578. Eryngium aquaticum; v.5...,........ 872. Erysimum diffusum. v. 5. 388; et in append. vol. 7. Erythrina caffra. V. 9. «o... ....... 736. Erythrina carnea. V. 5. e.e sess esses. 989. Erythrina crista galli. v. 4. "^t, m n 313. Erythrina speciosa. Y. 9. ........... 750. Ethulia conyzoides. v.9. ........... 895. Euchilus obcordatus. v. 5. ,......»... 403. Eucrosia bicolor. v. 3. .....,».....*.207; Eugenia myrtifolia. v.8.............627. Eulophia gracilis. v. 9. ........».. 742, Eulophia guineensis. v. 8. .......,.». 686, Euphorbia eyathophora, v. 9. .......766. Euphorbia punicea, v.3.....,......*.Ì90, Euphorbia rigida. v.4......,..,..".974. Evolvulus latifolius. yv, 5....,..»..»..401. Flemingia strobilifera. v. 8. ........«. 617. Fragaria indica. V. lo... .......».... 61, Fumaria aurea. v. 1. 66; et in append. vol. 7. Fumaria eximia. v. 1. 503 etin append. vol. 7. Fumaria nobilis. v. 5, ....*»«***»*. 895. Galactia pendula. V. 4d. ...o...........269, Galanthus plicatus. V. 7... .. «444 we. 645. Galega grandiflora, v. 9. .......»*.769. Galega orientalis. v.4.......»».».«*.826, Gardenia amena, v. 9. ............730. Gardenia florida; a. v.8.....***»*»* 449. Gardenia radicans. v. l. ...»»««*»*»* 78. Gastrolobium bilobum.. v. 5. -.+++++++411. Gazania pavonia; v. 1.35; ef append. ejusd. vol. pe Genista canariensis, Y, 3. ..,.«.»»«*. 217» Geodorum dilatatum, V.8...+++++++++675, Gesneria aggregata. v.4. ...........:929. Gesneria bulbosa. V.4.+ +»... ..»....... 948. Gesneria prasinata, V. error... oo». AR. GENERAL INDEX TO THE PRESENT AND PRECEDING VOLUMES. Volumen. Folium. Gladiolus edulis. v. 2, 169; et in append. vol. 7. Globularia longifolia. v. 8. ..........680. Gloriosa superba. v. i...» ACER Gloxinia speciosa. v.3.....*******».. 213. Glycine bituminosa., v.3. .........,. 261. Glycine caribea. v. 4. ..,....*»»** ..275. Glycine comptoniana. v.4. ......... + 298. Glycine sinensis, v. 8. .............. 850. Gnaphalium apiculatum, v. 3. ........240. Gnaphalium congestum, v.3. ........ 243, Gnidia denudata, v.9. 7575 et in append, hujus, vol. Gnidia imbricata. In append. vol. 9. Gnidia oppositifolia. v.1,.......,.»... 9. Gnidia pinifolia a. y. 1. ....»....... 19. Gnidia pinifolia; B. v.8......... ... Gompholobium grandiflorum. v. 6. .... Gonolobus diadematus. v. 3. ......... 252. Goodyera discolor, v.4. . .. 271. Gossypium barbadense. v. 1. ,,...,... 84. Grevillea buxifolia. v.6..,...».»*.»». 448. Griffinia hyacinthina. v. 6. in notá fol. vers, 444. Griffinia parviflora, v. 6. 511; et fab. in ap- pend. ejusd. vol, Grindelia glutinosa. Zn appendice voluminis 3. Grindelia inuloides, v. 3. ..,,........ 248. Grislea tomentosa. v. 1... ... >.. 30, Gymnoloma maculatum. v. 8, ........ 662. Habenaria fimbriata. v. 5. ........... 405. Hemanthus carneus. V.6............ 509. Hemanthus coarctatus, V.3.......... 181. Hemanthus pubescens. v. 5. .........382. Hakea microcarpa. v.6.............. 475. Hedychium angustifolium. v.2. 157; et in. append. vol. 6. Hedychium elatum. v. 7. ............ 526. Hedychium gardnerianum. v.9. ......774. Hedychium heteromallum. v,9.. .....767. Hedysarum latifolium. v.5........... 355. Helenium quadridentatum. v. 7. .....598. Helianthus atrorubens. v. 6. .........508. Helianthus linearis, v,7. .......... . 523. Helianthus pubescens. v.7. ........ . 524, Heliconia Bihai. v.5. 374; et in notâ pen- ultima append. ejusd. vol. Heliopsis canescens, v.7. ........... 592, Hepatica americana. V, 5. ........... 387. Hibbertia dentata; a.v.4............ 282. Hibiscus digitatus. v.8..,.,.........608, Hibiscus diversifolius., v. 5, .........881. Hibiscus heterophyllus, v. 1. ......... 99, Hibiscus mutabilis. v. 7. ........,... 589. Hibiscus pedunculatus, v.3. ........,231. Hibiscus pheeniceus. v. 3. .... .......230, Hibiscus Rosa malabarica. v.4. ...... 337. Hibiscus tiliaceus. v. 3. ............. 232, Holmskioldia sanguinea. v.9. .......799. Homalium racemosum, v.6. ......... 519. Hovea Celsi. v. 4... corres co saco 00 280, Hovea linearis. v.6..,...*........ 468. Hovea longifolia. v. 8. ,............. 614, Hovenia acerba, v.6. 501; et in append. vol. 7. Hovenia dulcis. Jn append. vol, 7. Hyacinthus ametbystinus. v.5........ 398, ........». PLroo....o”.»» Volumen. Folium. Hydrolea spinosa. v.7.....*»****»»*» 566. Hydrophyllum canadense. v. 8. »......242. Hydrophyllum virginicum, y. 4.,...... 331. Hyoscyamus canariensis, v. 8. 180; et in appendice ejusdem volum. Hypericum egypticum. v. 8........... 196. Hypoxis obtusa, v.2...........»*.*.* 159. Hypoxis stellipilis. v.8.,.........».. 663. Indigofera amena. v. 4. ...........-300, Indigofera australis. v.5. ....»...***886. Indigofera filifolia. In appendicibus voll, 3 et 7. Inga purpurea. v.2. + oooooooo.o.o.».. . 129. Inula glandulosa. v.4. e.. ee 834. Ipomea bona nox; B. purpurascens. v. 4. 2905 et in appendice vol. 4, Ipomoea cærulea. v.4. ....*»9*»**** 278. Ipomoea chryseides, v.4. .......»»**. 270. Ipom«ea denticulata. v. 4, .........*. 817. Ipomoea hederacea. V, l. ...»...***** 80. Ipomeea Jalapa; a. v. 4. 342; et append. ejusd. voluminis. Ipomcea Jalapa; (8. rosea. v. 8. ......62l. Ipomoea insignis, v. 1. 75; et in append. vol. 7. Ipomoea maritima. v.4. ......»....»..319. Ipomcea muricata. Jn appendice voluminis 4%, Ipomaa mutabilis, v. l.,........».. 39. Ipomoea obscura, v. 8. 239; et append. vol. 4. Ipomcea pandurata. v.7. ...»»*»»*»»» 588. Ipomoea paniculata. v.l..........».. 62. Ipomoea pendula. V. 8.......*»*»»». 632. Ipomcea platensis, v. 4. ..;...,*»*»*. 333» Ipomeea sagittifolia, v.6. ,.......... 437. Ipomoea sanguinea, V.l. ,.....»..... 9. Ipomoea setosa. v.4......... Coro DOO, Ipomcea tuberculata. v. 1. 86; et in append. volum. 4. Ipomoea tuberosa. v.9. ............ 768. Ipomoea Turpethum. v.4.,...,...... 279. Iris dichotoma, v. 3. 246; et in append, vol. 5. Iris arenaria. vV.7.....o»............ 549. Isochilus linearis. v. 9. ......»..*.» 745. Ixìa maculata: cesia. v. 7. 580; et append. ejusd. vol. Ixora Bandhuca. vV.6...............513. Ixora blanda. v. 2. 100; et in append. vol. 6. Ixora cuneifolia. v. 8. ...... ro... DAB Ixora grandiflora. v.2. 154; et append, ejusd. vol, Ixora rosea. v.7. o... .o»»o........». 040, Jacaranda mimosifolia., v. 8. ........ 631. Jasione perennis. v. 6. .,.......»*** 505 Jasminum angustifolium; Q. laurifolium. SC. .ÏNÏKÏ ÍR “cr Jasminam auriculatum., v,4.......».. 264. Jasminum azoricum. v.1. .........». 89. Jasminum gracile, v.8. ,......s*»**» 606. Jasminum grandiflorum, v.9..,...... 91. Jasminum hirsutum. v. 1. 15; et in append. ejusd. vol. Jasminum humile, v.5. ..........+.- 350. Jasminum paniculatum, v.9. .......690. Jasminum revolutum. v. 3. 178; etin ap- pend. vol. 6. Jasminum Sambac. v.1. ......»*»*** 1. GENERAL INDEX TO THE PRESENT AND PRECEDING VOLUMES. à; ' Volumen, Folium. Jasminum undulatum. v.6. 436; et in ap- pendice ejusd. vol. Jatropha gossypifolia. vol. 9, ........746. Justicia eustachiana. v. 4. ,....... .... 809. Justicia Gendarussa, v, 8. 635; et in append. vol. ejusd, Kempferia pandurata. v.2. .........173, Kaulfussia amelloides, v.6. .........490. Keelreuteria paniculata. v.4. ........330. Lachenalia pallida; a. V. 4.,,..,..... 314. Lachenalia pallida; B. v,4...,.......987. Lambertia formosa. v. 7. .,...,.-.... 528. Lebeckia contaminata. v. 2. 104; et in ap- pendice voluminis 8. Leonotis- nepetifolia. v. 4. ...........28l, Leucadendron corymbosum, v.5. .....409. Leucojum tricophyllum ; a. v. 7. 544; et in append. ejusd. vol. Liatris elegans. v. 4. ...............267, Liatris pilosa.- v. 7. 0.4. 94344 cie vs ENG, Liatris scariosa. v. 7. ,,............590. Lilium carolinianum. v.7. .......... 580. Lilium dauricum. v.7. 594; in notá textus absque icone. Lilium longiflorum; B.v.7. .........560. Lilium philadelphicum ; B. andinum. v.7. 594. Lilium pumilum. v.2..........*.*..132. Limodorum falcatum, v.4. .......... 283. Eirias hinata. -9 1.7 FUN AS, Lissochilus speciosus. v. 7. 573; in textá mal? 578. Eis tricolor, 9.8... ......6:... 7.0. 607. Lobelia campanuloides. v.9. ........738. Lobelia fulgens. v.2. ..............165. Lobelia siphilitica. v.7...............537. Lobelia splendens. v.1. ............ 60. Lomatia longifolia. v.6. ........... 442. Lonicera dioica; PB. v. 2. ........... 138. Lonicera flexuosa, v. 9. . "..........712, Lonicera japonica. v. 1. ........*.*. 70. Lonicera sempervirens ; B. minor. v. 7. 556. Lonicera tatarica. v.1. ....-.*.***.. 3l. Lupinus mexicanus., v.6. ........».. 457. Lychnis fulgens. v.6. ..,.....«***». 478. Lycium afrum. v..de ....- ee ee veces 304, Macradenia lutescens, v. 8. 612; ct in ap- pend. voluminis. Magnolia cordata. v. 4. ............-325. Magnolia pyramidata, v.5. ......»...» 407. Mahernia grandiflora, v. 3. ......... 224. Malachra fasciata. v.6. ......--.*-**467- Malpighia coccifera, v.7. ......++.+-568. Malpighia fucata. v. 3. .........-*.- 189. Malpighia urens. v.2....,.......»»» 96. Malva calycina. v.4. .... eee 297. Malva capensis. v. 4. ......»........ 295. Malva fragrans. - v. 4. .....*.*.*.»"" 29v. Malva grossularifolia ; «: inodora. v. 7. 561. Manettia coccinea. v. 9. ......***. 093. Maranta zebrina. V. 5. ....*********389. Marica cerulea.. v. 9s ....««******** 713. Marica gladiata. v. 3. .....********» 229. Marica iridifolia. v. 8. ...+.+++++++++ 646. Marsdenia suaveolens. v.6. «......+»». 189. Massonia longifolia; B. v. 9. ....*»».694. Melaleuca fulgens. v. 29. ......******108. VOL. IX. Volumen. Folium. Melaleuca incana. v.5..,,.......»..410. Melaleuca sguamea. v. 6. ........,..477. Melastoma granulosa. v. 8. 671; et append. voluminis ejusd, Melastoma heteromalla, v.8. ........644. Melastoma levigata. v, 5. .......... 369. Melastoma malabathrica. v.8...,,...679. Melia sempervirens. v.8. ,,...,.....643, Melianthus major. v.1. ,.,....«.... 45. Mesembryanthemum blandum. v. 7. ... 582. Mesembryanthemum capitatum, v, 6. .. 494. Mesembryanthemum elongatum. v.6. , 493. Mesembryanthemum maximum. v, 5... 358. Mesembryanthemum tigrinum, v. 3. ... 260. Mespilus japonica. v, 5. 365; et in append. voluminis 6. Mimosa sensitiva. . v. 1. .........,.. 95. Mitella diphylla, v.9...,.......... «166. Modecca lobata; mas. v.5. .........439. Monarda punctata. v. 1. ...o........ 87. Morea lurida. v.4. 312; et append. vol. 4. Murraya exotica. v.5. »o.oo.o.oo.o.....» 434. Musa rosacea. v. 9,...«9** osese.. 706. Muscari ciliatum.. .v. 5/ ...«.». »s-..»e. 894; Mussanda frondosa. v.6. ..........517, Narcissus montanus. v. 2. ...........1923, Narcissus Sabini. v. 9. ....»..*.**»*.762, Nemophila phacelioides. v.9. ........740. Neottia australis; ß. v. 7. +. 602, Neottia orchioides. v.9. ............ 701. Neottia procera. v. 8. ...,.,..****»..G39, Nerium odorum ; B: v. 1. ...... vé ER Nyctanthes Arbor tristis. v. 5. ....... 399. Ocymum fehrifugam. v.9. .....-.**788. CEnothera acaulis. v. 9. ............763. (Enothera odorata. v.2. ....»....». 147. CEnothera Romanzovii. v.7. .....,.» 562. Olea capensis. V. 8..........****..». 613, Oncidium luridum, V. 9. ..,........ 727. Ophiopogon spicatus. Yv. 7. .........593. Ophrys Speculum. V. 5. +... ........870, Ophrys tenthredinifera. v.3. -....... 205, Orchis longibracteata. v.5. ..++++.++357. Orchis longicornu. V. 3. ..........«.202. Orchis tephrosanthos ; B, Vo Be oos s o o o 8078, Orchis variegata. V. 5. .....o.........867, Ornithogalum fimbriatum. v. 7. ......555. Ornithogalum niveum. v.8....-**»*..235. Ornithogalum prasinum.: V, 2.........158. Ornithogalum revolutum. v. 4. .......315. Ornithogalum thyrsoides 5 æ. v.4......316. Ornithogalum thyrsoides ; Ê. v. 4. .... 305. Osbeckia chinensis. v. 7....*.»**»».» 942. Osbeckia stellata. v. 8......»**»*.. 874, Osbeckia zeylanica. v. 7. ««««« «9*4. 565. Othonna abrotanifolia. v.2. ......... 108. Othonna cheirifolia. v. 4. ...»«».»». 266, Oxalis flava. V.2. ...... 6er re 117. Oxylobium arborescens, v.5. ........392. Pachysandra procumbens. v. J. ....... 33. Peonia albiflora; B. v.1. .....*»»» 42. Peonia albiflora; 9. YV. 8...» 630, Peonia albiflora; s. v. 6. +. .»........485, Peonia mollis. v. 6. ..«***»* TM Paonia Moutan; a. V. 5: .......... Pancratjum Amaneacs. v.7. «s 800, DD GENERAL INDEX TO THE PRESENT AND PRECEDING VOLUMES. Volumen. Folium. Pancratium angustum. v. 3. .....».... 221. Pancratium australasicum. v. 9. ...... 719. Pancratium calathinum, v. 3. .....++.215- Pancratium canariense, v.2. ...»..*..174. Pancratium guianense. v. 4. .....».*.285. Pancratium maritimum. v.2. ....,».. 161. Pancratium ovatum. V. ls ....,..**** 43. Pancratium verecundum. V: 5. .......412. Pancratium zeylanicum. v.6. .....».. 479. Papaver bracteatum. V. 8. ........... 658. Papaver floribundum. v. 2. 134; ct in ap- pend. vol. 9. Passiflora adiantifolia. v. 3. .....».... 2833. Passiflora albida. v. 8. 2442022200004. 677. Passiflora angustifolia, v.3. ...++....188. Passiflora caerulea. V.6. 2... ........ 488. Passiflora filamentosa. B.v.7. ........ 584. Passiflora foetida. v.4. +... ..0.......321. Passiflora glauca. v.1. ..»««*»*****»» B8. Passiflora herbertiana. v.9. ......... 787. Passiflora holosericea. V. lo .......*.. 99. Passiflora incarnata; &. v.4. ........332, Passiflora incarnata; B. edulis. v. 2. 152; et in append. ejusd. vol. atque vol. 6. Passiflora laurifolia. vl. ...,,..*»».« 18. Passiflora lunata. . v. 7. sau 000 cores 577. Passiflora lutea. . v..l..:. www 3454479 Passiflora maliformis.. v.2. .......... 94. Passiflora minima. V.2. .......».... 144, Passiflora Murucuja. v. 7. ........... 574. Passiflora pallida. v. 8./....,,...»... 660. Passiflora peltata.. v..8......«s.9.. 507. Passiflora perfoliata, v.1,............ 78. Passiflora picturata. v.8. ........»... 673. Passiflora quadrangularis. v.1. .....». 14. Passiflora racemosa. v.4. ......«***» 285. Passiflora rubra, Y. 22.4. isio cease: ÔD. Passiflora tuberosa. v.5, .......»»»...482, Passiflora Vespertilio.. v.7. ......»... 597. Patersonia glabrata. v. 1. .......».... ôl. Pavetta. indica, . v58.7. 4. vei. sv» 198. Pavonia spinifex.. v.4..,..... cs o «839. Penea squamosa. v.9. ........**... 108. Pentapetes phoenicea. v.7. .......... 575. Pergularia odoratissima. v. 5. ........412, Peucedanum aureum, v.7. .......... 559. Phaseolus Caracalla. v.4. ...........841. Phaseolus semierectus. v.9. ........748. Philadelphus grandiflorus. v. 7. .......570. Phlox suffraticosas wale ves, susanne Photinia arbutifolia. v.6. ........... 491, Phylica capitata. : v. 9. ....,,... i711. Pinguicula lutea. v. Lo ce: sun - + 126, Pittosporum revolutum, v.3. ........ 186. Pittosporum undulatum. v.1. ...... Pleurothallis punctata. v. 9. vee 759. Plumbago capensis. v.5. ...........417. Plumeria acuminata. v.2....,.......114, Plumeria bicolor. v.6......,..,..... 480. Plumeria tricolor. v.6.. Pogonia ophioglossoides. v.9. .......148. Polemonium mexicanum. v.6. .......460, Polianthes tuberosa. v.1. ........... 63. Polygala latifolia.. v.8. .............645. Polygala ligularis, v. 8. ....,,,.-... . 637. Polygala myrtifolia. v. 8. ............ 669. Polygala oppositifolia, v.8..,,,,..,..636. | Folumen. Folium. Polygala paniculata. v.9. .......**. 761. Polygala speciosa. v. 2. ..o........».» 150» Polygonum frutescens, v.8. ...«.»«.»*. 254» Ponthieva petiolata. v. 9. «++++0++++760- Primula minima. ¥. 7. .»..........».»58l. Primula prenitens, v.7. ....».****»* $89. Prostanthera lasianthos. v.2. .»..».».+.» 143. Protea acerosa, V.5. ve. 351» Protea grandiflora; B. v.7. .++++++++569- Protea longifolia, v.l. »............. 47» Protea neriifolia. V. 3. 4.4... 2.24444 208. Protea pulchella. v.1. ..../»»«****. 20. Prunus japonica, v.1. 273 et in append. voluminis 6. Prunus prostrata. CG IY“ 136. Psidium cattleianum., v. 8. .,....».»» 622. Psidium polycarpon. v.8. ...»««*«»** 658. Psoralea melilotoides, v. 6. ........»* 454. Psoralea Onobrychis. v. 6. .........-453. Psoralea pedunculata. v. 3. .......... 223. Psychotria elliptica. v. 8. ............ 607- Pulmonaria paniculata; a. V. 2e s>s... 146. Pultenza retusa. V; 5s «ooo... ..«....378. Pyrethrum foeniculaceum. V, 4. ......- 272. Pyrus coronaria. V. 8. ......*«***** 851. Pyrus salicifolia. v.6. .«.««««*««»* 514. Quisqualis indica. 9.6. ....»..»**" 492. Raphiolepis indica. v.6. ...++++++++ 468. Raphiolepis salicifolia. ¥. 8. ...«.«*** 652. Relhania pungens, v.7. .,.««*******587- Reseda odorata; B. v.3. ..... 4.4244 227. Rbexia holosericea. v. 4. ...... 2.2.24 823. Rhexia viminea. v.8. .......*«**«*»» 664. Rhododendron dauricum ; B. v.3...... 194. Rhododendron hybridum. v.3. ....... 195. Rhododendron punctatum; 8. v. 1. ... 37. Ribes aureum. _ y, 2.. fo ste «evo quite «dll Ricotia egyptiaca. v. 1, 49; etappend. vol. 7. Rosa alpina. v. 5. i.a eere es. . 424 Rosa Banksie. v.5. ...... 4.252524 897. Rosa centifolia; B. [mucosa flore albo pleno). In appendice voluminis 6. Rosa centifolia; B, (mucosa flore simplici). In appendice voluminis 6. Rosa, ferox. ,v.,5-. +?» €.v nenne dar A90. Rosa fraxinifolia. v. 6. co... ...0.....458» Rosa gallica; a, v.6. ..>.........».. 448. Rosa involucrata. v.9.......*»..****7989- Rosa kamschatica, v.5. .....**»»***4l9. Rosa lawranceana. v.7. .,.*»******». 988. Rosa multiflora. v.8. «soro esee cw» 425. Rosa parvifolia. v.6./.....«»vs»*». 452. Rosa provincialis; B. (mucosa flore albo pleno.) v.2. 102; et in appendice volv- minis 6. Rosa provincialis; B, (mucosa fore simplici. / V. 1. 53; et in appendice voluminis 6. Rosa rubrifolia, v.5, «cce deissenda. 490. Rosa sempervirens. v. 6, 2...» ».....» 405. Rosa spinosissima ; reversa. V.5. ..... 15). Rosa sulphurea.. v, 1. ....««*se»e«*» 40» Royena pubescens. v.6. 4... 2225s» 4500. Rubus reflexus. v, 6. -.e«»»»e**»* . 461. Rubus parvifolius, v. 6, ....»..»»»*. 496. Rudbeckia triloba. v.7. ............ 529. Ruellia paniculata. v. 7. ........+.. . $35. Ruta pinnata, un 4, ..... . H eee 307. MIO RR Y GENERAL INDEX TO THE PRESENT AND PRECEDING YOLUMES. Volumen. Folium. Salvia amarissima. v.4. ,.....»...».. 347. Salvia amena. 7.6. .... o. 2.00... 446. Salvia hispanica. V. 5. ,.,....»«.»».. 859. Salvia splendens, VeBo vor... 687. Sanseviera zeylanica. v.2. .. *,...... 160. Sanvitalia procumbens. v. 9. .,....». 707. Satyrium coriifolium. v. 9. .........708. Satyrium cucullatum. v. 5. .......... 416, Scabiosa webbiana, v.9. ........... 717. Schizanthus pinnatus. v.9. ......... 725. Schizopetalon Walkeri., v. 9. ........ 752. Sedum ceruleum. Vv. 6. .............520. Sedum ternatum. v.9. .......».»..... 149. Selago fasciculata. v.8. ............ 184. Selloa glutinosa. v. 6. ,.........»... 462. Sempervivum arboreum, v.2. ....... 99. Sempervivum glutinosum, v.4. ......278. Senecio speciŵBus. v.1. ........ ^.» 4l Sida grandifolia. v.5. .............. 360. Silene pensylvanica. v.3, 247; et append. ejusd. vol. Solanum amazonium, v, 1, 71; e£ in append. vol. 2. Solanum decurrens. v.2. .,,,,,.....l40. Solanum fontanesianum. v. 2. ...,...177. Sparaxis grandiflora. v.3. 258; et append. vol.3. Spartium ferox. V.5. » coo...» .......368, Spathelia simplex. v.8. .........».».670. Spermadictyon suaveolens. v. 4. ...... 848. Sphenogyne pilifera. v.7. ........... 604. Stapelia hirsuta: atra. v. 9. ........756. Stapelia normalis. v.9. ............75. Stenanthera pinifolia. v, 3. .........218. Stenocarpus salignus. v.6. .......... 441. Stenochilus glaber. 9.7. .,......... 572. Stenochilus maculatus. v,8. .........647. Sterculia Balanghas. v.3. ........... 185. Stevia Eupatoria. v. 2. 93 ; et append. vol. 3. Strelitzia parviflora; juncea. V. 6. ..... 516. Strophanthus dichotomus., v.6. ...... 469. Strumaria filifolia. v. 6. 00000. 440, Stylidium graminifolium. v.1. ....... 90. Stylidium laricifolium. v.7. ......... 550. Styphelia longifolia. v.1. ........... 24. Symplocos sinica. v.9. ........ 4.710. 'Tabernemontana amygdalifolia. v. 4. .. 338. Tabernemontana laurifolia. v.9. ....716. Volumen, Folium. Téedia lueìdâ, v. Sy. res ds v VNDE. Teedia pubescens. v.8. ,.,.....,.». . 214 Templetonia retusa. v.5. ...,,..,.. 889. Thunbergia grandiflora. v.6. ........495. Thysanotus isantherus, v.8....,...,.655. Thysanotus junceus. v.8, .......... 656. Tillandsia flexuosa: pallida. v,9. ....749. Tillandsia xiphioides. v.9. ,.,.,.,.,. 105. Tithonia tagetiflora, v.7. .......... 591. Tournefortia fruticosa, v. 6. ....,...464. Trachelium ceruleum. v.1. .,......» 72. Tradescantia fuscata. v.6. ..........482. Trapa natans. v. 8. 259; et in append. ejusd. vol. Tritonia flava, v. 9. +»... ».........».747. 'Tropeolum peregrinum. v. 9. .;......718. Tritonia refracta. v. 2. 185 5 et append. vol. 3. Tulipa biflora, v.7. .,...9**.»».»*» 985. Tulipa cornuta, V. 9. /...»**»*»... 127. Tulipa gesneriana. v.5. ...».*»»»»»» 880. Tulipa oculus solis, v.$. .......... 204. Tupistra squalida. v. 9. .....»***»**»704. Uropetalon glaucum, v.2. .........156. Vaccinium amanum. v. 5. .......»». 400. Vaccinium fuscatum. v,4. .......».» 302. Valeriana Cornucopie. v.2 ........155. Vanda Roxburghii. v.6. ........... 506. Vanda paniculata. Jn append. vol. 6. Vanda teretifolia. v. 8. 4... «2.2... 4676. Vella Pseudo-Cytisus. v. 4. ......... 293, Velleja lyrata. v.7. ....- 4.2.2.4. 4 551. Verbascum formosum. v.7. ........558. Verbena Aubletia. v.4. ....«....... 294. Vernonia sericea; B. v. 7. ...«.*... 529. Vestia lycioides. v. 4. 299; et in appendice voluminis 5. Viburnum odoratissimum. v. 6. Viburnum rugosum. pendice voluminis 6, Vinca herbacea. v.4. ........»......30l. Viola altaica. v.1. .....oo.o.o.».».... 54 Viola pubescens; B. v. 6. .......«... 890. Webera corymbosa. v.2. .....»»»*.. 119. Wedelia hispida. v.7, +.......+..-... 543. Wedelia radiosa. V. 8, .........»*»». 610. Witsenia maura. v. 1. ..******»* 5 Xylophylla falcata, v.5, ,.......»*»» 878. sc 04. 456, v.5. 376; et in ap- References to Enumerations of Liliaceous Genera inserted in the several volumes of this work. Amaryuuis. Vol. 8. fol. 623; vers. BRUNSVIGIA, Vol, 3. fol. 192, 193; fol. ult. vers. CoLcnicuM. Vol. 7. fol. 541: iterum (emendatê) fol. Crinum. Vol. 8. fol. 623 5 pag. 4. CxnrANTHUS, Vol. 8. fol. 623. fol. vers. ERIOSPERMUM. Vol, 7. fol. 578; (2.) GLADIOLUS. . Vol.7; in appendice. Hepycuium. Vol.9. fol.774. Iris. Vol.5; in appendice. Ixia. Vol.73; in appendice. JASMINUM. In appendice voluminis 9. Marica. . Vol. 8. fol. 229; (2 vers.) Massonia, Vol. 9. fol. 694. Monza. Vol.4; in appendice. PANCRATIUM, Vol, 8. fol. 623. (2%, vers) SPARAXIS. Vol. 33 in appendice. STERNEBERGIA, Vol. 8. fol. 623 ; vers, SrRUMARIA. Pol.6. fol. 4405 vers. Trivonia. | Vol. 3; in appendice. UROPETALON. Vol. 2, fol. 156. vers. vers. 571. Synopsis generum sectionis prime AMARYLLIDEARUM, Vol.7. fol. 546; pag. 3. Enumeratio Tribúum Ordinis Compositarum. Vol. 7. fol. 582; (in textü anglico.) List of Cape Orchidee figured in the ** Journal of Science and the Arts,” Vol. 9. No. 700. Sol. secundo verso. END OF VOL, IX, Printed by S, Gosnell, Little Queen Street, Londen.